Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 August 1945 — Page 10

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Hoosiers Killed Japs In Al

(This is one of a series of articles written about the 38th division just prior to the Japanese ( t surrender. The isolated bands of Japs on Luzon still are fighting.)

By SIDNEY B. WHIPPLE Scripps-Howard ‘Staff Writer MARIKINA, Luzon (Delayed)— | The terrain through which patrols from the 38th (Indiana) division struck daily into the Sierra Madre range to blast out pockets of diehard Japs is so | rugged that many sections of it never have been explored. Cover the Catskills with an almost impenetrable tangle of bamboo,

six-foot grass

Poe 8 and clutching Mr. Whipple

| height and distances

like ascents. Then you have something approximating the tory.

There were not even trails here |

when the 38th moved in. n n ” A FAIRLY good survey of the nearer, mountains has now been made, although in many instances between summits had to be obtained by shooting . cannon balls from one to the other. There is plenty of water in the hills, and in some of the valleys the Japs have plantations of banana trees and vegetables With caves and bamboo’ huts for shelter. they could live there indefinitely ,it © American. infantry and Filipino guerrillas did not constantly harry them, The 38th has its own names for the locality, and some of them are printable. You go over Banzai Hill and .along Hogback Ridge,

| | terri-

in Hell's Hole, which is what its

name implies. n » THERE WAS a

the gentle American bird; but after the hundreds of Jap machine guns that chatteréd death

during our first assaults on this |

natural stronghold.

The Japs successfully defended

their position because the few machine guns and mortars they

had left, plus a few weapons they |

picked up from our dead, commanded the -only natural ap-

» concentration | | of Japs over behind Woodpecker Ridge, which is not named after.

proach—a river bend between two |

sharply. rising hills. " u on AN EXPEDITION there one day, and—under paternal guidance of Lt. Pat Murphy, a fighting Irishman who is a fugitive from Jack Bleack's

went out

| Artists and Writers club in New

| by . posterior, where an American mortar unit | and ¢ Filipino guerrilla company |

the |

York—1 was privileged to go |

dlong—part way. When we reached the top of Woodpecker Ridge, by Margie was squatting on

,

jeep, | her |

| haunches, growling at. the Japs. |

Margie is a deadly 105-mm. howitzer which has proved so effective as a mountain siege weapon. We left the jeep at the summit,

‘for even jeeps have their limita-

tions and some of the inclines are so steep that three men have to sit on the hood to prevent them from doing backflips, o n ” ‘THE REMAINDER of the journey to the valley outpost where the expedition was forming was a half. painful, half comic descent foot, hand, and, eventually, to - a level clearing

were forming up. The sun

hadn't yet reached the top of |

the hills to the East.

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(HE INUIANAFOLIS. LIMES os

Sgt. J. L. Sanders, of Shreve-

most Impenetrable

|

port, who commanded the outpost | at this spot, a contingent of eight | men and some guerrillas, was |

mad this morning. A lone Jap raider, hunting G. I.

| rations, had popped over a nearby

rock in the early morning and the guerrilla who encountered the marauder shot. ” ” ” THE JAP ran and tripped over

the wires of a Bouncing Betty,

| the neat-little mine that is sup- | posed to hop out of its hole and Nothing |

explode breast high. happened, for the mine was defective, and the Jap was swallowed up in the darkness. That

was why the sergeant was mad. | Lt. Raymond A. MacFarlane, of |

Eau Claire, Wis.,, who commanded the patrol, said: “Well, let's get going,” and the men picked up their three-piece mortars—40

missed with his first |

up below the rocky embankment

that protected the narrow road |

from land slides. The guerrillas sauntered up, strapping their equipment in place. s ” ” SOME OF these: guerrillas are amazing. They look like small

boys in cutdown G. I. uniforms,

| and they are little bigger than

the weapons they carry. . But they have infinite good nature, their endurance is astound-

| ing, and their capacity for bearing great loads is beyond belief. |

Some of them were carrying in, over and above their regular heavy equipment,” five mortar

sirells weighing altogether about |

105 pounds. The men moved off, like a procession of ants, and disappeared around a bend.

2 8 2 THE BOX SCORE results of

bed after descents so precipitous that ropes had to be used, the patrol came upon a sort of Hell's corner that was completely under the observation and fire of a considerable band of snipers. One of the patrol was shot through the left arm and chest. And the enemy could not be

| |

reached by mortar fire because of |

impossible angle. An occasional howitzer shell, directed by the forward observer,

breezed overhead. What damage |

was done, except to Jap morale, was sheer. guesswork. But any-

| body within 100 yards of the re-

ceiving end is not very happy. ? n n o LT. MacFARLANE decided, late

in the afternoon, that any at- | tempt to penetrate further would |

present - useless hazards nothing to be gained. He made a personal scouting mission up stream and caught

this particular action were dis- | two stragglers, one prone in the

appointing,

Reaching the river water and playing dead, the other

with |

. eyes,

a sii MONDAY, AUG. 20, 1945 ountains Of Luzon pounds to the man—and their ~lethal little carbines, and lined

hopping rabbit-like into the bam boo brush. : He took care. of the fugitive and watched the man in the water for a minute or so. ’ Presently the Jap blinked his A moment later he went to sleep forever. uo " n OH, YES, about the wounded man. The little bearers gave him plasma and first aid treatment.

He was very cheerful as they strapped him in the litter, Then

| they carried, dragged, and hauled

him up by rope along the same sheer path by which they had come down until they met an ambulance, almost standing on its nose, half way up the mountain, At the base hospital they said he would recover, Hunting had been better in the

| Wawa Dam region that day. | Seventy Japs KIA (killed in ace

|

tign) and 20 Jap PW's. It cost a lot of money and time to kill a Jap.

down the Devil's Stepladder and |

tropical vegetation. Split it into

canyons, deep valleys and wall- | into Carabao Wallow, winding up :

| AN ARTI

Youngest U. S. Diplomat Is asement Clore

Artist, Musician, Bullfighter

By LEIGH WHITE [sian a number of his latest art| Times Foreign Correspondent | works—among them the portraits! SEVILLE, Spain, Aug. 20.—Twen- | of two of the most beautiful women ty-three-year-old Barnaby Conrad in Seville, Jr., acting American consul here, is 2 a a the youngest vice consul in the for- AS YOU sit in the consuls office eign service. your eyes inevitably stray over the He also is the only diplomat in piles of books lined up at the edge American history of his desk. Every one of them has i who has been a to do with bullfighting. .. bullfighter at the, Conrad — who comes from San | |: same time. | Francisco—had never seriously inBut that's not tended to take up bullfighting until all. He is really! he went to study art at Mexico unia painter at heart. versity following his . graduation Wit hin a few from Yale in 1941. He had read : weeks he plans to | his Hemingway, of course, and had "resign from the been deeply moved by “Death in foreign service to|the Afternoon.” But his real instudy in Granada | terest then, as now, was painting, under the Span-| It is only an accident, however, ish artist, Gabriel that it still is because after he had {seen his first bullfight, he resolved Meanwhile, Conrad has been then and there to devote himself to learning to play the guitar. But the fiesta: brava. he also has been keeping up with the piano, an instrument which " : helped him play his way through | 'eur fights . in Mexico before he

the Yale school of fine arts. |was gored by a bull. The horn nn smashed his knee and he still has

IN HIS spare time he has been to wear a brace to walk. learning to speak Calo, internation-: Because of his disability, he now al language of the gypsies, in whom knows that he will never be a he has also become interested as matador of professional caliber like “a byproduct of his interest in bull- his friend and fellow countryman, fighting. |, Sidney Franklin, who is also fignt- | Versatile is hardly the word for ing in Spain at present. Mr. Conrad, because he is also Conrad has. therefore decided | working on a romantic novel based definitely to be fa painter and a on his own experiences as vice-con- possible novelist. But bullfighting, sul in Malaga. he says, will always remain his prin- ' The novel is three-quarters fin- cipal hobby. ished. The only trouble with it he says, is that it “sounds a little too much like Hemingway.”

Mr. White Morcillo.

" = ” HE participated in 70 of 80 ama-

= LJ » TALL AND handsome, Conrad has participated in 10 corridas since E. 8 = he came to Spain two years ago. IN THE absence of John N. Ham- On Sept. 2, he will be featured lin, the eonsul—who has been in the alongside Juan Belmonte in a beneUnited States-on leave—The Amer- fit bullfight to be held. near here ican consulate has taken on a good at Castilleja de la Cuesta. deal of the character of its tempor- It is Conrad's opinion that in ary boss. his prime, Belmonte was the greatYou can’t help but notice the est bullfighter who had ever lived. bullfighter’s capes and swords Belmonte is an old man now, but draped over the radiator as you he is still very good. Conrad conenter the hallway leading into the siders it the greatest honor he has patio, received in Spain to date that “El In the patio itself, Conrad's pet Consul Americano” should be billed parrot screeches in her ‘cage. On to fight at the veteran's side.

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