Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 August 1945 — Page 19

THURSDAY, AUG.

(Last of a Series)

By SIDNEY B. WHIPPLE Scripps-Howard Staff Writer WITH THE 38TH INFANTRY DIVISION ON LUZON (Delayed). —We were pushing up through the cave-pitted hills near Ipo dam, over a road that holds many bitter memories for the American 4 6th army, when suddenly Lt. Anderson Howard, a youthful bomb - disposal expert, stopped the jeep and strode .over to a cave that was hMf hidden in rubble and brush. From the debris he pulled out a long pole with a tin funnel at the end of it. The funnel had three horns. “This is one of the wickedest weapons the Japs ever invented, strictly homemade,” he explained. “Purely a suicide job. When our tanks came along, the Japs would pop out of the underbrush and bang this against the tank's side. It had enough charge to blow a hole in our armor. Of course, the Jap blew himself up, too. + This is "What you call a lunge mine.” ” n ” HOWARD talks like and somewhat ‘resembles, a mild:smannered school-master, and he is as casual about handling all sorts of lethal devices as a boy tinker= ing with a. radio. This morning he planned to destroy several tons of abandoned Jap ammunition, and he promised the biggest noise I'd ever heard The war wreckage in the Ipo river district is still a shocking reminder of the desperate struggle for control of Manila's water supply. Skeletons of trucks, ammunition carriers, tanks, mortars and huge guns line the road. Every 20 feet or so was blackened entrance of a cave, driven directly into the rock mountain and timbered like a coal mine. Each one of these caves had been a stronghold from which the Japs fought cunningly and ferociously. n ” ” EVERY now and then we came across a large pile of unexploded shells, falling out of their rotting packing cases. Or stacked boxes of high. explosive, Or mines. bright and shiny mortar shells. This was the stuff that interested Lt. Howard, for he and a small squad of assistants have the job of clearing the area and. making it safe for the Filipino farmer, Two miles beyond the command post of the 2nd battalion, 149th infantry, which is on a high hill overlooking the area our forces now hold, Howard turned off the military highway and drove into a secluded valley. Here, the

Mr. Whipple

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previous day's haul of explosives

had been cached. There were 24 boxes of high explosive in its original Japanese wrappings, each box weighing 100 pounds. » ” ” NEARBY was a pile of 75 47mm shells, and 20 75's. Scattered through the lot were scores of Type 88 fuses, each sealed in a little canister, Howard pried one out of the cdn, twisted a wire, broke it open, ‘and suggested it might make a nice paper-weight. “Only you have to be very careful,” he said, “This is very dangerous.” The brass casings of the 47-mm shells make fine ash trays. Howard took one of them, rapped it smartly to loosen the shell from the casing, threw the shell away, and extracted three silk powder bags that prime the main charge. "hen he exploded the cap by raping it with a hammer and screw driver and there was your ash ray, completely devitalized. ” » ” THE 24 boxes of T. N, T. were arranged in three stacks of two tiers each, with a foot or so learance between the rows. Then the loose ammunition was piled n the spaces until we had a

EWSHEN'S ARREST CAPTAINS MISTAKE

ST. PAUL, Minn, Aug. 23 (U. P.). Two St, Paul Pioneer Press-Dis-teh newspapermen were informed day that an army captain had en without authority to arrest hem for interviewing and photoaphing troops en route to the est coast. The newsmen, Reporter Jack einberg and Cameraman Dave ornberg, were taken into military stody yesterda¥* while attempting investigate. reports that men of e 97th division were béing “shangied” to the Pacific after serving re than five months in Europe. einberg said he and Dornberg re talking to a group of soldiers a confectionery counter in the Iroad station when a captain in'vened, saying that the men were veling under secret orders. he newsmen were placed under ird when they protested that _the r was over, and there no longer 5 any need for secrecy. When Weinberg demanded to w why he was taken into cusy, the officer answered, “We nk you may be a spy.” ‘he newsmen were released after tacting their managing editor, d Heaberlin," who took the matto L}. Col. Charles J. West, offiin charge of the Twin Cities ofof army security and intellice division. of the 7th service mand. ol. West said there was no jusation. for the arrest and that officer, apparently, was under impression that troop movets still were a matter for milisecurity.

ZANUCK DENIES RUMOR OLLYWOOD, Aug: 23 (U, P.) — lon picture producer Darryl PF. Ick, rumored as a possible sucto Archibald MacLeish in the » department, today

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neat mound about four feet high |

and 12 feet square. Howard opened a case .and pulled out six blocks of stuff that looked like yellow putty. He moulded it into a lump and patted it firmly in place on top of the

| boxes.

“Composition C2,” “Terrific combustion.” Next he took three six-foot lengths of prima cord-—‘“this burns at the rate of 40 miles a second, believe it or not!”"—and twisted each end into a ball. The balls were sunk in the Composition C2, and the loose ends of the prima were taped together and bound to another length of slow fuse,

he explained.

HOWARD did some figuring. | Three minutes. to the main road. |

Five: minutes more to the com- | mand post. Four minutes leeway for safety. Abut 14 feet of fuse, he thought. : With everything in position, he fired the electric blasting cap and we. -lost no time piling into the jeep and bouncing.away. At the command post we took grand stand seats overlooking the gulch. -| We held stop watches. At the | 12th minute there was, first, a mushroom of black smoke, then a red and orange flash that filled the sky, and finally, seconds later, ! the valley was filled as with the thunder of a thousand cannon,

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“THAT'S not a very big- noise,” |

said Howard. “I wish I'd used twice as much. Then you'd have

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: 381h's Lt. Howard Sets Noise Record, Destroying Japs' TNT

BABY FATALLY BURNED 'IN LAKE COTTAGE FIRE

ANGOLA, Ind., Aug: 23 (U. P).—|

: yn South Bend Shoe Repairman |An 8-months-old «Ohio baby died |

: Held in Slaying of Ill Wife

| lakeside summer cottage last | SOUTH BEND, Ind, _Aug. 23 into the adjoining kitchen and Taylor, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Taylor of Cincinnati, O. The parents had rented the Balls lake

{man admitted to police that he last, a shoe .form used in repair killed his wife, Fannie, 58, yesterday work. |cottage for their ‘summer vacation. by hitting her ayer the head with a Then he slashed her throat with a

The fire, started when a gasoline | shoe last. he |stove exploded, quickly swept! Police took Altes Shapiro into cus- After that, he said he took “a through the structure and blocked | ody after the body of his wife was couple” of drinks and lit a cigaret attempts of the parents io reseue found lying in the kitchen of their The Rody Was dixovered by -a the baby, they said. { 3 g “7 daughter-in-law. Two other Cincinnatians were Dome in a pool of blood. | Police found Shapiro burned seriously. They were Har-! “This is sport—that's what it is," against the kitchen wall. {ley Ford, 39, and C. D. Good, 49. the authorities said he told them.| Coroner T. C. Goraczewski said [They were taken to an Angola hos- Police said Shapiro told them that that Shapiro told him that his wife | pital for treatment. he walked out of his repair shop' had been {ll

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KELLOGG TO GRANT ROCHESTER $90,000

ROCHESTER, Minn. Aug. 23 (U.’ P.o.—~The Rochester city eouncil announced yesterday that it had offer of $90,000 from Foundation, Battle for the extension of work and establish a field training center. The council said the .offer was taken “so that the public. will be better served and improved facilities for public health students will

accepted an the Kellogg Creek, Mich, public health ment of

,be available.”

The $90,000 grant is to extend over a five-year period, $30,000 for 1945-46 and $24,000, $18.000, $12,000 and $6000 successively for the next

four vears