Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 November 1945 — Page 19

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in Ee fn x ye ‘ b . : Si TA > ee i ar Le : 4] SECOND SECTION _* FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1945 HAPPY VALLEY (Story of the Yanks Who Trained China's Guerrillas)

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Dick Miller, and three or four firemen and police- a¥ PR Bon men running to see what was the matter. The noise] i . ' scared him so that he cried for 10 minutes without stopping. . . . The butchers and grocerymen in town are overjoyed since meat rationing went out. They civil war that has been fought say cutting out the red point system takes away half : . the U. 8. navy in a sailing vessel. their work. : It happened on Aug. 20--five ° ’ ys after the official Jap sur

Pre-Paid Medicine + By Frank Aston|

naval engagement of the war, probably the only battle since

Mrs. Albert Thomas , . . She made the hominy and sausage,

y Swede Swentzle—in U. 8B. navy their ancestors before they had a chance to report to head quarters, . " WASHINGTON, Nov. 30.—~The Michigan medical service is known as the country’s No. 1 organization providing doctor bill insurance. It was formed in March, 1940, by the Michigan State Medical society and now covers .one of every: eight families in the state. 3 r At first Michigan provided a complete medical

beating from those scattered individuals who enjoy poor health. When these troubled souls behold diagnosis, consultation and treatment practically for free, they run their doctors ragged. But the practitioners have their own ways of adjusting such unfortunates. The crusade against imaginary sickness seldom lasts more than a few weeks. * %

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” ‘ A-WU NEVER did figure it out.

He used to think about those candy! Marine Lt. Stewart L. Pittman, also jars every once in a while, and|,r New York.

: oh i “Would shake his head and mumble thet so mystified A-wu. As it i "

Shanghal. the second junk was

~The mission: to land guerrillas

turned out, jars are pretty de and supplies near Shanghal, service plan to pay professional expenses in the home, office and hospital. The plan collapsed. The dogtors could not carry the load. For example, medical records show an average of 40 surgical operations a year among every 1000 Americans; but when Michigan's pre machine got rolling, it was asked to provide 120 operaHots a year to every 1000 mem-

His Jap friends had mortars and en» Michigan rates: $1.60 a month for a subscri : By WILLIAM E. NEWTON machine guns and rifles. All the and wife; $2.25 a month for a-fathily, none of the] RU sk Seripps-Howard- Sixt Writer fmm rtm Americans had around here was. 8} NE TWO uiips ploughod sigwly ih children to be more than 19 years old. A single Y ANGTZE RIVER VALLEY, China, Nov. 30.—A-wu was|lot of useless candy jars. No one-in the little task force exSubscriber YAY ges Jre-phyiment of susgical bills. fog zzled. He scratched his bald head.. He made little] “Americans crazy. No doubt about accident or disease at 60 cents a month. pn * . : . " who win war,” said A.-wu.. Michigan service includes surgery, diagnostic X-| marks in the dust with a piece of stick and rubbed them out| "ne nead man of Happy valley ray service, anesthesia, obstetrics and aera, two| again. - had a price on his head. The Japs weeks of post-operative care in a hospi 3 2 iki 3 i tried to assassinate him four times. : The crazy Americans were buying up glass candy jars BE Rar En er all over the town. They didn't care whether there was any | gi ner to Joe Champe and hismen, candy in the jars or mot. og — tt oy] cluarned Ue, Po pe, U. 8B. navy, was . 8.0 Sometimes they emptied all the ground, cross-legged, TWO WEEKS before last Christthe candy in the storekeeper’s| 1, front of him, row on row, were| mas, a spy dumped live ammuni- .| hundreds of glass candy jars. tion in the fireplace of the Chinese

Bullets flew in all directions. All of them missed. ~ “ Two weeks later, at Kwelyang, they machine-gunned the auto in which he was riding. Y The admiral's Christmas present guerrillas and the Americans who € that year was his lucky escape from \eg traveled with them, and ; death, z . everything they did. But . They came closest to success the didn't make sense, previous August, when two Japs : s =» Vw» made their way through guerrilla THE GUERRILLAS couldn't hurt lines and got to the threshold of Jap ‘friends with candy jars, the hut in which hé was staying. alert guard dropped them

The program was rebuilt into one for surgery. The members showed such lack of - interest in the medical phase that it soon was dropped. But the surgical sidé met a huge demand. Physicians changed their rates twice before settling on a satis

A-wu couldn't figure it out. He 5s low “wiiéthél $0 lip and tell his Jap friends about it or not. had told him to walch the

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SURGEONS report that when a group of people

) vy's last war “II, e the crazy Americans bought es| all glass jars in China. ; both, A-wu decided he'd just forget ; x . ; bout it. The Japs would only laugh EL RK, Nov. 20.~One development which in Chins hills, Lt Joe made possible superspeeds of fighters and bombers . now is enabling predictions of 300 to 400 mile-per-It received little publicity, giving way to the more- creas an a

nr 5» " OF ALL the exploits of his trained , crew of Jap-killers, the admiral is Quietly, carefully, they covered! proudest of the Battle of the junks

To =. A Visit to a Blighted Land of Death....==

_ out it, however, no engine—of any eo ; . / By ROBERT C. MILLER

“The famed army P-47 Thun- § : bleak cold, hunger, typhus and death. * | York, and I spent several days in : derboits and navy PeP Helleats A These thousands of square miles of Upper Silesia lie north of the|inis country travelling only during ‘ 0 a Czechoslovakian r and are now part of Poland, Before the war it|¢he daylight hours, carefully avoid+ Air ‘Gear Shift’ : : tr

was » fertile coun " ing the small groups of armed men : "DISCOVERY of the controlisble, counterweight] TOUAY it Is almost lifeless. The farms ate deserted, the villages occasionally seen slong the road, |yberately run the truck into o BUILDING PLANNED propeller was made by Prank W. Caldwell, chief of re- | jc rts have fled. . For mile after

abandoned and the original inhab~ + | talking with the. few civilians and es 1b beyond 1d BY SALVATION ARMY - There is hardly a farm animal the area. ; search for Hamilton Standard division of United Air-|mile there is hardly a vestige of life. | jett in the entire countryside. exploring The uniformed men ripped open : craft ‘Corp. It was a workable “air gear shift.” Eastward from the Czech

The ted . Everywhere the stories wars. thie the-Sundles, stripped the sien snd bligh area encOMpASSes|..me Typhus was prevalent and women to their undergarments It was successfully used in 1934 in the Sikorsky Wn. of Goutlitz a is, than Just & Jew comumipitios: food scarce. freezing weather and then beat and of ite TO-MAN'S-land peopled covers thousands of square : cursed them for not-ha anywhen the 19-ton amphiblan—far Ahead of its| po fugees and marauding bands. Tne exodus from Upper Silesia| Occasionally we passed people ving There is little law and order. began last win when the Russians

wet through by the sleet and rain, |thing worth plundering. Crossing the Neisse river border the Reich.

carts, pushing sioaded| The Germans had fifty miles to jh En ar or PUTS, packs. | 80 to the border with only a few at Goerlitz is like moving backwards| These people belteved so firmly in| post of them were aged and the Pieces of stale bread for food and into the pages of medieval history. ithe Nazi propaganda that almost|ngiority women. ? no transportation but their near. , Here it is difficult to believe. what|¢, 5 man they evacuated the cOUD-| When you can get them to talk bare feet. % The present 65-year-old building you see. ; tryside, * preferring. suffering and|¢pey all tell the same story. But A mile of two down the road we | on 8. Capitol ave. will be superseded The stillness: the paved road death in the freezing. weather 0) moct of them refuse to believe such | Passed the soldiers, eight of them, by one including an auditorium, stretching ahead but usually naked | the advancing Russians, people as Americans exist; they be-|all armed, one with a light ma- | Fécreation rooms, gymnasium and |of trafic, unharvested, weed-choked| A few Feimalnied, trying to eke out|Jieve you are trying to trick them chine gun sing over his shoulder. All adequate office space, stated Fred. fields, buildings solid and untouched | gn “existence despite the raids by when you mention America. - wore Russian uniforms. erick Schortemeier, president of the by war but deserted and empty. plundering soldiers and bandits. But| Every. one of them is fearful! ‘We didn’t stop to question their viny board. db Farm equipment, including Amer-| most of them either dled or joined | They tell of being driven from their | identity. They ducked into thei Ihe presen uiiding pin be ren ican harvesters, rusts in the muddy, the trek toward Berlin. | houses, of being robbed by armed W00ds 8s We passed and Felix \7O ori a 4 Sesidence aoe | ” erly bamnyards. Creaking doors and| The land is @ficially Foland, but| hoodlums, the women raped and the SUnned the jeep down the road. | “0 0% i der y es windows bang in the chill Novem-|the Poles have hot yet colonized it. men beaten. I STN —— re voted largely to ber wind. The red brick chimneys And except for isolated garrisons it We passed one German group are cold and smokeless, has become a forgotten land and a!which had been fortunate enough

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