Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 July 1946 — Page 10

THE FIRST READER ... By Harry Hansen

Men More Than Machines Won Bulge Battle, History Shows

“THE 84TH INFANTRY DIVISION IN THE BATTLE OF GER. MANY. ». By ll, Theodore Draper. Viking Press. $5. |

GENERALS GIVE orders and headquarters get reports, but battles are won by the stamina of the common soldier who uses the guns.| If he breaks, all the plans go to pieces; if he holds, the whole line holds| The real story of the the battle of the bulge, the strategic defeat of the Germans in their final offénsive in the Ardennes and the American | drive across the Rhine to the Elbe, is the story of the common soldier. As Lt. Theodore Draper puts Rr ASS te ———— in his history, “The 84th Infantry that it is not for sale. It should, | Division in the Battle of Germany,” however, be available in the prin- | “the way to hold is to hold.” Every cipal libraries of the country. battle in the famous bulge, says he,| The 103d was quite frank about | was a battle or Stain, | Its casualties, but the history of the | 84th gives practically no statistics. | IT WAS fought. over fields of ice possibly they can be obtained from | and wooded hills, with the crust the headquarters of the Railsplit-| of earth so frozen that it t0OK| taps society in Springfield, III. riflemen five hours to dig three which publishes a directory. feet to make a foxhole, oz» | |

“In that terrible cold there was THE SOCIETY, made up of vet-| only one thing worse than not erans, chose Springfield because of | sleeping—that: was sleeping. the association of the 84th with| Rations and supplies could not bey i..1, hut the relationship seems | moved in anything but half-tracks. Ito be very thin. The history is ad-| Water froze in canteens. Frostbite Imirably illustrated with photo-| was more dangerous than German | yryph drawings and plates in guns. color, . But the Americans, with the EL La Ly | British, held 28 German divisions in

the Ardennes and went over to the| THEY LOVE HIM

John Bartlow Martin . ,

By SHERLEY UHL

NECK-DEEP in free-lance writ- at his typewriter, and with painful! For many years Mr. Teale, natu- tie surrounding country.

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES - Slit : - WEDNESDAY, JULY 31, 1946 ~

John Martin, Former Reportef for The Times, Neck. Deep in New Book About Hoosier Land

John will coast for awhile, taking, to talk with them in their homes Stephenson, ex-Klu Klux. Klan ;sidestepping over into the “true

his pleasures leisurely and where | or, say, a nice, cool bar. grand dragon serving a life sen- |confession” field where he wrote a he finds them. But not for long. | Free-lance writing, he describes tence in Michigan City." for: the series entitled “Women in Crime.” He's never _jdle very long. as “champagne today, crackers and murder of Miss Madge Oberholt- | At that time he lived in a thirdWhether you're a detective story milk tomorrow.” But the way John !zer of Indianapolis. «rate hotel in Chicago's loop and or “quality” magazine fan, you've does ‘it, it's Lostiy Spampague. In a Harper's number aptly called, was happy if he sold one effort out undoubtedly read some of John's “Beauty and the Beast,” John gave of ‘three. : stuff at one time or another, HE HAS Jot plete a com- {he “inside story” of the D. C. Ste- | 2»

For instance, in the August Har- | prehensive study of Midwest trends phenson case. And Stephenson has | HE'S WRITTEN wal over half a per's, (out -today incidentally), is for Life magazine, one of the high- never forgiven him for it. He won't million words in the fact detective one of his articles entitled, “Middle- |est-paying publications in the busi- | speak to John any more. and confession field and is well on town Revisited,” an analyses of ness. And he's writing his Indiana| “I'm sad,” John grimaced. bos ; nm post-war Muncie; Ind. Previously, regional survey for Alfred Knopf on! 2. ow # is way do the pages of the “slick CIALIZES in yarns simi- azines. Roa Hhadleion ear" Pleee 8 Sova: his |. HE SPECIAL] | His reputation as a skilled crafts{man already established, John al-

titled “Middletown at War” con-| He already had written another jay to the Stephenson article, relating various crimes to their motivat- ways “baits” his publishers with in-

cerning Mundle’s Teaction to World (such volume entitled, “Call it North ar 21. nin Fea SRL aude Lon pe ing sociological and economic back- triguing ideas before actually subJOHN limited himself to the and play poker. He also plays poker &rounds. All of what he calls his mitting A manuscript. Now he | “fact” writing field, shunning fic- in Indiana. “crime and context” stories will bg never writes anything that isn't {tion because “hell, I'm just a re-| A graduate of DePauw university, | published in a single volume next sold beforehand, porter.” This is a throwback to John joined The Times in 1937, Year. _{ Father of a 4-year-old daugh|his reporting days on The Times married in 1038, took & honeymoon John owes a lot to crime. That's ter, John is staying, while in In{when he covered police, city hall ‘trip to Cuba ‘and Puerto Rico and how he broke into the free-lance diana, with his parents, Mr. and ig did rewrite, From The Times, the Dominican Republic where he 8ame. In the early days he scrib-/Mrs. J. W, Martin, 2215 Brookside {he plunged into the free-lance and his bride stayed in a grass Pled scores of fact detective stories, ave. er RRs jarena, moving to Chicago. But shack so he could collect data for -

{much of his subject matter deals a piece on Rafael: Trujillo, DominiTo Onder EW ry

{with Indiana, can dictator, | He started writing on his own 8 a {hook because he hates offices. Even! NOW HE'S on Trujillo's blacklist.

now he hestitates to interview peo- | He's also on several other blacklists

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offensive. They had accounted for | Wo a . +i | Precision pound out 300 some odd ralist and photographer, has been ir mp ents ei vo crreeNtaER TEENY a 90,000 G by the time the of ing again, John Bartow Martin, pages of copy. This he will re i this diti taki ermans . Ww. 1 ; ; “| preparing 8 edition, ng |! 1 Adare es “isenes ‘ Seessasneasssane fensive started. When they had all | 127 Writers back from the army, is compiling write maybé half a dozen. times. photographs of places associated | Gone With the Wind (a) : i the German reserves “in a vise in| a volume on Indiana, its fine points Then he will alter a word here, with. Thoreau. Still Selling Strong the west” the Russians began their} Gi O land foibles. |a paragraph there until his manu- ah | .l ir. , ,” Margaret : t. vy Pp He's scrambling all over Indi-!|gcript resembles a wall r sample Gone Withr the Wind,” Sigaaive in She i e inions anapolis and the state, digging up hy Pre P Biography Available [Mitchell's phenomenally successful BOOK DEPARTMENT, STREET FLOOR , , regi | | Dover Publications announce a novel, which was 10 years old last “WHEN WE took Laroche,” says Ab t Sh {material for the volume, a regional | tn a : i ce . a ' ) Lt. Draper, of the 84th infantry ou aw study of Hoosierland. He yecently BUT WHEN he’s finished he has ;+% Sitio of Fosnet Bien; ii is FSH Sing sifen, cords division, “we sealed the fate of the visited Columbia Clty where he ex-{, go orl tooled, highly polished : hel : ition 4 g Ayres Fe 1:3

_ Bulge.” 1"G. B. S. 90: ASPECTS OF [amined Governor Gates’ community

Maybe you don't wish to follow| SHAW'S LIFE AND WORK." "When he

me while I talk about another war book, but I think you ought to Dodd, Mead and Co. New . know that this step-by-step record York. $3. * of a detailed, intricate operation is a : not only good history but high ad- A FAMOUS American author was venture. asked whether he expected to atHere is every move of the ex-|tend the Saturday Review dinner | Saorsary Sess same as Bo commemorating Bernard Shaw's! ight man sees e hazardous : | attempts to -reconnoiter in strange 90th birthday. He was told Shaw territory, the flushing of machine- was sending a special message W guns and bazookas at crossroads,| sound track. the investment of villages, the! “No” he replied, “he's said building of pontoon bridges, the at-| enough.” tacks on hidden machine-gun nests,| And he has talked fully on many | the patrol of roads, the organization topics, as you will observe when | of anti-Nazl administrations in the | you open “G. B. 8. 90: Aspects of | "towns, the routing of supplies—in | Shaw's Life and Works,” a collec- | fact, hundreds of details not told} | tion of estimates and appreciations | in press reports because they are {by 27 British and Irish writers. the mosaics of the whole picture. | They describe Shaw as social But they are what the infantryman critic, dramatist, theologian, econsees with his own eyes. omist, music critic, wit, philosopher, 2 = » { scenario writer, radio speaker, edu- - MACHINES ARE important in| cator, Fabian socialist and Irish- | war, but men were still more im-|man. portant in France and Germany in! Here is a man who has been con- | 1944-45. The historian of the 84th trary consistently, frankly critical, | speaks emphatically on this point|contemptuous of conventional] when summing up the. battle of thinking, radical politically, and | Lindern, in the Siegfried line: dictatorial in his business relations, “What was ‘mechanized warfare’ (and yet they all love him—more or at Lindern or, for that matter, in less. ' | almost all the battles of our muddy “a. nn.» | infantry? Were machines doing all] NO ONE has asked me to write the fighting, winning all the glory, a new estimate of Shaw, so I'll cull . making all the sacrifices? Nothing some bits from the authorities who could be more dangerous nonsense, | Write for “G. B. 8. 90." We captured Lindern because a| Says Gilbert Murray: “Even pain | few men in the first hours were seems not to disturb him much.” told to go somewhere, went there| John Masefleld: “Let ministers | and stayed there. We held it be- | of fine arts, centuries hence, order cause a few tankers disregarded all| {him statues.” (Well, centuries | the golden rules of their trade and hence, please.) drove in to help out the doughboys.! S. Winsten: “Never taken in by | ® ® = his own fluent tongue, he studied | “WE BEAT BACK the counterat- hard and made himself: a peer of | tacks because a few more men blew | the people he respected most.” into town before it was too late. 4 = The enemy lost Lindern because he] M. J. MCMANUS: “The Ireland, was caught by surprise, and then|in which G. B. S. grew to young | he could not take it back because manhood had little or nothing to| he could not think fast enough. offer the artist. Yet Ireland is| “Modern warfare may be mech- | proud that through all his days he anized, but it has not been mechan-|has insisted on remaining an Irish-| ized to the point where you can man.” adjust some gadgets in the heart| Laurence Housman: “I regard and brain of a man to keep him Bernard Shaw as the most devastat- | tighting.” Ing influence that. has befallen my | It's good to know that, even | country, from the '80s up to the] though we make a reservation about | present day. And the devastation | pilotless aircraft and bombs. | that he has wrought has been al- | ® ® =» most entirely beneficent.” |

THE MEN of the 84th infantry $ % 8 ; division called themselves “Rail- | H. G. WELLS: “This getting old | splitters” and carried a device of is tiresome. I don't feel old in my | an ax splitting a log, a reminis- wits, but my heart seems to falter, | cence of the first world war, when|and I have phases of brain anemia, | it was called the Lincoln division, | when I forget names and all that But now the men were chiefly | small-print stuff. Whatever hap-| southerners. {pens now, we have had a pretty | Maj. Gen. A. R. Bolling was com- {good time.” mander of the combat operations. ©. E. M. Joad: “It cannot be sald | He says this history “was written! that Shaw's philosophy has won | for the men who made it,” and 1 wide acceptance. The English find! can believe they will cherish it. it hard to forgive a man for making Several other divisional histories| more than one reputation, and are in print, and others are in|Shaw has made at least half a preparation, and they will give in-! dozen.” timate sidelights on our fighting| Here's to G. B. 8's next 10 years. in Germany. The only other one|Let's Dope. wi we can stand him —H. H. | 1 have seen is called “Report After! Action: The Story of the 103d In-| Firm ' Will Pul Publish fantry Division” the Cactus divis- | fon under Maj. Gen. Charles C.| Nazi POW's Novel ~Huffoer Jr, and it is even better | The New York branch of the than the histery po the 84th. | Bermann-Fischer Publishing Co. of y oA " | Stockholm, Sweden, with the pro-| IT WAS Writer under the super-|yost marshal general's approval, Vision of two newspapermen— | 1o«t summer. offered-a-literary con= ~Ralph--Mueller, of “the Minneapolis test for co- operative German war Blar-Journal, and Jerry Turk, of| prisoners in the United States. the Cleveland News—and its edition| yt, of 50 manuscripts received by of 12000 copies was printed at ine POW editors of one anti-Nazi Innsbrook and sent to its men, so | magazine Der Ruf, the first-

| prize-winning novel was “Von unserm, Fleisch und Blut” (“Of Our | Flesh and Blood”) by POW Walter | Kolbenhoff, now repatriated. The novel, to be published in| German by the Swedish firm, tells for the first time the story of the catastrophic fanaticism of Naz | youth. Negotiations for publica-

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