Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 August 1949 — Page 15

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you need ‘They're yours,” said Mr, DeShano. He'was & ge. Dea't man of quick decision. jon.” Haw “+ With the big box of balls in my possession, I ww ow” Sal apc Wally Walon, one of our a Ss * ers nows where little gifts onl aps we of -.preciated most. Wally suggested we head out to Catch... . Youngsters at Garfield Park cateh glasses ars llard Park. He also told me fo have a couple bright rubber balls for keeps. Santa Claus

handy to throw from the car. A - couple of blocks from Willard two little tykes wobbled along the sidewalk. Despite the , fact that they were in much more need of a bar 1 home and give it to his 2-year-old cousin. of than a shiny, red-white-and-blue rubber 1 said that was very though ball,” ordered, “Firs one” Three seconds other boys suddenly were thoughtful. Everyone later, “Fire two.” had at least eight brothers and sisters at home. Two more surprised youngsters you never aid It was hard to believe some of the stories. { me. hesitated to pick -up-the-balis. Things Barth's wife came up, like that just didn't happen. We drove away ,.4 said she has three youngsters home and © slowly leaving them in a childish dilemma. Finally would like to have one ball, I gave her three. | they Plced up the bouncing Spares and dis- Tommy Goebel, Johnny Obergfell, Fred and tween two buildings. Tom Schoettle thought Wally and I ought to At ied re Park we got the first that = ome to Edgewood. about every week and oftener the population of Indianapolis must be OVEr i we liked. When everyone had a ball and the 3 million, judging from the number of Brothers resting started, Wally pulled out for Garfield and sisters each kid said he had at home. Park. We had about 30 balls left.

At Garfield, at the entrance to the swimming Thick Wb Though! one ball and were. Pool. all we said was one word: Free. So many satistied. Bobby and Dickie Nichols couldn't under. Sustomers appeared it became necessary to IIe stand why such beautiful balls were free. Dick the children up and pass what was left out ome

t nice at a time, End Role Oe Et ‘to ‘tape home 1 OU Popularity dropped to zero when the box

_ was empty. Fun while they lasted though. their brothers. " Davia Coram thought our com Is there a millionaire in town who has surIng was: “swell” Did ws have footballs? lus money he wants to give away to kids? On the way to Edgewood, several more op- Plus money gt y portunities came to drop surprises at children v9 0 playing on sidewalks. A P se ball dropping from Among the 10 “You, Too" requests today is a " nowhere is a lovely sight to a 3-year-old. letter from Capt. James R. Deth, 10th Air Force, I felt like a character out of Wizard of Oz each who writes: “It breaks my heart to see that the. time we passed children ‘who looked as if they people who want that bo6k are so slow in sending needed a toy or two. Put down those rocks, kids. - in their favorable indications, sooooo b am enOur big moment came in front of George closing 594,038,463,026,784,309 requests,’ boy. I Dudgeon’s Supreme Bicycle Service Shop. That's wonder if he’s kidding. "Of .coursé, the governa place where you'll find youngsters from sunup ment does silly Wings. Anyway, 10 added to to sur do # . 1028 makes 1038. :

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NEW YORK, Aug. 13—One of the reasons, I months we had 24,000 casualties evacuated, and suppose, that we will never rid the world of war at the American cemetery there today there are {s that it makes virtually no impression on its about 7500 crosses to mark the men who never got survivors. A relative few of the combat fatiguers off at all. wind up with the recurring horrors; a small per- What 1 was saying was that this was a hellcentage of the alumni wake up screaming years ish action of ceaseless pounding. For days on after the fighting is done. end the men got no Ses 2 all, and arent ihe only reasonably safe ing place was n ar up Bit 10 the Zloty ot ned ¥ho get mixed Clark's headquarters, dug deeply under the castle of the Prince Borghese. You would think that

unreal that-it leaves small imprint on = sub. anyone who had been through it would shudder

when he saw it again, even after -five years. But all this sergeant recalls clearly is ‘Shooting the big white oxen. I guess this is the reason you win wars. The! Anzio

wasn't wearing a beard but he was welcome.

This came to mind the other day as I watched — installment 12 of Lite’'s televised ver- gsgoes af the men shown in the film sion of Ike Eisen “Crusade in gq, pathetically young, so drawn and numbed from Europe.” Sitting with me were two GI veterans of . gnock-and fatigue, that the brain barely quivers. the Anzio-Nettuno fighting. One, Sgt. Willlam There are some vivid shots of men battling winterJ. Reifer of Houtzdale, Pa, was a double purple {ime Italian flood and mud, and others of -men hearter and also a veteran of Cassino. Their sweating heavy apparatus up the muddy hills, - seaman othe andte 0. TAY WEIS my The bodies move by rote, by practice, by habit, yt Ee EA Rr — .. With. the nerves. SH i. brains asleep,

rica’s ea ot "nk SH R a most. — Tn i" Humorous’ PRT i Si Fen oo A I Er A ber, Clea uy, Se NE vi AREA able FER LT VETERAN the’ early miserable ating eh “SOME OF it was pretty humorous,” he sald. fgnting in the RANS — are able to repro“ost]. ~ Shooting the cows, and stuff like that.’ . ‘duce clearly, now, the awfulness of the heat, the Cost Now the fighting at Anzio was one of the jungles, the insects, the bad food and the sniping|

most hortor-glled actions of the war. It Was a

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"designed to cause them to abandon one position in days. It seemed at the time that I had no inorder to throw reinforcement against a second going days. It seemed at and it was as if T had Allied front. It was generally conceded to De hired a stand-in for the duration of the war, while one of the larger foul-ups of the war. the “me” I was familiar with was somewhere off | The landing went easily, but the Gérmans in in limbo. 2 _the hills reinforced their power, instead of with- That is why, I believe if we. whipped up an“drawing, and what began as short feint on. our other war tomorrow, the volunteer stations would part developed into a punishing action las bulge with veterans of the last mess. from January until early June. They recall the gal in Sydney; the dead cow The German artillery in the high hills of Colli at Anzio; the last leave in Frisco. .But the mud Laziall was zeroed in-on-the-town. The German -and blood and muck is just a dimly remembered aircraft knew every target by heart. In four bad dream, x

~ Free Freezers

WASHINGTON, Aug. 13—There are some fel- self from a member of President Truman's Cabilows in this town, and I don’t mean only Maj. Gen. net, thanking him for the gift and adding that the Harry Vaughan, who'd like to stick their heads in missus was getting great joy from its use. with the frozen Broceol inside, their wives’: food Whether the Honorable Mr. X will enjoy the freezers. : lima beans from the free freezer tonight is an-| These beautiful white boxes that purr and ‘keep other question. * But I'm inclined to doubt it. the vegetables cold were manufactured by Albert How this frozen mystery came up at all makes, J. Gross of Milwaukee to retail at $390 each. He an interesting tale. There was Freezer Magnate| shipped four of same to capital bigwigs, including . Gross. telling how he'd hired James V. Hunt, the Gen. Harry of the White House, and forwarded alleged 5 per center of so many recent headlines; the bill to. the .Adbert. - Verley.. a ft pers... _ fumer. What a Midwest firm specializing in making sweet smells for soap has in mind when it pre- denly. sents such iceboxes de luxe to the wives of some Yes, quite a few,” replied the slim, gray-haired of the topmost men in Washington is something I Mr. Gross. Committee ‘will dis- . “To whom?” inquired the bachelor Senator. cover. 1 also trust the committee, Which is 100k- “tha?” ing into the machinations of the 5 per centers, will see fit in its wisdom to méke public the identities of the ladies with the free iceboxes. .

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“You ever ship any units to Washington?” Sen.°Joseph R. MeCartny of Wisconsin asked sud-

“You most certainly should,” Carthy.

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.. phone, “there was Gen. Vaughan and . Reporter Feels Frustrated tth018 It” yelped William P. Rogers, ‘the om "I KNOW who they are and their names make The OF v oe " i got into a red-faced ent news, but —dadblast it —1I can't print 'em until petween the Republicans and the Democrats, and) :

~and if they go into the official record. It’s been a. long: time since I've felt so. frustrated. * Mr. Gross, the nervous refrigerator magnate, y ! blurted out the name of Gen. Vaughan before the o- f Democrats on the committee could shush him. Then the lawgivers went into a huddle and Chair- re0orq and learn whether the mesdames ever paid| man Clyde R. Hoey of North Carolina sald it tn, perfume company for the iceboxes. Whether wouldn't be fair to the ladies to say anything more or no he said, it wouldn't hurt to wait a while until he'd learned whether they paid for their p.s0e naming them. “freezers. The REPUbICANS nsistea THEY eventually the ladies will be identified. kota, said he’d wait, but he wouldn't forget. All I know is that John F. Maragon, the mys- that does it for this writing, though I woudn't 5 terious man about Washington, used to work for surprised if a quartet of fedefal hotshots have the Verley Co. as a procurer of essential oils. lost their taste for frozen foods and at the moment And he showed me the other day a letter to him- are eating their vegetables out of cans.

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