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The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1944-10-26

ed me. I expected them to be po-
litely contemptuouS of anyone who
declined to do just once what they
do every day But their attitude was
exactly the opposite, and you could
tell they were sincere and not just
being nice.
Anybody who goes, when he
doesn't have to, is plain damn
fool" one of them said.
IF 1 were in your shoes I'd
never go on another mission"
another pilot said.
A bombardier with his arm in a
sling from flax said: you're right.
A correspondent went with us. It
wasn't any good. He shouldn't have
done it."
A Northumberland, who had just
got back from a mission, said:
There are only two reasons on
earth why anybody should go. Either
because he has to, or to show other
people he isn't afraid. Some of us
have to show we're not afraid. You
don't have to. You decided right"
I put this all down with such
blunt immodesty because some Of
you may have wondered when I'm
going along to describe a bombing
mission for you, and if not, why
not. I'm not going, and the reason
is that I've rationalized myself into
believing that for one in my posi-
ton, my sole purpose in going would
be to perpetuate my vanity. And
I've decided to hell with vanity.
was away from the front lines
for a while this spring, living with
other troops, and considerable fight
ing took place while I was gone.
When I got ready to return to my
old friends at the front I wondered
if I would sense any change in
them.
The most vivid change is the
casual and workshop manner In
which they now talk about killing.
They have made the psychological
transition from the normal belief
that taking human life is sinful,
over to a new professional outlook
where killing is a craft. To them
now there is nothing morally wrong
about killing. In fact it is an ad-
mirable thing.
think / am so impressed by
this new attitude because it has
not been necessary for me to
make this change along with
them. AS a noncombatant, my
own life is i'm danger only by
occasional chance or circum-
stance. Consequently 1 need not
think of killing in personal
terms, and killing to me is still
murder.
Even after a winter of living with
wholesale death and vile destruction
it is only spasmodically that / seem
capable of realizing how real and
how awful this war is. My emotions
seem dead and crusty when present.
ed with the tangibles of war. find
I can look on rows Of fresh graves
without lump in my throat. Some
how can look on mutilated bodies
without flinching or feeling deeply.
It is only when 1 sit alone
away from it all, or lie at night
in nay bedroom recreating with
closed eyes what I have seen,
thinking and thinking and
thinking, that 1t hast the enor-
nifty of al these newly dead
strikes like . living nightmare.
And there are times when I feel
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1944-10-26
Book
Lovers

Tanks may be winning the war
on the military front, but it's the
American bulldozer that's doing it
on the political battlefield" writes
D. w. Brogan, noted British author
Of THE American Character" the
current Book-of- the-Month Club
selection, In a recent article.
Pointing out that the bulldozer
land other American peacetime in
struments turned to the uses Of
war; has ploughed through the deep
underbrush of European cynicism
about American democracy, Mr..
Brogan credits it with restoring
faith in the New World for the first
time in generation. 1T was not
until the English saw with their
own eyes the bulldozers, the jeeps,
the great American locomotives pull
ing tiny English freight cars, the
new roads and camps, ETC., that they
began to think once again of the
United States as the land Of mir
acles."
Not only the machines, but those
who manned them, the G.I.'s, per-
formed this changeover in the Eng
lish attitude. Their very homesick-
ness is the most convincing and per-
manent tribute to America an Eng
lishman can have" Mr.. Brogan
writes. "It has swept away all the
old feeling that United States dem
ocracy is a mere instrument Of high
and soon-to-be decadent capitalism.
It has made the Old World think
there must be something In 1t after
all"
The G. rs have thus made Ger
man propaganda in the British Isles
ludicrous. Whats the use of telling
the English that Americans were
playing them for suckers and were
really proposing to take over the
empire, when all the average Amer
lean soldier wants Is to go home, "
the author asks. This disconcer-
ing political indifference Of the av-
erage G I. has had its good side.
Even the dullest Englishman can
see that empire-stealers must be
made of sterner stuff than these
permanently homesick young men, ,
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1944-10-26


have to leave.
But to the fighting soldier that
phase of the war is behind. 1t was
left behind after his first battle. His
blood is up. He is fighting for his
life, and killing now for him is as
much a profession as writing is for
me.
He wants to kill individually or in
vast numbers. He wants to see the
Germans overrun, mangled, butch
cred in the Tunisian trap. He speaks
excitedly of seeing great heaps Of
dead, of our bombers sinking whole
shiploads of fleeing men, of Ger
mans by the thousands dying mis-
erably in final Tunisian holocaust
of his own creation.
In this one respect the 'front.'
line soldier differs from all the
rest of us. All the rest of us
you and me and even the thou
sands OF soldiers behind the
lines of Africa-we want terribly
yet only accidentally for the
war to get over. The front-line
soldier wants it to be got over
by the physical process Of his
destroying enough Germans to
end it. He is truly at war. The
rest of us, no matter how hard
we work, are not.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1944-10-26

It was full of photos and stories
of the war; dramatic tales from the
Solomons, from Russia, and right
from our own African front. The
magazine fascinated me and, when
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1944-10-26

1 had finished. I
felt an animation
about the war I
hadn't felt in
weeks.
For in the mag
azine he W a r
seemed romantic
and exciting, full
of heroics and vi
tality. I know it
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1944-10-26
With Ernie Pyle at the Front:
War Lacks Drama to the
Real Front Line CT Heroes
Without Exception They Want TO
Finish the Job and Return Home
By Ernie Pyle

BY Ernie Pyle
Editors Noe-PYle arrived Albuquerque. New Mexico.
Letters New
university This column written while he still
in
WRITTEN ON THE TUNISIAN FRONT The other
night was sitting the of Lieut. Col Sam Gormly,
Flying Fortress commander FROM Los Angeles We were
looking sx-weeks-od copy of American picture
M latest o reach here.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1944-10-26

The integrity Of men Is to be
measured by their conduct, not by
their professions. JuniuS.
The man who does his work, any
work, conscientiously. must always
be In one sense a great man. - Mu-
lock-
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1944-10-26

The stars come nightly to the sky,
The tidal wave comes to the sea,
Nor time, nor space, nor deep, nor
high,
Can keep my own away from me.
John Burroughs
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1944-10-26
FIRST INFANTRY COMPOSED
OF BRAVE MEN"

The First Infantry division Is an
example of what our American units
can be after they have gone through
the mill of experience. Those boys
did themselves proud In the semi
finals. Everybody speaks about it.
Our casualties included few taken
prisoners.
"They never gave an inch,' gen.
eral says. They died right in their
foxholeS."
I heard of high British officer
who went oyer this battlefield just
after the action was over. American
boys were still lying dead in their
foxholes, their fHles still grasped in
the firing position in their dead
hands. And the veteran English SOL
dier remarked time and again, in q
sort Of hushed enlogy spoken only
to himself:
Brave men. Brave men!"
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-09-18
Advances AreMade,
 2 islands
PeIeiu, Angudr Invasion ists Meet Opposition
 But Forge Forward
By WILLIAM WORDEN

UNITED STATES FLEET HEAD QUARTERS AT PEARL HARBOR, Sept. 17.-Delayed d-Speeding their conquest of the southern Palau Islands, the Marines have advanced one- third of a mile northward on Peleliu and Army troops occupied the entire northeast curve on Anguar on the third day of the fighting
 Enemy opposition on Peleliu was heavy, the Japanese using artillery and mortars. The Navy bombarded various enemy positions.
 The First Infantry Division, which landed three days ago on Anguar, soon consolidated their beachheads in the northeast sectors.
 The Marines on Peleliu captured the airstrip, killed 1,4Q0 Japs and advanced steadily against strong counterattacks. Eight thousand Jap anese are reported on the island.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-09-18
SAM CHRISTENSEN,
 ALASKA PIONEER,
 EXPIRES SUNDAY

Sam Christensen, one of Juneau's best known citizens, passed away yesterday morning in his home at Twelfth and F. Streets, at the age of 79 years and eleven months.
 He was born in Attrup, Den mark. in 1864 and moved to the United States 25 years later In the spring of 1898 he joined the Gold Rush to Alaska. Upon his arrival here he engaged in mining at Ll- auya Bay until 1900. when he came to Juneau and was employed by w. w. Casey at the JuneauTrans- fer. In 1914 he secured the posi- tion of guard at the Federal jail, where he worked for eight years He was then employed by the City until his retirement in 1925. Dur ing 1880 he spent six months visit ing his family and friends in Den mark.
 Christensen, a member of Igloo 6, Pioneers of Alaska, is survived by two sisters in Denmark: Mrs. Petrea Sorenson and Miss Jenslne Christensen, and two nephews; J.. .P. Christensen of Juneau, and Ed Christensen of Palmer.
 Funeral services will be held Sat urday, Sept 23, in the Chapel of the Charles w. Carter Mortuary. Rev. G. Herbert Hillerman will con- duct the service and interment will be in the Pioneers Plot of the Evergreen Cemetery.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-09-18
WAR SAVINGS HEAD I5 HERE FROM WASHINGTON

Charles A. Mead, Executive Sec retary of the Presidents Intra-de- partmental War Savings Bond Com mittee, here from Washington, D. C., is making trip through the Ter ritory in connection with promoting the sale of war bonds.
 MT. Mead arrived over the week. end from the Interior, having con- ferred at both Anchorage and Fair banks. Following his work in South east Alaska he will return to his offices in Washington.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-09-18

Anchorage, United's key east west route would serve the net work centering there from the West, South and North; at Juneau, the lines from the West and North.
 Today, United's objective is to do its share in a tremendous war job. In addition to conduct ing its Coast-to-Coast and Bor- der-to-Border domestic airmail- passenger-express services, United personnel, flying for the Air Transport Command, have operated hundreds of flights from the U. s. to Alaska.
 In postwar days, expanding Alaska and the West will need more and faster air transporta- ton. United is therefore look ing to the future, preparing yet finer Mainliner service with which we hope to serve the Territory of Alaska.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-09-18

 GoDownin
 Recent Gale

WASHINGTON, Sept. IS. = The 1,850-ton destroyer Warrington and two small Coast Guard patrol boats went down to the bottom of the sea in last weeks hurricane, the Navy announces.
 Casualties are reported heavy on the Warrington which carried a normal crew of 230 officers and men.
 The 125-foot Coast Guard patrol boats Jackson and Bedloe were the two lost and they carried the usual complement of 35 men each.
 Survivors of the Jackson drifted for 58 hours off the Virginia coast before picked up.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-09-18

These pretty honey places are catching it from our guns. You might expect ivy around the doors; then you see that their windows are machine gun aperatures. These are pillboxes with little gabled roofs. The Germans are putting up a bitter fight here and we have beaten off several counterattacks.
 Those Pillboxes
 These pretty little concrete cot tages are the last Qualifications in this area behind the main Sieg- fried Line, which we have already broken.
 The Germans are struggling like demented men. Three times this morning they counterattacked In shoulder-to-shoul line, scream ing hoarsely as they came forward, falling in unbroken rows before our tank guns. This is what the enemy used to call psychological attack in Russia. Here it is sheer hysteri- cal suicide. It is not all this way, of course.
 Two of our medium tanks have been hit by German anti-tank guns Two of our men struggle from one burning tank. They collect them selves, look around and run back to pull out two more comrades The fifth is lost there in the tank.
 Our ambulances are roaring back now from the center of town, and just to the left of where I stand two of our dead lie under blankets against a stone whitewashed fence, for there has been no time yet to remove them.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-09-18
AWVS TO HOLD MEETING WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON

Plans for the Coast Guard dance on September g, at which time members of the American Womens Voluntary Services will entertain men of that service will be discussed at Wednesdays meeting, scheduled for 2 o'clock at the Governors House.
 Donations of homemade cookies for servicemen at the remote out posts in the Aleutians, will be re- ceived at this time.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-09-18

United Air Lines Mainliners recently completed record of 55,0OO flights over the famous Main Line Airway between Pacific Coast cities and New York. First to blaze direct transcontinental route. from Seattle, Vancouver, B. C., and other coast ports, first to pio- neer air service from Seattle to San Diego, United has achieved an unmatched goal of 275 mill lion miles flying experience.
 We're looking ahead. Through an application recently filed with the Civil Aeronautics Board, United seeks authority to offer the Territory of Alaska the ad- vantages of Mainliner Service. If its application is granted, Anchorage, Yakutat, Juneau and Ketchikan will have through service to Seattle thence south and eastward over United's nationwide system. At
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-09-18
TWO VILLAGES
 SCORCHED WHEN
 5NIpERS ACTIVE
By EDWARD BALL

THIRD ARMY HEADQUART- FRS, Sept. 18.-Wallendorf, the first German village captured in the First Army sector, northwest of Trier, was set aflame on Thursday and every building was destroyed because of persistent sniping.
 Another village nearby was sub iected to a similar scorching on Friday for the same reasons.
 The villagers, emerging from the hills, trudged back through the Am erican columns toward what had been their homes, looking neither to the right nor the left, and saying
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-09-18
INDIAN AFFAIRS MEN
 ENR0UTE WESTWARD

Making a hurried stop-off in Ju- neau after having attended open ing hearings in connection with aboriginal rights, now being held at Hydaburg, Don Foster, General Superintendent of the Office of Indian Affairs, left this morning on two weeks trip with plans to stop at Fort Yukon, Anchorage, and the Bristol Bay area.
 He is being accompanied by Will liam Zimmerman, Jr., assistant Commissioner from the Chicago office, who came north to attend the hearings.
 EnlEire Want-adS b71nq results.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-09-18
FISH SALES

On Saturday, the packer Isis brought in 23,O00 pounds of Taku fish for E. E. Engstrom. Included in the load were also 10000 pounds of troll-caught fish.
 Today the Sadie, Capt. Carl Baker, brought in 2,000 pounds of salmon; the Ford, Capt. Ole Brens- dal, 2,O00 pounds; and the Elliot, Capt. George Alfors, 1000 pounds. All three boats sold to Engstrom.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-09-18
POLICE COURT FINES

The following were fined this morning in City Police Court: Floyd A. Jackson, S25, drunk; Sophie Ward, $35, interfering with an of ficer making an arrest; Sheridan L. Gregory, $25, drunk and disorderly; James Ward, s25 and 20 days (sus- pendedD, disorderly conduct.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-09-18
PLEADS NOT GUILTY

Johnny Jackson, arraigned before U. s. Commissioner Felix Gray on disorderly conduct charge, plead mot guilty" His bond was set at $25 and he will be given hearing in the Commissioners Court.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-09-18
CADYs HAVE VISITORS

MT. and Mrs. Clyde Lockhart of Missoula, Montana, are house guests of MT. and Mrs. c. w. Cady of Alder Terrace. They are here for an indefinite stay and if they like it here they may locate. Mrs. Lockhart is Mrs. Cadys sister.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-09-18
DRAFT EVASION CHARGED

Arrested Saturday by the U. s. Marshals office, Yalmar Sarri is charged with alleged draft evasion He is to be arraigned before U. s. Commissioner Felix Gray.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-09-18
BURDICK TO KETCHIKAN

Charles Burdick, General Man. ager of the Alaska Spruce Log Pro gram, flew to Ketchikan and Edna Bay on official business. He is ex- pected to be away about 10 days.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-09-18
BURLINGHAM ARRIVES

c. s. Birmingham, of the Sperry Gyroscope Company, Inc, is regist- cred at the Baranof from Brooklyn, N V
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-09-18
EMBLEM CLUB

Notice to all Emblem Club mem- bers. Business meeting and social 8 D. m, September 19, Elks Hall.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-09-18
WHINERY IN TOWN

Marton Whinery, of Anchorage, is in town and a guest at the Bar anof.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-09-18
DIERS IN TOWN

w. E. Diers, of the United States Rubber Company, has registered at the Baranof from Seattle.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-09-18
YEYELSTAD HERE

Carl Vevelstad, of Petersburg, is a guest at the Gastineau Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-09-18
DEATH FIGHT,
 GERMAN SOIL
 IS DESCRIBED
First Hand Account Given of Terrific Battle for
 Nazi Town

(Continued from Page One)
Evening star., 1944-04-09
D0wnham-Carlin
Continued From Page B-3)

and Miss Peggy Ann Cannon, cous-
ins of the bride; Miss Helen Hope
Downham, sister of the bridegroom
and Miss Janet Harmon and Miss
Charlotte Kimball were the brides.
maids. Their costumes were oi
aquamarine lace and net like that oi
the matron Of honor with matching
accessories. The junior bridesmaids
were Miss Mary Lou Cannon anc
Miss Peggy Ann Cannon, wearing
f1esh-color moire frocks and match
ing accessories.
Mr.. Andrew j. Morris, jr., and
Mr.. Charles Perry were ushers
serving with Mr.. Frank Luckett
Mr.. Lawrence Blanton, Mr.. Warren
Turner and Mr.. Howard Harvey OF
Alexandria.
There was dancing at the recep-
ton and buffet supper in the ball
room OF the Mayfiower and later IN
the evening Sergt. and Mrs. Down.
ham left on their wedding trip.
They will make their home at
Langley Field, where Sergt. Down.
ham Is an instructor in aerial gun
merry. He was graduated from
George Washington High School In
Alexandria and attended George
Washington University. His bride
is a graduate Of the Sacred Heart
Academy and the King Smith
Studio.
Evening star., 1944-04-09
lDOrOtbea Belts
Becomes Bride
IOf Mr.. La Havne

The First Brethren Church was
the scene of an attractively ar
ranged wedding last evening at
7:30 O'Clock when Miss Dorothea
Louise Belts, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Alfred Russell Belts, became
the bride of Mr.. Robert Edward
La Hayne, son of Mr.. Roger E..
La Hayne.
Spring flowers and palms formed
an effective setting for the cere-
mony, which was performed in can
delight by the Rev. Bernard
Schneider. The nuptial music was
given by Mr.. Paul C. Hume, organist,
and Mrs. John Bullough was the
soloist.
The bride was escorted and given
in marriage by her father. She
wore gown of ivory satin made
with train and her veil of illusion
fell from crown of seeded pearls
and beads. She carried a bouquet
of Gala lilies.
Miss Mildred Elise Belts was the
maid of honor for her sister. She
wore a gown of pink marquisette
with a pleated ruff1ing forming q
" down the front and there were
similar ruff1es on the sleeves. She
carried pink roses and blue iris
which corresponded with the flowers
in her headdress.
The other attendants were Miss
Catherine Belts, sister of the bride;
Miss Lorraine Noonan, Mrs. Betty
Cannella and Miss Grace Merry
man. They wore dresses made like
that of the maid of honor. Miss
Merryman and Mrs. Cannella were
in yellow and the other two were
in light green. They wore head
dresses of mixed spring flowers and
carried bouquets of similar blossoms
Mr.. William Tyler De Chard was
the best man and the ushers were
MI. Thomas Thornton, Mr.. Alpha
K. Gunter, jr.; Mr.. Mack A. Wright
and Mr.. James M. Carson.
A reception followed at the home
of the brides parents, which was
decorated with spring flowers for
| the occasion. Mrs. Belts wore a
gown of light blue chiffon with a
matching hat and her corsage bou-
| quet was of camelias.
The couple will make their home
in Washington.
Evening star., 1944-04-09
Kavanaughs Moving
To 4 ShtOn Heiqhfs

Mr.. and Mrs. Minor J. Kavanaugh
will move this week to the house
at 518 North Lincoln street in Ash
tom Heights. Mr.. and Mrs. Kava-
naugh have made their home on
North Edgewood street in Lyon
Park, where they had with them
for short visit the former s
brother, Staff Sergt. Paul Kava-
naugh, Army Air Corps. Sergt.
Kavanaugh also visited his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. John w. Kavanaugh,
in Maurertown and will leave today
for his new post at Shawnee, Okla.
Evening star., 1944-04-09
Home From COlleee

Mr.. Beverley Campbell, apprentice
seamon. U. S. N. R., is spending a
few days with his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Carlos Campbell, on South Ar
lington Ridge road. Mr.. Campbell
came from Bates College at Lewis
ton, Me, and was accompanied by
his classmate, Mr.. William Happ
also an apprentice seaman.
Mrs. j. c. Koon, mother of Mrs
Campbell, spent the winter with
them in Arlington and has returned
to her home in Baltimore.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-05-14
ACCUSED ROBBERS
HELD FOR TRIAL

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his pockets and the cash regis
ter. Kennedy, when called to the
stand Saturday, substantiated the
report and said the amount stolen
was approximately $785. He posi-
lively identified the two men as
the robbers. The woman is alleged
to have waited outside in the car.
Shortly after the robbery at
about 10 p. M, the group is said
to have wrecked a Mercury sedan
on Highway "A at the intersection
Of the Navassa road. The car was
abandoned. A passing motorist
gave Mrs. Stevenson a ride into
town.
Massey testified that he had
never seen the woman until she
hailed his cab near the Snow
white Laundry here later the same
evening. He testified that she told
him a sad story about her hus-
band being in the army and the
necessity of her joining him inn
in Sanford. He said that
he was unable to take her himself
because his wife was seriously i'll
but that he contacted Nathan
Jackson, another Wilmington taxi
driver, and requested that he
drive her to Sanford which he is
alleged to have done.
Fritz admitted to the court that
he had been in court many times
on charges of reckless driving and
once for transporting liquor for
which he received a six-months
sentence. He admitted knowing
the Stevenson trio and Of having
Mercury coupe for
them in High Point prior to the
robbery. When he originally met
them, he said, a second woman
was travelling with the group.
When apprehended in Norfolk,
the Stevensons were driving 1941
Buick with 1914 North Carolina
license. The trio waived extradi-
ton there and were returned to
Jail here by State highway patrol
men on April %.