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photographer, braved the dan
gerous funnel at the end of the
side street where the damaged
tank stood, leapfrogging past it
and On down the street to meet the
Germans.
First he snapped some pictures
of them. Then, since he speaks
German, he led them on back to
our side of the invisible fence OF
battle. Eight of them were carry
ing two litters bearing two wound
ed German soldiers. The others
walked behind with their hands
up. They went on past us to the
hospital. We assumed that they
were from the second knocked-o out
pillbox.
I didn't stay to see how the re-
naming pillbox was knocked out.
But. I suppose our second tank
eventually pulled up to the corner,
turned, and let the pillbox have it..
After that the area would be clear
of everything but snipers.
The infantry, who up till then
had been forced to keep in door
ways, would continue up the street
and poke into the side streets and
into the houses until everything
was clear.
That's how strong point in a
city is taken. At least that's how
ours was taken. You don't always
have tanks to help, and you don t
always do it with so little shedding
of blood
But the city was already crumb-
ling when we started in on this
strong point, whcih was one of
the last, and they didn't hold on
too bitterly. But we didn't know
that when We started.
I hope this has given you faint
idea of what street fighting is like.
II you got out of it much more
than headful of confusion then
you've got out of it exactly the
same thing as the soldiers who
do it.
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rs Years Ago
Today
(FROM THE FILES
OF THE STAR-NEWS}

Addison Hewlett and daughter,
Miss Nellie Hewlett, have returned
10 their home from RidgeWood
Park, N. j.
Plans are bei1g laid for the eS'
t. blishment of j Coallng station az
Southport at a possible cost OF a
halt million dollars. Bunker coal
for ocean going vessels and coal
for export will be handled Is,
Enlistment of the station VIII
bring vessels mere that have oeeA
going to Charleston.
NEW YORK. - Veterans Of tho
30th (Old Hickory division VINO,
with the 9th Mew York National
Guard division helped smash me
Hindenburg line last fall, Will hoo
4 reunion in Greenville, ). I"
September 1890, the first annlYel'
sary of the mi .itary triumph
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-07-18
Interpreting
The War
b.. KIRKE L. SIMPSON
Associated Press War An,l,s.

Associ"'eu rress war Analyst
Russian troops who took cr',
no in upper Poland to match s;na
ultaneous close investment u.
Kaunas in lower Lithuania b.r.
apparently ripped a lO0-mjlo.w;s'
gap open in Nazi eastern defenea ae
shattering at one blow Germ.n
hopes of hating the Red ar,an
avalanche short of the Masuris.
lakes in East Prussia.
With both key bastions ot II,
German secondary defense w.n
firmly in Russian hands tba '
strongest natural link in the M;
front guarding COMMUNICATE,
with the Baltic states would ~
punctured.
1t lies along the north sont,
course of the Nemanas river ho'
tween Kaunas and Grodno CIV
rent Moscow bulletins indicate
Red troops have virtually cleared
the east bank of the stream al
along this vital sector and NAV a.
ready have crossed it in seyera,
places in pursuit of the foe.
East and northeast of Kaunas
Russian guns already command
the Kaunas-Jonava sector of +bo
observation-disclosures Riga railway
if it is not actually in Russian noc
session. That leaves some 3O.o6d
Nazi divisions in Estonia, Latvia
and all Lithuania north Of tbo
Nemanas with only one land Is.
cape or supply rail connection
southwark. That is the Memal.
Tilsit-Konigsberg railroad, wholly
inadequate to handle any such
traffic and in deadly danger Of
being severed by Russian bomb.
ing of the river bridge at Tilsit.
German troops north of the
river are now virtual y dependent
upon Baltic sea supply lines to
maintain themselves Or to make
their way southwark before The
great Russians trap closes in 10
the Baltic coast below them.
1t remains to be seen, however,
whether Russian strategy calls
for that or for turn southwest.
ward in Poland from Grodno for
wide angled coverging drive at
Warsaw.
South of Grodno other Russian
columns are bearing down on the
Bailystock outpost for Warsaw
from the east. A sweep down the
Grodno-Bai' ystock railway would
face no natural barrier to prevent
pincer movement On the town
and a break-through to reach Or
bypass Warsaw itself.
Still farther south, other Rus
sian forces are rapidly liquidatins
the last bulge of the deep pinSk
marsh salient that protected Brest
Litovsk and the Polish Bug river
central front defense system from
direct attack.
The fall of Gradno and indicat
ed early Russian capture of Kau'
mas paves the way clearly for
tremendous expansion southwark
of the attack to bring into action
Russian Ukrainian armies all the
way from captured Kowel to the
Carpathians.
The German high command is
obviously caught in the same sort
of dilemma in the east as it is
in the west on a far smaller scale
by Allied incursions into Norman
dy. It cannot be certain where the
main force of the next Russian
drive will fall nor has it free
hand in disposing its limited re-
serves to meet all Russian threats.
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With Ernie Pyle

IN NORMANDY-(by wireless)
Tank Commander Martin Ken
nelly of Chicago wanted to show
me just where his tank had been
hit. AS a matter of fact he hadn't
seen it for himself yet for ne came
running up the street the moment
he jumped out of the tank.
So when the firing died down a
little we sneaked up the street
until we were almost even with
the disabled tank. But we were
careful not to get our heads
around the corner of the side
street, for that was where the Ger
mans had fired from.
The first shell had hit the heavy
steel brace that the tread runs on,
and then plunged on through the
side of the tank, very low.
"Say!" Kennedy said in amaze
ment. ut went right through our
lower ammunition storage box! I
don't know what kept the amnu-
milton from going off. We'd have
been a mess if it had. Boy, it sure
would have got hot in there in a
hurry!"
The street was still empty. Be-
yond the tank about two blocks
was a German truck, sitting all
alone in the middle of the street.
1t had been blown up, and its
tires had burned off. This truck
was the only thing you could see.
There wasn't human being in
sight anywhere.
Then an American soldier came
running up the street shouting for
somebody to send up medic. He
said man was badly wounded
just ahead. He was extremely ex-
cited, yelling, and getting madden
because there was no medic in
sight.
Word was passed down the line,
and pretty soon a medic came out
of a doorway and started up the
street. The excited soldier yelled
at him and began cussing, and
the medic broke into run. They
ran past the tanks together, and
up the street way they ducked
into a doorway.
On the corner, just across the
street from where we were stand
ing, was smashed pillbox. It
was in cut-aWay corner like the
entrances to some of our corner
drugstores at home, except that
instead of there being door thee
was a pillbox of reinforced con-
crete, with gun Sits.
The tank boys had shot it to
extinction and then moved their
tank up even with it to get the
range of the next pillbox. That one
was about block ahead, set in
a niche in the wall of building,
That's what the boys had been
shooting at when their tank was
hit. They knocked it out, however,
before being knocked out them.
selves.
For an hour there was a lull in
the fighting. Nobody did any
thing about a third pillbox, around
the corner. Our second tank pull
ed back a little and just waited.
Infantrymen worked their way up
to second-story windows and fired
their rifles up the side street with
out actually seeing anything to
shoot at.
Now and then blasts from 20.
nm. gun would splatter the build
ings around us. Then our second
tank would blast back in that gen.
eral direction, over the low ~oofs
with its machine gun. There was
a lot of dangerous-so sounding noise
but don't think anybody on either
side got hit.
Then we saw coming up the
street, past the wrecked German
truck l spoke of, a group of Ger.
man soldiers. An officer walked
in front, carrying Red Cross
flag on stick. Bob Capa, the
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-07-18
Our Chief Ain,

To aid in every way the prosecution Of
the war to complete Victnry.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-07-18
TRAINING FOR BIGGER GAME

ALEXANDRIA ARMY FIELp
La July 17.-(P)-Cpl. Grady Kei.
~ was "totin' a gun on this air.
i-eld site yeals ago when the run
ways were part of plantation and
he was boy hunting squirrels on
his fathers farm. Now 22-year- old
englneer-gunner, Kelly lets his
plane carry the gun.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-07-18

The U. S. Marine Corps odna
becaHe known a~ the "PreslaeH'
Own" when President John Adal4.
set a precedent and ordered ~
appearance at all official 1u''
tioni.
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Fair Enough

Editors Note.-Ths Star and the News ACCEPT no
responsibility for the personal views Mr.. Ppgler
and often disagree with them much many of
his readers. His articles good purpose Of
making people think
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-01

ran along the beach watching it when
it interrupted a bathing party
IT'S the way it wiggles in the
water that makes people think it has
humps" she said positively. Its
snaky kind of a creature, dark green,
about the green of an appletree leaf.
At one point it lifted its head at least
two feet above the water"
Mrs. Eaton didn't say what kind of
a head it had, but other observers
supplied that deficiency. 1t had a
head like a camel, like a submarine
periscope. like a bulldog, like the
snout of pig, like giant lizard.
None, however, noticed any of the
red spots that used 10 cover its head
in the old days, when most beholders
thought its overall color was blue.
b. l.. Pagan, a Twin Falls theatre
man, thought he had the color ques-
ton solved when he snapped pic
ture of the visitor with color film in
his camera. But the film professors
reported that the image, called Shiny
Slim, was indistinct and out of focus.
Here and there some Scoffer bobbed
up-an outsider of course-who at
tempted to offer logical eXplana.
ton for what he considered the result
OF mass hystcria. One of these was
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-01
Cold Sober.
the Second
Officer of the
-. -. COrin-
THAN Spied
This Monster
i'm Mid.Ocean.
Drawing Il
From His
Description.

some TO be q descendant OF the
ElasmoSauruS.
Scientists disagreed diametrically
about the Loeb Ness monster One
reported he had taken an actual
photograph of it, showing ii had a
long, serpentine neck, a small head
and bulky body. Another proved
10 his own satisfaction that il was
merely part Of n balloon.
To becloud the issue still further,
the Italian press announced in 1911
that a plane had bombed and de
stroyed a huge, serpent.like animal
on the surface of Loeb Ness. Two
months later a Scotsman and three
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-01

sage" there a few years ago
and might have left a self-pr
PEELED gadget lying around. "
The more serious-minded
call attention TO the existence
in prehistoric times Of a big.
bodied, long necked sea crea-
ture named the Elasmosaurus,
which resembled some OF the
descriptions OF Shiny Slim and
could conceivably, although
with a little difficulty, have
survived in a deep mountain
trimmed lake like Payette.
The famous sea serpent OF
Loeb Ness, Scotland, which
also existed in a land.locked
body of water, was believed by
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-01

John F. Brown of Boise, who was
sure he had the answer.
There isn't doubt" said he, that
this illusion is in reality a bunch OF
beaver pulling and pushing big log
through the water Three or four
beaver on the log, with two or three
others pushing and couple pulling,
can stir up lot OF splashing"
Another skeptic believes that the
Payette Lake monster is merely the
granddaddy OF all sturgeon. Fisher
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-01

ITS reached the point where practically everybody
in the resort town of Mccall, Idaho believes
sort of monster inhabits nearby Payette Lake.
Those who have seen it-and the number seems to be
expanding almost day-agree that ii is about 35 feet
long snuous agile and of ferocous MEN, The ncessant
disputes the number of its humps if any, shape
of its head and its color
There have been Bunyanesque tales of Payette
Lake serpent for IS years but not the most
gullble McCallteS paid much attention to them until
this summer The trouble that most of the reports
from boaters and bathers who known to have
had a bottle along
This year ii different One after another the
most conservative vacationers-school teachers minis
ters wives retired businessmen high school girs-ob
served the miraculous behemoth gamboling the
green Some townspeople began to spy it, too
notably Walter Bowling the hotel keeper who for
had offered poke in the who said that such
a thing existed
Il standing my dock and it came to within
so feet of the shore Bowling said equally belligeren
toward current skeptics at about 35 feet long
1t light yellow and seemed to have humps like a
camel shellike back, but scales"
Then came witnesses who said the amphibous dragon
had bumps, all right four of them, but was so dark
yellow ii seemed to be almost black
That was nonsensical said Mrs Eaton of Emmett, who
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-01

Others pointed out that motion pic
ture company filmed Northwest Pas
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-01

Sharpe
Ought Be-
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-04-11
DISCHARGE ORDERED


So went down 10 the Shakes
peare Company to talk il over
with the president, Monroe
Shakespeare, and with Harada
himself.
Il had heard that there were
japanese Americans talented in
engineering, designing and
drafting" Mr.. Shakespeare eX-
planned, so / asked the War Re-
location Authority, which sent
me the names and job qualifica-
tons of several. / selected three
and offered them work. Two ac-
cepted. The other didn't want 10
come unless he could bring his
father.
1--WE used TO manufacture fish
ing tackle, but now we're devot
ed exclusively TO war work. l
notified the Army-Air Forces
that ! was hiring these two Nj
sci. They wrote that we needed
clearance but tt..tatt-tifais-e ettld-ee-
obtained after the men arrived.
We filled out forms answering a
wide variety of questions. Two
representatives Of the AAF
came here and quizzed the men,
and we received permission to
employ them.
"They had been working five
or six months when we were in
formed that control over them
rested not with the AAF but
with the Provost Marshals Of
flee. From there came a letter
ordering us to discharge Har-
ada. / asked on what charges.
we don't make any charges, /
was told. We order you to let
him 60. If he wants 10 appear
himself or with counsel in
Washington, he can, if he seeks
permission.
Mr.. Shakespeare got permits
sion for Harada and himself to
appear. They spent three or
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-04-11
RoseviIIe Seeks
Paper Drive Aid

ROSEVILLE-A special plea
for a generous wastepaper COL
lection in this village on April
p and %, in view of the urgent
need for war production mater
ials. was made today by Leigh
ton Cox, chairman of the local
Scrap Committee.
All village trucks. aided by
local volunteers. will cover ev-
cry Roseville street on both
days.
Householders are particular
~ requested TO tie their old pa
pers and magazines in handy
bundles. and deposit them on
the curbs, or front steps. On the
former drives, many expected
the workers TO forage in base
ment and attics and bring the
waStepaper out themselves. This
method so slows up the collec-
ton that it cannot be attempted,
officials said.
Previous drivers have un-
earthed about 40 tons of paper,
and scrap officials estimate that
at least this amount of paper is
now available for pickup, if ev-
cry householder will make a
sincere effort 10 aid in the col
lection.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-04-11
Sergt. Joe Louis
Says He Defend
Title After War

LONDON, April 11-tP)-
Sgt. Joe Louis, who is in Great
Britain to give a series Of NOR
ale-building exhibitions for Am
erir5n GIs, declared today
plans to fight again after the
war, with Billy Conn as his OPP
ponent.
81 have set no age limit for
when to retire" said the heavy
weight champion. Il am plan
ming to fight Conn after the war,
because since titles are frozen
for the duration, positions such
as the humber one challenger
also should be frozen, and Billy
is it,"
Louis. who wound up his first
press conference with an exhibit
ton go before 800 cheering
soldiers, declared there was no
chance of his taking on British
champion Freddie Mills, which
British sports fans were anxious
to see.
Il want TO meet Mills socially
while | am here" Joe said, how
ever, because | think / had bet
ter size him up. You never can
tell
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Jap Appeal
for War job Succeeds

Shakespeare Company, except
for his involuntary layoff, since
January of 1913. There are
about 800 employees, Two of
them do not like him. One OF
these has been conducting a per-
sonal spy hunt in the plant since
a year before Pearl Harbor, re-
porting suspicious 10 Federal
authorities who thus far have
found nothing TO verify any of
them.
The other is very frank about
his prejudice. He says Harada
is fine fellow and he hasn't a
thing in the world against him,
but he hates the whole japanese
race so much he can't seem 10 let
reason control him.
Harada had TO buy a house in
order to find living accommoda-
tons. Harada says he doesn't
believe the trouble was prim-
arily prejudice. He had a little
girl, Susan, now ., and was ex-
pecting another baby, born
about three weeks ago and NAM
ed Jane. He is willing TO be-
lieve that it was that, rather
than racial feeling, that made it
hard 10 find a home.
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four hours, during which Har-
adas life was reviewed in great
detail. They returned to Kala-
mazoo and Harada worked al
odd Jobs Then came a letter
fron the Provost MarShal'S of
fee saying that Harada had been
properly discharged, was not en-
titled to any back pay and could
nr. be employed in war work.
NO REASON GIVEN
\ week later came tele-
phone call 10 the effect that Har-
ada had been properly dlScharg-
ed. was not entitled TO back pay,
but that he could be employed IN
war work, and Shakespeare
could give him a job which was
done The phone call was CON
firmcd by letter.
Nothing in the procedure Sug-
gested why Harada was dis
charged. In the summer of
1910, during vacation from the
University of California, he had
visited Japan as tourist and
had very unpleasant time
there But it is said that no at
tempt was made in the question
ing 10 develop this as suspicious.
Harada has been with the
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-04-11
Richmond

RICHMOND - The members
of the Ladies Aid Of the Con
gregational church will meet on
Thursday, April -, at 100 p. m
at the home Of Mrs, Ira Hunt on
Main street. Mrs. Gertrude
Haar will have charge of the
worship services. Mrs. Elmer
Boucher will talk on Ventures
in Building America.
The members Of the L. f. A
of St. Peters Lutheran church
will meet on Wednesday eve
ming. April IL, at the home Of
William Strutz in Richmond
Township.
Extension Group No. 2 will
meet on Thursday, April IS al
the home Of Mrs. Harry Golf
The lesson Will be Feeding Our
Families in War Time.
Mrs. Frances Schwartz enter
tanned in her home in the Clerk
block on Monday evening, for
the members of the Eta Zeta ri
club.
The members Of the w. s. c.
Of the Methodist church will
hold their regular meeting on
Wednesday afternoon, April II,
at 2 p m. in the home OF Mrs.
l.. w. Youatt.
The Most Reverend Stephen
s. Woznicki, Auxiliary Bishop
of the Archbishop of Detroit,
Will administer the sacrament of
confirmation in St. Augustine S
Catholic church. this village on
Sunday, April % at 4.30 p. m.
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Before the war, the average
automobile used one tire plus
per year.
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about War Bonds

TT'sAFUNNY THING, but many people
i still have the wrong slant on Wal
Bonds.
These people think that when they
buy Bond, they're gictng, or donating
their money to the war.
You might say they have grin-and-
bear-it attitude about all their War
Bond purchases.
Well, that's strange attitude. Be-
cause while buying Bonds Is patriotic,
and while it is necessary to help the
Government pay for planes and tanks
and guns, it is not a personal saerihee.
In fact, buying a War Bond is just
about the most advantageous thing
YOU can possibly do with your money.
Why
You couldn't make safer invest
ment. The Government itself backs
every dollar you invest.
And the Government pays good,
sound rate Of interest you get 81 back
for every 50 you put in.
That means that when the war is
over, everybody who's been buying
War Bonds will have a comfortable
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-04-11
Frank kaItenbach
Seriously Burned

Frank w. Kaltenbach, of 278
Euclid avenue, is confined to
Ford Hospital with serious
burns suffered last week while
engaged in work at a war pro-
duction plant. His condition is
satisfactory. but no visitors will
be permitted for some time.
Kaltenbach, member of a we'll
known local family, received
second and third degree burns of
the face and hands, and also
body burns when gasoline ex-
ploded near him.