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2 THE OTTAWA JOURNAL. FRIDAY, MARCH II. 1944. Pyle Says Some Italians Farm As Huns Shell Their Fields By ERXTE PYLE. WITH FIFTH ARMY BEACHHEAD FORCES IN ITALY, March 31.

(By Wireless) The Aazlo beachhead area is practically all farm. Much of it Ilea in the famous old Pontine marshes. I've looked these up in Baedeker, and found that the Romans have been trying to drain them since 300 years before Christ Even Caesar took a shot at it, and so did many Popes. Mussolini was the last one to give the marshes a whirl, and as far as I can see he did a pretty good job of it. On these little farms of the Pontine marshes Mussolini built hundreds of modern (in the Italian manner) stone farmhouses.

They're all exactly alike, except for color, and they stipple the countryside like dots on a polka-dot dress. Despite its flatness, the area is rather pretty. It doesn't look like marshland. It is green now, and will be 'greener in a few weeks. Wheat is coming through the ground.

There are rbws of cedar trees throughout the area. Spots of uncultivated ground are covered with waist high oak bushes, resembling our hazelnut bushes in the Fall, crisp and brown leafed. Now and then you see a farmer plowing with German shells landing right in his field. We've tried to evacuate the people, and have evacuated thousands by boat. Daily you see our trucks moving down to the dock with loads of Italian civilians from the farms.

But some of them simply won't leave their homes. Now and then the Germans will pick out one of the farmhouses, figuring we have a command post in it, I suppose, and shell it to extinction. Then, and then only, do the Italian families move out. I One unit was telling me about a family they tried in vain for days to move. Finally a shell killed their tiny baby, just a few days old.

i I Here in the battle zone, as In -other parts of Italy, our! Army doctors are constantly! burning midwife to deliver bambihos. Farmers frequently do dry- cleaning with gasoline for our officers, and they say the job they do would pass inspection in any New York tailoring shop. Soldiers throughout the area get the remaining Italians to do their washing. Practically every inhabited farmhouse has a gigantic brown washing hanging in the backyard. One outfit of tankers that I know sent all its spare clothes to Chaplin Tearfully Dramatic Denying Joan Berry Charges By FKEDKBICC C.

OTHMAN. HOLLYWOOD, March 31. (BUP) Charlie Chaplin in his version of Hollywood's roost lurid courtroom story yesterday wept as he described Joan Berry's invasion of his bedroom in Beverly Htls and said she lied when she told of intimate relations with him in New York. Old-timers in Federal Court where Chaplin was seeking to save himself from si possible 10 years in the penitentiary as a twofold violator of the Mann Act said never had they heard such a tale as his. Nor had they ever heard a story so well, told, they said.

Admits Money Gift For two hours yesterday afternoon the silent screen's greatest comedian told how be had tried in vain to make an actress of Miss Berry and how he'd given her money to go to New York in 1942 after she'd failed even to remember her lines in an amateur dramatic performance. He told how she had fori herself upon him at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, how he'd given her money when she told him she was destitute, and how instead of taking her as she charged to his bedroom in the Waldorf Astoria Hotel he had escorted her by taxi to the door of! the Hotel Pierre, where her bill was paid by another "Did you undress and have an act of intercourse with her?" de-. manded his attorney, the celebrated Jerry Giesler, who spared the Jury of elderly men and women none of the intimate details. said Chaplin, quietly. "I did not" Sometimes facing Judge J.

F. O'Connor and sometimes scanning the faces of the jurors, the multi-millionaire Chaplin told how he'd given Miss Berry $300 in New York because she said she and her mother-, were desperate. He said he was surprised, upon his return to Hollywood, to find that Miss Berry had preceded him. He said she phoned and phoned again for 10 days until finally she got him instead of hi butler, on the telephone. He said he agreed to take her to the restaurant of Mike Romanoff, but that she was in no fit condition to eat her, dinner.

"Mr. interrupted Giesler. "when you took her to this restaurant did you have any intentions of having relations with her?" Hair Rumpled. Chaplin said he did not. By now his carefully brushed white hair was rumpled and his neatly knotted tie was askew.

He took up the night in December when Miss Berry broke two windows to get into his hillside mansion and confronted him with a revolver in his bedroom. "She told me she would not kill me because she did not believe me worth he said. "She said, 'I am going to kill myself; I am going to do it in your room. I heard a disturbance in the hall. My children, my two boys were downstairs.

Tears welled in his eyes 'and his voice choked, while he straggled for a moment Jo control hint- one farmhouse to be washed. Shortly afterward the Gfermans picked out that house for the centre of barrage. The Italians abandoned the place, and were unhurt But next morning, jWhen the soldiers went to seei bout their clothes, all they found was dozens of American shirks and pants and socks into shreds by shell fragments. i In the fields there ara small herds of cattle, sheep, horfes and mules. Many of the cattle are slate-grey.

Just like Brahrha cattle. And they have wide, Sweeping horns very much like the majestic headgear of the famous longhorn steers of TexasJ Now and then you see an Army truck radiator decorated with a pair of these horns. I Most of the live stock can graze without human attention, but as an old farmer I've been worrying about the cows that have nobody to milk them when the leave. As you may or may not know, a milk cow that isn't milked -eventually dies a painful death. An officer friend of mine, who has been at the front almost since D-day, says he's seen only one cow in trouble from not being milked, so I suppose somebody is milking them.

One unit I know of took the milking proposition into its own hands, and had fresh milk every day. Of course that's, against Army regulations (on account of the danger of tubercular milk), but Army regulations have been known to be ignored in certain dire circumstances. Much of the live stock is Wing killed by German On any side road you won't drive five minutes without seeing the skeleton of a cow or a horse. And of course some cows commit suicide. As the saying used to go in Tunisia, it was the damndest thing, but one cow stepped on a mine, a very odd mine indeed, for When it exploded it hit her right between the eyes.

And here! on the beachhead we've seen jan occasional cow deliberately walk up and stick its head in front of a rifle Just as it went off. There isn't as much of that, to my mind, as there should be. We're fighting a horrible war that we didn't ask for, on the land of the people who started it Our supply problems are difficult K-rations get pretty boring, and fresh meat is something out of Utopia. Excuse me while I go kill a cow myself. self.

Then he continued, almost unemotionally: 1 was talking on the telephone when Joan walked in, pointing a ran at me. I was seared, and I tried io reason with her. I said, 'All your supposed love and affection for me Is a sham; otherwise you wouldn't do things like this. "I went to the balcony and told my two boys to go home and stay the night with their mother. They could not go; they had no car.

Joan still was holding her gun. I said, You'd better go; the children are here. She said, Tm destitute; I have no place to stay. I said, You can't stay I'm going to throw you out. "She said if I came near her, she would kill herself." The 84-year-old British actor, who faces two more court actions by Miss Berry, said he eventually agreed to let her sleep in the est room; that he went back to is own room, locked himself in nd slept until 8 o'clock the next orning.

After breakfast be said went to the guest room to see if Miss Berry had awakened. She had. "She reached for her he testified. "I said, 'Give it to me'. She said, 'Don't come near me.

I told her she was her own worst enemy." Gieiler stepped close to his client removed his born-rimmed glasses and said: Denies Allegation. "Now, Mr. Chaplin, on that night did you go into your bedroom and htve -intercourse with Miss Berry during which she laid the gun down during the act and later picked it up?" "I did said the comic, so slowly and so vehemently he almost seemed to be spitting his words. A few more questions ended yesterday's, court session, and Chaplin, perspiring profusely and with his hair mussed worse than a prizefighter's after the tenth round, reached for the water pitcher. Giesler said he would testify for perhaps an hour this morning 'on an entirely different angle of the case.

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