The Evening Independent from Massillon, Ohio • Page 14

THE EVENING INDEPENDENT M.iMHIon. Aug. 28. 19H Veterans Of 37th Bid Battle Pals Goodbye Larrupin' Lou And Sarah Jane Of Munda Field Action Are Replaced By New And Better Howitzers (Distributed by the Associated Press) WITH THE 37th INFANTRY DIVISION SOMEWHERE IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC veterans of an artillery 'battalion in this front line division said goodbye the other day to some of the best friends they ever had. They were Larrupin' Lou and Sarah Jane.

Nipponese Nightmare and Tojo's Sunset, Vulgar Virgin and Roaring 155- MM. howitzers which had poured more than- 45,000 rounds of sudden death on the Japanese in the South Pacific. Artillerymen are not a poetic lot, and the affectidh they felt for these guns might be measured somewhat by the unusual license in names bestowed Rolling Thunder, Coral Princess, the Huge Brute. The new howitzers have received are better, they all know that, but they still have to prove it in action. Cleared Infantry Path It was just a little more than 4 years ago when these powerful groggy terrific pasting of these Parts wore out and were replaced but the howitzers, kept" going until the enemy had had enough.

Now they" have' been replaced; Their crews-have oijed, cleaned and polished them for "the last time. Ordnance trucks have dragged them away destination unknown. Men-of the 37th will remember them a long time. REGISTER WEDNESDAY Registration for Ipckers by eighth and ninth "grade pupils of Longfellow junior high school will take place Wednesday at'the school. The boys will register from 9 to 12.

a. m. and the girls from 1 to 4 p. m. 5 Parties Share In Broadcasts WASHINGTON, The army has decided to divide equally among i- 5 parties the time allotted for short! I broadcasting time.

parties having a presidential candidate in at least 6 states. The army said a specified-period would be available each week between "early September and Nov. 1." Failure of any part to use its time affect other parties' right to wave broadcasting of politics to The waists raised the issue of the dent esses hvst week, troops, without passing. esses vs wee, the question of whether President seekmg time on the claim that Mr. Roosevelt's speeches will be considered time will be shared by the eve at Bremerton, was Apolitical.

The war department first granted the socialists' jo Democratic, Republican, Socialist, I st Assistant War Secretary Infov VAIFAVCAS? Prohibition and Socialist-Labor parties, which qualified under a recent law.permitting, broadcasting of political speeches on an equal basis by McCioy later reversed the Bremerton address was not political. Try ah Independent Classified ad. ENEMY' FOOD DISCOLORED ROANOKE, Va. On the basis of examined cans of food captured from the enemy, Fritzie hiunt been eating nearly as well as OI Joe. I German cans of food analyzed for th2 army quartermaster corps showed, in -addition to corrosion, diced potatoes and beans which were dark and discolored, and untrimmed cir- rots and meat so tough and stringy they could not be chewed.

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But in October, 1940, came the mobilization into federal service and men and weapons began a long trek. Among the pines of Mississippi and the hills of Pennsylvania, the heavy old howitzers bounced and bumped on maneuvers. Their crews lived, ate and slept with them, became highly skilled, In May, 1942, as the Japanese armies moved southward in the Pacific, these Ohioans embarked for he real thing. They stopped first New Zealand, then In the Fiji where the blunt muzzles of he howitzers were points out to sea to protect "this vital bit of land 'rom any trespassing enemy. They arrived at Guadalcanal too ate to participate in the battle, jut were dug in as a constant threat to Japanese counter operations.

It was in 1943, that the guns lent their first shots crashing into Jap installations Munda field, Georgia. They were emplaced on a small slanti off the coast, and they thousands of rounds into enemy positions. Many a sweating in- antryman blessed the swish of the 93-pound shells as they rocketed overhead to clear his path. Roared To Win Bougainville Once a division command post vas surrounded almost entirely by The commanding general for concentrated fire and the 155s responded with such a barrage the enemy retired. Some of shells in this close encountsr struck within 50 yards of the CP, io accurate was the fire.

On Bougainville, canoneers of the 37th went to work again, toiling day and night to establish and maintain the perimeter inside of which a great American base has been formed. The rifling on the guns wore thin. The paint cracked and peeled from the heat. There were times when these expert crews tripled the number of shots per minute which army manuals set as standard for 155's. They harassed Jap concentrations, blasted whole areas ol jungle until trees and undergrowth were churned to a pulp.

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