The Assumption Pioneer from Napoleonville, Louisiana • 1

STATE '3 OLDEST EXISTIN WEEKLY. ESTABLISHED 1850 Official Journal of the Parish of Assumption and Town of Naroleonville. Napoleonville, Saturday, May 27, 1944 No. 36 Volume 93 lite Miitiiiifi WITH THE LOUISIANA EDITORS morEssiONAi card. M-rlm Physician and Sorareon Paincourtville, La.

STRAWBERRY SEASON ENDS ASSUMPTION BANK TRUST CO. NAPOLEON VI LLK, LOUISIANA? CAPITAL $75,000.00 SURPLUS $75,000.00 Dr. H. C. Dansereau, Pres.

Clarence J. Savcie Vice-Pm. J. C. BOUCHEREAU, Executive Vice-Ppesident R.

T. HANSON, Cashier, J. B. LEBLANC. Assistant Cashier mui ok niuKirroK!) With Ernie Pyle at the Front Large Number of Americans Change London's Complexion Few; Who Have Been in Italy Can Conjure Up Any Fond Memories of That Front By Ernie Pyle.

LONDON. Well, here we are again in dear old London town. At least they still call it London, although you can hardly see the city for the Americans. But before going into that I'll tell you about our trip up here. The morning I left Italy I had to get up at dawn to catch the plane.

Sergt. Harry Cowe, who was a part of the gang I had been living with, somehow managed to get both himself and me up right on the dot. CLARENCE J. SAVOIE, SABIN SAVOIE. ALFRED S.

STERN FELS, HONORE.ST. GERMAIN, BRONIER THIRAUT, B. C. THOMSON tops. Down there lived sheep men obscure mountain men who had never heard of a nebelwerfer or a bazooka.

Men at home at the end of the day in the poor, narrow, beautiful security of then own walls. JOS. BARtfERA. HERMAN CAFIERO. LEO CAFIERO.

F. N. CARRIER. LOUIS CORDE. DR.

H. C. DANSEREAU. J. T.

LANDRY. Member Federal Deposit Insurance SECURITY Corporation, Certificate No. 13D73 SERVICE Assumption Motors NAPOLEONVILLE, LA. SERVICE SALES Car Washing 50c Gulflex Lubrication 50c General Repairs TRIBUTE PAID TO CREW OF 9 A memorial service in memory of the nin men who gave their ives in the crash of the K133, navy blimp, was held at the Hou- ma Naval Air Station Saturday morning, April 1 he service took place on the 'take off surface" of the mat where the squadron, in dress whites lined up in formation. Nine wreaths, brought to the ship by nine men of the squadron, were given to Lieutenant Commander H.

M. arris, commanding officer of the squadron, who delivered them to Chaplain W. L. Lancey aboard ship. At the conclusion of the serv ice aboard the mat, the ship took off out over the Gulf.

Prayers were offered for souls of the nine men who sacrificed their ives in the service of their coun- after which the Chaplain hrew the floral tri mtes down into the calm waters of the Gulf. Those who made the supreme sacrifice were Aviation Radioman First Class Kenneth Saunders Blau; Ensign Arthur Clulee, pilo nsign George Alexander Foster co-pilot; Julius Fred Ostrowski, boatswain second class; William John Fitzgerald, aviation ord nance man third class; Gay lord Dave Adams, aviation machinists mate second class; Veikko John Hanninen, aviation machinists' mate first class; and John Ed ward Byrne, aviation radioman second class. The Houma Times GERMAN PRISONERS CHOPPING COTTON IN EAST CARROLL PARISH There is no cotton raised in Germany and not many, if I any of the German war prisoners stationed at Tallulah have ever seen a stalk of cotton before in lives. But local farmers, hard pressed for labor, are using these prisoners for chopping cotton and are finding their services satisfactory under present conditions, to relieve the tight labor situation. Chopping cotton requires not great skill and.

therefore normally speaking, the pay is not great, and can't be if farmers are to realize anything on their croD. However there was every indication early this year that this work would command wages all out of proportion only be cause of the scarcity of labor. To a great extent German prisoners have relieved this situation and have performel creditable work. --Banner Demo crat The 1944 strawberry season is rapidly coming to a close in so far as rail shipments are concerned. The season has been the most spectacular in the history of the strawberry industry.

Last season's 1071 cars will not be reached this season, it is predicted by all the deal. From a financial viewpoint the growers are not complaining for considering the number of cars shipped the returns have been exceedingly good. The highest average ever made was witnessed this season and the highest prices ever-known in this or any producing state was scored during the season when $8.50 a crate was paid for three cars by the Charles Abbate Company, operating here for several years with Atlee Miller, sales manager. The truck movement is not considered in the rail shipments, but crates are figured equivalent to a car and is coumputed in that manner. The Hammond Vindicator MAKES SURVEY ON PRISONER LABOR A survey to determine whether or not prisoners of war will be used for the planting and harvesting of sugarcane in 1944 in Iberville parish will be made, it was decided at a meeting of the recently organize i rish farm labor advisory committee held here Friday of last week.

The que tion of using prisoners of war was discussed at length. The conclusion was reached by the committee that the sugar mills were bottlenecks in harvesting the 1943 crop. Another opinion of the committee was that barrooms and night clubs are not considered a ment to the efficiency of detri-farm labor. The committee also discussed ways and means of curbing traveling of laborers during peak harvesetin? season and suggested that the piece work method be us in the cutting of cane as a means of getting more work done by the laborers. Incentive payme is to encourage labor efficiency was unanimo.

s-ly favored. In line with the farm labor program, advisory commit tee was formed by the Agriculture Extension service in Plaque-mine for Ibervi le parish. Ti purpose of the committee is to aid and advise the county agent and the parish farm labor supervisor on the need and supply of labor in the The Iberville South Louis A. Dugas, Salesman JESSE HEBERT, FVN. Carrier, Prop.

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It was so early I hadn't wanted otf expected anybody else to get up. But while I was still rubbing my eyes in came Pvt. Don Jordan with a beautiful breakfast tray of juice, eggs, bacon, toast and coffee, just as though we weren't at war at all. But that wasn't all. Our Italian boy, Reif (pro Ernie Pyle nounced who ordinarily didn't come to work till 8 o'clock, showed up just as it was starting to get daylight.

Reif was a grand kid, smart and agreeable and full of good humor, and I'm sure he had never been so happy in his life, as when working in our little madhouse. He had come voluntarily to help rassle my luggage out to the airport. And last but not least. In another minute here came prancing in my tiny little friend Lieut. Maxine Bude-man, the nurse-dietitian from the nearby army hospital.

She is from Kalamazoo, and everybody calls her Goldielocks. She is just shoulder high and weighs approximately 90 pounds. A couple of months ago, when I was wasting away with anemia, Goldielocks kept sneaking me eggs and steak from the hospital. We had a lot of fun joking with the nurses about my meager hemaglobin and my one corpuscle and it was Goldielocks who undoubtedly saved my life with her surreptitious calories. At the airport Rief lugged in my bedroll and bags for me and I got all set for the plane.

Then we started to say goodby. We four were standing beside a command car. A group of officers and soldiers stood nearby, idly watching us, they waited for their planes. Our little goodby sequence must have given them a chuckle or two. First I shook hands with Harry.

And then, since pretty nurses don't come into one's life every day, I managed to inflict upon Goldielocks a goodby kiss that most have shaken Rome. And then I turned to shake hands with Reif. But Reif, instead, grabbed me by both shoulders and in true continental fashion implanted a large Italian smack first on my right cheek and then on my left. Our audience was and so was I. And though slightly embarrassed, I must admit I was also sort of pleased.

There are swell people in any nation, and I know that in our crazy little group there was a genuine fondness for many of our Italian friends. Thus buoyed and puffed up by this international osculation I Boated onto the plane and we were off. On the way -out we flew right past the magnificence of Vesuvius, but I was feeling badly about leaving and didn't even want to look out or look back, so I didn't. We. flew most of the day and far into the night.

Crossing the Medi terranean I knotted myself up on top of a pile of mail sacks and slept half the trip away And then, in a different plane, over western Algeria and Morocco, I got myself a blanket, stretched out on the floor and slept for hours. The sun was just setting when I woke up. I've written many times that war isn't romantic to the people in it. Seldom have I ever felt any drama about the war or about myself in two years overseas. But here in that plane all of a sudden things did seem romantic.

A heavy darkness had come inside the cabin. Passengers were indistinct shapes, kneeling at the windows to absorb the spell of the hour. The remnants of the sun streaked the cloud-banked horizon ahead, making it vividly red and savagely beautiful. We were high, and the motors throbbed in a timeless rhythm. Be-low us were the green peaks of the Atlas mountains, lovely in the softening shroud of the dusk.

Villages with red roofs nestled on the peak Assnmption Service Insurance Co. LABADTEVILLE And there high in the sky above and yet part of it all were plain Americans incongruously away from home. For a moment it seemed terribly dramatic that we should be there at all amid that darkening beauty so far away and so foreign and so old. It was one of those moments impossible to transmit to another mind. A moment of overpowering beauty, of the surge of a marching world, of the relent-lessness of our own fate.

It made yon want to cry. Some people laugh and say, "Well, that's the tip-off. When you arrive in England, the invasion must be about ready." That, I assume, is a jibe at me for having dinner with generals and supposedly getting all the inside dope. They flatter me, for I don't know a bit more about the invasion than you do. I've intended going to England all along, and the only reason I held off till now was to wait for warm weather up there.

These old bones ain't what they used to be they never were, as far as I can remember and spending a winter in sunny Italy (ha!) hasn't helped them. At any rate, I did hate to leave. I had been in that war theater so long that I think of myself as a part of it. I'm not in the army, but I felt sort of like a deserter at leaving. There is some exhilaration there and some fun, along with the misery and the sadness, but on the whole it has been bitter.

Few, of us can eyerconjure up any truly fond memories of the Italian campaign. The enemy has been hard, and so have the elements. Men have had to stay too long in the lines. A few men have borne a burden they felt should have been shared by many more. There is little solace for those who have suffered, and none at all for those who have died, in trying to rationalize about why things in the past were as they were.

I look at it this way if by having only a small army in Italy we have been able to build up more powerful forces in England, and if by sacrificing a few thousand lives here this winter we can save half a million lives in Europe this summer if these things are trne, then it was best as it was. I'm not saying they are true. I'm only saying you've got to look at it that way or else you can't bear to think of it at all. Personally, I think they are true. I want to pay a kind of tribute to a little group of people I've never mentioned before.

They are the enlisted men of the various army public relations units who drive us correspondents around and feed us and look after us. They are in the army and subject to ordinary discipline, yet they live and work with men who are free and It is hard for any man to adjust him-. self to such a paradoxical life. But our boys have done it, and retained both their capabilities and their dignity. I wish I could mention them alL The few I can mention will have to represent the whole crew of many dozens of them.

There are drivers such as Delmar Richardson of Ft. Wayne, and Paul Zimmer of Oakland, and Jerry Benane of Minneapolis. They take care of the bulk of the correspondents, and it is only a miracle none of them has been wounded. They remain courteous and willing, despite a pretty irritating sort of life. Then there are such boys as Corp.

Thomas Castleman of my own town of Albuquerque, who rides hi3 motorcycle over unspeakable roads through punishing weather to carry our dispatches to some filing point. And then there is Pvt. Don Jordan, probably the most remarkable of all the PRO men I know. Don is a New England blueblood from Welles, and Attieboro, He is a Brown university man, a dealer in antiques, a writer. He talks with a Boston accent.

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Greasing Washing Tire Repair Courteous And Dependable Service Buy War Bonds MASCOTS IN ITALY I've told you time and again about the dogs our soldiers have taken as pets and mascots. Running second to dogs, I believe, are Italian kids. There's no way of estimating how many Italian boys have been adopted by our troops, bat there must he hundreds. An outfit will pick np some kid, usually one who has been orphaned by bombing and has no home and ao place to go. The children come along of their free will, of course.

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