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{Writer ‘Sees Wild Flowers On British Graves Outside Ortona.

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the villas-on the cliffs overlooking the Adriatic, a British Sherman tank lies split wide open by a mine, and beside it on the right hand side of the road there are five fresh graves headed by new wooden crosses.

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order of 10 copies and now is on its second order of 10. That is “small potatoes” in the book business. But, since the book has caused the launching of a senatorial investigation and since copies -have circulated fairly well among Republican leadérs, we think that an article published last Sunday in the Boston Herald by its topflight writer, Bill Cunningham, merits mention here. . » a

Brass Tacks

. MR. CUNNINGHAM started off by saying: “Among the many things I don't know is whether I'm for Wendell Willkie.” But then he went on to explain that he had a contempt for. and hatred of “subterfuge, hypocrisy and deliberate lies set in print” and that exposing them was the purpose of his article. And he got down tacks, too. He mentioned the story in the book of the Georgia delegates, a farmer, who was forced to vote for Willkie ou the second ballot at Philadelphia because the miller who advanced him the seed for the season's planting and the banker who held a mortgage on his farm had called him long distance and told him that he must vote for Willkie. “As a matter of official record,” Mr. Cunningham stated, “Willkie got no votes froin Georgia on either the first or second ballots. On the third, he got one, but from a hotelkeeper, not a farmer. He got two on the fourth and :ix on the fifth” In answer to Sparks’ statement that the Willkie crowd spent “more by far than all the other

Someone stopped to sprinkle a few handfuls of. wild flowers, plucked from the valley, on the graves of those five Britons who helped make entry into * Ortona possible. - It was an all-day fight between the British tanks and the German panzers before the latter retreated, leaving the wreckage of many of their Mark IV's at the wayside, The number of those shattered Mark IV's—which the Nazis hail as second only to their giant Tiger tanks —indicates that the boys in that Sherman took more than their share of enemy lives before they were blasted into oblivion by sn unlucky roll .of the tread. .

Sees Wrecked Tanks As we rolled along the road we saw one after another of the wrecked n- tanks among the torn vineyards, toppled into gulleys at the roadside or sitting immobile, Their 10-foot gun barrels looked clumsy and unreal-—still menacing even though their thunder had been silenced. Montgomery's men might well have called it the Road of One Hundred and One Graves, instead of five, because many Britons and Germans sleep beneath the blackened orchards and the heaps of rubble whose grotesque timbers proclaim that they once were farmhouses,

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Dead Lie Along Road The dead lie along the edges of the road, behind the hedges and beside the streams along the last mile stripe of highway leading from

San Vito Orsogna crossroad to Or-| candidates combined,” Mr. Cuntona. ningham said: It is a death-haunted mile of “Veteran newspapermen and

blood-smeared desolation betokening the nature of the battle that was fought across this once-peace-ful landscape. The human dead | lie huddled beside dead cattle. Hu- | mans and animals alike perished in| the tremendous barrage that swep} out the Germans. Ortona has been won, but both sides have paid a heavy price,

LIBERAL DEFERMENT | OF WORKERS ASKED

WASHINGTON, Dec. 23 (U. P| —The White House announced to-| day that President Roosevelt has| asked War Manpower Commissioner Paul V. McNutt to see that the policy of liberal occupational deferments for pre-Pearl Harbor fathers covers men in the government service. The request was made in a letter to McNutt who while stripped of selective service controls by congress in the father-draft act, retains various powers involving draft age men in the government establishment,

other qualified critics say that, as a matter of fact, the Willkie crowd probably spent less than any other candidate, and that Sparks (who was campaign manager for Publisher Frank Gannett), for his Gannett, with parading elephants and all, probably was the most profligate spender of all.” Cunningham ridiculed the use of a reported letter by the late Dr. Glenn Frank of the University of Wisconsin and reported statements by the late Gen. Hugh (Iron Pants) Johnsoh to try to damn Willkie as the creature of the heavily moneyed interests, especially of the Morgan bankers interested in utilities. He pointed out that both men are “conveniently déad” and that they cannot protect their names. . » .

Cites ‘Mistakes’

THE SPARKS BOOK made quite a point out of the number of Republican governors elected in ‘1940 in states which Willkie lost, Cunningham pointed out that Sparks listed Rhode Island as

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GUILTY OF MANSLAUGHTER KOKOMO, Ind., Dec. 23 (U. P).— Pete Turrin, 39, Kokomo steel worker, today was found guilty of manslaughter in the death of Joe Marlo, 47, a fellow-worker, and was

having elected a Republican governor while in fact a Democrat by the name of McGrath was elected, “The same prevarication {is copied in the case of Penn-

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sylvania,” he said, "where it fis claiméd that a Republican governor won by a majority of 279 - 000 while Willkie lost by 282,000. There was no gubernatorial race in Pennsylvania that year.”

sentenced to two to 14 years in the Indiana state prison. mS ma——————— ER — . 25 MISSING IN HOTEL FIRE HULL, Quebec., Dec. 23 (U, P.).— An early morning fire destroyed |

And Spades in Killing Nazis

MOSCOW, Dec. 23 (U. P.).—Rus- only “local attacks which were’ reot " sian armies closing against the Bal. pulsed” in the Vitebsk area yestic front bastions of Vitebsk and rday.)

The German command threw Polotsk have trapped many thou- large forces of tanks and planes sands of Germans in the marsh-

into frantic efforts to break the lands below Nevel and now are Soviet rings aroupd the garrisons wiping them out in fierce battles south of Nevel. But they failed to of annihilation with bullets, rifie check the Russian campaign of butts, spades and knives. reduction marked by what the The swift advance of Gen, Ivan|Press called “terrible hand to hand C. Bagramian's Siberian veterans| combats.” enveloped a number of German| Panicky Nazi garrisons which garrisons which stood pat under the threw their full weight against the “fllusion that they were safe behind | Russ army cordons were reported their “iron wall” defenses, front re- beaten back mercilessly to wait said.

the death blow. While the bulk of the first Baltic! At one point a Soviet battalion front troops drove on to within surrounded 1000 Germans, who - striking distance of Vitebsk and Po- | counter-attacked in an effort to lotsk, foundation stones of the Ger- rejoin their main forces. Russian man defenses, powerful detach: |infantrymen beat them back with| ments remained behind to crush rifle butts, spades and knives, finthe trapped Nazis. ishing off hundreds in their

(A German communique reported |trenches.

On the letter reported by the book to have been written by Harry Hopkins to Dr. Umphry Lee, president of Southern Methodist university, Cunningham said that Dr. Lee denied he knew Hopkins, ever had any correspondence with him or ever saw any such letter signed with any such name as “Harry Hopkins.” The reported letter was used to

CHURCHILL IMPROVING

LONDON, Dec. 23 (U. P.)— Prime Minister Winston ©hurchill is making “steady progress” in his recovery from’ pneumonia, an officia] bulletin sald today.

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0 Jap Is Capable Foe, Chinese + i Major Who Raided Japan Says

Tokyo,” Wang said, “but just before my scheduled departure for the United States 1 cracked up in a plane and was injured and therefore I missed the boat. I greatly regret it—but perhaps there will be (other occasions when I will be luckier.” Asked about that first raid against Formosa, Wang said: s “I was a pilot then and we had whether he is attacking or being/only a few planes in the Chinese air force. About a squadron took off for Formosa and the remarkable part of it is that every one of us got back after completing our

' NEW YORK, Dec. 23 (U. P)— Maj. 8. T. Wang, Chinese flier who

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‘BY EARL RICHERT

c. NELSON SPARKS . “smear- -Witikie” book caused only a ripple of interest here, ¥ Some bookstores are not handling it because it is printed by an unrecognized publishing firm, Others that are selling it say that the

One store that is selling it reports that It has sold out its first

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try to prove that Willkie was a New Deal Trojan horse. “Either this cheese-holed book or this distinguished clergyman is a liar,” Cunningham said. “There's no question in my mind as to which is the disciple of Ananias. It's not the preacher.”

Who's Behind It

CUNNINGHAM SAID that if the senatorial committee really wanted to do the nation some good it should investigate the book itself, find out who wrote it and what's behind it. “Obviously,” he said, “the spon. | sors are afraid Willkie will be elected president. They obviously are afraid of the things he says he stands for. , . . What colors do they wear? Those of the reactionary, moss-backed, never-say-die isolationists, probably.” Now, Mr. Reader, you have the other side.

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—|and New Guinea showed signs of| It dis likely to develop much

We DEFENSES

Land, Sta anil and Air Blows Struck From: China to New Guinea.

By UNITED PRESS Japanese defenses on New Britain

By LouIs F. KEEMLE United Press War Analyst

The long struggle of the Jugoslav patriot army has developed from more or less scattered guerilla | warfare into what amounts to another military front against the Germans, 2

cracking under the impact of allied further, now that the allies are land and air blows today, while [sending substantial material aid to American airmen in China rolled up ‘Marshal Josip (Tito) Brosovich, Its ia smashing 31-to-1 victory over the logical conclusion is likely to be the buttered Nipponese air force. (LUISE CF W lake allied expel. Gen. Douglas MacArthur's head- major Italian -Balkan on quarters announced that American! “third front” in relation to the troops plunged farther inland fiom Eastern front in Russia and the their invasion beachhead “on the Western Europe front yet to be southwest coast of New Britain, ‘pened. widening and deepening their foot-| _ No Sudden Development

A British military

CAIRO, Dec. 23 (U, P slay sources said today ¢ Germans had eaptured described as the . Marshal Josip (Tile) Bros high command, and thal situation in Besnia was “erl for both Brezevich and Draja Mikhalloviteh,

ers appeared on the scene, ) likewise sent a mission. These | and the fact that substantial was being sent, were officially state

hold on oe island. The full-fledged warfare now in| e Japanese alr raids on: the progress in Jugoslavia is not a |

ground forces and supply ships were sudden development but has been | driven off by allied fighter patrols! gradually growing in stature for that shot down 12 enemy dive ubout a year. Aliled participation {bombers and four fighters and prob- | ay, first seemed hesitant, or at least. {ably destroyed three other planes. on a minor scale. The inactive | {Damage to the American ground In-| forces of Gen. Draja Mikhailoviteh, {stallations and allied air losses were war minister of the exiled King | light, a communique said. [ Peter's regime, are still recognized | At ‘the same time, allied air forces nominally as the duly constituted | continued on the attack, sinking a army of Jugoslavia, Japanese troop transport and a sup-| However, Tito proved his right [ply ship off New Ireland and dam-| to recognition bv force of arms, {aging an enemy destroyer. directed with considerable success

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ed in Londen and Washington is imonth. Finally came the

meeting in Egypt of representatives lot Tito's army and members of the

The strength of Tito's army 8 placed at 250,000, fully organized as a regular army on orthodox , ines and now well equipped, with allied alr, The Germans do not apper te

Tito threat with the forces in hand, The possibilities for the allies are obvious,