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- BOMEWHERE IN FRANCE (By Wirless.)—Snip-
ing, as far as I know, is recognized as a legitimate means of and yet there is something sneaking about it that outrages the American sense-of fairness, I had never sensed this before we landed : in France and began pushing the . Germans back. We have had snipers before—in Bizerte and ~ Cassino and lots of other places. | But always on a small scale. : Here in Normandy the Ger- © mans have gone in for sniping in a wholesale manner. There are | snipers everywhere. There are E in trees, in buildings, in of wreckage, in the grass. But mainly they are in the high, bushy hedgerows that form the fences of all the Norman fields and line every roadside and lane. . : It is perfect sniping country. A man can hide himself in the thick fence-row shrubbery with several days’ rations, and it's like hunting a needle in a haystack to find him. Every mile we advance there are dozens of snipers left behind us. They pick off our soldiers one by one , as they walk down the roads or across the fields. It isn't safe to move into a new bivouac area until the snipers have been cleaned out. The first bivouac I moved into had shots ringing through it for a full day before all the hidden gunmen were rounded up. It gives you the same spooky feeling that you get on moving into place you suspect of being sown with mines.
Lessons in Precautions
In past campaigns our soldiers would talk about the occasional snipers with contempt and disgust. But here sniping has become more important, and taking precautions against it is something we have had to learn and learn fast, , One officer friend of mine said: “Individual soldiers have become sniper-wise before, but now we're sniper-conscious as whole units.”
Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum
FOLKS UP AT the Indiana State Chamber of Commerce, which never has been accused of being radical, were a bit startled the other day when a man walked in and asked if they could tell him where the Communist headquarters were located. They couldn't. . He happened to be in the right building—Board of ‘Trade—but on the wrong floor. . . . A quartet of taxicab drivers in front of the Hotel Lincoln were entertaining passersby Friday with their rendition of the taxidrivers’ theme song: “It's a Long, Long Way to Tipperary.” And they were doing a neat bit of harmonizing, too. ... Seen aboard a bus parked in the bus terminal: A woman smoking a corncob pipe. She paid no attention to the amused stares of spectators, . . . E. F. Bayless tells us that he was in the elevator of the OPA office building at 428 N. Pennsylvania the other morning when a fellow passenger asked where he could find the OPA. “On the third floor, second floor, first floor and ‘n the. basement.” replied the operator. Retorted the passenger: “And in my hair.” , .. Mrs. Stanley Barberich, 1643 N. Medford ave, reports she has some dandy Regal lilies. On one stalk there are 29 buds. . . . Double billing seen on the marquee of a Shelbyville movie: “A Kingdom for My Cook™ and “The Lodger.”
We Guessed Wrong
WERE READY TO admit, now, that we spoke a bit out of turn some months ago when we commented that the pedestrian traffic education campaign was accomplishing results and that it was “too bad it probably will fizzle out like all other campaigns.” That was a long time ago, and the campaign is going and accomplishing results. It got started last summer when the military police took over the downtown section. The present intensive campaign was started March 1. We have gotten around to where most pedestrians follow the lights
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Something Fine
WITH THE 9TH AIR FORCE IN ENGLAND, June 26 -—There is something magnificent about the boys who are fighting the air battles over France. With Capt. Hank Andrews, formerly of the Cleveland Press, I have visited some of the 9th’'s air bases. And though the youngsters always addressed me as “Sir” it was I who felt humble and respectful. We traveled by plane, jeep and truck and covered a lot of territory. We talked with a lot of boys and their youthful officers. And I have yet to encounter one who was loud-mouthed or boastful or who was anything but unassuming almost to the point of appearing bashful. Time and again I watched these fighter and fighter-bomber lads take off for their gime of tag with death. And I saw them come back—except for those whom death or some other misfortune had touched.
‘Almost o f Apology’
I STOOD out in the open by a rough table covered with maps and listened to the interrogation. Questions were answered in low voices and if they had to report hairbreadth escapes they wore an air almost of apology—as if somehow they had been guilty of a mistake or a tactical error. A young major had to report that one of his pilots had been killed by his own bomb. The pilot had dived on his target—a bridge in Normandy— at a 70-degree angle. To make certain he would not released his bomb and started to pull out. The bomb
My Day
HYDE PARK, N. Y., Bunday.—Here is the letter from a young man overseas which I promised you because it carries a message to all of us at home: “There is one great fear in the heart of every serviceman and it is not that he will be killed or maimed, but that when he is finally allowed to go home and piece together what he can of __ life, that he will be made to feel _ that he has been a ‘sucker’ for the
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Thousands of little personal stories will dribble out of D-day on the Normandy beachhead. A few
that T pick up from time to time I will pass along licans would like to split that 1abof| vote which has been going to the The freakiest story I've heard is of an officer Who |p oovert ticket the
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was shot through the face. He had his mouth wide open at the time, yelling at somebody, the bullet
out the other cheek. That sounds dreadful, but
actually the wound is a fairly slight one and the predictions include a fairly definite | one that the G. O. P. will declare!
officer will be in action again before very long. Capt. Ralph L. Haga of Prospect, Va., claims the distinction of being the first American chaplain to set foot on French soil in world war IL + He hit the beach 65 minutes after H-hour, with the combat engineer unit to which he is attached. Like everybody else he had rough going, but he wasn't hurt. He is a Methodist, and before the war was a pastor at Bassett, Va.
pretty well when there's a traffic cop around. The next step will be to teach us to do the same thing| with no cop to chide us. That may come in 1947. ... If the leaves of your tomato plants are curled, chances are it's just sunburn—not the wilt. We, noticed the leaves on some of our plants curling and, after getting opinions from various aniateur tomatoculturists, decided to go to County Agent Horace Abbott for some professional advice. After listening to the symptoms, Horace diagnosed the trouble as| caused by the heat. The real wilt, he explains, starts | at the top and works down.
Plants affected by the wilt can not be saved. When plants are burned by the heat, the curled leaves will not straighten out, but the new growth will not be affected. So don’t give up, gardeners. . . . Lt. Col. Don Hoover, former | Indianapolis newspaperman who now is with military | intelligence, is due home tonight on a 10-day leave | from Italy. He'll stay with his father-in-law, E. G.| Holmes, 3505 N. Pennsylvania. |
They Didn't Ask | A STORY REMINISCENT of the early days of rationing comes from the Fountain County rationing | board. The board reports having received the following letter: “Kind Sir—I am writing you this letter about signing up for our sugar when they first rationed it: I did not turn in all'we had on hands, but I did turn in some. I don't kmow how much we had but since then I have become a Christian, and I have to make amends in order to be a child of God. I will be glad to make this right if you will please tell me how, and I pray that you will forgive me.”| The board doesn't say what it's doing about the mat-| ter. . . . The letter writer's mistake was in not doing’ as a certain patriot did. In filling out his application for a sugar rationing book a couple of years ago, he came to the place where it asked how much sugar you had on hand. “Only what I have on the table,” he wrote. “But,” he told a friend afterward, “the OPA didn't ask me how much I had on the table. |
If they had, I would have had to admit to $0 Berry, head of the printing Press- in... who would not let his name the Republican national convention, Just a year, but always.’ That'll bring,
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By Wm. Philip Simms
miss he was almost on top of his target before he
appeared to explode on contact and the bridge, the UODpilot and his Thunderbolt all went up together. | The major spoke slowly in a tone which sug-!
gested that he blamed himself a little, that maybe the loss could somehow have been prevented. Just as quietly his colonel asked questions: Who had “bombed-up” the plane? Who had fused the bomb?: What kind of a-fuse was it? Was it of the new lot? Was there any reason to think it was faulty? Quietly and soberly, the businesslike questions and answers went on. {
|two were quarreling about who was LU” if they, Beauty Contest Ent {upper tier in the top gallery. Olsen| Personally we think it is very Groundless Fears | going to run the A. F. of L. Mr. did not succeed in getting their y niry {surveyed his precinct, shuddered at lovely, but an old Buckeye grad who + | Lewis would like to lick Mr. ideas over with the platform makers | “We spent $250 for a mask to the view below and announced: | jg in the press reom as we write
BACK IN the United States before we got into Roosevelt by any means.
the war I used to listen to our young men brag that if war came Uncle Sam needn't expect them to get
mixed up in it. Come what might, they boasted, jf and when an A. F. of L. man gets | | recognition, even if it is only a In Britain I found youth talking in much the complimentary vote. Also, a C. I.|—Well-informed Vatican I was scared, for inside Germany I had O. man is here.
they would not fight.
same way. seen young athletes marching, drilling, singing, get-
ting ready for the conflict which even then was ob- who is scheduled to give the Re- ceed : i | publican platform committee “to- O'Connell as Archbishop of Boston, “Jerks Beserk,” is a gigantic statue | this, sniffed.
Today day the C. I O. ideas on what the, although his appointment probably of President Roosevelt, with a mouth |
viously inevitable. I could have dispensed with worrying. those same boys—American and British—are fighting like bearcats in France and all over the world. Not only that but they are trouncing the pick of the Nazi crew. Nor are they being driven. This is their war and they know it. They are fighting for their own American way of life, These boys I've been talking to have been touched by something sublime. for the world. If you mentioned it to them, they would blush and say, “Oh Hell.” '
By Eleanor Roosevelt
raise of salary by reporting “The exiles want home front reassurance’ instead of ‘I was under fire at Tarawa,’ but it might be a boon to all concerned.” The meaning is clear. The men who do the fighting are wondering if we at home realize that they have given up months and years of their lives which they can never recover; they want to be sure that we at home are using this time in a way which will be of value to them, Will we see that they have a better job, a better chance when they come home, for health, education, working conditions, professional standards and, above all, for a’peaceful world in the future in which to live? This requires of us thinking through a great many
problems, but it is the only way we can keep faith|in the company of Mr. and Mrs. with those who fight and die or come back to live) Carl Hogan,
I ale Rd Leaders Will Try to Play
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went in one cheek and right through his mouth |to do it is to try to play A. F. of L. without touching a thing, not even his teeth, and against C. I. O.
{and so are a half-dozen A. F. of
Bul Huey wouun admit i DEWEY SPENDS QUIET
Bill Hutcheson Boomed for No. 2 Place on Ticket
‘Betty Grable of GOP’ Drags Dempsey-Firpo Fight
Into Conclave.
By JOE WILLIAMS Scripps-Howard Staff Writer
: CHICAGO, June 26.—Rep. Clare i |Luce, the Betty Grable’ of the : |G. O. P,, dragged Dempsey and : | Firpo into the Republican conven‘tion today, which was quite a trick : teven for the blond bomber. i | She reached over into sports and came up with a parable by way of | illustrating the desirability of a
change in White House occupancy. RPE Tic ng i It seems that Dempsey, clipped unIn a city where another “Big Bill” Mayor Thompson, became famous in politics, William L. (Big expectedly by Firpo in the first few Bill) Hutcheson of Indiana, president of the Carp- enters’ Union of America, was being boomed for seconds of fighting, fought the * | > g or Sullest;ve. BR ye vice president on the G. O. P. ticket today. Here he is in the center with L. A. Mayberry of New York, opening round unconscious; then
. | left, and Harry N. Routzohn of Dayton, O. who is manager of Hutcheson’s campaign. {came back to win by a kayo. of employees choose another ia . ; SN | La Luce left the inference the
and over-all labor organization, American people have been punch
For instance, craft unions of ; ; : | i drunk for three terms, are just malas you be semi po GOP GOVERNORS i coming to and the next round will United Steelworkers have contracts| ON p OL CY
show them putting over the crusher. covering all employees. This goes to the heart of the]
| Maybe Mike Jacobs should be out here running this campaign. , Crux of Problem Makes Good Copy i The charming Luce gal makes fight between the A. F. of L. Nine ‘Militants’ Work on predominantly a craft organization, | and the C. 1 O, built on the, - Planks, Threaten to industrial-union basis, The A. F.| Steal Show. By RAY GHENT
ClO and AFL Against. Each Other.
By FRED W. PERKINS Seripps-Howard Staff Writer
CHICAGO, June 26.—The Repub-| Zc
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For this reason the platform]
for amending the national labor relations act to guarantee craft unions the right to recognition as’
i giving her a flashy play. Before | the sessions are over she is likely 'to be named Miss Michigan Boule|vard of 1944. { At that she has opposition. Babe
{good copy. The local gazettes are of L. favors separate unions for
the more skilled and better-paid
employees; the C. I. O. holds that Scripps-Howard Staff Writer | Didriksen's in town. tco. Babe is the interests of all workmen are; CHICAGO, June 26 (U.P).—A | modestly known as the world's better protected when one unIoN nine group of Republican gov- | | greatest woman athlete. She has
speaks for all. ie, probable labor plank in erRors—part of the same group that
the Republican platform will de- dominated the Mackinac conference clare for a unification of all the —threatened to steal the show of federal agencies in Washington iljcy-making as the G. O. P. nadealing with labor, under a Jseere~ tional convention opened here totary of labor with authority to make national policy on the subject. | This was one of the recommendations of William Gréen, A. F. of L. president, to the Republican platform framers—and the latter liked
“i | just won the women's Western Open | golf championship here, | Reading the gazettes fs a confusing experience. It is hard to ltell at a glance whether La Luce {is the longest iron shot player in i golf or La Didriksen is an exponent (of a planned economy. | The situation isn't exactly analo- | gous, but Ohio's Governor John | Bricker seems to have trained for a hantom fight, much like the time | Schmeling went through the mo-
day. With the “draft Dewey” tide at its crest as state delegations tumbled over one another in a scramble to get aboard his carryall, and with it because it provides a ready-made increasing sentiment being displayed ’ ._ for Governor John W. Bricker ol ] Souk bis npradontg Ohio for second place among th Hons os Son iexisens ras) with labor. practical politicians, nine governors . ' Braddock out at Long Island bowl Could Go Farther {met quietly late last night to take Governor John W. Bricker of Ohio, left, confers with James Gar- Nomination Conceded up a policy-making plan of their field Stewart, mayor of Cincinnati and the man who will place ps ’ : The Republicans could go much gyn | Bricker's name in nomination. Stewart, too, Is running for an office | ©'c'Y00dy concedes the nominafarther in trying to entice the A. F.| present here Governors Warren | this year—he's Republican gubernatorial nominee in Ohio. ition is wrapped up and ready to OF Lk roa Son One of California, mentioned as wanted — -— ‘be delivered to New Yorker's Govt they could do (bu sa “iby some Dewey men for the vice . | erno m Dewey. Notwithstande to-1 shot they will not) would bef presidency; Martin of Pennsylvania; Olsen Takes GOP Post While ing this Bricker and his manage nosspate un 1. Hulcheson — Edge of New Jersey; Griswold of | continue to talk a vigorous fight. He bison hE Nehrasia, ain Segiided a vice, S ki | Bricker finished his training last > | presidential possibility; oeppel o f g N Sh FDR night; he went three fast rounds who heads the big carpenters union, ganeas: Blood of New Hampshire; axin ew Ow on against political silence and subtertinued, talking rapidly in hope of fuse. and wound up punching the
is first Yio presen: pe A F. wills of Vermont; Baldwin of Con- | of L, an the habitual head of : | 1g \ necticut and Thye of Minnesota. escaping a right to thegaw. “So he | Pig bag against Washington comsBack in the dressing room he
the labor division of the Republican] United Press Staff Correspondent bg | They Have a Plan STADIUM, Chicago, June 26 —Ole|sings in a rich baritone, ‘not for just => national committee. i E J {told the experts if he won he'd be
. J : cate an hour, not for just a day, not for| For the first time since Georg: Olsen, assistant sergeant-at-arms of ) a fighting champion.
‘ ; rt} < Bricker used to catch for Ohio men’s union, made oy uy = toe be used. “It deals with both the climbed wearily into the upper tiers| re oy Hon while our hearts State university. His chief battery Democratic vice presidents Meine | fOTE1ED and domestic sections of + {pe stadium today to open his are for the Republicans, our| Mate was George (Red) Trautman, nation, a Jabor leader Is ti Sithe platform. If it succeeds, all ote campaign for re-election of enthusiasm is for Roosevelt. If this|DOW President of the International backed for a plate x Bo right; if not, we'll forget about it.” p.oddent Roosevelt. | fellow, Dewey, gets the job, our show! €a8ue. In one game—was it ticket. The Hutc eon neacqua TS! Some leaders have expressed dis-| rp Republicans approached by. flops. And we die.” ’ {against Michigan?—they say he is 1ssumg statements, ho'ding Press oq¢istaction with parts of the SUR- | (11 sweating sergeant gulped at the caught three runners off first base. | conferences, claiming support, and gested platform. For example, Gov- thought, but Olsen said he was des-|
i i i Unfortunately they weren't delein general acting as candidate ) . Bh act in every conven- ernor Edge, considered a strong in- perate. He said if Mr. Roosevelt! Olsen flew into town from New gates.
|lernationalist, has been outspoken | didn't go back to the White House York and plunked down at the) Writes Song | against e -wor oreign Pol- this fall, Mrs. Roosevelt obviously Stevens hotel his oversized cowhide is i i Once Were Enemies icy plank, maintaining it is t00 wouldn't either. and then where | bag, labeled in syellow letters four | a Be Mig The Hutcheson people publicized long and not worded plainly enough, | would he and Chick Johnson be? {inches high, “stolen from Olsen and to the tune of “Fight the Team,” today an indorsement of their man and others have expressed them- | “Sunk,” he said ,answering him- Johnson.” Then he picked up his: Ohio State's famous marching song, by Bill Green, who could hardly selves as not pleased with the tar- ser, «If Mr. Roosevelt doesn't get badgé—he said it was getting so that! The closing verse is: be expected to be opposed. They ff and other planks. _|this job in November then all the he and Johnson would do anything “Vote for Bricker, hope to have one today from John | From all indicaticns the meeting gags about his wife that Chick and for a badge—and rushed to the He's the man we want, L. Lewis, who is now a Hutcheson was hurriedly convened and 80V- 1 have thought up for our new show stadium to take up his duties as as- Fight for Bricker, pal although he struck Big Bill— | ernors agreed not to reveal details this fall lose their meaning. She sistant sergeant. He's our candidate,
physically—in, the days when the Of their plan. The statement that | runs all through the play. The boss had assigned him the Come along, come along,”
they would “forget about it” if they,
By FREDERICK C. OTHMAN
“We have a plan,” said one of
Reports For Duty
(was taken to mean they would not make a girl look just like her and “God is my co-sergeant.” | insists it will set Ohio State footbail Several Lewis men are in town, make a floor fight. Another meet- we have her in coal mines and! By then there were so many Re-| pack 10 years. L. ing was planned today. upper berths and Kansas tornadoes. publican clustering around him, de- | oi Could Be an Upset SEE MOONEY ARCHBISHOP { beauty contest. She comes out on tickets to sit down, that Olsen | VATICAN CITY, June 26 (U. P.). the stage with a ribbon across her yelled at em. They scattered. [ness in the political field. All we ‘said today that Archbishop Edward sure fire stuff, and that isn't all.” lady feels when she takes off her it is in the burlap for Dewey on the . The C. I O. man is Van Bittner, Mooney of Detroit is likely to suc-| It certainly isn't. One feature of sirdle.” | first ballot. Still there could be an d. We are sounding this warning “Madam,” said Olsen, “do you dis- | note because we came across Judge the sergeant con-| The lady fled. Probably a good an hour ago. The judge is the gent -——— thing, too. who steam-rollered a baseball conof dead leagues last winter. That convention was all rigged to nome J dictator of the minors. i All went well until the judge re- | moved the marble slabs and the | this city where her famous husband | shines. scored his first notable news beat,| Just to be sure, the Dewey mane her career as a news commentator. | {risk him before he enters the sta= publican national convention. Here, 24 years ago, Raymond {broke the news that Warren G. Harding had been selected by party Clapper’s brilliant career as newspaper columnist and radio comthe was killed in a plane crash in the Marshall islands. preferred to remain in the backjground, living the life of a subtook an active part in civic affairs. “But now,” she said today, “I am
leaders—all wishing to be present | We've even got her in a bathing manding either autographs or| We make no pretense at expert sources chest, ‘Miss , Everywhere’ It's all. “Now I know,” he sighed, “how a know is what we hear and we hear the late William Cardinal the new show, tentatively titled! A Republican lady listening to upset. agree?” | (Tombstones) Branham in the lobby | vention by voting some 20 proxies MRS. RAY CLAPPER inate and elect Frank Shaughnessy CHICAGO, June 26 (U. P.).—In|ghosts swarmed over the voting ma=Mrs, Olive Clapper today launched {agers should have a . spiritualist { The setting was the same—a Re-|dium today. Clapper of the United Press first}, chieftains as the G. O. P. nominee. mentator ended last Feb. 2 when Until that tragedy, Mrs. Clapper urban Washington housewife who doing what war casualties are forc-
'G. O. P. should stand for in the Will be postponed until after the that talks. labor field. Mr. Bittner is a No. 1 war. “And sings,”
{aide to Philip Murray, head of the, Up Front With Mauldin
/C. I. O., already committed to a fourth term for President Roose-| | velt.
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ALBANY, N. Y., June 26 (U. P). —Gov., Thomas E. Dewey returned to his executive duties today after a quiet week-end at his 300-acre { Pawling, N. Y,, farm. The governor spent the pre-Re-publican convention week-end advising farmers on potato plantings and talking with workmen about a new driveway on the farm: James C. Hagerty, Dewey's executive assitant, said the governor played a round of golf yesterday on a nine-hole course near Pawling. ! He added that the governor and | Mrs, Dewey spent some of the time
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