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Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaumss, = mows
THE UNLUCKIEST man in Indianapolis yester-
sliding out onto the pavement, The driver was unaware of his mishap until he had crossed 30th st. and by that time, most of his lpad was scattered over a half block of Central ave, The unfortunate driver, wasting no time on a description of the truck's ancestors, rounded up a helper and spent the next hour and a half shoveling coal from the pavement and back ooo inte truck. . . . Car] C. Feske, lephone ting department built shel in anticipation of canning profrom his victory garden. He did a splendid job the shelving—made it strong enough to withstand most anything. The only trouble is that he built it in back yard and now he's trying to figure how to geé it into the basement. . . . Scenes showing the recent ceremony at Stout field in recognition of bond selling accomplishments of school children are shown in the newsreel at the Indiana theater, What's in d Name? MAYBE THERE'S nothing in names, but we eouldn’t help smiling when we saw a telegram to the radio editor announcing that former Senator James Eli Watson was to speak last night over, of all stations, WIND, of Gary. Speaking of “wind,” it took the station's press department 124 words to announce Senator Watson's talk, and a 249-word telegram to tell us that Ralph F. Gates, the Republican gubernatorial nominee, will orate over WIND at 8:45 tonight. Gilad they didn’t send those telegrams colJect. (A little windy, ourselves, eh? Just 83 words). s+ It’s been a Jong time since we inflicted a street-
Two Vital Steps By wm. Philip Simms
LONDON, June 27.—The capture of Cherbourg, it fa felt in American circles here, makes imperative two steps on the part of the United States government— First, an understanding among America, Britain and Gen. de Gaulle, Second, someone at the very top—either President Roosevelt or Secretary Hull—should use it as a peg upon which to hang a clarifying statement of American policy toward France. In a dispatch from Washington, the London Times says, “There has not been and is not yet any clear knowledge in the
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The Economist, on the other hand, although eminently friendly to De Gaulle, suggests a reason. “The most plausible explanation” it declares,
“ “and the one which commands most respect in this
country is that the President fears the dictatorial tendencies of Gen. de Gaulle's regime and is determined to let nothing stand in the way of the French People’s freedom to choose their own future governmen a
Behavior Earns Hostility “THE REASON for distrusting Gen. de Gaulle's
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who had been watching, and they were all over me like a swarm of bees, laughing and kissing and hugging me till I was almost smothered. It was completely impulsive, and I don't think it had anything to do with the “liberation” or the war, I think it was motivated by the simple fundamental that the French like to kiss people. They don't even care who they kiss. Vive la France!”
car story on you, so here goes. College ave. streetcar 183 was bowling along merrily Saturday evening, when a rather hefty woman passenger gave the buzzer rope a mansized pull. The thing stuck and continued buzzing, despite desperate efforts of the operator and volunteer assistants to stop it. Finally, the operator went on with his run, with the buzzer buzzing away. By the time the car got to 38th the operator (passengers, too) was nearly daffy from the noise. Someone asked him what street he was stopped at, and he said 42d. The crowd corrected him—38th, “Well, I'm $0 nuts from that buzzer I don't know what I'm doing” he said. About that time another car caught up and he transferred his passengers to it and headed for the barns—and surcease from the buzzing.
Leaves for California
DR. GEORGE M. KING, the dentist out at 49th and College, leaves tomorrow with Mrs, King for
“California to visit their son, Lt. Cmdr. William D.
King, now stationed at the Alameda air base after Service in the Pacific. . . . Elmer (PeeWee) VanHorn, an employee of The Times, is very proud of a ring he has received from his son, Pfc. Alvin VanHorn who now is in a hospital at Naples. The ring was carved out of a piece of propeller blade with a pocket knife, a broken file and a stone, while Pfc. VanHorn huddled in a foxhole at Anzio beachhead. He sent it home by a buddy who was home on furlough. It got here just five days too late for Father's day. Across the face of the ring is carved the word: Dad. ... The Red Cross didn't do so well with its recent appeal for swimming trunks for soldiers and suits for WACs for use in the Ft. Harrison pool. They got about 25 pairs of trunks, and needed 500. So the Red Cross sewing center is making trunks for the men out of flour sacks. But that won't do for the WACs. They just have to have swimming suits, if they're going to swim, so the Red Cross still is appealing for women's swimming suits. They need about 40, If you can donate one; take it to the Red Cross blood center in the Board of Trade. If you can't deliver it, phone the Red Cross, LI. 1441, and ask for Mrs, Mildred Strickland, She'll send someone after it.
thousands of British and American soldiers were being killed on the beaches and fields of Normandy, Gen. de Gaulle apparently has been preoccupied with one thing only—the status of his administration. He is right to be concerned, but one cannot but admit that the manner of his concern suggests an unpleasant readiness to make political capital out of a military situation. He has earned by his behavior the stern hostility of many allied military leaders whereas their support would have been invaluable in persuading Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Churchill to hasten negotiations and modify their intransigent point of view.”
Understanding Needed
THE CONVICTION both here and inside the liberated areas of France is that the time for equivocation either in Washington or in Algiers is past. The need now is for a workable understanding. The situation in France is in the balance. Americans on this side of the Atlantic welcome the idea of complete co-operation with Gen. de Gaulle and his committee. Military men from Gen. Eisenhower down most ardently desire that the French take over the burden of civil administration.
The American side has never been frankly and forcefully set forth. Official spokeshave afraid of hurting somebody’s feelings. of American policy have suffered no such
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Sprague, Jaeckle and? Brownell Team.
By CHARLES T. LUCEY Seripps-Howard Staff Writer CHICAGO, June 27.—Mark well the names of J. Russell Sprague, Ed Jaeckle and Herbert Brownell Jr. They operate today from a modest, L-shaped suite on the 25th floor of the Stevens hotel, directing the final moments of the campaign which within 48 hours will make Governor Thomas E. Dewey the Republican presidential nominee, In a convention with all the usual boisterous confusion they move about in something like the quiet atmpsphere of an 1870 counting house. Out in Chicago stadium is the show—thousands sweating in a three-tiered oven, a giant organ booming, speeches, banners, most of the traditional paraphernalia. : But here is the efficient, well-run establishment of men who move surely and confidently as the conventions climax nears, and there is little of the elbowing and frantic telephoning that so often mark a candidate's headquarters. Dewey’s No. 1 Man The inclination ta compare Governor Dewey's managers with the Farleys, Howes and Moleys of early Roosevelt days is natural, but it's more convenient than accurate to drop Messrs. Sprague, Brownell and Jaeckle into such handy slots. There are too many differences. In point of influence and con-
Friendly, urbane, full of savvy, he’s the fellow of easy grace meeting a delegation of Alaskan Indians, talking long-distance across the country with a politico who has what he thinks is a hot tip, sitting down in a quiet pow-pow with his associate strategists. As New York's national committeeman, he is the chief Dewey spokesman in meeting delegates and leaders from all ever the country, and his natural enthusiasms and friendly approach have been important to the Dewey cause,
Happy Days for Sprague
Russ Sprague is 57, a stocky, good-looking man who was a suc|cessful lawyer and is now the $15,000-a-year manager of Nassau county, just outside New York City. Many a day in these last few {months, after finishing his Nassau
{Job he would drive into New York, {meet political leaders from coast to coast who had come in to report on Dewey sentiment, and suggest to them what might be done here and there. Again he'd be out through | the country paying friendly calls on local leaders. When the Dewey bubble burst at Philadelphia in 1940, Mr, Sprague took it without bitterness, But these are happier days for him, and when Tom Dewey walks out on the platform in the big stadium here after his nomination, the Philadelphia story will be forgotten.
Brownell Closest to Dewey
Herb Brownell, it is agreed generally, is the man closest personally to Mr. Dewey. He's the liaison man between the governor at Albany and Messrs. Sprague and Jaeckle and the other Dewey men here; the one reporting to the governor just how blows the wind, and presumably getting in return the ideas of the governor for transmission to his convention lieutenants. Forty, balding and slender, Mr. Brownell, like Mr. Dewey, came out of the west (Nebraska) to establish
campaign in 1942 and Joe Hanley's successful bid last fall for the lieu-tenant-governorship of New York. He is rated a square shooter who
question, He has a special capacity, his associates say, for picking up the thousand loose-end details that must be handled in any big campaign.
You'll Hear More of Them Ed Jaeckle, New York state chair-
i|over Lake Michigan when Bill's
BELLBOY RECALLS GOP SMOKE IN '20
By FREDERICK C. OTHMAN United Press Staff Correspondent CHICAGO, June 27.—The traditional smoke-filled rooms of this Republican convention are air-con-ditioned lounges in comparison to the original where Warren G. Harding was chosen by his party's bosses in 1920. Bill Horner, the veteran bellboy who shagged ice water and cigars to the politicos all that memorable night of June, 24 years ago in room 805 of the Blackstone hotel, is still shagging the same articles in the same hotel. “Only I do not know what is wrong with these new G. O. P. guys,” Bill said. “Mostly they smoke cigarets and the aftermath has got no body, no body at all. It was not that way in 805 that night in 1920." He wrinkled his nose delicately (the Blackstone being a high-class hostelry) at the memory.
An Open Line. to Penrose
“You never smelled such a smell,” Bill continued. “Those guys were senators, mostly, and they came rushing in here the afternoon of June 8 at about 3:30 p. m. from the Coliseum. It was hot and it was muggy, like today. “They went into that room and they stayed there and they kept on staying. Boisp Penrose had an open line into the room from his bedside in the East and all those senators like Lodge and Smoot and McCormick and Wadsworth and I don’t know who all were there.” With each succeeding call for room service, the smoke seemed thicker, and Bill could tell they had a ‘problem. '
was,” he said. they were smoking too much. Some of them ordered $1.50 perfectos and one senator took stogies and a couple of the other guys smoked pipes that gurgied, and along about 3 o'clock in the morning that suite ‘smelled like burnt chicken feath-! ers.” They Called in Harding
The conferees were sprawled on beds in the two bedrooms, they had their feet on the French ‘furniture in ‘the living room — and hot! Whooie! Or so said Bill. The sun was about to come up
guests called in Harding, the obscure publisher of the Marion O, Star, to offer him the nomination. A few hours later the late Raymond Clapper of the United Press was telling the news to the world in one of those scoops that make newspaper history, and there was Bill
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TUESDAY, JUNE 27, 1944
and Keynoter Warren Get a Hand sae
Govern or Earl Warren's keynote address
John Hamilton, former chairman of the Republican party, greeted recently-Republican Mrs. James Farley with a familiar “Hello Bess” at the opening session of the G. O. P. National convention, Chicago. The wife of the man credited with gaining the first Democratic presidential nomination for Franklin D. Roosevelt has announced she will cast a Republican ballot in November,
last night took the delegates by storm. Here the smiling Californian receives the hand of an unseen wellwisher.
By JOE WILLIAMS Times Staff Writer
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his Jong underdrawers back until the first week in June. The convention is being held in the stadium. The stadium is to Chicago what Madison Square Garden is to New York. Only it’s bigger and better and architecturally more attractive. The stadium features wrestling shows, which makes it a proper locale for this convention, the main result of which has been a foregone conclusion for days. At no time was the stadium more than half filled. Our New Friend,
trying to air out room 805,
By Eleanor Roosevelt/==
Up Front Wi
the Hon, Francis X. O'Drool, dele-
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It seems the laundry situation ijs| Illinois. . acute. There is the instance of a featured, clean-shaven, gray-haired fellow who came here to see the! gentleman who looks somewhat like
Blames Spangler's Laundry For Delay in Convention
|gate-at-large, and very much at ilarge, said it reminded him of a|
CHICAGO, June 27.— The first Monday ball game at the old Phil-| “ : thing we sensed when we arrived at lies park. Onl kn | i y 1 dd 1 ow at 3 the convention was that it was 46 A large, billowy blond started the
show off by singing what the more
The next hitter was Governor | Dwight (The Inimitable) Green of The governor is a sharp-
| Oscar Vitt, who used to manage the
game in December and didn't get! Cleveland Indians, but is said to be
{weak on a low inside pitch. | The governor obligingly went along with the great secret which is being jealously guarded out here. Not once did he refer to Tom Dewey; he went pretty far back in history and there came a moment when we felt he would at least mention Adm. Dewey, but he didn't.
Big Buildup for Abe Lincoln
The fact is the governor gave Abe Lincoln such a buildup we began to develop an eerie feeling the old’ railsplitter was somehow boing to be placed in nomination again. There wasn't much else to the opening session, Everything that followed was on a temporary basis. They had a temporary roll call, an election of temporary officers, ithe appointment of a temporary committee to temporarily escort the temporary chairman to the chair. The only thing that wasn't temporary was the heat, It continued permanently stifling. The Alaska delegation stewed miserably in their own juices. The Hon, Mr. ODrool tried to be of help. He suggested they get to-
Movie Master Says New York Candidate Will
Hold His Audience.
By DOROTHY WILLIAMS United Press Staff Correspondent CHICAGO, June 27.—Cecil B. DeMille, moviedom’s master showman, gave the Republican national convention setting a critical onceover today and called it a job of master showmanship, DeMille, whose genius for producing movie mob scenes has mate his name synonymous with such Hollywood superlatives as “stupendous” and “colossal,” finds himself playing a bit part in the G. O. P.’s version of the 1944 political extravaganza as a delegate from California. His choice for the G. O. P. presidential nomination is Gavernor Thomas E. Dewey of New York. And he is confident, he said, that his man is the “big box office” the nation needs. Between verbal “trailers” for his man, DeMille admitted he was awed by the big show his fellow
Republicans were staging in this huge arena,
Showmanship Never Changes
DeMille is not one to overlook the need for the customary tricks of showmanship. And he found them all in this flag-draped and bunting-bedecked stadium. “When I came into this kleiglighted stadium this morning and saw the flags, the big portrait of Abraham Lincoln, the singer standing on the huge platform with its giant golden eagle, I said to myself that showmanship hasn't changed in 100 years.” And, as a veteran producer of some of the mightiest spectacles that have flashed across the nation's screens, he voiced the artist's appreciation of the basic, but obscure, ingredients that make a big show—the unglamorous and invisible trappings that the spectator never thinks about,
‘Dewey Can Take Top Billing’
“Just go behind the scenes in any production,” he said. “There is nothing thrilling in the sight of the ropes, the lights and the paraphernalia which is needed to turn out a production. But there is an immeasurable thrill in the creation of a great dramatic thing to stir human beings.” Nor was he forgetting his man— Dewey—whose role in the drama he described in the language of a showman. He peinted to Dewey's “advance billing”"—his racket-busting career in New York City; his governorship. He was confident that Dewey would take “top billing” as President of the United States after the November election, and that he would “hold his audience when cast in this role.” And he approved, too, of the timing of Dewey's expected Thursday entrance into the convention hall—in time for the “finale” of the big Republican show. “But it's more than buildup,” Mr. DeMille said. “No amount of build-
-" “1 up will make a star unless the man, Some one said the ‘delay was zealous delegates insisted on calling
caused by the failure of Chairman the “Star-Spangled Banner.” Harrison Spangler's laundry to ar-|
like Thomas Dewey, measures up to the part”
KATHERINE SUTTON, AGE 77, DIES HERE
Mrs. Katherine B. Sutton died today in the home of her daughter, Mrs. Gladys Hurty, 1210 Pickwick lane, Golden Hill, after an illness of two years. She was TT. Mrs. Sutton was born near Austin, Tex.,, and had been a resident of Indianapolis 35 years. Survivors besides her daughter are a son, John A. Sutton Jr. of Indianapolis, and three grandsons, Lt. Robert L. Craig, an A. A. F. fighter pilot who is on the West coast; Pvt. David F. Craig, with the infantry overseas, and John R. Sutton of Indianapolis. Dr. E. Burdette Backus will conduet private services at 2:30 p. m. tomorrow in Flanner & Buchanan mortuary. Burial will be in Crown Hill cemetery.
STORM DEATH TOLL 153 PITTSBURGH, June 27 (U. P.. —The death toll in the tornadn which swept the tri-state area of western Pennsylvania, north-central West Virginia and Maryland late Friday today rose to 153 with the number of fatalities expected to rise
1000 injured victims. 3 HOLD EVERYTHING
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