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men where they were going. They, in turn, asked us where we were going. . Knowing it was hopeless in our limited French to explain that we were going to our camp up the road, we merelyesaid Cherbourg, meaning our camp was in that direction. ” But the Frenchmen . thought we meant to drive right into Cherbourg, which was still in German hands. Quick as a flash they jumped up, hit the driver on the shoulder to get the car stopped, shook hands rapidly all around, saluted, and scurried out with a terrified “au revoir.” None of that Cherbourg

» stuff for those boys.

Some of the German officers are pleased at being.

captured, but your dyed-in-the-wool Nazi is not. They brought in a young one the other day who was furious, He considered it thoroughly unethical that we fought 80 hard. i The Americans had attacked all night, and the * Germans don't like night attacks. When this special fellow was brought in he protested in rage. “You Americans! The way you fight! war! This is madness!” The German was so outraged he never even got the frony of his own remarks—that madness though it be, it works. x

Loses His Orderly

ANOTHER HIGH-RANKING officer was brought In and the first thing he asked was the whereabouts of his personal orderly, When told that his orderly was deader than a mackerel, he flew off the handle and accused us of depriving him of his personal comfort. “Who's going to dig my foxhole for me?” he demanded. You remember that in the early days of the invasion a whole bevy of high-ranking allied officers came

This is not

- country was still full of snipers.

(By Wire- to visit us—Generals Marshall, Eisenhower and Ar-

nold, Admirals King and Ramsey—there was so much begging pardon.

| Now generals, it seems, like to be brave, or I should say that, being generals, they know they must

appear to be brave in order to set an example, Con-

sequently, a high-ranking general never ducks or bats an eye when a shell hits near him,

tried to get them to ride in armored cars, since the

But, being generals, they said no, certainly not, no armored cars for us, we'll just go in open command cars like anybody else. And that's the way they did go. But what the generals didn't know was this: Taking no chances on such a collection of talent, the M. Ps hid armored cars and tanks all along their route, behind hedges and under bushes, out of sight so that the generals couldn't see them, but there ready for action just in case anything did happen.

Similar to Verdun '

THE MOST WRECKED town I have seen so far is St. Sauveur le Vicomte, known simply as “San Sah-Vure.” Its buildings are gutted and leaning, its streets choked with a rubble, and vehicles drive over the top of it. : Bombing and shellfire from both sides did it. The place looks exactly like world war I pictures of such places as Verdun. At the edge of the town the bomb craters are so immense that you could put whole houses in them. A veteran of the last war pretty well summed up the two wars the other day when he said: “This is just like the last war, only the holes are bigger.” So far as I know, we have entered Prance without anybody making a historic remark about it. Last time, you know, it was “Lafayette, we are here.” The nearest I have heard to a historic remark was made by an ack-ack gunner, sitting on a mound of earth about two weeks after D-day, reading the Stars and Stripes from London. All of a sudden he said: “Say, where's this Normandy beachhead it talks about in here?” I looked at him closely and saw that he was serious, so I said: “Why, you're sitting on it.” And he said: “Well, I'll be damned. I never knowed that.”

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

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A DIGNIFIED businessman went to Grants for lunch the other day, ordering only a sandwich and a cup of coffee. A friend sat down on his right and they chatted during the meal In the midst of the eonversation, our businessman noticed a dish of salad at his left, and absent-mindedly ate it—every bit of it. Suddenly, it dawned on him that the salad belonged to the woman seated on his left. The discovery so confused him that he “took it on the Jam"—fled from the lunch counter without a word. It wasn't until he was out on the sidewalk that he realized he might, at least, have apologized to the woman, or replaced the salad. . .. Clarence J, Lindsay who presides over the newsstand at the northeast corner of Nlinols and Washington will have an anniversary a week from today. It will round out his 3lst year as a newsstand operator on the same corner. To celebrate, he plans to take a little vacation, spending two days on his farm. . ,. “Contact,” the office publicetion of the state OPA headquarters, reports that Bill Albershardt of mileage rationing, has left OPA

: to go into the furniture business with his brother,

Jack. Just a week before his departure, reports “Contact,” Bill turned his ankle at the top of the , stairway at his home and he “took a header” downstairs, bruising his side, blacking both eyes and “nearly scalping himself,

A Gift From Hubby MARY LEE STRACK, who lives at 3226 Central and works at Indiana Bell, received a mighty big thrill Monday when the postman delivered an air mail, special package that had come all the way from Honolulu. Inside was a Hawaiian lei, made of baby orchids. It was from her husband, John B. Strack, petty officer 1-¢ with the fleet in the Southwest Pacific. The flowers were in perfect. condition. , .. We met former Mayor Sullivan Monday in the Union Trust Co. seemed to be in excellent health and enjoying life 1000 per cent more than when he was mayor. He particularly enjoys the thrill of walking

35 Years After

WITH THE 9TH AIR FORCE IN ENGLAND, June 28 — Thirty-five years ago come July 1, I covered man's first flight across the English channel. Taking off from a grassy field near Calais, Louis Bleriot made the

hop in his little wood and canvas monoplane. He barely made it. It took him 37 minutes and as he wobbled down uncertainly on the top of the chalk cliffs of Dover, 22 miles from his starting point, he smashed his landing gear. Bleriot's two rivals, Graham White and Hubert Latham, failed to make it. The weather wasn't right for White and Latham’s tiny Antoinette’s 16-in-line engine wouldn't hit on all 16. Twice he started and twice he fell in the water off Dover. Last week I watched literal’ hundreds of American boys hop off to France, some of them hardly out of high school. They gave no more thought to crossing the channel that Bleriot did to crossing the street. They made the distance from Dover to Calais in four minutes.

Out to Lick Germans THEY DON'T stop to think whether it's land or

' water under them. The fly the channel for the same

reason that foot soldiers slog down the road—they are out to lick the Germans and flying is a quick way to get at them. Bleriot’s plane, if I remember correctly, had a

My Day

. NEW YORK, Tuesday.—Yesterday T went out to spend the day in Llewellyn park, Orange, N. J., with my cousin, Mrs, Henry Parish. I never enter the park gates without thinking that this was the place where Thomas Alva Edison lived for so many years; Es and the peace and quiet of this a sheltered spot seems well adapted : to the creative work which he ac-

complished. ; : I think it is important for all of us to realize that in the modern world, where we live so much in crowds, with constant noise and activity around us, all human beings need periods of peace and quiet. It is mot only necessary ; Jhiysical but it is even more Ie y mentally and spiritually. No creative work,

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down the street without being buttonholed eight times to the block for a job or some other political

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 28, 1944

Carry On as ‘Crusaders Of Freedom,” He Says In Valedictory.

CHICAGO STADIUM, June 28

elder statesman of the Republican party, today delivered over to the new generation of the G. O. P. the relentless fight he has waged jagainst his successor in the White { House—Franklin D. Roosevelt—and asked them to carry on as “crusaders of freedom.” And Republicans prepared to back up Hoover's accent on youth by giving the 1944 G. O. P. presidential nomination to 42-year-old Governor Thomas E. Dewey of New York. Mr. Hoover, who will be 70 within two months, last night delivered (8 valedictory which was at once ia bitterly-worded castigation of the {New Deal and a hopeful prayer {that Republican youth “can lead jour people away from the jungle of disorderly, cynical and bitter ideas, the topsy-turvy confusions, the hopelessness and lack of faith and defeatism that have haunted «his nation over these dozen years.” Beads of perspiration trickled down his cheeks and his voice trembled with a trace of rage as he stood before Republican convention delegates and belabored the Roose{velt administration for “forging shackles on the liberties of the people.” Sees European Tactics

(U. P.).—Herbert Clark Hoover,| |

But his voice mellowed as he

favor, His principal relaxation is looking after his reached the peroration, not hinted Years of Effort Preceded

flower garden at home.

he must take it out in looking, because he says he| | . . The state | farewell, and a rallying cry to

can't tell the flowers from the weeds, .

But from the description, at in the copies of his speech dis- | It was his]

{tributed in advance.

welfare department news letter gives a fill-in on what Youth. The delegates cheered, loud |

happened to Harriett Scantland, formerly with the department. She reported June 15 to the foreign) personnel office of the office of war information in New York. {

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and long. “We who have lived long,” he said, “turn our eyes upon your generation lovingly and with hope, and with prayer, and with confidence for the future of our country. . We of the older generation

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New Yorker.

By HENRY J. TAYLOR Beripps-Howard Staff Writer

Dewey result of this convention carries the implication that the way

THAT WEED atop the world war memorial seems | =~ © oo, you will carry forward, |! Win the race is to stay off the

to be holding its own, although it doesn’t seem to] to start a tree at the very top of the memorial. Then! we could share in the glory that accrues to Greens-! burg over the tree growing out of its courthouse | tower. , . . Under changes in incorporations listed by the secretary of state, we notice the Sixth Ward So-| cia] and Republican club is changing its name to the! Log Cabin Social] Supper club. S'matter? Mad at

“Youth of the Republican party, |

your fathers, greet you and send you | forth.” ! The New Deal, milder form the tactics of European | revolutions,” he said, has “certain methods in common” with those | revolutions, |

track.

try, Mr. Dewey “How to Get Nominated in 10 Easy Lessons.” Yet if a nomination has ever been | earned by anyone the hard way|

the Republicans? . . . Sgt. Bill Kiley's column in The| “They seek,” he said, “to destroy this one was earned by Mr. Dewey. |

Fielder, publisher at Stout field, comments: “When |

walking about Indianapolis, be sure to cross streets'and justice. Their method was to [struggle in New York county pol-

ri y rill av down | trali yernmen aiitics, a tough arena for a Repub-| with the green light and you will avoid that run down create cen zed gover tand a; | the shiny nose, the moist brow,

feeling.” A bit corny, but good advice!

Presto Chango! ‘ IT SEEMS THERES practically ladies of the Bundles for America sewing depart-| ment (38 8. Meridian) can't do with a few scraps of material, for children out of two damaged umbrellas given by: L. 8. Ayres & Co. The skirts were fashioned by Mrs. Paul Kettner, chaitman of sewing. Mrs. Charles! Austermiller of the Cervus club unit made an old linen duster and an embroidered flounce from ani antique petticoat into a “brother and sister” outfit! and a little dress. An old baseball suit was converted into a little boy's suit by Mrs, Louise Collins! of the Mars Hill unit, whose members also made a! boy's suit from a sailor's trousers and a girl's coat| from a discarded bathrobe. The garments are for needy families of our fighting men,

By William Philip Simms,

five-cylinder radial engine of 25 horsepower. The Thunderbolts being used by boys I saw today had 18] cylinder radial engines with 2200 horsepower. Bleriot's| plane could hardly lift him and the few gallons of! gas required. I The Thunderbolts carry 2000 pounds of bombs and | if necessary an extra load of gas weighing nearly a | quarter of a ton. In addition they carry eight 50calibre machine guns plus ammunition and other equipment.

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Waits for Nothing

LOUIS BLERIOT in midsummer 1909 waited for days for the right weather to make his try. Sky and wind had to be just right. The boys of the 9th air force—and their pals of the R. A. F.—wait for nothing. Hot or cold, wet or dry, calm or stormy, it makes little difference to them. About all that grounds them is poor visibility, Not only was Bleriot the first man to fly the channel, but it was quite some time before anyone else made it. But in less than a single day, following the allied landing in France, there were 11,000 outbound flights, that is, 22,000 crossings were made in less than 24 hours. In 30 hours, 1300 planes carried 22,500 tons of bombs from England to France and dropped them on enemy targets. The 9th air force alone sent out 5000 planes. Louis Bleriot made history, but he never dreamt that within 35 years of his historic flight, whole argosies of planes would return to liberate his own land.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

space. One of the blessings of life in the rural areas is the fact that any child or adult can escape and be alone with nature at a moment's notice, I notice that in Chicago, where the Republicans are proceeding about the business of nominating a candidate for the presidency, there seems to be some agitation shown in a plea for unity within the party.

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every safeguard of personal liberty

single political party. Purge was| their political weapon. Their economic system is regimentation|

Their faith is Christianity.

the negation of] Their strategy is to

and to destroy opposition by assassination of character through! smearing.” Hoover quoted President Roosevelt as having said in a speech on Jan. 3, 1936, that he had “built up new instruments of public power” which could “provide shackles for the liberties of people in’ any other

‘Shackle on Liberties’ “Freedom is not promoted by shackles in anybody's hands,” Hoover said. “We now know the peace-time shackle they provided for the liberties of the people. “They put shackles on our farmers. They put them on honest labor unions, on freedom of workmen, on honest business enterprise. They have done more. These bureaucrats with these ‘instruments of power’ fanned bitter hatreds between labor unions which divided the ranks. of labor. And they fanned hate between employer and workmen. They built class conflict instead of national unity.” Asserting that only a change in administration would solve “these gigantic problems,” Hoover said. that if the Republican party comes to power “it will not be to liquidate either the economic welfare or the independence of the United States.” Peace in the future, he said, “must be based upon co-operation between independent, sovereign nations,” but if the general assembly of a world organization to preserve the peace is “not to be a mere debating society it should be split into three divisions—one for Europe, one for Asia and one for the western hemisphere.” : “Each region should be given the primary responsibility for peace fin its area before the central coumcil is called upon,” Hoover said, “Especially should that responsibility be imposed on Europe, where the dangers of the world wars come fyom.” Ideal of Freedom The ideal of freedom for other peaple, the former President said, “lies deep in American his! the American heart.” ory amg “Without this spiritual impulse of freedom for others,” he said, “we would not have engaged in a single

First it dates back to a long

lican. Mr. Dewey's first run against Gov- | ernor Herbert Lehman meant a

nothing the through coercion by bureaucracy. | hard campaign throughout, the state

—and a defeat by only 65,000 votes. |

Next, in the national field, he |

For instance, they made two stylish skirts | make public opinion by falsehood started his 1940 campaign for the!

presidential nomination in Decem- | ber, 1939. He traveled through 37] states, made a series of carefully) prepared speeches, and met with] many of the same state leaders who are here at the convention today. Hit Midwestern Trail The present Dewey strength is rooted in the work and traveling he did in that try for the nomination in 1940. Coming to Philadelphia with the largest number of pledged delegates, Dewey saw their votes—and all his work—melt before his eyes under the Willkie blitz. If his present nomination looks easy today, one might wonder how easy Mr. Willkie’s nomination looked to Mr. Dewey in 1940. Next he was chosen as the Republicans’ principal speaker in the middle west in the Willkie campaign, and he hit the trail again. His conduct in so effectively supporting the man who had defeated him made a further impact on delegates who are here voting for him. The 1942 campaign for governor of New York came soon afterward. He won that office by a majority of | 250,000 and a plurality of 600,000. And on the day he won the gov-

THE HARD WAY’

Against the background of have grown much. Maybe it would be a good idea y representing. the generation of Governor John W. Bricker's long efforts and Wendell Willkie's last] looks today as) following “in though he had read a primer on|

ernorship he tied down his place as| the No. 1 man of the G. O. P. for| the nomination which the delegates! are handing him now. But he earned it the hard way,

Featured Speakers at ©. O. P. Convention

By FREDERICK C. OTHMAN United Press Staff Correspondent CHICAGO STADIUM, June 28. —What happened at the Republican national convention to Clare Boothe Luce, the original popsicle, shouldn't happen to a lady. Mrs, Luce burst upon the swel-

tering delegates with a smile upon { her face, a white CHICAGO, June 28.—The draft-|

frill on her chest and an icy blue gown reaching to her silver slippers. She looked cool. She looked comfortable. . . The Republican ladies smiled knowingly as they settled down to watch the lovely playwright disintegrate under the white heat of the arc lights. Well did they remember what had happened to one masculine speechmaker after another, who stepped briskly to the stand and staggered down an hour later limp and dripping wet. Mrs. Luce began her speech and the ladies looked for the first indications of the melting down—

the wet ringlets of hair at the neckline. These things did not happen to Mrs. Luce. She leaned over the speaker's stand, which caught her well above the waist, with the casual assurance of the great actress. Even her hands, tipped with coral nails, looked cool as she gestured, and the longer she stood under those mighty arcs the cooler she seemed to be. The knowing look rapidly was leaving the faces of the lady delegates as they fanned themselves and dabbed at their necks with wet Kkerchiefs. What was Mrs. Luce’s secret? ’ The ladies were so busy wondering that they hardly noticed when Mrs. Luce finished her adress, bowed, and walked back to her seat. Then, as they looked closer, there came from throughout the stadium a collective feminine gasp—or perhaps it was a sigh of relief,

Mrs. Luce had turned out to be |

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could be seen that she was as damp as any lady in the hall Around the middle Mrs, Luce was wet through, And now, for a report on what this charming—but human—lady said and how she said it we lead you to the report of our United Press colleague and press-box companion, Miss Dorothy Williams: = = s THE DEMOCRATS have Clare Boothe Luce's capsule version of

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Silence on Anti-Strike Law Hit Despite More Precise Pledges Than in "40.

By FRED W. PERKINS Scripps-Howard Staff Writer WASHINGTON, June 28.—If political platforms mean anything, the Republicans have done a lot of thinking on the labor subject in {four years, for they use five times las many words as they did in 1940 {in telling what they would do for {the workingman if restored to na- | tional power.

|“I am absolutely non-partisan.”

Clare Boothe Luce, congresswoman from Connecticut, and Herbert Hoover, ex-president, expounded Republicanism as a feature of the second day of G. O. P, convention in Chicago.

DEWEY WINNING It Happens fo Clare Luce

As She Harpoons Democrats

what she believes awaits them when they assemble here in three weeks to nominate a presidential candidate. “They (the Democrats) will meet, not to chose a President, but to take Franklin Roosevelt

and like it,” Mrs. Luce told the Republican national convention here last night. The harpooning by the G. O. P.’s biggest feminine box office brought cheers and applause from a word-weary audience, Her voice was razor-sharp when she gave her prediction, just as when she attacked “the inefficiency, abusiveness, evasion, selfseeking and personal whim in the management of the. country’s business which are distorting our democracy into a dictorial bumbledom.” Her plea was made in the name of “G. I. Jim,” her symbolization of the fighting men who have died and will die for this nation in this war. “We are come together here to nominate a President who will make sure that Jim's sacrifice shall not prove useless in the years that lie ahead,” Mrs. Luce said. “For a fighting man dies for the future as well as the past; to keep all that was fine of his country’s yesterday, and to give it a chance for a finer tomorrow.” . She questioned whether “G. I. Jim" needed to die and whether “wise statesmanship” might not have averted war or, when it became inevitable whether “fearless leadership” might not have better prepared the nation.

ANNUAL A. A. U. SWIM SCHEDULED JULY 4

The annual Indiana A. A. U.| swim sponsored by the Indianapolis |Y. M. C. A will start at 10 a. m.! {July 4.

Male entrants will enter the wa-| Iter one mile above Ravenswood in! the White River, two and a quarter miles above the finish line. The, {women participants will ‘start at { Ravenswood beach. { Special prizes will be given and an entry fee of 50 cents must be delivered to Lloyd A. Pottenger at the Indianapolis “Y"” no later than Friday. |

Four years ago the labor plank

| consisted of 93 words of generali-

ties. This year’s plank exceeds 500 words, and there are 200 others on a related subject, extension of the social-security system. And the language in spots is more definite. Despite that, according to lahor spokesmen. the 1944 labor plank by itself is not likely to make much of a dent in the labor vote that has been going predominantly for President Roosevelt in the last three elections. Green Critical

Notable in the unfavorable labor reaction was a statement by William Green, president of the A. F. of L., who made a voluminous presentation to the resolutions committee. Mr. Green has been regarded as among the A. F. of L. leaders most favorable to the Republicans, while maintaining a policy of not attaching the A. F. of L. to any political

party. But he said of the labor plank: “It is disappointing. It denies

labor's request for repeal of the notorious Connally-Smith act. The Republican party has missed a great opportunity.” Mr. Green charged also that “instead of being simple and direct the language is general in character and susceptible of varied interpretations.” Silent on A. F. of L. Requests

This apparently referred to the platform's failure to recommend revisions wanted by the A. PF. of L. in the national labor relations act —as part of its defense from raiding by the C. I. O. The platform “accepts the purpose” of that law “and all other federal statutes designed to promote and protect the welfare of American workingmen and women.” It was thought unlikely that the C. I. O. would have any praise for the platform. The C. I. O. is out in front of the fourth-term drive. However, it was stated here with authority that the labor part of the platform was “perfectly satisfactory” to the United Mine Workers, headed by John L. Lewis. Several of his aids have been in Chicago during the platform’s preparation. A part of the labor plank expected to be emphasized in the Republican campaign declares “The department of labor has been emasculated by the New Deal,” calls for a restoration of authority and a centralization of authority in the seéretary of labor, and declares that office should be occupied by “a representative of labor.”

‘DEWEY ASKS MOTHER

TO G. 0. P. CONVENTION

CONVENTION HEADQUARTERS, CHICAGO, June 28 (U. P.). —Mrs. George M. Dewey, here to see her son nominated as the Republican presidential candidate, ex-

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would wage a strong campaign and when elected as she assumed he would be—"do the job and do it well,” ’ She arrived in Chicago yesterday from her home at Owosso, Mich, on invitation from her son, Governor Thomas E. Dewey of New York. She said the invitation was as vague as his public statements on his candidacy for the nomination.

' By EULALIE McDOWELL United Press Staff Correspondent

CHICAGO STADIUM, June 28.— In his perch high over the heads of Republican delegates, the convention's official organist, Al Mel- | gard, scratched his head, fingered | the keys restlessly and then threw out his hands again. “It just won't come,” he wailed. Al referred to the tune of the old song, “A Dew, Dew, Dewey Day.” He figured he will need it—but quick, The tune wouldn't come and Al couldn't find his copy. “Oh, well,” he comforted himself, “if the worst comes, I could play ‘The Sidewalks of New York.” He's Unhappy Just speaking of the old song he played so much back in the days of | Al Smith made him even more unhappy. Something about the way he swung into the song of the man in the brown derby back in the old days made some of the delegates think he was whooping it up for Smith. “It was ridiculous;” he declared.

Anybody Remember Tune Of Dew, Dew, Dewey Day?

‘Anchors Aweigh’ cratic convention.” Al wired back suggesting “Happ: Days” instead. The future President replied, “By all means. Let's make it official.” No trouble is too much for Al to take to find just the right songs. Before every convention he writes around to find what songs woula be appropriate for likely candidates and prominent delegates To hold down a job like his, Al has to know every state sunss wau just about every college song.

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