Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 July 1944 — Page 11

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IN NORMANDY (By Wireless Dring the Cher

bourg peninsula the 9th infantry division—the division that cut the peninsula, and one of the three that overwhelmed the Cherbourg. The Cherbourg campaign is old stuff by now, and you are no longer particularly interested in it. But the 9th division has been in this war for a long time and will be In it for a long time to "come. So I would like to tell you some things about it. . The 9th is one of our best divisions. It landed in Africa and it fought through Tunisia and Sicily. Then it went to England last fall, ‘* and trained all winter for the invasion of® France. - It was one of - the American divisions in the mvasion” that had previous battle experience. Now an odd thing had happened to the £th while we were in the Mediterranean. For some reason wi we have never fathomed the 9th wasn't released through censorship as early as it should have been, while other divisions were.

9th Got Complex It Was Being Slighted

AS A RESULT, the 9th got a complex that it was being slighted. They fought hard, took heavy casualifes, and did a fine job generally, but nobody back heme knew anything about it. This lack of recognition definitely affected morale. Every commanding general is aware that publicity for his unit is a factor in morale. Not publicity in the manufactured sense, but a public report to the folks back home on what an outfit endures and what it accomplishes.

hell a lot more willingly if he knows that he is get~ ting some credit for it and that the home folks know about it. As a result of this neglect in the slediiermaienn, the 9th laid careful plans so that it wouldn't happen again. In the first place, a new censorship policy was arrived at, under which the identities of the divisions taking part in this campaign would be publicly released just as soon as it was definitely estab lished thatthe Germans knew they were in combat.

BUSINESS WAS RUSHING at the soda fountain at Hook's at 38th and College along about 9:15 Sunday evening. Every seat was taken and there were several standees. The two clerks behind the counter were swamped. Just then in walked a couple of youths, about 18 and 18. Said the 18-year-old. “Heck, we'll never get waited on here.” Whereupon he stepped behind the counter deftly dipped out ice cream, filling cones for himself and his companfon. Noticing an army captain, a lieutenant and a private down at the end of the counter, he asked: “ What you guys want?” They said they'd take cones, so he served them, too. Then he took their money and rang it up in ‘the - cash register, his own along with ft. His companion shouted: “Hey, come on, here comes the streetcar.” And the two lads dashed out of the store. The manager, who had been eyeing the performance with a puzzled air, stepped up just then and asked: “Who were those boys?” Replied one. of the clerks: “I don't know; never saw them before.” . . . An observer reports that a certain drug store which about a week ago tacked up several signs reading: “Courtesy is not rationed here,” has taken them all down. Any significance? . .. A rather fussy woman stepped up to the counter of Thompson's pestaurant on Washington at Tllinois the other day and sald to the counter girl: “I want one of those breakfast rolls, but if they have raisins in them, I don't want them.” The counter girl replied: “I'm sorry, but I haven't tried any of them. But if there are any raisins in them, it will be all right just tq Rake them out.” The patron stared a moment, then grinned and took the roll

Good Conduct

SEEN ON A N. Meridian bus: A nice looking girl wearing an army good conduct ribbon. . . . A downtown bound Illinois Fairground streetcar slid to a stop on 34th across from Shortridge when a double parked car blocked its path. The operator clanged his bell insistently. Out of a dry cleaning shop hurried a man who jumped into the auto and moved it off the track. The blushing double-parker was none

In Washington

WASHINGTON, July 11 —Let's get all this whispering behind-the-back personality stuff of the coming political campaign spread out in: the open right now, and then let's forget it. There has been some indication of an effort to belittle Governor Thomas E. Dewey because of his size and his general appearance. There is no law requiring you to like the looks of any man if you don't want to. but this personal criticism of Dewey goes beyond that. He has been criticized for being too pretty to be in the White House. He has been dubbed Mr. Staycomb and Mr. Marce] because his raven locks are always in place. Some people don't like his mustache, asking sarcastically whether it is Adolf Hitler or Charlie Chaplin he is trying to look like. He is caricatured as a pink-and-puff-cheeked boy, “too young to hold important office. It is against Dewey's size, however, that the cruelest Because he isn't ‘a sixfooter—because he is five. inches shorter than running mate John W. Bricker—there is a tendency to toss the “Little Man, What Now?” stuff at him. One Chicago New Deal paper cartooned his nomination by showing a diminutive Dewey in a big spotlight on 8 bigger stage with the caption, “So This Is It!”

That Pony Crack

THERE IS the now famous crack about the Republicans not only being willing to swap horses in midstream but to swap a horse for a Shetland pony. Also the story about how he sat on a phone book while being photographed at his desk. All such stuff is part and parcel of American political campaign tradition. Men seeking high office ~ are considered fair game, the season is always open. Shooting at them is considered a sadistic form of

My Day =

HYDE PARK, Monday.—I have had the pleasure of having Mr. and Mrs. Charles Taussig, and Mr. and Mrs. William Brown Meloney Jr. for a short visit over the week-end. Mrs. Meloney (Rose Franken) brought me the book of her play, “Outrageous Fortune,” which she and her husband produced last winter and

‘read it with, great pleasure the night before last. Many of the characters stand out as completely real people. I almost seem to know them. The old mother is typical of hundreds of older women whom I have known, who were tired of living. In addition to the physical weari-

Vagabond: With that big hurdle accomplished. the 9th made|

“section, with

By Ernie Pyle

sure that the correspondents themselves would feel at hs with them. They set up a small public-relations officer in charge, and a squad of enlisted men to move the correspondents’ gear, and a

“truck to haul it, and three tents with cots, electric

lights and tables.

Correspondents Get Special Favors CORRESPONDENTS who came with the 9th could

get 2 meal, a place to write, a-jeep for the front, or a courier to the rear—and at the time they asked for it.

Of course, in spite of all such facilities, a division has to be good in the first place, if it is going to get good publicity. The 9th is good. It performed Mee 2 beautiful machine in the -Cherbourg campaign. previous battle experience paid off. Not only in or vidual fighting but in the perfect way the whole

organization clicked, As 1 have tried to tell before,

Your average doughfoot will go through his normal

. war depends a great deal’ more on organization than

most people would ever dream. The 9th did something in this campaign that we haven't always done in the past. It kept tenaciousiy on the enemy’s neck. When the Germans would withdraw a little the 9th was right on top of ‘them. It, never gave them a chance to reassemble or get their balance.

Division Headquarters Plenty Hot

USUALLY a division headquarters is a fairly safe place. But with the 9th it was different. Something was always happening. One night I was sitting in a tent with Capt. Lindsey Nelson, of Knoxville, when there was a loud explosion, then a shrill whine through the treetops over our heads. But we didn’t jump, or hit the dirt. Instead I said. “I know what that is. That's'the rotating band off one of our shells, ‘As an old artilleryman I've heard lots of rotating bands. Sometimes they sound like a dog howling. There's nothing to be afraid of.” “Sure,” said Capt. Nelson, “thats what is was, a

rotating band.”

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ness, the need for the work of nels ands ana sings hus slipped generation. :

But our harmless rotating band, we found a few minutes later, was a jagged, red-hot, foot-square fragment of steel from a 240-mm. German shell which had. landed a hundred yards away from us. It's wonderty] to be a Wise: guy. - v

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

other than Don Stiver, our state police superintendent. He had stopped to leave some dry cleaning and tarried to talk about his son who is a crew member on one of the B-29s, the planes that have been bombing Japan. . . . Lt. Harry Harlan Jr. is home on leave. He was in on the Saipan invasion as skipper of a minesweeper. . . . One of our agents picked up several 8 or 9-year-old youngsters on 38th st. near Arlington yesterday afternoon and gave them a lift to Sherman dr. The boys said they had been caddying all morning at Pleasant Run golf course. “How much did you make?” they were asked. Two said

they had made 70 cents each. The third, a freckle- 5

faced lad named Richard Land, said he had made only a dime. “S'matter? No customers?” “Oh, I had a customer, all right,” the boy explained. “He drove balls all morning, about four hours, and I chased them for him. And then when it was time to pay me, he pulled a $20 bill on me and asked if I could change it. When I couldn't, he found a dime pr gave me that. The old skinflint!” , . . Harvey 1, the attorney, is quite an expert on squash poy or so he says. “On the bus going home the other evening, he and Donald Morris of the Fletcher Trust got to talking about gardens, and Mr. Morris said he was having squash trouble. Mr. Grabill told him all about the plant and said he'd be over in a day or two to look over the situation with an expert's eye.

How to Hang the Flag

ONE OF OUR readers writes: “Please settle an argument. Should our flag be hung with stars to east and north, or stars to west and south.. Please print it so everyone will see. I hope Hitler doesn't

find out we Americans don't know the way to hang

our flag.” The flag” code adopted by congress provides that: “When the flag is displayed over the middle of the street, it should be suspended vertically with the union to the north in an east and west street, or to the east in a north and south street.”

The law also.provides that when the flag is displayed

other than from a staff, it should be displayed flat,

indoors or out. Against a wall, the union should be

to the observer's left. In a window, the union should

be to the left of the observer in the street. The American Legion’s national Americanism commission

has copies of the entire flag code.

By Peter Edson

affection. Candidates have to learn to take it and pity the poor politician who can’t.

Being on the receiving end of personal ‘digs is nothing new to Dewey. He had to take.the same stuff when he aspired to the presidential nomination four years ago, and when he ran for governor of New York two years ago. If they hurt him, he has never winced. He has had the mustache since 1923, and if his wife likes him that way, there's no reason why he should change. There is nothing more to be done now about his height, physically, though he is as tall as other men in public life, including Sam Rayburn, Joe Martin, Coolidge, Stalin, Chiang

Kai-shek,

Keep It Clean

THERE IS, however, the tendency on the part of many voters to choose their candidates purely on a personal appearance basis, to indulge in personalities in criticizing a candidate when logic and good reason fail, to hurl an insult for lack of a sound argument. Dewey can overcome much of this personal abuse He has He looks healthy, and that, coupled with his youth, is an asset since he has unquestionably grown in mental stature—which is what really counts —in the last four years. He hasn't a thing to be ashamed of, nothing to hide or try to explain away

merely by showing himself to more people. a good build.

or apologize for.

But there is a more potent reason than any of these for keeping this campaign free from personal abuse. For the last 12 years, by common consent of partisans and opponents alike, there has been no reference to the personal affliction of Franklin D. He has taken :plenty of abuse on his But the things about him which were his greatest handicaps and beyond his control” have been scrupulously kept out of .the

Roosevelt. ideas, his policies, his deeds.

argument.

That's why this campaign should be kept clean and the criticism of Dewey based where it belongs—

on his governmental doctrines and theories alone.

By Eleanor Roosevelt,

upon people as people, and not as belonging to any one race, and therefore having a number of typical

racial attributes.

‘In every race, the members of one family differ as widely as it is possible for human beings to differ, and our whole approach to human beings must be on the basis of what each individual has to offer and

‘what particular problems within himself eac) has to fight. Circumstances may have fo attitudes on different races, but those are nd attributes of the races.

I want to go back to the questiongof the older a family, the widow whose children-feel t she will be less lonely if she lives in a home|

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SECOND SECTION

20 HOURS DAY'S FOR LST

Crew Never Grumbles But ‘Strike News on Radio Brings Disgust.

By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS + Seripps-Howard Foreign Editor ABOARD -AN LST OFF. NORMANDY, June 11.—Scene: The tiny washroom. In the middle of the floor on a stool sat a lieutenant (junior grade) with a towel around his neck. Another J.G. was cutting

littered the tiles.

to say you fellows have to cut each other's hair? Haven't you a barber on board?” “Sure, there's a barber,” said the scissors-wielding JG., “but he’s busy helping with the ship's stores.” “Well, why don’t you wait until you get back to port?” I asked. “You'll be back in Britain tomorrow night.” Break Out Laughing

The two J.G.’s broke out laughing. “You mean we'll be back in a port, period,” said. one, “but that doesn’t mean we'll get ashore. All we'll do is grab a new load for a fast turnaround and hurry right back to France. None of us has had leave since D-day.” He was not complaining, I've talked with dozens aboard this ship and others like it and I've yet to hear a grumble out of any of them. They are all youngsters. The skipper, Irving C. Noyes of Colebrook, N. H, is 27. He trained at Solomons island near Washington, D. C,, and now he is behaving like a veteran. I asked him what kind of hours he kept. He looked up almost tartled.

"Work 20 of 24 Hours

“Hours?” he repeated. Then he smiled, “Oh, you mean hours of work. Well since D-day I'd say about 20 out of 24. I haven't had my clothes off in about a week.” ‘As Gen. Montgomery put it, we were hanging on the beaches by our eyelids. That meant that everything that could float had to shuttle across the channel carrying tanks, trucks, guns, ammunition, men, food, ambulances, medicine, and even water. Nobody has had time for sleep. You snatch a wink when and where you would. Besides their work—which literally never ends these days—the sailors, in port or out, must deal with enemy air raids, surface or submarine attacks, mines and other dangers. They must be ready to respond to distress signals from other ships.

Constant - Vigilance

In fact only by ceaseless work and constant vigilance can disaster be avoided either for themselves or for jour forces to whom they feed supplies ashore. “I see a lot-in the papers about most everybody else,” remarked Arthur Beal of Philadelphia, the LST's stérekeeper. “Why doesn't somebody give the LST's a break?” "And he is right. Not only is the LST one of the three or four great inventions of the. war, but their crews are doing as much for victory as the air force, tanks, battleships, infantry, or any other branch of the service. They really have net had their share of glory.

of unloading, alerts and trouble, the radio in the mess was turned on for the news from home. The first item that came over had to do with a strike, the announcer said, over whether the workers should wear ties. You should have seen the expressions on the faces of those sailors,

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LAWN FESTIVAL SET

The Warren Township Republican club will hold a lawn festival at the home of Mr. and Mrs. B. L. Curry, 6797 E. 10th st, at 8 p. m. tomorrow. , Lloyd D. Claycombe, G. O. P. circuit judge nominee, ‘will speak. Samuel Rumford is pro-

ON BEACHHEAD

his hair. Great tufts of black locks 8

“What goes on?” I laughed. “Mean |

TUESDAY, JULY 11, 1944

ONE KILLED IN COUNTY CRASH

Motorcycle and Truck Hit On Northwestern and Eugene.

Marion county's 1944 traffic death

this time a year ago, with the death last night of Clyde Meyers, 32, of Crawfordsville. He was killed instantly when the motorcycle on which he was riding and a truck collided at Northwestern ave. and Eugene st. Mr. Meyers was riding on the rear seat of the motorcycle being driven by Lewis Brown, 28, of 3029 Northwestern Ave. The truck was driven by Charles R. Spurgeon, 35, of 940 W. 31st st. ‘Brown, who was injured but not seriously, was charged with reckless driving. Papers on Mr. Meyers’ body showed he had served as sergeant in the army at Ft. Benning, Ga. before his discharge. His relatives live in Crawfordsville. -

‘BAN SHORTS ON STREETS

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{| LOND BEACH, N. J., July 11 (U. P.).—Public Safety Commissioner Frank A. Brazo, brushing off an old ordinance forbidding citizens to appear on the streets in shorts, bathrobes or bathing suits, commented: “We are tired of seeing 200-pound,

make themselves pinup girls by pa-

French peasants bear their injuries with little sign of emotion. Woolf, NEA artist-correspondent, sketches a scene in liberated France.

toll went to 68, compared to 46!

'Clest la Guerre, Peasants Again Say Amid Ruins

“C'est

Disregard

‘By 8. J. WOOLF NEA Staff Writer WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY {JN FRANCE, July 11.—From untouched Bayeux to Cherbourg, where most of the buildings are intact but glassless, the panorama of war unfolds itself. Along the road scores of villages bear testimony to the terrific pounding which they have suffered. Valognes and Montebourg are scarcely more than a mass of rubble. Isigny is but little better. The streets of Bayeux are crowded with British soldiers, for here their line begins. The shops are doing a& thriving business and at cocktail hour one can sit in a large cafe and sip calvados or .cognae. The majestic cathedral which dominates the city is unscarred and| war seems far away, were it ‘not for the distant boom of guns.

Roads Are Jammed

Hail Americans With Stoic

‘thappier times. ashamed to look at them, but Ii.

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NEAR MILLION

15 ASKED FOR LOCAL PARKS

City Councilmen Receive - Request as Protection

Of Investment.

By SHERLEY UHL Fate of a vast $957,860 park reno-

# vation and expansion program for

1945, designed to rehabilitate In-

é' dianapolis’ deteriorating public park

system, was in the hands of city council today. Prudent Park Superintendent Paul V. Brown broke the news of his'ambitious and revolutionary proposal

‘gently to dollar-wise councilmen :| yesterday at a cocktail party in the

Columbia club. But his unexpected

| request for almost a million dollars

in spending money next year ob-

;| viously staggered the city fathers

™ | despite the prevailing atmosphere of

la I they say, sadly. S. J.

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of Own Losses

These peasants are a stoical lot. They- bear the injuries they have suffered with but little sign of emo-| tion. True, -gne sees an old woman looking up longingly at what was! once her home, and one meets old men pushing wheelbarrows filled with all that is left of their belongings. + Cottage a Shambles I took shelter in one little cottage behind which was a new-made! grave. A shell had turned the place’ into a shambles. Some of the china remained unbroken and a statue of the Virgin stood tnmarred. But over the floor weré scattered the contents of

ings, keepsakes and souveniers of I was almost

wrecked bureaus ‘and cupboards.! ‘There were little personal belong-/ flood plains.

| administration camaraderie

‘Opening Wedge’

Described as the “opening wedge” {in a five-year plan to remodel physical properties and ‘“professionalize” the department's administration, the proposed budget program demands roughly $400,000 fore than was al-

| lotted for operation of the park sys-

tem in 1944. Superintendent Brown said a projected increase in personnel serve ices next year would require $317,170 additional. Approximately half | of this sum would be applied to- | ward salaries of newly-created jobs, while a third would consti|tute pay raises for present recrea{tional and maintenance positions. { The cost of recreational supervision alone next year is expected to jump from $62,407 to $118,500, Approval of his unprecedented budgetary request would, promisey Mr. Brown, provide a foundatiog upon which a monumental park system, rivalling any in the mid-west, might eventually be constructed. He said he envisioned, in the not too distant future, a “very noticeable” expansion of playgrounds, picnic grounds along streams and parkways, swimming pools and bathing beaches, open-air theaters, neighborhood centers and “green val= leys recaptured from our present

‘Deplorable State’

The roads from Bayeux to Cher-| bourg are jammed with trucks, tanks, guns and jeeps. Time and again a bridge is blown up, but this, does not halt progress. For engi-| ‘neers stand ready for just this emergency.

graph and telephone wires. MP's direct traffic. A two-star general dashes by in his car. Soldiers on|

Signal men are hanging new tele-|

could not help seeing a photograph P! of a bridal party evidently taken years ago. | Yet these are the same people who stand and smile and raise their, hands as they give the victory 'salute when the American soldiers drive by. The children chatter and play and also make a V with their little fingers and then quickly beg for candy or gum. | When I asked one of the men in

fat, 40-year-old mammas trying to

motorcycles weave their way in and a shattered town: who had done the out. Now and again a horse-drawn damage, he explained that the shells truck or dog cart driven by a Nor- came from our ships and German mandy peasant crawls along in/guns. Then with a sad smile on his startling contrast to the speed of|lips, he said what I so often heard

Last night after a gruelling day |

rading in shorts and sarong outfits.” {mechanized warfare. tbefore, ‘C'est la guerre.”

Men Were the Most Panicky in Circus Fire, Says Candy Butcher With Ringling Bros.

By MILDRED REIMER When the. big top burst into flames in Hartford, Conn. last Pri{day, A. W. Starkey, local candy

grabbed a child before they left the; “This is my birthday party,” she flaming tent.” said as the tent burned. The circus veteran, who has been Elephants Saved {in the busirfess 22 "years, became -In a minute's time, the candy ill after the tent dropped. butcher, helped throw bodies from|putchers cut the side wall from the| “I was darn near caught,” he the grandstand before the Ringling pig top so that the animals oe “It wasn't my time, : havs all Bros. tent collapsed. I never want to see any g e “I've been in show business for a be saved, and a crew of five or siz} again.” long time” he said, “but I never| men drove the elephants from the" Mr. Starkey, whose sister-in-law, have seen anything like this. I went through enough in two hours to last for years. It was pitiful.” Mr. Starkey, whose popcorn stand was located only 50 feet from the big top, saw the flames creeping from the roof.: The top dropped in 10 minutes. - . “The people ran toward the animal cages instead of away from them,” he explained, “and dead bodies were piled thick against the cages. The men are the ones who got panicky. - They would run to

than five minutes. | Parker ave. said the circus has

If the fire had started five min-| + of th utes ‘later. Mr. Starkey said, the Dad Pad luck from the start of the

horse act would have been on. As| it was, the candy butcher explained, Accidents Recalled the last of the lion act was on and| “In Madison Square Garden,” he the woman lion tamer got the recalled, “a-girl missed her cue and animals into their cages and safely | fell from the trapeze, hurting herout of the tent. The animals 'self badly. In Boston a kid hopped jumped to the top of their cages, lon the wagon tongue and was killed. roaring and howling, but the en-| The same thing happened in Worclosures were strong enough to hold {cester, Mass. In Connecticut we them. had to go nearly 119 miles to get

gram chairman.

save their own lives but the yomen| “The boy in the hot dog stand|19 miles because of railroad trans-

Up Front With Mauldin

picked up a 60-year-old woman who portation tie-ups. Then came this, refused to jump from the grand-|the worst of all.” stand,” Mr. Starkey added, “and| Mr. Starkey, however, has hopes threw her over his stand. It was of opening with the show again in

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better to have a broken arm or leg | Chicago arcund Aug. 15 provided than burn to death.” the government gives Ringling Bros. Clowns Give Aid permission for a fireproof tent. * From now until the show is ready The -clowns carried screaming to go on, he intends to keep on persons from the tent. the job, either at a ball park or on One 6-year-old girl was crying.

| CIVIL WAR VETERAN Fon secs STIG DIES IN TERRE HAUTE

U. S.-RUSSIA TIES TERRE HAUTE, Ind., July 11 (U.

By UNITED PRESS The alliance between the United P.).~James Hutchison Sr. 98, last Civil war veteran in Vigo county,

States and Russia, “forged in great battles,” will last and grow, Presidied yesterday at the home of his dent Roosevelt told President M. I. : daughter, Mrs.-Minnie Fox. Hutchison, a native of Scotland,

Kalinin of the Soviet Union in a who was with General Sherman on his famous march to the:sea, was | {one of the last 10 known Civil war| veterans in Indiana. D..He lived in Clay county much of his life and was a coal miner near | Brazil,

The Tass wireless dispatch, recorded by the FCC, quoted President Roosevelt as saying: “I fully share your confidence that the combined efforts of our nations, which are at present achieving such encouraging victories on all fronts, will lead to the final and complete defeat of our common enemy.”

Hutchison lived. in Kentucky when ‘the Civil war broke out. He had had military training and was of{fered a captaincy by the confederates. "Bitterly opposed to slavery, | he escaped té Indiana and later enlisted in the Union army,

CLUB MEETS TONIGHT

CHINESE RETAKE YUNGFENG ; CHUNGKING, July 11 (U. P)—

fire and staked them down in less Mrs. Frieda Mills, lives at 2008 a

message answering congratulations]

sent him on Independence day, the Soviet news agency Tass said today. !

The Woman's Democratic Har-|

plant is in a deplorable state,” he { declared. “Investments already made — estimated at as much as $1,000,000 — are in jeopardy be- | cause of past failures to maintain and rehabilitate its facilities, Mayor Tyndall informed skeptical and hesitant councilmen, now embroiled in budget investigations, that he had examined Mr. Brown's recommendations and found them “thoroughly justifi “It's a matter of retaining our capital investment or losing it,” said the mayor. “The decision is yours to make.” Despite assurances that the budget contained “no padding,” Tax~ payer Representative Roger Benjamin said he doubted whether much of the money, even if appropriated, will be”spent, because of “current difficulty in obtaining adequate materials and labor.”

7 Cents on Rate

He also pointed out that the additional appropriation would add T cents to the civil city tax rate, if approved. Park board members, including Paul Rathert, Mrs. Ralph Showalter, Joseph Bloch and Lee McNamara, voiced support of Mr. Brown's financial blueprint. A post meeting council consensus revealed, however, that few members considered the board's proposal exorbitant, with the likelihood that a compromise on the final allotment will be forthcoming. Because Superintendent Brown, more than any other department

tional affiliations and commitments, his standing with politics1minded counclimen who hold the purse-strings is none too favorable. Administration politicos have accused him of converting the park system into a “brain trust,” a charge growing out of his employment of several ex-associates of the National Park Service.

LUMBERMEN TO BE IMPORTED ATLANTA, Ga., July 11 (U. P.).— The regional war manpower commission announced today that approximately 1000 experienced lumbermen from British Honduras will be imported for a 90-day period to relieve an acute manpower shortage in the lumber and pulpwood industries in Georgia, Florida and Mississippi.

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“Our existing park and recreation .

head, has generally ignored fac-