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SOMEWHERE IN NORMANDY (By Wireless) — An ordnance tank repair company gets some freakish The other day the company I was with had a tank . destroyer roll in, There was nothing whatever wrong ; with it except—the end of the gun y barrel was corked tight with 2% feet of wood. What happened was they had been running along a hedgerow and as the turret operator swung his gun in a forward arc, they ran the end of the barrel smack into a hig tree. . You would think the vehicle had to be going 100 miles an hour to plug the end of the barrel for 2% feet simply by running into . a tree. But it doesn’t. This on was going only 20 miles an hour. - . ‘It took the ordnance boys four hours to dig the wood out with chisels and resmers.. The inside of the barrel wasn't hurt a bit and it went right back inio action. A 3-inch anti-tank gun was brought in with a hole in the barrel about six inches back from the muzzle. The hole came from the inside! What happened was this: “A German bazooka gunner fired a rocket at the anti-tank gun. It made one of those freakish hole-in-one hits—went right smack into the muzzle of the big gun. About six inches inside it went off and burned its way clear through the barrel. Ncbody got hurt, but the barrel was unrepairable, and was sent back to England for salvage.
Shells Come Out at Same Place
A TANK was brought in that had been hit twice on the same side within a few seconds. The entrance holes were about two feet apart. But on the opposite side of the tank where the shells came out, there was only one hole. The angle of fire had been such that the second shell went right through the hole made by the first one. In another case an 88 shell struck the thick steel #pron that shields the breech of one of a tank's guns. The shell didn't go through. It hit at an angle and just scooped But a big chunk of steel about & foot long and six inches wide,
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LEE SLINKARD, The Times’ retail advertising manager, is about to realize the dream of newspapermen. He has resigned and leaves tomorrow to run his own newspaper. He has purchased the Camas PostRecord, a weekly at Camas, Wash. Camas is a town of a little more than 5000, on the Columbia river about 30 miles east of Portland. Lee has been with The Times the last nine years, coming . here from Evansville. © Good luck, Lee, ,.. Clarence Sloo, operator of an E. 10th st. trackiess trolley, performed a “boy scout” deed yesterday. When he stopped at 10th and Bosart to take on a passenger or two, he noticed a large moving van, a tractor-trailer, ’ parked at the curb, and which .had_ started rolling backward down the slight grade at that point. The back wheels climbed over the curb, narrow]y missing a utility pole. As the truck was starting to buckle. threatening to tip over, the trolley operator dashed to the rescue and jumped in the cab of the tractor, setting the brakes. . Then. he got back on his trolley. snd went about his business. , . . Mary H. Nixon and Christine Bowden, an up and coming home town team of song writers, authored a song that was introduced over WLW and the Blue network last Sate urday. It's titled: “Sycamore Lane.” .
A New Volunteer?
SOME VOLUNTEER civilian defense workers receive additional gasoline allowance because of the nature ‘of their work. And it's the duty of Mrs. Chauncey H. Eno II, director of women's activities for the county civilian defense organization, to review the list of applicants, A list was sent to Ration Board 1 the other day. A short time later, Ruth Stedfeld, secretary to the chief clerk, phoned Mrs. Eno. “Who,” asked Mrs. Stedfeld, “is Mary Allan Cochaman?” Mrs. Eno didn't know. “You passed on her, didn't you,” persisted Mrs. Stedfeld. Mrs. Eno
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Dewey Technique By Thomas L. Stokes
WITH GOVERNOR DEWEY PARTY, Aug. 2.— Governor Thomas E. Dewey has contrived an interesting campaign technique to meet the war emphasis of the Demoerais. He is trying it
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out on his current midwestern trip which brings him to St. Louis today for a conference with the 25 other Republican governors, after his stop at Springfield, IL To counteract the war psychology being exploited by the Democrats, symbolized by President Roosevelt's assumption of the commander-in-chief role, Govenor Dewey points out that the job of the next President, which does not begin until next Jan. 20, will be largely a peacetime job. This argument is given added effect by the victorious push of the American forces in the Pacific and in France, and by the surge of the Russians toward Germany,
‘Gratifying Progress’
WE ARE making “gratifying progress” in the fighting, he says, to point this up. Then he mentions the big job after the war, which is to provide employment for everybody. Not enough attention, he holds, is being given to this, to the overhanging task of reconverting war industry to peace industry. He did not mention it, but the recent flurry of activity in Washington to hurry through needed legislation for reconversion would indicate that the administration feels the same way. Pittsburgh, where the smoke of war industry almost shuts out the sun, offered Governor Dewey an opportunity to talk about reconversion. People toilIng in that area, which has known the gnawing pinch of depression, could appreciate his statement that “it
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HYDE PARK, Tuesday.—I think sometimes we are prone to forget, in the excitement of watching the fighting fronts, that much of great importance to the future is being done in other theaters of war.
Men are going through and have been-going- through great hardships, sometimes just to protect an area whose fall into enemy hands otherwise would make our positions hazardous. This is true, of late, in the whole Caribbean area, and in Greenland, Iceland and Newfoundland. Sometimes they are not only protecting an area, after having fought hard to acquire it, but also are doing development work which is important from the transporta- * tion standpoint during the war, ; and may be important to our economic development in the future. In this category I think we can put the Aleutians and Alaska. ~ Semesona2 kindly sent me a letter, written by a boy long agn, when the Alcan highway was being difficulties which the civilian workers and encountered were not merely diffiulties
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Yet they can't afford to take that chance, so the weakened armor had to be made strong again. They took acetylene torches and cut out a plug around the weakened part with slanting sides the same as you'd plug a watermelon. Then they fashioned a steel plate the same size. and shape as the hole, and welded it in. we The result is that the plug fits into the hole like
drive it in, It’s really stronger now than it used to be. One of the most surprising things I ran onto touring around scores of outdoor ordnance shops in Normandy was a mobile tire repair unit, There .already are half a dozen of these units here and more coming up. They fix anything from motorcycle to truck tires. They don’t bother with ordinary holes such as nail holes. Practically all their work is on tires damaged by shrapnel or bullets. Each repair outfit consists of one officer and 15 men. They've been especially trained and their leaders usually were tire men back in civil life,
Reach Shop on Portable Staircase
THEY MOVE in three trucks. When they set up, the three are backed to each other to form a T, thus making a shop with three wings. ~ You get up to it on a portable staircase. Outside on the ground tires are stacked all around. One set of soldiers works all day with knives carving out the rubber around the damaged places. Then they take the tire inside, and a machine rough ens the edges of the holes so the filling will stick. Then they mould in fresh rubber and put the tire in one of three baking machines. It's hotter than blazes in there. It takes an hour and 45 minutes to bake each paich =o you see they can't turn them out very fast. , They'll repair a tire that has up to six holes, but if it has more than that they send it back to England. A six-hole tire takes 10% hours of baking. One unit can run off a maximum of about 65 tires daily. . The unit T saw was set up in a former orchard and was so thoroughly camouflaged with nets that you could hardly see it. The officer in charge was Lt. George Schuchardt who has “the Hawkinson tread service” in Nashville, Tenn. - His partner is running it while he’s away, His. first sergeant is Stephen Hudak of Akron, of all places. He used to work for Firestone. I've been
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thought real hard, then had a brilliant idea: “Say, I bet that's Mary Allan, the co-chairman.” That's who it was, Just a typing error. . . . We just heard of the unfortunate situation in which John Ferree, chair-
man of Draft Board 6, found himself recently. It was |
a hot night, and Mr. Ferree was comfortably attired in shorts only when he got in the.car to take a drive with Mrs. Ferree. When they got downtown—on Meridian st. near the phone company building where he works—something went wrong with the car. It just wouldn't start. Mr. Ferree sat in the car quite a while, trying to dream up a way out of the embarrassing situation. Finally, he gave up and, blushing at the amused stares of passersby, went to a drugstore and phoned a friend to come after him. Quit that snickering, you Board 6 inductees!
Time to Get Busy
IF YOU HAVE a friend or relative in the armed forces and you intend sending him or her one of those official war ’ballot applications, you'd better get busy. Time's getting short. For some points in the far Pacific, and even England, there's barely time to complete two round trips—one for the application and the other for the ballot. The applications are obtainable at the secretary of state's office in the statehouse, or at state Republican or Democratic headquarters in the Claypool. However, the service man can obtain a ballot without a formal application. All he has to do is to write the secretary of state asking for a ballot, giving his name and present address, listing his home town voting address, and having the letter certified by a sergeant or a commissioned officer, . . . Arch Grossman tells us the Red Cross appeal for a couple of popcorn machines | for Billings hospital at. Pt. Harrison brought one very | nice machine. It was loaned by Marko Milatovich, 3501 W, 16th.. They still need another for the wounded vets. . . , Lt. Col. Harold (Hap) Meek, Butler football player (end) back in the ‘twenties, was in town the other day on business for the marine corps. He | received a paper instructing him to_designate some- | one to come to Indianapolis on business. On the paper he wrote his own name. .
may not be ‘long before the most vital thing that faces every American is his opportunity to work, either for himself or for someone else.” The Dewey campaign technique revealed on this trip seems aimed at blocking off the Democratic war emphasis so as to open up for discussion the field of domestic economy and maragement on which the Roosevelt administration is admittedly vulnerable,
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Whatever the final official version—of the bomb assault against the fuehrer, whether or not he can prove that a clique of high-ranking
officers was involved in a plot to kill him, one thing is certain: the military leaders of Germany have for a long time been opposed: to Hitler, and Hitler has known all along of this opposition. This opposi-
January 29, 1933, Hindenburg, president of the German republic, was consulting with a few party leaders of the extreme right to determine 3® whether or not ¥ he should appoint Adolf Hit- ~ ler, leader of the , strongest party - in the reichstag, as German chancellor. Into this meeting, like a bombshell, fell the news that Gen. Kurt von Schleicher, army minister and at that time chancellor, had mobilized a number of regiments in Potsdam and was about to march on Berlin. It was an attempt to prevent Hitler's appointment, and it was said that a considerable number of generals were on the side of Schleicher,
March Frustrated Hindenburg acted fast. Within a few hours he not only appointed Hitler chancellor, but saw to it that Gen. von Blomberg, a friend of the —~fuehrer, became “army minister. Blomberg, in turn, immediately swore in a number
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of high-ranking officers. Thus Schleicher’'s march against Berlin was frustrated. Hitler became chancellor of Germany, and the first collision between him and the army had been successfully avoided. For more than a year the Nazis were drunk with triumph, In particular Hitler's storm troopers, the 8. A. acted as though the country belonged to them. The leader of the S. A., Capt. Roehm, hoped that eventually his men would be incorporated into the army, with himself in a key post. Army leaders were definitely opposed to this, considering the storm troopers gangsters. There was friction between these irregular troops and army units. No Monocles Wanted The army leaders were particularly angry when the chief of the Berlin S. 8. Kar] Ernst, told them that if the army wished to inspect the 8S. A, they should send an officer who did not wear a monocle. This was an intentional slap in the army’s face. Most of the high-ranking officers, among them the commander = in - chief, Gen. von Fritsch, wore monocles.
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Curt Reiss forecast the present upheaval in Germany two
“The Self-Betrayed: Glory and
| Doom of the German Geaecals.” Ha - fogmarly. adifed aun ofl. -Beriin's-leading ‘dailies, and has written {5 books and hundreds | of articles on Nazi- Germany,-all of them carefully documented | by first-hand evidence that he and his well-trained research staff In three revealing and dramatic articles, of which this is the first, he presents the truth
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Finally, the army demanded a showdown. Gen. Ludwig Beck, chief of the general staff and ine tellectual leader of the generals’ clique, demanded that the S. A. disappear and its most prominent officers be thrown out. At that time —it was in the spring of 1934 — Hitler was still dependent on the good graces of the army. He had to give in. The result was the famous blood purge of June 30, 1934, in which Roehm and a large number of other 8, A. officers were killed.
Double Cross Generals
But though Hitler had to accommodate the generals, he was able to double cross them in part and also revenge himself. For among those killed during the blood purge were Gen. von Schleicher, his old enemy, and Gen, von Bredow, chief of the army intelligence for his opposition to the Nazis. Still, for almost four years following the blood purge, the army controlled Hitler almost completely. There was some friction.
Gen. von Rundstedt once, in May 1935, was about to lead a revolt against Hitler, but at the last minute thought better of it and had his co-conspirators arrested. Gen. Beck was radically opposed to Hitler's invasion of the militarized Rhineland because he figured that, if the French marched, the German army could not possibly defend itself. But Hit-
ler believed that the French would not march, and he completed his Rhineland plans successfully.
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The only one he didn't want was his commander ~ in - chiéf, von ‘Fritsch. The one he wanted back most, but had most difficulty in Rading. to. return. war.
“Beek, chief ‘of the general staf ~The chief of -the.general staff - + retiréd; a “second time; this. time™ for good, after the Munich conference. Beck knew that Hitler - would not keep the pact of Mun- .. ich; that he’ would take Prague; would demand Polish territory, and that sooner or later a world war would be the consequence of the fuehrer's ever-increasing demands. Beck, who had done more to
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Generals- Walk Out
The next decisive clash between Hitler and the army did not occur until February 1938. Then
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fuehrer. There were many issues at stake at this time, Gen. von Blomberg, Hitler's army minister, had married a girl almost 40 years his junior, and far ‘below his social station. The generals felt that they could not work with a man who had thus betrayed his caste. They also wanted assurances from Hitler that he would no longer mix in army affairs. Further, they wanted the luftwaffe, which Goering had built up as a unit completely controlled by the party, to be incorporated in the armed forces, under the control of the general staff.
Hitler Refuses
Hitler refused all these demands. He had to let von Blomberg, go, but used this to tighten his control of the army. He had no idea of letting the luftwaffe fall under the influence of the generals, He called their bluff, and when they walked out, let them go. He knew that if he called them back, they would come.
Hitler was right. They came.
by Hitler, knew that the German army could not be victorious in a long-drawn-out war of attrition. At first events seemed to prove that Hitler was right and Beck wrong. The German army overran half a dozen countries. On July 19, 1940, after the successful French campaign, Hitler made his leading generals field marshals, covering them with decorations— and it looked as though the peace between him and these generals would be a final one.
Russia Grew Stronger
But it only looked that way, Hardly 15 months later, on October 15, 1941, the leading German generals knew that they could not win the war, They knew it that early because the time-table of the Russian conquest had not been kept. The Russian army, far from being crushed, became stronger day by day. England's strength, too, was increasing and it was only a question of time until America entered the war, Something must be done, the generals decided. The conspiracy against Hitler was on.
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home from combat areas.
IT IS obvious, from Mr. Dewey's numerous conferences here with various groups, that Republicans |
will try to make a virtual crusade out of the C. I. Os
drive for political power within the framework of | the Democratic party. Governor Dewey drew a rather frightening picture of this political movement in a closed session with a hundred business and financial leaders representing steel, coal, aluminum, electrical equipment and banks. According to one man who was present, the Republican candidate pictured the C. I. O. as planning to take over war plants after the war and gaining thereby such control that President Roosevelt, if reelected, would be virtually their servant. man, at least, was horrified. The governor also held up the specter of increasing debt under continued New Deal management, with a consequent increase in taxes. How far the Republicans still have to go in trying to wean away labor votes from the administration was indicated by the caliber of the labor representatives who were gathered to meet: the governor in his general labor conference, They were mostly &malier fry,
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service overseas. here are selected by the command-| ing general in the theater of opera- | tions, Secretary Stimson wrote: { “I “might observe, however, that! there is no set period of duty oni foreign service before a soldier may be returned to the United States, the governing criterion being mili-| tary requirements, the nature of the| soldier's duties end similar factors, which are entirely local in char-' acter. More Shipping Space
“It may be helpful to explain the procedures involved in the return of soldiers from overseas. As vou know, the war department has never questioned the desirability of returning men to the United States! who have served overseas for long! periods. The fact is, the matter has been under constant study since
largely A. P. of L., with only three or four minor C. I.| O. representatives. Governor Dewey held a separate | meeting with representatives of the United Mine Workers, John L. Lewis’ union which is a powerful! political factor in Pennsylvania.
the war began. | “Until recently, however, the lack of shipping space has been an in-| surmountable obstacle, but the, shortage is now partially remedied | and has permitted the liberalization | of our rotation policies.
By Eleanor Roosevelt
ing experiences. The men must have felt, in addition, that they would get little. or no glory for all the hardships and dangers which they went through. We should be, as a nation, deeply grateful to these men, and so I am going to give you a few excerpts really remarkable letter. . +.. Leaving Washington, Dec. 11, 1942, and traveling via train through the good old United States and part of Canada and then by government freight trucks over the highway, I arrived here the day before Christmas. = 2 ly “As ‘time’ goes on, however, one gets used to ihe many changes from civilian to army life and grows accustomed to it. My days are completely full from morning until night. , . . I really feel that have been fortunate in experiencing the trip over the new Alaskan highway while it is yet in its primitive stages. pi : se “The road is broken through extending from the United States-intas Alaska, and transportation over
in their commands for return to the United States. . In Preferred Status : “Among the soldiers now being returned are battle-trained officers and enlisted men to act as instructors and aid in the formulation of new training doctrines and techniques; those who require medical attention unavailable overseas, or whose physical condition warrant their return; and those returned for emergency reasons. “We also are implementing personnel rotation policies for most overseas areas and .plan to extend
the route is now moving; however, the fact remains that” the road is yet to be jmproved, revised and advanced to an extent beyond our own thoughts. _ “Canadians and Americans lfivé worked together, lived together and borne -the same hardships side by side. . . .:T sound likp a salesman trying to sell my
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and increase these rotations as rapidly as circumstances permit. However, it is impracticable, as well as incongruous from the military standpoint, to remove entire units
{life and property. “Units and individuals within |
each overseas theater are constantly rotated from combat duty to! rest areas and, subject to shipping certain specified periods of service limitations, theater commanders overseas would result only in the have authority to select individuals |
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War Front Troop Rotation Speedup Implied by Stimson
By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON. Aug. 2.—Secretary. of War Stimson yesterday spelled out the present war department plan for returning soldiers
The program was outlined in a letter to Rep. Louis Ludlow (D. Ind.), author of a bill to return all soldiers on furloughs after 18 months Pointing out that those soldiers who are returned
bean defense command with more than two years’ service in those parts, and certain numbers of those with over 18 months’ service in the North African theater, should normally be returned to the United States. . “Unfortunately so many factors must be considered in connection with returning able-bodied personnel from overseas and, at the same time, providing suitable replacements to continue the prosecution of the war, that it is virtually impossible to prescribe any fixed procedure applicable to all areas under all conditions.” Victory First Objective The policy will be liberalized as far as the fortunes of war, available shipping and other factors permit Secretary Stimson said, and concluded: -¥ “Our primary mission must continue to be the successful conclusion of the war as promptly as possible, with the least expenditure of Any fixed requirement which would affect the return of individuals or organizations to the United States after
absorption of our facilities and manpower in the movement of large numbers of troops without compensating increases in effective strength through the various theaters. .
“Moreover, the adverse effect of |
such a policy upon military strategy
and projected tactical operations|
would result in an inexcusable and expensive delay in the date of final victory.” \
PENSION PARTY PLANNED Indiana Old Age ‘Pension Plan group 3, will sponsor a card party at 8 p. m. tomorrow at the McKinley clubhouse, 2217 E. Michigan st.
_ 0. E. S. TO INITIATE Lawrence chapter, 384. O. E 8.
will hold a meeting and initiation:
RE-ELECTS FIELDS
Richard C. Fields has been -reelected commander of the Suits-!
Others named on the election
R. C. Bray. chaplain: R. E. Bray, historian and H. E. Lewis, sergeant-at-arms.
Also named committee chairmen
were: Paul Imel, Americanism: Lee McGinnis, boys state; C. H. ite, national defense; . Fields, publicity; Morris Chounning, world war II; Mr. Ward, athletics; Mr. Pointer, child welfare: Mr. Marley, Mr. McCracken, oratorical, and Mr. Hinshaw, laws of legion. Richard Fields, Mr. Pointer and Mr. Marley wil] be the post's delegates to the state convention this month,
STAMP CLUB TO MEET
The Indiana Stamp club will] meet at 7:45 p. m. Friday at the] Antlers hotel. |
slate are: Irs Hinshaw. 1st vice commander; R.|% M , 2d vice commander; LE
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Dillon post 193, American legion of bombardier-navigator on a B-24,|lost lieutenant soon and not to Monrovia, it was announced today. was missing ‘in action June 20 but | WOITY. an airman’s| “paradise” as an internee in a; country. “I've been snatched from the depths of hell he
The pilot had been on a bombing mission over Germany the same day Lt. Kollinger was reported missing. | He said that several of the planes on the mission crashed but he knew of at least three which made safe
| On the following day the Kol | lingers received a letter from the { war department telling them that their son was safe. “This is the most beautiful place I have ever seen,” Lt. Kollinger said in describing his new haven. “1 have a room all to myself with | maid service and a radio. “I have bought myself a bicycle and also plan to get a camera , .. | so far I have picked up a little of the language and customs . .. the only thing required of us is one‘ half hour per day of calisthenics. The rest of the time we do as we please.” Lt, Kollinger isn't alone in his internment for he wrote that his entire crew was with him and all had escaped injury.
‘PRICES TO RISE FOR | POTATOES, SPINACH
WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 (U. P.).— Housewives will pay more for potatoes and canned spinach as a result {of two orders issued yesterday by | the office of price administration. The higher potato price, which will amount to about one cent a pound increase during August for ‘potatoes produced in 16 states, was granted to compensate growers for
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