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WASHINGTON. Aug. 21 —Assignment of WPB ' Chairman Donald, Nelson to an economic mission to China led to speculation today as to his future—and the interpretation put on the announce-

Went of: that it meant “exile to Siberia.”

quent conflict with high administration officials ‘on policy matters. : President Roosevelt announced Saturday that Mr. Nelson would go to China with Maj Gen. Patrick J. Hurley—the WPB director to discuss economic matters with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, and Gen. Hurley to discuss military matters. The important sentence in Mr. Roosevelt's announcement, insofar as Mr, Nelson's future is concerned, was one saying, “They will be gone several months.”

Thought Only in Weeks

MR. NELSON, according to his friends, came away from a White House conference, at which the mission was discussed, believing he would be gone perhaps three weeks, including traveling time, Three weeks would not be a long absence—the WPB director could return and pick up where he had left off. But if, as Mr. Roosevelt's statement said, Mr. Nelson is to engage in months of conferences and study in Chungking, the WPB reins presumably would be firmly in the hands of Charles E.. Wilson, executive vice chairman, Some of Mr, Nelson's friends doubted that there could be anything in the assignment which would require several months absence. rein - Mr.-Nelson—and Mr. Wilson have held conflicting views on industrial reconversion, the WPB chairman. believing steps in. this direction “should be taken

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nusshaum

By JOHN W. HILLMAN Striking Qut for Nussbaum

WE WOULDN'T believe this if it had happened to anyone else than Ed Klinge, our staff artist, but Ed . got kicked by a merry-go-round pony at Riverside park the other night. Honest, it's true; Ed showed us the scar. niece, Charon Rose Wishey, up on. the critter when the merry-go-round started, and the pony let him have it, right on the shin. . . It's a good thing that meteorite or whatizzit which had the state all stirred up last Friday morning -didn’'t happen- along. the day we profiled Old Inside. . .-, We'd have thought "it was Nussbaum, Mrs. F. G. Moore, 3611 Graceland, has noticed. that Inside has obtained a number of items for service men, and she wonders if there's anyone who'd be willing to donate a table model victrola for the crew lounge of a new navy ship. . . . Her brother, Seaman 1-¢ Harold Saxton, mentioned that his outfit would like one; it's the only way they can have any music, as they can't use a radio while in combat areas. It has to be a table model becayse space « + « Seaman Saxton leaves for duty tomorrow morning—he’s already seen considerable action—so you'll have to act fast. Call WA. 6014, and the boys will sink a couple of Japs for you, just to show: their appreciation.*, , . William H. Meckling, boss man over at the G. C. Murphy Co. is hard to live with these days, He made a hole-in-one on the 12th at Hillcrest Wednesday afternoon,

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How Are Your Tomatoes?

ON BICYCLES-not-built-for-two, Don Nichols, 719 E. 36th st, and Richard Stout, 3750 Guilford ave. rode out to the Riviera club the other day. They had only one bicycle lock between them, so they hooked it through the large wire baskets of the two bikes. When they started home—no key. So like Siamese twins, they had to peda! home together, cheek-to-cheek. Why, boys, we didn't know you cared. . . . There seems to be an epidemic of 2-pound tomatoes. Walter Niman, 821 E. Maple road, has one, and Mrs. Marvin Loudon, 1803 Ellen drive in Speedway phoned and, having been properly sworn, deposes that her husband has one that. may pass the 2-pound mark by picking time, Sti wants 10 know if that is big for a

Robot Strategy

NEW YORK, Aug. 21—The strategy of the Amerfcan drive isolating the Breton peninsula Soe “was mifwed wt obtaininy additional “seaports to ace commodage the volume of American munitions. The Brquisition of Brest and St. Nazaire harbors provides direct delivery. from the United States tof the. continent, thus. bypassing: the bottleneck’ jin southern England and avoiding’ the robot menace. Of course the "Jobot can “be turned in that direction, too, but the target” area will be so wide as largely to nullify its effective- “ “Hess. In its present state of erratic directional control, the robot appears to: be most effective against an area such as southern ‘ England, where lack of land space Involves crowding of munition storage, and almost .every bomb stands a good chance of hitting something of value—a highway, railroad yard, harbor, airfields, or munition ‘storage.

Shortest Way Avound

PURSUING THIS thought, it is likely that, having surveyed the extensive preparations the Nazis made at Calais, covering the shortest over-water 6 jump across the channel, our wise high command has decided to work around {it the way the Germans went around the Maginot line,

My Day

HYDE PARK, Sundays Dive’ ‘been receiving a number of letters lately on the subject of the value of a year of military service for our boys after the war. From what I Yead in the papers and get in the mail, I think there is some. -gonfusion in people's minds.” Some are ‘thinking about the immediate situation in the year or two right after the close of hostilities, Others are thinking about a permanent program of training that will continue into the future. Let us take the first considera. ation. Thére will be, when war comes to an end, a good many . men in training who have never been overseas. At the same time, By there will be a need for a number of men to_act as a police force, or as occupation troops, in different parts of the world for varying ‘periods. The men who have been fighting, and who have lived in remote places for months or even years, are . going. to want to come Home quiesly, Lon. .a.V men who have never , of these young veterans,

DOSSID

n n to Ching.

s ‘mission by some informed officials was : Mr, Nelson has been in fres-

Some -WPB-efficials-placed “the estimate at closer to

He. was boosting his 3-year-old -

: Cah Expect Anything

"rid group asks only’ ‘that all young men be. trained

It might be been. Overseas to take: ke the places

5 a 58h of a2 important as they

By Charles T Lui

rapidly where ire was no interference with war output. =

Nelson Had. His Way

MR. WILSON, supported by a number of other WPB vice was understood to have opposed ‘moving into reconversion until a later time, and this view has been fostered also by heads of the armed forces. In the controvefsy, Mr, Nelson had. his way and:a reconversion mechanism was set up in four orders issued recently. ‘But before they could be put into effect, War Mobilization Director James F. Bymes tightened manpower controls which seemed likely to block Mr. Nelson's ‘program. Senator Truman (D. Mo.), who will be Mr. Roosevelt’s running mate in the November election, also comes into the controversy, as head of the senate defense investigating committe he has favored early steps toward reconversion.

Wilson Gets Support

SOME ADMINISTRATION officials have been credited with wishing to see Mr. Wilson, former president of the General Elcetric Co., in Mr. Nelson's job. As WPB chairman, Mr. Nelson has rated attendance at cabinet ‘meetings, but aside from these meetings there have been long periods when, although holding the government's top war production job, he ‘has not seen Mr. Roosevelt. The President, in announcing Mr, ‘Nelson’s mission to China, said that Mr. Wilson would act as WPB chairman in Mr. Nelson's absence. Emphasizing the importance of Mr. Wilson's assignment to step up war production in certain military categories, he met with- Mr, Roosevelt Saturday. Mr. Nelson, chief advocate of reconversion, is leaving Washington just as army officials are announcing that 100,000 fewer aircraft workers will be needed by Jan. 1 than had been anticipated.

300,000, but how fast. Mr. Nelson's carefully nurtured reconversion program would move seemed uncertain at WPB today.

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tomato. Sounds all right to us, but we wouldnt want/ to-commit "Old Inside. . . . On second thought, we're not even going to mention those two pounders, for fear Inside will be snowed under by giant tomatoes when he gets back. Just forget we ever brought it up. . . « Wonder if we have any scales at home. We raise tomatoes, too: .

SECOND SECTION

DEWEY URGES JOBS FOR ALL

Dole as - Solution for

Peace Time Problems. SYRACUSE, N. Y., Aug. 21 (U.

Republican presidential candidate, said today in a message to the annual convention of the state" federation of labor that the nation “is counting on the American labor movement and its leaders to make a major contribution” toward solving post-war employment in a new way—"“a way which provides not doles but jobs for all.” \ “We have real cause to hope that, if our efforts do not lag here at home, our fighting men abroad will

annual convention of the New York state federation of labor fo devote its concentrated attention to the complex problems of peace which will confront us,” he said. Dewey acknowledged that precedent required the appearance of the governor at the convention, but’ explained the pressure of business prevented his making the ip this

year.

+ Press of Obligations’

The governor, said Thomas Murray, the federation’s president,

obligations and responsibilities at

Speaking of gardens, the tillers of the soil at the’ corner of 38th and Guilford—Philip G. King, Walter | Niman (the tomato colossus), Mrs, Witliam Hanning, | A. P. Stephenson, Car] Steeg and Charles Ballman—| have put their heads and their names together and| now call their eommunity plot the Kinam-Hanstebal| Gardens. . . . That ought to keep the cutworms out. Your pinch hitter spent a steamy hour waiting to] pick up .a reservation at one of the railroad ticket | offices last week. And it occurred to us that there; ought to be some kind of a medal for the ticket agents | in those offices—rush from morning to night, plagued by foolish questions and people who can't make up| their minds, or who blame them for the necessary | delays and inconveniences of wartime travel .

this time make it impossible for | me to be on hand.” “After all,” Dewey said, “there is "probably no group in the state

of New York which can understand]

| better how the necessary and unnecessary problems we have had to live with in wartime have made almost limitless demands on public officials, for you are in a sense, public officials yourselves. “You, too, have had. to live with the boards, the regulations and the directives and have had to wait {through what seem interminable

They're carrying a heavier load than almost any other | delays for answers to vital prob-

group in the city, keeping their tempers and giving! the best possible service under just about the worst) possible. conditions. , . . If you're worn out by having | to wait 30 or 40 minutes in one of those hot, crowded offices, think of those ticket sellers. ... They have to slay there all day.

{Jems, meanwhile being subject to mounting pressure to et the decisions you sought. .

Work Record Cited. “You have done your job su-

premely well and no one can dare

A Golden Opportunity

to question the patriotism of your { organizations.

Although New rE

THE POLITICAL experts may be surprised at the’ Fis first among industrial states of]

number of servicemen who vote in the November election after all,

the nation, its wartime strike losses |

Apparently they have overlooked are among the lowest in the na-|

an important factor mentioned in a letter to Maurice tion.”

Groenendyke {rom Pat Cuddy, who was information |

Benjamin F. Feinberg, president |

geant in the air transport command, somewhere in| the opening day's session, told deleSouth America, Pat writes, “Your recent letter with gates that labor's great need now the enclosed ballot application came as a welcome and! is a prosperous industry capable of | very flattering surprise—it's the first time I have been! assuring good wages and a high! invited to express an opinion on anything in 16 standard of living.

months.”

Assembly Speaker Oswald D. Heck

This is a great day for us—for today, the one j urged that labor return the me and only Nussbaum returns from his -two weeks of / lot settling disputes to the state la- |

sitting “in the ‘shade,

Suspecting that he'd be too !bor relations board and ‘the state!

worn out from resting. fo do a column, we stayed mediation board as its first post-

in for one last swing—and this is it. appreciation to all the agents who kept a little life in the old type, we shall now saddle Old Paint and ride off into the sunset. Welcome home, Nuss. And thanks for tie use of ‘the hall,

By Mai, al Williams

Like everyone else, T was puzzled by the recent Nazi “aginouncenrent concerning their “all-out war

effort.” %. t have they been doing all this time if it w 1.out? Then came the purge of Nazi gene “More -Yecéntly came the announcement

froni Hitler that he must have a complete purge. ese pieces together, the answer begins. to

shi up.

TT MUST be remembered that it was the Junkers =the ‘military aristoctacy==who put Hitler. in the driver's seat, on the assumption that they could get rid of him tf the necessity developed. But today they are being purged and the fanatical Nazis are more firmly entrenched and more determined to take everything down with them. We can expect anything ‘before these fanatics are destroyed. When -I read the boasts of our experts of psyshological warfare, 1. protest. If we had kept them from threatening the Germans day by day and teliing them there was no out except destruction of their nation, I believe we would have peace terms from the Germans long since. Because our air forces have made life highly ‘unsatisfactory in Germany. No one can estimate :the damage that has been done to the routine -of daily existence in Germany by American airpower., Stalin has the right idea—

he keeps his mouth shut and his combat forces advancing,

By Elianor Roosevelt,

for # year in some mili service, These people frequently feel that one wear 1s hardly adequate to ‘train a man completely in any branch of our highly mechanized services. Some feel that we should aim at getting our young citizens in good physical condition through two or three months of basic training, and then use the rest of the time as a period of education in democratic citizenship. This will permit them to perform some service for the community in which they spend their time. . I'believe this subject deserves lengthier discussion,

ernment’s' administrative set-up for dealing “chaotic” wilderment and confusion.”

Dies on Learnings =

So, with deep war act.

He described the federal gov-|

with labor difficulties as and resulting in “be-

Of Son's Ded¥

Services for George Hampton, 609;

N. Tacoma ave, world war I vete| erani*who. died Saturday night at the U. S. Veterans Administration hospital a few hours after he re- | ceived word that his only son had

jdied in action in France, will be

Held: at 1:30 p. m. tomorrow at 4. Ci Wilson's Chapel of the Chimes. Burial will be in Crown Hill. Doctors stated that his iliness was complicated by the death message from the war department. He had gntered the hospital Thursday after becoming ill at work. He was 51. Born in Tippecanoe county, Mr. Hampton came here 40 years ago and for 20 years had been a rigger for the Capitol Transfer and Storage Co. He was a member of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffers, Warehousemen and Helpers of America, His 23-year-old son, Pvt. Chatles| F. Hampton, ‘wrote last to his mother on July 22 saying “if con-! ditions progress as they are now we should be home in a year.” The wife and mother, Isabelle, is! the only survivor,

COMMISSIONS OPEN

Naval reserve commissions are | open to men between 25 and 50 experienced in the fields of domestic transportation and tire maintenance. Applicants will be interviewed to- | morrow by Lt. Charles R. Lohmeyer at 120 W, North st.

BARNABY

LABOR TO MAP

Warns Against Return of 5

P.).—Governor Thomas E. Dewey, |.

have made 1t possible for the next | .

would understand “the press of my} 4

IN NAVAL RESERVE!

"The Indianapolis Times _

MONDAY, AUGUST 21, 1944

All day long yesterday, at the Fairgrounds.

picked up in one day,

3 XL er :

Pes

Kirk Yockey, Maynard Hokanson

Almost unloaded and ready for another trip is this army-truck manned by Junior Chamber of director of the Indiana State Chamber of Commerce pro tem of the state senate and | Commerce members in“yesterday’'s big waste paper drive. The driver was Mrs. Richard Efroymson, whose | until he joined the army in April, 1943. Now a ser-| one of the principal speakers at| husband is a captain in England. On the truck are (left to right) Lyman Hunter, William Barnes,

and Robert Rob bins.

Response to Appeal for Paper Swamps Trucks Hers How IT FEELS

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; | truck after truck unleaded waste paper at this string of railroad boxcars | The drive netted 1500 tons, with more to be collected yet today. than 1000. vélunteers worked on 250 trucks; the re sponse was so- great that

Although more | not all the paper could be

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SUBS CLAIM 19 Report Rift in Southern

‘Democrats Still Growing

MORE JAP SHIPS

Cruiser and od Escort Vessel

Among Bag; 35 Sunk

So Farin August.

PASHINGTOR, Aug. 21 (U.P). submarines, whittling “the: ‘Japanesé supply fleet st “ioashng’ ‘tempo, have sunk “enemy ‘vessels, including odtgbathnt shih, ‘the navy, ais-

This Tetest a 40.706 the number of Jal vessels sunk by American ae craft. ‘Inisddi-

tion, another 37 Have probably beer sunk and at least 115: damaged for an overall total of ‘858- Japanese craft hit by Americah submersibles. The navy: s annouficing additions to: the3probably sunk and damaged cabegories several months ago, however, so that the totals: of {those classes do not. ; Bresent a Ye plerare, 13S Sinkings in August

Todays -sinkings. brought to 35 |thegnumber of sinkings announced this month. Today's ‘list “included one light cruiser, one escort vessel, one large | tanker, ‘three cargo | {transports ‘and he \¢argo’ vessels. In recent months, American undérsea - craft! have been operating | Close . to Japanese home waters, As Ee result, - they’ have been bagging more: combatant vessels. To date, American’ subs have sunk 56 Japas nese combatant ships, probably sunk 11 ard ‘damaged 14’ more, for a total of 81 ships. :

BROTHERS DIE SAME TIME : LOGANSPORT, Aug. 21 (U, P.).— Double funeral services will be held tomorrow for Jerome V. Bopp, 56, |and Walter Bopp, 48, brothers, who were found dead at different. residences yesterday, abparently victims of heart ailments. The former was ‘an employee of the Gross income tax division at Indianapolis, while the

Simultaneously,

proposal, for an electoral vote bloc which conceivably could patronage to or away {rom the | Democratic party. John H. Crooker, Houston attorney and an anti-administration elector, said Sunday that at least 13 of Texas’ 23 presidential electors— those named at the “regular” state convention at Austin in May—had pledged they would follow instrucons of that convention and vote for persons other than President Roosevelt and Senator Truman,

Suggest Senator Byrd

Crooker indicated the electors would support Senator Harry Byrd of Virginia for the presidency. Crooker voiced vigorous criticism of the national Democratic convention, which seated both the-regular Texas {delegation and a rump group of Roosevelt supporters. The Houston attorney issued a statement in which he said “the socalled Democratic convention in Chicago was under control and domination of a coalition of Communists, the C. I. O. Political Action! Committee, big city bosses and cor-|

and other radicals.” + Names of the electors who signed | a statement of principles, which in| effect, pledges the Texas votes to Senator Byrd, were not disclosed | by: Crooker.

Crooker Assailed

Meantime, the New Orleans Item reported a survey showed that at least five of Louisiana's 10 electors had approved the Germany proposal to combine the votes of Texas, Mississippi and Louisiana in order to bargain with the national Democratic party for control of patronage during the coming presidential term,

latter was a painter here.

The Germany proposal had failed

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By UNITED PRESS . The breach in southern Democratic ranks appeared to be growing! , steadily wider today with anti-Roosevelt forces in Texas | that 15 and possibly 18 or 19 presidential electors had agreed tp vote] against the national party nominees. five of Louisiana's 10 electors were reported to! haxe expressed willingness to suppert Texas elector E. B. Germany's,

claiming |

swing | to draw favorable comment from

Mississippi, and one staunch leader | of pro-Roosevelt forces” issued a | {statement of outright opposition. | | Former ‘Governor Dennis Murphres, prominent among Mississippi Demo- | ‘crats, said the ‘Texas elector’s proposal should provide a good reas | son for the state's nine electors to reaffirm their pledges to vote. for Roosevelt and Truman. ’

SAFETY DELAY SEEN AT GUARDIAN'S HOME

Compliance with an order from the state fire marshals office to correct a fire hazard at the Children's Guardian's home by Wednesday will be impossible, county commissioners said today. The deadline on the original fire marshal's office order for construction of two fire escapes at the institution expired Saturday but it was| extended until Wednesday pending approval by the state tax board of a

rupt political machines, foreigners $5500 appropriation to do the work. | an

“Even if the state tax board ap- | prov es the funds, we could not possi- | {bly get the materials in time to |start work by Wednesday,” Commis- | sioner William Bosson said. The fire marshal’s order stated that unless the fire hazard was cor-! rected by Wednesday they would request Prosecutor Sfierwood Blue to bring legal proceedings against toe commissioners to enforce the order | immediately. “They will just have to bring their | legal proceedings against us be- | cause we can't get the work done in| two days with war priorities holding | up materials and. 3abor,” Mr. Bos- | son said, .

{ TASK ° FORCE | FRANCE, Aug. | Everybody

| 20 to Southern France, TTisThiS going to work out?

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TO CHUTE INTO SOUTH H FRANCE.

‘Nobody Feels Lik Like Talking

On Way to Drop Zone,

Reporter Says. By RICHARD MOWRER

Times Foreign Correspondent WITH THE IST AIRBORNE IN . SOUTHERN 21l.—"We are airborne.” The Britisher to my right turned

(to me with a slight smile as we

felt C-47 leave the ground. . Seemed to be thinking of the same thought: Well, + + « Here we and how

our

here we go.

We- sat in the dark, silent, feel

ing uncomfortable with parachutes |

(and various bits of equipment {strapped to us. Nobody felt like talking. Some

ismoked. Some tried to doze. Would, there. be. much. ack-ack on {the coast? Would the pilot take ‘us to the right place? Would there be a lot of Germans around shogt= ing at us as we came dewn?. Would I land in. a tree?

Le Muy IS Drop Zone

I thought back to the air photo the town of Le Muy. I thought back to our briefing i back there in Italy just before sunMaj. Richard Campbell, said: “Men, look at this picture care« fully. Look at it as if you were. i looking at a picture of your wife. I needn’t tell you this is important.” Maj. Campbell looked up at us {intently for a moment and slowly: . sen, don’t miss a trick. This Second Anzio. It's a second $54t’s big-time stuff.” ‘about the‘ Germans?” son “one asked,

“Got to Cross Road”

“The only Germans I think we ‘will encounter will be on these hedge roads,” he pointed to the “We must cross this road at 0 get to our rendezvous.

{ We've got to cross the damned thing. {and take a chance.”

“The road won't be mined. There

(are no anti-parachute defenses—to {our knowledge. .We do have a place ‘to go. | French people who are our friends— {we have the people on our side, too,"

There are people down there

{thank God. “The 37th division, coming in from the coast, will relieye us some- | time toward the end of D plus one. Glider, reinforcements will come at 8:40 in the morning. Another { thing, men, when we hit the ground let's not shoot. Let's not shoot at anything that moves; let's not shoot unless we run into opposition. You know the passwords. “One last thing, men. If the goe {ing gets tough, if things go bad, |grab your compass and go north, | That's where the mountains are.” I was in the commander's plans —Maj. Gen. Robert Frederick of San Francisco, 37, the youngest ma« ! jor general in the army. He was to | jump also. It would be his second jump. . 7 Practice Jumps.

1 was glad to have had seven practice jumps behind me. 1 must be drowsing. There was ¢ commotion in the plane; the dim lights went on and people struggled up ‘and started checking up on one another's harness. It was bumpy and people lurched agdinst one another, Then the lights went off. “Get ready to hook up.” The man behind me pulled the static line out of my pack. } : “Hook up.” The jump master, 1st Lt. Harold O. Parker of Bonita, Miss., cruoched near the door peer= ing downward. He would see evervbody out and be the last man to go—No.- 15. } I looked down. I watched the chutes below me silently sink into the blanket of mist out of sight. Then I. jumped, I went right through the mist, saw black [splotches . which were trees. I ‘missed a tree and hit the ground . between a row of vines, rolled over d began to unhook my harness. Then I discovered that my typewriter had been ripped away by {the violence of the chute’'s opening shock and had gone on. down by itself, Anyway, this was France and not the sea. :

| CopsT ht. 1344, by The Indianapolis, ante nd The Chicago Daily News,

DROWNS IN LAKE JAMES

ANGOLA, Aug. 21 (U. P.).~The | Steuben county, coroner today ine - | vestigated the drowning of 32-year= old Kenneth Cowell, Ft. Wayne, at Inear®by Lake James. Witnesses said {he called for help twicé before sink= ing from sight, but they had be= "lieved He was playing a praik,

By Crockett Johnson

‘however, and I would like to consider it in greater detail tomorrow. - . I was recently given & copy of “What's New In| Home Economics,” a magazine - published for: the teachers of home economics throughout the country. | I look upon this as one of our most hopeful fields of | education, so I was interested to learn that 29,000 high schools, as well as colleges and universities, teach, this subject. The teachers in these classes have a heavy burden, yet a large number of them are taking time to tonduct adult classes in the Bflernoons and evenings

for their communities. : : My only fear is that the courses are not as thors should :

Ime we'll nevi

inced that if 'we go on hymoring Barnaby, hoke his belief in that little man with pink wings he dreams about. We've got to REASON him out ‘of this ridiculous idea. Once and for all!

We'll demolish this i imaginary pixie by drawing a clear line in the boy's mind between logical scientific fact and childish superstitious nonsense.

/ | Well, maybe you can do it) N ;

I'll call Barnaby.|. “| You talk to him.

CROCKETT

JOHNSON | A burning feeling

Supposed to mean someone's talking | about me. . . Of course, that's nothing but childish superstitious nonsense... . .

in my.ear, Barnaby.