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while, Well, kind -of a soldier. Since I'm approximately 80 years old and 45 pounds underweight, they had to create. a special branch to fit my special talents. It is called America’s First Line of Defense. ‘I am its bulwark. As long as I'm oh i country is safe. / They gave me a private’s uniform, and contrary to army yaa1-

about because T've drifted in here for a few days to write about the new soldiers. They decided to put just as though I were a genuine incoming selectee. However, it didn't work out in all details. The doctors shuddered and turned away ‘at the first sight of me. And the interviewers found me unqualified for any of the 275 types ‘of army employment. . So it was finally decided to let me do it my own way, which is to stand around sleepy-like for three or four days and just look and listen. The commander of this hundred-thousand-acre post is a hale and hearty veteran named Innis P, Swift. He has just been promoted to major general. His father was a major general and so was his grandfather, He is a big man, and he {sn't Stuy. He is the kind who talks to his junior officers in such a manner as this: “Okay, kid.” “Thats the stuff, boy.”

One in 12 Rejected

TO MY SURPRISE, the induction center here turns down one out of every 12 men who come through, although they have passed their draft board's medical exam, Many are rejected for defective hearing. Many others are unfit because of plain undernourishment, Now and then they get a

man with a penitentiary record, and he is rejected,

too. ' The army doesn't want mothers worrying about their boys associating with prison veterans.

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artist, and now ‘both women were decor! Occasionally they get somebody who i burned up about being drafted, and remains sulky all through his processing. But on’ the whole the boys are eager to do whatever is asked of them. Almost without exception, they're scared the first couple of days. The officers and men who handle them take this into consideration, and are pretty easy with them. Some of them are so frightened they shake all over. &

Food Is Excellent

THEY ARE BROKEN info drill gradually. The food is excellent. Officers talk to the homesick ones,

The army is eager for all these thousands of 8 vae

to like military life, and especially for them that fact to their folks. I went through the reception center with four white boys and six Negroes, all on their first day in the army. One of the white boys put down his birthplace as Germany, and his nearest of kin as a sister in London. His name was Henry D. Heckscher. He and his sister left Germany in 1937, for London, and he came to America in '39. He left Germany partly to escape conscription, and over here he ran smack into it. But he didn't seem to. feel badly about it. 1 was given a cot in a tent with three privates and a regular army corporal. One of the boys had just discovered the futility of explaining in the army. He learned it on his first day when a sergeant asked him something, and every time he'd try to answer, the sergeant would vell: “Shut your goddam mouth!”

Most’ of the boys learn to take this stuff and]

laugh about it. To others it is hard. But both kinds are sincere in wanting to do anything required of If they happen to like army life, that’s so much velvet. If they don't, they're thoroughly willing to make the best of it, because they feel a duty to America. That sounds a little flag-wavy, but it is something genuine which has impressed ‘me very much,

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

THE AIR-CONDITIONED paper sacks in which

. popcorn is dispensed at the Emerson theater on E

10th intrigued one of our agents. Overcome by feminine curiosity, she inquired why the sacks have holes punched in them. The answer was simple: To keep the youngsters from popping the

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some more. What an awful waste of gasoline. in the interest of conserving gasoline, we suggest (1 that she get a damp rag and remove the chalk mark, or (2) move the car forward just enough to put the chalk ‘mark down—against the pavement. You're welcome, madame; just part of our usual service.

Whoops! They Stretch!

ADD SIGNS of returning normalcy: We found a pair of suspenders with real—or at least synthetic— rubber in them. We're not telling where we got them, because they only had five pairs left, and there's no use starting a suspenders riot... , . Someone called in to ask when the United War Fund campaign

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would be held. We didn't know, but we checked and.

found the dates are Oct. 9-25. . . . Some printers with Democratic leanings have made up small “Vote for Dewey” stickers which they say they're going to try

Labor Front

WASHINGTON, Sept. 11.-Denunciations of C. I. O. political activities continue with a blast from the magazine Labor, organ of 15 railway brotherhoods and unions, against Sidney Hillman and the C. I. O. Political Action Committee for unsuccessful efforts to unseat Senator Pat McCarran (D. Nev). The white-haired chairman of the senate judiciary committee, who recenly severely condemned administration procedure in the Montgomery Ward seizure of last spring, won renomination this week, defeating Lieutenant Governor Vail Pittman, brother of the late senator Key Pittman, Labor the Hillman

committee with “lies,” with having .

“united with reactionaries,” and with using communistic tactics in an effort which the publication asserted was thwarted by the railway unions and the Amercan Federation of Labor.

Opposed by Reactionaries

“REACTIONARY' DEMOCRATS in Nevada,” said the current Labor article, “have always been against McCarran because of his outspoken support of labor and other progressive measures. They thought they could ‘get him’ this time by forming a combination between Pittman and Bunker” (former senator who was rypning for Nevada's lone seat in the house). The article continued, “They wouldn't have had a chance, however, if it hadn't been for the flood of vile propaganda turned loose against McCarran by

My Day

® NEW YORK.—At the young Democrats’ meeting the other night, T was asked a question which surprised and interested me. A young woman wanted to know whether it would be right for a woman who had taken a man’s job during the war to be forced to give that job up * if the man returned and wanted it. Now I can imagine situations

in which it would be very hard

for a woman to give up a job in which she had made good. She might have become the breadwinner for her family, in which case she.would need a job comparable to the one she must give up.

Yet it seems to me to be clear : et every serviceman has been

will be restored to his former Job.

to sell for 10 cents each. “And then,” they add, “we're going to give the money to the P. A. C. to support Roosevelt.” Tsk, tsk. , .. County Clerk Jack Tilson, bowing to party pressure, has named Myron Costler, a Republican, as his chief deputy fo succeed Democrat Cletus Seibert. Cletus was inherited by Jack from the previous administration. But while Mr, Costler holds the title, Clete is drawing the chief deputy’s pay. And the betting around the courthouse is that he'll continu€ to do so for some time... . The Chicago Tribune, one of our:agents reports, is using envelopes that were misprinted, with the flap at the bottom instead of at the top. At least a dozen have been observed. Our agent isn’t certain whether it's a new style—“or just the way the self-styled ‘World's Greatest Newspaper’ does things.”

Save Those Tomatoes

ONE OF OUR readers offers a handy suggestion to victory gardeners for the salvaging of green tomatoes when frost comes. It's customery to pick green tomatoes when frost is imminent, wrap and place them in the basement or garage to ripen gradually. This reader suggests: “Just pull up the tomato vines and all, then hang them upside down over a clothes line strung in the garage. They won't get frosted that way, and you can ha tomatoes clear into November.” . . . Lt Don Hoover, former Indianapolis newspaperman now ‘in army intelligence, expects to fly back to the U. 8. from Europe in. a couple of weeks, and then head for Australia. He hopes to get back here for a day or two. . . Harry Saunders; OPA price specialist, has resigned to go with Capitol Wines as a salesman. . . . Ann Cain, of the OPA enforcement division, was in Plymouth recently. Thinking she might get a ride back to Indianapolis with Joe ‘Moore, one of the OPA field men, she called a hotel and asked if Joe Moore tered. The elderly clerk replied: *I don't think so. What's his name?” , , , , A friend in a hospital over in Italy writes home that some of the boys over there who have been through hell are pretty ‘bitter about the “way any G. I can go in a store and buy any service ribbon and even battle stars” without actually having the right to wear them. “I have just received my fifth battle star,” he wrote, “but I'm not going to wear them.” Personally, we weren't aware that anything like that was going on—if it is. About the only time they could get away with fit, it seems to us, would be on furlough.

By F red W. Perkins

Sidney Hillman's Communist-controlled: C. 1 0. Poljtical Action Committee. “Hiliman's outfit, which apparently had money to ‘throw at the birds,’ was not interested in McCarran's labor record. It opposed him beeause he refused to embrace its peculiar ‘ideologies’ and circulated the most brazen lies concerning his work in the senate.

‘Serious Menace’

“SOME WORKERS were deceived. They were not familiar with Communist tactics and imagined Hillman's propagandists must be telling the truth. “Chiefs of the standard railroad labor organizations and thegA. F. of L, put on a stiff campaign for McCarran and succeeded in neutralizing the vivious work of the C. 1. O. “crowd.” ¥ Labor ulso gave some observations on the Sveral effect of the C. I. O.'s political efforts. “More and more, as the campaign develops” it said, “it becomes evident that Hillman and his Communist colleagues are a_ serious menace to organized labor's political program. The *C. I. O, never had many supporters in congress and now it is so discredited that the foes of labor have discovered the most effective argument they can use against a measure favored by the workers is to brand it a ‘C. I. O. bill “That's bad enough, but now the C. I. O. under Hillman's leadership is invading state and congressional districts, assailing candidates who have sturdily championed the cause of the workers and bringing the entire labor movement into disrepute among voters who do not appreciate that the noisy ‘Reds’ who are on Hillman's payroll do not speak for the American labor movement.”

‘By Eleanor Roosevelt

matter, taking a job which was held by & man going into the services has known that this situation exists. Ordinarily, I would not think that there would be any question about a woman relin her and going out to find another on her own. In e case of a woman who has become the family

bi ~winner, however, I think there is an obliga-

tion on the part of all concerned. If, for instance, a man who once supported the family had been in the armed services, and the woman had become the bread-winner, there would be an obligation, not directly to the woman, but to the man whose services were lost.

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"SECOND SEGTION

NOW IS TINE TO LEAVE AXIS,

For Liberty, Hull

Declares.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 (U, P.. —Secretary of State Cordell Hull said today that Austria has little time left in which to show her desire for independence by. rising against Nazi domination, Hull reminded correspondents that the Moscow declaration-of November, 1942, promised independence to Austria. But he added that the allies will take into account Austria’s contribution to her own liberation in carrying out this promise. Austria has a heavy responsibility for having participated in the war on the side of Hitler, Hull said, adding that the contribution she makes to her own liberation will be taken into account when the allies prepare to implement the declaration issued by the United States, Russia, British and Chinese governments some two years ago.

“Time Almost Up”

to make that contribution is almost up. Asked to comment on Argentina's withdrawal from the. inter-Ameri-can political defense committee at Montevideo, Hull said there could be no mystery about his viewpoint. Last week he referred to Argentina as the headquarters of fascism in the western hemisphere and outlined fears that the infection of fascism would spread from Argentina to other American republics unless it were checked.

TAX REVIEW UNIT NAMES WALSMAN

Albert F. Walsman, a Democrat, was named chairman of the sevenmember county tax adjustment board at its organization meeting today in the courthouse. Review of the budgets of all Marion county government units will begin tomorrow,

chairmanship was interpreted at city hall as positive indication that some cuts will be made in the id expense sheet, despite’ an “jgon-} clad” budget defense being readied by Job Surveyor Fred Telford. Mr. Walsman defeated Harry E. Yockey, a Republican, and Mayor Tyndall's appointee to the tax adjustment

chairmanship, The board is composed of four Republicans aad three Democrats, but the two neminees did not vote. Other Republican members. are Thomas E, Grinslade, Richard Smith and Roscoe Conkle. The other two Democratic members are Robert Allison” and Thomas A. Moyauahan,

FATHER CONFESSES TO SLAYING FAMILY

NEW LEXINGTON, O. Sept. 11 (U.P,).—Vincent Nash, 50, an unemployed potter, has confessed slayiy his wife and four children, with an ax, police said today.

he killed his family because “I didn’t want them to suffer as I have suffered.” He did not explain further; Nash first hacked his wife while she slept early yesterday. “Tlien he killed his two older daughters— Leana, 21, and Mildred, 20—who slept together, then Rosaline, 5, then Cletus, -18, who was soon to be drafted:

STATE LEADER HEADS G. 0. P. CLUB PROGRAM

Eleanor Barker Snodgrass, Republican state vice-chairman, will be the principal speaker at the monthly luncheon of the Wayne Township Republican Woman's Club at 12:30 p. m. Wednesday in the clubrooms, 523 N. Belleview ave. Others on the program are Mrs. Cecil Harden, national vice-chair-man, Mrs. Fern Norris, G. O. P. entry for reporter of the supreme and appellate courts; and Mrs. Agnes Todd, ‘Marion, county - Yice-chair-man.

GATES, CAPEHART ON AIR TONIGHT

Speeches by G. O. P. senatorial and gubernatorial nominees, Homer E. Capehart and Ralph Gates, at the Irvington Republican club's annual watermelon feast tonight will be broadcast from 8: 30 to 9 p. m. over station WIRE. The feast will be held at Downey ave. and Union st.

SLATE N. JUDSON SHOW ‘NORTH JUDSON, Ind. Sept. 1! (U. P.) —Roscoe Fraser, Purdue university horticulturist, announced to‘that the North Judson area crops show, of which he is

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KOKOMO MAN DEAD HORM. ‘Ind. Sept. 11 (U. P.). ~ Rosenbush, president

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Nation Must Show Desire |

Hull emphasized that ne wanted it clear that the time for Austria

board, 3 to 2 in balloting for the|.

Nash, a world war I veteran, said|

. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 194

A Dual Duet

A FATHER-SON ARMY-NAVY combination finally got together at an advanced heavy bomber base when Lt. Col. William P, Hall Jr., right, and his son, Lt. (J.g.) William P. Hall, P-T boat skipper met after a year's separation. Lt. Hall's craft is credited with the destruction of two troop-filled Jap luggers while his father is with the 13th army air force command in the southwest Pacific. Mrs. Frances Pettis Hall, wife and mother, lives at 1111 W. Kessler blvd.

Politics in Key States—

GOP HAS HOPES FOR KENTUCKY

As Showdown Battle

Lines Form.

By CARL SAUNDERS Editor, The Kentucky. Post COVINGTON, Ky., Sept. 11.—Kentucky, the dark and bloody ground, will be one of the testing places in the election which will decide!

in which the Republicans are marshaling their forces for a showdown battle.

tion, resulting in the election of Simeon Willis as governor, the na-

Kentucky as fertile ground for a real battle.

bagging Kentucky this year than they have been in 16 years. How- «| ever, a recent Gallup poll gave them small comfort. It showed Kentucky to be 54 per cent for Rooseveit. Nevertheless, the Republicans have

Election of Mr. Walsman to the ‘hyilt up an organization through

the state; while Democrats no longer bave this convenient vehicle.

‘Party Split in State

| Thus far in Kentucky, except for the regular Republicans, the candidacy of Governor Dewey cannot be said to have aroused much enthusiasm. One reason for this is the fact that in porthern Kentucky Governor Willis regime has split the Republican forces rather than consolidated them. Judge Odis Bertelsman, well liked Republican, is so anti-Willis ‘that he opposed the administration-sponsored candidate, James Park of Lexington who won the G. O. P, nomination for senator. Mr. Parks will oppose Senator Alben W. Barkley, The fact that Senator Barkley, the majority leader in the senate,

New Deal makes his candidacy as much of a target this year as the President's race. However, Democratic leaders and some Republicans forecast that Senator Barkley will get many a vote that in the presidential race will be cast for Dewey, Best political opinion as of now is that Senator Barkley will be reelected over Mr. Park by a handsome majority, and that the President also will carry the state. Interest in absentee voting. by servicemen in high here. County clerks report that applications for absentee ballots by the men in armed services are coming in by the thousands.

Junior C. of C.

Sponsors Opera

A two-day engagement of the San Carlo Opera Co. here Sept. 26 and 27, will be sponsored by the diniex « Chamber of Commerce which will use the proceeds to conduct its civic and war relief projects. “Aida,” which will be sung Tuesday, Sept. 26, has an American Inia soprano, 3 Mobley Sa “8 Lushanya, Lushanya in the tile role. The ballet is lead by Lydia Arlova and Lucien Prideaux and Ottavio Valentino will sing the role of Rhadames. Grace Panvini, Mario Palermo and Stephan Ballarini will sing the major roles‘in “Rigoletto,” to be presented Wednesday, Sept. 27. Both operas, which will be presented at the Murat theater, were chosen because of their popularity with the public.

BARNABY

CAMPAIGN BID

\OF DEMOCRATS

“IN STATE SET

Talks of Schricker and Jackson Saturday.

Schricker and Senator Samuel D. Jackson at the banquet of the Democratic Editorial association at French Lick Saturday night will be made “to the voters of Indiana” and will be broadcast over four radio stations.

ident of the editorial association, said that Senator Jackson will be heard from 8:30 to 8:45 p. m. and the governor from 8:45 to 9 p. m. over Stations WIRE of Indianapolis, WIND of Gary, WOWO of Ft. Wayne and WGBF of Evansville. The governor will continue his address to those attending the banquet beyond the 9 p. m. radio time limit,

Democrats s “Hold | Advantage

Republicans are more hopeful of |

has occupied a key position in the!

first political speech of his campaign {for the U. 8. senatorship and he is {expected to make clear his position ‘on issues jn the race.

Others on Program

| Other talks will be given at the | French Lick meeting by Cornelius! !O'Brien, Lawrenceburg businessman {who is the Democratic candidate for the short term in the U. 8. senate, and Floyd Hemmer, superin'tendent of the state farm who is the |party’s nominee for lieutenant-| governor, Among party celebrities scheduled {te attend the annual editorial out- |

| Mrs, Paul V. McNutt, Federal Judge! {Sherman Minton and former Govlernor and Mrs. Clifford Townsend.

be the kick-off event in the Demo- ! cratic fall campaign.

tional Republican forces are eyeing’ State Leaders Named

By Young Democrats

headed the Young Democratic Clubs |

day which featured election of

officers and plans for the organiza- | tion's participation in this fall's| campaign, Rafferty, Shelby county prosecuting attorney, succeeded Robert E. Agnew, Frankfort, now in the army. Mrs. Mildred Mann, Franklin, was re-elected vice president and Howard Miller, Attica, suc‘ceeded Betty Malinka, Gary, as secretary. The executive committee also approved the selection of five new district chairmen, four of them succeeding men now in the armed forces. The new chairman included William E. Steckeler, Indianapolis, in the 11th district; Gladys Bowers, Anderson, fifth district; Gordon Noe, Scottsburg, ninth district! Jack Thompson, Bluffton, fourth | district, and Richard Dowling, | Muncie, 10th district. Rafferty said that the first job of the Young Democrats would be

of servicemen. - The organization also will provide radio transcriptions for use by the districts, serve at the polls and encourage members to serve on precinct election boards.

Hemmer Opens Drive

For Lieut.-Governor

MARION, Ind. Sept. 11 (U. P.).— Floyd J. Hemmer, Putnamville state farm superintendent, launched his compaign for the lieutenant-gover-norship at a fifth district rally here yesterday, saying that the records of Democratic nominees would speak for themselves. Hemmer spoke to more than 1000 fifth district Democratic leaders and party members. from 10 counties, The rally was also addressed by State Democratic Chairman Fred Bays and Judge J. Frank Russell of Tipton. Appellate court judge nominee. Harry Fenning, Portland, fifth district chairman, presided.

ATTENDS PARLEY OF CIVIL WAR VETERANS

Isaac W. Sharpe, Warsaw, is one of the 19 Civil war veterans attending the 78th annual national convention of the G. A. R. in Des Moines. Several more are expected to attend, but advanced age of the old soldiers and travel difficulties account for the small number attending the five-day meeting.

KILLED BY TRAIN PORTER, Ind. Sept. 11 (U. P.) — Albert H. Harjes of near Valparaiso was killed early today when he was run over by a freight train near here. Engineer J. L. Thompson told state police that he saw Harjes lying with his head on the track but was

-lunable to stop in time.

Radio to Carry Opening

The addresses of Governor

Hugh A. Barnhart, first vice pres- |

The governor's address will be the’

of Indiana after a meeting yester- |

to help with registration, especially |

the national public opinion polls ahead of Governor Dewey.

BRICKER SCORES

Control of Political

Action Leader.

By EARL RICHERT Strategy of -the G. O: P. presi{dential team in combatting the proRoosevelt C. I. O. political’ action committee was revealed by Governor Bricker of Ohio in his cam-

paign opening address before the |

Republican editorial association Satjurday night at French Lick. The Republican vice presidential {nominee centered his fire in connection with this movement entirely upon one man, Sidney Hillman, the leader-of. the Political Action Com-. mittee. In no place did Mr. Bricker even mention the C. I. O. He made it plain that the Reexbhican leaders intend to make Mr. {Hillman the “whipping boy” and try to avoid antagonizing the millions of C. I. O. members by any criticism

whether the New Deal survives.ing Friday and Saturday at the Of the union. Kentucky is one of the border states southern Indiana spa are Mr. and|

‘Controls 'New Deal

“It is no secret,” declared Mr. Bricker, “that Sidney Hillman and

Encouraged by the Republican | More than 600 reservations have his committee are now in complete victory last year in the state elec- been made for the affair which will control of the New Deal party.

“Our people will not soon forget

(the sofry spectacle of the Demo-| It was 'Hillhan and the big city bosses who

leratie national convention.

made the secret decisions that con-

Dale Rafferty of Shelbyville today ii that convention.

“Nor will -they "ever forget the President's instructions to Democratic National Chairman Hannegan, delivered in the railway car of ithe cofimander-in-chief on a side track in Chicago, to ‘clear everything with Sidney.’ “In ‘that terse command,” the Ohio governor continued, “the New Deal candidate delivered the Democratic party into the hands of Sidney Hillman, the radical leader of the political action committee.”

Charges Distrust He said he was sure the Ameri-

ican people resented the intrusion lof Mr.

Hillman into a great political party and into their private business of casting a free and unintimidated vote. “The New Deal” he concluded, “cannot maintain free representative government. It will not trust the people. It is time to elect a president who, will clear everything, not with Sidney, but with congress |and the American people. Thomas | E. Dewey is that man.”

DEWEY URGES LAW RETRICTING FCC

WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 (U. P.). —Governor Thomas E. Dewey, the Republican presidential nominee, said today the federal communications commission should have no right of radio censorship or control over broadcast content, and urged a new radio law to restrict FP. C. C. to regulation of “technical facilities.” ‘ In a. copyrighted interview—in “Broadcasting” magazine, Dewey said he was opposed to federal ownership, control or operation of radio stations, saying “the government no more belongs in this field than in the field of the newspaper or magazine.”

Royal Mata Hari

PARIS, Sept. 11

number of German gestapo agents, has escaped from Paris, leaving behind a luxurious apartment where she trapped wealthy friends for the secret police, authorities said today. After the liberation of Paris, French police raided the apartment in United States square and found 10 rooms which had been transformed into cells with heavy bars closing the doors and windows. There the princess tor= tured and robbed her victims before turning them over to the gestapo. Police also found a large quantity of jewels, reportedly worth millions of : francs, which the prinéess had taken from her victims but which she left behind when _she fled.

HILLMAN'S ROLE

Charges New Deal Under

Escapes French

WU. P).— | Princes Techernitschefl, pretty, | blond, dark-eyed mistress of a |

MOST -OF THE out-of-state political writers who were at French Lick over the week-end for Governor John Bricker's speech agreed with

which show President Roosevelt

One writer for a big Fastern paper which is supporting Governor Dewey said THe world not be surprised to see another landslide for : | Roosevelt—due entirely to the

feeling. that there must be no change now. sn 2 u

‘Bring Boys Home’

The “bring the boys back home" heme of the Dewey campaign was the chief topic of conversation among both newspapermen and Republican leaders. Everyone agreed that from a strictly ~ vote-getting standpoint, the New York governor had something there—if he can convince the American public that he can get the boys back home sooner than President Roosevelt, he will win. Most of the members of the press expect that the President will be forced into trying to outbid the G. O. P. presidential candidate on this point. - All this is empty campaign oratory of the “full dinner pail’ type, of course, Even Mr. Dewey said . that the war against both Germany and Japan must be waged until the enemy countries are completely conquered. 5 2 t 4

Remember 1940?

The “bring the back home” theme is reminiscent of the 1940 campaign oratory in which Willkie charged that if Roosevelt were re-elected the boys would soon be on their ways overseas and the President replied with the famous statement that Americans would never be sent to fight in a foreign war. Both knew better than this, of { course. Both at that time felt that everything possible must be done to bolster wobbly England. This is not reminiscent of that phase of the 1940 campaign in which Willkie refused to come out against the first passage of the draft act, however. There are still many Republicans today who contend, and perhaps rightfully, that Willkie could have won in 1940 had he made a demogogic appeal against the forced taking of American boys into the army. That the “bring the boys back home” slogan is a powerful one was shown by the way in which all G. O, P. orators at French Lick picked it up. Every speaker used it—Governor Bricker, Ralph Gates, Homer Capehart, Senator Raymond E. Willis and Richard T. James.

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‘An Open Secret ' The real cause of District - Chairman ¢yjames L. Bradford's ‘recent blast at G. O. P. Gubernatorial Nominee Ralph Gates finally has become an open secret. Mr, Bradford, according to men in the , Republican party who should know, wanted either to be personally named superintendent of state police or to have his man named to that post in event of Mr. Gates’ election. It was when he found out that | things were not to be handled in this matter that he became angry, according to reliable Republican . sources. Close friends of Mr. Gates say now that during the campaign every effort will be made to get along with the 11th district chair= man but that after the election, if Mr. Gates wins, Mr. Bradford “will be out” insofar as any influence at the state house is concerned.

SPELLMAN TOURING FRANCE PARIS, Sept. 11 (U, P.).—Archbishop Francis J. Spellman of New York started today on an inspection tour of U. S. army hospitals that will take him to the American 1st and 3d army front sectors along the German border. He arrived from Normandy yesterday.

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