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MEET GEN, HANSELL, ~ SUPERFORT LEADER
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method of keeping the Superfort formation in fighting trim. He would take a P-47 fighter up himself, make passes at the 20's and then tell the pilots what was wrong and what was right with . . their defensive positions,’ Hansell flew the first Superfort to the Pacific ocean areas and was met at Oahu airbase by Lt. Gen. Millard F. Harmon, deputy commander of the 20th air force and command-
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ing general of the A, A, F. in Pa-| cific ocean areas.
JOLIET GUARD SLAIN; BREAK FRUSTRATED
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trated by John Alberts, & guard in a tower on the wall, It was a bullet from Alberts’ gun which wounded Skaggs fatally, but he also shot | four of the convicts and sent the! others running for cover. Leaders of the attempted break | were William Stewart and Mathew | Nelson, who escaped from the prison in October, 1942, along with Toughy, the former Chicago gangster and kidnaper The prisoners were carrying three | mock pistols which they had fashijoned from wood and pieces of | pipe. The break began when several of | them overpowered Cecil Henry, a | guard, in the prisons coal plant.| After pouncing upon Henry, the! prisoners tied him up and started | for the yard, carrying a crude 20- | foot ladder which apparently was | made from materials obtained by the | workers in the furniture factory.| As they were about to leave the | coal plant, Skaggs walked into the building.
group slowly across the prison yard concealing the ladder between them. | The moment they placed the ladder against the wall Alberts opened fire
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The prisoners forced him to ac-; company them as they walked in a
Ex-Captive Sees Ruins in Reich
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of Aachen, Herzogenrath, Wurse~ len and Aldorf, I remember Rotterdam and Lvov to which I was escorted by the wehrmacht a few years ago. And it does not make me sad to note that the American and British armies are smashing Germany even more thoroughly than the Nazis smashed some of the countries they overran. ” ” ” IT IS HARD to feel pity for peop'~ who once deluded themselves with the thought that they constituted the master race now grovelling among the wreckage they brought down on themselves. Many of the Herr Schmidts and Frau’ Beckers now humbly greet the G. I's with a poite “guten tag.”
They eagerly tell you how they Fand very soon.
personally never, imagined themselves herrenvolk, But it was millions of these lit tle people who ran the steel works, the mines, the factories, the farms which fed Hitler's war machine, LJ J » . AND HAD the Nazis won the war there would have been mighty few of them who would have objected to being herrenvolk. Thus far the big fly in the ointment is that only a handful of outright war criminals have fallen into allied hands. The local Nazi party bosses and the gestapo and S. S. men are moving back into Germany, driving 90 per cent of the German civilians with them. : But eventually they will be overtaken, ® = = A. FEW DAYS ago In Aachen I helped some ‘American M. P.’s capture two armed Nazi soldiers who had been skulking in a cellar since our occupation of
+| the town five weeks ago.
Two and a half years ago I myself was a prisoner: of the Germans. The tables have turned.
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JAB AT ROOSEVELT
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requests submitted by the C. I. O. unions in their labor board cases.” This is the ‘only convention issue that holds any possibility of disagreement among the delegates, and that possibility appears slight. As one C. I. O. leader expressed it, “we did all our fighting before the election against a common foe, and we -have nothing to quarrel about here.” The chance of a rift is in the possibility that Philip Murray (who before adjournment this afternoon will be elected to his fifth annual term as C. I. O. president) may be asked to explain the basis for his
| mobile
statement._before the United AutoWorkers convention in September that he was sure the | wage yardstick would be broken—
Mayor La Guardia of® New York City gave the delegates some food
|for thought yesterday in a warning
against inflation—that whén . a spiral gets started “wages never keep up with prices.”
PRAY | NOV. 24, 1044
1 00 Sr B-29's Bomb Tokyo's Industrial Targels
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targets, although Tokyo is the site of some of the most vital Japsinee war industries. These clude the giant Mitsubishi and Ishikawajima shipyards, the Mitsubishi heavy industries and numerous airplane, and ammunition factories, oil refineries and machine tool, electrical, radio- and precision instrument works. The Tokyo radio, which gave the world the first albeit hysterical account of the Doolittle raid, was silent for several hours after today's attack and then blossomed forth
with its usual report — that the:
B-29's had “failed to attain any tangible resuits” due to “effective interceptions.”
seek membership in C. f. O. unions, and said that “this organization is the refuge of the persecuted. This is the union home of the Negro.” Previously, Douglas McMahon of the "transport workers union, had
charged that the Philadelphia trac-| {tion strike | There was some. speculation that! which brought intervention by the er the B-29 bombing crews had
several .months ago,
The broadcast said the bambers came over the city in “ten-odd groups” of several bombers each. The only damage admitted was in “residential sections, meluiing one hospital.” The attack on Tokyo came just 24 hours after Japan had obsefved its Thanksgiving day—the Minamati festival—in which Emperor Hirohito had offered newly harvested grain to his gods. Even as the festival was in progress, the Japanese witnessed a harbinger of things to come when a single B-29, according to Tokyo reports, flew over the Nagoya area some 275 miles west-southwest of Tokyo. Other reconnaissance flights by B-29's over the island of Honshu, om which Tokyo is located, had '| steadily increased Japanese fears of a coming raid on their capital, | Thousands of children, ‘women and ‘older residents had been ordered out in preparation.
‘Ring of Air Effort’
Arnold gave no indication wheth-
the mayor may have been doing alarmy and which included strong peen given special instructions to job for Mr. Roosevelt in dropping racial factors, was “really an in- avoid Hirohito's palace, which Doo[this hint, but Lee Pressman, C.I.0.|surrection backed by the Pew- little’s fliers spared despite an ex{general counsel, hooted at ‘he idea. | Grundy political machine.”
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Arnold said the
{cellent opportunity to hit it, 21st bomber (command was commanded in its
In other ways the mayor talked ‘Congress of Industrial. Organiza- | first operation by Brig. Gen. H. 8.
|strictly New Deal language of the’ convention, particularly as to rais-! ing living ‘standards of America’s!
lower third. He attacked the argument that this country ever had a real surplus
tions today urged international | labor collaboration. to help “in speeding victbry in the war” and |to establish a “just and lasting | peace.”
“If labor is to have a voice in|
Hansell Jr, a 41-year-old native of Ft. Monroe, Va., who first gained fame 10 years ago as a member of the aviation acrobatic team, “Three {Men c¢n a Flying Trapeze. w Lt. Gen, Millard F, Harmon, com-
of any commodity and charged the the history-making decisions that manding general of army air forces
Ing power.
{in the peace settlements, it must |
| alleged surplus to lack of mass buy-! 'are being made and will be made! in the Pacific and Arnold's deputy
commander of the 20th air force,
“In times of greatest unemploy- | present a united voice through a issued his own statement promisment we had the greatest so- called | positive, working alliance of the la- ing that the two-pronged air offensurpluses,” he expounded. “There are boring people of the free world,” [sive against Japan was destined to
|some scarcities now because most |
! people are prosperous and are buying more.”
a resolution passed by the conven{tion said. Earlier, Secretary of the Interior
grow in other directions. “The time is not. far now when Japan will be subjected to the com-
+ After the convention adopted an Harold L. Ickes told the convention bined efforts of units based from
|anti-discrimination resolution,
Mr. that this year’s presidential cam- Alaska through the Philippines and"
| Murray thade an eloquent speech in paign was “the dirtiest campaign in over into China—a ring of air effort which he said the time had come our history—a campaign cafried on focused on the imperial empire,” he
to invite all eligible Negroes to
on the lowest ‘possible plane.”
| said.
alf an Amer
“There ain’t
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no such animal!”
No, there just can’t be half an American. Tt is a case of ALL—not
almost. Anything less is un-American—un-American as those who
maliciously, or unknowingly, spread racial or religious intolerance.
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All of us know what the obsession of a “superior” race has meant in savage slaughter and slavery . . . in ravage and ruin. The pity of it is that too few of us here care to know that this Hitler-inspired doctrine has reached our own shores, its evil tentacles spread out to “divide and conquer”—to balve Americans.
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We must remember that this deadly, poisonous scheme, bora. of Nazi fanaticism, is one of the things that we Americans ind all the free people of the world, are fighting against. We must remember, too, as true Americans—that this great Country of ours was founded upon the principle that ALL men are created equal, that it became great through the contributions of ALL creeds—Catholic, Protestant and Jew —regardless of race—regardless of color.
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And let us remember that this war is being won by the contributions of ALL these creeds and races—Americans ALL—determined to keep
alive and burning the flame ‘of justice and equality.
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Stamp out this vicious attempt to divide Americans. , , to undermine American unity. Let the world know—once and for all—that we are
ALL Americans!
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