/special articleA ' BY THE LEADING \ Jugoslavia's Tito' By Frank Gervati special arrangement with CoIliePa Weekly) Fifteen years ago, Josip Broz was a nameless man hunted as a Com munist criminal by the police and secret agents of the then most pow erful figure in Jugoslavia, Gen. Pera Zivkovic, strong-arm front man for the late pious, dictatorial King Alex ander. Josip Broz did not have a birth certificate, much less a passport. For the entire year 1928, he lived in the political underworld of eclats and garrets in Belgrade, Zagreb and Split, and wherever he- could find refuge. His crime? He had organized the Metal Workers' Union and was one of the leaders of the trade-union movement in Jugoslavia. He was caught early in 1929 and Jailed. He was released four years later with gray in the soft waves of his brown hair, ulcers in his stom ach and a dream in his brain. Leader of 300,000 Fighters. Today, at the age of 55, he stands at the head of an army of 200,000 and possibly 300,000 oddly uniformed but uniformly determined men and women known as "Partisans," who have proved everlastingly that slave men may win battles but free men win wars. TnHov Incin Rrtvr la 4lta mllilofw and spiritual leader of a movement which has broken the Naxis' hold on the Balkans, obviated an Allied of fensive in southeastern Europe until the main German armies can be crushed In the East and West, and has riven new meaning to the words "A People's War" and "The Four Freedoms." To his army and the guerrilla bands and to millions of Jugoslavs in freed territory and the outside world, Josip Broz is known as Tito. "Ti" means you and "To" means this. Broz has few idiosyncracies or mannerisms to mark him apart from other men, but one of them is the habit of prefacing an order with "You do this." Hence his name. It is pronounced Tee-toe. To the Titos of this world and their followers must go an indefinable measure of credit for the victory that will be ours. ' To one particular Tito?he who was born on a 30-acre farm near Zagreb of a Croat father and a Slovene mother?must go most of the credit for the rebirth of Jugo slavia and the immobilization of the German armies in the Balkans, and the setting into motion of a revolu tion in southeastern Europe which might provide a permanent solution to the problems of one-third of the people of that continent. MikhaUovitch Helped. What credit isn't Tito's must be given to Draja Mikhailovitch, who unfortunately chose, at one stage of his dramatic career as liberator, to turn from killing Germans to taking part in civil war and only sporadi cally resumed the bigger job. Tito is of slightly more than me dium height, broad-shouldered, long armed and sturdy-legged. His head sets low on his shoulders and it Is a remarkable head. In profile, It is the head of a poet and philosopher who is also a skilled craftsman?a Cellini perhaps. Full face, it is the tough, determined visage of a triple threat halfback. a ?ioe view of uus prodigious proletarian shows a high forehead, bulgy shatn brows with a deep ?rease between them, capable of eloquent frowning. Tito4T nose Is lone, slightly beaked, with thick nos trils. He has a straight, kindly month, good chin and a heavy work man's nock. There Is what some wonld call an American Indian east In his featares. Face to fhee, he looks remarkably Hke a clean-shaven Stalin, the effect being accentuated consciously or not by the cut of his unadorned broad eollared tunic. He speaks matter-of-factly, In a low, well-modulated voice, looks di rectly at you as be talks and never speaks until you have finished what you have to say. He talks, they any, to each Individual in an audi ence, moving his eyes deliberately from cme person to another. He smokes innumerable cigarettes, chain fashion, from a small holder. Far from being "a man of steel," he is capable of great emotion. Means far Dead. ? "When something really bloody happens," a man who spent months with him in Jugoslavia told me, "he's knocked out. No hysterics, no pyrotechnics. He just retires qui etly for hours, as he did the night he got word that his friends Milose vic and Kovasevic had been killed." Out of their affection for Tito, the people have fashioned s legendary fean of extraordinary courage and dndurhi?e who'rides a white charg er and walk* uphill to spare its strength, who li always at the head of his guerrilla detachments. Spearheading War on Typhus in 'Sunny Italy' Ready with spray fans and other delousing equipment, members of the flying squad of the U. 8. army assigned to light typhus in Naples (left) are off to investigate reports of a ease of lice-earried disease. In pie tore at top a baby member of a Neapolitan family is given a dose of liee-killing powder. ? The man with the gun is an Italian member of a delousing squad. Right: Here the "target" is a woman who has been exposed to typhus. She has been living in a filthy tunnel in the slum section of Naples. U. S. Nurses Get Jungle-Wise in Indian Jungle ? Four V. S. nurses now In training to replace Lient. Col. Gordon Seagrave and his Burmese nurses on the Burma front, are shown (left) cooking chow over their fire during an eight-mile hike with full combat packs. They are trained to live in the Jungle in order that they may be better able to eare for their patients. Bight: An army nurse pushes her way through thick Jungles of bamboo on the Indian-Burmese border. - I Barkley Breaks With President Roosevelt Sen. A]ben BtrUe; (D.t Kj.), who announced his resignation u Democratic leader el the senate la protest against President Roosevelt's attack on congress In the tax veto message, is shown as he met with members of the press after his sensational speech. A lighting mad con gress rallied behind him. Senate Democrats reelected him leader. [ ' ? ' ? 1 Tech Head Paints a Self-Portrait * His family "made" kin wear a smack, but Dr. Rebert E. Doherty, president of the Carnegie Institute of Technology, says It wonld hare seemed more fan if he eonld get paint oa himself while doing a self portrait. His self-portrait won him the trst prise of the Associated Art iste of Pittsburgh exhibit. Painting is the edncator's hobby. Zeros His Specialty SUIT Sergt. John A. Murphy, 24, of Columbus, Neb., shown draped with Jap-Hlling bullets, recently blasted five Zeros out of the air on a single mission, becoming the see turret gunner in the Rough Raiders' Strafer Unit, Fifth Air force. 'Pinup'to Pin Girl One of the servicemen's favorite pinup (iris becomes Uncle Sam's fie girt as Ami Sheridan does another war chore by collecting pins, In Una with a government appeal to moo pins, which are becoming scarce. ' 1 THE POLITICAL TREND This department is not afraid of a Fascist government in America. It's afraid of a Croonist regime. Signs indicate a growing danger. ? Down in Louisiana frinstance, the next governor, unless all signs fail, will be a fellow who has leaped into fame as a crooner, guitar player and radio entertainer. He is also a Hol lywood cowboy actor, which helps when the mob makes an appraisal of the qualities of statesmanship in this gooney era. ? Jimmy Davis who goes around with his guitar singing "Ton Are My Sunshine," "It Makes No Dif ference Now," "Nobody's Darling" and a fine selection of corny num bers has won the primary and is as good as elected. ? This is an age of screwball tastes and if the G.O.P. wants to lick Roosevelt it had better run Sinatra and Crosby. ? Statesmanship is of no account to day if it doesn't record well for juke boxes. ? Public leadership cannot quickly be established in America without a good list of ballads, some musi cal instrument and,a mike. In Lin coln's day it was "From log cabin to White House." Today it's "From 'Pistol Packin' Mommer' To Any Office Within the Gift of the People!" ? What a candidate used to do with oratory and a statement of beliefs he now does with "Milkman, Keep Those Bottles Quiet" and "All or Nothing at All." ? Both Wendell Wiilkie and Tom Dewey are making a fatal political mistake in not proclaiming their candidacy through a rendition of: Mairzy doats and dozy doats And liddle lambzy divey. * I Years ago in order to get the votes for public office in this country a man had to have solid opinions, some experience in public office, a platform and an opinion on the tar iff. Now all that is necessary is a Crossley rating. ? Down in Texas the question right now is not "What experience has he ever had in governmentT" but "How many records did he make in the last year?" ? Yon can fool all the people some of the time and some people all the tiiac; and, with a good radio per sonality and a fair musical routine, yon can fool all the people all the time. ? ? ? THE BEACH BELOW ROME Anzio! Just another coastal town! A fair sort of vacation place, sleepy now in winter drabness. A no-ac count spot in a tough war. That's what you thought, Joe. Maybe, crashing through it, you called it a bum town. Well, you were right in a way. Two great bums lived there once. Couple of guys named Nero and Caligula! ? Nero and Caligula, two of the great bums of history. Bums with color and class, but murderers and torturers and tyrants to a fare-thee well. They were born around An zio. The name of the town was changed on 'em to get rid of the bad taste. Maybe, on a pass from hell, their spirits stood there in the shadows along the beaches when the Yanks landed. They were big, noisy brutal guys, Joe, but craven against odds. They must have been pretty scared when they saw you Yanks leaping ashore from landing craft. w Nice guys, Nero and Caligula! They poisoned their wives and kid dies, when they couldn't devise something rougher. They were close to all-time tyrants, but in points they didn't rate up with certain top Nazis. The people caught up with them in time and they got the works. II alive today they would have strung along with Adolf and Benito and Hermann. They were the type. They liked to torture the weak and to kick the helpless around. ? Once Caligula held a public ban quet in the middle of a bridge for the fun of seeing it collapse, drown ing the merrymakers. Hitler would have liked that. Caligula did crazy things. He once appointed his horse consul. I You know all about Nero, Joe. He was the swastika type. Sweet boy, Nero! He poisoned his own mother for what you would call "a dame." He killed his own wife. ? A star. Nova Pictoris, has just blown up. Looking down on earth, a star's indignation must be pretty close to the exploding point most of the time these days. ? ? ? Some suggestions were recently made to our airmen that they cut out the highly suggestive names painted on some bombers. They were too rough. We have just heard of one result One of the bombers that has been doing terrific battling . over Germany bears the name I "Wabbit Twacks." 1 Who's News This Week By Delos Wheeler Lovelace. CmaoUdatcd Featuru.?WNU Ralaaaa. NEW YORK.?In November, 1917, when the United States had been in World War I for seven months, the navy sent to its Brook _ _ lyn yard an Spruance Goes to Annapolis Sea in Thia War; graduate 11 An Admiral Now years ?ut ?f the academy and just turned 30. He'd had a post graduate course in electrical engi neering and he'd helped build the battleship Pennsylvania before go ing to sea in her. The powers that be figured that he'd make a top notch electrical superintendent. The only person displeased about the whole thing was Raymond Amos Spruance himself. In fact, the only thing that delighted him was that he managed to wangle a couple of months afloat in .1918. This time it has turned out the way he likes It, and President Roosevelt recommends that this same officer, now 57 and a vice admiral, be promoted to admiral for his. success as commander of the mighty assault force that just trounced the Japs in the Marshall islands. The admiral's a man who shuns the limelight, but talk to navy men and they'll tell you he's tops as a tactician. He plans his moves meticulously, and carries them out with skill and daring. He and Vice Ad miral Fletcher drove the Japs back at Midway in 1942, and Spruance himself had eharge of the conquest of the Gilberts. He packs a tremendous amount of energy in his medium build, and he drives himself and the men with him hard when the heat is on. His rug ged face had been weathered by many a salt breeze. His blue, flinty eyes are those of a born commander. The Spruances are a family of four. His wife apd daughter live out on the Pacific coast and his son, true to the navy tradition, is an officer on a submarine. QUITE likely Mrs. George C. Marshall is doing a little extra listening these days. The thoughtful chief of staff of the Army of the General Ha* Silent stales talks Audience in Mr*, outhisprob Geo. C. Marshall le?8 wife as to no one else. And with the going a trifle heavy in Italy he may be talk ing more than usual. It is to be noted that the gen eral talks his problems to, and [ not with, Mrs. MarsbaU. Unlike some Washington wives she pre tends to no expert knowledge in her husband's field, even the edges of it. Her role is that of audience while the sometimes harassed general thinks out loud. For this role she is nicely fitted. She used to be a Shakesperian actress and .parly learned to show a lively, but silent interest while Mansfield and others reeled off the long, magnificent speeches of the Bard. For both the Marshalls this is their second marriage. He met her on a boat when she was a Baltimore lawyer's widow, met her again on land, decided he had done enougt reconnaissance and found she fell the same way. A slim wife, hardly up to her husband's shoulder, with modish gray hair, she is finely propor tioned for the roles of Portia, Juliet and Rosalind. These were among her favorites. Ophelia was one of her favorites, too, but that can hardly be of any present help. ??? PEN. Alexander A. Vandegrift, ^ commandant of the marine corps, marks the first birthday of the women's reserve with an all en Col. Rath Streeter dorie^," And the Marinet and a smile Have No Regret* !'8hts UP ** keen blue eyes of Col. Ruth Cheney Streeter. Those are the very words she has been waiting 12 months to hear. She knew that at the start the leather necks, almost to a man, were from Missouri as far as her organization was concerned. Now the stamp of approval is as emphatic as the skep ticism was real, and the director of the reserve is justly proud. A year ago if this aetion-loving wife of a lawyer could have had her way, she'd have been ferry ing planes overseas. She had learned to ly at 45 and held a civilian pilot's license, and* it seemed pretty silly to her that Washington thought 47 to# old for the Ferry Command. Her year in the marines has erased that disappointment. She admits she was startled when the marines commissioned her a major in January of 1943 and set her to bossing the sister group to the WAVES. She had found time from running her home in ?Morris town, N. J., and bringing up her four children to participate in wel I fare and defense work, but this was something else again. She received her second promotion in a year last January and now she far outranks her three sons in service, two in the navy and one in the army. Only her husband and her daughter are not in uniform. 'Banks' on Elevatorg and Cranes Serve Naval Mea In the naval clothing depot fe Brooklyn, a New York bank cashes checks and receives de posits on pay days through tellers who work in portable cages set up in the elevators to facilitate going from floor to floor, says Cot lier's. In the navy yard near by, other tellers likewise serve workers, I from movable offices that are car I tied by cranes to the various I "banking locations" around the I yard. I ?cover with warm flannel?eases mus cular aches, pains, coughs. Breathed. in vapors comfort irritated nasal mem branes. Outside, warms like piaster. Modem medication in a base contain, ing old fashioned mutton suet, only 25c, double supply 35c. Get Penetro, rBARBARA ? I sTANWVCKI I - "f 1?SCJ1 H United '"^n.^oomed, *?"" fl ?g the n>any * u J?ood stan wb" l| ? formed HoU^powitt | B u?e Cft * & Robbing lnc* 1 B McKes^n ^ | lc?ox;?gJ FRETFUL CHILDREN Many mother* rely on uiy-t> *?ke Mother Gray'i Sweet Powder t when a laxative ia needed by the Yip T little ones. Equally effective for ^ grownups?has 45 year* of coca try-wide approval. Package of 16 eary-ta take powders. 35c. At all drug stores. IHOTHIK OKAY'S SWEET POWPIH SNAPPY FACTS ABOUT t) RUBBER m?? More than 25 American auto motive companies are making military vehicles for United States soldiers and our Allies ? and they have first call oa tires and other rubber items. Forty thousand additional miles have been obtained from Individual tires In use at Camp Stoneman becouse of the tire-saving campaign in force there since rubber became scarce. No trfcla ?iust plain tire cart and recapping at the right time. An SrS'peund electric magnet attached to an electric truth "?weeps" the lloorf of a mu nition. factory of .feel litter and .erve. the double pur poee of salvaging metal one preventing tire punctures. REGoodrichl tVJlllld^S constTpation SLOW YOU UP ? Whaa bownl. ?. ii*1' fml briUbK b 'do-drnw FKEN-A-MINT *? ??? chnwing-gum ln*?ti?- S"nP ? ^ FEEN-A-MINT bofor. J"""*" *.w~? only in ?xord?nc? *> ^ FEEN-fl-HINTj^ r? ?uof ft.- tVl'.'**?'""* PAIO ??"S' ?M.C. ??*"?