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' 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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."
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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.
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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,
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Many mother* rely on uiy-t>
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when a laxative ia needed by the
Yip T little ones. Equally effective for
^ grownups?has 45 year* of coca
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take powders. 35c. At all drug stores.
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SNAPPY FACTS
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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.
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