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News j Behind twne By pAULMALLONjy^ Released by Western Newspaper Union. CIO POLITICAL COMMITTEE GETS ACTIVE WASHINGTON.?Digging behind most major domestic news develop ments lately, you will And the CIO and its political action committee. Behind the senate poll tax con sideration, the defeat of Congress man Starnes in Alabama, the pres entation of two new labor cases to the Supreme court, actions of the War Labor board, as well as the celebrated Montgomery Ward case, is this aggressive labor movement working on the one hand with its regular business, and, the other underhand with a political business to get Mr. Roosevelt elected for a fourth term, and itself in the politi cal saddle. While the nation was once shocked ?t John L. Lewis lending-spending $800,000 to reelect Mr. Roosevelt the second time, it seems likely the CIO will spend s far greater sum if it keeps its present unprecedented scale of political pressuring?all of which must come only from the workers whom it taxes with dues. The man who defeated Demo cratic Representative Stames in Alabama, for instance, was a CIO attorney, and thus on their payroll. In two cases now presented to Mill-workers?Utah?Kennecott Cop per and Rlchwood Clothespin), the CIO Is trying through the National Labor Relations board to get a re versal ' of union elections which it lost. In the Montgomery Ward case, it won the election, but when it loses, apparently, it brings the election into question before the labor board and courts in such a way as to raise doubt as to whether it can ever lose. MORE ACTIVE THAN PARTY Hand in hand with this wartime organizing agitation through the government labor boards to the Supreme court, its Sidney HiUman Is far more active in political cam paigning than the Democratic na tional committee, taking the radi cal and communist line, Issuing a weekly paper with pictures showing Mr. Hi 11man directing negro or ganizers, not for the union but for politics ? and, indeed, pressuring even Mr. Roosevelt himself directly through Phil Murray to upset the government's "Little Steel" for mula. Never in all the history of this democracy has there appeared such a dual business and political move ment openly seeking, spending and pressuring to dominate the politics, the decisions and even war eco nomics of the country. The wolves of Wall street, when they had a bite in years past, were cubs by comparison. By contrast also there has been little unusual political activity and no apparent agitation from the ATI#. Democratic part; mattera have reached such a state that Senator Bailey of North Carolina, announced if Hi Urn an "and his CIO and com munists" dominated the Democratic party, he will resign from it. Sena tor McKellar also has charged "CIO la hall communist." Clearly, It is not only in the union and political, but In the social reform business. Practically all the leading south era senators attributed the current poll tax discussion to pressure from Hillman'e CIOPA. The group has caused the senate to waste a week's time in what Democratic Leader Berkley conceded at the outset was a futile argument. AN OUTDATED ISSUE Indeed, no one except the CIO, its political action and the communist groups, seem any longer interested in the poll tax. It is an outdated Issue, made even more obsolete by the Supreme court ruling upset ting the southern primary system. No one seems to want the poll tax anyway. Apparently, these groups thought they could force the senate to fili buster and thus make the usual poli tical hay (or themselves, but the southern senators decided to keep their long-winded man In the back pound, and Senators Connelly, George, Bankhead, Bailey and McKellar led off the debate to argue the case on its merits. Soma Republican* had aarvad pri nt* ootid* that thay might job the Bnrklay cloture mora it tha Ballowa boy* war* lat loo**, but tha loading aoutharnara wax* willing to under taka tha uariaaa argumant anyway on s straight basis btctun of the fhapat at tha QOP A to conatitutlorial government ? and their party aa Tha fourth term front oflarad aft Ciatty bf Chitrmap H^wnBgm in hit Haw York ipeach took no notie* of Hfllman ahd OOP A. or it* aocial re form line, but followed an opposite nawfoaljehiflh Mr. Rooaaralt par daad, but founded hie caaa on tha intarnational considerations Hannegsn top ia riding tha fourth tattn bona In ana diractfan whll* CXO and tha Hlllman CIOPA and aomimmiab ar* riding tha ?~ ban* h ardor In fit* oppoalta way. 9k j a Ik*' n* ' ' r^-n The 'Big Push' in Italy tfrALY^ 1 ... . _J French forces, eater for another smack at the traditional foe, have taken the spotlight in the big Allied drive in Italy. They struck west ward from Castelforte (1) in a sensational assault on Mt. Malo, and cap tured the important town of Ausonla, cottinf the only road through the valley and ripping a hole In the Gnstav line. To the south (8) U. 8. forces drove the enemy from Santa Maria Infante, and northward (small arrows) the British Eighth army extended its Rapido river bridgehead. Saved From Japs A hippy imOe Is worn by An gus! Johnson, a small Australian lad, who has been a captive of the Japs occupying the Hellaadla, Dutch New Guinea area. When found. Utile August was wearing a pair of discarded Japanese army shoes three times too large. Hitting Beach Behind Curtain of Fire Landing barge* carrying troop* ashore in the assault on Humboldt Bay, Dutch New Guinea, more in behind a curtain of Ore laid down by navy ship* and planes. So accurate was the bombardment that barge* swept op to the shore right on the heels of the forward moving explosives. Operations in the three Dutch New Guinea sectors are believed to have cut off some M.Md Japs. i Corn Culture on 'Guad' Agricultural expert, William Dor sey, discusses the finer points of corn culture with native farmers en Guadalcanal. This field is mm of many in the Solomons tended by natives that produce fresh fruits and vegetables for hospitals servicing American wounded in this area. Summer Comes to 'Big Town' Among the hot weather teenee In Bronx ooe. New Ink, thia ono (loft) was ahont the eatest. Six-year-old Gordon Gaynar Is shewn enjeytng an lee cream eone as Ms companion, a "horny hear," enjoys a eena el his own. Right: When the mereary Jamped to M decrees In Chteage, Jimmy PUIa, two, and his pap, Jamped tar tbs water at the heaeh. Here Comes Groom ______________ I I?g and short ot it Is?they gat married! Stanley Km, M, three leet twe Tauderille comedian, end Evelyn Local, tre-foot-elghi, ot Cin eiimatl, obtain marriage Heense In CUeago from clerk Virgil Dresicr, as mt?-loot-alne Henry HHe, Ron' ?tag* partner, leoks on. Marriage was performed later by Jadge Paal A. Jones. Portable Kitchen for Nazis on Eastern Front TMt (Mm, nmM Miiih> i mhil nam, rknii aiaWn at ? Otnui ufrthmft fsa eraw miIiMm a law maaaaats tram air aMaah ta pal a Mta to aat, ainrtai am mm taka trauL Tfca M wfclik fep mm la ka aatiaf wttfc graat raiiak, ihiimHj was pra para* sa a partaMa stava. I Induction Note ed tor MmOm at Fart toeriZt DL, wttfc tafaat Ma. raria* b? Mil ?tot M mm to take ear* at rkUd. It was gli? a II h?i pan aai ? are ad to taped eezt dap, atoaa the kakp. ?Q With Ernie Pyle at the Front Here's How It Feels to Ride On a B-26 Bombing Run Crews Know Their Business; Morale Is Good Among British-Based Fliers By Ernie Pyle. A U. S. BOMBER STATION IN ENGLAND.?These sre some of the boys who have been blasting out our Invasion path on the continent of Europe. For nearly a year they have been hammering at the wall of defense the Germans have thrown up. How well they have blasted we will know before the summer is over. They are a squadron of B-26 Marauder bombers. They are repre sentative of the entire mighty weight of the tactical bombers of the Ninth air force. I have come to spend a few days with them because I wanted to get a taste of the pre-invasion assault from the air stand point before we get a mouthful of the invasion proper from the ground. ?? ? ? me way i nappenea 10 come wi this certain squadron is one of those things. One mgnt in London I was sitting at a table with some friends in a public house when two boys in uniform leaned over from the next table and asked if I weren't So-and-so. I 5 a l u yea, Ernie Pyle whereupon we got to talking and then we got to be pals and eventually we adjourned from one place to another, as Damon Bunyon would say, and kept on adjourning throughout the evening, and a good time was had by all. These boys were B-26 bom bardiers, and in the course of the evening's events they asked if I wouldn't come and live with their squadron awhile. Being nothing if not accommodating, I said sure, why not. And here we are. The two boys were Lieuts. Lindsey Green (2360 Chestnut street), San Francisco, and Jack Arnold (603 N. Fourteenth street), East St. Louis, 111. Being redheaded. Lieutenant Arnold goes by the name of "Red Dog." They are both very nice people indeed. ? ? ? The boys say this is the best squadron in England. Nine out of ten squadrons, or infantry com panies, or quartermaster battalions, will say the same thing about them selves. It is a good omen when they talk like that. This station seems to me to have 1 about the finest spirit I've run onto . in our army. It is due, I think, largely to the fact that the whole organization has been made into ? leaf team. The commander of this group is Col. Wilson R. Wood, Chico, Texas. Five years ago he was an enlisted man. Today, at 25, he is a full colonel. He is a steady, human per son and he has got what it takes to blend thousands of men together into a driving unit. ? ? ? The Job of the B-26s Is several fold. For one thing, they had to rid upper France and the Low coun tries of German fighters as far as possible, to clear the way for our heavy bombers on their long trips into Germany. They have done this not so mneb by bombing airdromes, whieh can be immediately re paired, as by blasting the enemy's reserve supplies of planes, engines and propellers. Their second Job is to disrupt the enemy's supply system. Much of their work of late has been on railroad marshalling yards, and along with A-20s and fighter-bombers they have suc ceeded to a point where British papers say Germany cannot maintain a western front by rail. And third, they constantly work on the enemy's military installations along the Channel coast. They feel that they have done a good Job. U they haven't I'm going to be plenty sore at them one of these days, because I might be fas the vicin ity and if there's anything that makes me sick at the stemaeh it's a military installation in coed work in r order. ? ? ? The IMS is ? bomber which U very fast and carriea a two-ton bomb load. In ita early stages it had a bad name?it was a "hot" plane which took great skill to By and which killed more people in train ing than it did in combat. But the B-36 has lived down the bad name. The boys of this squad ron wouldn't fly in anything else. They like it because it can take quick and violent evasive action whan the flak is bothersome, and be cause it can run pretty well from fighters. Its record over here is excellent. Bomhlng accuracy has been high and losses have been extremely low. And as for accidents?the thing that cursed the plane in its early days? f ? they have been next to nonexistent here. The boys so convinced me of the B-26's Invulnerability that I took my courage in my band and went on a trip with them. ? ? ? They got as np at 2 in the morning. Red Dog gave me an extra pair of long drawers to put on. Chief gave me hie combat pants, as I had given mine away in Italy. Also I put on extra sweaters and a macld naw. Then we walked through the moonlight under the trees to the mess hall. It was only 2:30 a. m., but we ate breakfast before the takeoff. And we had two real fried eggs too. It was almost worth getting up for. We drove out to the field in a jeep. Some of the boys rode their bicycles. There were a couple of hundred crewman altogether. At the field we went into a big room, brightly lighted, and sat on benches for the briefing. The briefing lasted almost an hour. Everything was explained in detail?how we would take off, how we would rendezvous in the dark, where we would make the turn toward our target. Then we went to the locker room and got our gear. Red'?Dog got me a pair of flying boots, a Mae West life preserver, a parachute and a set of earphones. We got in the jeep again and rode out to the plane. We stood around talking with the ground crew. Finally, 10 minutes be fore take-off time, we got into the plane. One of the boys boosted me up through a hatch in the bottom of the plane, for it was high, and with so many clothes I could hardly move. I sat back in the radio com partment on some parachutes for the take-off. Red Dog was the only one of the crew who put on his chute. He said I didn't need mine. ? ? ? We were running light, and It didn't take long to get off the ground. I had never been in a B-26 before. The engines seemed to make a terrific clatter. There were runway markers, and I could see them whiz ?past the window as we roared down the runway. A flame about a foot long shot out of the' exhausts and it worried me at first, but finally I decided that was tire way h was sup posed to be. ? ? ? At 12,000 feet ?p it begins to (et daylight before it does on the ground, and while we could now see each other plainly in our B-26, things were still darkly indistinct in Eng land, far down there below us. Now and then a light would flash on the ground?some kind of marker beacon for us. We passed over some airdromes with their runway lights still on. Far in the distance we could see one lone white light?probably a window some early-rising farmer had forgotten to black out. "Red Dog" Arnold, the bombard ier, was sitting in the copilot'4 seat, since we weren't carrying a copilot. The boys got me a tin box to sit on right behind Red Dog so I could get a better view. We climbed higher, and at a certain place the whole groep ef B-Ms made a turn and beaded for the target. This wasn't a mission over enemy territory, and there was ne danger te it. As we neared the target Red Dog crawled forward through a little opening into the nose, where the bombardier usually sits. The entire nose is plexiglas, and you can see straight down and all around. He motioned for me to Join him. I squeezed into the tiny compart ment. There was barely room for the two of us. The motors made less noise up there. By now daylight had come and everything below was clear and spectacular. I stayed In the noee until we were well on the way home, and then crawled back arid sat in the co pilot's seat beside Chief Collins. The sun came out, the air was smooth, and it eras wonderful flying along there over England so early in the morning. The Return Trip?In the Copilot's Seat We cum teak w? Mr hoi* air drome. peeled off ooa by ooa, and landed. Had Dof stayed up tn tha noaa during tha landing, ao I stayed in tha copilot's seat Land ing is about the most dangerous part at flying, yet it's tha ana aansatinn I lore most, TeriaTly wheti riding up front Chief put tha big plana down aa easily are hardly knew when the wheels touched. I wee shocked to teem later that we landed at the frightening speed of mare than 100 miles an hour. It's Just aa well I didn't know at the time. We sat in the plane tor a couple of m liwrtea while Chief filled out some reports, and then opened the hatch in the floor and dropped out. I eras the first of the group to hit the ground. HERE is a cookie jar that may be made at home from odds and ends of wood stenciled with gay peasant figures and quaint let tering. But that is not all. This jar or box sits on an old fashioned brightly painted corner shelf which may be cut out of thin wood and put together quickly with ;ln? and brads. The combination of [USC ACTUAL-SIZE PKTTEHN TO M CUT COOKIE BOX M AHDCORNIR SHELF OF THIW WO00 cookie box and shell will lend in terest to a corner in your kitchen or dinette and will be extremely useful as well. Even il you do not have a jig saw or a coping saw to cut out the graceful curves of the shelf pieces, you may mark the design on a piece of plywood or other thin wood and have it cut at your near est woodworking shop. As for the cookie box, it is all straight cuts. ? ? ? NOTE?Mrs. Spears has prepared aa actual size pattern for this corner shell and cookie box; also a stencil pattern with complete color guide for the lettering and peasant figures; all on one large sheet which will be mailed for 15 cents which Includes cost and postage. Ask for Pat tern sss and write direct to: MRS. RUTH WYETH SPEARS Bedford Hills New York Drawer IS Enclose 19 cents for Pattern No. 108. ! I t^|Eg King's Heralds Male Quart*} WIP ? WAIN ? win WILM ?WFM ? WOL ? W*AP WHIC ? 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