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News/" Behind By PaULMaLLON Released by Western Newspaper Union. MB. WALLACE AS AN OFFERING TO CIO WASHINGTON.?The guessing as to whether Mr. Roosevelt will pick Mr. Wallace as running mate again has been whetted somewhat lately in the congressional smoking clois ters, but it is a rather dull game. The frequently publicized move ments for Speaker Rayburn or Senator Burkley as replacements hardly represent any action or any attempt at organizing a fight, but rather the preferments of senators. The A. P. and INS tried to con duct polls (if the senate, and found most democratic legislators yawn ingly surmising Mr. R. would prob ably select Wallace as an offering to CIO, and that nothing they could do or say would make much difference. In bet, most democratic politicos seem to have decided to watch their tongues most carefully, and thereby . have created a strange situation, not unlike the period of frozen silence which prepared the way for the third term campaign. On a free vote of the democratic side of both houses, either Rayburn or Barkley would run far ahead of Wallace. A few months ago, few legislators would have hesitated to say so. At that time also, the CIO was highly unpopular. Since then, CIO has not changed, but its political action committee has started spend ing the $700,000 appropriated for the campaign with some successes in the primaries. The fall of Starnes in Alabama and retirement of Dies has been fol lowed by defeat of Costello (in the aircraft workers district in Los Angeles) and the defeat of Senator i Holman for republican renomination in Oregon. Holman was defeated by a former public member of the War Labor board, Wayne Morse, generally re garded around here as not un- : friendly to CIO. The congressional interpretation is that the CIO went into the republican primary, as there was no contest among the democrats, and gave enough votes to defeat Holman, who was not espe cially popular anyway. ? ? ? POPULAR SENTIMENT UNCHANGED There is no ground for interpret ing attitude in tha nation as a whole toward CIO (the last measuring of popular sentiment nationally having been reflected in the Mont gomery Ward case). But those who make democratic politics their busi ness have coupled these events with Mr. Roosevelt's determination (they think) to run and have thus pulled a blanket over their heads, to do any future business thereunder. Of course, CIO is a minority of a minority, the lesser part of the union labor movement, and these are thinly voted pri maries. What force it could bring to bear in an election may be something else again. For the present. It has at least I7M.M0 and an apparently ruth less determination to exert its fullest political pressure (even opposing at least one demo cratic representative who has voted with labor on all except two or three remote Issues.) Mr. Wallace is a leader of this group, in tha sense that he chooses to act like a talking custodian for that residue of votes while Mr. Roosevelt is busy with the war. In dispatching him to China, Mr. R. said he was "a messenger" not a high sounding title (others flying tha same route have been called "ambassadors" and "emissaries"), but Mr. Wallace picked up the title proudly in a formal statement. He spoke in the cosmic gradeur of an Oriental mystic with such sentences as: "The future of China belongs to the world, and the world in Justice and peace shall belong to China," whatever that means. It would appear wiser for Mr. Roosevelt to stand with Wallace, but allow the pasty to tight for Raykurn or Berkley- if it chooses. The president already has the CIO which has no place else to go, but could gain votes and prestige by pleasing the democratic party men who are awe-struck at the possi- I biltty of Wallace again, but realize Mr. Roosevelt has as dose or a closer hold on the democratic dele gates to this next convention than ' he had on the last one when he nominated Wallace against the opposition of every other leader. Senator Truman of Missouri, for instance, came back from Missouri and publicly announced himself for Ray burn. fS ?11 ?L1 S ? -? ? u mu una wunoi Hmcvnii per plexing, remember it Is not new (Lewis hsving played the CIO role tor the second term and the Ameri can labor party and CIO having played it jointly tor the third term . which was similarly silently ap proached.) Otherwise, the story is still all in one man's mind, a mind which even Chairman Hannegaa and Berkley in their speeches are careful to say they do not know yet fc* Exhausted Yanks Bunk Like This on Italian Line . Exhausted Yanks catch brief naps, as opportunity offers, only about 400 yards behind the battle line In Italy. Even big guns don't wake'em. Lying amid brush and wild flowers, they grab a few winks before the next advance. Four views showing bow onr doughboys sleep while their buddies hurl the Germans back. West Point Cadets in Final Phase of Training These pictures show final phases of the first class training at West Point before graduation when th? eadets become second lieutenants and enter active service. In picture at upper left two cadets clean the morale of a 105-mm. howltser following the use of service ammunition in the rough terrain of West Point's newly developed training area. Lower left: Three eadets who rode the General Sherman tank up and down a target course point to where the 30-caliber ammunition found its mark on the tank. Right: Cadeta operate the three lt5-mm. howitxers. The future lieutenants used live ammunition as they fired the guns. RAF With Tito's Partisans _L ?? A British Royal Air Forco ofllcer, who la operating with tho Parti san forces of Marshal Tito In Yugoslavia, offers a cigarette to a Parti san woman guerilla. It was revealed recently that nnlts of the Royal Air Foree are working with the Partisans. Must Wear Beard This bearded leather-pusher Is Ernest Hemingway, famed war cor respondent. conditioning himself for reporting the second front. He mast wear beard for duration aa it is dis tinguishing mark on his passport. King in Pre-Invasion Visit to Home Fleet Attending a concert la the wardroom of the flagship of tho British home fleet daring recent pre-lnrision visit. King George, coster, laughs heartily with Admiral Sir Brace Fraser, right, commander-in chief of the home fleet. Oflleer at left to set Identified. Admiral Fraser r's> ed sn important role fee sinking the German battleship Seheraheret | ia the Njrt i sea. Der Fuehrer's Face This Germ a? prisoner teemed proad of Us resemblaae* to Hitler, which be has carefully cultivated. The captive pases here with William SpaMtaf. a U. 8. military psMiS saaa tram Dread?, N. I, With Ernie Pyle at the Front How a B-26 Bombing Crew Spends Its Working Hours Fighting an Air War Means Routine; Men *Work' About Two Hours a Day By Ernie Pyle A B-26 BASE IN ENGLAND.?"My crew" of two officers and three enlisted men have been flying together as team in their B-26 bomber since before leaving America more than a year ago. Every one of them is now far beyond his allotted number of com bat missions. Every one of them is perfectly willing to go through another com plete tour of missions if he can just be home for a month. I believe the same thing is true of almost^ everybody at this station. And it's a new experience for me, because most of the com bat men I've been with before wanted to feel finished forever when they went home. Every one of "my crew" has the distinguished flying cross and the air medal, with clusters. They have had nan through their plane numerous times, but none of them has ever been hit. They expect it to be rough when the invasion starts, but they're anxious to get it over with. In the past they have usually flown one mission a day over France, with occasionally two as the tempo of the spring bombings increased. But during the invasion they will prob ably be flying three and sometimes four missions a day. They will be in the air before daylight and they will come home from their last mission after dark. They will go for days and maybe weeks In a frenzied routine, eating hurriedly be tween missions, snatching a few hours of weary sleep at night, and being up and at it again hours before daylight to shuttle back and forth across the Chan nel. They and thousands of oth ers like them. ? ? ? Fighting purely an air war?as this one here has been up to now? is in some ways so routine that it is like running a big business. Usually a B-26 crewman "works" only about two hours a day. He re turns to a life that is pretty close to a normal one. There is no ground war to confuse him or disturb him or even inspire him with its horror. His war is highly technical, highly organized, and in a way somewhat academic. Because of this it is easy to get bored. An air crewman has lots of spare time on his hands. Neither the officers nor the enlisted fliers have any duties whatever other than fly ing. When not flying they either loaf around their own huts, writing let ters or playing poker or just sitting in front of the fire talking, or else they take leave for a few hours and go to the nearby villages. They can go to dances or sit in the local pubs and talk. And every two weeks they get two days' leave. That again is something new to us who have been in the Mediterranean. Down there, fliers do get leave to go to rest camps, and even to town once in a while if there is a town, but there's noth ing regular or automatic about it. These boys up hera get their two days' leave twice a month just like clockwork. They can do anything they want with it. Most of them go to London. Oth ers go to nearby cities where they have made acquaintances. They go to dances and night clubs and shows. They paint the town and blow off steam as any active man who lives dangerously must do now and then. They make friends among the British people, and they look up these same friends on the next trip to town. They do a thousand and one things on their leave, and it does them good. Also, it gradually creates an understanding between the two peoples that the other is all right in his own peculiar way. ? ? * After a certain number of mis sions a crew is usually given two weeks' leave. Most of them spend it traveling. Our fliers often tour Scot land on these leaves. It's amazing the number of men who have been to Edinburgh and who love the place. They have visited Wales and North Ireland and the rugged south western coast, and they know the Midlands and the little towns of Eng land. These two-week leaves doa't substitute in the fliers' mind for a trip hack to America. That's all they live for. That's what they tafc abort most of the time. A goal Is what anyone over I teas needs?a definite time limit to shoot for. Naturally it isn't possible right at this moment to send many people home, and the . fliers appreciate and accept that fact. But once the invasion is made and the first period of furious intensity has passed, our veteran fliers hope to start go ing home in greater numbers. ? ? 0 Lieut. Bill Collins, who goes by the name of Chief, is what is known as a "hot pilot." He used to be a fighter pilot, and be handles his Marauder bomber .as though it were a fighter. He is dar ing, and everybody calls him a" "character," but his crew has a fanatical faith in him. Chief is addicted to violent evasive action when they're in flak, and the boys like that because it makes them harder to hit. They've had flak through the plane and with in a foot of them, but none of them has been wounded. When they finished their allotted number of missions?which used to give them an automatic trip to America, but doesn't any more ? Chief buzzed the home field in cele bration of their achievement. He got that old B-26 wound up in a steep glide, came booming down at the runway, leveled off a foot above the ground and went scream ing across the field at 250 miles an hour?only a foot above the ground all the way. And at the same time \ he had to shoot out aU the red i flares he had in the plane. They say it looked like a Christmas tree flying I down the runway. Chief used to be a clerk with the j Aetna Life Insurance company back in his home town of Hartford, ? Conn.'He is 25 now and doesn't know whether he will go back to the in surance job or not after the war. He says it depends on how much they offer him. ? ? ? Lieut. Jack Arnold is the one they call Red Dog. He is only 22, al though he seems much older to me. He enlisted in the army almost four years ago, when he was just out of high school. He was an Infantryman for a year and a half before he finally went to bombardier school and got wings for his chest and bars for his shoulders. He figures that as a bombard ier he has killed thousands of Germans, and he thinks it Is an excellent profession. He says the finest bombing experience he has ever had was when they missed the target one day and quite accidentally hit a barracks full of German troops and killed many of them. Red Dog is friendly and gay and yet he is a fundamentally serious man who takes the war to heart. The enlisted men of his crew say that he isn't afraid of anything, and that the same is true of Chief Collins. They are a cool pair, yet both are as hospitable and friendly as you could imagine. ? ? . The plane's engineer-runner is Sgt. Eugene Gaines of New Orleans. j He is distinct from the rest because he married a British girl last De- j cember. They have a little apartment in a town eight miles from the field. Ev ery evening Gaines rides his bicycle home, stays till about midnight, then rides back to the airdrome. For you never know when you may be routed out at 2 a. m. on an early mission, and you must be on hand. It t?kes him about 45 minutes to ride the eight miles, and he has made the round trip nightly all win ter, in the blackout and through in describable storms. Such is the course of love. Gaines is a quiet and sincere young man of 24. He was a carpen ter before the war, and he figures that will be a pretty good trade to stick to after the war. But if a de pression does come he has an ace in the hole. He has a farm at Pearl River, La., and he figures that with a farm in the background you can always be safe and independent. - Gaines wears a plain wedding ring on his left hand. I've noticed that a lot of the married soldiers over here wear wedding rings. Ernie Pyle Crewmen Include Student, 'Old Cowboy From Arizona' The radioman-fanner la Rft. John Siebert of Charleatewa, Man. Ha learned to fly before the war, al though he ia only 2S now. Ha had about 800 houra In the air aa pilot. Yet because of one defective eye he couldn't get into cadet achool. He had two yeara at Maaaa chuaetta Institute of Technology, and he hopes to go back and Sniah when the war ia over. I Sgt. Kermit Pruitt, whom I spoke of the other day, is the tail gunner in "my crew." He's an old cowboy from Arizona. Pruitt is the talking kind. He talks and sings an the slightest provoca tion. He likes old cowboy songs. 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