Washington, I>. C.
f DISrHARGEO VETERANS
1 President Roosevelt has just re
Ceived a suggestion from Chicago's
Mayor Ed Kelly designed to aid in
the rehabilitation of ex-servicemen.
Kelly, acting on a proposal from
his wife Margaret, head of Chicago's
tremendously popular servicemen's
mid organization, has urged FDR that
men be permitted to wear their uni
forms for three to six months after
they are discharged, if they want to.
Kelly pointed out that 30,000 Chicago
boys have been discharged from
service and that many return home,
after a year or more's absence,
feeling thoroughly out of place in
the community in civilian clothes.
Many folks don't even know the
boys have been off to war serving
their country, Kelly has pointed out.
Discharge buttons, promised many
inonths ago, are still not issued to
men everywhere. Even though dis
abled, they no longer can enter serv
icemen's centers for recreation, no
longer receive special rates in thea
ters.
Kelly also wrote the President
that, during the last war, men were
allowed to keep wearing their uni
forms for some time after their dis
charge. Many walked the streets in
uniforms hunting Jobs and received
preference because they were vet
erans.
Note?Chicago's servicemen's cen
ters have done one of the best Jobs
In the U. S. A., have served more
than 12,000,000 meals free.
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CONGRESSIONAL SOLDIERS
It's not nearly so bad as in the
last war, but several younger mem- j
bers of congress are having trouble
as they seek reelection, because they
are in congress and not in the army.
In most cases, the "slacker"
charges are simply whispered.
In one case, political opponents
are whispering about a congressman
who has received the navy's Silver
Star (or gallantry in action. He is
Lyndon Johnson of Texas, who saw
his bunkmata killed beside him in
the South Pacific.
Representative Albert Gore o(
Tennessee, who is 3fl, is another who
has been smeared in a whispering
campaign. A father. Gore waived
his congressional immunity last win
ter and was inducted into the army
as a private. However, at the re
quest of the President, he returned
to congress before he began train
Others who have felt the lash of
criticism because they are serving
their country in the office to which
they were elected are Wilbur Mills
of Arkansas, Jamie Whitten of Mis
sissippi, Lindley Beckworth of Tex
as, and even Representative Warren
G. Magnuson of Washington. The
39-year-old Magnuson, now running
for senator, has seen more of the
western Pacific theater than moat
soldiers and sailors in the area, was
serving on the aircraft carrier from
which General Doolittle's planes
took oil tor the ftst bombing of
Tokyo.
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AIR-COOLED CONGRESS
While war workers swelter in
movie theaters and while govern
ment officials suffer in Washington's
flimsy temporary buildings, the
hlgh-ceilinged house and senate of
fice buildings enjoy air conditioned
comfort?even with congress ad
journed.
? Although the capltol air-condition
ing equipment is being geared to use
the smallest possible amount of
treeu gas, the fact remains that it
took a special deal with WPB to
release the 14,000 pounds needed.
Meanwhile, movie theaters serving
W?r workers in the South have been
denied freon because of military de
mands.
' Capitol Architect David Lynn says
he'i the man to blame, not member*
of con<reu. He sayt not a tingle
member hat taken the matter up
with him.
' Probably no one it directly to
blame, unlet* it it the WPB of
ficial! who played favoritea in re
letting the freon. No one begrudges
the congressmen their air-condition
ing, but their buildings, because of
thick walla and high ceilings, would
be cool even without alr-condltion
the army's huge Pentagon
building, the freon supply has been
cut to the bone. The result, accord
ing to workers there, is that the
atmosphere is slightly warm. Last
yoar they claimed it was far too
chilly, with many colds resulting.
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Republican Party's Choice
GOV. THOMAS E. DEWEY OF NEW YORK
GOP FORESEES
VICTORY WITH
DEWEY- BRICKER
Republican* Unite Solidly
Behind Governors' Ticket
For Presidential Race.
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By GEORGE A. BARCLAY
AMID scenes of harmony and
A enthusiasm that proclaimed
to the nation the Republican
party's unity of purpose, Gov.
Thomas E. Dewey of New York
was chosen the party's wartime
nominee for the presidency at
the national convention in Chi
cago.
The delegates, whose nominating
Intentions had been apparent long
before they assembled in Chicago,
picked the 42-year-old governor by
a 1056-to-l vote. Then they mad* it
an all-governor, East-Middle West
ticket by choosing Ohio's John W.
Bricker for the vice-presidential
nomination. A single Wisconsin dele
gate, Grant Hitter, farmer of Belolt,
had cast a single ballot for Gen.
Douglas MacArthur for the presi
dency. Governor Bricker was nomi
nated unanimously.
Wendell L. Willkie, Republican
standard-bearer in 1940, was quick
to congratulate Governor Dewey.
"You have one of the great oppor
tunities of history," he told the
nominee (n a message sent from
New York City.
Flies to Chicago.
As Franklin D. Roosevelt did in
1932, Governor Dewey flew to Chi
cago from Albany, New York, to
deliver in person his acceptance
speech to the delegates. Vast crowds
surging around the Chicago Stadium
hailed the nominee when he arrived
from the airport. Inside the conven
tion hall he was given a tri
umpnam ovancm uiai enaea only
when Congressman Joseph W. Mar
tin Jr. of Massachusetts, house
minority leader and permanent
chairman of the convention, suc
ceeded in gaveling silence.
Governor Dewey's speech was
forthright and direct. It was re
ceived with rousing cheers by
the delegates and the Z5,SM
citizens who thronged the con
vention hall to tho rafters.
The nominee accepted his
great new honor with a pledge
to "end one-man government
In America," crash Germany
and Japan's win to make war
and devote himself to "rewin
ning freedom" at home.
The New Deal administration, he
told the delegates, has grown "old
and tired and quarrelsome in of
fice" and is unequal to tho great,
pressing problems of war and
peace.
Keep High Command.
Declaring that the military con
duct of the war "must remain com
pletely out of politics," Governor
Dewey said ha wanted to make it
"crystal clear" that any change in
administration would not involve
changes in the high command.
Gen. George C. Marshall, chief of
staff, and Adm. Ernest J. King, com
mander-in-chief of the U. S. fleet, are
doing a "superb job" he declared
and should retain their present posi
tion sod responsibilities.
Governor Dewey msde known un
mistakably that ha will stand
squarely on his parly's foreign dec
laration and brook no postwar inter
national plan that contemplates a
super-state. He did envision, how
ever, American participation with
other sovereign nations in a co
operative effort to prevent future
wars.
He pledged that he will make full
employment a first objective of na
tional policy. He declared the New
Deal had never had an employment
policy and finally got people to work
only after the country had entered
thg war,
High interest hsd centered in the
platform-building Job on which the
drafting committee headed by Sena
tor Robert A. Taft of Ohio had
toiled. Special attention was
focused on the controversial foreign
policy plank which had offered the
only issue capable of producing a
rousing inter-party battle.
The result, however, eras a com
promise?a middle-of-the-road state
ment calculated to cooclliafb inter
nationalist and pro-nationalist ele
ments in the party at the same time.
This foreign policy plank favors
American participation in postwar
security measures through "organ
ized international cooperation," but
shuns membership in a World
State.
In sessions of the platform com
mittee preceding the presentation of
Ha report, the governors of IS states
had sought to have more positive
and binding commitments on post
war international collaboration in
cluded. Their views had the vigor
ous support of Wendell Willkie. But
the prospects of any convention-floor
battle quickly faded when the dele
gates shouted their acceptance of
the platform without any audible
dissent.
Hail Dewey Leadership.
The convention's action on foreign
policy as well as on other planks
in the platform confirmed the view
that the Republican party will look
to Governor Dewey for decisive
leadership. For the delegates left to
the nominee the responsibility for
interpreting the platform and trans
lating its planks into a definite pro
gram.
The platform's statements urging
safeguards for the intrenchment and
expansion of American fanning, in
dustry, commerce and labor were
expressions of traditional Republi
can doctrine.
The farm plank, for instance,
recommended what it calls an
"American market price" as op
posed to subsidies, at the same
time leaving the door open for
aid from the government when
and as needed. It promises the
American farmer abundant pro
duction of food and fiber crepe.
It proclaims the need of guaran
teeing farmers "freedom from
regimentation and confusing
government manipulation and
control of farm programs."
Realistically enough, the farm
plank gives heed to the tact that
new surpluses might develop in the
postwar world, with markets declin
ing, and it endorses the principle of
crop adjustment only in times when
surpluses to be dealt with are judged
to have become abnormal and to
have exceeded "manageable pro
portions." -*"?
bomestie Objectives.
In the field of domestic policy,
the platform enunciates a number
of objectives. These include "tak
ing the government out of competi
tion with private industry" and pro
motion of fullest employment
through private enterprise.
The platform pledges full support
In restoring small business to a
profitable basis by elimination of
excessive and repressive re filia
tions and government competition."
Decentralisation el gov era
meat controls, retain to eensti
tational government, abolition a(
"wasteful government spend
ing," protection aI the rights ol
"free American labor" ? ol
which the party proclaims it
self the "historical champion"?
all are given their place hi the
program which the Kepnblicaa
party seeks to eCeetaate.
The labor plank is paced by a
vigorous denunciation of the New
Deal administration of labor laws.
Gov. Warren's Keynote Atlrisi,
Governor Warm's keynote ad
dress was a vigorous performance.
Ha listad these objectives of the
party:
"To get the boys back home again
?victorious and with all speed.
"To open the door tor all Ameri
can?to open, not Just to Jobs, but to
opportunity.
"To make and guard the
paaee sa wisely sad sa wall that
this time win ha the last tea
that Aaaericaa hemes are sailed
on to rive their sou and daugh
ters to the agony and tragedy
of war."
Elaborating on the principle of
providing jobs as well as oppor
tunity, Governor Warren declared
that the formula lay in stimulating
production to full blast, in a climate
favorable to free enterprise.
After accepting the permanent
convention chairmanship, Repre
sentative Martin ripped into the
New Deal ideology, which, he said,
"... lives upon vast streams of
government debt, and taking its
shapes and destinies from the direc
tives of a bureaucratic elite under
the command of a self-inspired
leader."
"The first thing the Republican
party will do when it comes into
power will be to restore to congress
its responsibility and function as the
people's special instrument of con
trol over their government," Mar
tin said.
Herbert Hoover Speaks.
As the party's elder statesman
versed in international affairs be
cause of his experience u Allied
food administrator during the first
GOV. JOHN W. BRICKER
World War, Herbert Hoover took op
the question of foreign policy, say
ing:
"It U obvious (ran the rise
ef nationalism that ideas tf
world supersoverum ent, no mat
ter tow idealistic, are already
dead . . . Peace mast be based
span cooperation between inde
pendent, sovereign nations."
Speaks far Women.
Speaking for the women. Rep.
Clare Boothe Luce of Connecticut
raised the question of the U. a
doughboy's wants in the future.
"G. I. Joe wants his country to
be secure, from here out. ..." she
declared.
"If Jim could stand here and talk
to you, he'd say:
"Listen, folks, the past wasn't per
fect. But skip it Get on with the
business of making this old world
better.
"... We came to choose a presi
dent who need not apologise for the
mistakes of the past, but who will
redeem them, who need not explain
G. L Jim's death, but will Justify
it ... "
Brisker Stirs Delegates.
The toner ef nsnilusting Gov
weat to Gov. Dwlght GrtewnUW
Nebraska. Governor Brlckerwto
had withdrawn his own candidacy
eloquent speech In which to de
clared to was "mere inter
ested h defecting the New Deal
phllasephy ef absolutism than
being president ef the United
States," so to was asking the
QtoOpdotegatisn te east to veto
Highlights
ROMANCE: Mr. and Mr* Thom
as Dewey became acquainted In Chi
cago in IMS, when Mr*. Dewey, the
former Prance* Hutt of Sheirnan,
Tex**, and Dewey were both music
students at a summer course. Five
years later when both had gone to
New York for further study they
won married. Mr. Dewaj was
practicing lew at the time, and Miss
Briefs
ALBANY TO WHITE HOUSE:
The New York gubernatorial office
haa been the training course tor tour
Presidents and two unsuccessful
candidates. Dewey Is the seventh
nominee to come before the national
electorate after serving ta Albany
as governor. Pour of the previous
go est noes have Teached the White
House: Martin Yen Burn, Grover
Cleveland, Theodore Roosevelt and
With Ernie Pyle at the Front
Nazi Snipers Caused Real
Trouble to Yank Invaders
Snipers Remain in Hiding;
Surrender When Ammunition Gone
By Ernie Pyle
SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE.?Sniping, as far as I know, is recog
nized as a legitimate means ol warfare. And yet there is something
sneaking about it that outrages die American sense of fairness.
I had never sensed this before we landed in Franca and began
pushing the Germans back. We have had snipers before?in Bizerte
and Cassino and lots of other places.' But always on a small scale.
Here in Normandy the Germans have gone in for sniping in a whole
sale manner. There are snipers everywhere. There are snipers in trees,
in buildings, in piles of wreckage, in the grass. But mainly they are in
the high, bushy hedgerows that form the fences of all the Norman fields
and line every roadside and lane.
It is perfect sniping country. A man can hide himself in the thick
ience-row snruD-1
bery with several
days' rations, and
it's like hunting a
needle in a hay
stack to find him.
Every mile we
advance there
are dozens of
snipers left be
hind us. They
pick off our sol
diers one by one
as th#?v walk
Ernie Pyle
down the roads or across the fields.
It isn't sale to move into a new
bivouac area until the snipers have
been cleaned out. The first bivouac
I moved into had shots ringing
through it (or a full day before all
the hidden gunmen were rounded up.
It gives you the same spooky feeling
that you get on moving into a place
you suspect of being sown with
mines.
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In past campaigns our soldiers
would talk about the occasional
snipers with contempt and disgust.
But here sniping has become more
important, and taking precautions
against it is something we have had
to learn and learn fast.
One officer friend of mine said:
"Individual soldiers have become
sniper-wise before, but now we're
sniper-conscious as whole units."
Snipers kill as many Ameri
cans as they can, and (hen when
their food and ammunition ran
out they surrender. To an
American that isn't quite eth
ical. The average American
soldier has little feeling against
the average German soldier who
has fought an open fight and lost.
Bat his feelings about the sneak
ing snipers can't very well be
put into print. Be is learning
how to kill the snipers before
the time comes for them to sur
render.
As a matter of fact this part of
France is very difficult for anything
but fighting between small groups.
It is a country of little fields, every
one bordered by a thick hedge and
a high fence of trees. There is hard
ly any place where you can see be
yond the field ahead of you. Most
of the time a soldier doesn't see
more than a hundred yards in any
direction.
In other places the ground is flood
ed and swampy with a growth of
high, ]ungli>-like grass. In this kind
of stuff it in almost man-to-man war
fare. One officer who has served a
long time in the Pacific says this
fighting is the nearest thing to
Guadalcanal that he has seen since.
We went to the far end of the
square, where three local French
policemen were standing in front of
the mayor's office. They couldn't
speak any English, but they said
there was one woman in town who
did, and a little boy was sent run
ning for her. Gradually a crowd of
eager and curious people crushed in
upon us, until there must have been
200 of them, from babies to old
women.
Finally the woman arrived?a little
dark woman with graying hair and
spectacles, and a big smile. Her
English was quite good, and . we
asked her if there were any Ger
mans In the town. She turned and
asked the policeman.
Instantly everybody in the crowd
started talking at once. The sound
was like that of a machine that in
creases to speed until its noise
drowns out all else.
Finally the policemen had to shush
the crowd so the woman could an
swer us.
She said there were Germans
all around, in the woods, tort
?one whatefer left to the town.
Jnst then a German stack Us
head oat of a nearby seeoad
story window. Somebody saw
him, aad an American soldier
was dispatched to get him.
Barneville is a fortunate place, be
cause not a shell was fired into it
by either side. The lieutenant with
us told the woman wo were glad
nobody had been hurt. When she
translated this tor the crowd, there
was much nodding in approval of
our good wishes.
We must have stood and talked
for an hour and a hall. It was a
kind of holiday for the local people.
They were relieved but still not quite
sure the Germans wouldn't be back.
They were still under a restraint
that wouldn't let them opep up riot
ously. But you could sense from
little things that they were glad to
have us.
A little French shopkeeper came
along with a spool of red, white and
blue ribbon from his store. He cut
off pieces about six inches long for
all hands, both American and
French. In a few minutes every
body was going around with a
French tricolor in his buttonhole.
Then a ruddy-faced man of middle
age, who looked like a gentleman
farmer, drove up in one of those
one-horse, high-wheeled work carts
that the French use.
He had a German prisoner in uni
form standing behind him, and an
other one, who was sick, lying on a
stretcher. The farmer had captured
these guys himself, and he looked so
pleased with himself that I expected
him to take a bow at any moment.
French people kept coming up and
asking us for instructions. A man
who looked as if he might be the
town banker asked what he was sup
posed to do with prisoners.
We told him to bring them to the
truck, and asked how many he had.
To our astonishment he said he had
70 in the woods a couple of miles
way, 120 in a nearby town, and 40
in another town.
As far as I could figure it out be
had captured them all himself.
Another worried-looking French
man came up. He was a doctor.
He said he had 26 badly wounded
Germans down at the railroad sta
tion and desperately needed medical
supplies. He wanted chloroform and
sulfa drugs. We told him we would
have some sent.
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When we finally started away
from the crowd, a little old let
low in faded bine overalls ran
op and asked as, In sign lan
guage, to come to his cafe for
a drink. Since we didn't dare
violate the spirit of hands
across-the-sea that was then
wafting about the town, we had
to sacrifice ourselves and ac
cept.
So we sat on wooden benches at
a long bare table while the little
Frenchman puttered and sputtered
around. He let two policemen and
his own family in, and then took the
handle out of the front door so no
body else could get in.
The Germans had drunk up all his
stock except for some wine and
some eau de vie. In case you don't
know, eau de vie is a savage liquid
made by boiling barbed wire, soap
suds, watch springs and old tent
pegs together. The better brands
have a touch of nitroglycerine for
flavor.
So the little Frenchman filled our
tiny glasses. We raised them,
touched glasses all around, and
vived la France all over the place,
and good-will-towards-men rang out
through the air and tears ran down
our cheeks.
In this case, however, the tears
were largely induced by our violent
efforts to refrain from clutching at
our throats and crying out in an
guish. This good-will business is a
tough life, and I think every Amer
ican who connects with a glass of
eau de vie should get a Purple
Heart.
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Thousands of little personal sto
ries will dribble out of D-day on
the Normandy beachhead. A few
that I pick up from time to time I
will pass along to you.
lbs freakiest story I've heard
is si an officer who was shot
through the faeo. He had Us
asesdh wide open at the time,
yeUng at somebody. The ballet
went In one cheek and right
through his mouth without
touching a thing, not even Us
teeth, and eat the other cheek.
y
Pyle Finds a Difference in Stories of Two Wars
The most wrecked town I have
seen to far is Saint Sauveur la
Vicomte, known simply as "San
Sah-Vure." Its buildings are gutted
and leaning, its streets choked with
rubble, and vehicles drive over the
top of it.
. Bombing and ahell&re from both
sides did it. The place looks exactly
like World War I pictures of such
places as Verdun. At the edge of
the town the bomb crater* are so
immense that you could put whole
bouses in them
A veteran of the last war pretty
well summed up the two wars the
other day when he said:
"This is Just like the last war,
only the holes are bigger."
The main roads are macadam and
the side roads gravel, winding, nar
row, and difficult for traffic.
\tukmc~ "*T;
; 4 mothc[;
* A General Quiz )
7Ae Questions
1. Approximately how modi or
the total land acreage of the UaiU
ed States is covered with forestsf
2. What is a peccadillo?
3. When was FDR first inaugu
rated?
4. With what group of men is As
name Ethan Allen associated?
5. What physical force throws
people off revolving turntables at
amusement parks?
8. What state. North or SowA
Dakota, was admitted to the Union
first?
The Answers
1. Approximately one-third at
the United States is covered with
forests.
2. A petty fault. i
3. March 4, 1933.
4. The Green Mountain boys.
5. Centrifugal force.
8. Both were admitted to lbs
Union on the same day, Novem
ber 2, 1889.
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