‘Tell Helen I’ve found God’ –
Dying Navy airman writes to mom on wallet fly leaves
Sweetheart, parents and home cooking last thoughts of a fighting man
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‘Tell Helen I’ve found God’ –
MacArthur to lead Philippine invasion, Nimitz tells Legion
Admiral hints of other impending blows; Marshall: Crucial stage reached
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War hero dies
Santa Fe, New Mexico –
The body of Col. Hugh Benton Moore, 75, credited with having stopped Ludendorff’s push in France in 1918 by blowing up the bridges needed by the German general in his drive, was sent today to Texas City, Texas, for burial. Col. Moore, who died here Sunday, was the transportation officer on Gen. Pershing’s staff in World War I.
Bricker to set pace tonight for GOP here
Dewey’s running mate to speak at Mosque
By Kermit McFarland
Republicans will throw one of the biggest shows of the fall political season here tonight when Governor John W. Bricker, candidate for Vice President, comes here to deliver one of the principal addresses of his campaign.
Mr. Bricker, accompanied by Governor Edward Martin, was scheduled to arrive here about 6:00 p.m. ET from Erie, where he delivered a noonday talk.
The Ohio Governor has delivered several speeches here on previous occasions, but this is the first at a meeting open to the public.
Will speak at Mosque
He will speak in Syria Mosque at 9:30 p.m. ET.
Mr. Bricker’s half-hour address will be broadcast over WCAE and the Mutual Network.
Preceding Mr. Bricker’s appearance, the Republican rally, scheduled to start at 8:30, will be addressed by U.S. Senator James J. Davis (candidate for reelection) and County Court Judge Blair E. Gunther.
Rev. Cornell E. Talley, pastor of the Central Baptist Church, was scheduled to speak at this meeting, but is ill. If he is unable to appear tonight, his place will be taken by Hobson R. Reynolds of Philadelphia, former Negro Legislator.
Mr. Reynolds is the sponsor of the so-called “equal rights” law enacted by the 1935 session of the Legislature.
Other speeches scheduled
From here, Mr. Bricker will go to Harrisburg, for a noon address tomorrow from the Capitol steps and thence to Wilkes-Barre for a night rally.
His appearance tonight is expected to be a prelude to the No. 1 Republican rally of the campaign next month when local and state leaders hope to bring Governor Thomas E. Dewey, presidential candidate, here for an address at Forbes Field.
Mr. Dewey visited Pittsburgh in July, but delivered no speech, confining his activities to a series of conferences with regional business, political, labor and agricultural leaders.
Truman may speak here
Governor Bricker’s Democratic rival for the Vice Presidency is also expected to speak here later in the campaign, although no dates have been set. But President Roosevelt’s running mate, Senator Harry S. Truman of Missouri, is a favorite with local Democratic leaders who played an important part in bringing about his nomination at the Chicago convention.
He was scheduled to deliver the Jefferson Day speech at the annual Democratic banquet last May, but at the last minute, U.S. Senator Joseph F. Guffey, a champion of Vice President Henry A. Wallace’s nomination, arranged to bring Senator Samuel D. Jackson (D-IN) instead.
The Democrats have no inkling of President Roosevelt’s campaign plans, other than two scheduled radio speeches from Washington and do not expect him to visit Pittsburgh before Election Day, although he has been here in each of his three previous campaigns. If he comes into Pennsylvania at all, he will appear in Philadelphia.
Bricker attacks Hillman and PAC
Erie, Pennsylvania (UP) –
Labor has the right to enter political campaigns with “arguments and peaceful persuasion,” but no organization should use “intimidation, threats and ulterior purposes” to influence the vote, Ohio Governor John W. Bricker said today in a sharp criticism of Sidney Hillman and the CIO Political Action Committee.
Mr. Bricker said that President Roosevelt’s alleged remark for aides at the Democratic National Convention to “clear everything with Sidney” was “too well authenticated and documented” for a denial by Robert Hannegan, chairman of the Democratic National Committee.
Mr. Hillman “took over control of the Democratic Convention,” Governor Bricker said, and the “results provide the truth of the statement because everything was cleared through Sidney.”
Asked if organized labor should stay out of politics as a group, Governor Bricker replied that labor “always has been nonpartisan.”
He said:
We have political parties for the purpose of conducting elections. I have no opposition to any organization going into campaigns with arguments and peaceful persuasion, but to get people and members of an organization created for one purpose and then through power they have over them by intimidation, threats and ulterior purposes to try to force them to vote one way or to try to influence them by contributing money to one party against their will is very dangerous.
In a speech later, Governor Bricker said that a planned program for a rehabilitation of business and reemployment of war veterans has been laid down by the Republican Party while the New Deal “only looks forward to unemployment,” and measures to alleviate those conditions.
‘Phantom voters’ probe requested
Washington (UP) –
Rep. Francis J. Myers (D-PA) today asked the Special House Committee Investigating Campaign Expenditures to check the list of registered voters in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, for “phantom voters.”
Mr. Myers said he requested that the county’s entire voting list be checked following reports that Delaware County commissioners planned to investigate lists of 14,000 newly registered voters in Chester and 2,500 in Upper Darby, both in Delaware County. Charges have been made, he said, that this investigation of only a small part of the voting list is “wholly political” with the intention of “aiding or influencing the election of certain candidates.” Mr. Myers is the Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate from Pennsylvania, opposing Republican Senator James J. Davis.
‘Cotton Ed’ Smith to fight 4th term
Columbia, South Carolina (UP) –
Senator Ellison D. “Cotton Ed” Smith, who was recently defeated in the state Democratic primary when he sought a seventh term in the Senate, disclosed today he had called a meeting of anti-New Deal Democrats in Washington on Friday and Saturday to plan a campaign to defeat President Roosevelt.
Purpose of the meeting, he said, will be to recapture the Democratic Party from Sidney Hillman, the CIO, and the New Deal, and to defeat the fourth term.
Dewey asked to kill ‘incorrect statement’
Washington (UP) –
House Democratic Leader John W. McCormack (D-MA) called on Governor Thomas E. Dewey today to delete for rebroadcasting purposes that part of his Philadelphia speech in which, Mr. McCormack said, he made “an incorrect statement which creates a false impression about the demobilization plan for the Army.”
Governor Dewey charged in Philadelphia that the administration planned to keep men in the Army until they could get jobs. Mr. McCormack said:
This statement already has created confusion and uncertainty among our soldiers. In all decency, Governor Dewey should publicly withdraw it.
Screams of Yank wounded unnerve German gunner
Nazi stops firing long enough to let Americans evacuate comrades
By Robert Richards, United Press staff writer
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WCTU asks liquor ban on European V-Day
Columbus, Ohio (UP) –
The 70th national convention of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union today adopted resolutions urging a ban on the sale of alcohol on the day of victory in Europe and condemning the “holiday” granted distillers to produce civilian alcohol.
Wolfert: German Army fights to give Nazis time to go underground
Reichswehr generals in accord with scheme to hurl nation into civil war
By Ira Wolfert
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From private to general – that’s Courtney Hodges
Mystery man of Western Front flunked out of West Point, then rose through ranks
By Charles T. Lucey, Scripps-Howard staff writer
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Air invasion greater than D-Day attack
Paratroop landing in Reich possible
1st Allied Army HQ (UP) –
Allied spokesmen today hailed the great airborne landing behind the German lines in Holland as a sweeping success that exposes the Nazi homeland itself to invasion from the sky.
“The Allies can drop behind the Siegfried Line, across the Rhine, or anywhere else they want,” senior staff officers of Lt. Gen. Lewis H. Brereton’s 1st Airborne Army declared.
Two invasion waves have dropped through the rood of Holland twice in the past 48 hours at a cost in men and equipment far lower than even the most optimistic generals anticipated. Already the scope of the operation has dwarfed that of the landing in Normandy on D-Day, and Gen. Brereton’s sky army has not finished.
Other landings possible
The timing and direction of the air army’s next blow were closely-guarded secrets, but official spokesmen made it clear that the size of the two-day landings in Holland has not ruled out the possibility of further operations.
Thousands of planes and gliders swarmed across Holland yesterday to supply and reinforce the first invasion wave of paratroops and airborne infantrymen who landed Sunday afternoon. Field dispatches indicated the second contingent was fully as large as the first.
The element of tactical surprise was gone and the Germans threw up flak and fighter planes in an effort to turn back the air fleets but they got through with surprisingly small losses.
Covered by 600 fighters
More than 600 U.S. 8th Air Force fighters covered the armada.
Twenty-three fighters were lost, but they knocked out 74 gun posts and damaged almost a score of others, and destroyed 36 planes.
The big glider trains that ferried in the troops and supplies formed up over England in two great columns that stretched out over 285 miles. One struck across the continent behind the British lines, crossing the Gheel bridgehead over the Escaut Canal and then heading for the jump area, while the second approached directly from the Channel, flying for 85 miles across a thick belt of German flak.
A force of 250 Liberator bombers, transformed into cargo planes for the occasion, joined the fleet to ferry supplies to the first wave.
11 big bombers lost
The big bombers flew through the flak with their bellies skimming the treetops, and 11 of them were knocked down by enemy fire.
Maj. William Cameron of Hanford, California, copilot of one Liberator, said he and his crew saw gliders and jeeps on the ground with Allied troops all around them.
Other crewmen said they passed over flooded areas where practically no movement could be observed except a few cattle on the high roads, and, in a churchyard, three priests kneeling in prayer.
One Dutch fireman jubilantly tossed his helmet into the air when the Allied planes flew over and in some towns the people waved red, white and blue flags.
Browder: Lots of ‘Commies’
Washington (UP) –
Earl Browder, president of the Communist Political Association, asserted today that his organization has members not only in the AFL and CIO but also “in the Republican Party, the Democratic Party, Farmer-Labor Party, Chambers of Commerce, Elks, Kiwanis and ministerial associations.”
“And,” he told the House committee investigating campaign expenditures, “someday we hope to have members in Congress.”
Rep. Clarence Brown (R-OH) asked Browder if he “could” give the names of Communists active in the CIO Political Action Committee. Browder’s reply was: “I would not.”
Asked whether Joseph Curran, president of the National Maritime Union (CIO) were a Communist, Browder said:
Why don’t you ask him? Every citizen of the United States has a right to stand on his own feet in political life. No man should speak for another man’s politics.
Editorial: Dewey tells labor’s side
It has been assumed that the rank and file of labor is Mr. Roosevelt’s great and untappable reservoir of political strength – that however large the defections in other circles, nearly all members of organized labor could be counted on to mark the ballot in the same place a fourth time.
We’re not at all sure that will happen on Nov. 7.
Governor Dewey at Seattle last night gave some stout arguments why it should not happen.
Working men and women, looking to the post-war future, have a right to expect something better than what they’ve had. Something better than paternalistic benefactions passed down to them to buy their political loyalty. Something better than administration-sponsored strife between rival union leaders, and administration-sponsored class warfare between workers and employers. Something better than the chaos, delays and confusion of having their wages, working conditions and collective-bargaining processes tampered with and pulled and hauled about by 25 competing government agencies, bureaus, boards and commissions.
They are entitled to the full fruits of their labor, a full sharing of higher living standards which their productivity will make possible. They are entitled to gain it by free bargaining, under a government by law, administered speedily and evenhandedly, where rights are treated as legal rights and not as political favors.
Governor Dewey’s speech on labor was a good speech because it approached problems from the point of view of those who work for a living, especially union members. It spelled out why unions should not be blamed for all that has happened. It told their side of the story of troubled industrial relations, a side which needed to be told – of how just settlements of disputes have been delayed and prevented by bungling bureaucrats administering conflicting government policies.
Mr. Dewey asked:
Who gains by this planned confusion? The workers don’t gain. The public is always in the middle. The war effort has been constantly hampered. Who does gain? There can be no doubt of the answer. This policy of delay, delay and more delay, serves only the New Deal and its political ends. It puts the leaders of labor on the spot. It makes them come hat in hand to the White House. It makes political loyalty the test of a man getting his rights. Personal government instead of government by law, politics instead of justice prevails in the labor field in this country and I am against that kind of administration and always will be.
And Mr. Dewey told what he will do about it, if elected. Appoint an active and able Secretary of Labor. Build a real Department of Labor, with all the functions that belong in that department. Abolish the multitude of wasteful and competing bureaus now operating outside that department.
We shall see that every working man and woman stands equally in that department created to serve him, not to rule him. And there will be no backdoor entrance to special privilege by one group over any other group of Americans.
Our guess is that Mr. Dewey won some votes by that speech.
Editorial: Eisenhower’s strategy
There is no longer any doubt that Allied strategy aims to force a decision in Germany before snow flies. For Gen. Eisenhower now has thrown in his major reserves, or at least a considerable part of them. He had saved his airborne army and the new 9th Army for this big push.
Landing of the airborne army behind the enemy lines in Holland is accepted by most of the armchair experts as proof that the main drive is to be in the north. It is the shortest route to Berlin, It is also the easiest terrain, once our forces get out of the partially-flooded Lowlands.
There are other advantages in a northern campaign. We still need ports, especially close to England. Success in the present Holland operation will give us the great ports of that country and also facilitate the use of Antwerp. Also, it will eliminate the remaining robot platforms, which still are hurling death into London and Southern England. Moreover, a drive across Northwest Germany, with the capture of Bremen and Hamburg, would make it difficult for Hitler to pull back reserves from Norway – his best, and probably, only, source of major reinforcements.
Though this is all very logical, it is not necessarily Gen. Eisenhower’s strategy. He has a way of fooling the enemy. In the invasion they expected him to strike at one or more ports – Calais, Le Havre, Cherbourg; instead, he landed on the open beaches. In the Battle of Normandy, they expected him to batter through left or center; instead, he sent Gen. Patton wide around right end. Again, he outguessed them by repeating the Patton play, running right around Paris.
So, it is possible that this surprise left end run through Holland is to secure that country and its ports and to make a feint into Germany, rather than attempt the main Berlin drive from that direction. That is something neither Hitler nor our homegrown kibitzers can be sure of until the play is completed.
But the significant aspect of the situation is not where Gen. Eisenhower will deliver his biggest blow. It is his ability to strike anywhere from the North Sea to Switzerland. With Gen. Montgomery’s British 2nd Army and the airborne army meeting, Gen. Eisenhower has strong forces along or well inside the entire German frontier. Whether the main breakthrough will come in the north, or around Cologne, or up the Mosel corridor to Koblenz, or in the south at the Belfort Gap, Gen. Eisenhower has succeeded in placing his forces so he can take advantage of any soft spot wherever it shows under pressure.
That is why there is a good chance of winning the Battle of Western Germany before winter. It does not depend on any one operation or any one sector. Gen. Eisenhower is covering the entire Western Front but the enemy, presumably, is not strong enough to do so – not with Gens. Alexander and Clark pressing on the Italian front, and with the Russians closing in from the southeast and the east.