Speed urged at parley
Romanian collapse emphasis need for early decisions
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Richards: U.S. aviator’s grave is shrine in tiny French town
By Robert Richards
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Richards: Armored column tactics resemble those of Civil War
By Robert Richards
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Negro vote faces test in Georgia
Preacher, denied ballot, files damage suit
Columbus, Georgia (UP) –
Georgia’s Democratic white primary, for years unchallenged, faced a federal court hearing today after a Negro barber and preacher, Primus E. King, filed suit against Muscogee County Democratic executive committeemen for $5,000 on grounds that he was denied the right to vote solely because of his color.
In a complaint filed before U.S. Commissioner N. A. Brown yesterday, King said he met all requirements demanded of a voter in the United States and that he had paid all his state taxes. However, he said, the committeemen refused him a ballot in the July 4 Democratic primary because he was a Negro.
County Democratic Chairman J. E. Chapman Jr., who, with ten other members of the committee was named as defendant, had expected the suit. Chapman had agreed with Negro leaders prior to the election to plan a toke attempt to vote and a subsequent test of the white primary in the courts.
Committee members have 20 days in which to answer the complaint. Commissioner Brown said the case would probably not be heard before March.
G.I. poll may decide vote
Election outcome may not be sure until Dec. 7
By Edward Creagh
New York (AP) –
Because 11 states will not count their soldier votes on Election Day, Nov. 7, it is possible that the outcome of the 1944 presidential election will remain in doubt for several weeks after the polls close.
Should the election be unusually close, the winner might not be known until as late as Dec. 7, when the canvass of Nebraska’s absentee vote could determine whether the state’s seven electoral votes would be cast for President Roosevelt or Governor Thomas E. Dewey.
These possibilities grow out of an Associated Press survey which indicates that more than 2,000,000 men and women in the Armed Forces have applied for absentee ballots and that, by the most conservative estimates of state election officials, approximately twice that number will vote in November.
The soldier vote is likely to be decisive in most of the 11 states which do not immediately tabulate it, and the 11 – including Pennsylvania with 36, California with 22 and Missouri with 15 – have a combined electoral vote of 116. President Wilson’s electoral margin over Charles Evans Hughes in 1916 was only 23.
In Pennsylvania, where officials expect 200,000 to 300,000 soldier ballots, the absentee vote will be counted Nov. 22. “The votes of 100,000 to 125,000 persons could easily swing a close election,” commented a member of Governor Edward Martin’s official family. “We may not know who has won until the absentee votes are counted.”
California, whose Secretary of State predicts a service vote of 175,000 to 200,000, will not canvass it until Nov. 24. Missouri, receiving more than 1,000 ballot applications daily, will start counting absentee votes the Friday after Election Day.
Of the states which will defer their soldier vote count, eight gave President Roosevelt a total of 99 electoral votes in 1940. The other three gave Wendell L. Willkie 17.
Besides Nebraska, Pennsylvania, California and Missouri, the states which will add up some or all of their soldier votes after Election Day are:
| Colorado | 6 | November 22 |
| Delaware | 3 | November 9 |
| Florida | 7 | November 17 |
| North Dakota | 4 | December 5 |
| Rhode Island | 4 | December 4 |
| Utah | 4 | November 27 |
| Washington | 8 | November 27 |
Florida’s canvassing boards usually meet the Friday after election although the law gives them until Nov. 17. Utah counts state ballots on Election Day but federal ballots may be counted until Nov, 12 and would not be shown in the total count until the official canvass, Nov. 27.
The Pittsburgh Press (August 24, 1944)
Kirkpatrick: Allied airpower wrecks Nazi morale
Retreating Germans busy diving to cover
By Helen Kirkpatrick
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Death from a friendly source –
Storm-tossed Liberator crashes on English school
U.S. bomber kills at least 54, perhaps 84; children and snack bar patrons are victims
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Roving Reporter
By Ernie Pyle
On the Western Front, France – (by wireless)
We had sent one soldier to the nearest aid station as soon as we discovered the wounded British pilot, trapped for eight days in his plane. He had to drive about six miles.
Just a few minutes after the other soldiers finished tearing two holes in the sides of the plane, a medical captain and three aid men popped through the hedge and came running.
The doctor knelt down and sized up everything in a few seconds. He asked an aid man for morphine. The pilot willingly held out his right arm. and the doctor stuck a needle into the bend of the elbow. The pilot never flinched, but looked on almost approvingly.
The doctor said to him:
You’re in good condition. This is just to make it easier for you when we start to pull you out. We’ll wait a few minutes for it to take hold.
While we were sitting there on the ground beside the plane, waiting for the morphine to take effect, the pilot said: “I am delaying you from your work. I’m frightfully sorry about it.”
One of the soldiers, touched by the remark, blurted:
Good God, lieutenant, you aren’t delaying us. This is what we’re here for. We’re just sorry we’ve been so long getting you out.
The pilot momentarily closed his eyes and put his hand on his forehead. And then, as if in resignation at his own rudeness in bothering us, he said: “Well, I don’t know what I should do without you.”
Morphine never put him out
So incredibly strong was that pilot’s constitution that the morphine never put him out.
They waited about 10 minutes. Then two soldiers took off their web belts and looped them around the pilot’s armpits. The medics on the other side said they had hold of his trapped foot and could gradually free it.
The pilot said:
It’s my back that’s weak. All the strength seems to be gone from the small of my back. You’ll have to help me there.
They pulled. The pilot, although without food for eight days, was tremendously strong, and he reached above his head to the plane’s framework and helped lift himself.
The belts slipped, and the soldiers took them off. They knelt and lifted his shoulders with their hands. They had padded the jagged edges of the torn aluminum, over which they would have to slide him, with the heavy rubber of his collapsible lifeboat.
The doctor said, “We’ll be as easy as we can. Tell us when to quit.”
And the brave man said, “Go ahead. I’ll stand it as long as I can.”
They pulled again. The pilot made a face and exerted himself to help them. They slid him slowly a few inches through the hole, until he suddenly called: “Whoa-whoa-whoa-whoa! My back! It’s stuck to the ground. We’ll have to break it loose slowly.”
Pilot offers suggestion
They surveyed the possibilities a while, trying to figure a less painful way of getting him out. There wasn’t any. He said: “I can’t raise my behind at all. If you could slide something under me to carry the weight.”
A soldier went running to the next field, looking for a board. We waited. In a few minutes he came back with a short, thick board.
The pilot reached up with his strong arms, made a1 face, and lifted himself a little from the ground, and the doctor slid the board underneath him. Then the doctor, still kneeling, lifted one end of the board.
Gradually the pilot came out. Twice he had to stop them while they rearranged his injured leg. He said it was twisted. But apparently it was largely the agony of suddenly straightening out a cramped knee that had lain bent for eight days.
At last, in a sort of final surge, he came clear of the plane. They crawled backwards with him, on hands and knees, struggling to hold his back off the ground. You could see that he was steeling himself fiercely.
“Quick! Slide that litter under him,” the doctor called. The pilot said, “My God, that air! That fresh air!” Three times in the next five minutes he mentioned the fresh air.
When they finally laid him tenderly onto the canvas litter and straightened his left leg, you could see the tendons relax and his facial muscles subside, and he gave a long half-groan, half-sigh of relief.
And that was the one single sound of normal human weakness uttered by that man of great courage in the hour of his liberation.
Hillman, Browder attacked by GOP
Party chairmen address 400 women
Charges that Earl Browder, Communist chief, is the secret leader of the CIO Political Action Committee were made yesterday at a meeting of 400 Republican women by Republican County Chairman James F. Malone.
Mr. Malone and Mrs. Edna R. Carroll, vice chairman of the Republican State Committee, also attacked CIO-PAC Chairman Sidney Hillman.
‘Americans resent coercion’
Mr. Malone charged that the CIO is compelling “many honest, decent American workingmen” to contribute to the organization’s campaign for the reelection of President Roosevelt.
He said:
If the President of the United States would do the right thing by the people, he would tell Mr. Hillman and Mr. Browder that he does not want their cooperation. Thousands of CIO members in Allegheny County are going to vote the Republican ticket because they are Americans and resent coercion.
Country at crossroads
Mrs. Carroll said 30 million Americans did not vote in the 1940 election and urged the Republican Party workers to enlist the support of these people.
She said:
This is America at the crossroads. There are two pathways, one going over definitely to the left. It leads to national socialism. The leader of an old, tired and worn-out New Deal that has reached out for new blood has reached not to America but to a Hillman.
Patriotism survives tortures –
Harmon: Maquis, proud even in rags, stage a victory parade
Men 16 to 64, including industrial leader and elderly professor, again march freely
By Dudley Ann Harmon, United Press staff writer
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Two-way raids rip Germany and Balkans
U.S. heavies strike over 2,000 strong
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‘By parachute into southern France’ –
Airborne troops assemble and attack the Nazis
Supplies and guns brought in by fearless pilots of gliders aid Yanks mightily
By Richard Mowrer
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