39 cranemen strike, 5,500 are made idle
Steel output halted at C-I Gary works
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Continuation and expansion of PAC promised by CIO
Hillman tells convention of future plans; Mrs. Roosevelt praises activities
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United labor in U.S. urged by AFL chief
Unionism in liberated areas also asked
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Perkins: Wallace in 1948 boom pushed at CIO session
Truman conspicuous by his absence
By Fred W. Perkins, Pittsburgh Press staff writer
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21 guns wrecked in 30 minutes
U.S. tank crews claim new record
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Yanks ask: Where are the cigarettes?
Army paper cites cut in soldiers’ ration
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Simms: Final foray by Nazi Navy now possible
Will Germans consent to mass suicide?
By William Philip Simms, Scripps-Howard foreign editor
Washington –
Insiders here regard it as about an even money bet that Germany will stage a final naval thrust in the Atlantic if the war lasts through the winter. It is possible that she may even attempt to aim a few V-1s and V-2s at some of our coastal cities.
The argument is that, having already lost the war, to all intents and purposes, there is no reason why the Nazis should hold back their remaining warships, whether surface craft or submarines. After the armistice they will be sunk anyway, so the sensible thing, from the Nazi point of view, is to use them now – send them out and let them be sent to the bottom in a final set-to against the British and Americans.
The question, however, is this: Will the German crews consent to any such mass suicide? In 1918, the answer was an emphatic no. When, in the simmer of that year, Adm. von Scheer realized that the war was lost on land, he planned a do-or-die smash at the Allied fleet in the North sea and English Channel. Concentrating every ton he could muster, he gave order Oct. 29 to prepare for the open sea.
Mutiny resulted
Mutiny resulted. The sailors refused to take out the ships. They knew it was only a gesture or bravado, that there was hardly one chance in a hundred of success, and they did not relish dying on a mission such as that. Instead, they seized a train at Kiel, went to Berlin and joined the revolution.
For some time, neutral capitals, especially Stockholm, have been sending out reports of Nazi submarine concentrations at Bergen, Trondheim and Narvik, and of the arrival of many naval officers from the Reich. These officers have boasted about what they intend to do to Allied shipping in the Atlantic. Some have bragged about the attacks they expect to launch against America.
Attacks possible
Unquestionably it is admitted here, attacks against our seaboard are possible – either from the sea or from the air. But, as in 1918, it resolves itself into a question of whether enough Germans can be found to commit suicide in such fashion. It is true that there is more terror now to spur the Nazis on than there was then, but there was probably a greater degree of dynamic loyalty to the Hohenzollerns than there is today to Herr Schicklgruber. Besides, death in the icy Atlantic holds a certain terror of its own.
Assuming that crews can be found for the suicidal attacks in the Atlantic and against our coast, the rest becomes a race against time. Germany needs time to prepare. There are reports of radical changes in U-boat design and installations; also of experimentation in new forms of robot and rocket-type bombs.
Need more ammunition
Correspondents say Aachen’s fall was delayed by an ammunition shortage. But for the failure of his gas supply, it is said, Lt. Gen. George S. Patton would have gone straight on through to the Rhine, thus shortening the war. In a broadcast Sunday, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower revealed that for the present crucial offensive, he is already drawing on his 1945 materiel.
Thus, if the Nazis launch their rockets against America and renew their U-boat attacks against our shipping, it will be because we on this side of the Atlantic have fallen down. It will be our own fault.
Priceless stained glass of Metz cathedral survives
Historic structure also intact; caretaker shows Yanks windows packed in basement
By Robert W. Richards, United Press staff writer
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Yanks repulse Jap attacks on roadblock
Drenching rains lash troops on Leyte
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10 U.S. vessels lost in Pacific
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Yank loses bare-fist battle, but 13 Germans surrender
Heavier opponent bests American in slugging match in Grimm’s fairytale setting
By Henry T. Gorrell, United Press staff writer
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2,200,000 men landed in Europe by Sept. 15
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In Washington –
Senate opens debate on flood control
Three-way fight faced by blocs
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Pearl Harbor quiz faces delay
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Missouri Valley Authority already in the making
Memories of early New Deal recalled by plan for setup along lines of familiar TVA
By Charles T. Lucey, Scripps-Howard staff writer
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City may get some –
Relocated Nisei aid war effort
By Robert Taylor, Press Washington correspondent
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Editorial: Stampede!
By Ernie Pyle
The Treasury Department asked Ernie Pyle to write a special article for use in the Sixth War Loan Drive. The most appropriate place to publish it, it seems to us, is this editorial column. Here it is:
This little piece comes more in the blood-bank category than in the bond-buying one, yet if you’ll apply it to your bond-buying, it may help save a great deal of blood.
This fall I came home from France on a ship that carried 1,000 of our wounded American soldiers. About a fourth of them were terribly wounded stretcher cases. The rest were up and about. These others could walk, though among the walking were many legs and arms missing, many eyes that could not see.
Well, there was one hospitalized soldier who was near death on this trip. He was wounded internally, and the Army doctors were trying desperately to keep him alive until we got to America. They operated several times, and they kept pouring plasma and whole blood into him constantly, until they ran out of whole blood.
I happened to be in the head doctor’s cabin at noon one day when he was talking about this boy. He said he had his other doctors at that moment going around the ship typing blood specimens from several of the ship’s officers, and from unwounded Army and Navy officers aboard. They were doing it almost surreptitiously, for they didn’t want it to get out that they needed blood.
And why didn’t they want it to get out? Because if it had, there would have been a stampede to the hospital ward by the other wounded men, offering their blood to this dying comrade. Think of that – a stampede of men themselves badly wounded, wanting to give their blood!
If they, who had already given so much, were willing to give even more for their fellow men, isn’t it the least we can do for those fellow men still fighting to stampede to the bond counter?
Ferguson: Job just started
By Mrs. Walter Ferguson
The Brooklyn Red Cross chapter announces that the war’s end in Europe will make no difference to the number of hours that volunteer workers are giving now. The women have said they’d stuck to their jobs – and they will.
Heaven help us all to make the same decision. Women have done well during the emergency period, but their work is just started. Peace building will call for stupendous efforts by everyone. Rosie the Riveter may get back into her kitchen apron, but let’s hope she won’t put on mental blinders again.
The end of the war will not mean that peace is won. Something better than an armistice must come out of this one.
After World War I, the men wanted to get back to normalcy – the kind that left women looking after domestic matters and men attending to governments.
A large part of our activity during all that time was concentrated on an effort to obtain a few political and economic rights.
One fact is now clear: Unless women and men work as hard to build a stable country and a stable peace, our greatest activities will be just about as effective as a squirrel’s journey in a cage. He travels in a circle. So will we, only our circle leads to another war.
There’ll be no excuse for any woman to be idle or bored in the future. Community improvement must go on; efforts to restore moral values should be increased.
Government business must become a part of our homework. We’ve all volunteered for the duration and the duration won’t be over until the world is safe from war, pestilence, famine and tyranny.