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Evening star., 1943-11-05

some Of the windows and others
were painted on walls.
Stared at as Freaks.
In this connection I want to make
slight depression to tell of one
of the most amazing experiences of
my life. entered Bastia with one
other journalist, Canadian. 1t
was necessary to walk about eight
miles from blown bridge just be-
yond Teghime Pass, which was the
limit of transportation. We we're
the first into. the city except for
goums and a few French. Just a
few minutes before starting the hike
some Italian soldiers had passed us
shouting joyously "Bastia liberata -
There could be no question Of their
real elation.
Somehow or other the word spread
down the road that there were two
Americans coming that way. Ap-
parently we were the first human
beings from the New World these
country people had ever seen. They
apparently thought we were like
men from Mars. At every cross
roads village the populace was out
to look at us. We had to shake
hands all around at every stop.
Mothers held up their babies for us
to pat.
If would condescend to kiss her
infant, one woman pleaded, it would
always remain the child's fondest
memory. They paid no attention
to the fierce-looking goums, whom
both Mr.. LIE Fleur and myself
thought stranger looking figures
than we. When we turned down
preferred wine at one crossroads
on the plea-one must have a good
excuse for refusing to drink with
a CorSlcan-that we had had no
breakfast, the family literally drag
ged up bodily into the house and
insisted that we eat their last
crusts of bread and pathetic scraps
OF ham. A few minutes later we
were taken in charge by three pa
trlots,' hunting in the maquis for
Germans. and conducted into Bastia
by a short cut through the brush.
Evening star., 1943-11-05

were told, was that a big German
ammunition dump just outside the
cemetery walls had been blown up
the day before Rows of fine old
trees by the roadside were moved
down as if by a machine.
Two Aims in Drive.
There were two major objectives
to the drive for Bastia. The pri-
mary one, of course, was to prevent
the German evacuation, if possible
The other was to obtain possession
of the Barge Airport, about 5 miles
outside the city. by far the largest
and best in Corsica. This was the
special target of Allied bombers. 1t
is a complete wreck The airdrome
swept by fire, was a skeleton. The
wrecks of five or six planes lay about
the field. The place is scattered
with debris of all sorts. italian engi-
Evening star., 1943-11-05

neers are trying to get 1t In order.
Along this road there were eight
blown bridges In succession. Once
beyond them the road was clear to
Corte, Corsicas third largest city
and center of Corsican independ-
ence movements. 1t was the home
town of Pascal Paoli, leader of the
Corsican revolution of the mid-i8th
century, friend of James Boswell,
the biographer of DR.. johnson.
Once in Corte Laf1eur and / were
among pals again. There Georges
Albertini, leader of the local pa
triots" movement. has taken over
the College Pascal Paoli and, with
large supply of captured German
rations and lot of Corsican cheese,
has set up restaurant, where
everybody who passes through town
eats free.
Evening star., 1943-11-05

city at all, but Thomas R. Henry.
metropolitan place and a small edi-
ton of Marseilles, differed strikingly
at the hour of its liberation from
cities like Bizerte, Palermo and Mes
sina, historically its closest parallels
in this war They, at least large
sections of them, were skeletons.
The flesh had been torn from their
bones by the man-driven eagles
which had swooped over them day
after day Bastia, bombed only a
couple Of times, was relatively un-
damaged. Altogether not more than
80 buildings had been hit. One had
to look for these There were a few
shell holes in the streets, a few
burned German trucks by the water
front, burning tanker in the har-
Dor. There were windows broken
here and there. The public build
ings seemed untouched either by
artillery fire or by bombs from the
Evening star., 1943-11-05

SCV w olhlllS w 40
BaStia.
T h e quarter
moon thai rose
Monday n i G h t
b e t W e e n two
donned tow er S
OF its cathedral
seemed like a
Pickering taper
at the head of a
coffin, The me-
tropolis of Cor
sica, whose in
habitantS say it
was not a typi-
cally Corsican
Evening star., 1943-11-05
BY THOMAS r. HENRY,

1VdI DNdII NVIItSpUIIuVIlV.
WITH THE FRENCH ARMY OF
LIBERATION, Bastia, Corsica, Oct
6 Delayed Like the corpse of one
newly dead whose ghost was not
,-ollyi,,er
Evening star., 1943-11-05
Idea Unavoidable.

Yet Bastia was dead. The i'm
preston was unavoidable when the
first French and Goumier troops
entered the town Monday morning
after crossing a road block above
the sea which the evacuating Ger
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NOTES ON LEAGUE DOINCS

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for material
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~ $500 on irip io csmp % ihe
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Ramon A. Martinez,
Attornc, -at-I.aw 1905 Broadway.
ca. Gi>l.
Lewis Business College
$50 John II.
Gregory and Griswold Gas
Station
Garfield and BcanbIcn Tc. s-Ss36
DR.. 3. r. Seabrooks
9ia6 Oakland Ave. ro. S.6003
Chensue Grocery and Meats
1915 Oakland Ave. Tr. 2-SS5G
Greenheld's Shoe Hospital
T.. J. Greenfield, Shoe Specialist.
500 Hastings
New Eastern Cleaners and
Overs
eOe Medhury Park Tr. s-s6S9
OakIand-Euclid Grocery
and Market
500 oakland Ave. TT. Ibis
Atty. Chas. b. Berry
1905 Broadway On. O,s6
Register Moving
Supreme Linen & Laundry
Mitchell Tailors,
ass Frederick nj Beaublen - Tie.
I.O9Ss.
Malloy's Better Shoe
Repair Shop
Mack Haney Funeral Home
VA. iN~e.
Simmons e. Bib,
Lawyers, 90 Gmilot-Cl. sise
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ny GERTRUDE y. T0LBERT
AND MRS. {. SLY

Init !
Mrs Mamie + Black presided
a. ihe meeting ~ Unit 7 Monday.
May IL az Tho home ~ Mrs
Erentec Ashford ss7 Nedburv
Mrs Allie Bel filled nor place
As recording secretary
Mrs Ressie Alexander chair
man o. Research. reported re-
search Information hlanfs Tor six
additional stores on Hastings
Merchants and business people
who arc not memhers OF mo
Housewives League VIII he con
tacted nv Mrs ceorpia shelton
chairman o. The drive
Mrs Hrcr,ee Ashford solan.
'eered q acf IS canamfr chairs
man Tor The Unit The members
pye encouraged % ~ carlv ran-
1ng ard participate n tho cam
nnr exhibition
MIS- Aida Ryaek has begun 20
ierord payment ~ national dues
o Unit members
Mrs Nire ben was appointed
pfocfam chairman She will no
supplied wlih q cary ~ Tho sur-
pecd nu''ln, Of programs hr
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THE LEAGUE THANKS


Ferguson Lunch
iss3 -. Antoine Ra. 6si9
y. c. Isaacs. MD,
$50 Ncnongall ~. 0530.
Stinson Funeral Home
5i5s Tillman TN., i-0033.
n. Hadley Upholstering
G2s Nindcr RA. 60O9.
Mamie <. Black
Real Estate agent.
my tlIy Property.
80 Melbourne IT.. i-eOS5
DR.. n. F.. Tam
lsOS broadway ca. 02s6
DR.. S. "A. c. Owen
i5s Adams Oh. O9Si.
DR.. VIM. n. Lawson
DR.. <. C. Boddie and
DR.. r. c. Green, Dentists,
s52 T.. Warren. Te. s-isis
NJ. Stewart Thompson
l30S broadway Cadillac $3.50
Alonzo d. Pettiford
1905 Broadway Randolph 1919
VIM. II. Porter
tiie Beaublen ste. 1-52fs
Atty. James Jackson,
Isns broadway. ca. ss36
Atty. Judson b. Powell,
l50s Rrondwal. ta. ss36
other names not mention
ed contributed.
Detroit evening times., 1943-07-11

Wen' Also arr described many syWp
tuws ot Gail Stuucs and infected Gal
Bladder Send for free booklet TODAY
Detroit evening times., 1943-07-11
Church in Tribute
To Gen. Sikorski
PontificaI Requiem Mass
al St. Hyacinth's Sunday

A pontlflCal requiem mass Will
bc sung 10 a. m. Sunday at St
IlyaClnth'S Church. McDougall
and t'arnSworth. for Gen. Wladis-
law SikorskL Poland premier in
exile who was killed last Sunday
in plane crash near Gibraltar.
The mass Will be sung by
Auxiliary Bishop Stephen $. WOz-
uiCki.
Polish organizations in the De
trolt area Will hold a special mass
meeting 8 p m. Sunday in Dom
POlski Hail Forest and Chenc. at
which consulS of Allied nations
stationed IN the Detroit area have
been invited
The program was arranged By
StanlSlaw AuGerman, Detro
Polish consul and is sponsored by
the Polish Army Veterans ASsoci-
alton, District &. and the Polish
Legion Veterans Of the American
army
Detroit evening times., 1943-07-11
70 Jap Evd(uees
Hired al Ann ArbOr

ANN ARBOR. July l0-Ap-
proxlmatcly 20 JapaneSe-Amerl-
cans recently released from camps
in the West, are employed IN the
University Of Michigan Hospital
and in army units here a SurN cy
revealed today
They are not under military
ernnvtvuf,y
Detroit evening times., 1943-07-11
7CdSS Fails 10 Gain
As Airport Name

SAGINAW July 10 II TH-
Cl'5 Alrp1r' b, named Lows Cas-
Field t viii bee against the wishes
ot tine. .aTpoIt commission com
posed Of Cry Managers Carl H.
Peterson. Saginaw. ! Harry Mel
son. Bay City. and Merle New
kirk. Midland.
That Washington officials IA
yorcd the use OF Gen CaSS name
failed 10 impress the commission
ers meeting here yesterday. They
favored q combination Of the
three city names 70 make word
that sounds good and lncIani,h.
Detroit evening times., 1943-07-11

ADyTRTtsgWtNr
Detroit evening times., 1943-07-11
Dems Uninvited
To Wallace Visit
Here July
Dewey State Favorite
in COP; But He Says
He's Not a Candidate
Michigan Politics
BY FRANK MORRIS
DrtroIt TImrs TOIliIraI idlior

Detroit Democrats arc hurt and
beWlldcrcd over the fact that one
Of their biggest chiefs. Vice PreSi-
dent Henry a. Wallace. Is coming
10 town July - and they haven I
been invited 10 make the usual
ObciSancc due an Ovcrlord let
alone discuss the 1914 campaign
The party Is being completely
ignored.
"All I know about NalIacc's
visit II what l have read in the
papers" said County Chairman
William NJ. Donuelly whose Job
includes the task of greeting
visiting Democratic dignltarlcs.
AS far A. know. no Demo
cratic Party official il being in
Vited to meet the vice prc>i-
dent"
Detroit evening times., 1943-07-11

SUpeTVlSIOn
Detroit evening times., 1943-07-11
TIPS For Tired Eyes

Ha1 reading mater about I : inches from
fEre q AVOID fea8IGE 10 poor aErf. After
crN. N.rt exposure &c. Gust Dr Yrd tr when
r5ss are 0sefwprEel ubfre pAm Wita Law
rrrs Ggirkt suoihcs .uhamc1. Flft. bum
.fE fcttDk Hrd grarllaied eyslics or none,
-rf .rdet Thousanos praise I' % years sse-
cess Get Law pun tpdag A. Al. crag stores
Detroit evening times., 1943-07-11

bladder and liver dis
orders Is described
in a new booklet hy
Or. T. r. Paddock
Box 5SO5. Desk 4
Kansas tty. Mo
r. his booklet tells
why surgery III many
cases may be either
unnecessary or iuadyi>
Nhlo. or how suffering
may o." relieved bv hfs
palliative medical treat
Detroit evening times., 1943-07-11
NOT \ CANDIDATE

-Four wears ago thiS was =
strong NIlikIc state But Dewey >
stock has ~kNrO,kc'cd
TO make sure whether Dewey
vas definitely a candidate. SecTe-
iarl OF state Herman Dignan ms
close friend went 10 Columbus
week ago 90 meet tt, "" York
governor
Donan is convinced Dewey is
definitely determined no. 10 lef
ms name go before the 1871 con
NcnuOn
If any one started Dewey
movement now, Dewey would
squelch II AT once, D.Cn1n SAID
No,' haras,cd and hardest
working state official today ~ r
Glen Dunn, chairman Of the slate
lquor control commission
Liquor is scarce. rauon.ug has
.heen DELAYED and practically no
5one in or on OF the business IS
happy And tho grief falls on The
ample shoulders Of the chairman
The governor screams the pub
lIc screams and COP leader, howl
but Dunn plungc> ahead. uNng
10 solve The situation by hard
work
FOR an three commissioner
each day begins early n The
morning and ends late al night
In addition. the system requires
them 10 hear personally. the 100
or more complaints weekly IN De
troi which should boz lrlei 90 a
police court and not 10y thc com
mission
Detroit evening times., 1943-07-11
Doctor Explains
Gall Bladder
ADVERTISEMENT

The experience Of 50 years with
over 10000 cases OF common Call
Detroit evening times., 1943-07-11
WRITES TO WALKER

one indignant county building
Official wrote 10 Postmaster Cen
eraI Walker national paIt y
chairman
THE situation here l. status
quo. The status Stinks and the
quo iS like In QUO Nadis.'
County Auditor Ray llaicli o
power IN the party locally ~dll
county Officials would be- glad 10
hold a reception for Wallace II
invited through proper Channci~
Otherwise. Wallace VIII bc ignored
in Official channel, as just another
vice president
TINS is not rho first time MAJOR
league Democrat have come 10
town without paying respect, 10
local leaders Walker himself
violated precedent q tew months
ago by talking polIiics IN On"
Book-Cadlllac IIotcl without m
A.l-nssz-IA IAaHft--4444tt b t1 ttrt---vry> ION
Nrs. Roosevelt announced She
would hc here IN Juuc. hu' can
Cciled thc engagement tn" plans
for her visit were made outside
the political organization
Wallace d, 20 make tU address
here sponsored by the Free World
ASSOCIATION BrlgE, Stadium may
be rented Tor me occasion
II Michigan TODAY held Re-
publican presidential primary as
Detroit evening times., 1943-07-11
PARKING
FACILITIES

2IiOur parking a. Main
StoIe-Nour ticket VIII be-
on q when YOU purchase.
Free UnlImited-time park
Ing AZ Dearborn Store.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-12-14

sored by 10 national religious bodies in
hundreds Of local communities in all
parts Of the nation - during this fourth
and last week Of its enterprise.
The churches and synagogues of our
country have within their possession
those values out of which a Just and last
ing peace can be built.
To think of attempting to create a
world peace without taking into account
the basic principles of true religion would
be the height of folly.
People must learn the lessons of respect
for other nations, classes and colors. They
must learn how to share the worlds
goods. They will have to cultivate
friendship, brotherhood and even forgive
ness. These lessons can pest be taught by
the churches and SynagogueS of America
A lasting peace will not be made out
of treaties written upon paper. Peace
is not the product of international
leagues or world organizations. Peace
is matter of the spirit; matter of the
heart and soul. The one great posi-
bility of a just and lasting peace is found
in the application of the principles of the
Prince of Peace on a world scale. The
spirit of Christmas is the guiding star to
a far better kind of world.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-12-14
Pearl Is Perplexed

Philip Pearl is brother of the craft.
professional writer of periodical col
umns of commentary and opinion. We
do not know Mr.. Pearl personally, but
we are told that he is fine chap and
clever one. He labors, unfortunately.
under the handicap of having to follow
a policy line. That may be the reason
that Mr.. Pearl can't understand "why
the men in the armed services should be
interested in reading of such petty af-
fairs las milk strike in Brooklyn)
which have no real effect on the war eff
FORT" We quote from Mr.. Pearls COL
umn in the American Federation of La
boris Weekly News Service. The men in
service are interested in strikes that
affect the support they have a right to
expect from the home front. There have
been enough of these, seldom called
strikes, but always delaying war produc-
ton, to make more labor news than any
soldier newspaper could print.
The soldiers and sailors are interested
also in the spirit of the folks at home,
which is sometimes called morale. From
this standpoint the milk drivers strikes
were mighty significant They were in
protest against setups ordered by the
Office of Defense Transportation, orig
1nally to save rubber and gasoline and
later to free workers to make ships and
planes, guns and munitions If 200
Brooklyn drivers will cut off milk from
babies-some of them soldiers babies
rather than save rubber and gasoline
III this crisis, we, at least, can under
stand why the fighting men abroad are
interested in reading about it.
In this connection we call the atten-
ton of Mr.. Pearl, as chief publicity man
for the A. F. of L., to sailors letter to
his sister, written after year in the
South Pacific: "We have mad some
pretty rough going lately" (The files of
any newspaper will amplify this) "Af-
ter going through and seeing lot of
this stuff out here it gets fellow mad
and disguised to pick up paper from
back in the states and see what the peo-
pie back there do. I'd like to see some of
these people that are striking for one
thing or another spend three days
straight without sleep and under condi-
tons that I can't write about. If they
didn't die of fright they would from
heat stroke or exhaustion" Perhaps the
newspapers shouldn't worry the fight
ing men by printing such stories about
strikes. Or perhaps the unions includ-
ing those for which Mr.. Pearl is official
spokesman, should stop the strikes.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-12-14
Mutual Tolerance

There has been justified criticism that
the Negro press deliberately fosters rae
ial disharmony to promote an issue that
has money value for itself The oppo-
site approach is taken by a group of
Negro unionists headed by A. Philip
Randolph, international president Of
the sleeping car porterS,
Dealing with the ticklish problem Of
organizing Negro locomotive firemen on
the southeastern roads, MIR. Randolph's
committee paid public tribute in large
newspaper advertisements to the good
will and good faith of committee of
seven representing industry, labor and
the public, that has been discussing the
matter.
Once good faith and good will are eS-
tablshed, mutual tolerance can accom-
plish great results.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-12-14
Measuring The Losses

Admiral Vickery's disclosure that Amer
lean shipyards have delivered 25,284,28
tons of merchant shipping since the be-
ginning of 1912 gives partial yardstick
by which to measure the deadly toll of
Axis submarines.
First add all that British yards have
turned out in the meanwhile. Then re-
member Navy Secretary Knox's state
ment that all this has suff1ced only to
replace what the Axis has sunk.
Now it is easier to comprehend state
ments that there was a period when 85
per cent of our cargoes on one major
run were going to the bottom.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-12-14
In Old New England

The first Snappy weather in Deem
Der reminds those country born of the
days when they managed nicely with
fireplace or two and ditto for Franklin
stoves. 1t brings back times when you
were just country BOY and you spent
many healthy winters On the farm with
no central heating, no modern oil fur
mace. You had lots of wood for the
kitchen stove, also for the fireplaces
and big heating stoves which seem I'M
real to the perSent generation whose only
knowledge of same is from a movie or
stage representation of a New England
of another day.
In old New England winter was a time
to meet such contingencies as Sub-zero
weather with homespun fortitude. There
were no steam-heated bedrooms. Nights
were cold-and oh, the mornings! But
the country boy got up and out and fed
the stock, and did his chores as mat
ter of course.
In old New England it was cold in
December, January, and February, off
and on. There was no question of call
ing by telephone your Oil service man,
for there we're no oil service men and
you had no telephone. In old New Eng
land in bygone days you got up earlier
than you do now, and you fortified your
self with y solid breakfast of fried po-
tatoes, homemade bread, coffee, maybe
creamed salt pork. You also had, for a
few months of the winter, buckwheat
cakes day in and day out smothered in
butter without points, and molasses
or maple syrup. So fortified you seemed
to get along without heat and more
heat. Funny how the first cold wave
that hits new New England causes so
many shakes and shivers and fears OF
freezing to death. Surely you have not
forgotten the wood-box and the old
Franklin stove in old New England.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-12-14

was perfectly at home in his new
surroundings. He had given up the
adventure of the sky for the Sc
curity of the barnyard.
There is probably much to be
said for his philosophy of life. Sc
curity is very comforting reality.
To know that our job is safe, our
income however, meager assured,
our future provided for, is some.
thing that every man might well
regard with wholesome longing. But
as a matter of fact. there Is no real
security in the world. AS the season
rolled on. the day would certainly
come when the barnyard duck
would be prepared for the roasting
pan. He need have no fear any
longer of the hunter but he could
certainly entertain a wholesome
fear of the farmer. In the mean
time he would be we'll fed, with lit
tie effort on his part, but his sense
Of security would be vain dream.
There is something immensely
stimulating In adventure. The noble
soul loves it and looks with scorn
on security. There is something
lacking in us when we forsake the
possibility of high adventure and
fiutter down to the barnyard, with
no greater ambition than that OF
being well fed.
Babson Newspaper Syndicate
AL RIGHTS Reserved
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-12-14

the Army and Navy scale down
lush war profits. To this again
Doughton is stubbornly opposed.
Some years ago, this column
referred to the fact that among
his neighbors Doughton had been
nicknamed "Muley Bob" because
he rode out among his con-
stituentS on an old gray mule,
looking just as tough, just as
rugged and just as unbeatable
as the animal which carried him.
asked Mr.. Doughton If he
minded being called "Muely Bob"
and he said he didn't. In fact,
he did not care what people
called him. Congressman Dough-
ton may not realize it, but q lot
of affection has come to be
attached to that nickname-af-
lection from friends who know
him to be a faithful servant Of
the people - and stubborn as q
mule when it comes to any onflu-
ence save his own conscience.
NO SECRET 2ND FRONT
The invasion Of western Eu-
rope Is just around the corner,
but 1t cannot come so farts as to
surprise anybody least of all
the Germans.
In fact, the first news of the
coming invasion will probably
come from Germany. They will
spot the gathering of the
worlds greatest armada of
fighting ships, presumably
along the Channel coast Of
England, and they will an
nounce by radio thatthe in
vasiOn is coming and that they
are ready for it.
Even before that, they will be
forewarned by switch in tactics
of the British and American air
forces based in England. Those
forces will turn from long range
bombing to an all-outtrip- ham,
mer assault on Nazi coastal in
stallationS. The Channel Is SO
narrow that British-based planes
will be able to make as many
as three daily round trips each to
the German held shore, dumping
bombs on coast artillery, rail
lines, ammunition dumps. troop
concentrations and, in general,
tearing up everything in sight.
This strategy the pattern
of which was made clear in as
saults ON Tunisia, Panterrelia, ST.
oily and Naples - takes most
most of the surprise out of sur
prise landings. The air force
will trumpet the invasion of Eu-
rope to the waiting world.
Copyright, 1943. by United
Feature Syndicate, Inc.)