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CHAPTER II


tenn. is one that can undergo such
test. as the battle of Moscow
know the danger and rise above
1t. That, Moscow did. Its nerves
p were steadied by a supreme dis
play of calmness and confidence
on the part Of it's leaders. On No
vember z, they went through the
ritual observance Of the oath an.
,niversary of the Bolshevik Revo'
luton almost under the eyes OF
the Germans.
On the eve Of the anniversary.
the Moscow Soviet called its ira.
ditional meeting. The Mayakov-
sky subway station, instead Of the
Bolshoi Theater. was the scene
Of the meeting. But the impor-
tant thing was that it was held,
and that Stain spoke.
The next morning, the Red army
paraded on Red Square. Again it
was not a foolhardy display. Just
Is the Moscow Soviet had gone
underground for its meeting, so
The Red army went through Red
Square in 13 minutes, starting at
} am, three hours before the
regular time. But it did hold its
parade.
Stain stood atop Lenin's tomb,
muffled to the throat in his long,
unadorned greatcoat and wearing
his khaki kept with the little five
pointed red star and the gold
crossed hammer and sickle above
the brim. He spoke quietly into
a microphone that carried h j s
voice to the amplifiers on the
Kremlin wall and sent it rever-
berating across Red Square.
1T is in strenuous circumstances
that we are today celebrating the
24th anniversary of the October
Revolution. The perfidious attack
OF the German brigands and the
war which has been forced upon
us have placed our country in
jeopardy he said. We have tenn
porarily lost a number of regions,
the enemy has appeared at the
gates of Leningrad and Moscow
No more did he mention the
battle of Moscow. Instead, he went
on to point out that the Soviet
Union had been In even greater
difficulty before, in 1918, W h n
three-quarters of the country was
occupied, the Russians h d no
allies, no army, and faced a short
age Of food, clothing, and arms,
yet emerged victorious. Now, he
said, the Soviet position was far
better, with the country richer,
supported by allies, and defended
by strong army.
Here Stain, the military genius,
made one of his few military mis-
calculations. Before Russia was
invaded, he had overestimated the
power of the Balkans to form a
front against Germany. Now, he
underestimated the power of the
Germans to carry on the war.
The enemy is not so strong as
some frightened little intellectuals
imagine he said. The devil is
not so terrible as he is painted.
Another few months, another half
year, perhaps another brief year,
and Hitler Germany is bound to
burst beneath the weight of its
crimes
There, Stain was wrong. A year
later, the Germans were to be
laying siege to Stalingrad. But
they were defeated before Mos
an important factor in that defeat
COW, and Stalin's confidence was
Nine days later, the battle was
on again. The Germans started
their second general offensive
against Moscow November 16. The
great armies collided, the plan
and counter-plan started working.
The Germans struck their first
blow on the Russian right flank.
The third and fourth tank armies
attacked in the Volokolamsk Sec
tor and farther north toward the
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PLANS APPROVED

NEW BERN, Aug. 19.-(PEThe
National Housing Agency has ap'
proved plans for the building o1
100 additional family housing units
for war workers in the Cherry
Point area, Rep. Barden ON c.
said today.
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INJURED IN CRASH

PRATT, Kan, Aug. 19.-P0
so+ Thomas M. Williams, Jr.,- Of
Norway, S. c., was injured in the
,r,sb of a. medium bomber near
here yesterday. Six other members
of the crew were killed.
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HOLDINGS INCREASED

NEW YORK, Aug. 19.-RNThe
Institute of Life Insurance al
nounced today life insurance com
panies increased holdings Of gov
ernment bonds by $$1, $50, 900, 900 ir
the first six months of 1943
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unbeatable, East was blinded by
the 100 honors and arrived at a
four-spade contract. This looks
fairly easy 10 make, but clever
defense by North and South de-
feated the contract.
North won the first trick with
the ace of clubs and played the
diamond ace. Noting his part
ner's high card, North continued
with a diamond and South won
with the king. South then led a
third round Of diamonds. North,
realizing that his king Of spades
was not of much use to him,
trumped up with it and declar-
err was forced TO win with the
ace. This play set up the nine of
spades in the South hand for the
setting trick.
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. BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTON .
BY JAMES THRASHER

NEA staff Correspondent
It's pretty hard these days to
get to see Rep. James William
Fulbrlght of Arkansas. It's even
hard to get many uninterrupted
words with the young man Sec
rotary and the two stenograph-
ers who form his office staff. For
these young people-all of whom
attended the University of Ar
kansas when their boss was its
president - have a full-time job
keeping abreast of the flood of
congratulatory kilograms, letters
of House Concurrent Resolution
25.
H. Con. Rec. 25 is, of course,
the 55-word sentence whereby
the House of Representatives
put itself on record, by a 360-to-
% vote, as favoring this coun-
try's participation in an inter-
national effort toward lasting
peace. 1t is doubtful that even
the laconic Calvin Coolidge ever
said so little and made such a
hit with the public. Those So
words have made their author,
for the moment at least, the most
popular and sought after mem
Der of Congress.
Within a week after Full
bright's resolution was passed,
he had broadcast on the March
of Time and the New York
Times "Win the Peace Forum, !"
and had been a guest on "Infor-
nation, Please His full Sched-
ule had forced him TO decline
invitations for other radio APP
pearance on the University of
c hicag Round Table and
Congress Speaks" and for
dozens of speaking engagements.
That isn't bad for a 38year-
old freshman legislator from the
Ozarks. All he needs now to be-
come typical American celeb
rity is for Hollywood TO start
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LET THE PEOPLE JUDGE

On Moy O drunken army colonel shot on enlist
ed mon OF neorby SeIfridge Field
As result series Of courts-nortoI hos endeov-
ored to weed out the decd wood that mode gross r.
reeulorites OF the dir bose possible.
Five men, four of them officers hove foced triol,
have been convicted ond have been sentenced in ropid
succession.
The Army '>Yoshed its dirty linen in public"
In general the results we're gratifying
In detoiI however gross injustjces oppeor to hove
resulted
Here's the record:
On Sept IA COL Wilom T. CoImon, ex-com-
noonder Of the dir bose whose smoking pistol Drop
ped on innocent enlisted man in his tracks on Moy
s. wos convicted on four counts Of drunkenness and
one Of the coreIess use Of firearms. HE WAS SEM
FENCED TO BE REDUCED IN GRADE TO THE
FOOT OF THE CAPTAINCY LIST.
On Sept 20 Lieut. COL Charles G. White, former
y executive officer at the bose wos convicted on two
counts Of drunkenness, on five charges Of gross
coreessness and on one Of attempted perjury HE
WAE ORDERED TO BE DISMISSED FROM THE
SERVICE
On Sept "a Major George A. Hartford, former
intelligence officer OF the post wos convicted on six
counts Of padding expense accounts and on two Of
obtaining ond presenting foIse official statements.
HE WAS SENTENCED TO BE DISMISSED FROM
It16 ARMY.
On Oct. |, Worront Officer Fred LoLone wos con-
victed on seven charges Of conspiracy and attempts
to defroud the government in the transfer and enlist
nent Of mtoy personnel. HE WAS SENTENCED
TO BE DISMISSED FROM THE SERVICE.
On Oct. Moster Seret Myron B. Collins, former
sereeont-noior at base headquarters and only
enlisted man in the qunette to foce troI -
convicted on seven counts involving improper en-
Iistment ond tronser Of soldiers land acceptance Of
grotuites from the fother Of two soIders). HE WAS
SENTENCED TO SERVE IS MONTHS AT HARD
LABOR IN a MILITARY PRISON. TO BE DlSHON-
ORALLY DISCHARGED FROM THE SERVICE AND
TO FORFEIT ALL PAY AND ALLOWANCES.
Insteod Of penalties increasing with the rank
and supposed obtes Of the accused the reverse op-
pears TO have been true One court pern1ists colonel
Of the Dir forces TO shoot down on innocent soldier
with but pat on the wrist"
An enlisted man, whose every oct wos subject to
the scrutiny Of his superior officers get the book
thrown OF him."
IT DOESN'T ADD UP.
he
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LEAVE IT TO THE MARINES
They call them MARINES,
and well they might call them
heroes, for, in all the history of
American armed forces, there is
none that can galnsay their
glory. Josef lSraels II, in his
Hes In the Marine Corps now.
one of a series of books intend
ed to acquaint us with the life of
our sons in the armed forces
.(McBride $3.50, wildly gives
you the history of the Marines
from the halls Of Montezuma
to the shores Of Tripoli.'
More than that, he gives you
a good idea of the rigorous
training the boys 90 through;
the fine condition their bodies
and minds are always in; what
they cat (the best food the
world; and, in contrast, on one
hand tells Of their religious pur.
suits, and on the other gives in
fine detail descriptions of how
they are taught TO kill.
Particularly in e + ting in
contrast with this killing are the
illustrations showing what nice
technique the boys are taught
Will, tho baynnot
Even though the book is a
technical treatise on the training
Of the Marines, you get thrill
out of the way they are convert
ed from soft citizens into tough
masters of any condition, indi-
vidual experts at all military
maneuvers and capable of wag-
ing a one-man war against out
standing odds without benefit of
officer direction.
There's an interesting miscel-
lany that relieves the technical
data-chapters on women Ma
rines, "slanguage," and flying
Marines. And there's one darned
good story.
Seems there were four of the
Leathernecks playing br / dig e.
All of a sudden came "a shout:
Force of about 200 Japs landing
on the beach The four Ma
rines looked at one another Fin
ally one rose and said: "Okeh.
fellas, I'll go--I'm dummy this
handIn
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thing like film company inter-
fere with his routine.
The company was on location
at the fort for exterior scenes.
Every time Director Charles
Barton got ready TO film scene,
Spot ran headlong into the pic
ture. Soldier spectators thought
1t was great fun, hesitated to tie
up Spot. Director Barton finally
gave up and wrote the pooch
into the script
Il wonder" unused the direc-
tor, how many actors could
get away with that?'
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EVENING GOWNS

Hurnon nature n7onfests itself in odd woys. For
instonce, consider the matter Of evening gowns.
When the war situation looked dork, and every
body reolized the pressure under, women
sought 70 express their co-operotveness among other
ways by informoty Of Dress Evening gowns we're
worn only on rare occasions.
But now the tide hos turned. We have stopped
losing the wor, even though hoven't gone for tow
ord winning il. So evening dresses ore being bought
ond worn oeoin.
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HELICOPTER PLANS

Andrew Jackson Higgins who probably holds sew
erol worlds records for losing government war con-
tracts through fault Of his own has come up with
new hecopter which he trying to sell to the gov
eminent II Uncle Som isn't interested, Higgins plans
to go oheod ony"oy and prepare for postwor civilian
production.
The helicoPter designed for Higgins by Eneo Bossi
will use less gasoline thon the ordinary automobile.
Boss believes il con made in the coupe" two
passenger model TO sell for 81 500 and in the Seldom
10 sell for $4,000
The line will form TO the right.
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. SO THEY SAY

look TO cities of sparkling
buildings of steel and glass
made brilliant with color. !
want to see world in which
sunshine is compulsory as far as
man can insure il. Away with
all the dingy alleys, Away with
the sugar icing,-Charles Her
bert Reilly, professor emeritus
OF architecture at Liverpool L.
To plan forms and institutions
now for the fast moving world
is speculative. The other peo-
piles have their own ideas. which
are not our iCeaS. Our paternal-
istic ways do not make us any
too popular.-Alf NJ. Lsndon.
American planes have assert
ed themselves and there is little
doubt in my mind about victory
in TuniSia - Lieut-Col. Louis
c. Plan, back from North Al
RIGA.
The principles on which this
country was founded and by
which il has always been gov
ernod is that Americanism is
matter Of the mind and heart
President Roosevelt
The Italian people on the
mainland are waiting for YOU
not with arms but with open
arms
-Sicilisn priest to American
soldiers.
That means I'll have 10 spend
the whole two weeks with my
mother-in-law so / think I'll
Just stay at home.
New York physician, refusing
extra gasoline for vacation
trip.
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. IN HOLLYWOOD

terbug routine on the current
Hollywood War Bond Caval-
cade. Give her a dress she can
rip TO shreds and Betty, and the
audience, are happy.
SELF-APPOINTED
The script didn't call for any
dog antics but an aristocratically
bred Dalmatian, Spot by name,
had different ideas His persist
ence got him role in the film
version Of Hey, Rookie Spot
normally has the run of the bar
racks at Fort Macarthur, and
he wasn't going to let a little
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Q FLASHES
OF
LIFE .
Nv The Associated Press
MISFORTUNE

Nv The Associated Press
MISFORTUNE
NEW YORK - Mrs. Rose
Stein deftly famed out her cards
on a tea room table, looked at
them studiously, then predicted
her customer would soon get a
pay rise.
The customer, who had paid
81 for the prediction. was po-
licewoman Mora p. McDormott
who had otho- things on her
mind besides getting raise.
Mrs. Stein was summoned 10
court -- and paid $40 fine on a
charge of fortune telling.
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Observation-Disclosures

KEN WO4 T II. Utah -
School-district C. ,icials explain
cd it like this:
The school bus driver told the
students they'd have to be less
noisy.
Angered. the students left the
bus. Didn't show up next morn
ing, either; they're just staying
home.
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HighIights from the Latest Books

Sloan and Pearce; so is going
TO be best seller, and probably
wind up as movie.
II took six years for Stegner
to complete this volume Of hui
man strength and frallities, and
it takes YOU comparative
length of time TO pillow through
its more than 500 pages. But you
finish with a grand picture of
the fickleneSs and faith, honesty
and artificiality, and sadness
and JOY that you find in every
day life.
Stegner's c haract tiers are
everyday folk from Elsa Nor
gard and her taciturn father,
Morse, to clustering 30 Mason,
the glamorous, adventurous,
sWashbuckling man Elsa mar
ried; their children. Bruce and
Chef, who move into the spot
light in the middle of the book.
It's a story of blighted young
careers, the struggle of the
mother TO bring up two sons
wide apart in character, and of
human emotions most all of us
have known.
OF DUST AND POEMS
You buttoned up your buster
to the throat. You adjusted your
goggles. You pulled on your
gauntlets. You put your trust in
God---and then you stepped on
her"
That's the way the dauntless
driver started off in the Wander
bilt Cup races on Long Island in
the good old days described by
Bellamy Partridge in Excuse
My Dust" (Whittlesey House:
S2.75). This entertaining book,
last of the Country Lawyer
Big Family trilogy takes you
back to the turn Of the century
and to upstate New York where
the author spent his boyhood.
Principal character in the mar
rative is young Tom Hunter,
who quit his fathers farm to de-
vote himself 10 a ruling passion
machinery and the gasoline
engine.
II was not long before he
opened the one and only bicycle
repair shop i'm town, and the day
was soon to come when he hung
up the sign GARAGE" The
villagers were perpleXed and ar
gued over its pronunciation and
meaning, and when told that the
horseless carriage would replace
the horse, that the hitching post
would soon be relegated 10 the
wOodpiie, stuck grimly TO their
guns. The automobile was just a
fad. The idea of turning the
country's roads into pavements
would bankrupt the nation"
How shortsighted they were
and how they gradually came
around is told amusingly and
convincingly The book is sprin-
killed. with humorous anecdotes
and gives a sparkling picture of
a colorful era just beyond recall
for many of us, and Of particular
interest TO today's car owner,
who can only dream OF new
models and can nostalgically re-
call the old-the really old
ones.
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bidding for the movie rights I,
HE SSuyOrd HocIarotiop

his 55-Word declaration.
NO PUBLICITY HOUND
But Fulbright is no seeker aft
er publicity. He is naturally
pleased at the outcome of the
House vote. But his pleasure is
in the fact that a branch of Con-
gress has taken the step outlined
in this measure, rather than in
his authorship of it.
James William Fulbright (his
friends call him Bill, not JIM
is a handsome man, black-hair-
ed, blue-eyed, tanned and mus
cular. He was varsity halfback
and a letterman in tennis at the
University of Arkansas. besides
being president of the student
body. He was smart enough To
win a Rhodes scholarship to OK
ford after his graduation in 1925,
and husky enough to win place
over there on an international
lacrosse team that toured the
United States.
Fulbright is serious student
of International affairs, and a
man who takes his congreSsion-
al duties TO heart. AT the same
time, he is genial and likeable.
He has a way of getting on with
people. And, although his cam
paign last fall was his first taste
of politics, he seems to possess
an unusual amount of political
savvy.
He needed all these qualities
TO get himself and his resolution
where they are today For the
whole history of the Fulbright
resolution is one Of extreme au-
dacity, if judged by convention
al standards.
In the first place, Fulbright is
the lowest ranking member of
the House Foreign Affairs Com
mittee. He came TO Congress
with a burning desire for mem
bership in that august body and,
with the help OF his colleagues
in the Arkansas delegation, he
made II. But it just wasn't con-
gresSional cricket for the lowest
ranking member TO introduce, as
his first piece Of legislation,
what from a historical stand
point is certainly the most inn
portant measure Of the session.
TACTFUL TOE
Fulbright knew what 20 do,
however, once he got his toe in
the door. He was careful
throughout, never forcing his
way, never sticking his neck out,
making no bad mistakes. His
committee colleagues added II
words to the original SO OF his
resolution, apparently, 1t would
seem, because il is a traditional
legislative habit 10 add, SUBJ
tract and pick to pieces. They
did not change the fundamental
meaning.
A more impetuouS firSt-form-
er might have fought this tink-
ering. But not Fulbright. He
knew what he wanted and, by
compromise, he got it The Il
Democrats and IL Republicans
of the Foreign Affairs Commit
tee voted out the resolution una
nlmously.
The Fulbright resolution got
the expected opposition from the
expected sources in debate on
the floor. Here again its author
conducted himself with tact and
intelligence. He made probably
the clearest, most temperate and
convincing of all the speeches
in the measure favor.
He won the admiration o.
most of his colleagues, and his
So words won a thumpingly
conclusive vote. They even lined
up such poles-apart representa-
tlves as Hamilton Fish and Vito
Marcantonio on the same side Of
the fence.
And that. for a freshman con-
gresham or anyone else, is quite
an achievement. ~
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FRANCHISE

KOKOMO, Ind. - Want to
buy a high school team which
has won two of its thrc~ football
games so far this season?
Kokomo high school officials
said today that the highest bid
der at a war bond rally Friday
night would become owner
of the Wildcats for the l943
season.
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ENDORSED, PERHAPS

FORT RILEY, kas. - What
is the fastest selling commodity
at the Army post exchange at
Fort Riley?
You're wrong
Footpowder tops the list OF
the modern cavalrymans pur-
chases.
The amount sold in year
weighs more than two tons -
not including the output at four
free dispensaries.
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UNFORGINEABLE

SAN FRANCISCO - Mrs Lu-
ellie Riquard was gr-nted a
divorce on grounds of cruelty.
AS the climax to quarrel,
Mrs. Riquard told Judge A. j.
Fritz, her husband punctured
her SIS cans of ratiored fruit
and vegetables.
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BY ERSKINE JOHNSON
NEA Staff Correspondent

Louis B. Mayors right-hand
man. Ida Koverman, Univer
sal producer Joan Harrison and
Mary Pickford have COMPETE
ton as the only authentic OK
ecutiVes OF the feminine gender
in Hollywood New vice presi-
dent and director Of Producers
Corporation Of America. an in
dependent company releasing
through United Artists, is
woman 49, Una Smith Stanley.
With Sib Schlager, Mrs. Stanley
helped form the company,
signed Harry Joe Brown TO pro-
duce and Nelson Eddy to star in
their first million-dollar picture,
'Knlckerbocker Holiday Mrs.
Stanley halls from Phoenix,
Ariz., where she won a respected
position in the produced bust
ness in Colorado, Arizona and
New Mexico.
Selling motion pictures she
saXS, lis just like selling vege-
tables. They gotta be good
Despite Lady of BurleSque,"
Barbara Stanwyck Will wear
even less clothes in her next
film. Double In d e m n ty."
Spends most Of her time in the
film in filmy negligees.
Add sights Linda Darnelrs
dark blue hair for her Indian
role in Buffalo Bill" TIP
to Universal: That Mary O'Brien
in When Ladies Fly is the SIS
Of Virginia O'Brien and has a
beaut Of voice.
Quick change: Oracle Mac
Donald completed her role in
"Gung Ho' one day as blond
and the next reported for her
leading part in Three Cheers
for the Boys as a brunei.
Paulette Goddard has Joined
the increasing list Of cinematic
war workers She'll play ship
yard Welder in her next film.
But we're betting she'll still fig
ure out some way to wear
black nightgown. She always
does Hedy Lamar and new
hubby John Loder Will be CO.
starred in a movie soon.
SEAGULL STORY
Two discouraged looking sea-
gulls were budding on a piece
OF driftwood in Paramounts
private ocean for scene in
The Story of Dr. Wassell.
Gary Cooper, chin in palm, was
leaning over railing, studying
the birds intently Those gulls.'
he said, have been sitting on
that thing for two hours with
out moving They're trained"
explained Curly Twifford, their
trainer, proudly, Yes said
Cooper, That's the way it is
with all us actors in a De Mile
picture. We get our orders and
we stay put"
Typically Hollywood: For is
movie. Home in Indiana Hol-
lywood sent a location crew to
the midwest TO get authentic
background scenes. The troupe
IS spending three weeks in Ohio
and only ONE week in Indiana.
Orson Welles was asked the
other day by the Owl to appear
in a short. Orson agreed, then
asked, Il can also direct, pre-
sumo"
well, frankly" said the owl,
we had been thinking Of some
one with more studio expert
ence."
p S. Orson will not direct.
It's tough on the wardrobe,
but IT sells war bonds. Betty
Hutton has wrecked six cos
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