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Evening star., 1944-11-03
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Evening star., 1944-11-03

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Evening star., 1944-09-10

Maybs said ons Of these things
but. alaa Kosy lo W calisd q,
driver-was already III out. 81
swerved the jeep toward the ditch
bullets sang again and the jeer
tilted against : heap Of gravel and
stopped.
Maxim and ! fell out into the
ditch, Maxim sobbipg. They've got
me. We must surrender" The 9TH
ers seemed to leap over our heads
They were on the far side Of the
jeep. and / heard them crash
through the hedge and the scrub
trees.
heard the crunch Of. their boots
on dead branches and brushwood
and I cursed because had beer
too close to the ditch to Jump, but
Maxim was clutching his stomach
and groaning, and as two Max
light tanks roared to q stop Just
ahead Of Us and men tumbled out
firing small arms, we could only
flatten ourselves In the ditch.
Shouting and shooting they came
at us, firing overhead at our escap-
ing companions. I heard afterward
that Robert was shot in the spine
as he ran, but our captors were too
busy to chase them. They rounded
us out Of the ditch, and as my hands
went up ] remember wondering. sup
pose they shoot through my hands
why didn't I insure them?-And
hustled us toward their tanks.
Evening star., 1944-09-10
Mace Gowon Tells Of His Capture
BY German Troops in France

pAnion encountered 4 German re-
connaissance car. Gowen's COM
panion fired q few shots from his
pistol, but was wounded.
"0owen got much farther than
Chartres that day. He got as far
rs Paris. He didn't have to leave
his car, nor his tytewriter, either
The first question he asked the Ger
man interpreting oficer was. Say,
when Is this war going to be over7'"
Details : Little Awry.
Really, Guenther, II there's q Hit
Ter prize for war reporting. you win
Ny car was jeep, there were i've
Of us inside, not two; we hadn't q
pistol among US, with the exception
Of our soldier -driver, and We were
shot up and captured by two Ger
man light tanks. Not q shot was
fired In reply. We were too scared
They stole not only my typewriter
from me, but two others, and re-
fused to return mine when re-
quested, and I didn't reach Paris the
same day, but the day following.
Outside Of these trivia and the
fact that you distorted my question
your story was fine, and it would be
Evening star., 1944-09-10

Ichurliah % complain When you let
my paper know % quickly that you
got ule. But stiu ! wonder why you
did not let them know 4 chose to
run" 70 paraphrase that famous re-
mark, and Why you didn't publish
IOur answer TO my question, which
wAs. SHow much longer can you hold
out?y You replied, I recall, I'VE
got the Russians stopped on the
Carpathian line, We got you stopped
on the Po front, and we shall stop
you on the Seine and the Marine. =
Well, waited long enough to see
you scurrying back toward the Sieg-
fried line before waved my guards
good-by. Why didn't you get their
story? It will make interesting
reading.
Companions Named.
Paul Holt OF the London Daily
Express, William Maxim OF the Lon
don Sunday Times, Bernard Robert,
. Frenchman who runs . profitable
little movie theater In the village OF
Beaumont on the Chartres road,
and William Rosenburg, Woodmere,
Long Island, our driver, were with
me speeding toward Beaumont,
where We hoped to call on Louise
Morgan, 4 cousin Of the Roosevelts,
who lives In chateau near the
village. Suddenly there was q burst
Of machine-gun IRE behind us and
bullets whizzed about our ears.
Drive on! Don't stop! Keep
going! Let's get the hell out OF
here" our startled voices exclaimed.
Evening star., 1944-09-10
Penthouse Club Plans
United tionS Week

a United Nations Week program.
with each night dedicated 70 ! dif-
ferent nation. win BE- prevented this
week BY the Uso Penthouse Club
stop the YWCA Building Il Seven
teenth and K streets NV, q the
club celebrates its third birthday.
The celebration win begin tomor-
row and last through Saturday, with
the climax Saturday night, when
three dances and 4 floor show will
be presented, q queen chosen and 4
giant birthday cake cut by Mrs.
Henry Wallace.
A South American mardi gras win
be presented tomorrow, m evening
In Paris Tuesday, Z Russian Bala-
laika Wednesday, q Chinese tea
party Thursday and q British En-
pire night program Friday.
Evening star., 1944-09-10
ny GAULT Mace GOWAN,
North American NeWspaper Allianc,


LONDON, Sept. e.--When / wal
taken prisoner by the Germans on
August n, they Immediately broad
cast the fact that they had me and
had taken me to Paris. But since
not liking the setup and escaped
there has been q mysterious silence
on the air waves.
This obliges me, therefore, to tel
my own story as far as possible,
since ! can't wait for them indefi-
nitelyA It was the day following
my capture that Guenther Weber, 4
stump, bespectacled German war re-
porter with . martial swagger, an
nounced from the invasion front
"The first victim of the report of
the occupation Of Chartres was
Gowen (Gault MacGowan), corre-
spondent for the North American
Newspaper Alliance.
After hearing the report Of the
towns fall, he climbed in his car
intending to rush there to write a
graphic report. Many kilometers
west Of that town he and his COM
Evening star., 1944-09-10
Lewis Predicts Ample
Coal Unless Europe
'Denudes' Supplies
D. the Associat.d pres..

81 sAsG ASSoNAotCQ 9AeaAs
2 CINCINNATI, Sept. 9--John l.
Lewis today forecast plentiful do
e mestic coal supplies this winter IF
we don't denude our supplies to
send abroad but he parried ques-
: tions on subjects which he said
would be debated before the To-day
biennial convention Of the United
Mine Workers, opening Tuesday.
2 At a press conference he was
asked about the UMW's political
stand, policies of the National Labor
Relations Board and the War Labor
Board, postwar economy. and the
movement within the UNIV for self
government of various districts. He
said he could not comment because
the subject would come up before
the convention.
He reiterated, however, that the
UNIV had no commitment to the
WLB to refrain from strikes during
wartime.
When unions ask for better
wages, the War Labor Board simply
sends postcards telling them what
the Little Steel Formula is. It
r insults labor"
Mr.. Lewis also gave as his opin-
ion there was mo possibility Of i'm
mediate reopening" of the question
of labor unity, whether through re-
turn of the Congress of Industrial
Organizations to the American Fed
Grafton of Labor. or return of the
UNIV to the AFL. The UNIV,
founder of the CIO, broke away in
the 1912 UNIV convention here and
subsequently made an unsuccessful
application for readmittance to the
gAFL.
? He indicated the subject might be
explored deeply during the conven-
ton.
Mr.. Lewis said American miners
had dug out the greatest tonnage
this year in the worlds history.
but added there was no way to tell
how much coal Europe would need.
Even though some mines in
Belgium, France, Czechoslovakia
and Poland may be freed" he said,
mo one knows what condition the
mines are in or how long it will
take to get them in working order"
Goebbels called our Flying For
tresses Flying Coffins." We need
more of them over Germany. Let's
all back the attack. Buy more War
: Bonds.
Evening star., 1944-09-10

Goebbels called our Flying For.
Tesses Flying Coffins." We need
more of them over Germany. Let.
all back the attack. Buy more Wal
Bonds.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-03
Below the Belt

There is an old expression which most of us have heard since early childhood: T can defend myself against my ene- mics, but Lord deliver me from my friends" It may have sprung to the mind of Miss Margaret E. Connors CD of Bridgeport last night, when Vice President Henry A. Wallace spoke in her behalf, on the home grounds of Repre- sentative Clare Boothe Luce (R) Miss Connors' opponent in Tuesdays election.
 Covering Miss Connors with a lauda- tory mantle, describing her 2 "clear thinking, and taking a swipe Con- necticut for going to sleep bety I pres idential elections" the Vice resident turned his guns on Representative Luce.
 It has long been the custom in election campaigns for both sides to sling mud at the other, in an all out effort to gain votes; and this campaign will go down into history as one in which great deal of mire was tossed by both sides. But Mr. Wallace would seem to have over stepped himself, and we would not be surprised if his efforts to build up Miss ConnorS, at Mrs. Luce'S expense, should prove a boomerang.
 Comparing Mrs Luce to Marie Antoi nette was permissible political tactics, but to refer to her as "sharp-tongued glamor girl of forty'' was definitely a mistake Women have always been not ably reticent about broadcaSting their age. Since time immemorial it has been the custom of women to disguise the advance of years, and there is scarcely woman alive today who would not thrill with pride to be called "glamor girl" when the thirties are a memory.
 These women will not feel kindly to- wards MT. Wallace and, right or wrong, towards the ndidates-Miss Connors- = whom he sought to aid. Nor will the men be far behind. Vice-President Wallace, in terms. of the ring, hit "below the belt, and chivalry is not yet dead in Connec- ticut.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-03

which he gave to visiting congressman in France.
 War said the general, .is like push ing a heavily loaded wagon up steep hill in fog and never knowing when you are going to reach the top, So you have to push like hell all the. time"
 In all military literature it would be hard to find more illuminating smile. Needless to say the general was not speaking of his strategy or his armies tactics, neither of which is the least bit foggy, but.of the unrenitting effort ned ed right up to the hour and minute of the enemy's final defeat. In these memor- able sentences General Eisenhower has impressed us all with the dangers of com placency, and has done it, to our way of thinking, far better than hundred speeches on the subject. Those sentences are something to cut out and paste up in home, office or factory. Or better, they are worth learning and thinking about. They ought to keep us pushing.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-03

at our president all the bad things and more since c. Columbus,-all except TEAPOT DOME. No sen- sible listener can avoid the deduc- tion that a SKELETON is hiding behind the facade. THE SKELE- TONS first name is INITIATION" Its last name is "Debacle''.
 That's the mysterious TIT" Dewey so often sneers. Roosevelt thinks the country can't take IT. "IT" is certainly IHlation-everything wide open-for that is positively the only TT" President Roosevelt has ever said America could not cope with successfully.
 Dewey promises to be interna- tiollal for peace; but he never calls for a non-isolationist Congress; and his friend and packer, Col. McCor- mack, reputedly an isolationist, would probably be his secretary O. state; Mrs. Luce, secretary of labor; and MT. Hearst. secretary of the treasury. Could this follrsome keep peace with the neighbors? A. ready they've thrown mud on Rus sia's wash-line, in her hour of travail and glory. Dangerous work! MT. Stalin is not bound by tradition or precedent. Suppose they made him so angry. he should turn his country from Communism to the Profit System? What eompetitori 1
 President Roosevelt is not a Kin
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-03
Current Comment

In Germany there will be no fraternization. We go in as con- querors. General Eisenhower.
 
 Production on the home front has just barely reached point where we can harbor hopes, and it cer- tainly cannot be said that this is sufficient.
 Jap Premier Kuniaki Koiso. We once said that if we could lay waste to 60 major towns in which war material is produced, we could bring Germany's power to continue the war to an end. By the evidence of today, we may be able to do this some time much before Christmas.
 The Times of London corre-
 spondent.
 
 No German cities may expect to have immunity from destruction as long as they are maintained as a part of the battle line.
 Secretary of War Henry L.
 StimSon.
 We are appealing even to those who. do not belong to the family of our church to reconsider oollabora- ton with all nations of Christian civilization because there can be no advantage to humanity without . basis of Christianity.
 Pope Plus XII.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-03
In Today's Mail
Writer Says There's No Reason Why F.D.R. Should
 Not Have Fourth Term
Arlington, N. J. Nov. l, 1944.

Arlington, N. J.
 Nov. l, 1944. Editor of the Democrat:
 Dear Sir:
 That politician -outcry against a fourth term for President RooSe- welt? WHY? It's puzzle to me. Our Constitution does not bar four terms, nor forty! The Father of our Country, in his farewell address, apologies almost abjectly for re- fusing to run for third term, on the sole, simple, and pathetic ground that he is wearied, and longs for that retirement which he so re- luctantly had forSaken even for his first term. He added the further "ALIBP' that the country, unlike its condition at his second accept ance, is now settled on an even keel.
 President Roosevelt and the New Deal will go down in history as the restorers of true American Democ- racy, which was originally com bination of private enterprise and brotherly cooperation for the build ing up of happy folks, not trusts and cartels. The only difference in these past twelve years is that (ow- ing to forty-eisht states), we have cooperated by a small tax according to income, (Small, compared to the cost in revenue, humiliation and brief of a depression) instead of chipping in personal labor in build ing bees. roads, schools, etc. New Deal measures are the only antidote ever found against the trusts, which were brought from England some seventy years ago, and in 1892 reached the state of the man who taught his horse to live without eat- ing.
 MT. Dewey promises, if elected, to carry on some New Deal meas ures and provide jobs for all, but how? The handicapped in normal times, statistics say, number an un- employable six million. He seems trying hard to hide his plan-flis secret weapon. No offset to the many new labor-saving inventions? No forty-hour week. No minimum wage. No ceiling on prices. Four flfths of his speeches are spent out doing %The Baron" Mllnchausen in upside-down burlesque of facts; the other one-tafsh he spends dinging
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-03
Women Voters Hard to Fool

This is the year, the statisticians tell us, that the women voters can swing the elections. Well, maybe they can and maybe they can't. It would take nation wide check of registration to tell. But the very threat of such a possibility must have shocked the candidates into com plete revision of campaign strategy and tactics
 It didn't, of course. Electioneering has followed the old traditional pattern, and there's nothing to be done about it. But wait till next time, as the Brooklyn Dodger fans are in the, habit of saying. The women voters will still be with us, and the wise office-Seeker will start right now to build an entirely new system of political fences.
 So this is going to be little sermon to them on how to win votes and influ- ence women, or vice versa. The next is taken from the words of a great and wise magician who explained why he refused to perform for an exclusively feminine audience.
 ''They don't want to be fooled, he said. "They sit there cold-bloodedly and try to see how the trick is done. With an audi ence of men can raise cigaret to my lips with my right hand and make three moves with my left while I'm taking one puff. But the women just sit and stare at my left hand"
 Now this, we contend, is a great and fundamental truth which is true in poli- tics as well as magic. Politicians have ignored it since the 18th Amendment was passed. But the fact remains that women in general don't want to be fooled.
 They don't go for smoke screens. The old mumbo- jumbo of name calling and half-truthS and piouS proteStationS, which was old stuff when Andy Jackson first went to the huStingS, doesn't confuse or divert the ladies worth darn. They're inclined to keep their eye on the hand that's doing the trick and ignore the cape-swishing.
 The trouble is that men Cncluding politicianS) let themselves be fooled by women as we'll as by magicians. They're inclined to dimiSSs women'S political choices as another example of womanly intuition They forget that on occasion this intuition is matter of deciding on the basis of fundamentals, while the men are miStaking their own absorption in the political sideshow for deep-dish thinking. They also tend to confuse diplomatic silence maintained in the interest of domestic tranquility, with wifely Sub- mission to the lord and masters Sugges- tions on how to vote.
 The moral of this highly generalized sermon probably too late in this cam paign. is pretty obvious: Let the next batch of candidates woo the feminine voter by sticking to the issues and the record and laying off the red herrlngs and rabbits pulled out of the hat The candidates who do it best may find them selves elected And in doing SC they may raise political campaigning to the adult level on which it belongs.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-03

criticism I have leveled at the Roosevelt AdminiStration-day-in and-day-out exposes, beginning with Jimmy Roosevelt's insurance deals even before the 1883 in auguration and the kit bag deal just after the inauguration, ex- poses which sent some leading Louisiana Democrats to jail un- til the White House stopped the prosecution; also how MT. Hull was letting airplanes be shipped be shipped to Germany in viola tion of treaty even in 1888; and the tragic fumbling of the Span ish Civil War; the Shilly-shallying on scrap iron; Roosevelt's long, time refusal to recognize de- Gaulle, and his knuckling under to Churchill on India.
 Three years before MT. Dewey
 talked about it, pointed and
 kept on pointing to the Cabinets
 quarreIsOme old men; also ex-
 posed the danger of 8 rubber
 and tire shortage early enough
 to have prevented it.! raised
 cain over Secretary of War
 WOOdring's delay in ordering
 airplanes; and criticized whole
 host of other things, including
 the firing of Sumner WelleS and
 the bungiing of Russian rela-
 ti0ns, which criticism the White
 House certainly resented - wig
 OrOusly, publicly, in blunt words
 hurled straight in my direction.
 However, it seems to me that one of the very important things in this election is studying all the qualifications of all the can- didates. We have now had Roose- welt under the most searching microscope in the world, the American press, for 12 long years. But when newspapermen try to hold the microscope up to Dewey, it isn't so easy. Take for instance, two illustrations.
 When you ask Dewey's draft board il, New York for the facts regarding his reported agricul-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-03
Military. Men of Letters

Some day when the war is over it should be the fascinating task of some scholar to examine the communiques, speeches and general announcements of our military leaders for the light which these state mentS can throw on the men, their characters and their abilities. Until that time is at hand, it is enough to make the broad observation that our top generals and admirals express themselves remark ably well and with great variety. Their vocabulary, when they address them selves to civilian audiences, is free from military aridity And they employ 1t with directness, clarity and very often imagination that many professional writ CTS might and probably do envy.
 General MacArthur's utterances have the Oriental splendor and rolling periods of the Old Testament = due logically enough, according to reports, to his as- sidt0lis Bible reading. AdmiralS King and Nimitz and General Marshall can condeuse important news into model or Straightforward reporting or (and espe- cially in Marshall's easel can infuse ,thiS almost blunt economy of expression with boiling hot sincerity in public speeches. Admiral HalSey contributed satirlcal and gracefully contemptuouS comment Qn the Japs' inflated victory claims when hs informed Admiral Nilnitz that he had sIpaged his entire ap-destroyed fleet and was withdrawing in the direction of the enemy But best of all, perhaps, is General Kisenhowerss description of war
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-03

tural deferment during the period after he was District Attorney and before he became Governor, you run up against blank wall of silence. There may have been good reasons for his deferment, but the draft board says it's con- fidential, and Dewey hasn't seen fit to overrule the board. It seems to me, however, that the public is entitled to know all such things about any candidate as important as one for President of the United States.
 Likewise, when you inquire as to how Governor Bricker came out of an athletic career in Ohio State University in 1917 to be suddenly ordained a minister and an Army chap lain by a little church at Mt. Sterling, Ohio, without one single day of theological train- ing, again you run up against a blank wall of silence. Cover nor Bricker lists himself in Who's Who as a first lieuten- ant, U. s. Army, World War" Maybe there was a good reason for all this, but you can't get any explanation as to why Bricker suddenly deserted law for the ministry, when unmar- ried, just at the beginning of the last war.
 Well, these are just some of the things that the people who are fighting this war probably would like to know = certainly have a right to know = about the men they are going to vote on for the highest office in the land.
 I started this letter by telling about the trials and tribulations of farming. But I still say that farming is easier than columning especially during elections, when both editors and readers bite of your head practically every day.
 Your brother, Drew.
 Copyright. 1944. by United
 Feature Syndicate, Incl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-03

MT. Churchill has informed Parliament that it will be the British policy to let the Greek people choose their own form of government when normal conditions return. Would it be impertinent of us to ask if the Atlantic Charter, of which MT. Churchill is co-author, did not announce as it's policy the right of all peoples to choose their own form of government, and without retaining any provisions about deciding what and when were normal conditions?