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The Nome nugget., 1944-06-26
Fighting in Streets of Cherbourg Continues

SUPREME ALLIED HEAD QUARTERS OF THE ExpEDr-
 TIoNARY FORCES IN ENG LAND. June 2s.--tAP)-Unifed States troops have broken inc backbone of enemy resistance and expedition in Chsrbours. and are cleaning out the knots of remaining forces in inc cen fer of the port city. front line dispatches declared today. Brit ish forces have smashed out in a powerful drive on the oppos- ite end of the Normandy front, ii was reported also.
 The remains of the Maxi troops are fleeing from Chrebourg to the narrow Cap de La Hague, the last jutting finger to the north west of the prize port, the com munique sated.
 AP Correspondent Don White head said in dispatch from Cherbourg, that in just 24 hours, Americans took 3,340 prisoners and hundreds more are being rounded up.
 At least 10000 Nazis have been cap ured in the last 20 days of inv. invasion fighting, .,-.s ..-.-...-.-..--
 Patrols, pushing into the cen traf part of the city, were met with small arms fire and few snipers in small knots of resist ance," Whitehead reported.
 The cleanup of Cherbourg came as the British on the east ern Normandy front smashed into the Nazi defenses between Caen and lilly Sur Seulles.
 They seized Fontenay le Pres nle, two miles east of lilly Sur Seulle, and threatened Tessel and Bretteville 219 miles to the south east.
 Artillery, with one unit every eight yards, is supporting this sweeping assault by Gen. Mont gomery's tank troops, | Supreme headquarters in this mornings communique, said that fighting everywhere in the port of Cherbourg is severe, but full liberation cannot long be delay ed, as the 'doughboys' are roofing out the suicide squads of Germans as the end of the fierce five-day battle was drawing to a close"
 The communique added: Cher bourg would soon be freed by the Americans"
 "The Americans have been fighting in the smoking city since yesterday afternoon when they entered it in a crushing three-way assault, which spelled doom to the Nazi defenders" the commit nique went on to say.
The Nome nugget., 1944-06-26
Dewey Likely Choice Of Republican Delegates

as a piece of strategy from the convention floor, and was discuss ed as shaping up like this: Gris- wold, a. Westerner, nominat- ing an customer for president, and Warren, far-wes' 'erner, as possible vicerpresidential choice, Il, X -,sr srissss ssss s.As z
 Forces for Governor Bricker continued the fight none the less, and he is credited with 90 votes, and .Stassen 36 Governor Green of illinois, had the job of officials ly welcoming the delegates to the windy city in a speech which ac- cused President Roosevelt's ads ministration with political med ding in the armed forces running of the war
 Green declared, A Republican president would give the fight ing men free hand, and he de- nounced the New Daelers" as seeking to remain in power on sa "Win the War" slogan. .
 He asserted, Winning the war is uppermost in eyeryone's mind, and there is no priority on win the war parties in America.s
 Governor Warren was elected temporary chairman of the. con- vention.
The Nome nugget., 1944-06-26

weapons, poised on the Polish Rumanian front, awaiting the signal for a concerted push to- ward Berlin, in conjunction with the allied armies in the west and south.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-25

all these years: You can bet
the real reason Is something
more sinister"
Well, / am a reasonable fell
low. open 10 almost any kind of
suggestion as long as il is
scurvy enough. so I got think
ing maybe these detractors had
point.
THE upshot was that / called
Il Senator Brewster and said:
What is the real, honest-to-
goodness reason why you
changed your name: And none
Of your Down Mast evasion or
beating around the BUSH"
Senator Brewster apparently
thought the question was funny
because he laughed fit 10 kill.
But l was very stern with him,
and he subsidized.
"The public explanation I
gave was partly right" he
finally confessed. when I was
a kid / had q dear old aunt,
Grace Brewster, who always
called me Ralphie' and IL used
to nearly drive be berserk. I
yearned to do something about
II but this aunt was q lovable
old soul and / didn't want to
hurt her.
"Auntie Grace finally passed
away. but in the meantime I
had gotten married. And when
I suggested ! change my name
my wife raised the roof.
at married Ralph Brewster
she said, and I would feel was
living In you-know-what IL you
changed your name
But l kept after her." con-
tinued Senator Brewster. "and
n few months ago she finally
gave In. But IL took me from
1918 to 1914 to do It,"
Senator Brewster said he
liked Owen" because il is an
old family name and also very
difficult to corrupt.
There were times when
Ralphie' scared my SOUL" he
said. Back In 1912, when I
was only 81, was elected presi-
dent Of the Progressive Club in
Dexter, Me. That was the time
Of the Teddy Roosevelt-Taft
split.
Naturally. I was very pulled
up-until learned the sole du-
ties Of the president were to
clean the oil torches we used in
political psrades. I had to clean
ESQ torches-and I used to get
'Ralphied' 60 death by all the
guys who had made q sucker
out Of me-"
But how" I asked, did YOU
finally win your wife around:"
"She said You are now Sc
and guess . change of name
won't hurt YOU"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-25
w r uu1up VXIuNrrvuuEuu On
W IAAA EAO w ANOAAlIA/A Broadway

they permit his wife Rachele TO
join daughter Edda and the tots
there.
Emerich Kalman, the COM
poser. and his divorced wife
were re-wed quietly because OF
their children. He's done an
other operetta with II. Tierney.
Norma Shearer is trying 10
mend the l.. B. Mayors split.
Bernie Williams, who wrote
Somebody Stole My Gal" and
Marge Johnson are honeymoon
ing.
Jack Marshall suggests a new
theme song for slugger Tommy
Defseyii-.W 2Yeu-Like- 10
Swing on a STAR"
The Story Tellers: Jimmy
Starr, Los Angeles Herald-Ex-
press historian, continues his
click. The Corpse Came
c. o. D." in Liberty's next.
which also will serialize Charles
Michelson's THE Ghost Talks"
Spooky. wot? -
Editor Gene McHugh, %
years on the Daily News. will
be honored by the craft at the
Aston on the 23d. A deserved
tribute TO a grand person.
! Johnson, Telly staffer, has
switched TO American Weekly.
Jay Nelson Tuck, ditto, has
transferred 10 the Post.
1t. Col. Sam Becker makes
Look with Germany Will Do
II Again" in which he takes the
words right out of Nazi lead
eFS' mouths.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-25
One Word Led to Another
BY Patterson
BY Arthur Bugs" Baer

Every time look at the standings of the two St.
Looey teams feel I'm holding my paper upside down.
But it is all as level dance floor. And my heart
goes out to Brooklyn. It's cheaper that way There's
points my liver.
It's almost October and the Dodgers hanging up
records for hanging up records
Lppy Durocher will not be able to lose 100 games
this year. Didn't have enough doube-headers.
But he did paste up al-time label by using 10
shortstops this Or it season?
Some of them never saw the light of day.
They sneaked into Brooklyn in the twilight and were
their way home again before dawn.
They didn't stay long enough to contract timber
poisoning from the bench.
The way look at Durocher's 1914 shortstoppers they
were aergc to grounders nonreceptve fly balls and
didn't have the right type plasma for liners.
In fact when Lippy interviewed his ninth short
stopper ne asked How do you play them off the fence
Kin Fesure
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-25
BY DR.. Logan
Clendening

disturbances. For this class OF
people tobacco may be very
harmful because Of its physio-
logical reactions.
THE class OF people who have
Il trouble with spasm OF the
blood vessels are certainly made
worse by tobacco. These people
have anginal heart attacks when
the blood vessels supplying the
heart muscle contract, or they
have difficulty in the circulation
of the feet and hands. which in
mild stages amount 10 no more
than cold or tingling extremi-
ties, but may go on, especially if
complicated by diabetes TO ulcer
alton Of the skin or even gan
creme.
Tobacco makes these condi-
tons worse, probably by bring
ing on spasm Of the blood
vessels.
some controversy mas arisen
as TO whether tobacco itself
causes the spasm. One school
represented by careful investiga-
tors found the effects 10 occur
with denicotinized cigarets and
even corn silk cigarets. They
attributed the vessel changes 10
stimulation of the sympathetic
nervous system brought about
by irritating effect Of any kind
of smoke on the mouth and
bronchial tubes.
would be very difficult for
me 10 put my finger on the exact
pleasure / get out of smoking
cigar. II is, I admit. not easy
10 Justify the habit. But | fall
back on Carlyle. whose doctor
once persuaded him 10 give up
tobacco was meeSerable with
it and / was meeserable without
il" pronounced the sage. II
would rather be meeserable
with il"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-25
THE BRIGHTER SIDE
By Damon Runyen-

IT MISSED. The pitch would
have been ball in any
league, figuring Scatyou as the
home plate. The lemon bounced
high on the concrete driveway.
struck a retaining wall and
riechocheted into North Earring
road as a stout movie producer
came along in his automobile.
"Ploo-oo-oop.' went Scatyou,
the impudent cat.
Then he picked up a bucket
OF fiShheadS that had been set
out for Sheba's tea time and de-
parted as / became aware OF a
strained llgament in my throw
~lnF arm -that-~as-sa painful /
could scarcely lift II 10 latch the
door against the onSlaughts Of
the movie producer who stood
outside half an hour yelling;
Come out and fight like a
man, you rat. You cant throw
lemons at me just because you
saw my last picture"
announcement: Chi rem,
watch for the story of Stinky
the frog
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-25

Its the best way to lose
him, unless she is wise enough
TO let him beat her much more
often than she beats him. While
II peeves a man for a woman to
show she is smarter than he is,
yet this does not debate his ego
half so much as outdoing him in
his own m anly speciality of
sports and athletics. Even If
men are not superior, they have
always thought so, and ladies
better not monkey with a sleep
ing, self-satisfied dog.
2-It would be worth trying.
In an experiment with six pairs
of amateur boxers, one member
OF each pair was coached by a
psychologist. He built UP their
confidence that they would win,
taught them how 10 relax and
reduce overanxiety TO win. filed
their minds with victory slogans
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-25
Letters From
A Soldier

only thing you can DO sure Of"
I'm putting that down as
close as I can to the way he
said it 10 me, and I'm inclined
TO think that he has some good
arguments.
DON'T you know some people
~ who are so busy preparing
for their old age that all the
rest of their life slides by, as
dull as furnished kettle? I've
known some.
You'll probably say, But it's
foolish NOT to try to save for
later on in life," and that's
true, too. The thing is-Well.
it's hackneyed. but the word
moderation" is the thing.
There's no use saving until you
make life miserable for your
self and everybody around you,
and that's what it comes to,
sometimes.
Cpl. Ehlers isn't the kind who
is planning on a wild spree
when the wars over. He's 81
years old and he isn't looking
at life from that slant.
Come to think of It, I hope
we don't have the same kind Of
crazy mad spree that we had
in 1918 and the following years,
because that's no good. either.
l just agree with Ehlers,
that's all. The army does that
to you. You begin to think in
terms of just plain. pleasant
living.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-25
THESE DAYS
By George E.
Sokolsky

Chang Kai-shek is being
squeezed by the Chinese Com
munists.
It is altogether within posi-
bility that the political center
of the world will, at the end Of
this war. be neither London nor
Washington but Moscow.
That is something TO discuss.
WE ARE becoming so accus-
W toned 70 secret diplomacy
that it is taken for granted that
the American people need only
know what their lords and mas
tiers are willing to tell them.
We used 10 be told that
secrecy was essential TO keep
Hitler ignorant.
Well, we don't need to worry
about Hitler any more at all.
and very little about the Japa-
nese.
Therefore, it is time to be
told the facts.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-25

think that tobacco causes any
organic diseases. while alcohol
does-cirrhosis of the liver and
neuritis. for instance. I do not
think cigarets are coffin nails,
that their use leads To pulmo-
nary consumption or interferes
with the scholarship or even
athletic prowess Of college stu
dents. But the doctor and
were confining ourselves 10 sick
people and sick people of n GER
tain type-middle-aged and eld-
erly people with circulatory
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-25
BETTER HEALTH

THE other evening while we
l. were seated around the fire,
another doctor and l were en-
gagged in the eternal practice Of
doctors Of talking shop, and he
asked me Which do you think
does more harm. alcohol or TO-
bacco ?" and I was reluctantly
compelled to reply--"Tobacco."
Understand. we were talking
about sick people. I was smok-
ing a large, heavy cigar at the
time and he was consuming
cigaret after cigaret. / do not
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-25

CERTAINLY rankin D.
~ Roosevelt and Winston
Churchill did not meet at
Quebec to decide that Great
Britain would give the United
States full support in the
Pacific.
That has been taken for
granted.
Great Britain has everything
TO gain in the defeat of Japan.
India, Burma, the Malay
states. Borneo, Singapore and
possibly even Hongkong can
only be safe for the British en-
pire once Japan is defeated.
1t is impossible to believe that
all Roosevelt and Churchill
talked about was how much aid
Britain will give the United
States in this Pacific war.
Certainly. Australia and New
Zealand are as much a part of
that war as Hawaii.
Why all this talk Of help and
aid and participation? We
should be full partners, each
performing all he can, giving
everything he has.
1t would seem that Roosevelt,
in the midst of a political cam
paign. did not 60 to Quebec for
a review of the partnership.
For if, as the Roosevelt
Churchill interviews desire us
TO believe. the Quebec confer
ence was limited to discussion
of the quantity and character of
joint operations in the Far East,
the job could with equal sue
cess have been done by the
joint chiefs of staff, who are
the working heads of the Ameri-
can and British war machines.
IT MUST be assumed. there
L fore, either that more was
done at Quebec than was al
lowed TO meet the public eye.
or else il was a social picnic TO
give the photographers ample
opportunity to show how much
Churchill loves Roosevelt dur
ing a presidential election.
Therefore, il must be assumed
that Roosevelt and Churchill
discussed problems which they
dare not lay before their own
people.
Undoubtedly, the Russian at
titude at Dumbarton Oaks gave
them some concern, for Rus
sia's program with regard TO
the small nations would seem
to indicate that the hegemony
which Britain with our aid pre-
vented Hitler from setting up in
Europe, may be set up by
Stain.
Surely. the Lublin Polish gov
eminent is frightening, for it is
in reality a Russian dominated
government, as is the Tito re-
gime in Jugoslavia. as will be
the new government Of Ro-
mania.
Even in France, De Gaulle is
encountering difficulties with
the French Communists and
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-25

I WILL now tell you about
L Seatyeur the impudent cat
He is the color Of a silver fox
and about the size Of a Shetland
pony. am sure he belongs 10
one of my Holmby Hills neigh
beFs ia HE very hlgglA brackets,
maybe Fannie Bryce, because
he acts rich and naughty like
nothing you ever saw.
Sca,you Is enc 81 those classy
cats that / thought were maxi
ing UP 10 our rented cat, Sheba.
but that turned out 10 be
strictly schnorrers or free load
ers. They had no love for Shcba
in their hearts. 'f'ney JUST =ftiScd
the succotaSh we set out for her.
WELL, Scatyou came strolling
w along the boulevard the
other afternoon licking his
chops and picking his teeth
with a jacknife, and the fact
he carries such a knife shows
you what sinister character
he is.
was in our kitchen draining
a flagon Of Cola when through
the window / saw Scatyou turn
into the driveway which leads
10 the garage under the kitchen
and knew his visit was for no
good purpose. Our rented cat,
Sheba. was IN the garage play
ing with her pet mouse. Chubby.
and / said 10 myself IL would be
just like that stlnker Scatyou 10
steal Shebas mousie.
SO / hurriedly thrust my head
out the back door and Kissed:
"Screw, bum"
Children. that old Scatyou
paused and eyed me a moment
and then stuck his tongue out
at me and went:
"Ploo-oo-oop."
I DO not know what they call
L this sound in Holmby Hyls,
but in New York il is known
as the Bronx cheer. or rasp-
berry, and il is the most impu-
dent vocal gesture imaginable.
"Poo-oo-oop" went Scatyou
again as / stood astounded at
his effrontery and then resumed
his journey down the driveway.
/ said 10 myself. / will fix
you, you ill-mannered, no good
feline tramp, and then / reached
into a box under the kitchen
table containing some large
lemons and. picking a good solid
one, cautiously opened the door.
leaped out and let fly at Scat
you with the lemon.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-25
H w UAuYwpwuNYN On the
Ne y . JHAAIn1NU Side

is 6 feet 2 inches tall. The
Tokens have been married IS
years.
/ trust this EXAMPLE OF domes-
tic bliss will serve 10 encourage
young women Of 6 feet or over
who are nursing fears as 10 their
height being a handicap in Secur-
ing a husband.
DASSING by: d. r Robertson.
veteran travel agent When
the war started Mr.. Robertson
Immediately closed his travel
bureau and bought a gasoline
station and parking lot. He is
Scotch. Not long ago he deliv-
cred the following ultimatum
TO the publisher Of his local
newspaper.
'If you do not stop printing
jokes about Scotchmen being
tight I will stop reading your
paper at ths public library"
Ethel Barrymore. This is her
filtieth year on the stage. I
once saw Ethel and her Uncle
John Drew IN the same play.
-A-tnllnlV- Baltimore says
he remembers every play OF the
past 40 years. I'll let him fool
around a little trying to guess
the name of the play in which
Ethel and her uncle were CO.
starred.
Briefly Fellow just called
me up and said:
man just offered 10 bet
me 80 bucks New York City Is
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-25
WASHINGTON Scene
BY George Dixon

4 LOT Of anonymous parties
"a whom / suspect 10 be New
Dealers have called me IN re-
cent months 10 suggest that L
or. in a pinch. J Edgar Hoover
$ hould investigate Senator
Brewster OF Maine
There II more there than
meets the eye" is the burden of
their dark insInuations. He
must be trying 10 hide some
thing.
"AlI his life, up to few
months ago, he was Ra:nh o.
Brewster, and was listed az
such In a thousand places, In
GLIDING the congressional direc-
tory.
Then he suddenly became
Owen Brewster"
tried 10 tell the callers that
Senator Brewster had made
public expla lion Of the
change; that he abhorred the
name Ralph" because people
were always calling him
"Ralphie."
My customers, however, re-
fused to accept this explana-
ton.
"Humph!" they shifted. THAT
will not hold water. II he
didn't like the name Ralph
why didn't he change IL when
he was a Kid instead Of waiting
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-25

squeeze and scrimp to put every
nickel In the hank.
81 DON'T want to do that.
L I've noticed that people
who devote all their thoughts
to saving for the future usually
are inclined to he mean. They
just aren't as cOmIanionable.
mean when they go too far. As
they grow older they get worse.
Lies too short for that.
you don't have fun with
somebody who won't spend q
dollar, or is always thinking
how to put another dime In the
bank. And how do they end
up? II they're lucky, they have
a lot of money when they're old,
and the habit Is SO fixed that
they can't get any fun out of
spending it then. OF IL they
p aren't lucky, they wind up just
as bad off as the rest Of us.
There's a lot of talking
about security, but there's no
such thing as security. Why,
look at the people who thought
they were secure when the de-
preston came along-all those
people who lost their houses be-
cause they couldn't meet a few
paymen IS, or people who
thought they had gilt-edge
security and discovered that
they didn't have anything.
II could be wrong, but that's
the way l look at IL, and the
way l see il. II you do Inter-
esting things you at least have
some good memories to keep
when it's time for that old
rockin' chair. That's about the
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-25
JACK PICKERING

EDITORS NoTE-Pvt. Pick.
ering, former Times eoiumnist,
is an infantryman at Fl. Me-
CteIidn, Ala. These writings are
excerpts from his letters to
friends at the office.
4 LONG the line OF What are
"A you going 10 do when the
war is over" / got an answer
that was out of the ordinary
when I asked Cpl. John Ehlers.
Ehlers worked in the compos-
ing room of the New York
Times, and he'll probably go
back there. But
But" he said, "being In the
army makes you realize the
futility of material things, and
I'm certainly not going back to
living the way / did.
81 used to spend most Of my
money, but I'd save enough for
a vacation i'm the summer. When
i get out I'm going to spend a
little less in the spring, winter
and autumn, and take q longer
vacation in the summer. Maybe
oh. 1 think that's what I want
10 do.
What I mean Is. have some
fun. and don't get too fixed on
saving money. It's all right to
save money, but you can carry
IL too far. I'm convinced OF
that.
You know what I mean.
Some people save to buy a
house; they buy insurance,
wanting to protect their fami-
lies, which is right; but some of
them are so intent that they
take more than they can af-
ford, and after that they
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-25

GAMBLERS and betting COM
NJ missioners shudder when
real odds make the printed page.
One of them was heard to
eroan: THAT Winchell can ruin
the price worse than anybody"
Gamblers themselves spread
the false odds-giving the price
on FDR at 8 to 5 when il was
actually 3 TO /.
Men in the racket do not bet!
They just create a book"
They lay the odds and take
the odds-thus having the ad-
vantage on both sides Of all
wagers.
In short, high-stakc gamblers
don't risk money because they
think a candidate will win or
lose. All they know is that they
will win. no matter who loses.
A safer bet is Black Night (at
Laurel the 2nd time out.
DETURNED officers tell how
ScPo- Tweed managed 10
stay alive on Guam for 81
months without being captured
by the Japs.
The natives helped a lot. Of
course.
They kept him hidden and fed.
The Japs themselves were ac-
tually responsible for Tweed's
good luck.
The Jap army and Jap navy.
II appears. quarreled over who
was to capture him.
Jap army officers (rather
than lose face If Tweed was