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The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1945-07-05
D-Day Described By
Fighting Youth

ton, Route 2, received a letter from
her brother, Cpl. Bob Ganey, from
Prattling, Germany, which describ-
ed some Of his experiences in Eu-
rope from the day he sailed January
/, 1914, from New York, on the
Queen Elizabeth, to D-Day IN
France.
His letter, written May 28th, will
be of interest to many of our read
ers:
l left the United States January
first of "a, at eleven o'clock AM.
on the Queen Elizabeth.
Everything went just fine about
four days, then things began to hap
pen. The first thing, I got sick and
for about two or three days I was
a sick soldier. Next came the
storms, then the U-boats. Those u
boats didn't have a chance because
we were too fast and too damn
smart for them, however, we never
knew we we're being chased until
we landed at a British port, and that
was about four days later.
Well, while I was in England
things went very well. But then
came D-day and there I was sitting
on the English shores. l was in my
truck with my toe-load on behind
the truck and my sub-Thompson
machinegun in my hand. AL OF
you on my mind and how l wished
l could whisper just a few words to
all my family and say, Don't worry
for I feel good and I am not afraid.
I wanted to do my part if it cost my
life and I was willing to give it
freely, just to save you from having
to face what the people in France,
Holland and Poland had to 60
through with. l had seer what the
Germans did to them and I wanted
to get a crack at them.
When I got in sight Of the French
beaches, hell was popping. The
landing boat ! was on went as close
to the shores as it could and the
water was five feet deep. When the
end of the boat opened up l was the
second truck to hit the water. The
tide was coming in, rising a foot
every five minutes and l had to go
two hundred yards to reach dry
ground.
I was going good until I hit a
shell hole that had been done some
time that day by a German plane.
Well that was the last I saw of my
truck until the next day. l saw lots
of other trucks go under just like
mine. The deep water wasn't what
stopped me for all our trucks were
waterproof and water would not
stop us. I went about seventy-five
yards with just my shoulders out of
the water. / couldn't get my truck
out of the shell hole and that's what
stopped me. Well, / made it back
to my boat and how l got back j
don't know. l don't know whether
I swan or waded. Well it was get
ting dark by that time and the cap
tain wouldn't let any o trucks
off the boat that night.
Sis, / saw some horrible sights.
Men were drowning that had start
ed to wade out to shore but they
were so far from shore that the
caught them at about a hum
.red and fifty yards. I could hear
men calling for help but no one
could get to them in time so they
Well that was bad but
the next day was worse after the
went back and left the
beaches for about a half mile. This
is what it looks like:
You can put a white sheet under a
tree when the berries are
ripe and shake it until they all fall
off and then you will have the pic
ture of the dead bodies that were
on that sandy beach.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1945-07-05
frs. W. p. Bailey, Rev. w. P

Mrs. w. P. Bailey, Rev. w. p.
Bailey, and Mrs. Dan Comfort at
tended The District Conference last
Tuesday.
Miss Mary Elizabeth Barrett ia
the houseguest of Mr.. Rev. and Mvs.
w. p. Bailey this week. +
Evening star., 1945-05-27

(See CONTROL, Page C-10)
Evening star., 1945-05-27

But the handicaps were too great.
Though freedoms principles secretly
were taught and absorbed with a zeal
unmatched before, "booklearning" suf-
fered severely in those years of Nazi
occupation. Undernourished children,
working haphazardly in cold rooms with
almost no equipment, had no chance of
absorbing history and geography with
anything like normal speed. Many chill
dren had no chance to learn at all
The education of Europe's children
poses terrific problem. But it is more
material than spiritual. It's greatest
needs are teachers, schools, equipment
needs which can be met by the outlay
of billions of dollars and years of work.
Liberated countries, struggling with
reconstruction, have been able to do
very little to fill the vast hopper of these
needs, but the outside world at least has
made start in that direction. Early in
education drafted in London a constitu-
ton for a United Nations organization
for the rehabilitation of educational and
cultural resources. 1t envisaged aid in
three fields, including vast amounts Of
school equipment However, the consti-
tuition requires ratification by the coun-
tries concerned and to date no concerted
action has been taken.
Hope Is Expressed.
On the other hand, evidence in this
country indicates that the complex
psychological problem has not been at
tackled at all. Indeed, 1t scarcely seems
even to have been recognized except by
an occasional psychiatrist.
What can be done to solve this COM
plicated mental and emotional problem
involving Europe's future leaders, citi-
Evening star., 1945-05-27
Bv adelaide Kerr

What has World War II done to the
children of countries overrun by the
Nazis?
What kind of citizens will they be in
the world of tomorrow?
In the answers to those questions lies
destiny of a continent, perhaps of a
world.
Millions of children-the next genera
ton of men-live in countries devastated
by war. They have spent five years sur
rounded by terror suspicion and trick
cry. They have seen their parents live
and die-in violence.
Mentally those children suffered as
children never suffered before en- masse
Morally they lived in conditions both de-
structive and degrading.
There are the homeless: Orphaned,
abandoned, uprooted, lost or separated
from their families. Thousands of small
ones don't know even their names. Thou
sands are crowded into institutions and
refugee camps or given haphazard care
by friends. Others have become vaga-
bonds. All are tormented by insecurity
and childhood's greatest fear-a sense
of belonging to no one-fertile fields for
a thousand neurotic quirks that make
social misfits.
See Parents Lie and Steal.
There are the youngsters who still
have families. Many have seen their
parents lie, steal and kill. What has
this done to their moral values? Thou
sands were taught to spy on their par
ents. What will this do to family life?
Thousands are stepped in hate and
consuming desire for revenge. What
kind of workers for peace will they
make?
Finally there are the adolescents Mil
lions were active in the underground
and have known excitement and danger
After liberation's first thrill wears off,
will they find peace too tame for words?
They have played grown-up, useful
and often perilous role in the UNDER
ground. Will they rebel at submitting
again to adult control? They were
praised for houting Nazi DEGREES. Have
they acquired a contempt for law in
general?
Education, too, suffered solar-plexus
blow in countries occupied by the Nazis
Hundreds of schools and universities
were closed or burned. Thousands of
teachers were killed or deported. Millions
of books went up in flames. In the
schools which did remain open, the Nazis
sought to stamp education with Nazi
doctrines written to the recipe of Prop
aganda Minister Goebbels::"
Handicaps Too Great.
In the face of all this, thousands of
parents and teachers in occupied coun-
tries fought fiercely to keep education
alive. The children fought, too. Stories
of their resistance and pluck shine like
lighted candles against the grim dark
background of those years.
Evening star., 1945-05-27

zens and potential labor force? Can it
be solved at all?
Despite all the dismal data of the pres
ent, the outlook is not too discouraging
Here is heartening comment from Dr.
Ota Almoslino, who served nine months
in 1914 as doctor in Ell Shaft and other
Middle East refugee camps directed by
the United Nations Relief and Rehabil-
itation Administration.
Judging from my experience he said
in New York, 1--WE can hope that the
emotional and mental equilibrium of
these children will be restored under
right physical and mental conditions in
their own country. The most important
thing is to let them forget. And they
will forget. I have seen and treated
thousands of children and have scarce
ly seen really incurable neurosis in them
Naturally, physical rehabilitation is
important. But education is extremely
important, too. Let the children have
schools and young, kind and gay teach
ers. And let the teachers teach the par
ents to stop rehashing their suffering
and sorrow before the children-and you
will have mentally healthy generation
in spite of ALL
Must Build Sound Bodies.
Medical, educational and welfare ex-
perts combine in offering these sugges-
tions for solution:
First" they said, supply food, shelter,
clothing, medical care and the services
to distribute them equally. Sound minds
dwell in sound bodies
Second, supply emergency care for
the children who are orphaned or sep
Grated from their families and eventually
(See VICTIMS. Page C-lO1
Evening star., 1945-05-27

Clark's breast pocket. The assistant
wanted to substitute handkerchief
with the four corners in a serried row
the way President Truman arranges his.
Mr.. Clark waved him aside.
32d Degree Mason.
people will think I'm getting to be a
dude" he said.
The blue serge is Mr.. Clark's cere-
monial suit. Usually he wears brown
or gray suits. No one could call him a
smoothie but the Attorney General-to-
be is far from Indifferent to clothes
He considers himself pretty dressy for
regular fellow. He has no tailor; buys
suits ready-made, but he is very proud
that his fondness for bow ties has been
noted in the press. He has collection
of $50 on his tie racks to select from.
He was wearing a blue polka dot for
this occasion-it bobbed gently on his
Adams apple as he talked-but the word
moments.
His black hair, neatly parted, has q
bit of wave and a bit of gray in it.
He has brown eyes, long nose with a
little bump in it and bit of double
chin. He wears white shirts with a
good bit of cuff showing at the end of
his long arms and he wears medium
size diamond on his finger in a setting
that is the emblem of a 32d Degree
Mason.
He lives with Mrs. Clark in small
two-story house at 5715 Moreland place,
west of Rock Creek Park. They have
two children, Ramsey. II, and Mildred
IL. Their house is constant meeting
place for Texans.
II want to tell you." said veteran
Justice lawyer, there never was an
appointment of an Attorney General
that was more popular in the depart
ment. This man has come up from the
ranks of lawyers here. He has been in
the field. He knows their problems.
When he hears lawyer in the Grim
inal Division has won a tough case, he
writes him congratulatory note in
long hand. SHe carries on large cor
Evening star., 1945-05-27
CLARK HARD-H|TTER IN ENFORCING LAW

reSpondence with lawyers in the division
who are away in uniform. He walks
around, talks to people, asks them how
they were doing. The other day he was
in the stenographers' pool, asking about
their light. One girl said more light
would help. A little later a messenger
was in with tube-light desk lamp for
her-the kind that are issued here to
executives. He took it off his own
desk. His secretary could wrestle with
the problem of getting him another.
away"
For all his making out to be as ordi-
nary as an ex-cowboy or Professional
baseball player, Tom Clark comes from
professional family and was brought
up in big Victorian house with a lot
of gables. porches, lawn and trees on
Ross avenue-Dallas' best residential
street in the old days.
His father, William H. Clark, came
from Mississippi and successfully prac-
ticed law in the new city. Tom finished
high school in 1917, just after American
entry in the World War, and his father
sent the 17-year-older to Virginia Mil
itary Institute so he could qualify as an
officer when his time came. In the
summer of 1918 Tom joined the National
Guard. He was first sergeant of Com
pany of the 153d Infantry. The regi-
ment was taken into the Army just be-
fore the armistice. Tom was given one
months pay before the whole regiment
was discharged and disbanded.
From then on he worked his way
through the University of Texas at
Austin-more a matter of the American
idea than the necessities of the family
budget. He became manager of the
university's publications, selling adver-
tising for them on commission. And he
made $35 a month as a student assistant
to the faculty, correcting and grading
papers.
My whole budget at college was
never more than $75 month";" he told
the writer
Married In 1924.
Tom became a member of Delta Tau
Delta and later its president
Tom was soon squirting a girl who was
quite campus belle. That was Mary
Ramsey. Her father, Judge William F.
Ramsey from Cleburne, was head of the
Federal Reserve Bank of the fifth dis
trict at Dallas. She was an Angler,
group of girls who invited partners to
their annual dance. Tom was her in
vitee. He married her in 1924.
About that time District Attorney VIII
liam McCraw, now lieutenant colonel
with the air forces in the South Pacific.
appointed young Mr.. Clark his civil as
sistant. At the end Of their term they
formed partnership, McCraw & Hill.
Then the junior partner became Mr..
McCraw's manager in a successful cam
paign to make him attorney general Of
Texas.
That was about the only excur-
sion Tom CLARK made in politics In
\ (See CLARK, Page C.10.)
Evening star., 1945-05-27
By Georqe Kennedy

Tom C. Clark, the nominee for At
torney General, looks like a Texan.
Tall and rangy, he does not need a
wide brimmed hat to mark him as q
man from the Lone Star State. There's
a bit of Texas in his walk and talk that
eight years away from Dallas have not
eliminated. 1t was eight years ago that
he was appointed to the Department of
Justice as just another lawyer.
TIE next Attorney General is a man
who has stated his policy as mo witch
hunting-practical, hard-hitting law
enforcement" That was when he took
over the Criminal Division of the de-
partment. He is not telling what he is
going to do as Attorney General while
his confirmation is pending.
His Notwithstanding New Deal
ers-agree that he is a liberal although
his spectrum has never shown a pink
fringe.
Tom Clark himself points to where
he stepped on variety of toes in his
activities as one of Uncle Sans lawyers.
He obtained criminal antitrust convic-
ton against Bill Butchinson's Carpen-
ters' Union on the Pacific Coast despite
the famous Frankfurter decision in the
st. Louis case that subsequent acts of
Congress made the law inapplicable to
labor unions. An appeal from the con-
viction was argued in Supreme Court six
weeks ago and verdict is expected
soon. He points out that civil liberties
cases doubled under his administration
of the Criminal Division of the depart
ment and that as head of the war
frauds unit, he was in charge of the
prosecution of the Anaconda Wire Gable
Co. that sent five officials to a Federal
penitentiary.
Busy Telephone.
Telephone calls that could not be put
of were signaled from time to time
while the writer was talking to him in
his office the day his nomination was
sent to the Senate by President Tru-
man. They galvanized the long and
lanky figure stretched out in relaxation.
Each time he grabbed the phone.
Hi, Senator" he said. Thank you
very much, but call me Tom. hope
it will always be Tom, sir"
A later call was from one of the de-
partment's top men, soon to become his
subordinate.
Hi, Jim," he said. Come on up.
Sure I have some one with me, but you
know my door is always open"
They had been taking movies of him
earlier with all thea paraphernalia of
kleig lights, microphones, cameras and
sound recorders set up in his ofice.
One of his assistants was not satisfied
with the boss appearance although
Mr.. Clark was wearing freshly pressed
double breasted blue serge suit. He had
selected that for the call at the White
House, where the President told him
that he was to become the law member
OF the cabinet. As the lights went on
the assistant tried to do something
about the glasses protruding from Mr..
Evening star., 1945-05-27
War Review
Toxic Blastedin Two Big
Raids by Super Forts
Rr H0u,ord p. RaiLeu
By Hovard p. Bailey

If, as rumor has it, there are indus
trial and other leaders in Japan who
are urging surrender to the nations
now allied against Japan in the Pa
cific war, two powerful arguments were
added to their side of the case by two
devastating fire raids on Tokyo which
the Toxic radio declared "scorched the
city to the ground Thursday and Friday
as powerful flights of B-29s dropped
about 5000 tons of the new incendiaries
on the heart Of the capital.
Following similar raids on Nagoya
the previous week these two attacks
served to emphasize the fate in store
for Japan when the forces now being
moved from the European theater enter
into the Pacific conflict. Not the least
OF these is Gen. Hodges American 1st
Army which cracked the Siegfried Line
and crossed the Rhine and which is
now under orders to move to the Pa
cific-
The past week also saw Prime Min
lister Churchill resign to force an elec-
ton in Great Britain after the Labor
AVN "ieAAA1OW 4iO1Al A1Ao COdAUlOIl SOfe
ernment
High spots of the week were:
Sunday: Disintegration of Jap de-
fenses on Okinawa starts as Doughboys
start encirclement of Shuri, key point
in last defenses. Enemy garrison cut
from 10000 to 10000. Chinese seize
small seaport north of Foochow, al
ready in Chinese hands. Japs state
that huge United States fleet is bound
for Kyushu, one of home islands. Single
United States plane sinks five Jap ships
near Formosa. Showdown with Tito
who holds parts of Austria and North
eastern italy, including Trieste, appears
imminent.
Monday: Yanks drive to crest of last
ridge before Shuri. Navy bombers hit
Japs in Ryukyus, Kuriles and in Korean
areas. Chinese capture Hochih, Jap
bastion in Kwangsi Province. British
gain near Toungoo in Burma. Japs
rally "20,000,000 students" to defend
homeland. Yugoslavs begin withdraw
ing troops from Carinthia and Styria in
Austria; still remain in Trieste. San
Francisco parley considers amendments
to World Security plan to permit re-
(See REVIEW, Page C-10.)
Evening star., 1945-05-27
Wars Child Victims Cry for Help
Millions Taught Lie
in Physical and Moral Rehabilitation

I'm the reconstruction OF Europe,
none of the manifold jobs so stdggers
the imagination as the problem, OF
Europe's children. This is no mere
matter of rearing ne,D buildings, of
installing new machinery; this is a
rebuilding OF human minds. Here is
a surrey of the problem and its
implications, together with expert
opinion on ho,D it can be solped.)
Evening star., 1945-05-27

(See REVIEW, Page C-10.)
Evening star., 1945-05-27

\ (See CLARK, Page C-10)
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1945-09-20
Lynn Says

Kitchen Time Savers: When
preparing meals, do as many
things in advance as possible,
using those extra moments prof
itably.
Dry ingredients for breads and
mullins or biscuits can be mixed
ahead of time.
Puddings, custards, gelatin des-
serts and cookies can also be
made a few days in advance.
Vegetables may be cleaned,
but they should not be pared,
sliced or cut until ready to cook
or serve as they may lose vita
minis.
Salad dressings and sandwich
filings can be tossed together
ahead of time to speed up meal
preparation.
AL. partially prepared foods
should be placed In the refrigera-
tor for safe keeping.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1945-09-20
Hand Po,Uer Preferred
By This COIOred Warrior

The uses to which our soldiers
on the battle fronts put the gifts
we sent them were sometimes
more important than we suspect
ed. Witness the letter Negro lad
serving in the South Pacific jun
giles wrote to his sweetheart down
in Alabama.
After thanking the young lady
for the electric razor she had sent
him, the soldier pleaded:
Mandy, honey, please, when
you send me another razor, send
me the old-fashioned kind, you
know-big and plain and sharp. I
amt got no time nohow to hunt
up no electric socket when them
old Japs come at mel"
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1945-09-20

the postwar period, they can count
on us to do anything we can in their
interest" Vox Pop will travel to
any point in the United States or
overseas where the show can do a
job for veterans. Too bad there
aren't more men like Parks!
Ed Wynn, the comedian, who re-
turned to the air for while not
long ago, is making a tour of New
York's small movie houses. Not
professionally-he's hunting up thea
tiers where one-any one-of his
sons pictures is being shown. Son
keenan, is in Week End at the Wal
dorf," break for Ed; it'll be shown
at the Music Hall, and will probably
run for weeks and weeks.
3
Jimmy Wakely is just singing his
way from one western to another
these days. He'd just finished Grid
ers of the Dawn" at the Monogram
Studio ranch, when he was told to
start rehearsing con the Cherokee
TraiP' Immediately. Next, a per-
sOnal appearance tour.
Cliff Edwards says his lucky num-
Der is 81. He won out over 81 Hol-
lywood actors for the Jimmy Crick-
et'' part in "Pinocchio,' his first big
part; that was in 1887, when he was
81. And he's made 1877 pictures.
He's broadcasting now, over Mutual.
George Burns and Oracle Allen
have begun new air series-they
have five-year contract with their
new sponsor. They're now heard
Thursdays at p. M, EWT-8:3O
PVT. Same script writer's as in the
past.
ODDS AND ENDS - Margaret
O'Brien had stUeH time on location in
the Jackson Hole country for BAD Bas-
conb"-had snosObaU fights ,Oith Wally
Berry. While aUorking in Hold
That Blonde" Eddie Bracken sorote
screen play ,Ohich he's submitting as
starring uehicle for himself. Edgar
Bergen, who's a bee-keeper, is expert
n,enting ,Oith exotic dollhouse fowers,
hoping to produce distinctive and
uniquely favored honey. :. Lloyd No.
Ian, of a Tree Cro,Us in Brooklyn"
and Captain Eddie" gets his best role
TO date in Metro's ''Tsn,e for T,Oo"-~~
plays q New YORK detective
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1945-09-20
Makeup Hint

To make a dubious nose look
smaller, you can use two shades of
powder. applying the darker tone
to the sides to reduce apparent
width. Building your hair out from
the brow with a pouf of soft curls
and creating an opposing line at the
back of your head with chignon or
a braid, Topped up and tied peruke
fashion, are other tricks for mini
mixing the size of nose. Wear hats
with trick brims run out from the
brow. Ginmicks that will always
focus attention away from a nose
that you don't like are eye makeup
and bright ipstick-using the latter
to make your lips wide rather than
sull
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1945-09-20

but we know very
little about sea-
soning and cook
ing fish and fowl
to make them de-
licious.
Perhaps this is
because we had,
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1945-09-20
Ways With Fish, Fowl

Most of us know just how to pre-
pare meat to delicious perfection.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1945-09-20
BY VIRGINIA VALE
ased by Western Newspaper Union.

CPENCER TRACY'S auto
~ mobile trip from Holly
wood blew up, literally. When
gas rationing stopped, he de-
cided to drive east to do ''The
Rugged PATH" a new play by
Robert Sherwood. Everyone's
looking forward to seeing him
in it; he hasn't appeared on the New
York stage since he did 1.-THE Last
Mile" But-the tires on Tracy's
car were decidedly ante bellum;
when he reached the California des-
ert the heat was too much for them.
He bought an even shabbier set.
went back to Hollywood, and EN-.
parked once more, by train.
Parks Johnson says his Vox Pop
won't drop service shows, now that
the wars over eve have broad
cast for five years with servicemen
and women" says he, land now, in