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2 A Southern Oregon Miner, Thursday, September 21, 1944 German Road Blocks Fail to Halt Allies ra n THE/N&™ Washington. D C. FEA R OF CASUALTIES The inside story can now bu told Rrleaaed by Wratern Newapupcr Union. regarding one of the greatest wor ries of the Allied High Command in PRESENT STATUS connection with the Normandy in- I OE PR ESID EN TIA L RACE vasion—namely, casualties. It was WASHINGTON.—The Gallup poll feared they would be terrifically claims Roosevelt leading by n small high. margin. In fact. Prime Minister Churchill. ' These commercial polls generally, who had hung back from a cross In the past, have noted presidential channel front for two years, feared races about even until two or three the Allies might suffer losses com- j weeks before the real vote counting. parable to the early days of the last A magazine poll of the political war, when the cream of British experts in the Washington Press manhood, then relatively untrained, corps indicates a rather stronger ex was mowed down in Flanders fields. pectation of a Roosevelt victory. He frequently told FDR that he was This reflects, 1 think, the popular worried about losing the “seed" disbelief that anyone could ever of Britain. beat Mr. Roosevelt, the natural This worry gives an insight Into sports notion that nearly always makes the champion the favorite. the sudden change between the type Generally the public cannot con of slow fighting during the first few ceive of a champ losing, as he has weeks in Normandy and the head long onrush of today. never lost before. The Germans spend considerable time and supplies in erecting blockades which prevent the rapid advance Allied orders during the early of the Allied armies. The blockages had little effect as noted by rapid progress being made in France. Right, Yet the inside unquotable re weeks in Normandy were to ad is a German road block along the water front in St. Raphael, southern France. Another type of block, shown ports of the congressmen from vance under a "curtain of steel." As at left was used In Parts. back home actually give Dewey a result, the greatest artillery bar an even or better cbance to win, rage ever laid down in history was as matters stand today. thrown at the Germans In advance Discard all Republican reports, as of Allied infantry. It was an artil these might be partisan. Consider lery barrage so heavy that It wiped only those of Democratic legislators. out almost everything in its path. They have been so discouraging as to However, it was slow. It took alarm and even embitter the Demo cratic political leaders, who are urg time to unload big guns on shallow ing the President to drop his “non beaches. It also took time to bat partisan" campaign and start t ter down German positions. But partisan one—and he will Septem once these positions were battered down, and the rim of German de ber 23. The spearhead of the fourth term fense was broken, the Allies found movement was the Hillman-CIO what General Eisenhower knew was political action committee, and all the case—a complete military vac the politicos can see its effectiveness uum inside. In other words, the Nazis had has been dulled, if not splintered staked everything on holding the The other unions, and some CIO rim, had no defenses in the in unions, would not stand for it. terior. That is the explana Wagering odds have dropped from tion for the headlong rush of Al 2Mi to 1 on Roosevelt to 9 to 5 in lied forces In recent weeks. the best racing circles. The Nazis were gambling on Take Maryland, which always has their Atlantic wall, a wall which been listed as a sure-Roosevelt could not stand up under Brad state. Today there is a Democratic ley’s "curtain of steel.” cloakroom saying, possibly over NOTE — General Montgomery’s drawn but nevertheless significant/ that, “Only Senator Tydings and his cautious advances in Normandy secretary think Maryland is going probably reflected In part Church How Democratic.” These two claim the ill’s worry over casualties. Roosevelt majority would be 25.000 ever, he has been cautious in other today, but Roosevelt carried M ary areas also. Before the Battle of El Alamein, when the British army land four years ago by 115,000. had been pushed back and back I know a southern Democratic across the desert toward Cairo. leader who thinks Dewey will win Montgomery queried his chief. Gen and is making preparations accord ingly. Others insistently list Texas, eral Alexander: "What casualties can I take?” Alexander, with the Mississippi and Virginia as doubtful. Chinese soldiers march to the front, crossing the t; cjchcrous Salween river by means of a temporary fate of the Suez canal at stake, re There are reports that the Roose plied: "One hundred per cent." suspension bridge. The original bridge was blown up by the Chinese as a measure against the Japanese ad velt Bremerton, speech in the news Caution, of course, is no reflection vance. All supplies for the Chinese forces In this district have to be carried by Chinese on their -backs or reels received little or no applause dropped by planes. Increased transport planes have made it possible to begin to furnish the fighting Chinese on courage. generally, while the campaign pic in the Salween river section with much needed weapons, food and other supplies. tures of the Dewey family were well received. (Democratic leaders are SAILOR’S OUTMODED UNIFORM now taking care of this deficiency Now that Adm. Ernie ( “Clothes and, within the past week. Roose Horse” ) King has finally relented velt applause again has appeared and will let naval officers shed their in the movie theaters. jackets under certain conditions in hot weather, a lot of sailors wish FARM VOTE LOST he would also examine the uniform All reports agree the farm vote of the enlisted man. is lost beyond redemption and the Most enlisted men would whoop business vote for Roosevelt was damaged by the departure of with joy if their present, long-out little businessman Nelson and big moded uniform was discarded What businessman Wilson from WPB in most people don’t realize is that the sailor’s uniform was designed by the favor of a TVA engineer. Earlier a considerable portion of British about 200 years ago and is the business vote, and possibly all now just as outmoded as the sailing the top financial vote, would have ship. Take, for instance, the broad col gone to Roosevelt, on the spending- recovery promise plus inter lar worn over the shoulders It was nationalism. designed for vermin-infested ships of the 1700s, when sailors had to be On the other hand. New Eng deloused and a broad collar was land is still classed as largely practicable to catch the tar oils used doubtful (by Republicans) al in a sailor’s hair. though Dewey has gone a long Again, the bell-shaped trousers, way toward satisfying the Will- which flap around the ankles and kie elements there. Probably nearly trip the wearer when he runs, Willkie expects to come out for were designed for days when sailors Dewey just before election as rolled their trousers up over their he did on the eve of the elec legs to scrub decks. Today, dunga tion of 1942 in New York. These developments as a whole rees are provided for this sort of may explain Mr. Roosevelt’s deci work. Again the drop front, 13-button sion to make a labor speech in Philadelphia and follow with others trousers were designed for a day After all 22.304,755 votes were two centuries ago when tidiness was Lent. Gen. Holland M. Smith, cast against him four years ago nothing like what it is today. commanding general of the Pacific (27,243,466 for him) and all symp One thing which particularly Rows of huge shells wind along the decks of a U. 8. battleship as It fleet marine force (left) and Lieut. toms of sentiment suggest this op gripes the enlisted man is the tight- loads up somewhere in the Pacific preparatory to carrying out its assign G en. A le x a n d e r A. Vandegrift, position has been greatly enlarged. fitting waist of his blouse, which ment of blasting Jap holdings. The inferno loosed by its guns cleared a commandant of U. 8. marine corps, These 22.304.755 are nearly as many has to be slipped on and off over his path for the landing forces, which were then able to send a landing party Inspect a captured Japanese airfield as elected him president in 1932 head. If a sailor is dumped into the ashore to capture the base. on the Orote peninsula, Guam. (22,821,857). His totals in '36 and '40 water and has to swim for any ran 27,000.000. length of time, it is almost Impossi Now many a campaign has been ble to get this blouse off. It is tight, won on Labor day only to be lost sticks to the body, and you can't two months later on Election day. very well swim and at the same I think Willkie, for instance, was time hold two arms above your stronger at this stage of the race head while you wriggle out of your four years ago, than when the 22,- middy. 304,755 votes were cast for him. Some of the boys wish that Ad I have seen Mr. Roosevelt com miral King would take off his new pletely turn over a campaign situ grey-green jiniform, designed for ation stacked mountain-high against him by His Majesty’s tailor in Lon him. He has been more clever as a don, long enough to experiment with campaigner than in any other a middy-blouse in the water. They phase of his duties. Yet nothing think that, despite a century’s de which has developed so far in this lay, he would then design for them campaign yet points to that out a new uniform overnight. come again. • • • • • • CA PITA L CHAFF To date, the Dewey campaign has ft Before every White House press been by far the smarter. conference, scores of newsmen Anyone who thinks this brief cita crowd against the velvet rope out tion is not objective reporting, side the President’s office, awaiting is merely deluding himself. There the signal to enter. When secret exists in this country a silent, strong service men let the barriers down, opposition to M r. Roosevelt, a re the rush is terrific. Cracked one sentful opposition which is not in perspiring secret service man, “It ’s dulging much in political debate, worse tnan a New York subway.” which may net show itself at polit ft First new international magazine Home for the first time in 30 months, some 300 marines of the Second A French farm er dr. res his cart ical meetings, uf in press reports. to be published in liberated France division, heroes of fighting the Japs on Guadalcanal, Saipan, Tarawa along a road near Chambois where I think the fourth term will be Is a French edition of “Free World,” and Tinian, shouted with Joy as their transport docked in San Fran a few days previously a German gravely in doubt until these votes edited by members of the French cisco. Sixty-live of the returning heroes were casualties, sick or recov transport column had been blast are counted. Republicans are sit underground. ering from battle wounds. They display captured Jap flags. ed by the Royal Air force. ting back waiting. B y PAUlMALLONjiy Chinese Soldiers Cross Treacherous River Ship Loaded With Jap Death Marine Vets Return Home Marine Commanders Trail of Nazi Army Ben Franklin Forecast Air Troops at Balloon Ascentii After witnessing the first balloon ascents in Paris (1783), Benjamin Franklin wrote the following to Jan Ingenhousz, Dutch physician and physicist: *‘It appears, ns you may ob serve, to be a discovery of great importance, and what may pos sibly give u new turn to human affairs. Convincing sovereigns of the folly of wurs may perhups be one effect of it; since it will be impracticable for the most potent of them to guard his dominions. Five thousand balloons, capable of raising two men each, could not cost more thun five ships of the line; and where is the prince who can afford so to cover his country with troops for its de fense as that 10,000 men descend ing from the clouds might not in many places do un infinite deal of mischief, before a force could be brought together to repel them? " It is a pity that any na tional jealousy should, as you im agine it may, have prevented the English from prosecuting the ex periment, since they are such in genious mechanicians, that in their hands it might have made a more rapid progress towards perfection, and all the utility it is capable of uffording.” Source of Immigrants Of the 42,000,000 immigrants who came to America from some hundred countries In the past 300 years, 15,000,000, or 38 per cent, were from England, Ireland and Germany. 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