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FRIEND OF ENLISTED MAN ,
U uxhinitton llurenu o f U extern Yew.«-
W ASHINGTO N — If there w eie
paper I nion at /ft/f) I s e S treet, \ II
! m ore men in the a rm y like G eneral
U uxhington, />. (?., i< a b le to bnrut
Eisenhower, this newsman w ould not
re n ile n thi* u e e k h colu m n on p r o b
lem s of th e refer an anti x en u erru ri | be so swamped w ith so ld ie r m ail.
The other day Sgt. Samuel Cohen
anti H im fam ily. Q u estion s m a \ be a d
d re ss e d to th e a b o ie Ih n em i an d tb es ! of P h ila d e lp h ia , stationed in B e rlin ,
u i l l he u m u e r c tl in a su bsequ en t c o l received a cable te llin g of a serious
um n \ <» replies can be nuule d ire ct b \
emergency at home. P hysicians ad
m oil, bu t only in the colu m n u h ich m i l
vised his re tu rn im m e d ia te ly. Two
ap/rear in this n e m p a p e t reaulurly.
THE
B y P aul M allon
Released bv W estern N r w ip u p tr Union
STATE DEPARTMENT
NEEDS REORGANIZATION
W ASH IN G TO N
What Put H u r
ley said was true.
F o r m any months, evidence ha)
been le a kin g fro m the state d e p a rt
m ent suggesting the perm anent un
d e rly in g c liq u e was unsym pathetic
w ith top p o licy, and u n d e rm in in g
it in subtle little ways. Yet there
was nothing s u ffic ie n tly provable tc
I w a rra n t p rin tin g .
The men w ith in the dep a rtm e n t
who have noticed the condition have
been so frig h te n e d they dared no!
speak, even p riv a te ly , outside of the
d epartm ent.
weeks passed and a ll Cohen got was
the usual a rm y run-around. He
couldn’ t get a furlough. F in a lly , a
In line w ith the Veterans a d m in frie n d suggested th a t Cohen call
is tra tio n 's o b je c tiv e o f ta kin g the G eneral “ Ik e ” d ire c tly .
“ W hat can I lose?” Cohen asked,
a d m in is tra tio n out to the “ grass
ro o ts” of the co u n try, ra th e r than going to a telephone.
c e n tra lizin g the o rg a n iza tio n
in
When he asked the G I. operator
W ashington. A d m in is tra to r O m ar N
fo r G eneral Eisenhow er, the opera
B ra d le y has announced the opening to r asked w ith no su rp rise in his
of 21 new c e n tra lly -lo c a te d regional voice w hether he should rin g the
offices and the c o n tra c tin g fo r ap
general at his home o r his office.
p ro x im a te ly 300 advisem ent centers
Because of the stands they
Since it was then about 10 o’ clock
have taken within the depart
Regional downtown offices were in the evening. Cohen said to try
ment they knew they were sus
opened in Des Moines. W ichita. A t the g eneral's home
pect to the reigning group, and
la n ta , M inneapolis. San F rancisco.
An aide to Eisenhower an
occasionally thought they were
P o rtland, Ind ia n a p o lis.
Los A n
swered and listened to Cohen's
being followed or their tele
geles, Muskogee. O kla.. Phoenix.
story, excused himself for a few
phone conversations tapped.
Helena, M ont., D e tro it, M ilw aukee.
DAY OF JUDGMENT FOR ALL . . . The accused at Nuernberg trials are shown In lower left. They Include
minutes, came hack to the tele
Even business men dealing
Cleveland. Chicago. N ew ark. H a rt
Goerlng. Hess, Von Ribbentrop, Keitel, Rosenberg, Frank, Frick, Stretcher, Funk. Sehaeht, Doenlts, Harder,
phone
and
said.
"Sergeant,
if
there have noticed the condi
fo rd . Charleston, W. Va . and C h a r
Von Schirach, Sauckel, Jodi. Von Papen, Speer, Von Neurath and Fritsehe. Upper photo shows the court of
you will call the office of Gen
tion. compared notes about It
lotte, N. C.
ficials. Lower right, the entrance Is bring carefully guarded by American troops. The records contain his
eral Clay, perhaps something
among themselves, and won
torical
evidence that would ordinarily require years of research to compile.
New advisem ent centers were
can be arranged for you.
dered its extent. But until the
opened at G re e n ville , S. C .; Bene
“ You had better wait about 10
retiring ambassador to China
d ic t college. C olum bia. S. C. ; U n i
minutes before railing General
spoke out with direct charges,
v e rs ity of Kansas at Kansas C ity.
Clay,” he added “to give Gen
the matter never reached the
M o.; Tuskegee in stitu te , Tuskegee.
eral Eisenhower a chance to
public
eye.
A la .; E astern Oregon college at I t
talk with him first.”
Grande. Ore., and S uperior State
State S ecretary Byrnes, m y i n
Teachers college. S uperior. Wis.
Ten m iqutes la te r, Cohen called fo rm a n ts say. does not know the
Services of the advisem ent centers G eneral C lay, where an aide said. facts, nor did his predecessor, M r
are a va ila b le to a ll veterans p la n “ Oh, yes. sergeant, w e've been ex S tettinius. Byrnes prom ised a de
nin g to continue th e ir education or pecting y o u r call. Now can you come p a rtm e n ta l r e o r g a n i z a t i o n a n d
take vocational o r re h a b ilita tio n in at eight o'clock to m o rro w m o rn brought in a few top men. but this
tra in in g e ith e r under p u b lic law 16 ing? W e 'll see about tra n sp o rta tio n was as fa r as his re o rg a niza tio n
then.”
o r the G.I. b ill o f rights.
went.
Cchen took o ff by a ir the next day
And today, m ore men are being
Regional offices function as the op
taken in to the clique than are le a v
e ra tio n a l offices of the a d m in is tra before noon
ing it.
The various b u re a u cra tic
tion. In d iv id u a l case records are
holdovers o f the Roosevelt regim e,
m a in ta in e d at these offices and T R U M A N TURNS R E P O R T E R
C ongressional leaders who met losing th e ir w a r jobs in o ther de
c la im s are rated and a d judicated
have
been
seeking
A lm o s t a ll benefits a d m in iste re d oy w ith P resident T ru m a n recently to pa rtm e n ts,
the a d m in is tra tio n can be handled discuss serious le g isla tive problem s couches in state.
got a chuckle over T ru m a n ’ s sto ry
I t is a p e c u lia r condition and has
at the regional office level.
about his surprise flig h t to see nis never been a cc u ra te ly defined, net
Q u e s tio n s a n d A n s w e rs
m o th e r on her 93rd b irth d a y .
even by M r. H u rle y in his re s tric t
Q. In July. 1944. my brother was
Newspapers have a lre a d y told ed charges. The men of the clique
killed on Guam. I was made his how T ru m a n called the Kansas C ity do not hold m eetings and agree to
beneficiary in his insurance policy S ta r to announce his a rr iv a l in underm ine th is o r that. They are
But before he went across he made G ra n d vie w , Mo. B ut in addition, m e re ly o f one m in d on some basic
a will that has never come to light here is w hat T ru m a n told his con ideas.
and this is causing some trouble gressional leaders re a lly happened;
F o r one th in g , they are u n sym
I t was Sunday afternoon and the pathetic w ith A m e rica n fo re ig n pol
among the heirs as he was single
Another brother in service says a u su a lly b u stling c ity room of the ic y today. F o r another, they agree
duplicate will was made and kept on S tar was in a lu ll. O nly a skeleton in th e ir d is tru s t o f anyone who
record somewhere. Could you tell e d ito ria l force was on the job, and would question Russia in the s lig h t
me where this will be kept?
a young re p o rte r answered the est upon any subject. They are not
phone.
K. A. B.. Houston. Mo.
C om m unists but th e ir m inds are
guided by the C o m m u n ist grooves
A. O f course we w ould have no
"This is the President,” said
knowledge where the w ill m ig h t be
of thought.
Truman.
DOLLS TO AID SANTA CLAUS . . . Photo shows left to right, Marilyn MacGregor, Warren, Ohio; Betty Rei
You m ig h t w rite to the finance o ffi
ner, Durham, N, C.J Frances Tibbetts, Melrose, Mass., and Elizabeth Peterson, Cornwall, I’a., as they sit
“Who?" said the reporter.
FASCISTS OBJECTED
cer of his outfit. If you are re fe r
among some of the 1,000 dolls that will be delivered to social agencies and through them to poor children con
“This is President Truman.”
TO BY STATE CLIQUE
rin g to national life insurance, the
fined in hospitals. The dolls were provided by students at Wellesley college, Wellesley. Mass.
“The hell it is," exclaimed the
O
b
jectionable
things
are
to
them
money w ill be paid to w hoever was
newsman, convineed that some
“ fa s c is tic ." Hence C hiang Kai-shek
named beneficiary in the policy re
body was pulling a practical
is a F a scist; Russia, a dem ocracy.
gardless o f any w ill.
joke. "Mister, who are you try
B u t they branch off fro m C om m u
ing to kid?”
Q. Would It be possible for a sol
n ist grooves to others strangely
dier to get a release from the army,
F in a lly the ca ll was tra n fe rre d to enough.
if he is 25 years old, has a wife and
The B ritis h have the best d ip lo
another
w rite r on the paper, who
three small children, who live in the
m acy, they th in k ; hence B rita in lik e
knew
T
ru
m
a
n
personally
and
could
country with no modern conveni
wise can do no w rong. They are
ences. The wife’s health is not good id e n tify his voice. H ig h ly amused,
known also as “ the s trip e d trousers
and a 21-month-old baby daughter the P resident told him the news of set,” a ffe ctin g the u n ifo rm of the
must have an operation for removal his v is it.
D owning stre e t d ip lo m a ts beyond
of a bone growth on her foot. He
necessities.
FOGGY
FOREIGN
POLICY
is now somewhere in Japan aboard
H a rry H opkins, now hospitalized
To define what specific under
a ship?—Mrs. M. E. M., Port Alle
in New Y ork, is not im p ro v in g . A l
mining they do is difficult. They
gany, Pa.
are an invisible wall of resist
A. He is e lig ib le to apply fo r re ways a liv in g skeleton, H a rry kept
h im se lf a liv e because o f his love of
ance. Hurley had two men in
lease because of the three ch ild re n
F D R . Now th a t FD R is gone, H a rry
the far eastern division in mind
Q. I have a friend who has been has no m ore zest fo r w ork. . .
in his charges.
in the army since December. 1944. Sen. C laude Pepper of F lo rid a is
These two, he apparently
He left the states on July 2, 1945 anil re tu rn in g fro m a three-m onth to u r
caught telling the Chinese to
is now in Japan. He has no de o f Europe to b lis te r the a d m in is tra
pay no attention to him, and
pendents and is 19 years old. Will tio n 's handling of foreign p olicy
spreading around at eocktail
you please tell me how many C om ing on top o f Senator F u l
parties the notion that the
points he has and how long it will b rig h t’ s tw o-fisted a tta ck, perhaps
American foreign policy was
be before he is sent back to the somebody around the state d e p a rt
temporary, that it would not
states? — Miss D. P., Dennison. m e n t w ill wake up to the fa c t that
bark Chungking in postwar. Be
Ohio.
the seeds o f W orld W ar I I I can be
yond this apparently he had no
A. He has a p p ro x im a te ly 16 points planted rig h t now. . . . The s tra te g ic
convincing evidence.
as of Decem ber 5, 1945 and needs 55 services u n it of the w a r d e p a rtm e n t
to become e lig ib le fo r discharge. He ( it was fo rm e rly the "O h-so-secret”
His purpose in re ve rsin g h im se lf
p ro b a b ly has m any m ore m onths to office o f Gen. “ W ild B ill” D onovan)
a b ru p tly and deciding to q u it w ith a
serve.
ch a llenging p u b lic statem ent, was
has ju s t set up a v e ry in te re stin g
Q. Will a mother who has a son p ro je c t w hich w ill not keep the to force a congressional in ve stig a
killed in action, and who is physical peace. I t is w o rkin g on a “ plan fo r tion. A thorough one no doubt
ly unable to make her own support, an o rd e r o f ba ttle fo r a w a r w ith w ould force a re o rg a niza tio n w hich
lose her pension if she marries? Will R ussia.” The jo b is under d ire c t su not even a se cre ta ry of state has
a father’s pension be discontinued if p e rvisio n o f M a j. Raym ond C ronj- been able to effect in his own de TO HAVE AN EARLY CHR.STMAS . . . "Dear Santa,” writes paln- IS STILL RUNNING . . . Dr. Karl
Kohelt, newly elected president of
he marries? — Mr. T. S., Jackson, w ell, fo rm e r Tokyo correspondent p a rtm e n t.
wracked three-year-old Marvie Clark, with the aid of his mother, Edna Switzerland, did not stop running
Tenn.
fo r the W all Street Journal.
Clark. But Marvie will never know Santa's response, for doctors have when he was recently elected to
Before Byrnes and Stettinius,
A. In the case of a parent, the
told his parents that Marvie cannot live until Christmas.
Mr, Hull knew very well what
office.
question of m a rria g e is not consid CAPITAL CHAFF
was going on. He could read
ered. The pension is based upon de
F o rm e r Coast G uard C om dr. Joel
In the papers daily, the planted
pendency and ’ 'hether the parent, F isch e r was in G erm any try in g to
news leaked from his depart
m o th e r o r father, has sufficient in
root out hidden N azi funds. Cross-
ment against him, and he
come to keep them.
e x a m in in g w a r c rim in a ls , he found
R egional Expansion
Q. My son was killed in Italy Octo
ber 1 a year ago. His wife is named
as beneficiary in his insurance but
hasn't received any yet. What is the
delay? — A mother, Brownsville,
Tenn.
A. H ave you filed a c la im fo r your
insurance? Suggest th a t you w rite
to yo u r nearest Veterans a d m in is
tra tio n office, p robably at N a sh ville
o r M em phis, set out a ll the facts and
am sure you w ill get some action.
Q. When a soldier has been
through hell of the battlefield for two
years and has been discharged with
a tired and nervous condition which
can be cleared up by being at home
and rest, how can he get this psycho-
neurotic name oil his discharge so
he can go to college?—J. J. C., West
by, Wis.
A. You have e v id e n tly received a
m e d ica l discharge and w ould sug
gest th a t you m a ke a p p lica tio n to
y o u r regional V eterans a d m in is tra
tio n fo r a re -e xa m in a tio n and an ap
peal fro m the m e dical findings.
them anxious to get A m e rica n la w
ye rs to act in th e ir defense. When
asked his views on the best A m e ri
can law yers, Fischer, w ith s tra ig h t
face, re p lie d : "Y o u ought to tr y to
get C larence D a rro w o r P e rry M a
son.” F is c h e r’ s v ic tim s took ca re fu l
notes, not re a liz in g th a t D a rro w has
been dead fo r m ore than five years
and th a t Mason is a fictio n a l c h a r
a cte r in E a rle Stanley G a rd n e r’ s
m y s te ry stories.
G o vernm ent press o ffic ia ls re ce n t
ly beat down a second a tte m p t by
W ar M o b iliz e r John Snyder to m a in
ta in a peacetim e censorship o ver
the statem ents o f th e ir bosses. They
rejected a ll censorship schemes fla t
ly d u rin g a secret session at the
W hite House, p ro m is in g to check
am ong them selves to be sure m a jo r
p o lic y statem ents of cabinet m e m
bers and o ther key o ffic ia ls are not
too fa r a p a rt. . . . Randolph Paul,
one o f the ablest tax men the U. S.
tre a s u ry has ever had, is co m p le tin g
a book on ta xa tio n , w ritte n fo r popu
la r reading.
thought Sumner Welles, his as
sistant, was doing it, but Welles
was only the temporary outlet
for the clique within. Not even
Hull could do much.
M r. Byrnes has indicated his in
tention to s m ile away the m a tte r,
and there is danger that the Dem
o c ra tic a d m in is tra tio n w ill tre a t it
p o litic a lly . H u rle y is a Republican,
and his e ffo rts fo r a congressional
in q u iry m ay be shunted off as a po
litic a l attack.
I f the in q u iry fa ils to develop, the
A m e ric a n iz a tio n of the state d e p a rt
m e n t m a y a w a it a fu tu re genera
tion. T here is ta lk that Byrnes w ill
q u ie tly s ta rt housecleaning to fore
s ta ll an In q u iry , but he m ust neces
s a rily use a w hiskbroom where DDT
is called for.
Unless som ething is done, M r
B yrn e s w ill find i t in cre a sin g ly d if
fic u lt to effectuate his foreign pol
ic y w hich is s u ffic ie n tly popular
w ith the co u n try to have passed be
yond p u b lic o r congressional c r ltl
clsm , except fro m this one clique,
and a few papers o f lik e m ind.
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of three Southdown lambs that won the junior championship at Chicago Herman Wedemeycr, Hawaiian-
market fat stock show, held during the 24th National 4-H club congress. born halfback of the St. Mary’s
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placed this year by the market fat stock show, will take place in 1946. A player on the Pacific coast.” He will
nationwide 4-H club program is directed by federal, state and county exten play with the Moraga, Calif., team
sion services. The national committee on boys and girls club work is prl- against Oklahoma A A M in the
vatelv supported by voluntary groups of interested citizens.
Sugarbowl classic at New Orleans,