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As this Is written the hailstones
ire rapping at the window and the
" clouds are looking pretty dark and
ominous for a day this early In
September.
Naturally, with the weather cut
ting up such didoes, one's thoughts
turn to duck hunting. In fact this
uine of year almost anything is
enough to turn your thoughts to
duck hunting.
So now, on a stormy afternoon
well before the season opens. Is a
good time to get a little Utopian
thinking oft my mind so It will be
at least partly clear come the
shooting time.
The biggest Issue at the moment
seems to be the most Utopian. That
of high shooting. I'm not at all sure
but what blazing away when the
duck or goose is out range doesn't
cost the hunters as a whole more
birds than anything else we do.
You've all had It happen to you.
You go out early, you pick a good
spot paying proper attention to the
lie of the land, the prevailing winds,
the cover, the relationship of your
spot to the feeding and resting
grounds you know are used bv the
birds. You buUd a good tight blind,
taking care to make it as natural
as possible. You maybe put out
your decoys, using all the profound
judgement you have built up over
the years in the task. You lay out
your shells, make yourself com
fortable and wait for the birds to
come In to your call, or to swing
in to your decoys If you aren't up
anung the top drawer callers.
And about the time you get a
nice light in and more coming and
everything looks rosv some trig
ger happy, dim witted, far sighted
jerk will cut loose from behind you
while the birds are still a hundred
and ten yards up in the air. With
just the result one would expect.
Your birds, so carefully tolled in.
take off at high port and you are
left with nothing but a cold gun
and a red hot rage.- And just to
make It worse than ever this same I
FLIGHT In The ROUNDS;!
Right quick, before Gerald West
or some other Angus breeder or
swine grower Jumps all over us,
let's report that there are other
major e.enis oi ihe counly lair na
ture than those given here yester
day. It was mentioned that nobody
misses a county fair because the
Basin has four other events Klam
ath Basin Roundup, Klamath Coun
ty Fall Fair and Junior Livestock
Show, Tulelake-Butte Valley Fair
and Junior Livestock Show, and
Klamath Basin Potato Festival
which add up to something better
than a County Fair.
These four are -events of quite
general interest. Klamath has two
other events of top rating that are
more specialized.
They are the annual Oregon
Swine Growers Show and Sale in
March, and the annual Pacific
Coast Aberdeen Angus Show and
sale In April.
The Angus show, we particularly
know, brings breeders of the black
cattle from all over the West.
Lake County has 1U share too.
The Southern Oregon Ram Sale
was just held in Lakeview. The
sale saw 250 head fall to the auc
tioneer's gavel at an average of
492 a head. The report was that
the buyers were a little more
choosey this year. Some pens were
returned to the barns without bids.
This sale was originated at Klam
ath Falls In 1934. largely through
the efforts of County Agent C. A.
Henderson and KPCA Sec. Lee Mc
Mullen. It was held here through
1937 and now Is a Lakeview insti
tution. IMPORTANT DATES:
Sept. 11 and 12 (this Thursday
and Friday) for the Tulelake-Butte
Valley Fair and Junior Livestock
Show; auction to start Friday, the-
(Da. . (p.
By a seeming coincidence, three
letters were received the same day
from correspondents who wished to
know what harmful effects could
result irom taxing too inucu ioame.
As the questions Imply, taking
Iodine like water is not an entirely
safe procedure. Continuation of the
iodine beyond a certain point (one
wruch varies from person to person)
results in a condition known as
1UU1SIU.
lodism may produce skin rashes,
excessive mucous secretion in
the nose and throat, headaches. In
flammation of the eyes, and other
unpleasant signs. On the skin, pim
ples, hives and boils are likely to
develop.
If the Iodine preparation Is still
continued after iuch symptoms de
velop, it may lead to anemia, men
tal depression, nervousness, sleep
lessness, and similar general distur
bances. Perhaps even more Important is
the danger that excessive taking of
Iodides will light up, or cause to
become active, a deep-seated tu
berculosis or other chronic Infec
tion which may be otherwise under
control.
It is certainly not fair, however,
to say that iodine can lead only
to harmful effects, aince It is use
ful in the treatment of a number
of conditions. Perhaps its most Im
portant contribution has been in
the control of goiter.
Today, there are not nearly as
many people with enlargement of
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bang-happy numbskull slays in the
same area all dav, cutting loose
with joy ana abandon at every
bird thai heaves in sight no mai
ler how high it may be.
I suppose it is little short of Idle
dreaming to hope Una someday
these beastly types will slay at
home and leave the hunting to
those who appreciate what thev are
getting. It has been going on for a
long time and I suupose it will
continue for a long tune more. But
what a shame it is. To let one or
two hunters spoil the sport for ev
eryone in their area. And that can
be quite an area, too.
I have never figured out Just
why they blaze away when the
birds are so high. It must be for
one of three reasons. Either they
are 1) shooting one of those ten
gauge magnums and figure that
anything within radar range is fair
game, or 2 haven't got any judge
ment as to height and distance, or
i3) they are just blazing away for
the fun of it figuring that the bang
of the gun and the smell of powder
is all the fun they'll get out of
hunting anyway. Whatever the rea
son, there's one in every crowd.
And no real way to clear 'em
out. I'd like to see a law banning
any shotgun above twelve gauge,
but the boys who shoot the can
nons will disagree with that, and
they have a perfect right to. so
that doesn't go far toward solving
the problem. And if a man is lack
ing in depth perception then he'll
blaze away at everything he can
see through his bifocals. And final
ly, if he's a powder burner he's
a powder burner. 'Noiigh said!
But wouldn't it be nice If every
one would wait until the birds were
in range? You figure out what in
range is. friars another tricky
question. But when I started shoot
tng birds some twentv years ago
they told me that If you couldn't
see a duck's feet there wasn't any
use in pulling the trigger. And with
the orice of shell what it is today
I mm mat s pretty good advice.
11th. at 7:00 p.m. California time
or 6:00 Oregon time.
Oct. 17 and 18 for the Klamath
Basin Potato Festival. Who will be
the new Oregon Potato King?
Not to mention
Oct. 1 for opening of the Oregon
deer season; and
Oct. 24 for openir.c of the Oregon
quail and phea&an,. ana me Oie.
Calif. duck and goose seasons.
According to word from the Old
Trapper on Aug. 22, the potatoes
needed another two or three weeks
of growing weather before a killing
frost.
If it does clear up and freeze
after this misplaced autumnal equi
noctial storm (it's a couple of
weeks before the equinox) things
still should be hunky-dory . . . that
is, if you're not within earshot of
a grain, seed or hay man who got
caught in the rain.
StIU on livestock and the ele
ments Let's draw another angle to the
remarks of Bill Bach in "Telling
the Editor" Monday.
He pointed out that the migra
tory Mule Deer herd that inhabits
the Eastern Klamatb-Western Lake
county forests this time of year
took an awful beating from the
long winter and the burned winter
range.
There just aren't many Mule
Deer this year.
Now, you "chamber of com
merce" sort of fellows who are hell
for inviting everyone In to take our
game and fish can do both your
friends and the deer a favor by
telllne them to go hunt black-tail
this fall.
(Note to Jack Dutcher of Lake of
the Woods and other Cascade re
sort ODerators: This Is the year to
promote your fall deer hunting.)
Dhdan
the neck from goiter as there used
lo be simply because of the wide
spread use of iodized salt.
One might wonder why this has
noi, causeu more cases of lodism,
but the reason lies In the fact that
the amount oi ioame present in salt
is so exceedingly small.
The use of iodized salt for the
prevention of goiter goes back
many years to studies carried out
In Michigan, where it was found
that school children In counties in
which iodine was practically ab
sent from Ihe drinking water
showed an unusually high propor
tion of goiter.
In one of these counties (Hough
ton), in fact, over three-fifths of
the children showed thryoid en
largement. This was contrasted
with another of the four counties
studied In which only about one
fourth of the youngsters were af
fected with enlargement of the thy
roid gland (goiter), and this was
wis area in wnicn tne water had
the largest amount of Iodine.
In suite of remarks nt th hetrin.
nlng of this column of the danger
of too much Iodine, the fear that
iooi,ea salt, or even natural salt
containing Iodine, might be harm
ful Is not justified, j
This Question has Been thorough
ly studied end evidence of harm
to the body has not been found. In
Iodine and Its salts we have an
other example of a highly valu
able substance, but on which
should be treated with respect.
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WASHINGTON Ifl John L.
Lewis seems to be trying to di
vide the coal industry with a shire-the-woik
plan calling for heavy
penalty wages after a third day's
work In any one week.
The Idea, casually mentioned by
the United Mine Workers president
in preliminary contract talks with
coal operators, has the owners
buzzing.
The facts are that Lewis' miners
are working about 3 j days a week
on the average. Some of them,
mostly in the North, work a full
five days, and even a sixth day
at overtime. But many miners.
mostly in tne soutn. work only two
or three days a week.
Lewis has been harping on the
idea of a work apportionment
plan for some time. At his un
ion's 1948 convention, Lewis said
if the mine owners couldn't figure
out some way of letting all the
miners share the available work.
maybe Uie union had better come
up with a plan.
It wasn't long after the 1948 con
vention that Lewis put the indus
try on a three-dav work week,
eventually culminating in a full
fledged strike.
The labor contracts between
Lewis and the coal operators
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Stevenson Backs HST Foreign Policy;
Outlines Program of Action In Asia
By KKLMAV MORI.V
SAN FRANCISCO (f Gov. Adlal
Stevenson stood solidly today on
the foreign policy of the Truman
administration and, with a warning
of peril, outlined program for
action in Asia.
"America is threatened as never
beiore," he said.
The way to avert It, he told a
nation-wide television and radio au
dience from San Francisco, is to
give material aid to the new na
tions of Asia, to recognize their
desire for independence, and to
show them that the United States
is not pursuing a policy of dom
ination. Speaking with unusual serious
ness, the Democratic candidate for
the presidency made these points
last night:
1. "I do not think war Is an
inevitable part of this contest be
tween freedom and tyranny."
2. "With 85 per cent of our bud
get allocated to defense, It is the
Soviet Union which now fixes the
level of our defense expenditures
and thus our tax rates."
3. Republican nominee Dwight
D. Eisenhower's "10-polnt program
. . . does not contribute much to
our foreign policy discussion.''
4. "I believe we may In time
look back at Korea as a major
turning point In history a turn
ning point which led not to an
other war, but to the first historic
demonstration that an effective
system of collective security Is
possible."
5. "I wsnt to assure our friends
in Asia that America will never
seek to dominate their political and
economic development."
This was Stevenson's most im
portant effort on foreign policy. It
was a peak point as well In the
whole campaign he is waging
through the West.
Nearly 1.900 Deoole seated on
two floors of Veterans Memorial
Auditorium heard the address.
The basement audience watched
him via a projection on a screen.
His demeanor, and the whole pat
tern of presentation. Indicated how
much importance Stevenson hlm-
seu piacea on this address.
He dispensed with the quips and
Jokes that usually take up the first
four or five minutes of his talks.
His face was solemn, almost grim
V 1 01 f tin rrHwrriitn!
OUCH!
KLAMATH FALLS At last Ore
gon has a new geographic loca
tion. The loyal state of Washing
ton would resent it tool
Following the political picture
and opinions on the coming elec
tion, map makers of the electoral
rearrangement of votes, I find In
the Herald and News, Sept. 6 Issue,
an A. P. Service map that Oregon
and Washington have pulled a
switch.
After having circled the world
and 27 states Im only glad they
left us In the United States any.
way.
I was told the other day by a
new resident that they were plan
ning on moving to Oregon from the
District of Columbia , , . Someone
back there asked "Where la Ore
gon?" and I believe It now,
Steve Peteri
( Edllor'i Note: Peters I pain
fully right. An Associated Press
election map carried en page 3
of the Kept, t Herald and News
switched the location! of Oregon
and Washington. We are luggeil-
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Said Attempting To
Industry With 'Shares Plan1
begin expiring Sept. 20 and Lewis
reportedly has come up with a new
share-the-woi'k Idea.
This, according to the reports,
calls for a penalty timc-anda-hall
pay rate for any work done on a
fourth working day In a week, and
double pay on any filth day.
The Initial reaction of the oper
ators Is that the Northern owners,
particularly the steel companies
owning the "captive" mines, don't
like it. The heavy penalty pay
might force the steel firms to quit
mining coal on fourth and fifilt
work week days and go out and buy
coal on the commercial market.
That probably would mean more
business for the Southern mines.
So the Dixio owners are Inking a
longer look at the idea.
The Lewis demand is cauMng
some heavy thinking among the
operators. Members of the South
ern Coal Producers Association,
representing about 120 million tons
annual production, discussed the
situation at a board meeting here
today.
The Bituminous Coal Operators
Association, a new alliance of
owners principally from Pennsyl
vania, West Virginia, Ohio and a
few other Northern states, also
were holding a board of directors
ly serious! He put more emphasis
Into the strategic areas of his text.
And be did not, as usual, taper of!
with ad-libbed remarks. He Just
stopped.
He began by ripping into Elsen
hower's speech on foreign policy,
delivered last week in Philadel
phia. He said seven of the gen
eral's 10 points were echoes of the
program the Democrats have been
following. The other three, he said
and his voice was icy with sar
casm were simply "throw Uie ras
cals out."
Actually, there were points of
similarity in the statements of both
candidates.
Both said peril confronts the
United States. Both said the United
States has not adopted an Imper
ialistic course oi action.
But whereas Eisenhower called
Korea a case of errors In Judgment
Stevenson strongly defended the
actions of the administration. He
said:
"As an American. I am Droud
that we had the courage to resist
wat ruthless, cynical aggression:
and I am equally proud that we
bad the fortitude to refuse to risk
extension of that war despite Com
munist provocations and reckless
Republican criticism."
He said the Communists, having
failed to win on the battlefield,
are now trying to out-last the free
nations for a ceasefire. "Tne con
test with tyranny," the governor
said, "is not a 100-yard dash it
is a test of endurance."
This statement, and all his re
ferences to Korea, drew roaring
applause from the crowd.
He made no promises of an early
peace.
Turning to an analysis of Com
munist elforts to win over the new.
ly created nations of the Orient,
he said these nations "regard
freedom and national Independence
as the doorway to International or
der Just as we do."
The Communists, he said, are
posing as the champions of the
Asiatic peoples. "The Communists
may well believe that In the as
pirations and grievances of the
East, they now have the key to
world power."
The effectiveness of their tactics
In the Far East, he said, was
based on this fact:
Ing to Associated Press Ncwsfea
turea in New York that the guilty
map maker be sentenced to a re
fresher course in Fourth Grade
geography. With our own faces
a blazing red because of our lack
of observation we find comfort
only in the fact that at least
ONE MAN knows exactly where
Oregon Is . . , And thus, our
congratulations to Peters.
LOST DOG
KLAMATH FALLS Would you
please put this letter In the paper?
Maybe it would help me find my
little dog. He's been gone over
three weeks from the vicinity of
Klwanls Park In Mills Addition.
He is very small, white with
brown ears and has a tail like a
fan. He's a chihuahua and toy fox
and he Has a license.
If anyone knows anything about
him at all won't you please cull
2-3282?
I miss my little Chlca because
he was my pet for five years.
My mama said we would giva a
reward.
Sue Ann Simpson
By Jimmy Hallo
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meeting today at Pittsburgh.
Union sources claim one advan
tage of the Lewis Idea, besiiirs
slim ing the work, would be to keep
the marginal mines going by giv
ing them an assured market. 'Mils,
tluy say. would mean a substan
tial Industry operating at throttled
down pace In peacetime, and capa
ble of being quickly stepped up In
wartime.
While pressing his share-tlie-work
plan on the bituminous In
dustry Lewis also Is negollullni:
with tne Pennsylvania Anthracite
Operators. He has asked the an
thracite, or hard coal, owners lor
a 20-cent boot in Ihe 30-ceut a ton
loyalty they pay to the union's
wcUarc fund.
The anthracite Industry, rom-en
tralrd III Eastern Pennsylvania,
already has a plan lor leveling
out production among mines. The
union and the owners merely get
together periodically and apportion
Inresecable production as among
mines. Such a plan has been avoid
ed In the multi-state bituminous in
dustry for fear of running afoul of
the anti-trust laws.
There are an estimated 320.000
working Soft coal miners, about
65,000 anthracite miners.
"When we think of communism,
we think ol what we are going lo
lose. When many of the Asian peo
ples think of communism, they
think ol what they are going to
gain especially if they believe
thev have nothing to lose."
The answers, from America. Ihe
governor declared, are contained
in two words, "defense and devel
opment." He then advanced his program,
using India as an example, and
shooting a feathered dart at the
Republicans:
"It would seem to me that the
Republican critics could better
demonstrate the good faith of their
concern for Asia by doing some
thing about India, today, rather
than talking about China, yester
day. Tearful and Interminable post
mortcms about China will save no
souls for democracy In the rest o!
Asia, the Near East and Africa."
India, he said, affords an oppor
tunity for the United Stales to
demonstrate Its "good works" by
giving material assistance to grow
more food, develop power, and
provide "help in Ihe ways of peace
and social progress."
The other nations of the Orient
can be assisted In the same ways,
and so bolstered against the Com
munists, Stevenson said.
"The answer to the Inhumanity
of communism Is humane respect
for the Individual. And the men
and women of Asia desire not only
to ri.se from wretchedness of body
but from the abasement of the
spirit.
"In other words, we must strive
for a harmony of means and ends
In our relations with Asia, and In
deed with the rest of the world."
As a part of his delense of the
administration's foreign policy,
Stevenson praised tho results ol
the Marshall Plan and the North
Atlantic Treaty Organization.
Stevenson was applauded heavi
ly at nine points. He squelched
three or four other beginnings of
applause by continuing to talk.
By HAROLD McKAY
Student Body President Clayton
Hannon has selected the nominat
ing committee which will name
candidates for the post of third
vice president of the student body.
All candidates will be voted on by
the members of the Freshman
Class.
Chairman of the committee Is
Shirley Schorn. Other members In
elude George Hanson, Ed Barron,
Susan Geary, Larry Yarnell, Jack
ie Ackerman, Gary Robin and
Erma Jo Scogglns.
The latest figures from the of
fice show that KU ruin gained 27
students this year. Klamath had
1267 students registered as of last
night. That compares with 1240 at
the end of the lirst week last year.
The total by classes shows the
freshmen leading In the number ol
students with 393. Sophomores have
362, Juniors count 258, and the sen
iors trail with 254.
Some of the English claHies had
X-rays taken today and the re
mainder are slated to get theirs
tomorrow.
Yesterday's violent rainstorm
caused considerable disturbance
around school. Students who came
to school dressed for tho Warm
weather which has prevailed since
school started had to either walk
home In the rain and hall or call
parents to come and get them.
Eisenhower Sweeps Through Midwest;
Wins Help of Sen. Taft Supporters
II y JAMI S DKVI IN
INDIANAPOLIS Ml-Clcn. DwIrIiI
D. Elsenhower wound up a Mid
west camiMiIgn tour today Willi
linimlM's of lieartv support III o
callrd Tail territory.
Police estimated that at least a
halt nhlllim llmisirrs turned out to
wrU-omn the lti'puhllrait presiden
tial iioiiiiacn yenlriday and last
niitht 111 lndlanaiHills.
That was his last nt"P before
Hying to Washington tndav lor a
bricl rhat with the OOP National
Cominlilee staff. He will continue
on by iilauo to New York this
tilternoon.
Indiana, like Ohio, gave Us sup
port to Urn. Hubert A. Tall oi
Ohio lor the presidential nomina
tion at Ihe ltrpiibllcan Notional
Convention at Chicago laat July.
Hill in both elates, Klsciiliower
won plrdiic.H of all-out nupiKirl Irom
purtv leaders, with tho exception
nt Taft himself. And In Indianapo
lis, the heavv publlu outpouring
ijuvr the general hope oi grass
vools strrniith,
Taft, who was In Washington
during Elsenhower's Midwest trip,
is slated to meet the general soon
tu determine how much ol a part
he will plav In the campaign.
Police estimated thai 350.000 per
sons welcomed Elsenhower as he
drove into Indianapolis In the alter
noon. As the general drove from Ills
hotel to the Butler University Held
house to make an address last
night, crowds were lined In the
darkness on both aides nt the
sirert along alinosl every foot ol
the live-mile route.
Police estimated this outpouring
at 125.000.
The Held house Itself was packed
to the rafters with about 15.000
persons and another 10.000 or 13.000
wrre sealed In a football stadium
McCarthy Landslide In Wisconsin;
Promises All Out Support For Ike
By don wmiti:hi:ad
MII.WAUKEK LPI-Jubllanl Hen.
Joseph R. McCarthy was the land
slide winner tod.iy of Wlsconslr'a
OOP senatorial nomination, lie
called his vlcmiy an eiu'oi semi-ni
bv the people ol '-niy campaign to
rid the governinrn; ol subversive
Japanese to Take More
Responsibility Of 'Defense
TOKYO ifi Japan intends to
shoulder a greuter burden ol the
delense ol Hokkaido, the northern
most Island separated only by a
narrow strait Irom the glowering
power of Russia on Sakhalin.
The veteran U. 8. First Cavalry
Division now stands guards on
Hokkaido, in whose coastal waters
the Russians rattle the sabre by
seizing Japanese lishlng boats.
Hie Japanese press Is lull ol
accounts ol plans lo put more mus
cle Into the National Police Re
serveAmerican muscle of tanks
and howitzers.
The National Security Board
says that a regional corps ol 25.0IK)
mm will be organized and mech
anized and sent to Hokkaido.
Some press reports say that un
der this plan. Ihe Japanese grad
ually will replace the U. S. cav
alrymen as a defense force on
that northern oulst.
The Japanese delense force for
Hokkaido will be laid out along
the lines of the U. 8. Army, which
has been training the National Po
lice Reserve.
The Japanese corps will be
equipped with 105-inm artillery,
155mm tractor howitzers, antiair
craft guns and 30-ton Sherman
tanks of World War II, all Irom
the U. 8. Army.
Press accounts report that some
tanks and 106s already have been
turned over lo Japan and moro
NEW YORK Wi Of the millions
of American combat men In the
second world war the one most
likely to win Immortality Is prob
ably the famous young "Major of
St. Lo."
His name was Thomas D. Howie,
and hometown Irlcnds In Abbeville,
S.C., are today dedicating a gran
ite marker lo him.
Hundreds of his scattered com
rades will wish they could be there
too, lo pay honor to a man who
has becomo a symbol of valor to
the American army.
His tale Is a strange one. He
died In the green hedgegrows ol
Normandy In 1944.
But after the passing of eight
years, I can recall no other war
time event neither In Europe nor
Korea so aad, and yet so eternal
ly Inspiring, as that young major's
bittersweet vlctory-altcr-dcath.
Major Howie was a tremendous
soldier, and he must have been
Just as fine a man before he put
on a uniform.
I vlsllcd his battalion Ihe day
St. Lo foil, and I recall how Ills
men, still mourning his death on
tho eve of tho great attack, praised
him lor his kindness and called
him "the best olllcer that ever
lived."
It was his concern for the wel
fare of his troops that had cost
him his life.
Before hitting the ditch during
a sudden German mortar barrage,
he paused and turned to see that
his men were safe and death took
him, standing.
Shortly before he had attended a
stalf conference at which he hod
expressed his determination to lead
his own battalion first into Bt. Lo,
the bitter bastion of the Nazi de
fense line.
His last words on leaving the
conference wcro a cheery, "ice yuu
In St. Lo."
That became the battlfccry of the
9lh Infantry Division" see you
In St. Lol" and when the command
ing general organized a tank and
doughboy task force to smash Into
the city, he remembered Tom's last
wish.
By the general's order, Tom's
body, still clad In full combat gear,
was placed In an ambulance In the
task force column, I looked In and
saw him.
Amid the thunder of guns, the
armored column bearing the dead
hero fought, toward St. Lo.
Down pock-marked roads It
.
Hod Souk
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nearby to listen lo the ipeech over
an amplifying aysleiu.
In the apeech, broadcast nation
wide. Elsenhower delivered anoth
er f his Increasingly Ireiiurnl
glbea at hla Deiitocraiiu tip mucin
li.r the piesldrni'V. Uov. Aillal E.
btevenson of Illinois.
Hilling the Democratic idnilnli
tratlon of President Truman as one
thai "fumbles and atuinblea and
lulls flat on Its laca every couple
ol weeks," Elsenhower aald:
'Why, my distinguished oppo
nenl la using every trick III the
book to get himself nil Ihe hook
ol tin pioseut administration's
ord."
"When Hie hand-picked heir
wants no part nf tho heirlooms,
why should we?"
The Allied wartime field com
mander was Interrupted 40 limes
by applause,
Elsenhower aald lie went Into
politics because "no American call
stand lo one aide while hla country
becomes the mev ol lear-munuera,
quack doctors and bare laced
looters."
He drew a laugh when In aald
a heavy registration to vote would
mean an election dav turn-out that
would "dwarf every itatlallc ex
cept the Democratic nation debt."
In Ills quest for Midwest support,
Elsenhower:
In Cleveland complimented Ohio,
ails on their loyalty lo Ben. Tall
and expressed hoiw of meeting him
soon.
In Indianapolis, flatly endorsed
Hie re-election bid ol Hen. William
E. Jenner of Indiana, who bitterly
criticized Elsenhower's warllin"
chief and comrade, Clen. George
C. Miii'sliall.
Jenner a yoar ago termed Mar
shall "a living lie and a "front
man for traitors" as a result of
China's turning Communist aller
forres that w ni.d dcjl'f-' It."
He promised Ills "all-out sup
port" to Republic" presi(le:i: ul
nominee Dwlgiit D. Klsenhrv.er
and pledged 10 the voters he would
continue his Co.iiniunlsn.ln.Rnv.
eminent charge i. whim soma pen.
pie regard as thi act ol a patriot
and olhera see in smear tarfes.
heavy equipment will be supplied
this month and In October.
There has been no aunoiini-ed
target dale for the establishment
of the Japanese defense forces nn
Hokkaido. However, the National
Security Board says It will come
soma lime alter the police reserve
Is changed lo the "security lorccs"
Oct. 15.
The board hopes to creole a
force strong enough on Hokkaido
to cope with any emergency.
While the emphasis serins to be
on Hokkaido, the Japanese gov
ernment hopes to expand the po
lice reserve to 110.000 men. Us
present otrcngtli Is about 66.000.
Tho Japanese Communists, who
oppose any rearmament and de
mand that Ihe reaerve be disband
rd. boast that the recruiting cam
paign for the reserve Is running
Into rough sledding.
This Is conceded. Hie word
"army" Is unpopular In Japan Jusi
now. The memory of Ihe war Is
atlll fresh, and politicians on the
left Insist that Japan's economy
cannot stand rearmament.
Ihe Japanese government, how
ever, has undertaken In Its security
agreement with the United States
to assume gradually the task ol
defending Itsell In tumultuous
Asia.
The plans laid out for Hokkaido
appear to be the first strldo in
thai direction,
rolled, past stricken trees whose
limbs hung down like broken aims,
past meadows where no bird
sang, but bullets did.
Churning clouds of yellow en
veloped the vehicles, sweat grimed
the faces of firing soldiers.
As I remember It, a German ar
tillery bombardment cut the col
umn as It passed a cemetery on
the outskirts of a city. The am
bulance was needed to rush back
the wounded.
Tom, lying on a stretcher, was
transferred to a leading Jeep. Tho
column trundled on.
It smashed through the last ring
of German defenders and entered
the fallen city, a sea of flaming
ruins.
Doughboys quickly lifted the
dead young major, ao silent on the
stretcher in all that crash of
sound, and ran through enemy
sniping to a nearby shell torn
church.
And they placed him atop Ihe
rubble of the church wall, and left
him there, and went back Into the
battle.
In death his comrades had won
for the major tho last goal of his
lllo he was with "the first into
Bt. Lo."
Entering the city the next morn
ing with mop-up Infantry squads,
I had my last glimpse of Tom
his flag-draped body lying In state
on an altar of rubble.
A. I the troops who went through
St. Lo that day, and there wcie
mony, heard of the young major
and paid him tribute. Some dolled
their helmets as they passed. Some
knelt.
Five years later. In 1919 I re
visited St. Lo and the rebuilt
church before which now stands
a monument telling of Major
Howie's sacrlllce and his triumph.
The French pcoplo still deck the
monument with flowers, and ro
mcmber him In prayers.
They feel his traglo story led
many Americans to contribute
funds to help St. Lo rlso again
from Its own rubble.
The new marker to his memory
In Abbeville Is a fine hometown
testament that will porpotuato to
later generations the strange saga
of MaJ. Thomas D. Howies heroism
selfless courage and fidelity to his
men, who repaid him in the best
way they could.
Those who knew Tom, of course,
need neither marker, monument,
nor memorial lo remember him.
Marshall served II an imUiaiv
Iheiu. Elsenhower alma dnaurlbeit
Marshall is a "period example.
ol patriotism,"
Jeiiunr also liaa criucir.ro:, inn
Elsenhower has upheld, Hi North
Allauilu Treaty Organization, thn
United Nations, md Aiuirlcm en
try into Ihe Korean War.
In backlog Jenner deiplta their
dllleroiirea, Elsenhower told hi
Duller University and radio au
dience that political victory de
pended upon a "united parly."
"Victory rainra from 111 elforls
nf many men and women, not al
ways teeing eve to ry on ivery
question but always In the matter
o parly responsibility Joined as
a Irani." Elsenhower aald.
"We Republicans are not aervll
puppets of a dictated party line.
Wo don't have loyally oatln, We
don't have party purgei. ... We
want Independent minds ind Pirn
who apeak their minds."
"In linn campaign." Elsenhower
conllniird, "I am requeuing voters
to iii)Oit the entire Hepubllcan
ticket from ton to bottom at every
atn In every stale I visit."
Ha said the people nf eaah Itata
were the best )n lge of whom they
wanted In represent them,
"You Itnpubllcaiia hen In In
diana," lie aald. "have lelected
your candidates lor United mates
senator and repreaentatlves In Con
gress In your II distrlcta.
"1 believe that every one of them
will support Hie program which t
.shall present to Congress If I am
elected president. I. therefore, urge
their election and ask ymi to spare
no rdnri lo see that they aro aenl
to Washington. "
Desptie thin endorsement, Cale
.1. Holder. Indiana Republican
t-hiili mull, told newsmen ho was
illsupixiinlrd that Elsenhower hod
I not speclllcaliy menuoneu jenner
I by name.
Itut there wos n truce belwe?
McCarthy and leu Nchinltl the
liinll he delea'ed In yesterday s
primary election Mr Hvj aenatotin
nomination.
Hchmltl charged McCarthy had
won through "an amazing and
fraudulent Imax'' perpeiroied on
the voters, and he added:
"The result of tills election l an
appalling thing. . . . When thn
lull truih dawns, many people will
recall their siiport of Joseph R.
McCarthy In this election Willi
shamo."
I The 43-year-old senator, seeking
j his second term, brushed this al
. lark aside by saying:
I "The people of Wisconsin hav
! spoken lor me. They have given
lull endorseiiiiil to my campaign
to rid Uie guvernnieni of subter
t aive forces that would destroy It."
j With 3.379 preclucW out of 3.3JI
rcixirieci. the coiiui was;
McCarthy 3.TJ.KHJ
Schiniit 130. Mil
Four other OOP senatorial can
didates ran far behind.
McCarthy's victory will pit film
In the November election against
either Thomas Kairchlld of Verona
or Henry Kcuss of Milwaukee,
the candidates lor the Democratic
senatorial nomination.
Ealrchlld held a substantial lead
over Kcuss early today, but re
turns from Milwaukee County were
chipping away al the margin and
Uie outcome was uncertain.
McCarlhy'a spectacular victory
Indicated that perhaps he had
soino support from switch-voting
Democrats who crooned the line to
give III in help. Cross-voting la legal
In WIcntiMn, where voters are lint
required lo register by parly al
llllallon. Mill this wan only speculation
and there wa.s no way to check
It. The pie-election guess had been
thai any such cross-voting would
help Schmltt and this was one
of the concerns In the McCar
thy camp. However, tho senator
oulstrlpiied both Dcinocrallo candi
dates und his flvo Republican rl
vols by more than 100,000 voles.
Only a third of the state s pre
cincts had been reported when
Schmltt threw In (he towel at
10:65 p.m. with this bitter state
ment: "The result of this election Is an
appalling thing. The effect upn.i
mo pcr.sonully Is utterly unlmpot.
taut. I did not cuter this campaign
because I sought or needed a Job.
"What Is Important Is that a man
with Uie most corrupt record ever
made by a Wisconsin senator Is
overwhelmingly endorsed by Wis
consin voters.
"Tho inosi amazing and fraudu
lent hoax cvcr.pructlced by a high
public llguro upon the votera of
any slate Is approved by the people
o a atulo which once Insisted upon
the highest standards of Integrity,
honesty and decency In publlu life,
"I remain socuro III tho know
ledge thut I was right In this fight.
I am proud of the part I pluyed
and I am deeply gratelul to my
many friends tor the help and as
alliance Ihey gavo inc. When the
lull truth dawns on many people
they will recall their support of
Joseph K. McCarthy In this elec
tion with shame."
The senator at the hall-way
count Was ahead In nil but two of
Die state's 71 counties. He also
was leading almost 2 to 1 In dense
ly populated Milwaukee! County,
where Schmltt had been expected
to havo Ills greatest strength.
The senator received tho news
of his victory at the home of a
friend In his home town of Apple
ton. Ho was asked If he thought
the election was an answer to his
orlllcs.
"Hothlng will ever answer my
critics," he replied.
McCarthy went on lo say he In
tended to support Elsenhower and
his running mate, Ben. Richard
Nixon, "because It would be a
caiastropho for this nation If a
man like Stevenson were elected
president."
"We can't hove a houscclcan
Ing," he added, "unless wo have a
chnngo. I Intend to fight corruption
and communism and to cxposo thn
foreign policy that has boon so bad
tor America and so good for Com
munist Russia."
Other Wisconsin primary con
tests saw all Incumbent congress
men eight Rnpubllcnn and one
Democrat apparently winning
ronomlnatlon. In the Seventh Dis
trict, Stale Sen, Mnlvln R, Laird
of Marshllcld won the GOP nom
ination to succeed Iho late Rep.
Reed Murray (R of Ogdciiaburg.
On the gubernotorlol front. Gov.,
Walter Kohlcr was nominated By
the Republicans and William Prog,
mire was chosen by the Domocroti.
Both wore unopposed.