L.T · . Sunoco. ednesday, March 29, 1944 DBUBCBILL Today in the Lon , don Bo se of Commonst Prime Minister Winston Churcbill t k tl bi·s s a e political life on what would seem to us to be a tiny and trivial issue. Cbucbill placed in the balance his ~ighty position as a United Nations war leader b e cause of the matter of school teachers' pay the kind of thing that would bardl7 give an A•erican President even a moment of misgiving. True enough. the British Prime Minister is not likely to ij overthrown-not by any stretch of the imagination. But, in a formal parliamentary way, to day be posed the question I stay or I go! Fl~~..,,.,!M!"-e-&91H,@4,T-'+ft~----9~~,e,~-:.~t::.M~~~.....-.~taih!:.~t-:r of aaj rities, a aajority of one./AUcartainly ' doeatit ..-t, sound like a violent overthrow of Winston Churchill as a war leader."i,it, according to British parliaaentary ways, the Prime Minister must have the support of the Bouse of Commons on all issues and at all times. So wh t did Churchill do abou?~t!r.ppeared before the Commons, and told thea that if the vote of yesterday stood, ana the n¼o.r1ilrJ and his whole Cabinet would resign. 1,he e,3111:a I I ■■ ii b 111 ".P. d~manded - couldn:t things be Whereupon an• arran e ed in such a way that the Commons might ••f•z point of domestic differ with the Prime Minister on a policy, without involving the whole question of war CIDCBILJ4 - 3 - leadership? aatt•• ef ••aeae••• pay, and Jet sapper\ hi■ •• If~~, au»ca• ..- ~••IR q • tieae ef gle9el watt Churchill replied: •ram afraid I cannot in an1 way alter the statement I made.• So that left it up to the I.Pa - the Labor, Liberal and Tory members who constituted yesterday's aajorit7 of one. They promptly got together and talked things over - what to do about it! Should they •••ffi:r• who stands as so great a figure in this crisis of the world? You can answer that in advance - No. The coae is certain to tell you that the Bouse of Commons ~ reversJ itself and that Winston Churchill is st ill Prime Minister of Great Britain. One of the fie r cest of air battles was fought over Germany today - this in the course of b a ombing raid which is described as not very large. . Two hundred and fifty Flying Fortresses hit a target in central Ger■any, Fortresses escorted by seventr.-five Mustang and Thunderbolt fighters. Qa p•e•io•• day a, 1ta1i ai:t' I l+f' ► i • The conflict aloft was not long, but it was wild and woolly while it lasted. Lieutenant Everett Stewart of Abilene,Iansas, leader of a g roup of Mustangs, 'tells the story in these words:- "We started after them and got tangled into the biggest dogfight I've ever seen. It spread all over the sky. There w e re lots of clouds,• be goes on, "and every time we wou l d ch a se one, he w ould duck into the .AIR WAR • 2 - clouds and reappear elsewhere.w And thus , they fought, while the bombers were scoring direct hits on the target. Today Soviet troo p s fought their way across the upper re ches of the Prut River an o drove *~•t•x••Jxx . a.€e,,_,qxt £itil to the outs k irts of the t t iapor an City of Cernauti, which is the capital of the Province of Butovina. tlii we." announced by llos cow t · on ight. vi.aa lie leagea bale a •b• And further north, in 014 Poland, the Bed Ar cut the last railro a d link between the German arai • to the north and Nazi forces to the south Thia they accoaplished by the capture of a rail junction called Ioloaya, wh i c is in the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains. Yore and more, the£oviet forces are coming abreast of the Carpathians - the mountain barrier which •ome ~••,i•x••J b el ieve may be *I• a section of Cla new azi l ine of de fense. ITALY Today th ~ word flashes that - the Gurkhas have come down from Hangman's a1·11 Ad th t, • n a ta dramatic e,idence of what we have bee a■ply infor■ed by the new_ t ~ the attempt to take Cas!i no has been a failure, and the war is stalemated there. The Gurkhas, from the northern frontier of India, scored a triumph twelve days ago, when they ■ ade a daring advance end establishei themselves on Hang ■ an'a Bill - I one of the points of high ground that do■ inate t the area of Cassino. The Gurkhas, in fact, pushed to within two hundred yards of the ruined Monastery held by the Germana.1{;.hey did their part in the offensive, but the est of it bogged down · - and the fierce fighters ~-tG ~ ~ h For twelve days and nights · ~ we r e l e t up t ere. ~ d l ·ncessant fire by the they had to t a k e it - un er ~- German n:e fv:..,;;vx 7\ 7A. nearly starved and almost And they thirsted to death. Sup p lies ha d to be dropped to the ■ by plane, and water was almost un~btainable. But they hung on, and were still holding their position - when _p __ ~ ~ .. , the decision was mad'l\ to withdraw. lit.a iae a\~••• , ... 8111iao a~ an end, \&8P8 WIU ea K1ag ■ 1u, 1 a Hill, aai:l ocdu1 , .... The battl o f India is still going on_ that is, the major c la sh forced by the Japanese invasion acroas ~~~. the borer o f A ~ And a dispatch froa Mountbatten'• headqu~rters states that the British have bad to aate a withdrawal - this in the area of Ukhrul, thirt -five ailes north of th key city of Imphal. And another eneay coluan has pushed closer to Iohiaa, a coaaunicationa center of Number One importance in the State of lleli in ohe olr wail• t.w• of ts'he it c · ulu■a• •••• ■aki . . pr1greoa in hea•J fighb:i:ag, t ,.-¾ - . there is word of On the bright side ou ~ great air victories for the Allied fliers. In two days of swirling combat, they shot down at leaa t thirt7 enemy plane 8 , and caw,. lost only three of their own•- whtoh souaJa like a lob of a:i:t help fat +.he iri:-6 •• Co»o1e eattliag against the Jep ia•••iea 1f India,. Over in the jungles of Burma, the Kid is now a hero. Jackie Coogan, once the wistful J:1+t3::9 lad, who starred so brightly in Charlie Chaplin's great hit_ . 'The Iid.• He's now the pilot of a glider, landing on flying fields in the Jap-infested jungle. Out there they talk of the courage ot the one-ti ■ e Iid, though Jackie Coogan him elf prefers a laugh. And today one of hls pals tells of a belly laugh louder than any that was ever aroused by Charlie Chaplin and the Iid . • Be says: •our job is to land· in the jungle behind the Jap lines and make air strips - so the trans~orts can follow along. And sometimes," he aads, •it takes ne~coaer pilots a while to get used to the racket. • he, •Coogan and I were "The other day, says sitting in our foxhole, sweating - when 8 transport d It was five minutes Circled the field and lande · before the pilot mustered the courage to step out. Then he crouched on the strip, peering into the jungle. He must have thought he saw a Jap in the buahe1, because he dashed back to the plane and took off.• Utt.:-.medy for Jackie Coogan and hia glider mate. 1,.ftresently the apprehensive pilot flew back. ---2~, •ae circled the field twice,~Jackie'• budd~ ~ e s ; "and then) landed. This time he juaped out, and ran like the dickens for a foxhole - our foxhole. Be juaped in and you should have heard Coogan and•• give hi■ the horse laugh." the glua pilot growled: "These fields change han d s so fast, how was I to know whether it was oum or the Japs?• That's the kind of comedy the Xid is playing in nowadays. PACI IC -------------- Ninety-Three more tons of bombs for Rabaul. Anotbo• large iaily ~ortieB of bt9k o•plaifz•e tittina ~he Jep~neee eaee. oni g ht's communique states ••any ~ fire were started,~moke w::ac visible for seventJ-five ,. $' miles, ~ The American 41'. ass e•countered some antiaircraft fire, but no opposition fro■ ene■y planes. Today's uota of bombs makes a total of five thousand tons on Rabaul since February Third.1fAnd)from the Central Pacific we have an announcement of the one hundreth attack on Japanese yositions in the Marshall Islands -- with American planes continuing their daily air assault of the atolls.-: still occupied by Japanese ---w&.°"" garrisions without hope of help. A The Dies Committee today denounced the Politica Action eommittee of the C.I.D. as being Communist controlled. Eighteen members of the Executive Board of the C.I.O. are accused of oeing Communists. And twenty-one unions affailiated with the C.I.O. are said to have Communist leadership. The Chairman of the C.I.O. l■■■it* Political lctio Committee is Sidney Hillman, leader of the victorious Left Jinfaction of the American Labor Party. And the Dies charge is that now, 1n effect, Hillman is th political leader of the Communists - and not Earl Browder. The Committee ad its that Billman himself is not a Red, and that he has ~een at times, in the Committee's words, •actively and effectively anti- Communist." But he is now the real leader of th e Communists - so alleges the Dies Committee. Venials followed promptly on the heels of the accusation -- blistering denials. o c I ne • • O. organization mentioned is the International Union of Uine, Mill and Smelter Workers, the Ch~n of which tonight talks about going to court-- Congrea111an ,, Dies wi 11 permit. •This is a libelous statement;_, said ----------..... t.'-,.,J Union President Reid, if Mr. Diea ,.. will waive hie immunity as a co~ressaan, we will file a libel suit against hi■: ~ e 7 B_ill■an, Chairman of the Politioal Action Co1111ittee.a:.of the C. I. O. and leader of le• Ycrrk American Labor Party. uses the term - •liar:. 9peaking of Congress ■an Diea, Billman says;~he has delved again into the reoea1ea of a warped mind coming up with the most shopworn smear•. To which the echo responds -- what could be worse than a smear that·• s shopworn. POLLS ----- Polls are all the fashion nowadaya and here's one taken among newspaper correspondents in laahington,-- on the subject of the next presidential eleotion. A large majority expressed the belie~ that President Roosevelt would be the Democratic nominee for a fourth term. Twenty-six of the Washington correspondents think the Democrats h/fiJPwin. Twenty-two prediotllll a Republican victory and two wer,e uncertain. An o•er- whelming majority selects Governor Dewey of ■•• fork aa the most likely Republican o ■ inee with Wendell ~ Wilkie in second plac!,,Afar behind. IIORDER ------ a_ ~ strange story is told about the arrest in le• A York of a man who is being held on suspicion of what tr JJ is known as-· the Gardenia llurder in Los tail■ lax / Angeles. This crime was so called because beside the ~ body of aA■ 6r ■ BX wonan was found a blood stained gardenia. The aan arrested in lew York is Roger Louis Gardne who police say married nine wives·without bothering about divorcee. His matrimonial enthusiasm ,,.._..,-ti such an extent that he azaaa■i started proposing to two at the same time. /Jnd that led to trouble . . . ecauae one of his two curre)t fiances~called hi■ on the phone ~•-..#ft./ and the other answered. The tw~:~~:;•"' went to the police, who in turn, identified , 1 aa the 'TP:. husband of various other woaen across the country. The identification mark was a an'orna ■ ent he always wore - a cross on a gold chain. The sacred emblem was ~ -..,J ~ °""~WIILC. ""•v...#•I it ~~never~forget me•. The most sinist~r part of ~ was that th&j ••Y r cross and , ll•, was included in A the circularized iaa description of a ■an wanted in Los Angeles and for the Gardenia Murder. ~ ~ ~-ft,,,- M.J ~ I YOTHE}!_ ----- Today in a Hew York Hospital, a wish was expressec by a Mrs. Harry Zarief, a former dancer, who is the wife of a radio violinist. She told the Doctors she hoped she would have quintM.plets. /nd that seemed ~ ambitious because ehe - a tiny ex-dancer, ■ oat petit I\ 11d:':,.:X-n any case her wiah wu not ~ l l e d -- becaua■ she bad only quadruplets. D In Los Angeles, the story is about Ira. Mela ~ r . ~ - t - J Lopez, who •••* ~.rent to a B01pital and told the ;,<.: , , .::,~ ~ ~ · - W'(;:I. doctors there was something wrong with her.A The bab7 was born shortly thereafter. 11!:.:;t- ~~ In a Hollywood court today, there was an account of the p rudence of a millionaire husband.(,■ h•~ 1hi•a• fig1rea e~t fiaaneiall~ ia aia deeJia~ ■ ita hia 'beauttfa:sbowgirl wtte - she t.wea+., t.hPea 7eer1 7onager ~han ~ - ==B--ut-:y Ilia wieaea and ea11iiaa weri!ei 011+, the wrong irarJf Carlisle Thorpe, who used to raise horses and now raises walnuts, took the witness stand and told how, after they were married, he put his showgirl wife on his payroll - at a hundred and twenty-five dollars a 1 o n + , h . ~ ~ 1 1 ~ : ' { . ~~ ;:"~•I ~ " 7ar n C.t~e•■:la1~he~n1 dH ~~ . le liftu»ea iha\ •ne' ■ arriage ■ igh\ no• la••• ena he pai• eeuli save money in antieipa•ion of a ~Pip ~e fteae.. "That way,• the ~ - million.aire explained today, A 1· y and the 'it wouldn't be necessary for me to pay a imon' longer we lived together the more · money she would have.• - 2 A prudent idea all right, but today wifie was in court suing for maintenance f■ of a thousand dollar• ca....lh.CcNJ?~-t;L j:.-__ a ■onth>' ·,, £'2asaa A ~ ! ! : ,, - " It r a ined money up in Canada today - at Windsor, Ontario. Five thouaa d dollars in bills and silver were • showered down into the street from a hotel window. ~~ The S nta ClauaA.was Harry F. lcLean, ·~. ~ the =:-:c•~ ,, Toronto contractor who has done that sort of thing before. His desire is, as he expresses it - •to spread happiness to everyone.• eea he lie aa, ef op•eaaiag ••••'•••• ~eg•• tuiana ■rlku9 ,■i% the •••••a• paliae Aeed1•••\■u& 1aa aaaiei eve• a fi•• \aau■ aai a1llar eaeek f•• ~ F ~ peliee eba•iiy, ,~o• he went to hia hotel and gave )( five hundred dollars to the telephone operator - just as a tip.to the chamber•aid he gave a hundred dollars. An d then out of'the window went fiv~ 1 scrambled for the thousand dollars, while ieople be 0 • d the traffic bills and coins - a swarming mob that stoppe • - 2 The news account states happily that uot all the aoney ot out of the window. Half a dozeu aewapaperaen were present in the hotel rooa, and a good deal of the currency dropped around on the floor. ~1-- The newapaperaen stated afterward that, in~word■: •the pickings were auch better in the rooa than down Shouts of Democratic tr1·umph reverberated in Washington today, as a resu t of the figures froa Oklahoma - the administration candidate fo~ Congress •• down there winning Jy f!en~.r&1-a ~ . J , ~ i ,11e1111 an-d; ■ ::.aKJ r tt1 l'f l&11t t.ko111 aath The Oklahoma district is normally De ■ocratic to an overwhelmin g de ree and has gone Republican only once- back in the Ha~ding landslide of lineteen Twenty. In t h e ~ Hew Deal years, it went to the ad■iniatration by majorities of fro ■ nineteen to twenty-two thousand. Las~ year, however, the De ■ ocratic candidate for Congr••• won out by a mere four hundred votes. And now, that ~~--~- has been run up tA • aF tttns 1 , . - in yesterday's victory of Administrati-;"'i;~tiger. So no wonder the Democra s are saying jubilantly that this •t•••~z• disproves the Republican contention that there is a continuing trend a ainst the Adm· . t 1n1s ration. The G.O.P. advocates, on their side, trJf- to explain the matter by citing the weather_ which was'bad. They say tb ■ t their strength was largely in the rural areas, where rain kept the far ■ era froa going to the polls. And the Republicans add that, anyway, the -G,.~ Democrats.Awon only three out of eleven special · congressional elections, the oth:?/~g to the G.O.P. ?T,.nd still ••l~ another version eaphasi••• the political atreng th of Demo era tic Senate Leader1 Barkley of Ientucky, who did some powerful campaigning in the 8klahoaa election - which w a s ~ conducted on a straight out basis of for or againet the Roosevelt Administration. - - The election of a Deaocrat, however, do•• not change the line-up in Congress - because today a De11ocr tic Con g ressman resigned - Representative Domengeaux L ~ ~ . f t h i f , ~ H steps out o e ■ ■ o ~ a e legislative halls to enlist in the army. Tod y's other focus of political discussion was in New Yor - the victory of the Left Wing of the Amerio Labor Party, . the faction led by Sidney Hillman. This is being c lled a triumph for the Communists, who are alle ed to dominate the A.L.P. Left ing. There is talk that the Right ing leaders may not accept the decision, and may seceded - splitting the Labor Party. &:a11, ti r Re:publ1cana -a!fl.e ■ s:kla~ waat eaepital :t.ha7 aaa of tM 7P e i \ a a ~ The American Labor Party has held th~ balanc of power in New York elections and its vote ia regarded as necessary to carry Rew York State for President Roosevelt, if he runs for a fourth term. In such an event, the Republicans are expected to argument that, with the Hillman-Left-ling in control Of the the Presl .dent will have to American Labor Party, depend on Communist votes to carry his own state.