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THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C.
Washington, D. C.
FEAR OF CASUALTIES
The inside story can now be told
regarding one of the greatest wor
ries of the Allied High Command in
connection with the Normandy in
vasion—namely, casualties. It was
feared they would be terrifically
high.
In fact, Prime Minister Churchill,
who had hung back from a cross-
channel front for two years, feared
the Allies might suffer losses com
parable to the early days of the last
war, when the cream of British
manhood, then relatively untrained,
was mowed down in Flanders fields.
He frequently told FDR that he was
worried about losing the "seed”
of Britain.
This worry gives an insight into
the sudden change between the type
of slow fighting during the first few
weeks in Normandy and the head
long onrush of today.
Allied orders during the early
weeks in Normandy were to ad
vance under a "curtain of steel.” As
a result, the greatest artillery bar
rage ever laid down in history was
thrown at the Germans in advance
of Allied infantry. It was an artil
lery barrage so heavy that it wiped
out almost everything in its path.
However, it was slow. It took
time to unload big guns on shallow
beaches. It also took time to bat
ter down German positions. But
once these positions were battered
down, and the rim of German de
fense was broken, the Allies found
what General Eisenhower knew was
the case—a complete military vac
uum inside.
In other words, the Nazis had
staked everything on holding the
rim, had no defenses in the in
terior. That is the explana
tion for the headlong rush of Al
lied forces in recent weeks.
The Nazis were gambling on
their Atlantic wail, a wall which
could not stand np under Brad
ley’s "curtain of steel.”
NOTE — General Montgomery’s
cautious advances in Normandy
probably reflected in part Church
ill’s worry over casualties. How
ever, he has been cautious in other
areas also. Before the Battle of
El Alamein, when the British army
had been pushed back and back
across the desert toward Cairo,
Montgomery queried his chief. Gen
eral Alexander: "What casualties
can I take?” Alexander, with the
fate of the Suez canal at stake, re
plied: “One hundred per cent.”
Caution, of course, is no reflection
on courage.
• • •
SAILOR’S OUTMODED UNIFORM
Now that Adm. Ernie (“Clothes
Horse”) King has finally relented
and will let naval officers shed their
jackets under certain conditions in 1
hot weather, a lot of sailors wish
he would also examine the uniform
of the enlisted man.
Most enlisted men would whoop !
with joy if their present, long-out- j
Hioded uniform was discarded. What j
most people don’t realize is that the j
nailor’s uniform was designed by the ;
British about 200 years ago and is :
now just as outmoded as the sailing :
ship.
Take, for instance, the broad col- j
ISr worn over the shoulders. It was
designed for vermin-infested ships |
of the 1700s, when sailors had to be i
deloused and a broad collar was i
practicable to catch the tar oils used |
in a sailor’s hair.
Again, the bell-shaped trousers,
which flap around the ankles and :
nearly trip the wearer when he runs, :
were designed for days when sailors !
rolled their trousers up over their :
legs to scrub decks. Today, dunga
rees are provided for this sort of
work.
Again the drop front, 13-button
trousers were designed for a day
two centuries ago when tidiness was
nothing like what it is today.
One thing which particularly
gripes the enlisted man is the tight-
fitting waist of his blouse, which
has to be slipped on and off over his
head. If a sailor is dumped into the
water and has to swim for any
length of time, it is almost impossi
ble to get this blouse off. It is tight,
sticks to the body, and you can’t
very well swim and at the same
time hold two arms above your
head while you wriggle out of your
middy.
Some of the boys wish that Ad
miral King would take off his new
grey-green uniform, designed for
him by His Majesty’s tailor in Lon
don, long enough to experiment with
a middy-blouse in the water. They
think that, despite a century’s de
lay, he would then design for them :
a new uniform overnight.
* * *
CAPITAL CHAFF
C. Before every White House press
conference, scores of newsmen
crowd against the velvet rope out
side the President’s office, awaiting
the signal to enter. When secret
service men let the barriers down, ;
the rush is terrific. Cracked one |
perspiring secret service man, “It’s
worse than a New York subway.”
C. First new international magazine
to be published in liberated France
Is a French edition of “Free World,”
edited by mer'jfcjrs of the French
underground.
German Road Blocks Fail to Halt Allies
The Germans spend considerable time and supplies in erecting blockades which prevent the rapid advance
of the Allied armies. The blockades had little effect as noted by rapid progress being made in France. Left,
is a German road block along the water front in St. Raphael, southern France. Another type of block, shown
at right, was used in Paris.
Chinese Soldiers Cross Treacherous River
Chinese soldiers march to the front crossing the treacherous Salween river by means of a temporary
sospension bridge. The original bridge was blown np by the Chinese as a measure against the Japanese ad
vance. All supplies for the Chinese forces in this district have to be carried by Chinese on their backs or
dropped by planes. Increased transport planes have made it possible to begin to furnish the fighting Chinese
in the Salween river section with much needed weapons, food and other supplies.
Ship Loaded With Jap Death
Rows of huge shells wind along the decks of a U. S. battleship as it
loads up somewhere in the Pacific preparatory to carrying out its assign
ment of blasting Jap holdings. The inferno loosed by its guns cleared a
path for the landing forces, which were then able to send a landing party
ashore to capture the base.
Marine Vets Return Home
Home for the first time in 30 months, some 300 marines of the Second
division, heroes of fighting the Japs on Guadalcanal, Saipan, Tarawa
and Tinian, shouted with joy as their transport docked in San Fran
cisco. Sixty-five of the returning heroes were casualties, sick or recov
ering from battle wounds. They display captured Jap flags.
Marine Commanders
Lieut. Gen. Holland M. Smith,
commanding general of the Pacifie
fleet marine force (left) and Lieut.
Gen. Alexander A. Vandergrift,
commandant of U. S. marine eorps,
inspect a captured Japanese airfield
on the Orote peninsula, Guam.
Trail of Nazi Army
A French farmer drives his cart
along a road near Chambois where
a few days previously a German
transport column had been blast
ed by the Royal Air force.
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Men About Town:
Eric Johnston, Chamber of Com
merce chief, has been cracked down
by his superiors over the Russian
boosts. They feel he was too pro.
As of today, no postwar trade agree
ments between U. S. industry and
Russia have been set up. One of
the biggest shipping deals, however,
is being readied without their help.
. . . Paul McNutt’s receptionist at
the WPB has become the hottest
model on the Conover list. She is
Ann Bell. . . . The newsprint short
age may be over by mid-December.
Woo'd pulp is waiting for shipment
from Scandinavian ports. . . . Pals
of Steve Early hear that his sinus
agony (caused by Washington’s cli
mate) may force him to quit against
his wishes.
Paulette Goddard and her groom,
Buz Meredith, have asked the FBI
to probe the poison-pen writers who
have landed divorce rumors in va
rious columns. . . . The reason the
planned new mag Pageant has been
held up is that it planned to ape
Coronet and then decided not to.
After spending a mint, too. . . .
Overheard at the White House:
“Clare Luce is the Aimee Semple
McPherson of the Stork Club." . . .
John Edgar Hoover was so ill re
cently he thought he would die.
"Going My Way” will gross 8 mil
lion. Producer Leo McCarey will
get about two million dollars for his
bit. . . . Sec’y of War Stimson is
mending now. He went to the Adi-
rondacks recently where a nurse re
mained in attendance. . . . Jesse
Jones, whose condition worried pals,
is better.
Notes of a Newspaper Man:
Damon Runyon and a New York
newspaper apparently disagree on
the hobby of some Americans who
enjoy telling quips on well-knowns.
. . . Mr. Runyon, in his column,
complained: "It is ahtlays bad taste
for people to sit around 'and make
odious remarks about any national
leaders of respectability and integ
rity.” . . . The same morning a
respectable New York newspaper
featured a report (in a box) quoting
a Washington columnist. . . . The
story dealt with the argument: “Who
Was the Strongest President?” . . .
One arguer said Lincoln—because he
split rails. Another said Washington
—because he tossed a dollar across
the Potomac. But FDR was de
clared the strongest. “He threw the
U. S. Treasury across both oceans!”
Now that is a pretty good gag. But
it is also pretty stale, too. ... It
was used often during the second
campaign of Woodrow Wilson in the
war debt issue. . . . The quips and
barbs about Mrs. Roosevelt are still
being swapped by anti-4th Termers,
and the President is often the butt of
devastating jokes. . . . We do not
recall hearing that they complained.
. . . Mr. Runyon probably will ad
mit that it isn’t so bad to tell a joke
as it is to elect one.
Governor Dewey isn’t immune
from the jokesmiths these days. . . .
The current quip has him suffering
from fierce insomnia which “keeps
him up all night pacing up and
down under his bed!” . . . The New
Dealers go into spasms over that
one. But it was funnier 20 years
ago when A1 Jolson told it after an
overnight trip from Boston. ... “I
didn’t sleep a wink,” he groaned.
“One of Singer’s Midgets drank
some coffee and paced up and down
his upper berth!”
I Col. Carlos Romulo, who helped
MacArthur and Quezon escape to
Australia, didn’t know that persons
addressing Congress must not do so
in uniform. He has been in his army
uniform for years. ... An hour be
fore he spoke in the House the other
day Romulo was informed that he
must wear civvies for the event,
i . . . His $taff hastily borrowed ci-
, vilian apparel. ... On the way to
the Capitol he realized he was wear
ing his army sox. . . . He paled.
... “I am wearing the wrong
sox!” he exclaimed. “Oh my good
ness, wot’ll I do?” . . . His Girl
Friday solved matters right there
on the Capitol steps. ... He wore
her bobby soxl
A New Yorker just back from
Argentina alleges that the majority
of the people there are not anti-
U. S. or pro-Nazi. . . . Most of the
people, said our informant, do not
even take the government leaders
seriously and openly quip: “If I
thought my son would ever grow up
to be President of Argentina, I’d
have sent him to school!”
Norman Littell, of the Dept, of
Justice, and Will Clayton, Jesse
Jones’ man, regret that feuds cannot
be carried beyond the grave. . . .
The Demmy Nat’l Comm, is func
tioning as smoothly as a ward at Dr.
Freud’s. . . . Churchill has coded
on the King of Greece, but has
warmed on the King of Italy. . . .
White House attaches are blaming
each other for the recent Willkie
boner. . . . General O’Dwyer be
comes a civilian about October and
will start campaigning for the May
oralty.
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