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THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY. S. C. Washington, D. C. STORY BEHIND MONTGOMERY- BRADLEY COMMAND SHIFT There is significant background behind the appointment of British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery to command two American armies, thereby taking away most of the command of Lieut. Gen. Omar N. Bradley. There are also interesting reasons why it was kept such a hush-hush matter from the Ameri can public. General Bradley has now been awarded the bronze star by Eisenhower and congratulated by Churchill to take the sting out of his loss of the First and Ninth armies. The idea that Bradley made the transfer him self also has been publicized. Despite these maneuvers it is known inside the war depart ment that highest U. S. war chiefs opposed the transfer to Montgomery and that it was put across by General Eisenhower anyway. Background of the reshuffle goes back to the landing in Normandy last summer when Montgomery was given Caen as his objective, while Bradley was to take Cherbourg. Bradley reached his objective ahead of schedule in a new type of of fensive fighting, in which U. S. troops did not wait for supplies to come up nor for snipers to be wiped out. Montgomery, using more conserv ative, slow-moving, old-fashioned tac tics, sat with his army at Caen and either could not or would not break through until long after schedule, and until Bradley, ignoring Mont gomery, smashed the Nazi lines to the south and started the lightning dash to Paris. ‘Montgomery Demoted.’ Afterward, the Stars and Stripes carried a story that Bradley was being promoted to the rank of full general and would supersede Mont gomery. The Stars and Stripes be ing an official army newspaper, the story naturally was true. But pub lication in London caused such a furor among the British that the British broadcasting company went on the air with an emphatic denial. After that the shift of armies was held up for a while, until Mont gomery could be made a Field Mar shal to appease both him and Brit ish public opinion. Bradley then took over command of all the A v -.ierican armies under Eisenhower, and Montgomery was left only with the two British and Canadian armies ii? Holland and Belgium. Since then Monty has been wait ing for his chance to stage a come back. His friends of the British press—of whom he has many—have been doing the same. So immediate ly following the German break through, he began pressuring Eisen hower to give him the American First and Ninth armies. Montgomery is a superb defensive figher. When his back was to the wall at El Alamein just a few miles from Cairo, he did a great job. ■When given offensive jobs as in Sicily, at Caen, and at Arnhem he failed to make the grade. How much of Eisenhower’s decision to put Montgomery in command of the two American armies depended upon his ability as a defensive fighter, and how much on British pressure is not known. It is known, however, the transfer of commands was opposed in the war department and was carefully hushed-up for two weeks and not even all of the top-ranking executives in the Pentagon building knew about it. Also it is a significant fact that Eisenhower is answerable to Chur chill as well as Roosevelt. He can not be removed by Roosevelt with out Churchill’s O.K. and he has to get along with both. That is an im portant point not realized by many. But not to be forgotten. Note: Rivalry among high rank ing generals exists in every war, probably worse in the last war. Gen eral Pershing and Gen. Peyton March, U. S. chief of staff, were hardly on speaking terms. General Pershing also sent Gen. Clarence Ransom Edwards of Boston, hero of New England, home from France because of clashing personalities. • • • CAPITOL CHAFF Q. At the dinner of the Washington radio correspondents. President Roosevelt smoked cigarettes without a holder, while Assistant Pres. Jim my Byrnes used a long black holder. C. In London they tell Americans, "You’ve got to understand our Win ston. He believes in government for the people, not government by the people.” C The bobby sox brigade has in vaded the sacred halls of congress. Dozens of youngsters crowded the corridor outside the office of Helen Gahagan Douglas last week, hoping for a glimpse of the comely con gresswoman from Hollywood. Her admirers were acquainted with all the roles she had played from the time they were in diapers. C. Frederick Woltman of Roy How ard’s New York World-Telegram, is releasing a series revealing the highest U. S. army posts have been taken over by communists. This will be news to Joe Stalin Lint From a Blue Serge Suit: Mr. I. Hoffman (the New York branch of the Hollywood Reporter) recalled the most costly comma in U. S. history. . . . Many years ago a tariff bill listed articles that were to be admitted free. One item was “all foreign fruit-plants.” . . . But a careless clerk replaced the hyphen with a comma. ... It caused or anges, lemons, bananas,, grapes and other imported fruits to be ad mitted to the U. S. free of duty. . . . It cost the government an esti mated million dollars plus. A concrete example of journalis tic jiu-jitsu (being thrown for the* count) was the story which said that Dick Merrill, the famed transatlan tic flier, had broken another record —flying from Seattle to Washington in six hours and three minutes. . . . The story was wired from the Cap ital by one of the news services. . . . One night later we grabbed Dick’s paw and shook it hard as we con gratulated him. ... "I don’t know what it’s about,” he said. “I just came in from Africa. How could such a story that never happened get started?” The terrible crash of the old China Clipper at Trinidad reminded us of the flight we made from Natal to the U. S. . . . The Boeing circled over Port of Spain for more than an hour —waiting, we learned, for the man in charge of the field lights to wake up—and turn them on. . . . The law there at the time, it appears, pro hibited plane landings at night. . . . When the China Clipper crashed it was the first time Trinidad permit ted planes to land at night/ The author of “Argentine Diary” (Ray Josephs) has an exciting re port in Cosmopolitan. It is the first full-length article on Evita (Little Eva) Duarte, the girl “behind the Colonels’ clique in Argentina.” . . . We wrote about her activities here last June—the first story to appear in the U. S. about her influence in Argentina. . . . Little Eva, we said, a one-time playboys’ gal-pal, worked herself up, colonel by colonel, to a top spot in the leading Fascist re gime in the Americas. . . . Josephs’ Cosmo piece is called “Under Cov er Girl,” and you’ll know why when you read it. . . . His story, he tells us, was inspired by the item here about her, and that is why the edi tors bought it. . . . Two major movie studios are interested, too, reports the author. . . . Thus a columnar item has bloomed. Things like this are making Sec’y of State-tinius a very re spected gent around Washington. . . . The other day he invited Sec’y of Interior Ickes and his staff to meet with the State Dep’t at a private dinner. . . . Mr. Ickes was asked to make a complete criticism of the State Dep’t. . . . The idea was to achieve better teamwork. . . . Ickes let them have a blistering attack, and plenty of State Dep’t ears sizzled. . . . But the confab achieved its unique purpose. . . . It put the State Dep’t lads on friendly, human relations with the Ickes bunch for the first time in a dozen years. Add fine screen playing: Mark Daniels in the “Winged Victory” hit. ... In mid-December the col’m pre dicted that another strike would break out at Wright’s in New Jer sey. The workers there wish it em phasized that they won’t strike and intend to vote for the continuation of the no-strike pledge. A Broadway playgirl was tipped to a sure-thing four days before Tropical Park shuttered. She plunged on the horse for a $10,000 killing. . . . But the bookie, with no future in racetrack gambling, welshed to the coast. Her boy friend happens to be one of the East’s toughest sportsmen. Not a new way of committing suicide, at all. A Gilmore hatcheck gal got a $100 tip from a fellow, who returned two hours later and said it was a mis take, demanding it back. He gave her $1 instead. Not a bad tip, at that. . . . Havana is “dead”—prac tically no tourists. But Cuba has great prosperity, wages are higher than ever. The Cuban capital is guarded by machine gunners, ditto the Presidential Palace. ... Groaned one wealthy Cuban planter: “You people insist on giving our people milk and ice cream I They hate it!” . . . Isn’t it true you are richer than ever?” he was asked. . .. “No,” he said, “I used to make $500,000 a month. Now it takes three months to make that!” Cole Porter says of all the songs he’s composed, his pet is “Love for Sale,” which radio banned because of its poetry—and which, conse quently, was never “done to death” by the song-pluggers. . . . The Re pubs are describing Mr. Churchill as “England”s revenge for the Boston Tea Party!” ... A legless mendi cant features this placard: “4F in the Draft—But 1A in Blood Dona tions!” . . . Phil Brito’s description of a phony: “He is bothered more by your success than by his own failure.” Troops Continue to Sail From U. S. Ports Left: A troopship at sea. No room for deck ehairs on this one-time luxury liner which sailed from a New fork port. Upper center: Every inch of space is utilized. Here is a small section of one compartment aboard a U. S. army transport, after it was loaded at the New fork port. Bight: Bed Cross workers, al ways on hand, wave goodbye to troops as an army transport begins its overseas voyage from Boston. Overseas Handling of Service V-Mail V-mail handling has become one of the best organized and most important branches of the service. Lower, V-mail combat film exchange. Upper left, temporary sending station in the field. Center, outgoing V-mail casing operation. Upper right, loading V-mail gear at Pearl Harbor. Wherever Uncle Sam’s boys are to be found, V-mail will reach them. Officials urge more extensive use of this service. Old Story in Warring Belgium ‘40 Men, 8 Horses’ Carrying their few belongings, Belgian civilians trudge wearily along a road from the path of an advancing German army (left), and return (right), afie; the American armies have repelled the attack of the Nazis. Thousands of Belgians are without homes and many are in serious con dition from privations. Beminiscent of World War I days, these American infantrymen board a “40 Hommes, 8 Chevaux” box car in France. They are members of 302 Beg., 3rd Bn., 94th Dhr. Many of the American troops were moved by these box cars in World War L This is the first photograph received during present war. Navy’s Leading Hellcat Pilots Fifty-eight Jap planes downed. That’s the combined total of the navy’s two highest scoring Hellcat pilots. L. to R., Comdr. David McCampbell, Los Angeles, and Lt. Cecil E. Harris, Cresbard, South Dakota. McCampbell destroyed 34 Jap planes in the air, and Lieutenant Harris shot down 24 enemy aircraft. Speed on Ice Speed on ice is shown as Bill Bu- polo, No. 11, of Boston Bruins, out- skates Butch McDonald of Black Hawks during game at Chicago. The Chicago Black Hawks won. WHEN NEW AUTOS ARE MADE Salesman—What kind of car are you interested in? Customer—Anything that is all in one piece and has all the door han dles on it. Salesman—Here’s a nice sedan model. Customer — Quick! A pair of smoked glasses! Salesman—What for? Customer—I can’t stand anything so clean and glossy. What are those things on the side? Salesman—Fenders. Customer—Oh, yes; it’s been so long since I had any on my car I thought they were something new. » Salesman—How do you like the ra diator? Customer—How did that big dent get into the front of it? Salesman—We designed it that way. So many owners have been driving around for the last five or six years with their radiators all knocked in that we thought a car with an undented one would seem too radical an innovation. Customer—Right you are! Those new models with all the hinges on the doors are going to be quite a shock, too. Salesman—Yes; we realize that. If you’ve been driving a car so long with the doors rattling we’ll be glad to loosen the hinges on this 1945 mod el for you. Customer—I think you’d better. * Salesman—What color do you pre fer? Customer—Any color but gray or mud. Salesman—Most people are de manding bright reds and yellows— just to get away from the drab look ing cars they’ve been driving dur ing the war. Customer—Naturally! Why a big mirror in every door? Salesman—Those are not mirrors, it’s just new bright unshattered glass, so clean you can see your re flection like in the prewar days. Customer — (astonished) — How wonderful! Salesman—What do you think of the upholstery? Customer—I can’t believe it’s true. No holes, no stains, no mice, no bird nests! Salesman—You’ll get used to if after a while. • Customer—What are those things on the side and ceiling? Salesman — Inside lights. They really work! Customer—Now don’t exaggerate!. Salesman—Didn’t the inside lights on your old car work? Customer—Only for the first six years! Salesman—Notice those comfort able arm rests in the rear? Customer—Is that what they are? Salesman—What did you think they were? Customer—All I know is that in my old bus a pair of field mice lived in ’em. * Salesman—Our new gearshift is quite a feature on this model. It’a quite a novelty. Customer — Any gearshift that doesn’t come out in my hand every time I shift will be novelty enough. And it is going to be a treat to reach for a hand brake and find it there, too! Say, what are those things on the side of each wheel? Salesman—Hub caps. Didn’t you have ’em on your car? Customer—Not since- Pearl Har bor! • • • WAR BOND SLACKER He buys some war bonds with a cheer And roots for ’em in accents clear; He does it with a grin or laugh While posing for a photograph; He says, “It’s just my duty and To do my bit this way is grand” . , But then at selling out he’s spry— Who wants to be that kind of guy? | He gives no argument at all When war bond salesmen make a call; He even makes a pretty speech About a battle on a beach; But presently he’ll turn ’em in; His staying powers are quite thin; He is no asset at the bat— | Who wants to be an egg like that? A pox upon this patriot!— To be his kind you’d rather not; Your country’s bonds help win the fight; They’re not for selling overnight! So buy, and hang on, if you can. As if you were a fighting man. . . . How would we fare in days so tough If soldiers’ faith were short-term stuff? * • » Ain’t It So! Thumbnail description of the Sina tra audience upon getting news he is ill: Sad socks. • • • LINES ON A FIRE MENACE Smokers in the crowded stores Need a spell behind steel doors, There to sit and ruminate On the dunce caps that they rate. . . . I Hard folks, those New England ers! We heard of a man who gave his wife a pair of gloves and a snow shovel for Christmas. CLASSIFIED DEPARTMENT AGENTS WANTED LADY WANTED in every community, both rural and city, to sell line of household necessities to her neighbors. Our line liv eludes such scarce items as cheese ana laundry soap. Liberal commission. General Products Company <U-3>. Albany, Georgia. Swedes Brought Log Cabin The log cabin is not native to America and it was unknown to jur earliest colonists, such as chose at Jamestown and Ply mouth. This type of construction was introduced by the Swedes who founded their first settlement here in 1638 on a site that is now a part of Wilmington, Del. 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