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.1.1 .11. I I ,1 in. Ml Ml. Wednesday, June 14, 1944 Flag Day, and Its Greatest Challenge WASHIXCTOX MERRY-GO -HOUND MEN BEHIND TEXAS REVOLT TAKE MY WORD FOR IT I that he was going to broadcast on the fall of By DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON The president's political By FRANK COLBY How Did It Start? advisers aren't shouting about it, but they San Bernardino The Daily Sun Fiftieth Year Published every day in the year by The Sun Company of San Bernardino, California. Entered at the San Bernardino postoffice for transmission as second-class mail matter.

EDITORIAL have now received a 20-page report on tha Q. Do you know why chair tidies happened to become known by so formidable a name as antimacas Texas "revolution" from Texas New Deal Leader Alvin Wirtz, plus a word-of-mouth report from one confidential envoy arriving sars? Rome later in the evening, and explained that the problem of feeding the Italians was growing more difficult. "When Rome fell, we had several shiploads of grain at a nearby harbor all ready to feed the people," he commented, "and there is a good deal more on the way." He added that grain did; not appeal to him as appetizing in its raw state, but that the Italians will get plenty of macaroni and spaghetti out of it. SIGN OF NERVOUSNESS Representative Francis Walter of Pennsyl irom the rebellious Lone Star state. A.

The word is a tribute to These appear to confirm the report that Jesse Jones and Will Clayton forces were be masculine vanity of the 18th and 19th centuries. The well dressed blade of those swashbuckling days plastered his hair with various scented and viscid oils (even bear's Flag Day hind the move in the Texas Democratic convention to instruct electors to disregard cen $L' Soo0 mkbiM tury-old precedent in the electoral college and not necessarily vote for the winner next November. Here are some of the facts laid before grease), the most highly favored of which, in elegant circles, was Macassar oil, believed to be an excellent hair restorer. White House political advisers: 1 pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. At the majority of public functions and patriotic rallies we repeat those words, but on this day it is important that we go much further we should analyze what they stand for and then take stock to de Housewives of the day, in at the heavy larding of their vania presented the president with an odd gift during the visit a letter opener made from the forearm of a Jap soldier killed in the Pacific.

"This is the sort of gift I like to get," the president said, as it was placed on his desk. Representative Walter apologized for presenting such a small part of the Jap's anatomy. But the president interrupted him. "There'll be plenty more such he said. The president did not touch the letter open upholstered ohairs and sofas, be gan to fasten ornamental tidies Chairman of the Democratic state executive committee who led the anti-Roosevelt group is George Butler, Jesse Jones' nephew and attorney for "Jesse H.

Jones interests," including banks, radio stations, newspapers, office buildings, building and loan associations. The White House has been informed that Butler has the reputation in Houston of here and there to absorb the overflow of Macassar, or hair oil. Hence the name anti- (opposing termine whether we are putting nuo pi at- er with his fingers, however. He probed it or preventing) -macassar (oil used tice the words of allegiance. never doing anything without consulting Uncle Jesse, and that many Texas interests seeking to do business with Jones' Reconstruction Fi with a metal letter opener of his own, and called Assistant President Jimmy Byrnes and White House Assistant Jim Barnes to look This is Flag day, a day annually set aside when good Americans are expected to demonstrate their patriotism, not only by displaying the flag, but by accepting the duties which every citizen must do if nance Corp.

employ Nephew Butler as their at it. attorney. It is inconceivable that he would At about this time, the president lit a and his congressional callers noted that act without Jesse's approval. LEADERS OF REVOLT our democracy is to function properly. his usually steady hand shook a bit He looked in excellent health, but some of them Chairman 'of the Harris county (Houston) on the hair).

Correct pronunciation: an-tee-muh-KASS-er. HOWLERS IN HIGH PLACES From the Washington column of Ray Tucker: "Never in modern times, perhaps, has a triphibious force faced its fateful test." At first glance, "triphibious" seems to be a proper companion of the word amphibious. But when we take this latter word apart, we find that it is not formed from "am-'1 plus "phibious." It is from were worried. Th turning point has been reached in tho war. No longer is our flag in retreat or barelv holding its position against great odds.

This year our flag is moving delegation which spearheaded the revolt against Roosevelt was John H. Crooker, at Leaving the office at the end of the visit, one of them asked Justice Byrnes about the torney for Will Clayton, the man who sits in on Hitler's harried legions and is also president's nervousness. Byrnes, who knew penetrating deep into the stolen empire at F.D.R.'s right hand when it comes to post' war liquidation. Working with Crooker was Lamar Flem what was coming later that night, replied "That man has an awful lot on his mind." that Japan acquired tne iar racuic A few hours later, the congressional callers "amphi-," which means "both The boys who are so bravely carrying the Stars and Stripes into victory are our boys, many of them uncomplainingly making the suDreme sacrifice because they realized how true this was. CHURCHILL'S 1940 ATTITUDE kinds," and "bios," meaning "life.1 ON THE RECORD ing, head of the giant Anderson, Clayton biggest cotton brokers in the world, of which Will Clayton is a partner.

Both Fleming and Crooker came to Austin in advance of the convention to spearhead the drive hence, able to live both in the Before the British started to play up De are accepting the duties that go along water and on the land. SECRECY IN BATTLE MANEUVERS with allegiance to the nag. Since there are no such combin ing forms as "triphi-" and "phibi against Roosevelt Others active in the move included the following representatives of big oil and gas companies: George Heyer, president of Crude Oil By DOROTHY THOMPSON ous," the word 'triphibious has Right now the beachheads on the shores of France are littered with the broken bodies of American manhood who, just a few short months ago, were in civilian life no meaning whatever. Ten thousand we are told, knew the approximate invasion date. Yet the enemy was sur a subsidiary of Sun Oil and in the employ of A hybrid of Latin and Greek ronoatintr the words of allefiriance at ail the Pews, Republican bosses of Pennsylvania; already reported.

But apparently the Russians were the most incredulous. The attack was a surprise. That did not help Professor Bomer. He was fired that same May, sentenced to two years' imprisonment released early in '42, truth. He was a person who might have known.

There were obvious reasons why he could not safely convey it through an allied embassy. The measure of credulity was based upon his expression, the manner of telling, the strain he might designate "all elements," prised. Only one person has been public functions, even as we now The seruritv that is ours as we pay re the Latin omni-, "all," plus the Clint C. Small, lobbyist for Humble Oil, a Standard Oil of N. J.

subsidiary; Hiram King, reprimanded for letting the cat out Greek -bios, thus: omnibious, pronounced: om-NIB-ee-uss. of the bag, Major Gen. Henry J. chief lobbyist for Sinclair Oil; E. E.

Townes spect to the national emblem is in sharp contrast to the dangers that confront our Miller, former commanding gen former chief counsel for Humble Oil; Neth But As Archie Gaulle, they told the following story on him. When the French were retreating in June, 1940, Churchill sent word to General Edward Louis Spears, British military attache to France, and asked him to pick a French leader who could rally the French and lead them back to France. General Spears was at a loss whom to select. Finally, in the lobby of a Bordeaux hotel, an American newsman pointed out General De Gaulle. "De Gaulle is a great expert on tanks," he said.

"He has written a book about tank warfare." So Spears went up to De Gaulle, introduced himself and asked him to come to England to relead the French back to France. They left on a British destroyer, arrived in London, and went immediately to No. 10 Downing street to meet Churchill. After the interview was over, the prime min eral of the United States ninth air Leachman, representative of Lone Star Gas. says: "Perish forbid.

force service command, accused of So far, the president has been too busy with fighting men on this holiday. May we call your attention to the picture on page one of this issue, so that you may compare the tragic seriousness of Flag day on the the invasion to have any showdown with his For a free copy of my pamphlet saying at a cocktail party that "on his honor" we would invade before June 15. He has been demoted. which gives simple rules for pronounc secretary of commerce and Will Clayton. And if he should go to England, as reported last battlefront with the security on me nome ing French, sena a stamped 3c.

ser- seemed under, as though engaged in an internal struggle. Yet what government would believe that kind of information. I conveyed it and it was received, naturally, with an amused smile. For if the Germans were not going to attack through Holland, what could be more reasonable than to plant, front. week, it is doubtful if he has any showdown addressed envelope to Frank Colby, in care of this paper.

Ask for French Rules Pamphlet. Actually, when a great is being prepared, the greatest with them at all. security lies in confusion. Unless F.D.R. ON EVE OF DAY We may not get the opportunity to storm beachheads, to bomb enemy arsenals, or to chase Japs from island to island, yet there are many tasks undone A group of Democratic and Republican con ALL OF US with an independent journalist, the gressmen, calling themselves the Monday and awaiting our help, it is not true xo the enemy obtains direct information from a trusted agent, statements made in public may confuse the enemy rather than inform him, for he cannot know what is a slip Night club, dropped in to see the president on sent to the Russian front as a private, and killed.

Yet, the mere fact of his being fired, in advance of the attack an action amounting to confirmation of his revelation probably was interpreted in just the opposite way. SPECULATION RAISED The case of Joan Ellis and her teletype "mistake" raises immense speculations. Was it really an innocent error? A false alarm might also be deception. Yet at the time she made it, our men must have been aboard the ships. I am not writing in defense of General Miller.

His is a disciplinary case. Loose talk can cost lives. But what appears to be loose talk may be clever deception, which mixed up with genuine loose talk confuses confusion. In the final analysis, every good say that the home front is just as im nortant as the battlefront, but no exag By MARSHALL MASLIN impression that they were? At that time, in a phase of the "phony" war, they were apparently- trying to force a negotiated ister remarked to Spears: "Was that the best you could do?" (Copyright, 1944, by United Features) Monday, June 5. They did not know this was the eve of day.

The president did. However, they got no Indication from him that momentous events were impending except of the tongue, and what is a defi geration is involved when we are told that our boys in the front lines cannot do their peace by dire threats. best unless we back them up to our iun ahilitv. for one slight sign. SO THEY SAY When the congressmen first arrived at nite plant.

Mr. Churchill himself promised in a speech, "There will be many deceptions." TRUTH DECEPTIVE There has been no major opera LANDING SURPRISE Our landing in north Africa was known to many, yet it came as a So, on this Flag day, let there be a true about 6 p.m., the president was his usual wisecracking self. ring to our words as we pledge anegiance to Old Glory. Let's put our words into surprise, ine reasons were again the same the war of nerves and In my opinion the union labor leaders who rally their members Into an overpowering vot Sometimes as you go down a road or turn a corner you come upon a scene that is so familiar to you that you find yourself thinking: "Surely I have been here before!" Once a long time ago, in this life or in some other, you saw that field, you lived in that old house, you lifted your head and breathed the air of this familiar place. Sometimes a thought comes to you.

You hear yourself saying certain words. You meet a man or "I suppose we ought to take an inventory tion in which one or another per to find out how many of you boys will be ing unit and then use that political power to coerce official action are dangerous in the action on the home front, so that when our boys return home we can proudly say to them that we contributed to our utmost that our country shall always remain "one back here next year," he remarked. confusion. In the case of the German attack on Russia the facts are notorious. Early in May, 1941, son has not made the correct forecast.

Scores have predicted that we would invade before June 15. "Invasion weather" has been dis "That's a good idea, provided you believe extreme. observer, for whichever side, has Prof. Karl Bomer, then head of in reciprocity," shot back Representative John Sparkman of Alabama, indulging in Washing nation, indivisible, with liberty and jus tice for all." Federal Judge Evan D. Evans of Chicago Every new pilot thinks he is going to be to depend upon his eyes and brains cussed in the press.

Leading mili not on his ears, growing longer at cocktail parties. tary authorities, including General Eisenhower, have predicted Euro killed on his first mission. But after the first the foreign press department of the German propaganda ministry, told a number of people at a cocktail party attended by foreigners, among them a number of the Bul ton favorite pastime of angling regarding the fourth term. But the president didn't rise to the bait He had just finished his afternoon swim and apparently was relaxed. He remarked woman.

And you are bothered for days by the certainity that some four or five missions they get over that. Tojo's Game pean victory in 1944, which obvi John P. Henebry, 118 missions where you had that thought, said It is obvious that the present Japanese in southwest Pacific. BARBS garian embassy, that Hitler was these words, knew that human be going to attack Russia in June. The information substantiated THE IIOVIXG REI'OHTEH what Anglo-American agents had ing before It is all so familiar, as comfortable as an old shoe, as dear as a beloved voice You come to a pause in the hurly-burly.

You cease from worry. Confidence floods in upon you. You feel at home. You have been there NEWSMEN HEAD FOR INVASION strategy is to avoid unplanned conflict between any of its fighting craft and united nations surface, air or undersea forces. And in the meantime it is probably true that the Japanese are frantically trying to build a powerful fleet of carriers, battleships and speedy smaller craft so that they will have a force sufficiently strong to engage a part of the united nations fleets.

At the same time Tokyo is engaging unsuccessfully in the role of a sly QUOTATIONS By ERNIE PYLE More and more people are seeing red the sunburn on their friends. When a tire blows these days it's left flat and has nothing on the holder of an coupon. Pull doesn't open the door to NORMANDY BEACHHEAD (by wireless) On our first morning after leaving London ously meant invasion early this summer. Since, in war, everybody distrusts what he hears, the exact truth may be more deceptive than a lie. Once during this war I was the recipient of prime information.

It was in the spring of 1940. As a neutral, in a neutral country, I was accosted in the lobby of a hotel 'by a German who identified himself as someone I had met years before. In the manner of an Oppenheim plot he sought a few minutes alone with me, and asked me whether I was proceeding to Paris. I said yes, and he then said, "Tell the French authorities that the Germans will invade in May, before the fifteenth, and simultaneously through Holland We are only misleading ourselves if we imagine that at the before. You have, and you have not.

Your feet never wandered down ihe Army gave us assault correspondents a semifinal set of instructions and sent us off end of a war that has scarred jeeps in separate groups, each group to be divided up later until we were all separated. Europe with deep divisions, all the countries of the continent success nearly as well as just pushing ahead. the terrier would get out in the fields to play and chase rocks with never any worry. It seemed wonderful to be a dog. The English roads had been almost wholly cleared of normal traffic.

British civil and army police were at every crossing. As we neared the embarkation point people along the roads stood at their doors and windows and smiled bon voyage to us. Happy children gave us the American O.K. sign thumb and forefinger in a circle. One boy smilingly pointed a stick at us like a gun, and one of the soldiers pointed his rifle back and asked that road.

You never had those thoughts, met that friend, lived this moment in this or any other life But this is the perfect intn trana Rn that it ran whittle them will lie down together like lambs. Why Is it the tires on your Jiown. we still weren't given any details of the coming invasion. We still didn't know where we were to go aboard ship, or what units we Europe is made up of differences. Without doubt the united nations su neighbor's car always seem to last longer? would be with.

preme command knows just what Japan moment, just the same. Now you are living as all men should. Now you have attained Those differences will continue to exist. Sir Samuel Hoare, British am is up to and is biding time for an oppor All the school kids soon will As each batch left, the oldsters among us would shake hands. And because we weren't feeling very brilliant, almost our only words tunity to dash and upset lojos your dream.

You have that fair schemes. One day soon the world may be bassador to Spain. The greatest and perhaps the be on vacation. And thats when mother's ends. us with a grin: "Shall I let him have It?" to eacn other were, "Take it easy." and Belgium." He said he believed I could be trusted, and he hoped startled to hear that a combined American and British fleet has ferreted out the main Japanese fleet and given it a roughing up The following morning, at another camp, I was called at 4 a.m.

All around me officers One little girl, thinking the Lord knows One of the easiest ways to get the Nazis would be licked. only perfect gift that we can give to the world is the gift of our were cussing and getting up. This was the It is impossible to convey why I that will make Tokyo tremble. hot and fat Is by just loafing what, made a nasty face at us. RECEIVES WET FEET Along toward evening we reached our ship, believed that he was telling the headquarters of a certain outfit, and they Neither Nimitz nor Mountbatten will fall into any Japanese traps.

And con were moving out in a motor convoy at dawn BATTLE CLOTHES AGAIN It was an L.S.T., and it was already nearly fidence is growing daily that when the final big sea test comes victory will not THOUGHTS selves at our best, and that means not just the skill of our hands and the cunning of our brains, but our drearns, our finest resolutions and most solemn promises to ourselves. Capt William N. Thomas, U. S. Naval Academy chaplain.

around trying to keep cool. The father of twins is always doubly proud. Puts on heirs. Mosquitoes are taking up bareback riding for the summer. For months these officers had been living a civilized existence, with good beds, good food, dress-up uniforms, polished desks and a be on the side of the Rising Sun.

loaded with trucks and armored cars and soldiers. Its ramp was down in the water, several yards from shore, and being an old campaigner I just waded aboard. But the emotion, that thought that you have been there before, because at this moment all things are shaped into the semblance of perfection. You and the time and the emotion are one at last. For one fast-flying instant you are at home.

You are past the fever and the excitement and the vague unhap-piness and every part of you is happy. And you may say that you have been there before because this moment repeats all your moments of peace and beauty. The feeling is the same although the time and place are different. You are in the presence of the good, the true and the beautiful and something that lives deep within you has risen to the surface and welcomes the good experience. officer behind me yelled up at the deck: normal social existence.

But now once again they were in battle clothes. They wore steel helmets and combat boots, and many car "Hey, tell the captain to move the ship up closer. ried packs on their backs. THANK The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself. Ecclesiastes 10-12.

For words are wise men's counters they do but reckon by them but they are the money of fools Hobbes. They joked in the sleepy pre-dawn dark So they waited a few minutes, and the ramp was eased up onto dry ground, and our ness, une said to another: "What are you dressed up for. A mas querade?" whole convoy walked aboard. Being an old campaigner, I was the only one in the crowd to get his feet wet. Everybody was overloaded with gear.

One oincer said: We had hardly got aboard when the lines ine uermans will have to come to us. were cast off and we pulled out. That eve AUNT HET ning the colonel commanding the troops on our ship gave me the whole invasion plan in We can never get to them with all this This most-repeated question, asked joking ly, was: "Is your trip necessary?" By ROBERT QUILLEN detail the secret the whole world had wait 20 YEARS AGO Paper Salvage The schools of San Bernardino have again done a splendid job in the collection of waste paper for salvage. But the summer vacation period has begun and for three months there will be no school organization that can within a space of a few days gather the waste paper of this community. Here is what the boys and girls can do in the matter during the vacation months: see to it that each newspaper is neatly placed in a pile in the garage, basement or storeroom; tie them as enough for a bundle is accumulated; do the same thing with wrapping paper and cartons; put the magazines in a separate pile.

Then when school resumes, there will be another city-wide collection. All the preliminary work will be done and the job of collection will be largely one of careful organization. The need for waste paper will continue as long as the war lasts and may even become more acute. There are not enough workers in the forests to cut and move the ed years to hear and once you have heard it you become permanently a part of it. Now These men had spent months helping to 03 pian tnis gigantic Invasion.

They were re you were committed. It was too late to back lieved to finish the weary routine of paper work at last, and glad to start putting their out now, even if your heart failed you. ASKS MANY QUESTIONS I asked a good many questions, and I real plans Into action. If they had any personal ized my voice was shaking when I spoke but concern about themselves they didn't show it RIDES WITH COMMANDER (From the files of June 14, 1924.) Ray McLure was elected president of the San Bernardino Hi-Y club at a meeting Monday night. George Stancer was unopposed for vice-president, Robert Walton won the office of secretary and Phil Savage was without opposition for the post of treasurer.

New business block is planned for the west side of street be Dear K. C. B. If you think the public is interested in hearing about the birds your cat kills you are mistaken. And, my dear K.

C. if no one had ever written to you you might have starved to death by this time and have had no farm in the valley. And, furthermore, any more columns like the 'one today telling people not to write to you about cats, and you will get your wish and that Is exactly what will happen. The public could very well get along without your column, if it had to, you know. NELLIE VERNE MY DEAR Nellie.

YOU'D BE sorry. IF I starved to death. HERE IN my valley. AND YOU'D want to write. AND SAY to me.

HOW you were. YOU WROTE that letter. BUT I'D be dead. AND YOU wouldn't know. MY NEW address.

BUT, ANYWAY, Nellie. THE CLOSING line. OF YOUR letter to me. SUGGESTING THE public. COULD GET along.

VERY WELL indeed. WITHOUT my column. HOW TRUE it is! AND HOW well I know it. AND FURTHERMORE, Nellie. THROUGH ALL the time.

SINCE YEARS ago. WHEN I started it TO ME it's been. A CONSTANT source. OF WONDERMENT. WHY PEOPLE read it FROM DAY to day.

AND I have been able. TO LIVE on it. AND THAT'S why it is. THAT LONG ago. I QUIT reading it.

WHEN THE paper comes. TO OUR doorstep. FOR SO many times. THERE'D BE a column. I WOULDN'T like.

IT WOULD worry me. AND SO it is, Nellie. I FIND myself. IN AGREEMENT with you. I THANK you.

I rode with the convoy commander, who was an old friend. We were in an open jeen. I couldn help it. Yes, It would be tough, the colonel admitted. Our own part would be precarious.

He hoped to go in with as few casualties as possible, but there would be casualties. From a vague anticipatory dread the in It was just starting to get daylight when we pulled out. And just as we left it began rain ingthat dismal, cold, cruel rain that England is so capable of. It rained like that a vasion now turned into a horrible reality for tween Second and Third streets by David Hearsh and Samuel raw materials necessary to keen the nroc year and a half ago when we left for Africa. me.

essing plants in operation. Waste paper In a matter of hours this holocaust of our Miss Mary M. Richardson, home own planning would swirl over us. No man could guarantee his own fate. It was almost demonstration agent of the agri "My boys ain't much to show We drove all day.

Motorcycles nursed each of our three sections along. We would halt every two hours for a stretch. At noon we opened K. rations. It was bitter cold.

Enlisted men had brought along a wire-haired terrier which belonged to one of the sergeants. We couldn't have an invasion without a few dogs along. At the rest halts i too much for me. A feeling of utter desperation obsessed me throughout the night. It cultural extension service, conferred with project leaders in Koes mio pacKages lor ammunition, airplane parts and many other munitions of war.

The boys and girls who want to do their ahare in the war effort can make a very important contribution by looking after the paper salvage. I affection, but I know how they was nearly 4 a.m. before I got to sleep, and feel. They all picked girls that reminded 'em of me, and whot Chino yesterday. Mrs.

Ben Cowan was in Los Angeles the first of the week. then it was a sleep harassed and torn by an more could I ask." awful knowledge..