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Thursday, August 3, 1944
Borger, Texas
WOOING ONE-FOURTH OF A NATION*
All of the campaigning or lack of campaigning by tin
presidential candidates, ail the speech-making and tub
thumping and rallies are going to be aimed at only one quar-
*®r V?e American electorate. At least that is the assertioi
yf Dr. George Gallup’s poll, which says that three out of tout
voters have already made up their minds.
Dr. Gallup is a feeler of the public pulse whose diagnose.-
af opinion are usually accurate. If you disbelieve the figures
in this case, you can sample your own circle of acquaintanc
es. You might even find that the three-out-of-four estimate
is conservative.
But even if less than 10 million of the approximately 40
million civilian voters are still undecided, that minority is
eminently worth wooing. For, with the voters in the armed
forces, tfiev hold the balance of power. In the 1940 presi-
dential election, aside from nine southern states that are per- j
sistently and perennially Democratic, the winner’s majority |
was less than 25 per cent in 35 of the 39 states.
Who are the still-to-be-convinced voters who will probabh
decide the election? It’s easy to say who they aren't. They
aren’t those who vote a straight ticket for regional reasons
ar because pa and grandpa always voted that wav. They
aren’t federal job holders, or people dependent on the ward
or city political boss for their livelihood. They don’t bclom
co the two sizeable groups who think that President Roose-
velt either can do no wrong, or can do nothing right.
Some may be vacillating and weak willed, and some ma’
oe indifferenc. But our guess is that the majority of thic
minority is made up of intelligent citizens who are impervi-
ous to emotional catch phrases, unswayed by partv prejudice
given to a long view of a subject and a desire to hear all the
evidence.
If that is so, they aren't getting much help fjom their fel-
low citizens. This year, when time is precious and the stake
are great, much time and breath again are being wasted in
unproductive and frequently unbecoming arguments be
.ween two voters whose minds are sealed against change
out who still consider a vote against their man as a persona'
affront.
The epithets have already started flying—phony, dictator
Communist. Fascist, win-the-war. lose-the-war. and so on
Once again voters are thinking that if they can call the mos*
names in the loudest voice, they have achieved a triumph of
political logic.
Wouldn’t it be nice’if the convinced thrpe-quarters could
wear lapel buttons statine, “I’ve alreadv made up mv mind."
and let the poor independent voter read the papers, listen to
ihe candidates, and make his decision in a quiet atmosphere
devoid of mud-slinging.
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(USMC photo from NEA)
How would you like to charge into that wall of tangled jungle growth in the photo above, not
knowing how many, if any, Jap snipers it held? This mop-up squad of U. S. Marines on Saipan
Island did it—and one of them, left, foreground, is pictured crumpling as Jap bullet hits him.
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Over 3l*,000 workers Me
In Transportation Tieups
By The Associated Press
led 1
rom the streets.
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Walter Winchell
IN NEW YORK
While Walter Winchell is away
this month, his column will be
conducted by guest columnists.
Portrait of a
MAN TALKING
ABOUT HIMSELF
It is not only the performing
artists who add to the rrpv’ation
of American music. The ^ >m-
front of a battered piano.
But when those kids started to
sing, I listened. Two days later
I had lured them away from vau- posers dr> more than their part too.
deville, teamed with Harry Baris There used to oe a fellow in m.v
of my orchestra, and got them on j band named Grofe—an excellent
the billboards as The Rhythm Beys, musician, with only one bad habit.
You’ve heard about those boys! He incurred the anger of every
since. One was A1 Rinker, the other j restaurateur in every town the
Harry Lillis Crosby, better known j band visited by scribbling musical
as “Bing.” ! notes on tablecloths.
I found Mildred Bailey in a L,os j I urged him to uese manuscript j
Transportation tieup plagued !
two major cities today amid con- j
linentfl labor disputes in which
the number of idle workers ex I
ceeded 36,000.
Philadelphia entered its third I
day ol complete public transport ‘
aralysis, looking to President !
Roosevelt lor some action to end I within 16 months, developed after
the stoppage, and in Montreal, !a dispute over whether a ;nio:
Q™ !••••'-;> ! 'i- ' i-'io.t applying .0 new
ed “Madonna” that he wanted me (’;’s shol,l(l hr ” ’ in “ ’ . '
to play. I roaranged the number ' : ni ,;om* ‘
and surprised him one night by in- ’ "' ,’,’M Canaociii i 'oft>-,
eluding it in one of my concerts. ' 1 1 ' 1.
That’s how “When Day Is Done” ‘ ti-gtt-din.^ o‘ ur.it uc ■ - eir.-
was bern. i pl> c»- to 1 come operators was
When this gtltcd composer di-d 'rt' oari: wi-.tclt ignited tu t mil
A population ictal of mcr
than J.OnO.OOO was alfected in
the two cities. Six thousand trol-
ley, bus and t ub way workers
wore cut in Philadelohia and
-1,000 iramwav workers were af-
fected in Montreal.
The Montreal walkout, third
. n.w dirpu.e in uvtron in-
volved 425 at the Briggs Man-
ufacturing Company, ircubol
renting ever the wearing of
idertification badges. Bui 1.000
workers at thr Wavnc. Mich.,
Stinson division of Consolidated
Ulteo Aircraft C., returning to
the job.
thousand were out at the
Bui,'.do, N. Y.. plant of the Hou-
•iitille-Hershey Corp.. making air-
dune parts; 4.700 at the John A.
RoeblingV Sons and Co., in Roeb
; and Trenton. N. J.. and 4,300
at the General Steel Castings Co.,
'b-a.-ite City. 111.
.Vine i- -1 , disputes kept some
3,600 more idle. But 1,300 at the
v . N. .1., olant of Amcri-
Can Co., and 1,500 at the
town, Pa., plant of Spicer
• •qfaeturing Co., voted lo end
' walkouts.
So Proudly She Waves
By PAUL WHITEMAN
This summer of 1944 happens
to be my silver jubilee anniver-
sary, Yup. I have been beating my
way through the world of music
for twenty-five- years now.
Always, since that day in 1919
when m.v first nine-piece Jazz
Band made its debut at the Alex-
andra Hotel in Los Angeles, I have
aimed at festering thr kind 1!
music which is completely Ameri- °"e ^ asf’d
Angeles honkey-tonk. She couldn’t 1 paper instead. He did, and out of
y . t a decent job for two reasons: \ those manuscripts came “Theme
she was too heavy for a glamor- j and Variation on Noises
a
gal, and she had a way of singing j garage," which I introduced at
a song that none of the tradition- i Carnegie Hall in 1926. “Grand
haunted bands would touch Her | Canyon Suite,” “Mardi Gras,” and
overweight certainly didn't bother j the other Grofe modern classics,
your rotund correspondent. I Sometimes it was easy to get corn-
signed her. j posers to work, othrr times it was
Bix Bit-derbeckr, the jazz im. tough.
mortal, wander;d into a rehearsal In one case, that of George Ger- 1 apologizes for jazz anymore? For
if I would! shwin, it was just a matter of , y°u Mse it or you don’t, the same
can at"*glorifyiisg"the'"works'of Please hear him play. I heard hint, building up self-confidence in a ’ way you like or don't like any.
American composers and giving and siSncd him. Bix’ tragic death talented boy who had been kicked thing elf... But if you’re open lo
in Hollywood a few years ago. his
last request was that we play the-
se ng at his funeral. I’think hej
would have been pleased with tho
arrangement the boys gave it that
day for it came right out of our
hearts.
Bach Would Bo Writing Hot Jazz
If He Were Living Now!
Have you noticed that no one!
c 51. :pagc but racial discoid in |
iiilndclphia beginning Tuesday.
Small number.' ol Philadelphia
nnsponation company employees
1 luntarilv return , d to work last, j
i,-ht. bat only t«.; aty -tl two |
eurs. Officials of the CIO trans-
■ it wo. ket ; it .-.ton joined Mavor !
c: nard Samuel in pleading with j
vtpioyccr, to return to wori:.
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orkc
A GOOD JOB DONE
Bradley Dewey’s request *“iat his own aqencv, the Offire of
the Rubber Director, be abolished is encouraging. It is gooc
to see one war problem licked and one war agency’s wort-
finished.
It is even better to reflect upon the splendid work done b J
. 1 J I .V. I IVVII 1 V. - 0 Him 11 , 1 .
‘hem a place in tlw run. Whai our was a blow to the music world, from pillar to post by ih- h-
little band had to sell then was Ue ln hls hom ,;own a few >" dmizens of Tin Pan Alley.
“Symphonic jazz"—ragtime with -vears afterwards, and it was a Gershwin was an obscure flunx.y
the kinks ironed out of it.
Mary ’Pickford was at the Alex-1
andra that opening night, and so j
were Douglas Fairbanks, Sr.. Ru-
dolph Valentino, Wallace Reid,
Charlie Chaplin
movie notables of bygone days.
They spread the good word about
us and we clicked From then on
in, we were a lot less leery about
doing experimental stuff. M.v
search for the? unusual and excit-
Mr. Dewev and his predecessor, William Jeffers, and upon tln m Ann-.,- an mu-a- nrd mu-.
... 1 , - . . tcian> has led me into plenty of
the remarkable accomDlishments of American science and
ndustrv in putting synthetic rubber into production.
All this doesn’t mean a lot of new tires for civilians. The
rubber suciplv is now adequate, but shortages in manpower
facilities, and certain materials like cotton and rayon core!
remain. New factories, built at a cost of 75 million dollars
will orovide new facilities late this year. But they may als<
create new manpower problems.
The-.'" orob'oms, however, can be overcome. The main in
.erest in Mr. Dewey’s request is the knowledge that our first
most pressing, potentially fatal war shortage has been licked
jonvietion, you’ll look irto it,
liv? without if for a while, expe-
rience it a&d learn something about
race as to who would break down! for a song-publishing firm when it. Then of you don’t go for it. so
first—the members of the audience I met him. He turned out dozens much the worse for you. For my
or the members of the orchestra.; of songs, bui no one would touch mom\v I think that Bach might
The Lors?y Brothers, Benny them—they were too unusual, too be tossing off jazz luges in thi
Goodman, Matty Malneck, Jack unfamiliar to fit into the standard very day, if he had been born in
PhnrHp rh’inlin -h H m 'nv moth >!• lea&arden, Jane Froman, Henry, groove. I tried to encourage this our time, because there was a
P ’ Basse, Ramona and dozens of germ of originality in the young man who knew rythm.
others were with me early in; composer, suggesting that he try I only wish that some of our j
their careers. ; his hand at something more am- best tune-writors wouldn’t think J
I made plenty of mistak ;s,! bilious than a sixteen-bar ballad, in 32-bar chunks, just enough for
more than I care to remember. The result was “Rhapsody in a pope chorus and th n valties.
One of them, a beaut, was the time Blue”. My band introduced this which often don’t come. They can !
I hired a green youngster named together with Zez Congrey’s “Kit- always knock off that pop*
Morton Downey, rrrrelv because ten on the Keys” and four origi- you ki w. Why not try to d(
he had a handsome Irish face. I nal Victor Herbert Serenades, at
Jble. The war labor Loir;!
with. CIO United Auto
spokesmen mat a si m-
■age oi ’4,i’(M) at the Kelsey-Haves
. >.• cl t> was a “lockout," which
the 1.ompanv domed. The WLB or-
! red the com tanv to len-nic
011 . The CIO-UAW attempttd
end a st /page cl 7,000 «.u the
Genera! Motors Chcvuole? ynai
ind A dc div sio.i by naming an ;
to supp; ,][ 1 ) un j
•is. Union members |
ling tonight.
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MOSCOW, Idaho—Yeweli H.
I’lum'cy filed ssault and battery
chci’yei. against Ed Knapik, alleg-
int’ lie iiad to ward off with bis
o!i-. w a hammer blow aimed at bis
■ .td. The men differed in their
account of the quarrel, but both
agreed on its cause.
Ii was over 1 be proper display
oi the flag.
Voice of Americas
MEXICO CITY—The Voice of
ibe Ymorica- eras heard—and it
nmc out in four la: guages.
tnt r-Am-’i ican Bar Association
ii-' ".-ales were gia sts of the Mexi-
can Congre:' Dr. Pierre Liau-
t; .-d of Haiti spoke in French,
Phanor J. Eder, Venezuela-born
Next Yorkt r. in English, Edward
•n.-ilc. f Br.--.Ml in Portuguese,
:aI Manuel C nen's of Peru and ^
other- in Spanish.
blind alleys and dead-end streets,
'tut more frequently the results haci him sitting in the brass sec Aeolian Hall in February, 1924.
Some folks never seem to realize that there is no reward
for finding fault.
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A Maryland man says his wife spent more than $5000 trv- j
ng to reduce. She succeeded—as far as the bankroll w,v
concerned.
tion holding a saxaphone (which We called the evening "An Expjiri
he couldn't play for beans' for merit in Modern Music." It turned
months, merely for the glamor of out to be a noble experiment, one
it. He kept asking me to let him that affected the entire course of
fling, and I kept telling him to go American music
back and 1.11 his troubles to the There was Robert Katscher,
phony saxaphone. He was a per- whom I m. t in Vienna. I liked I ten the picture for us_ Wc
suusive devil, and I finally broke him tremendously and he helped ' locking for and we re sure tr
ville, and 1 particularly was net down and let him warble I should me get over that awful shock of another Gershwin
in the mood for the two gangling have dune it a lot sooner. discovering that the Blue Danube IT.,r.^,—,----.......
isn't blue at all but a very muddy
have made musical history.
Two Unknown Singers—
One Was Bing Crosby
There was the time in Los Ange-
les when I had an evening to kill
at. a movie show. Grauman's Chi-
nese was handy, so I dropped in
’ wasn’t in the mood fer vaude-
something big ’
But I’m not discouraged. I’m
convinced that my first 25 years
have been the hardest and that
the next quarter of a r nturv will
be a cinch. These kids who come
along, well equipped musically, in-
telligent and sensitive, will brigh
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24 HOUR SERVICE!
Sterling W'jrLvssdny, August 2nd
Serving Breakfast & Short Orders
We Pack Lunches
Open Day And Night!
Curb Service From 6 'till 2 PM.
10:00 'Till 2 A. M. Sundav Only
WIGWAM DRIVE IN
702 S. Main
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boys who ambled
stage and draped
out onto
themselv
k - He Would Write Music
in On Tablecloths!
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Kats
How you were brought up really has little to do with how
far up you will go.
It’s during a political vear th3t you find out that all of tin
bunkers are not on golf courses
Fences are what fails to keep kids in their own back yard.
YOUNG ACTRESS
HORIZONTAL
1.4 Pictured
screen star
13 Born
14 Slumberer
15 Whirlwind
16 Roman road
16 Weird
19 Fathoms (ab.)
20 Demand for
payment
22 Month (ab.)
23 War pilot s
hazard
24 Babylonian
deity
W! item of
furniture
28 Ideas
31 Parent
33 Obser v«
35 Marsh
3« Exude
3k Laughter
sound
40 Genuine
43 Crafty
46 P»y*bie
42 Therefor*
3 Require
4 Rupees (ab.)
5 Rubber tree
6 Abound
7 Bird
8 Roof finial
9 Scottish
sheepfold 29 She is one
10 French (ab ) -Holly-
11 Native of wood’* young
Rome stars
12 Items of office 10 Bounded
furniture 32 Part of ‘-be’’
17 Chafe 34 Exclamation
19 Diminutive .17 Exists
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By Victoria Wolf
Copyright, 104-1,
M;.\ Service. Iuc.
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pHOUGH Ahmed obvi
! committed himself too much al-
|ready.
One week after his operation he
left in a command car and was | are alway
brought home for final recovery
to his father’s house, which in
summer was a palatial home, and
in winter a desert tent.
and esteemed Dr.
gave full credit for h
covery only to Alla
Inch Allah was a
clamation jioint after
Merrill.
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aren’t they?’’
“That’s a bad simile. Yvonne.
Similes rarely do justice to real-
ity. He is just as much a new
convert as you are. He. a man of
work, suddenly has to face a new
problem—love. It takes time till
he adjusts his whole personality
to such a revolutionary fact. Mer
slower than women
You should know that from ex-
perience.”
“I don't expect miracles/' she
said with the stubbornness of i
child who doesn't want to grow
up. “A nice word from time to
time, or his hand ... it would
mean so much . . .** She broke
off suddenly, as this very moment
the door opened and Dr. Merrill
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49 Animal
51 Sweet potato,
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55 Girl’s nan-
57 Flower
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