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Show THE BULLETIN, BINGHAM CANYON, UTA" It Takes Heap o' Fussin' to Make a Hall Into a Home For Major Political Parties' National Conventions 'GOP and Democrats Work Harmoniously On Arrangements. By AL JEDLICKA Released by Weitern Newipaper Union. Amid buzz and bedlam, col-or and decoration, and teem-ing thousands with their ting-ling enthusiasm, America holds its great political con-ventions every four years. As convention delegates fuss and fume through the lengthy, historic sessions, millions of Americans throughout the nation follow the pro-ceedings with attention and even heat, since either the Republican or .he Democratic party embodies the pick up the rumbling, rolling peal of the huge Stadium organ. Approximately $6,000 will be spent by the parties to furnish newsreel men with enough lighting to take moving pictures of the proceedings. With 10,000-wat- t incandescent search-light units set up, enough light to illuminate a medium-siz- e town will be provided cameramen shooting from the high rafters. This lighting must be arranged to permit shoot-ing from any angle of the building without causing blind spots from too much light on any one point. In making a success of a conven-tion, the little things are as impor-tant as the big ones, and sometimes the little things cause as much both-er as the big ones. For instance, O'Connell and Hal-lana- n have had their difficulties pro-viding badges and tickets. Because of wartime, metals have been un-available for badges, and it has been necessary to secure plastic material. To convention - wise Ambrose OConnell, there Is more to badges than meets the eye. For instance, they must be so designed as to avoid catching onto clothing and ripping it. and all kinds of different types must be used to restrict the move-ments of the various attendant throughout the Stadium. Tickets a Headache, Too. Also because of wartime, there has been a scarcity of certain paper stocks, a condition of particular pique to bustling Walter Hallanan, since it is necessary to print tickets on material that cannot easily be counterfeited. Incidentally, in the distribution of tickets to the conventions, each dele-gation is allotted a percentage, usu-ally depending upon the approxi-mate distance of its state from the meeting site. The idea, of course, being to provide more seats for those who might be able to come in by auto, etc., from neighboring re-gions. Civic committees which put up the finances to bring the conven-tion to their cities also receive an allotment of ducats. Unique, in that this year's con-ventions will be the second in the history of this country held during wartime the first being in 1864 the impending Republican and Dem-ocratic meetings are expected to lack some of the flourish and hoopla of bygone days. However, they are not exDected to be bereft of all dod- - scoured Chicago's outlying apart-ment districts for accommodations, and it was reported that some good Republicans offered to come to the aid by boarding convention attend-ants. As if O'Connell and Hallanan were not having trouble enough, they have been pestered for accommoda-tions by that type of individual who feels that no business is so impor-tant as that of finding a particular room for him, even though all hotel arrangements are to be made by the head of the state delegation. Plenty of Problems, Preparation of Chicago's huge, streamlined Stadium for this year's conventions has not been without its problems, either. Until the Citi-zens committee which bid to bring the conventions to Chicago arranged to furnish the Stadium for $25,000 to each party, Hallanan estimated that the cost of readying the amphi-theater alone would amount to $48,-00- 0, not including rental The services of over 100 men working about three weeks are de-manded for preparing the Stadium. Canopies outside the main en-trances must be draped with bunt-ing. One hundred and twenty flags must be hung from the rafters to sway impressively above the floor. Three emergency "hospitals" must be set up and equipped with medical goods, light and water. A huge plat-form holding 180 people must be constructed, with a special confer-ence room underneath it. And, of course, seats enclosed within stanch-ions for the different state delega- - principles they hold most consistent with their social ideals. During the period of the conven-tions, well might it be said that the heart of the nation is centered in the localities of the meetings, bound-ing with the people's delegates, with newspaper men, newsreel men and radio broadcasters milling to flash stories of the unfolding events to an anxious citizenry, and with visitors attracted by the great spectacles. Normally, cities compete to have the conventions held in their locali-ties, since the delegates' and visi-tors' expenditures for hotel accom-modations, food and entertainment and shopping in the business dis-tricts amount to hundreds of thou-sands of dollars. But with the coun-try riding the crest of a profitable war boom this year, with housing facilities taxed and heavy demands made for limited stocks of mer-chandise, only Chicago actively bid for the conventions, offering each party $75,000 for expenses. Ordi-narily, it costs between $100,000 and $150,000 to run a national conven-tion. When both parties accepted Chi-cago's bids, financial problems thus were added to other special war-time difficulties confronting Republi-can Walter Hallanan of Charleston, W. Va., and Democrat Ambrose O'Connell of New York In making arrangements for the conventions. On these two men falls the responsi-bility of setting up the smooth func-tioning of the meetings assuring or-- ular enthusiasm so easily stirred over a candidate, or over the ex-pression of a party's outstanding principle stressing the hopes, the aspirations and the achievements of its partisans. In their excitement over the swift stream of dramatic events often ac-companying conventions, even the soberest politicians and statesmen sometimes forget their immediate environment and lapse into what aft-erthought must characterize as the comic. tions must be put up. Elaborate preparations must be made to accommodate the press, newsreel and radio, especially this year when the two conventions will attract international attention. Al-ready, reservations have been asked by newspaper representatives from Britain, Russia, South America, Chi-na, Sweden and French Africa, and, in all, about 3,000 observers with their technicians will be on the Job to describe the proceedings to the U. S. and world. Not only will the press be seated in front of the main platform, but a special newsroom will be provided in the basement. At both daces. derly activity on the floor of the and establishing facilities for quick transmission of news to the waiting world outside. Two s. Both O'Connell and Hallanan are old hands at conventions, O'Connell having attended his first as a mem-ber of Al Smith's entourage in 1928, and Hallanan his as a newspaper man in 1912. Although red hot parti-sans Inclined to admit nothing, both men have worked together in mak-ing the principal arrangements, since the Republican convention of June 28 will be followed by the Democratic on July 19. Because of the heavy wartime strain on the railroads, transporta-tion posed one of the big problems of this year's conventions. But the problem promises to be solved by use of day coaches by those within 64 hours of traveling time of Chi-cago, and of provision of extra sleeping and dining cars for ac-credited representatives from far-ther distances. To assist delegates from Hawaii to attend, the navy will furnish plane service to the main-land. Next to transportation, housing has presented another major diffi-culty. Although both parties were assured of approximately 5,000 rooms, the Republicans, for one, could use another 3,000. In quest of extra housing, Hallanan has even For instance, during the 1932 Dem-ocratic convention in Chicago, O'Con-nell remembers the heated fight over the election of a permanent chair-man, which would have demonstrat-ed the strength of the contending factions. As the fight developed, the Missis-sippi delegation caucused, only to find venerable old Senator Pat Har-rison absent. Without further ado, some members hurried off to his hotel and after pressing the urgency of the situation upon him, hustled him back to the convention hall in his pajamas, carpet slippers and bathrobe, there to cast his vote. As Hallanan said, this year's con-ventions will be marked by the so-ber restraint of a nation at war. Once events have stirred up the at-tendants, the enthusiasm may carry over into the typical hysteria of these great national meetings. telephone and telegraph facilities must be established to send out sto-ries from the building. Darkrooms will be constructed for photogra-phers to develop picture's. Microphones Everywhere. Important for transmitting the ac-tual reality of the convention atmos-phere to the world, all four of Amer-ica's great radio networks will make elaborate arrangements for cover-ing every detail of the conventions. Contact will be made with dele-gations through microphones on the floor; portable equipment will be used to interview dignitaries throughout the entire building; spe-cial booths will be erected to ac-commodate the radio commentators, and facilities will be installed to iK .i A?3j I.M of workmen are preparing 1 ' 1 1 v slKSWC ' 1 the huge chicaS Stadium for the K4js "I" f I J V- - " conventions. Upper left is pictured t jbt ' " !' ' Wa,ter Hallanan. chairman of the p! M" 1 ZZm ? Ji .i s ijf ivs.Ti, '?fv'" Republican committee on arrange-- I, 'wSA JSLJMments, and lower right, Ambrose KJJST w&f O'Connell. Demorcatic chairman. NAJ Ajf OREW PEARSON Washington, O. C. GETTING TOUGH WITH SWEDE! After too many months of Allie super-patienc- e, the Swedes are fc for a tough crackdown. At long last the State department, the Foreig-Economi-c administration and, pel haps more important, the British have determined to pull together ii telling the Swedes they will have ti fish or cut bait in sending vital wa materials to Germany especiall; ballbearings. The question of ballbearings in volves the world-famou- s SKF ball bearing company in Sweden, whic! operates a subsidiary company L Philadelphia. The president of th. American company, William Batt, 1 vice-chairm- of the War Produo tion board. Not many people realiz- - it, bu despite the loss of 600 U. S. aviator In bombing the Nazi ballbearlnj Plant at Schweinfurt last fall, to sa; nothing of the loss of countless othe lives, the Swedes have been nullify Ing these American sacrifices b; shipping great quantities of ball bearings to Germany. Hitherto secret, has been the fac that the Swedes have supplied Ger many with 70 per cent of certal) vital airplane ballbearings. Am when you consider that one bombe alone requires up to 3.000 ballbear ings, you realize that this is thi most Important single commodit; Germany is now getting from thi outside world. In fact, ballbearing are so essential that, without them the Nazi airplane industry would b paralyzed almost overnight. Ni plane can be constructed withou several hundred to several thousani ballbearings. U. S. officials recently have unearthed Information indicat-ing that the Nazis deliberately planned, well before the war, to use Sweden as their source for ballbearings. A conversation re-ported to have taken place with Air Minister Goering has re-cently come to light. In which Goering explained that he was not anxious to build up the Ger-man ballbearing Industry too much, since It might be advan-tageous to have the industry in a neutral country where it could not be bombed. SEDITION TRIAL MONKEYSIIINES The most patient man in the work is presiding over the "mass sedi tion" trial in the Federal Distrie court here. He is painstaking square-shootin- g Chief Justice Ed ward C. Eicher, who is recognizee by the legal profession as absolutely fair and who has been leaning ove: backward to give the 30 indictee defendants their full day in court. However, the defendants are de manding more than that. So brazei are some of them In their tactics t delay the trial, that they boastfull: refer to themselves as "monke: wrenches from heaven," because they say, there is always one amonj them capable of "pulling some thing" to cause another delay. Here is an example of what the patient Justice Eicher has had t put up with. Whenever a defenst motion has been denied, Charles B Hudson of Omaha, Neb., publishei of a pro-Fasci- news letter "America in Danger," has turnee and chanted to reporters: "Railroad! Railroad! Toot-too- t toot!" Eicher has overlooked much of this by-pla- y in order to ex-pedite the trial. However, he has almost worn out his gavel try-ing to keep Mrs. Lois de Lafay-ette Washburn the g, Fascist-salutin- g Chicagoant who boasts descendency from the Revolutionary hero and some of her more demonstra-tive cronies in line. At one point, Mrs. Washburn leaped up and screamed: "Lafayette, we are uric u uurst'ivt'5. Ellis O. Jones, tall, lanky defend ant from Los Angeles, also had U be gavelled down when he com plained about the food in the dis trict jail. "I've already lost ter pounds," protested Jones. "If tht ' keeps up, you'll have to get me ai undertaker." NOTE Eicher finally decided that these antics had continued long enough. Since he cited two defense lawyers for contempt, others are beginning to realize that Hitlerian horseplay of the type used by the Brown Shirts when they were tried after Hitler's unsuccessful Munich putsch will not get by forever in an American court. On the other hand, many of the defense at-torneys, of excellent standing at the bar, are doing their best to preserve court decorum. CAPITAL CHAFF C. Friends have started a quie boomlet for OPA Administrato) Chester Bowles for t. I began by pushing him for the Gov t ernorship of Connecticut, which hi ii declined. Bowles, incidentally, hai h made one of the most unpopula: p jobs in Way'-incto- the OPA p reasonably popular. n C Mexicun have nov a earned $12,000,000 in t.e Umtec p States under the e!rerginc gov s; en. '"t .rngnim which brinigli it them to f. 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In due time you can get tbeCU s t y0U want w"k assurance of trosb C performance of the highest type. WARWICK MANUFACTURING CORPO' 4 4640 Wast Harrison St Chicago Bl LOOK FOR THIS NAM i RADIOS ARE AGAIN A1 f X JJ RADIO ; (l J 1- - 'l- - - Exclusive War Story: (Ray It ruck, war correspondent, yeart in the Balkans for the N. Y, Timet and practically en route at this moment to the European theater for Interna' tional News Service, spellbound some of us tvith this breathless story. We asked him to jot it down.) Dear Walter: Here's the story precisely as Bea Tolstoi gave it to me the other night. I think it's one of the great, hitherto unwritten chapters in the war. Scene: Shep-hear- Terrace, Cairo. Time: Late afternoon, November 15, 1941. Ken Downs, then an ace war correspond-ent for Int'l News Service (he's now a It. col. on Terry Allen's staff in Europe), was finishing a Scotch and the last five pages of "For Whom The Bell Tolls." Geoffrey Keyes in-terrupted him. Geoffrey, a lieutenant-c-olonel at the age of 24 (son of Admiral Roger Keyes), had ducked a desk Job In England to come out to Egypt, join the British desert com-mandos and raid the German and Italian rear dynamiting airdromes, blowing bridges, playing general hell with the enemy, etc. But now Ken Downs told Geoffrey Keyes to go 'way. Ken was absorbed in the A-ctional last few minutes of Robert Jordan's life In the Bell, the unfor-gettable last few minutes when Jor-dan, with a smashed thigh, props himself against a tree and levels his tommygun on an approaching col-umn of Fascist cavalry . . . Keyes was off with Capt. Colin Campbell and his commandos on the raid to kill Rommel, the raid that missed Rommel because the Afrika Korps general was in Rome on a birthday party but it was one of the most daring operations of the war and won Keyes his Victoria Cross posthumously. Keyes landed his commandos two hundred miles behind the German lines, beached his landing craft by night near Sidl Rafa. They hid two days and nights in a wadi (gully), trekked twenty miles on and snaked up to the Afrika Korps GHQ. They attacked with grenades, torn-mygu-and machine pistols, Keyes leading. Keyes killed the first sen-try, kicked down the outer door and , led his raiders in, spraying the cor- - riaor wun lommygun ana pisioi. Startled, frightened German staff officers poured from their billets. Keyes' men blasted them down. The sirens went, a general alarm being sounded. The Germans got to their arms, began to fight back. Keyes' small force got smaller. But Geoffrey, still leading, took seventeen men through the last defenses in the In-ner stockade to Rommel's own quar-ters. Rommel's staff aide got Keyes, a machine pistol fusillade which al-most tore Keyes' right leg off. Keyes fell in the doorway. Colin Camp-bell, behind him, dragged Keyes back from the threshold and hurled two grenades inside. Then he sprayed the room with his tommygun. Had Rommel been there he'd have caught it. Campbell and a sergeant dragged Keyes back to the outer stockade, firing as they fell back. Then Camp-bell was hit "Get out!" Keyes or-dered. "Take him out. Leave me here." They had reached the door of the outer stockade. "Give me that tommygun." Keyes took the and propped himself in the door. Well. The rest of it came from Downs' report as he got it from the sergeant and from Colin Campbell, who wrote from a Ger-man prison camp. They dragged Campbell to a tree nearby. His wound was pretty bad. They gave him morphine and he began to go under. But he could still see Keyes, in the first gray streaks of daylight, propped in the doorwav and blastinc awav at the Germans in the stockade. The ser-geant ran back to Keyes, but Geof-frey refused aid. He simply de-manded more clips for his tommy-gu-n. The sergeant got them. "Listen " Keyes fired a burst. "Not more than two or three of you will get away. Some of you" he fired again, a long, choppy burst that drove the Germans back to cover. "Some of you must get back to report " he fired again and rammed home a fre-s-h clip. "Tell them" "Yes, sir!" snapped the sergeant. "Get word to Ken Downs," fin-ished Keyes. "Tell him, if you will, that it happened this way. Good-by.- " The sergeant saluted and ran, for a wadi and safety. Campbell began to pass out. As he went under he could see Keyes firing, reloading, firing . . . Memos of a Midnighter: When an ad agency told Henry Ford that Tommy Dorsey was the next Ford Hour star. Mr. Big replied: "Who's he? What's the matter with Earl j Godwin?" . . . It's a girl for the Everett Sloanes at Drs. Hosp. Pop's the Crime Doctor . . . Bob MuseL the New York newspaperman mow in England), has written the song hit of London: "The Homecnir;;r.g Waltz" . . . The mystery murder (of a diplomat's wife in that Chicago hotel) is the exact plot (so far) of a Universal film starring F. Tone. Army Press and Radio Must Maintain Political Neutrality The war department, in instruc-ion- s sent to all commanders both a the United States and overseas, ias prescribed a policy of strict in the dissemination of olitical information. Title V of the ew federal voting law, which is n amendment to the Hatch act, lohibits use of federal funds or ponsorship to influence the armed jrtes in voting in federal elections. Instructions to commanders in ob servance of this law state: "The burden is on the army to see that the information and entertainment which it furnishes .o the soldiers is either (1) nonpolitical or (2) if political, is justified by presentation in strict accordance with the al-lowed exceptions. "It is not the purpose of Title V to shut off information and enter-tainment from the armed forces. Its purpose is to see to it that no In formation or entertainment which ii federally financed or sponsored and which might have the political character, will be disseminated to soldiers except in conformity with the statutory provisions designed to prevent unfairness or partiality lr any such dissemination." The law permits rebroadcasts oi political speeches over government controlled stations provided equal time is given each party |