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Show UINTAH BASIN RECORD Takes Heap o' Fussin' to Make a Hall Into a Home It I ml U. S. 'Scouts and Raiders' Make Warfare History Specialists in 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. Incandescent searchWith 10,000-waset units up, enough light to light town will illuminate a medium-siz- e GOP and Democrats Work Harmoniously On Arrangements. Guerilla Tactics Practice Bloodless Raids in Preparation for Big Battle to Come. tt By AL JEDLICKA be provided cameramen shooting from the high rafters. This lighting must be arranged to permit shooting from any angle of the building without causing blind spots from too much light on any one point. In making a success of a convention, the little things are as important as the big ones, and sometimes the little things cause as much bother as the big ones. For instance, OConnell and Hallanan have had their difficulties providing badges and tickets. Because of wartime, metals have been unavailable 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 movements of the various attendants 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 delegation is allotted a percentage, usually depending upon the approximate 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, etd, from neighboring regions. Civic committees which put up the finances to bring the convention to their cities also receive an allotment of ducats. Unique, in that this years conventions will be the second in the history of this country held during wartime the first being in 1864 the impending Republican and Democratic meetings are expected to lack some of the flourish and hoopla of bygone days. However, they are not expected to be bereft of all popular enthusiasm so easily stirred over a candidate, or over the expression of a partys outstanding principle stressing the hopes, the aspirations and the achievements of its partisans. In their excitement over the swift stream of dramatic events often accompanying conventions, even the soberest politicians and statesmen sometimes forget their immediate environment and lapse into what afterthought must characterize as the comic. For instance, during the 1932 Democratic convention in Chicago, OConnell remembers the heated fight over the election of a permanent chairman, which would have demonstrated the strength of the contending factions. As the fight developed, the Mississippi delegation caucused, only to find venerable old Senator Pat Harrison 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 years conventions will be marked by the sober restraint of a nation at war. Once events have stirred up the attendants, the enthusiasm may carry over into the typical hysteria of these great national meetings. Released by Western Newspaper Union. Amid buzz and bedlam, col- or and decoration, and teeming thousands with their tingling enthusiasm, America the of the invasion of Europe, benefits derived from guerillas holds its great political conwould be of the greatest assistance ventions every four years. By BAUKIIAGE News Analyst and Commentator, WNU Service, Union Trust Building Washington, I). C. Halt whos there? This sentence, barked out In one startled exhalation, stopped the stealthy form which had suddenly materialized out of the shadow of a plane. His dark wet suit stuck to his lithe form. His hands went up as the sentrys bayonet stopped just short of his midriff. There was no The two figures, moon. hardly visible to each other in the black, froze for a second as the sentrys nervous trigger-finge- r grew a little more steady. He called the guard. There was the crescendo of hurrying feet and a moment later, the sentry was patrolling the airdrome again very much on the alert. For the fifth time, 1 ask you where you came from," the angry colonel demanded. For the fifth time came the same answer from the prisoner in the wet jungle suit first class, James Private, OFallon, Serial No. 3030496. said the Take him away, he can stay in the colonel finally, guardhouse for the duration. The guards hustled No. 3030496 off to the hoosegow where he stumbled over an assortment of AWOLS offenders. He and other bleary-eye- d saw three other men lying peacefully on the floor arrayed like him. But no sign of recognition on their blackened faces. ff .... Bloodless Raid Private first class O'Fallon and his four comrades (although the colonel didnt know it at the time) were the only men captured out of a raiding party of 40. The rest had slipped catlike over the whole airbase, chalked their initials on planes, sketched the location of the radio room, noted the position of the antiaircraft guns, estimated the size of the garrison, checked each rock and sandbar in the shallows through which they had crawled before they reached the beach. Of course, this was only a practice raid like dozens of others, the preparation for which I have witnessed. But real bullets had twice that night whistled out over shadows and set the big grey Snauzers yipping and the flashlight stabbing into the black sky above the base. The unwritten story of these specialists will all come out some day. The Japs did this kind of thing at the beginning of the war and we thought it incredible. The British did it later with their brilliant commandos. The old name for it is guerilla warfare . . . fighting behind the lines, or in the more official language of an article by Douglas Smith in that trenchant military publication, the Cavalry Journal, a phase in trained armed warfare that concentrateson destruction (the raiders destroy, the scouts merely get information) of enemy personnel and equipment in the enemys own territory. Back in the French and Indian wars, the ancestors of Douglas Smith began learning these tricks; Captain Smith, an American citizen and later of the French foreign legion, has put on paper some of the principles he has adduced from his own experiences in World War II. - Excellent Results The usual method of attacking an airdrome, says Captain Smith in recounting one of his experiences with the guerillas composed of British and French in Libya, was for the men to leave their cars (the rubber boat of the desert) and go on foot up to the airdrome at night. When possible, they passed the sentries without detection and put their bombs on the airplanes (chalk marks when you just rehearse) then left the airdrome and got sufficiently far away before the bombs went off. Of course, says Captain Smith laconically, as the descendant of a good Indian fighter would, this was not always possible and many times, sentries had to be killed in fighting by a sudden attack with a knife . . Although the Germans made every effort to protect their planes against such attacks, approximately 300 enemy planes were destroyed by this guerilla unit in a single span. Captain Smith, writing in the early days of the war, says, in case hand-to-han- d B R I E FS . The war department says that $165 06 is the present annual cost of clothing, food and individual equipment for a soldier, compared with a total of $501 06 a year ago. Incorrect and Insufficient i esses appear on 15 per cent of the more than 25 million pieces of mail sent each week to servicemen overseas ad-d- to an army opening a bridgehead. Well, not only the land guerillas but also the men who come up out of the sea by night are of greatest assistance whether you call them comby the romantic name of or the more prosaic mandos American designation of scouts and raiders. The French have their land guerillas who are already playing a vital part in the battle of Germany. The part our scouts and raiders have in the same epic event will some day be sung in appropriate measures. But lets get back to our personal history. The day after the bloodless raid which I described to you, a captain from the raided airbase was visiting at raider headquarters. Said the captain, after his third coca cola: About your raiders running hog wild over our joint last night. We caught them all four of them. They walked right into the sentrys arms and darn near got drilled. The raider officer who lived his part and looked it he was still unshaven, got up and picked up a rifle, shining like a schoolboys morning face, that was standing in the corner. The Colonel Errs Take this back to your colonel, he said, and have him check its number. He knows it stands in the rack right outside his door and if you have an inspection worth a nickel, its been missing about nine hours. The captain cocked an eye. I "Yep," said the raider, plucked it from the bush and would have had the name plate off the skippers door too if I hadnt heard a step in the hall. Want to see a sketch of your layout? He tossed a sodden notebook on the table. But the Yes, it was just play, young officer who had been pushing the pigskin around for one of our storied gridirons only two years ago had played at more serious games in Africa before he came back to be an instructor he had landed on more than one enemy beach, wiggled past sentries, human and canine, just as he had when he worked his way up to the commandants door, stole the rifle, inched his way back to a clump of bushes, dug out his deflated rubber raft, blew it up and paddled back to safety. Duck soup for him. Hed done it once when all before in earnest there had been a quick hash of a knife and some blood and a sentrys last groan, stifled by a hand that had to wipe some enemy blood from it. And for that, he wears a little ribbon on his dress tunic which you cant buy by the yard. Women and the War What is going to happen to the millions of women who are now filling Jobs in war industries when (1) those industries are discontinued or converted to peace-tim- e operations, (2) millions of men come home from the war looking for jobs? A group of women who meet In Washington frequently, have been hard at work for months on plans to deal with such an emergency. They are the womens advisory committee of the War Manpower commission, headed by Miss Margaret A. Hickey, and they have just made some specific recommendations to War Manpower Chief McNutt. The women's committee says that: Employers should give their worn- en workers notice of cessation of work as far ahead as possible; Women to be laid off first should be those on the split-shifincluding mothers of children for whom part-tim- e , working arrangements have been made; Women who wish to resign from their jobs voluntarily should be asked to do so as soon as possible; Women who have to be dismissed because of the curtailment of work should be given consideration as to skill, seniority and dismissal pay, based on length of service; Flans should be made for advising women who are dismissed about such things as transferring to other jobs, retraining for other jobs and their social security rights. What action the manpower commission will take along these lines remains to be seen. But at least the women have spoken up. t, by Bauhhage As convention delegates fuss and fume through the lengthy, historic sessions, millions of Americans throughout the nation follow the proceedings with attention and even heat, since either the Republican or he Democratic party embodies the principles they hold most consistent with their social ideals. During the period of the conventions, well might it be said that the heart of the nation is centered in the localities of the meetings, bounding with the peoples 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 localities, since the delegates and visitors expenditures for hotel accommodations, food and entertainment and shopping in the business districts amount to hundreds of thousands of dollars. But with the country riding the crest of a profitable war boom this year, with housing facilities taxed and heavy demands made for limited stocks of merchandise, only Chicago actively bid for the conventions, offering each party $75,000 for expenses. Ordinarily, it costs between $100,000 and $150,000 to run a national convention. When both parties accepted Chicagos bids, financial problems thus were added to other special wartime difficulties confronting Republican Walter Hallanan of Charleston, W. Va., and Democrat Ambrose OConnell of New York in making arrangements for the conventions. On these two men falls the responsibility of setting up the smooth functioning of the meetings assuring orderly activity on the floor of the con- ventions and establishing facilities for quick transmission of news to the waiting world outside. Two Both OConnell and Hallanan are old hands at conventions, OConnell having attended his first as a member of A1 Smiths entourage in 1928, and Hallanan his as a newspaper man In 1912. Although red hot partisans Inclined to admit nothing, both men have worked together in making the principal arrangements, since the Republican convention of June 26 will be followed by the Democratic on July 19. Because of the heavy wartime strain on the railroads, transportation posed one of the big problems of this years conventions. But the problem promises to be solved by use of day coaches by those within 64 hours of traveling time of Chicago, and of provision of extra sleeping and dining cars for accredited representatives from farther distances. To assist delegates from Hawaii to attend, the navy will furnish plane service to the mainland. Next to transportation, housing has presented another major difficulty. 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 scoured Chicagos outlying apartment districts for accommodations, and it was reported that some good Republicans offered to come to the aid by boarding convention attendants. As if OConnell and Hallanan were not having trouble 'enough, they have been pestered for accommodations by that type of individual who feels that no business is so important 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 Chicagos huge, streamlined Stadium for this years conventions has not been without its problems, either. Until the Citizens 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 amphitheater alone would amount to $48,-00not including rental The services of over 100 men working about three weeks are demanded for preparing the Stadium. Canopies outside the main entrances must be draped with bunting. 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 platform holding 180 people must be constructed, with a special conference room underneath it. And, of course, seats enclosed within stanchions for the different state delegations must be put up. Elaborate preparations must be made to accommodate the press, newsreel and radio, especially fliis year when the two conventions will attract international attention. Already, reservations have been asked by newspaper representatives from Britain, Russia, South America, China, 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 places, telephone and telegraph facilities must be established to send out stories from the building. Darkrooms will be constructed for photographers to develop pictures. Microphones Everywhere. Important for transmitting the actual reality of the convention atmosphere to the world, all four of Americas great radio networks will make elaborate arrangements for covering every detail of the conventions. Contact will be made with delegations through microphones on the floor; portable equipment will be to used interview dignitaries throughout the entire building; special booths will be erected to accommodate the radio commentators, and facilities will be installed to 0, .'f . w .v , .... ' W - , w I. v ; y ' National Conventions For Major Political Parties' 4 v. K - f r , l VV - 1 i fir Z V a y y s ' " a. a v'irfnTifr.sfc-- (V,u I SPEARS 4y (Ray Brock, war correspondent, N. Y, Times years in the Balkans for the and practically en route at this moment to the European theater for International News Service, spellbound s o me of us with this breathless story. We asked him to jot it down.) Dear Walter: Heres the story precisely as Bea Tolstoi gave it to me the other night. I think its one of the great, hitherto unwritten s chapters in the war. Scene: Late Time: Cairo. Terrace, afternoon, November 15, 1941. Ken Dowms, then an ace war correspondent for Intl News Service (hes now a It. coL on Terry Allens staff in Europe), was finishing a Scotch and the last five pages of For Whom The Bell Tolls. Geoffrey Keyes interrupted him. Geoffrey, a lieutenant-colonel 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 commandos 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 fictional last few minutes of Robert Jordans life in the Bell, the unforgettable last few minutes when Jordan, with a smashed thigh, props himself against a tree and levels his tommygun on an approaching column of Fascist cavalry . . . They attacked with grenades, and machine pistols, Keyes leading. Keyes killed the first sentry, kicked down the outer door and led his raiders in, spraying the corridor with tommygun and pistol. Startled, frightened German staff officers poured from their billets. Keyes men blasted them down. The sirens went, a general alarm being sounded. ill wall cut out of light weight I? n1 scraps of have many modernmatenul ,1 uses K' kitchen they are just the th.. ration books and a pad to?? at grocery list. Just inside &e 4 half-inc- h I 11 V MAKE. HOLE WITH MARK ON ka'LUMBER 38 BIT ft! , je , iiI Shep-heard- Keyes was off with Capt. Colin Campbell and his commandos oil 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 Sidi Rafa. They hid two days and nights in a wadi (gully), trekked twenty and snaked up to miles on the Afrika Korps GHQ. 3 Hi ti USE COPING . SAV je Tap JO OUT JUS outside -- - & U5E I II Mat Bn ads TO NAIL FROtr TO IsaCKTOSIDE! then nail BOTTOM in At last rtu- .ctoi of pi fle door one will lend a decoraui note and make a convenient b for driving gloves and keys. jrv llfl Originally these pockets in a great variety of designs lit and were used for letter boxe tst They are still useful for this e pose or for a pad and pencil. If you enjoy working & wood you may want to cut these pockets out by hand as sho',n here. But if you have a jig M available it is much faster. p'- - leave-a-not- NOTE Mrs. Spears has prepared pat terns in actual size for this pocket two others In typical Early American signs. The patterns are on one large sr 3 with complete directions for making finishing. Request Pattern 261 and enc 15 cents. Address: MRS. RUTH WYETH SPEARS Bedford Hills Enclose 15 jew Drawer 10 cents for Pattern No 261 Name. Address. fltz. swei iho Fite tem tom-mygu- 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 inner stockade to Rommels own quarters. Rommels staff aide got Keyes, a machine pistol fusillade which almost tore Keyes right leg off. Keyes fell in the doorway. Colin Campbell, 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 hed have caught it Ja dar The good part of an old can be bound into a small carpel rug When clothing is left too long in the washer, dirt from the waU goes back into the fabric. If the handle of your iron gej hot, cover it with a piece of corrugated cardboard held in plan with strips of adhesive tape. (Oil d aura dier )Ut nsl akf airti Pi little paint left in i Soil standing around the house is tt nuisance. Agreed? Then put it are work. Use it to brighten up t icto inside of the medicine cabinet, shelves of a utility cabinet, or t m inside of a tea towel drawer. lan A esp JlCtl DIAPER. Soothe, RASH cool, relieve diaper rash often prevent it with MeiMMi the astringent medicstei powder. Get Meieane. tew 'en japi tan; and Campbell and a sergeant dragged Keyes back to the outer stockade, firing as they fell back. Then Campbell was hit. Get out! Keyes orTake him out. Leave me dered. 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 German 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 doorway and blasting away at the Germans in the stockade. The sergeant ran back to Keyes, but Geoffrey refused aid. He simply demanded more clips for his tommy-guThe 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 fresh clip. Tell them Yes, sir! snapped the sergeant. Get word to Ken Downs, finished Keyes. Tell him, if you will, that it happened this way. Good-bThe sergeant saluted and ran, for a wadi and safety. Campbell began to pass out. 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A generous family suPF E lee car yea firs lor the Ira onlv ten ioi As costs FEEN-A-MIf- IT h he SLOW YOU UP cor it y. h I I 'v yy Army Press and Radio Must Maintain Political Neutrality The war department, in instruc Because of deficiencies in the tions sent to all commanders both Japanese wartime diet, one in every in the United States end overseas, fiAir young Japanese is uffected by has prescribed a policy of strict im-- I tuberculosis. partiality in the dissemuiation of V of the The demand for rare postage political information. Title new federal voting law, which is a as form of stamps investment in ' an amendment to the Hatch act, Geimany has sent the puces up to use of federal funds or such a fantastic level that the N.m pmhibits sp, nsorship to influence the armed authorities are considettng imposifortes in voting in federal elections. tion of ceiling pints. Instructions to commanders in ob RUTH PARLY American Exclusive War Story: n. Dozens of workmen are preparing the huge Chicago Stadium for the conventions. Upper left is pictured Walter Hallanan, chairman of the Republican committee on arrange- 1 ments, and lower right, Ambrose A OConnell, Demorcatic chairman. fronS servance of this law state: The formation or entertainment which is burden is on the army to see that federally financed or sponsored and the information and entertainment which might have the political which it furnishes to the soldiers is character, will be disseminated to either (1) nonpolitical or (2) if soldiers except In conformity with political, is justified by presentation the statutory provisions designed to in strict accordance with the alprevent unfairness or partiality lr lowed exceptions, any such dissemination. It U not the purpose of Title V The law permits rebroadcasts ol to shut off infnrmalion and enterpolitical speeches over government tainment from the armed forces. Its controlled stations provided equal purpose Is to see to It that no in time is given each partv Memos of a Midnightcr: When an ad agency told Henry Ford that Tommy Dorsey was the next Ford Hour star, Mr. Big replied: Whos he? Whats the matter with Earl s Godwin? . . . it-a girl for Everett Sloanes at Drs. Hosp. Pops the Crime Doctor . . . Bub Musel. the New York newspaperman (now In England), has written the song hit of London: The Homecoming Waltz . . . The mystery murder (of a diplomats wife In that Chicago hotel) is the exact plot (so far) of a Universal film start mg F Tone. And Your Mrongth end Energy Is Below P ft may be caused by P By (unction that parmili waste to accumulate, For tiw people feci tired, weak and when the kidneyi (ail to r10. m acuia aod other waate matter ir kIorK kirkarii You may auffer nainrfnf ,n rheumatic paina, headache 0 P1"lee nights, up getting frequent and e01' a. tioo with imartinf and .urDnf other aim that aomethinf the kidneys or bladder. 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