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Show Your Old Woolens Go Into New R, Generous Treatment of Axis Prisoners in U. S. Improves Conditions for Captured Americans Allied Command Aided By French Underground nos Analyst and Commentator. Service, Union Trust Building Washington, D. C. Arms are what we want, arms, arms, arms!" My companion leaned across the table and pounded it with Gallic fervor, his black eyes flashing. It was our first meeting for more than a year, and I knew that those eyes fixed on me so earnestly had met the light of the desert sun, for he had fought with the Free French forces under De Gaulle in Africa and had had many an adventure serving his country abroad before he returned for this visit to his temporary home. We have a quarter of a million men in the French underground, ready, willing, able and anxious to bear arms only one out of 20 of those has a single firearm, and that means that while 12 men can har-rathe German forces, as they are doing every day and every night, despite their inadequate help from the outside, 228 others must sit, twiddling their thumbs. They are getting very tired of waiting but their ennui would leave them If firearms could be pilt in their hands. If America will provide them, we will guarantee to get them Into France, we will guarantee to transport them and distribute them." It is very difficult to write of that shadowy world, the European underground, for even the few scraps of information which one might piece together make a dangerous pattern which might bring swift enemy 1VNU ss reprisal There is no question about the efficiency and the effectiveness of this silent army in France, in all the occupied countries for that matter. There is no question about the fact that through it flows a steady stream of information out of the heart of the enemy territory right back to the Allied high commands. of the Creusot Today factories, ohee the makers of the famous French 75s, long a vital source of the German.arms supply, have been put out of commission by a group of loyal Frenchmen, according to a story that is now current in Washington. two-thir- Few Involved They did it at very little expense, few men were involved, and not a single civilian life was lost. They did it by blowing up a key dam and thus cutting off the electric power from the plant At least three expensive Allied air raids, long and carefully planned, had failed to destroy this dam. Not long ago, word came to another group of these French guerrillas that a German munition train was about to move over a certain stretch of track. The bolts were removed and the rails spread. Then came the word that ahead of the munition train was a passenger train. Immediately men were sent out to flag the passenger train and order it to slow down while other men worked feverishly to put back the bolts. The passenger train went on safely. Once more, the bolts were withdrawn and before long, the munition train was a wrecked and smoking mass. No French civilian had been injured. Less dramatic is the thankless and difficult task which the French National Committee of Liberation has before it, attempting to work out with the provisional assembly, the the machinery for administering areas of France as they are liberated by the Allied armies. The committee must labor in an atmosphere of deliberation and enforced delay which the mood of the underground finds it hard to grasp. The members of the French National Committee of Liberation, with headquarters in Algiers, have gradually achieved more and more authority under the Allies. There have been many obstacles to overcome and the French, of course, feel that they have not been given the free hand which they desired and deserved. However, within recent weeks, it has been evident that the Allies are changing their policy and it is now taken for granted that representatives of this committee, and later the provisional assembly, which meets in Africa, and which is made up of persons representing various groups in France, will be given the responsibilities of administering the re- - BRIEFS occupied French territory as it is liberated, piece by piece; also of creating the machinery for the final plebescite which will decide the permanent government Great Difficulties The committee itself works under two-thir- Second Step Now the second step of the plan, now considered, will be taken. The assembly will have reached, depending on the populations liberated, some 400 members. Then the provisional government (I use the word "government" in the European sense; we would call it the cabinet" with an executive head) would be chosen by the assembly. The national committee would cease to be the executive body but would assist the assembly, under this chosen government, to work out the plan for the general election which would decide upon the form of government which France would have. i However, this election could not be held at once for the thousands upon thousands of Frenchmen taken from their homes for forced labor in Germany and elsewhere would have to be repatriated first. Every attempt is now being made to carry out the preliminary' plans for procedures In the spirit, if not exactly in accordance with the letter of the French constitution and law. There are, however, many practical difficulties which arise. Take the question of woman suffrage. Under the French constitution, women are not permitted to vote. However, at present, with most of the men away in the army or as deportees in Germany, the women make up the majority of the population. Therefore, it would be desirable for them to cast the ballot in order to get a true representative opinion of any locality. Meanwhile, the cry of the loyal Frenchman, in and out of his country, is for arms and ammunition, dynamite and the other tools of sabotage and demolition with which they believe they can vitally disrupt communications and assist the invasion. by Baukhage There are 1,700,000 rural boys and girls 10 to 21 years old who are clubs. They now members of live in every county in the United States, Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico. Production of prewar models of domestic ice refrigerators will not be resumed in the near future, the WPB reports, mainly because reversion would involve a long change-ove- r period. The war department has revealed that the army air forces have destroyed 40 per cent of Germanys capacity to produce fighter planes. Civilians in the U. S. will have more frozen vegetables during the next five months, as a result of expected record high production. 4-- ... ... families ... throughout our land today the folks are thinking of some soldier from home who has fallen into enemy hands now a prisoner of war far away. When our troops make the great push against the mainland of Europe, there will be more boys taken prisoners. In the war prisoner camps within great difficulties. Many of the members are utterly inexperienced in the United States, we hold some politics and they have responsibilities much greater than a norma) governmental body would have. They must serve as an administrative agency, they must serve as a quasi - legislative body, and they must likewise plan regulations governing procedure in the interim between liberation of France and the time when a free election is held. The recent meeting of the assembly (February 29) began the long and complicated consideration of the plans for the provisional government. One typical plan suggested can now be described in some detail although, of course, it is likely to be modified as a result of the discussion in the coming weeks and months, and in its application thereafter. It covers, roughly, two phases. First, is partial liberation. Just as soon as the Allies have taken over a portion of France and the military organization moves forward, the French committee would be placed in charge under this plan. Immediately municipal officers would be selected, councils for each municipality. When an entire province has been taken over, each municipal council already functioning would select delegates to the assembly now existing in Algiers. There are, at present, about 110 members of this assembly, composed of Frenchmen who have been selected by the underground organizations, by political organizations and by labor and other groups, and have been smuggled into Africa. They would be Joined, or perhaps substituted by. the newly elected delegates chosen by the municipal groups of each province. There would be approximately one for each 100,000 inhabitants. Finally, the day cbmes when Allied troops march down the Champs Elysees and across the Seine to the Place du Palais Bourbon. Then the ancient building, which housed the chamber of deputies oi the Third Republic, will open its doors to the new assembly. By this time, it will probably represent at least of France. 175,000 enemy soldiers he trousers that are raEBp aU of the materi the knees They tell you it actually happened. He was managing ediI dunno York syndicate. Now New a tor for with OWI . . . Several years ago a comic strip was submitted to him Recommended . . He liked it. The boss to it for syndication whom he delivered it took it home . . . Next day he memod it wouldnt do. The kids he showed it to didnt The young care for it, he said cartoonists were disappointed, of course . . . They finally got their strip started in a cheap comic weekly for practically nothing per week . . . Every year they brought it back to the m.e., who liked it. but he couldnt get it on his chain . . . The boss still didnt like it . . . Another syndicate made an offer, but the boys gave the m.e. another chance . . . They were turned down It now grosses $5,000 per week via royalties from newspapers, radio and gadget makers . . . The first lyndicate boss, who spumed it so many times, demanded to know what aappened . . . The strip is the renowned Superman. WNU Staff CorresDondent By BAUKIIAGE HOOK! are Germans, 50,000 Italians. Only 116 are Japanese. Many' protests have been made to army authorities, because of the good treatment given these prisoners. Lots of people dont understand why enemy prisoners should be given the same comforts, the same medical attention, the same food as our own soldiers. But there is a reason so compelling, that none can complain when it is understood. It is not for the sake of the prisoners, but in the interest of our own soldiers held by the enemy. They are the real object of our forbearance and solicitude. And, of course, our national honor is involved, for we agreed to give prisoners the same food and care as our own men under the Prisoners of War convention signed and ratified at Geneva on July 27, 1929. Reciprocal Good Treatment. Reliable reports made to the army indicate that the good treatment we have accorded prisoners has won for our own men in German prison camps conditions that are at least as good as those under which German soldiers live. These facts were revealed for the first time to your correspondent by MaJ. Gen. Allen W. Gullion, provost marshal general of the army, who has general supervision over prisoners of war. The actual guarding of the prisoners is a function of the prison camp commander who is under the control of the commanding general of the service command. Censorship reveals that letters from relatives and friends express much gratitude and happiness over Jhe way we are treating their men. We are informed by the International Red Cross that the Germans say that because of our good treatment of their soldiers, they are giving our men more liberties and better treatment, General Gullion told your correspondent. The Geneva conventions required that each prisoner be 'given the same food as soldiers of the capturing power receive in base camps. According to the reports of Swiss observers, the Germans are living up to this provision; our men in some instances are getting even a little better food than the German soldiers, although the German facilities do not compare with ours. I think there can be only one answer to the complaint that we are treating the prisoners we take too well. One gets it when one asks the question: Is it better to yield to a very natural vengeful impulse to take it out on our prisoners, or to observe our treaty agreements and protect our own men? Few Escape. There have been complaints also that the prisoners we hold have not been sufficiently guarded; that too many have escaped to become a menace to the home population. General Gullion' points to the facts. Of the 175,000 prisoners we now hold in this country, about 100 have escaped, but all except three have been recaptured and are in custody. The only men at large are two Ital- - m GERMANS ADAPT! '& BACKGROUND FRON Chint LI6KT AND DARK TAN these may be made into hands hooked rugs that you will be p to own. The square rug in the sk was designed to fit in a si dressing table corner. The design in the c! skirt and window valance copied in making a border center flower for the rug. i and-ribbo- n NOTE: This Illustration is from I which also gives directions for other rag rugs that you may mak tirely from things on hand, as directions for making slip covers v( at To get co modeling old furniture. BOOK 10 send 15 cents direct to: 10 ... purple-c- g, i ... Yanks Had to Blast Japs Out of Holes IF YOUR nos "CLOSES UP TONIGHT ... On Marshalls ... ... ol VIM six-da- mid-Pacif- PfL it SNAPPY al ... ... tire-savi- 875-pou- ... - mmmnRmn REGoodricb fil onsjoae ... Gas on Stomacl, fastest-actin- ITALIANS ft He is a nice kid Always laughing or smiling . . . He worked for an ad agency before the war started, where they used to kid him a lot beMRS. RUTH WYETH SPEARS cause he liked colorful cravats and Bedford Hills New 1 more zoot No suiter, apparel .Drawer 10 Lucius Beebe . . . One day they Enclose 15 cents for Sewing & No. 10. nearly drove him out of the place Name because he turned up wearing a olored vest . . . Then came Address the draft, and he was among the The first German soldier to be taken prisoner in Iceland was Ser- very first accepted . . . After 17 geant Manfrak, who bailed out of his Junkers plane after it had been hit months in action he showed up again new by U. S. army fighters. He is shown at intelligence headquarters, en- . . . Now, wherever he goes, his wrk, joying the rations on the tray before him, despite a bandaged arm and old pals show him considerable renumerous bruises. i not spect, even though he wears purple : fee On chest. his Ians who escaped from a branch (new: camp at El Paso, part of the Lords-bura to be His lifes ambition was N. M., camp, and one German He name bandleader . . . Studied alwho got away at Crossville, Tenn. ad to He finalmost every instrument There has been complaint from lU f ly became one of the great arrangorganized labor lately because we front S K couldn't He instead ers, have used some of the war prisonDoughboys of the Seventh infantry for a band, it seems . . . Wasnt itedly ers for taks in lumber camps and division who captured Kwajalein the the N So he type, the agents said on road work, where there was no and other islands of the Kwajalein was hired as head Put esc! Not up a for arranger American labor available. General atoll nostril. It (1) shrinks swollei tract during the invasion of the Mar- well known orchestra . . . The leadIrritation soothes Gullion gives labor assurance that shall islands membranes, (2) literally had to dig the be(3) relieves transient nasal co- nrdei prisoners of war are not being put Japanese out of the ground. Col. er of which' was a front man . . . and brings greatti sppes ngestion . . . The front looked cause he it to work on any job where civilian Syril E.- - Faine, of New man could never read a note of mubreathing comfort. i wee labor is available in adequate sup- Straitsville, Ohio, infantry, Follow the complete who is now in the iwhe ply. Prisoner of war labor is a United States, acted as deputy chief sic, but he had a baton mans perSTSSS VA-WO-nwhatever that is . . . sonality, temporary expedient to relieve the of staff of the division during the y Each performance the arranger Laurit existing shortage of man power. He said the Japacampaign. stood backstage and saw the lead:or wl The United States agreed at the nese defenders of the Stained Glass er take the bows for his work . . . with Geneva convention to return all coral base had taken Early hunin refuge The first stained glass in An ped f prisoners of war to their own coun- dreds of shell craters by the time Not long ago the arranger (who knows nearly every instrument) was ica was made by Evert Duychii i Mel tries at the conclusion of the war, the first waves of infantry hit the inducted. Because of his musical of hence the fear of competition with shore on Holland, on Long Island in II iturin January 31 (February 1, background, by golly, he was made imm free labor is groundless, the gen- Pacific time). bandleader, a commission due eral says. army Protect and ease abrai It was just like killing rats," he soon. The bandleaders front man skin with Mexsana, I Prisoners Cut Pulpwood. declared. The whole island was was drafted a few weeks ago . . . soothing, medicated po An i Prisoners have been in logging rubble, after the preliminary bomb- You Vllftl la der. Also relieve burni Ajn guessed it . . . Hes a private where workers American operations ing and shelling. The Japs had in the ANNOYS itching, of irritated sk me o still trying to keep have left the woods to work in ship- crawled underground wherever they in time!infantry dov yards and machine shops at much could, and the infantrymen had to d pl he higher wages, explains. They stop at every hole and fire down New York Novelette: She was a ted, have been useful in cutting and into it, or throw grenades into it FACTS io he waitress in a small Midwest hotel peeling pulp logs needed critically Playing Possum. ABOUT was . . . Because her feller played in for containers in civilian industry their-usuThe were to . . . One the band a Japanese up day and for newsprint, of which there stranger RUBBER We w nasty tricks, went on Colonel offered her a screen test chance . . . is a shortage. Prisoners have been Faine. Even after they were hope- She spurned it . . . She wanted to iister used also in maintaining roads in ration some areas where other manual la- lessly defeated, they refused to give be near her Joe hoping hed ask her post borers are very scarce. The' tre- up. At one point in the action, an to marry him . v . All uvasudden obad mendous importance of road main- American aid station was estab- her Josephus wrote one of those lished close to a pile of three ap- screwy nonsensical national anatheMore than 25 American autoSpea tenance, in view of the heavy traffdead Japs. Only two of mas which periodically sweep the parently motive companies are making perft is obvious. ic, United So he upped and left for military vehicles for Prisoners have been used also in them, it turned out, were really land States soldiers and our Allies lame laundries. Nearly everyone today dead. The third, at the bottom of The Big Burg . . . Leaving her beand they have first call ee has suffered inconveniences because the heap, pulled himself up after hind, of course . . . Two months and other rubber items. trsem tiros a for time possum playing and long she followed later her broken heart of the shortage of laundry labor, my i fired one ineffectual shot at an In New York he bluntly told and can understand this expedient tan Forty thousand additional miles have American officer. Other Japs blew her that his been obtained from Individual tires uin f plans did not include The story of Japanese prisoners themselves up with grenades.- In use at Camp Stoneman because her. He said he was waiting for a hear: is less happy. When a Japanese of the campaign in force The on movie who the was landing agent him Marshalls, uch bringing soldier is taken prisoner he is scarce. there since rubber became eav: washed up he never wishes to re- Colonel Faine said, was preceded a contract for Hollywood any moand care ust plain tire No tricks im turn to Japan for he is disgraced by one of the most intensive bom- ment and would she please leave? tho right time. at recapping stain forever in the eyes of his country- bardments of the war. Both army . . . She found herself staggering and navy planes participated, and down the hall towards the elevators, electric magnet An men. truck attached to an electric We have in this country scarcely later, warships pounded the Jap de- where out stepped the guy who ofShop One airstrip on the Wotje fered the screen test back home! He "sweeps" the floor of alitter ie, more than a hundred Japanese pris- fenses. steel of was atoll so factory chopped up, Colonel recognized her and had no trouble ainoi oners, and General MacArthur has Faine said, that not only couldnt selling Hollywood to her and serves the double pur there eat right oss only a few hundred more, accordmetol the Japs get a plane off it, but you pose of salvaging You anticipate me . . . Her use ing to General Gullion. preventing tiro punctures. couldnt even have run a wheelbar-ro- Joe still is waiting for the same star They are given the same food along it." agent with his movie contract and hat and accommodations as our own wondering whatinell happened? Warfare. Amphibious soldiers, because we hope by acThe aerial hammering kept up as cording. such treatment to amelioQuotation Marksmanship: rate the lot of our own 18,500 men the invasion armada, containing Mark more ships than there were in our Twain: Imagination was given to held by the Japanese. whole navy at the start of the war, man to compensate him for what swept over the horizon. As the he is not; and a sense of humor was landings started, Seventh division in- provided to console him for what he fantrymen who had received special is . . . Karen Cooper: In war, as ound PRISONERS HAVE BEEN TAKEN BY U. S. amphibious training drove their own in baseball, those who do the strikalligators" and ducks toward ing are against the men who are in shore, and later ferried supplies there pitching . . . Louis Nizer: I back and forth from the mother dont like people who smoke a pipe of peace only for the ships. purpose of crea smoke-scree- n The doughboys had relatively ating . . . H. Whiteasy 400 going when they first hit the beaches man: Billions of Jack Frosts paraadvancing 1,300 yards on the first troopers descended upon New York oi m m m o mmm tm m m o nt ph m t A. Lincoln: By ooi day. On the second day, they began giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to run into lines of pillboxes, to against which they advanced with combat the free . . . Richard Todd: We can 111,000 never lose our way if we remem-be- r engineers right behind them. With Lincolns Gettysburg address . . . Mfcwd hi 5 mkmto or l flamethrowers, grenades, and other When mono stomach and can PJ!L weapons, the infantrymen calmly C. Carton: Speeches as long as a bit ffM, soar nomadi and heartbun)t doctors g, tnedxnw g the present cleaned out each pillbox as they got rainy week-en- d . . . Herald Tribtho like j, symptom tie relief medicine to it. The engineers used 400 tons une: Tablets. No laxatira. Beuan bnoff b Chennault Thorn In Tokios retar oe beck doable or roar money hffy of Side. on two 170,000 dynamite islands alone, May Prove Dagger In Its too, ttc at all dniggiata Heart, levelling everything on them. r JAPANESE OESMS AND DARK BLUE TELE FACT JAP RU6 LIGHT-MEDIU- ... captured mostly on the battlefields of Africa, Sicily and Italy. Of these, 125,000 FEW goods rou have on hand. That old die moths got into; the dress which spots cannot be remr By BARROW LYONS In some 30,000 A scrap of old woolen Red Cross Reports Men in Nazi Hands Well Fed and Housed Quarter of Million Men in France Said to Be 'Beady, Anxious and Able to Bear Arms Against Germans. the time to use - Leader of this orchestra of Italian war prisoners in Bizerte, Tunisia, Is Joseph Pellegrino from Passaic, N. J., a citizen of the United States. He happened to be visiting in Italy when that nation entered the war Despite his protests, he was inducted into the Italian army, and he served unwillingly until he was captured by American troops during the North, African campaign. Sometime after this picture was taken, Pellegrino was accepted for induction Into the U. S. army. MONTHLY "To relieve distress ef You hear all kinds of explanations on how the famed gatecrasher Connolly" got that name . . This is new to us The current character, they say, is not the original . . The original, a hard-boile- d vagabond, died about 30 years ago One-Eye- Female Weakness d ... That Lydia E: Plnkhams iu pound Is made espectallv to help relieve periodic pu JlLujigs blue nervous, weak, tired, due to functional montniy turbances. nnf Taken regularly Plnkhamau, , pound helps build up jnd against such symptomshelps product that noUB upon thats the kind to buy almost s vuntury. thousands of women bve rJVjpns benefits. Follow label Worth fellow (unable gate a big fight in climbed to the roof and threw a brick through the skylight . It landed in the ring near the out"6 -- nWh0JCked U up and called Connollys card. One-Eye- d Ph"aDsh, I LYDIA I LPWKHAMSS- -, |