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Show JVL pg. ----- - - J- FRIEND OF ENLISTED MAN WASHINGTON. - If there were more men in the army like General Eisenhower, this newsman would not be so swamped with soldier mail The other day Sgt Samuel Cohen of Philadelphia, stationed in Berlin, received a cable telling of a serious emergency at home. Physicians advised ad-vised his return Immediately. Two weeks passed and all Cohen got was the usual army run-around. He couldn't get a furlough. Finally, a friend suggested that Cohen call General "Ike" directly. "What can I lose?" Cohen asked, going to a telephone. When he asked the G.I. operator for General Eisenhower, the operator opera-tor asked with no surprise in his voice whether he should ring the general at his home or his office. Since It was then about 10 o'clock in the evening, Cohen said to try the general's home. An aide to Elsenhower answered an-swered and listened to Cohen's story, excused himself for a few minutes, came back to the telephone tele-phone and said, "Sergeant, If you will. call the office of General Gen-eral Clay, perhaps something can be arranged for you. "You had better wait about 10 minutes before calling General Clay," he added, "to give General Gen-eral Eisenhower a chance to talk with him first." Ten minutes later, Cohen called General Clay, where an aide said, "Oh, yes, sergeant, we've been expecting ex-pecting your call. Now can you come In at eight o'clock tomorrow morning? morn-ing? We'll see about transportation then." Cohen took off by air the next day before noon. TRUMAN TURNS REPORTER Congressional leaders who met with President Truman recently to discuss serious legislative problems got a chuckle over Truman's story about his surprise flight to see his mother on her 93rd birthday. Newspapers have already told how Truman called the Kansas City Star to announce his arrival In Grandview, Mo. But in addition, here is what Truman told his congressional con-gressional leaders really happened: It was Sunday afternoon and the usually bustling city room of the Star was in a lull. f)nly a skeleton editorial force was on the )ob, and a young reporter answered the phone. "This Is the President," said Truman. . "Who?" said the reporter. "This Is President Truman." "The hell it is." exclaimed the newsman, convinced that somebody some-body was pulling a practical Joke. "Mister, who are you trying try-ing to kid?" Finally the call was tranferred to another writer on the paper, who knew Truman personally and could Identify his voice. Highly amused, the President told him the news of his visit FOGGY FOREIGN POLICY Harry Hopkins, now hospitalized in New York, is not improving. Always Al-ways a living skeleton, Harry kept himself alive because of his love of FDR. Now that FDR is gone. Harry has no more zest for work. . . . Sen. Claude Pepper of Florida is returning from a three-month tour of Europe to blister the administration's administra-tion's handling of foreign policy. Coming on top of Senator Ful-bright's Ful-bright's two-fisted attack, perhaps somebody around the state department depart-ment will wake up to the tact that the seeds of World War III can be planted right now. . . . The strategic services unit of the war department (it was formerly the "Oh-so-secret" office of Gen. "Wild Bill" Donovan) has Just set up a very Interesting project which will not keep the peace. It is working on a "plan for an order of battle tor a war with Russia." The Job is under direct supervision su-pervision ot MaJ. Raymond Cromwell, Crom-well, former Tokyo correspondent tor the Wall Street Journal. CAPITAL CHAFF Former Coast Guard Comdr. Joel Fischer was in Germany trying to root out hidden Nazi funds. Cross-examining Cross-examining war criminals, he found them anxious to get American lawyers law-yers to act in their defense. When asked his views on the best American Ameri-can lawyers. Fischer, with straight tace, replied: "You ought to try to get Clarence Darrow or Perry Mason," Ma-son," Fischer's victims took careful notes, not realizing that Darrow hat been dead for more than five years and that Mason is a fictional character char-acter In Earle Stanley Gardner'! mystery stories. Government press officials recently recent-ly beat down a second attempt by War Mobilizer John Snyder to maintain main-tain a peacetime censorship over the statements of their bosses. They rejected all censorship schemes flatly flat-ly during a secret session at the White House, promising to check among themselves to be sure major policy statements of cabinet members mem-bers and other key officials are not too tar apart. .' Randolph Paul, one of the ablest tax men the U. S. treasury has ever had. Is completing book on taxation, written for popu-, popu-, lar reading. 1 |