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Allies Tighten Beachhead Grip;
Victorious Advance Into Rome
Forecast by Clark and Churchill
Hold Is Firmer
Than at Any Time
In Last 72 Hours
By the Associated Press.
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Al
giers, Feb. 12.—Troops of the
Allied 5th Army tightened their
grip on the Anzio beachhead to
night as their commander, Lt.
Gen. Mark W. Clark, assured
them that supplies were arriving
for them and that their vic
torious march on Rome was
“sure to come.”
Their hold on the shell-pitted
and muddy battleground was firmer
than at any time in the last 72
hours after a German attack was
repulsed with the aid of warships
which ranged boldly inshore and
shelled the Nazi positions.
Landing of supplies for the
beachhead wTas carried out success
fully despite heavy swells, and a
slight break in the weather gave
promise that overwhelming Allied
air superiority soon might return
to the aid of the hard-fighting
ground forces.
(A British broadcast, recorded
by CBS, quoted a British war
correspondent as saying the Ger
man radio was boasting that the
beachhead force soon would have
to take to boats. Such German
statements never have been
“within miles of the truth,” the !
correspondent said, adding that
the troops were facing their job
■with sober confidence).
Americans Score Cassino Gains.
Along the Cassino front to the
east the battle also tipped slightly
in the Allies’ favor as the Ameri
cans scored bloody if limited gains
in that key sector.
In the beachhead area it was ap
parent that mud which bogged down
the Nazi armor and the determined
resistance of the Allied troops had
forced the Germans to pause and
regroup. An Allied spokesman de
clared that the beachhead front
lines “have remained relatively un
changed during the last few days.”j:
Dispatches from the bridgehead
said the now-shattered village of
Carroceto (Aprilia) had changed!
hands several times. Part of this :
community is referred to as “The'
Factory”—a name which traces to
the fact that it formerly served as
a food processing, storage and dis
tribution center for the surround
ing farming region.
(The Eerlin radio last night
claimed that Allied reverses at
the village had brought about a '<
movement of troops inside the ;
oeachhead in the last 24 hours
with Americans appearing for
the first time in the Carroceto
sector.)
(A German communique yes
terday declared a sharp Ailied
attack against the German lines
r.t Carroceto had been beaten
back.)
Attack Beaten Bark.
The Allied communique said a
German attack on the beachhead
was beaten back yesterday and the
fact that only one attack was made
during the day indicated the terrific
effect of Allied air attacks of Thurs
day, when four-engined bombers
diverted from long range targets to
team up with medium and fighter
bombers in pulverizing the gather
ing Panzer divisions and wrecking
communications.
Allied . headquarters announced
that during the stiff fighting on both
fronts during the last seven days
more than 3,000 crack German
troops hao been taken prisoners
This brought the Allied bag to more
than 13.000 virtually one division,
since the invasion of Italy began last
September. This does not include
the heavy losses the enemy has
suffered in killed and wounded.
There still was nothing to indicate
that the fighting in Italy would not
be among the costliest and most
sanguinary of the war. The Ger
mans were carrying out to the let
ter Hitler’s orders to make a desper
ate stand, whatever the cost. In
some instances they were more than
matching Allied manpower.
The Americans, fighting in Cassino
finally gave them possession of one
entire section of the shattered
town. They also knocked out the
(See ITALY, Page A-57)
Germany Calls All Men
Between 51 and 60
Ey the Associated Press.
STOCKHOLM, Feb. 12.—The Ber
lin afternoon press announced the
military call up of all men still not
mobilized in the classes of 1884 to
1893, those between 51 and 60 years
old.
All such men were directed to pre
sent themselves for mustering be
fore Wednesday. The step appar
ently was a new sign of Hitler’s
increasing need for further man
power.
Hull in Palm Beach
For Two Weeks' Rest
By the Associated Press.
PALM BEACH, Fla., Feb. 12.—
Secretary of State Hull is here for
two weeks’ rest, accompanied by
Mrs. Hull.
A spokesman for the Secretary
said they would make no social en
gagements. Mr. Hull “feels fine,”
he reported, except for needing a
rest.
► -------
"No Justification tor Pessimism'
Is Seen by Prime Minister
Statement Taken
As Indication
Danger Is Past
B.' the Associatea Press.
LONDON, Feb. 12. — Prime
Minister Churchill declared to
day that Allied commanders in
the Italian campaign had as
sured him Rome would be won
and there was “no justification
for pessimism.”
The announcement, at the height
of the swaying battle on' the Anzio
brdigehead and around Cassino, ob
viously was intended to quiet
mounting anxiety both in this coun
try and the United States and to re
assure the Allied and neutral world.
It was interpreted here as a sign
of great confidence that the Anzio
bridgehead would be held.
(President Roosevelt said Fri
day that a very tense situation
and very heavy fighting existed
at the Anzio bridgehead. He
told a news conference that we
are praying for good weather to
aid sea and air operations.)
Mr. Churchill quoted reports from
Gen. Sir Henry Maitland Wilson,
Allied commander in chief in the
(See CHURCHILL,'~Page A-5.)~ j
General Assures
Troops Supplies
Are Pouring In
By LYNN HEINZERLING,
Associated Press War Correspondent.
FIFTH ARMY HEADQUAR
TERS IN ITALY, Feb. 12.—Lt.
Gen. Mark W. Clark, in a mes
sage to his 5th Army troops all
along the Western Italian front
from the. Anzio beachhead to
Cassino, told them today that
their victorious march into Rome
was “sure to come.’’
He assured them that supplies
were arriving on the beachhead
which would give them the oppor
tunity to kill Germans “in large
numbers.”
Gen. Clark urged his troops to
break through the Germans’ "thin
ned out lines” and to crush the
enemy "on your way north.”
Referring to the enemy, he said:
“We welcome his assault. * * * Give
him no rest, and shoot every one
who shows his head.”
Gen. Clark issued his message
soon after returning from a visit to
troops In the beachhead today.
"The next step in successful oper
(See CLARK. Page A-5.)
Heavy RAF Bombers
Resume Attacks on
European Targets
Night Assault Follows
Raid by Liberators
On French Coast
B.v the Associated Press.
LONDON (Sunday) Feb. 13.—
Heavy bombers of the RAF re
;umed their assaults on Euro
pean targets last night, follow- !
ng up a daylight assault by
Vmerican Liberators on the
French Pas-De-Calais invas
.on coast. The British bombers
)ook 45 minutes to cross South
eastern England and were in
neavier force than in recent
nights, watchers said.
The four-engined bombers crossed
the Channel under a roaring um
brella of Mustang and Thunderbolt
fighters and returned without loss
to complete successfully their 13th
operation in 16 days. The flyers
reported they did not see a single
enemy fighter in the sky.
Two small formations of RAF
Mosquitos also pounded military
targets in Northern France under
cover of Typhoons and these, too,
returned without meeting serious
opposition. One RAF plane was
lost, while the Typhoons bagged
three German craft.
Some flyers who attacked other
sections of the 50-mile-square area
said, however, that they had en
countered an intense barrage.
The Liberator “Evelyn the Duch
ess,’’ with the best record in this
theater for missions completed
without mechanical failure or any
difficulty, chalked up her 49th per
fect day.
London had a brief air raid alert
tonight and one German raider was
shot down.
Demolition of the German's At
lantic wall now has been in progress
for 54 days, with 40 attacks directed
at the Pas-De-Calais area, many in
great strength.
RAF Mosquito bombers, continu
ing their tireless series of raids, hit
targets in Central and Western
Germany last night, and the Paris
(See RAIDS, Page A-10.)
Bulgarian Government
Changes Seen Imminent
Ej the Associated Press.
ISTANBUL, Feb. 12. — Rumors
reaching Budapest today said Bul
garian government changes are im
minent, according to the Turkish
newspaper Aksham’s correspondent
in Hungary. A new cabinet sup
posedly W’ould be headed by Ivan
BagrianofI, former Minister of Ag
riculture, the Aksham story said.
Red-Sponsored Group
Set Up in Poland to
Chart Peace Moves
Official Soviet- Paper
Attacks Regime-in-Exile
As Lacking in Realism
By the Associated Presf.
LONDON, Feb. 12.—The Soviet
sponsored Union of Polish Pa
triots already has organized a
national council inside Poland,
the Moscow radio disclosed to
night, adding a new climax to
the open conflict between Russia
and the present Polish govern
ment in exile.
The .disclosure followed an edi
torial in the Communist party news
paper, Pravda, attacking the Polish
regime in London anew and imply
ing that a government acceptable
to the Soviet might be established
in Poland.
The Moscow broadcast said the
council established by the Union of
Polish Patriots included representa
tives of the Polish Peasants party,
the Socialist Workers' _ party and
“other democratic groupings.-’ but
gave no details as to how or where
the organization was accomplished.
The union itself was organized in
Moscow.
Woman Heads Union.
The broadcast, made in Polish,
added:
“Formation of the national coun
cil is a step toward the consolida
tion of all national elements inside
Poland in the face of the complete
ruin and annihilation with which
the Germans threaten the Polish
nation.”
The union is headed by Wanda
Vassilevskaya, whose husband, Alex
ander Korneichuk, is the new For
eign Commissar of the Soviet
Ukraine.
Although the announcement con
tained no specific reference to the
exiled regime in London, which also
has said it has a formal governmen
tal structure operating inside Po
land, the broadcast obviously was
one of the sharpest warnings yet
that a framework is being erected
which could possibly become a Pol
ish government recognized by-Rus
sia.
Before the broadcast, Pravda had
said all Poles revering “honor and
independence” were collaborating
with the union of Polish Patriots.
“Military operations do not wait
for the moment when Polish so
called public figures in London stand
on their feet instead of their heads
(See POLAND, Page A-7.)
Americans Seized by Germans
In Vichy Area to Be Exchanged
By the Associated Press.
American diplomatic officials
and others who were trapped in
France when the Germans swept
over the Vichy unoccupied area
late in 1942 are to be returned
home under an arrangement dis
closed by the State Department
last night.
They are to be exchanged for
German consular officials picked up
in North Africa and Italy, members
of France’s former diplomatic staffs
in this country and some non-official
Germans. Included with the re
turning American diplomats will be
some newspaper correspondents,
relief workers and South American
officials, all of whom have been held i
[in Germany since early in 1943.
The Swedish motorship Gripsholm
will carry out the exchange, which
will be made at Lisbon late this
month.
Gripsholm Leaves February 15.
The State Department issued this
statement:
“The United States Government
has requested of all the belligerents
safe conduct for the motorship
Gripsholm to travel to Lisbon and
return to effect the repatriation of
the staff of the former American
Embassy at Vichy and of the Amer
ican consular offices in the former
unoccupied zone of France, together
with certain newspaper correspond
(See EXCHANGE, Page A-4.)
Russians Reach
Key Nazi Town in
Leningrad Area
Reds Report Killing
Of 4,200 Germans
In Ukraine Advance
(Map on Page A-7.)
By (he Associated Press.
LONDON (Sunday), Feb. 13.—
The Red Army has reached the
suburbs of the rail station of
Luga, 80 miles south of Lenin
grad on the road to Southern
Estonia and Latvia, while in the
Ukraine 4,200 Nazis were killed
yesterday and 70 tanks wrecked
in Che desperate German effort
to rescue the remnants of 10
trapped divisions near the
Middle Dnieper River, Moscow
announced today.
More than 40 towns and hamlets
were captured in the north as the
Russians fought in the outskirts of
Luga, and 18 miles to the east cap
tured the rail junction of Batetskava
and cleared the Leningrad-Batets
kaya-Novgorod railroad.
Luga, midway between Leningrad
and Pskov, is an important Ger
man defense point protecting the
Axis retreat into Estonia and Latvia
along three railroads joining at
Pskov.
Fall Believed Near.
The fall of the town appeared
imminent as the Russians drove in
through the heavy snow. The Mos
cow midnight communique, record
ed by the Soviet monitor, said that
in this northern area the Germans
“suffered big losses in men and
materials.”
In one sector alone a German
strongpoint was reduced by a sud
den blow and 600 Germans killed.
Five long-range guns, five anti
aircraft guns, 16 trucks and other
material were captured, the com
munique said.
"Extremely fierce” fighting in the
Ukraine marked the final stage of
the battle to crush the survivors of
the 10 trapped Nazi divisions in the
Korsun sector, the Russians said.
Soviet forces pressed the hungry
and exhausted Nazis into an ll
mile-long strip of land from Korsun
north along a railroad. Golyaki was
captured at the upper end of this
Nazi toehold, and Kavashin, less
than 3 miles southeast of Korsun,
was taken on the southern end.
2.200 Germans Killed.
In this fighting 2,200 Germans
were killed as the Russians drove
wedges between the German strong
points, winning one fortified posi
tion after another. The retreating
Germans abandoned dugouts and
trenches, throwing away their weap
ons in their rout. Inside the ring
7 tanks, 12 field guns, 55 trucks
and other material also were cap
tured by the Russians.
Meanwhile the Germans outside
(See RUSSIA, Page A-3.)
19 Army Flyers Die
As 3 Pianes Collide
Crash During Review
At North Carolina Field
By the Associ".tej Press.
GREENVILLE, S. C., Feb. 12.—
Nineteen men were killed today
when three planes of a bomber
group collided and crashed at the
Greenville Army Air Base during
the weekly Saturday review.
Flying low in formation, they
touched wings and crashed just
after they had passed over a group
of planes on the field, falling a
quarter of a mile away, at the north
end of the base. All aboard all
three planes were killed.
Observers said 24 planes were in
the air at the time in four groups
of six. Two planes rammed their
wings together, observers said, and
burst into flame, and both fell upon
the third plane and bore it to earth
as they fell.
The dead:
Capt. Arthur W. Martin, jr., 26,
pilot, Fresno, Calif.; Second Lt.
Raymond C. Hutches, jr., 21, pilot,
Gary, Ind.; Second Lt. Robert H.
Temple, 22, pilot, Greenville; Sec
ond Lt. Warren F. Bartram, 21,
bombardier, Greenville; Staff Sergt.
Donald E. King, 23, Greenville;
Sergt. Roy L. Foster, 20, Morgan
town, W. Va.; Sergt. Gean P. Bru
nelle, 24, Springfield, Mass.; Corpl.
Donald G. Kairies, 27, Greenville;
Second Lt. Henry J. Sydejko, 24,
pilot, Chippewa Falls, Wise.; Sec
orid Lt. Aelred H. Staebler, 22, pilot,
Morris, Minn.; Second Lt. John J.
Haener, 21, observer, Memphis,
Tenn.
Sergt. James W. Lott, 21, Trinity,
Tex.; Pvt. George W. Crowther, 29,
Bristol, Mass.; Second Lt. Walter F.
Raleigh, 25, pilot, Pittsforrd, Vt.;
Second Lt. Alfred Hanson, 23, pilot,
Racine, Wis.; Second Lt. Paul C.
Chamberlain, jr., 20, bombardier,
Aberdeen, Miss.; Sergt. John T. Mc
Nichol, 22, Orange, N. J.; Sergt.
David M. Schmidt, 22, Worcester,
Mass., and Corpl James L. Bristow,
Greenville.
Hopkins' Son Killed in Action;
Father Notified by President
Mepnen, io, uies
With Marines
In Marshalls
President Roosevelt last night
notified Harry L. Hopkins that
his youngest son Stephen, 18,;
had been killed in action with
the Marines in the Marshall Is
lands and has been buried at sea.
Mrs. Hopkins, wife of the presi
dential adviser, said no details were
available. Mr. Hopkins was en route
South by train to recuperate from
long and recurrent illnesses.
The President, according to Mrs.
Hopkins, sent her husband a "beau
tifully worded" telegram, telling him'
of his sons death. She said the
President told his friend that “we
do not know the details, but we will
he prouder of him when we do.”
Mrs. Hopkins said Stephen, one
of three sons-from Mr. Hopkins' first
marriage, had graduated from the
Hill School at Potlstown, Pa., last
June, and "the minute he got, out,
he enlisted in the marines. It was
STEPHEN HOPKINS,
Taking Marine oath last June.
—Associated Press Photo.
all Harry and I could do to keep
him there until graduation day.”
Stephen, looking even younger
than he actually was. had been stay
(See HOPKINS, Page A-12.)
Gallinger Fugitives
Held in Birmingham
In Three Kidnapings
Police Report Reedy,
Hockenberry Confess
Attacking 2 Women
Two Washington youths iden
tified as the patients who
escaped from Gallinger Hos
pital's criminal psychopathic
I ward on January 31 were ar
rested yesterday by Birmingham
(Ala.) police, who reported the
pair had confessed that they
kidnaped three women, crimi
nally assaulted two of them and
stole five automobiles during a
two-weeks swing through the
South.
Police identified the youths as
Joseph Hockenberry, 20. of the 800
block of North Carolina avenue
S. E.,and Daniel Reedy, alias George
Butt, 18, of the 1200 block of Mary
land avenue N.E.
In Birmingham. Police Commis
sioner Eugene Connor told the As
sociated Press the two had been
booked on charges of criminal as
sault, kidnaping and robbery in con
nection with the abduction and pen
knife stabbing last night of a 37
year-old Birmingham matron.
Identified by Tattoo.
In a telephone conversation with
Birmingham police officials, Inspec
tor Robert Barrett, chief of detec
tives of the Metropolitan Police De
partment, identified Hockenberry by
tattoo marks on his arm. Hocken
berry and his companion fled from
Gallinger after severely beating a
63-year-old guard.
Birmingham police said the pair
had confessed kidnaping Mrs. J. L.
Brasher Friday night as she waited
for her husband to close his filling
station. Police Capt. H. V. Early
said the kidnapers held the hus
band back with knives and drove
away in his car. Mrs. Brasher was
held captive for five hours before
being thrown from the car, beaten
and bleeding from knife slashes in
the face. She crawled to a farm
(See HOCKENBERRY, Page A-8.)
President of Colombia
Returns From U.S. Visit
By the Associated Press.
BARRANQUILLO, Colombia, Feb.
12.—President Alfonso Lopez of Co
lombia returned today by plane from
a trip to the United States.
Before leaving Palm Beach, Presi
dent Lopez told newspapermen he
had been informed that political un
rest, stirred in his country by arrest
of an opposition political leader, had
subsided. He was accompanied by
his daughter and wife, whom he took
to the United States for medical
treatment.
End of Cold Forecast
For D. C. Tomorrow,
Wind to Drop Today
Gusts Reach Velocity
Of 45 Miles an Hour;
Traffic Slowed by Ice
As the mercury tumbled to
ward an expected 15 degrees
early today, the Weather Bureau
forecast an end of the three
day cold wave here tomorrow
afternoon.
Continued cold but less windy
weather was predicted for today
D. C. Weather Irks
Admiraf Byrd of
Antarctic Fame
Senator Byrd, Democrat, of
Virginia, received a complaint
aoout the Capital's weather
yesterday from one of his
visitors.
The complainant who found
the sleet-covered city unpleas
antly cold was his brother. Rear
Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd,
the Antarctic explorer.
with Washington escaping heavy
snowfalls that swept from Iowa to
New England before blowing out
to sea.
The wind reached a velocity of
45 miles an hour here yesterday
while temperature never rose above
the high of 28 degrees recorded at
12:01 a.m. yesterday. The tempera
ture at 1 o'clock this morning was 20
degrees, and was steadily dropping.
Traffic moved slowly on the icy
(See WEATHER, Page A-3.)
Roosevelt Presents
DE Boat to France,
Praises Role in War
Predicts Underground of
Nation Will Turn on
Nazi Invader Soon
(Picture on Page A-2.)
President Roosevelt yesterday
turned over to the French Navy
a destroyer escort, a speedy new
type of vessel constructed for
anti-submarine work, and in the
brief speech of presentation
predicted that the day is not far
off when the- millions in the
French underground will turn on
the Nazi invader.
“The land of France fell to the
enemy, but not so the ships of
France,’’ Mr. Roosevelt said, in the
Navy Yard ceremony late in the
afternoon when the Stars and
Stripes were lowered, and the tri
color of France hoisted on the slim,
gray craft.
“Today her fleet still proudly flies
the tricolor in battle against our
common enemy. At Nettuno and
Anzio (Italy) French ships were
among those which bombarded the
German coastal installations. In
the strategic sector of the Allied line
now pushing toward Rome are
French troops. The Nazis on the
Italian front now know only too
well that France is not out of this
w’ar,"’ the Chief Executive added.
Vessel Named Senegalais.
The vessel, named the Senegalais.
was accepted on behalf of the
Frency Navy by Vice Atfmiral Ray
mond A. Fenard. chief of the French
Naval Mission in the United States,
w-ho, with Henri Hoppenot, repre
sentative of the French Committee
of National Liberation, accom
panied the President from the White
House.
"The French sailors will be proud
to fight from the Atlantic to the
Pacific with their American friends
who so gallantly serve under your
high command,” Admiral Fenard
told the President.
The destroyer escort has about
the tonnage and speed of the de
stroyers used in the World War. The
vessel was given to the French un
der lease-lend agreement, and the
transfer was the fourth of its kind—
Holland. Norway and Greece previ
ously having received ships of a
smaller type for patrol service.
Text of Address.
The text of the President's speech
which was broadcast follows:
"On behalf of the American
people I transfer to the navy of
France this warship — built by
American hands in an American
Navy Yard. This is one of a long
line of events symbolizing the
ancient friendship between France
and the United States. It empha
sizes the determination of this Na
tion, and of all the United Nations,
to drive from the soil of France
the Nazi invaders who today swag
ger down the Champs Elysees in
Paris.
"This one transfer under the
Lease-Lend law is typical of the
thousands of transfers of Amer
(See ROOSEVELT. Page A-3.)
Mother Admits Fatally Beating
Child, 3, for Continual Crying
(Picture on Page B-l.)
A 21-year-old mother of three
children admitted to police last
night that she beat her 3-year
old daughter with a chair rung,
inflicting injuries from which
the child died, because “her cry
ing was more than my nerves
could stand.” She was held in
the Women’s Bureau on a charge
of manslaughter.
Mrs. Christina Mary Orencia of
807 Mount Vernon place N.W., who
will oear another child in a few
months, held her 9-month-old son,
Ricardo, in her arms at Police Head
quarters as she told of the fatal
beating of her oldest child, Aurora
Christina, yesterday afternoon.
Her arrest followed a frantic
phone call to Casualty Hospital by
the father, Constantio R. Orencia,
43, a Filipino cook, when he re
turned home shortly after noon
yesterday and found Aurora uncon
scious. A physician responding to
the call pronounced the child dead.
To Detective Sergts. J. K. Baker
and E. E. Scott and women members
of the police department, Mrs.
Orencia poured out a story of her
marriage to her Filipino husband
when she was a child of 14. She
comes from near Luray, Va„ she
said.
Yesterdays tragedy was the
climax of 'weeks of torture froni
chronic headaches, due to a mastoid
condition, she sobbed. Because of
(See BEATINGrPage- A-p.)
Dewey Warns
Of Chaos Threat
In Fourth Term
•
Severely Criticizes
New Deal in Talk
At Lincoln Dinner
WILLKIE SAYS ROOSEVELT cre
ates conflict over labor. Page A-4.
By ihe Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Feb. 12.—Gov.
Thomas E. Dewey declared to
night that there were “few
thinking Americans who wish to
risk the peacetime chaos of con
tinued New Deal government.”
Gov. Dewey, who has said he will
not be a candidate for the Republi
can presidential nomination but
who has never closed the door to
a possible draft from the conven
tion, addressed the 58th annual
Lincoln Day dinner of the National
Republican Club.
In his first appearance before a
strictly political organization since
the last November State election
campaign. Gov. Dewey delivered one
of his severest criticisms of the na
tional administration since he be
came Govercor in 1943.
Martin Speaks in Wheeling.
(In Wheeling, W. Va„ House •
Minority Leader Martin told a
Lincoln Day dinner that Presi
dent Roosevelt had possessed
"absolute domination" of the Na
tion for 12 years and showed no
signs of relinquishing it. The
President's three terms, Mr. Mar
tin said, has created "a ruthless,
arrogant, power-lustful bureau
cracy” which is "fastening its
clutches upon the people.”
(In one of the few speeches by
Democrats. Vice President Wal
lace said in a Lincoln day ad
dress at Springfield, 111., that
America must never return to
"the dark cellars of unemploy
ment and doles.”)
Other addresses at the New York
dinner, including that of Gov. Wal
ter E. Edge of New Jersey, were
broadcast over local station WQXR,
but Gov. Dewey's was not at his re
quest, the club said. Associates of
the Governor said the request was
without political significance.
Says People Turn to GOP.
Gov. Dewey declared that on
March 4, 1933, “the first attempt to
establish an American autocracy
took place as the result of the elec
tion of what used to be known as
the Democratic party." but he said
the people were finding now that
the Republican party “alone could
preserve their constitutional svstem
of freedom."
“Within the next year or two wo
shall bravely win the greatest of all
wars for individual freedom or we
shall tragically lose it,” he said.
“There is no American who has
the slightest doubt that we shall
win *it and that we should win
before too long. By the same token
there are few thinking Americans
who wish to risk the peacetime
chaos of continued New Deal gov
ernment. And there are few Amer
icans who do not fear what that
government might fail to do in the
building of a just and lasting
peace."
At the outset of his address. Gov.
Dewey spoke of Lincoln as a man
who “would have been the last to
call himself indispensable’ and said
that “he saw one thing as funda
mental—the preservation of our
constitutional system.”
Constitutional System “Menaced.”
“In the past decade, we have
fallen upon times which carried a
menace to our constitutional system
as grave as that of Lincoln's day,”
Gov. Dewey said. “The menace
Lincoln faced was violent; ours
was subtle. But one. as much as
the other, carried a mortal threat.
He faced secession by the States.
In our time, we have seen abdica
tion by the States."
Gov. Dewey said that when the
national administration came into
office it “asked and was given al
most absolute powers" and that tjie
majority of the 40 democratic gov
ernors were "willing to become pro
vincial satraps under the rule of
Washington."
“The amazing thing about, the
American people is that even be
fore the war they, themselves,
sensed that the abandonment of
local government was surrender to
autocracy,” he said, “even before
(See DEWEyT~Page A-4.)
Gabby Street, 67,
Snares Ball in
20-Story Drop
i Ey the Associatea Press.
CHARLESTON. W. Va , Feb. 12.—
A brand-new baseball, now worth
$5,000 in War Bonds, hurtled down
from the top of a 20-story building
in Charleston today into a catcher's
mitt on the hand of Charles
(Gabby) Street, pilot of the 1931
World's Champion St. Louis Car
dinals.
The 61-year-old former major
leaguer thereby accomplished a feat
comparable to one performed almost
36 years ago, when he caught a ball
thrown from the top of the Wash
ington Monument.
Gabby, who said he didn't want
to disappoint a crowd of 2,500, didn’t
let a swirling snow storm and icy
cold winds force a cancellation of
jthe event.
The ball was placed on auction
and the first bids sent the price to
$5,000. Street has been promoting
| the sale of 4th War Loan bonds
i in Charleston for several days.
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