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NUMBER 22.—VOLUME 44.
Hannegan Attacks
Governor
Says People Will Not
Trust A ‘Novice’
Roosevelt “To Complete
Assignment Destiny Has
Given Him”
Robert E. Hannegan. Chair¬
man of the Democratic National
Committee, according to the New
York Times, fired the opening
shot in the campaign to elect
Franklin D. Roosevelt for a
fourth term.
Speaking in New York recent-
dy at the annual Jefferson Day
dinner, he hailed the leadership
of the president, accepted Gov¬
ernor Dewey as his Republican
opponent and criticized Mr. Dew¬
ey for his views on foreign af¬
fairs, said the New York Times.
Mr. Hannegan pictured Presi-
den Roosevelt as “fit and ready
for the fight,” despite “malic¬
ious rumors to the contrary” and
declared that “the people of the
United States are determined
that Franklin D. Roosevelt shall
complete the assignment which
destiny has given him.”
“Our people,” said Mr. Hanne¬
gan, “have adjudged the life-
and-death risks of total war too
great to entrust the responsibili¬
ty of waging it from here on, to
a novice or a lesser soldier of
freedom.”
Declaring that nobody knows
better than President Roosevelt
how dangerous to the world of
tomorr*P& it would be to entrust
the peace of that world to men
who learn their lessons late, Mr.
Hannegan said, “and such less¬
ons as these Republican leaders
have learned at all, they have
learned very late indeed.”
Centering his criticism on Mr.
Dewey, Mr. Hannegan quoted
two rejnarkes made by Mr. Dewey
in 1940, against the recognition
of Soviet Russia, and also on
the impossibility of building
50.000 airplanes, and twitted him
in the light of present events.
He said, “The Governor of this
State, the Hon. Thomas E. Dew¬
ey, who copies down the answers
on his little slate after the ex¬
amination is all over, gravely
told the people of America on
Jan. 20, 1940:
“ ‘In so far as the present ad¬
ministration has adhered to the
policies of its predecessors, it
has met with the general ap¬
proval of the American people.
But it has occasionally strayed
from the path. A conspicuous
and most unfortunate departure
was the recognition of the New
Deal of Soviet Russia’.”
He then again quoted Mr.
Dewey as saying in 1940:
“At last I think our Adminis¬
tration will stop trying to make
deals with Russia. We need so
such partnership.”
Mr. Hannegan, according to
the New York Times, then re¬
called Mr. Dewey’s recent speech
calling for a “durable cohesion”
between the United States, Great
Britain, the Soviet Union and
China, adding:
“To borrow from the Gover¬
nor’s bright lexicon, I for one
would be better able to under¬
stand these gems of statesman¬
ship that he is scatering among
us plain Americans if they fell
within the setting of a durable
cohesions between one phase of
this crisis and the next.
“But perhaps this incohesive
record is a part of the Gover¬
nor’s studied technique. Perhaps
he considers it good politics. You
know, in modern warfare the
strategists strive to maintain a
‘fluid front.’
“Well, /jrTxen the Governor was plenty
flu* he analyzed the
qnes^fjti of national defense of four
years ago. Perhaps some you
will remember this brilliant ex¬
position proving that we could
not possibly produce 50,000 air¬
planes. He had all the figures
to show how and why it could
not be done, and how even the
plant to build that many air¬
planes would take us at least
four years to construct.
“Then he clinched the argu¬
ment and boxed it in an iron-
bound coffin of defeatism by
warning us that—'To use air¬
planes you have to have an air
force. To maintain and fly 50,-
000 planes, an air force of about
75.000 men is necessary.’
“These, the Gove -1 nor continu¬
ed, ‘are sobering facts.’
“Today the present Governor
Lets Stay With our Home Boy
[E D 1 T O R J A L]
On July 4th (State Primary Election), Dade
Countians, loi the first time in the history of the coun¬
ty, will have an opportunity to cast their votes for a
“Dade County Superior Court Judge.'' This Judge for
whom we shall have the opportunity to vote is none
other than J. M. C. (Red) Townsend. Judge Town¬
send was appointed some time ago as Judge of the
Cherokee Circuit by Governor Ellis Arnall to fill the
unexpired term of Judge John C. Mitchell, of Dalton,
Whitfield cni.nty.
I will not delve into the history of the details
leading up to the appointment of Judge Townsend;
however, will say that the Governor made a wise
choice and since the appointment there has not been
the slightest reason ioi regret of the naming of Judge
Townsend on the part of the Governor or the people
of the Cherokee Circuit. He is unmistakeably a just
and capable jurist.
As stated editorially in this newspaper soon after
Mr. Townsend’s appointment, to humbly serve the
people of his circuit as Judge has been one of “Red’s”
chief and life-long ambitions.
Now, needless to say, any person when in pub¬
lic office for any length of time, (if he does his duty),
will make “political enemies.” This fact is quite na¬
tural and will always be true. Judge Townsend is no
exception — he, too, has no doubt made political
enemies.
Throughout his career as a servant of the people
and in his capacity as a lawyer, Judge Townsend has
been placed in more or less unpleasant positions. How¬
ever, at all tines and in every instance, he has never
chosen the paths of least resistance — instead, he al¬
ways chose tc do exactly what he thought to be right,
honest, and just. Though the “right side” appeared
to be the “hard” way, Judge Townsend has never
faltered or shirked his duty either as a public official
or professionally.
No doubt there are individuals in Dade County
who will choose to cast their votes against Judge
Townsend in the coming primary, by virtue of var¬
ious reasons. To vote as we please is one of our con¬
stitutional rights as American citizens. We are proud
of this right and Dade Countians should VOTE ^4S
THEY PLEASE in the election of July 4th. As stated
in the foregoing, some here in Dade County will not
vote in favor of Judge Townsend .... this will be the
preogative of anyone who cares to do so, but before
doing so, lets consider and think twice along these
lines:
Judge Townsend is a “home boy.” He was born
and reared at Wildwood, by pioneer Dade County
parents. “Red” is the only Judge Dade County, in her
entire history, has furnished the Cherokee Judicial
Circuit. This time WE HAVE furnished a Judge . . .
capable and entirely worthy.
Countless hundreds of times our subject has “gone
to bat” for individuals of the county, and Dade Coun¬
tians as a whole. No individual has ever done nearly
so much for Dade County in the way of securing rec¬
ognition which resulted in paved highways, addition¬
al funds, improvements, etc., for us. This was a result
of contacts and high standing in the State Adminis¬
tration and with various individuals. For months, and
even years, Judge Townsend has labored tirelessly
on projects which have resulted in Dade County and
Dade Countians being benefited. “Turn back the
clock” and check for yourself. “harvest”
Time and again Red has developed a
for his county by fanning a spark, which most indi¬
viduals v/ould regard as hopeless.
As stated heretofore, Judge Townsend has always
maintained a policy of being loyal to his friends and
fair to his enemies. No person loves his county and
the people of his county more than does J. M. C.
Townsend. for
If you have well founded, justified reasons
casting your vote against Judge Townsend in the pri¬
mary of July 4th, then certainly you should do so. If,
because ot prejudice or some insignificant reason opposition, you
choose to cast your vote in favor of the
lets resolve now to lay aside such feelings and “pa-
trioticalh’” stay with our home boy.
Frankly, if I were in a circuit, district or state
campaign, I would depend on my home people, with
whom I lived, rally their support to me. Judge Town¬
send is depending on the same thing, and rightly so.
He will be attending to judicial matters over the Cir¬
cuit and will have but little time to contact voters.
Lets rally to our Home Boy! Lets forget our
“political feelings” and roll up a huge vote of confi-
dnece to which J. M. C. Townsend is entitled.
The people of Dade County mey be assured that
Judge Townsend will be elected by one of, if not the
greatest, majority ever accorded a candidate in the
Cherokee Circuit. 1 have every reason to believe that
every county of the circuit will be in the Townsehd
column, and feel just as sure, with reference to pre¬
cincts.
—ELBERT FORESTER.
MRS. GEORGE C. MARSHALL
FOUNDS THE
GRANDMOTHERS LEAGUE
WASHINGTON, D. C.: General
George C. Marshall’s wife founded
the Grandmothers League as a roll
of honor for grandmothers who buy
War Bonds for their grandchildren.
Mrs. Marshall herself buys Bonds
and stamps regularly for her three
grandchildren, Tupper Brown, age
1, Jimmy Winn, 2, and Jimmy’s
sister Kitty, 9 months.
“Those Bonds fight for America
today," Mrs. Marshall said in Wash¬
ington. “When they mature they
will bring to the coming generation
the educational and other privileges
that make America worth fighting
for.”
Home Agent Tells
Ways To Preserve
Fruit and Other Juices
Fruit or tomato juice for
breakfast is becoming a local
habit, Miss Kathryn Berryman,
county home demonstration a-
gerft, said this week, advising
home canners to can a generous
supply from the first berries and
cherries of early summer to the
last grapes of fall.
“Several wild fruits and ber¬
ries, notably blackberries, wild
muscadines, fox grapes, and
mayhaws in south Georgia, are
delicious and valuable”, she con¬
tinued. “In addtion, excellent
juice can be made from fully
ripe fruits, such as peaches and
pears—the more fully ripe the
more sweetness and flavor there
will be in the juice.”
The addition of some sugar
helps to hold the color and fla¬
vor of canned fruit juice, but
sugar is not necessary for its
preservation. If the juice is to
be used as a beverage it is a
good and economical practice to
add a small amount of sugar to
the warm juice when making it,
since it will then be completely
dissolved and ready to serve
when opened.
Ordinary glass fruit jars are
probably the most convenient
and most used containers for the
average homemaker; the jars
and caps are handled in the
same manner as for canning
fruits, the Extension Service a-
gent said,
“Fill jars within one-fourth
inch of the top, pack at sim¬
mering temperature and process
in boiling water bath five min¬
utes or at simmering 10 min¬
utes,” Miss Berryman said. “The
secret of having juice retain its
naural flavor and color lies in ;
heating just enough to sterilize.
If a thermomeer is available to I
temperature use the simmer¬
ing time of 10 minutes and a
temperature of 180-290 degrees
F. Otherwise bring water in the
water bath to boling and pro¬
cess five minutes. Store in a
dark place when cold.”
of New York must be very sober
indeed. Today, four years after
he showed us how 50,000 planes
could not be built, how an air
force to man them could not be
trained, America has produced
for the armed forces 184,000
planes, and we have an air force
of 2 , 385,000 fighting men.
“Again,” said Mr. Hannegan,
“the difference between men s
abilities, men’s minds. And I
suspect, too, a little of the d.f-
ferencee between men who have
vision and set their sights high
and men who lack this quauty
and keep them low. Let us re¬
member that difference.
TRENTON, DADE COUNTY, THURSDAY, JUNE 22, 1944.
Invasion Blasts Nazi
West wall In France
STRIKING POWER OF ALLIED ARMY EVI¬
DENT AS NAZI DEFENSES FAIL
ON NORMANDY BEACHES
The invasion of Normandy de¬
serves the high praise bestowed
upon it by Marshall Joseph Stal¬
in, of Russia, who declares that
“the history of war does not
know any such undertaking so
broad in conception, or grand¬
iose in scale, and so masterly in
execution."
Anglo-American forces as¬
saulted fixed defenses, prepared
by the enemy during several
years, and they crossed more
than a hundred miles of the Eng¬
lish Channel to get at the ene¬
my. There is nothing to equal
the feat in the record of mili¬
tary History.
Warships and Aircraft Help
While the enemy had the ad¬
vantage of fortified beachheads
and a fixed defense zone these
were overcome by absolute con¬
trol of the sea and the air. Not
only did the Allied navies trans¬
port the bulk of the ground forc¬
es but warships offset shore bat¬
teries and gave support of their
big guns to land operations that
would have been doomed to fail¬
ure without artillery support.
The sudden descent of our air¬
borne divisions, transported a-
bove coastal defenses, paralyzed
the enemy’s secondary zone and
prevented sudden counterattacks
along the beachheads. Aircraft
pounded enemy positions every¬
where and broke up attempts to
move troops and supplies into
the battle zone.
Infantry Fights Bloody Battles
There was bitter fighting be¬
tween ground forces, however,
despite all the support that air¬
craft and warships could offer.
In the last analysis, infantry¬
men had to storm strongpoints
and rout enemy units. Airborne
soldiers, often isolated, fought
sternly against superior forces.
Losses were inevitable but ap¬
parently not excessive consider¬
ing the nature of the operation.
Complete coordination between
planes, ships and men enabled
the invaders to seize and hold
an ample bridgehead by the end
of the first week of fighting.
Vicious counterattacks by the
Germans slowed down but did
not check the gradual advance
across the Normandy peninsula,
designed to isolate and capture
the port of Cherbourg.
Represents Only The Beginning
The reader should understand
that occupation of the entire
peninsula, including Cherbourg,
is only he first step in the major
purpose of the cross-channel in¬
vasion. The Allied armies are
now developing for heavier blows
against the Germans, which can¬
not be delivered without ade¬
quate bases.
Some suprises of the Norman¬
dy campaign are unexplained.
While shore defenses were for¬
midable there was no impreg¬
nable Atlantic wall. No luftwaffe
smashed at the channel cross¬
ing or the beachhead landings.
There were no secret weapons
to blast our soldiers. In short,
the Germans exhibited none of
the super-defense that Nazi
propagandists have boasted
would stop the invasion in its
tracks.
Strange Developments Reported
Moreover, some strange re¬
ports from the battlefields re¬
“BUY BONDS-BUY B0NDS-
AND BUY MORE BONDS” IS
PLEA OF MARINE SERGEANT
(The following story was
written by Master Technical
Sergeant John W Black, of
Woodbury, N. J., a Marine
Corps Combat Correspondent,
formerly a Philadelphia Bulle¬
tin reporter.)
CAPE CLOUCHESTER, NEW
BRITAIN (Delayed)—It’s a
grand and glorious feeling to
be going home after 18 months
of jungle fighting and the
grueling training which must
precede it.
Sure they say the good old
ONE-FIFTY PER
quire analysis. Germans mech¬
anized divisions were using old
French tanks, Tiger tanks were
assigned defensive roles, reserves
were thrown into battle piece¬
meal and at places the enemy
seemed to lack adequate artil¬
lery support. In the air German
planes were almost non-exist¬
ent for days. There were hints
of a stronger German defensive
line, some thirty to sixty miles
from the coast.
What do these things mean?
They could indicate indefinite
enemy weakness or a deliberate
defense policy, including plans
to halt our forces further inland,
out of range of supporting naval
guns. This is unlikely to suc¬
ceed because our advance will
depend in large measure upon
artillery, which will be available
to blast enemy positions when
the advance into the interior
gets underway.
German Retreat Compulsory
It is possible that German
preparations for the defense of
western Europe recognized the
impossibility of preventing a
landing, with he seizure of ade¬
quate beachhead, and that Ger¬
man reserves are being hubanded
for a massive counterstroke. This
course, however, means that the
Germans deliberatly permitted
the Allies to secure a base of
operations, into which to throw
and organize a tremendous army
for an extensive campaign. This
is unreasonable.
While we have no way of know¬
ing the power of Germany at
this time, and it may be con¬
siderably less than we think if
the enemy weakness explains
the success of our initial landing
operations, the inescabable con¬
clusion is that the Germans
were overwhelmed and utterly
unable to defeat the great as¬
sault tha was directed upon the
Normandy peninsula.
There is no use to belittle our
success through farfetched expla
nations of German strategy. The
cold truth is that the Anglo-
Americans acquired an operating
base in Normandy through force
of arms, after beating down ev¬
erything that the Germans had
to throw against them. The op¬
eration must be listed as an out¬
standing offensive success, re¬
flecting supreme credit upon the
officers and men participating.
Amazing Triumph Is Recorded
Despite losses, which were se¬
vere, even if less than expected
the British, American and Ca¬
nadian team scored an amaz¬
ing triumph. Sea, air and ground
power, ruthlessly applied, was
more than the enemy could stand
and, consequently, the enemy
gave ground. This is the inevit¬
able result of superiority and the
same factor explains the confi¬
dence with which the Allied com¬
manders look forward to the de¬
veloping campaign.
What will come next depends
upon factors which are now un¬
known. If German resistance
contains our initial breach of the
westwall there will be other
landings. If our troops continue
to advance the chances are that
greater numbers will land in Nor¬
mandy and that the campaign
will develop into one of the great
decisive battles of the war in
Europe.
U.S.A. isn’t the place she used
to be. There’s a war going on,
the old familiar American
ing. Steaks are rare—in numb¬
er, not broiled that way. Sports
are shot. Life isn’t spiced any
more by all those conveniences
and luxuries which made up
that precious blood they con-
standard of living. And your
girl friend or wife is wearing
overalls for her defense job,
instead of the summery frock
in which she bid you a last
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