Middle East Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 14, 1944, Cairo, Egypt                                V i or r or emos f two letters highlighted this political precluding the pending democratic answering White House reporters favorite question of Many months and Mak ing known to the world that president Roosevelt will run for a Butth while the major political Par ties engaged in preliminary spar ring throughout the awaiting the events of the demo cratic convention opening in Chi Cago chairman of the democratic natio Nal wrote a letter to the president desire to report to you that More than a Clear majority of the delegates to the National Conven Tion Are legally bound by Thea Tion of their constituents to cast their for your nomination As of the this action in the several states is a re Flection of the wishes of the vast majority of the american people you continue As president in this crucial in the nations answers Call the democratic National convention Dur Inry its deliberations in tender to you the nomination of the party its solemn belief of the rank and file of As Well As Many other that the nation and the world needs the Continua Tion of your in View of the i would respectfully that you Send to the convention or otherwise convey to the people of the an expression that you will respond to the Call of the party and the people no equally thai they Are determined that Vou must continue until the War is won and a firm basis for abiding Esta three objectives and Back to Hartegan came the presidents reply of the convention should Nomi Nate me for the t shall if the people elect i will i would accept and but t would not run in the usual political i do not want to by next i Shal have president and commander chief of the armed forces for 12 times elected by the people of this coun try under the american constitutional from the personal Point of t believe that our economic system is on a More human basis than it was at i or time of my first to is perhaps unnecessary to Sav that i have thought Only of the Good of the my principle As you has been the Protection of the rights and privileges of american Citi after Many years of Public my personal thoughts have turned to the Day taint funny Sarge from Hie look on his red didst bring his bag of gags into the army with the army wont break his withe Arm but hell have a Heck of a Tine finding anything funny in washing out Slop cans and manicuring spuds for three performances a Acme photo ays too i should return to civilian to win this War with Germany unequivocally and As quickly As we is our task of first Honpor to win this War in such away that there would be no fur ther world wars in the unforeseen is our second to provide occupations and to provide a decent Standard of living for aut men m the armed forces after Thuc War and for All americans Are our final relic but As a Good Soldier i re peat that i will accept and serve in this if i am so ordered of the commander chief of us people of the United if for insists Vic president Henry Wallace re turned from a world girdling air trip during which he talked Exten sively with russian and1 chinese according to a brisk convention fight looms Over Walla Ces the consensus if that the Towan will be renominated if the president insists other Wise the spot will be thrown wide open among supporters of numer Ous favorite sons including James tru Man and ans reports several newspapers have suggested the possibility of the democrats Nam ing Willke As Roosevelt running mate a move to attract dissent the first Gallup poll of election trends in new York state shows that 52 per cent would vote for Dewey and 48 per cent for presi Dent Gallup says Roose leads in new York cite with 56 Ner while Dewey holds up state by 59 per n leg roes rejected in primaries ans after Mak ing a futile Effort to vote in the primary election in Georgia last negro leaders who were re fused the privilege plan to take the matter to court As test United press says that negroes Hart made application for ballots on the basis of a plan worked Outwith White but on election election clerks withheld bal lots with a polite explanation that the negroes names were not on the registration Georgia negroes denied ballots included four Atlanta University attorneys and insurance executives and an honorable Dis charged army sergeant wearing two Battle stars and a wound Texas were successful in a similar win nov the of the supreme court in a decision last miners trapped in Ohio Powhatan pit Ohio sixty four miners trapped five Miles inside the flaming Powhatan Coal mine have been Given unas Al though Rescue operations continue in Case the trapped men were Abe to barricade themselves against the Little Hopes Are held for the the Powhatan one of Ohio larges Coal erupted last week when a landslide shorted a trolley trapping i of 199 workers beg an drilling an emergency 4k foot Tunnel to the Shaft in an Effort bypass the burning Section and Send food and Watto to the doomed no response could be to indicate that the men were a lowered Siren failed to elicit any answer and tests of air taken from the Shaft were workers i mined a Tely began drilling another 500 foot Shaft toward a Deaden Coal Gal Lery where the miners could pos Sibly have barricaded themselves against Itie stars and Middle East As american As Apple pie i 1 Vav r t t is Page nowhere in the world will you find a scene like this fou year spectacle of a major political party a claiming its presidential this is the Republican National convention at the Chicago stadium greeting new Yorks Thomas As he accepted the this shot delegates the band1 playing and the photographers feverishly flashing their you can Aimor hear the ins troop train wreck kills 32 sol Diers and two crewmen were killed last week when a troop train carrying service men plunged into a 50foot Clear River Gorge near More than 250 injured soldiers were freed from the wreckage and rushed to hospitals in nearby army officials believe that All military personnel have been accounted although Rescue work ers continue to search the twisted the engine and four cars of the train plunged into the Gorge while a fifth Hung Over the rescuers had to dig into the Crum pled coaches with Acet Lirie torches to recover bodies and cause of the train tragedy has not been Federal investigators that no traces of sabotage had been the soldiers had recently been inducted into the army in Ohio and were Enro Ute to their first training nudists driven to Opas complaint san Francisco frolicsome Folk enjoying life in the raw in their sunny nudist Camp were startled last week when irate officials of opa strode into their Bower and challenged More than 200 of natures children to explain How they reached the Camon a card gasoline Hie which climaxed a six Day investigation by brought to Light that persons had driven from As far away As Oregon to frolic and Bathe n californian agents said that at least 250 persons drove to the area the Camp is located 40 Miles from san in Hartford circus fire of Denver invites go Bill students honorable Dis charged servicemen and eligible for education privileges under the newly passed Bill of have been invited by the University of Denver to begin their studies although government funds provided by the Law Are still in University Chancellor Benja min Cherrington wired Frank Veteran adm Nistra that the University was inviting As Many a servicemen As it can accorn Odate to enter College it is their belief that Many veterans would like to Siart or continue their education at the big top of Ringling Barnum Bailey circus went up in flames at an afternoon performance last week and collapsed on a terrified audience of killing 158 and injuring hundreds of others in the greatest circus Dis Aster in the histor of the Over half the vict Juns were child the bodies of 11 most of which Are still remain unidentified and since some Are so severely burned that Only parts of their bodies it is unlikely they will Ever be at least 12 of the 2u injured still in hospitals Are reported of be state and off conduct ing three separate investigations into the first arrested five circus including the vice on charges of technical they were released on bail pending hearings on july another hearing by the Coro who has charge of investigation of violent deaths under Connecticut was tent was inflammable officials charge that the big largest Canvas tent in the was sprayed with paraffin and gasoline for purpose of water proofing and that a steel runway a and a keep son under Blanket Miami the arrest of 23year old Morris Stanley Neff for failure to Register in the draft has revealed an amazing conspiracy of paternal his conspirator and Wil Liam have likewise been arrested for violation of the Selec Tive service for the past four the youths parents have kept him carefully hidden in the bedroom of their Miami Home to prevent being nabbed by the Alt Neff went into his parents neither listed him As a dependent when filling out income forms nor Drew a ration Book for Young Jeff remained in his bed room from until his arrest last he left the room on Only three occasions during the entire to visit n dentist and twice to go to the buy More War Bonds used to bring animals in and out of the tent closed off the entire obstructing the about sixty bodies were found jammed against the investigation also revealed that inadequate firefighting equipment on the circus grounds with insufficient circus personnel to Man the equipment the tent 600 feet 220 wide and weighting 20 burst into flames during the matinee As the audience applauded the end of a lion act and spotlights near the top of the tent the flying ready to go into their High wire Aerial witnesses said a tiny red spot of fire first appeared directly above one of the spotlights which seemed almost to touch the roof and seconds with an audible swish ing the fire swept towards the Center fifty five feet persons went momentarily kick ing and climbing Over each other with hundreds of Small children tragically occupying the front the entire ceiling was envelop Ped in flame within 45 seconds and Many persons were caught by pieces of burning Canvas and other most deaths were attributed to fourth degree sudden panic one eyewitness said it went up like a Sheet of tissue instantly pandemonium broke the crowd seethed madly from their seats and battled toward the trampling on scores of women and children in their Stam Pede for the hysterical screams of mothers seeking their children was punctuated by pistol shots As the circus attendants killed several Lions they were unable to get their fifteen minutes it was All Over except for fires still Burn ing in the tiers of wooden circus performers and audience alike rushed Back into the Arena to remove bodies of the dying arid wolverines Hunt rows grand to state police and Federal agents launched a widespread manhunt this week after eight Jerry prisoners of War escaped from two different pow Camps in Western the germans escaped by cutting wires and Evad ing sentries guarding the Stock authorities believe there a no connection Between the simultaneous