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Brittany Is Land Fewer Accidents, Whose People Are | But They're Worse Heart of France ftSturdy, Freedom-Loving Bretons Live Simply, Work Hard, Greot FishermenBy HAL BOYLEWITH THE AMERICAN THOOPS IN BRITTANY, Aug. 7.{Delayed) —UP)—The American breakthrough to Brittany has J to 343. been even more of a satisfaction to the fighting men on the front than to the reading public back home.Normandy’s hedgerows tiredthe men, hobbled tanks, facilitated enemy atr bushes and cut down observation so much that doughboys had to fight blindly from pasture to pasture.OKLAHOMA CITY, Aug. 16.—(jPf—Traffic accidents have shown declines six out of seven months this year, compared to corresponding periods of 1943, but deaths, injuries and property damage have been heavier, the highway patrol reported today.July was no exception. The accident total was 872, compared with 1,020 in July, 1943, but deaths rose from 19 in July,1943, to 24 and injuries from 265We still aren't out of the hedgerow country but thsy have thinned out considerably.In wiping out resistance on the Brest peninsula we are helped by the fact there is much rolling farmland to fight through the enemy isn't so concentrated. Here the Americans are able to use their great reservoir of ar-! mor to better advantage. jBetons Fight for FreedomBrittany itself is one of the world's wonderlands—a scenic and historic province whose rugged people are the backbone and heart of France. No one whohas seen the aggressive way in which the peasants and townspeople have pitched in to rid their green and gold land of the Germans can doubt their wish to be free.Because of the speed of the American armored thrust in isolating the peninsula, Brittany's interior cities have largely been spared devastation such as that which befell Caen. Valognes and St. Lo. But the tale naturally is different in such port cities as St. Malo. Brest and Lorient where Nazis had strong garrisons and chose to slug it out.Climate Is MildBrittany is a lair land with a mild climate and less rain and storm clouds than Normandy. Its beaches are among the most renowned in the world and St. Malo and Dinard have notably fashionable and cosmopolitan winter colonies much visited by continental and English society.Brittany's simple, hardworking people live by tilling its fertile acres or fishing in the emerald seas that are four-fifths of its boundaries. 'In old times it was known as Armorica or “the country upon the sea.” Adventurous Bretons are still the greatest fishermen of France, sailing regularly to Newfoundland and Iceland. Aside from shipbuilding and arsenals, there are no manufacturing industries of great importance.Living Is Simple Bretons live simply in sturdy and picturesue old stone homes, many of which still have thatched roofs. They are strongly relig-iou* and Brittany is a stronghold of the Catholic church in France. Periodically they wear at festivals colorful old costumes— white cans and lace embroidered dresses for women, low crowned, broad brimmed hats with velvet streamers for men — typical of o!*9 Brittanv.The^e folk costumes are treasured from generation to generation and worn only at ceremonies.Bretons are racially clo?e to the We^h and the country wassettled largefv b'' Britons who, fleeing from the Piets and Seots. '•ame across the channel ^nd took lands abandoned bv the Gauls be-cause of crushing Roman taxes.Like Britons, the Bretons are known for indenendence and stubborness. That is why theOklahoma county led the state in accidents with 340, resultingin five deaths and 87 injuries lastmonth. •Second was Tulsa county with 64 accidents, three deaths and 15 injuries, third, Muskogee county with 38, none and 11; fourth, Comanche county with 18, none I and five, and fifth, Kay countywith 15, none and five.Canadian county had an unusual number of injuries compared with the number 6f accidents. The patrol recoraed 30 injuries and one death in 12 accidents.-K-CIO Loses Two In Milwaukee VotingCandidates Beaten for Congress NominationsMILWAUKEE, Tug. 16.—An incumbent administration supporter and a former state senator apparently won democratic nominations for congress from the fourth and fifth (Milwaukee) districts in Wisconsin’s primary yesterday by building up substantial leads over candidates endorsed by the CIO political Action Committee.Returns from 212 of 278 precincts in the Fourth district gave Rep. Thad Wasielewski, seeking his third term, 14,645 votes to 5,-549 for Anthony P. Gawronski, who had the blessing'of the PAC. Former Representative Raymond J. Cannon had 3,345.In the Fifth district, Andrew J. Biemiller, who is making his first bid for a national office after several terms in the state legislature, had a good lead over Clem Kalvelage, PAC-endorsed candidate. Biemiller had 5,951 votes in 217 of 299 precincts in the district. Kalvelage had 3,897.. Meanwhile. Republican Senator Alexander Wiley had an easy time winning the nomination over three opponents who called him isolationist. He was far out in front with 2,099 of the state’s 3.078 precincts reporting. The vote was WTiley 98,166, Capt. Joseph R. McCarthy, of the marines. 45.745; Leathern D. Smith, a shipbuilder, 16,159 and Perry J. Stearns, Milwaukee attorney,8,578.--*-Greater returns for amount invested—Ada News Classified Ads.Nazis never were able to take them completely over—and why German soldiers now prefer surrendering to American troops than chance the mercy of the gun wielding Breton resistance fignt-ers.Nervius, RestlessOi “CERTAIN DATS 01 Ilw Nutt?If functional periodic disturbances make you feel nervous, tired, restless, “dragged out”—at such times—-t?r /a-mous Lydia E. Plnkham’s Vegetable Compound- to relieve such symptoms. It helps nature! Plnkham’s Compound Is also a grand stomachic tonic. Follow label directions. Worth trying/LYDIA E. PINKHAM’S SffiBSI
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