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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-05-14
The Political Mill
Lack Of Formidable Opposition in Primary
And Election Assures Return of McNoy

before Pearl Harbor, is an issue
which most frequently crops up.
Pennsylvania has its primaries
Tuesday, and North Carolina on
May 30. There is no senatorial
primary in Pennsylvania, but all
the big House delegation must
stand for denomination. Repre-
sentative Rich, Republican. a
veteran from the 18th congress
sional district, declined to run
again. He has been an ardent
critic of the New Deal admins
tration. In North Carolina, Sena-
tor Bailey, Democrat, is seeking
denomination and is expected to
have it, although he has a
Democratic opponent.
Herring Safe in Primary.
Senator Herring, Democrat, OF
Iowa is running for renomina-
ton in the primaries in that
State June l. Except for a per-
ennial candidate" who has filed
against him and will get no
where, Senator Herring has no
opposition. A field of five candi-
dates has filed for the Repub-
lican senatorial nominal ton, how
ever, promising him a race in
the fall election. Gov. Wilson
heads the list. Mark Thornburg,
secretary Of agriculture, and
James Dolliver, lawyer at Fort
Dodge and nephew of the famous
Senator Dolliver, a leader of the
progressive forces in the Repub-
lican party 30-odd years ago,
are two other contenders. The
Governor seems to have the in
side track. largely because he has
been chief executive of the State.
July will see several hard
fought primary elections for
congressional honors. In Texas,
Senator w. Lee pass the Bis
cults, Pappy") ODaniel will run
for denomination. He will have
against him, however, two ex-
Governors--Dan Moody and Fed
eral Judge James v. Alfred.
Senator ODaniel himself is a
former Governor, filling out the
term of the late Senator Morris
Sheppard, for which he was
elected over Representative Lyn-
don Johnson, who had the bless
ing of the White House.
Senator ODaniel has his
friends and his enemies in the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-05-14
Man Power Board
Moves 10 Protect
Farm Labor Supply
Commission Weighs Plan
To Block Worker Exodus
To Higher Paid Jobs

Taking its first step toward assur-
ing labor for necessary production
the War Man Power Commission
yesterday dipped into the problem
of maintaining the agriculture labor
supply.
After a two-hour meeting, COM
mission spokesman said plans are
being developed for consideration by
the commission concerning methods
by which necessary men can be
supplied for the armed forces with
out endangering our essential food
supplies.
Job Exodus Problem.
The commission spokesman ad-
mitted today there could be nc
quarrel with the Selective Service
System on the score of drafting mer
from the farms since selective serv-
ice has repeatedly sent out direc-
tives advising consideration of farm
labor for deferment and worked out
a cooperative system with the De-
partment of Agriculture whereby
that departments county wal
boards supply crop and farm labor
reports to local boards.
The problem, according to The
commission spokesman, apparently
| hinges on the exodus of deferred
farmers to higher paying jobs in the
cities. Selective service, however
has been canceling the deferment o.
/ these men once they leave thei
farms.
AS far back as November, 1910
selective service began working OF
the farm labor problem. In May
l941. directive went to local board
advising them to give serious con
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-05-14
BY GOULD LINCOLN.

The Republican leader of the
Senate, Senator McNary of Ore
gon, who first came to the Senate
in May, 1917, will be renominated
for fifth term tomorrow, bar
ring a political overturn, which
Is so unexpected as to be negli-
gible. His Republican opponent,
Arthur M. Geary, lawyer in
Portland, has adopted as his
slogan, "MacArthurism, not Nc
NaryiSm," and has been putting
on a campaign with billboards
and radio speaking-running into
quite a bit of money, it is said.
Just what his slogan means has
not been fully explained. The
idea, however, seems to be that
he contends he would be more
cooperative in the war effort
which Senator McNary's friends
say would not be possible.
In the Democratic senatorial
primary there are three entrants
hone of them particularly
prominent. Senator McNary's
most recent opponent, Willis Ma
honey, who had the Democratic
nomination in 1886, declared for
the denomination and reelection
of the Senator last winter-and
is still sticking to his recon-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-05-14
Kerch Drive Is Preparatory
Eliot Sees Nozi Thrust os Covering Move
For Intensified Effort to Take SevostopoI

sable if any attempt is made to
use them by heavy military traf-
fic. The only satisfactory solu-
ton of these difficulties from the
German point of view would be
sea transport, which would involve
naval command of the Black Sea
and the possession of adequate
ports of entry from which their
armies could be supplied by COM
paratively short road hauls.
The only way the Germans can
get naval command of the Black
Sea is to drive the Russian fleet
out of its base by capturing that
base from the land side. Sevastopol
can then be used as port of en-
try and an advance base could be
built up at Kerch. Meanwhile, the
Russian Black Sea fleet would have
no well-equipped base. and conse-
quently might be whitfield down by
the operations of German aircraft
and motor torpedo boats without
possessing any means of repairing
the damages thus effected. A fur
Their advance by the Germans from
Kerch to Novorossisk would give
them a good harbor with direct
rail and road communications with
the interior of the North Caucasian
region, and enable them to sup
ply considerable forces in that area.
Likely Plans Cited.
Bearing all Of these considerations
in mind, it seems likely that the
German plans may include the
following general operational ideas:
l. The capture of the Kerch
Peninsula, to provide a jumping
off place for the North Caucasus
and to cover an attack on Sevas-
topol
2 An intensified and vigorous at
tack on Sevastopol to be pushed
home without regard for loss, until
the place Is taken.
3. A twin offensive, with the
northern arm striking from Tagan-
rog toward and beyond Rostov
with possibly thanking drive still
farther north, and the southern
arm striking from Kerch across the
Kerchensk Strait toward Novoros-
sisk.
The ultimate objective of these
operations would be to carry the
German armies beyond the Don
and we'll into the North Caucasian
area, from which position they
would be able to strike at the Cau-
casian oil fields, and, by pushing
on to the mouth of the Volga, to cut
off the Russians from their main
oil supplies and from their COM
munications with the Middle East
and with British and American
supplies arriving through the Per-
sian Gulf.
This is, OF course, no more than
a statement of probable enemy in
tentions" as deduced from what the
Germans are actually doing at the
present time. Like all such state
ments, it should be taken with sew
eral grains Of salt, as the Germans
have shown tendency to do the
unexpected. And they will con-
tinue to do so. However, this gen.
eral outline has a good deal of evi-
dence to support it on the face of
information now available.
(copyrisht, 1912, New York Tribune, Inc)
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Sea for operations against the
port of Batum, terminus of the
pipe line from Baku, and possibly
to land troops for action against
the Southern Caucasus and Iraq
from the Turkish ports of Treb-
ION and SamSun.
The belief still prevails in most
responsible quarters that the
Nazis will do their utmost to
obtain a foothold In the Near
East. But whether they will do
so by a landing from the Black
Sea, in conjunction with opera
tions across the Caucasus, or by
a frontal attack against Syria
and Palestine, or both, Is a mat
ter which can hardly be gagged
at the present time. But 1t Is
not likely to be long before we
have the answer.
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either Admiral William H. Stand
ley, our Ambassador in the Soviet
Union, or any military men there
to examine the situation from
the strictly military point of
view.
What scattered information we
do obtain-outside of the COM
muniques-comes from Ankara,
and cannot be relied on because
it is colored by the propaganda
of the German Ambassador there,
Franz Won Papen, who has been
instructed to wage war of nerves
on the Turks and is spreading
sensational reports to convince
the Turks that the Russians can
be defeated any time Hitler
makes up his mind to it.
Turks Seen Facing Decision.
Won Papen is cautiously limiting
that the Nazis' major task is to
get to Iraq and Iran and that
Turkey will be faced soon with
a momentous decision. To show
what the Fuehrer can do he is
putting out the rumor that wild
Kurdish tribes in Eastern Turkey
are on the verge of rebellion and
that this will occur as soon as
the Germans have obtained a
foothold in the Caucasus after
crossing the Kerch Isthmus.
Military observers in Washing
ton believe that If Hitler has &C
tually decided to smash through
the armies of Field Marshall
Semeon Timoshenko he will at
tempt to bypass the Caucasian
Mountains in order to reach the
Baku oil fields. He is expected to
move east until he reaches the
Caspian Sea and then to make
his way along the shores to Baku.
More important to the Na1
high command, however, than
reaching the Azerbaidjan oil
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-05-14

State. He has been able by his
own methods Of campaigning to
win first the gubernatorial nomi-
nation and then the senatorial.
With two former Governors
against him, he will have his job
cut out for him. In Texas, unless
candidate gets clear majority
of the vote cast in the primary,
he must meet the second man in
a runoff election a month after
the primary. There may be
more in the fact that two pre-
sumably strong opponents of
Senator ODaniel have indicated
they will make the race in the
primary.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-05-14
This Changing World
Nozi Attack in Kerch Peninsula Sisnoizes
Beginning Of Long -Awoted Spring Offensive

fields Is the fact that once the
Caspian shores have been reached
the Germans will have cut the
route over which the United Ma
tions are sending war material to
Russia by way of Iran.
Until the new railroad from
Teheran to Tabriz Is completed
over some 125 miles of rocky ter
rain-the Allies are expected to
continue sending lease-lend ma
terial to the Soviet by rail from
Teheran to Bandar Shah, where
vast properties of the former
shah, Ria Khan, are located.
The Iranian ruler, now in exile,
built a gauge railway to
the southeastern tip of the Cas-
plan and a fair harbor at Ban
dar Shah.
If the Nazis find that Russian
resistance in the south can be
overcome with little trouble, some
quarters here believe they may
attempt to move quickly over
the 650-mile stretch from Kerch
to the Caspian. Such an opera
ton would have been regarded
as costly and difficult in the last
war, but not so with today's
mechanical forces and planes.
May Become Serious.
Developments in Southern
Russia are being followed with
growing interest and anxiety in
Washington. If the drive Is what
the Nazi high command claims
an attempt to smash the Russian
forces in that area-the situa-
ton might become serious.
The fear is expressed in some
naval quarters that a victory for
the Nazis in Southern Russia may
be followed by a strong request
to Ankara to open the Darda-
nelles, permitting Axis warships
and transports to enter the Black
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armies again TO Maj. G. Fielding Eliot
the western shore of the Kerchenski
Strait, they will then be in the
position which they occupied briefly
last fall, of holding a jumping off
place from which they can pene-
trate directly into the North eau
casian area. But it is obvious from
a glance at the map that no Ger
man army is likely to cross the
Kerchenski Strait unless it is &C
tually working in conjunction with
another German army pushing
against or beyond Rostov on the
north shore of the Sea OF Azov. II
the Germans are not in Rostov, any
invasion of the North Caucasian
area from Kerch would find itself
dangerously isolated.
This is why, the strategic sense,
the attack on the Kerch Peninsula
must be considered a preparatory
operation insofar as it relates to any
contemplated German major Of
fensive. 1t may be the opening
move of such an offensive, the main
effort of which must come farther
north, or it may have less am
biguous purpose, at least for the
immediate present. That purpose
may relate to a German attack on
the Russian naval base at Sevasto-
pol. The Germans were last re-
ported as having six divisions en-
gagged in the attack on Sevastopol,
an attack which, during the winter,
settled down to siege and made
very little progress.
Covering Operation.
II the Germans now are deter
mined to take Sevastopol as their
first major objective, they would
naturally wish to use more troops
and naturally also would wish to
have the necessary additional COM
munications and supply arrange
ments in the Crimea freed from the
threat of an attack by the Russians
from the direction of Kerch. Thus
the German attack on Kerch may
be primarily intended as covering
operation for an intensified effort
to take Sevastopol.
In thinking of any possible Ger
man offensive in South Russia, es-
pecialy one intended to penetrate
the Caucasus, it is natural to think,
first of all, of Sevastopol, because
Sevastopol, while the powerful Rus
sian feet continues to be based on
1t, controls the maritime commu-
nications OF the Black Sea.
1t is probable that the German
failure to hold Rostov and Kerch
last fall was very largely due to
their difficulties in keeping open
their lines of supply. The rail-
roads are few In this region, and
there was little Russian rolling
stock available, while German roll
ing stock could not be used be-
cause of the wider Russian gauge.
Naval Command Necessary.
There are absolutely no good
roads, and the country roads, then
In the fall and now in the spring.
are mere mud tracks which are
| quickly made completely impas-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-05-14
War Resisters' Group
To Hear Educator

DR.. George w. Hartmann, profess
sor Of educational psychology at
Teachers College of Columbia Uni
versity, will discuss Interpreting
Pacifism to Non-Pacifists in War
time" at an open meeting at Friends
House, gill Florida avenue NV,
Sunday at 8 pm
The meeting is being sponsored by
the Washington Committee of the
War Resisters League, pacifist group.
DR.. Hartmann, a member of the
National Board of the War Resisters
League, has been author and CO.
author OF a number of books and
pamphlets on both psychology and
pacifiSn.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-05-14
BY CONSTANTINE BROWN.


The Nazi attack in the Kerch
Peninsula of the Crimea Is re-
garded as feint by many mill
tary observers, preliminary to
other spectacular operations. But
feint or not, 1t signalizes the be-
ginning of the long-awaited and
long-delayed 1912 German often
sive.
Outside the official communi-
ques from Berlin and Moscow
there is little on which to base
a judgment of the scale of the
Nazi operations. American mill
tary observers at Kuibyshev are
still denied access to anything
more than is contained in the
releases of the Soviet high COM
mand.
There is no pipe line" between
Moscow and the temporary CAPT.
tai of the U. s. S. r. to enable
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mendation that Senator McNary
be returned to Office. There seems
no doubt that this will happen
when the election takes place
next November.
Senator McNary has been Re-
publican leader of the Upper
House for years. 1t has been his
duty to steer the G.. o. P. in that
body all during the Roosevelt
administrations tough job,
with the Senate overwhelmingly
Democratic. Two years ago he
was nominated by the Republican
National Convention for Vice
President to run of the ticket
with Wendell L. Willkie.
To Elect 4 to House.
Because Of its increase in popu-
lation, Oregon this year will elect
four members Of the House in
stead of three. The incumbent
House members are expected to
be renominated, two Republicans
and one Democrat. In the new
district there Is q plethora Of
candidates for the nomination,
both Republican and Democratic.
As the pre-primary campaigns
for Congress develop, 1t is notice.
able that a large number of new
figures are seeking nomination
both for the Senate and for the
House. The theory seems to be
that many voters are not salts
fled with the way things have
been handled, and new men are
seeking to make issues out of the
records of the incumbent mem
beers, with the war, labor, con-
gressional pensions and other
subjects in mind. Isolationism,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-05-14
Port Of Wage Boost
To Buy War Bonds

BY the Associated Press
NEW YORK, May 14-Fifteen
hundred textile workers here
granted 81 to 81 weekly wage in
creases, have requested that 81 a
week of the pay hike be deducted
for purchase of War savings stamps
This was disclosed yesterday by
Col. William P Cavanaugh, arbi-
TRAITOR, in announcing an award
granting the increases to employees
of ISL cloth-converting firms.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-05-14
Powder Firm Official Dies

WILMINGTON, Del, May IA Up.
John Findlay Van Lear. SO, who
served until recently as vice presi-
dent of the Atlas Powder Co., died
yesterday in hospital here after
an illness of several weeks. Mr..
Van Lear was an outstanding figure
in the explosives and chemical in
dUStrV
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serves also as a
test for such
new W e a p o n s
and technique
as the Germans
may have been
developing dur
ing the winter
training period.
If the Ger
mans can sue
coed in retaking
the Kerch Pen
insula and thus
b r ng tn e / r
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-05-14
By MAI, GEORGE FIELDING
ELIOT.

The significance of the German
offensive on the Kerch Peninsula
in the Crimea is quite clear. This
is a preparatory operation which
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-05-14

not hamper the
war effort. All
of the m an y
t gs that
c h ar a cterized
our scheme OF
living before
D e C e m b er 7
should be held
on to, even II in
stream Ii ned
fashion. so that
seeds of the life
we used to live
will be left
when the war Is
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-05-14

q 3 c ! s ] o n s IN
stantly because
Of the pressure
OF time, this fac
tor Of consider
ing subsequent
political opposi-
ton becomes a
hindrance in
stead of a help
to the war eff
fort.
A case in point
arose recently in
connection with
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-05-14
.McLemore-
Suggests Home Con Be
Vocation Resort
BY HENRY McLEMORE.

It is the duty OF every American
to do his best to preserve the
American way of life, provided. OF
course, that the preservation does
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-05-14

THE opinions OF the oriters this their not
necessarily The Stars Such opinions presented IN The
Stars effort to gue all sides OF questions OF interest to its
readers although such opinions be contradictory
Themselves and directly opposed to The Stars.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-05-14
Army.Speed
By-pdsses
Politics
Immunity From
Congress Pressure on
Appointments Urged
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.

Fear of congressional criticism is
often a salutary influence upon ex-
ecutive agencies, but when Army
and Navy off1fflcers have to make
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-05-14
sideration to farm labor claims fol
deferment.

sideratlon TO farm labor claims Tor
deferment.
Cooperative Arrangement.
Latest action on this was the CO.
operative arrangement with the De-
partment of Agriculture's county
war boards in February after Secre-
tary Wickard had pointed out that
agriculture wants no special priv
ileges but is faced by serious short
age of farm labor.
How the Man Power Commission
will deal with the problem of keep
ing men on the farms may become a
model for some form of freezing of
man power on essential jobs in other
industries, with or without resorting
to legislation.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1942-08-22
Bray, OF Local B-9O,
Enlists In US. Navy

The employees of the Jem Electric
Co. of New Haven together with
Abraham Lapides, owner, gave Har-
old Bray, member of Local BOO,
Electricians, send-off party this
week. Bray, who is q years of age
and a member of the Union since
1888, enlisted in the U. S. Navy. He
is the Locals 41st member to be
indicted.
Robert Schecter, member of BOO
and business agent of Local 234, N.
H. Fed. of Musicians, was the toast
master and Mr.. Lapides produced the
eats, which everybody present en-
joyed. The highspot came when
Schecter presented Bray with a gold
embossed wallet bearing Bray's name
and containing SIS. That was the way
the boys in the shop showed what
they thought of Uncle Sans newest
recruit.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1942-08-22
Joslyn Named
LaborAdviisor
OF Conn. NYA
Business Manager Of Local
40, Sheet Metal Workers,
Is Honored

George A. JosIyn of Hamden,
business manager of Local 40,
Sheet Metal Workers Union, this
week accepted an appointment as
a labor representative on the Conn.
Advisory Committee of the Nation
al Youth Administration.
The appointment was made by
Aubrey Williams, national admins
traitor of the NYA. The text of Will
1iams' letter to Joslyn follows:
"It.is my great pleasure to ask you
to serve as a member of the Conn.
Advisory Committee of the National
Youth Administration, representing
labor, for the fiscal year 1942-43.
''The National Youth Admins
tration, as you know, is definite
unit in the total war effort with the
responsibility, to train boys and
girls to take their places in war
industry. Our program has been
adjusted for national use to fill a
national need. Our production
work is mainly for the Army and
Navy.
''The President expresses the de-
side, which / of course share, that
we carry on NYA's war program in
close cooperation with citizens in
the communities who will maintain
advisory functions that have been
SO helpful in the past.
"While the changes of program will
mean some changes in the types of
committees advice and assistance, we
very seriously need at this time your
counsel and aid in fulfilling the as
signment given us for the best pos
sible contribution to Winning the war"