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Evening star., 1942-08-13

braska, who sought the sena-
torial nomination in his State.
Mr.. Coffee, they declared, was an
isolationist and obstructionist.
His defeat was brought about,
however, in a large field of can
didates, by a popular radio COM
mentator, Foster May. Had Mr..
Coffee confined himself to seek
ing denomination for his present
seat in the House, the story might
have been different. Also, the
interventionists are claiming a
victory in Ohio, where Repre-
sentative Martin Sweeney, Demo-
crat, was defeated for renomina-
ton.
On the other hand, Senator
Thomas of Idaho, an isolation
ist, was renominated against
couple Of opponents, and half
dozen New York members of the
House, Republicans and Demo-
Gratis, charged with being isola-
tionists. and Representative Mar
cantonio. American Labor party,
won their fights for denomination.
Furthermore, Representatives
Elston and Vorys of Ohio, Re-
publicans, both of whom were
attacked on the ground of oppos-
ing the Presidents foreign poll
cies, won denomination.
If the New Dealers stopped
trying to purge" members of
Congress on the international is
sue and busted themselves with
trying to hold the large major
tiles they have in Congress today,
and to gain oeher seats on do
mestic issues, it would be better
for national unity back Of the
war effort, and probably better
for the Democratic party.
Evening star., 1942-08-13
I'd Rather Be Right
Hitler Thinks in Terms Of This Week or Next;
We Are Still Counting on This Year or Next

war. He has used gliders, and a.so
hand -to-hand combat, with bayonet.
Hitler has had no plan in the Cau-
casus except to win;' his tactics are
the terrible tactics of disregard of
cost, OF making time at any cost.
Not Even Time for Planes.
1t has been noticed that the Ger
mans have conducted remarkably
few air operations far back of the
Russian lines. They cannot. They
have no time. The Germans are
not even pausing, in their usual
fashion, every week or two, for a lull
during which to establish airports
and bases that would allow forward
aviation activity for their short
range planes. Germany's ground
troops have all but outrun the air,
for the first time in this war. That
is sign of how Hitler Is pressing.
That tells us how greatly Hitler
breads an interruption.
The interruption he breads is the
second front. He Is thinking Of
time in terms of this week or next
Some of us are still thinking of it
in terms of this year or next. trying
TO take up a defensive position in
the calendar, as they bid the Rus
slams 10 do in the mountains.
Evening star., 1942-08-13
Dodge Scion S Death
Expected After COLLAPSE
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
DETROIT, Aug. 13-Death ap-
preached today for John Duval
Dodge, playboy son of the late multi
millionaire John F. Dodge, as police
investigated the escapade which led
to his arrest and thence to a bed
in a public hospital.
Unconscious for more than "a
hours, Mr.. Dodge, 43, was being ad-
ministered oxygen at Receiving
Hospital where he had been taken
following his collapse in police
precinct station early yesterday. DR..
Donald M. Morrill,, hospital super
intendent, said Mr.. Dodge had little
chance to live.
Two policemen arrested Mr.. Dodge
in a Van Dyke place home at $3.50
am. yesterday after woman re-
ported she had seen a man pry a
screen from a window Of the home
At the police station Mr.. Dodge COL
lapsed and was removed to the
hospital where he was found to be
suffering from a cerebral hem
orrhage.
The owner of the house, Howard
E. Lange, was on vacation with
his family at Belle River, Ontario.
Dodge has been my good friend
for IL years." Mr. Lange said, "and
can come to my home any time he
wants to, whether I'm there or not"
Evening star., 1942-08-13
BY CONSTANTINE BROWN.

The development of the civil
disobedience movement in India
is viewed with increasing alarm
in American military quarters.
While Washington is reluctant
to discuss the political aspects
of the strife between the ALL
India Congress Party and the
British government, the military
consequences are openly regard
ed as potentially disastrous for
the United Nations unless the
whole thing is stopped soon.
In many circles conversant
with the Indian situation it is
felt that revival of the old LASH
ing penalty and display of armed
force, which might have been
adequate in peacetime or when
Britain was engaged in war far
from the Indian Ocean. will not
prove successful this time. United
Nations forces in India today are
barely sufficient to fight off the
japanese, who are at the very
gates of the country. They are
nowhere sufficient to cope with
an insurrection of millions of
Indians and also take care of
the enemy,
The civil disobedience move
ment has just begun. All such
campaigns are slow to start, but
gain rapidly in momentum. The
likelihood of intensification of
the movement is heightened by
the fact that the Hindus are
being spurred on by a number OF
Axis agents, who have been ex-
plotting the Indian independence
movement for years.
Gandhi's Word Powerful.
American and British indus
tries, recently established in In
dia to take advantage of vital
Evening star., 1942-08-13
This Changing World
Armed Force and Whip Lash Likely to Hove
Little Effect on Futolistic Masses in India

nor of Bombay to the police and
armed forces to use all means
at their disposal to prevent
trouble will have much effect on
the fatalistic Indians. Neither is
the marching Of troops, fully
armed with modern war para
phernalia. through the streets OF
the principal Indian cities likely
to make an impression on the
hundreds of millions of Indians,
who have seen these things be-
fore. Gandhi's word is more
powerful than the Tommy guns
and tanks of the British, 1t is
feared in Washington.
There is no question that in
places garrisoned by British
troops attempts at rebellion can
be drowned in blood, but the
British Army is not large enough
to cover the whole Indian penin-
sula and 1t is highly doubtful
that American troops--if there
are any there-will ever be used
Evening star., 1942-08-13
Blocks Aid to China.


Blocks Aid to China.
Under normal conditions we
would look at the situation as
interested. but passive, specta-
tors. Officially We could say
nothing, since it would mean in
terfering in Britain's own affairs.
But the situation is not normal.
We are vitality interested in the
Indian Ocean and are equally
interested in giving every possible
support to China.
The main arteries of transport
into China are closed. The little
we manage to send Generalissi-
mo Chang Kai-shek must go
through India. A strife-ridden
India will make 1t impossible for
us to do anything more for the
Chinese. Such a development
would play directly into Japa-
nese hands. Hence, many Off
cial eyebrows were raised when
the methods the British intend
ed to use in India became known.
Until We have won the war
India will be as important to us
as it is to the British and it's
hoped that some solution other
than the whipping post and
armed force will be found before
1t is too late.
Evening star., 1942-08-13
Brio. Gen. O. A. Petty
OF Connecticut Dies
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW HAVEN, Conn, Aug, 13.--'
Brig. Gen. Orville A. Petty. SO, one
of Connecticuts best known SOL
diers and clergymen, died last
night.
Pastor of Plymouth Congrega-
tional Church here, he was regi-
mental chaplain on the Mexican
border in 1915 and was senior chap
lain of the 102d Connecticut In
fantry Regiment in France, winning
the Croix de Guerre and a citation
from Gen. Pershing.
From 1929 to 1888 he was colonel
and commanding officer of the
l69th Infantry Regiment, Con-
necticut National Guard. When he
retired the State Legislature pro-
NOTED him to brigadier general by
special act. He retired from the
Plymouth Church pastorate about
10 years ago.
Evening star., 1942-08-13
Dutch Merchant Ship
Sunk Off South America
Bv the Associated Press.

Bv the Associated Press.
A four-day hull in announced ship
sinkings was broken by the Navy
Department yesterday in disclosing
the loss of small Dutch merchant
man with death toll of % crewmen
in late July when a submarines tor
pedo sent her to the bottom off the
East Coast of South America.
Only IA seamen were rescued after
the attack which broke the vessel in
two and made it the 420th an
nounced wartime merchant victim
In the Western Atlantic area, as tab
ulated by the Associated Press.
Both ends of our ship went
straight up in the air and then
went down quick" First Officer
Arien Vlam related, adding that
most Of those killed were caught in
half-lowered lifeboats when the
stricken craft plunged beneath the
surface three minutes after the tor
pedo struck amidships.
A British merchant vessel directed
to the scene by Navy patrol plane
picked up the survivors after two
days spent on liferafts around which
a school of sharks had been hover
ing.
Evening star., 1942-08-13


Dog move. 1t is difficult for any
tail to wag any dog-especially
IN open elections. The great
bulk of the voters in this country
were opposed to the entry of
this country into the war-before
Pearl Harbor. Polls of all kinds
bore this out. They have not
become excited, therefore, over
the attempts of the intervention-
lists to defeat members of the
House who occupied more or
less the same position as them
selves,
Furthermore, this pre-Pearl
Harbor isolationism charged to
Individual members of the House
and Senate is serving to arouse
bitter feeling in the country-at
time when the country is at
war and should be closely united.
You can't tell a group of Re-
pt(blicans, or of Democrats, that
their Representatives are in effect
diSoyal-when those Representa-
tives and the constituents who
SUPPORT them, and their relatives
are engaged in fighting or aiding
the war effort-and not cause
vast resentment. This war is
not being fought by Democrats
alone, or by Republicans alone,
in the armed forces Of the
country.
Issue Raised by Democrats.
Unfortunately, the New Deal
Democratic leadership elected to
raise this prewar foreign rela-
tions issue even as long ago as
last winter, when the congress
sional campaign was still around
the corner. Democratic National
Chairman ed" Flynn took the
lead, poking at the Republicans
and saying that a Republican
victory in the House elections
this year would be equal to a
major military defeat for the
Nation. He based this statement
on the failure of the Republicans
to 60 along with the Presidents
foreign policies in the past.s The
President himself followed with
a suggestion that only men who
had supported his foreign policies
irrespective of party-be elected
to Congress. Other lesser leaders
in the party have raised again
and again the pre-Pearl Harbor
isolationism issue. With all the
isolationist members OF Congress
voting for war measures now,
and ready to continue to do so,
the issue seems out of place.
There are other issues to fight
LhlS campaign on, plenty OF them.
Furthermore, the Democrats are
in The Republicans must find
an issue on which to oust them,
if they can. For the Democrats
to raise the pre-Pearl Harbor
foreign relations issue merely
gives the Republicans an issue on
a platter. Furthermore, it gives
the voters the idea that the Dem
ocrats are trying to make politi-
cal capital out OF the war
and that does not sit we'll.
Fish Overrides Opposition.
Representative Hamilton Fish,
jr., Republican pre-Hearl Harbor
Evening star., 1942-08-13
BY GOULD LINCOLN.

The pre-Pearl Harbor iso-
lationism issue did not pan
out in New York's congressional
primaries on Tuesday. The
story of the attempts of the
pre-Pearl Harbor intervention
lists to purge" both Republican
and Democratic members of the
House who took the isolationist
side before Japan attacked this
country has been pretty much
ithe same in all sections of the
country. These attempts, in the
party primaries. have failed
signally, except in a very few
instances. What happened in
the New York primaries hap
pened also in Illinois, in Missouri,
In Oregon. in Pennsylvania.
| Those New Deal leaders and
others - including Wendell l..
Willkie, the Republican standard
bearer in 1940-who have sought
TO raise the isolationism issue in
The present congressional cam
paign, have tried a tail -wagging
Evening star., 1942-08-13
The Political Mill
Benefits to Democrats and National Unity
Seen If New Dealers Drop Purge Efforts

isolationist, has been the princi-
pal target of the New Dealers
and interventionists. On Tuesday,
he won denomination by a vote
of 1896 to 1867 for his three
opponents. His chief opponent.
Augustus w. Bennett, received
1858 votes In the Presidents
own home county, Dutchess, the
vote was 5,735 for Fish to 2,4l8
for all three of his opponents.
Mr.. Fish did not have the in
dorsement of the Republican Or
ganlzation in that county, al
though he did have the organi-
zation Endorsement in the other
two counties. Putnam and
Orange. The organization in
Duchess County did not indorse
any candidate.
The victory of Representative
Barry, Democrat, In the I'd con-
gressional district of New York
was just as significant as that
of Mr.. Fish. Mr.. Barry was the
target Of the anti-isolationists
and New Dealers. He won, how
ever, In big way.
Whether Mr.. Fish can win next
November in the general election
remains to be seen Mr.. Willkie
already has indicated in a public
statement that means must be
found to defeat him. The Demo-
Gratis have nominated Judge
Ferdinand Hoyt in the 26th dis.
trict to run against Mr.. Fish. 1t
has been suggested that an "in-
dependent" Hoyt for Congress
ticket be placed in the field, so
that the anti-Fish Republicans
can vote for Mr.. Hoyt without
actually voting the Democratic
ticket.
26th Strongly Republican.
The 26th New York district is
and has been strongly Republican
for years. Judge Hoyt won the
Democratic nomination to run
against Mr.. Fish with approx
mately $500 votes cast for him
and a couple of hundred for
his opponent, Edward J. Bowen.
This does not by any means rep
resent the Democratic strength
in the district. Much will depend
upon how many of the votes cast
for Mr.. BENEFIT by anti-Fish Re-
publicans can be turned over to
Judge Hoyt in November. Mr..
Fish won reelection in 1910 by
5000 votes.
The interventionist and New
Deal burgers" are taking some
credit for the defeat of Repre-
sentative Coffee, Democrat, OF Ne
Evening star., 1942-08-13
$4,000 Fire DESTROYS
Bremerton Dormitories
Bv the Associated Press.

BREMERTON, Wash, Aug. 13.--
Flames swept through a new Federal
dormitory project in this over
crowded navy yard city last night,
destroying five dormitories. one pri-
vate residence and an estimated 80
trailer tires.
The fire ragged for almost an hour.
The fire scene was about mile and
half from the navy yard
State Fire Marshal E. l.. Smith
was investigating the fires origin,
believed to have been in an unoc-
cupied dormitory unit.
Construction still was underway
on four of the destroyed units. The
occupied unit destroyed housed 207
navy yard workmen. Six other oc-
cupled units weres saved.
Farm Security Administration
authorities, under whom the dormi-
tory project was operated, said the
loss would be at least $4,000.
Fire Chief Ernest Yeti said a small
fire broke OFT in one of the unfin-
ished units and was quickly extin-
guished. Fifteen minutes later the
second blaze broke out and soon
was out of control.
Evening star., 1942-08-13
5 RCAF Flyers Killed
In Miduir Collision
By the Associated Press.

B. the Associated Press.
WINNIPEG, Aug. 13.-Five of six
RCAF creWmen aboard two twin
motored Arson training planes were
injured fatally late yesterday when
their craft collided and crashed one
mile northeast of the Armstrong
(Ontario) Airport.
A search for the sixth man was
underway at the scene of the crash
The names of the airmen who died
were not disclosed Immediately.
The planes, being ferried from
Winnipeg to Ottawa, had refueled
at Armstrong, 800 miles east of here.
The collision apparently occurred
just after they left that airport.
Evening star., 1942-08-13
BY SAMUEL GRAFTON.


Time: We used to be in the glor-
ious- defense business, but that busi-
ness went bankrupt last spring We
are now entering new business,
the business of making trouble for
the other side. Our hopes ride high
in the Solomon Islands. But one
can almost hear the thin squeal of
japanese editorial writer: why
are we on the defense in the Solo
mons. when our business is in In
dia and in Australia? Don't we
know that defense cannot win this
war? The United States is making
us lose time!"
The Japanese do not want to fight
in the Solomon Islands. They want
20 fight in India and in Australia
Our normal reaction, not so long
ago. would have been to pile up our
forces in India and Australia, and
wait for the enemy TO come knock
ing at the door. Now we are Civ
ing the enemy a task in the Solo
mons. 1t is task the enemy does
not want, a task he has no time
for, in this war to win time.
One Great Chronometer.
For the whole world has become
one great chronometer telling time.
and marching armies are its hanrE.
1t is only when armies stand still
that time is lost.
To go back to Europe, where our
armies are static, let us see how
Hitler is taking advantage of the
time We lose. According to a &C.
neva report, Hitler has just sent
motorized infantry battalion, field
artillery platoon and four midget
tanks into Vichy. The soldiers in
volved are, like Laval, pretending
to be Frenchmen.
These forces will undoubtedly be
used to keep the French people
from rising to help an Allied in
vasion. In the Netherlands. Hitler
Is actually training the populace to
stay indoors when invasion comes;
he promises the most blood -curdling
penalties If Dutchman so much
as looks out of q window at the
greatest show in history.
Meanwhile, using the time we
allow him, Hitler is taking more
food from France. A second front
year from now will only find the
French people weakened by an
additional year of semi-starvation
The Foreign Policy Association re-
ports that there have been % per
cent more deaths this year than
last among the French population
between the ages of Is and 60.
Time is drying up the French race
and the French nation, leaving a
less vital force with which to help
us when we finally arrive.
Time Adds, Time Subtracts.
We have naively supposed that
time has only one meaning, more
arms for us each year; postpone the
issue long enough and we win.
But time is not merely sum in
arithmetic, one more American SOL
dier per second, one more American
tank per hour or per minute; time
is also subtraction, one less Russian
per minute, one less Frenchman, or,
perhaps, one more Norwegian, say,
who gives up the unequal struggle
and goes to work in German fac
tory.
We are buying time with the Cau-
casus; Hitler is buying time with
German lives. He has used every
tactic known to soldiers during these
last Ave weeks, no matter how costly.
He has used tanks; he has massed
infantry behind tanks; he has placed
infantry on tanks, gun in hand.
He has used field artillery in the
style of the First World War, and
he has dropped paratroopers among
the Russians in the style Of this
Evening star., 1942-08-13

raw materials for the manufac-
ture of war implements for the
armies defending India and
China, are already feeling the eff
fects of the disobedience cam
paign. Some have been compelled
to shut down because labor is
no longer available. The more
fortunate plants are working at
curtailed speed and fear that
they may have to shut down
soon.
There is little likelihood that
the orders issued by the Cover
Evening star., 1942-08-13
Mai. james Roosevelt
In Midway Bottle

3. the Associated Press.
The Navy confirmed today that
Mai. James Roosevelt of the Ma
rines, President Roosevelts eldest
son, was at Midway Island during
the battle of Midway early In June.
No further information was given
out.
Evening star., 1942-08-13

W | t h nothing
more dangerous
near us than a
dog with neas,
we demand that
fighting men be
sent here, there
and everywhere,
and to hell with
the odds.
1t m u S t a ! !
seem pretty silly
to Army men, to
the Army men
who know the
Evening star., 1942-08-13
Loborite Is Elected
To Commons Vacancy

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Aug. 13.-W. H. Guy, a
Laborite, was elected to the House
of Commons seat left vacant by the
death of D. M. Adams also Labor
lite, it was announced today
In the voting. held yesterday, in
the South Popular constituency, Mr..
Guy polled 3,375 votes against SAL
for the Rev, Patrick Figgis, Christian
Socialist.
Evening star., 1942-08-13

to handle, ire
spective of the
S e C t / on of the
country or the
party involved.
To call a can
didate an "iso-
lationist" a n d
ask voters to re-
Iject h i m for
public Office on
that account is
somehow asso-
ciated with i'm
putations of dis
byaltv In the
Evening star., 1942-08-13

THE opinions OF the ,orers this their oo not
necessarily The Stars opinions presented in The
Stars effort to gue all sides OF questions Of interest to its
readers although such opinions contradictory among
themselves and directly opposed to The Stars,
Evening star., 1942-08-13
McLemore
Second-Front Tolkers
Should Fuce Focts
BY HENRY McLEMORE.

NEW YORK.-Too many OF us
talk about a second front without
any first-hand knowledge.
Deep In our living room chairs,s
Evening star., 1942-08-13
IsoIutionism
Errutic as
An Issue
locul Conditions
Rule in Absence
Of National Themes
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.

About all the elections in both
Republican and Democratic pri-
maries indicate is that isolationism
as political issue is difficult one
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-21

that the house began to shake
Her eyes opened.
"H'Io, Hon. she said sleepily.
"Just get home? Anything hap
pen tonight"
Nope" Danny said, pulling
off his pants.
Suddenly he remembered and he
sat there with one leg of his
trousers in his hand.
Eyes, II did. I got bawled out
for being three minutes late for
roll call. Annie, you got To help
me watch the time after this"
"Oh, that, And why should
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-21

wouldn't care so much for my
self. But il would be awful 10
have"
II know" he said Let's go
home"
When he saw her 60 IN, he
started for the corner where his
relief was due in five minutes. He
passed another darkened doorway
and saw shadow blacker than
the darkness. He pulled his gun
Come out" he barked,
No answer. The shadow did not
move. He leaned over and touched
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-21
Short Story
Quiet as a Tomb

aell-lt saloons 10 furtNe litu,
holes m the wall