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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-02-04
The Great Game of Politics
President Urged to Drive Parasites
From Defense Organization First

Naturally, no one else has. Every
head has had practically a free
hand as to the number of employees
he could appoint and the salaries
he could pay.
Fantastic Situation.
The result has been fantastic. All
sense Of proportion has been lost.
These alphabetical agencies just
swell and swell and swell. The
publicity army is the best illustrs-
ton. There are now 1885 full-time
Government press agents and 81 ys1s
on part time. There are more than
thousand individuals on the
White House executive stan. No one
knows how many there are under
the price administration, or in the
o. G. D., or In any Of the others.
The pressure from members Of
Congress and politicians to put more
on never relaxes.
In the creation Of great war ma
chine certain amount OF confusion,
Of course, is inevitable. No one ex-
poets perfectly functioning organi-
cation without any duplication and
with no drones. But. what has hap
pened here is beyond reason. If the
President wants to make room for
legitimate war workers by driving
the parasites out Of Washington, the
place to start is in his defense or
ganization. He thus not only could
solve the room-shortage problem but
he could improve the tone, temper
and efficiency Of our whole war
effort.
(Copyright, I942.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-02-04

substantial reinforcementS, are
fighting heroically to prevent a
Japanese victory until these re-
Inducements arrive.
OF all the Nipponese detectives
Singapore feels the pressure most.
1t can accommodate only linn
tied number of troops and its air.
dromes are under constant threat
Of Jap bombers, coming either
from the recently conquered
Malay Peninsula or Southern
Indo-C Chinese air bases.
It is reasonable to believe that
the British have moved por-
ton Of their aviation to Sumatra
and Java, where they are safer
than at Singapore. They are
at a disadvantage on those two
Dutch islands, however, because
Of the shorter time their fighters
can spend in the air over Singa-
pore. combating onrushing Jap
bombers.
Water Is Key to Situation.
The key to the situation is still
believed to be water supply. If
the japanese succeed in destroy
ing the islands cisterns, which
have been their principal target
the last 48 hours, it will be very
difficult for the British garrison
and the hundreds of thousands of
civilians to hold out.
Sea water can, OF course, be dis
titled, but this process provides
only a limited quantity. The
distilling apparatus at Singapore
may be sufficient to provide a
pint of water day for the fight
ing forces, but 1t cannot provide
even that small quantity for the
entire population. which is esti-
mated at TOO. 900 to soc, 900 people.
The British commander of the
island fortress realizes the i'm
portance of holding out to the
last and his garrison will do all
that is humanity possible.
The situation is less desperate
in the Philippines, where Gen.
Douglas MacArthur's heroes need
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-02-04
This Changing World
Poetic Defenders Heurtened by Word
Thot Requirements Are on Way

only military supplies to enable
them to hang on to their posi-
tons. Until they are forced into
Corregidor they can live on the
land they are defending. A GER
tain amount Of ammunition Is
flltering into Luzon by various
means which cannot be dis
closed.
Reinforcement on Way.
Corregidor itself Is now quiet,
after having been subjected to q
number Of air assaults and sur
prise attacks. According to mill
tary experts, It can hold out,
even If Gen. Macarthur Is COM
PEELED to abandon Batan, for sew
eral months. The American
Filipino force Is as aware as other
Allied fighters in the Pacific area
that on their resistance depends
the thwarting Of Japan's plans.
Official announcement from
London, Canberra and Singapore
that help is being rushed to the
beleaguered territories Is not
wishful thinking. 1t is a fact
that an imposing force is on the
way to that theater Of operations,
but it will take some time before
1t can reach its destination.
Japs Getting Worried.
1t is hoped that the delay will
not be fatal. In any event those
in the beleaguered positions know
that help is coming. Their resist
ance, consequently, is more eff
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-02-04
By CONSTANTINE BROWN

The Japs have started their
major effort to break the power
Of the United Nations on three
fronts Singapore. Java and Luz
Zon.
The forces of the United States,
Britain and the Netherlands are
fighting desperately with their
backs to the wall. Toxic aims to
break the resistance of these
troops-inferior in both numbers
and material-before real as
sistance can reach the battle
zone.
The commanders and troops
Of the United Nations, expecting
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-02-04
Noted Doctor Dies

SCARSDALE, N. Y, Feb. 4 (P.-
DR.. Justin Herold, 81, an authority
on legal phases of medicine who
testified at more than 200 murder
trials, died yesterday. Professor of
medical jurisprudence at Fordham
University's Medical School for II
years, he was the author of several
books on legal medicine.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-02-04

II needed war
workers are un-
able to find liv-
ing quarters be-
cause of "rich
social parasites"
W h o, pre-empt-
ing the great
houses, c o m e
here merely be-
cause Washing
ton Is an ex-
citing place to
spend the winter
then dislodging
them is q sound
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-02-04

to build up q
totalitarian sin
gle party system,
This impress
sion, which Is
conveyed in lit
orally hundreds
Of letters from
corr es pondents
in different parts
Of the country,
Is most unfortu-
nate but there Is
very little any
body in WASH
iYaufon can do To
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-02-04
On the Record
HitIers Speech Called On Apology to Germany
And an Effort at Standardization
3y DOROTHY THOMPSON.

BY DOROTHY THOMPSON.
The Hitler speech taken as q
whole b signiflcant-as i'm
portant for what he did not say
as for what he did.
On the ninth anniversary Of
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third assistant
dog-catcher In
charge Of liver.
spotted ARE
dales.
That's the way
they feel about
Mr.. Biddle out
here.
NJ sybe tho
feeling Is all
wrong. Maybe
they have the
man pegged In
correctly. 7
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-02-04

the NaZ1 rev.
olution, tn e
German ar
mics are suf-
fering t h e ir
first real de-
feats in this
war, with i'm
mense casual
ties on tn G.
eastern front.
TIL ere has
been q shake
up in tn e
high CO m
m a n d, and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-02-04

uUt Suuty, lOE IlIllScu dllu IOI
the German nation.
r. y +
Finally, he devoted nine min
utes to q report on the present
situation Of Germany In the war
itself.
In this nine minutes he gave
no figures on casualties. In
sharp contrast to the statements
that came from him and DR..
Goebbels in December, Hitler
plays down the dangers of the
situation. He attributes Ger
man reverses in Russia wholly to
the cold. He depicts the war as
having lasted four months, dur
ing which Germany was on the
offensive for four and on the
defensive for four mora de-
fensive position taken wholly be-
cause Of weather conditions.
OF course, as I have shown in
a more complete analysis Of this
part OF the talk in published re-
ports, this is rank misrepresenta-
ton for the German Armies con-
tinued an offensive aimed at
Leningrad, Moscow and the gates
to the Caucasus, not for four
months but for we'll over five;
as late as December 81, Hitler
himself announced that no re-
treat was in order, but that the
armies must lose no foot of
ground, and the entire campaign
has not lasted for eight months
but only for a few days over
seven.
It is clear by now that the quar-
rel between Hitler and the Gen.
eral Staff arose over precisely
this matter Of beginning a new
offensive In October; that the
generals counselled against 1t,
warning that II it failed 1t would
bring disaster; that Hitler, with
an eye on Japan, insisted, and
that it was this continuance Of
the offensive into the dead Of
winter that set of the Rus
sian counteroffensive under the
most favorable possible condi-
tons. Now, in this speech, Hit
Ter denies that the offensive really
continued.
Far from being an aggressive
speech-when taken as a whole
the speech is one long apology
and self-justiflcation. Hitler, like
the German armies, is on the de-
fensive; a personal defensive. He
says there will never be another
1918 as long as he Is in power,
thus qualifying the possibility.
He says he knows that no one else
has as much authority In Ger
many as he. He tries to take the
guilt for the war of Germany
and especially of the Nazi Party.
And perhaps most important Of
all, the whole speech is radical
and addressed to masses. He at
tacks tories and "hyena capital
lists" He denounces the British
and American social systems and
CLOSES over the Russian. He en-
phasizes the socialism Of Naziis1n
and plays up social gains. And
he mentions only one Nazi leader:
Robert Ley Of the Labor Front.
From the speech, therefore, one
can get some picture of the state
of mind in Germany. The masses
do fear a repetition Of 1918; they
do have a sense of guilt; they do
blame the Nazi leadership for the
war; they do suspect some ter
rifle mistake in the eastern cam
paign; they do want peace, and
only such Nazi innovations as
the Labor Front and Strength
Through Joy are really popular.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-02-04

THE opinions OF the Drtters this page
necessarily The Stars Such opinions presented In The
Stars effort to 0ue all sides OF questions of interest It's
readers although such opinions contradictory among
themselves and directly opposed to The Stars.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-02-04

Henry McLensrs. wouldn't know
about that. AL I know Is that Cali
fornians have the feeling that he =
the one In charge of the japanese
menace. and that he Is handling 1t
with all the severity Of Lord Faun-
tleroy playing squat tag with his
maiden aunt.
I've been here q week now, and
have Travelled a few hundred miles
up and down the coast, and have
yet to meet a man, woman, or child
who doesn't think that Mr.. Biddle's
handling Of the bow-legged sons
and daughters Of the Rising Sun -
mighty ridiculous.
They all got q laugh out OF the
latest action from Washington-the
action that said that by February
"a Japanese in certain sections must
leave their homes and move deeper
into the interior. That's . stirring
bit Of action, isn't it?
Don't tell them to move away
from defense centers now. No. oh
heavens, no. Give them time to per-
feet their time bombs, complete
their Internal machines, and gener-
ally prepare for the exodus. 1t would
be shame, wouldn't 1t, and an AZ
front to civil liberties, to move the
japanese from In and about defense
centers without proper warning. 1t
might even upset their plans Of
sabotage.
Here's an angle for you to figure
out There is much talk about NOV
ing all the airplane factories out of
California; take them inland for
protection. Sabotage, and that sort
of stuff. Why move the plants and
leave the Japs2 Does it make sense
to heave and haul Q bomber factory
miles and miles instead Of lifting the
Japs and their shacks and showing
them closer to the Rockies?
The Government isn't playing fair
with California. 1t shuts down race
meetings. 1t calls Oh the Rose Bowl.
1t prohibits large gatherings Of citi-
zens. It asks that the roads be kept
clear. Why? Well, the general guess
Is that the Government wants to
be able to move the Army quickly
against any uprising by the Japs.
But nothing Is done about the Japs.
It's like a guy standing by with .
lot OF flrs.-aid equipment to help the
victims of an accident which Is ex-
pected to happen, but doing nothing
to prevent the accident from hap
pentng.
The Government Is treating the
japanese out here so nicely that a
fellow Is almost afraid to know
them. He might wind up being ac-
cused Of being fifth columnist. But
at the risk Of having the r. B. L
collar me for being unfriendly to-
ward q national enemy, and throw
me In the calaboose for melting
unfriendliness among . race that
hates us, I am going to keep ham
mering on this typewriter until the
boys in Washington realize how
California feels.
California wants the Japs put
away until this thing Is over.
California figures that the true
Americans among its japanese pop
ulation will be willing to undergo a
bit Of undeserved hardship IN order
to forestan any dangerous action by
the ones who aren't. And that's
right. I have talked to enough Of
them to know that they are willing
to be kicked around If it will help
this country from being kicked
around.
I'd better quit right here. One
more paragraph and I'll be getting
mad-not as a Californian, mind
you, but as an American.
Distributed by Mcknight Syndicate. rnc.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-02-04
BY FRANK r. KENT.

No one INDEPENDENTLY In a
time Of war-to defend that un-
pleasant breed Of people to whom the
word parasite Justly can be applied.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-02-04
|McLemore-
BiddIe Just PIuyins
log With Jops
Nv HENRY McLEMOEE,

SAN DIEGO, Calif.-Mr. Biddle Is
the Attorney General In Washington,
but he could run for ONCE In Cali
fornia and not even win the post Of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-02-04
Neither Party
Has Loyalty
Copyright
Apology for FIynn's
PIeu Seen Due
From President
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.

Altogether too many people have
come to the conclusion that Presi-
dent Roosevelt is using the emer-
gency to intrench the New Deal and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-02-04

other Republicans who have sup
ported the Presidents foreign policy
might soon have something to say.
(Reproduction Rights Reserved)
Evening star., 1942-06-05

patton" Is an item suitable for
those who like that kind Of music.
Those who like their movies better
than banal as to story, however,
will find it fitting their standards
very badly.
Evening star., 1942-06-05
Keith's Film Another Saga
Of the Birth of the Blues
'Syncopation' Recounts Again the Tale
Of Saving Music's Low Nativity
And Its Battle for Life
By JAY CARMODY,

droolng
blow their lungs out and drumners
nothing Hollywood
the rhythm of today
weeks paying the nema tribute nativity
Of at a picture
which differs predecessors;
Evening star., 1942-06-05

boudoir farce AL Woods once staged,
a free translation Of that one not
doing it any harm, Of course, but not
helping 1t any either. AS 1t comes
out on the screen 1t involves Joan
Bennett, Glenda Farrell, Una Mer-
kel, George Brent, Mischa Auer and
Ernest Truck in some stupid marital
mixups not even the worst of them
deserves.
The worst OF them In this IN
stance, incidentally, is MIR. Auer, who
rooneys all over the screen, indulging
in facial contortions that would
permanently damage the hide Of q
less well-cured ham. The others
can't do much more than dash about
energeticany and read their lines,
attempting meanwhile to get across
the impression that they, too. are
sorry about the whole thing.
Still. If you are likely to be filled
with happy hilarity at sequence
wherein an innocent wife hides an
ardent suitor In various corners and
crannies in her bedroom while her
husband pops In and out Of doors
until she Is q nervous wreck, and II
you feel you might be awed by the
sight Of Mr.. Auer larruping around
the place In long underwear and
top hat, don't let us deprive you Of
the pleasure.
Headliner Of the Capitol's stage
show is the lovely Miss Connee Bos-
well, who probably sings popular
songs Of the day better than the first
seven singers you can name off,
hand, if you keep Dinah Shore out
Evening star., 1942-06-05
Road to Galveston

Dorothy Lamour's next at Para
mount will be Galveston" built
about the spectacular rise Of the
Texas oil port as an American
metropolis. The Galveston flood at
the turn Of the century will provide
the picture with a catastrophe
climax in the tradition of the San
Francisco earthquake and Chicago
fire. Galveston" is to follow Miss
Evening star., 1942-06-05
Where and When
Current Theater Attractions
and Time of Showing

| Current Theater Attractions
| and Time of Showing
Stage.
NationaH"Candida," with a prize
cast for Bernard Shsw's drama:
Capitol-"Twin Beds" q comedy
with George Brent and Joan Ben
nett: II am, 1:45, 4:30, tbs and
9:55 pm. Stage shows: 1880, 3:35,
$40 and eos pm.
Columbia-"Rio Rita" Abbott and
Costello south of the border: 10:45
am, l, 3:15, $50, 7:45 and 10 pm.
Earle-"In This Our Life" the
prize novel with Bette Davis: II
am, 1:45, 4:30, 7:20 and 1905 pm.
Stage shows: l, $50, 6::35 and 9:25
pm.
Keith's-"Syncopation." Adolphe
Menjou and Jam Sessions: l1:15
am, 1:20, 3:25, 5::35, TAO and 9:45
pm.
Warsaw Concerto" gentle
people in the maelstrom: II am,
l2:45, 2:30, Ais, 8, 7:50 and S:40 pm.
Metropolitan Reap the Wild
Wind" q Ia Cecil B. De Mile:
1l:30 am, 2, 4:35, ITO and $40 PM.
Palace-"My Gal SAL" Rita Hay
worth on Tin Pan Alley: 1l:20 am,
1:50, 4:25, 7 and s::35 pm.
"The Real Glory" Gary
Cooper with the Marines in the
Philippines: 2, $50, $50, 7:5o and
$50 pm.
Evening star., 1942-06-05

Krupa. Harry James, Charley Bar
nett, Joe Venuti, Alvino Rey and
Jack Jenney. 1t is a passage to
make the swing set swoon, veri-
table paean of Joy that the blues
were born and survived all the con-
tempt and disdain which surrounded
their unhappy infancy.
~
Apart from the musicians men
toned, participants in this caval-
cade Of tempest-tossed music in
clude such people as Jackie Cooper,
Bonita Granville, Adolphe Menjou,
etc.
The writer assigned to the Job Of
making them all look logical in front
of the same camera hit upon the
plot that defies you to find a single
new element in it. His general idea,
which is historically correct, is that
the blues were born more painfully
than they ever have been received
by the most resolute admirer Of
long haired music since.
BY way of getting it across, he
tells the sad story of little mother
less New Orleans girl who moved
to Chicago with her rich pop and an
old nanny at the age Of sevenish.
The child Miss Granville) could
never forget the musical travail on
Basin street, the loud, moaning
strains which comprised trouble
music" so called because it drained
the melancholia from the hearts
Of those who played it.
Swing couldn't forget her, either,
or something, because 1t followed
her to Chicago, where 1t was not
very welcome at first but where it
determined to find q toe-hold or
die.
1t took a lot of primitive music
to batter down the resistance of
Chicago, almost enough one would
think to have beaten Boston, but
battered down it eventually was.
Two bands participate in the con-
flict, one colored group, the other
a set of youthful whites headed
by Cooper as leader.
Once the picture gets them intro
duced, it retraces the steps Of its
predecessors, showing that the swing
artist suffered q contumely as great,
II not greater, than the old classi-
cists who lived in garrets on whisky
and crackers. Even Chicago, tradi-
honally the home of the open mind,
scoffed at both groups, forced them
TO play in the lowest and least ap-
petizing dives, drove them to sleep
ing five to the bed in cheap hotels
and generally treated them in a
fashion to break the hearts Of peo-
pie with a less lofty conviction of
destiny.
Dwelling so heartily upon the
theme of struggle. "Syncopation"
seldom finds pause for a note of
comedy. Its most valiant effort In
that direction is a courtroom scene,
where the little girl, now grown
to a demoniac pianist, is on trial
for creating riot with her music.
Instead of being funny, as one out
of every six courtroom scenes is, it
contrives to be inept and ludicrous.
The acting in "Syncopation" is
more the fault of the plot than
those who weave their ways through
1t. Miss Granville and Cooper (who
sprouts a mustache as the picture
grows older) are not to blame If
they are forced to quote from Walt
Whitman, generally conduct them
selves like pair of amateurs caught
with script of Romeo and Juliet"
They are hardly any worse off, how
ever, than poor Menjou who, as
the father who does not compre-
hend swing, has to listen to it until
his sanity is menaced.
When it is plain music, or more
accurately fancy music. "Synco-
Evening star., 1942-06-05

just as thin as
ever. the latter
Just as sticky.
There is, how
ev er. an un-
broken volume
of loud, funda-
mentally morbid
music, the cli-
mactic stretch
played by the
m ost amazing
swing band ever
assembled. That
would be the
one composed of
Benny GOO d.
"a O n q "A a
Evening star., 1942-06-05

Lancur's now completed The Road
to Morocco" on her Paramount
schedule and will be made by Sol G.
Siegel as associate producer. Robert
Pirosh Is now writing an origins.
story to order.
Evening star., 1942-06-05

"TwIN BEDS" . United Artists re-
lease Of an Edward Small production
starring Joan Bennett and George Brent;
directed BY Tim whalen; screen play by
Curtis Kenyon. Kenneth Earl and Z. Edwin
Moran; based on the play by Margaret
Mayo and Salisbury Field. At the Capitol.
Evening star., 1942-06-05
Plays Tex Guinan
Ann Sheridan has been bol

ALI olIeIIuH I1d8 U00u pO81VWeU
by Paramount to play Texas Guinan,
Broadway night club queen Of the
1905, IN the studios forthcoming
musical based upon the life Of the
famed Hello, Sucker" girl Miss
Sheridan comes to Paramount as
the result Of q deal with Warner
Bros, by which Fred MacMurray
will be loaned to that studio for the
male lead in Princess ORourke." :"
Miss Sheridan has been first choice
all along for the role of the Texas
girl who became the most famous
Evening star., 1942-06-05

Of this. Miss Boswell Is pretty
wonderful in a repertoire ranging
from sweet to swing. whichever type
Of song she essays no doubt sound
ing better than the lad who wrote
it thought it would, unless he hoped
Miss Boswell would sing it.
Others on the stage bill are the
Whitson Brothers, Jimmie Edmund
son, Robinson and Martin and the
Rhythm Rockets.
Evening star., 1942-06-05

night club impresario In the world,
and Buddy De sylvia, production
chief at Paramount, who knew Miss
duinan well, Is mainly responsible
for the deal.
Evening star., 1942-06-05

'sYNcOPATION." an R-K-o production,
and Bonita Granville, directed By William
Ps1srie F4snf 4. screen PLAY play By Philip Yorden and
Valentine Davis. At Keith's.
Evening star., 1942-06-05
Bedroom Farce Revived,
But Not Brought to Life
Twin Beds,' New Film at Capitol,
Is 'Escape'-From Sanity;
Connee Boswell on Stage
By HARRY MACARTHUR.

fm at Loews Capitol to be another
a
probably that getting around Hollywood
the Hoywoods notion Of
apparently being flight refuge for backward idiots Escape
from
q that crumbing venerable
Evening star., 1942-06-05

!, not a bit in
The former Is
Evening star., 1942-06-05

ADJUSTMENTS.
Evening star., 1942-06-05

v for victory. Dot dot dot dash
to the nearest post Office for War
savings stamps.