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Evening star., 1943-08-09
BY the Associated Press


PITTSBURGH, Aug. e.-An cleo
tronic chemist" described as faster
and more accurate than a dozen
skilled chemists, soon will be speed
ing the production Of war-vital syn
thetic rubber, the Westinghouse
Electric & Manufacturing Co., dis
closes.
Developed by DR.. John A. Nipple,
q 32-year-old physicist, the new
instrument will accelerate wartime
chemical research by freeing hum
dreds OF skilled chemists from
tedious, but important production
testing in synthetic rubber plants
An average college student can be
taught to operate II in few weeks.
The chemist called a
mass spectrometer" and
precisely analyzes many OF the COM
plicated gases formed in making
butadiene. the principal ingredient
Of several types Of synthetic rubber.
I'm Is minutes" DR.. Nipple ex-
planned, this spectrometer will dis
sect complicated gas molecule a
25 900 oooth Of an inch long and can
be arranged to produce automati-
Evening star., 1943-08-09

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some problem.
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an offensive Dorothy Thompson.
and Stain has proved his ability
to do so.
In Italy. Hitler, unable to
guarantee Italian defense, was
directly responsible for the fall
Of Mussolini.
In the Balkans, the with
drawal Of Italian forces precipi-
tates crisis.
In the air, Hitler acknowledges
that he cannot protect German
cities, by ordering evacuation Of
the capital.
In sea warfare the submarine
is failing.
All this is grimly acknowledged
in the German press. Two months
ago, before any of this had hap
pened, the leading editorial in
"Schwarze Korps" said fatty,
I'VE fight for our naked lives and
nothing else We shall be happy
If at the end of the war We walk
barefoot with our soldiers through
Berlin The paper added, This
Is the common opinion of the
whole people"
Great Political Crisis.
We are in the midst of a
gathering political crisis of i'm
mense dimensions. The elements
composing 1t come into the open
with the fall Of Mussolini. The
entire political situation of Eu-
rope is fluid. The fact that the
20-year- -old Fascist regime had
no roots in the masses is crystal
clear and is having immense re-
percussions.
The first area to be drawn into
the picture is the Balkans-with
the resignation Of the King" of
Croatia. The status of Bulgaria,
Hungary and Rumania is doubt
full. The underground move
ments everywhere strengthen
daily. In Berlin, the fall of Mus
solini was publicly cheered.
But although the military-po-
litical crisis of the Axis is ac-
celebrating conjoinedly, we have
no political-military policy to
meet 1t.
On July %, the President said,
THE same kind OF careful plan
ming that gained victory in North
Africa and Sicily is required if
we are to make victory an en-
during reality. The United Ma
tions are agreed that this is not
the time to engage in interna-
tional discussion of all the terms
Of peace and details of the fu-
ture. The all-important thing Is
to get on with war" ..
What Kind of, Revolution:
In other words, we will fight
the war to victory without po-
litical policy, and with plenty of
time for careful planning" af-
terwards.
But the events will pass out
Evening star., 1943-08-09
Stassen Flag Secretary
And Aide 10 HaIsey
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
UNITED STATES HEADQUAR-
TIERS IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC,
Aug, 9.-Lt. Comdr. Harold E. Stas-
sen, former Governor of Minnesota
and Republican leader, is on active
duty here as flag secretary and per-
sonal aide to Admiral William F..
Halsey, fleet commander In the
South Pacific.
In his first meeting with war cor
respondents, Comdr. Stassen SHE'D
from political discussions, declaring
There must be singleness OF pur-
post in the armed forces.
Il intend to carry out my duties as
an ofncer in the Navy" he added.
Political and economic subjects are
out"
Evening star., 1943-08-09

the President has asked-voted
sometimes against his better judg-
ment, but still voted.
All of which gives him the right
to stand up, as he did few weeks
ago, and ask for an accounting. In
so doing, Senator Byrd has per-
formed a great national service. He
has sounded warning, which, II
needed, will shorten the war, save
American lives and preserve at least
a semblance of stability in the Fed
eral financial structure, on which
our whole domestic economy de-
pends.
For it is perfectly clear that If
some voice is not raised in protest
or some restraining influence is
not exerted. when the war Is over,
so far as the Federal Government
is concerned, this country Is going
to be 50 hopelessly bankrupt that a
condition will prevail in which the
security of the millions with saw
ings bank deposits and small insur-
ance policies will be badly shaken
and only the vastly wealthy be able
to protect themselves.
Redistribution Of Poverty.
1t will be an ironical end Of an
administration whose avowed OBJ
jective, for 10 years past. has been
to take away their money from the
rich and give it to the poor. AS has
often been forecast, the result of this
effort will not be the redistribution
of wealth but the redistribution OF
poverty. In such leveling process,
only the well-to-do can find means
to avoid catastrophe.
Barring a realization OF these
facts. now obviously lacking, and
stern action to curb reckless spend
ing, that is exactly where we are
headed.
There can be expected from this
administration neither appreciation
Of this situation nor firmness in
dealing with it. The administration
still holds that spending produces
prosperity; that no nation need live
within its income and that the size
Of the national debt is not important
because I'VE owe 1t to ourselves" No
more puerile and absurd ideas have
ever been advanced seriously by men
in authority.
Senator Byrd rises to point out
that on July l there was in the
Treasury, appropriated for war pur-
poses at the request of the Presi-
dent, more than 100000 900 900 Of
unexpended balances-money asked
for but not spent. In addition, the
Evening star., 1943-08-09
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Evening star., 1943-08-09

Of our hands unless we are pre-
pared this very minute to begin
directing them. For what is
staring us in the face, ladies and
gentlemen, is European revolu-
ton, and apparently we have not
the foggiest notion of what revo-
luton we want.
For months this column has
been warning that if we insist on
waging a purely national war,
instead of a national revolution
ary war, we would find ourselves
in the preposterous situation of
being winners unable to do any
thing with their victory.
Look at the situation. In
moment when our military affairs
are brilliant. our political in
struments suffer defeat after de-
feat.
Take our French policy. First
we recognized Vichy, then Ad-
miral Darlan, then created Gen.
Giraud, and all the time fought
Gen. de Gaulle. Now Gen.
Giraud is under Gen. de Gaulle
and we are hesitating to recog-
nize this fact. But in the near
future we shall be forced to rec
ognize it, and what could have
been our triumph is a defeat for
the State Department..
Miss Bus on Italy.
Take the italian situation. Our
policy has been to pin our hopes
on the King and the House OF
Savoy.
So, on the moment of the
breakdown of the Fascist regime,
we missed the bus. We did not
appeal to the people, who were all
set to make our revolution. We
totally ignored the manifesto is
sued in Milan and Turin.
All this is bad enough. But
roughly speaking, tomorrow
morning-meaning long before
the President and his depart
ments have had time to do their
careful planning'-the German
political situation Is going to
break and when that breaks we
shall see something. For Ger
many is the keystone Of the
whole Fascist structure.
And in Germany we shall not
be operating alone. We shall
have an ally, military and po-
litical-the Soviet Union. The
Soviet Union has not lost the
initiative on either military or
political fronts. She is waging a
political campaign as brilliant as
her military campaign. And it
is not a Communist campaign,
but the very one that the de-
mocracies should be waging
themselves. Yet the only reac-
ton of our policy makers is to
register annoyed surprise.
No Time to Lose.
The troubles is not due to quar-
rels inside the State Depart
ment and between the agencies.
The ouarrels are due to the fact
that there is no political strategy,
so anybody can make up his own.
There is no time whatsoever to
lose. We are dealing with forces
composed of the passions, long
ings, hopes, yearnings, hatreds
and despairs Of millions of des-
perately suffering people. And it
is essential to victory that we
; understand what 1t is they want,
and what we will give them.
Otherwise, the European crisis
will become our crisis, and we its
instruments and not its di-
rectors.
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Evening star., 1943-08-09
The Great Game of Politics

war agencies have authority to make
contracts for nearly $25,00o, 900, 900
more.
Up to July /, we had spent for
war purposes, a little more than
100000 100000 in three years
Therefore. We have now on hand
in unexpended balances more than
twice as much as we have disbursed,
Now then, Senator Byrd says we
have sufficient unexpended funds to
permit spending 100000, 100000 q
year for war purposes during the
next two years without appropriat-
ing another nickel.
Yet, the Senator says, already no
tice has been given of the Admin
istration's purpose to ask for large
additional war appropriations dur
ing the coming fiscal year. Very
properly, Mr.. Byrd asks "Why?"
Why is 1t necessary to have un-
spent balances of more than $780,
900, 100000? Why, with such a vast
unspent balance, is it necessary to
ask for further big appropriations?
Transferable BY President.
These are extremely pertinent
questions and no one in the Admin
istration has attempted to answer
Actually there is no answer. How
ever, one fact ought to be made
plain-and Senator Byrd makes it
plain. A large part of this $780,
900 100000 unexpended balance is
not obligated by contractual COM
mitments. Virtually all of it Is
made on a lump-sum basis and is
subject at the Presidents order to
a transfer from one purpose to an
other as he sees fit.
What this means, of course, is
that Mr.. Roosevelt has achieved
complete independence of Congress
on financial matters. Congress, by
providing and permitting these vast
unrestrained and unrestricted un-
expended balances has surrendered
control Of the purse strings it is
supposed to hold, What Senator
Byrd wants is to recover that con-
troll, to compel the expenditure Of
these huge balances before any more
money Is appropriated.
Unless some such action Is forced
he says 1t is not difficult to visualize
debt far in excess of 5000, 900 ,0O0,-
600, which every one will agree Is
crushing debt, even if we owe 1t
to ourselves" A few days ago the
President visualized debt of $780,
900 900, 900, but the President in fiscal
matters has rarely seen clearly.
Inquiry in Prospect.
What Senator Byrd wants Is to
provide every dollar needed for win
ming the war but to end this stulti-
flcation Of Congress and the risk to
the Nation of appropriating, at the
Presidents request, so vastly much
more than is needed that $500 ,0O0,-
600 900 lie idle in the Treasury, SUBJ
ject to his order, while he prepares
to ask for more. 49,.
The statement seems to admit Of
no argument and 1t is encouraging
that the Joint Economy Committee
is shortly to inquire into the need Of
uneXpended balances Of such magni-
tude, the extent to which they are
committed and the extent to which
money is transferred.
The plan Is to complete the in
quiry before the next presidential
request for money is sent to Con-
gress.
Evening star., 1943-08-09
EIectronic Chemist to Speed
Synthetic Rubber Production

cally an autograph that tells the
chemist the composition of the gas.
at present, certain analyses re-
quires Is hours to three days OF
painstaking laboratory work by S
to 10 skilled chemists-others can
not be done at al even by other
processes"
The chemist requires only
thimbleful of gas for each test.
whereas butadiene plant chemists
now have to draw off bucketful
Of gas.
Leading research men of five
major oil and chemical companies
worked with Mr. Nipple for more
than six months to make the instru-
ment practical for use in oil re-
f1neries, butadiene plants, and other
chemical industries.
Evening star., 1943-08-09

1eel. got my
lecture in the operations once of
the Civil Air Patrol airport which.
for the confusion Of any Axis agents
who read this column, Is located
either north, south, west or east Of
this city.
The little CAP airfield-the mid
dle-aged volunteer flyers who have
done such magnificent Job still
don't get top-drawer stuff, but have
to use Army and Navy hand-me-
downs-was shrouded in darkness
when T arrived for the dawn patrol
over the Atlantic. I could scarcely
make out the improvised canvas
hangers and the shapes of the tiny,
outmoded planes which make up
most Of the CAP fleet.
But inside the operations building,
also just a makeshift miniature Of
the mammoth building of the regular
services, the assorted bankers, doc
tors. lawyers, clerks and architects
who fly for CAP were as much on
the alert as any group of men you'd
find on any airport in tho world.
Eye-Opening Information. 70
I, one Of the few civilians ever
given permission to 60 on Z CAP
patrol, had to be given the infor-
nation that any one who rides In q
single-motored jalopy over the
ocean must have. I can tell YOU
now there Is no better eye-opener
In the world than this information.
have tried raw eggs and wor-
cestershire in my time, as well as
some Of the pelt Of the pooch that
bit me, but nothing ever opened my
eyes as fast or as completely as
when Maj. Ike Vermilya, base COM
mander, handed me a yellow canvas
bag that looked like a valise and
asked, Can you work this?"
told him my wife always did the
packing at nv house. but could
make q stab at putting in 1t what
ever he wanted.
That's the life raft" he said. "As
an observer 1t Is your responsibility,
In case you are forced down In the
ocean, to get out Of the ship and
launch the raft"
am dull fellow as q rule, but I
mastered the intricacies Of that raft
in nothing nat. II they had taught
life-raft launching In school,
would have been valedictorian Of
my class.
Knife to Battle Sharks.
As matter of fact, came close
to telling Maj. vermilya that
didn't need any instructions. Tell
ing me how to operate that life raft
was like telling fellow how to pull
his foot out Of q fire. Then got
instructions on how to operate my
Mae West, which, as you know, is
the proper name for a flyers life
jacket.
Then was instructed on the use
Of the shark knife, which was at
tached to my Mae West. While I
was practicing slashes with my knife
at imaginary sharks, the major told
me what to do with my sea marker,
which is little packet of powder,
also attached to the Mae West.
When you release this, 1t stains
vivid green and rescue parties can
tell that you were in that vicinity
not long before.
All the time was getting nv
lesson, my pilot was watching me to
see how we'll I learned. You
couldn't blame him, because to take
me along he was leaving behind a
l,000-hour observer who undoubtedly
could launch raft, kill sharks and
leave the green calling card in less
time than 1t would take me to yell,
What do do now2 I've forgotten
everything they have told me"
P. S. made the trip and safely.
You'll read about 1t just as soon as
1t clears the censor.
Distributed by McNaught Syndicate, Ine)
Evening star., 1943-08-09

porte d to
have be e n
prin n t Z d in
Pravda. the
omcial Soviet
n e " S p aper,
accusing the
leaders Of the
U n | t ed Ma
LlOnS OF nOL
having kept
t al tn with
r VI ia by
their failure
to open a
second front.
Evening star., 1943-08-09
This Changing WorId-

Europe and also the tempo of
reinforcements being dispatched
every month across the Atlantic.
For reasons Of their own, the
Russians have adopted q policy
Of deep secrecy in regard to their
military strategy and the arms
potential Of the U. S. s. r.
armies, A similar policy was not
advanced by the American and
British governments. The Rus
sian high command knows every
thing we have and also knows
all our military plans. including
approximately when and where
We intend to start certain opera
tions.
Planes Drawn From Russia.
Consequently, 1t Is inconceiv-
able that Stain should not know
when and where we intend to
deliver the next blow against the
European fortress. He also knows
that the Allies bombing expedi-
tions over Germany and other
key Nazi-held European terri
tories have compelled the Ger
man high command to divert .
number of fighter planes from
the eastern to the western fronts.
This has facilitated the task of
Russian aviation in the recent
offensive.
1t is true that If we had the
necessary means at our disposal
to attack Western Europe today,
the collapse of Germany would be
inevitable and might occur before
the end Of the year. In this re-
spect, the Russians are correct.
But Stain has been told that
in order to cross the channel for
an invasion, the Allies will need
striking force Of at least
1,000, 900 men. He Is aware of the
disposition of the available Brit
ish and American striking forces
all over the world and in his few
communications with Washing
ton and London he has indicated
his approval OF their disposition.
Sicily Assault Fruitful
nhus the inspired public COM
plant Of the ofncial Soviet news
papers that the Allies have not
kept faith with Russia strikes
most oficial observers here as
remarkable"
1t Is understandable that the
Russian people, who are said to
have lost in the war about
$4,000 900 persons-tfis figure in
cludes, Of course, civilians who
have been killed and strayed out
In areas occupied by the Nazis-
are eager to see the end of the
conflict. But at the same time the
Ill humor toward the slowness of
the Allies Is hard to understand
when we consider that the Rus
sian leader knew that the Allied
offensive in 1943 must be confined
to certain areas and not include
a ground force invasion Of West
ern Europe.
The limited operations Of the
Allies in Sicily have brought
forth much greater results than
had been anticipated-the col
lapse Of the Fascist regime In
Italy. 1t Is possible that activity
i contemplated In the near future
might have a powerful Psyche
logical effect on the people of
Germany.
All these factors are about as
helpful to the Russian high COM
mand as the withdrawal of 80
Na1 divisions from the eastern
front. Stain, who besides being
skilled strategist also Is an
astute diplomat. knows these
things well.
Evening star., 1943-08-09

given . lecture
on how to keep
alive until break
ast time Is
something that
even Richard
Occur de Lion
would not have
relished.
That's what
happened to me
today - Henry
Occur de L,apin.
So you know
how 1t made me
Evening star., 1943-08-09

sistent and eff
fective critic of
his spending
policies, Senator
Byrd of Vir-
ginia. Though
the leader of
the fight against
N e " D e a !
" a S t e t u lness,
from the mo-
ment we entered
the war, Sena-
tor Byrd has
voted for every
appropr | a t ! o n
Evening star., 1943-08-09

planes and the
total of 1873 Is
announced for
July, there is
n e v ertheless a
major crisis in
{ he manufac-
ture Of air
planes W hi C h
has caused Un-
d er = Secretary
Robert Patter-
son of the War
Department to
appeal to James
Evening star., 1943-08-09
Air Forces Band to Give
Concert at GEORGETOWN

Navratil's "Semper Paratus,-
Rachmaninoff's Prelude in c Sharp
Minor" and Gliere's Russian Sail
ors' Dance" will feature the concert
to be given by the 85-piece Army
Air Forces Band at pm. Thurs
day on the Georgetown University
Campus. Sergt. John r. Barrows
will conduct.
The band will play for the retreat
ceremony and review parade Of the
Army men stationed at the univer-
sity before the concert.
Others die for you; the least you
can do Is buy for them. Get your
War savings stamps now.
Evening star., 1943-08-09

simultaneous
fall Of Orel
and Catania
Is only a
symptom of
t he ra pi d
weakening Of
the w e h r
macht, which
ldCSS q CTlSlS
on all fronts.
In Russia,
Hi t ler has
b e e n u n -
able to launch
Evening star., 1943-08-09

7HE opinions Of the priters this their
necessarily The Stars Such opinions presented in The
Stars effort to ge all sides OF questions OF interest to its
readers although such opinions may be contradictory among
themselves and directly opposed to The Stars
Evening star., 1943-08-09
BY FRANK r. KENT.

No friend of the Presidents ever
was more eager to provide every dol
lar necessary to achieve an early
victory in this war than that con-
Evening star., 1943-08-09
On the Record.
By DOROTHY THOMSON.

The situation at this point Is
as follows:
There Is a first-rate military
crisis for the European Axis. The
Evening star., 1943-08-09
By CONSTANTINE BROWN.

ny OOt~S INV 1H4<E bNOWN'
The enthusiasm OF official
Washington over the spectacular
Russian victories was somewhat
dampened by an editorial re-
Evening star., 1943-08-09
Government
Policies Cut
Plane Output
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.

Although the official figures given
out by the War Production Board
over the week end speak of a new
high In production Of military
Evening star., 1943-08-09
McLemore-
Tukes CAP Ride
As q life-Soyer
BY HENRY McLEMoRE,

WEST PALM BEACH, F1a.-To
get UP at $50 in the morning Is a
very dismal thing at best, but TO get
UP at $50 in the morning and BE-
Evening star., 1943-10-25
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