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teeted" by a battery of aircraft
guns, War Department press re-
lease said.
Spectators at the Back the At
tack" show to be held in connection
with the third War Loan drive may
wonder how the balloon keeps enemy
planes high enough to prevent ac-
curate bombing.
"T'he foolhardy- pilot who makes
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Weather Report
FURNISHED by the United States
Weathhr Rureaul

FURNISHED by the United States
Weather BureauD
District of mbia-Continued
cool Sunday and Sunday evening.
Virginia-Slightly cooler in south
portion; continued cool in north
portion Sunday and Sunday evening.
Maryland-Continued cool Sunday
and Sunday evening.
River Report.
Potomac River clear and Shenan-
doaf River cloudy at Harpers Ferry
Potomac clear at Great Falls.
Report Until PM SATURDAY..
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Record Until 10 PM. Saturday.
Highest - at $50 pm. yesterday
year ago, rs.
Lowest, 63 at S:15 am: yesterday
year ago. 5S.
Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest 9S on August 10.
Lowest. &. on February 10.
WASHINGTON. Aug. % LPl-Weather
Bureau report of temperature and rain
fall for the "a hours ending pm. in
the principal cotton growing areas and
elsewhere
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Rubber may be synthetic, but the
will to victory must be genuine.
Have you bought any War savings
stamps today?
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Readers Guide
News Summary

Sunday, August 20, 1943.
SECTION A.
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Ceiling Prices 400 More Food Items Announced by OPA

Community ceiling prices about additional
Administration. They effective
ceilings will the washington
which includes the District and Arlington Counties
printed in The Star Sunday, May 9.
community
classification the which
which did business
independents
1912 No retailer legally sell above the listed
his class of
division
listed the highest which be legally charged by retailer the
marketing
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Eve Curie Off for London
As De GauIIisf Volunteer
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Aug. 17.-Eve Curie.
daughter and biographer of her
mother. Marie Curie. co-discoverer
OF radium, has left for England to
become a private in the Corps Des
Voiontalres Franchises, an organ
lzation corresponding to the Ameri-
can Women's Army Corps.
Miss Curie, who saw the fall os
France and later escaped to London.
said before she left New York thar
she had applied for service as q
truck driver.
Declaring her purpose in Joining
the unit was to relieve a French
solder for combat duty, Miss
My ambition now Is simply to b~
with the De Gaulle volunteers r,ho
have never stopped fighting this war
In the name of France"
She added that she hoped III.
united States soon would formally
recognize the French COMMITTEES Of
National Liberation, headed bv C,en
Charles De Gaulle and Gen. Henri
Honore Giraud.
Miss Curie Is a former snec,a,
correspondent for the Herald
Tribune and travelled 10000 miles
through Africa, Russia, India
Burma and China for that news-
paper. She later told the story az
her trip IN a book, Journey Among
Warriors"
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I'd Rather Be Rioht-

too. He's on the Government pay
roll as an economic analyst, and he
once visited Russia. Also he danced,
once, or demonstrated gymnastics,
or something, before Communistic
group. Fire Bovingdon and win
the war. What WARP I don't know.
But the Soviet Embassy must read
the papers. 1t must send a cable
home when Government employe
is fired because, among other rea-
sons, he once visited the Soviet
Union.
Russia Doesn't Complain.
One admits that the Russians are
sometimes enigmatic. But they
have not lately, or at least not in
public, or at leat not with cheers,
considered 1t complaint against a
civil servant that he once visited the
United States.
Anyway, down with the owl. 1t
said a bad word about an enemy.
That's horrid. That is scandalous.
We don't do that, we who merely say
bad words about friend.
1t is so undignified, this fearful
pursuit of a policy Of friendship
without friendliness. We should be
surer and prouder of ourselves, of
our America, of our common consent
to get along with each other without
force or violence. These sudden
startled leaps, these horrid alarums
do not become us. How can we ne
gotiate with Russia firmly and with
candor while all the time our nego-
tiators must keep an eye cooked over
his shoulder watching for new panic
flights into hysteria back home.
Doubts Faith In America.
Anyhow, sock the owl. It wants
the people Of Italy to rise. That is
communistic. Gen. Eisenhower also
wants them to rise. That is not
communistic., And some Russian
Embassy attache has to make this
enigma clear in q telegram to his
enigmatic government back at home.
wonder whether these frightened
starts and springs on the Red issue
show faith in America, or unseem-
ingly doubt.
Let him who calls loudest on the
administration for a mature under
standing with Russia look into his
own heart to see whether he has
helped or hurt that process.
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Gov. Thomas E. Dewey by wide
margin and the Lieutenant Gov
ernor by a much narrower mar
gin. This is explainable. The
American Labor party in New
York last year put gubernato>-
rial candidate of its own in the
field, refusing to indorse the
Democratic nominee, John J.
Bennett, but did indorse and sup
port the Democratic candidate
for Lieutenant Governor.
The Democrats, who are petit
tioning for special election of a
Lieutenant Governor against the
ruling of Republican Attorney
General Goldstein, have won the
first round. Supreme Court JUS
tice Foster, a Republican, decided
on Saturday that an election
must be held.
Both sides to the controversy
are determined to take the mat
ter to the Court of Appeals for a
final decision, which may come
late this week. II the court holds
that an election Is necessary,
party candidates will be nomi-
mated by the Democratic and Re-
publican State Committees Au-
gust "a.
ALP Dictation Opposed.
Whether the American Labor
party will 60 along with the
Democratic selection remains to
be seen. Presumably it will. If
the Labor party undertakes to
dictate the nominee OF the Dem
ocratic party, however, there
might be another such row as in
1912. The Democrats in New
York, while anxious for the sup
port of the Labor party, are very
much opposed to having the
Labor party tell whom they must
or must not nominate for Office.
Since the Democrats are clam
oring for an election this fall, it
seems reasonable to believe that
they will reach some kind of an
agreement with the Labor party.
A Labor party candidate in the
field would sink Democratic
chances OF victory. A number
Of Democrats already have been
suggested for the nomination,
among them William H. Morgan,
Cortland County Democratic
chairman; Mayor Vincent Corrou
of Utica; John ]. Donnigan,
minority leader of the State
Senate; Irwin Steingut, minority
leader Of the Assembly; Repre-
sentative Matthew J. Merritt, and
Joseph T. Higgins, collector of
internal revenue.
James A. Farley, Democratic
State chairman, has declined to
discuss candidates until the
courts shall have decided finally
whether an election is to be held.
Mr.. Farley dominated the party
selection Of q gubernatorial can
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the King and Premier may 70
together.
Three weeks have elapsed
since Gen. Eisenhower made an
appeal to the italian Premier
asking him to law down arms.
BY his silence, Badoglio has re-
fused the outstretched hand of
the American commander.
Hence, it Is considered improb-
able that we shall be willing to
deal with the men who have
preferred to continue Italy's
collaboration with the Na1s.
In all likelihood, some sort Of
anodyne government will be
formed in Rome after the de-
parture OF the present regime.
1t is possible that regional gov
ernments will be formed in those
areas which are to be occupied
by the Allied forces.
In his statement soon after
Mussolini's fall, President Roose-
welt said the Allies were prepared
to deal with the King, Badoglio
or any mayor or other type of
oficial who was willing to accept
our terms. It may be that Ba-
doglio likes the idea that local
officials should surrender those
portions Of Italy which are ear
marked to fall soon into British
and American hands.
Delay Aids Naxis.
Premier Badoglio is said to pre-
fer an AMGOT government, like
the one In Sicily, to an of1cial
Italian government when the
Allied forces enter the italian
territory. In this manner, he
hopes to avoid establishment Of
q leftist regime having the ON
cial blessing Of the King.
In the meantime, the delay
In accepting the Allied offer has
enabled the Germans to evacuate
the troops they had concentrated
in Calabria to meet an Allied
invasion on the italian mainland
or to be rushed across the
Straits of Messina to support the
forces defending Sicily.
The number Of the troops in
Calabria is believed to have ex-
ceeded 25,000. Some detach-
ments earlier had been flown
across the straits to reinforce
the two and q half Nazi divisions
in the northern and eastern Sec
tions Of the island, where the
Allies have had to do their
heaviest fighting.
Soon after the fall Of Mus
solini, the remainder Of the
troops were rushed to Brindisi
and Ancona, and from there they
are believed to have been sent
across the Adriatic to Split and
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~ 1oi bSAAAo
friendly with Russia bleat piteously
the very next moment that we need
some sort of political agreement
with Russia, and that we had better
get it fast.
But apparently they want our
policy of being friendly to Russia
placed in the hands of men who are
not friendly to Russia. That will
cheer the Russians remarkably, and
then we will get along with them.
Anyway, sock the Owl. Of course,
we need an understanding with
Russia. We're for it, say the critics.
But anybody else who is for it is
a dirty left-winger. Naturally, we
have to get along with Russia. But
look at those fellows on the Gov
ernment payroll; they want to get
along with Russia! Throw them
out.
French Trend Recalled.
And it is such a boring repetition
of what France went through in
the days of the Franco-Soviet pact.
France then had in her hand ex-
actly what we hope to get out Of
the war. She couldn't stand it.
Frenchmen would not adjourn their
fear of domestic Communism suffi-
ciently to enable France to stand
up in the sunlight and say that
she was going to be what she was,
and Russia was going to be what
Russia was, and between the two
they were going to keep Hitler down
to what Hitler was.
So, sock certain Mr.. Bovingdon,
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Red Cross Gives MiIIionth
PACKAGE 10 Ex-Prisoner
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Aug. 1.-THE one
millionth Red Cross prisoner-of-war
food package was presented here
yesterday to Mortimer Belshaw, 90,
of San Francisco, an American
Field Service ambulance driver freed
last April after il months in Axis
prison camps.
Mr.. Belshaw, a former advertising
man for the San Francisco Chron-
icle, acknowledged the honor but
said, ''I wouldn't take 1t as gift.
Not after I saw how much they
mean overseas"
He was captured by the Nazis
outside Mersa Matruh on June %,
1912, while serving with the New
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t h e S UNI m e r.
The owl is sus-
pected of being
friendly to Rus
sia.
OF course, this
whole country is
supposed to be
friendly to Rus
sia at the mo-
ment. At least
that's the tlfS-
ory. The very
same S o u + c e S
which attack the
owl for being
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ship, the Premier, in broadcast to
Netherlands homelanders, said Italy
has "a King who accepted Musso-
lini's regime for 81 years, while
Badoglio was Mussolini's instrument
in subjecting Abyssinia with poison
gas"
There is a popular underground
movement" he continued, "but there
are few indications that the forces
present in Italy are capable of re-
making her into a sound state"
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Dutch Premier Doubts
Good Faith Of Italy
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Aug. 17.-Netherlands
Premier Pieter s. Gerbrandy said
yesterday it was doubtful If "the
forces present in italy are capable
Of remaking her into a sound state"
Premier Gerbrandy's remarks
were significant because of conjec-
ture as to whether the United Ma
tons can afford to ascribe good
faith to overtures from Italy's pres
ent regime. The United Nations
have not officially acknowledged re-
ceipt OF an open-city proposal for
Rome.
AS for the present italian leader
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0uUtUVuiA III 1u8Uo43Vla 20 Te-
inforce the garrisons which
eventually may have to oppose an
Allied landing in the Balkans.
Important war material which
could be used for defense Of the
new Axis line In Northern italy
also has been evacuated from
Naples and other important por-
tions Of Central and Southern
italy. With this equipment
quantities Of food and other war
essentials have been moved north
ward. Badoglios idea seems to
be that the Allies must undertake
the responsibility Of feeding the
Italian people after the present
italian government joins the
Naz armies in the North.
1t was only after all these
operations had been completed
that Badoglio found 1t convenient
to declare Rome an open city.
Most Of the rolling stock which
was sent to Milan and Turin
has been left there. Once the
last trains crossed the Piave line
they never returned.
The remainder Of the rolling
stock which the Allies win find
IN Italy will be so worn out that
1t will be useless. Thus, while no
actual sabotage is likely to be
ordered by Badoglio In Central
and Southern italy, the Allies viii
have some trouble organizing the
lines Of communications for mill
tary purposes.
There was . time when Ba-
doglio was reported to be Of two
minds as to what action the new
italian government would take.
Heavy Attack Threatened.
The German generals who were
rushed from Berlin to Rome have
alternately used cajoling and
threatening methods to induce
the italian Premier to continue
to remain on Germany's side. On
the one hand, they threatened
him with destruction Of italian
divisions In the Balkans; on the
other hand, they convinced him
that Italy would be dimembered
by making peace now while he
awaited spectacular diplomatic
developments" later In the year.
They insisted that Italy would be
better OF than If he accepted un-
conditional surrender.
Badogro is reported to have
decided finally to continue collab-
grafton with the Nazis because 1t
was the lesser Of two evils. Had
he sided with the Allies, he would
have lost about SOC, 900 men now
in the Balkans and certainly
would have lost Northern Italy,
where the Nazis had been strongly
intrenched for some time.
italy, the Nazis told him, would
thus become the object Of merci-
less attacks from Nazi aviation.
BY siding with the Germans, only
Northern Italy would become q
battlefield; that was unavoidable
In any event. But Southern and
Central Italy will be spared once
the Allies settle down.
Badoglios choice is. Of course,
displeasing to us. The fact that
q number Of Italian troops are in
Northern Italy does not mean
much from the military point of
view. But he Is leaving us an
empty shell with . large popula-
ton, which we shall have to feed
while the most productive part of
italy still is held by the enemy.
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Zealand division Of the British 9Th
Army.
+ After being detained for while
in German hospital nearby, he
was transferred to the Italians. His
treatment by the latter he said was
far from comfortable, and "they
were mean"
Under the Italians, he was trans.
ported to Bengazi and later to Italy.
He was exchanged in April by ar
rangement of the British Red Cross
in an exchange of medical per-
sonnel. He now is on go days leave.
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supervisory and
k ey personnel
of the Nations
industries. An
apprehension is
developing that
If the personnel
in essential in
dustries is to be
removed by the
present hit-or-
miss, incornpe-
tent and ire
sponsible h a n
ding of man
power, the high
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the de a t h,
July II, of 1t.
Gov. Thomas
w. Wallace,
t h e contest
will take on
added inter-
e S t because
of the ma
tional cleo
tions ne x t
year.
The Repub-
licanS carried
the State last
r,nn~ n1oafir,r
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Potential Ghost Town
Loses Its DWELLINGS
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHANDLER, Colo.--This once
busy coal camp-the rich vein mined
QUITS losing its citizenry, which
should leave lot of dwelling TO-.
ghosts to haunt.
But the ghosts will have to rustic
other abode-the building are being
salvaged for other locations.
Evening star., 1943-08-17
The Political Mill

didate last year, defeating Presi-
dent Roosevelt, who backed
Senator Mead.
United Front Sought.
The Democrats hope this time
to present a united front If
there is an election. Frank "
Kelly, the Democratic leader of
Brooklyn, undoubtedly will have
good deal to say when the can
didate is picked. Mr.. Kelly went
along with Mr. Farley in the
gubernatorial contest last year.
Democratic defeat In New
York in 1912 was g blow to party
prestige. New York is the Presi-
dents own home State. If he
cannot carry New York next
year-should he run for a fourth
term-Mr. Roosevelt probably
could not be reelected. A Demo-
cratic victory there this fall
would buoy Democratic hopes.
On the other hand, should an
election be held and the Re-
publcans again win, the reverse
would happen.
The Republican contention is
that State Senator Joe r. Han
ley, president pro tempore of the
Senate, automatically steps into
the duties of Lieutenant Cover
nor, following the death of Mr..
Wallace. If the courts rule
against them, they may nominate
Mr.. Hanley for Lieutenant
Governor.
Another Republican whose
name has been mentioned as
possible nominee is William Dug
gan, party leader of the Goth
assembly district and a former
State Senator and collector of
internal revenue in the first dis
trict Of New York during the
Harding and Coolidge admins
trations.
Poll Buoys Democrats.
Democrats have been encour-
aged in New York by the poll
recently taken in Brooklyn,
which showed President Roose-
welt receiving 64.05 per cent of
the straw votes, against a field
Of seven possible Republican
nominees. The President had
1914 per cent of the Brooklyn
vote in 1910. Brooklyn is strong
ly Democratic. The poll, which
was taken by the Brooklyn Eagle,
placed Gov. Dewey next to the
President in number of votes,
with about twice the number re-
ceived by Wendell L. Willkie. A
couple Of assembly districts were
polled separately, with the Presi-
dent running against Gov. Dewey
in one, and against Mr.. Willkie
In the other. Gov. Dewey made
a much better showing as an
opponent Of the President than
did Mr.. Willkie. He received
about 80 per cent of the vote,
as compared with about Is per
cent for Mr.. Willkie.
Senator Kilgore, Democrat, of
West Virginia, who recently has
returned to washington after a
swing through a dozen States of
the Midwest and South as a
member of a congressional COM
mittee, brought back the opinion
that the President would be a
strong candidate for reelection
since his conduct Of the war is
warmly upheld and approved.
The real contest among the
Democrats, he believes, may be
over the vice presidential nomi-
nation. He expressed the view,
however, that Vice President
Wallace has gained recently in
strength because of his flare-up
against Secretary OF Commerce
Jesse Jones.
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Riqhthund Drivino Uroed

Argentina and Uruguay should
join other Western Hemisphere
countries and shift to auto driving
on the righthand side Of the road,
said members of the American Con-
gress of Chauffeurs in their recent
annual convention in Montevideo,
Uruguay.
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received here
over the week
end.
w h e t h er
King Victor
Emanuel and
m e mbers of
the House of
Savoy W i'll
u c & o HpdNy
him is not
k n o W n In
Washington .
But 1t Is con-
sidered prob
able that both
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40 PICK up u
magazine these days and read the
advertising is to wondar how, when
the war ends, there is going to be
enough credit for the victory to 70
around.
II man believed all he read In
the ads, he would wind up In Z state
Of confusion. For instance, he
couldn't be sure In his own mind
whether to give Gen. Macarthur or
three or four popular soft drinks
credit for the victory at Guadal-
canal. The soft drink boys make II
pretty clear that their stun Is as
indispensable to campaign as
mcrtars, tanks and dive bombers,
Smokers Reach Targets.
But how can the soft drinks claim
30 much credit when 1t Is known to
every reader Of advertising that It
Is cigarettes which have been In
strumental In getting the Flying
Fortresses over their targets, keep
ing the tanks rolling and establish-
Ing beachheads on enemy soil?
But will the cigarette folks be
able to deny the sound claims Of.
the candy bar manufacturer, who
intimated that properly to storm .
pillbox soldier must have mouth
full OF their delightful confection,
One gets the feeling that with candy
bars around q leader does not have
to give his men . pep talk but sim
ply has to wave q few Of the candy
bars over his head to send the men
boiling into action.
No manufacturer, no matter how
obscure his product, has failed to
find tie-up with the war effort.
You wouldn't think . particular
brand Of hot sauce was doing its
bit for victory but 1t Is. It makes
food tastier 50 you eat more food
which makes you stronger and being
stronger you can do more war work.
To fail to use this hot sauce ID al.
most unpatriotic.
Heartburn remedies aren't Iettinr
the country down, either. BY curing
your heartburn with Dr. so-and-sof
pills you strike . direct blow at the
Axis, because If everybody in this
country had heartburn We wouldn't
have the energy or the inclination
to carry on the war.
Sergeant Likes Scent.
A soldier writes this sort Of letter
home:
Dear Nom: Every one in camp n
talking about how snowy white nv
underthings have been since Won
sent me that cake Of sudsy-wudsy
soap. It's quick action, its superfins
foam, its delightful scent has made
me the envy Of the barracks. Even
the sergeant at inspection the other
day remarked how the rouRhness
had gone from my hands, and said
that 1t was hard to believe that I
did my own laundry.
II do hope, nom, that you have nv
civilian clothes packed away in anti
Axis mothballs as the anti-Axis Co.
Is making such magnificent con-
tribution toward winning the war
by making square moth balls instead
OF round ones. This saves valuable
shipping space that Is needed for
vital materials. All of us boys gave
three cheers when we read their re-
cent advertisement"
Some advertiser could rock the
reading public back on its heels by
running an ad which said: NV
product Is in no way contributing
toward the war effort. wish It
were, but there is no possible way
1t could. have been making this
darn product for IS years, and will
Just have to keep on making it to
make living. OF course, I could
claim 1t was helping to lick the
Nazis and the Japs, but I'd be 4
plain liar"
distributed by McNausht Syndicate, Inc1
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. sQua b bic
. m o n & tn .
United States,
Britain, Russia
and China Is to
which Of their
armies played
the major role. I
mean . squabble
involving the
ten thousand
ana one husi-
nesses which ad-
vertise In our
magazines.
Evening star., 1943-08-17
BY SAMUEL GRAFTON.

Sock the owl and win the war.
What war? Why, the war against
the owl. Didn't you know? This IS
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HE opinions OF the toriters this page their not
necessarily The Stars Such opinions presented in The
Stars effort to gpe all sides OF questions of interest to its
readers although such opinors may be contradictory among
themselves and directly opposed to The Stars
Evening star., 1943-08-17
BY GOULD LINCOLN.

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New York finally decide that an
election must be held In Novem-
ber to fill the vacancy caused by
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