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hidden his old bathrobe with the
cigarette burns In the backside and
the stain Of India ink on the sleeves
and substituted q very handsome
new one in its stead. Surprise! Sur
prise indeed for the poor man, who
spent Sunday trying to find his old
robe and to hide his embarrassment
at having glamour girl for wife.
He had hoped that at least one thing
In this changeable world had re-
mained the same for II man can't
count on the inviolability Of his own
home and fireside, what has he got?
One important thing to remember
about furloughs at home is to keep
nagging domestic details from
creeping underfoot. Rare Is the hus-
band at any time who likes being an
noyed with maids, menus, the latest
villainy Of the butcher, your recent
run-in with the laundry. Rarer still
the husband who likes it in wartime,
when his leisure Is limited and his
emotions on edge.
Keeping your household calm in
wolves special problem II you have
child or children. And you will
learn after your husbands first fur
Tough what to do and what not to do
with regard to the young.
Ito be continued
(Copyr.sht. ls42, BY Ethel Gorham. Dis
tributed By Associated Press Features)
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air Of impermanence no make
believe can overcome.

air Of impermanence no make
believe can overcome.
But at home there are all the
reminders Of what you have In COM
mon. The phonograph. and records
you bought together. You can play
the new ones for him and suddenly
1t Is as If he had never been away
and these were only a continuation
OF your joint collection. The maga-
zines, new issues piled up in the
same familiar place above the old,
and he reads the current ones and
feels no time has elapsed. Sunday
mornings-the bulk of the paper
the long and leisurely breakfast. Co
ing to church II you've gone before.
Or puttering around the garden If
that's the way you choose to COM
mune with the heavens on the Sab
bath. Or just being lazy and Sum
dayiSh as II war were q hundred
years away and no concern OF yours.
How well these dear familiar
things telescope time and heal the
rift. A man needs that kind of brief
return to normalcy. You need 1t too.
This Is what made up your happi-
ness once; 1t makes up your happi-
ness now. Never forget that what
was good enough for all the time
you loved each other before should
be good enough again. Better: be-
cause all these simple things have
been carried In memory and the
heart returns to them like carrier
pigeon.
I know q woman who used to
spend her time about the house in
slacks and sweaters. She used to
give her Sundays to painting old
furniture, or walking the dogs, or
taking the baby's bike apart and
putting 1t together again.
Her husband came home on his
first leave and found her in black
satin nightgown, a negligee and
frou-frou Of lace in the wrong places,
and a Camille look in her eyes.
He also discovered that she had
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So Your Husbands Gone to War!
BY ETHEL a0RHAM-

these week ends home is the sense
Of pressure. Because you want tc
hold on to time with such urgency
YOU run the risk Of becoming as
distraught and embarrassing as a
jealous woman. You know how un-
comfortable the woman makes YOU
feel who Is always picking at a bit
OF lint or smoothing q strand of hair
on the dear ones head or casting
coy and mournful glances her loved
ones way. It makes a man fidget
II makes friends fidget. And YOU
know better than to act that way
anyway.
We've gone through a muddle and
confusion the twenties never dream
ed about. We're not the lost gener-
alton and we don't have to act it.
We can be as sentimental, honestly
emotional and loving as we please
But 1t Is uncomfortable and bad
taste to get SO wrought up about the
sense OF passing time that you cling
to your husband as II he were In
danger Of kidnapping by hobgoblins,
Nazis. and assorted camp followers
did you but let go.
The thing you must do most is
try and recapture again and again
and again the feeling of steadfast
security between you. It's kind of
play acting consisting Of little
things and an absolute rote memory
OF the lines. This is not for a day.
not for an hour, this is the way it
has been for years and the way it
is going to go on being"
They're hard lines. They seldom
ring true. But you must act as if
they did. At least they're easier to
believe il he can come home for
furlough. Sometimes you'll find
you have to visit him and the
transience, the strangeness lends an
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Crash Kills Navy Flyer

WAYNESBURG, Pa. Jan. Is tP).
A Navy plane crashed into q hill
side about 10 miles northwest Of
Waynesburg late yesterday and
burst into ames. The pilot. iden-
tified as Ensign Kermit Brooks of
Columbus, Ohio was killed.
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War bonds are IN Investment In
Americas future. Nothing In the
world Is safer today. Buy!
Evening star., 1943-01-13
CHAPTER X.
week End Marriage.

You'll learn that there's more than
domesticity to q furlough. There's
more than talk. There's more than
memory. You'll find that you want
to gulp all the special things you've
done together In one long draught
each time he comes home. But you
can't revisit every romantic spot,
dine in every restaurant you love,
walk down every avenue you've ever
walked before.
A furlough is compounded Of
many moods. It's made up Of
everything that has ever gone into
your marriage-the RACES, the inde-
cisions, the pleasures, the sympathy,
the old battle scars and the antago-
nisms, the comradeship.
One Of the most perverse difncul-
ties Of weekend leave is the time
itself. Too short for a real adjust
ment. Just long enough for all the
tenseness and fear to come to a
head.
So with time and tension against
you, how can you go about q week
end leave so you don't get too emo
tionally mauled. so you give your
husband the sense of having dipped
again into your common life, so
what you have left after is some
measure Of solid, mutual under
standing?
Monday raises its ugly head here
and this is as good time as any
to look it squarely in the face.
Whatever you and your husband
plan to do over the week end, it is
going to cost money.
The odds are long that your hus-
band isn't earning the same money
as in civilian life. And although his
manhood is completely vindicated
by the job he is doing, when he
leaves his barracks and comes to
town he starts, even though still in
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uniform, to think like a civilian
about money. One Of the most dis
tressing things he has to face is
that he can't pay his way around
the way he used to. You have to
pay 1t. And he doesn't like it.
You want your husband to be
happy on leave As a matter Of fact,
most OF your own fun comes when
he is home. But going out means
spending money. And you're the
only one who has 1t. You don't
want him to resent you. But you
don't want to resent him. 1t calls
for intelligence and shrewdness on
both your parts. But since men are
never wizards at working out situa-
tions, the intelligence and shrewd-
ness are up to you.
Never make it obvious. II you are
used to going to night clubs on big
evenings, why can't you go and
stand at the bar instead of taking
a table with cover charge? The
effect is the same. You're out. It's
the same place. You see the same
people. So you stand; so what?
You can always get cheap seats
at the theater If you get them
far enough in advance. And the
neighborhood movies have the same
pictures as the Main Street Palaces,
q week late, and half the price.
OF course, there are the many
happy things you do that cost only
a bus fare and not farthing more.
Those you will do as you always
have. Steak picnics and museum
hunts and ferry rides, they're yours
for the asking
But manage to have also q taste
Of those other gala things you used
to do, even if it's only a smattering.
Foot the bills with neither q smile
nor a frown. The trick Is to make
it look as If it were mama from
heaven. And hope your husband
has the good judgment not to really
believe it's only pretty green paper
with more where that came from.
Next to money as problem on
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There is q great deal Of speculation
also that Turkey may come actively
into the war either of her own volition
or because the Nazis. feeling an attack
certain, may strike first
In Yugoslavia the Nazis have mill
tary troubles and the Allies diplomatic
difficulties. The Nazis have found it
necessary to rush large numbers of
reserves, and heavy drive has been
launched particularly into Bosnia, which
Rommel claims Is now cleared of all
resistance. Marshal Broz, however,
states that the Germans have paid
heavily for their gains in Bosnia and
that. while the Partisans have lost
ground in that section of Serbia, it was
the other way around
The announcement that Marshal Broz,
the famous Drug Tito. who is leader Of
the Communist movement in Yugo-
slavia is getting the main part Of the
aid from the Allies, has stirred up a
hornets nest, with King Peter in Cairo
protesting against any recognition Of
the Communist leaders government.
Gen. Mihailovich, Minister of War in
Peters cabinet and leader of the Chet-
niks, declared that he will fight the
Partisans wherever he finds them.
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Balkan Front

A state Of emergency was declared
along the Turkish border on Friday,
and strong units Of the Turkish Army
were moved up into position where they
faced at least two divisions of Germans
who had rushed across Bulgaria to
stand in the path of any Allied effort
to invade Bulgaria by way of Turkey.
Feverish as the military preparations
were, they were no more intense than
the diplomatic activity with various. Axis
statesmen sounding out the Turks as to
their intentions. In Bulgaria it was re-
ported that a change of ministry had
occurred and that the Bulgarians are
indicating increasing friendship for both
Russia and Turkey.
The nature of the agreements between
President Inonu, Mr.. Churchill and Mr.
Roosevelt has not, been disclosed, but
there is belief that among them is
one making far more efficient the ship
ment Of supplies to the Red Armies
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Russian Front

1t was a case of give and take on the
Russian front last week with the Rus
slams giving a little in the Kiev sector
but making important gains down in
the Ukraine where the vital rail line
between Znamenka and Nikolaev was
severed
Tens of thousands of Nazi troops still
holding the lower bank of the Dnieper
are in some danger of entrapment and
the German blow toward Kiev is be-
lieved to have been a diversion intended
to relieve some of the pressure in the
Dnieper bend area
The fighting has been heavy all week.
Monday strong assaults were launched
along the entire White Russian front
through heavy snow, and Mogilev, one of
the last important German-held rail
centers in White Russia, was put in
jeopardy. The Russian communicates
indicated the first signs of weakening
reserves in the German lines 1t was
reported that many engineer units were
found in the forward groups.
With the pressure on in the Dnieper
bend the Nazis on Wednesday opened
desperate 2,000-tank attack toward
Kiev and the bullying Russian lines were
pushed back to some extent, but at
heavy cost.
The capture of znamenka leaves the
Nazis with only three rail lines to aid
in the withdrawal from the Dnieper
and retreat to the Bug River, the
next natural obstacle to the Red ad-
vance
Down in the Crimea, the Nazis claim
considerable success, though it has not
been confirmed by the Russians. 1t was
stated that Rumanian troops had been
able to wipe out completely the Russian
bridgehead northeast of Kerch.
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AS the Magazines See Things

Uncle Sam, the biggest industrial mag
nate in history, now owns some $14.500,-
100000 in war plants. He is not only a
steel manufacturer, mine owner, maker
of synthetic rubber, but an iceman. a
manufacturer of dental forceps and a
manufacturing chemist.
Henry F. Pringle, in the forthcoming
Saturday Evening Post tells about the
biggest big shot" and the defense plant
corporation. headed by Jesse Jones, the
superintendent of the billion dollar
plants.
MY own view says Jones' looking
to the postwar future of the plants, "is
that we shall have the wisdom to handle
and use these facilities to do many
things that will further improve our
standard Of living, and to assist other
countries"
Federal agencies, exploring the peace
time use of the Government holdings,
have reached no conclusion, but the
goal is clear enough to everybody con-
cerned-that the Government plants
shall be operated so as to insure maxi
mum employment after the war, that
they shall not be operated to the detri-
ment OF private business"
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By Richard Tompkins
Associated Press Writer.

Thomas W. Lamont does not believe
Russia will attempt to project Com
munism beyond her boarders after the
war. And on the matter of "grousing"
about red politics, economics and the
Soviet attitude toward religion, it is his
opinion that "it would perhaps be use
full if we would learn to mind our own
business"
Discussing in the Saturday review OF
literature, What a Capitalist Reads" ="
Lamont says the idea that Russia will
try to communize America or other
Western nations has no place in post
war probabilities
The Soviet attitude toward external
revolution, Lamont explains, has
changed radically Stain has declared
that Russia has no interest in spreading
her economic theories outside of her
own country, and Il believe his state
ments. because they are reasonable and
logical" Secondly, Lamont adds, Rus
slams will be busy restoring their dev-
astated land and they will have no
time nor zest for foreign political prose-
lyting"
Lamont concludes:
Let us be friends with our friends
and save our polemics for our enemies.
I have come to that point of view de-
spite, as to religion, pious upbringing
in country parsonage. and, as to eco
nomlcs, 40-year association in the
world of American affairs where the
advantages Of the capitalist system over
Communism have been fairly well i'm
pressed upon me-
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Germans
Continued From Page CID

artillery fire and air bombardments
which will be necessary to soften the
strong German positions in that area.
According to the estimate of our mill
tary leaders, Germany will sue for peace
only after her outer defenses have been
conquered and the Allied troops are
ready to invade Germany proper.
Still Formidable Enemy.
There is no question that so far as
their military power is concerned, the
Germans are still formidable enemy.
There is no indication whatever of
morale within the country breaking
down. There is a good deal of grum-
bling, OF course, but break in the
morale of the troops at the front does
not occur unless the morale of the
troops at the front is seriously affected.
In countries where the industrial out
put has to rely on the citizens them
selves break in morale is possible when
the food is inadequate and destruction
by enemy bombing becomes severe. But
IN Germany more than 10 per cent of
the factory workers are composed of
slave labor-men and women from the
Nazi-conquered lands and from Ger
manys satellites. Machine guns manned
by Germans supervise their work and
the slightest indication of sabotage or
slowing down of production is immedi-
ately suppressed in the Nazi manner.
Unless Germany's privileged class
the fighting men-are beginning to
realize that their chances of resisting
the Allies are useless and that they may
be able to live unmolested after they
lay down their arms, the possibility of
a break in German morale at the front
is seriously discounted in Washington.
And unless the morale Of the German
soldier falls so low that he prefers to
surrender or run rather than fight,
those responsible for the conduct of the
war are unwilling to make any bets or
guess as to when it will end In Europe.
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Puerto Rico
Continued From Page CID

bottles, and above all the continuation
OF the organic act-giving permission to
sell rum on the continent without quota
limitations while receiving the benefit
OF excise taxes collected there.
AS shipping has improved and as the
stocks Of other liquors on the continent
have dwindled, the flow of rum to
parched American throats has doubled
and trebled. Money has poured into the
island and excise taxes have fattened
the treasury, thus helping to alleviate
the sharp dislocations which Puerto
Rico-cut off from the world by sub
marines and bereft of booming war in
Observation-Disclosures after the outbreak
of the fighting
That's why Puerto Rico is watching
with something approaching despera-
ton the by-play in Congress, for its
potentially lucrative postwar industry
Is at stake. If 1t is lost, and If the
economic handouts from the Federal
Government are cut OF, the island will
have to find substitute which is not
in sight.
When the Federal Works Agency's
s25 900 900 two-year program, successor
to the defunct WPA, was introduced in
Congress about two months ago, most
insular quarters were confident it would
be passed. They were disappointed
when it met cool reception from the
House 1nsular Affairs Committee.
Stunned by Tax Plan.
But they were stunned when Repre-
sentative Sterling Cole of New York
offered his amendment, which would
take so per cent of the rum excise taxes
to finance the United States Govern
ment's share of the relief program
The outcry was as swift as it was
unanimous, for Puerto Rico, rightly or
not, has come to consider the excise
taxes as right" not as bounty, !"
as some Congressman termed it. Puerto
Rico saw the loss of about 50 900 900
this year-approximately 10 per cent Of
the estimated insular government rev.
enue for the present fiscal year-and
$15,000,000 next year..
The action of the Rules Committee
November % in shelving the rum pro-
posal by declining to hear Chairman
Bell Of the Insular Affairs Committee
apparently means the FWA relief meas
ure to which it was attached Is also
blocked indefinitely.
Puerto Rico is gloomy about the pros
pect of losing the relief funds, but happy
the Cole amendment is dying, too. They
feel that If those taxes are to be used
by the Federal Government for its share
Of the relief program here, it would be
better to leave them In the hands OF the
insular government and let the island
run its own relief program.
They would like, OF course, to have
both the relief money and full title to
the excise taxes. If a compromise IL
necessary, they'll take the latter.
New Worries Crop Up.
But new worries have cropped up in
the talk of quota on rum to conserve
the molasses stockpile for the United
States industrial alcohol program.
Puerto Rico does not want to appear
to be holding back the war effort. But
faced with the loss of Federal aid which
has averaged about 100000 q year
Tor the past decade, Puerto Rico feels
1t should be allowed to manufacture a.
| much rum as it can. That would not
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Pacific Front

There was considerable news from
the Pacific last week and it was all had
for the Japs. The Marshall Islands.
Nauru and New Britain came in for
series of violent attacks, all of which
forecast new landing operations by
American forces to press in closer to-
japanese home islands
The raid on Nauru, main source Of
Japans phosphates, was made in Joint
air and surface attack. Nauru, lying on
straight line between the Gilbert
Islands and New Britain, has been raid
ed on several previous occasions by
planes, but not until the Gilberts were
in American hands could naval task
force be risked in shelling operation.
The raid on the Marshalls, Kwajalein
and Vote, specifically, just about wiped
out Jap plane strength in the islands.
When enemy aircraft attacked the fiat
tops taking part in the raid, Navy He'll
divers shot down 70 of them. Our losses
were less than 10 planes and one fiat
wy ACSClVCu superficial OdlIldRe.
In addition to Jap plane losses, two
cruisers, tanker and three cargo ships
were bombed and sunk.
The Japs are beginning to fear raids
on their homelands, and with decreasing
numbers of planes at their disposal, the
Jap leaders are attempting to whip up
production by appeals to the workers in
CT cfyHr fI,~
situation. At the same time seeking to
bolster up morale at home, the Toxic
radio claimed that so far in the war in
the Pacific, the Japs have sunk 18 Allied
battleships, 27 carriers, 81 cruisers, 70
destroyers and 107 submarines and dam
aged 13 battleships, IL carriers, 56
cruisers, AZ destroyers and numerous
other ships. Jap losses, so said the Toxic
radio, consisted of l battleship, 2 car
rlers, cruisers and % destroyers sunk
and IL ships in various categories dam
aged.
In spite of these claims of tremendous
destruction to the Allied navies, there
are some indications that the Japs are
finding New Britain and the base at
Rabaul, especially, growing too hot to
handle. A report from Gen. Mac
ArthW's headquarters states that there
is decided slackening in enemy naval
activity at Rabaul, while practically no
air opposition Is met as the softening-
up raids continue. Bougainville Japs
were severely pounded throughout the
week and task force steamed in close
to Choiseul to shell the enemy installa-
tions there.
Chinese Fighting Increases.
1t was revealed last week that Ameri-
can submarines have sunk II more jap
cargo ships, including one large tanker.
On New Guinea, Aussie troops have
captured Wareo, one of the last Jap
strong points on the Huon Peninsula
from which an invasion OF New Britain
probably would be launched.
On the Chinese front, the battle for
the rice bowl was . seesaw affair last
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Italian Front

The American 5th, Army under 1t.
Gen. Mark Clark has smashed in a
little over week, defense line in
the mountains around Mignano some
miles in from the west coast, which
the Germans had thought would hold
out all winter. Mountain defenses, in
which natural obstacles added tre-
mendously to the man-made positions,
were counted on to hold the Allies out
Of a threatening advance in regard
to Rome at least until Spring, but the
tremendous pressure put on by the
5th Army quickly cracked the line and
a drive toward Casino, next milestone
on the road to the Italian capital, is
expected to start shortly.
The total advance by the Americans
during the week was only about three
miles but they were tremendously i'm
portant miles.
Over on the Adriatic coast where
British naval units are said to be CO.
operating with 1t Gen. Montgomery's
British 9th Army, considerable ad-
vance has been made, the British also
having broken the Nazi winter line
and crossed the Moro River which is
10 miles north of the Sangro, which
the Germans had hoped to hold.
An Italian Army of $4,000 is reported
In the mountains back of the Germans,
ready to strike the Nazis from the
rear when the time is ripe.
Allied aircraft kept up a constant
harrassment both of German positions
in italy and others in Greece and the
Greek islands. It was announced
during the week also that British sub
marines operating in the Aegean Sea
had sunk 16 German sllrr,l,, S1airs
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require more than half OF the islands
molasses, Government sources say, and
would be a tiny part Of the more than
100000 900 gallons repeatedly available
in the Caribbean area for industrial al
cohol.
These totals for Federal rum excise
taxes returned to the island show how
the rum export business has doomed !:
1856, $359, ,706.21; 1867, $s40,sl4.6o;
1878, 81 .4o5, 1878; 1889, 81, ,634 1888 Sd; /;
1939-40. $2,762, 2,601.81; 1901, $4,552,-
226.46; 1912. $l3.so2,s1L.11; 1923, $13,-
831, ,7o1 40. Estimated for 1884, mini
mum Of $so,oo0,00o. The month Of Au-
gust hit $780,, ,273 .30-a rate which will
not hold but which II indicative.
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week, with the Japs winning and then
losing an advantage.
The Japs, aiming at Changsha, capi-
tai Of Human Province, were sent reeling
back with heavy losses Monday, but on
Wednesday, Changteh. once one of the
most thriving cities in Central China,
fell, opening a pathway to Changsha
In the fight to hold the city, the entire
57th Chinese Division with the excep-
tion of about 300 men was sacrificed.
However, on Thursday came the an
nouncement that the Chinese, aided by
American aircraft, had recaptured the
city and that in the 40-day battle for
the rice bowl the Japs lost 10000.
The fighting is becoming bitter and
heavy and at the moment the Chinese
are on the offensive.