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Evening star., 1943-08-15

. Business, little and big. Is bitter
lv complaining of Federal interfer-
ence as pestiferous and injurious.
Little businesses are suffering, and
they attribute their plight to bu-
reaucrats, They question whether
the President knows what a pest
Federal activities have become"
Representative Taber's letter:
Il find a general feeling that the
war in Europe and in Asia is going
about as we'll as we could expect at
this time.
There is, however a general feel
ing that there is too much optimism
in many quarters and that there is
too much reliance upon the power
Evening star., 1943-08-15
Walter Reed Patients
To See 'Eust Lynne

Fifty veterans of the present war
now at the Walter Reed Hospital
will see East Lynne" at the Willard
Hotel tomorrow night as guests of
newly formed District organiza-
ton, its acting chairman, Col.
Daniel Adams, announced today.
The organization, according to
its executive secretary. Lee Perley,
aims to provide recreation and well
fare services of all kinds to the
veterans of the present war.
Evening star., 1943-08-15
BY THOMAS r.. HENRY,
Star staff Correspondent.

WITH THE 7th ARMY IN SICI-
LY, Aug. IL Delayed Ghosts of
the Lord Nelson-Lady Hamilton ro-
nance haunt the war today as
American forces push the Germans
over the vast estate once owned by
the British naval hero near the
town of Bronte just beyond Ca
tania. It's storied acres and game
preserves, cut by the Simeto River,
are now the center of fighting.
The estate Is the largest in Sicily
although much of the original grant,
which was presented to Lord Nell
son in the early part of the 18th
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century by the
Sicilian govern
ment for his ma
val vic tor i e s
against Napole-
on, later was
sold.
The great ad-
miral, who also
W as ere a t e d
Duke Of Bronte
at that time,
was recalled to
a c i've service
from there prior
to the Battle of
Ira { a q ar in
1905, in which
he u-oS killed
Evening star., 1943-08-15
Col. {. |. Gamble Heads
Army War College Post

Col. Claude l.. Gamble, Republic,
Mich, yesterday succeeded Col.
George I. Smith as post commander
of the Army War College here.
The War Department announce
ment said Col Smith had been
given new assignment, the nature
of which could not be divulged.
The post at the War College
houses officers and men who CO.
ordinate the training activities OF
the Army Ground Forces under
1t. Gen. Lesley J. McNair. Col.
Gamble had served as director of
Supply and services, quartermaster
and post engineer before assuming
his new duties. He was born in
Republic March 4, 1894, and was
commissioned a first lieutenant in
the Army In 1920 He reached his
present grade on October 6, 1912.
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has centered about the names of
DR.. Aldrich; Canon Theodore o.
Wedel, 81, born at Halstead. Kans.,
and connected with Washington
Cathedral since 1927; and the Rev.
Reno S. Harp, native of Fred
erick, Md, rector of Trinity parish.
Washington (Takoma Park, since
1885.
Sponsors of Mr.. Harp. who Is in
his forties, stress the fact that he
is young enough to learn the job"
Evening star., 1943-08-15
Correction

In the caption under a picture
of Capt. Albert w. Diffenbach-
one of the Heroes of the Wash
ington Area" series-in The
Sunday Star gravure section to-
day, the statement is made that
Capt. Diffenbach is g. graduate
of Chevy Chase Junior College.
Chevy Chase Junior College, as
is well known to all Washing
tonians, Is exclusively for wom-
en-.
Evening star., 1943-08-15

Las llO oIl GllOSC
complaints is to
be had in the re-
cent action of
our tob a C c o
{ a + m ers who
voted less than
two weeks ago
for three years
more of tobacco
crop con t r o |.
Ninety = two per
cent of t h O S e
voting were for
it-and the vote
was sufficiently
full to be highly
sipnifcent To-
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of speech rather
than the power
of the sword.
Undoubtedly our
oper a tions in
Italy have had
much to do with
this feeling.
There Is q
general feeling
that l get from
people a rou n d
here that the
management OF
the OPA, the
War Food Ad-
ministration, the
Food DiSt,rih,I-
Evening star., 1943-08-15
Commissioners Plan
Sharp Breakdown on
Defiant Restdurateurs
BY DON S. WARREN.

Proprietors of restaurants and
other eating places in the Dis
trict are to be forced out of
business If they flagrantly or
persistently fail to comply with
minimum sanitation standards,
according to the terms of a new
policy announced last night by
Commissioner Guy Mason.
He said directive would be sent
tomorrow to Health Officer George
c. Rutland that. recommendation
for license revocation be forwarded
to the District Building in any case
in which inspectors find fragrant
violation of rules or serious re
peater" records - without waiting
for conviction at Municipal Court.
Such cases are to be referred to
the License Revocation Board
which would call hearings to de-
termine If the permits of the ac-
cused should be revoked. Findings
of the board would be subject to
action later by the Board of Com
missioners.
Eight Cases Pending.
There now are pending before
the License Revocation Board the
cases of eight restaurateurs, but in
all these instances recommended
tions for license revocat ton were
made after convictions or for
FIXTURES were obtained at court. The
new plan proposes to shortcut
court action where extreme" cases
are found, leaving court prosecu-
ton for violations to be considered
as separate matter.
1--WE must stop this practice of
the sale of contaminated food, or
the sale of food in places which
are dirty, filthy and in violation
of our sanitary rules" said Com
missioner Mason. "A cash fine, to
some operators, may be slight pun
ishment for continued violations
and if they don't clean up they
will be closed up"
He stressed that the new policy
was not to be invoked on the basis
of "old" records, but rather would
be used when current" investiga-
tions indicate it is necessary. 1t
may be used, he added, on a first
offense If the situation is serious
enough. or on second charge, or
a third charge, depending on the
circumstances, but certainly" would
be brought into play in any fourth
offense involving the more serious
violations.
Special instruction Planned.
Health Department inspectors are
to be given special instruction by
one of the assistants of Corporation
Counsel Richmond B. Keech on how
to prepare revocation-action case,
what evidence to look for and how
to get it. Mr.. Mason stressed that
any revocation case must be pre-
pared just as thoroughly and care
fully as one intended for presenta-
ton to the courts.
Corporation Counsel Keech, in
conference with Mr.. Mason, agreed
that it was not necessary to have
court conviction before a revo-
cation recommendation be consid-
cred by the License Revocation
Board or the Commissioners. Rec
ords Of court convictions are help
full, he said, but not essential under
the law.
Commissioner Mason said the new
plan was adopted as a result of con-
tinued study OF the most effective
means OF meeting the situation
high lighted recently by the prefer
ring OF charges against many pro-
prietors, with numerous repeaters
being found in the lists. He main
Evening star., 1943-08-15

food and dirty. wet linens on floor
dirty floors, ceiling, cooking utensils,
iceboXes and work bench.
Evening star., 1943-08-15

The best way to root for victory
Is to dig deep into that pocketbook
or purse and buy War savings
stamps.
Evening star., 1943-08-15
Report

FURNISHED by the United States Weather
Bureau
District of Columbia: Cooler with
lower humidity Sunday and Sunday
evening.
Virginia and Maryland: Cooler
Sunday and Sunday evening.
RIVER REPORT.
Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers
clear at Harpers Ferry. Potomac
clear at Great Falls.
Evening star., 1943-11-11
A Seamless Web
From the Baltimore Sun.

From the Baltimore Sun.
The requirements of total war, after
all, are for mighty army supported by
a civilian economy and society operating
at total efficiency That means that the
home front is fully as important to the
military goals as is the military front.
1t means, as President Roosevelt has
suggested, that the whole national war
plan must be a seamless web with no
bitches or holes between the civilian ac-
tivities remotest from hte front and the
front where our total war power is
brought directly to bear on the persons
of our enemies. The military leaders are
perfectly aware of this. 1t is true that
they may make errors in their thinking
on home-front issues They share the
proclivity to err with other humans A
vigilant civilian lookout for such errors
is certainly in order But until such
errors develop to the point where the
military leadership is clearly discredited,
until Gen. Marshall and his colleagues
have clearly shown that they are losing
the war by errors on the home front,
their suggestions on home-front issues
should be granted the greatest respect.
Evening star., 1943-11-11
Home Is the Hero

Senator Byrd has hit upon a happy
if somewhat unusual idea in suggest
ing that Secretary of State Cordell
Hull be awarded the Congressional
Medal of Honor for his great accom-
pliShmentS at Moscow. But whether
the proposal is acted upon or not,
that gallant old eagle who flew far
on strong wing"-26,00O miles, to
be eXact-muSt sense, without the
help of any special citation, how
truly deep and affectionate is the
esteem in which the Nation holds
him. The unique and heart-warming
welcome accorded him yesterday on
his return is proof enough of that.
The President, who ordinarily re-
serves such courtesy for visiting
chiefs of state, was there to grasp
his hand. So were the majority
leader of the Senate and the
Speaker of the House. And SO were
Republicans like Senators Austin of
Vermont and White of Maine. All
in all, the scene at the National Air
port was wonderfully American in
character - informal, unpretentious,
refreshingly homely, with the fine
applause wholly nonpartisan, spon-
taneous and from the heart. well,
WELL" said Mr.. Hull, a bit flustered
and surprised. You don't know how
much I appreciate this" 1t is a
measure of the man that he was
surprised to learn that his work at
Moscow had made him something
of hero in the land he has served
so well for so many years. With or
without a medal, the knowledge of
this must seem to him a reward
sufficient in itself.
Evening star., 1943-11-11

formance Of public duty and may be
classed, as may also presence at the
polls, with registration, or the OBJ
servance of any other preliminary to
insure fairness and protect against
fraud. Nor can it be said that the
requirement to read is any denial of
suffrage. 1t is obvious that this type of
requirement was never considered to be
an abridgment of the right to vote in
any constitutional sense. BY Mr.. War
ren's contention before the committee
that the said poll tax repeal bill is un-
constitutional negates any such idea.
This view rationalizes the 14th amend
ment, and do not believe it would have
passed if it was believed that the regis
tration laws and the like would be
invalidated thereby. Thence I do not
believe the above mode of attack upon
the South will be upheld by the courts
GEORGE WASHINGTON WILLIAMS.
Baltimore.
Evening star., 1943-11-11
To Feed the Hunqry

AS it begins it's first formal deliber-
ations at Atlantic City, the new
United Nations Relief and Rehabili-
tation Administration does not lend
itself very readily to dramatization,
yet its task is one that bears directly
on the hopes, fears, fortunes and
lives of scores of millions of human
beings
Created through the agreement
signed last Tuesday by the thirty
three United Nations, ten associated
nations and the French Committee
of National Liberation, the organiza-
ton is designed primarily to offset
the danger of widespread starva-
ton, pestilence, death and chaos in
the first weeks and months of the
coming peace, both in Europe and
Asia. To this end, the forty-four
Slgners have committed their coun-
tries, each according to ability, to
draw upon their resources to pro-
vide food, raw materials, clothing.
medicines, shelter and other things
needed to revive the peoples vic
timized by the Axis and to put them
on self-supporting basis as swiftly
as possible.
The urgency of this is obvious. AS
President Roosevelt declared at the
time the agreement was signed, the
Nazis and japanese have deliber-
ately sought to reduce their VIC
TINS to half -men-undernour
crushed in body and spirit, without
strength or incentive to hope" 1t
is these suffering millions, these
helpless men, women and children.
who will have to be succored the
moment their lands are liberated.
Humanitarianism alone does not
dictate this. AS the President says,
1T is matter Of enlightened self
interest as we'll, for as our experience
in North Africa, Sicily and Italy has
shown, such relief has an immediate
military value, and beyond that, in
the long-term sense, it is essential
to any international effort to build
the foundation for a secure peace"
Apart from the fact that one OF
its basic policies is to distribute the
cost and burden of the problem pro-
portionately, according to each
countrys resources, UNRRA is par
ticularly praiseworthy and promising
for yet another reason. AS the first
agency of its kind among the United
Nations, it sets pattern for future
international collaboration in other
fields. BY working together we'll and
successfully in relief and rehabilita-
ton, we shall be teaching ourselves
to work in the same way in dealing
with many another postwar problem.
Cooperation may thus become a
habit among us, so that step by step,
in a more or less piecemeal fashion,
we may one day achieve what the
whole world yearns fora genuine
system of collective security guar
anteeing good and lasting peace.
Evening star., 1943-11-11
November Eleventh

This day returns Nth troubling
memory
OF shining promises, yet untul-
filled,
And dreams 1De cherished In our
ecstasy
That aOars Uere ended, rage OF
battle Stilled;
That peace hencetorWard like
golden light
Would fall unshadoDed on the
hearts OF men.
The dreams haze faded. Hideous Is
the night
Whose terror grips the shuddering
World again.
Again! How dare we hope? Yet, to
despair
Is but to crush the last intrepid
spark,
TO shirk the burden of the cross .,De
bear
And sink from darkness to- a
deeper dark.
Sternly, Ue bid the crauen thought
begone, --
For ours must be the Just, cor1-
passionate hand
That shapes the peace, the bright,
impartial daDn @
With equal radiance for every land.
INEZ BARCLAY KIRBY.
Evening star., 1943-11-11
Doubts "Indispensab bility"
OF Any President.

OF Any President.
To the Editor of The Star:
If the maintenance of President
Roosevelt's so-called social gains is
dependent upon his staying in Office, as
is contended by his New Deal followers,
then who will maintain those gains"
when Mr.. Roosevelt comes to the end OF
his earthly journey, which happens to
all of us at sometime?
Be that as it may, I sincerely hope
that whoever is elected to the presi-
dency in 1914 will not be another in
dispensable." In view of the way ma
ture has arranged things, an "indis-
pensable' in such an important Office
not only jeopardizes the American form
Of Government, but the very existence
of the country.
AS it appears to me, what we want is
a President who can step out of Office
st any time without the Nation facing
calamity. 1t is discomforting to think
that there are Americans who feel that
the existence of the country is de-
pendent upon one person Such is too
much like the concept that the emperor
is the source of all goodness, knowledge
and strength. J. J. SPERRY.
Woodstock, Va.
Evening star., 1943-11-11
THIS AND THAT
By Charles E. TraceUell.

spots, with the points up, as are those
Of the backed thrush.
The migration dates for the hermit
are from September 18 to November 8,
with the average from October 16 to No
vember 2. But the hermit is rare.
Other small thrushes somewhat re-
sembling those already named are the
veery and the gray-cheeked thrush.
The veery leaves by October / and the
gray-cheeked thrush by October 7.
Reports have come in from a resident
living at Pinehurst circle, in Chevy
Chase, Md, of a similarly thrushlike
bird
This specimen was with a flock of
sparrows.
Just as 1t flew over the yard, there
was the sound of an explosion far to
the south. This noise was not as sharp
as the report of a gun.
A single bird fell out of the flock,
dropping to the yard
The owner picked it up and found it
to be thrushlike, fitting either of the
descriptions given above.
No wound could be found on the bird
1t seemed to be breathing its last
The friend Of birds gave the creature
two drops of whisky, which the bird
received with a great yawp
This stimulation seemed very helpful,
because in few minutes the specimen
was able to fly away on its own power.
~
The smaller and rarer thrushes are
much alike, and quite interesting birds
from every standpoint
Most of them are shy and some of
them are much given 70 frequenting
small streams.
None OF them is seen as frequently
around here as the wood thrush, the
brown beauty which is almost inches
long. He, too, in some sections of the
country, is called the swamp robin.
The splotches on the chest give the
bird this name, since young robins also
have these spots showing their kinship
to the thrushes. The wood thrush some
times Is called the wood robin.
bird has more or less dropped his char
acter Of forest bird and has become
suburban bird. feeling quite at ease
near the habtation of man. He still
likes trees, however, and is a bit shy
Of the city, although to be found there,
too.
The wood thrush is favorite of most
suburban dwellers. He usually comes
late in April, more often than not first
showing up on April %.
His leaving time is in October.
1t Is strange fact that this verv
tame bird becomes tamest of all Just
before he flies South. In October it
is possible to touch them, as they hop
out of fence corner. We have often
done this with thrushes on Quincy
street in Chevy Chase, Md, in late
October, but at no other time of the
year
Evening star., 1943-11-11
A Dubious Proposal

1t is easy to believe that the sup
porters of the Truman resolution,
which would put Congress in the
position of urging Sterilization Di-
rector Vinson to reverse his decision
In the railroad wage dispute, are
Influenced by the best of motives.
Before approving the resolution,
however, the members of Congress
should satisfy themselves that the
consequences of their act would be
constructive and not destructive.
Specifically, the Truman resolu-
ton, if adopted, would advise Judge
Vinson that Congress regards the
original recommendation for an in
crease of eight cents an hour for
nonoperative employees as an ap-
propriate and valid settlement. But
Judge Vinson has ruled that it is
an invalid settlement, because it
violates the Little Steel formula and
the Presidents hold the line"
stabilization order. Hence, Congress,
in effect, would be urging Judge
Vinson to violate the requirements
Of the stabilization program, as he
understands them.
The stabilization of wages gen.
orally, with the consent if not the
hearty approval of Congress, has
been left in the hands of the Presi-
dent and his subordinates. 1t might
be possible to make a distinction in
the case of railroad workers, who
are covered by the Railway Labor
Act, but it would be a hair splitting
distinction at best. For if Judge
Vinson can be forced by moral pres
sure of congressional action to ap-
prove pay increase for railroad
workers which he believes to be in
violation of the formula, it would be
impossible to refuse comparable in
Evening star., 1943-11-11
De GuuIIe Wins Out

The resignation of General
Honore Giraud as co-chairman
of the French Committee of National
Liberation, and the simultaneous
dismissal by the Committee of vir-
tually all Giraud's supporters mark
the eliminating triumph for General
de Gaulle and his supporters, who
are now in complete control of the
French national movement
General Giraud's elimination from
the political picture leaves him in
command of the French forces in
the field, but his position hence
forth is merely that of a technician,
entirely subservient to the orders
Of the Committee of National Liber-
alton, since it controls the move
ment of reserves and the mobiliza-
ton of additional troops. Giraud
formally acknowledged the trans
formation in the decree, which he
signed jointly with De Gaulle, giving
the latter sole power as chairman,
with the power to change it's COM
position ''in order to separate the
political and military functions, give
the committee greater homogeneity
in thought and action, and include
political representatives of principal
political tendencies and resistance
movements in France"
De Gaulle and his followers like
wise dominate the body known as
the French Consultative Assembly,
a self engendered organization
formed in large part from members
of the old French Parliament but
with the addition of delegates from
the underground and other resist
ance movements in France itself.
The Assembly's first decision was,
by unanimous vote, to ask for the
inclusion of two more delegates re-
presenting Alsace and Lorraine. The
Assembly obviously aspires to be
regarded as the successor Of the
| French Parliament, just as the Com
mittee headed solely by De Gaulle
aspires to become the recognized
executive organ of France in advance
of its liberation from German con-
troll. Even before his formal eleva-
ton to the sole Craftsmanship, De
Gaulle boldly announced that
France refused to recognize any
decisions made at the Moscow con-
ference or elsewhere unless France
was represented in the proceedings.
This is part of the campaign he and
his followers have consistently waged
to transform their status from con-
tingent trustees" to legalized rep
resentatives of the France of tomor-
row.
The steady eclipse of Giraud by
De Gaulle during the past year rep
resents corresponding setback
for American and British diplomacy
General Giraud was the choice of
Washington and London as the
dependable leader of French COL
laboration in the joint task Of fight
ing the Axis. De Gaulle was little