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Evening star., 1943-08-12

German fortress we shall at
tempt to break.
The fact for all intents and
purposes Italy can be considered
out of the war and that soon
we shall have the whole Medi-
terranean army of Gen. Eisen-
hover available for further op-
erations in Italy, itself. does
not mean that a large-scale Of
fensive in Southern Europe is
our best bet.
After the Sicilian operations
are concluded, the Eisenhower
forces can go into italy practi-
cally unopposed. They may be
able to move as far as Rome
with only limited fighting and
in the east they can reach the
Adriatic coast But the chief
problem before the Allies is
where do we 60 from there?'
A much larger force than Gen.
Eisenhower has in Sicily will be
required to undertake major op-
erations either in the Balkans or
in Southern France. The num-
ber Of troops necessary to defeat
the Germans in these areas, as
well as In Italy north Of the Po
River, can be gauged from the
present battle in Sicily.
Nazis Know Game Is Up.
In Sicily, there are a maxi
mum of $4,000 Nazi. Against this
force, weakly supported by some
Italian units, there are about
three times as many Allied
troops. The Germans know only
too we'll that the game is UP
and that is Is matter OF days
before they will have to capit-
ulate.
Despite this, the Nazi forces
continue to dispute the Allied
advance, inch by inch, suffering
heavy losses and infiicting as
much damage as they can. 1t is
probable that the German COM
mander has received orders from
general headquarters to give us
a demonstration of the type of
resistance we shall meet on the
European mainland when we are
engaged in battle there.
On the other hand, on the
eastern front there are so times
more Nazis than there are in
Sicily, fighting against about 80
times as many Russians as there
are Anglo-Americans on that
island. Yet the Germans are re-
treating rapidly, engaging the
enemy only in rearguard actions
and time-saving counterthrusts,
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Swift Rise Of BootIeeging
Seen if Sugar Rotioning Ends

BY the Associated Press.
DENVER, Aug 12-Take sugar
off the rationing list, add to it the
current whisky shortage, mix in
Americas apparently ever-mount-
ing thirst, and you've got a recipe
for bootlegging that may outstrip
that of prohibition days.
That's the opinion of the alcohol
tax unit of the Treasury Depart
ment in Denver. from District Su-
pervisor A. V. Anderson on down.
They're officers who matched wits
with the illicit oistillers when the
18th amendment was in effect and
will have to do it again if bootleg
ging flares up anew
Right now, unlawful distilling is
on small scale, said J. L. White,
investigator, and he wants the pub
lies sugar supply somewhat con-
trolled so bootleggers can't get lot
of it for their mash.
IF we allow sugar to be sold in
unrestricted quantities, it will be
just what the bootleggers are wait
ing for" he said. This doesn't
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Aerial 'NewsY' in Sicily
Becomes a Hero
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
STEUBENVILLE Ohio. - Sergt
George Billy Giessner, tail-gunner
on United States bomber, is prob
ably the first American "newsboy"
to be decorated for bravery after de-
livering his papers.
Out on raiding expedition over
Sicily, Sergt. GlesSner dropped a
copy of the Steubenville Herald
Star from the skies over the Italian
mainland.
Wounded on the trip, the "newsy"
had told Capt. Jack Preble, fell
low member of his Mediterranean
bomber squadron and former Her.
ald-Star staff member, "he would
like to be the first newsboy to de-
liver a Herald-Star to Italy"
He delivered the paper all right"
Capt. Preble reported, but he got
shot up doing it,
Sergt. GleSsner was awarded the
Purple Heart and Oak Leaf Cluster
for bravery in the sky battle which
followed delivery of his newspaper
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I'd Rather Be Rioht-

tration, by using tactics vehemently
endorsed by the isolationists, will so
depress the French and the people
of Italy and the Russians perhaps
also, that each of these countries
also will go in for its own improvi-
sations and quickie deals, when able,
on its own. for its own purposes,
without comforting. We see signs of
this in Moscow now.
Joint Decisions Expected.
II that happens. if world planning
goes out the window, our isolation
lists then will take over, reminding
us that they said it would never
work. The Administration then will
have prepared a theoretical victory
for isolation by pursuing practices
close to the isolationist heart.
One thing leads to another. Can
planners who spool at planning be
amazed when planning fails?
cannot believe Mr.. Roosevelt will
slip further into this pitfall. One
must expect startling reversal of
field very soon; some announcement
that there will from now on be joint
decisions by all the Allies on Italy,
Germany and other problem coun-
tries.
Our practices will have to begin
to match our theory or our theory
must soon begin to match our prac-
tices. I think our practices are
about to change.
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u. ). Patrols Greeted
In Sicily With Sign,
Welcome, Brothers
Ey Staff Correspondent of The Star.


WITH 18th AIR FORCE CON-
MAND IN SICILY. Aug. 12.-When
United States patrols entered a city
in Sicily, they found big Ameri-
can flag flying from the window of
a principal street and a sign read
ing, welcome. brothers"
The flag and greeting hung from
the home of Mrs. Christine Lamon-
ica, Lexington, Mass, daughter of a
one-time Boston italian banker,
Placidu Amaru.
Mrs. Lamonica, who went through
the worst of the Allied bombing, Is
now Of invaluable aid to Mai. Far
rano Flowers, 2912 Dumbarton ave-
nue., Washington, in the job of bill
letting American officers in sumptu-
GUS palazzos and villas of the large
Sicilian city.
Most of the owners had fed to the
mainland at the height of the bomb
ing. Mrs. Lamonica waited long for
Americans to arrive, having been
caught by the war after bringing
her daughter abroad for a college
course. 49,
Her worst experiences, she says,
were on Palm Sunday and the four
preceding days. Most Siciliaas had
left the churches and many were
out Of the city at the time. They
learned that United States bomb
ers seldom came over early in the
day and so did their daily shopping
early. then kept close to "ricoveros,"
or air-raid shelters, awaiting an
alarm.
Mrs. Lamonica told of a friend
who was at the airport on Palm
Sunday with II others. All were
killed. but one, who was bounced 10
feet in the air by the force of bomb
explosions, only to land unhurt on
pile of dynamite.
Palermo is town of great con-
trasts of wealth and extreme pov-
erty. Most palatial homes, some
among the finest in Europe, are
empty. Some owners who aban-
doned homes and hid in country
estates in the hills have come back
and are protesting vociferously.
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commissioner. For the Republi-
cans, Simeon S. Willis, former
Judge of the court of appeals,
will carry the banner.
Kentucky is one of the Dor
der States" Usually it goes Dem
ocratic, and rarely Republican. 1t
has, however, in the past elected
Republican Governors and Sem
ators and has cast its electoral
vote for Republican presidential
candidates. The election in No
vember, therefore, will be
watched with some interest, and
should a Republican win, it would
be considered significant. The
COP has a better chance, even
some of the Democrats admit,
than it has had for a number of
years. One reason given for this
is the unrest among the people.
Another is factional rows among
the Democrats.
Chandler Kept Out.
Mr.. Donaldson had the active
support of Senator Barkley, ma
jority leader of the Senate and a
strong administration supporter.
Senator Chandler kept out of the
fight, but he has no love for Mr..
Donaldson. Ben Kilgore, who
ran second to Mr.. Donaldson in
a field of four and got very
considerable vote, has been sec
retary of the Farm Bureau Fed
Grafton of Kentucky. He had no
particular political backing. The
fact that the farmers in Ken
lucky, as in other States. have
resented the regulations and at
titude of the Washington admin
istration may have had some
thing to do with Mr.. Kilgore's
large vote. The two other can
didates for the nomination were
1t. Gov. Rhodes K. Myers and
John T. Thobe.
The Republican nominee, Judge
Willis. had no opposition, the
COP apparently having centered
On him as its candidate. He lives
in Ashland, and the Republicans
say he is we'll qualified for the
job.
Senator Barkley comes up for
reelection next year. In 1888
he defeated Senator Chandler
for the Democratic nomination
and was elected easily over his
Republican opponent. At that
time President Roosevelt gave
his personal support to Senator
Barkley for denomination. A
Republican victory in Kentucky
this year certainly would arouse
apprehension in Democratic
breasts as to the outcome of the
elections in 1914 in that State.
Tammany Bolstered.
The New York primaries on
Tuesday apparently have
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he would add that nothing should
be done.
And when Secretary of State
Hull drops disparaging comments
about the political side of the war
and says he is interested more or
less exclusively in the military side
at the moment, those comments,
too, stroke isolationist feathers In
soothing fashion.
For 1t is the isolationist conten-
ton that political planning is i'm
practical dts the bunk, is the way
they put it, and the less of it, the
better.
Sees Easy Way Taken.
I do not say this Administrator
has gone isolationist in any sense,
for that would be an absurd re-
mark. Yet, on occasion, in the past
as in the present, it has shown
tendency to succcumb to the
temptations of taking the easy way,
of not looking too closely into the
consequences of convenient deals.
OF disparaging the opponents of
Darlan and the Duke of Adds Aba =.
ba, rather than disparaging Darlan
and the Duke.
And so, while the Administration
is undoubtedly the leader Of forces
tending toward world collaboration
in this country, it has sometimes
shown prediction for using the
catch-as-catch-can methods of the
opposition to world collaboration.
That this situation really exists,
and is not merely bad dream, is
shown by the enthusiastic support
afforded the Administrator by the
Hearst press, and the New York
Daily News, ct al, on It's attitude
toward Italy. The pro-isolationist,
or ex-isolationist, press loved the
Administrations short-lived game
of goo-goo eyes with the Duke of
Adds Ababa.
Theory, Acts Don't Jibe.
But this is the same press which
continually engages in globaloney-
of our press attacking the Admins
istration for being partial to world
planning. When we find this section
of the press attacking the Admins
tration's theories but defending its
practices, are we not compelled to
say that there must be some di-
vergence between theory and prac-
tice?
Conversely, we find the pro-world-
collaboration section of the press,
such as the New York Post and the
New York Herald Tribune, defending
the administrations theories but
often opposing its practices. This is
remarkable dualism of character
on the part of the Administrator
for those who hate its theories love
what it does, and those who hate
what it does love its theories.
The danger is that the Admins
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mean we can't double sugar rations
for the average consumer without
running risk of bootlegging,
though, as long as some form of ra-
tioning is maintained, we've got a
safeguard"
He said reports of large quantities
of illicit liquor being distributed in
the East indicate that honey, sirup,
old cane sugar and molasses are
being used in the fermentation proc
eSs
Evening star., 1943-08-12
The Political Mill

SITenSLle1leu tlle IldIlO OF MdTlll
j. Kennedy as Tammany leader.
Mr.. Kennedy is friend and
strong supporter OF President
Roosevelt. While not all the
ballots have been counted, 1t Is
indicated that Mr.. Kennedy will
have the support of 1924 of the
25 votes in the Democratic New
York County Executive Com
mittee.
The right and left wingers Of
the American Labor party fought
it out for control The left
wineers, under the leadership OF
Representative Marcantonio, have
won in New York County. Man
haitian and lost in the Bronx.
Both sides claim Brooklyn. The
left wingers also claimed they
had defeated prominent right
wingers for county committee
men, among them Dean Alfange,
the party's nominee for Governor
last year; David Dubinsky, pres
ident of the international Ladies'
Garment Workers Union; Eugene
lyons, magazine editor; Algernon
Lee, educational director Of the
Rand School, and Bruce Bliven,
editor of the New Republic.
The fight between the right
and left wings OF the American
Labor Party is OF long duration.
The right wingers charge that
the left wingers lean to the Com
munist party. Both wings will
support President Roosevelt for
a fourth term. Dean Alfange
has been urging the Presidents
reelection in number OF
speeches in New York and in
other States.
Walker In Minnesota.
Postmaster General Walker,
chairman of the Democratic Ma
tional Committee has been in
Minnesota recently drumming up
trade for the Democratic ticket
next year. While Mr.. Walker
does not discuss presidential
candidates. for publicati ton, he
is understood To be trying to
cement a union of the Democrats
and the Farmer Laborities for
President Roosevelt next year.
This maneuver has been worked
in the past In the State. The
State has swung strongly Re-
publican in the last year or two,
and the Farmer Labor Party has
been much weakened.
The vote in Georgia on August
approving the proposal to give
18-year-old boys and girls the
right to vote in State and ma
tional elections has given a lift
to the drive for an amendment
to the Constitution to make this
privilege Nation wide. Senator
Vandenberg, Republican, of Mich
igan, has a resolution proposing
such an amendment now pend
ing before the Senate Judiciary
Committee. The popular slogan
is that if a BOY is old enough
to fight, he is old enough to vote.
If that is the case, it would seem
that an 18-year- old is old enough
to own property-which he is not
under existing laws. Whether 18-
year-olds are wise enough to
handle property-or to vote is
something the legislators will
have to figure cut. Boys have
fought in many previous wars
of the United States without
the question of giving them a
vote being raised. The Armies
of both the Union and the Con-
federacy were filled with teen
age boys during the Civil War.
Evening star., 1943-08-12
English Horse Thieves
Blamed on Black Market

Horse thieves have returned In
Britain. Horses and ponies have
been stolen out of fields at night and
driven away when hitched to carts
A bay mare, attached to q gov
erness' cart, was stolen in London.
The police believe the horses are
slaughtered in the black market for
human consumption. High prices of
horsefiesh make 1t profitable to kill
even useful horses
Evening star., 1943-08-12
Church to Hold Dance
For Young People

A community dance for the young
people Of the vicinity will be held
at $50 pm. Saturday at the Chevy
Chase Presbyterian Church, Chevy
Chase Circle, Richard Guy, chair
man Of the combined young groups
Of the church, announced today.
The dance is one in a series of BIZ
weekly affairs sponsored by the
Evening star., 1943-08-12

although the stake in Russia Is
incomparably greater than in
Southern Italy.
Russian Line Seen Vital.
Sicily and Italy as far as the
Pc River have ceased to have
much strategic Importance to the
Nazis. The Nazis' line in Rus
sia is far more important and
more worthy of being strongly
defended.
Military observers who have
fair opinion of the comparative
strength of the two forces main
tain that the Nazis--if they found
it proper for their future mill
tary and political plans-could
check the Russian offensive in
the same way they were able to
check it last winter.
The strategy of withdrawal on
the eastern front, where impor-
tant positions are yielded, is re-
garded as following the political
rather than military pattern. 1t
is being linked up with the ru-
mors from Berlin that the power
full military clique at the head of
the Wehrmacht has taken over
and has definite plans to offer
a negotiated peace to Russia in
order to avert an unconditional
surrender to all the Allies within
a year.
The Germans, as far as can be
gathered here, are not unduly
concerned over an Allied offen-
sive from the Mediterranean. But
they are worried about the pos
sibility Of a cross channel opera
ton next year when they sus-
pect that the Allies will have a
formidable force in England. And
as expensive as such an operation
may prove, the German generals
believe that it can be successful.
If the war against Russia con-
tinues for another IL months,
the Germans know that the
doom of the Reich is inevitable
and that Germany as an empire
will be only a memory.
Hitler's Doom Held Near.
These facts are believed to
have convinced the German gen.
erals that the time to eliminate
Hitler and Hitlerism-a relatively
easy operation-is near. For rea-
sons of its own, the German mill
tary clique hopes the Russians
are "approachable" before the
Allies begin their real offensive
in Western Europe.
There is nothing tangible to
induce President Roosevelt and
Prime Minister Churchill to
think that Premier Stain might
consider peace offerings from
Berlin. He never has given any
indication that he would. But
there are trends and indica-
tions" which make many respon-
sible individuals look with un-
easiness toward the developments
in the East, where nothing but
official communicates are avail
able to us.
The military decisions to be
reached in Canada necessarily
will be Influenced by these
trends" The British and Ameri-
can leaders are genuinely sorry
that neither Premier Stain nor
any Of his responsible aides will
be present at the momentous
meeting.
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. os t W a r Ger
many. Now the
President. as is
well known, Is
not an isolation
list.
Yet this was a
remark w h | C h
an isol ationist
W oul d indorse.
He W oul d be
& | a d nothing
had been done
about planning
for a postwar
GERMANY, q n q
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On the de-
cision of Pre-
m er Stain
to continue
the b at e
u n t ii tn e
G e r m a n S
S u r r e nder
u ncondition-
ally depends
to a great ex-
tent our war
planning and
our decision
as to which
section of the
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every time I
went out In the
sun, I never ex-
pected to get
such a reaction
felix W
broilers through
out the country.
I hav e re-
ceived parcels of
a assorted Vita
minis to swallow.
I have received
packages of sun
tan Oil. Letters
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immediate mill
tary problems.
There are, Of
c ourSe !, some
long-range mill
tary questions,
such as what to
do in the win
ter, and in the
spring of 1914
and in 1945.
These matters
presumably are
under discussion
whenever the
military ,chief-
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is on Of
three which
elect Cover
nors I h | S
y ar, T h e
OF h ers are
Missi S S ippi
and New Jer-
sey. T h e
DSIIlUCI d L l 4
nominee IN
Kentucky is
j. Lyter DON
aldSon, for
ner S t a t e
h | G h W a y
Evening star., 1943-08-12
BY GOULD LINCOLN.

Republicans and Democrats in
Kentucky are now squared away
for the gubernatorial contest in
November. The Blue Grass State
Evening star., 1943-08-12
BY SAMUEL GRAFTON.

President Roosevelt said cheerily
at a press conference the other
day that nothing whatever had
been done about planning for a
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THE opinions OF the rers this page their
necessarily The Stars Such opinions presented in The
Stars effort to giUe all sides Of questions OF interest
readers although such opinions be contradictory among
themselves and directly opposed to The Stars
Evening star., 1943-08-12
BY CONSTANTINE BROW

The Russian situation neces-
sarily will be in the foreground
at the forthcoming American
British conferences.
Evening star., 1943-08-12

Hearthstones, Firesides, Collegians
and Young Adult organizations.
Another dance will be held Au-
gust %.
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McLemore-
Fellow BroiIers
Offer Remedies
8y HENRY McT.FMORE

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla.-When
1 wrote a column last week COM
planning how couldn't get a sun
tan, but simply blistered and peeled
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.SovietLikeIy
Subjectot
Conference
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.

Military moves are planned long
time ahead, so it seems improbable
that the Churchill Roosevelt con-
ferences have anything to do with
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Q(l1AlNY1lQDQJgE

A hight a S h 10 n chair
that becomes the focal
point of any room it
graces. Colorfully uphol-
stored in a clever feather
print that is typically
Regency EXquisitely
detailed with many ex-
travagant features. Hair
filled, as good chairs are,
with pre-War coil spring
base and soft down cush-
ion. Solid mahogany legs.
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This Changing World

although the stake in Russia Is
incomparably greater than in
Southern Italy.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-06-13
THE LETTER

Darling" she read, ~ love
YOU. l want to get those words
down first. because this letter is
a bad one. You see. I've just
gone through an examination Of
conscience. and l find can't
stand domeStiCity any longer.
What mean is, I can't vaw
ia 20 out only with YOU | need
the excitement of other people,
other faces, other ideas, newer
smiles.
Darling, | love YOU, ! say ii
again, but I say il in sorrow. You
are sweet and fine. but YOU are
quiet and domestic, and YOU cant
understand the torment of rest
lesSneSs. Your life will always be
peaceful and orderly and dull.
Mine can't he, or shall Suffo-
cate.
Please let me say goodbye
now And try to forget me. '"
Jancts voice trailed off in a
Scmi-sob Hilda jerked her head
toward the picture on the desk.
Him"
Janet smiled AT the picture.
John she replied MY huS-
band Finest man in the world
Hes far away now. In the Army
Hlda smiled trumphantly
You Sec" She cried That's
my point I'm like him. I'll marry
my man. and I'll be happy for a
while But then I'll go crazy.
feeling that I'm tied down and
that ! can't go anywhere with
out asking him first. She
wagged a finger. 1T didn't
work out for your John. and il
won't for me.
lie was evidently happy with
YOU for while. and then this
freedom craze hit him-So your
marriage busted up. don't want
that to happen to me"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-06-13


Although I believe no mother
should place her war work above
her maternal duties. | am con-
WINGED that there is definite
place for mothers in World War
II.
II the mothers in each COM
munity would band together and
organize their own nursery.
choosing competent mothers to
take charge Of it, they would
be free 10 accept war Jobs while
their children would be in good
care, learning TO cooperate and
play with other children.
Mothers in charge of these
nurseries should be paid the
average wage Of the war work
ers. each mother giving a portion
OF her earnings. In this way
hey would all feel that they are
contributing TO the war effort
Alma DaViS-age 10,
352 9th St S E.,
Huron. S. D.
$500 priZcl.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-06-13
ASKING

Queries from clients; @. NY
friend says General Montoom-
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not an IriShmGH. Tel him that
he is lcrou0. and shut him up.
A Your friend IS yioht. General
MONTGOMERY lEdS born in Lon
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there n song named "GlnuU
the NuuU . A That rs n ditfy
sumo bU thc Wares n IS about
a ioycack Ware and ooes IN
part
II there ever was Ninnv
Who was struck by the moon.
II was Ginny. the Ninny
or the first platoon.