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HANDBAG, tan. pigskin, containing man S
suit and other clothing; initials &C j.
on outside. Also black briefcase OF fold
over type, name, BRYAN Williams, Cave &
McPheeters" on inside. Reward. Phone
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-02-21
Man Given Six Months
For Posing as Marine

Herman E. Nelms, %, of the 800
block c street Sc, convicted in
Municipal Court last January 26 on
charge of illegally wearing a ma
rine uniform, yesterday was given
the maximum penalty of six months
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-02-21

Mr.. Sanford also reported that
Nelms is wanted by Virginia au-
thorities on two larceny charges.
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Although unprecedented
again present this
fails to create sensation Washington For hours onyTo
Monday February 22pe H dispose odds
from regular stock at far beo their actual north As
usual there be charges deuees c. Ds al
teration phone orders returns exchanges OF this
chdndse.
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FOUND.

PASSBOOK tone) found on Cabin John
car. Write Box 267-A, Star.
SHORT SNORTER' BILL Owner can
have same by idenufying. Phone Warheld
1913 or MA. 5000. Br. 2l2.
TROUSERS, dark gray Thursday no.
1882, Mr.. Hill. 1910 Kenyon, Apt, l0l
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1912 when four and one half centuries of doni-
nation by Turkey were ended. When the
Turks were driven out, Europe was presented
with the anomaly of Mohammedan nation
almost within sight of Italy and the Vatican.
Albania's first roads were built during World
War 1 to facilitate Allied troop movements in
the Balkans. This highway network was i'm
proved and expanded in the 2O-year period of
peace and independence before 1899 report
last year stated that SO kilometers of an Ita-
ian-inspired railroad line had been completed
This railway was planned to start at Durazzo
principal port wind inland to Tirana the CAPT.
tai, then southeastward to mineral deposits
in the interior.
Albania is slightly larger than Sicily or
Vermont, and supports a million people, Less
than one-tenth of its area was under cultiva-
ton. 1t normally exported olives, cheese,
cattle, hides, bitumen, copper and oil. Oil
production increased from 10000 to 1000
barrels year in three years, lifting Albania
to sixth among European nations in crude oil
production. The Italians built 45-mile pipe
line from Petrola to Valona.
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they do not have it. That is good shock
proof waterproof wrist watch. Another is a
cigaret lighter that will light in strong wind.
Hunting Cor Boy Scout-type) knives and small,
inexpensive cameras, with film are generally
desired.
Almost from everywhere there is demand
for good long. newsy, cheerful-and, if ap-
propriate loving-letters, and for photographs.
Good pipes and smoking tobacco are men
toned by many Others want cigars, fountain
pens soap, playing cards. Subscriptions to
pocket-size magazines appeal to men in sew
eral areas.
For those who believe their sons, brothers,
husbands or fathers fiances are in the Eu-
ropean theater. there is one very special re-
quest that we feel impelled to pass on. Those
boys would like to have their Christmas pack
ages include some womens sheer stockings
and some American makeup, with emphasis
on lipstick.
Our adviser on such matters suggests that
in absence of more specific information the
stockings be size -, and the hpstick true
red"
For what it is worth, there are some of the
Owls suggestions
The stockings and lipstick are for bread
and-butter gifts when the boys are invited
out.
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Gifts For Soldiers

Thanks to the Office of War Information,
we are privileged today to discuss informedly
and we hope, intelligently, the Christmas
needs and desires of the men in our expedi
tionary forces.
Obviously not every soldier abroad wants the
same things. In using the tips we pass on,
or others from elsewhere, some discretion
and consideration of your boys personal lido
syncrasies are involved But there are general
rules worth following.
First, it is silly to send what he can buy at
the post exchanges. From all theaters of war
comes word please to omit cigarets, elaborate
shaving kits, or food unless it be well-pack-
ed fruit cake.
Not only can such things be had over there
but food would not travel well. 1t may be
en- route for weeks or months; It is liable to be
underneath a few tons of other stuff in ships
holds. where the temperature runs to as high
IS 1870 degrees, and by the time it arrived it
would be worthless.
One thing most men overseas want badly, if
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Albania

With a Balkan campaign among probable
Allied strategic moves against Germany it is
significant that Albania's King in-exile Fog
has asked admission of his war-torn coun-
try into the councils of the United Nations.
Albania has been much in evidence in dis
cusslons OF Balkan invasion since the victory
in Tunisia prepared the way for expeditions
against Hitler's Fortress Europe. And it is
not difficult to understand why
A 200mile wedge in the west center of the
seethng Balkan peninsula, it adjcins Yugosla-
via and Greece, two hotbeds of resistance to
Germany Its harbors control the 47-mile
Strait of Otranto entrance to the Adriatic
Sea. The Italian side of this strait has nc
natural harbors to compare with Valona and
Durazzo, Albanian ports.
This seemingly favorable position has been
since Roman times, liability to Albanians
Stronger powers kept them subjugated until
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Raymond Clapper Says:
FDR's Report Reflects
Strength of Democracy

velt's sweeping survey, takes its
historic place beside Britain S
unbreakable will, Russias rugged
sacrifice. and China's patient
waiting. All are essential to total
victory.
During the two months Congress
has been in recess, America has
produced about $4,000 planes and
281 merchant ships, Mr.. Roosevelt
says. In the first eight months of
the year we produced $4,000
planes. $4,000 tanks, 1900 artil-
lery weapons, and 10 billion rounds
Of small arms ammunition.
Modern war is no game for lit
tie powers. War must be fought
by the big powers. And if we are
to get rid Of wars the big powers
must carry the load.
Some of the little powers have
heroic records in this war-having
fought until they were conquered
and ever since. Others of the lit
tie powers have busted themselves
largely with trading with both
sides. There must be policing aft
er the war and little nations that
have been trading with both sides
will have some obligation not to
assist in the rearming of Ger
many or any other aggressor by
trading in articles that otherwise
would be withheld from these
trouble-makers.
This report of President Roose-
velts shows SO clearly what is
required to win modern war. For
tunately for free civilization there
happened to be joined on our side
such mighty industrial nations as
Russia. Britain and ourselves. But
for them Sweden, Switzerland
Turkey, Spain and all of the 9TH
ers would by now be no better off
than Denmark, and more likely a
good deal worse off.
Thanks to the industrial strength
ana the manpoWer of the great
powers this threat to the freedom
OF every weaker nation has been
checked and it is being driven
back.
The months of hard fighting
have now begun. Is it too much to
hope that the smaller nations,
which have been feeding sl1nnlias
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Bahaman Prosperity

Another example of apparent misfortune
turning out to be for the best is provided by
the course of events in the Bahamas. The
Duke of Windsor pointed the case in proro-
guing the legislature after more than a year
of continuous session.
When the war came and the tourist bust
ness went into eclipse, the colony seemed to
face economic collapse, he said But devel-
opments unforeseen at the time have since
proved its economic salvation. Among the
colonys blessings the Duke mentioned the
buildings of arfields and the quartering of
troops by the United States, the departure
of 5000 laborers for employment on American
farms, the development Of great fish can
merry at Grand Bahama sale of sisel to the
United States, and the introduction of new
industries, as result Of which the Bahamas
are in the midst of their greatest prosperity.
Contrary to all expectations" the Duke
told the legislature, the Bahamas actually
have been benefited by conditions arising from
the war and he added prophetically, there
is little doubt that when the war is over New
Providence will become a great center of
civilian aviation"
Because Of geographical location, all of this
is good news in this country. But it appears
that, having been chiefly instrumental in
bringing the Bahamas out of the doldrums, the
United States ought to reap some of the post
war benefits Of its good deeds. Certainly we
ought to have hand in developing civilian
aviation at the base we created, and it might
be good plan to see that the Bahamas mill
tary values are not wasted when the war ends
The islands offer splendid opportunity for
practcing the vigilance which Washington
wisely designated as the price of peace.
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''THE AMERICAN" by James
Truslow Adams (Scribner's; $3).
BY JOHN SELBY

JAMES TRUSLOW ADAMS
1.-THE American" is an extremely
useful book right now, when many
of us wonder just what Americans
are supposed to be like. Mr.
Adams is trying, very hard and
very seriously, to determine the
things that make us Americans.
He wants to know what is differen:
about us, and where we are alike.
To that end he explores our roots
and he analyses our conduct.
Mr.. Adams is not a mighty COM
mittee from some far away 'foun-
dation," but a man. Therefore
what he writes must be judged in
the light of what Mr.. Adams is.
quite as much as it must be iudg-
ed in the light of his findings. Mr..
Adams is conservative gentle
man who on October 10 will be IS
years of age. His A. B. came
from Yale in 1900, and until 1912
he was on the New York Stock
Exchange. The data furnished in
who's Who includes this item
in the midst of a considerable list
of honors: "By request of sena-
tesa aAeaASoA bai0po Sanaha Judi
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The Literary Guidepost

ciary committee in opposition to
Presidents Supreme Court Plan,
1887"
1t is to be expected that Mr..
Adams would discover that the
American "is himself as yet a
hodge-podge"; that we have rails
ed to an almost impossible emf
nence"; that Americans "have, to
great extent, not been sure of
themselves This last accounts,
he believes, in part for our desire
to keep up with the Joneses,
and our tendency toward being
Joiners." Yet, Mr.. Adams writes,
the American is one of the great
est indiviualists in the world" We
are inclined to want to get ahead,
and at the same time to desire
equality" dichotomy of con-
siderable oddness. Mr.. Adams
thinks our imperialistic tendencies
worked throughout our continental
expansion, and stopped short at
our present boundaries. Our hui
NOR is exaggeration %, we like
sooo tlmes, noise and are bother
ed by subtlety. We are hospitable,
expansive, and Mr.. Adams be-
lieves our background capt to be
rms Is both a picture of MIR.
A = a America. and Of Mr..
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By RAYMOND CLAPPER

American democracy in all OF
It's power can be felt as one reads
President Roosevelt's report on
the war.
For Mr.. Roosevelt it is an I'M.
usual message. Not only is it one
Ct the longest he ever sent to
Congress, but it proposes no con-
troversial legislation, is moderate
IN defense of past actions, and it
contains no purple passages.
Mr.. Roosevelt has tried in plain
words to tell Congress and the
public all that he could about the
war, how it has gone, what the
outlook is, why some things have
been done and why other things
have not been done. He has been
successful also in picturing the
enormous labors involved, and the
great work accomplished, which
bears fruit in the slow march of
our forces toward victory.
Since the outbreak of the war in
Europe we have increased pro-
duction of petroleum by 60 per
cent, chemicals by 300 per cent
bituminous coal by 40 per cent,
ron ore by 1875 per cent, and steel
by LOG per cent.
In the last two and half years,
power plants built for installation
in Navy vessels equalled the
horsepower of all hydroelectric
plants in January, 1941.
Many such figures in the mes
sage help to picture to the Ameri-
can people the size of the war
production achievement 1t is
monumental In rapidity of de-
velopment nothing perhaps in his
tory approaches it.
This is a story of democratic
achievement befitting the heroism
of our soldiers on the beaches of
Salerno.
Regardless of all that may be
out of joint on the home front,
American n d u S y, American
production genius, yes, and Wash
ington's planning and grasp of
the giant shape of this war-all
of those have combined to make
victory possible. Americas con-
tribution. as described first in
General Marshalps recent epic re-
port and now in President Roose-
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Daily Prayer
FOR NIGHT THOUGHTS

Oh 4NIoIA
In the sleepless hours OF nlsp1
we would remember Thee upon
our bed, and mediate upon lht'
in the night watches, o lhou WIN
keepest watch over Israel anu
neither slumberest nor SIeepe''
We take refuge IN Thoughts y,
Thee, when fears assall us anu
ghostIy doubts haunt our bea'
is then that our anxious ON
reaches out toward our aosen
dear loved ones in service ana W
ward the woe of a world al Wal.
In these wakeful periods OF w0ll !,
we pray that fresh reassular rst
of Thy presence and Thy pOSm W.
and Thy peace may comlor' o wv
hearts and give us sleep In uo
simple faith of childhood, may "" y.
commit ourselves and our all ~
Thy loving watch-care. May u" IN.
night not be drain upon O ~.
spirits. but a refreshing and :.
assurance. because Thou hast Mp
us in Thy Father-care' Al'''A
w. T. E.
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The War
BY ELTON c. FAY
Associated Press War ac,,...

The Allies in the Asis+i.
are not forgetting the 1sn,. va
now lurking virtually updist~.' SSs
ed in their Malaga and Fa,, r.9'''
strongholds. '''0-e'
The impending Burn.
paign, although in thestsr .S =
removed, may have a dirsa. '''
fluence in the vast area stre,a.. '''
west from the New Gu5n ,s'Salns
mons front to the Indian m3e No.
President Roosevelt saw Tlsan'
are determined to take the o+,s We
sive" in Burma. He put that O5 len
laration into the same qra' oe''
in II which he noted there had 9lFs nag.
"one serious gap in the Ijne vsea
our globe-encircling ses.n lsres Of
The 3,ooo-mile interval F be,n&a
Ceylon, in the Indian Ocean n'N zen
Northwest Australia, That hat s rna
he said now can be closed zap,
naval strength once needed G " "
ed. 0i'ert'
Sumatra and Java fank g.,
gap in Allied sea strena -f aa ma,
north Of them are Singapore anu sr9
Borneo. But because tbor ai,o
flank the gap that is now j. 20
closed does not necessarily rness
that the islands themselves cs a-' =.
retaken by amphipious operstops
carried over and launched fr c,,,
the sea route. The enemy ba
been there, presumably is well T
entrenched and operation from ,5a
sea against his guns and show wy
based aviation could be diffic,I.
and costly. It would even be- n1'
successful.
But Burma is athwart the Janso.
csc overland route 10 Malsya .rd
the Indies. 1t is within rearb ~,
seaborne invasion forces from
Ceylon and India and, from tbe
north, is threatened by land aroie,
growing in strength at the India
border.
With Burma and Indochins. or
an east-West cross section Of the
two countries, in Allied control M
enemy's land route to his oos.
tons in the lower Malayan PENN.
sula would be cut. And what is
more, his sea route would be
brought within easy bomber range.
Allied forces would be in position
for war of attrition or for full.
scale thanking move 10 the south,
| To the east, the jaws Of the pin
Ger close steadily. General Mac
| Arthur's air, sea and land forces
progress along the enemy's south
west Pacific flank, advancing wes
and norzh.
| With Burma in Allied hands
China would receive the huge
stocks Of war goods for which she
now starves. The rate Of progress
in the whole Pacific war would
be accelerated.
Allied four-engine bomberS now
stand on Chinese air fields, many
of them grounded because the
flood of gasoline they should have
/ is presently only trickle, The
material for full-scale mcdaniel
warfare awaits the reopening Of
a land route to the Chinese 'front.'
Even with such air strength as
is now available in the Ch.la-BN'
ma skies, Allied forces are wear
ing down Japan's aviation and
says the President, that process
will continue until we are ready
to strike right at the heart Of
Japan itself
The plans for war in the 0ns'-
/ Specific and precise planS-Tss
part of the discussions at NE
Quebec conference last m0n'2
The weekend announcement Da'
Prime Minister Churchill has az
rived back in England after SIX
weeks of conversations with Pres
dent Roosevelt emphasized that IN
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SALERNO DEATHS
TO HAVE MEANING
Continued From Page One)

cause those are the very things he
gives up, it may be forever, when
he storms the beaches at Salerno.
He has not been paid at all in the
only coin which is good at Salerno
unless, whether he falls or comes
back, he has not suffered in vain.
That is what Lincoln knew and
said upon the battlefield of Gettys-
burg. And that is what Pericles
said 1000 years before Lincoln to
the people of Athens. And that is
what Wilson knew. And that is
what all the true leaders in this
war have known, that the only in
centive and the only reward that
they can give to men who go into
battle, or suffer in prison, or are
hunted in the mountains, is the
consciousness that they are living
greatly, and if they perish, they
die in glory.
The true leaders of men have
known how very accurate, and in
deed how wise in the hearts of
men, was our poet Wnen he wrote,
just the other day, They say, we
leave you our deaths. Give them
their meaning
That is the obligation of those
who wait at home for those who
have gone to the wars. Let none
who have husbands. sons, lovers,
friends in the battle be patient
with any one who would degrade,
who would make trivial, or would
exploit for his own profit or preju-
dice or advantage, the meaning
of their deeds.
All the other things that have
to be done must, of course, be
done, each man giving what he
can and serving when he is
wanted. But doing the duty of a
citizen is not enough. Beyond the
call of duty there is the call of
honor, and for the nation honor
is the value which is beyond all
price.
There no hearts grew faint"
said Pericles, because they loved
riches more than honor; none
shirked the issue in the poor mans
dreams of wealth. All these they
put aside to strike a blow for the
city. Counting the quest to avenge
her honor as the most glorious
of all ventures, and leaving hope,
the uncertain goddess, to send them
what she would, they faced the foe
as they drew near him in the
strength of their own manhood; and
when the shock of battle came, they
chose rather to suffer the utter
most than to win life by weak
ness.
so they gave their bodies to
the commonwealth and received
each for his own memory, praise
that will never die, and with it the
grandest of all sepulchers, not that
in which their mortal bones are
laid, but a home in the minds of
men, where their glory remains
fresh to stir to speech or action as
the occasion comes by. For the
whole earth is the sepulcher of
famous men; and their story is
not craven only on stone over their
native earth, but lives on far away,
without visible symbol, woven into
the stuff of other mems lives"
And then he added: For you
now it remains to rival what they
hAvA dora ~ lnaxainx " aAerai
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into Germany, can now be per-
suaded to throw their emonomic
resources iully to our side to
withhold all nourishment from the
weakening carcass of Hitler?
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Our Chief Aim
To aid in every way the prosecu.
ton of the war to complete Vic
tory.
THOUGHT FOR TODAY

THOUGHT FOR TODAY
The wisest men that e'er we ken
Have never dreamed it treason,
To rest bit and jest bit
And balance up their reason,
To laugh a bit and joke bit
In season.
M. G. kAINS.
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Civilians must learn not to talk No amount
of remorse over careless ; words thoughtlessy
the enemy was tipped off-Maj. Albert sto'.,e
Of Army's military intsllssnce sects> 0''"e
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On To Naples

While the Allied position at Salerno could
without air superiority and naval support the
major success is generally awarded to Clark's
infantry who, through seven days of pitiless
fire by the Germans from their better posi-
ton, could not be disodged and who on the
eighth day came from their foxholes, as Mont
gomery's advance patrols moved up, and drove
the enemy back eleven miles to solidify their
beachhead and open the way to Naples
The price was high particularly for Clark
infantry, as is always the case where invasion
is made under fire, but it brought secure
footing for Allied armies above the ankle of
Italy.
The notable feature of this engagement
we think, is that whereas the Germans were
fully entrenched on high land and had su-
perior numbers at the start of the battle, the
General Clark drove them into retreat May
il not be that this exhibition of skill and fight
ing ability, coupled with the growing fire
power OF Allied air forces, presages the course
of the war in days to come? At least it
proves that the highly touted German armies,
for which it was claimed no force in the world
could Withstand their attack, are after all no
whit better than our own and Britain's now
that we have had time to train and equip
them The Russians showed the enemy up
first. Now we are doing it, not easily, to be
sure, but steadily with each new contact.
1t is not to be claimed that the Germans
lacked veteran fighters at Salerno. The fact
is that Marshal Rommel had thrown into the
battle the best and most experienced forces
in all southern Europe-five divisions that had
gone through other campaigns. Rommers
best was beaten at Salerno.
While it was Clarks infantry who opened
the way to Naples the fight for that Italian
port will be gruellng The Germans will not
yield Naples without bitter struggle But
Montgomery's army is now at Clark's side
and third Allied force is available since the
foot and ankle of Italy are safe in Allied
hands, and it may be that with German
transport and communications in the north
largely disrupted and suffering additional
damage by Italians, enemy resistance at Ma
pies will be less fierce than at Salerno Fur
thermore, with the seizure of three islands
near Naples, the Navy will have greater ad-
vantage in the coming battle than in the one
Just ended. And the fact that Allied air for
ces hold bases within ten minutes flying time
may we'll mean that the city and enemy posi-.
tons Whereabouts can be literally annihilated
from aloft
The three first Allied detectives in italy
would seem to be Salerno, Naples and Rome.
One has been taken. The second lies not fa1
ahead. 1t will be taken, too
What will Rome's fate be? Will the Ger.
mans make stand there and force our
armies, our navy and air forces to reduce il
to debris? Only the Berlin war makers car
say. But of one thing we may be sure. II
Rome has to be destroyed, it will be done
The loss of ancient monuments cannot offse1
the loss to future world security which nigh,
happen II the enemy were not defeated there.