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Evening star., 1944-01-06
Constantine BrO1Vn

important to the State Department
than the question OF the Polish under
grounds position regarding Russia,
From the military viewpoint the Polish
underground presents minor problem
for the Russian armies. They handled
1t efficiently in the past when they
invaded Poland in 1899 and can do so
again.
Had the various underground organi-
cations decided to cooperate with the
Nazis several months ago 1t might
have been possible for the Germans 10
provide them with sufficient war ma
terial to make things difficult for the
Red armies But the Nazis evidently
are in full retreat now and even If tee
Polish underground were to decide TO
cooperate with the Reicll-which is Ce-
MED in official Polish quarters in Len
don and Washington-there is nothing
much 1t can do.
The Americans of Polish stock To-
gether with those of Lithuanian. L.
Wan, Estonian and Finnish origin can.
however, become very vociferous All
the American Government is mind Ill
of what they have to say.
The administration is placed in 81
unenviable position. 1t is advising t,e
representatives of the Polish gove:.l-
ment-in-exile to keep quiet and relrtll
from exciting people Of Polish desce'
in the hope that the worse situatic'ls
eventually can be ironed out On the
other hand, Secretary Hull, who real
lied even more than President Rooce-
velt that the Russians will be adamant
on the question OF the border states,
knows that any representations in Mos
cow will not bring results.
In the past, Poland has had the mis-
fortune of being test case in the
European political laboratory. She may
serve as a test case" again.
Evening star., 1944-01-06

these men used to laugh fit to bust
Between splntters and gurgles, they
would describe his proposals as "a world
wide WPA" or else as scheme "to de-
liver a quart of milk a day to every
Hottentot." These same hard-headed
Wights see nothing visionary about a
plan for organizing milk delivery serv-
ice to cities completely under the con-
troll of the enemy.
X
We had better face the fact that
idealiSm is spreading among our isola-
zionist friends like raging fever. The
food thing is only part of it.
On another sector of the ideahsm
front, we hear the argument, now CROP
ping up repeatedly, that Russia had
better not retake any of Poland because
that might hurt her prestige with
Americans. This tender concern for
Russia's prestige on the part of those
whose arms are tired with heaving dead
cats at her for 20 years, is perhaps the
most unconvincing bleat in recorded
history.
One also hears, all of a sudden, a
great deal about the rights of small ma
tions. This comes especially from those
Evening star., 1944-01-06
Wants Popular" Music
At Marine Band Concerts,

To the Editor of The Star:
Residents of Washington are for.
tunate in having so many entertain
mentS arranged for their endowment.
particularly the concerts that are given
by the service bands and orchestras.
But 1t would seem that these concerts
could be made % much more enjoyable
II the programs were arranged with
the idea of pleasing the great majority
OF us who attend.
l have been an enthusiastic follower
OF the United States Marine Band for
years, and it was my privilege to at
tend the concert at the barracks
Wednesday evening, December 20. Much
TO my disappointment, however, in one
hour and 40 minutes, not one note SYM
bolical OF the Christmas season was
rendered.
Inc program was composed of highly
classical selections, and only one encore
was given, and that conformed to the
same trend of music-which, imagine.
only those with college degrees in music
could understand and enjoy.
In years gone by, under the able lead
ership of Capt. Taylor Branson, and
still further back when the late Capt,
William H. Santelmann welded the
baton, concerts at the barracks included
some popular or semiclassical selections.
Why do we not hear the stirring
marches of the ever popular John Philip
Sousa, who, during the days of his
leadership of the Marine Band, helped
to place it upon the pinnacle of musical
fame that 1t so justly deserves?
WILLIAM j. BOYD.
Editors Note - The Christmas
concert OF the Marine Band, consist
ing exclusively of Christmas music,
was played at the White House and
broadcast on a national network
Christmas eye.)
Evening star., 1944-01-06
This Changing World


hope, however, of such reconoilia ton.
From the bits of information which
have leaked out since the Teheran con-
ference it appears that such political
matters were not discussed in detail by
the big Three"
Mr.. Churchill is reported to have
made few attempts to bring up the
more immediate political matters but
they were met by stony silence from
Stain, who declared he was interested
in only one subject-when, how and
with what force will the Western Euro
pean front be opened.
The Polish government n-exile has
no illusions as to what will happen to
the, country it left behind. While for
political purposes it pretends that the
Polish question still Is open for dis
cussion it realizes that the army which
will free Poland will establish the ad-
ministration it desires. And since there
is "ready-made" Polish government
in Moscow cut in the Soviet pattern,
the leaders in exile believe that even
a plebiscite held under the eyes of the
Soviet armies of occupation will elect
only those who already have been
chosen by the USSR.
London can afford more detached
point of view than Washington in this
matter. The British government is in
a position to adopt an attitude of lets
not quarrel over such trifles" because
there are not 5,500,000 Britishers Of
Polish descent in the United Kingdom.
But the American Government faces
a dilemma not only because the At
lantic Charter has been Endorsed by the
American people but also because the
American Poles can speak out loudly.
The question of reconciling the
ideologies presented in the Atlantic
Charter and Russian realism is far more
Evening star., 1944-01-06
A National Inventory

From the Hamilton (Ontario) Spectator.
After the war government and private
enterprise might jointly turn the ener-
gies Of men now in the armed forces.
who have acquired a taste for adven-
turous living, toward systematic in
ventory of Canada's natural wealth.. 1t
will be reproach to us If our pride Of
country and hopes for a new era Of
prosperity cannot be expressed in more
practical forms than in the perorations
Of after dinner speeches.
Evening star., 1944-01-06

Tne trip OF POllSn
Premier Stanislaw
M Tx oil a jc zyk to
w a S h n g ton has
been postponed. Two
reasons are given
that he was urged
by British Foreign
Secretary Anthony
Eden to remain in
London until the re-
turn of Prime Min
lister Churchill, and
that the Russians
already are across
the border of old
P Pol nd and the
Evening star., 1944-01-06

ming laurels which with peculiar
unanimity have been conferred upon
him by his fellow artists, the critics
and the man in the street.
Homer's picture comes to the
National Gallery from the w. L. and
May T. Mellon Foundation of Pitts
burgh. 1t signifies the continuing
philanthropy of the family to. which
Andrew w. Mellon belonged.
Evening star., 1944-01-06
From Victory to Disaster

feel today when he gives thought
to the simple but profoundly mean
ingful fact that the Red Army is
back on the soil of old Poland? It
is back where it stood in August,
1889, advancing beyond its prewar
western frontier, beyond the line it
held before Hitler, with the vaulting
ambitions of a egalomaniac, shat
tered the status quo and set forth
to establish his New Order" for the
next 1000 years.
August, 1899, was the beginning
of new glory" for the Reich, the
beginning of what the Fuehrer
called the greatest victories of all
times" the beginning of an era in
which the herrenvolk seemed clearly
destined to become the earthS
owners and rulers. 1t was to be a
short war The German people were
assured of that. And for a time it
looked as though it would be, with
the "invincible" LuftWaffe and
Wehrmacht smashing everything
before it with lightning speed-Po-
land, Norway, Denmark, Belgium,
Holland, France, Greece, Yugoslavia.
Only Britain remained standing,
and Britain could be finished off at
leisure. 1t was possible now to take
on Russia, and so Russia was taken
opI iy, nofohor 10A1 cooroo1u
three months after he had struck
at them, Hitler felt cocksure enough
to declare that the Russians were al
ready broken and would never rise
again.
But now the Red Army is back in
old Poland, and to the average Ger
man that must make it seem
frighteningly plain that events have
swung almost full circle. True, there
still are large Nazi forces in the
Leningrad area and in Southern
Russia. True, too, Fortress Europe"
has yet to be cracked by Allied in
vading armies in the west. But the
Reich home front can find small
solace in that. 1t knows that the
Wehrmacht, if it does not move fast
in the east may suffer a disaster
worse than that of Stalingrad. 1t
knows that Britain and America
are gathering overwhelming strength
for knockout blows to be delivered
in the near future on fronts other
than in Italy. 1t knows, above all,
that the mounting fury of our air
power will reach crescendo in the
weeks and months Immediately
ahead, soaring and blackening Ger
many from one end to the other
until the day of surrender.
The fact that the Red Army is in
Poland must come as terrible news
to every German who once looked
forward to owning the world. For
it not only underscores the complete
failure of Hitler in Russia but also
symbolizes the desperate character
of the Nazi position in general.
After more than four years of war,
Germany today finds all its early
triumphs turned to ashes, sees it's
cities being reduced to rubble, counts
the casualties of it's armed forces
at figure perhaps as high as 6000,-
900, and hears its Fuehrer speak
bleakly of even harder times to
come.
In 1912, when the Nazi hierarchy
was still boasting of it's conquests,
a Russian official wryly declared
that Hitler was leading his country
from victory to victory to the final
catastrophe. In the light of today's
events, the observation seems presci-
ent. The adventure begun in Au-
gust, 1899, is approaching its end,
and no German can find any glory
In it now; no German can find any
promise in it, except the promise of
black disaster.
Evening star., 1944-01-06

march hand IN hand
with the political
offensive. The prob
lens raised by the
entry of, Russian
troops intb territory
which any of the
United Nations gov
ernments regard as
non-Russian m u S t
be dealt with. They
cannot simply be
ignored, nor Is it
possible for Messrs.
Roosevelt, S t a ! / n
and Churchill to
run back to Teheran
Evening star., 1944-01-06

to throw themselves
on the ground and
kick and scream be-
cause we were send
ing food to our Al
lies. under lease
lend, now have de-
cided that it is very
uncouth of us to
deny food to lands
under Hitler's con-
troll.
They used to en-
ploy the word "glo-
baloney" to describe
Vice President Wal
lAce's proposals to
S11I >, g., l.,x
Evening star., 1944-01-06

political campaign
early. Republicans
in New M XII C o,
however, are reek-
ing with confidence.
They believe they
can carry the State
in the November
election-and some
of the Democrats
from New Mexico
take a similar view.
Here in Washing
ton there was spec
ul tion tod a y
W h e t h e r the New
M exico delegates
Evening star., 1944-01-06

A word of warning to those
tempted to write off" the German
fleet because of the sinking of the
Scharnhorst and the claimed dam
age to the Tirpitz and the Gneise-
nau: Don't sell that German Navy
short till the bubbles rise above the
very last of her capital ships.
Evening star., 1944-01-06

feed our friends but they have decided
it is the height of practical common
sense to ship food into lands controlled
by our enemies.
They like that. That appeals to them.
Funny. When Mr.. Wallace once sug-
gested that we ought to help raise liv-
ing standards among the Chinese, etc,
Evening star., 1944-01-06

The Chicago stockyards are con-
gested with the greatest herds of
swine in it's existence, more than
enough to make up for the alarming
shortage Of road hogs, caused by gas
rationing.
Evening star., 1944-01-06

Churchill, out of danger, an
nounces that he will convalesce by
the sunshine cure. , 1t can be no
military secret, then, that he will
not be in Britain for a while.
Evening star., 1944-01-06

AS the Russian troops move across
old Poland the first Of what may be a
succession Of troublesome political step
children is being placed on the lap OF the
American and British governments.
Evening star., 1944-01-06
The Political Mill

New Mexico Republicans have decided
to name their delegates to the COP
National Convention on February II,
Lincoln's birthday. This is starting the
Evening star., 1944-01-06
Allied Council Urged

The advance of the Soviet armies
across the old Polish frontier offers us
once again a sharp reminder of the
fact that the military offensive must
Evening star., 1944-01-06
I'd Rather Be Right

Well, fellows. we have reached the
point where the American isolationist
press has gone all-out for idealism.
The same isolationist editors who used
Evening star., 1944-01-06

It is proposed herewith that in
future food ration book tickets for
canned soup be designated as
SOupOnS
Evening star., 1944-01-06

Never before in his career has Hit
ler had such wide military choice
Of scores Of places to defend
Evening star., 1944-01-06
To the Editor of The Star:

pdt uuLy, dS pTlSOQeTS OF war, OF WIlcre-
ever they may be, I'm sure are longing
and praying, as I am. that we soon
shall hear our dear boys say to us, ITS
over mother, I'm here!"
And since they are giving up so much
in many, many cases, all-for their
homeland and loved ones, feel conf
dent you will agree with me that we,
the mothers, should demand the home
front at least be kept peaceful during
this murderous conflict.
With the boys thousands of miles
from us fighting, suffering and dying
to protect their country, with perfect
faith and trust in us back here doing
everything possible to expedite and
shorten the war, how disheartening and
what crying shame 1t is that political
maneuvering and strikes should exist
in time such as this!
Are not lives worth more than dime
a dozen?
However, we, the mothers, will con-
tinue to trust and pray that all the
world will awaken soon from its sense
less dream and. in the meantime, we
will keep our faith. Our boys found
the answer-so simple, so easy. They
needed only one Commander in Chief
after all and over all-God, who made
the perfect laws for all of His children
that must be obeyed
MRS. WILLIAM LAIRD DUNLOP. Jr.
To the Editor Of The Star:
I cannot but wonder how We here at
home, safe from bombings, can fail to
realize what others are doing for us
many others, but I am now thinking
especially of our own precious boys,
every one Of them.
The question of whether strikes are
ammunition for the enemy is not even
debatable, for there is not even one of
us who does not know that they are.
Now let's stop it. This is no time
even to discuss the merits or dement's
Of any controversy
We should be so grateful that our
boys have such able, courageous leader
ship that We each one should endeayor
to do nothing less than our very best.
BIRDIE R. JOHNSON.
To the Editor of The Star:
Anent your cartoon on The Thinker"
and some more of his thought
II the farmers have beef, pork and
other foodstuf1s and refuse to sell be-
cause of ceiling prices, that is just good
business
If the big industries. having staged a
fve-month "sit-down strike" by refusing
to bid on war materials until the Gov
ernment agreed on the cost plus"
plan, can demand and with the help of
certain Congressman probably get ST.
600 900 900 that does not belong to them,
That is just shrewd business.
If the little men, who have nothing
to sell but their labor, ask only for
enough in return to meet prices de-
manded by industry and farmers, that
is unpatriotic
My three sons, serving their country
IN the armed forces, expect us to do
what we can to keep wages and working
conditions up and war millionaires
down. Don't let these editorials and
cartoons mislead you.
A THREE STAR MOTHER,
To the EditoI OF The Star:
Your editorial on the statement that
recent labor disputes had prolonged the
war and cost American lives is a clear
presentation of the facts of this serious
charge
There is one thing certain! Strikes
and threats of strikes in vital industries
certainly do not help to win the war or
shorten the duration of it. That much
at least is beyond dispute by any one.
Evening star., 1944-01-06
Letters to The Star
Readers Discuss Strikes
And Politics in Wartime.


To the Editor Of The Star:
One wonders about the reason for
all the hullabaloo over the report that
high official believes strikes and
threats of strikes aid the enemy. Has
any one with any common sense doubt
ed 1t at any time?
Furthermore, does it not seem highly
probable that the whole vicious> mess is
political and involves trade Of higher
wages for votes in which the labor
leaders are equally culpable with ad-
ministration leaders even though they
both must know they are but taking
advantage of the war needs of the coun-
try, prolonging the war and thereby
sacrificing additional lives.
1t is difficult to write about this situ-
alton in temperate language, but the
voters of the Nation understand and,
though poWerless to act now, they will
be heard from at the next election.
T. WARREN ALLEN.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-05
Mildred Shelton
Leaves Jail TO
Begin Sentence

Mildred Skelton, 10, left Ell Gen.
tro at 6:35 a. m. Wednes day for
the Tehachapi Institution II
Women to begin sentence of five
years to life for drowning her baby
in the Colorado river.
She left the Imperial county jail
in custody of Deputy Sheriff and
Mrs. Art Knudsen.
Deputy sheriffs said she appeared
to be cheerful when she left for
Tehachapi and seemed to look for
ward to the opportunities for re-
habilitation with considerable in
terest.
A superior court jury in Ell Centre
last Saturday afternoon found her
guilty of second-degree murder for
throwing her l0-month-old baby,
Mildred Louise, in the Colorado
river near Winterhaven last May 10.
Corporal Robert Nell, the soldier
the young mother said was the ia
ther of her baby and with when
she had been living at Yuma, Arlz.,
heard the girl sentenced. He later
returned to the Yuma army air base
with officers who had brought him
to Ell Centre to testify at the trial
and listen to legal proceedings.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-05

agency said that so far only Dam
ish casualties were known and that
the German casualties were believ-
&c to be still higher
Danish circles here emphatically
denied the explosion was due tc
Danish sabotage, and said it was
caused by German anti-Nazi sab
otage or carelesSness. The extent of
the disaster was explained by the
fact that the blast caused several
explosions among large German
ammunition stores along the quay
THE Nazi-controlled Danish ra-
clio claimed in a broadcast record
ed by the FEC today that only Is
persons were killed and ITO in.
jured in the explosion.
Observers recalled similar ex.
ploSions of German munition ship
at Oslo and Bergen. The Swedish
Telegraph bureau said the blast
collapsed grain elevators an6 ignit.
ed illuminating gas storage tanks,
which. however, did not explode.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-05
u. s. Planes Rip
L.oWIond Areas

LONDON July S. CUP)-Ameri-
can heavy bomberS smashed We'd
nes day at German air fields in the
Low Countries, flying bomb bases in
the Pas de Calais area, and other
targets in France after British
night raiders scattered bombs across
western Europe from Germany to
central France.
The United States Eighth Air
Force sent its fighter escorted Fly
ing Fortresses and Liberators across
the channel for the daylight assault
on German objectiveS in Holland,
Belgium and France
1t was the second time within a
few hours that the flying bomb in
stallations in France had been hit.
They were targets of the Royal All
Force night fleet which also hit a
synthetic oil plant in the Ruhr
valley.
During the night the r.. A. f. also
sent a fleet of its biggest bombers
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-05
u. s. Hits
at
Sdipon
First AII-Jap
City Taken;
Press Onward

PEARL HARBOR, July 5.
(UP) The e campaign to
wrest Saipan from the Jap
anese entered the final phase We'd
nesday as new strikes were reported
against the Bonin and Volcano ISL
ands, $50 miles from Tokyo, by a
powerful U. S. naval task force
which sank or damaged six enemy
ships, including four destroyers,
and knocked out l04 planes.
CA Japanese communique, broad
cast by Tokyo radio and reported
by FEC, acknowledged that pow
erful' American forces, supported
by tanks, planes and warships,
steadily was penetrating the Jap
anese positions on Saipan and said
confused fighting is taking place
here and there.")
u. S. marines, driving up the west
coast of Saipan, captured Garapan,
the first Japanese city to fall to
Americans in the Pacific, and Tan
apag harbor while other ground
forces advanced along a line all
the way to the east coast to squeeze
the enemy into a nine square mile
area at the northern tip of the
island.
Fall of the Marianas' admins
trative center and the important
locked harbor came as Vice
Admiral Marc A. Mitscher's carrier
task force hit the BoninS and VOL
canoS with waves of planes and
tons of shells from the guns of
cruisers and deStroyers
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-05
Quota on Shocks
Increased for
Valley Growers

Vegetable, melon and crap e
growers in Imperial Valley received
word Wednesday that they will T..
allowed to buy all the shook they
need tc ship their crops this season.
The lifting CT shook quotas for
the valley was brought about by
amendment of L232, County Agri-
cultural Commissioner B. A. Harri
gan was informed Wednesday. The
amendment removed percentage
quotas which many growers had
protested.
Since the percentage quotas were
removed, Harrigan was told, it will
not be necessary for the War Pre-
duction Board to handle appeals or
this point which had been filed
with them before announce ment Of
the amendment to the order.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-05
Holidays Count
385 Deaths;
Tops War Average
BY UNITED PRESS

With a civilian death rate greater
than the wartime rate among Amer
ica's fighting forces, the nation lost
1886 lives in accidents during the
four-day Independence Day week.
end, a United Press survey showed
Accidents claimed lives on the
hCme front at the rate of SO day
during the four-day summer holi-
day. as compared with the average
battle death rate of slightly more
than 60 among members of the
United States armed forces since
Pearl Harbor.
Traffic accidents took las lives,
droWnings lis, and miscellaneous
causes 100. There were no deaths
reported from fireworks. The Ma
ticnal Safety Council had predicted
that $50 pers ons would die in traf-
fic accidents during the four-day
period
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-05
0PA TO Increase
fur!ouqh Gas

KANSAS CITY, July S. (UP)-
The Office of Frlce administration
will liberalize its gasoline rationing
policy toward servicemen on fur
lough within the next two weeks,
Representative Errett P. Schrivener
Rep., KanD announces.
Scrivener said he had been noti-
fled by his Washington office that
furloughed servicemen will receive
five gallons of gasoline for the first
three days of leave and one gallon
per day for each day thereafter
under the new plan.
Servicemtn have received five
gallons for their entire furlough up
to the present time.
The representative said he had
been informed that men ON fur
lough would receive leave slips
showing the length of their fur
loughs. Those slips would be pre-
sented to ration boards, which
would then issue gasoline for the
number of days indicated.