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Evening star., 1944-06-18

One of radios proudest broadcasts
was heard on June 6, shortly before
midnight from the deck of an Allied
warship standing miles off the
Normandy coast. 1t was descrip-
ton by George Hicks of a German
plane attack on the invasion convoy.
Hicks was superb In his handling of
the scene, of the plane strafing his
ship and others nearby. The gun
fire of the antiaircraft batteries
drowned out the commentary from
time to time to add realism. The
high point was the shout of exulta-
ton that went up from the gun
crew when the Nazi was downed
and fell into the sea nearby. The
greatest tribute to the work Of Hicks
was the fact that the broadcast
was presented on all four of the
American networks and played time
and again for several days.
A bit about Hicks. George Is
chief Of the overseas bureau Of the
Blue Network, he has covered the
war from conveys at sea, from the
North African, Sicilian and Italian
fronts. In times Of peace he did
many broadcasts from Washington,
as a matter Of fact, one Of his first
jobs in big-time radio was a staff
assignment here in Washington at
NBC. *+
Bob Hawk came to town this past
week to help the Fifth War Loan
and to present a couple of shows
at the "Shot From the Sky" exhibit.
We had the pleasure of q brief chat
with the Thanks to the Yanks"
emcee, and a pleasant and afable
young man he is. BY the way the
songstress on the program, Lynn
Gardner, was one half Of q boy
and-girl duet that several years
ago couldn't seem to click with their
broadcasts on New Jersey radio
station so the team split up to go
their separate ways. The boys
name was Frank Sinatra.
Tomorrow will see a great change
in the National Farm and Home
Hour. AS a matter of fact there
are so many changes that you won't
recognize the program. The name
is changed to 1.-THE Homesteaders, !"
the speakers from the Department
of Agriculture will be discontinued,
more music will be added. We are
genuinely sorry to see the Blue
Network take this step. The Farm
and Home Hour" has been one of
the outstanding public service fea-
lures of radio for II years, not alone
for the Blue Network, but for the
whole industry. The program was
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writes and produces kid shows" or

writes and produces kid shows" on
WOL-Mutual, talks over plot and
action with q jury of neighborhood
children, who often overrule him.
!. Romance" current CBS-WTOP
series dramatizing great love stories
will move to a new time, $3.50 pm.
Tuesday, June 4 Johnny Mercer
will take his new program on hos
pital and camp visits every Friday
evening. :. The Army is presenting
a new show on WMAL-Blue on Sat-
urdays at pm, the title Twenty
One Stars" .. w. G. Handy.
father Of the blues" will be guest
speaker on Music OF the New
World" next Thursday at 1880 pm,
WRC-NBC. -. Guests on ''Infor-
nation Please" tomorrow evening
are Senators Alben Barkley Of Ken
tucky and Harold H. Burton of Ohio.
Evening star., 1944-06-18
The Troubled Mind
Fascinates Hollywood
BY the Associated Press

ny the ASo0ciateu FIeSS.
HOLLYWOOD.
Hollywood Is going in for pictures
about people with troubled minds.
The Lodger" was so successful
that 1t may have started the cycle.
The House Of DR.. Edwards" is laid
IN q mental hospital; "Dragonwyck"
Is about q psychopathic; Hangover
Square" concerns a man with split
personality; Laura" Is about a
mad man.
It's odd entertainment, movieland
admits, for times like these.
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Audience Shows

The following broadcasts ad-
NIT the general public. II you
would like to attend, phone the
station.
WTOP - Metropolitan 5000.
Battle of the Bureaus" ] pm.
Sunday.
WRC-Republic 1000. Her
son in Person." 7:45 pm. Mon
day, Wednesday and Friday.
WMAL - Ma tional 5400.
"Dreamhouse," 7::30 pm. Tues
day.
WWDC-National 7203. "Am-
ateurs OF 1874" IL noon Sum-
day.
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mary Jane WalM,
vocalist.
WfR, 8:00--Ann
Sothera and Walter
| Pidgeon star Ia
"Tovarieh."
| WM, $500 - Ed
Archie Gardner,
| guest Of Gatis Fields.
| WNM, 8:30-su.
| via MarIows presents
an allBath program.
| WMAL, 9:t5-Bs-
nay vsnuta, guest.
| WT0P, 1880
| Birthday party from
| US0 center for TO.
| ysar-oId "Moiher' =
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Minor" pynkafiaffs Thomas
Lieutenant kijs" and strssiaskYs The Fire
Bird Suite" William kapsll, piano soloid
WMAl, 4.3o-christina Carroll, soprano,
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and Martial Sn0hf. baIiione. guest soIoIsis.
M0p. 4:30-Rombsre Medley highIishis
musical program featuring Soprano Eleanor
Stebe.
WRc, 5:00-Frsnk Black conducts The NBc
sympheny In sehubsrfs Allegro Moderate"
from symphony No. 8 Ia 3 Minsf"; ths third
movement from Molsr's "sympheny In
Minor; "AIlserstio" from Cesar frsnck',
"Symphony No. 4 in { Minor; and "Allsqro
Con Fuoeo' from TehaikoyskYs symphony No. 4
In { Minor"
VOL, $780,. Edward Bromberq stars In
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WRc, 2:30--John
Charles Thomas sings
HandeI's Largo, e
The Last Roundup
and Swing Low"
WTR. 300
Harry James and his
orchestra featured.
WT0P, 800
Fritz Reiner. tondut.
tor Of Pittsburgh
Symphony, directs
New York Philhar.
monie in Russian pro.
gram, including Rath.
maninoFs Second
Piano Concerto In {
Minor :" prokoiieffs {
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hs story Of ! father whose son YVES killed BY

VOL, 5:30-DuH.
dog Dfummoad On.
tounisrs suicide. Meh
and murder ai ! ball
park.
WMAl, $500
Popular in the safly
20s, The original
members Of Me
Memphis Five. JAZZ
quintet. guests oi
Paul Whiieman.
WIW, 6;00--lda
tupino and George
Brent In The Lady /,
Mans Was Paris"
WRt. 7.00--Tom
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kress. uS0 entertainer, Is We The People
shifts 10 new time,
Evening star., 1944-06-18
FEATURES on The Air

WhAl. :o0-lothrop Stoddsrd ansINss
the weeks news.
WRc, i:30-"small Business After ths
War" disfiIssad
Evening star., 1944-06-18

A"pihs ny Dorsey takes over,
with Bing Crosby as first guest.
Wc, 7:30-Woody Herman and his Or.
shssfra climb aboard the Band Wagon. with
Evening star., 1944-03-29

to the other, these would be betrayed
or liquidated In factional strife.
The Polish underground loyal to the
London government claims that the
pro-Moscow organization Is mainly
composed of a mixture of Soviet
agents left behind when the German
invasion forced the Russian armies
to quit Eastern Poland, plus native
Ukrainians and White Russians, to-
gether with scattering of local
Communists So bitter has been the
antagonism between these rival fac
tions that they have tended to spend
more energy assailing each other in
their clandestine press and on their
secret radio stations than they have
devoted to fighting their common
enemy, the Germans. If. hence
forth, the rivals can even tempo
rarily adjourn their differences and
unitedly aid the Russian armies in
the election of the Germans from
all Polish soil, not only will the
military advantage be considerable
but the foundation may be laid for
a constructive compromise of Polish
and Russian claims in the eventual
settlement OF Eastern Europe.
Evening star., 1944-03-29
Maj. George Fielding Eliot

to other countries. They are also taking
special measures to speed up industrial
production OF certain types in France,
Belgium and Czecho-Slovakia. Thus
their war machine becomes increasingly
dependent on non-German centers of
production. This is all very we'll, as
long as the Germans can control those
centers and have unrestricted access to
them.
But from the long-range point of view
1t is system that carries with it heavy
penalties. The more the Germans dis
perse their vital war production into
other countries the less they will have
at home and the time will come when
they will be faced with a military
struggle for the possession of those
countries in which the stake will be not
only territory and manpower but also
vital elements of the German industrial
system.
Thus it is entirely possible that one
OF the major results of the bombing at
tacks on German cities may be the
gradual depletion of German production
OF war material at home, so that when
the day of final reckoning does come,
the Germans will be seriously weak
ened in the very central structure Of
their power.
4 X
1t is hardly to be supposed that the
Germans are not as able to perceive
these facts as any one else. They know
that they are pursuing q short-range
policy. To some extent, of course, they
act under the pressure Of necessity, but
1t u worth while keeping IN mind that
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they may have short-range objective.
1t Is altogether likely that the present
leaders of Germany are convinced that
they cannot long continue an effective
resistance after the armies Of the
Western Allies have firmly established
themselves upon the continent. There
fore, their best hope Of making some
sort of peace which, from their point
OF view, would be better than uncondi-
tional surrender, would seem to lie in
stalking everything on defeating the In
vasion, or at least In throwing back its
first waves and scoring some sort of
initial success.
German viewpoint, their policy regard
ing French and Belgian industrial pro-
duction becomes entirely reasonable.
The war material from French and
Belgian plants will be available until
the fate of the invasion is decided one
way or the other. 1t stakes everything
on the German ability to prevent Anglo
American armies from establishing Sc
cure lodgment in Western Europe.
1t puts severe handicap on any de-
termined German defense of German
territory proper once such a lodgment
has in fact been effected, still more so
when France and Belgium have been
lost to. Germany. 1t brings in question
whether the German leaders really in
tend to make bitter yard by yard de.
fense Of the soil of the fatherland, or
whether their policy from now on is
going to be one of increasing bids for
peace with the idea Of escaping once
more the terrors Of actual invasion.
(cooyrisht 1e44)
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Letters to The Star
Argues for Subsidizing Rents
in Aid of Poor Families.
To the Editor OF The Star:

To the Editor OF The Star:
I recently have seen many COMPARE
sons in the press of the costs of public
housing projects and those of privately
financed housing. These have been
cited, usually by opponents of public
housing, to prove that private interests
can construct houses for a little as, or
less cost than, public agencies can do so.
There is and will continue to be dis
pute over such figures since the word
cost" can mean lot Of things. Cost
OF house, whether built with private
or public funds, is not the important
element in the controversy between pub
lie and private housing interests. The
important item Is the rent to be charged.
When the Metropolitan Life Insur-
ance Co. built Parkchester in New
York, at that time the largest housing
project in the country. it was pointed
out with some pride that the cost per
unit was somewhat less than that for
public housing construction of similar
type. That may or may not have been
true. 1t was and Is true, however, that
Parkchester's rents were two and three
times as high as was the rule in public
housing projects.
Projects which were built under the
United States Housing Authority were
for families which could not pay eco
nomic rents for decent and adequate
homes. Private interests never have
supplied a solution to the problem of
sheltering these families except through
housing them in wornout buildings re-
Jected by higher-income groups.
The only possible solution which has
been put forward, other than to continue
to house these low-income families in
slums, Is the use of rent certificates.
Under this plan the family would pay
as much as 1t could afford for house
built by private capital and the Govern
ment would supply the rest of the cost
by giving the family subsidy which
would be turned over to the private
landlord The taxpayers still would
have to bear part of the burden of hous-
Ing such families, the difference being
that, under the rent certificate scheme,
the taxpayer would be forced to sub
sidize not only the family but also the
landlord since it is difficult to imagine
private real estate interests handling
this type Of rental without profit.
BY far the largest and the only gen.
timely profitable portion of the hous-
ing market indisputably belongs to pri-
vate enterprise. 1t is my belief that
private operators should be content with
this rather than attempt to squeeze a
profit out of poor families by renting
slums to them or by attempting to OBJ
tain a subsidy for housing them under
somewhat better conditions.
The more enliphtened real estate ,,e,
10 whom have talked do not feel that
there is any real competition between
private and public housing, provided
both are decently managed and that
there is an understanding on both sides
Of their inherent limitations.
CHARLES ALLREDGE.
Evening star., 1944-03-29

Dor and management are represented.
1t will not tolerate coalitions of inter-
ests. private monopolieS or trusts" 1t
would conf1scate the wealth of those
who have prof1teered from the suffer-
ing of the French nation, and espe-
cially from collaboration with Nad in
vaders. On the other hand it reaf1rms
the freedom of all other private enter
prise, recognizing fair profits as use
full" 1t promises the restoration Of civil
rights.
The committee seems not to doubt
that this French New Deal represents
the ideas of the French majority. And
in his speech Gen. de Gaulle appeals
to all classes and parties of the French
people to join the committee, regard
less of origins and political tendencies" !"
for the reconstruction of new France.
In foreign policy it is clear that Gen.
de Gaulle is for the revival of a new
Europe, associated or federated, par
ticularly in regard of its economy, which
will integrate itself in the framework
OF the four powers.s He rightly sees
that what hinders the balance of the
Allies in the present policy is the alb
sence Of the greater part of Europe"
He wants to see "a western European
grouping as broad as possible"
In previous speech Gen. de Gaulle
had expressed himself as against the
dismemberment of the German nation.
In this one he speaks of Eternal Ger
many" which has become in our time
Hltler's Germany" Yet he seems to
hope for the refrigeration of a purged
Germany into a Europe which will
prove again Europe's worth to man.
kind, reappearing more enlightened by
her trials, and able to undertake work
of material intellectual and moral
nature for the organization of the
world, once she has crushed the major
cause Of Europes tragedies and divi-
sions-the frantic power of Prussianized
Germany"
Evening star., 1944-03-29

worth trying, in the opinion Of Prime
Minister Churchill, but it will always be
a matter of argument whether the same
amount of money and tools. as well as
manpower, expended on infantry and
artillery and tactical air force would
by this time have yielded more decisive
results.
The splendid commanders of our air
forces are not responsible for the er-
roneous impressions about what air
power can do. They merely have asked
for more and more planes and put their
faith in startegic attack on elected
targets by precision bombing-a course
of action that will be vindicated in
time as against the night saturation
bombing which has been so much the
basis of the RAF policy.
Unquestionably great damage has been
done by all kinds of bombing from the
air, but the public has been given day.
in and day-out stories about the number
of tons OF bombs dropped--as high as
5000 tons day-as If this were some
thing unprecedented in the tonnage of
explosives dropped in battle.
On this point, the March issue Of the
Evening star., 1944-03-29
VS.. Raids

Infantry journal. which is edited by
military men and distributed to thou
sands of officers and men in the fight
ing forces but which states that it "is
not the mouthpiece of the War Depart
ment," has an interesting editorial. 1t
will be recalled that newspaper dis
patches indicate that something less
than $4,000 tons have been dropped on
Berlin by both American and British
airmen thus far. The Infantry Journal
says:
Here is some data on concentrations.
On the first day Of the Somme in 1916
the British artillery fired $4,000 tons of
ammunition. In the opening attack on
July 81 at Ypres. it fired $4,000 tons and
on two successive days total of 900
tons.
lover a period of two weeks in
August and September 1918, the British
artillery fired 1000 tons per day, and
its total for the three days battle on the
9th. 28th and 29th of September was
5000 tons. None Of these figures in
clude the tremendous amounts of small
arms ammunition expended daily.
1T can be seen that in World War
the three Allied armies taken together
averaged daily without interference
from weather several times the tonnage
of fire power yet handled by the bombers
over Germany in single day. 1t is
also apparent that the Allied artillery
OF World War I was capable of deliver
ing 10 to 20 times as much in erv one
day.
"All this was World War I. We can
only guess at the enormous expenditures
of World War II, but it is safe to say
that at least on the Russian front the
weight of explosives fired from guns has
been many times that delivered by the
planes Of either side.
ITO keep our thinking straight We
also need to remember what every
artilleryman and infantryman knows
that artillery fire is usually more ac-
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individuality Discussed.

To the Editor of The Star:
Does Almighty God regard a man or
thousand men Of less value than a
tank, ten thousand fair exchange for
attainment of strategic position, as
do the meters of modern aggressive
war?
Seemingly not. The Great Creator
has marked and identified His each
and every creature. you and me, soldiers
in the ranks, in the most marvellous
and astonishing ways,
Is it not pore than passing strange
that OF the hearty 2,000, 900 900 human
beings upon the earth, all with the same
number and general conformity of fea-
lures 1.-TWO eyes, a nose, a chin, brows
and hair, no two are exactly alike?
The young never are precisely like their
parents; no child ever exactly resembled
his father nor any one else Would 1t
not seem that an original pattern, for
every mold, in a work so continuous,
yet so similar, would tax the genius of
the Deity Himself?
Science Is without an hypothesis as
to why chromosomes or genes, while
following general plan, always vary,
though ever so slightly, with each pro-
duction. But science believes that they
do. The inexactness (though mex
pllcable) Is not SO surprising as success
ful avoidance of ever duplication is
Not only in our featural conformation
do We differ from our fellows. You
have not seen your friend for years.
You do not see him now, but you hear
him speak. You know that voice among
l,n &c
the same vocal chords, the same mech
anism Of voice production as do we
all. Yet, somehow, there is a differ
ence.
We have our individual mannerisms,
we do things differently. So exact has
the science of calligraphy become that
a bank which fails to detect forgery of
your name becomes liable to you for
the payment.
Again is it not wonderful beyond all
conception, that of all the race of men
lnhablting the earth, the whorls of no
two thumbs or fingers ever are exactly
alike? Sit down with pencil and try
to vary the general pattern. say 10000
times; and then, after you have failed,
reflect that you scarcely had begun
upon the infinite and constant variety
by which the God of Nature has segre-
gated and ever preserves inviolate His
every human creature.
Soldiers in the ranks of totalitarian
governments God did not intend that
you, at the behest of cruel and am
bilious leaders, should destroy your
brothers, your unoffending fellow men.
Them, He made, as you-each separate
and individual, with no duplicate in all
His created world.
WILBUR H. CLOSE,
Evening star., 1944-03-29
This Changing World

Manipur, threatening the important
Allied base Of Imphal, raises the ques-
ton Of whether British american Chi
nese forces in this whole theater could
profit from Chinese operations else
where. For while the British head
quarters In India exhibits much conf
dence and no fear about the possible
danger Of this Jap thrust on the soil of
India, this operation, while not neces-
sarily fatal, can cause q great deal Of
trouble.
The Jap drive north Of Imphal in the
direction OF Kohima Is not far from the
important Bengal-Assam railway, by
which the Allied forces are supplied in
the north. While Lord Mountbatten Is
marshaling forces north Of Imphal to
counter the drive, and the latest COM
muniques mention that 1t is being CON
tanned" nevertheless Washington feels
q bit uneasy.
Expert quarters in Washington are
not as surprised as the American public
by this sudden appearance of japanese
strength across the jungle wastes OF
Burma and within the border of India.
Official quarters long have recognized
that the communications situation in
this theater has changed since the days
of the debacie of 1912. For both sides
have managed to build number of
roads through the jungle to the India
Burma border. Hence the operations on
both sides have proceeded with greater
alacrity than was commonly expected.
In view Of this mixed situation in the
Burma theater, a diversionary operation
by the Chinese armies in China might
prove helpful. Chungking's armies have
done little in the past year. Every now
and then. a dispat tch from Chungking
Evening star., 1944-03-29

human beings to live or work in the
area, have been used in Germany only.
1t would be considerably easier for
Allied airmen to use this type Of attack
in France and Belgium than it is in
Germany because the distances are
shorter and the scale Of defense is less.
But it would be unthinkable that we
should apply such methods against the
civil populations of countries which are
our allies and whose liberation is one
of the objects of the war we are now
waging against the Germans who hold
these peoples captive.
X X n
In practice. this policy is having one
rather interesting result. The Germans
are showing tendency to move some
of their industrial activities and special
types Of machine tools from Germany
Evening star., 1944-03-29
Eighty-four

He says he's only good for puttering,
But he can take some paper, splints and
string
And for the youngsters make a kite to
fly
Almost beyond the limits of the sku.
Out OF some pood no larger than his
thumb,
And from peach stone and stone of
plum
He cdrUed an ark and inmates with his
knife,
EDen a doDe, and Noah and his Uite.
Busy through Uinter months .Uith plane
and sGiD,
He's built bird-homes, each one Without
fd,D.
From, each Wiu come wnrbling, rap
turous part
Like the singing sanctuary Of his heart.
ROSE MYRA PHILLIPS.
Evening star., 1944-03-29
Constantine BrO1Vn

announces a big victory" over Japanese
forces in China. But the victory amounts
TO little more than a clash between
minor columns of japanese and Chinese
troops. Often. 1T appears, the Japanese
were simply carrying out minor OBJ
Ject1ve OF blowing UP some rice fields
and retired, after unimportant skir-
mishes with Chinese units and after
they had carried out their mission. This
sort OF fighting is not regarded as very
helpful.
The Chinese can always, and usually
do, adduce the excuse of preoccupation
with the Chinese Communist forces. It
is believed that Generalissimo Chang
Kai-shek has his best divisions concen-
trated on the Chinese Communist front.
Chungking has further excuse for
inaction In what 1t claims to be a diplo-
matte impasSe in Moscow. Chunpkino
claims that Moscow could force the Chi
nese Communists to yield to and co..
operate with Chungking But each time
demarche is made in Moscow by
Chungking along these lines, Moscow
processes to be unable to control the
Chinese Communists.
This international "buck-passing" has
been irritating. Washington feels that,
at the Cairo conference, plans were
made for vigorous prosecution of the
war against Japan in all theaters and
that the British and American COM
mands have put their best efforts into
implementing the Cairo decisions. In
one Of these efforts, Burma, the British
and Americans have now run into un-
expected, but not necessarily serious,
japanese opposition. 1t is felt that it is
up to the Chungking government to
provide the nelp in the theater, on its
own soil, where she can most quickly
and effectively move.