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Evening star., 1944-10-27
Tokyo Cabinet Meets
After Sinking Of Six
Warships Is Admitted
By the Associsted Press.

6s the Assoclateo PreSS.
Destruction of six japanese
warships, including an aircraft
carrier and a battleship, in the
three-pronged naval-air battle
off the Philippines was admitted
by Japanese imperial headquar.
ters in a broadcast today.
The broadcast. recorded by the
Federal Communications Commits
sion, admitted that in addition tc
the carrier and battleship, two
cruisers and two destroyers were
sunk and one carrier and one Japa-
nese battleship substantially dam
aged"
The japanese cabinet met today
to discuss matters requiring i'm
mediate attention" - possibly =, tc
hear that the Imperial Fleet was
irreparably damaged in the Philip
pines naval battle.
"erlin broadcast Tokyo dispatch
today saying the Japanese feet had
retired after its raid on Allied naval
units in Leyte Bay. The dispatch
said Japanese planes still were con-
ducting operations in the area.
Claims Toned Down.
Imperial headquarters toned
down it's claims about American
losses. They claimed II American
ships had been sunk and 10 dam
aged from october "a to October rs
Those assertedly sunk included
eight aircraft carriers, three cruis-
ers, two destroyers and more than
four transports. Seven United
States carriers, one battleship and
two cruisers, the Japanese said,
were damaged.
In addition imperial headquar-
ters reported 500 American planes
were shot down.
Headquarters claimed is American
ships sunk or damaged in initial
claims on October Is. Yesterday
headquarters issued two communi-
ques claiming an additional 81 sunk
or damaged.
Because Of numerous and con-
flicting broadcasts it is impossible to
make an accurate check of the over
all Japanese claims.
Emperor Hirohito offered special
prayers today at Tokyos Yasukuni
war shrine, and Japanese domestic
broadcast said the grave current
situation" was causing him "a great
deal of solicitude."
The shrine is dedicated to Japan's
war dead The Emperor, Radio
Tokyo said, prayed to the souls
protecting the empire
Yasukuni is a Shinto shrine The
religion teaches that the souls of
the dead watch over and guide the
living, hence high officials scrupu-
lousy pray at major shrines on
auspicious occasions.
Emperor Visits Shrine.
The Emperor often visits Yasu-
kuni during elaborately ceremonious
periods when the war dead are en-
shrined. Since no Tokyo report has
indicated such ceremony is in
progress now, it is likely the EN-
peror made a special appearance at
the shrine, to impress upon the peo-
pie the gravity of the war situation.
The Tokyo broadcast, recorded by
the Federal Communications Com
mission, said that members of the
"bereaved families of the newly en-
shrined" soldiers who lived In the
Tokyo metropolitan area were per-
mitted to attend the shrine for the
occasion.
Bereaved relatives residing in
more distant towns probably were
not invited because by travelling
they would clutter overcrowded rail-
road lines. s#
The Emperor appeared in military
uniform with many medals and
badges" the broadcast said. The.
Empress arrived later, wearing "a
pure white imperial gown"
Evening star., 1944-10-27
Dream of Promotion
BY the Associated Press.

SEDALIA ARMY AIR FIELD, MO.
ga troop carrier soldier, private
first class, hits his bunk every night
in pajamas decorated with master
sergeant's stripes. Kidded about 1t
by his barrack mates. he replied:
well, can dream, can't II"
Evening star., 1944-10-27
Jap Losses in Seo-Air Battles

More complete reports expected headquarters
Habor but here confirmed Japanese
the naval and air battles Philippine
compiled from communicates and eyewitness
Evening star., 1944-10-27
Sunk. Prob. sunk. Damaged. Total

several damaged enemy desoyers
OF failure OF communicates to specify the
Evening star., 1944-01-06

that they should sit together day by
day"
Must We learn this lesson all over
again in the costly and painful school
of experience?
What Is happening on the Russo
Polish frontier today is only a single
example of what the future may hold.
The Bulgarian government is reported
fallen, or at least tottering; shall we
be better prepared to take advantage of
that fact than we were when Mussolini
fell? The German left flank NAV be
pushed back beyond Estonia-are we
prepared to deal with the clamor that
will be made by those who are ever
trying to disturb our relations with
Russia over the consequent Russian
occupation of Estonia? The world
awaits with bated breath an Allied in
vaslon of Western Europe-we have.
OF course, made politico-m military plans
for what will happen when Anglo
American armies find themselves in
possession of French territory, but sup
pose - as Is almost inevitable - those
plans do not fit the facts as they de-
velop, do we have the machinery for
changing the plans smoothly and eff
ciently so that they will be help and
not hindrance to our further progress?
We need United Nations council.
and we need 1t now
Copyright, 1914, N. Y Tribune Inc)
Evening star., 1944-01-06

would be instructed supporting par
ticular candidate for the presidential
nomination. or uninstructed. They are
to be named by Republican State con-
vention, and the convention will de-
eide. The Willkie managers, the
Bricker managers and those supporting
other candidates are not likely to over
look this bet.
The New York hotel mems bid for
the Republican National Convention
predicted in yesterdays New York
Herald Tribune-is regarded in some
quarters as an effort on the part
of the Willkieites to turn the conven-
ton away from Chicago convention
city distasteful to Wendell L. Willkie.
1t has been regarded as hotbed of
isolationism and it is the home of the
Chicago Tribune and its publisher. Col.
Robert Mccormick, strong foe of the
Willkie nomination. According to re-
ports filtering into Washington, the
suggestion that New York City be
chosen first came from Mr. Willkie, and
later was backed up by John w. Hanes,
former Undersecretary of the Treasury,
one of the Willkie campaign managers.
Mr.. Hanes is the reputed campaign
fund raiser for Mr. Willkie.
Chicago has been the only real con-
tender in the field for the Republican
Evening star., 1944-01-06
Samuel Grafton

who thought England was quite silly,
four years ago, for going to war for the
sake Of Poland. They certainly never
thought we ought to go to any special
bother for the sake of Poland. 1t is
odd, but they are willing to take more
trouble to save part of Poland, and
a part that isn't very Polish, than they
were ever willing to take to save the
whole country.
So, therefore, in all this atmosphere
OF brand-new concern for small ma
tlons Atlantic Charter, ETC., seem to
see lot of winking going on. What's
the matter with those fellows, dust in
their eye, or something?
I will match my idealism against any
mans. but I also prefer to take nv
idealism straight. On the score of saw
ing small nations, I will kick along
with MeSSrs. Churchill and Roosevelt,
who heard Poland's cry for help the
first time. These other forms of ideal
ism depress me; for some obscure rea-
son they remind me of the current
idealistic campaign to save the Consti-
tuition by denying soldiers the right to
vote
Evening star., 1944-01-06
War Within War

The furious debate that has fol-
lowed the denunciation of strikes
and threats of strikes by an anony-
nous high official - now widely
identified as General George C.
Marshall-is rapidly assuming the
proportions of a full-f1edged war
within a war. And this battle of
words is developing as many strange
quirks as would be encountered in
the most unpredictable of actual
combats.
There was, for instance, the as
sertion by William Green, president
of the American Federation of
Labor, that there never was the
faintest possibility of an actual
walkout on the Nations railroads"
The smoke from this verbal broad
side had hardly drifted away before
the heads of two of the railroad
unions involved in the strike threat
had leaped into the breach to take
issue with Mr.. Green. All that
averted a strike, according to these
rail chieftains. was the taking over
Of the railroads. They want it under
stood, and emphatically, that re-
gardless of what Mr.. Green says,
they were not ''bluffing."
Next came an announcement from
the American Federationist, AFL
magazine, that the forthcoming
issue would quote General Douglas
Evening star., 1944-01-06
Gould Lincoln

porters undertaken drive to keep the
gathering away from the Windy City.
In some measure, the expected contest
is expected to develop test of Willkie
strength.
What the supporters of the nomina-
ton of Gov Dewey will think about
the proposal that New York be the
convention city is still to be developed.
Gov Dewey Is not candidate for the
nomination, although many Republic
cans are talking about his availability.
No national convention of a major
political party has been held in New
York since 1924, when the Inflated
Democratic convention was held there
in old Madison Square Garden. 1t ran
on for weeks and it required 103 ballots
in the convention to nominate a COM
promise candidate, John W. Davis when
it finally appeared that neither the late
William Gibbs McAdoo nor the then
Gov. AL Smith could obtain the neces-
sary two-thirds vote
The Republican National Committee
meets in Chicago the first of next week
the convention. The committee also
will announce the apportionment of
delegate strength for each State, the
Territories and the District of Columbia.
What's to be done about the Philippine
Islands is still a question 1t is OBJ
= viously impossible for the Republicans
of the islands to elect delegates to
the national convention. Furthermore.
Congress has passed a law authorizing
the President to declare the Philippines
independent. If the President should
take such action within the next few
months, there would be no P l. dele
cations to the Republican and Demo-
cratic conventions this year Philippine
National Committeeman John w.
Hausserman, however, is in this coun-
try and is expected to attend the meet
ing of the national committee He is
understood to have the proxy of the
national committeewoman, reported to
be in a concentration camp in the
islands
Evening star., 1944-01-06

Macarthur as saying: Labor never
has failed the Army or the Nation.
May God bless you all for your
splendid patriotism" A search Of
newspaper files has revealed that he
used those precise words on April /,
1912, in response to warm assurances
of support from labor spokesmen
That was twenty-one months prior
to the beginning of Washington's
current outburst of verbal warfare.
There is no way Of telling how
many more of these surprise at
tacks will be launched before this
war within war ends. But If these
verbal shots are going to be as wild
in the future as they have been
in the past, the sooner we get back
to fighting the real war the better
it will be for all concerned.
Evening star., 1944-01-06

convention to date. 1t is also seeking
the Democratic National Convention,
and is prepared to put up 5000 for
each of the conventions. 1t is now
proposed that New York come forward
with a $150,000 bid for the Republican
convention. Mr. Hanes, it is reported
is prepared to see that the money is
raised.
At one time the Willkie forces favored
holding the convention in Cleveland,
and there was talk of a S150,0OO pledge
to the Republicans from that city. APP
parently, that invitation is not coming
through. Incidentally, supporters of
Gov. Bricker of Ohio for the presidential
nomination are not interested in having
the convention go to Cleveland.
*$*
The New York invitation, if it comes,
will run counter to Republican thought
that the convention this year should
be held in the Middle West, which has
led in the swing back to the Republican
standard Chicago, Cleveland, St Louis,
Kansas City and Detroit have all been
suggested as the site Under present
crowded war conditions in these cities,
Chicago alone appears to offer the IA
ClilllcS llEtOcO. hHu up w udlc lilc
other cities have side stepped the con-
vention idea Chicago has been sug-
gested for both the conventions by the
Office of Defense Transportation. The
ODT argues that, by holding the con-
ventions there. the least interference in
the war transportation needs would be
met. This has been potent argument
with many of the national committee
members.
Supporters of Chicago for the ma
tional convention pooh-pooh the idea
that it should be avoided because the
Chicago Tribune is published there.
They point out that Chicago has a
number of other newspapers, among
them the Chicago Daily News, Secretary
of the Navy Frank Knox's paper. and
the Chicago Sun, which is published
by Marshall Field and is anything but
isolationist in its views
The stir over convention city for
the Republicans would not have reused
much interest had not Willkie sup
Evening star., 1944-01-06

Polish cabinet in exile must await fur
ther developments.
The question of how much Polish
territory will be returned to Russia ap-
pears less important today than the
ultimate fate Of Poland as sovereign
state. The Poles fear that the Rus
slams are entering their country as con-
querors. The government-in-exile is
not recognized by the Soviets and it is
assumed that the Red armies will bring
with them some sort Of an AMG COM
posed of members of the Polish or
ganizations in Moscow to govern the
territories from which the Nazis are
being expelled.
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The American Government Is said
to be making a sincere attempt to
bring about a reconciliation between
Russia and the present Polish govern
ment-in-exile. 1t is believed that the
endeavor is being backed by the British
Foreign Office There is only slight
Evening star., 1944-01-06
Maj: George Fielding Eliot

national understandings" which depend
on occasional personal conferences and
are not supported and carried along by
organized cooperative agencies.
The lessons of experience warn us
that the occasional conference" method
does not produce true unity of purpose
and effort. Just prior to the establish
ment of the Allied Supreme War
Council in 1917, Field Marshal Sir
Henry Wilson wrote to Mr.. Lloyd
George: I'VE have tried many expedi-
ents, but always with the most dis
appointing, sometimes even with dis
astrous results. We have had frequent
meetings of ministers, constant CONVEX
sations between chiefs of staff, delibera-
tions of commanders in chief, mass
meetings of all these high officials in
London, in Paris, in Rome and all
these endeavors have failed to attain
any real concerted effort in diplomacy,
in strategy, in fighting or in the pro-
ducticn of war material. =" The net
result seems to me to be that we take
short views instead of long views, we
look for decisions today instead of lay
ing out plans for tomorrow, and as
sequence we have constant change of
plans, with growing and increasing
irritation and ineficiency."
Il
After the formation Of the Supreme
War Council, it was attacked in Par
lament by Mr.. Asquith. who was very
insistent that in his day the inter-
Allied conferences supplemented by
liaison officers secured the necessary
coordination of strategy and policy
among the Allies" as Lloyd George tells
us in his memoirs. To this claim he
replied: "The present system is a
sporadic one, where you have meetings
perhaps every three or four months,
barely that, for the purpose of settling
the strategy of the Allies over the whole
of the thousands and thousands of
miles Of front, with millions of men in
embattled array upon those fronts. '''
1t is an essential part of this scheme,
but the new body should be permanent,
Evening star., 1944-01-06
Picture by Homer

The presentation of fine ex-
ample of the genius of Winslow
Homer to the National Gallery
deserves comment because of the
picture itself, the painter and the
source of the gift.
Homer, born at Boston in 1896,
was an authentic American charac-
ter. AS Miss Leila Mechlin said in
The Star last Sunday, he was per
hapS least influenced by tradition or
his contemporaries here or abroad"
He painted what he saw and as
correctly as he could" and his inter-
pretations of nature and of people
will always have a place all their
oWn-a high place at that-both
because of his ability and his
sincerity"
The work by which the artist is
to be remembered in the National
Gallery is his "Breezing Up," which
was painted between 1873 and 1875.
1t illustrates the period of Homer's
life when he first was doing what
he wished to do with the assurance
born of experience with his mate
rials. The drawing is confident, the
coloring fortnight. In comparison
with canvases executed as late as
1902 Early Morning After Storm
at Sea-" for example-it spells youth,
but not immaturity. Homer had
arrived" when he made it. One
proof of his power is the fact that
he needs no explanation. william
Howe Downes sums up his personali-
ty and his achievement in the Die
tionary of American Biography in
these words:
Without much academic training,
by dint of indomitable will power and
remarkable single -mindedness, he
triumphed over all difficulties, win
Evening star., 1944-01-06
The Straight News

When Palmer Hoyt, publisher of
the Portland Oregonian, reached
Washington last June to assume
dictatorship of the domestic opera
tions branch of the Office of War
Information, the House had Just
voted to discontinue further appro-
priations for that part of owl. But
he took the job, convinced that its
operations are absolutely vital to the
conduct of the war and to the inter
ests of the entire country" He was
anxious to give the people the news,
without propagandizing" and with
out pamphleteering, and, largely
because of its confidence in him,
Congress appropriated enough
money to keep the Office going.
Mr.. Hoyt is leaving Washington
today with the satisfaction Of having
given to the domestic branch
prestige which it never enjoyed be-
fore. 1t still serves at times as a
convenient whipping boy for press
that always will be restive under
wartime restrictions on publication
of news But under Palmer Hoyt it
has made itself increasingly helpful
in working for the dissemination of
straight news. And If the advan-
tages of giving the people the news,
without propaganda coating, are
becoming apparent to others in the
Government, the domestic branch
of owl will have served its purpose.
Mr.. Hoyt is leaving his Office in
the capable hands of another good
newspaperman, George w. Healy, jr.,
managing editor of the New Orleans
Times Picayune, who also believes
that the straight facts are what the
American people want to know
about the war and whose fine repu-
tation in his craft is adequate as
Surance that he will stick to that
policy.
Evening star., 1944-01-06

every TWO weeks TO discuss anew the
ever-changing pattern of events
We have one more evidence, in fact,
of the need of permanent and con-
tinuing organization for handling these
thorny problems, for carrying out in
detail the general and basic agreements
reached at Moscow and Teheran, for
perpetuating and continuing the good
work there Accomplished AS an edi-
torial in the Detroit News sums it up,
we need assurance that the solid basis
of understanding achieved at Moscow
and Teheran will not again degenerate
into misunderstanding" We need, in
fact, United Nations council.
The immediate situation in the Russo
Polish frontier region is full of un-
pleasant possibilities. What will happen
If Polish guerrillas take a few shots at
Russian troops? Wed rather not think
about it-but we ought to be thinking
about 1t. The ill-tempered attack of
the Russian newspaper Pravda on Wen
dell WILKES well-meant article about
our relations with Russia is only a
minor example of the explosive qualities
of the existing situation, and COM
mentary on the impermanence Of inter-
Evening star., 1944-01-06
Out of the Frost

All about US on these winter days
Are things tDe loue:: ice-coated elns
On Which the sun shines and the silper
Shimn,ers tuhen light Ui1,d n1opes
The heaoy limbs, quaking nerpously:.
The beauty of the sno,D-couered fields;
The ice 1Dhirls turning slo,ply around
In the pool that holds them, the current
Teasing them time after time
TO the open channel, then pulling them
Back again; the DoIcanic cones of foam,
Frozen and laced, at the foot
OF the waterfalls: the soft sno,D blo,pn
Like jelly rolls dopn the long steep
slopes.
These intimate parts of winter
Are loDely things, iDopen beautifully
Out OF the frost and snoD, carved from
Ice,
Scum into lace out of the foam.
Winters hands may be rough from
1Dind
And cold-yet they goDn the days
In robes OF silvered lace.
LANSING CHRISTMAN.
Evening star., 1944-01-06
Tuxes and Politics

The proposal by Representative
Knutson to divorce the Bureau of
Internal Revenue from the Treasury
Department seems designed more to
clip the wings of Secretary Morgen-
thau than to bring about any ap-
preciable tax reform.
The Minnesota Congressman,
ranking Republican member of the
Ways and Means Committee, &C
cuses the Treasury of playing poll
tics" with tax policy. He might have
added, and with as much justifica-
ton, that Congress has not been
Indifferent to political considera-
tions in shaping its own tax policy,
but the real question here is not
whether the Treasury, or Congress,
or both. have been playing politics
with tax legislation. So far as the
Knutson proposal is concerned, the
important thing is whether the
separation of the Treasury and the
bureau, with the latter acquiring
the status of an independent agency,
would have any really beneficial
effect in shaping future tax policy.
On the face of the matter, this does
not seem probable.
Mr.. Knutson says that Secretary
Morgenthau would rather lose his
teeth than the Bureau of Internal
Revenue" Perhaps so, but it does
not necessarily follow that the ex-
traction of the Secretary's teeth,
or the removal from his control of
a bureau that he cherishes more
highly than his teeth, would result
in better and less political tax
program. AS Mr.. KnutSon himself
points out, the activities of the
bureau relate strictly to the collec-
ton of taxes. 1t has nothing to do
with the formulating of tax policies.
If the bureau were made an inde-
pendent agency, better tax collec-
ton might result. but this would not
eliminate politics from tax policy
at either end of Pennsylvania ave-
nue..
II Secretary Morgenthau and his
staff are trying to employ taxes to
bring about changes in our economic
system that are contrary to Amer
lean principles, sas Mr. Knutson
charges, the best place to curb that
is in Congress. For, as Mr.. Knutson
points out, the Constitution dele
gates the power to originate reve-
nue. legislation to the House of Req
resentatives, not to the executive
branch, and under the law the
= Treasury has no right even to sub
NIT proposals for raising revenue
except at the invitation of Con-
gress."
So long as the House retains this
power. there is little to be gained
from a proposal to punish Mr.. Nor
genthau by taking the Bureau of
Internal Revenue away from him.
His tax proposals may be politically
inspired and thoroughly undesir-
able. But Congress, if it desires to
exercise its power, can cope with this
by writing tax legislation of its
own which is free from political in
spiration. The difficulty grows ou.
of the fact that it has not seen
fit to do so.