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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-03-28
Joan Berry Expected
10 Return 10 Stand
In Chaplin Trial Today
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Pres.
LOS ANGLE Mar. 28.-Joan
Berry was expected to resume her
role today as the Governments star
witness in the trial Of Charlie
Chaplin on Mann Act charges as
Defense Attorney Jerry Giesler
asked permission to question her
further, after a three-day court
recess.
Chaplin's 24-year former
protege told Of alleged intimacies
with the comedian in his Beverly
Hills home and in his New York
hotel suite when she testified for
two days last week.
At one spoint last Friday, Miss
Berry broke down and sobbed when
portions of two letters she had
written to the comedian were read
Mr.. Giesler dismissed Miss Berry
last week after Judge J. F. T. O'Con-
nor ruled that the defense would not
be allowed to inquire into any in
timacies she might have had with
other men, But Mr.. Giesler reserved
the right to recall her.
Later he said there were further
matters he wished to ask her about
and told newsmen that there are
some newly discovered facts I'd like
to inquire into"
United States Attorney Charles H
Carr has indicated the Government
which is seeking to convict the 54-
year-old comic on charges that he
violated the Mann Act by allegedly
transporting Miss Berry to New and
then back to Hollywood for immoral
purposes. may rest its case today or
tomorrow.
Mr.. Giesler has declared he will
ask for dismissal of the case when
the Government rests, but if that is
unsuccessful Chaplin may be called
as one of the witnesses in his own
defense.
The jurors, seven women and five
men, spent the week end as they
liked. Judge O'Connor told them at
the outset they would not be locked
up, but admonished them strongly
against discussing the case, and told
them they couldn't read about it in
the newspapers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-03-28
Mickey Dodge Seeks
Divorce and $4,000
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated PreSS.
NEW YORK, Mar 28-Former
Showgirl Martha Mickey Devine
Dodge has filed suit for a divorce
from Horace E. Dodge, heir to an
automobile fortune.
The action was disclosed when
she asked State Supreme Court for
$4,000 counsel fees and $4,000 ex-
penses to prosecute the suit. Deci-
sion was reserved.
Her attorney said she sought no
alimony. The couple was married
in 1910 in Baltimore Mrs. Dodge
previously had brought suit for. sep
aration.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-03-28
Pension Bureaus Open
For D. {. Area Veterans
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE. Mar. %. - Balti-
more's new Veterans Administration
Area 3 Office, one of nine in the
country, opened four rating, boards
yesterday to pass on disability pen
sion claims of men and women dis
charged from the armed services.
The office, which has no direct
connection with mastering out pay,
will handle only initial pension
claims of veterans of this war. 1t
will also pass on applications for
disqualification and vocational train
ing.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-03-28
THE EVENING STAR Washington, D. c. - A
TUESDAY, 10. 1914

large department stores were on
hand for the sale, along with jobbers
and wholesalers.
The Eastern Aircraft exhibit con-
tanned q small metal tool box that
caught popular fancy. About 1000
were disposed Of quickly and COM
pany representative said he could
have sold four times that many.
The exhibition and sale. WPB
spokesman said, represented the first
step by Government and industry to
distribute into trade channels large
holdings of critical items heretofore
held for aircraft needs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-03-28
Alcoo Wage Dispute
Is Certified to WLB
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The United States Cancellation
Service today announced certifica-
ton to the War Labor Board of the
wage dispute between the Aluminium
Co. OF America and the CLIO Alum
mum Workers of America.
The dispute involves approx
mately 10000 employees at the COM
pany's various plants and mines
The union is asking minimum gen.
eral wage increase of Is cents an
hour and establishment of q hiring
rate Of o5 cents an hour,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-03-28
Candidate Killed
On Election Day
Wins BoNoting
By the Associated Press.


OAKLAND, Iowa, Mar. 28-Rex
Roy, candidate for Mayor in yes
terday's city election, was killed by
a train yesterday afternoon while
returning from a church committee
meeting. He won the election by a
30-to-9 vote over his write-in oppo-
nent, G. T. Gardner, City Clerk
Harold Spencer said last night.
Mr.. Spencer said he was puzzled
as to how the post would be filled
and that ruling from the State
attorney general probably will be
sought. Meanwhile, he said, the
City Council probably will name a
temporary successor.
P. D. Green, incumbent Mayor,
did not seek reelection.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-03-28

contested. Joan Fontaine.
Mr.. Aherne and Miss Fontaine
were married August 20, 1899, in
Del Monte, Calf.
A property settlement has been
reached. and the separation is an
amicable one, Miss Fontaine said.
Winner of the 1941 Academy
Award for her performance in
Suspicion" the actress was granted
American citizenship last year. She
was born Joan De Beauvoir De
Havilland in Toxic, of British par
entage. Actress Olivia De Havilland
Is her sister,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-03-28
Bill Permits High Court
To Call Retired Justices

By the Associated Press.
The Chief Justice of the United
States would be authorized to des-
ignate retired justices for service
on the court when necessary to OBJ
tain a quorum under terms of a bill
introduced yesterday by Represent
alive Kefauver, Democrat, of Ten
nessee.
He said the action is necessary in
certain cases where too many JUS
tices disqualify themselves for
service.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-03-28

actor whom she
once t erm e d
the finest huS-
b a n d in the
world"
Blaming ere
grettable niSun-
derstands," S h e
t o l d reporters
last night she
would bring the
a C t ION here
W | t h in W o
weeks, probably
charging cruel
ty, and that it
would not be
contested
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-03-28
Actress Joan Fontaine
Twill Seek Divorce

BY the Associated Press.
HOLLYWOOD, Mar. 2S.-Screen
Actress Joan Fontaine, 26, has an
nounced she will seek divorce from
Brian Aherne, 41-year-old British
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-03-28

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-03-28
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Evening star., 1944-01-22
Samuel Grafton

for four months and it isn't fresh any
more
I have feeling that Count Sforza had
to work hard to get the leaders of the
Six Parties to consent to the regency;
they found it difficult to swallow, but
they swallowed it. To have that offer
turned down must stun them. The
Italian volunteer movement seems to
have come to dead stop. The Italians
see Badoglio putting royal insignia on
the shoulders of the troops he has
drafted and they see us doing nothing
about it and they cape at U.S. We have
propped up the dead Italians in fighting
posture, and we have sat on the ener-
getic ones.
X X X
The Italians do not feel that they
understand us any more. We made
more sense before we arrived. Soon
they must look for new friends. And,
listen, from the east there comes a
strange sound, the Russians are begin.
ming to make anti-Badogio noises.
II We were winning the war quickly
we could explain everything. But we
are not winning quickly. So our lips
open and close silently and no sound
comes forth, we have nothing to say.
Can't we swallow our pride of opinion
and declare that, whatever the merits
of the original deal with Badoglio and
the King, the situation has so changed
that the old arguments no longer apply,
that while we may have needed turn
coats for midnight surrender, we now
need popular support for a slow push?
Evening star., 1944-01-22

Italy: we have only Badoglio and the
King.
We are still dealing with the two
men, though the basis for the deal has
quite evaporated. and the two men are
still keeping store. though they have
nothing left to SELL
But in politics nothing really stands
still; II progressive changes do not take
place disintegrative changes will occur.
These are occurring.
They are occurring among us for one
thing. We used to be little breathless
and ashamed about dealing with Victor
Emmanuel and Marshal Badoglio and
with their incredible Fascist generals
and admirals. But now it Is an old
story. we see them every day, we walk
down the streets of Italys towns with
them in broad daylight, our brief affair
Is turning into marriage.
The Fascist crown prince, Umberto,
tears around behind the lines like the
chairman of a clambake. His hat is set
at precisely the same jaunty angle as
when he was Mussolinis glamour boy a
year ago, and the aspirations of the
Italian people to pull it down over his
ears are stified.
Changes are taking place among the
people of Italy, too. The offer by the
Six Parties to accept a regency for the
6-year-old Prince Of Naples, Victor EN-
manueIs grandson, was a temporary
offer, q bargain offer, good for today
only. We have kept that offer on ice
Evening star., 1944-01-22

The Nazi technique is obvious. It
tends to disrupt the political unity
among the Allies and to give the i'm
preston among the troops that after
all they may not be called on to do much
lighting since peace Is "in the air"
**
The Nazis perhaps may believe that
rumors of an approaching peace will
influence the fighting spirit Of the
American and British soldiers who have
not yet participated in any battle
against the Germans. They may hope
the frank predictions from this country
OF half million casualties in the forth
coming assault, together with their own
reports of extensive preinvasion prep
arations and mysterious murderous
secret weapons, might undermine the
morale of the troops and give their
own forces better chance to defend
the European fortress than they would
have otherwise
Certain Washington quarters call this
intense propaganda the "Goebbels cock
tail" intended to inebriate our men who
Evening star., 1944-01-22

development, famous in all military
history and best epitomized by Field
Marshal Graf Won Schlieffen's monu-
mental work, "Cannae" The Russians
have been hammering away on this
line OF action all summer, and they
nave come close to victory with it more
than once. The German procedure
seems to be to give them every possible
chance OF attaining victory this timesv
to wait and hold on and take chances
that seem to have no compensatory ad.
vantage to be weighed against a risk
that increases with every passing day.
Why? It cannot be that the Germans
are unwilling to give up territory. They
already have given up so much ii,
Russia that little more can have no
effect on their prestige. 1t seems much
ing in terms of what lies behind the
Dniester that they are afraid OF a
Russian incursion into the Balkans,
and that they may be willing even to
see Won Mannstein's group of armies
torn away from contact with the armies
OF the center and pushed back into
Rumania, rather than to envisage the
possibility of withdrawal of Won
Mannsteins right flank to the Carpa.
thians, with the consequent opening to
Russian armies Of passage into tho
Rumanian Dobrudja and to the mouths
OF the Danube
r7-
OF course this might open a wide
gateway for the Russians into the plains
Of Poland-but the German high COM
mand may hope that the Russians
could not take advantage Of this OPEN
ing, for supply and communications
reasons. until much later in the year.
On the other hand, Hitler may we'll fear
that the entry of Russian troops into
Rumania would mean the collapse OF
the whole rickety structure in the Bal!
kans, which could only by propped up
BY German troops in force, as wassths
case In Italy. ,s->o
y tcopyrisht. 1914. n. 2. Tribune. Ins.lS
Evening star., 1944-01-22

tne democrats VINO DO not want the
President reelected have apparently,
with some exceptions, come to the con-
clusion that his nomination In the COM
ing Democratic National Convention
cannot be stopped.
For example. one leading Democrat
from Southern State pointed out that
no strong organized opposition to the
Presidents denomination has mani
tested itself. This Democrat regards,
therefore any attempt to raise an anti
fourth term standard as futile-so far
as the nomination goes. What the
voters of his State will do, and disaf-
fected Democrats in other States will
do. when it comes time to vote, he said,
is another thing entirely.
In way, the attitude of those South
ern Democrats who are opposed to a
fourth term is not dissimilar to the
attitude of the anti-Al Smith Demo-
Gratis in the winter of 1923. They did
not relish the idea Of Smith nomina-
ton, but they agreed not to fight it,
and early in the year it became appar-
ent that the then Governor of New
Evening star., 1944-01-22

York would be nominated He was, and
he not only lost the election, but also
the electoral vote Of four Southern
States.
This, most Southerners say today, is
not likely to happen in the case of
President Roosevelt-so far as losing
any of the Southern States is concerned.
There is chance, however, that the
deep-rooted objection to the New Deal
administration In Texas may boil over
at the polls.
The Democrats who favor a renomi-
nation Of the President-and they are
In the great majority-are anxious to
bring about his denomination. They
believe that the President is the only
candidate with whom they have
chance to win.
Up to the present, no other Demo-
cratic candidate for the presidential
nomination has stuck his neck out.
There is an organization Of Byrd-for-
President clubs-started in Louisiana
and spreading to other States. But
Senator Byrd of Virginia has said en-
phatically he is not a candidate for the
nomination. There has been talk Of
electing delegates to the national con-
'ChIioii 1dNoid W VI pleOReu 10 James
A. Farley, Democratic State chairman of
New York. No Farley y-for-President
movement, however, has been started.
Mr.. Farley himself, although admittedly
hostile to fourth-term nomination, is
still saying nothing about his own po-
litical plans. He has a strong hold on
the Democratic organization in his own
State and 1t is by no means out Of the
question that a considerable block of
New York delegates will vote for him in
the convention II he raises his banner.
=
Senator johnson, Of Colorado, some
weeks ago declared the New Deal was
dead and urged the Democrats to NOM
mate as their presidential candidate
Gen. George c. Marshall, chief of staf1
Though some Of the Democratic leaders
Evening star., 1944-01-22

q byword in our Army for any one who
departs from precedent?) working on
orthodox military lines; while the Ger
mans, those disciples of Clausewitz,
Moltke and Schlieffen, must cast aside
the teaching OF these masters and do
outrage to sound military principle time
and again.
Take Stalingrad. for example. It was
hard for this writer to bring himself
to believe that the Germans would
press on toward Stalingrad until they
had secured the crossings of the Middle
Don in the Voronezh sector; or that
they would persist In their attempts to
take that city when it was apparent
that storm was gathering on their
northeastern flank; or that they would
fail, when that storm burst, instantly
to begin the evacuation of the Caucasus.
Yet they did all these things. and with
disastrous consequences to themselves,
largely because their Fuehrer could not
bring himself to acknowledge that he
had failed, or to give up ground which
he had occupied, or to abandon his
hope Of Caucasian oil.
Or take Tunisia. Even when the signs
were clear that Rommel was withdraw
Evening star., 1944-01-22
Gould Lincoln

ADMIT that Gen. Marshall might make
strong candidate, they do not see him
IN the picture, certainly not as a "stop
Roosevelt" candidate. His nomination
could only be brought about If the
president should determine not to run
"a contingency which is not now ex.
pected.
The fact that things are shaping lin
for Roosevelt denomination does not
mean necessarily that there will be mn
votes against the President and for
other candidates when the convention
meets. 1t is likely there will be un.
pledged delegations elected in a mum.
Der OF the States. Virginia may send a
delegation to vote for Senator Byrd. and
SO may some of the other Southern
States. 1t requires, however, only a
majority vote in the national convention
to make presidential nomination.
When the Democrats, in their 1885
national convention, set aside their old
two-thirds rule for presidential nom.
ination. the whole picture changed.
The veto power of the South was gone
with the wind.
&*
chance for test of strength exists
in New Hampshire the anti -Roose-
welt Democrats feel strong enough to
make a fight there. If they do the
election may prove real test of senti-
ment. If they do not, it will be another
evidence that the anti-fourth term NOM
1nation movement, which showed signs
Of life few months ago, is begging
down.
David G. Kelly, Democratic national
committeeman for North Dakota,
brought to the meeting here a poll he
had made of members of the Demo-
cratic State Committee and county
chairmen. He had 78 replies on the
presidential nomination-73 for Roose-
welt. against Roosevelt, for Farley,
and 2 answering it is too early to
reach a decision Enough said.
Evening star., 1944-01-22
As Big as Those on Land

Lieutenant General Carl Spaatz,
chief of all American strategic
bombing in Europe, has just offered
a sound word of advice to the Ameri-
can people. This is that they should
think OF our massive air attacks as
they think of major ground opera
tions-as something really big, in
volving not a handful of men and
action merely between plane and
plane but thousands of men out to
strike at certain fixed objectives on
the ground. The use of the word
raid" has tended to give the i'm
preston that these missions are
relatively small mere hit-and-run
jabs in which success or failure can
be measured only in terms of our
own losses and the number of enemy
fighters shot down. But as General
Spaatz has pointed out, this is not a
true picture. In the recent multiple
attack on Germany. for instance,
when sixty Of our Flying Fortresses
and Liberators were lost as against
153 German craft, our total striking
force was made up of more than 700
four-engine bombers and perhaps as
many as 500 or 600 escorts, which
means that at least 1000 men took
part. The losses, moreover, must be
evaluated not only in relation to the
size of this assault force but also in
relation to the damage inflicted on
the ground objectives. Viewed in
that light, they are not extraordi-
nary. If the same number of men
under General Clark's command go
into direct infantry combat on the
Italian front, 500 or 900 casualties
do not seem unusual to us. Accord
ingly, they should not seem unusual
to us IN the case Of our great bomb
Evening star., 1944-01-22
Maj. George Fielding Eliot

Ing across Irlpolltanla into Tunisia, it
seemed impossible that the Germans
would not make some attempt, at least
TO Terry part of his forces out of the
available ports before these were irrev.
ocably lost-the ports of Tripoh, Gabes
Sfax and Sousse. This might have been
attempted only while sufficient air bases
were possessed by the Germans in Africa
10 give temporary cover to such an on
Grafton. but it was worth trying, it was
certainly better than to allow the whole
Germany Army in Africa to be cooped
up IN Northern Tunisia and brought to
lgnomlniouS surrender But once again
Hitler could not bear to retreat, to give
up territory, to save an army at the
cost OF yielding some portion of his
sacred prestige.
Something similar now seems to be
taking place in Southern Russia. On
military grounds, there is no excuse for
any German soldiers remaining east of
the Bug, certainly not for German re-
sistance to be continuing clear out in
the bend Of the Dneiper in the area of
Nikopol-Krivoi Rog, or between Kiev
and Cherkassy. The Germans are max
Ing a bold and determined stand at
VlnnltSa, covering the communications
OF these exposed troops; but suppose the
Vinnitsa bolt" position gives way, as
the German bolt" positions north Of
stalingrad gave way? Any experienced
soldier. any ordinarily intelligent stu
dent Of military history, would certainly
insist that these outlying forces should
have been withdrawn long ago, with
heartfelt thanks that Vinnitsa had held
long enough to permit 1t.
y +
One may be quite sure that had the
decision been left to Field Marshal Won
Mannstein he would even now be snugly
intrenched behind the Bug, with not
man east of 1t and with every prepara-
ton In train for further withdrawal
to the Dneister.
The strategy which the Russians are
using SSainst him is the strategy Of
Evening star., 1944-01-22
This Changing World ~

are now In England rather than the
people on the home front.
It probably was unwise f6r men In
responsible positions In this country to
talk about definite number Of casual
ties the invasion forces will suffer. To
begin with, no one in the world knows
how great the losses will be until the
enemys defenses have been tested.
We know that the Germans have had
almost four years to prepare for the
defense Of the western coast. We also
know that German production has
been able to provide the army with
excellent defense equipment and that
large Underground ammunition dumps
have been built. But arms and ammu-
nitions alone cannot always keep an
invasion force at bay. II the morale OF
the Nazi soldiers was seriously i'm
paired the best war material in the
world would be OF little use. The
Italians who defended the beaches of
Sicily had excellent equipment. But
their morale was shot to pieces and
they offered less than q token of
resistance.
The Germans, who have learned to
respect the fighting ability of the Allied
forces, believe that a combination of
scare" stories, coupled with a daily
ration OF peace talks coming from
sources other than, Germany and the
satellite countries, Is the best way to
undermine the fighting qualities of
American troops who have not yet been
engaged in actual warfare.
So far there are no indications that
the "Goebbels cocktail" has had any ill
effect on our soldiers. But many re-
sponsible quarters feel that if present
conditions are allowed to continue Goeb-
bels' indirect propaganda might have
some effect
Thursdays announcement by Elmer
Davis, director of the Office of War
Information, that henceforth there will