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operating between Lake linen and
Lake Peipus.
Down in the Dnieper Bend, final
annihilation of the trapped German
army in the Cherkasy pocket was
announced. On Thursday the rem
nants of 10 divisions and one bri-
gade were mopped up and the Rus
sian high command announced that
50, 900 had been killed and 1900
taken prisoner. The total number
of deaths during the operation
which followed German refusal to
accede to Russian demand for
surrender was set at $4,000. Thou
sands more were lost in vain effort
to relieve the entrapped troops and
losses of guns, planes, tanks and
other equipment were heavy.
During the week Juhu Kusti
Paasikivi, Finnish leader, conferred
with the Russian Ambassador in
Sweden, giving rise to a belief that
Finland soon would withdraw from
the war. To lend emphasis to the
precariousness of the Finnish stu
alton, 1t was reported that heavy
Red concentrations were being made
along the border.
The worst disaster in the history
Of American overseas troop trans
portation was revealed coincident-
ally with the announcement of the
raid on Truk and therefore partially
obscured by the good news. It was
reported that transport had been
sunk in European waters with the
loss of 1000 men. about half the
troops aboard. The ship was sunk
at night and went down quickly
making dificult the rescue Of those
thrown into the water.
Evening star., 1944-02-20
5000 Aid Partisans

The Office Of War Information
reports that 5000 Slovaks escaped
during the last six months and
joined the Yugoslav liberation forces
Many have fed from the labor
camps in Germany and Austria
during the disorders caused by the
bombing of German cities by Allied
flyers. Information concerning a
separate Czechoslovakian battalion
fighting with the Yugoslav Parti-
sans, which was widely circulated in
Central Europe, proved to be of con-
siderable aid in recruiting.
The Czechoslovak fighting unit in
cluded in the Yugoslav Army of Lib
GRAFTON is stationed somewhere in
Slovenia."
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not from disease, but from simple
mortality-and the book is his prog
ress to his grave. It is a progress
rich in nonsense, illogic, fantasy
and warning. The impressive thing
about 1t is that while the story by
which it is described proceeds
from episode to episode without any
necessary sequence, the progress is
nonetheless inevitable from the first
page on. For Mr.. Bemelmans re-
verses ordinary values. He achieves
continuity by making his details
harmonious and allowing his main
action to stray as it will One would
call this atmospheric writing" or
dinarily, but the term hardly seems
to flt here, for the reason that Mr..
Bemelmans is rich with an ingredi-
ent which the atmospheric novelist
commonly abhors-that is, humor
This is Mr.. Bemelmans' most SER
ious work so far. In it he has given
the grotesque a certain grandiose
turn which is new with him. In the
past he has seemed to be chiefly an
acute observer. He assumes stature
here as thinker as we'll
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Il believe" she says, that the
outstanding contribution which
women made in the 1912 State and
local Republican victories is a fore
runner of 1874.
We're aiming at good govern
ment. We're not a pressure or a
lobbyist group. Generally speaking
Republican women want a balanced
platform whose basic philosophy i.
a capitalistic economy"
Specifically. Miss Martin saws
they want this platform to include
Il. A postwar foreign policy of full
corporation to insure peace.
2. Legislation for rehabilita tior
OF soldiers and assurance
against need for street-corner pen.
cil-selling.
3. Assurance of postwar employ.
ment Of women. against the threa,
that many will be jobless when the
Nation returns to an adequate labor
supply.
4. A proper housing program pro-
vldlng financing for individuals who
want to own their own homes, and
slum-clearance projects under pri-
vate enterprise.
Would Bar "Santa Claus.s
Republican women, she saws, are
interested in rehabilitation of devas.
tated countries on a sound basis OF
helping them to help themselves ano
not on a Santa Claus like dole sys-
tenn"
we want to see a practical stand
ard OF living, achieved through hard
work and thrift she says. "All we
should do is to help at the beginning
IN supplying needs. machinery and
temporary food supplies until the
first harvest"
Asked what kind of candidate
Republican women seemed to favor
Miss Martin replied:
More than anything else. women
want man who is uncompromisinp
who is independent and has the
courage of his convictions. They
also want him to have strong men
around him.
The war will not be impeded II
there is change of leadership
Wars leadership is not and should
not be political"
Evening star., 1944-02-20
Black Market Prices

The following prices are being paid
for foodstuffs on the black market
in occupied Belgium: Meat, 200
francs a kilogramme (about So a
poundD; soap, so to so francs kilo
(about 73 to 81 cents a pound dried
beans, 40 francs a kilo (about So
cents a pound; tea, 1900 francs a
kilo (about $26 q pound; coffee,
1000 francs = ktlo (about S29.l0 .
polnd).
Evening star., 1944-02-20
The Neqv Books
Rebellion in the BockIunds

sSS~~sSs ." s'S o~SNsSssSS
By Euclides da Cunhd. Trans
lated from the Portuguese by
Samuel Putnam. university
OF Chicago PreSs)
This book-its original title "Os
Sertoes"-is presented to the Amer
ican reader as Brazil's greatest clas-
sic. In a lengthy introduction the
translator explains that on its ap-
pearance in 1902 it wrought reyo-
luton in Brazilian letters compar-
able to that which followed Leaves
Of Grass in the United States. Any
one not acquainted with the devel-
opment of Brazilian literature will
be grateful to Mr.. Putnam for his
painstaking elucidation OF the works
excellencies. And any one who knows
a great book when he gets hold of
one would realize that Rebellion in
the Backlands" Is such a thing,
though there were no introduction,
preface. foreword or blueprint what
soever accompanying.
1t is the story Of fantastic war
fought out in Brazil's back country
in 1897. The antagonists were on
the one hand congregation of 500
ignorant country people who had
been brought to state of religious
frenzy by a wandering prophet"
and on the other about 5000 troops
Of the Brazilian regular army. The
fanatics, encamped in q strong posi-
ton, were deemed a menace to order,
though they had committed no or
ganized violence Five separate ex-
petitions were sent against them,
with heavy artillery and crack army
officers. When the encampment was
finally taken only four or its people
were left alive, in the authors words,
IAN old man, two other full-grown
men and a child, facing furiously
raging army of 5000 soldiers"
Euclides da Cunha covered this
war" as correspondent. In it he
saw, apparently, an epitome Of
Brazil's social problems in particu-
lar and Of all governmental folly in
general. The book which he subse-
quently wrote presents the affair in
such a double light. 1t goes into
immense particularly about the Pc
culiarly Brazilian factors involved
history, climate, geography, racial
characteristics, national psychology.
1t also illuminates the story with a
philosophers ironic reflections on
madness and crimes on the part
of nations"
The quality OF the book lies in its
IOlympian immenSity. A sordid brawl
has been made. by genius, into a
vast illuminating treatise on men
and on country. 1t is not too
much to compare the volume to
Arabia Deserta" Indeed, there are
many poiats of likeness.
Evening star., 1944-02-20
Helped by Dud

It is reported from occupied Bel
|gium that serious damage was
effected on an IMPORTANT line OF
communications with explosives ex-
tracted by saboteurs from a two-ton
British bomb. The bomb penetrated
deep into the ground in the imme-
diate neighborhood of a German
camp on the outskirts of a Belgian
town. Unoeterred by the danger
that they might be spotted by the
Germans, or be blown to pieces by
the huge unexploded missile, the
patriots dug down to 1t and carried
Oh the precious explosive dlling.
Evening star., 1944-02-20
By W. e. Rogers.

The Island of Paramushiro, more
than 700 miles from Attu, has paid
for the tough luck of being the near
est japanese airbase to American
soil by getting l3 noisy, damaging
visits in seven months from our
bombers and fleet. We have run
into opposition on every foray, for
the Japs seem to think that the
island, though not At to live on, is
fit to defend. Rumors out of enemy
capitals that we had already landed
may indicate what the foe is
afraid Of.
Parmushiro pronounced as it is
suelled) is in the Kurile (Koo-ril or
-reeD Islands. This 60O-mile chain
strung from Japan proper to Rus
sla's Kamchatka is called Chishima
hee-shee-ma or thousand isles"
by the japanese. While some
authorities grant there are about 80
big enough to count, none will admit
the total is more than so, however.
Kurile means smoky" not from the
havoc caused by our shot and shell,
but from the islands volcanic origin.
Japan owns the entire chain, Russia
named it and America will decide
its fate soon
The island has mountains a mile
high, whose peaks hide in constant
clouds; treacherous currents swirl
past the rocky, fog bound shores.
Stunted pines and alders are the
principal growth. The shore is
steepest on the west side, but rocks
and kelp fields with blind breakers
make navigation particularly
hazardous on the east.
Hokkaido and Honshu fishermen
and their families sail up there in
the summer for cod and salmon. at
last prewar reports, there was no
permanent civilian community on
the 55-by-l2mile area. Military
establishments include powerful
alrbase, naval base, wireless sta
ton and weather observation posts
Their location is still a military
secret in this country. Our raiders
have struck northern" and south
ern' parts of the island, but the only
specific communique was issued in
connection with the warship attack.
when shells were lobbed onto low.
swampy Cape Kurabu from Musashi
Bay, in the west, where there is an
anchorage of 10 TO 16 fathoms, and
from the east. Principal summer
time settlements are Moyoro, Oto-
inaye, Kujirahama, Tayaba and
Kashiwabara.
Besides the low, marshy areas on
Cape Kurabu, there are others along
the upper reaches of the Moyoro
River and around Otoinaye, which
has an anchorage long in use. 1t is
doubtful whether there are facilities
for handling large cargo ships.
though it is presumably this windy
and unfriendly isle which served as
the base for the enemy landings in
the Aleutians. Moyoro, Kuiira,
kakumabetsu, Kashiwabara, Surf
bachi and Otoinaye Bays have been
identified.
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fronts disclosed young BOYS not
more than IA or Is years of age
evidence of the desperate shortage
of manpower Hitler now must face,
German concern over the pos
slbility that an invasion of the
southern coast of France may be at
tempted has brought new orders
placing that area under the same
strict military control as the So
called invasion coast along the
Channel.
Berlin Takes Heaviest Raid,
Allied bombing of enemy targets
continued from bases in England
and badly battered Berlin under
went another raid, one which set
an all-time record for explosives
dropped in single raid.
Tuesday between 300 and 900
bombers turned loose about 2,80O
tons of bombs in a Commute raid
which the Berlin radio described as
a terror raid by British air huns"
The raid brought to $4,000 tons the
weight of bombs dropped on the
almost eliminated Nazi capital since
November 18.
Frankfurt was raided several times
during the week and constant
harassment of enemy installations
in Holland and France continued
without letup.
The Nazis retaliated with a raid
Friday night in some force against
London, the second raid of the week
on the British capital. The number
OF planes involved and the losses
from the raids were insignificant in
comparison with what happened to
Berlin.
Nazi Production Hard Hit,
Charles E. Wilson, vice chairman
OF WPB, revealed here last week
that recent raids on Dessau, Bruns-
wick, Halberstadt, Frankfort. Fech-
enheim, Hochst, Leipzig, Offenbach
and Ludwigshaven had knocked out
about 40 per cent of German fighter
production at a time when Hitler
least can afford to have his replace
ments curtailed.
fastening the day when Finland
will withdraw from the war, Russian
troops pushed their drive toward
Pskov a short distance from the
lower end of Lake Peipus, the drive
coming from two directions. One
spearhead is moving down the rail-
road connecting Leningrad and Pskoy
and has already moved much more
than half the required distance, the
advance units being only 81 miles
away. A second drive is pressing
from the direction of staraya Russa,
strongly fortified railroad center
which the Nazis abandoned Thurs
day, the Nazi explanation for which
was desire to shorten the lines and
obtain a number of useful reserves.
Actually the Russian drive toward
Pskov threatens to cut of vital rail
lines Of escape for the .>.ads still
Evening star., 1944-02-20

ulVlSlOn, s q y {
there will be
t n o u sands OF
n e W comers tc
the polls.
They will be
aroused from
their lethargy by
the C a S u a t y
lists from many
fara way battle
fields, by Incl
QeQlS ike the
murder of Doo-
Titles r a / d e rs
and the treat
ment of Amer
lean prisoners by
Evening star., 1944-02-20
The Innocents at Cedro
By R. L. Dufus. (Macmilla1

By r. L. Du0uS. fMdcmttldn.)
Though this book is subtitled "A
Memoir of Thorstein Veblen," there
is really very little about the dour
Norwegian in it. Instead, it is r. L.
Duf1us' mellow and mature reflec-
tions on the romantic period OF his
own youth. When he was 10 and
always hungry. he was engaged
with his brother William, in trying
to work his way through Leland
Stanford University. Veblen was
teaching there and living at Cedro
Cottage. He gave the young Duff
fuses the job of looking after the
place in return for their board and
keep. They were there about a
year, and that year corresponded, in
the authors life, to the golden
period of youth.
He ate and slept and stretched in
the sun and dreamed heroic dreams
1t was due to Prof. Veblen's benevo-
lence that he had the opportunity
thus to expand his soul, as he peni-
tently remembers But at the time
he took the chance quite as a mat
ter OF course and paid little atten-
ton to the presence Of his austere
employer. What he remembers of
the year spent in the Veblenian
aura today is concerned mainly with
the cats and chickens Of the Web
lenian dOOr ward the Monies of the
Veblenian stable and the friends he
made on the Veblenian domestic
staff. OF these. he writes with the
charm, humor and wistfulness ap-
propriate to memories of youth. His
book is delightful. He is one person
who came under the noted econo-
mist's influence and preferred the
four-footed beasts. Let that be his
distinction.
Evening star., 1944-02-20
Why Sea Power Will Win
The War
By Yates Stirlinq, jr. q

By Yates Stirling, jr. fFeH.J
Rear Admiral Yates Stirling, U. S.
NJ, retired, does not so much explain
here why seapower will win the war
as remind his readers of the part
seapower has played in winning the
war so far. His book consists in
great part of a review of the action
In the various theaters, both before
and after Americas entrance, with
attention given particularly to the
work Of the various fleets.
He makes 1t clear that . great
part Of the United Nations success
70 date stems from their control Of
Evening star., 1944-02-20
Medieval American Art
R1i pnl Kolo1l1 on LM

BIZ Pal Kelemen. Macmillan. J
This splendid work, comprising
two large volumes and innumerable
illustrations. offers an exhaustive
survey and analysis Of Aztec art
based on the theory that the Aztec
period in America corresponds to
the medieval one in Europe. 1t is
profoundly scholarly and goes be-
yond any study of the subject as
yet. 1t covers architecture, sculp-
ture. ceramics and paintings The
Illustrations are photographs OF
actual objects and give tre-
mendous vividness to the text. On
the whole. 1t seems a work which
can hardly be praised too highly
Originally issued last year, it is now
going into a new edition.
Evening star., 1944-02-20
Now ! Loy Ne Down to Sleep
By Lud,pio Benlelmans. Wiz
ina PreSs.)

If the plot OF this novel had been
handled by any writer except Lud-
wig Bemelmans, it might possibly be
described. 1t is not, after all, very
complicated. An aged pseudo-gen-
eral named Leonidas Erosa has been
living for years in something more
than Babylonian luxury on the
Mediterranean coast. Comes the
war and he departs for America. He
pauses In the United States and
then pushes on to his native Ecua-
dor, where he dies That is the plot.
but the plot of any of Mr.. Bemel-
mans books is an unimportant de-
tail-perhaps the least important
in the composition.
What this work resolves into is
a funeral march-gorgeous. absurd
and melancholy. The general has
begun to die when the story opens
Evening star., 1944-02-20

1t es to
claim a majority
of an estimated
60 per cent OF
votes which 1t
expects to be
cast by women.
Miss Marion
Martin Of Ban
gor. Me, assist
ant chairman of
the Republican
National Com
mittee and di-
r e or of its
" o m e n IS di-
vision. says the
Republican vote
Evening star., 1944-02-20
Best Sellers


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The Apostle. by Sholem Asch.
In Bed We Cry, by 1lka Chase.
NONFICTION.
Under Cover, by John Roy
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Good Night, Sweet Prince, by
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Here Is Your War, by Ernie
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Persons and Places, by George
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Long, Long Ago, by Alexan-
der Woollcott.
Evening star., 1944-02-20
Both Parties WOOWOmen
Observation-Disclosures
Republicans Look to Housewives While
Democrats Turn to War Workers
And New Voters
By Jane Eads,
ASAociated PreAA Writer

Both the Republican
NUMBERS OF women who before
The that in
econs Democrats and Republicans
tnem Will oe women penciled
Many will
missing the through
OF war workers failing to register
The Republicans counting particularly The
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war workers and the
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Evening star., 1944-02-20
By Mary.Carfer Roberts.

the seas and answers protagonists Of
the airpower school of thought by
saying that airpower has augmented
naval power, but will never supplant
1t. From this point of view, he
opposes separate air command,
saying that there is no separate
submarine command or torpedo COM
mand, and that airpower bears the
same relation to the Navy in gen.
|eral.
He Is fortnight writer, but as.
serts good deal rather than ex-
plains.
Russian CoyoIcode
By Albert Parry. Hves Wash
burnJ
When Filters ''invincibles," who
already had swept through France
and the Low Countries, were held
by the Red Army before Moscow in
the winter of 1912. and when, l8
months later, the vaunted German
9Th Army was crushed before Stain
grad. the Western World was
amazed.
But, 1T now appears, the Western
World was suffering from a sort of
historical myopia. 1t was thinking
OF Russia's military ability solely in
terms of it's badly led and i'll SUD-
piled troops in the First World War.
forgetting its long tradition Of
proves on the battlefield.
Here, in compactly written
volume, Russian-born and Amer
ican-educated historian presents a
review of Russian military history
for the last $50 years which makes
1t clear that the heroes of Stalin-
grad were not Soviet creation, but
blood sons of earlier heroes.
Mr.. Parry's character sketches are
colorful. He tells of Suvorov. the
military genius of the late 18th
century, whose aggressive thrusts
defeated the Napoleonic French in
Italy and who died lamenting that
he had never crossed swords with
the Corsicsn personally. He pic
lures, too, Kutuzov. the coldly call
culating general who, after the
carnage at Borodino, eluded a
frontal battle with Napoleon, but led
him skillfully into the Russian in
terror, where his troops perished
from cold and starvation.
| The book also contains colorful
sketches of modern Red generals,
from Tukashevsky and Blukher.
victims of the 1878 purges. to
heros. OF the present war: Voro-
shllov, Shaposhnikov, Budennv.
Tlmoshenko, zhukov, Vasilevskv
lyuleneV, Valutin, Meretskov,
Rokossovsky, Chuikov. Golikov.
Vatutin, Petrov and others.
| The reader interested in the back.
ground of Russia's present.da
military successes should find Mr..
Parry's work both informative and
diverting. JOSEPH H. BAIRD
Evening star., 1944-02-20
Far on the Ringing Plains
BY George Rodger. fMacm,l-

Ldn.)
Mr.. Rodger is a 34-year-old Eng.
llshman who became photogra pher
Tor Life in time to cover the Lon
don blitz of 1910. He did so well
on that assignment that the maya
zine sent him by military plane to
Africa, where. after a 70O-mile trek
through desert and jungle. he OBJ
tanned an exclusive picture story
on the Free French. He was with
the Indian Army in the campaign
to take Ethiopia, and in Eritrea he
neglected his photography long
enough to capture five Italians. With
Time Correspondent Allan Niche
ne covered the Syrian war. And
later, after bout with fever, he
made pictures in Libya and Burma,
where he was in the thick of tho
fighting.
This book is a record of all those
experiences, and some others. too.
1t is well worth reading and, as is
10 be expected. the illustrations are
even better. PHILLIP H. LOVE.
Evening star., 1944-02-20

democrats
Mrs. Charles w. Tillett OF Char
lotte. N. c., assistant chairman OF
the Democratic National Commit
tee and director of its women S
Evening star., 1944-02-20
How to Think. About War
And Peace
By Mortimer J. Adler. fSimon
g. Schuster.)

By Mortimer J. Adler. Simon
& Schuster.J
Feeling that the average citizen
is somewhat confused in his pre-
misses on the war -and-peace ques-
ton, Prof. Adler here offers the
following clarification
That up to now there has never
been peace between nations, but
only truces. That peace, as men
know it. consists entirely of peace
within the states, or under a COM
monty recognized government. That
there is no commonly recognized
government between nations. and
hence nations live in anarchy.
That peace can be attained, but only
when nations, like men. abandon
anarchy and accept government.
That. therefore. peace will await a
world state. That the world state
must be absolutely supreme, with
no vestiges of national sovereignty
left to the individual nations. That
such a condition will probably be
attained in about 500 years. That,
for the present. the best men can
do is to encourage awareness of the
need for the world state by sup
porting international leagues, con-
ferences, and so forth, but without
losing sight of the fact that such
leagues are only means to an end
and cannot themselves establish and
maintain peace
The book is tiresomely written
and abounds in elaborate analogies
to establish utterly obvious claims.
Evening star., 1944-02-20
blackberry Cavalier
By George Sessions PERI

Viking PresSD
This is a collection of stories in
the authors characteristic vein-the
setting, rural Texas, and the people,
figures of humorous eccentricity.
They are concerned. almost alto
gether, with the social stratum which
lis known as white trash" and
which, few seasons back. was fur
nishing grim writing reformers,
many of whom had never been south
,of New Jersey, with providentially
auriferous material for series of
unrelenting exposes. Mr. Perry, on
the other hand, has lived among
such people some years. His stories
about them are stereotyped in form,
but accurate in idiom and, allowing
for story-writer's license, also in
character. They are very nice little
pieces. and you can do worse than
settle down with his book to kill a
dull hour,
Evening star., 1944-02-20

The Republican party hopes to
win a large number of its estimate
of 10000, 900 women who never have
voted.