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Evening star., 1944-09-30
The Political Mill
By Gould Lincoln

ST. PAUL. MINI. Sept 30.-In an
ef1ort to make Minnesota safe for Roose-
welt. the New Dealers this year engi-
neered a fusion with what was left of
the Farmer-Labor party. The new
party Is called the Democratic Farmer
Labor party.
The Fusion party is backing the
Roosevelt-Trum ticket nationally and
has put a State ticket of its own in
the field and nominated candidates for
the House. There Is no senatorial con-
test. The only real hope of the fusion
is this that President Roosevelt, because
of his own personal strength and the
war, will win here. 1t has no slightest
chance Of winning in the State and
congressional elections
The fusion faced difficulties from the
start. The Democratic party In Mime
sofa has been for years a minority
party. 1t has produced no real leaders
since the days Of John A. johnson and
John Lind. decades ago. 1t has, in ad :
dition. been torn by factional troubles
with four factions working against each
other.
The Farmer-Labor party began to
fade eight years ago, after the death
OF the late Gov. Floyd B. Olson. who
was three times elected Elmer Benson.
who followed Mr. Olson as Governor
became thoroughly unpopular. The Re-
publicans took over the State govern
ment in 1898. when they elected former
Gov. Harold E. Stassen. who was elected
three times and last year resigned to
enter the Navy.
The Farmer-Labor party divided into
two factions--a right and left wing. with
Mr.. Benson in one camp and Hjalmar
Petersen leading the other. The New
Dealers. with commendable foresight
gave Mr.. Petersen job with the ODT
fearing that he might kick over the
traces when the business of forming
fusion party with the Democrats was
well under way. Mr.. Benson. on the
other hand is heading the United Po-
Evening star., 1944-09-30
Outlook Against Jopon

The report of the Office of War
Information on Allied prospects
against the japanese should serve
as a timely and effective check on
any tendency toward overoptimism
regarding the nature and size of the
task that will still confront our
armed forces after the defeat of
Germany
1t is true, of course, that our over
whelming Allied might makes it as
certain as anything can be in this
world that we shall eventually win
a total victory over Japan. But
"eventually' is not now, or six
months from now, or even a year
from now. On the contrary, accord
Ing to the Owl, all the current off,
cial information indicates that the
job will require, at the very least,
from 18 months to two years of
bitter fighting after the European
shooting ends.
Our Allied advantages are many.
To name but few, our war produc-
tlon makes Japan's seem puny by
comparison; our submarines and
planes are sinking the enemy's mer-
chant ships much faster than he
can replace them; our great am
phibious drives in the Pacific, now
converging upon the Philippines,
threaten to sever his vital north
south supply lines. In the air, on
the sea and under it, and every
where on land except in China
where we have suffered serious re-
verses-we have such a firm grip
on the strategic initiative that the
japanese cannot hope to break it.
All this insures their ultimate de-
feat, and they must know it, but
that does not mean that they will
be incapable of holding out for a
long time.
For the Japanese enjoy many ad-
vantages, too. As the Owl points
out, they have huge stockpiles of
military materials; their food sup
ply is adequate; their centers of war
production-which the Foreign Eco
nomic Administration says can be
Increased in almost every category
are still 50 remote from our nearest
bases that despite our super
bombers we are a long way from the
time when it will be possible to
hammer them Is we have Nazi tar
gets In Europe. Moreover, their
Evening star., 1944-09-30
Ports of France
By Maj. Georse FieIdinf Eliot

The German communique of Friday
presents us with an impressive list of
seaports and coastal positions in France
still held by German garrisons This
list includes Dunkerque, Calais, Cape
Girls Nez, the Channel Islands, Lorient,
st. Nazaire. La Rochelle and two which
the Germans call "Gironde North" and
"Gironde South" the purpose of which
is obviously to keep closed the important
port Of Bordeaux. OF these, the Ger
mans say that Calais is the only one
being attacked at present.
Probably the publication of the list
is intended to provide some Offset for
the impending loss of Calais and of
Cape Girls Nez as well, which Is now
in Canadian hands. But 1t does afford
an interesting overall view of the Ger
man determination to try to intercept
the flow of Allied power into France and
thus against the German defenses along
the Rhine and the Moselle.
The German garrisons appear to be
trying to live of the country; they are,
according to the communique, "replen-
ishing their stores of arms, supplies and
food by successful thrusts.' They will
all be eliminated in time, Of course. but
time is a precious commodity In West
ern Europe just at present, with the bad
fighting weather of a European winter
approaching.
The tenacious German resistance at
Brest is an example of how determined
the Germans are to keep us from getting
a useful port in Northern France; their
fight at lie Havre was not as long, prob
ably because events In that vicinity
moved so rapidly that the place was
left with an insufficient garrison. The
demolitions at lie Havre seem, however,
to have been effective enough, though
perhaps they were not as complete as
those at Brest, where the Germans had
time to do really thorough job. There
are no demolitions which the Army
engineers and Seabees, and the port
engineering detachments OF the Royal
Navy, cannot overcome in time. But
again there is the time factor.
OF the places mentioned by the Ger
mans, St. Nazaire is one of the most
interesting because it is not only q valu-
able, though almost wholly artificial,
port in itself, but because If We capture
1t we shall then be able to use Nantes,
where the demolitions may not be 10
extensive. (There has been no direct
information on this point, but we got
Nantes with very little fighting and
very quickly after the break through
at Avranches on July g. There are q
lot Of small ports available along the
French coast, but none Of major capac-
Evening star., 1944-09-30
This and That
BIZ Charles E. Trdce1Cel.
QUINCY STREET NJ,

0O1NS1 N
Dear Sir:
It am wondering If you can solve a
mystery for us
For more than a dozen wears we have
had water lilies and goldfish.
Last September, when I went out
to the pools after three days absence,
the goldfish were gone.
I'VE had a lagoon about 30 feet long.
also a large pool, and at least $50 fish
Of all sizes.
the water. and never found as much as
a I'm. There was no drain through
which they could have escaped
"Manv theories have been advanced
by friends to account for the disappear
seems reasonable to me.
Now we have filled our pools with soil
and use them for gardening
Sincerely, M. E. F."
The phrase after a three DAYS alb
sence" is the clue to this mystery.
In all probability some miscreant or
miscreants took advantage Of the alb
sence to steal the goldfish.
AS we recall, goldfish shipments from
tIlC val lOuS lloll WCIc IdtIlcI GlSHG
at that time, owing to the lack OF gaso-
line and labor
In normal times these aquatic pets
are shipped here from as far away as
upper Maryland and Indiana.
We used to see the truck from the
Martinsville, Ind, fish farm on G street,
of the 10-cent stores.
fort fhof feL
speaks of man and his thoroughness
If the disappearance had been due to
the visit of gulls, or other birds. maybe
kingfisher, few Of the smaller fish
would have survived.
They would have sought shelter under
the lilies and would have been there to
tell the sad tale when our correspondent
returned
Sudden epidemic would have left the
pool stocked with dead specimens
Dogs or cats could not possibly have
cleaned up so large pool.
X
There is some chance that a visiting
frog might have cleaned out the lot.
but he would have had to have possessed
a mighty appetite to have got away
with $50 fish "of all sizes"
Sometimes thunderstorm will kill
fish in indoor aquariums. and goldfish
will be found dead on the surface of
the water in outdoor pools.
Scientists say there is no scientific
explanation of the phenomenon.
There have been several instances in
Government hatcheries when numbers
of fish were found dead after such
storms, and though no proof could be
shown for the assumption that they
were killed by lightning or shock, there
seemed to be no other explanation.
William T. Innes, in his Goldfish
Varieties" says: Chief among the
larger enemies of pet fish are the cat,
rat, muskrat, snake, heron kingfsher
and small boy" He might have added
large boy" too
Rats are extremely daring and re-
sourceful in finding ways to get at gold
fish tanks. Mr.. Innes declares, COM
menting, They will even burrow from
the outside and gnaw their way through
a weak portion Of cement flooring.
The water tiger, or larva of the pre-
dacious diving beetle often kills an en-
tire Matching Of goldfish overnight.
Dragon fly larvae are bad customers.
So are the back swimmers, so-called,
and the diving beetle In its adult form.
Even the common electric light bug"
will kill young fishes.
Sometimes an occasional stray opos-
sum will fish in lily pool, butsit is
extremely unlikely that one could get
away with $50 goldfish In three days.
Evening star., 1944-09-30

ity-at least on the Atlantic and Chan
mel coasts-except Cherbourg, which is
now fully available to us.
1t looks as though We shall have to
wait for another big port until lie Havre,
Rouen and Brest have been restored to
duty. And waiting Is one thing we do
not want to do. Not only do we want
to get on with the job of knocking out
the German armies before the bad fight-
ing weather sets in. but we must remem-
Der that bad weather in the Channel and
the Bay of Biscay interferes with our
use Of small unequipped harbors. of
open beaches and Of artificial landing
arrangements.
Inevitably, therefore, ones mind turns
toward the Mediterranean coast and
the magnificent harbor of Marseille. the
chief seaport of France, which we hold
and which suffered far less damage
than most harbors which we have
wrested from the Germans. Again there
is no definite information, but there
seems good reason to believe that Mar
sielle might be used to full capacity
within the comparatively near future.
The trouble with Marseille is not its
own cargo-handling ability, but the fact
that 1t is so far away from the fighting
fronts. To use Marseille, we must have
railways. And the French railways suf-
fered very heavily under the harsh
hand Of the German occupying forces.
Locomotives and rolling stock ma
chinery. equipment, In some cases the
very rails themselves, were taken away
into Germany.
i
With MarSeille, therefore, there is also
time factor: shipments of locomotives,
rails, equipment. How far this has been
anticipated, OF course, is another point
on which there Is no present informa-
tion. But there are certain signs. The
7th Army moved up to the Belfort Gap
very rapidly. The commander of the
9Th Corps, 1t. Gen. Truscott, has Just
been raised to that rank-normally the
rank appropriate to the command of
an army, though 1t Gen. Patch is the
commander of the 7th Army.
And there are now signs that the
7th and Sd U. s. Armies, with some
French aid, are on the offensive all
along the front from the Swiss frontier
to the border Of Luxembourg. It would
not be surprising to learn that the sup
ply situation on the Allied right flank
Is improving, and that the availability
Of Marseille has been Of great help In
enabling the Allied commanders to off,
set, to some extent at any rate, the
difhcultieScreated for them by the Ger.
man resistance in the Atlantic ports.
(copyrisht 1e44J4 ,s-1 r.-
Evening star., 1944-09-30

Lotion manufacturers say that
now Is the time to Danish summer
tan. Practically every one who got
none agree that now is the time for
those who did to quit talking
about 1t.
Evening star., 1944-09-30

Remember the song hit of couple
of years ago, Deep in the Heart OF
Texas followed by clap-clap-
clap? Soon our doughboys will be
chanting Deep in the Heart of
Deutschland" boom boom boom.
Evening star., 1944-09-30
Member Of the Associated Press.

Entered at the Post once, Washington, D.
as second-class mail matter.
Evening star., 1944-09-30

SIcIl NlOkc, N. a.
To the Editor of The Star:
cannot resist the temptation to
congratulate you on your editorial of
September %, commenting on Gov.
Dewey's speech at San Francisco, which
you entitled "Dewey's New Deal
You have grasped that which many
others overlooked and that is that as
far as Mr.. Dewey went there is no
perceptible difference between Gov.
Dewey and the President as far as their
economic objectives are concerned" and
that their only difference, and it re-
mains to be clearly defined, has to do
with the methods of attaining their OBJ
jectives."
To me the greatest appreciable diff
ference in the political sense is the
complete honesty of Mr.. Dewey in
stating boldly that the day of the free
market Is done and that the Nation is
committed to controlled economy. Mr.
Dewey argued that: In agriculture. in
labor and in money we are committed
to some degree of Government interven-
ton in the free workings of our economic
system. In many directions the free
market which old time economists
talked about is gone"
I agree certainly that Mr.. Dewey's
speech needs to have many of the de-
tails filled in, but it was milestone in
that for the first time a politician has
been honest enough to lay the cards on
the table-a clever move that will ap-
peal to the voters as a whole-but de-
ceives no one familiar with the issues.
GEO. E. DEATHERAGE.
To the Editor of The Star:
President Roosevelt didn't get angr. :,
We are told, until his dog Fala was
attacked. And so the bright-eye j
brigade has selected a stirring slogan. !:
"You gotta quit kicking my dog
around"
With our boys suffering and dying OF,
foreign fields one would suppose that
New Dealers could originate slogan
more serious and more patriotic than
one dealing with dog.
The American people are not in
terested in the attack on Mr.. Roose-
velt's dog. But they still are very much
interested in the attack on Pearl Harbor
and should be told Just why our great
fleet was caught OIL guard. when a state
Of war was imminent.
EDMuND K. GoLDsBoRouoH.
Evening star., 1944-09-30

The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to
the use for republication Of all news dispatches
credited to it or not otherwise credited In this
paper and also the local news published herein.
All rights of publca ton Of special dispatches
herein also reserved
Evening star., 1944-09-30

To the Editor OF The Star:
Would 1t not be wise to make Fala
member of the cabinet? We need q
watchdog of the Treasury
JAMES EMERY BROOKS,
Glen Ridge, N. J.
Evening star., 1944-11-21
Swedish Trick of the Week:
U.S.. Tunes Wilt Boosting Nuzis

hear one Of the Germans mention
German music.
The Swedes exchanged glances,
whispered together, then went into
action. One got to the orchestra
leader, held brief conference and
returned to his table slightly smil-
ing.
One of the Germans also talked
briefly with the orchestra leader and
returned to his place. The Swedes
assumed deadpan faces-and waited.
The Germans sat back and waited.
The leader consulted his musi-
clans :. they picked out scores
they all bowed toward the tables.
Then they played. The tune was
yankee Doodle Dandy" Dixie"
and "Over There" followed. BY the
time the Swedish wags were getting
their request numbers, The Volga
Boatman," and Coming In On
Wing and a Prayer" the Germans
were in full, red-faced retreat.
(Copyrieht. 1914, Chicago Daily News, Inc)
Evening star., 1944-11-21
Felicia Rybier Gives
Piano Recital in
Phillips Gallery
BY ALICE EVERSMAN.

After an absence of some little
time from the concert platforms of
this city, Felicia Rybier was heard
in piano recital last night in
Phillips Gallery. An audience of ap-
preciative Well-WiShers filled the
hall and applauded the artist
heartily after each of the exacting
numbers she played.
Gifted with a prodigious tech
nique and tone of sparkling bril-
liancy, Miss Rybier is we'll equipped
for the virtuoso demands of a
program such as she presented last
night. In the period since she
played here last she has gained
in mellowness and acquired greater
f1uency in dynamics which permits
more elastic use of her sonorous
tone. Her runs and trills have a
clear, flashing quality that add an
exciting scintillation to her perform
ance.
With an abundance of tempera-
ment to direct her approach in
Interpretation, Miss Rybier is some
times led into"a hastiness of delivery
that does not give enough space
between effects or allow the full
measure of an emotional moment
to be felt. Thus in Schumann's S
"Carnaval" the changing moods of
the different sections followed too
quickly one upon another and in
LISTS "Funerailles" its fundamen-
tai sentiment lost emphasis through
lack of repose.
In portions of the latter work
and in Scriabin's "Nocturne for
the Left Hand Alone" the control,
power and dexterity of her left
hand performance was impressive.
The Bach-Tausig "Toccata ct
Fugue," the programs Introductory
number, was an admirable vehicle
for one who commands such reso-
nant volume from her instrument
and is mistress of such fluent tech
nique, which again found full ex-
preston in the Schumann work.
Two Polish Dances" by Rozycki
rather dissonant and not too well
defined rhythmically, were novelties
of the program, which further in
cluded Shostakovich's Polka" and
climaxed with Mana-Zucca's "Valse
Brillante."
Evening star., 1944-11-21
By NAT A. BARROWS.

Ioreisn Correspondent Of The Star and
Chicago Daily News.
STOCKHOLM, Nov. 21.-The
scene: One of Stockholm's big res
taurants sparkling with gay laugh
ter, good music, and unblacked- -out
windows.
At one table sat a party of Ger
mans. They were trying all too
obviously to impress other guests
with an air of confidence and free
dom from worry. At the next table
sat a party of Swedes. They were
busy with their smorgasbord, but
not too busy for annoyance over the
Nazis' loud talk, nor too busy to
Evening star., 1944-11-21
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The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-30
MRS. MARTHA EDWARDS

GREENSBORO, Sept. 20 Up
Mrs Martha Alice Edwards, 63.
died today at 8 o'clock at the resi-
dence here, following an illness of
three months.
Service will be held at Forbis
and Murray Chapel Sunday at 2
pm, conducted by DR.. Edgar H.
Nease, pastor of W st Market
Street Methodist church, and inter-
ment will be in Forest Lawn ceme-
terry. The body will remain at the
to.bis and Murray Funeral Home
Until the hour of service.
Native Of Johnston County, she
was married in May 1901, to Wiley
5. Edwards, and since 1929 the
family had resided in Greensboro.
She was an active member of West
Market Street Methodist church
END also the Suzanne Wesley Bible
Class Of the Sunday school.
Surviving ere her husband, two
sons, H. L. and w. L. Edwards,
all Of Greensboro; two daughters,
MISS Kathleen Edwards, Greens
ooro, and Mrs. E. M. Adams, Char
!otte; one brother E. j. Sasser,
Shl'hfleld, and two grandchildren.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-30
FRANCES M. MORRIS

TABOR CITY, Sept. 29.-Francis
NJ. Morris died at the home of his
daughter. Mrs. Rolan Spivey of
Route 3, Whiteville, this morning at
2 o'clock following a serious ILL
ness of several days.
He was member of the PRINT
tive Baptist church Of Tabor City.
Funeral services will be held
from the home of his daughter,
Mrs. Spivey. Sunday afternoon at
? o'clock. with interment in the
Norris cemetery at East Abor The
body will remain at Lewis funeral
home until late Saturday afternoon.
Surviving are two daughters. Mrs.
Spivey and Mrs. Henry McCumbee
of Route 1, Tabor City; two sons,
Archie NJ Morris and Pate Nor
lis of Route 2, Tabor City.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-30
NEGRO DIVISION
WILL AID CHEST

The Negro division Of the Com
munity War Chest held its organ
national meeting at a banquet Civ
en- al Williston Industrial school
last night at 8 o'clock.
E. M. Butler, director of the Ne.
gro division, was in charge of the
meeting. Present for the affair
were top Chest officials, including
Ranald Stewart, general chairman,
Theodore Foley, director of the
driver, George L. Stearns, Chest
secretary, and all workers for the
drive which starts next week.
Buffers immediate assistants
with the rank of majors in the
drive, are George Allen and F. j
Rogers.
The drive among the Negro cit
zenry Of. the community is aiming
at a goal, in house-to-house can
wasting, Of $2,088. The goal for al
Negro contributions, including those
through industries and places o:
business, is $4,000 4..
The War Chest this year is o:
peculiar interest to Negro citizens
in that a part of the collection will
go toward the establishment ane
maintenance of the John H. Shaw
Negro boys club.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-30
ORDER AT KINSTON
STILL IN EFFECT

KINSTON, Sept. 29-lR-The out
.of-bounds order applied to Kinston
September Is is still in effect, an
official at Camp Leieune announc-
ed today.
"A citizens committee appealed
yesterday to Marine officers at Lee
jeune to- lift the ban which placed
Kinston off limits, promising a
continuous cleanup of vice condi-
tons.
Col. William Harden. provost
marshal at Lejeune, and Maj. Gen.
John H. Marston, commanding gen
eral, reviewed the efforts of the
city to clean up venereal disease
sources here in the last two weeks.
The decision not to lift the ban
was communicated to Mayor John
r. Sans and H. Harvey, chairman
of citizens committee.
Mayor Sans promised redoubled
efforts to meet the requirements o.
the military, which he said includ
ed paddock proceedings against
houses of prostitution.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-30
|HALLSB0RO GIRL
NOW WITH WAVES

The Waves added another enthu-
siastic North Carolina girl to its
ever growing ranks this week
Margaret Hickman Bright Of Halls
boro, it was announced yesterday
by J. w. Brown, chief petty officer
in charge of the Wilmington Navy
recruiting station.
Seaman Bright, who is the daugh,
ter of Mrs. v. L. Bright OF Halls
boro, graduated from high school
at the age of II and has held a
position with the North Carolina
Lumber Co. of Hallsboro most Of
the time since.
The 21-year-old girl said that she
| had decided that she could contrib
ute more to the war effort by en-
listing in the Waves than in any
other job.
She is home on inactive duty
awaiting orders to report to Hunte1
| college in New Yorl- for training
Seaman Lei Hard, of SO Cottage
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-30

place, who has been at Hunter col
lege since August 10, has written
Wave Jean Butler of the local re-
cruiting station that she is having
the time of her life. She said that
the thrill of her life came when
Gary Cooper spent two days at
Hunter at the previcw of his latest
picture.
Miss Hard's regiment won the
Navy E for overall efficiency.
Jean Butler is at the local re-
cruiting station and will be there
through next Wednesday.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-30
FARM MACHINERY
OFF RATION LIST

According to information receiv-
ed today by A. D. Cox, chairman
Of the County Triple A committee.
in Raleigh, the following peices Of
farm machinery and equipment
have been removed from VIA ra-
tioning and distribution control:
combines, corn binders, manure
spreaders, mowers, side delivery
rakes, hay leaders, pickup hay
balers, wheel tractors, garden trac-