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blank from the transportation COM
mittee of that organization. The
application, completely filled in, to-
gether with the signed back cover
of the current "a" book and the
tire inspection record, should be
returned to the transportation COM
mittee and the committee will Sc
cure the new "a" book for the ap-
plicant.
If the registered owner of pas
senger car is unable to personally
fill out an application for his new
"a" book, as in the case of a sol
dier or sailor. anyone authorized to
use the car in his absence may
make the application for him.
Tourists or temporary residents
may send their applications to the
ration board nearest wherever they
are, and the new "A" books will be
mailed to them at the address
shown on the application.
Any applicant who has lost or
thrown away the back cover of the
current "a" book will have to ap-
pear personally before the board
and prove that lie has a car which
entitled him to apply for an "A
ration, that the car is currently
registered and in use, and that
new basic "a" ration has not been
issued for it and no application for
Il renewal is pending at any board.
Car owners are urged to make
application early, so as to he as
sured of having their new "A"
books before September 21st, the
expiration date of the current "a"
book. In the 1943 renewal of basic
gasoline rations, over $4,000 books
were issued in Arizona. Early ap
plications by the public for their
new "a books viii ensure smooth
operation OF this tremendous df5tri-
button to be handled by the local
boards.
The reissuance OF "a" books will
be done by volunteer workers as
sisting the local ration boards dur
ing the renewal period. Public
spirited citizens are urged to vol
unteer their services to help the
local boards with the task. Anyone
who can give halliday, or a day
a week or more, is requested to vol
unteer their services to their local
board.
The new "A" book will provide
the same monthly ration of eight
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gallons or approximately 120 miles
month, as the current "a" book.
However, coupons in the new "a"
book will be worth four gallons in
stead of three, and six coupons
will be valid every three months
instead of eight coupons every
three months.
A mileage ratiOning board, a new
form, will be issued with every new
"A" book. This will replace the
tire inspection record as a record
of all gasoline rations issued for
use with a particular car. This
new form will have OF be presented
to the board with any application
for special or supplemental gaso-
line, except in the case of fleet or
official rations.
The current "a" books which
will become invalid at midnight,
September 21st, were issued in
July of last year During the July
1943 renewal period, 97,006 books
were issued in Arizona. This is the
first opportunity since that time to
secure a definite passenger automo-
bile census for Arizona, and to note
whether the car population of Ari-
Zona has decreased or increased.
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printed instructions on the face of
the APPLICATION. Applicant should
then attach the signed back cover
of his current ga" book, and his
current tire inspection record to the
application and mail the form with
the attachments to his local war
price and rationing board.
1t is important that the back
cover of the current "a" book be
signed by the applicant. Positively
no new "a" book will be issued un-
les the signed back cover of the
current "a" book and the tire in
spection record accompany the ap-
plication 1t is not necessary to
have a new tire inspection as tire
inspection is now required only
when application for tire replace
ment. The application blank for
the "a" book renewal must be COM
pletely filled out in detail.
After the application form has
been processed by the local board,
the new "a" books will be mailed
back to the applicant, to the ad-
dress shown on the application.
A car owner working in a war
plant or army post that is served
by special transportation commit
tee, should secure an application
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Applications For
"A Books Should
Be Made At Once

Renewals of GA" books, the basic
gasoline rations for passenger auto
mobiles, is getting under way in
Arizona this week, the district Of
flee of Price Administration an
nounced. Current "a" books expire
at midnight, September 21st.
All renewals are to be handled
by mail, and applicants are urged
not to apply personally at the board
as no cover the counter" issuance
will be made.
Applications blanks for renewal
of "A" books have ben distributed
by local war price and rationing
boards to service stations, garages
and other convenient places. These
blanks are now available to the
public.
Passenger car owners should Sc
cure the application form and fih
it out completely according to the
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Desert Womans Club
Begins New Year

Meeting of the Desert Womans
Club will take place on Friday, the
Sth, at the home of the president,
Mrs. w. H. Steele. This will be
the first regular meeting of the
year, which will open with a pot-
luck luncheon at 1890 p. m, fol-
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SGT. EDWARD TAYLOR le

SGT. EDWARD TAYLOR left
Tuesday night for the Air Forces
in Utah where he was assigned.
He is being transferred from his
former station at Williams Field.
His wife is the former Miss Sara
Martin.
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lowed by a program and discussion
for the year. Mrs Steele wishes
all members to be present.
Evening star., 1944-07-01

Romanesque style, celebrated for
simplicity and dignity. Modern
restoration has hurt yet not spoiled
them. THE one," 1t has been de-
clared, "is the expression in stone Of
the imperial will of the conquering
Duke, the other breathes the true
spirit OF his loving and faithful
Duchess" Many pictures illustrat-
ing the essential romance of their
lives used to be exhibited in the
Hotel de Vile. There also was an
excellent library OF medieval books
and manuscripts which could not be
duplicated. Relics of Roman and
Merovingian times were shown in
the Antiquarian Museum. The four
teenth century tower Of st. Pierre
always appealed to tourists. In its
shadow they found restaurants COM
peting in soups and pastries. Prob
ably the whole community is
changed by the war, but it still will
be remembered as it was before
Hitler,
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things. That we freely grant But now
1t has grown old in Office. 1t has become
tired and quarrelsome.
He was speaking of the peacemaking
that Is to come when he hit cut at the
age Of the administration the second
time.
1T Is" he said. mo task to be in
trusted to stubborn men, grown old
and tired and quarrelsome in Office"
Governments, like men, grow old and
tired. Republican control of Govern
ment had run consecutively for twelve
years when under the leadership of
President Franklin d. Roosevelt the
country turned to the Democratic party
and threw the Republicans out of office.
1t was new and youthful viewpoint
which the new administration brought
TO the American people. The country
was sick, 1t was tired of the old Gov
ernment. and 1t gambled for better
things. 1t may do so again this year.
Gov Dewey is young as men 20 in
important office When he speaks he
gives the impression of virile youth.
He does not give the impression of
1mmaturity. He has a certain personal
dignity as well as the ability to hit
hard.
Another thing he did in his accent
ance speech. He set at rest any doubt
that. if he were elected President, there
would be change in the military con-
DUCT OF the war, or that there would be
any change in the determination to
ngnt this war to complete victory. This
Is an important message and he must get
II across to the American people If he
Is TO win election in November Further.
IL Is q message which will give both
our Allies and our enemies a different
opinion OF the political warfare in which
we are now engaged at home A Repub-
hcan victory at the polls next November
can give no hope to the Nazis or to
the .IanS
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Cuen

The tide of battle is sweeping
around the ancient city of Caen,
famous for its churches, it's old
houses, its statues to poets and men
of science of local birth and, above
all other attractions, the legends of
that seventh Duke of Normandy,
who, subjecting England to his will,
fused Saxon and Gallo blood to rule
at least half the world. Part of the
castle of Falaise still stands. From
one of its windows, Robert the Devil
caught sight of Arlette, the tanners
daughter, washing the family linen
in the little River Ante. William was
their son. His illegitimacy was a
problem not solved completely by
the persuaded willingness of the
neighborhood barons to acknowledge
him his fathers lawful heir. Several
biographers believe that it strength
ened his natural determination to
make something of himself.
King Henry I helped the future
conqueror to establish his rule. A
decisive battle was fought at VAL
des-Dunes, near Caen. without the
victory there accomplished he never
could have hoped to succeed Edward
the Confessor at Westminster. The
Conqueror trained for Hastings in
campaigns against his fQmer royal
ally and Geoffrey Martel. Pope
Alexander II regarded him as i'm
portant enough to merit an indorse-
ment. The disaffected brother of
Harold lent a hand by invading
Northern Britain. So William landed
at Pevensey unmolested September
2S, 1866. He won Hastings on Octo-
ber IA and was crowned at Christ
mas. The whole story is reflected as
much in France as it Is in England.
Caen especially is Williams town.
The abbeys Of st. Stephen and the
Holy Trinity represent penance for
his prohibited marriage to Matilda
OF Flanders, descended from Alfred
the Great. Both churches are of the
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Blind Blood Donor

This Is the precious hour. the hour Of
sharing
That ,ohich Is merit to life itself, I pipe
This red. red tDarmth familiar to nv
heartbeat
In order that q brave one may stiu
lipe. i
May 1t be needed strength unto hts
iCe1kness,
Help him to clutch anep the cherished
Maternal to his home and Ioutng kin.
dred =
Somewhere upon the pastmess Of ito
oirth.
Then, tohen peace comes, therein b.
such frightening aponder 2
For him to see; the dascns that fame
again,
Unshrouded heights for him to climb
toiDdrd starlight.
Untdthoned clddness In the eyes OF
ROSE MYRA PHILLIPS. 8
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The Political Mill
By Gould Lincoln

Youth versus age promises to become
more and more an issue in this. years
national political campaign. Gov.
Thomas E. Dewey of New York, the
Republican presidential nominee, set the
pace in his speech in Chicago accepting
the nomination. He had hinted it in
earlier public statements. He brought it
fully into the open Wednesday night.
The issue is not entirely, rs he made it
clear, one of youth and age of individ-
uals in public ONCE. 1t is one of age in
Governments Government that has
had nearly IL years of control and is
about to ask the country for four more
years.
1t has been clear for some time that
the New Dealers planned to attack Mr..
Dewey because Of his A years. Franklin
Delano Roosevelt was only eight years
older when he entered the White House.
Theodore Roosevelt was just Mr..
Dewey's age when he became President.
The New York Governor, however, has
not waited for the attack to be leveled at
him. He has chosen to take the Often
sive. His structures upon Mr. Roosevelt
and his administration, because Of age,
are severe.
This Is young mans war In the
opinion Of Gov. Dewey. the peace which
is to follow should be made by men who
have youthful view. It will take such
men, filled with the enthusiasm of youth.
to bring this country back to full peace
time employment and progress.
Twice In his acceptance speech Mr..
Dewev, In direct phrases, attacked the
age Of the Roosevelt administration.
The first time he declared that no one
would suggest that the present national
administration is giving efficient or COM
petent government. Not even the most
fanatical supporters of the administra-
ton. he said, are making that claim.
"Al they tell u.s." he continued, lis
that in its young days 1t did some good
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Other Deweys

The name OF the 1914 Republican
candidate for the presidency is not
exactly common. AS compared with
Smith and Jones, it is rare in
the encyclopedias and biographical
dictionaries. The most notably
famous person to bear it, unques-
tionably, was Admiral George Dewey
Q837-191D, the victor in the Battle
OF Manila Bay, May l, 1898. But
the sea fighter has runners up" in
several different fields of ENTERPRISE
and achievement. Among scientists.
Chester Dewey Q784- 1851, de-
scended from Thomas Dewey, a
pioneer settler of Dorchester, Massa-
chusetts, is well known. He was
mathematician, physicist, chem
ist, geologist, a botanist, an
ethnologist, a Congregational min
lister, "a born teacher" at Williams
College, the University of Rochester
and elsewhere, a natural philosopher
and the father of fifteen children
altogether an individual of more
than ordinary genius.
Within reason. too, the same
observation might be made with
regard to Orville Dewey (1794-1882) :,
a distinguished Unitarian divine and
sociologist whose Lowell lectures on
"The Problem of Human Destiny"
still are worth reading nearly a
hundred years after they first were
delivered. In the realm of mental
medicine Richard Smith Dewey
u845-1933), psychiatrist, who like
wise was a poet and q composer, is
remembered with appreciation.
The family in part seems to have
migrated to Vermont before the
Revolution. From the branch domi-
ciled In the Green Mountain area
came John Dewey (born 1850, prag-
matte philosopher and educator,
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author Of School and Society" and
art as Experience" and his elder
brother, Davis Rich Dewey 1855
1912. economist, writer Of Z stand
ard Financial History OF the United
States" and Banking and Credit" I"
The Upper New York State extension
of the tribe brought forth Charles
Melville Dewey tls4o-1937), land
scape painter Of merit whose pictures
are in the Smithsonian and the
Corcoran galleries.
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President Ryti and his followers sus-
pected under these circumstances they
would be forced out and replaced by .
cabinet friendly" to Moscow.
While these matters were being pom
dered the Germans told. the Firms that
in view Of the new situation" which
meant that the Baltic Sea would fall
into Russian hands II Finland accepted
Moecow's terms. they were willing to
send adequate forces to stem the Soviet
onslaught.
Ever since the outbreak OF the Ger
man. Russian war In the summer of 1871.
the Finns have insisted that German
troops be sent only in Lapland to main
tain the liaison with Norway and cut
on the Murmansk-v -vologda railway line.
But they were careful not to allow Ger
man armed forces with them on the
southern front
4
The reason for this attitude was that
the Finnish government continued to
rely on Americas good viii until very
recently. The Finns believed naively
that II they fought the Red armies only
on the Finnish front the United States
would not regard this as q hostile act
against the United Nations.
But when 1t became evident that the
policy of the United States was bound
to change In order to establish a strong
common political front with the u. 8. 8.
r.. the Finnish government was "at sea"
for few weeks. It was during that time
that the Red armies broke through the
Mannerheim Line, took Viipuri and
threatened Helsinki. 1t was then also
that the Germans, who had maintained
an Indifferent attitude toward the Firms,
offered their immediate assistance to
them. Marshal Keitel, the Wehrmacht's
chief of sta1, and Gen. Jodel, chief OF
stan OF the armies fighting In the east,
are reported to have visited Gen. Nam
nerheim and placed before him the
strategic plans Of the German general
staff on the eastern and western fronts
Whether Mannerheim was convinced
that active corporation with the Ger
man armies would save Finland or
whether he merely took last desperate
chance Is not known here. But it Is
known that German troops, heavy ar
tillery and some aviation already have
appeared In Southern Finland.
What forces the Germans can spare
in addition to those from Lapland is not
known. 1t is suspected, however, that
q certain number of reserves may be
available If the Germans have decided
to yield large areas on the northern
sectors OF the eastern front for the
sake Of preventing the Russians from
reaching and controlling the Baltic Sea.
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Russians now seem likely to get into
MlnSk without much delay. South of
Minsk, they have already taken Slutsk.
and beyond Slutsk the rail junction of
baranovichi may not be too distant a
goal, especially considering that here
the Russian left flank is protected by
the Pripet Marshes. The Germans
must therefore already consider that
the central portion of their eastern
front must be reformed with the rail-
way Wilma Bialystok- -Brest Litovsk-Ko-
wel-Lwow as its main line of lateral
communications.
But that line cannot be held by the
German army group of the center in its
present condition. 1t will need re-
1nforcements; strong reinforcements.
The penny packets" of two or three
divisions which, at so much pains, they
have been able to find to stave off dis
aster In Italy will be of no help against
the Russians. They will want some.
thing on the order of 20 to Is fresh
divisions to stabilize their front there,
even on the Vilna-Lwow line. Where
are they going to get them? No doubt
the omcers who opposed fighting in
Italy at all are now pointing out to
their colleagues that II Kesselring's IS
divisions had been withdrawn behind
the Alps right after Salerno, they would
be extremely useful; but that will be
no help now.
Obviously troops cannot be drawn
from the west Of Europe. Norway might
be given up, which would produce 10
or IL divisions. That would be some-
thing, but not enough; and the time
factor Is not favorable. Probably the
only actual recourse which the German
high command now has Is to milk the
other two Russian fronts for q few
divisions to try to produce q temporary
stabilization, and then as quickly as
they can, to pull back the northern
army group 20 that it comes into line
either from Riga to wilma dn which
case 1t may be strong enough to ex-
tend its front wall south Of vilna) or
on the even shorter front Memel-Brest
Litoysk
That means giving up the Baltic
States. It means abandoning Finland
with tremendous consequent loss OF
German prestige) just at the moment
when Finland has been loudly and pub
ncly promised German help. It means
bringing the Russian armies right up to
the frontier Of East Prussia. But II it
can be done, it may stave OF complete
disaster to the northern as well as the
Genital German army groups in the
east; What is now at stake is not only
Won Modls 10 divisions in the center,
but iabo Lndemann's S0-odd divisions
IN the north.
tcbpyrighH 1914, New York Tribune. fns.D
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New Job Experiment

In the sense that they are national
in scope, the manpower regulations
which become effective today con-
stitute new and significant at
tempt to solve the countrys war
manpower problem, which promises
to become increasingly important
as we draw closer to the end Of
hostilities.
The experiment begins under con-
ditions that can hardly be described
as favorable. From the best avail
able indications, a substantial ma
jority Of the people Of this country
are opposed to being told by the
Government where they can work
and where they cannot work. This
unsympathetic attitude adds to the
difficulties of an already difncult
task. So far as the War Manpower
Commission is concerned, the need
for tact, patience and good admin
istration is self-evident. To ap-
proach this undertaking in a spirit
of arbitrariness. or without making
certain that the job channeling
machinery Of the United States EN-
ployment Service is functioning
smoothly. would simply lead to
failure.
IT everything goes well on the
administrative side, however, it still
will be necessary to promote public
understanding Of the need for the
regulations and to make an inten-
sive effort to enlist public support.
This may prove to be less difficult
than seems indicated now, for If
officials Of the VINO are correct.
the plan has enjoyed good public
cooperation in certain critical labor
areas where it has been in effect
for some months.
In any event, it should be made
clear that If this program fails the
alternatives are either a serious
breakdown in the war effort or a
resort to more drastic and COM
pulsory controls. The sensible thing
for all concerned is to make this
plan work.
Evening star., 1944-07-01
This Changing World
By CossfSsfiss ByowS

The Germans cannot afford to have
Russia firmly estabhshed IN the Baltic
Sea and have informed the FinniSh
government that they are going to fight
the Russians In that area.
The arguments advanced by the Ger
man general sta1 evidently were sum-
ciently plausible to induce Narshal
Gustav Mannerheim and President
Risto Ryti to accept 0ermanys CO.
operation and remain in the war. Hav-
Ing to choose between surrender and
suicide, they rejected the former, par
ticularly since they believe the arrival
OF German reinforcements Of men and
material may not make suicide as Ger
tain as it appeared 10 days ago.
The fate of Finland. from . moral
point Of view, is Of little interest to
Berlin. The German troops In lap
~land-variously estimated at between
four and six divisions-could have been
withdrawn easily into Norway where
they may be needed in this years
campaign.
But the appearance Of the Red Army
and Navy on the shores Of the Baltic
Sea seems to worry the Germans greatly.
The Naz general sta1i has decided to
detach number Of divisions from the
north. These are now In the fighting
line and have Joined the Firms in de-
tending Helsinki and the Finnish shore
line. More troops and some units Of
the Luftwaf1e are reported on the way
to Finland, where determined effort
win be made to stop the Russian ad-
vance.
Whether the Films had much choice
In this new military setup Is . matter
Of conjecture. They feel that surrender
to Russia would mean the total occupa-
ton Of their country by the Red
armies; on the other hand, had they
turned down the German general staffs
plans they would have had NaM troops
fighting in front of Helsinki and around
the great lakes in the south in any case.
The terms offered by Moscow to the
Finnish government provided originally
for the nominal independence OF Fin
land after certain territories needed for
the defense of Leningrad had been
yielded. But the Russian terms also
provided that Russian Army would
continue to fight in Finland until expul-
sion OF all Germans. Since at that time
the Nazis were in the northern section
Of Finland, this meant that the Red
troops would have to operate through
out the entire country. This, in the
minds OF the Firms, meant the complete
occupation.