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new LEAVE PLAN
EFFECTIVE MAY |
U. S. ARMY HEADQUARTERS.
CENTRAL PACIFIC, Apr 30.-(R)

U. S. ARMY HEADQUARTERS.
CENTRAL PACIFIC, Apr 30.-(R)
"A new furlough leave Of absence
plan, making a percentage Of Of
ficers and men eligible for trips
10 the mainland after two years
Of service in the Central Pacific,
will become effective May l, the
army announced today.
Previously three and half
years of overseas service were re-
quired before a soldier could get
such a leave.
Central Pacific Headquarters
said every effort consistent with
the shipping situation will be made
to increase facilities for transport
ing personnel on leave.
at must be realized that while
it is comparatively easy to send
soldier home, it is much more
difficult to return him here" COM
mented 1t. Gen. Robert C. Rich
ardson, Jr., commanding general
Of Central Pacific army forces.
Il want all troops in the Central
Pacific area to know the army has
done and will continue to do every
thing humanity possible to provide
trips home"
A monthly leave quota will be
allotted to Major Echelon COM
manders.
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Over The Networks
MONDAY, MAY 1
Eastern War Time Pm.

Changes in programs as listed due to
corrections by networks made too
late to incorporated
5:45-Front Page Farrell Serial nbc
American Women, Drama Series chs
Serial Series for Riddles mbs- basic
6:00-News Report for IS minis. nbc
Children's Dramatic Skit, Daily - blu
Quincy Howe and News Time chs
Prayer; Comment on the War - mbs
Lyn Murray Chorus, Orchestra chs
Captain Tim Healy, Spy Story blu
The Smoothies, Vocal Rhythm mbs
6:30-Jeri SULLIVAN Song Show cha
Jack Armstrong; repeat - blu-west
News Time and Volney Hurd - mbs
Henry J. Taylor Comment - blu-basie
Capt. Midnight in repeat blu-west
World News and Commentary chs
Repeat of Riddles Serial other mbs
7:oo-Fred Warnings Time - nbc-basic
Love Mystery" Dramatic chs
Fulton Lewis, Jr, Comments mbs
7:15-War News from the World - nbc
Ed Sullivan Entertains, Guest chs
The johnson Family, Serial mbs
7:30-Carol Sisters, Vocal Trio nbc
Lone Ranger, Drama of West blu
Music in the Air Concert - other chs
The Army Air Forces Program mbs
7:45-Kaltenborn and Comment nbc
S:00-The Cavalcade of America nbc
Vox Pop by Parks and Warren chs
Broadcast of News Us mins) blu
Cecil Brown News Comment mbs
8:15-Lum and Abner Serial Skit - blu
Fulton Oursler News Answers mbs
8:30-The Monday Night Concert = nbc
The Gay Nineties Revue cbs-basic
Blind Date and Arlene Francis blu
Sherlock Holmes & DIR. Watson - nbs
8:55-Five Minutes News Period chs
9:00--Voorhees Concert & Guest nbc
The Radio Theater, Guest Stars - chs
Counter Spy, Drama of the War - blu
Gabriel Heater and Comment mbs
9:15-Nick Carter Serial Series mbs
9:3O-Infomation Please in Quiz - nbc
Spotlight Bands, Guest Orches. blu
Paul Winchell's Jerry, Variety - mbs
9:55-Five Minutes Story Time - blu
10 :00-Contented Concert Orches. nbc
Raymond Gram Swing Comment - blu
Screen Guild Players & Guest chs
Henry Gladstone in Comment - mbs
l0:15-Music and Sally Sweetland - blu
Bishop Pardue on "Our Morale" - mbs
10:30-Doc. I. @. and Quiz Series = nbc
Showtime from Broadway - cbs-east
acknowledgements repeat cbs-west
Melody in Night, Paul Lavalle - blu
Half Hour for Dancing Music mbs
II :oO-News for Is minutes - nbc-basic
The Fred Waring repeat - nbcwest
News, Variety Dance 2 h.-cbs & blu
Comment, Newsreel, Dance 3 h. - mbs
11:15-Late Variety with News - nbc
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Nations Sailors Learn Pill Rolling
To Treat Growing Merchant Marine

NEW YORK QR) The U S.
Maritime Service is sending men
down to the sea in ships with
medical kits and filters to keep
Americas merchant fleet the
healthiest, as well as the might
est, in the world.
At the Sheepshead Bay training
station, grizzled salts and youths
yet to be dunked in their first
spray receive hospital corps train
ing. The old salts are pursers OF
varying rank, ashore for 16 weeks
schooling in the pill rolling arts.
The trainees get % weeks of pre-
liminary drill as seamen and adj
vanced training as hospital corps
men and junior assistant pursers.
Only One Of Its Kind
The hospital corps phase OF
the school is the only training OF
its kind in the world in any
maritime, service.
VII LlOClIy ol1iPo, AASA5AAsNAo
and tankers, the hospital corps
man purser must frequently
work alone without the advice of
doctors. On other vessels, such as
transports, there may be several
corpsmen or pharmacists mates.
The hospita corps school
opened Dec. 7, 1912, to fill vital
wartime need. At the outset,
merchant seaman casualties were
six times as frequent as those to
Navy Personnel.
Volunteers entering Maritime
training stations may apply for
advanced training as a pharma-
cist's mate-junior assistant purser,
instead of choosing deck or engine
schools.
Soon after establishment of the
Hospital corps school, the Purser
School for training ships clerks,
was combined with it. Until then
the captain or frs t mate had
given necessary medical care.
Supplying a man with fundamen-
tai medical knowledge to each
merchant ship means that incipi-
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BY JOHN SELBY
APP Arts Editor

SOUTHPORT, Conn. - James
Truslow Adams, one of the squires
of this green and white Connecti-
cut village, and one of the deans
of American history, just has pro-
duced the first volume of an Amer
lean history that compares with
the usual historical volume as Life
magazine compares with the At
lantic Monthly.
When completed the four vol
umes of THE Album of American
History will be complement to
: written history, not fabulous new
technique. For Mr.. Adams a new
departure was essential.
You see," he says, adjusting
} his moderately portly tweed clad
figure to the dimensions of chair
: that just fits, I had to develop a
new approach. I've already writ
ten my say, quite a lot of it. in
books like The Epic of America"
and The March of Democracy"
And there also are many thousands
of histories I had nothing to do
with, most obviously.
II can just rewrite history, and
the idea of producing four volumes
Of pictures that would illustrate
American life from the 18th CEN
tury to the present was very at
tractive."
In Connecticut, Mr.. Adams finds
the proper perspective for u C h
matters.
He lives in what appears to be
a small house on one of the re-
moter village streets. The house
Hid not SURVIVE the visit Of the
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Iceland had well developed lit
erature in 1915.
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MONDAY, MAY
7:3O-Family Altar.
7:45-Musical Clock.
8:0O-Daily War Journal.
8:i5-Muslcal Clock.
8:30-Blue News Correspondent.
8:45-Toby and Suzy.
9OO-The Breakfast Club.
1O:00-SWeet River.
10:15-My True Story.
1O:4O-Let's Dance.
| II :OO-Breakfast at Sardi's.
11:30-Gi Martyr, News.
11:45-The Baby Institute.
Decentralization Period.
| 12:15-Meet Your Neighbor.
12:3O-National Farm and Home Hour.
1:00-Baukhage.
| 1:15-Musical Interlude.
l:25-News = Wilmington Star-News.
1:3A-Living Should Be Fun.
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3:OO-Songs by Morton Downey.
| 3:15-Appointment with Life.
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| 4:0O-Blue Frolics.
4:3o-Time. Views the News.
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ent epidemics can be halted, ships
sanitation improved, and the
danger of disease spreading from,
one port to another be curtailed.
During the war, these men pro-
vide medical care also for the
Navy guncrews on every merchant
ship.
At the start of every voyage
h spi tai corpsmen administer
typhoid, smallpox, tetanus and
typhus NEGOTIATIONS if needed and
are also prepared to immunize
against yellow fever, cholera and
malaria prophylaxis. Upon ar
rival at destination, they assist
quarantine offic ais.
Fifty men a week enter the
school; 40 are pursers given
leaves of absence by shipping lines
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ARRESTED

STOCKHOLM, April 3o.-tP-
All prominent citizens in the Dan
ish town of Esbjerg, On the west
coast of Jutland, have been ar
rested by the Gestapo in the Ger
man pre-invasion drive to stamp
out patriot resistance in Denmark,
the Free Danish Press service re-
ported TODAY.
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and ten are trainSes.
By lectures, motion pictures,
field trips and actual practice
they are trained in human an
atomy and physiology; hygiene,
nursing, pharmacy, emergency
treatment including plasma and
the miracle drugs, sulfa and pen
icillin.
To complete their medical
training, they get four weeks OF
practical hospital training.
Pursers and trainees are i'm
pressed that when they finish
they won't be doctors" but they
will be competent to treat ordi-
nary ailments and keep alive a
dangerously i'll or wounded sea-
man until a medical officer ar
riVeS.
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Production of Vitamin BE- in
1914 is expected to be about
three times greater than in 1941.
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YOUNG DEMOCRATS
RALLY SATURDAY

WINSTON-SALEM, April 30. -
R-Hundreds of young democrats
will assemble here next Saturday
for the 1914 Young Democratic
clubs victory rally.
w. S. Davis, chairman, said to-
day all candidates for county,
state and national offices had been
invited and that a majority had
indicated they would attend.
Davis said an invitation had
been extended to Joe Carr Of Nash
vile, Tenn, president of the
Young Democratic Clubs of Amerl-
ca, and that he was expected to
accept unless indicted into the
Navy beforehand.
Mayor George W. Coan, Jr.. Of
Winston-Salem, chairman OF the
speakers committee has been
in communicat with several
party leaders of national fepute
and said the names OF the prin-
cipal speaker likely would be an.
nounced within the next few days
1
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Virtually all of Germany's
chrome comes from Turkey and
the Balkans.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-03-27
This Changing World

tiers and they stopped the New Zea-
landers' advance. The battles were
grim and bitter. But the dominion
force could not break through.
Gen. Clark has an unenviable COM
mand, not only because Of the determi-
nation Of the enemy to fight to the end
but also because he has q composite
force composed Of soldiers of many DIFF
ferent nations speaking different LAM
guages, with officers whose training diff
fers from the Americans and British.
The 5th Army is like Babel. There are,
OF course, Americans and British; the
French corps is an African mixture of
SenegaleSe, Algerlans, TunisianS and
Moroccans, ofilcered as usual by French
men.
But while In the last war these ex-
cellent colonial troops had their per-
manent officers whom they had known
for long time, the improvised corps
under the command Of Gen. JUN has
number Of officers not too we'll ac-
quainted with the ways OF the Africans
under their command. There also are
Indians and Poles. All these forces In
dividually are excellent, but 1t is difficult
for an American commander who has
never mad any experience IN dealing with
troops other than American to under
stand their psychology.
X
There also are other important fac
tors, which make the position of Gen.
Clark difdcult. The French officers, for
instance. are necessarily politically
minded so must be the Poles. The De
Gaullist officers of Gen. JUN are likely
to feel somewhat disgruntled over the
fact that their leader in Algiers, Gen.
Charles de Gaulle, has not been re-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-03-27

they have been sending to
such information as is available-every
merchant ship they can lay hand upon.
The Turkish fleet could bar the way,
could close this line of German retreat
and insure the destruction or capture Of
many thousands of German soldiers.
Then again, consider Bulgaria, Hun
gary and Rumania. They are hopelessly
trapped, but Bulgaria Is farther away.
Bulgaria's army is intact. Bulgaria has
direct access to some Of the still-free por-
lions OF YugoSlavia, to which Allied air.
borne aid can be sent. If Bulgaria could
now compose her quarrels with some of
her neighbors, and If the requisite in
ternal leadership could be found to seize
power, Bulgaria might get out of the war,
or at least come over to the winning side.
The certainty of Turkish support in
such an event, or even the certainty that
through from the Middle East, might
make all the difference in the decisions
of Bulgarian leaders, who may want to
get out Of the war, but who certainly
don't want to make vain and useless
gesture which will result in nothing more
than their getting their Threats cut by
Gestapo murderers.
As to Turkish risk, this is surely the
moment of all moments when that risk
Is at minimum. If ever Hitler had his
hands full elsewhere, that time is now.
He has just taken over resisting Hun
gary with German troops; he has had to
send other German troops into Ru-
mania; he IS fully engaged in trying to
get Won MannStein out Of the trouble
in which Hitler's Inspirations have put
that capable general.
The Russians are not only across the
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help create and enter into a world or
ganization for the enforcement Of peace
under law? There is no answer to that
question, though 1t is dealt with vaguely.
Mr.. Hull speaks Of "co-operation be-
tween nations in the spirit OF good
neighbors founded on the principles of
liberty, equality, justice, morality and
law" He speaks of the possible neces-
sity for force.
But equality" morality" "law," ETC..
are not principles but concepts. This
war is indeed a struggle between con-
ficting concepts of equality" moral
ity," Justice etc, with each nation
establishing its own principles.
Law is not a principle. Principles are
established in law But there is no law
governing nations, nor is there any au-
thority to make law for nations.
Thus, aggression of one nation upon
another for any reason which its ma
tional interests may dictate is not
against the law.
I would like to shout that from the
housetops. Aggression may be a crime
in human conscience but 1t is not a
crime in law.
Treaties are not laws. They are agree
ments between governments similar to
contracts between firms, but with the
basic difference that the latter are adj
judicable in courts and enforceable by a
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-03-27
DaUid Laurence

Indian and Burma areas than has yet
materialized and an effective submarine
and naval campaign against the Japa-
nese fleet by the British in and around
the Malay Peninsula.
Mr.. Churchill's references to the inva-
sion OF Europe were necessarily and
properly vague. He assures the doubt
ing Russians that the invasion is COM
ing and that it takes more time to plan
and prepare an amphibious operation
than they realize. There is no question
but that 1T is coming and sometime
soon-which might mean any time be-
tween now and August. The Russians
Will not be disappointed.
Apropos of this, Washington has for
some weeks been hearing a story that
has been told again and again as to a
conversation between Marshal Stain
and Gen. Marshall at Teheran. The
general was explaining amphibious war
fare and the Russian chief was saying
that the Russian armies have to cross
wide rivers, too, and know something of
the difficulties of surrounding water
obstacles, whereupon Gen. Marshall is
reported to have said: Yes, my dear
marshal, we fully admire the notable
achievements in the Russian Army ad-
vance but when you fail to cross one of
those wide rivers in Russia, it is merely
reported in the dispatches as a setback
and If we get showed back into the
Atlantic Ocean due to lack Of prepara-
ton, that would be called a 'catas-
trophe'"
Whether the incident did or did not
occur the story doubtless illustrates
what Prime Minister Churchill had in
mind when he dwelt on the great re-
sponsibilities involved in preparing for
an amphibious invasion.
Reproduction Rights ReseryedA
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-03-27
ChurChill'S Disclosure

ings recently concerning the inertia Of
the Indian government and the apathy
of the London ministry in furnishing
the men and material needed to back
up Mountbatten.
The Prime Ministers speech, there
fore, which shows an awareness of the
tremendous importance of Mountbattens
problems cannot but be regarded as
favorable development 1t is true that
the progress in the Burma theater is
still far from what it will be when better
weather and the passage of the next
monsoon season permits, but it is also
true that the Japanese must be de-
feated in their new drive to shut off
the supply lines to China, so much
needed to give our Air Forces and the
Chinese armies the supplies they will
require when at last the American fleet
is able to strike directly for the acquisi-
ton Of some port or ports on the China
coast.
Mr.. Churchill's revision of his predic-
ton concerning the long" interval ex-
pected to elapse after the defeat of
Hitler and the collapse of Japan so
that he speaks now of an interval
and intimates that it may be of shorter
duration than had previously been
imagined is a bit of optimism derived
no doubt from the recent accomplish
ments of the American land, sea and
air-sea forces in the Pacific.
Il 4
1t all depends, however, on what was
meant originally by the long interval"
For the most part, American military
experts feel that there is chance to
bring the Pacific war to a conclusion
some time close to the time of ending
OF the European war. But this presup-
poses stronger and more concentrated
drive on the Japanese in China from the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-03-27

used so ruthlessly by the German
high command that most of it has
persisted, Rumanian casualties run
ming into the hundreds OF thou
sands. The remainder is dependent
upon German equipment and is
under German orders. A potential
core Of revolt is thus lacking.
Furthermore, there is slight in
centive to revolt. because there is
no attractive alternative. Much as
most Rumanians dislike the Ger
mans and hate them for their ruth
less exploitation, they dislike and
fear Soviet Russia profoundly, and
look upon the possibility of Rus
sian occupation as a catastrophe.
Torn between such conflicting emo
lions, dynamic action against their
present conquerors cannot logically
be Anticipated.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-03-27
Maj. George Fielding Eliot

Bug, they are across the Dniester and
have reached the Prut The great key
railway center of Cernauti is gravely
imperiled. To suppose that the Ger
mans could also. in the face of these
troubles, find enough troops to attack
Turkey is surely to be absurdly pes
simistic.
There Is, Of course, the unfortunate
business of the Aegean Islands The
Germans are still there. But the CAM
paign in the Pacific has demonstrated
how little chance isolated island gar
risons have of holding out without ade-
quate air and naval support. The Luft-
waite has troubles of its own; it has
to defend Germany against the heaviest
blows that have ever been rained from
the air on any country, and it has to
give air support to the crumbling Ger
man armies on the Dniester and the
Prut. Indeed, every army and corps
and division commander on that broken
front must be loading the wires with
demands for planes and more planes
the one sort of help that can come
quickly and act in time.
So now might be the time, also, for
Turkey to rid herself once and for all
of the menace of the German island
bases in the Aegean; and 1t Is only on
Turkish soil that the Allies can find
the bases for their air power which
would be an essential part of such q
campaign.
So the turn Of events has at last
brought the Turks a chance to do
great things for the Allied cause, and to
do them without more risk than they
can be reasonably expected to assume.
(Copyright, 1e44.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-03-27
Policy of Silence

The "off the record" conference
between Secretary of State Hull and
a group of freshman COP Congress-
men has wound up on a sour note.
Mr.. Hull arranged the discussion
at the request of the legislators,
who have been supporters in the
main of the administration foreign
policies. It was understood that Mr..
Hulps remarks were to be treated as
confidential, and this is the only
basis on which such discussions
could be productive of worthwhile
results.
If Mr.. Hull had any illusions on
this score, however, which is not
likely, they were soon shattered.
Within a few hours after the con-
ference the legislators, or some of
them, were talking freely, attribut-
ing comments to Mr.. Hull which
they must have known would be
embarrassing to the administration.
AS result, the Secretary has ad-
ministered a verbal spanking to his
congressional conferees, asserting
that their versions of his remarks
were "garbled and inaccurate in i'm
portant respects" This probably
means that there will be no more of
these discussions, and that is unfor-
tunate. Obviously. it is desirable to
give members of the opposition
party in Congress the fullest back
ground picture of what the admins
tration is doing or trying to do in
the field of foreign policy. But it is
equally obvious that this cannot be
done if those taken into the Secre-
tary of States confidence proceed
at once to divulge and distort what
he has told them.
A good argument can be made, in
peacetime. for a full public disclos-
ure Of international developments
and their probable consequences for
us. But with the Nation at war this
is not true. The principal complaint
of the Republican Congressman ran
to what they described as the State
Departments policy of silence"
One of them remarked that I'VE
haven't any definite policy except
silence" Another said that silence
is still the settled policy Of the State
Department"
There is not the slightest basis in
fact for comments such as these. It
may be that Mr.. Hull and the Presi-
dent should have defined our policy
more explicitly with respect to GER
tain questions. But to suggest that
the details of our wartime foreign
policy and the steps being taken to
implement it should be put on the
record is nonsense. Mr.. Hull and his
associates are not sitting around the
State Department in lethargic and
stony silence. Without contending