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Evening star., 1944-10-22

versity where he studied mechani-
cal engineering before his voluntary
induction October IS, 1943 He re-
ceived his basic training in Georgia,
and he was assigned to an infantry
unit.
His mother, Mrs. Alma L. Ekis,
who lives at 1927 Ingleside terrace
NV, yesterday told Of her SON S
ability as linguist. She said he
speaks perfect English. French, Ger
man and Latvian and understands
Romanian. 1t was because of this
ability, she said, that he was with
the first units to land in Normandy
on ID day."
His father was Latvian Ambas-
sador to Poland when war broke
out and Pvt. Ekis was attending a
preparatory school at Grenoble.
France, at that time Mrs. Ekis
insited that it be made clear that
her son feels he is real American
and is proud Of the fact.
He became a naturalized citizen
after his induction, his mother
said.
Evening star., 1944-10-22
Editorial Association
|Lauds Kent Cooper 5
Free News Crusade
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, Oct. 21.-Kent Cooper
executive director of the Associated
Press, asserted today that an "un-
hindered flow Of information" was
necessary to preserve the postwar
peace.
He told the National Editorial
Association none of the world or
ganizationS or systems now being
discussed for the peace to come can
possibly succeed unless the first
basic step Is taken to assure un-
hindered tlow Of information"
At concluion of his talk, the Edi-
torial Associations advisory council
adopted aresolution expressing its
profound appreciation of the great
crusade waged" by Mr.. Cooper "for
the right of all men to get, send
and publish the news" for "the free
dom Of the press, and for the en-
lightenment of the people every
where as q means OF perpetuating
peace"
The council resolution also ex-
pressed ita .hope that there may be
a sustained effort toward keeping
the people aroused to the import
ance to them Of having the peace
conference adopt an interna tional
compact such as that suggested" in
the resolution adopted by Congress
September 81.
Mr.. Cooper stated communities
live peacefully because the people
OF a community know each other
and that the world must learn to
apply the same principle on an in
ternational scale.
Peace can only be attained by
short-circuiting self-seeking, preda-
tory Governments through letting
the people of each nation really
know the peoples of other nations
through the medium OF a world
wide free press and freedom OF
international news exchange" he
said.
IF Government will only stand
aside, with a beneficient attitude
toward the effort, the principle OF
community interest and under
standing can, through truthful news
exchange, ultimately come true
internationally. Then you will need
neither pact nor military power to
enforce friendly relations In inter-
national society"
Evening star., 1944-10-22
All Goes Well Here,'
Macarthur Tells President
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Gen. Douglas Macarthur has in
formed President Roosevelt that all
was going we'll in the invasion of the
Philippines, the White House dis
closed last night. Gen. Macarthur,
replying to a message from the
President, said:
To-day, Saturday FRIDAY, United
States date, the day following the
landing at Leyte, have just received
your message. All goes well here
This magnificent message will have
an electrifying effect and Is being
given the widest publicity here BY
all means available"
Evening star., 1944-10-22
Mrs. Roosevelt to Speak
To D. 6. Democrats

Servicemen's wives for Roosevelt
VIII join with the District Demo-
cratic Central Committee in a mass
meeting to be held in the Con-
gressional Room of the Willard Ho-
tel at pm. Tuesday. The meeting
Will be addressed by Mrs. Roosevelt,
whose speech will be broadcast.
Presiding will be Russell Balder-
son, Democratic Central Committee
chairman. Melvin D. Hildreth, vice
chairman, also will speak. In ad-
dition a motion picture Lest We
Forget" will be exhibited.
Evening star., 1944-10-22

Md, was killed
| n a c t ion IN
France on Sep
tember 9, the
War Department
has informed his
m o t h er, Mrs.
William E. Sui
livan, U p p e r
Darby, Pa.
1t. Hand, who
lived in Silver
Spring prior to
h is enlistment
in the Army in
December, l94l,
7 e c i've d his
commission in
Evening star., 1944-10-22
Mormon Thomus to Speak

Norman Thomas. Socialist presi-
dental candidate, and Brig. Gen.
H. C. Holdridge, former COM
mandant of the adjutant generals
school, will address a final cam
paign meeting of the party at
pm. Tuesday in the National Press
Club auditorium.
Evening star., 1944-10-22
Society to Hear Author

Garnett L. ESkew, novelist. will
discuss The Trade of the Writer"
at the Society of Free Lance Writ
ers meeting at 8 pm. Thursday in
the Mount Pleasant library. Six
teenth and Lamont streets NV.
Evening star., 1944-10-22
Saipan Battle Tactics
That Cost a General
His Post Revealed

In the middle OF the battle of
Saipun, the marine general in
command remoDed the CO.
operating Army general. Beyond
a tetD general military phrases,
the reason ,Das not gipen. Here,
William L, Worden, Associated
Press correspondent who ,Dds
there, tells 1Dhat happened in
this, one OF the bitterest battles
in American military history.
Evening star., 1944-10-22
On the Roll of Honor
Killed

Second 1t. Perry Pitt Hand, a
former resident of Silver Spring
Evening star., 1944-10-22
Readers Guide

Sunday, October %, 1914.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-17

per cent of the standing forests, due to forest fires, and the absolute neglect to provide means to prevent fires on cut over land.
 The American people showed no con- cern, and in the lumber regions, even east of the Mississippi River, the common be- lief waS "what'S the use, there's enough timber for all time" There never had been strike in lumber camps or in saw mills up to the years when Theodore Roosevelt was in office.
 Recently, the strike of 15,000 C1O lum- Der workers on the Pacific coast region caused national crisis" according to reports in the National Capital. The War Production Board stated that the nation will be short one and one-half bil- lion board feet of lumber during the next three months. The National War Labor Board refused to approve the wage in- crease demanded by the C1O leaders The White House Conference produced the facts forty years ago. But the nation did not heed the warning.
 There are similar warnings today about supplies of natural rubber and gasoline. But these warnings are not being over looked. American chemistry has met the issue and you can believe the statements from the American industrial leaders that assure the country that synthetic rubber and new processes by which the raw pe- troleum products can be used as the base, and chemical synthetic processes added and multiplied over and over, will insure plenty of gasoline-or let's call it "liquid fuel"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-17
Idea Market

Remember the old pulp magazine ads, ''Uncle Sam Wants You" (Earn Big Money as a Railway Clerk)? Well, if you're an inventive turn of mind, Uncle Sam really does want you, and no fooling.
 The armed forces, which have solved D multitude of problems from pin-point bombing to insect mites, still have lot of problems to be solved. According to the OWI, which put out pamphlet for the National Inventors Council and the Department of Commerce, the armed forces are in the market for ideas on practically any subject.
 The booklet lists 35 specific problems just for a starter. Among them we find that the government is looking for aman who can make odorless toxic agents, stable artificial fog, quick and effective 1on-bituminous dust palliative for all climates, and devise an optical method for telling the diffence between artificial and natural green.
 That gives you an idea. Public appeal by the Army and Navy is probably as good a way of solving difficulties as any. The armed forces know their fellow country men. They know that they'll probably get a lot of lame-brained suggestions But the yalso know that there must be thousand delft tinkerers and gadgeteers for every crackpot.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-17
A Crisis in Lumber Production

ident of the United States he convened conference of national industrial leaders, and that was the first conference of the kind held at the White House. In 1909, 44,510,000 board feet of lumber was pro- duced in the United States. Notwith- standing the greatly increased demand for lumber, the census figures for 194I showed that production was 33,476,000 board feet. tt
 At the conference referred to above, the authorities, who undoubtedly included Frederick Weyerhauser, the greatest lum- Der king in American history, stressed the fact that the numbering methods then in l,se resulted in the loss of more than 75
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-17
A Thought for Today
New Balcony Orator

History will never place Sgt. John Vita's address to the Romans on the same page with those delivered by Cicero, but to anyone with a taste for dramatic irony, the sergeant'S remarks will remain one of the memorable, If minor, footnoteS to the liberation of Rome. 1t was Ser 0eant Vita who inserted the final pin to complete the deflation of Benito Musso- lini comic-opera caesar of the late Italian empire. Caesars and Would-be world con- uuerors are never very admirable charac- terS, and MuSSolini was no exception. But in Mussolinis case, something new had been added. He was not only treach- erous and villain, he was ridiculous. He will be remembered for the way he stabbed France in the back, and for his strafing of defenseless Ethiops. But he will also be remembered for his promposity and muscle flexing and bare-midriffed hay pitching,
 Most of all he will be remembered for his speeches from the balcony of the Piazza VeneZia, preserved for posterlty in the newsreels. His jaw-jutting, his gestures, and his struttings made him the darling of vaudeville impersonators and, to an alien audience, converted ms grandioSe pretensionS into hilarious ob- SuIQ1Lys 4L was IlLGlLAS, SO4LACkROWp VAoV Sergeant Vita should have succeeded to the oratorical roost of the moulted Duce. The sergeant, a resident of Port Chester, N. Y., is the son of Italian-American per lnts. He is part of an army that wants something for the Italians, but nothing from them - an army that has come to restore self-respect and democratic gov ernment to the Italian people, to feed them and help them forget their miser- able exploitation of the last 25 years.
 But Sergeant Vita had mission all his own. Consciously or not, he was there to demonstrate that balconies and speech making need no longer be the prerogative of one man. He gave the Italians and ex- ample of a country where any man can mount the nearest stump and speak his mind without fear. He mimicked MuSso- lini, sealing him down to his proper pro- portions and then demolishing him by Tidicule. The crowd laughed and cheered him. Perhaps weight was lifted from good many shoulders. The crowd was laughing at Il Duce, laughing at him in the Piazza Venezia which so often echoed his bombast and re-echoed their cheers. Now the nightmare was over. Il Duce was gone; the Germans were gone; the Allies were here, with food and freedom and an amusing, unshaven young man who polxed fun at a sacred COW without any bne's caring. Yes, it was a pretty good performance Sergeant Vita gave, from all accounts.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-17

dreds of years before the Christian era, and centuries before the birth of Christ, Socrates. Plato and other Greek philosophers spoke con- ficiently about the immortality of the soul Jesus lived amid a genera ton who confidentaly believed in the eternal persistence of life. He enriched the belief in many ways. spoke in reassuring terms about eternal life, and by His resurrection from the dead wildly demonstrated the meaning of the resurrection of the body. He declared that in His Fathers house are many mansions. He told His disciples that He went to prepare a place for them.
 The Biblical belief in life after death can be summed up briefly by saying that Jesus In His life set forth the true nobility of the soul, that He urged men to believe in a God of love, to live their lives under His will, and to be very confident that the key of faith would unlock the gates which open upon the pathways of eternity.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-17

The Bureau of Labor Statistics index of the cost-of-living shows an increase of 31 per cent in house furnishings and small increases in food, clothing, and miscellaneous items. The index of all items showed an increase of 23.5 per cent above January, 1941, and 26.3 per cent above August, 1889. Labor Statistics are often criticized as being too low in com parison with other official authorities, and civilian findings
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-17
Views Of The Press
AN IMMEMoRIAL STORY
(New York Times)

Tn this newspaper a Thunderbolt pilot told of American infantrymen whom from the clouds he saw mak- ing their way forward on a Norman beach Tuesday morning in the face of mortar fire from Germans hid- den in cliffs that faced the beach. Tt was wonderful" he writes. There they were, marching in to die, just as if they were going to a ball game" In 966 there was Norman invasion of Saxon baches. One Taillefer, wandering minstrel and poet, was on a Sussex beach, awaiting the army of Harold. He rode before Duke William, singing of Challemagne and Roland and Oliver and the peers who died in Roncesvalles." He asked as a boon of the Duke to sctrike the first blow in the battle. The Duke granted the boon. The minstrel charged be- fore all the rest and struck Saxon dead. At his second blow the Sax ons surrounded and slew him.
 All but 800 years later, in s62, Lieutenant Oliver Wendell Holmes. Jr.. saw Harry Abbott marching gaily to his death, dangling his sword between his fingers like a cane" The gaiety in deadly dan- ger seems to be instinctiye in young soldiers. It springs from no insensitiveness or trivial thought. It is born of younthful buoyancy and strength and splendor and high heart. No doubt the young fighters of Knossos and Troy, of
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-17
THIS sHoRTCAKE TRAGEDY
(Hartford Courant)

Neither the hills of Bolton and the surrounding countryside, nor the fertile TerryS Plains of Sims bury, nor the more remote fields of Falmouth, Massachusetts, are this year producing their usual abund- ance of the luscious strawberry. Of this most tempting fruit, Dr. Will liam Butler, a noted Englishman, once wrote: Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did" Whether you prefer them with just sugar and rich cream (remember?), or crush ed, sweetened and piled atop golden brown biscuits, hot and dripping with butter, with over the whole a generous dash of whipped cream, your prospects of eating them to saturation, if ever that were pos- sible, is decidedly and sadly less than favorable this season.
 This year the devotees of straw berry shortcake will have little oc- casion to argue whether that epi- cures delight should be constructed of cakes about the diameter of those contraptions. that pass in these days for ladies hats or on a grander scale, two layers with berries literal ly oozing from between them, and brought to the table on a heaping platter. Those legions to whom the strawberry shortcake is the pinnacle of the culinary art will have to be satisfied with what they can get, if any.
 The war and the weather, one cruel in all its ramifications, the other ever capricious, have ganged up on the strawberry crop. For ex- ample = since it seems only fair, although it may be heartrending, to relate any details of this sad plight the labor shortage has forced the Falmouth growers to reduce their acreage from 500 acres in l042 to a mere l62 this year. To make matters worse. Jack Frost on May l9, follow ! ed by MT. Drouth, have combined to clip the yield by more than 26 per cent. Connecticut fields have | also suffered.
 This loss is not merely financial in It's implications, however, hard that blow may be to the farmers For what Is a social gathering or 2 church supper this time of the yeaI without a bountiful serving oi strawberry shortcake? They are al inseparable as apple pie and cheese Truly we have fallen on unhappy daysl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-17

time to know what had struck them.
 The Elbe River invasion was planned to take place simultane- ously with a second front. But the grey heads inside the Navy decided it would cost too much in lives and ships and would be too great risk.
 GOOD OMEN FOR
 REPUBLICANS
 The general public probably has the idea that all the Republicans the President has put into import ant jobs will vote for him next November. Inside fact, however, is that most of them will not only be against him, but will contribute heavily to the Republican party.
 Take for instance, energetic Nelson Rockefeller, whom Harry Hopkins placed in the key job of Inter-American Coordinator. Last election, he contributed $5,000 to defeat Roosevelt, and his family contributed around $30,000. This November, judging by an incident in Costa Rica, will be the same.
 Young Rockefeller was inspect ing in Costa Rica a new tropical research laboratory, which will conduct research for all the twen- ty-one republics. From the ex- cavation, while the laboratory was being built, there had been un- earthed an ancient piece of In- dian pottery with long shoot re- sembling that of an elephant.
 q didn't know that elephants lived in the Western Hemis- phere," remarked Nelson. q thought they were found only only in Asia and Africa. But at any rate, this is good omen for us Republicans next Mo- vember."
 THE TEXAS REVOLT
 Roosevelt strategists in Wash
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-17
TOO MUCH SUGAR

I don't know, and I am unable to cite any scientific evidence to bol- ster my opinion, but believe some. thing that is removed from wheat and discarded in the modern milling process may be the factor, lack ot which accounts for the abnormal craving for excessive amounts of re- fined carbohydrate (sugar, starch). A good many persons have told me that when they include Q reason- able amount of plain wheat in their every day diet in place of things made of refined white flour and things containing refined sugar, they no longer crave sweets and dainty cakes and the like as much as they did before.
 Get Your Wheat
 How to feed wheat to your farn- lily and make 'ern like 1t is explained in the pamphlet "Wheat to Eat"--- for copy send @ stamped envelope bearing your address. ,
 There is more than mere conjec- ture in the idea that oveTeating, which accounts for most over- weight, is due to nutritionaA def1- ciency or hidden hunger" Over weight is but one manifestation of such nutritional deficiency, but one so obvious that victims are eener- ally concerned about 1t. Other manifestations are not so obviously nutritional and hence are often wrongly attributed to such fanci- full causes as "overwork," nerve strain,' run down condition" :" "neurasthenia, "poor circulation" "rheum tism," "autointoxication" "acidosis" nervous indigestion" "liver trouble" and what have you. Probably various vitamin and min- eral shortages are factors in differ ent cases and different circurn- stances, but so far as obesity Is concerned the shortage or deh- ciency chiefly responsible, in my opinion, is vitamin B complex dea- ciency ,and that, 1t has been pretty clearly shown, is more or less tn- evitable as long as people use in their everyday diet refined white flour or things made of 1t instead of whole wheat (the richest food source of B complex), and refined sugar or things sweetened with 1t instead of old-fashioned molasses (made from boiling down in open kettle) or natural sugars or syrups unrehned, such as honey, maple syrup, sorghum or beet sugar syrups.
 Remember, it is not the refined sugar or sweets or the refined white flour or cornstarch itself that does harm, but the fact that these delectable carbohydrates are so easy to eat or drink whether you are hungry or need nourishment or not, and they supply calories for immediate energy requirements but fail to supply the vitamins and minerals without which the body cannot function normally.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-17

ington have made up their minds definitely that the anti-Roosevelt delegation from Texas, organized by Jesse Jones nephew and Jack Gamers friend E. B. Germany, will not be seated at the Demo- cratic convention in Chicago. h. stead, the pro-Roosevelt delegates, inspired by Congressman Lyndon Johnson, Alvin Wirtz and speak, CT Sam Rayburn, will be recog- nized.
 However, the question of elec- tors from Texas is not going to be so easy. The Texas Democra- tic convention, from which the pro-Roosevelt group walked out, voted that Texas electors were not pledged to vote for the Demo- cratic party's nominee in the Electoral College unless the party went on record for certain things which Roosevelt will not accept.
 At the moment, a lot of legal
 research is being done to see
 whether the entire electroal question cannot be threshed out in the Texas courts before No-
 vember. The Constitution, of course, does not bind electors to vote as their State votes. But
 the courts might find that 15O years of precedent had now be- come the equivalent of law.
 If a court test is not possible the idea of putting up separate electords, labelled Roosevelt Dem- Ocrats," is being considered. How ever, this would mean splitting the Texas vote three ways-between the Republicans, the regular Dem- ocrats and the Roosevelt-De crats. In this case, the Republi- cans might carry Texas. Hoover did it in 1928.
 Copyright, 1914, by United
 Feature Syndicate, Inc.)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-17
Good Idea

This year Fathers Day is going to be Committee has anything to say about Der Pop with a War Bond. They are also being urged to urge him to buy an extra one, too.
 It seems like a good idea. In fact, thinking of some of those horrendously garish neckties that heartless haber- dashers palm off on well-meaning wives and children each Fathers Day, it seems like darned good idea.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-17

There are gloomy predictions concern ing the ability of big business to furnish sufficient employment for returning sol diers and civilians after the war. Small business is even more uneasy in consider ing the probabilities of the future. When you come to analyse the whole problem, the result lands one in a confusion of possibilities that involve all the economic conditions and systems. Nobody knows what the harvest of peace will reap. So do your own guessing.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-17

Henry Fords company has done ex- ceptional work in giving employment to the blind For this service Henry Ford has been awarded the Nigel Medals flor outstanding service to the blind" Henry Ford II received the medal for his grand father, and the event was said to be some thing of an exception as it was the first time the award was made to person having no connection with an agency for the blind.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-17

When the war is over, there will be a new skyline. There will be such build ing as there never was before. This may not mean that we will go higher up than the Empire State, but all sorts of con- struction will occupy the architects and the builders. And as for what will go inside, the improvements, the new mater ials - well it is beyond anything. There should be work for all in this sort of a postwar era