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Evening star., 1944-06-02
Letters to The Star
Desires Only One Tomb for
Unknown Dead
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor of The Star:
There seems to be some agitation in
certain quarters as to bringing home
the body of another unknown soldier
after the present war is over for burial,
with due military honors, in the Arling-
ton National Cemetery.
Based on the assumption that the
remains OF the Unknown Soldier now
resting in Arlington typify our un-
known soldier, sailor and marine dead
who sacrificed their lives in all wars,
it appears that the very object for
which the first burial was solemnized
would be defeated by such
proceeding. OF course, if the in
tent is to have an unknown" for
each and every war, the idea of one
for the present conflict could be under
standable. However. as I recall it, the
inscription on the west end of the Tomb
of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington
reads: Here rests in honored glory an
American soldier, known but to God"
On the east end, in low relief, are three
f1gures-two women-representing Vic
tory and Peace, and one male figure,
Valour. Nothing more is inscribed, nor.
in my humble opinion, is there
a need for anything more. No
particular war is mentioned - no
date-just the simple statement above
quoted I like to think that here rests
in solemn grandeur on the peaceful,
green slopes of Arlington a buddy who
represents all our unknown soldier dead
in all wars-past, present, and, 7 am
forced to add, all future wars. Is there
any real assurance that the present
conflict will be the last? If we are to
have an unknown" for each and every
war. it might be we'll to so plan for the
future, appropriately inscribing each
tomb ir turn. But, if the body now
enshrined at Arlington is intended to
represent unknown dead in all wars
past, present and future-then I ask
again: Why defeat this noble and
worthy thought? Let that American
soldier known but to God forever oc-
cupy in honored glory his unique and
solitary post there in Arlington National
Cemetery
While it is true that I am a veteran
OF the First World War "a war which
many thought would end all vars,
and it SO happens that in the Tomb of
the Unknown Soldier reposes, perhaps,
a comrade with whom I once talked.
laughed. cursed and prayed, my con-
viction on this subject would be the
same had I fought in other wars, in the
present war or in no war at all.
DATTT
Evening star., 1944-06-02
Nazi Situation in Italv
By Maj. George Fielding Eliot

In recent article I wrote that the
situation OF the German 10th Army in
Italy could be described as desperate,
and that its fate hinged on the ability
OF Marshal Kesselring to hold the VAL
montone area on his right wing. Today,
the German situation has materially
improved, exactly because Kesselring
has managed to hold Valmontone. and
to prevent further outfanking move
ment by Allied forces around the Alban
hills to the westward.
The strategy of Gen. Alexander was
designed to entrap the 10th Army be-
fore it could escape from the Sacco
Valley. But the best strategy is de-
pendent on tactical success, and the
Germans, fighting with furious energy
and throwing in their last reserves at
the decisive point, were able to deny
the Allied forces tactical success at the
place where they most needed it.
The German situation is now roughly
as follows:
Elements Of the 10th Army are with
drawing from the Sacco Valley north
westward across the Apennines by two
roads; the main road from Sora (now
IN Allied hands to AveZzano and the
secondary road from Frosinone (also in
Allied hands, to Subiaco. Avezzano is
on the main croSsroad from Rome to
Pescara on the Adriatic Sea; Subiaco is
south OF that road, but is connected
with 1t by two secondary roads The Al
lied Air Forces have established road
blocks south of Avezzano and also south
OF Subiaco. The air activities against
the Germans retreating through the
mountain deflles are continuing.
Other elements of the 10th AAny
'perhapS the bulk of it, are withdraw
Ing up the Via Casilina toward VAL
montone. Most of these troops are prob
ably using the parallel secondary ROAD
few miles north of the Via Casilina
Itself, since the main road at Valmon-
tone is under the fire of Allied artillery.
These troops are being closely pursued
by the Allied 9th Army.
Meanwhile, the German 14th Army,
the force originally blocking the beach,
head, Is trying desperately to hold
Valmontone and the Alban hills. When
1t became apparent that Valmontone
could not be carried in the first rush,
the Allied beachhead troops began an
attempt to outflank it by going around
the Albar hills to the westward I'D the
Via Appia. This attempt was blocked
by German forces at Lanuvio and
Velletri, both Of which are still in Ger
man hands, but which are now threat
ened from the rear by an American
drive right into the heart of the Alban
Evening star., 1944-06-02

stripped of its young manpower."
The folk who remain are laboring
from dawn to dusk youngsters of
ten are driving tractors"
Meanwhile, the prayer in the
hearts of the residents of Iowa's
Washington is that "the men in uni
form will finish it off soon and come
back to find the same homes they
left" Mr.. Steele discovered no anx-
iety for change among the citizens
with whom he talked. Most of ALL"
he reports, Washington, Iowa, is
trying to stay just as it was before
the fighting men went away, to keep
intact the kind of life that it knows
from the letters they write home is
the big thing they are fighting for.
No one quite says that or is
doing it wholly consciously, but you
sense it everywhere"
Captain Robert H. Shannon, who
crashed with Lieutenant General
Frank M. Andrews and Bishop Adna
Wright Leonard in Iceland, May 8,
1943, was the son of Ralph E. Shan
non, editor of the Washington
Uowa) Journal He is remembered
as one of the first American flyers
to complete twenty-five missions
over Europe. When he died the
entire community mourned-and
was proud. Mr.. Steele sets forth
basic principle when he observes:
Zone casualty in Washington, Iowa,
is a loss to the whole town." Per-
haps that is why the civilian popu-
lation is so quiet, so earnest and so
determined not to be altered. The
Postal Guide indicates that there
are forty-one little Washingtons
from Maine to California and from
Michigan to Louisiana. 1oWa's
Washington is central to them all
and probably symptomatic of them,
likewise.
Evening star., 1944-06-02
Unsuccessful Proofreudino

The perversity of type and an
unexplained failure of the usual
checks against such things changed
successful" as applied to the draft
aid center of the District civilian
war services, to "unsuccessful' in
a Star editorial yesterday. While
the context made the typographical
error obvious, The ST." now corrects,
with apologies, the mistake.
Evening star., 1944-06-02
The Song of the Peepers

Ho,0 softly the ,Uind comes over the
fields tonight.
A ,D1nd NTH gentle hands, broodino
Wind,
And ouerhead lo,0 clouds withhold the
rain.
In the 10ild honeYSuckle thicket,
Trees are Druids In the halt-Hght,
Trailing their mantles of dark, stran-
Cling zines.
But from the nleadoW pool tender
singing rises,
A light among shadol0s
This is a chant hymeneal, the song OF
the peppers.
Flute notes, treble, bubbles OF delicate
sound,
Lighter than birdSonq,
A Dery 1DiH-o'-t -the-1UiSp OF music
Threading the darkness.
INEz BARCLAY KIRBY.
Evening star., 1944-06-02
This Changing World
By Constantine Brown

Marshal Pietro Badoglio, Italy's make
shift Premier, is packing his bags pre-
paratory to going to Rome before the
end of this month.
1t appears unlikely that his nominal
master King Victor Emmanuel, will ac-
company him. The King is said to want
to remain in Sicily In his present re-
treat, while his son, Prince Umberto,
intends to follow Badoglio to the capital
when circumstances permit.
For the time being the attention of
every one is focused on the battle for
Rome. Marshal Albert Kesselring's re-
naming German forces are still Offer
ing stubborn resistance, although avail
able information points to an eventual
total withdrawal well north of the
Eternal City. The present battles are
being described as fierce rear-guard ac-
tions by units at times comprising the
strength of full division. The Nazi
counterattacks are intended to permit
the disengagement of the remnants of
Kesselrings II divisions and the evacua-
ton of the heavy equipment which the
Germans want to preserve
AS soon as this Is completed the way
into Rome will be open to the Allied
armies Some time will be required be-
fore the forces of Gen. Sir Harold Alex
ander can reorganize and push ahead
toward the Genoa-Rimini or the Pc
River lines. BY then it is fully expected
that the offensives in the West and the
East will be in full swing.
Politically, however, the capture of
Rome will be only the opening chapter
of struggle between the various fac
tions in italy and the foreign powers
which support them.
n 4 * X
The Badoglio cabinet is formed of
heterogeneous elements ranging from
monarchists to Communists with sprin-
king of socialists and liberals acting as a
link between these strongly antagonistic
groups. Badoglio himself has little hope
of remaining in power long after the
government has returned to Rome. He
became its head merely because King
Victor found In him loyal friend and
because he had been instrumental in
negotiating the surrender and later an
agreement with the Allies The Italian
politicos in his cabinet say Premier Ba-
doglio must be considered merely as an
official who has been given temporary
job pending the transfer of the govern
ment to its legal capital But as soon
as this is done reshuhe will have to be
Evening star., 1944-06-02
The Lesser Nations

In current planning for the post
war world. a statement of the Meth
erlands Foreign Minister strikes a
note which should not be disregarded,
Strictly in his capacity as spokesman
for the foreign policy Of the Dutch
government In exile, Eelco van
Kleffens registered a polite but en-
phatic dissent from "blueprints" like
that recently sketched by Prime
Minister Winston Churchill, advo-
eating a "world-controlling council
comprising the greatest states which
emerge victorious from this war"
This, in practice, means America,
Britain and Russia, As Mr.. Church.
i'll apparently sees it, the world as
sembly" of all peace-loving states.
great and small, might be little more
than a consultative chorus, unable
to do much more than discuss and
ultimately ratify the decisions of the
Big Three" possessing a virtual
monopoly of power.
Leaving aside the question of
whether this planetary triumvirate
permanently would see eye to eye,
Mr.. van Kleffens raises the more
fundamental issue of principle
which is involved. He warned that
no such arrangement could win the
voluntary assent and active support
of the lesser nations which "are
made to feel the burden of the war
no less and often more acutely than
the great powers. It seems reason
able, therefore, that they should
have their due voice in attempts to
prevent war" And he called atten-
ton to the fact that, collectively,
those numerous lesser nations bulk
large in population, resources and
ability. Such aggregates cannot be
left without proportional represen-
tation and authority in any endur-
ing scheme for world peace and
security. There can be no doubt
that, in this, the Dutch foreign min
lister spoke for most of the other
lesser nations.
Mr.. van Kleffens is thinking pri-
marily of Europe, which fears the
prospect of being directed by a tri-
umvirate all of whose members are
partly or wholly tra-European."
The continent, in that case, might
become perpetual buffer between
the divergent and potentially con-
flicting interests of Britain and the
Soviet Union, with the United States
distant and uncertain arbiter. But
the same objections are to be antic-
ipated from the Latin American
family of nations. At least two of
these, Brazil and Argentina, claim
the stature OF dignity OF great
powers" while the generality of
them are animated by a touchy
sense of their sovereign rights and
privileges.
All of which goes to show that the
ordering of the postwar world is
complex and delicate matter, where
in the majority of lesser nations
must be considered, If world recon-
struction is to be broad-based and
enduring. Secretary Hull's comment
on the van Kleffens statement indi-
Gates that he is in full agreement
with this view.
Evening star., 1944-06-02
Token Coinage Advocated

Token Coinage Advocated
To the Editor of The Star:
May offer suggestion?
Seventy-one years ago the Post Of
fice Department first began to issue
postal cards. The idea was a novelty.
but most important and valuable one.
So, too, was the parcel post system,
which 81 years ago after stubborn cor
porate opposition, became a postal in
stitution. No public man, Representa-
tive or Senator now would dare to stake
his political future on a proposal to
abolish parcel post service.
Now for another reform-one more
device to sweep away a condition that is
burdensome, irritating and unnecessary.
We should have aluminium mail coinage.
AT present there Is no safe, practical
means for sending money through the
mails in amounts less than a dollar
unless we hazard the use of banknote
in letter.
For illustration, suppose want to
buy an article up in New England that
costs Sic. A money order is positively
inconvenient and exorbitant. Mail
tokens Of aluminium would save time
and annoyance in such a case.
Such coinage in token form. like
streetcar tokens, with the initials "U. S."
stamped in, could be minted as safe
from counterfeiting as ordinary silver
specie The latter is 10 per cent copper,
30 per cent silver. Aluminium tokens
would be vastly cheaper. 1t is their
use value-not their intrinsic value
that would count.
Bankers and book-Wise economists
might lift their eyebrows, but Congress
could authorize the issue of $100 ,000, 900
worth of aluminium token coins tomor-
row and it would not rock the money
boat enough to cause ripple. Allotted
to all the States, such coinage would
start continental activity in mail trade
hitherto unimagined.
This token coinage would not call
for any support in reserves. 1t would
be a forced loan, perfectly acceptable
to the public and backed by its use
value.
Think 1t over, please
J. A. TRUESDELL.
Bluemont, Va.
Evening star., 1944-06-02
Nothing Coined
From the Brantford Expositor.

FTohl the Brantford EXposltor.
Referring to the complaints Of war
correspondents with regard to official
censorship in the Burma sector, Lord
Louis Mountbatten says that some of
the dispatches contained information
lit was undesirable that the enemy
should know" This is a good explana-
ton, provided it is complete. 1t will be
remembered, however, that the censors
and the military authorities gave the
same reason for keeping the empire in
the dark about the disaster that threat
ened and finally overlook Singapore
There was nothing gained by that
muzzllng, and the British people are not
disposed to tolerate any repetition of
such pointleSs censorship
Evening star., 1944-06-02
Servicemen Want Papers

Servicemen Want Papers
To the Editor of The Star:
The following is part of letter I have
received from a sailor in the South Pa
cific:
I'VE are all awaiting anxiously news
of the invasion Of Europe We thought
it would be good idea If we could get
editions of the newspapers that came
out on that day, all of us having differ
ent papers sent to us. Could you send
me local paper? AS that will be
delayed, all the inclosed clippings we
could get in the meantime would be
greatly appreciated. We sure hope we
won't have to wait long"
RICHARD STEIN.
Evening star., 1944-06-02

is reaching out now to cut off the
TOTO war machine from all its ILL
gotten gains to the south-the raw
materials, including oil, which are so
vital to Japan's ability to carry out
protracted struggle.
Evening star., 1944-06-02

In New York State fourth term
in the Big House may mean life.
There and elsewhere, Republicans are
afraid that fourth term in the
White House may have the same
significance.
Evening star., 1944-06-02

German reconnaissance fliers over
Britain are trying hard to get IN
vasion data. The restless American
public would be satisfied to get along
without the data if it could only
guess the date.
Evening star., 1944-06-02

The Department of Agriculture Is
trying to grow new superior varieties
of potatoes. CT Joe, KIP, has put in
a request to the department to work
on a kind that will peel itself.
Evening star., 1944-06-02
This and That
Bg Charles E. TrGceDeH.
"DISTRICT HEIGHTS. Md


Dear Sir:
I'VE have been reading your column
with great pleasure and profit for some
time now We have been feeding the
birds by throwing crumbs on the ground
outside our breakfast nook window and
enjoy watching the birds while we have
breakfast.
1.-THE three children, and also my
husband, have become very much in
terested in the various species that We
see. We have identified several from
your descriptions-especially the fox
sparrow and the towhee.
THE latter have been with us for
several weeks and had attracted our
attention at once, as they are so dis
tinctive have seen as many as four
at one time. Can you tell me If there
is a difference in the male and female?
1.-THE queer thing that I have no.
ticed is that one of the little flock is
brown instead of black. I am sure that
is the only difference; the breast is
gray, the sides orange-red like robin,
there are white spots at the base of the
wings and the size is the same, but the
head and back are cinnamon brown
rather than black. I am sure it is not
just the head that is brown, which
might mean it was cowbird.
"The brown is all over the back, and
comes to a point on the breast just as
the black does on all the others. Can
it be just an unusual towhee? 1t seems
shy, as if it knows it is different.
ALSO I want to say good word for
Epp1iSh Sparr0WS
II was brought up in the country and
always had considered them nuisance,
but now my husband and I have
changed our minds.
Recently, while he was working in
the garden, hen sparrow came and
watched while he dug. She would come
quite close and chirp, then dart in to
devour a grub, Of which there was a
plentiful supply.
"She continued to return for several
days and destroyed large number of
insects in so doing. Some she carried
away, evidently to her young, because
since the whole family of four young
and the parents has been seen both in
the garden picking bugs off the peas and
at the feeding station.
1--WE are glad to have them, since they
are helping check the insects.
I'VE have also catbirds, mockingbirds,
jays, thrashers, robins and Wrens. The
juncos who were so plentiful in winter
are gone, and recently our cardinals
have disappeared, too. We miss them
The thrashers may have driven them
away They are so aggressive.
Sincerely. D. K B."
*
Evening star., 1944-06-02
CONNECTICUT AVENUE

Dear Sir:
I'm Chicago the only birds that came
under my observation were the sparrowS
and robins.
MY admiration for the sparroWs has
been great for the plucky fight they
make to survive the severe winter
season.
Your column came to my attention
shortly after my arrival here two years
ago, so I can now identify many of the
birds you have written about.
Several types of sparrows have been
noted. This brings me to my question:
Are these various types offshoots
from the original sparroWs brought to
this country from England?
Possibly you may find time in the
future to comment on the genealogy of
this interesting family.
Yours truly, J. M. M"
Both of these correspondents are to
be congratulated on their liking for
sparroWs.
The unusual bird of our District
Heights correspondent was a female
toWhee.
AS for the sparrow tribes, there are
40 opcClco "lllCil may Ue Scell dt oil
ferent times in and around the District
of Columbia. None is an offshoot from
the English sparrow, but each Is diff
ferent species on its own.
The most common are the song SPAR
row, the White-throated sparrow and
the white crowned sparrow
Eighteen of these sparroWs are native
birds, and all seem to get along very
we'll with the English sparrows, which
technically are regarded as weaver
flnches
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1944-12-23
Imperial
Continued from Page u

shareholders the Canadian Western
Natural Gas; Light, Heat and
Power, Ltd; Security Assets, Ltd;
Osler, Hammond and Nanton, Ltd;
and Consumers Cooperative Re-
fineries, Ltd. Most of the capital
was subscribed by Imperial.
Summarizing the work done by
the two groups, the Imperial report
lists.
Geologically surveyed and core
drilled, 1939-43, 20,797, 440 acres.
Surveyed by gravity meter, 1910
Al, 10,S97, 900 acres.
Surveyed by seismograph, 1910
10, 5,09l $40 acres.
All of this, the report recites, was
followed by the drilling of seven
rotary tests, for a combined footage
of $4,000 feet.
AS a result of all of this, the re-
port concludes
IN no instance was production
obtained, although there were, in
some cases, those will-Of-the-wiSp
indications that encourage drillers
TO keep on trying.
Meanwhile the biologists con-
tinue to scour the prairies, delve
into the coulees and gaze at the far
horizons for every isolated rock ex-
posture on which to moralize. Where
outcroppings are not available, the
core drillers pierce the over-burden
for cores which are given a scien-
tific third degree to make them
talk; the seismic crews manipulate
their synthetic earthquakes to dis
cover structural highs and the
rotary drillerS go about their APP
pointed task of making hole
AS to the cost?
Says the report:
The geological and core drilling
parties operate at a cost of around
4 cents per acre; gravity meter
surveys cost half a cent an acre and
the seismic crews required about
cents an acre. Deep drilling and
coring are rather expensive, at
about 500 a foot"
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1944-12-23

Sxsmdded 1854, drilling $50
O A MEP@wAD-MAUGKNE NO. t.
C NV sW NE i1-35N-1W
p6f4kE wEsTERN-c. n. osssas NO. 81
Nc NV Me p-3xN-3W
spuddad ll-1e-44. COMPLETION I2-1A-
A; I'd, 1886 EM 1895 swabbed 10
bnls otls 90 hnls water, fIrst u hours.
M NE Nw s-sSSw
Location. (F7RsT REpORT)
PACIFIC WESTERN on C0RP.SGE 0s83zS
Ne NE sw e-sSN-sw
ZIG np. sEIRsT REP aSs xo
GW NV SW 10-3GN-3W
Spudded 10-t2-44; standing, 1135.
TExAC0-R. DAyEY NO. IT.
G SW NV Sc 3-35N-2W
spudded 12-ie-44; drilling, $50
TEXACO-HOWLENG ALL
c EW NV SW 10-35N-2W
COMPLETION 12-14-44; I'd. 1914. EN-
1908, show oil. Acidlzed 500 gallons.
Swabbed SO bbis. first "a hours.
TEXAC0-MENNEY N0k-I0ENT NO. g.
G NV SW Sc 1B-S5N-2W
Spudded f2-10-44, drilling e15.
TEAAC0-AENA KENFET JOINT NO. To-
NE NV NE 1g~35N-2W
Spudded 12-14-a4; drilling, $50.
TEXAC0-AHND NO. IT,
c NE NV EW 2-3SN-2W
Spudded 10-30-44 COMPLETION 12-16-
"A: I'd, 1747; show EN- 1745; acidized
500 gallons; testing
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1944-12-23
New Alberta

spond to the upper porous section
of the Madison lime, in Turner val
ley. Pipe was set at 1886 and the
hole was drilled to 1850. From this
depth, the well is reported to have
flowed 6,500,000 feet of wet, naph-
tha-laden gas through q inch choke.
Drilling was then resumed and hole
made to 9947, where operations
ceased when the bit entered black
lime, similar to that which marks
the bottom of the porous zone in
the Turner Valley field.
Shell repeatedly holds more than
10000 acres In the immediate vicin-
ity of the well, and In addition re.
Gently filed on 440,788 acres In the
adjoining Nordegg Brazeau area.
The discovery we'll was drilled
with rotary tools in $50 days from
the time 1t spudded in.