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Reputriutes
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sent of the governments which
compose it, has drafted q plan for
the uniform treatment of "en-
slaved" peoples which, it is antici-
pated, soon will be ratified and
placed in effect when the military
authorities call on the organization
to take over the job of relief.
Many Phases of Problem.
Some of the outstanding points OF
the plan are:
l. To advise displaced persons by
radio and other means not to seek
to return home independently but
to wait for Official repatriation.
2. To collect full information as to
the nationality and history of the
people to be repatriated.
3. To assure that all, regardless of
nationality, receive identical aid
with no favoritism shown.
4. To provide displaced persons
with all needed clothes, food and
medical attention.
S. To provide these people with all
Official papers necessary to estab-
lish their identity.
6. To attempt to find employment
for the slave" laborers upon their
return to their own country.
Z. To arrange officially for the
transportation Of these people
through alien countries.
1t can be readily appreciated that
this Job of repatriation is the most
tremendous ever attempted in his.
tory, and one that involves not only
such elemental needs as food, cloth
ing and transportation, but also
applied psychiatry in reconditionina
these people to . life which must
seem to them . long-forgotten
dream.
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little change in position, the Ger
mans apparently concentrating their
greatest strength there to keep the
Reds out of Berlin and the Rus
slams biding their time while they
build up powerful forces and sup
plies for the final drive which per-
haps may not be required.
A radio speech by 1t. Gen. Ditma,
which was interpreted as a peace
feeler, declared that Germans must
resist to the bitter end in an effort
to cause the Allies to retreat from
the extreme demand of uncondition-
al surrender. Make the victory of the
Allies so costly they will soften their
terms rather than pay the price
was the burden of his plea with an
Inhalation as the only alternative
Secretary of State Hull, asked to
comment, was not interested.
In the Pacific, the softening ur
process was speeded during the
week with Allied aircraft hammer
ing the enemy from the Kuriles to
Sumatra.
An airfield on Middleburg Is
land of the tip of New Guinea has
shortened the flying distance to the
Philippines by 200 miles and this
field has already sent its planes
to raid the lower Philippines.
The roll of japanese bases bombed
during the week included Para
mushiro, the Volcano Islands, Truk
Ponape, Palau, Nauru, Yap, Woleai
Rota, Pagan. the Celebes, Sumatra
Manado, Halmahera and others.
Navy Secretary Forrestal revealed
during the week that $1,000 vessels
OF all types have been built for
the Navy during the past five years
and that by means of a new tech
nique even LIST boats can be used
as carriers.
Powerful forces are being built
up for new offensives against Japan
and big news from the Pacific is not
far distant.
Evening star., 1944-09-03
Labor
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union grows out of the nature
OF the organization. No small group
OF people elected as labor union Of
f1cials has a right to use an eco
nomic organization to bore from
within" political party without any
real mandate from its members. It
is questionable project. 1t is like.
ly to be disastrous one.
Democracy must have q virile, in
dependent and constructive labor
movement if we are to succeed in
keeping our basic freedoms alive,
1t cannot be the tail to any political
party kite If it is to serve the needs
OF our working people and win in
the competition of commerce and
ideologies.
I find it hard to see the difference
between a union and a political
party If the union officers undertake
to conduct political campaigns and
seek campaign contributions from
employers with whom they bargain
ION wages and other conditions of
employment. Like other politicians,
won't they be expected to make
contributions to contributors?
Besides, many people wonder how
the PAC determines what candi-
dates and platforms to support. Do
PAC leaders expect their candidates
to support their views on labor leg
islation, social policy and interna-
tional affairs? If so, should other
unions who may not be in agree
ment with the PAC decide whether
the danger of such a commitment
may not make it necessary to op-
pose an otherwise acceptable can
didate?
II unions are to operate as steer
ing committees for a political party
we must accept the liability for the
deeds and misdeeds of that party.
Instead, I believe, we must demon
strate that good trade unionism,
operating as economic organiza-
tous. y old-fashionsd American
Evening star., 1944-09-03
Final Score
BIZ Warren Beck. (Knopf.)

This is a short novel, but still too
long for the story 1t has to tell-if,
that is, you can say that it tells any
at all. And. with that liability, it
suffers still further by the interest
numbering device through which the
author tells it.
1t is one of those things where
the story Of Character One is told
by Character Two to Character
Three. who. in turn, tells it to the
reader. Authors use the method (as
Conrad, with his iron-lunged Mar
lowe, for instance) when they want
to clothe an extremely slender plot
with portent. They represent
Character Two as a profoundly
shrewd analyst of human nature
and into his mouth. as he reports on
Character One to Character Three,
they put all their own favorite prov
erbs, cherished theories and here
tofore unpublished bits of wisdom
Evening star., 1944-09-03
Public Library
Book Pointers
By Genevieve NJ. C0,plinl
Simha,
Adviser in Education, Public Library.
Work Experience and School.

Adviser in Education, Public Library.
Work Experience and School.
Is youth forgetting the value of
knowledge? The lure Of paying
work, coupled with . desire to be
in the fight, offers a strong attrac-
ton. Formal education may not be
lost, however, If cooperative pro-
gram-part work, part study-is
undertaken. Three people are neces-
sary in this plan-an understanding
counselor, helpful employer and
capable student. Developing
plans offer possibilities for the post
war period.
While books on the subject are
few, pamphlets and magazine ar
ticles are numerous. THE Small
School In Wartime" a book by
Frank w. Cyr, includes q good plan
for a cooperative program. Part
I of the 1943 yearbook of the
National Society for the Study of
Education deals specifically with
vocational education.
The School Review has featured
several articles on cooperative ex-
periments: Businessmen Take Part
in Vocational Guidance for High
School Seniors" September, 1941
Work Experience for High School
Pupils" October, 1941; "Co-opera-
tive Training Program in q Small
School," December, 1871; Shifting
Emphases in the Problems of Pupils
in Certain Michigan High Schools, -
February, 1943;; High Schools and
Manpower; Importance Of Work Ex-
perience," September, 1913. The
Rotarian, November, 1e42. has an
article, Job for Jerry: Work Ex-
perience In High Schools"
The Public Library. Eighth and K
streets NV, and its branches have
these and other materials describing
oo-opsratdys work anlc study.
Evening star., 1944-09-03
For the Mystery Fans
Brief ReuieDs of Current
Defective Fiction.

Brief ReUielDS OF Current
Detectiue Fiction.
Dear Dead Mother-in-Law, by
Katharine Hill Dutton)-Young
man whose mother-in-law has
wrecked his home is suspected Of
numbering the old lady. Suburban
crime, agreeably settled
Case of the Giant Killer, by H. G.
Branson (Simon & SchuSteD.-
Psychologically induced murder
injured man making his enemies
kill one another. Fair.
Beyond the Dark, by Kieran
Abbey (Scribners)-Two young peo-
pie trying to conceal their identities
for very different reasons are
thrown together in a mad chase in
which they must prove innocence.
Good
The Misadventures of Sherlock
Holmes, edited by Ellery Queen
Little, Brown. - Collection Of
Holmes tales written by other writ
ers than A. Conan Doyle, from Mark
Twain to the present. To Holmes
fans, obligatory.
Evening star., 1944-09-03
Ranger Mosby

By Virgil CdrrtngtOn Jones.
University OF North Carolina
PreSs.)
Some one has come along at last
to prove that biography can be writ
ten with the swift movement of an
exciting novel-yet without COM
promising the facts.
1t isn't often you can call a
biographical work gripping. This
one is-from cover to cover. 1t
may be conceded, of course, that
an author delving into the colorful
career of Col. John S. Mosby,
swashbuckling Confederate ranger,
has rich soil in which to work. But
a writer less skilled than Mr.. Jones
might have emerged with a mere
conventional biography, with all the
drama and adventure reduced to
a stodgy array of places, dates and
documentary evidence.
Mr.. Jones has covered the entire
life of Col. Mosby. but he has wisely
devoted the bulk of his book to that
period of little more than two
years when the ranger harassed
the Federals within their own lines,
seizing railroad trains, attacking
wagon caravans full of supplies
horses and mules, as well
as Union soldiers and officers. FIRE.
quently his operations brought him
almost within stones throw of
Washington and one Of his great
est exploits was his snatching of
the Union Gen. Stoughton from
his bed in Fairfax Court House, not
more than 18 miles from the North
ern Capital.
History has somehow under
Evening star., 1944-09-03
By Mary-Csrfsr Roberts.

played the Slgnluc0nCe OF M060y'8
campaigns against the Northern
armies, but this is an oversight
which Mr.. Jones' book will do much
to rectify. At the beginning Of the
War Between the States Mosby was
q young attorney In Bristol, Va.
When fighting became inevitable
he joined the local company and
began drilling with his neighbors
In Bristol and nearby Abingdon.
No one then could have seen
the energy and military prowess
the daring and loyalty that lay in
the heart of this diminutive lawyer
on horseback. Yet before he dis
banded his rangers four years later
he had risen from a private in an
obscure company to colonel COM
manding an Independent battalion.
He had been wounded several times.
even captured. A bounty was on
his head.
He enjoyed the confidence and
gratitude of Southern leaders, like
Gen. Robert E. Lee and the pic
turesque Jeb Stuart, and the re-
spect and admiration of Union gen.
erals, like Grant and Sheridan,
who often found his tactics inter-
fering with their own grand STRAIT
egy. Mosby understood, far ahead
Of his time, the devastating effect
Of operations used SO successfully
by the Commands, Raiders and
Rangers in the present war.
Aside from its virtues as an
exciting document, Mr.. Jones' book
possesses considerable local interest.
Most of Mosby's forays were within
so miles of Washington, many Of
them virtually in sight of the Cap
itol dome. Mr.. Jones, himself Q
native Virginian, Is now a Wash.
ington newspaperman, formerly as.
sociated with The Star. In the
course of his six years Of research
he made abundant use of the aged
files of The Star, which are quoted
literally. NORMAN KAHL.
Little Coquette
By Renee de Fontarce McCor-
mick. Translated by Leander
J. Mccormick. (Houghton-
MiHin.)
This is novel that is not a novel.
1t is the story of the girlhood of
Simone d'Entremont, who, the
author explains in a foreword, is
such girl as once was. My life
was like hers" the author continues,
"and it was passed at a time and
in circumstances such as have here
described. The people. the places.
the events Of which I tell are in
essence true, but the details are
drawn from many sources; hence
the characters of the book and the
correlation Of events are fictional."
Little Coquette" is being hailed
by some critics as the product of q
new technique-a kind of literary
plastic surgery. But autobiography
ical fiction and fictioniZed auto
biography are as old as the art Of
writing, and the only thing new
about Mrs. McCormick's technique
is her frankness. AL good novels
and all good autobiographies are
blends of fact and fiction, but few
writer's will admit it.
Simone's story is something of .
Life With Father" French style.
1t is simply the life of an old French
family as seen through the eyes of
a little girl. The father Is amiable.
bald and a lover of horses, women
and good manners. The mother is
beautiful, distant and fearful Of
scandal. And the little girl Is curl
GUS, mischievous and, on the whole,
| likable.
Whether you regard Little CO.
quette" as novel, an autobiog-
raphy or a new kind of literary
creation, you are likely to enjoy it.
PHILIP H. LOVE.
Evening star., 1944-09-03
CIuny Brown
By Mdrgery Sharp. Little.
Pr01DY

This is q novel somewhat in the
Angela Thirkeu vein. but with less
exaggeration. 1t deals with Eng
lish county society in terms of
the peculiar humor which that So
ciety seems to provoke-there is a
vague county lady who gardens,
a vaguer county gentleman who
remembers nothing since World
War I. a pink intellectual, a Polish
refugee, a problem parlor maid
and, in short, the usual cast. Slap
stick with Wodehouse, polite farce
with Thirkell and very fragile but
genuine comedy with Sharp. 1t Is
nice little thing and you can
do worse in your summer reading"
than 20 through it.
Evening star., 1944-09-03
Best Sellers

FlCTlON.
The History Of Rome Hanks,
by Stanley Pennell.
The Razor's Edge, by w. Som
erset Vaughan.
Strange Fruit, by Lillian
Smith.
Time Must Have = Stop, by
Aldous Huxley.
A Bell for Adano, by John
Hersey.
NONFICTION.
The Time for Decision, by
Sumner Welles.
1 Never Left Home, by Bob
Hope.
Watching the World, by Ray
mond Clapper.
Boards History Of the United
States, by Charles and Mary
Beard.
State Of the Nation, by John
Dos Passos.
Evening star., 1944-09-03

The result is that a reader will not
feel reality in any of the trio Of
talking dummies and will become
bored by ventriloquist's turn
drawn out so interminably.
Well, in the present book nebu-
lous Parker tells a still more nebu-
lous Eddie the story of a completely
nebulous Bill. Bill, it seems, was a
football star of limited mentality
who, after graduation, retained the
underclassman's outlook and lived
his life wishing he was back where
he could hear the big loud cheers.
Bye-and-bye smart politician got
hold of him and used him for a
stooge in a grab for power, with dis
astrous results. Parker, talking to
Eddie in the back booth of Jake's
place, runs the hrief episode up to a
book-length wordage by hanging
on it the question Of the meaning
of the universe. What worried the
reviewer was that Parker, while he
talks, is reported as constantly rub
bing his hair. 1t begins to get. dis
tinctly gruesome after about the
second hour.
Evening star., 1944-09-03
The Nev Books
Being Net Together
By Vaughan Wilkins. (Mdcmil

~ V1UtSsssW W ssUssso' NVANSbSsS-
ldn.)
In composing this long, unwieldly
novel Vaughan wilkins seems to
have been motivated chiefly by fas-
cinatipn with the reflection that
wars engaging the western nations
Of the world have been periodic and
that the feelings aroused by those
periodic wars have repeated them
selves. It is not a profound idea to
result in q 500-page novel In the
midst of q paper shortage, but II any
other lies back Of Being Met To-
gether" the reviewer did not see it.
The story Is set in the Napoleonic
period and seems to be wholly given
over to illustrating that many Of
the emotions and situations Of the
present war fiourished in the French
dictator's time.
Fortunately, however, Mr.. wilkins
has a gift for romantic fiction too
strong for his preoccupation with
his historical parallels to destroy.
And so he has turned out an effec-
tive, II somewhat ponderous, thriller.
From episode to episode, as you
read it, his book is colorful and ab-
sorbing. 1t suffers, to be sure, from
its lack Of a positive main charac-
ter, an indispensable ingredient in
a romantic novel. It suffers, too. be-
cause certain minor characters have
obviously interested the author more
than the vague hero. And it suf-
fers most Of all from being extended
over some 80 years, during consider
able periods Of which nothing hap
pens. But it survives its suffering
quite acceptably.
It tells of a young American ex-
patriate In France who has been
educated to a bitter nti-BritiSh bias
by crazy grandmother. The young
man falls under the influence Of
Napoleon and joins the Emperor's
staff. Noble-hearted English friends
try to save him from his folly, but
he has to learn for himself. There
is a lot about his early education
in a school filled with Europeans
from assorted nations, his suffer-
ings as prisoner in England, his
efforts as a pioneer entrepreneur of
the submarine and finally his
emergence as a well-balanced citizen
who sees England for the world
saving power which she is. That is
the substance. The costumes, how
ever, are real period stuff.
Onwords to Victory
By Winston S. Churchill. Com
piled by Charles Fade. little,
BroUn.)
There is little to be said spe-
ciflcally about this latest volume
of Winston Churchill's war speeches
and messages. 1t is just the usual
pyrotechnics of the finale, the
climax being passed, the great
somber doubts being solved. Victory
is certain but will not be i'm
mediate-that, substantially. is what
Mr.. Churchill told his wide au-
diences throughout the year 1913.
You must have the volume, how
ever, Just as you would have all
the records of a symphony. And
some of the brief passages, as
where Mr.. Churchill answers ques-
tions put by the right honorable
members in the House OF Com
mons, most Of whom do not seem to
know that a war is in progress, are
genuinely amusing.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-20
Lithuanian Council
 Planning Bond Drive
Various Groups to Be Represented at Meeting To-
 night; Donations of Clothing Sought By Committee
BROOKLYN NEWS

Arrangements for the bond-selling campaign at Victory House on the Green Saturday, Dec. g, Lithuan- ian Day, will be completed at spec ial meeting of the Lithuanian-Amer- ican Council tonight at 8:30 at Me- munas hall, 48 Green street. Dele- gates from the various organizations associated with the council will at- tend.
 The officers of the organization are supervising arrangements for the event. They are: honorary mem- Der, Rev. Joseph J. Valantiejus; honorary officer, Rev. Dr. Joseph Bogusas; president, Dr. Peter Vilei- sis; vice-presidents, Jacob Treciokas, and Mrs. Michael Devenis; secretar- ies, Miss Marcella Andrikis and Mrs. John zailckas; financial secretary, Anthony Orantas; treasurers, Alex ander J. Aleksis and Thomas Matas; sergeant-at-arms, Peter Jokugaus- kas; trustees, Mrs. John Bruzas, An- thony Lazdauskas; and Mrs. Peter Krugelis; publicity committee, Mrs. John zailckas, Mrs. Michael Devenis and Dr. Mathew J. Colney; delegates to the City Defense Council, John Klikna, and Mrs. Mathew Colney.
 Contributions for the United Lith- uanian Relief clothing drive will be
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-20

accepted at drive headquarters In this city until Wednesday, 1t was announced today. Collections at homes will be taken until Dec. 5.
 Drive officials have reported that many families have asked to have the clothing picked up at their homes, and it is expected to take two more weeks to complete the task.
 Several Waterpurians attended the recent concert sponsored at the Labor Lyceum hall in Brooklyn, N. Y, by the "Vienybe" Auxiliary Of Brooklyn. They were: pr. and Mrs. Mathew J. Colney, Mrs. Thomas Cheplinskas, Mrs. John Zailckas. and Mrs. Michael Devenis.
 Anna KaSkas, Metropolitan Opera singer, was the main artist. Others taking part in the program were: Barbara Darlys, Joseph Olsauskas, and Tadas SidlauSkas.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-20
POSTAL SALARY
 RAISE FAVORED

A public hearing of the House of Representatives relative to the pro- posed salary increase sought by lo- cal and the nations postal work CTS will be held tomorrow in Wash ington.
 Cong. Joseph E. Talbot. Con- greSsman-at-Large B. J. Monkie- wicz, and Congs. Clare Booth Luce and Ranulf Compton all of Con- necticut have declared support of the measure.
 More than 1000 letters have been mailed by the local postal work CTS to residents of the city urging support of the measure which would give the postal group a $4OO yearly raise the first they have had since 1925
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-20
ty Opens Sixth War Loan Drive Auspiciously Today
APPEAL NOTICE
 RECORDED HERE
ROzanO Takes Exception to Commissioner O'COn-
 neII's Finding

An appeal was filed in superior court today by Anthony Rizano of 239 Hamilton avenue from finding and award made Nov. 9 by Com pensation Commissioner John J. O'Connell, who had denied the worker additional payments for in- juries sustained Jan. 1, 1943 while employed by the Scovill Mfg. Go.
 The commissioner, who had ap- proved an agreement calling for payment of $25 weekly during the period of disability, found the em- ploye was able to return to some form of selective work June 2. The worker refused work on the ground that he was still disabled from back strain.
 The finding stated the worker was not entitled to payments after June 2 and held further that he must pay personally medical ex- penses incurred when he sought advice from 8 private physician.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-20
BISHOP O'BRIEN
 OFFICATES HERE;

More than 465 children and adults were confirmed here over the weekend at services at the Church of the Immaculate Con- ception and the Church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel.
 Most Rev. Henry J. O'Brien aux Hilary bishop of Hartford presided at the ceremonies at the Immacu- late Conception church on Satur- day and at the Lady of Mount Carmel church yesterday. More than 225 yere confirmed at the Saturday services and more than 240 at yesterdays.
 On Saturday the bishop was as- sisted by Rev. Francis M. O'Shea, permanent rector and on Sunday by Rev. Patrick Flynn pastor.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-20

Women Voters; Nov. 30, David Fan nick post auxiliary; Dec. ?. Portu- guehe
 guese committee, Dec. 4, Women'S American ORT; Dec. 6, Women's Club; Dec. 2, U. s. Time; Dec. 16, Youth division.
 Meanwhile giant rallies and spir- ited campaigns are being prepared by the Third Army comprised of the city's retail employees. Headed by Major J. Peter Costigan the retail CTS will strive toward 8 two million dollar and more goal.
 Theater premiers headed by Chairman Julia Smith and civic fraternal and religious organizations all pledging full efforts give promise of a successful and well rounded out campaign.