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Evening star., 1944-03-20
Helps Keep Hair From
Becoming Dry or Brittle

There are no harsh chemicals
or causticS in Kreml Shampoo.
1t never leaves any excess dull,
soapy film. Instead, it's bene-
ficial oil base helps keep hair
from becoming dry or brittle.
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Siesta Abolished

You could almost feel surge OF sympathy
sweeping this country when word came that
Mexico was about to sacrifice the siesta to
efficiency. Not that many Americans nave
ever siestaed in Mexico But in many OF our
smaller communities there still persists n
healthy and civilized practice OF going nome
IN lunch (or dinner) at noon. And those VINO
are privileged to partake Of this custom must
have had the sudden, frightening thought
.whc knows-perhaps it might even happen
here
An even more poignant wave of compass
s;o, anoanated from the workers in American
cities For now their Mexican neighbors are
to be initiated into the noontirne ritual OF
battling Tor the dubious pleasure of wolfing
sandwich at drug store lunch counter.
logic was on President Avila Camacho's
side. Of course, when he abolished Mexico s
lengthy pause in the days occupation. But
| he must have Dondersd long before signing
the document which abolished, at least tenn
norarily. a cherished tradition.
| In the first place, h e. e are physical haz-
ards. Mexicans have been going along at a
leisurely pace for centuries. Now they are
faced with sudden violent change, and with
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WAC Recruits Needed

The Wonen's Army Corps is in need of
recruits. There can be no question that in
order to win this war, the entire nation must
get behind the effort-men and women.
The woman-power shortage in the Women S
Army Corps must be filled to assure vic
tory.
There has been some talk of draft law for
women, but We believe that once women of
the nation realize their importance to the war
effort they will enlist of their own free will.
How many times have you thought or said:
what can I do to help win the warp One
answer lies in joining the WACs. Women who
are not needed at home and are physically
fit, should join now. This is their golden op-
portunity to serve not only on the home front,
but in every part of the world.
The motion picture theatres launch their
WAC Recruiting week, today and most theatres
will have recruiting officers on hand to answer
all questions.
No one would dare raise his voice to question
the bravery and gallantry of American men
to fight for their country. Can women do less?.
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The Literary Guidepost

necessary that Enriqueta, who was
the authors mother, earn liv-
ing for herself and her daughter.
She did it by teaching school.
And schools were not the me-
chanicauy arranged affairs in
Honduras that they are in this
country. They were casually ar
ranged-a teacher was hired for
a term, pupils were assembled,
and there was school. 1t was
quite often in a most inelegant
building, and sometimes conditions
were so bad Enriqueta was forced
tc give up in mid-term. Some of
the villages she taught in were
delightful, and some were sink
holes. There were intervals of
calm when mother and daughter
visited one or another of the child's
uncles, but unfortunately, revolu-
tons kept upsetting the avuncular
finances, so that there was no
steadiness.
The child grew up all over
Honduras-in the cool, clean up-
lands, on the steaming coast, in
banana towns and elsewhere. Her
picture Of the possessive but sin.
cere love between her and h err
mother, OF the life of Honduras.
and of the people in their poverty
and sometimes in their agony is
very close to- perfect,
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will be best appraised VIII n British and
American amphibious forces have made a
landing on the Continent and start their west
ward march on Berlin under the protection
of such an air umbrella as has never been
spread over ground forces in all history.
Nor is the loss of 100000 German and Ro-
manian troops in the Sevastopol engagement
to be discounted. The total is great even in
comparison with the total fighting strength of
the European Axis, including its satellites.
Hitler has been subjected to heavy losses in
war production, in air strength, in commune
cation lines. When this new loss in man.
power is added and combined with Hltler's
other tremendous manpower losses in Rus
STA. what is left obviously is not enough to
achieve the world victory the Nazis boosted
would emerge from their military exploits
when they marched into Poland.
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Daily Prayer
FOR VISION IN WORKERS

Thy word saith, o Eternal Wis
dom, that Where there is no Wig
ion the people perish" We are
affrighted by the loss of glorous
vision of victory amongst so many
of us: manufacturers who have be-
come again mere business men:
war-workers who think of them
selves only as wage-earners poll
ticians who have abandoned h e
role of statesmen for that of ''prac.
teal" partisans; housekeepers who
cadge in rationing, losing sight of
the mess tins of our service men
writer's who would rather write a
sentimental story than pull on the
rope fo- victory. God forgive us
all, and kindle afresh in our hearts
a passion of self-forgetting patriot.
ism. This we ask in the name Of
Thy Son, who gave Himself to the
uttermost for the greatest Cause.
Amen.-W. TIE.
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Step Toward Victory,

The aspect Of Russia's reconquest Of Sevas.
topol that engages greatest interest is that
two Russian armies are now freed to unite
with the full armed forces of Stains irresis-
table might in the final thrust against Hitler
in conjunction with the American British in
vasion of western Europe, which cannot be
far off.
Sevastopors recapture was inevitable It has
been clearly foreseen ever since the Reds
drove into the Ukraine with the power and
dash that has characterized all their military
operations since the counter thrust following
Stalingrad got under way, n d especially
since the Allied campaign in Italy forced Hit
Ter to withdraw many divisions from the East
ern front and the threat Of invasion com.
PEELED him further to weaken his fighting
strength in Russia. But the fall of the city,
coming at this time is, in ITSELF a major vic.
tory for the Allies the full value of which
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CUT
AT GAS STATIONS

The Raleigh office Of the Price
Administration, covering 81 east
ern North Carolina counties m
GLIDING New Hanover, has charg.
ed back to filling stations 1885
gellons Of gasoline, an OPA spoke|
man said here yesterday.
The reduced inventories, maze
because of illegal sales OF gaso'
line on counterfeit or unendorse'
coupons, were given to 1886 filling
stations and 143 distributors.
The charged-back amount Wa'
80 per cent for counterfeit and "
per cent for unendorsed coupons
for which the station operators
sold gasoline.
Each gallon of gasoline sold BY
unendorsed coupons is taken from
the operators on counterfeit {"
the amount Of gasoline allotted MN
each month, SO that if he con-
tinues the illegal sales, his lnta"
of gasoline will be exhausted.
The station operators can DE-
tect the illegal coupons and stop
the current flow of black-marhe'
motor fuel if he will only accept
coupons that he has torn out Of
the ration book himself, 1t was
pointed out.
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Tn To Federal Courts

The people of our country have seen some
remarkable bypassing of courts and leglsla-
tive bodies by Executive orders and bureau
cratic DEGREES. Outstanding have been the
orders issued by the Office Of Price Admin
stration It's interpretations under the Emer'
gency Price Control Act Of 1912 have demon
strated that the plain provisions OF the law
have been stretched beyond any limits con,
tenplated by the lawmakers.
Errors of judgment in hastily prepared
emergency legislation are unavoidable and ex-
cusable, but there is no excuse for failure to
make corrections when they become neces-
sary.
It has long been evident that jurisdiction
over price regulation questions should be IN
the hands of our Federal courts. The law as
now enacted gives the Emergency Court OF
Appeals exclusive jurisdiction over these ques-
tiors. and by so doing has in effect denied
to all hut few litigants the right OF appeal
tn the courts. The fact that the Emergency
Court of Appeals sits for the most part only IN
Wa shngton, D. c.. makes it economically I'M
possible for the smaller manufacturer or mer-
chant to contest the price regulations through
court action. Under present procedures invclv-
ing unnecessary delays speedy ADJUDICATION,
so essential to the citizens, is denied
AS people we are not accustomed to being
denied access to the courts in the settlement
of matters involving questions Of law. 1t is
high time that Congress ended the arbitrary
power of a Federal bureau to delay by legal
sharp practices the settlement Of any citizens
Just gievance or complaint.
The growing power Of offcialism is cleai
evidence that the only recourse Of the people
against bul eaucratic oppression lies in Con-
gress, which alone can correct or regulate the
political agencies it created.
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With Ernie Pyle

on London and work out to the
camps or airfields on trips of a
few days each, then come back
to write up their stuff and wait
on the invasion.
A vast Army public-relations
branch occupies one huge four
story building and overflows into
several others. They have set up
Correspondents room" as a
sort of central headquarters for
us. We get our mail there, and
we go there to ask questions, and
get various problems worked out
and meet each other.
The mail, incidentally, is a reva-
lation here. In the Mediterranean
the average letter took at least
two weeks and half to come
from the States, and most of it
much longer. Up here half of my
mail is coming through in a week
I have even had one letter in five
days, and the longest has been
only two weeks on the way.
Obviously no correspondent
knows when the invasion will be
or where. I CINE you could
count on your fingers all the Army
officers in England who know. All
we correspondents can do is be
ready.
Only a few will go in on the
initial invasion or in the early
stages. Some of the eager ones
have tried to pull strings to get
front seats in the invasion arma-
da. Others with better judgment
have just kept quiet and let mat
tiers take their course. Personally,
I am trying to get accredited to
the British Home Guard to help
defend the mid-England town
Burford from German attack.
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Oil Development

Joseph E. Pogue, eminent authority on oil,
writing in The Atlantic Monthly, observes that;
1.-The oil potentialities of the United States
are much greater than is generally supposed;
those of the world, almost imsneasu BILE. The
'oil reserve, figures customarily cited include
only the oil which has been proved by COM
merical wells; the estimates usually omit the
oil yet to be discovered, the resources which
with chemical treatment are convertible into
usablei oil products, and the materials for the
production of synthetic oil. One of our lead
ing biologists suggests that our American. oil
reserve instead of 20 billion barrels, may be
102 billion barrels, taking into account IT
billions in the form of natural gas, 20 billions
controlled by American nationals abroad, and
As billions of potential discoveries in this
country. If to these figures we add the tech
biological oil' available through chemistry at
somewhat higher prices, and the vast supplies
of ordinary petroleum that can be uncovered
by our nationals in all parts of the world by
really vigorous search, we reach grand total
that should dispel all fears of impending scar
ety.
The American oil industry has outstripped
the world in discovery and production achieve
nnent. The reason it has done so is no mystery
Oil development requires high degree Of
daring, initiative and individual resourceful-
ness. This country is richly endowed with
these characteristics, because our government
heretofore has never sought to dominate the
business of It's citizens. It would be utter folly
to permit unfounded claims of an oil short
age to stampede the country into destroying
the independence Of the oil industry.
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BY JOHN SELBY

"ENRIQUETA AND l." by Ar
gentirn Diaz Lozano (Farrar g.
Rinehart: $3.50.
''Enriqueta and T. is a charmer.
1t is one of the least pretentious
books of the season, and one of
the most ingratiating. 1t happens
to have won the non-fiction prize
in the second Latin-American Lit
erary Competition, which is some
kind of tribute to the taste of the
judges, who must have had flash
Ter manuscripts to consider. The
judges were John Dos Passes. Err
nesto Montenegro and Blair Niles,
by the way.
Argentina Diaz Lozano is the au-
thor, and she is merely telling of
somewhat unusual childhood in
Honduras. Some things happened
to her that would not have hap
pened to the average well born
Honduran girl. but in the main.
the life she led has been led by
thousands more.
When the author was very small
her father died, and not long aft
erward the grandfather who sup
ported the family followed him.
There had been, up to the grand
fathers death, enough of every
thing, but afterward there wasI
only a big house left. It became
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You're Telling Me

There will be so many push buttons in the
house of the future, says Grandpappy Jen-
kins, that sleepwalker may awaken to find
he has done the weeks laundry, vacuurned
the living room and cooked next Sunday s
chicken dinner.
With the 1essening OF meat rationing, mi.
lady's poker chip hat arrived just in time to
save the day for radio gagsters.
1he Nazis have just issued map showing
much Russian territory which is to be award
ed by them to Romania. Who, even the
Romanians demand to know, do they think
they're kidding?
A new kind Of paper can be written on
even when it is soaking wet. Just dandy Tor
those folks who keep putting sside their
correspondence to be taken care OF on a
rainy day.
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Speak Out Mr.. Roosevelt

Friends of President Roosevelt claim that
525 delegates are already pledged to support
him for denomination by the democratic con-
vention to be held in July. This is within "a
votes Of the $50 required for nomination. Yet
Mr.. Roosevelt refuses to say whether or not
he will permit his name to be presented to
the convention as candidate.
His reluctance to commit himself is not
treating his supporters with fairness. It is
obvious that the nomination is his if he wants
it, If he does not want it, and will not SUBJ
NIT to being drafted, in all fairness to the
party and its members he ought to say so
without eouivocation or further loss Of time
so that party leaders may select someone else
and concentrate their effort upon gaining suf-
ficient pre-convention support for him to insure
nomination.
Mr. Roosevelt held off four years ago until
the last minute and thus blocked any move
ment for someone else. He was excused then
because of the war situation and won out on
the ground that he was best fitted to direct
both the foreign and the domestic policies OF
the country in the war emergency, even
though his reelection ended cherished tradl-
ton against a third term for presidents The
American people swallowed their disappoint-
ment then because of the extraordinary con-
ditions prevailing.
Now Mr. Roosevelt, in answering an in
curry at his press conference, replied: Il am
not going to talk about that (his possible can
didacy) now any more than before" His
party deserves better treatment at his hands.
Let him say now what his intention is.
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| little chance to get into condition between now

little chance to get into condition between now
and June 1.
The whole thing is fraught with peril, like
asking a sedentary, middle-aged office work.
or to sprint two blocks for a bus.
Also there is the question of whether the
saving in electricity, bus tires and gasoline
will be worth a possible loss of productivity.
Enforcing the no-siesta edict will be like try
ing to break Kindergarten of his afternoon
nap habit. only on a national scale. Mexicans
aren't suddenly going to take to bounding
around on the balls Of their feet between and
4 pm An age-oh national habit of cat nap
ping may carry right over to the typewriter
and the work bench.
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BY ERNIE PYLE

LONDON, - (by wireless) II
the Army fails to get ashore on
D Day I think there are enough
American correspondents here to
force through a beachhead on their
own.
There are gray men who cover
ed the last war, and men from the
Pacific, and there are little girls
and big girls and pretty girls, and
diplomatic correspondents a d
magazine contributors and editors
and cubs and novelists. If Dog
News" doesn't get a m n over
here pretty quickly to cover the
dog angle of the invasion 1 per-
sonallg will never buy another
copy.
At last report there were around
300 correspondents here. They say
transmission facilities are being
set up to carry a maximum OF
half a million words day back
to America.
While in London we correspon-
dents can wear either uniforms or
civilian clothes, as we please.
Some of the correspondents up
from Italy have no civilian clothes
and can't get any-since we can't
get British coupons-so they have
to wear uniforms constantly.
I am a civilian again for this
little interlude, thanks to the old
brown suit I left here year and
a half ago. The only trouble is,
I get cold if the day is chilly.
For the only outer coat have is
a dirty old mackinaw. 1 can't
wear that with my brown suit, for
you can't mix military and civilian
clothing. I can't wear it with my
uniform, for it is nonregulation for
city dress, and the M. P.'s would
pick me up. And 1 can't buy a top
coat, for I can't get British cou-
pons. So I just freeze, brother,
freeze.
We live where we please, and
that is a problem. It's hard to
find a place to live in crowded
London. Some correspondents are
lucky enough to find apartments
or to share apartments with Army
officers they know. Others man
age to get into hotels.
Through a friend got into one
of London's finest hotels. Ordinari-
ly you are allowed to stay there
only few days. But, again
through the influence of this very
influential friend, I think the hotel
is going to shut its eyes and let
me stay, although nothing has ac-
tually been said about it-and I'm
afraid to bring up the subject.
For the first two days in my
luxurious hotel room had an odd
feeling of guilty. I'm really sincere
about it. I felt ashamed, coming
from Italy where so many live so
miserably, to be sleeping in a
beautiful soft bed in room so
tastefully decorated and deeply
carpeted, with a big bathroom and
constant hot water and three but
tons to press to bring running Ell
Their a waiter, valet or my mail.
But I find I have a very strong
willpower when it comes to read
justing to comfortable life. After
a couple of days I said, boy,
take it while you can get it" and
I don't feel the least bit ashamed
any more.
Most Of the correspondents who
were through the campaigns in
Africa, Sicily and Italy are up here
now, and we feel like a sort of
little family among all the new
ones here.
Before I arrived they had big
banquet for til correspondents
who had been in the Mediterra-
mean. There has been no general
get-together since I got here, but
a few OF US call each other up and
get together for a meal.
Most of the correspondents base
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YUCOSLAV FORCES
SEIZE 2 POINTS

LONDON, May 10-'R-Yusos.a
Partisans have recaptured AZ
DAM in eastern Bosnia ard III,
emberk in Slovenia, but enent
troops have broken through ~
Partisan lines at several 'So.a'e1
points in Slavonia, Marsaal JOSH
Broz (Tito) announced today
A communique broadcast tFoH!
his headquarters somewhere n
Yugoslavia said the Partisans haa
inflicted heavy casualties on u.
enemy and captured conslderao.s
war material in the fighting -'-
Kladanj and Zuzemberk
The bulletin also declared u,a'
Tito's forces had reoccupied De
rane in Montenegro after siayIns
ITO Of the enemy, includlng WV
Chetnik leaders, not identlileu,
In other actions, Tito said MY
troops smashed an AXIS concen
tration northeast of SaraJeVo' N.
flicted losses on an emery coluA..
in Istria and harassed supply llll''
II various sectors.
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Interpreting
The War
BY KlRKE L. SIMPSON
Associated Press Wo, -,

Russian recapture of Savastas,
M M. tne Srlm e. and a limited Nazj
withdrawal in Italy do not direc4i+
alter the war pattern in Euron.
although both operations obvio,,lI
have definite bearing on expect'
ed events Of far greater c6rsa
quence on other battle sector.
The essential fact about the t;r,
smash at Sevastopol was tsa
weight of men and guns throw
into the action by the Russians ~
achieve in hours what it took Ger.
man troops more than 200 DAYS ;,
accomplish in 1941. Sevastopoi W..
doomed in any case Time wa
vital factor in shaping the Rms
sian decision to take it by storm
rather than sit out siege
The victory has released mos.
of two powerful Russian armies !,
the Crimea to join in the innend
ing attack on the Galati Gap pate.
way to the Bucharest plain in Pm
mania. That is the most vulner.
able segment of Hitler's fortress
Europe. 1t also is the scene NJ
closely integrated Rus5ian-Allied
ground and air operations Viz.
tually the first effective junction
of United Nations fighting forces in
the European war.
That Russian-Allied coordinate,
alone warrants the conclusion that
the first heavy Russian blow ri
the opening spring-summar cam.
paign will fall on the Galati gan
closely timed to coincide with ,bs
>Anglo-American invasion in the
west. There is also another prime
reason for early Soviet thrusts in
southern Romania, Hitler's com.
municationc problem.
Defense of the gateway will put
the maximum strain on the enc.
mys transport. Russian pressure
there at the moment the Allies
strike from Britain probably could
help the Allies more than if the
Russians etruck farther north, al.
though it is almost certainly
across the plains of Poland tina.
the Soviets expect to make their
final assault.
AS a part of this conception, the
Nazi 10-mile withdrawal from tie
Sangro bulge in Italy may have
more than local significance. 1t not.
only shortened the Nazis' front but
gave them far more powerful
and easily defending position on
the slopes of the Maiella noun.
tains to bolster their Adriatc
flank just as the mountains back
of Casino fortifies their grip Oh
the route from Naples to Rome,
That makes the Nazi retiremen.
tappear to be little more than a
local REIMBURSEMENT of the line. Il
would not of itself release any sub
stantial number of men for use
elsewhere. But, it would obvious
ly furnish a more effective cover
ing position behind which a gener
al enemy withdrawal on the Adr
attic flank could be carried out il
necessary. And a Russian break
through in Romania must newt
ably force prompt German with
drawals, in Italy to the Pc Rive
or Etruscan Alps line at the heat
of the peninsula, and from thu
whole Balkan peninsula into Thu
Transylvanian Alps bove tn
| Danube.
It might be for such an even
tuality that Hitler's generals arr
preparing in Italy.
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Fair Enough

Ediotr's Note.-The Star and the News accept no
responsibility for the personal views Of Mr.. Pegler.
and often disagree with them much many Of
his readers His articles serve the good purpose Of
making people think.