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Evening star., 1944-10-05

from the Polish National Committee
with headquarters at Lublin. The lead
ers Of that organization, which SO far has
been recognized only by the Soviet gov
ernment, have made a strong appeal
for immediate supplies for liberated
Poland, whose residents are described
as lacking everything-food, clothing
and housing-without which they may
not be able to survive the winter. In
spite of the dire situation of these
millions Of Poles, the Lubin committee
Is said to have refused to admit UNRRA
oficials into the territory under its
jurisdiction.
Mr.. Lehman, who Is no longer an
American official but the head Of an
international organization, has been
placed in difficult position. He wants
vital supplies rushed over to the needy
people, but cannot accept the condi-
tions Of their leaders that they alone
shall handle the goods purchased from
an international fund in which the
American taxpayers are required to pay
the major share.
Mr.. Lehman has taken the stand
that distribution Of relief through the
exclusive channels Of the local govern
ments, such as those in Yugoslavia and
Poland, which have no official standing,
would mean placing food and medical
supplies in the hands of a political or
ganization for political purposes.
Since both the Polish and Yugoslav
Committees Of National Liberation have
had their origin in Moscow and are
under the influence of the Soviet gov
ernment, the director general of the
UNRRA Is going to Russia, where he
expects to convince the Soviet leaders
to get the two committees to allow
UNRRA officials to supervise the dis
tribution of supplies.
n X
Foreign representatives Of UNRRA
who attended the Montreal conference
in September believe that unless Mr..
Lehman obtains at least partial salts
faction he will be placed in such a
difficult situation that ne may consider
abandoning his important post.
That the distribution question has
now become more than a matter Of
organization has been evidenced in the
speech made in Montreal on September
20 by Richard K. Law, head of the
British delegation, who said: "s . . Un-
less we can make a real job of United
Nations cooperation in peace as we
have made real Job in war, am quite
convinced that, possibly in our lifetime,
we shall find the world plunged again
into the darkness of war"
Evening star., 1944-10-05
Willow Plate

The blue stream fo,Ds pcrpetually dn.
moring
Beneath blue bridge whose passing
figures neper pass,
Beneath silent flight OF cobalt birds
Suspended placidly above blue bom-
boo grass.
No sh0doD OF destruction slides as vet
Across this pastoral peace of Chinese
noon:
No hint OF bomb, OF shock, OF fright,
No intinaation that the terror could
be soon.
Here only Is lovely pdnished hour fred
Enduringly in glaze OF antique clay,
An hour OF quiet pdgodas and blue,
tranquil trees
70 BE- remembered IN another day.
FREDERICK EBRIGHT.
Evening star., 1944-10-05
The Political Mill
By Gould Lincoln

SEATTLE, Oct. 5-Washington, on
the surface, looks like Roosevelt State.
The President carried 1t in 1910 bv
10000 votes over Wendell L. Willkie.
Democratic leaders here claim 1t will be
for him by loo, 600 on November 7. Less
$4,000.
Republicans, facing an uphill fight.
declare that all is not on the surface in
this race, that Gov Dewey is on the
way up in Washington and that any
thing may happen. II the Republican
trend keeps on, they predict that Dewey
will win cy from 5000 to $4,000 votes.
Gov. Dewey helped himself when he
came into this city and delivered his
labor speech. He helped himself more
when in his Oklahoma speech he slugged
1t out with Mr.. Roosevelt. What he does
from now on will in all likelihood decide
the race, the Republicans insist. They
believe that Gov. Dewey is conducting
"A wise campaign on liberal lines that
appeals to the people of Washington.
Many Of the people here believe that the
New York Governor came out ahead in
his interchange with the President.
Particularly did Gov. Dewey help him
self with conferences he held with MANY
labor leaders during his stay here, and
also with another important group, the
citizens of Washington of Scandinavian
descent, OF whom there are about
10000.
The Republicans are strongly organ
lied and wholly together. Frederick z.
Baker, former Republican national COM
mitteeman, strong supporter of Wen
dell Willkie, while he holds no party
office, is working hard for Dewey.
Gov. Arthur B. Langlie, Republican, is
candidate to succeed himself Unless
President Roosevelt should roll up a very
big vote in the State it will be for Gov.
Langlie again. He won in 1910 by 5000
although Mr.. Roosevelt was running far
ahead OF Mr.. Willkie. Mr.. Langlie's
Democratic opponent Is Senator WALL
gren, popular and good campaigner
The Governor has given the State a good
administration. has made no mistakes.
Senator Wallgren realizes he has tough
fight on his hands.
The Democratic candidate for Sem
ator Is Representative Magnuson, and
Evening star., 1944-10-05

who inquire why it is that bad weather
Is any worse for us than for the Ger
mans. The answer is perfectly simple:
The Germans just want to stay where
they are: We want to drive them from
their positions.
We must, therefore, move ahead and
attack. We must not only move troops,
we must move vast quantities of sup
plies and get them up, not to we'll
established defensive fronts, but to
troop units lighting over all sorts of
terrain. Moreover, we depend very
largely on our air superiority, which is
sadly impeded by bad weather, and on
our armored forces, which are not very
effective in mountains or in deep mud.
Bat If our progress Is slow in Italy,
it is also steady, and quite noticeable
is the fact that sudden increase OF
German resistance In one sector of the
italian front, due to a shift of reserves,
is almost always followed by an Allied
advance elsewhere.
Thus the Germans, by massing about
half their totalitarian force, DELAYED
our threatened break Through to and
beyond Rimini, and for the moment
rain coming to their aid in the very
avn "a oAAAC-akkTaAS W kl6NC StAllcQ
but Immediately q deep Allied pene-
tration along the Bologna, Imola,
Faenza and Forli roads began to
threaten the German center. Here, too,
German resistance presently began to
stiffen, though the Allies have not been
stopped anywhere, and now new Allied
advance along the Modena road is
threatening the Germans farther west.
The German difnculty is this: That If
at any point our troops advancing
along one OF the lateral roads should
reach and cut the main Rimini- -Modena
highway, the position of that half of
the German Army defending the Rimini
front would Immediately become des-
perate; while II the Germans now fall
back from the Rimini sector, our forces
will emerge on the great plain and cut
the communications of the whole Ger
man Army, since the Germans are not
strong enough to fight US in the open
plain any more than the 7th German
Army was strong enough to fight us in
the open terrain OF Northern France
once its tanks were torn loose from
their anchors
tcopyrishs is44)
Evening star., 1944-10-05
A Substantial Sturt

IN signing the surplus properly
and reconversion bills, President
Roosevelt has made clear his objec-
tions to what he regards as their
shortcomings and has left it
squarely up to Congress to rectify
them when and If events demon
strate that changes are needed.
The surplus property measure,
contrary to one of the key rec
concentrations of the Baruch- Han
cock report, sets up "a three-man
board, instead of a single admins
traitor, and includes a number of
restrictive provisions which, in the
Presidents judgment, may lead to
confused methods Of disposition"
and delay rather than expedite re-
conversion and unemployment" an
opinion shared by such students of
the problem as Will L. Clayton. 1t
is to be hoped, therefore, as Mr..
Roosevelt says, that Congress will
give careful consideration to what
ever improvements are later sug-
gested on the basis of experience.
The President has similarly ap-
proved the companion reconversion
bill as being quite satisfactory" as
far as it goes. His main objection
to it is that it deals inadequately
with the human side" of the prob
lem in three respects: Cd It fails
to provide transportation expenses
for arms workers who have taken
out-of-town jobs and who will one
day have to return to their home
cities: 90 1t bars unemployment
compensation to millions of Federal
employees, and CD it does not pre-
scribe Nationwide minimum stand
ards to govern benefits to be
paid to those who become jobless,
through no fault of their own, dur
ing the transition from war to
peace. These are arguable points
but Mr.. Roosevelt raises them in
a reasonable manner. and it may
be expected that If any serious
inequities flow from the law as it
now stands, Congress will act to
make the necessary corrections.
Only time will disclose clearly
whatever major flaws there may be
In these two pieces OF legislation,
and so President Roosevelt has
wisely decided not to let his own
objections interfere with the test,
recognizing that the important
thing is to proceed without delay in
meeting the problem, no matter
how faltering the first steps. With
the bills just signed, it may be said
that substantial start has been
made, at least from the stand
point Of neutrality-suspicious.
brought into being by statute rather
than executive order. AS a result,
when Congress reconveneS, a sue
cessor to Mr.. Byrnes will be named
and a new offlce-to be known as
the Office of War Mobilization and
Reconversion will supplant the
OWN and give overall direction to
surplus property disposal, the indus
trial transition, termination of
arms contracts. and retraining and
unemployment.
The job will be a vast and complex
one, and from what is learned
through trial and error in handling
it, Congress undoubtedly will have
to make legislative readjustments
from time to time, as the President
has indicated. We are entering now
merely upon the beginning phase.
Evening star., 1944-10-05

characteristic of everything today,
including the prevention and the
curing Of disease" Millions Of men,
women and children in every part Of
the globe pray for similar prompt
and ef1lcacious application Of com
mon sense" to the most horrible
plague of ALARMED strife between
governments. In the language Of
the Prayer Book: "Give peace in our
time, O Lord"
Evening star., 1944-10-05

the right direction. It Is a program,
to be sure, which Is entirely de-
pendent on a high level of national
prosperity, but the point which needs
to be emphasized is that without
some such tax program it Is futile to
hope for prosperous economy.
Evening star., 1944-10-05
People Blamed

To the Editor Of The Star:
Don't blame President Roosevelt for
our decade of disaster following 1888.
The guilt rests primarily on those who
voted for him and others who aided
and abetted them.
What man wouldn't take the Job OF
being President, If elected to It? And
the billions wasted by Mr.. Roosevelt,
much of 1t used to win the past two
presidential elections, were appropriated
by rubber-stamp members Of Congress,
all elected by the voters. OF course,
they have right to vote rs they please.
Il democracy Is determined to commit
suicide. who can stop III
GEORGE =. llIEL1R.
Evening star., 1944-10-05
Critics of President Condemned

10 the Editor OF The Star.
Recently seven letters appeared in
your column regarding President
>Roosevelt's and Gov. Dewey's campaign
speeches Only one Of the writer's made
fair analysis of what he thought of
the speeches. The other six wrote like
rabid Roosevelt-haters, who write often
and always the same thing with only
one thought in mind-how to insult our
President by casting reflections on
everything he does, making and ac-
cepting false accusations against him,
and abusing and insulting him in every
way they can think Of.
II q Nazi, Fascist or seditionist wrote
about Mr.. Roosevelt, 1t would be along
the same lines with never a thought of
patriotism or something for the good
OF our country. J. BERMAN.
Evening star., 1944-10-05
A Mother Writes
To the Editor of The Star:

10 the Editor OF The Star:
My Oldest son was buried In Airing
ton recently. He did not die in combat,
but he died in the service of his coun-
try.
Many people have asked me what
they could do. May I, through your
paper, tell every one who is interested
enough to read this letter what they
can do?
They can stop giving liquor to the
boys. They can stop planning to get
high" on V-day. The girls can 20
back to the oldfashioned virtues of
their mothers-and If not their mothers
then their grandmothers. Every one
can pray-pray constantly that II their
dear ones bodies cannot be saved, that
God in His infinite goodness, may save
their souls. Pray that America may turn
back to morality and sobriety, that it
may not be ashamed" Of the gospel of
Jesus Christ.
Today, feel that most Of the people
in America are not worthy of the sacri-
nee my boy made-and I wonder how
many other mothers feel that way, too.
There are many people who do not
want the war to end because their
prosperity might end with it.
Those who care, can do their best
to see that Job security is not the first
thing. The security of the soul, self
respect, clean living, faith in God come
first. Remember Romans viii:2
To all the other broken hearted
mothers I send my love, my under
standing and my prayers. And to the
boys: God speed! Speed you home
again to build fine Christian homes as
my boy had planned to do.
RUTH COLE.
Evening star., 1944-02-07
ServiceVote
Continued From First Page.)

lots-are 50 opposed that some
Senators predicted Congress would
find itself in q hopeless deadlock.
There was speculation over the
week end that the whole business
may be junked and q new measure
advanced giving the States the right
to say whether they will accept
Federal ballots as valid votes.
Lucas Is Hopeful.
However, Senator Lucas, Demo-
crat, Of Illinois was hopeful.
I'VE are going to get a Federal
ballot out Of this thing yet" he told
a. reporter. THE Republicans are
going to realize that this is the
biggest issue Of the day. I don't
think they are going to be able to
stand up to the pressure that will
be brought against them to get q
bill enacted into law"
Senator Taft, Republican, Of Ohio
predicted that when the House bill
gets before the chamber, everything
that has been offered as an amend.
ment to the Green-Lucas bill in the
last two weeks will come up again
Debate now is limited, but thai
limitation will expire when the
Green-Lucas bill either is passed o.
laid aside.
AS 1t stands, the latter measure
is radically changed from the form
in which 1t first was brought be.
fore the Senate. Although q coali.
ton of Republicans and Southern
Democrats failed to substitute othel
proposals for it, they did drive deer
wedges into the measure.
Members of the armed forces o.
Evening star., 1944-02-07
Jap Air Protection
lover New Britain
|Grows Weaker
BY the Associated press

By the Associated Press.
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS m
THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Feb.
ia 167-ton bombing Of Japan's
supply and refueling base at Cape
Hoskins, New Britain, was reported
today by Gen. Douglas Macarthur
in a communique which made par
ticular note Of the enemy's deterio-
rating air protection for its once
formidable Rabaul base on the same
island.
Heavy bombers with q fighter es-
cort hit Cape Hoskins at noon Fri
day and planted the heavy bomb
load on the airdrome and dispersal
areas, causing large fires. This air
base, on the north-central coast, II
connected by a motor road with AL
lied occupied Arawe at the western
tip of New Britain.
Medium bombers In their third
straight raid on Wewak, New
Guinea, left q 3,00O-ton ship In
flames and raised havoc with bafges.
gun emplacements, fuel dumps &nd
floatplanes. Enemy shipping at
Hansa Bay to the south also was hit
by medium bombers, which sank .
,000-ton freighter, smaller cargo
ship and nine barges.
Evening star., 1944-02-07
MurshuIIs
Continued From First Page

Kwajalein atoll was virtually
complete. An enemy broadcast
heard by NBC in New York last
night said that intense fighting
was Still in progress on Kwa-
jalein Island" The Japanese
also said, without confirmation,
that two American destroyers
had been sunk and another de-
stroyer and cruiser set af1re.)
(The Toxic radio today quoted
imperial headquarters as saying
a japanese submarine sank a
large enemy cruiser" off Wolfe
In the Marshalls on February 3
and that japanese planes and
antiaircraft guns had shot down
total of 81 planes during bomb
ing raids on the great japanese
naval base of Rabaul, New Brit
ain, since last Thursday
Admiral Nimitz also said in q
press release that Army bombers
and Navy carrier-borne planes
hammered five Marshall atolls still
in japanese hands during raids
February 3, 4 and S. These atolls
were Enidetok, Wolfe, Maloelap
Mill and Ujelang. None of oul
planes was lost.
1t was the Navy's first mention OF
an attack on Ujelang, 400 miles west
of Kawajalein, indicating that there
was an airfield there which needed
neutralizing while the Americans
were tackling Kwajalein.
Failure of Japanese plane squad
rons to show up in strength against
the American invading force was
by Rear Admiral John S
Hoover, air commander of the
Central Pacific force. in
an interview reported by Malcolm
R. johnson, representing the COM
bined American press.
Aerial bombardments of the Mar
shall Islands for IS days by COM
bined Army, Navy and marine air.
craft not only grounded enemy
planes because Of the destruction of
oil, gasoline and ammunition dumps
and shop facilities, but also kept the
Japanese from sending out scout
planes which would have resulted in
early detection of the American
forces.
These advantages, as we'll as heavy
destruction of enemy installations
and gun positions on invaded
kwajalein Atoll, tended to make the
job easier for the invaders, Admiral
Hoover said.
'As far as know, no American
ships in the invasion fleet were at
tackled by torpedo planes and we
lost a few aircraft" he said.
Evening star., 1944-02-07
Purumushiro
Continued From First Page

in some quarters that a soften
ing-up operation was in progress)
The planes of Commodore Leslie
E. Genres fleet air wing were back
last night, the second consecutive
night of their resumed 'Tokio short
line express" They hit shortly after
the bombardment.
The island defenders perhaps had
been watching for them instead of
glancing out to sea once in a while
because alert shore watchers might
easily have seen the dark silent
shadows of the approaching ships
without use of any detective devices.
The island was clearly visible
from the ships-its snow-covered
mass rearing white, cold and light
less from the sea. The blackout
supported belief that the Japanese
expected another air attack.
Led by Destroyers.
A division of destroyers under
Comdr. Hunter Wood, who captained
the destroyer Smith when it was
struck on the forward deck by a
flaming Japanese Zero in South Pa
cific action, led heavier ships of the
task force into shelling position
along the eastern side Of Kurabu
Point. The remainder of the force,
led by Capt. H. L. Gearing. swung
westward toward the Sea of Ohkotsk
and bombarded from that side.
The open fire" order was given
Here We CO." said 1t. q. g. Eli Hill
OF Dawson, Ga, communications
and assistant gunnery officer, with
Evening star., 1944-02-07
Will B. Johnstone, 81,
Noted Cartoonist, Dies
also hid Jap snipers
By the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press.
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla, Feb
7.-Will B. Johnstone, 81, cartoonist
for the New York World Telegram
who specialized In political satire
and lampooning OF current events,
died here last night.
His cartoons, usually in series Of
panels under an excerpt from a news
item, invariably ended with the por-
trayal of a harassed taxpayer with
unshaven jowls, clad only in bar
rel and hat.
One OF his most famous carica-
lures was that of Mayor F. H. La
Guardia in a black, ear-enveloping,
10-gallon hat.
Born in st. Louis, Mr.. Johnstone
spent his childhood in Evansville,
ILL.,, and entered newspaper work
with the Chicago journal. He later
became art editor of the Inter-
Ocean and in 1906 went to New York
to draw for the New York Journal.
He subsequently worked for the
Evening World, Morning World and
the World Telegram, all in New
York.
Besides his art work, which in
cluded oil painting as we'll as car
tooning, Mr.. Johnstone wrote the
lyrics for more than 20 stage and
screen productions, aided in writing
several scenarios for the Marx
brothers and was an avid chess
player.
He had been in hospital here for
week.
Evening star., 1944-02-07
Two Deny Stealing
|TruckIoad Of Paper

Arrested last Saturday after sell
ing a truckload Of allegedly stolen
paper at q junk yard, Meier S
Cunningham, IS, Of 427 Benning
road NE, truck driver, ano
George William White, %, Of 411
Florida avenue NV, drivers
helper, pleaded not guilty today
before United States Commissioner
Needham c. Turnage on a charge
Of theft of Government property.
Their arrest brought to eight
the number of persons taken into
custody by the Federal Bureau OF
Investigation in a drive to stamp
out theft Of waste paper from Gov
ernment offices. The matter was
brought to light by the theft of out.
dated gasoline ration coupons from
paper collection plant where the
coupons were supposed to have been
macerated.
The FBI also is checking to de-
termine if papers of a confidential
nature, which were supposed to have
peen macerated, might have been
stolen and found their way into the
hands of persons hostile to the
Government.
Cunningham, who was held in
$500 bond, and White, held under
81 900 bond, drove into a junk yard
Saturday while FBI agents were
there. The manager was given
marked money to pay the men, ac-
cording to the FBI, and the two
were arrested soon after they left.
Others arrested included two Gov
ernment laborers, George Williams,
81. OF 23O P street NV, employed
at the Social Security Board, and
Alice P. Russell, 54. of 3O9 Fifty
seventh street N. w., employed at
the Federal works agency.
Evening star., 1944-02-07
Lokes Skipper Dies

DETROIT. Feb. 7 R.-Capt. Ed
ward Dallas Gatfield, 70, veteran
Great Lakes skipper, died yesterday
at his home In suburban Wyandotte
Capt. Gatfield served on the lakes
| for 50 years.
Evening star., 1944-02-07
Marines Kiss Guns
After Barrage Saves
Them From Trap
BY FRED HAMPSON,

Associated Press War Correspondent.
AN ARTILLERY BATTALION
HEADQUARTERS, Bougainville.-A
group Of Marine Corps raiders, COM
ing out of the lines after the vicious
fight at Piva 4 in the early days OF
the American invasion of Bougain-
vile, reached an artillery emplace-
ment.
A half dozen bearded lads, weary
from fighting and overweight from
a succession of close calls, ran to
the gun and kissed it.
q! Said one of the raiders to a men,
Der Of the gun crew:
Anytime you want this gun
cleaned and pressed just call on the
raiders-theyll do it,
The story was recounted by Col
John B. Wilson of Corvallis, Greg.
and his executive, 1t. Col. John S
Letcher of Lexington, Va, of a Ma
rine artillery regiment.
1t illustrated the gratitude for and
the reliance placed on the heavy
guns by the front-line fighters In
this jungle campaign.
In the Piva fight a raider unit
ran into a heavy enemy concentra-
ton, was pinned down and succeed
ing units trying to cover a with
drawal were also pinned down. They
called for artillery and the rain OF
projectiles-often directed by expert
spoilers who have developed Jungle
eyes" to within 80 or 100 yards OF
the American lines-enabled trapped
outfits to withdraw and cleared the
way for later advances.
The artillery contributed what has
been called the heaviest barrage in
Marine Corps history prior to the
advance beyond Cibiks Ridge-a
movement that drove the enemy
from important high ground and ex-
tended the American lines 800 yards.
Evening star., 1944-02-07

home would use State absentee bal.
lots listing the names of all of the
candidates, unless their State failed
to make such ballots available ir
acceptable form by August OF
failed to forward one at their re.
quest. Then they could use the
Federal form.