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Evening star., 1944-07-06

Gen. Charles de 0Aulle VIII receive
all the honors and courtesies extended
to other foreign chiefs Of state or
prime ministers during his Washington
visit.
To do less for Gen. dc 0aul,e would
have meant to insult gratuitously the
head Of the French Committee Of Ma
tional Liberation. His former colleague
In that organization, Gen. Henri diraud.
whom Gen. de Gaulle unseated several
months ago and who now lives In re-
tirement In . villa near Algiers, was
received last year with similar honors.
While Gen. de Gaulle does not hope
to obtain the recognition Of the Alsiers
Committee as the provisional govern
ment Of France, he expects to reach an
agreement with the American Govern
ment whereby the liberated territories Of
France will be placed under the civil
control of his officers
Gen Joseph Pierre Koenig. who
already has been appointed on Gen.
Eisenhower's staff, will be In charge of
this large stan which will handle civil
affairs and take care of the security Of
the Allied forces after the German
troops have been driven out. A full
agreement for that purpose already has
been reached between Gen. de Gaulle
and the British government. but 1t has
not yet been signed because Prime Min
lister Churchill has insisted that q SIM
liar agreement must be reached with the
American Government ~ we'll.
1t Is unlikely that Mr.. Roosevelt will
deny Gen. de Gaulle or the British such
an agreement which, while not giving
the French leader the status Of head Of
a provisional government In France, does
give him the necessary political power
to organize the country according to his
own political desire and views. Gen.
Koenig and his liaison officers will re-
main under the jurisdiction Of Gen.
Eisenhower. Gen. de Gaulle Is said not
to object to the temporary situation. He
has been able to obtain everything he
wished in North Africa.
The visit Of Gen. de Gaulle has been
long postponed. i was in January. 1913.
soon after the assassination of Admiral
Jean Francois Darlan, that he expressed
= strong desire to visit President Roose-
welt. Later at the Casablanca meet
ing there was a definite clash Of
personalities between our usually good
humored Chief Executive and the
solemn French political general. A state
visit" then appeared useless. More
over, there was a definite divergence of
views between Gen de Gaulle and his
Fighting French and the Government Of
the United States
Mr.. Roosevelt and his principal ad-
visers on French affairs were determined
to permit the French people to choose
their own government after France 8
liberation. Gen. de Gaulle wanted to be
Evening star., 1944-07-06
Editor Jones Speaks Out

II any proof of his loyalty to the
President were needed. Secretary Of
Commerce Jones, In the role Of
Editor Jones, has demonstrated it
by his editorial in his Houston
Chronicle, admonishing his fellow
Democrats against changing the
rules in the middle Of the stream.
The tone of the editorial is evil
dence of how delicate an issue the
"free electors" has become in Texas,
and the publication OF the editorial
is additional evidence that Mr..
Jones, with other Texans, takes very
seriously this threat by Texas to
secede from the two-party system,
as we have known 1t in the past, and
attempt to establish one of her own.
Editor Jones does not question the
right, but only the propriety, of the
Texas convention In refusing to
bind its Democratic electors to the
candidate nominated by the Chicago
convention. And 1t is the effect Of
such disaffection, not the show of
resentment, which he criticizes.
That effect, If the threat material
lied, would be to leave many Texas
Democrats effectively prevented
from casting their vote for the party
nominee"
Some observers have been inclined
to regard the action of the Texas
convention as oluff, to be used in
bargaining over the planks in the
Chicago platform. 1t is taxing
credulity to believe that a white
Texas Democrat might find himself
actually barred from supporting his
party nominee in November. This
prospect is not too incredible to
convince Mr.. Jones that Texans are
on q rampage, and that they need
to think more coolly about where
they are going. The logic and JUS
tice OF his appeal are convincing.
II Texas Democrats want to bolt
the party, they should do it with
out endangering the two-party sys-
tenn, which, to date, has served them
very well.
Evening star., 1944-07-06
Streomlet in Cutters,
Answer if You Can

Come, stand beside me as the thau,no
snoD
Increases ripnlets In dismal cutters.
The ,Ddter's rushing mountain Uerse ,pe
knotD;
1t rises softly ,ohere the seuer
sputters.
There ,ods time Uhen I could lie beside
A stream not listening to its ,plunoino
song;
For peace Is sonndless as 1t rests astride
Emotion and the grodning OF the
throng.
But noso there is the rumbling, stutter-
ing gun;
Cries of the toounded, Weeping for thu
dead;
Questions, I hear them; amspers? I
haze none.
This gutter could be Norman beach
instead.
And haze changed or changes am
man?
Stredmlef n CUTTERS, anstner y you
can. CULLEN JONES.
Evening star., 1944-07-06
Cutting the JueuIor Vein

With the sinking Of seventeen
more Japanese vessels, our Ameri-
can submarines continue to strike
with increasing deadliness at
one Of the most vital parts of the
TOTO war machine. Wholly aside
from combat craft, at least TAO
enemy merchant ships have been
sent to the bottom of the Pacific
since January two years ago, $40 of
them-or seventy-seve per cent
being credited to our far-ranging
undersea raiders.
AS Secretary Forrestal declares,
the submarine fleet thus merits the
lions share Of the honors "for
knocking the props from under
Japan's conquests." Shipping is the
jugular vein of the Japanese. To
quote Mr.. Forrestal, they must
suck into the home islands between
seventy and eighty million tons Of
water borne cargo a year"-cargo to
take care Of at least third OF their
wartime needs and including
seventy-five per cent Of their in
dispensable oil requirements. At
the same time, they must pump
back to China. Burma, the Kuriles
and their Southwest and Central
Pacific outposts an enormous flow
of men and munitions which can
move only in ships.
At the time of Pearl Harbor, the
Japanese controlled merchant YES
sells totaling about 100000 tons.
Since then a third or a half of this
total has been sunk. but for a num-
Der OF reasons, including their pre-
war stock piles, they were able to
absorb the shock of this loss until
recently. Now, however, the toll is
beginning to tell. and by the end
Of the year, according to Mr.. For
restal, they will almost certainly be
suffering from a sizable and con-
stantly growing deficit in shipping,
which in turn Is bound to have
damaging effect on their armed
forces in every combat area, land,
sea and air.
How the enemy's jugular vein is
being cut, at sharply accelerating
pace, is clearly shown by a Navy
chart of the merchant shipping
losses inflicted upon the japanese
chiefly by our submarines-sincet the
beginning Of 1912. In the first, sec
ond, third and fourth quarters OF
that year they lost, respectively,
forty-nine, fifteen, seventeen and
fifty -four noncombat vessels: re-
spectively for the corresponding
quarters OF 1s43, they lost thirty -one,
thirty thirty-f1ve and 169.
And in the first two quarters of this
year they lost, respectively, 153 and
180. The figures speak for them
selves. AS Mr.. Forrestal says, the
farther we advance in the Pacific
and the more bases we win-as we
are now winning Saipan the
tighter the ring Is drawn around
Japan proper and the more profit
able and devastating becomes the
kill" scored by our air, surface and
undersea raiders.
Mr.. Forrestal rightly warns us
against thinking that this will be
enough in itself to knock out Japan.
That job, involving immense Allied
infantry forces. will probably have
Evening star., 1944-07-06

high, but the number Of high In
comes is relatively low. If that Is
the case. and surely there is an ex-
PLANTATION which has nothing to do
with patriotic willingness to buy
bonds. thought should be given to
setting = District quota that 1t is
possible to meet. It accomplishes
nothing to set q quota which, In the
light Of experience, appears to be
arbitrary and unrealistic.
Evening star., 1944-07-06
Our DISTINGUISHED Visitor

Assured OF a warm personal well
come to Washington, there is good
reason to hope that the conferences
scheduled between General Charles
de Gaulle and the President the
Secretary of State and other high
officials will result in a definite
understanding between Washington
and the French Committee of Ma
tional Liberation, of which the gen.
eral is the titular head.
In the first place, the mere fact
that General de Gaulle has come
here is favorable augury, because
diplomatic conferences rarely occur
unless enough preliminary spade
work has been done to assure a
measure Of agreement or, at the
very least. to insure against obvious
failure. Perhaps even more impor-
tant is the general atmosphere in
which the conference will be held.
The trend Of the war Is now so def
nitely in favor of the United Ma
tions and so cumulatively adverse
to the Germans and their satellites
that our eventual triumph can be
seen in the not -too-distant future.
It was in that spirit that the con-
sultative assembly at Algiers gave
General de Gaulle a message for
Washington "saluting President
Roosevelt, Congress and the Amer
lean people in the dawn OF victory"
When the crowning military tri-
umph is felt to be almost at hand,
potential victors are in an expansive
mood and hence less prone to haggle
over matters which are not basic
In character.
No fundamental issue stands in
the way Of agreement between
Washington and Algiers The ad-
minlstration does not believe that
it can recognize a government of
France until that country has been
substantially liberated from the
Germans and the French people
have the opportunity freely to de-
eide their political future. The
Committee of National Liberation
has assumed the title OF provisional
government and ardently seeks our
recognition as such. But, mean
while, America and Britain are ef-
fectively supporting and collaborat-
ing with De Gaulle and his regime
In many ways. A considerable
French Army, with American equip
ment, is fighting heroically beside
the Allies General Eisenhower,
supreme Allied commander, has
recognized one OF De Gaulles right
hand men, General Koenig. as the
leader OF the militant French "un-
derground." Lastly, Cherbourg and
other towns in liberated Normandy
have been turned over to the COM
mittee's civilian administrators, sub
ject to requisite Allied military
controls. All this implies effective
and amicable cooperation that
continually grows in scope. As
France is progressively freed, cur
rent disagreements may soon be-
come academic and hence automat-
ically vanish.
No intelligent Frenchman can
seriously fear that America harbors
any thought of imposing its ideas
OF reconstruction upon the French
people, while De Gaulle and his
regime have consistently main
tanned that France would ultimately
decide Its own destiny. The pres
ent area OF misunderstanding thus
appears to be confined chiefly to
questions OF prestige and temporary
advantage for the committee that
Washington deems inconsistent with
It's policy and principles. This is
surely no stubborn rock on which
men Of good will might split.
Evening star., 1944-07-06

A recent Nazi broadcast proudly
declared that German forces were
maintaining contact with the
enemy. No doubt this is made
easier for them by those outfits on
the Allied side that insist on push
Ing forward so vigorously.
Evening star., 1944-07-06

Handbags for women are getting
larger and larger. The time is al
most at hand when they will be
able to accommodate such modern
feminine necessities as hammers
and blowtorches.
Evening star., 1944-07-06
The Political Mill
By Gould Lincoln

The Democrats, taking q leaf out of
the Republican book. this year are
bringing new faces prominently into
their national convention picture. For
example, they have picked Gov Robert
s. Kerr of Oklahoma for temporary
chairman and keynote speaker, and
Senator Samuel D. jackson of Indiana
for permanent chairman Neither one
OF these gentlemen has played an i'm
portant part in earlier national conven-
tions Of the party.
Senator Barkley of Kentucky. the
majority leader of the Senate, and
Speaker Rayburn OF Texas-to whom
the Democrats might have looked as
presiding officers of the convention
may have other places assigned to them
in the set up. Senator Barkley served
rs temporary chairman of the 1892
and 1895 Democratic national conven-
tions, and In 1910. he was permanent
chairman. Speaker Rayburn's immedi-
ate predecessor, the late Speaker Bank
head, was temporary chairman of the
1910 convention.
This year the White House will not
have Harry Hopkins in charge OF back
of-the-scene maneuvering As he was in
tAic NIlCd6O COIlVeNtlOII III lS4U. Mr..
Hopkins health, in all probability. will
not permit his attending the conven-
ton. Further. this year the President
has champion for his fourth-term
drive in Democratic National Chairman
Robert c. Hannegan. whereas in 1910,
the then national chairman. James A.
Farley. was strongly opposed to a third
term nomination.
Mr.. Hopkins was delegated to pull
the strings for the nomination of Henry
A. Wallace, then Secretary Of Agricul-
ture, for Vice President. Jimmy"
Byrnes, then Senator from South Caro-
lima, later an associate justice OF the
supreme Court, and today War Mobiliza-
ton Director. was on the job for Mr..
Roosevelt. too, as floor manager Mr..
Byrnes will be available for a similar
post this year.
Mr.. Hannegan Is expected to remain
as national chairman for the coming
campaign. Like the temporary and
permanent chairmen of the national
convention. he halls from the great GEN.
trail part OF the country where the DEM
Evening star., 1944-07-06

One OF the Capital Transit Com
pany's charm school requirements
for conductorettes is that their hair
dos be attractive. The ruling is that
only those with a wave deserve 4
chance at the fare.
Evening star., 1944-07-06

to be- done on land, but even 80 we
can be sure that the destruction Of
enemy shipping constitutes one of
the major and decisive factors guar
anteeing our ultimate victory.
Evening star., 1944-07-06
Appreciation of Library Article

HPpISSlauOn Ol LlDTaTy AftlCle
To the Editor of The Star:
The article in The Star of July 3
headed cleveland Park Will Dedicate
Library to Sons in Service" certainly is
drawing innumerable good comments
and you and your paper deserve un-
limited praise for publishing it.
I would like to take this opportunity
to thank you personally as we'll rs on
behalf Of the more than 1000 employees
I represent here at the National Bureau
Of Standards for publishing the above
noted article so that the world may
learn Of such worthy project as this is.
We are heartily in favor of the proposed
library and hope that the necessary sum
is subscribed without delay. Our bureau
personnel is in need of a library such
as the one proposed, and I assure you
1t will be used extensively by them.
May be allowed to make one cor
rection to the above article? It was
stated therein that the Welfare and
Recreation Association of this bureau
has contributed the sum of $500 toward
this project, whereas we actually have
pledged $500. WESLEY H. MILTNER.
Chairman Welfare and Entertainment
Committee. NBS.
Evening star., 1944-07-06
Importance of Election

Importance of Election
To the Editor Of The Star:
would like to express my personal
thankfulness that this still is a land
where men are free to indulge in the
great game of politics. The coming
election, more than any other for years
past, should be a good old American
knock-down and drag-out affair.
We should show the world and espe-
cially the peoples Of the world who have
leanings toward totalitarianism that in
spite Of putting our major time and
effort into the war we still can 20 to
the polls and choose who shall be our
leader. Our propaganda officials should
certainly make the most of it in their
broadcasts to Nazi-dominated countries.
Why not broadcast the election returns
to our enemies and let them see how
We do 1t over here? It might shorten
the war. and that alone would make the
election worthwhile.
WILLIAM I. oREHN.
Evening star., 1944-07-06
Member Of the Associated Press.

Entered at the Post Once, WashinGton d. c..
As second class mail matter.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-05
Barbara Would
Withhold
Counts Income

WILMINGTON, Del, Sept 5.
UP)-Barbara Hutton Grant Tues
day asked the u. S. district court of
Delaware to step the income of her
former husband. the former Count
Kurt Haugwitz Reventlow. from a
$l5000O0 trust fund she established
for him in 1888.
Attorneys for the WoolWorth
heiress and wife of motion picture
actor Cary Grant also asked that
HCWland. Inc, Delaware corpora
ton entructed with the fund, be re-
moved as the trustee under a trust
agreement, and that the court ap-
point successor trustee.
Her Representatives claimed that
the corporation is dominated by
HaugWitz and his attorneys, and
asked that HoWland be enjoined
from making any payments of prin-
cipal or income to ReventloW, and
that the income be made part of the
trust fund.
The suit follows one Mrs. Grant
filed in California in July in which
she asked full custody of her son
Lance, who is the heir to the trust
fund established at the time of the
separation of Reventlcw and Mrs
Grant in July, 1888.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-05

We found ShanGri La en- a noun
tain top in Hollywood today. 1t was
only five miles from the heart of
Beverly Hills. But it was practically
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-05

prominent member of the younger
set in Ell Ccntro. has been a junior
hostess of the USO and a member
CT the Red Cross Motor Corps. In
high school she belonged to the
Technical club and is a life mem
Der of the ThcSpianS. Since her
graduation from Eel Centre high
school, she has been employed at
the Bank of America.
No date has been set fer the we'd
ding, as the young couple plan to
be married when the war ends.
Miss Meagher will leave Tuesday
for Santa Barbara. where she will
take a course in home economies at
Santa Barbara college. She is the
sister of Miss Jane Meagher, now a
cadet nurse at st. Joseph'S hospital
in Orange, and of Jack Meagher,
who is in school here.
Sergeant Hewitt is the son of Mrs.
Glenn II. Hewitt of Troy, Pcnnsyl-
vania, where he attended school.
He enlisted in the marine corps two
years ago and is in cOmmunica-
tionS.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-05
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Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-05

RY ERSklNE IOIENSON

straight up all the way.
We ate venison soaked in milk for
! "A hours and washed it down with
red wine. We looked through tele-
scope TO see the nearest neighbors-
and they were cows, grazing in San
Fernando valley, 10 miles away.
We didn't need a telescope
though, to see Sugar Foot, who also
was everywhere.
Sugar Foot, the Danish baritone,
is billed by the Metropolitan Opera
with the more formal name of Lau-
ritz Melchior. On his private noun
tain top, Mrs. Melchior calls him
Tugal Foot.
Lauritz was wearing yellow shorts
and white knitted socks half way
up to his pink. dimpled knees. We
didn't need a telescope to see him
hccauSe he is 6 feet 3 and weighs
$50 pounds. And in those yellow
shorts and overgrcwn bobby socks
he stole the scenery.
We looked up Lauritz at his noun
tain top estate, THE Viking" be-
cause he is making his movie debut
with Van johnson and Esther Will
liamS in M-G-M's Thrill of Ro-
nance"
STRANGE CUPID
He chuckled about that like a
truckload of jelly.
After 80 years In opera. I'm a
debutante,' he roared.
They've dressed him up" Mrs.
MelchiCr said. like prima donna. .
Il play Cupid to Van and Esther, -
Sugar Foot raid. Can you imagine
me AS Cupid?"
Mrs. Sugar Foot is beautiful
woman with delightful sense of
humor. She manages Sugar Foot's
affairs with a shrewdness Holly
wood agents should study They
have been married for 20 years.
She once was an actress in Ger
many.
Sugar Foot said. Il make the
noise and she saves the money"
Singing in the movies was child's
plav, Lauritz Melchior said. "At the
Met I sing from 5000 to 1000 words
in ono evening. In Hollywood sing
one little scng and they ask me if
I'm tired
He does nothing to protect his
voice except take a three-month
vacation every year. "A voice. he
said. "is like machine. You have
to give it rest now and then"
On his annual three-month vaca-
tions, Sugar Foot likes to hunt. He's
shct grizzly bears in Alaska, caribou
in Canada and mountain goats in
South America. The heads of half
a dozen were hanging in the play
room. But you should see the ones
we left in New York" Mrs Melchior
said. "We practically support a taxi
dermiSt."
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-05
OF Interest tOWOnen
Methodist Church
To Have Special
Services Sunday

Special back k-to-hom6" services
will be held at the Methodist
church this Sunday. September 10,
and members of the congregation
who have been abfent are especial
ly invited by the Rev. Hayden s.
Sears to attend The morning serv-
ice will be at IL o'clock and the
evening service at 7:45. The senior
chcir under direction of Mrs. Eu-
gene Waterman will sing at both
services.
This will be the first event of the
years program as planned at the
conference Sunday at Live Oaks. A
folloWup of that meeting will be
held Saturday at 7:45 D. m. in the
social hall, when the full program
for the year will be presented to
members of the congrc cation by the
ministers, Rev. Hayden S. Sears and
Rev. David Houghton, for final dis
cussion and acceptance.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-05
ON THE HOME
FRONT
BY ANN STEVICK

WASHINGTON, Aug. 30.-You
will be able to shop for everyday
clothing items with definite low
prices, if the Office of Price Ad-
ministration' consumer advisory
committee has its way.
This official committee, made up
of two dozen women representing
various consumer groups, has urged
a more complete loW-coSt clothing
program, and at once. Orders are
out to start making up women's
cotton dresses at ST 40 and $169 as
well as inexpensive slips, mems
shirts and shorts. Maternity dresses
will be made to sell for $l.89, slips
for $l05 The committee points out
that these programs show it can be
done, but contend that limited
types and amounts planned will
mean that many shoppers won't see
any of the low-coSt items they need.
OPA fixed pricing on more of
your everyday clothing needs is
held up, according to committee
members, awaiting War Production
Boards figures on definite specifi-
cations and cloth ALLEGATIONS. The
committee recommends that OPA
take matters into it's own hands if
necessary to avoid delay. They point
cut that the ban on OPA standards
in pricing permits the exception
where no feasible price control
alternative exists" contend that
nation wide reports of sh d d y
clothing prove that clothing price
control doesn't work without stand
ards
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-05

SO as to give scrapings or irritations
time to SubSide.
Other tips from Claire are these:
Close up hair follicleS with an
astringent Whether or not skin
is rough, use a softening lotion
particularly on heels. Be sure that
legs are free of any previous make
up before applying new coats.
Claire says the secret of hel
technique is to pour or squeeze out
only as much makeup as skin or
legs will take up, explaining that
the excess which you can't work in
is what makes messy job.