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The Political Mill
By Gould Lincoln

Two important States, PENNSYLVANIA
and Massachusetts, today are electine
delegates to the Republican and Demo-
cratic National Conventions. There
have been signs and reports Of Demo-
cratic revolt in Massachusetts, against a
fourth term for President Roosevelt.
Indeed. from some Democratic sources
in the Bay State the prediction, has been
made that in November it will shift from
the Democratic column. where it has
perched in the last four presidential
elections, to the Republican
Pennsylvania Democrats, on the other
hand, are still vociferously proclaiming
their allegiance to Mr. Roosevelt. Their
big delegation of ~ will 60 to Chicago
intent on his denomination. Senator
Joe" Guffey, who has been an ardent
FIRST, second and third term advocate Of
MIR. Roosevelt, has been for many
months in the forefront of the drive to
give the President still another term.
He insists Mr.. Roosevelt not only will
carry Pennsylvania, but will carry the
country.
The Willkie strength among Repub-
Hcan leaders in Massachusetts was
strong-until the Willkie debacle in
Wisconsin and Mr.. WILKES subsequent
withdrawal from the presidential race.
Senator Weeks and Gov. Sa1tonstall
were among those in the Willkie corner.
With the carpet pulled from under the
feet of the Willkie supporters, it now
looks as If the Massachusetts Repub-
hcans would, In the main, go aiong with
the proposal to draft Gov. Dewey of
New York for the presidential nomina-
tion. Dewey, all the polls indicate, has
popular strength and strength with the
politicians the country over.
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Unless there is a last-minute change,
however, it is expected that both the
Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania dele
cations will go to the Republican Ma
tional Convention "uminstructed"-al-
though individual delegates will express
their own preference. Pennsylvania,
next to New York, will have the largest
delegation in the COP convention-70.
Massachusetts, will have IS delegates.
The Pennsylvania brand Of Republi-
can politics in the last three national
conventions has been Of the ''wait-and-
see" variety, although In the 1928 con-
vention the late "Bill" Ware forced the
hands of the Melons. then politically
powerful, and compelled a. declaration
for Herbert Hoover. Much speculation
goes on today as to what the Keystone
State Republicans will do-whether they
will Jump aboard the Dewey band
Evening star., 1944-04-25
'crines'
By Dauid laurence
ON the London Daily Express,

From the London Daily Express.
The bureaucrat can turn us all into
criminals. He can make 10 crimes grow
where one grew before. Instance One:
Bath housewife lost her handbag.
At the police station they found coupons
in it belonging to q friend. Instance
Two: A man in Lowestoft killed a pig
and sold half of it, as ordered by regu-
.ations. He gave joints from the other
half to his daughter and his sons wife.
In both cases the magistrates protested
and imposed nominal fines, thereby
showing wisdom and their reluctance to
apply the processes Of the law to ordi-
nary decent citizens. Since wartime
regulations are inevitable, there is a
great burden on those responsible for
their administration to see that they do
not become oppressive. It Is monstrous
that the people whom they are intended
to protect should be afflicted while there
are big fish cruising about in the black
market pool,
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Threat Lifted

The Burma-India battle seems to
have taken decided shift in favor
of our Allied side. In the Burmese
sector, new glider-bor British
guerrilla forces have been landed
deep behind japanese lines, while
in the Imphal and Kohima areas the
enemy's potentially dangerous IN
dian invasion, if not frustrated al
together, has at least been fought to
a temporary standstill.
The situation has improved so
much, in fact, that Admiral Lord
Louis Mountbatten's Southeast Asia
Command headquarters in Ceylon
has issued special statement fatty
asserting that there should be no
further menace to the supply line
feeding General Stilwells advancing
Chinese-American forces in North
ern Burma. The outlook as whole
Cannot be regarded as fully salts
factory" according to the statement,
but 1t Is bright enough to warrant
quiet confidence" The threat to
Kohimo and to Dimapur, IS miles
northward, appears definitely to
have been lifted, and with it the
threat to the Bengal-Assam railway
which is vital to the Stilwell opera
tions. At the same time, though
heavy fighting continues TO the
southeast and southwest, Imphal
seems to be out of danger.
In the judgment of Mountbatten's
headquarters. where calm and con-
f1dence have prevailed fairly con-
sistently through all the ups and
downs of this battle, the japanese
have thus failed up to now to
achieve any Of the primary objec-
tives of their thrust into India and
there is good reason to feel that a
renewed effort on their part will be
similarly defeated. The present
prospect therefore includes the pos
sibility that their ambitious inva-
sion move will end disastrously
for them, since our Allied forces,
striking behind them through the
Burma jungle at at least three
different points, threaten to sever
their greatly extended lines of sup
ply and leave them isolated, to be
cut to pieces in due time or to be
begged down helplessly when the
monsoon comes late in May or early
in June.
Enemy success in the Kohima and
1mphal ar1s would have been q
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Letters to The Star
Capt. Hellwes Suggests Ways to
Help Transportation.

To the Editor OF The Star:
The following scheme is submitted to
relieve the load on the public transport
tation systems, taxicabs, ETC., and also
to save gas and time for those private
motorists utilizing this system.
have had made two signs, about 18
inches long and inches high, carrying
letters about inches tall, showing my
habitual destination. On leaving my
home in the morning one sign is stuck in
the right-hand windshield, showing
"Thirty-fourth street and Massachusetts,
avenue"
AS T travel along the street, any one
awaiting transportation at the corner
whose destination is en- route to Thirty
fourth street and Massachusetts, avenue
need only make a sign to be picked up
And dropped when he wants anywhere
along the route to my destination. other
signs can be made for other habitual or
occasional trips.
Since using this method, it has been
noted that much of the previous gear
shifting due to stopping and asking
people If they wanted lift has been
saved and it is remarkable the number
Of people who will avail themselves of
the offer to be picked up and dropped
some place en- route.
Another scheme which recently has
been noted can help lot. One day as
I was driving along the street young
lady standing at corner suddenly
opened her pocketbook and pulled out a
card which she held aloft, showing
Dupont Circle" I Immediately stopped
and picked her up, dropping her at
Dupont Circle, which happened to be a
very little out of my way.
If both or either Of these schemes are
put in operation by the thousands of
workers in Washington they undoubt-
edly will result in considerable benefit.
j. F. HELLWEG,
Captain, U. S. N, (Ret), Superin-
tendent, U. S. Naval Observatory.
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Calls for RISING

To the Editor of The Star:
That no one is satisfied with the
world of today goes without saying,
least of all Germany and Japan, whose
dictators started this war
What have Hitler and TOTO gained
for their countries? The enmity of the
United Nations who were forced into
war to defend their rights as free
nations.
Peoples of Germany and Japan, SOL
diers and civilians alike, should rise in
their might, refuse to fight longer
They should put down their dictators
who are only prolonging a fruitless war
in order to continue their own selfish
power, regardless of the future of Ger
many and Japan as nations.
EVA SMITH SNYDER.
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Modifying q Rule

The Supreme Courts ruling in the
case of James P. Mitchell, known as
the society burglar" is a commend
able though not entirely successful
effort to undo the confused conse-
quences of the confusing McNabb
decision.
In the McNabb ruling, announced
more than year ago, the high court
set aside the conviction of three
murderers on the ground that con-
fessions obtained from them were
improperly admitted in evidence.
The improperly, according to the
court, grew out of the fact that the
defendants confessed while being
held in custody for an unreasonable
length of time without an arraign-
ment and while being subjected to
questioning under conditions which
amounted to the application of
psychological pressure" whatever
that may mean. The court stated
that it was not passing upon the
question of whether the confessions
were voluntary or involuntary in the
constitutional sense, preferring to
rest its decision on a new judge
made rule of evidence predicated on
the failure of the arresting officers
to arraign the suspects within rea-
Sonable time.
1t was this departure from the
established rule which produced the
confusion in the Mitchell case.
Mitchell, according to the local po-
lice, confessed promptly after his
arrest on a burglary charge and gave
consent to search of his house, in
which stolen property was found.
He was held for several days after
the confession without arraignment,
however, and this fact persuaded
the District Court of Appeals to rule
that the McNabb decision precluded
the use Of the confession against
him in the trial court.
Now the Supreme Court says that
the Court of Appeals was wrong
that the circumstances supporting
its decision in the McNabb case
were totally lacking in the Mitchell
case. In the McNabb case the illegal
detention was coupled with "aggra-
waiting circumstances" or psyche
logical pressure" In the Mitchell
case the detention was no less illegal,
but the other conditions were lack
ing when the confessions were made.
Hence, the high court says, the Court
of Appeals erred in reversing his
conviction.
Although the Supreme Court. in
its latest ruling, insists that it ad-
heres to its views in the McNabb
cases the fact seems to be that these
views, or at least the interpretations
placed on them, have been pretty
well nullified by the Mitchell deci-
sion. At any rate, it now seems clear
that illegal detention of a suspect,
standing alone, does not bar use of
any confession he may make. To
become inadmissible, the confession
must have been made under aggra-
waited circumstances; perhaps in
volving psychological pressure, so
that, in fact, it was not truly volun-
tary.
Yet it has always been the rule
that confessions which were not
voluntary could not be used In evi-
dence. and so the suspicion arises
that what we have in the Mitchell
decision is not so much clarifica-
ton Of an essentially sound McNabb
ruling, but rather an attempt to
undo some of the harmful conse-
quences Of a ruling which was un-
sound and unwise.
Evening star., 1944-04-25

serious reverse for us in the sense
that it would have endangered Gen
eral Stilwell's campaign, further
complicated the difficult Chinese
supply problem as a whole and
aggravated the delicate internal
Indian situation. That such triple
threat has been eliminated, for the
time being at least, is highly graft
fying-doubly so because our Allied
forces may now be able to convert
it into costly defeat for the
Japanese.
Evening star., 1944-04-25

Questions Indispensability.
To the Editor of The Star:
Robert Ingersoll said: Fear is the
dungeon of the mind" Limitation like
wise Is form Of fear and represents q
dark mental CELL
The prevailing notion, frequently
voiced by New Dealers, that President
Roosevelt Is the only individual fitted
to lead this Nation for the next four
years is an insult to American inteli-
gence and courage.
Napoleon entertained a dream of
world empire and was regarded by the
French as the indispensable man. The
power-drunk Emperor, far from estab-
fishing global freedom, succeeded in
wrecking his country as we'll as himself.
The indispensable man is a myth.
Funerals prove it,
EDMUND K. GOLDSBOROUGH.
Evening star., 1944-04-25

have been few among the conmu-
nifty Of Star workers who will be re-
membered longer or with a deeper
sense of affectionate appreciation
for the light and cheer he shed
wherever he went and in whatever
he undertook.
Evening star., 1944-04-25
lnterlude

Stand still and listen long
Stand Dith dttentipe ear
II you tDould hear the hylds' song,
Trenlulons and clear,
Like iDdter trickling In brook:
Giue thanks for ,Dlsat you hear.
Stand patiently and look
Look up1Ddrd and around
For there are signs OF spring
Approaching without sound,
As silent as an o,DPs Dinq
Or toF feet on the ground.
HARRY EI.MORE HURD.
Evening star., 1944-04-25
Burber's Jurqon

From the Topeka Capital.
After working up a lather against
Senator Gillette, the administration
found him too tough a blade to nick
Possibly anticipating close shave in
November. FDR Is using sotteS soap.
Evening star., 1944-04-25
Further Letters on miracles" ."


To the Editor Of The Star:
The letter by Mrs. M. w. NOEL re-
garding the movie, "The Song of Berna-
dette," was answered ably by others,
but no one has reminded her that an
exciting movie could be presented based
on the lives Of many brilliant, cultured
saints, some Of whom were members Of
the nobility, and two of whom, st.
Thomas Aquinas and st. Teresa of
Avila, were doctors Of the church, GER
tainly highly spiritual and Intellectually
gifted characters who were neither
"cold, hard cynical individuals" nor
"highly emotional peasant types" re-
call offhand these examples: Sir Thom-
as More. Thomas Beckett. Ignatius
Loyola, Francis Xavier, Francis Borgia,
Aloysius Gonzaga, Dominic.
Most OF the saints had highly emo
tional experiences, purified, however, by
the flame OF sanctity, experiences SINH
lar to Bernadette Soubirous, varying In
number and intensity, but all examples
Of the Creators love for the faithful.
AS to the Intelligent approach to
religious truth" we can name Newman,
Chesterton and the Maritains- INTEL
lectuals who were converted by attain
ing that elevating spiritual satisfaction
found in the prolific writings of st..
Thomas Aquinas, the angelic doctor,
with their amazing subtley Of thought
and their 50 generous and scholarly
proofs. MATTHEW A. McKAvITT.
TO the Editor Of The Star:
have been interested in reading the
letters in your papers about the Song
OF Bernadette" and am inclined to think
Mrs. NOEL had something in her COM
ments deserving consideration.
Several years ago visited the Shrine
OF Guadalupe in Mexico, which had a
similar origin in that the vision ap-
peared to simple, ignorant Indian lad.
Later, read a book by well-known
author on the subject. Apparently she
had some faith in the story for she tells
OF the miracles Of healing. 7 saw
photographs and printed testimonials
OF these myself on the cathedral walls.
However, this same author states that
her health was so poor during all the
time she was writing the book that it
was almost impossible for her to finish
1t. Maybe 1t was only lack of faith,
but it certainly seemed inconsistent.
AS to quoting of scripture, that could
be done endlessly without proving very
much. Jesus said, IT am come that We
might have life and have it more
abundantly"; whether physical or spirit
ual is not stated.
My observation Of these faith miracles
which are so loudly proclaimed is that
they only apply to physical ailments
Where mems lives are changed, morally
and spiritually, is the true test of
Christ's redeeming power. The recov-
cry Of lame leg may lead the man into
carnal sin; but when his soul is healed
he benefits not alone, but all those who
come in contact with him.
THE REASONING TYPE,
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Meetings this week are: Monday
Front Line Auxiliary, 1919 K street
NV; Wednesday, Frecrackers' Coo
tiette Club, 713 D street NV.
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The roveIer's Notebook
Forty D0ytono Beach Hotels Reopsnsd to Civilians
kewsm0nfs Idea Brought Million to Sunshine cityI
Lake Placid Facilities Still Available to Public

DAYTONA BEACH. Fla. ~ This
city Is being frank with It's prospec-
tive visitors by giving this advice:
II you're looking for hotel accom-
modations, there will be plenty. All
Of the resorts more than 10 hotels
have been reconverted to civilian
use.
II you're looking for houses,
they're . bit difncult to md, unless
you want q large house.
II you're concerned about eating
out, Daytona Beach restaurants are
not unduly crowded.
II you're concerned about prices,
you'll and the gouging spirit absent
In Daytona Beach, for the city seeks
to make postwar friends as well as
doing business now.
II you're one of those fortunate
persons who will retire soon, the
sound financial structure and post
war plans Of Daytona Beach will
make homecoming attractive here.
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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.-News-
paper advertising has been the basis
OF st. Petersburg's phenomenal
growth, In half q century, from a
wilderness to q thriving city of TO-
900 permanent inhabitants.
This resort was the first in Amer
lea to place display advertisements
IN Northern papers, and 1t was the
first to employ q municipal adver-
Using and publicity director.
Many outstanding promotional
stunts" designed to direct national
attention to st. Petersburg were
thought UP by the late John LODI
wick, Americas first municipal press
agent, but Mr.. Lodwick always saw
to 1t his publicity campaigns were
supported by appropriations for paid
advertising space in the press.
To the late Maj. Lew B. Brown,
publisher, of the Evening Independ-
ent, goes the credit of performing
the one great master stroke in max
ing the city famous. Back in 1910
he announced that his newspaper
would always be free on days when
the sun failed to shine before press
time. This challenge to the weather
man was easily worth q million dol
lars to the small community Of IS
years ago.
Maj. Brown not only conceived
the free newspaper idea, but gave
st. Petersburg its nickname. "the
Sunshine City" worth another mil
lion to the ambitious little resort Of
those days.
LAKE PLACID, N. Y.-The fact
that the Army Ground and Service
Forces have established a redistri-
button center at the Lake Placid
Club will in no way affect winter
sports activities and the program al
Lake Placid for the coming winter
season.
While the club sports facilities will
be used by the Army, all other facil-
tiles at Lake Placid will still be
available to the public. Scott's Cobble
Ski Center with tow, Fawn Ridge
Ski Center also with tow and the
Stevens House novice slopes anC
tow, the many downhill ski runs
and ski trails, the outdoor skating
rink on Mirror Lake, the municipal
toboggan slide and all other facil-
tiles will be open as soon as snow
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TODAY'S NEIGHBORHOODMOVIES
Bonds and Stamps at Any Local Theater.

All Time Schedules Given in Warner
Bros. Ads. Indicate Time Feature il
| Presented
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HISER. BETHESDA s s.ss. =: A.
Benny Fields, Gladys George,
MINSTREL MAN" Also
JAMES MASON and CARLA
LEHMAN in
"Candlelight in Algeria"
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Manpower Shortage

~ the Associated Fress.
HOLLYWOOD.
Sonny Tufts recently played = hos
tpttal inferno, marine and D cow
boy IN three different pictures the
same day.
Remarked Bill Bendix, when he
met Tufts after his third wardrobe
change:
Say, this manpower shortage is
sure getting tough when one actor
has to play three guys ct once!"
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United States Government Print
ing Post will meet at 713 D street
NV. December 3. Comdr. Roy C.
Minard, who is also department
chief Of staff, will outline the plans
for Q VFW rally to be held Decem-
Der 8 at the Odd Fellows Hall, 4ls
Seventh street NV. All past and
present members Of the VFW are
invited to attend and to bring serv-
icemen who have served overseas.
Meetings for the week: Monday
Front Line Post, 1919 K street NV;
Tuesday, Pentagon Post, Pentagon
Building.
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Retired Enlisted Men

Henry p. Russell, retired master
sergeant, Detached Enlisted Mems
list, National Guard, was admitted
to membership In Association No. /
The following nominations of ON
GERS were proposed: For commander,
D. J. Malenfant and c. P. Reynolds;
for vice commander, T. M. Phillips
and II. g. Yeager; for officer Of the
day, P. Walsh and q. Z. Lavelley;
for oficer Of the guard, NJ. H. Case
for chaplain, II. De Hart and w. p
Bennett; fdr quartermaster. L.
Grub, and for quartermaster
sergeant, q. Darhanian.
Election viii take place at the
December meeting.
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the two parks united are to form the
Big Bend international Peace Park.
The two Texas park entrances will
be ct Alpine and Marathon, where
south an international bridge Ia
planned across the Boquillas Canyon.
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THE SUNDAY STAR. washington, D. e.
SUNDAY, kovgMDgR IS,

the newest addition Of the national
parks to be known Is the Big Bend
National Park Of Texas. The prof.
Get, authorized by Congress In 1895.
was followed by Texas alloting 70O,-
600 acres. The Mexican government
has just now authorized similar
area across the Rio Grande, whereby
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.VFW Officials
To Attend Farley;
Other Activities

Department Comdr. Leolin H
Neville : Thompson, ouartermaste,
Edward T. Spedden. Past Depart
ment Comdr. Edward K. Inman and
National Council Member Charles
B. Jennings, D. C. Veterans of For
eign Wars, will leave here today to
attend the annual mid-winter con-
ference Of national and department
officers at Kansas City, Mo. The
session will be Tuesday, Wednesday
and Thursday.
The meeting will outline the VFW
rehabilitation and employment pro-
gram for returning service men and
women.