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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-24

OF 19 votes in a thousand, mean
while, will give II to Dewey.
In Missouri, Dewey needs a
shift OF "a voters out of every
thousand; in Ohio, %; in New
Hampshire, 80.
The important consideration.
however, is not the percentages
as TO what might happen TO those
IL barometer states, but what &C
tually has happened, and Is hap
pening, according to all tangible
indications.
HAVE COP GOVERNORS
All but two OF them-Maryland
and West Virginia-have Repub-
lican governors. Seven of them
have increased their Republican
representations in Congress since
1910, and in only one-Montana--
have the Republicans lost ground.
Unbiased political bystanders
are generally agreed-and the
polls back them up-that Gov.
Dewey has the odds in his favor
in Ohio, Idaho New York, Illinois,
Minnesota. New Hampshire and
North Dakota. Some of them give
him a better than even shot for
Missouri and Maryland.
On the other hand, the odds
seem 10 be in the President
favor in Washington, Montana and
West Virginia For the moment
al least
DECISIONS NOT MADE
The score, then, stacks up as
Dewey, 9; Roosevelt, 3.
1t doesn't mean that Dewey
will win, because the truth prob
ably is that the election decision
is still TO be made, in the minds
OF the American voters: at least,
in the minds of that swing-vote
percentage which will decide the
election in the various states.
The above figures, therefore,
are merely trends and straws in
the wind.
But as such. they xuggest
strongly that the decision GER
tainly is not in the bag for the
Roosevelt Truman ticket. Sew
enty-five per cent OF the most re-
liable barometer states of the
nation are leading the other way.
And TO make the whole outcome
even more imponderable are side
considerations that are completely
abnormal.
MANY WON'T VOTE
Some 100000 men arc in tho
armed forces, and for the most
part their vote will not be in.
: eleded- tn the November totals
Millions Of war workers have
moved from their regular voting
residences 10 jobs in other states
and, except IL those who have
had the foresight 10 register in
their new locations. they will be
unable 10 vote.
Political observers are agreed
all around that both of those
categories are preponderantly per-
sons who would have voted for
President Roosevelt and thus, the
fact that they are disfranchised,
represents loss 10 him.
Add it all together and the in
evitable conclusion is that the
whole thing still is wide open
horse race, and the election won't
be decided until the votes are
I finally counted.
copynIh,. 1914. By King Feature.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-24
Presidential Election
To Be One of Closest
Dewey-RooseveIt Battle Likely
TO Roar Into Stretch Even Stephen
Fulton Lewis ssY.:
By FULTON LEWIS JR.

WASHINGTON Sept PIN you're getting tangled IN The
of free campaign predictions that daily contradict and counter
contradict little simple election arithmetic will
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-24
BOTH CITE ILLINOIS

Or take Illinois, which both the
Republicans and the Democrats
are claiming. The balance is even
more delicate there. Roosevelt
carried the state in 1910 by only
100000 votes in more than 4.000,-
900. A shift Of only II votes out
Of every thousand, this time. will
carry it for Dewey.
Or Minnesota. Roosevelt barely
carried II in 1870. and a change
Evening star., 1944-04-26
|nsurgent Democrats
Favor NationaIism
Ey the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 26.-Dr. Glea-
son L. Archer Of Boston, national
chairman of the American Demo-
cratic National Committee, oppo-
nents Of a fourth term for President
Roosevelt, declared yesterday that
no "internationalist can hope to re-
ceive our support" in the presiden-
tial campaign.
DR.. Archer, president of Suffolk
University, asserted that the United
States is being ruled by men who
were not of our own choosing" and
that "they can be gotten rid Of only
by defeating for reelection their in
dulgent patron and protector who
now occupies the White House."
mo man whose past record or
past utterances indicate that he is
an internationalist can hope to re-
ceive our support" DR.. Archer said.
mo man can be elected without the
cooperation Of our rapidly mobiliz-
ing strength.
DR.. Archer succeeded former Sec
retary Of War Harry L. Woodring
as chairman of the group April 2.
The office Is in charge Of former
Representative John ]. O'Connor of
New York.
He said the group will hold a pre-
Evening star., 1944-04-26

convention caucus June in St.
Louis. formulate a platform and Sc
iect candidates, adding that the
group had shown much sentiment"
for Gen. Douglas Macarthur.
The organizations program, he
stated, will be put forward by dele
gates at the July II Democratic Ma
tional Convention.
Evening star., 1944-04-26
TheGreatG GameofPolitics
Walace's Forthcoming Mission to China
Stirs Diplomatic and Political Circles
Rp Frank r. Kent.

their own language. One of the
basic beliefs among career diplo-
mats is that a representative of this
country should never address the
people Of another in their own Ian
guage unless he speaks it perfectly
Experience has proven that they
do not feel complimented when
thus addressed by foreigner whose
accent is all wrong and who muddles
both grammar and pronunciation.
1t is said in the department that
Mr.. Wallace's speech in Spanish to
the Mexicans year or so ago was
not a success. Asked what sort OF
Spanish Mr.. Wallace spoke on that
occasion, a diplomat who heard
him replied, "Oh, quite good Ell
Corn Belto Spanish"
Evening star., 1944-04-26
BY THE HASKIN SERVICE.

BY THE HASKIN SERVICE.
@. Are President Roosevelt and
his sons all over 6 feet tail?-
B. L. O.
A. The President is 6 feet ! inch
James, 6 feet three inches; Elliott
6 feet two inches; Franklin, jr., 6
feet three inches, and John, feet
four inches.
@. Where is the worlds most
northerly railway?-R. E.
A. At Kings Bay in Spitzbergen.
It is only 750 miles from the North
Pole.
@. How does the Constitution of
the United States rank from the
standpoint of literary value?-
E. L. H.
A. It ranks among the finest pub
lie documents of history. The ex-
cellence of its language is largely
due to Gouverneur Morris who was
a member Of the Committee on Ar
rangement and Style selected to
revise the draft.
@. What States have never expe-
rienced an earthquake?-H. A. r.
A. The United States Coast and
Geodetic Survey has listed no
earthquakes for North Dakota,
West Virginia and Wisconsin. It is
quite possible that minor tremors
may have occurred in one or all of
these States and it is also possible
that disturbances of doubtful seismic
origin may have been experienced.
@. What constitute the Twelve
Ornaments" found in Chinese de-
signs?-L. @.
A. They are the emblematic fig
ures Of the ancients-the sun, the
moon, the stars, the mountain, the
dragon, and the fowery fowl, the
temple-cup, the aquatic grass, the
flames, the grains of rice, the
hatchet and the symbol of distinc-
ton. The Emperor was the only
person permitted to wear the full set
of twelve painted or embroidered on
his robes.
@. In what year did Joe Di Mag
gio join the Yankees?-I. N. B.
A. Joe Di Maggie started playing
baseball with the New York Yankees
in 1886.
Evening star., 1944-04-26
Robbery on Fifth Avenue

NEW YORK, April 26 R.-On
crowded Fifth avenue near the En-
pire State Building early yesterday
afternoon . thug pushed Mildred
Baldassare, Is, into a doorway
robbed her of a $3.50 payroll and
then disappeared among the stroll
erS
Evening star., 1944-04-26

a nd political
circles. 1t is. in
+ &C t, amazing
how many ways
have been found
for looking at
this latest of our
Vice Presidents
ventures in t o
foreign fields.
Much Of the
speculation is
due to the mys-
terry Of what his
mission really is
and why Mr..
Wallace, GER
tainlv nat. a con-
Evening star., 1944-04-26
FROM THE EDITORS DESK
Mr.: & Mrs. Furnos
Started II

EVIDENTLY writer's are people just like
IL all the rest of us-for the inspiration for
this article on Women in War came from
discussion of the subject at the home of Mr..
& Mrs. J. c. Furnas.
We weren't there-but writer Mr.. Furnas
tells us the discussion waxed rather hot
and finally both agreed that maybe many
thousands of other husbands and wives were
arguing the same subject-minus the actual
facts in the case.
So Mr.. Furnas, long known to Post mil
lions for his diligence and rare ability in the
business of searching and finding facts-set
out to analyze the question-and present a
faithful report of his findings.
His ARTICLES seriously recommended read
ing-for those who think women are doing
their share-and those who think differently.
1t is another evidence of the fact millions
know-that in articles, as in fiction, war,
politics, humor, mystery-the great things
naturally come first to the new Post.
Evening star., 1944-04-26

The Forthcoming trip to China
on a diplomatic mission" of Mr..
Henry Wallace has stirred consid-
cradle interest in both diplomatic
Evening star., 1944-04-26
|Huskin
to
Questions

A reader can get the answer to any
question of fact by writing The Eve
ineton, D. C. Please inclose Scent
stamp for return postage.
Evening star., 1944-04-26

Q. In what year did Joe Di Mag
gio join the Yankees?-I. N. B.
A. Joe Di Maggie started playing
baseball with the New York Yankees
in 1896.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-19
New Air Force
Leader Named

LONDON, April 10. CUP)-Ma jor
General Hoyt S. Vanc enberg has
been appointed deputy air COM
mander in chief Of the allied ex-
Eeditionary air force. succeeding
Major General william O. Butler,
whose new post has not been dis
closed, it was announced Wednes-
day.
Vandenberg, a native of Milwau-
kee. Wis, lives in Washington, DC.
He assisted in planning the North
African invasion in London in 1912,
ana later servei as chief of staff
Of the 18th air force and as chief
of staff Of the northwest African
stra tegic air force.
In his new post. Vanc enberg will
serve under Air Chief Marshall Sir
Traffcrd Leigh-Mallory. who com
mards the allied eXpeditionary air
force. Vandenberg is a command
pilot with more than 5000 hours of
flying time He holds the cistin-
guished flving cross, the silver star,
the legion of merit and the air
medal with four oak leaves.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-19
AiRPlANE DEVELOPMENTS
PROMISE MUCH IN FUTURE
(LOS Angeles TimeS)

News (released by the Army of a new
development for air-cooled airplane en-
gineS which increases available power
rate of climb is said to be pushed up 20
per cent by it-without requiring addi-
tional fuel and of the perfection of de-
vices which will permit figh-altitude
flying over the Arctic are two items from
the daily grist which promise much for
the future of aviation.
Fan-cooling of air-cooled engines. re-
ducing drag, is the invention of most i'm
mediate Importance, giving an edge to the
big bombers and air-cooled fighters
which will still further increase Allied
air supremacy. The device is said to be
much superior to anything the Germans
have been able to develop. The develop
ments for Arctic flight are in de-icers,
fuel and fabrication improvements.
Coincidentally the rumored conversion
of two Boeing plants, those at Seattle
and Wichita, to making B-29's exclusive
", is confirmed. This is the new super
bomber the Army has been testing, of
longer range and greater carrying capac-
ity than the Flving Fortresses. Whether
it has been used in actual combat has not
been said officially. The Forts will con-
tinue to be made here in the Douglas and
IOckheed plants
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-19
HANDS ACROSS THE DIAMOND

It's spring and the crack of the bat
against the OF baseball is heard again
the nation over. Selective service, man.
power calls and all have brought about
a peculiar era in the great pastime-
youth has its inning. and so does age. A
sort of hands-across-the diamond gesture.
The enforced set-up to fill out teams has
been the means Of satisfying the ambition
of the sandlotter to get into the big time
and, what is of even greater moment,
brought to realization that ever-longing
of the one-time star to come back. And
so they meet. the old and the young-and
they will play their hearts out. The pub
lie will be tolerant as new stars are made
and old ones dim out.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-19
Odessa Citizens
: ! ell Of Siege

the catacOmbS' TO correspondents
who arrived in Odessa Wednesc ay
from Moscow by airplane and truck
a scant 70 hours after the last Ger
man troops had fled toward Roma
MIA.
Some of these men who came
up TO their liberated city from
caverns hac held out underground
for TWO and one-half years in one
OF the strangest sieges Of the war.
1t is a story Of thousands of arm
ed men and women living in sub
terranean garrisons rs to 160 feet
below the city streets on which
trcd the boots Of the German invad-
erS.
They lived in chamsers followed
out of the limestone, with offices,
printing presses, wireless stations,
hospitals, anc food kitchens. There
were some 10000 guerilla fighters
and 5000 other refugees. Toward
the end their ranks were swollen by
Slcvak and French deserters from
the retreating German armies.
BY day they chung to their hide
outs. BY night they sailed forth
in forays against the German occu-
patton force.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-19
WE
the Women
BY RUTH MILLETT

By RUTH MILLETT .r..
At meeting in, Washington
where the problem oe juvenile de-
lin1uency wac DISCUSSED, Miss
Charlotte Carr of the War Man.
power Commission brought up the
subject Of the Young war worko"S
whose educational opportunities
ale being sacrificed to the wal
production program"
The country has an Obligation
to these boys and girls" she said.
The nation should be jus. az con-
cerned with plans tor their re-
adjut tment to school life and their
/ 1cupa ional retraining as it is
with the retraining of veterans"
II another city judge, after
passing sentence on a young war
worker who got mixed up with
gang Of juvenile delinquents. lee
tured the boys father for lttti !
him buy an automobile out of his
high Wagec and fer letting him
tquander his money.
1t locks as though tie judge has
a more realistic attitude toward
the problem OF young war work
erS than the woman who said.
The country has an obligation to
these boys and girls.
Isn't it rather, as the Judge
pointed out, the parents who have
an obligation to the kids who
quit school to earn high wages
which they aren't likely to be able
to Duplicate in peace time?
Can Help Selves
If they see that the kids put a
good part of what they earn into
an educational fund Tor the future.
the naticn won't have such big
obligation TO these hcys and girls.
They, with their parents guiG-
ance, will have taken care of their
own futures.
And in the meantime they'll be
far better off living on a fraction
CT what they cain, and planning
for the future, than if they had
spent everything they canned on
cars and good times.
We talk glitly today about what
the country ewes this group and
that group. But it ie usually bet
ter for human beings to be made
20 feel they owe something to
their country and to themselves.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-19
WHAT FRANCE WANTS
christian Science NOuitCr)


More clearly than at any time hitherto
President Roosevelt in his Friday press
conference disclosed his reasons for re-
luctance to grant full recognition to the
French Committee of National Liberia
ton. How would YOU determine self
determination? Mr.. Roosevelt asks Who
knows what the people inside France
want? Are the French people represented
by those outside France?
This questioning Of his uuestioners in
dicates that there is something mora than
a personal antipathv for General de
Gaulle behind Mr.. Roosevelt's attitude.
Manv peoplo who know France we'll be-
lieve the Algiers regime cannot represent
some elements in France. There are
groups which fear that the Underground
ON which much of the de Gaulle power
rests-will be revolutionary Others fear
that young men with arms who have
been prosecuted bv thp absolutist-cleri-
cal Petain-Laval "collaborators will be
'undisciplined.'
But there are other groups both of
Frenchmen and Americans who wonder
if the President is not still listening too
readily to advisers who did not complain
about Vichy being unrepresentative.
What influences have caused WASHINGTON
TO support IN lldlN regime Aeddeu Nv
men who fought for the Axis while in
France it refuses to accept fully a regime
headed by men who fought against the
Axis before America ever entered the
war?
The French Committee may not know
what the people of France want. but it
certainly knows better than discredited
Presidential advisers who never seem to
learn that one thing the French want is
Frenchmen. not Americans, in control Of
their affairs
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-19

This present manpoWer CRISIS
over the 26-year- which by
rough count would be manpoWer
crisis number IA if anyone had tax
en- the trouble to keep a list-has
brought to light more conflicting
information than anything yet.
Two years ago the experts on the
War Manpower Commission were
saying that the country could never
get by without national service leg
islation. The White House is sup
posed to have thrown colo water on
the proposal at that time, so VINO
got busy and tried to work out the
problem by voluntary controls. To-
day the White House favors ma
tional service legislation and the
manpoWer boys are saying that the
country can get by without it.
Politically you might think that
the chances for any general ma
tional service legislation being pass
ed before the elections would be
nil. On the other hand, there IS
some opinion that when the inva-
sion of Europe begins anc the cas-
ualty lists pile up, the country and
Congress will be thoroughly alarm
ed and will pass national service
legislation in hurry ignoring po-
litical considerations.
This last argument may be in
the nature of trying to persuade
Congress to take action Immediate
". But the reluctance of Congress
to rush through any national serv-
ice legislation now is perfectly un-
derstandable, for there is perhaps
less agreement on this subject than
on any issue in Washington.
WHY ALL THE HUBBUB?
The bitterness of the fight over
men of 26 anG under who have been
deferred because they are in essen
tial industries would seem to be all
out of proportion to the number of
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-19
|. A. Board Eyes
Waue Raises

LOS ANGEL ES, April 10. up
The board Cf water and power
commissioners Wednesday exam
ined a report lis ing violations CT
city. board, federal stabili2a ion
and war labo. board regulations by
a February grant Of higher wages
to 5700 emplayee.
A gIcur of five Independent wage
experts intoxicating wage incl case
reported he asserted viola.ic25 &c
the board Tuesd.y. DepaWmer-
wages and salaries have increqScG
2435 per cent since January, 1941
and now exceed Ey two pcr cent
the cost Of living indiccs, they said
Board Pre1CenJ James B. AgneW
aekcd the board 20 rcscind tvs SIS
wage increase. they voted during
and after q strike of more than 25C0
employees in ls,3Tuary to avert pos
sibility Of foGeral penitcntialy
terms or fines.
DR.. Vernon d. FCe'er. headio'
the wage experts, said the increases
had exceeded the amounts allow
able under war labor board and
itabiii2atiCn regula,iCEs.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-19
HENRY AGARD EYES CHINA AS
NEXT WORLD TO CONQUER"

Having defeated, single-handed the
hundreds of thousands of faScists in the
United States, taking Vice President
Wallace's own estimate of his tremen-
dous self-appointed task, he is contem-
plating trip to China.
Has he traced another gigantic gang
of fascists to the Orient and is girding
for another "slaughter?"
He recently advised an industrialist
that China is ripe field for automo-
bieS after the war and this may be
whirlwind salesman trip. He mentioned
in free-off hand manner that the fact
China has no roads makes no difference
that lend-laase will build them as well
as put up the money for the autos.
Wallace has been using his high office,
or his title to rant about the country in
one of the most pointlesS, assinine out
bursts of his time. and that is saying
something. In his charges that the coun-
try is infested with thousands of persons
bent only on instituting faScism at the
moment the war ends. the vice president
has not the decencv or temerlty or hon.
esty to name a single name. When pinned
down as to what constitutes fascist. he
simply frothS some more and that's that
If this one-man defense against fas-
cism in the United States is another
lightning rod set up by Henry and his
fourth term satellites to catch votes,
something is wrong with the contrap-
ton because no one takes him seriously.
But he is sure to bob up with something
else He is an accommodating sort of fel-
low at that 1t is not so long ago that he
was appealing to the sentiment OF the
people Of the country to dig down and
put up the money in taxes to send every
liz, lrra+ af mn
every less fortunate country in the world.
Sewing machines in the Amazon iungles.
for instance He got into lam there and
had his wings clipped by the very forces
at Washington that sent him gaily on his
mission.
You can't hurt his feelings. No sooner
was that scheme bottled up than he
bursts out with another and now this
latest seems to have run its course since
he has been smoked out as chasing q
rainbow
The country would be much ahead of
the pame and its peace of mind set at
rest if the big boys would tell the lowan
right out whether he is to ride in the back
seat again when the convention gets
through at Chicago But it appears this
is another dark. deep secret. Frankly. we
think the chan is entitled to the nomina
IOl. IL lfeFf Is dHN IlllllS lie Hds IciuS~u
TO do or declined to do at the behest of
the Simon LeGrees of the new deal. we
don't know what it is unless it would be
orders to sit down and be vice president
just for the sake of records.
One of the nations largest and most
Influential newspapers, and a consistent
friend of Roosevelt and the administra-
tion. invoked the most stinging rebuke a
high official ever encountered recently
in slowing M the fallacy and absurdity
of ths fascist crusade.
This rebuke and the announced intan-
ton of his trip to China came out short
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-19
Commons Hears
OF News Bans

LONION. April 49, up - The
question Of muf ling news on the
progress of the India-Burma cam
paign was raised III commons Wee
ncsday when two members tabled
motions calling for government
explanation Ct the censorship cis-
quite in thas war thea 81.
Laborite G. r. Strau.S submitted
a question to Ee answered by War
Secretary Sir James Grigg on the
protest filed BY -four Bri ish ccr-
respondents against the CEN orehir
imposed cn their Burma -1nCla
stories. Another labor member, R
W. Sorensen. announced that he
will aek |. G. hmery, secretary OF
state Tor india ard Burma, whetheF
the eXis. ing censorship rules VII.
re modified
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-19
OFFICIALS WILL NOT ATTEND
WHDLEFE CONFERENCE

Dave Davit son, state agricultural
adjustment administration chair
man, lbs Angeles, told valley rep
resentatives this week that he
would not be able to attend the
National Wldlife association meet
ing in Chicago next week due to
several war food administration
hearings slated for the next two
weeks
Rudolph Miller, secretary of the
county ACP committee, said Tues
day that Charles Nice, secretary of
the BraWley chamber of commerce
will attend as originally planned to
present the duck Cepredation prob
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-19

A psychologist offers some
mighty sensible advice to hus-
bands and wives separated by
war. He believes "lack of toler-
ance" rather than loss Of affec-
ton is most likely to cause post
war marriage difficulties.
The wife has built wonderful
pictures of how perfect life will
be when her husband gets back.
And he dreams of evenings with
her by the fire with glass of
beer, friendly conversation, and
no problems or worries. i.
OF course, it isn't true that just
getting back together will make