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FOR SALE Prr-v.,r ,ollap~ihl.
hahN corriHGc as 2ood as new. Mrs
Nm. T.. Webb. Milford. Phone 12N ltp
For SALE I.arG, lp. ir~~ heater.
mp and one radiator. Nlu.u". VIII
beat rooms. can Milford 2la on Wriir
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FOR SALE Handsome antique sofa
N"l\ OLD General Electric washing
machine. good condition 1897 Ford >
door a. T. Carey, Milford ltp
FOR SALE Black >cquiu trimmed
uitS.. ~" l.. ina excellent condition.
Nan lu\rdU. >IZt ~. MIS-. stephen
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FOR SALE 81 New Hampshire. Rcd
Loo%t'rS tor breeders. VaccinHtrd and
iutIorln tested. hatrhcd hy ChriStN.
Howard Warmer. Phone Milford 62>-
XII 81 III
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tpl; SALE I'rr-war doll stroller
;hd IAtr" heather coach. table. littl.
f"ci "f and chairs. Sl1.U0: five piece.
ma lINhG room suite, good cUudi- i-
non H"'."" Mrs. Mae Murphy. Apart
avenue. Milford. D,I n
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PUBLIC SALE
OF valuable
Personal Property
and
REAL ESTATE

w. VIII sell at Public Auction ON
ON ON i'f'n miles south east Of EridynI va
= y ne. ''IaWArr. ON IL" Brid,srviIIn-
'""rS'i"Nh Concrete Highway nr
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Walnut Dining Room Suite

one I"-pI"r"; one Spice" living room
Iuitr. excellent condition. ore cabinet
hli'H radio. on'- writing dnek PLEASE
cHIl Milford G93I;3 II
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:, 'h' pony. brown and white spott.d
';,.,, years old. Kind aud centlr: ! nnny
,hil ,I,H haN. years old. anyone can rid"
'iH pony; ! Gov. l years old; hrif.r
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OK SALE Two flesh COWS n,,
,, ,'@i 'h"Nr"I"t truck. one sasoIim..
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FOR SALE New five room hrlnpa -
i9W' ,.' hath' hot and cold Watgr. "arap,.
l"oit"r house, capacity 5.hnO Fulll
'P"lp~"d ON Route so Il3. one. mil,.
SCUM 81 fIl"ndalr on the highway.
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call Milford G93I;3 II
FOR SALE JU~I received - ship
ih ut of t"lmHu ol burning nuur fur
mace. Installed price. 81" go. vii
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iiilrk. old "uo'jsh for -"rlicc Several
New Zealand Reds and Whites. > and
mont rs old. Phone Harrington 39I
+. " Han. Harrington. Del It
FOR SALE Nmskrn1 coat. new.
w J. Northern back skins l;uu.lt
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YORK EHrrl"r%. H>I0 UU can Milford
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Tor rarticIlarS If
FOR SALE. New solid bras: paint
.f gasoline torch. NV stainless steel
"-pirr" carving sat. Electric kitchen
W"l clock. Folding Kodak camera. siZ,
~ t"HS ElrS" steel runner Sled {
"!p"lt. Lincoln, Dcl II
FOR SALE Metal stroller hieI
chaif. freshly painted: play pen. wick
"f '"irh. i"rn'rN. we'll planted with
HiliH' "h-pl"r" dining room suite. new
N"rnlNh and upholstery. Sara STATION.
duf"nt Highway, South Milford II
FOR SALE New five room b,,up,-
loW bath hot and cold Wnnpr. ;.nr:tp.
i""ii"r house. capacity i.ho0 EulIl
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-04-22

japanese at our rapid advance in the
Pacific, our unspectacular skill in the
heavy construction field may be recog-
nized as one of the most important.
Had the Germans been able, for exam
Pile, to move forward their air bases as
fast as their armored columns in over
running France in 1910. they might
have launched their "air blitZ" against
England from across the Channel with
full fighter protection. Instead, they
operated principally from fields in Ger
many so far away that adequate fighter
protection was impossible and Britain's
secret weapon" the radar, was able to
give sufficient advance notice OF their
approach for the Royal Air Force to
intercept effectively.
Airports Are Deciding Factor
The United States is the only nation
which had any conception of the need for
heavy construction units to accompany
advance combat units in Europe as we'll
as the Pacific, and it has paid high divi-
dends in the operational efficiency OF
our air forces. The superiority of Amer
lean planes over the japanese is due to
their superior frepower. heavier armor
and extra equipment. such as self
sealing gasoline tanks, assuming for the
moment that the ability of the pilots
is equal. Operation of these heavier
planes, Of course. requires better fields
and more extensive maintenance equip
ment. History may prove that the jap
anese striving for lightness In their
planes and the lack of such equipment
as self-sealing gas tanks and armor
comparable to ours was not due to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-04-22
Europe the Pacific Hsorys Military Dpoyen
By Ben PearSe

The largest airport in the world is not
In the United States, where huge air
ports are commonplace. Nor is it in the
European theater, where fleets of more
than 10000 planes have taken off in
one day to bomb Germany. The worlds
largest airport is on a little island in
the Western Pacific, in the Mariana
group. to be little more exact, and SO
far as air operations are concerned is
probably the busiest place west of
Hawaii
Due to space restrictions imposed by
the smallness of the Pacific islands that
must be used for the approaching air
assault on the japanese homeland new
techniques have been developed. So
successful have these been that not even
New Yorks vast new Idlewild airport
development planned as this country's
largest when it is completed this fall can
match this aeronautical beehive which
the Army Air Forces Aviation Engineers
built in less than six months.
Movement Underway
Although We day will not mean the
end of hostilities in the European
theater, the activities of the Aviation
Engineers, pioneers in their field and
soon to observe their fifth anniversary,
indicate that the greatest deployment
operation in military history, the move
ment of millions of troops from Ger
many, France and England to the
Pacific, already has begun.
The pattern is familiar. Before we
were able to stage the large air-raids
on Germany that preceded the Nor
mandy invasion, the Aviation Engineers
moved to England to prepare the air
fields and complex communicate and
supply systems that made them pos
sible. They were among the leading
elements on and after day and con-
tinuously during the fighting across
Northern France and into Germany,
they kept tactical bases close to the
front just, as they had prepared the
strategic bases in England.
But long before the air operations be-
gan in Europe even Aviation Engi-
neers were in the thick of things. The
battalion at Hickam Field was in &C
ton almost before the drone of Japa-
nese motors died away on the morning
of December T. 194l, clearing the wreck
age and fgetting the runways back in
condition. Far away in the Philip
pines, another battalion was struggling
to repair damage at Clark Field and
other Army air installations that were
the first to be attacked by the Jap
bombers. When the Flying Fortresses
were flown out to a new base in Java,
the battalion fought with the infantry
on Bataan. Many of them made the
famous death march with other pris-
oners surrendered there and have only
been liberated during the past few
months.
Most of the flying fields during the
New Guinea campaign, as Gen. Doug
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had at that time and probably still the
finest despite the considerable forces
maintained elsewhere.
During the first year and half Of the
Russo German war doubtless many of
these troops were moved westward, and
Siberian regiments were mentioned in
Russian orders of the day as late as
the battle of Stalingrad. Since that time
it Is believed that most if not all OF
them have been returned to their sta
tions along the Manchurian border. At
least those who credit the Russian po-
litical hand with knowing at all times
what the military hand is doing believe
that notice not to renew the nonaggres-
sion pact would not have been given had
the Soviet government been unready.
unable or unwilling to take the conse-
quences.
While her Siberian forces are prob
ably well able to repel Japanese at
tack, they might not be in position to
undertake an offensive on scale in
volved in an invasion of territory as
we'll defended as Manchukuo without
considerable reinforcement from the
west. The irony Of such situation
would lie in the United States and
Great Britain carrying the heavy bur-
den against the Japanese, as Russia
did before D day, while Russia could
chose its own time for establishing a
second front in the Far East, as the
United States and Great Britain did in
Europe.
Superiority of Equipment
The chief reliance of the United
States and the British, and the same
would apply to Russia must lie In two
factors. superiority in air power and in
production and equipment. For Japan,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-04-22
Sol Bloom Returns to Frisco

That means that $4,000 Jews will be
received there-and 1t would have been
one had 1t not been for me-
And we got something else that We
couldn't talk about at the time. We
arranged to get Jewish refugees out Of
Spain so the doors of SPANS northern
frontier would not be closed against
more coming in. We couldn't say any,
thing about it-or Hitler would have
put a stop to it. You can see why the
criticism didn't bother me-
Mr.. Bloom faithfully observes the
Passover and the fall high holidays of
the beginning of the Sabbath at Friday
shutdown and, although for six days he
smokes imported Havana cigars (clara)
from morning to night, he never No-
lates the prohibition in Exodus against
making fire on the Sabbath. Even on
shipboard, when most people lose track
of the days, he never smokes cigar on
Saturdays.
In the last war the Foreign Affairs
Committee of the House was not, a
major force in foreign policy. 1t was in
the Foreign Relations Committee of the
Senate, the body with constitutional
treaty-ratifying powers, that most Of
the drama occurred.
Mr.. Blooms Committee
But as this war approached in Eu-
rope, it was Mr.. Blooms committees
consideration of what should be done
about the arms embargo that had the
spotlight. The Mothers of America"
an isolationist inspired organization,
picketed the Bloom home Mr.. Bloom
and members of his committee still feel
that if the repeater they sent to the
floor had passed in the spring of 1899,
Hitler would not have crossed the Polish
border in September 1t failed by one
vote, with the House sitting as the COM
mittee of the whole and by some 20
votes on the final rollcall
When the war started came the most
important measure leading to the VIC
tory now in the making-lease-lend The
chairman's courtesy in handling wit
nesses of such divergent views from his
own as Charles Lindbergh and Roy How.
ard won much complimentary notice.
The final triumph of Mr. Blooms COM
mittee was due to its new member from
Arkansas, Representative (now senator)
William Fulbright. The House commits
tee forced the Senate's hand into declar-
ing for American participation in post
war international organization by pass
ing the popular Fulbright resolution.
Mr.. Bloom did not limit his participa-
ton In the war effort to the legislative.
When Claude Wickard issued the call,
Mr.. Bloom started a Victory garden-a
very good one-by turning under his
lawn behind the hedgerow at the corner
Of Columbia road and Wyoming avenue.
Granville Stewart, colored, husband Of
his cook, did the spade work. At the
writer's suggestion the garden was en-
tered in the first, city-wide Victory gar
den contest. The day after the awards
were announced, Mr.. Bloom telephoned
The Star and protested volubly for Is
minutes that the garden did not win ths
city-wide award or at least the Dupont
Circle award.
Granville" he said, twas very disap.
pointed"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-04-22

las MacArthur's forces leap-frogged
along the coast, were built by the Avi-
alton Engineers, who landed on the
beaches with the first assault waves.
In whatever area the Army Air Forces
were to operate, at Baker Island only
a few miles from historic Maxim Is
land, at KWajalein, Palau, Leyte, Lu-
ION, Saipan, Guam and scores more, the
Aviation Engineers were among the
first ashore. They are at work now on
Okinawa and islands of the Kyushu
chain. Working with their sister serv-
ice, the Sea Bees CONSTRUCTION Bat
talions) of the Navy, organized after
Pearl Harbor to do the corresponding
job for the smaller-in- number but no
less important airbases of the Navy
and Marine Corps, they can claim much
of the credit for the air superiority so
vital a factor in the rapid advance
across the Pacific.
Air Assault Just Begun
But if the japanese high command
had any doubts about what is in store,
and it freely admits now that it does
not. the operations Of the Aviation
Engineers will soon convince them. The
air assault that must precede a landing
in Japan as it did in Europe, is just
beginning, for the worlds largest air
port mentioned above is but one of
scores that will ring the Japanese main
islands by the time the waves of assault
troops and supplies are moved into
position.
When the military analysts have time
to weigh the many factors that led up
to the surprise professed so freely by the
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Continued From Page ca

tunate to have their home town talks
printed in the appendix of the Congress
sional Record. Mr.: Blooms are sold at
IS volume by New York publisher
putnam. This is no item of the
vanity press" Putnams came to him
with the suggestion. The volume has
been successful publishing venture
and is soon going into second edition.
The big display it got in book store
windows is an indication of its popu-
larity.
The volume is in five parts, lauda-
tory introduction by Ira E. Bennett
entitled SOL Bloom: His Public Serv-
ice," Mr.. Blooms speeches on George
Washington, Mr.. Blooms speeches on
the Constitution, Mr.. Blooms speeches
on foreign affairs, and an appendix con-
tanning letters saying nice things about
Sol Bloom from President Roosevelt,
Cordell Hull, Sam Rayburn Roy Howard,
Herbert Hoover and several newspaper
columns praising Mr.. Bloom. The book
is illustrated with photographs of King
George vi and Queen Elizabeth with
Sol Bloom, Winston Churchill and Sol
Bloom, President Roosevelt signing the
lease-lend will with Sol Bloom standing
by, King George II of Greece and Sol
Bloom and King Peter of Yugoslavia
and Sol Bloom.
Nothing in Mr.. Blooms unselfcon-
scious personality serves to warn him of
%ho ;oo d1,{co b;lity If }oc1,,dipo e,,cb mo
terial in book written by himself. To
those who know him, his ingenious, if
not childlike, JOY in the approval Of the
great and near great Is not without
charm.
Mrs. Bloom died four years ago-a
blow which has caused Mr.. Bloom to
show his years at times since. He never
appeared to be beyond the Sos before
that. He still jauntily starts his day as
he issues from his comfortable mansion
on Columbia road north of Dupont Cir
Gle by dropping penny and letting 1t
roll away. He knows that the joy of the
person who finds it will give him luck.
He attributes his morning freshness to
his special pillow, hard upholstered
affair with a channel through 1t that
fits his neck, and to the manner in which
he stimulates circulation by massaging
his knee caps on arising.
Aid for European Jews
Mr.. Bloom, who will yield to no one
In patriotism, Is certain that no Ameri-
can Of his faith has done as much fol
the Jewish people in Europe in theil
2oth-century tragedy. This Illinois.
born son Of pioneers Of the Jewish i'm.
migration from Poland, who became 9
typical Westerner in California, where
national groups mingle, has had hi.
difficulties with Jewish political figure.
In New York, however.
When Mr.. Bloom returned from TIL
Bermuda conference on refugees he wa.
attacked for not succeeding In doinl
more for the Jewish people in mi
grafton.
II don't. care what they said" MI
Bloom told the writer. with me. Go,
and one are majority. got the Brit
ish government to continue the unfille,
quota Of Jewish migration to Palestine
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-04-22
By Marion DOYLE

Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt has
left the White House with the baggage
of IL years eventful living. Her sue
cessor found there an aura of history
but few precedents. Mrs. Roosevelt shat
tered most of them.
AS hostess for IL years at 1900 Penn
sylvania avenue NV, Mrs. Roosevelt
has welcomed more crowned heads of
Europe and more dignitaries than any
other Presidents wife in the preceding
so years. She engaged in more contro-
versies than any woman in the world.
She saw more places, met more people
and brought back more news to her hus-
band than most reporters do in a life
time.
She served hot dogs to the King and
Queen of England and invited passing
MP into dinner. She got a crown from
Arabia, a grass skirt from Australia and
furs from Canada. She was paid thou
sands of dollars for lectures, radio talks,
articles and columns and gave most of
it away She held her own press confer
ences, restricted to the women whose
cause she championed. She knit her
big family together and weathered d.
vorces, deaths and accidents with ur-
banity.
Many Legacies
So thoroughly has Mrs. Roosevelt
done her mammoth task of removing
the mementoes of u years that per-
haps the White House china she Sc
NV o,tuyinnS in itS hnr.
der design-was Mrs. Bess Truman's
only tangible legacy from this epoch
making housekeeper. But of less tangible
legacies-anecdotes and memories-Mrs.
Truman found Anna Eleanor Roosevelt
left a set far more numerous than the
china.
Many of these stories were told by
Mrs. Roosevelt herself, who tended to
forget the effect her precedent shat
tering had on people and never failed
to be amused at their reactions. An
aide to Churchill, for example, found
her coming down the stairs with an
extra chair in each hand for the Prime
Minister'S crowded conference room.
They were in the attic" she said,
ledFul6 IT'LL llOilPlusoCb 6Ooii az AiSA Sii-
ergy and her familiarity with the attic.
Always the Same People
Frequent conferences with George
Summerlin State Department protocol
expert, on seating people in the state
dining room to recognize rank in pre-
cisely the right degree were always an
effort for Mrs. Roosevelt.
Washington is odd" she said, you
always sit next to the same people"
Before the King and Queen Of Eng
land came, Mrs Roosevelt and Lady
Lindsay, the American-born wife Of
the then Ambassador from England,
both got minute instructions on be-
havior.
Mrs. Roosevelt had to check the
Kings and Queens bedrooms every
night to- see that his comforter was
folded three-corner and hers was fold
ed square. She was also told to provide
messenger outside each of their doors
The two men sat and stared at each
other for days across the White House
corridor. Three years later Mrs. Roose-
welt saw the need for those messengers
at Buckingham Palace, where distances
were so great that even she "got little
tired"
Familiarity with the great only whet.
ted Mrs. Roosevelt's curiosity about
and genuine liking for people Of al
classes. She perpetually dropped in fol
surprise visits, changing the diapers
of a baby in Port Angeles, Wash. ir
the middle Of a shipyard tour. The cen
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sus takers missed her in dozen places
across the country and finally inter-
viewed her at midnight in San Fran
cisco hotel.
Her self-described job as her hus-
bands "eyes and ears" began, she said,
in 1929, when he asked her to look at
the inside of reform school in New
York State and was disturbed that she
failed to ask what the children were
getting for dinner. The King of Eng
land later taught her to look inside the
pot on the stove to be sure the children
were getting what the menu listed, Mrs.
Roosevelt said. Inspecting a colored
housing development once, she stood in a
watery cellar for half hour discussing
the pros and cons of public housing with
the tenants. Outside more tenants
milled around, asking was it true "she"
was down in "Sadie's basement"
"Where Is My Missus?"
President Roosevelt called Miss NAL
VIVA Thompson, his wife's secretary. one
udy Willie N1l ICOOSCNClU was FIolGlIlS
San Quentin Prison and asked, Where
is my MISUSE"
When Tommy" replied, "She's in
prison" the President retorted:
I'm not surprised. But what for?"
Eleanor Roosevelt always said of her
reputed influence" that mo one has
my ear, and I have no ones ear She
put her comments and selected clip
pings in basket beside the Presidents
bed every night and he answered them
in his own handwriting before he went
to sleep. Once he sent back to her a
cartoon of the sergeant warning re-
cruit, And if you don't like it, tell me.
Don't write to Mrs. Roosevelt"
The President kept huge photo
graph of Mrs. Roosevelt opposite his desk
in his upstairs study, a picture she
.swore she would throw out some day
because it made her look too pretty"
She herself had mastered the tech
nique of receptions, passing each per-
sons hand to the next dignitary in
the receiving line with a minimum of
effort, The President grew weary at one
gigantic reception and whispered to her,
II can't stand it another minute" Smil-
ing calmly and still passing on the hands
placed in hers, Mrs. Roosevelt MUIR
INJURED back, soothingly over and over
again, cit will be over soon."
She Went Everywhere
Accustomed to going everywhere. Mrs.
Roosevelt was kept out once on record
by the exclusive mems literary and
scientific club, the Cosmos Club, in
Dolly Madison's old home In Lafayette