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WASHINGTON Scene
BY George Dixon

4 T THE word boss Sol
"A Bloom pricked up his ears.
Incidentally people are always
prlcklng up their ears in Con-
greSS. II is quite a difficult feat
but great satisfaction once
you have mastered il. Until the
Office Of Defense Transporta-
ton cracked down on unneces-
sary travel. tourists used 10
come from far and near for the
ear-pricking.
Mr.. Bloom adjusted his spec
tacles. which he keeps tethered
by five yards or so of wide,
black ribbon, and said:
who il your boss"
Well, that was all the oppor-
tunity Mr. Morano needed in
order TO go pompous. Very por-
tentouSly, as if proclaiming his
association with the delphic ora
Gle. he boomed:
"My boss, sir, Is Clare Boothe
Lucew
Mr.. Bloom gave his spectacles
another hitch and demanded in
credulously:
"You mean your boss IL a
woman
Sure" retorted Mr.. Morano.
Haven't you ever been bossed
by woman"
This seemed 10 catch Mr..
Bloom off base. Finally he
muttered
Not by a congresswOmanw
Mr.. Bloom sat back. with the
air of a man who has just saved
h m elf by quick thinking.
Whereupon Rep. Edith Nourse
Rogers interposed:
Remember. Mr.. Bloom-you
have women on your committee. :"
EVERYBODY laughed fit 10
- bust because Mr.. Bloom has
the most dame-dominated COM
mittee in Congress. There are
four women on it-not one of
whom could truthfully be de-
scribed as a clinging vine type.
They are the Mesdames Rogers
Of Massachusetts. Frances p.
Bolton of Ohio. Helen Gahagan
Douglas Of California. and Emily
Taft Douglas of Illinois.
No other committee in Con-
gress has more than two
women on il. And there is only
one that has even that many.
The two-damed committee is
banking and currency The
ladies are Mrs. Chase Going
Woodhouse of Connecticut, and
Jessie Summer of Illinois.
Reproduction In whole or IN part
strictly prohibited.
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the United Nations Confsrencs.)
her debut at 9. .Adelina Patti
got $1,000 a night. while Lola
Montez flourished a carriage
whip TO drive her admirers
away. W
GAN FRANCISCO heads the
y gastronomis capitals of
America.
Eggs foo yung at Perry Sues
off Grant avenue steamed
CLANS at the Golden Rule Bar.
The Ritz, Solari's and the
Fly Trap.
Slabsided French roll sand
wiches at Breen's at Third.
Dunking and Danish pastry
at the Golden Pheasant across
from Union So.
Chopino at New Joc's.
Sole meuniere at Pierres.
Olympia oysters at Maye's.
Saffroned clans, rice at Hotel
Espanol.
Where they talk about the
four tracks on Market street
.. and the two bay bridge :.
and Harry Bridges.
Where they jerk you up hills
on cable cars and flower
vendors line the streets because
no cop dares move them.
Where Albert Bender sold
millions in insurance 10 penin-
sula millionaires and flung his
premium profits TO painters,
poets and dreamers.
Where Bud Fisher. Jimmie
Swinnerton. Homer Davenport
and DirkS invented the comic
strip.
Where they show you the
playground on Bay street whore
Joe DiMaggio learned 10 play
ball. and his crab emporium at
Fishermans Wharf.
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GREAT alarm has been eX-
VI pressed from many sources
over the high rejection rates OF
men applying for enlistment in
the army during this war as
compared with the last. but il
would appear entirely probable
that the difference is due - the
fact that higher standards have
been set during this war. and
not because more young people
are suffering from physical dis
orders than heretofore.
There can be no doubt that
nutrition and preventative
health measures have improved
greatly in the last quarter of a
century. OF course. we have not
yet come anywhere near the de-
sired goal Of perfection.
With continued advances in
our knowledge of nutrition and
the wider application of meas
ureS for building good health.
the coming generations Of Amer
ica will in all likelihood, show
even greater gains in physique
and stamina than those obtained
TODAY.
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Ferrara. against which the Brit
ish Eighth Army is now driving.
The Germans, defeated at
Bologna. have two routes by
which they might retire into the
Alps. One of them is straight
north, across the Po Valley, to
Verona, and from this city they
might gain the long passageway
that leads over the Alps by0the
Brenner Pass to Innsbruck.
Retiring this way they would
be subjected to [ { a k from
Allied airplanes and might not
survive a retreat through the
Dolomites.
TIiE more natural line of re-
Il treat, if retreat now they
must, is mort h hea S wardly
through Venetia, into the Julian
Alps, where they would join
with German forces in upper
YugoSlavia. But the main line
of railroad from Bologna runs
through Ferrara. which may be
cut off by the Eighth Army.
In the difficult situation which
has fallen upon the Germans,
there lies the possibility Of
their destruction.
There is the possibility here
of a true victory of annihila-
ton" But the Allied armies,
although they have been
strengthened. may still lack the
numbers to do more than drive
the enemy across the Pc Valley.
The Allied fighting in Italy
throughout has been a struggle
of epic proportions.
Detroit evening times., 1945-04-26

There is question on which
men might easily stir up a civil
war. l hesitate TO cast the first
bomb, but here goes for the
extreme styles. My reasons are
that if lovelies wore only simple
hats radio gags would decrease
alarmingly and much of the
gayety Of life would vanish.
Second. men would soon COM
plain of the monotony of the
landscape. Third. out of the vast
number of fearfully and won-
derfully made hats, now and
then one emerges that is ex-
tremely beautiful.
2-They are commonly called
fraternal twins but real twins
are children born from the two
halves of one egg. They are al
ways Of the same sex, and look
and act very much alike all
their lives. They have very SIM
liar personalities in adult life.
even when they have been sepa-
rated at birth and reared IN diff
fefent environments.
3-Yes. Make him or her prac-
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/ WOULD like To report a line
L of sparkling dialogue in the
House Foreign Affairs Commit
tee the other which should
convince you II would be super
flous 10 bring back vaudeville.
The committee which is chair
manned by Sol Bloom was
considering the proposal of
representative Vito Marcantonio
10 declare Italy an equal ally.
tHouse Joint Resolution 99D
Among various persons of
Italian heritage called To testify
was Al Morano, secretary and
political pathfinder for a GER
tain female member of Con-
gress. Mr.. Morano was asked
If he was speaking exclusively
for himself or for his employer
too.
II wish 10 say" replied Mr..
Morano. who has listened TO so
many politicians he pussyfoots
In his sleep, "that the views I
express here are not necessarily
those of my boss"
Detroit evening times., 1945-04-26
BETTER HEALTH
BY DR.. Herman Bundesen

DEOPLE who are very tall
= often are envious Of shorter
persons, and those who are
shorter frequently would like to
be taller. i suppose that is be-
cause all OF us want TO approach
what is average for the group.
II is an interesting fact that
the present generation OF people
apparently is taller than it's for
bears. This has been shown by
measurements of men 20 10 %
the figures obtained in taking
years OF age. inducted into the
armed services in May. l943. The
average height without shoes for
this group was 68. Is inches, as
compared with an average Of
6749 inches for the first 1000
600 men of u TO 30 examined
during the last world war in
1917. In other words, the aver
age height was about two-thlrds
Of an inch more in l943 than IN
1917
Detroit evening times., 1945-04-26

-FHEI tenacious grasp OF the
l. Germans upon this Po Valley
may be explained by its inn
portance TO Hitler's last stand.
This gives prominence TO the
capture of the famous city of
Bologna, now accomplished by
the British Eighth and the
American Fifth armies, under
the command of Gen. Mark
Clark. a
When General Clark became
commander of the Allied armies
in Italy. l expressed the feeling
that this command would not
be wholly congenial to Clark,
because he would be excluded
from the great campaign in
France and Germany. TO which
some part of his force was
probably diverted and also be-
cause a probable stalemate
would result in his attack upon
the German armies Of Kessel-
ring.
THE stalemate followed. The
L Fifth Army had advanced
northward from Florence into
the Apprentices along a modern
highway built by Mussolini
through these hills that separ-
ate Tuscany from the valley of
the Pc.
But for a period OF months it
could go no further.
The British Eighth Army on
the Adriatic pushed slowly but
Detroit evening times., 1945-04-26

steadily forward and took
Rimini and 'Ravenna. The SHOWS
and rains of severe winter
held up our armies, but the
main reason for delay lay in
the insufficiency of their
strength.
Somewhat lately both armies
appear TO have been reinforced.
Both armies are composite.
The American Fifth embraces
a detachment of troops from
Brazil. battalions of American
born Japanese, which have done
heroic fighting, and a colored
division, the 92nd.
The British Eighth Army has
contingents of Poles, New Zea-
landers. Indians, and also a
splendid corps of soldiers from
Great Britain. These troops
formed the spear-head of the
recent thrust that has taken
Bologna.
THE area which they have
L gained promises 10 have inn
portant strategic value. 1t is
the southeastern end of the Po
Valley, narrowed to a width Of
perhaps 25 miles between the
Appenine foothills and the large
Lake Comacchio.
Fifty miles TO the north, built
amidst similar lagoons, is the
famous city Of Venice.
A scant Is miles 10 the north
west of the present advance is
Detroit evening times., 1945-04-26
: Brain Game Answers

As.
2-The Pontagon Building.
3-Ursa Major or the Big Dip.
per.
4-FalSe. 1t has six surfaces.
5-The USS Saratoga.
6-26 innings.
7-(a) Horatio Seymour; (b)
James NJ. Cox; (c) Charles
Evans Hughes.
S-A navy man. He is an
admiral.
Detroit evening times., 1945-04-26

" the edifcation Of the delegates
and said. SHOW me the Bar
barry Coast" a The Press
Club. where camaradrie
among bitter newspaper oppon-
ents is something you cannot
find in New York.
Only in San Francisco could
Beniamino Bufano nearly sell
the citizens a colossus in STAIN
less metal memorializing the
city's patron saint-and then
compromise on a steel and gram
tie statue OF Sun Vat Sen gaz-
ing longingly eastward toward
China from ST. Mary's Square.
Robert Louis Stevenson loved
this burg and they gave him a
statue in Portsmouth Square
And so did Sarah Bernhardt.
Ellen Terry, Nelly Melba, Kip
ling.
IRON San Francisco Stein
Il beck peddled his first yarn.
and Saroyan. who played pool
with the Filipinos on Stockton
street and awed the literati on
Telegraph Hill by discovering
the Old Testament.
Prohibition never touched
Telegraph Hill. where goats and
VIII and Wallace Irwin once
grazed. for the grape season
was an open festival.
And there, before this war,
the Italians played bocci ball
and thought they were in Naples.
Gertrude Stein and Isadora
Duncan were born on this bay
and Ferde Grofe jumped from
a Barbary dive to fame. .Ye-
hudi Menuhin and Ruth Slency-
-zinski- began here. David Be-
lasco found his cleric's collar as
prompter AT the Old Baldwin
Theater. .Maude Adams made
Detroit evening times., 1945-04-26
MARY HAWORTH'S MAIL

like staying home reading. I
began TO fear everything such
AS meeting people or even walk
ing on the street.
! tried 10 overcome this fear;
made resolutions 10 act nor
mally. etc. but | couldn't Sue
ceed
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e. v. DURLING

they do something for the war
effort such as working In a war
plant? 1 have a husband and
three small children. i do my
own cooking. washing. ironing,
baking, sewing, etc. In addition
to that 1 have an eight-hour-s-
day war plant job. II "A turtle
speed housekeeper like myself
can do this. II should he easy
for the super-duper Susie type
housewife"
HAVE received a snapshot Of
IL a card party Of three hus-
bands and three wives. The
wives. all smart lockers, are
smoking pipes Chicagoan who
sent this picture says;
"To cut down complaints as
10 the cigaFet shortage my pals
and myself taught our wives TO
smoke pipes"
Very interesting Generally
speaking Chicago wives seem
well train G d. / don't know
whether this is because they
are cooperative or just timid.
CALIFORNIAN says he goes
~ shopping and buys all his
wife's clothes. He adds: "She
prefers it that way Further
more, she is considered one OF
the best dressed women in our
neighborhood." Think that over,
lady. If you haven't been get
ting any compliments on your
neighborhood." Think that over,
better let your husband buy
Xo,lr clothes.
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Connolly Answers

1-(c). 2-Cb). 3-(a). A.
(b). 5-(a). 6-ta) Stone-
wall Jackson; (b) John
Alden; (c) Father Latour;
I'D Svengali; (e) Tilly Slow
boy.
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DEAR J. d:
4 S YOU enter the army you
"A will be double-checked by
pSychiatric personnel.
1t is likely YOU will be
screened out of the service at
once as pSychoneurotic.
If. however. your problem
should be overlooked in the
screening process. and IL some
times happens. hunt up the
chaplain AT camp. tell him your
fears and ask his advice. Or
talk TO the director of the Red
Cross field office. These men
will understand your story and
respect your pred amen (.
They've known hundreds, maybe
thousands. Of men in the same
boat They will steer you in
the direction Of safety.
NJ. III.
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DEAR MARY HAWORTH:

7 AM a farm boy, 20. soon 10
i be inducted into the army,
after passing my physical exam.
But for more than year !
haven't been myself
About a year 60 I began TO
give up parties. / felt more
Detroit evening times., 1945-04-26

CHOT and shell and what not
~ from the Yanks were hitting
a German division from all
sides.
'The VS. will he the answer
TO this situation" said a Ger
man general.
THE only answer TO this,
Herr General" said another
German officer, els the VS."
Exclaimed the general: "The
V-5s I never heard of that.
What Is this N-5?"
Said the officer: "a very
white flag on a very long pole"
DASSING BY: Edgar Bergen.
L Whimsical ventriloquist. Is
originally from Decatur, Mich.
Edgar has a mansion in Beverly
Hills and a 50-acre ranch in
Indio. Cal. Up TO late hour
last night he was still a bache-
lor. How a good-looking, genial,
clever high salaried fellow such
as Mr.. Bergen has managed 10
stay single so long is mystery
TO me. His resistance is remark
able. He has baffled some of
the worlds clevereSt husband
hunters.
Detroit evening times., 1945-04-26

A month ago / took a trip.
visiting relatives in various big
cities.
felt good most of the time.
but still anybody could see
something was wrong with me
At times an awful feeling Of
terror grips me and my eyes
show II.
However, the trip helped me a
great deal and since Christmas
/ have improved gradually.
] try 10 meet people and talk
with them as much as l can but
! still have far 10 go TO feel
normal.
The worst symptom isl can't
eat az table even with my par
ents, without wanting 10 walk
out How will ! feel in the army
among strangers?
Detroit evening times., 1945-04-26

DURING the years of war, our
~ colleges have permitted
themselves TO be bossed by mill
tary men into an acceptance of
accelerated courses; two weeks
of Aristotle; two periods of
Hume; a reference TO Chaucer
and Thomas Aquinas left out
as unnecessary baggage.
Did not Harry Hopkins in a
totalitarian mood deprive youth
of Latin and Chaucer?
And perhaps we too shall re-
write history. as they do in
Soviet Russia, every time the
party line changes. or as they
did in Germany TO satisfy the
private notions of Herr Rosen-
berg. the Baltic pundt who
based his theories upon those
of Houston Stewart Chamber
lain. the English snob who
turned Jesus into a Nordic.
Our children ought not to be
deprived of the leisure and time
to study slowly that they might
learn truly.
For learning, in spite OF all
the modern courses in adminiS-
tration. requires a goodly dose
of scholasticism, of dispute and
argument. and the turning over
of fact and fancy, in each gen.
Grafton. until the human kind
is disciplined by logic TO discard
the false and to respect the
eternal verities.
Teaching home economics or
giving term points for playing
the saxophone may help the
lazy 10 get degrees or even
fatten the fees Of colleges, but
that is not learning.
A ND so San Francisco might
"A along with other commits
sions appoint one TO restore
learning in this world, TO resur-
rect the great universities and
Detroit evening times., 1945-04-26
On the
Side

0LD New Yorker asks if I
" ever saw Deacon" Allen,
the fighting parson in a ring
engagement. He says Allen
kneeled in his corner and
prayed before every fight.
Never saw the deacon in action,
must have been before my time
.. Chicagoan claims the long,
est bar in the world was for
merly on Twentieth street, Rock
Island. Ill. This bar was 10
feet long. think the bar at
the Shanghai Club, Shanghai,
China was longer than that.
QUERIES from clients. GA
oS few OF the boys in Pitts
burgh would like 70 see you cut
on a limb, so please state who
will, win: Cd the Kentucky
Derby, t2) Santa Anita Randi-
cap.
A-Sea Swallow will win the
Derby. Jury Box will win the
Santa Anita Handicap.
GA couple of corperals
have been discussing the term
horsepower as in "a one h. p.
engine" When this was origi-
mated was it actually supposed
TO represent the power of a
horse; and what kind of a
horse was it?
A-When the term "hOrse-
power" was originated IL was
based on the strength OF a
brewery truck horse.
Copyright by Daily Mirror. Inc.
Detroit evening times., 1945-04-26

fbOtESStD FOODS
Blue ca through G-7-valid through
April rs.
Blue Va through M-1-vAlid through
June ?.
Blue S-7 through s-3-vslid through
blue ia through x.7-vsnd through
July IL.
MEATS. CHEESE. FATs
Ned is through x-s-vslid through
April rs
Red Us through D-1-valid through
June ?. --a--
Hed "a hroush J-s-vslid through
Red K-7 through P-1-valld through
July 81.
one 10. salvage fat good for 4 cents
and two ration points.
sHOES
Airplsne Stamps 4, 4 and s-vahd In
dennitsly. Loose stamps not accepted
Landlords must register ell TENANCY
CHANGES and all rented SPACE FOR
living or sleeping.
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Detroit Times RatiOning Timetable

GASOLINE
Coupon is gallons. valid through
June I'll.
B-s and C-s Coupons gallons each.
B-T and CT Coupons-S gallons each.
Law requires state name and license
number be written on every coupon
when received
Gas for soldiers-l gallon day up 10
10 days. Mileage ration record for
SPECIFIC auto must be presented by
soldier 70 local board where car Is
registered.
Periods 4, \. ., q and s-vslid through
.. SUGAR
stamp n. Book valid through
stamp ss. Boot 4-valid May /.
LIQUOR
Ration Book q. No. t-valid through
April 80. quart OF whisky.
Ration Bcok Z. No. 7-vslid through
May IL. quart OF whisky.
Ration Boob q, No. Ss--vaiid through
May ii. for BONUS. I quart OF ain.
Detroit evening times., 1945-04-26

(Reprinted from May ss, 1912.
THIS is San Francisco
L Pearl of the Pacific into
whose Golfers flowed the wealth
Of the Comstock and Mother
Lodes. 4
This Is where Samuel Lang
horne Clemens landed his byline
as Mark Twain on the old Call.
where Jack London imagined
"The Sea Wolf" and was some
times sober, where Frank Nor
ris brought McTeague TO life,
and Bret Harte won and tried
his literary spurs.
Edwin Markham wrote and
first published The Man With
the Hoe" in the Examiner.
Kate Douglas Wiggin discov-
cred the Cabbage Patch in a
slum kindergarten.
TNHIS is the Phoenix City
i which sprang in steel and
concrete from the ashy Port OF
the Argonauts.
This Is the land of great
preachers and great mayors. of
Thomas Starr King. Father
Yorke. Bishop Kip Rabbi Nieto.
Archbishop Hanna and Bishop
Parsons. Of Jimmie Rolph. the
magnificent, and Angelo Rossi.
the florist mayor.
HERE where the Pacific feet
IL bases and where mus
ters our might of vengeance
against Japan great grain
fleets once rotted at rickety
wharves while sailors dug with
bare fingers for gold in the
Sierra and here came Rich
ard Henry Dana TO marvel ar
the forest of masts in the har-
bor and John Masefield.
who cared little for the ships
Detroit evening times., 1945-04-26

THE San francisco conference
Il could perform no more USE
full and permanent service to
mankind than by devoting itself
to the problems of learning, to
the reconstruction Of scholar
ship.
A thousand years of European
universities have been destroyed
in this war.
Men of learning are scattered
over the face of the earth.
The processes of learning
have been disrupted and COR
rupted by the politics of this
era.
The great advances In human
ism have been a product of
mans search for knowledge and
for the truth, and real scholar
ship has been marked by a devo-
ton of the learned TO knowledge
for its own sake, and for the
sake of the human spirit.
In world that recognizes
the worth and dignity of man.
the scholar is not perverted into
a thing of utility to the poll
tician.
His search for knowledge and
the truth is recognized as a
right, in fact. as the noblest
human vocation
Detroit evening times., 1945-04-26

tice breaking his heart just Al
hard as he can. That il, he
should sit down for at least a
half hour twice each day, and
make himself feel just as dis
appointed, miserable and des- .
perate as possible. You will he
amazed 10 find this soon gives
you voluntary control OF them.
Detroit evening times., 1945-04-26

the edfcaon Of the delegates the United Nations Confsrncs
Detroit evening times., 1945-04-26

GETTING ALONG WITH PEOPLE
ny Milton NriEht. Noted Psychologist
Do YOU really KNOW YOURSELF
/ You muSt--to master the art II getting
along with people.
This booklet fully explains
YOUR 2 BASIC EMOTIONS
ana hos they affect getting slonf uith
people. II alHo tells tie diffef~t4er t1----
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how 70 Identity each
WHICH ARE YOU
You can iearn these important things
about yourself by sending ten cents
and seH-sddressed stamped f1cI
envelope 10 Dr. Wiggam. care Of THIS
newspaper rms II . non-prOnt service
o. readers. just ASA for
GETTING ALONG wfTH PTOPLE
Copyright 1914. John , Diie 20
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The Omaha guide., 1945-05-12
The Danger Of
Forest Fires

With spring entic1ng millions of
persons into wooded areas on pic
mics. fishing hunting and motoring
trips, Government agencies joined
today in cautioning Americans a.
gainst the dangers Of forest and
wood fires that cause widespread
damage.
The cooperating agencies include
State forestry and conservation a.
gencies and the Forest Service Of
the United States Department of
Agriculture.
Officials emphasized the necessity
of observing the following rules:
Crush your cigarette or cigar
butts; do % toss them out Of a car
window or throw them carelessly in
the woods.
Extinguish carnpfires with water
or dirt.
Break all your burned matches,
then pinch them until the last spark
is dead.
Learn the legal requirements and
obtain permit. if ne is necessary,
before attempting to burn brush or
grass or debris; then heed the or
binary rules Of safety.
Care and forethought Will pre-
vent nine Of every ten man-made
forest and woods fires.
Federal officials stressed the fol-
lowing facts to illustrate the dam
age done by forest and wood fires.
An average of 22O 900 forest and
woods. and range fires every year
blacken nearly 81. 900 900 acres of
land. equal to the are of New York
State.
Every year these fires destroy
3 900, 600 feet Of timber enough to
make 5.7OO,0 900 tons Of newsprint;
burn millions of acres of feed
pastures. and open ranges needed
for cattle, sheep and game animals
Fires also seriously damage water
sheds on which industries. cities
! and public utilities depend for
power and light and from which
farmers and ranchers in the West