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Evening star., 1945-08-05
Chinese Forces Near
Tungan in Drive 10
Regain LingIing Base
xy the Associated Press.

CHUNGKING, Aug. 4.-Chinese
forces today battered toward the
strategic rail town of Tungan, only
"a miles from the former American
air base city of Lingling, and threat
ened to block the japanese with
drawal from Kwangsi Province In
South China, the Chinese command
reported.
Striking from the fallen Japanese
bastion of SHINING, SIS miles north
west of Lingling, the Chinese made
much progress" toward Tungan IN
a sweep through the Japanese de-
fense ring, a communique said.
The Chinese drive toward Tungan
threatened to cut the Human
Kwangsi railroad in Human Prov
ince, block the main avenue OF the
japanese escape from Kwangsi and
halt a withdrawal toward the great
communications hub of Hengyang-
Key point of japanese resistance
south of the YangtZe River.
Lingling Threatened.
Meanwhile, the two-pronged Chi
nese drive threatening Lingling
gained up to miles southwest
of the old Flying Tigers airfeld.
Chinese forces pressing along the
Hunan-Kwangsi railroad from Ling
chwan, moved within Is miles OF
Hingan, 70 miles southwest OF Ling
ling.
About 300 miles northeast of this
battlefront, the high command ad-
mitted that body OF Japanese,
originally estimated at 10000 soldiers
and 5000 civilians, made further
progress northward from southern
Kiangsi toward Nanchang, south of
Poyang Lake.
A spearhead of this floating
pocket" occupying about 480 square
miles Of territory as it moves north
ward, captured Siakiang on the Kan
River IS miles south OF Nanchang
on Thursday, headquarters dis
closed.
U. S. Flyers in Battle.
A communique said the Chinese
had reoccupied Shangkao, II miles
west southwest of Nanchang, and
claimed that enemy remnants west
of Shangkao and at points north
west of Sinyu, IA miles southwest
of Nanchang, had been mopped up.
Swarms of American fighter
bombers joined the battle in XII
angst Province, United States 14th
Air Force communique said. Psi
Mustangs bombed the Khan area,
starting fires and killing japanese
troops, while others swept over the
area between Kaoan and Fengsln
and destroyed II enemy buildings.
West of Nanchang, Mustangs de-
stroyed or damaged another 81
enemy buildings and killed 125 Jap
anese. B-25 Mitchell bombers at
tackled five enemy conveys in the
Slang River valley and set fires
and explosions.
Evening star., 1945-08-05

peace-loving spirit, her good will
towards all peoples and trusts that,
once the passions exacerbated by
war and propaganda are allayed,
the present judgment will be recon-
sidered.
Spain will continue at home and
abroad to collaborate in the work
of peace in which she made a signal
contribution by remaining neutral,
free and independent in the two
most terrible wars known to his
tory"
1t is understood that Franco has
instructed his recently appointed
foreign minister in his conference
tomorrow to tell the ambassadors
that Spain was shocked and hurt"
by the Potsdam communique.
That is the line which the Span
ish press was instructed to take in
most of its editorials tonight. The
editorials recall former Prime Min
lister Churchill's kind words" for
Spain in his speech in Commons
May "a, 1914, and former Secretary
of State Hulls statement that the
Franco regimes attitude facilitated
the American landings in North
Africa.
Armour Due to Be Firm.
Ambassador Armour, however, will
be able to reply that he has never
missed an opportunity since he ar
rived in Spain last March to tell
Franco, former Foreign Minister
Jose Felix Lequerica and Martin
Artajo himself that the present to-
talitarian Franco-Falange regime
must be changed if Spain is inter-
must be changed, If Spain is inter-
ested in United Nations good will
Spain plans series of trade and
political talks with European pow
ers at San Sebastian.
A French trade delegation is due
at San Sebastian today for conver-
sations scheduled to begin tomor-
row. Spanish-Italian negotiations
are set for August 10 and Spanish
Portuguese negotiations for August
IA, both at San Sebastian.
The Italians will seek Spanish
credits which presumably would be
applied against Frances civil wal
debt to Fascist Italy,
Evening star., 1945-08-05
Spoiin
Continued From First Page.)

discretion and goodwill while con-
fronted with singular misstatements
which did not involve her directly
refrained from formulating hel
reservations to the agreements OF
the San Francisco Conference
which in any case were reached
in the absence of practically al
European countries.
But on being now so unjustly re.
ferred to, she sees herself obliged
to declare that she does not beg
admittance to international confer
ences and would not accept any.
thing inconsistent with her history
her people or the services which
Spain rendered to peace and cu!-
ture.
Recalls League Withdrawal
Similar reasons prompted hel
once, while still a monarchy, tc
withdraw from the old League o1
Nations.
Spain proclaims once more hel
Evening star., 1945-08-05
Baltic
Continued From First Page.)

the United States with that of Sow
let Russia in the Baltic States, which
Is nothing but self ACKNOWLEDGMENT. >"
The viewpoint of Esthonia could
not be obtained here as that coun-
try no longer has official repre-
sentation in Washington. However,
it maintains consulate-general in
New York City.
Recognition Held Likely.
The agreement of President Tru-
man and Prime Minister Attlee to
support Premier Stalin's claim to
Koenigsberg and adjacent territory
southwest of the Baltic states
leaving them entirely surrounded
by Russian territory-had been in
terpreted in some quarters here as
meaning that London and Washing
ton at last had agreed to recognize
Russia's occupation of them in 1910
as a fait accompli. However. neither
the Latvian nor the Lithuanian en-
voy supported this thesis.
DR.. Bilmanis pointed out that
Koenigsberg would give Russia a
Baltic port larger than any in
Latvia, Lithuania or Esthonia and
one affording a shorter route for
sea-rail traffic with White Russia
and the Ukraine. This acquisition
he said, certainly should satisfy any
legitimate Russian need for a port
south of Leningrad, which is ice
bound during the winter months.
The minister expressed the
opinion that Russia, in view of its
vast territory and population, had
no economic need for the Baltic
states. Nor, he added, can then
continued occupation be justified
on a basis Of national defense, par
ticularly since Germany has beer
crushed. Geographically and topo.
graphically, he maintained, the
Russian argument that the Baltic
states were essential to Russia's
Evening star., 1945-08-05

defense never has been valid as al,
almost impossible swampland lies
between this area and Russia, pro-
tecting it from any invasion force
that might land on the Baltic coast
Other Aggression Feared.
"Russia's continued occupation OF
the Baltic ports" he said, can only
be explained on the theory that the
Russians plan to build up large naval
and air bases there and use them as
a springboard for aggression else
where
The Russians know, he said, that
they never can dominate the Baltic
without controlling the straits at its
western entrance. Straits entering
the Baltic on the west lie either be-
tween the islands of Denmark OF
between Denmark and Sweden.
DR.. Bilmanis quoted an editorial
from the Soviet government news
paper Izvestia, printed December
25, 1919, but which he said he be-
lieved still represented Soviet pol
icy. The editorial said, in part:
The conquest of the Baltic Sea
would make It possible for Soviet
Russia to agitate in favor of the
social revolution in the Scandinavian
countries so that the Baltic Sea
would be transferred into the sea
of the social revolution"
Baltic Life Cited.
In this connection, DR.. Bilmani.
recalled Premier Stains recen
statement on Red Fleet day .tha
Russia must build up its sea power
and acquire more naval baseS.s
IF Nazi Germany is eliminated al
possible source of aggression" h.
asked, what does Russia have tt
fear? Certainly not the Balti,
states, which have never been ag
gressive."
DR.. Bilmanis charged that com
munist economic policies in Latvi;
were making a decent life imposSi
BILE for the small Latvian farmer
For centuries, he said, the average
little farm has comprised about ~
acres-part pastures for cattle, par
forest to prevent flood erosion from
melting snow and part crop land
Such farms, he said, would supper
family of five, using two horse
but no hired help. Now, he said
the land is being divided into 45
acre farm plots which are woefull.
inadequate to support family.
Latvians Fled Before Reds.
So great is the Latvian fear o.
their Red conquerers, he said, tha
when the Red armies again ad
vanced into Latvia last year, driv.
ing the Germans before them
about 300, 900 persons fed, some 60
ing in small boats to Sweden. Mr.
zadeikis said that only few hun.
dred Lithuanians escaped, due tt
the sudden Russian capture O.
Vino in the south and the long dis.
tance by sea from Lithuania tt
Sweden.
Scoffng at Russian claims tina
the Latvians wanted to remain {
part of the Soviet Union, DR.. Bill
manis said:
I'm all modes of life our people
are different from the Russians
The Latvians are western in theil
civilization and psychology anc
have been since the 18th century
We are more realistic and individ.
ualistic. We do not hate the Rus.
sian people, but we want to pre-.
serve our own individuality anC
independence.
Commenting on the Potsdan
Conference, DR.. Bilmanis said thai
he was happy to see that the soil.
darity of the Allies had been main.
tanned It's greatest accomplish
ment, he said, was the assurance
that Germany would be eliminated
as source of future aggression.
But I hope" he added, that al
other possibilities of aggression will
be eliminated, too"
Evening star., 1945-08-05
Coost Guard Praised
In Nimitz Broadcast
Ey the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
GUAM, Sunday, Aug. 5.-Amiral
Nimitz, in a broadcast to the United
States observing the 155th ami
versary of the Coast Guard, today
praised the wartime work of that
service ION every beachhead in Eu-
rope and the Pacific" as well as in
protecting the home coaStline.
The admiral lauded the Coast
Guards Skill and versatility" and
declared its was adding new luste1
to its brave and brilliant history"
Evening star., 1945-08-05
Marked Improvement
Shown by Bushfield
,y the Associated Press.

5s tne AssoCidteo IIeos-
HURON, s. D., Aug. 4.-Senator
Bushfield, Republican Of South
Dakota, who suffered stroke here
Tuesday, has shown marked i'm
provement, with muscular paralysis
having virtually disappeared and
mental processes near normal, his
physician reported tonight.
Evening star., 1945-08-05

A good mackerel catch this year
Is aiding Norway
Evening star., 1945-08-05
RoinfoII Shortage Raises
Feors Of Bengal Famine

Ey the Associated Press.
CALCUTTA, Aug. 4.-Fears of a
new famine were expressed today in
Bengal, where more than 1900, 900
died of hunger in 1943.
Opposition political leaders in the
Bengal Assembly said the monsoon
had failed to bring enough rainfall
for crops and "the next three weeks
will tell'' whether the yield will be
sufficient. The Bengal Agriculture
Department, however, said there
was no immediate cause for alarm.
Evening star., 1945-08-05

Use of gasoline for summer vaca-
tions is being discouraged by Ar
gentina.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-07-07
Rival TO my Heart

dictions. He didn't understand her.,
If he lived to be a hundred, he'd
never understand her. Yet she
moved him as no other girl could.
What sort of a day did you have,
Burke?"
Were always rushed" he an
swered matter-of-factly. Zone days
pretty much the same as the next"
Burke was a junior partner in
the old law firm Of Coughlan and
Reiss. And Frederick Reiss hadn't
chosen him because Burke's father
had been a great lawyer and a state
senator. Burke could stand on his
own.
Katie brought in Calls new black
Chesterfield coat and slipped it over
her shoulders. Burke said, "You
haven't asked mo to dinner for n
long time, Katie. Why? Am / slip
ping7"
Katie smiled fatuously. Burke
was wonderful with people, espe-
cially with the help. "You put it on
too thick" Gail said, as they got
into his big car. "The great patron.
Burke Gentry. You aren't thinking
of going into politics?"
"There is nothing wrong with be-
ing nice to people," he said mildly.
"You don't lose anything. And once
in a while, you gain lott"
Impulsively she put her hand on
his sleeve. "I'm sure you're right,
darling. didn't mean to be so
arbitrary"
He leaned down and kissed her
dark, fragrant hair. II know you
didn't, sweet" He released the
brake. "But just see il this doesn't
prove my point. A couple Of years
ago, I did a small job for Doctor
Cassius Mccormick. Yeh, / know
he's a sourpuss and nobody can get
along with him. But can. So what
happened this week? Coughlan and
Reiss are going to take care Of all
the hospitals legal matters!"
/ That's wonderful" she said
warmly.
He swung the car down Lannock
Drive toward the River Basin. The
boulevard was the pride Of Beau
champs Chamber Of Commerce. 1t
had been laid out like a long, YER
dant garden curving to the very
edge Of the water. Back on the low,
rolling Grant Wood hills, were the
Beauchamp Heights estates. Below,
in the valley, lay the city itself,
thick with factories, and outlined on
the waterfront by the miserable
Springdale slums.
doctor Mccormick told me q
little about his son today" she said
idly. "He was an Italian prisoner
and came over on the exchange ship.
They haven't been very friendly,
father and son, have they?"
."No. Mr.. Reiss was talking about
It yesterday. Doctor Mccormick
wife walked out on him when the
boy was ten. She got custody Of the
kid, and took him abroad. -. Say,
let's stop worrying about the Nc
Cormicksl Where shall we eat?"
"What about the Hickory Kmb?"
J Ito be eontinued)
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-07-07
By Pinchot

the cluster Of creamy gardenias.
"Oh, they're lovely. Shall l wear
them at my shoulder"
mo. Tuck them in at the waist"
He came over to her. He was smil-
ing, but the smiling faded as he
took her into his arms. "You have
no business being so attractive" he
said sternly, and proceeded to kiss
the lipstick from her mouth.
The taste of that first kiss
changed on their lips, turned wild
and demanding and unappeased. l
lore you so, Gail thought. Burke,
darling. But in back Of the torrent
Of love, of the feminine need for
surrender and security, was a sense
Of fear, Of foreboding that flashed
through her consciousness like
forked lightning, binding her to
momentary pleasures.
We love each other, Burke. But
do we belong together? Will we
ever belong together?
It was four years since they had
become good friends, although from
the very beginning it was not an
suspicious friendship. They had too
little of the right things in COM
mon; they were essentially alien in
spirit. Burke was gregarious, in
discriminate in friendships; Gail
was fastidious and aloof. He was
bluntly hard-headed and practical;
she was generous and impulsive.
Although Gail tried to ignore
what seemed to her Burke's faults,
and Burke apparently now realized
that he couldn't change her, still
their love affair was too frequently
battle of wills. And recently it
seemed to Gail that no evening to-
gether passed without q quarrel.
Oh, darling, she thought, 10 IS in
your power TO end this uncertainty,
this tension. Either that, or one Of
these days, soe'u 90 too far IN a
quarrel -.
When they drew apart, she took
a handkerchief from her evening
bag and rubbed his lips. ats q
good thing l don't use an indelible
lipstick," she said. Imagine any
| one daring to show up at Agnes
Thayer's wearing such tell-tale
marks"
He regarded her curiously. "You
really hate going there, don't your
81 loathe i'll" She didn't 60 into
details. Burke had never under
stood how much she resented being
a Thayer poor relation. Burke
thought she ought to play up to the
Thayers; they certainly could be OF
great help to her professional life,
Burke opened his cigarette case
and Lit a cigarette for her. "And
what sort of day did my career
woman hsve?" he asked.
Lets not talk about it," she
said. She deliberately closed her
mind on the days problems. She
was with Burke now and her FEM
mime instincts clamored for release.
Watching her, he thought irrita-
bly, that she never took full advan-
tage of her potential beauty and
charm. She was filled with contra
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-07-07
Mexico Seeks
Race Title

Arcadia, Calf, July 7--AP-The
pride of Mexico, Gay Dalton, gets
his last chance at Santa Anita to-
day to prove that he is one of the
best reuters extant as he tackles
field Of 10 others in the $4,000
San Juan Capistrano Handicap.
The race headlines the closing
program Of Santa Anita's 40-day
meeting.
The Mexico City champ was the
overnight favorite among IL start.
ers named for the mile and a half
grind despite his top-weight as
signment Of 100 pounds.
This was to be the 30th start
the fourth at Santa Anita-for Gay
Dalton, winner Of the last two Hippo
dromo de Las Americas Handicaps
at Mexico City. He left that track
after compiling 10 firsts and one
second in 26 starts. and his earn
ings are near the 100000 mark.
In last Saturdays 100000 Santa
Anita Handicap at a mile and a
quarter he finished third to Louis
B. Mayors Thumbs up, which left
last Thursday for Chicago.
Surprise entries for the Capis-
trano were Mayors Patrimony and
Jay Paley's Best Effort, three-year-
olds. Patrimony was allotted 100
pounds, Best Effort 10S.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-07-07
Pot O'Luck Dark Horse i'm
Skokie Handicap in Chicago

the field in a six-furlong race most
of the way, and then came from
behind to make up IL lengths to
take second by three and a half
lengths in a six-furlong race. How
ever. the Warren Wright rdnner,
making his second start since the
Derby, will find plenty of blazing
speed in today's race.
In addition to Bymeabond and
Air Sailor, figured as post-time fav-
critics, there will be War Jeep,
Maine Chance farms winner of the
Jamaica handicap: Fighting Step
and Bergolater OF Murlogg farm;
Affiant and Expediter, entry Of Her.
bert NJ. Woolf OF Kansas City. Mo.
and fighting Don, owned by Miss
Gertrude Donovan.
The field is the fastest. on the
record, and the finest ever assem-
bled for the event, won last year by
Twilight Tear.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-07-07
Says That
He's Lucky

Boston. July 7-AP-While his
admiring Boston Braves teammates
relayed the five of the II games
he has been held hitless, modest
Tommy Holmes today tried to ex-
plain away his 34-straight streak,
a new National League modern
slugging record, on grounds that
he is lucky.
After Holmes erased Rogers
Hornsby's 90 year old 33-game mark
yesterday by hitting a homer, four
doubles and a single in 10 turns at
bat during a doubleheader with the
Pittsburgh Pirates, his teammates
went over all OF their 1915 box
scores.
III II wasn't for those circus
catches in Chicago, you'd have hit
in IS straight games and made ev-
erybody forget about the 44-game
record Willie Keller hit back in
1897" Tribesman complained.
And look at those six pitchers
who stopped you. They tried to
pass you every time you came to
the plate"
Not that Claude Passeau,"
Holmes protested in favor of the
last rival pitcher to blank him.
back on June 3 in Chicago. when
! do manage to connect against
his stuff, ! always feel that I've
been hitting a ping pong ball"
Passeau made Holmes go 0-3 that
day. But in the other four games
he played without a base hit, he
has been charged with a total of
only seven times at bat against
Andy Hansen OF the Giants, Al Jur.
isch and Ken Burkhardt Of the
Cardinals, and Henry Wyse of the
cubs.
Since June 6. when Brooklyn-born
Tommy started his record-smash-
ing drive, he has put together SO
hits in 144 tires for .43S average.
Back in 1871, when American Lea
guer Joe DiMaggio set his all-time
mark by hitting in Sc straight
games, that Yankee slugger did it
with a .40S batting pace.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-07-07
SYNOPSIS

SYNOPSIS
Beauehamp's leading family, the
Howard Thayers, are to entertain
Towards middle-aged sister, Rey-
ma, author and world traveller,
whom the war ha6 forced home
after being thirty years abroad.
Lucienne, Towards young daugh-
ter by a previous marriage, ad-,
mires Aunt Regina almost as much
as she does her cousin, young Gail
Benton, the only woman doctor in
Beauchamp. Regina learned from
Agnes, Howard's domineering wife,
and Lucienne, that Calls parents
had died when Gail was seventeen,
and that Howard had financed her
medical education. But as soon
as she finished, she paid Dad back"
Lucienne added. low Gail is on
the staff of the Thayer Hospital,
and il was rumored that when DR..
Cassius Mccormick, chief of staff t,
picked his new assistant, it would
be either Gail or DR.. Ralph Kram-
err. At the hospital, Gail questioned
DR.. Mccormick concerning his di-
agnosis in the case of an obscure
clinic patient named gayle. DR..
Kramer had made the original di-
agnosis and DR.. Mccormick had
verified it, but Gail was certain
that they erred. DR.. Mccormick
CURLY dismissed her. suggestion OF
an X-ray for this patient, but she
issues an order for 1t, fully realiz-
ing it will probably cost her the
coveted appointment. Burke Gem
try, with whom Gail is in love, is
to escort her to Reyna's party that
night. At home, Gail quickly
changes to evening clothes, Katie,
her genial housekeeper, surveying
the results, remarks: you sure
don't look like no doctor nowP
CHAPTER SIX
Gail hurried into the living room.
Burke was standing at the window,
looking out on the lawn, where Bell
sha, Calls black cat, was chasing Q
butterfly. =.
Burke was thirty. He was tall
and big shouldered, with body that
might one day run to fat unless he
was constantly vigilant. As he
turned away from the window to-
ward Gail, his white dinner jacket
made his tanned face seem star
tlingly brown. By contrast, his
eyes were bright, inquisitive blue
his crisp fair hair almost white.
"Burke, I'm terribly sorry to be
so latel hope you aren't annoyed
snow, Gail" he said, half
amused, "you know you're always
late. Why can't you arrange YOU
time more efficiently?"
"But, darling" she said patiently
"medicine isn't like law. / mean
IL get a sudden call or patient
needs attention"
"You didn't let me know what
dress you were wearing
II telephoned you when got in
at seven. But you'd left the office,
she explained contritely. She opened
the square white box and took out
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-07-07
Holmes Has New SluSSins Record
Fine Points in Bridge

never mentioning their spades. II
either partner had opened his
mouth about the spade suit. game
would have been a cinch to bid
and make. But there they were. In
the wrong contract. They deserved
to get set, and they were set.
West led his diamond to the
5. K and A. To dummy went South
with the club 3 to the A so he
could lead the spade 3 toward his
X. The A took that and the dia-
mend 2 came back 10 be won by
the J. with which South overlook
the 10 because he wanted the lead
in his own hand. He successfully
fincssed the club J and also got
three more club tricks and the
heart A. But that made only
eight tricks for him. When he lost
a second spade to the Q. East re-
turned his last diamond and West
beat the contract with three more
tricks.
South thought his K-9 did not
constitute enough top strength
for spade bid, and North thought
the same Of his J-8 in spades. II
either had held a different view,
the resulting 4-Spade contract
would have brought the loss Of
only three tricks, two in trumps
and one in diamonds.
Your Weekend Question
Over a pre-emptive original
suit bid Of three In a major or
four in a minor by your partner.
why is 1t usually better to raise
the first suit to game. when hold
ing sufficient strength, than to bid
your own suit in response?