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Evening star., 1945-12-20
Cur|ey and 4 Others
Given Trial Recess
Until After Holidays

District Court Justice James M.
Proctor today adjourned the mail
fraud trial involving Representative
Curley of Massachusetts, and four
other defendants until January 2.
The jusist did not act on number
of pending motions, including one to
quash an alleged confession given to
FBI agents in Brooklyn by another
defendant, James G. Fuller, execu-
tive vice president Of Engineers
Group, Inc.
Carl G. w. Anderson. who was
controller Of the Advertising Metal
Display Co. of Chicago in 1912,
testified that his firm on January
II Of that year paid $500 to Mr..
Fuller for prospective business. He
never received any money back, nor
did his firm get any contracts from
the group, he said.
On cross-examination by Attorney
JEFF Busby. representing a defen-
dant, Bert Hall, Mr.. Anderson con-
ceded that Mr.. Hall had been of
value to his firm In contracting
Government officials here. Mr.. An
derson had testified that mir. Hall
came to his plant and made an
inspection tour.
Fuller. who is now serving a FIVE
year term on bad check charges
preferred in Brooklyn when the
confession" was obtained, told
Justice Proctor yesterday he has
served total Of 80 months, ex-
elusive of the current sentence
When william A. Paisley, special
assistant to the Attorney General,
read Fuller's criminal record, dating
back to 1925, Fuller corrected him.
The defendant said criminal charges
against him began In 1922, when he
was arrested at Walter Reed Hos
pital here. He did not specify the
charge
Assistant United States Attorney
James Saver, who handled the
check cases against Fuller in Brook
lyn, testified yesterday afternoon
that the defendant could have been
given so years and $50, 900 fine on
those charges alone. He said there
were other charges pending against
Fuller, including number of de-
tainers, in which numerous COM
munities asked that he be held for
them.
Evening star., 1945-12-20
THE EVENING STAR washington, p. g. - Al
-. - 5nUesoAY

send up q new forward observer
section. I have been hit and don't
think I can make, II"
1t. Robinson was commercial
artist before he enlisted In 1899.
Evening star., 1945-12-20

cessful assault. Severely wounded
In the, assault on the town, he ra-I
diod the headquarters battery:
Gather up all my belongings and
send them home TO my wife. Also
Evening star., 1945-12-20

Many American military men will
have to. remain on foreign, soil for
many months to come. Your Victory
Bond purchases will ease their bur-
dens.
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jeep, to get some information.
The jeep hit mine, and Mike
came home with a couple OF
broken legs. During the course
of our conversation, he said,
There are times when you have
to take chance. but careless
ness can cost lot of lives"
Carelessness often costs a
trick and your contract in
bridge. Today's hand brings out
that point well. When West held
the first trick, he shifted to the
ace of diamonds and followed
with another diamond. Dummy
won, small club was ruffcd
with the three of spades. small
heart ruffed in dummy with the
ten of spades, another club ruff
fed with the six Of spades. the
seven of hearts ruffed with the
jack of spades, and another club
ruffed with the nine of spades.
Now, instead of picking up the
trumps, declarer laid down the
ace of hearts, which was ruffed,
and the contract was defeated.
Of course South should have
cashed the ace before ruffing
any hearts.
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he WHO GETS SNUBBED

General De GoulIe hos been criticized consider
oby for his deliberate and deporobIe snub Of Pres
ident Roosevelt whom he refused to meet in North
Africa But somehow we feel sneoking admiration
for the testy, uneomorous general bod manners and
all.
Certainly General de GouIIe and the nations
whose provisional government he heads were round
Iy snubbed by the Big Three who undertook to make
decisions vital to France at the Crinoeo Conference
without botherine to consult the French government
France is country Of great history proud tro-
dition, courageous survival and hopeful future Her
recent msfortunes scarcely merit the poernol brush
off she got at YoIto, and General de GouIle can
scarcely be blamed for resentne it vigorously.
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Nv PETER EDISON

Postwar federal tax collec-
tions "three or more times as
large as those of the immediate
prewar period" will be needed
if the word of Roy Blough, di-
rector of the Division of Tax Re-
search in the u. S. Treasury,
means anything.
In case you never heard OF
Mr.. Blough before, it may be
explained that he does not carry
as much weight as Secretary of
the Treasury Henry Morgenthau,
Jr., nor even Assistant Secretary
Daniel w. Bell. Mr.. Blough,
however, is the man Morgenthau
and Bell ring for when they
want TO know something about
taxes.
If Mr.. Blough's predictions
sound like the worst kind of bad
news, there is perhaps a potter
way of putting it. Federal tax
collections in preWar years aver
eyed a little better than five
billion dollars a year. Postwar
taxes three times that would
mean collections of Is billion
dollars a year. But war taxes
are now heading for As billion
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BY ERSKINE JOHNSON
NEA Staff Correspond

HOLLYWOOD - Behind the
screen: Bling Crosby telephened
Leo McCarey at RKO the other
day and asked how things were
coming along on THE Bells of
St. Mary" which will practi-
cally be a sequel to Going My
Way"
Things are great great"
McCarey said. 1--WE start rolling
some time in March"
who's going to steal the pic
ture from me this time?" asked
Bing.
"Ingrid Bergman Il think,
replied McCarey.
well, that's good enough for
me-" said Crosby.
Two days later McCarey an
nounced that Ingrid will co-star
with Bing.
Students of Santa Barbara
High school have elected their
ideal faculty, to wit:
Principal, Bob Hope; dean Of
girls, Van Johnson; dean OF
boys, Lana Turner; home nurs-
ing, Laraine Day; geometry,
Betty Cradle; music, Harry
James; boys gym, Esther Will
liams; girls gym, John Payne;
dramatics, Greer Carson.
MORE LIKE 1T
An eastern manufacturer will
soon bring out cigaret holders
designed to 60 with different
shades of lipstick. But it would
be better, says AL Pearce, If he
would just bring out cig-rets.
Religious creeds are forgotten
among fighting men overseas.
Protestant, Catholic and Jewish
leathernecks celebrated when
Navy Lieut.. Samuel Sandmel,
Jewish chaplain. of the Second
Marine Division, conducted a
community program to observe
opening of the Jewish holiday,
Hanukkah, somewhere in the
South Pacific" Then everybody
saw a movie-"When Irish Eyes
Are Smiling"
Kay Kyser, touring Army
hospitals in the south, reports
some miraculous things with re-
Mobilization. lone kid" writes
Kay, took a cigaret out OF his
pocket, lit it and offered it to
Georgia (Mrs. X and it was
some time before we realized he
had no arms"
Irony: In Along Came
Jones" Gary Cooper plays a
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High|ights from the Latest Books

mentator for the BIC, wrote
his booke at the request of the
British Government.
He traces the events leading
to the 1918 armistice, the draw
ing of the treaty, and then des-
cribes the way in which Ger
man propagandists between the
wars made use Of the assertions
that their armies really had not
been defeated and that the
treaty was harsh and unjust.
Fraser recounts the methods by
which Germany secretly re-
armed. He points out how large
a part was played by the belief
that Germany had been humili-
ated and deceived by the Allies
after 1918 in making her willing
to attempt to redeem herself by
entering into this war.
Now that we face the pros
pect again of deciding how to
establish world peace, it Is a
SOLDERING experience to recall
how we let slip our opportunity
after the last war TO prevent
another great conflict.
Fraser accompanies his re-
view with series of closely
reasoned arguments against
each of the claims of the Ger
man propagandists, and warns
that unless we are on the alert,
the enemy will bring forth a
similar set of slogans this time
which might provide the emo
tional basis for still another
world war.
Is there a German under
ground?" Max Jordan, in BE
yond All Fronts" (Bruce), says
emphatically Eyes" and furnish
es wealth of evidence for his
thesis. The author, who spent
his youth in Italy and Germany
and who, for 10 years, preced-
ing the entry of the United
States into the war. was the Ma
tional Broadcasting Company's
director for the European con-
tinent, had unusual opportuni-
ties of intimately meeting lead
ers as we'll as rank-and-file peo-
pie in Nazi and Fascist coun-
tries.
Jordan, obviously deeply
religious man who always main
tains close contact with ecclesi-
astical circles, asserts that the
Christian churches, ever since
Hitler came TO power, we're in
the forefront of the resistance"
movement. Carl Erie dr. 1 c h
Goerdeler, candidate for the
CHARACTERISTIC of po st-Hitler
Germany of the officers junta
whose plot to assassinate the
"Fuehrer," last June, failed,
was an intimate friend of Jor-
dan. His quotations from con-
vcrsations with the unfortunate
rebel, dating back to the begin
nings of the Nazi regime, furn-
ish evidence that even then an
important underground" al
ready was in existence. Jordan
gives many hitherto unknown
details on the personality and
aims of the Inflated man and his
associates.
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. BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTON .

dollars a year, nine times the
prewar level. Blough's predic-
ton is therefore a two-thlrds cut
from present levels.
This whole subject of postwar
taxation seems to be hot right
now, with economic group in the
country backing its own pet
plan. To Blough this presages
"a more intense effort of differ
ent economic groups to unload
the tax burden upon each other.
That is a good point of view TO
bear in mind.
THE BURDEN MAY GET
HEAVIER
In all this preliminary shadow
boxing, the Treasury has not
come out with any plan Of its
own. But at st. Louis, speaking
before the National Tax Associa-
ton, Roy Blough did bring up
the subject of postwar taxes and
because of his position as head
of tax research, his speech may
be regarded as something Of
Treasury trial balloon.
"How much can we reduce
taxes after the war;" Blough
asked. And he answered his own
question by Probably less than
most people think"
Furthermore, he says that
"Per dollar of taxes, the postwar
load may well be harder to bear
in that it will be a continuing
load with no expectation of early
relief. 1t will not be paid out Of
ar-swollen incomes and it will
no longer have the support of
wartime patriotism.
MANY WRITER'S" he says, cas-
sumo that the presence of high
taxes, designed for wartime use,
is the only obstacle to permanent
full employment in the postwar
period. The removal Of this
obstacle may not be enough.
That unemployment can occur
when taxes are low is attested
by the tragedy of 1929"
NO SPECIAL PRIVILEGES
On nther points, Blough mere
ly states the issues instead of
indicating a preference for any
one policy; recognizing as he
does that in the end it is Con-
gress that will determine finally
just what postwar tax policy
will be. To the pleaders for
special tax privilege, however.
he has a special word of warn
ing: 1T is scarcely conceivable"
he says, that Congress would
increase taxes on any substantial
group while decreasing taxes on
all others groups"
Blough's conclusion is that
the postwar tax problem is going
TO be more difficult than the
wartime tax problem, which is
just what you'd expect.
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We're much less interested in all this toIk about
Henry Wooce's alleged Utopion promise Of "a quart
Of milk for every Hottentot" than we ore in the &C.
tuoI delivery of "a package Of American cieorets for
every Swede and every CoIonnbion-whe they lost. 4"
We don't know who arranged the export Of those
treasured smokes, but we can assure him that as Of
today he couldn't get himself nominated for dog
cotcher, much less confirmed.
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. BARBS

There's rhyme and reason to
Back the Attack so they Boys
can Get Back"
Congressman Flanagan OF Vir-
ginia complains that some brands
of cigarets blister his tongue.
Where can we get ours blistered?
Nazi soldiers have been for
hidden 10 remove their false
teeth except for cleaning pur-
poses. Nothing was said about
holding other bridges.
Success or failure Is the diff
ference between minding or un-
dermining your own business.
Our filters hit Tokyo again!
More bombs for the Japs means
more bonds for you. Buy them
now!
Astrologer says people born in
January are leaders. Sounds rea-
sonable, with the head start they
have.
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BY the United Press

John Gunther, who scored a
yarn with a ring of authenticity.
His latest is THE Troubled
Midnight" (Harpers), story of
an American girl who becomes
involved in the intrigue of Is
tanbul, capital of neutral but
tense Turkey, in the .climactic
days of the present war It's a
story of German spies, clipped
British agents, an exotic dane
ing girl, an American business
man who makes his appearance
only at the last moment. and a
half-dozen minor characters.
Mr.. Gunther is veteran
newspaperman who has talked
with most of the great figures
of the worlds political drama
and who knows we'll the nations
and people of Europe. For that
reason he has written a good
and entertaining but not toe
literary hit with his -"Inside
Europe" and followed it up
with two other excellent Gin
side" pieces, now has gone back
to take another fling at the ro-
mantle novel with interesting
brilliant results.
He knows his Europe and his
Istanbul; he knows his Gestapo
and his British espionage serv-
ice; he states we'll the ideologles
and morals Of the Nazis and Of
the United Nations. But his
grasp of the intricacies OF a
woman's behavior, the workings
of her heart and mind, is not so
sure.
His Leslie Corcoran is a beau
tiful American, sure of every
thing but herself. But although
the book to the last page con-
tinues to portray her PERSONAL
ity, she does not ring true. She
falls in love with almost every
man she encounters and her fin
al choice leaves you wondering
if she wouldn't kick him over IL
IS more pages were left.
On sex, Mr.. Gunther is at his
weakest. He inserts brief para
graphs of passion at regular in
tervals- apparently following
the modern trend and attempt
ing to keep it all from being too
abstract a study of wartorn Is
tanbul.
But it's an entertaining
story. Not as good as his Inside
Europe" or his two other books
on Asia and South America. It's
not a book that you can't lay
down: but it's one you're happy
to pick up.
For those who want to read
the news of the approaching AL
lied settlement with Germany
against the background sur
rounding the drawing of the
Versailles Treaty after the last
war. Lindley Fraser offers Ger
many Between Two Wars A
Study of Propaganda and War
Guilt" (Oxford Univ. Press).
Fraser. professor Of political
economy at Aberdeen Univer-
sity and German News Com
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. SOTHEY SAY

Our winter offensive from
Dec. H16 is now concluded. 1t is
too bad that no other results have
ben gained from it but to reach
our original jump-off positions
- but after all, the whole Job
was nothing more than short
plundering expedition into Bel
gium.-Unmailed letter on Ger
man prisoner.
The average car is today eight
years old, compared with the
preWar average of four and one
half years. The speed at which
these vehicles are operated has
an absolute bearing on street and
highway safety, as we'll as on the
mechanical deterioration Of the
vehicles. - Carroll E. Mealcy,
National Safety Council official.
When popular sergeant gets
news that his wife wants a di-
vorce. all his men who are mar
ried Immediately think the same
thing may happen to them and
wonder what their own wives
are doing. - Margaret Hagan,
Red Cross representative.
The Americans, British and
Canadians do not advance until
they believe they have smashed
everything with their bombs and
heavy arms. Our opponents con-
duct this war by the security
method. - Field Marshal Gen.
Guenther on Kluge, Nazi COM
mander in France.
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overalls and practised intricate
steps during her lunch hour.
Jack predicted great things
would come of her tireless
work. They did. Her name was
Eleanor Powell.
Psychic: The Warner research
library has a book written in
Ills, authored by a very far
seeing young lady and titled, "A
Sound and Pleasant Proof that
respectable woman May, with
out damage to her good name,
treat herself to a Pipe of To-
bacco."
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Canned Vitamin G

A record fruit crop forecast
for 1944-1945 m cans more
canned citrus fruit and fruit
juices for civilians, and an even
larger percentage of canned
citrus for the armed forces. The
Army Medical Corps has dis
covered that the Vitamin c
foods help men withstand the
effects of high attitudes, I'M
der-water pressure, and ex-
treme climatic conditions.
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. IN HOLLYWOOD

cowboy who can't shoot straight
and Dan Duryea plays a straigh-
shooting never-missing desper-
ado. In real life Cooper is an
ace marksman and Duryea adj
mits he's such a poor shot he
couldn't hit his foot with a shot
gun.
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MCKINNEY ON
BRIDGE
BY WILLIAM Z. MCKINNEY
Americas Card Authority

I met a soldier in Pittsburgh
recently who introduced himself
to me as big Mike'-and he
certainly was a big fellow. !
wanted to talk about his expert
ences in the war, but all he
would tell me was that he had
to go into enemy territory in a
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Pheasants Improve Land

economic justification for saving
and developing woodlots, fence
rows, roadsides, swamps, ponds
and bits of otherwise useless
land. The wildland thus saved
keeps a form in biological bal
ance and more productive, con-
tributes to soil erosion control
and makes portions of each farm
a better sponge to soak up and
hold valuable rainfall.
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VETERANS RIGHTS

We all should like to see smooth ana po'ness
shift from war to ciVon production without me loss
of doy's work TO anyone But that is too much 70
expect in resuffIing labor force Of S. million. The
best and most thot postwor planners can hope for
is brief and limited disruption
Thot is ooino to be tough enough without the
threat of any disagreement between returning serv-
icenen and current workers in competition for post
war Jobs But that threat seems to be looming in the
oebote over Interpretation Of the SeleotNe Service
lows provision for veterans JOBS
The law states that the veteran shall be entitled
to his old job or on equally good job unless ccun'-
stances have so altered an employers business thot
it is monifestIy impossible to provide it. SelectNe
Service officers who will enforce thot law have given
it on unequivoco Interpretation. But Neil Bront OF
the United Electrical Workers Union has called such
literal Interpretation Extremely Vicious because it
pits the veteran against the non-veteron.
1t is unfortunately true that this law may cause
some hardship And it isn't cosy for the man who
foces possible denootion dismissal under it to be
bIthey generous and soy THE veteran comes first. .
But hard easy the truth is that the veteran does
come first and there can be other choice on eth
icoI or practical grounds
Certainly there is no need to urge the debt thot
the country owes the veteran or to contrast the
with those Of the soldier sailor, whether or not he
was under fire
There hos already been some talk about the
equal contribution Of front line" and "home front"
warriors However theoretically true such tolk might
be, it isn't going to go with men who have been
through the hell that thousands Of our fighting
have.
So from the practical standpoint, it must be evil
dent to any labor leader that he make himself
and perhaps the whole labor movement unpopular
by quibbng hedging about the clear intent Of the
SeIectve Service law in regard to veterans JOBS 1t
can only divide the country
Labor isn't the only possible source Of pickering
which can bog down HE vital task Of finding jobs for
all There is plenty Of it in the political warfare now
being woeed But that will clear away in few weeks
and it will surely be thot the intent Of respon-
sibIe American leaders is to achieve full employment
whatever is being said to the contrary now
But nothing could be more destructive to the no.
tionol unity necessary to ochieve it than suspicion
thot it might be achieved at the expense Of the vet
eron. Even q suspicion would leave defenseIess
against the charge that we ore criminoy ungrotefu
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There were 7434 outdoor play
grounds in the United States at
the end of 1888, excluding base
ball diamonds and b a I h n &
beaches.
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. QUESTIONS
AND
ANSWERS .

Q-What is the are of Berlin
with a prewar population OF
4,332,OOO?
A-332 square miles, about
five and half times the size OF
our District of Columbia.
Q-What is MET in the Brit
ish Army?
"A tankman's term for
mechanical enc ~ transport
(does not include tanks or mo-
bile guns.
Q-What are the physical
characteristics of barnacle?
About the size of dime
six pairs of legs, flesh but no
heart. After it attaches itself to
a ships bottom it loses its eyes,
sheds its shell and grows new
and permanent she'll.
Q-How many dentists are
there in the United States?
About 10000, but many
are in the armed forces now.
Q-How are blood types des-
ilnated?
A-By the letters o. B
ABB.
Q-What is the legend OF
Berchtesgaden?
A-That there is a cave there
from which Frederick Barba-
rossa's N123-90) ghost will
emerge when the fruit trees no
longer bloom and the swallows
quit flying roundabout.
Q-Has Silesia, undergoing
Russian invasion, suffered war
ravage before?
A-Many times, the worst
during the Thirty Years War
1618-48s when nearly three
fourths of the population lost
their lives.
Q-Who is Belgium's Quis-
ling?
Aeon Degrelle, condemn
ed to death in absentia. Before
the war he was chief of the out
lawed Rexist Party.
Q-What is the new road dis
lance from Ledo to Chungking?
About 2100 miles. BY air
700 miles.
Q-HoW m any men has
death moved into the presiden-
cy?
Ask, John Tyler was the
first.
Q-Has Romania paid Russia
any reparations due under the
recent armistice?
A - Delivered 478,000 OF
more tons of oil, which formerly
went to Germany.
Q-Were pigeons used as war
messengers before World War !
and II?
A-Many times: by Alexan-
der the Great, Hannibal, Scipio,
Cyrus the Younger, and others.
Q-How much do glass eyes
cost?
A-Up to $500 retail. But
they're now being made of plas-
tic for soldiers for less than SIS.
Q-What is a schnorkel?
"A Floating lung" which
enables Germans submarines TO
stay submerged 20 to 80 days,
the Nazis claim.
Q-How many ball bearings
60 into a Norden bombsight?
A-As of l941 design, 81 were
used to control actual operation.
Their were IS different types.
Q-Is Luxembourg treating
collaborationists harshly?
A-Not very. They are being
made to work without pay on
such Jobs as clearing snow from
streets.
Q-What has replaced the
lance among Russian Cossacks
fighting on horseback?
A-The tommygun. They still
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PROGNOSTICATOR

TROONOS Iva AON
Looking backward: Jack Ha-
ley likes to remember when he
was the star of the Broadway
musical, Follow Through
There was little girl in the cast
who did a speciality number in