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Evening star., 1948-10-03
French Premier an AVERAGE Man !
Served '23 Cabinets In
28 Years And Iso
Veteran Mayor

in French politics, M. Queuille is
not disillusioned at having been so
often political bridesmaid, but
never bride" He says, II have
spent all my life forgiving people"
Skeptical about survival of any
French government, he has not
moved into the sumptuous Matignon
palace that France provides for its
Premiers. He never has lived in
the apartments attached to most
OF the ministries. He prefers the
modest apartment where he moved
Is years ago when his children
entered the nearby schools and uni
versity.
The children are married now and
gone, but he still likes the apartment
and the sidewalk cafe on the corner.
Pierre, the elder, is Commercial At
tache at the French Embassy in
Teheran. Suzanne married Jean
Gillot, a prominent Paris lawyer.
M. Queuille rises early, gets to his
desk we'll before and works late.
Unlike his predecessor and fellow
radical, Andre Marie, he dislikes
dining out and has a small l-towner's
awe Of night clubs. Like many
Frenchmen, he paints as a hobby,
but so secretly even his best friends
don't know if he prefers landscapes
or portraits. Sometimes he amuses
himself and his colleagues at dull
sessions of the Assembly by drawing
friendly cartoons.
Recalls Doctor Days
M. Queuille smokes a pack a day
of cheap French cigarettes, always
in q long holder At the age of 64
he eats and drinks moderately by
French standards, which means
heartily and we'll by most others.
His height, weight, looks and health
are part Of his averageness- feet 4,
159 pounds, with handsome, sharply
cut features, blue eyes and graying
blond mustache.
At Neuvic he lives in the house
where he practiced medicine, at
tends to municipal affairs as BELTS
an experienced Mayor and putters
in his flower garden. He likes to
mention he once had rose named
for him. When he walks the streets
and chats with some Of his 5000
neighbors, M. Queuille often recalls
proudly that he brought this or
that citizen into the world-40-odd
years ago.
Evening star., 1948-10-03

M. Queuille refused to vote dicta-
torial powers to Marshal Petain. He
went back to Neuvic, quit his job
as Mayor and started to work for
Gen. Charles de Gaulle's resistance
movement.
In 1943, when the Germans were
about to arrest him, Gen. de Gaulle
sent q plane for him in one of the
risky, dramatic rescues that were a
speciality of the fighting French. He
became Vice Premier in Gen. de
Gaulle's provisional government at
Algiers. Nine. Queuille took her two
grandchildren, aged 5 and 2, into
the ''underbrush' where resistance
leaders hid from the Germans.
After the liberation, M. Queuille
went right back into the political
fight as deputy. During the
chronic French political crises his
name came up often as the kind
Of quiet, efficient, not-too-colorful,
not-too-much-hated type of leader
that might finally bring a period of
calm.
Now that he has reached a peak
Evening star., 1948-10-03
{ The People Seem to Like Coz. Devey:S Human Touch
g With His Audience

policy and curbing imitation at
home, he was most specific. His in
fiation speech on the West Coast
backed up the stand taken by Re-
publican leaders of the Eightieth
Congress for the orthodox remedies
of more production, reduction OF the
public debt and elimination of non
essential Federal spending. His
foreign policy speech at Salt Lake
City was clear and comprehensive.
Later, when he campaigns in the
industrial areas and in the big cities
of the East, his supporters and
critics alike will wait to see how he
deals with the controversial issues
of labor legislation, the housing
shortage and proposed new social
welfare programs. To these sub
jects he made only passing refer
ence In the West.
But the general tenor Of his cam
paign during the remaining month
before election day Is almost Ger
tain to be shaped around day-to-
day developments in the interna-
tional situation,
Evening star., 1948-10-03
QueuiIIe Is q Doctor
Who Traded Career
For Politics
By Cah Hortmon

PARIS.-Henri Queuille, the new
Premier of France, comes about as
close to being Mr.. Average French
man as any one could in a country
of roaring individualists.
Even his name, which foreigners
pronounce with variety of squeaks
and garbles, comes naturally to the
millions Of his fellow citizens who
thought they never had seen 1t be-
fore. M. Queuille holds a record
In % years he has been a minister
in no less than % cabinets.
Although they may not have re-
membered 1t, they had seen his
name scores of times at the end OF
news stories, usually in some such
form as m. Queuille, the Minister
of Agriculture, also addressed the
meeting"
Practiced Medicine
Incidentally, the name is pro-
nounced much like the English word
coy" You'll come nearer the
French sound, which has no exact
equivalent in English, If you keep
your teeth clehched while you say it
The son Of small-town druggist,
the average Frenchman's idea of
the average Frenchman, M. Queuille
was born, practiced medicine and
elected Mayor of Neuvic-d 'Ussel,
South Central France.
M. Queuille got a taste of Paris
life studying medicine at the univer-
sity. When he returned to Neuvic
and began to court young Mar
guerite Ratadour, he promised her
to stay out Of politics. In less than
five years, however, he became
Mayor, deputy and general coun-
sellor-a job something like that of
a State legislator in the United
States.
This is common combination of
jobs for French statesmen. The
fact that he has remained Mayor of
Neuvic continuously for some IS
years, except during the Vichy
regime, also follows the pattern of
French political life.
M. Queuille has belonged all his
life to the Radical-Socialist Party,
which means he. is a conservative
and against socialism. Neverthe-
less, he played a big part in unity
ing the French railroads and bring
ing them under government owner
ship in 1887. His friends like to
recall that the railroads were the
Evening star., 1948-10-03

by transferring United States dol
lars from the United States to
China.
Such a business could transfer its
dollars to Shanghai two ways:
/. Through the government at an
official rate Of exchange: imitation
made official rates a fraction of real
values.
2. The money could be transferred
into China through the black
market; that meant getting full
value.
There have been times when the
official rate was one-tenth the true
value of the United States dollar
II business needed 5000 UNITED
States for operating expenses. it
would have had to transfer $50 ,00O
to get 5000 in China. No business
can stand such a loss.
The city contains many operators
who lived by changing the money
Of foreign countries into Chinese
money, changing 1t back, convert
ing. reconverting Indefinitely. Some
of them got so big they actually for
brief periods got control of values
Prices reacted violently to their
manipulations and suffering was
widespread.
Banks Suffer
But to lump every businessman
who ever made a money transfer
into this category is to tab prac-
tically the whole business structure
Of the city as outlaw.
Nevertheless it has been done, and
dread has settled down over the
business marts, bad, good and in
different. Business, already stag
nant, has practically come to a stop.
Big banks were made to register
their foreign exchange holdings
with the government recently.
These foreign exchange holdings
now cannot be released without
government sanction, throwing
them into red tape and endless de-
lay. Fear spread that this move
will immobilize these banks as
means of financing trade from
abroad.
Business and financial men say
the economic police, who probably
know as little about the complex
and sensitive financial structure Of
a world port as ricksha coolie,
have their hands around the throat
of a goose that has laid most of
China's golden eggs.
distributed BY the Associated Press.)
Evening star., 1948-10-03

lorna, washington ana oregon.
They have total of 80 votes in the
electoral college, which, under the
Constitution, still chooses a Presi-
dent.
In the six so-called Mountain
States, the Dewey chances appear
good in Montana. Wyoming, Idaho
and Colorado. They have together
18 electoral votes. He has fighting
chance in Utah and Nevada-indeed,
the Republican command in the
West is claiming those States, too,
which have a combined 7 electoral
votes.
Factors Helping Dewey
Moving farther East, North and
South Dakota, Iowa and Wisconsin
all seem safely hooked to the Re-
publican wagon. They have a total
of 80 electoral votes. Minnesota
with II votes still hangs in the bal.
ance, although it is possible it will
wind up in the Dewey camp.
AS it stands, the count shows
Dewey practically certain of SO Of
these electoral votes, with an excel.
lent chance of 18 more, and more
than fighting chance for the re-
naming 18.
Dewey is aided in his quest in the
West by number of factors.
First, there is feeling-particu.
larly among the independent vot-
ers-that the time is ripe for a
change in party control of the Fed
eral Government. Prices and taxes
are high. People are concerned
deeply because the administration
has not been able to bring peace in
Europe-with the necessary peace
treaties-and because of the threat
OF war.
Second, the Democratic Party
which followed the late President
Franklin D. Roosevelt is rent and
torn in a number of these States
by the presidential candidacy of
Henry A. Wallace. This is true
particularly in California, Oregon,
Washington, Minnesota and Mon
tana.
Dewey's Stature Grows
Third, the Republican cause is
strengthened greatly in these West
ern States by having Gov. Earl
Warren of California as the COP
vice presidential nominee. Gov.
Warren is liked and respected in all
this wide area. He is a tower of
strength to Gov Dewey in Cali
fornia, Oregon and Washington
and his influence spills over into all
the mountain States.
Fourth, these States are great
farming areas, and the farmers con-
tinue to remain the backbone of
the Republican Party-especially
when times are good for them, as
they are today.
In his swing through this Western
country, Gov. Dewey has increased
in stature. He has argued his case
for a unified Nation, not only in
American foreign policy, but for the
solution of domestic issues. He has
offset in large part the attacks made
upon the Republicans, charged by
the Democratic high command with
scuttling projects for development
of the Western States-Water power
Evening star., 1948-10-03
Serious and Stiff in 1914
By J. A. OLeoy
Stor Stoff Correspondenf

ABOARD THE DEWEY SPE-
CIAL-The Berlin crisis may
prompt Gov. Thomas E. Dewey 10
alter, for the time being at least,
the lighter human touch he set out
to give his 194S campaign for the
presidency.
AS he started West two weeks
ago correspondents who followed
him four years ago quickly detected
a somewhat different Dewey on the
rear platform.
In appearance he has not changed
much-he is still only 46 years old.
He Is as trim and neatly dressed
as ever, and still speaks with the
articulous care of trained elocu-
zionist.
But at the beginning of this 5000
mile swing to the Coast there was
one marked difference from 1914.
Tom Dewey was letting down his
dignity. He was being more human,
indulging more in the little pleas
antries that induce crowd to warm
up to a candidate for Office.
School Kids Applaud
If some ardent admirer in the
crowd would shout personal greet
ing to him, the 1948 Dewey would
pause in what he was saying and
shout back CHEEKY, Hi, there" "
In many places on this Western
trip the school children were let
out to see him. and invariably he
would direct part Of his talk to
them. He always got hand from
the kids by saying he was glad
he had been the cause Of getting
them an extra recess.
At one stop on the Pacific Coast
a youngster yelled out to tell him
school would not take in until 20
minutes after his train pulled out.
"All right" said Gov. Dewey with
chuckle, Il won't tell any one
what time we left"
Adults have interrupted him only
a few times on the whole Western
trip, but each time the new, more
relaxed Dewey, had a ready come
back.
In rural spots he would steer
away from the heavy topics of the
day, and demonstrate to the farmers
he could talk their language. He
would tell them about his own dairy
farm at Pawling, N. Y, and how
he had to come all the way to
Montana to get the lowdown on
how to install pen stabling."
All in all, the 1948 Dewey was less
austere, less precise than he was in
1914. Men who have known Gov.
Dewey for long time believe he
was just as human under the sur
face then as he has been outwardly
this year.
They are convinced his serious
manner in 1914 was due to the fact
that the Nation was still in the
midst of war and American boys
were still dying on distant battle
fields 1t was no time for political
campaigning in the usual manner,
and Gov. Dewey was conscious of
that
Berlin Issue Noted
Therein lies the point of this
story. Since Gov. Dewey left New
York on September 10, the tension
between Russia and the western
powers has mounted. The crisis
over free access to Berlin has been
put up to the U. N. Security Council
and unless the tension is relieved
Gov. Dewey will find himself finish
ing out this campaign in the same
serious atmosphere that hovered
over his first bid for the presidency
Gov. Dewey was quick to sense
the threat to peace in Russia's at
titude on the Berlin issue, and each
day for the past week he has de-
voted more and more of his speak
ling time to the international situa-
Evening star., 1948-10-03
4, the Republican Nominee Now Exchanges Pleasa,
and Gets Hand From the School Children


storming style of campaigning.
The New York Governor has
shown both craftsmanship and po-
litical acumen by moving swiftly to
serve notice on Stain that the
American people will not let a po-
litical campaign shatter existing
bipartisan unity on basic foreign
policy.
But, even If unsettled condition
in Europe make 1t necessary for him
to go back to the serious, dignified
campaign technique again, Gov.
Dewey will not suffer from the big
disadvantages that handicapped
him in 1914.
Then the Nation was at war and
he was challenging the leadership
of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the only
President who ever won more than
two terms in the White House. The
unwillingness of many people to
change leaders just as the war was
approaching its climax was an OBJ
stacle too great for the challenger
to overcome.
!, Today peace appears to rest on
shaky grounds, but this change in
the latter days Of his trip was H.
lustrated when his train stopped at
Pocatello. Idaho, and a delegation
Of Indians presented him with an
Indian headdress. or war bonnet.
Showered With Gifts
While battery of photographers
waited expectantly, the crowd urged
MIN to put 1t on"
Gov. Dewey thanked the donors
for the colorful trophy, but to the
plea from the crowd to put it on,
he replied, 1T wouldn't look right,
would it?"
All along the way both the Gov
ernor and Mrs. Dewey have been
showered with a wide variety of
gifts-grapes in California, salmon
along the Columbia River and po-
tatoes in Idaho.
Gov. Dewey is able to assure the
voters that, under his leadership, a
Republican administration would
be on record for adherence to ex-
isting foreign policy. In fact, he is
promising a f1rmer hand in the
carrying out of that policy.
Gov. Dewey is free to campaign
vigorously this year, because Presi-
dent Truman is out on the road too,
travelling at just as lively a pace.
Four years ago, President Roosevelt
conducted limited campaign, and
when he spoke, he was the COM
mander -in-chief, reporting on the
progress of the war, as well as the
head of the Democratic Party.
Closed Ranks
This year. President Truman has
been forced to fight with his back
to the wall by a combination of cir
cumstances, all of which have con-
tributed to widespread belief that
Gov. Dewey Is the leading contender
as of today.
These circumstances include the
split in the solid Democratic South,
the Wallace Third Party vote in the
big Northern cities, and the fact
that some factions in the Demo-
cratic Party wanted to sidetrack Mr..
Truman for Gen. Dwight D. Eisen-
hover, or Supreme Court Justice
Douglas at the Democratic conven-
ton.
The Republicans also had their
pre- convention battles. but they
seem to have closed ranks effectively
since the Dewey-Wa ticket was
nominated and now the Governors
of New York and California are
basing their whole campaign on a
plea that they are in better posi-
ton to unite the country after the
election, no matter what trials the
future may bring.
The street crowds in cities Gov.
Dewey visited on this Western trip
have been respectful, but not noisy
Evening star., 1948-10-03


where he has spoken, however, he
was greeted with generous outbursts
of applause. Presumably, the at
tendance at these rallies has been
predominantly Republican.
One of the unique features of this
campaign, however, is that both
Dewey and Warren are making an
adroit bid for the mass of independ-
ent voters-those who do not vote
Republican or Democratic because
their fathers and grandfathers did
so. The Republican candidates are
welcoming all good Americans to
join them, regardless of party lines.
Covers More Ground
Gov. Dewey is not the type of
political campaigner who stirs the
crowds to wild enthusiasm. Wen
dell Willkie drew larger street
crowds wherever he appeared. He
was a more dynamic personality.
but many of those who lined the
streets to watch him ride by were
loyal followers of Franklin D. Roose-
welt, and frequently they waved
New Deal placards in his face.
In any event, politicians have
long since grown wary of judging
elections by crowd reaction. This Is
even more true since the advent of
radio. Virtually all OF Gov. Deweys
western speeches have gone out over
State net works, and the practical
politicians aboard his train believe
that thousands of persons nowadays
prefer to take their politics from an
easy chair in their living rooms.
There is another decided contrast
between the Dewey campaigns of
1914 and today. Four years ago, the
New Yorker spent several hours in
every city he visited conferring sep
arately with local delegations from
all the principal walks of life-labor,
business and the professions.
This year he is covering more
towns and moving faster, leaving no
time for these round-table huddles
with local delegations. Some po-
iitical observers surmise that in 1914
Gov. Dewey realized his chances of
winning then were remote, and that
he was building support for this
second try.
Time-Savins System
In this campaign careful system
has been worked out to enable him
to meet the local political leaders
with minimum loss of time. They
gather at the station as his train
pulls in. They file into his private
car at the end of the train and con-
fer with him briefly before he de-
parts for the hall in which he is to
speak.
Another innovation has been added
to the campaign technique this year,
to save reporters and photographers
from being left behind at the end
Of the ten minute rear-platform
talks. When the train stops the
newsmen run back to the Dewey
car. Paul E. Lockwood, Gov Deweys
secretary, hit upon the idea of get
ting himself a traffic policemans
whistle this year. A minute or two
before the train is due to start he
blows the whistle, and the scribes
hustle aboard.
Gov. Dewey spent most of his
time in the West, as presidential
candidates usually do, promising the
people that his administration
would understand and strive to meet
the needs of that vast region for
more water power, reclamation and
other facilities for developing its
vast natural resources.
He also devoted hundreds of
words to a subject about which
there can be no debate, namely, the
beauties of, the mountains and val
leys and the rivers of that vast re-
gion.
On the vital questions Of foreign
Evening star., 1948-10-03
THE SUNDAY STAR, Washington, D. c.
SUNDAY, OCTOBER J, 1915
Rich Electoral Vote Vein
Tapped onDewey's Tour
Political Analyst Says G. o. P. Nominee Has
Just About Cinched 50 Western Ballots
and Could Clean Up 36 Others
BY Gould Lincoln
Stor StoH Correspondent

college
make him President United
Thomas striking
and in the Northwest West.
All tests the Republican candi
late much
Evening star., 1948-10-03
Truman's Rough Oratory
Brings a Mixed Reaction
Whistle Stop Crowds Cheer His rnvectives,
But Audiences Elsewhere Hide Their
Emotions With Poker Faces
By Joseph A. Fox
Stor Stoff Correspondent

President probably setting
language presidential while his
People the Special Interests"
The reactionay business companion characezaons
6day tour the Pacific which ended Washington
Evening star., 1948-10-09
EvongeIistic Services
At Chevy Chase Baptist

DR.. George Arthur Clarke, pastor
Of the Calvary Baptist Church, Tow
son, Nd, will be guest minister at
evangelistic service at 8 pm. at the
Chevy Chase Baptist Church to-
morrow.
Services will be held every evening
with the following visiting ministers
participating: Monday, the Rev.
John D. Clark, Kensington, Md;
Tuesday, the Rev. r. Edward Dow
dy, First Baptist Church, Washing
ton, D. c.; Wednesday, DR.. s.
Arthur Devan, Washington, D. c.;
Thursday, the Rev. Fred H. Fab
ringer. Bethesda, Md, and Friday,
w. Berkeley Ormond, youth director
Evening star., 1948-10-09
Rev. A. J. Du Bois Plans
Series of Sermons

The Rector of Ascension and st.
Agnes Parish, the Rev. Albert j. Du
Bois, will begin series of lectures
on Sunday at 8 pm. on "The Faith
and Practice of the Church" The
talks will be given in the parish hall
and are open to the public.
The first talk will be under the
subtitle Of 'The Christian religion
and the Christian Church."
Extensive plans are being made
for a celebration on October 81, un-
der the leadership of Bishop Angus
Evening star., 1948-10-09
Amsterdam Happenings
Subject Of Dr.. Reissio

What Really Happened at AM
sterdam" will be the subject of DR..
Frederick E. Reissig at 8 pm. tomor-
row in the National PRESBYTERIAN
Church. He proposes to tell not
only what happened at the Amster-
dam Assembly Of the World Council
OF Churches, but also to state the
probable significance Of the various
actions taken.
DR.. Reissig, executive secretary of
the Washington Federation of
Churches, has just recently returned
from eight months duty as the pub
Evening star., 1948-10-09

be the supply minister Sunday at
Atonement Lutheran Church and
will preach at 8 and II am. The
Rev. Paul L. Reaser, pastor, will be
Evening star., 1948-10-09

lie relations ofncer Of the World
Council of Churches, with Offices in
Geneva.
Evening star., 1948-10-09

in Philadelphia attending the con-
vention Of the United Lutheran
Church in America.
The Women's Missionary Society
Evening star., 1948-10-09

Dun, to mark the freeing Of the par !
ish from debt and to duly institute
the rector.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-02-05

Well done is better than we'll said.
Benjamin Franklin
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-02-05
College Plays Two Games Here;
High School Cagers At Van Vert

Bluffton college cagers will play
two tits at home during the next
week, appearing on Saturday and
Tuesday nights, while the high school
schedule the Pirates to Van Vert for
their only contest of the week.
The complete schedule:
Friday
High School at Van Vert
Saturday
WiIberforce State VS. College, here
Tuesday
Defiance VS. College, here
Although Bluffton Highs lone tilt
will be out of town, it viii be the
center of interest Friday night, for
Bluffton hopes of winning or tying
for the Western Buckeye league
crown mean the Pirates must come
up with victories in their last two
tits.
In the meantime, however, the pur-
suit of the title is growing more diff
ficult, for barring upsets St. Marys
should cop the championship with an
unblemished record.
After st. Marys had topped the
Pirates by one point, there had been
hopes Bellefontaine might throw the