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Six The Bee: Danville, Saturday, February 27, 1943 DE GAULLE, GIRAUD NEAR FULL ACCORD Predict Scope Of Agreement Likely To Exceed Hopes By WES GALLAGHER ALGIERS, Feb. political sources predicted today that the stagnated negotiations between Gen. Charles De Gaulle, head of the French National Committee in London, and Gen. Henri Honore Giraud, high commissioner French Africa, soon would be broken with the likelihood of complete amalgamation of the two forces. That's far beyond the original expectations.

These sources also went so far as to predict that Generals Giraud and De Gaulle may become military chiefs of the combined French forces, while a third political figure, not yet on the scene, will take over the political duties. It is understood that the original De Gaulle-Giraud plan for military and economic "liaison" is not satisfactory to the American and British governments, who believe the French must present a united front for the day when the Allies Invade France. Gen. Georges Catroux, liaison officer between De Gaulle and Giraud, now is cleaning up his affairs in Syria and is due shortly to return to Algeria. He is pointed to as the man who will speed negotiations toward a more complete understanding.

Political sources said there are two plans of action being considered. First, there is the proposal that the Fighting French and North African French be merged into one unit with Gen. Giraud becoming commander-in-chief of all military forces in the two French movements. Gen. De Gaulle would become political leader the movements, which have about the same status as the present North African government, but are not recognized as a provisional government in the sense of representing France herself.

This plan was discussed at the Casablanca conference, where it was suggested that Giraud would bt the "Marshal Foch and De Gaulle the Georges Clemenceau of this war." One of the necessary preliminaries would be a house-cleaning of many more objectionable" Vichy elements in North Africa. This house-cleaning has not gone as fast nor as high as De Gaullist and most Allied authorities would like, but with the return of Gen. Cat- roux it is expected to be speeded up greatly. Under the new North African set up, which followed the Casablanca meeting, it would be an easy task to create places for both De Gaulle and Giraud. Gen.

Giraud is now commander- in-chief of military and civilian affairs and by delegating the civilian part of his duties to Gen. De Gaul- le, both would have an equal status and a definite field in which to operate. The second plan under consideration involves bringing a political figure with a large following on the scene and uniting the two French moveniants together under him with Generals Giraud and De Gaulle as military chiefs, possibly wilh De Gaulle also serving in a political capacity. This figure's identity remains a secret for the time being. This plan is being considered by those who fear the temperaments of De Gaulle and Giraud prevent them from working together.

Allied political observers feel it is necessary to unite the two French movements to avoid civil strife in France, as territory is freed, between followers of Giraud and De Gaulle. The unification also would have the advantage of presenting one front to the Nazi- burdened French in propaganda preparing the way for an invasion. Gen. De Gaulle has been one of the chief stumbling blocks toward amalgamation, but it is pointed out that the fighting French, who are comparatively few in number, would be dwarfed by the huge French military organization being formed in Africa when the time comes for an invasion and to survive as a potent factor De Gaulle would be forced to join. At Hitler's Meeting With Ciano Count Ciano, (left) son-in-law of Mussolini, was a visitor at the headquarters of Adolf Hitler when this picture was made last December 18, according- to the German caption.

Hitler appears to be enframed in conversation with Marshal Goering (right). Shortly after this meeting iMussolini dropped Ciano as Italy's foreign minister. NUMBER 2 PROFESSIONAL ENTRIES AT ARTS SHOW (Continued From Page One) Danville artist, Miss Harriet Fitzgerald is now giving a solo exhibition in Richmond. Public choices in the exhibit are as follows: James Tate, pencil, Jane Schoolfield and Eugenia Payne, pastel; Ray Pentacost, pen and ink; Gary Johnson, model stagecoach; Stuart Wheatley, card table; Mrs. T.

J. White, oil: Mrs. G. A. Davis, clay; Molly Coates, water color print; Bruce Griffith, charcoal; Bus Walton, cartoon; Mrs.

T. F. Daniels, crochet mat; Mary Elizabeth Dodson, soap figures; Dandridge Ragland, decorative goards; Jimmy Shoffner, and Anne Luther, watercolors; Burton White, woodcarving. Mrs. G.

G. Temple, Mrs. G. Cox, and Mrs. Helen Hayes, who served as critics for the arts exhibit, voted as follows: J.

P. Shoffner pencil; Anne Martin, oil; Mary Elizabeth Dodson, soap figures; Bus Walton, pen and ink; Eugenia Payne, pastel; J. P. Shoffner, water color; Mrs. George Archer, clay; Burton White, woodcarving; Bruce Griffith, charcoal; Molly Coates, water color print; Gary Johnson, model stagecoach; Fred Cousins, cartoon; and Ray Pentacost, illumination.

NUMBER 1 HITLER USES ALL TANKS HE CAN MUSTER (Continued From Page One) overnight, the communique said. Eighty miles east of Kramatorsk, in the Voroshilovgrad region, more German tanks were thrown against the Russian tide, but six of these were destroyed and the Soviet tankmen routed a battalion of motorized infantry and advanced, it was announced. J. C. Simpson, Called To Duty In Army Air Corps John Childs Simpson, son of Mr.

and Mrs. J. C. Simpson of Danville, was one of the eight Randolph-Macon College students called into active duty as a result of an Army order for all Air Corp reservists to begin full time service. He started his active duty with the Air Corps on Friday.

While at Randolph-Macon College, Simpson was outstanding in all scholastic activities. He was elected to Omicron Delta Kappa thii past fall and has been on the dean's list throughout his three years there. He was the vice-president of the Y. M. C.

member of the cheerleading squad, and a library assistant. His social fraternity was Phi Delta Theta. He is the nephew of McNider Simpson, dean of Ihe Randolph-Macon College. REDS DRIVING AHEAD MOSCOW, Feb. Red Army, driving westward doggedly, continued its spectacular winter offensive in the face of mounting German counterattacks today along the entire front from north of Kursk to the Black Sea coast.

The offensive is ploughing ahead through snowdrifts and blizzards in the northern sectors and deep, sticky mud in the south where the snows are thawing. Ski troops, tanks and heavily dressed artillery crews operating in the north are paced by lightly equipped scouts, tanks, fast-moving cavalry and motorized infantry in the south. The bloodiest battles are raging southwest of Kramatorsk where the Red Army is facing large tank forces and numerous fresh German reserves. Positions here are repeatedly changing hands. A Red Star dispatch from this sector reported the capture by the Red Army of part of a large settlement through which a vital road runs.

The enemy launched fresh reserves into violent counterattacks from several directions, the dispatch said, but despite great German losses was unable to retake the settlement in heavy day and night battles. The enemy tank groups which are assisting in the counterattacks in the western Donets Basin are steadily diminishing, Red Star said. TOO LATE FOIl CLASSIFICATION IVantrrt: Experienced Salary 19.00 per week. Apply Peoples Credit Clothing Store, JI5 No. Union Bt.

27br2 Bateman Infant Laid To Rest Funeral services for Harold Edison Bateman, four-montlis old son of Mr. and Mrs. If. E. Bateman, were conducted from the residence, 118 Ridge street, yesterday afternoon at 4 o'clock.

The Rev. M. T. Sorrell and the Rev. G.

A. Dickerson were in charge of the rites. Interment was in Highland Burial Park. Flower bearers were Peggy Bateman, Billy Bateman, Betty May Milam. Pauline Gentry, Beuiah Ja- ncll, Ophelia Lewis Margaret Gentry, Ruby Barber and Viola Cook.

(Furnished by Courtesy Abbott, Proctor and Paine) American Rolling Mills 13 American Tel Tel 144 American Smelting Ref 41 American Tobacco 53 1 'e, Anaconda Copper 28V-'i Atchison Topeka Santa Fe Atlantic Coast Line 31 3 ,4 Atlantic Refining 2l I Bethlehem Steel Chrysler Corp 74'ra Coca Cola lOOVn Consolidated Edison Consolidated Oil 9 Curtiss Wright Douglas Aircraft 64 Du Pont De Nemours 145 General Electric General Motors 48 J4 Glidden Greyhound Corp Johns Manville 78-54 Kennecott Copper 31 Kresge Kroger Grocery 25 Liggett Myers Lorillard 19V4 Loews, Inc 48 Marshall Field Montgomery Ward 36 Central Oliver Farm Equipment 379s Paramount Pictures 19Vi Pennsylvania Pepsi Cola 37 3 Philip Morris Pure Oil 14Vfc Radio Corp Republic Steel 16 3 Reynolds Tob Sears Roebuck Simmons Co 21 Socony Vacuum Southern Rwy Southern Rwy Pref 403fe Southern Pacific: 1914 Standard Oil of Texas Corp Union Carbide 83 United Aircraft Steel 53-'ji3 Warner Bros QVfc Westinghouse Elec 86V4 Woolworth Yellow Truck 16V-; LOCAL STOCKS Bid Asked Mills, Com 12Vi Mills, Pfd 98 101 First Baptist To Hold Annual Training Week The Rev. E. J. Wright, of Richmond, State Training secretary, will inaugurate the Annual Week of Training, which will begin at the First Baptist Church tomorrow evening and which will meet each night, Monday through Friday, at 7.30 o'clock with two classes every night. Books for the classes will be furnished if the enrollee.

promises to complete the course and return the book. Attendance at seven of the ten periods is required. The books and teachers are as follows: For Adults The Baptist Adult Union E. J. Wright.

Alcohol, The G. M. Turner. (This book also gives credit to Young People and Intermediates) Living A. G.

Carter. For oung People B.Y.P.U. Truett Cox. Training In Church L. D.

Johnson. For Intermediates Baptist Intermediate Union G. M. Turner. Training In Bible C.

B. Clements. Witnessing For A. G. Carter.

For Juniors Baptist Junior Union Mrs. Henry Hall. The Junior And His Mrs. Irene Lentz. For Leaders And Workers Christian Virtley Stephenson.

Methodists Begin Dedication Week Here Tomorrow NUMBERS ALLIES BEAT OFF GAINS CONTINUE (Continued From Page One) ments immediately south of the Mareth Line in southeastern Tunisia without serious opposition. Allied fighters and fighter- bombers made attacks on concentrations of Axis vehicles and tanks to counter thrusts by the enemy in northern Tunisia, the communique said. Allied fighters were reported to have destroyed a railway locomotive during an offensive patrol near Tozeur, in the central sector. Allied light and medium bombers continued to pound the Port of Gabes, the Mareth Line fortifications and enemy landing grounds. In a bombing action against Cagliari, Sardinia, Thursday night and yesterday morning hits were reported on clocks, railroad yards, industrial buildings and an airfield.

Docks at Bizerte also were bombed the same night. A large enemy supply ship was reported set afire in an Allied attack on an Axis convoy north of Sicily. Reports showed that three enemy aircraft were destroyed yesterday and that an additional two were shot down in Thursday's air fighting, the communique said. Five Allied planes were reported missing. The rcoccupation of Kasserine Pass was completed.

As the last Axis stragglers were cleared out of the pass after yesterday's successful attack, the Allied Army appeared to be putting pressure on Rommel's positions along a 36-mile front extending northeast and southwest of the Kasserine Gap. Rommel's men fell back toward Gafsa 55 miles south after losing the mountain gap through which they broke into the western Tunisian high plateau more than a week ago. The mid-day communique announced that German tanks and infantry were striving to break through to a large settlement southwest of Kramatorsk, but were beaten back', suffering large losses. OWN OPICS jniiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiHiimiiiimra Danville motorists are getting down to the yardstick of essential driving. The War Board met last night but no citation on the issue of pleasure driving was placed before the board which considered other routine matters.

E. S. Talbert, of this city, was yesterday elected a vice president of the Virginia Building Material Association at the end of a two- day conference on building prob- ems. S. T.

Massey of Richmond was named president of the organization. A Week of Dedication begins in the Methodist Churches here tomorrow. Pastors of the churches are calling on all members to attend services on the next two Sundays in order to make personal commitments. At the, close of the week's special services, home prayer meetings and discussions, personal voluntary offerings will be taken on Sunday, March 7, to aid in meeting war time needs of the churches. Another feature of the Week of Dedication program locally, will be special broadcasts from the local radio station every evening at 7:45 o'clock.

The following speakers will appear during the week: Of Laymen" by John C. Simpson. A Week of Dedication?" by Rev. A. E.

Acey. Dedication Of Possessions" by Rev. F. O. Briggs and E.

Suddarth. Dedication Of rlome" by Rev. L. W. Darst, Stokesland.

Dedication Of Youth" by Rev. C. O. Kidd, Chat- lam. Dedication Of Self, Substance and Service" by Dr.

J. B. Winn. Geo. Gianopoulos Dies Here Today George Gianopoulos, 68, died at his home, 213 South Ridge street, this morning at 2:30 o'clock after an illness of one day.

He had been a resident of Danville for 21 years. He is survived by one brother, Tony Gianopoulos, and one sister Mrs. Harry Sakellaris, both of Danville. Funeral arrangements were incomplete this morning. Before the war Germany was the greatest potato-raising country in the world, producing almost billion bushels annually.

The Schoolfield Community horal Club will meet at the Y. M. A. at 3:15 o'clock Sunday afternoon for rehearsal. Another virtually unheralded old spell dropped the mercury to 17 degrees last night with a keen northeast wind blowing.

Light flurries were recorded early this morning. The mercury yesterday did not rise above 49 degrees all day. NUMBER 4 COLOGNE BLASTED BY GREAT FORCE OF RAF BOMBERS (Continued From Page One) habilitation of that capital of the Rhineland. London sources said a Cologne evacuation program had reduced the population to about 500,000. A German broadcast recorded by the Associated Press said the British blow was on western Germany.

The British dropped high explosives and incendiaries and caused damage to "several hospitals" and losses to the civilian population, the broadcast said. In their steady shuttling over Axis territory British light bombers, with American and Allied fighter support struck three times at Nazi-held Dunkerque while the Fortresses were returning from Wilhelmshaven. The latest blow at Germany itself followed by less than 24 hours a shattering 20 minute raid on the Nazi industrial center of Nuernberg which cost the British 9 planes. American flyers returning from the Wilhelmshaven raid reported intense fighter and ground oppo sition and the loss of seven planes, equalling the highest toll yet exacted by the German airforce on American raiders. The pounding of Germany and occupied Eur'opc went almost without retaliation.

There was slight enemy activity on the east and southeast coast ol England and bombs were droppec on one place, but no serious dam- Train Flagman Not Seriously Injured In Fall Macy T. Owen, 51, flagman of he Southern Railway, was reported as not seriously injured at Memorial Hospital this morning vhere he was taken following a "all at the underpass near the North Carolina state line last night. Reports from the hospital stated hat the returns on the X-rays are not complete and that he is very suffering from a Broken arm and various other injuries. Investigating officers were told Owen was tossed from the in some way by a brake wheel. He is thought to have either fallen down the steep embankment or off the side of the underpass.

Nursing Group The monthly meeting of the Red Cross Nursing committee will "ie held Monday evening with Mrs. ohn Randolph, presiding. Allies Down Two Tripoli Raiders CAIRO, Feb. Allied night fighters and anti-aircraft fire accounted for at least two Axis planes which raided the port of Tripoli Thursday night and the city suffered neither damage nor casualties, an RAF communique said today. "From these and other operations," it reported, "all our aircraft returned safely." FITZPATRICK RE-ELECTED RICHMOND, Feb.

B. Fitzpatrick of Richmond was elected chairman of the annual state-wide Safety Conference at a meeting of the executive committee here yesterday at which it was voted to continue holding the He succeeds Colonel M. S. Battle of Roanoke. The dates for the conference are May 20 and May 21 and Richmond the place.

age was reported. Two German planes were reported shot flown. Between the American hammering of Wilhelmshaven and the RAF attack on western Germany last night, Allied bombers and fighters roared over northwest France am bombed an airfield on the Cher bourg peninsula. Mosquito bomb ers meanwhile attacked railway yards and a German naval storage depot near Rcnnes. Two of the fighters and three o.

the bombers were reported miss ing after the raid. Martinsville Daily News Chief Tassell Bldr. Martinsville Feb. 27, 1943. Telephone Auxiliary To Meet The Woman's Auxiliary of Christ hurch will meet Monday afternoon at three thirty o'clock in the church.

Preceding the meeting the circles will meet with their members at the church. Society To Meet Woman's Society for Chrisian Service of the First Methodist will meet Monday afternoon at "30 o'clock in 'the church. Members of Circle No. 5 and 6 vill meet in the church preceding he society meeting. To Entertain Circle Members of Circle No.

4 of the 'irst Methodist Church will meet Monday evening at eight o'clock the apartment of Mrs. Broad street. To Meet The regular semi-monthly meet- ng of the Pannill Post American is to meet Monday evening vith Commander Maurice Hanson residing. Federation Of Parent Teachers Formed An organization meeting was held Friday evening for the Parents Federation of the Martinsville ublic Schools, at which officers vere named. Delegates from the schools were E.

M. McDaniel, Mrs. F. R. Webb, Mrs.

O. H. Gregory, A. G. Edison, A.

W. Staudt. Martinsville High School J. A. Shackelford, Mrs.

R. 2. Westerfelt, Eldon'Holsinger, O. R. Easley, Mrs.

K. C. Whittle. North Martinsville, Mrs. A.

W. Patterson, Mrs. A. Mrs. H.

W. Major, Mrs. G. O. Powell, and Mrs.

T. I. Turner. Joseph Martin, Mrs. O.

B. Hensley, Mrs. H. G. Moore, Mrs.

H. N. Teague, Rev. C. L.

Harmon and Ed Draper. A letter was read from Abner Robertson accepting the Council of Parent-Teachers into the' The by-laws were read and da- vised and, on motion of C. L. Har- Noble Grand Club Mrs. Mildred Dempsey was hostess Friday evening at her home when she entertained the members of the Past Noble Grand club.

Dr. Smith To Head Chest The board of directors of the Martinsville Community Chest met Friday evening and elected Dr. Randolph Smith as president of the Community Chest for the ensuing year. Other officers elected were: Noel' Smith, 1st. vice president; Dr.

Eldon Holsinger, 2nd. vice-president; Mrs. Emery Hedgecock, secretary; Irving Ramsey, treasurer; honorary trustees, B. L. Bisher, I.

M. Groves, and S. M. Schreibfeder. B.

P. W. Club Meets Members of the Business and Professional Women's Club met in a called meeting Friday afternoon with Mrs. Fred Thompson presiding. The members went on record as opposing the holding of the state board meeting and the state convention during the war.

Red Cross Drive Beginning Monday, local citizens will be called upon to assist in the Red Cross War Drive, when Martinsville and Henry County will raise $12,300 of their share of the $125,000,000 fund being sought by the national headquarters. Mrs. A. N. Carroll is production chairman for Henry County and under direction thee chapter has been cited for its work.

Mrs. Carroll has prepared the following report for the activities since Pearl Harbor: 658 knitted garments for the armed forces; 350 knitted sweaters for the refugees: 540 articles for hospitals; 800 utility bags for the soldiers; 125,000 surgical dressings. mon, were adopted. The name of the association is to be the Martinsville Council of Parent-Teacher Association. Officers were Elected for one year as follows: President, Rev.

C. L. Harmon, vice president, O. R. Easley; s'ecretary, Mrs.

O. H. Gregory; treasurer, Mrs. Sam Patterson. The group will meet on Tuesday, March 30th, for their first regular meeting, the place to be announced later.

Entertain At Dance Fred Woodson, Dudley Walker and Kennon Whittle were joint hosts Friday evening when they entertained at a dance at tha Henry Hotel. Dancing was front eight to eleven o'clock with music by recording. Several couples from Bassett, Winston-Salem, and Roanoke attended. Personals Mrs. N.

S. Schot'tland and Finley Schottland are spending week-end in Roanoke with Mr and Mrs. W. L. Andrews.

Mrs. Frank Smith arrived today to visit relatives. Mrs: W. L. Pannill has returned from Philadelphia where she has been the guest of Major and Mrs E.

A. Sale Jimmie Andrews of Roanoke is spending the week-end in this city where he attended the dance given, Friday evening at the Henry Hotel. Mrs. John Sealey and sons of Winston-Salem were the week-end guests of Mr. and Mrs Whittle.

Misses Minnie and Jane Bassett and David Stanley were the weekend guests of Miss Mary Brown Bootli and Akers Randolph. Bill Pannill. who is a cadet at Fishburne Military Academy, the guest of relatives. Pattie Jean Eggleston, C. Emory, J.

G. Lovett, Mrs. Hodge, Walter Hazelwood. S. Long and Bill Kirk were admitted as patients at the Shackelford Hospital today.

Funeral Services For H. L. Byrd Final rites for Henry Lewis Byrd, prominent citizen, who died suddenly at midnight Thursday, were held this afternoon at the Broad Street Christian Church at three o'clock. Rev. Nelson M.

Fox, pastor of the church, assisted by Rev. C. W. Reed of the Anderson Memorial Presbyterian Church, conducted (he rites. Interment followed in Oakwood cemetery.

The pallbearers were: M. I. Fogarty, R. L. Whitencr, Frank Richardson.

Victor Lester. I. M. Groves, and O. F.

Thomasson. The floral tributes were carried by friends of the deceased. Malaria Is Chief Foe To Rubber Program In South America; Must Banish Malady To Win Success By HENRY W. BAGLEY BELEM, Brazil. Feb.

American and Brazilian doctors are trying to clean out tropical disease from the population centers of the Amazon valley in probably the greatest single health program ever attempted anywhere. On their succes hangs much of he fight to step up Amazon rub- Der production for America's war needs. The long-range aim is to open Amazon region to colonization make it a fit place for the average man, not conditoned against tropical illness, to live and work. Scientists of both countries admit that stamping out malaria, skin diseases, elephantiasis, amoe- dysentery and other hot-coun- diseases in a part of Brazil nearly half as large as the continental United States is a job that will require many years and may not be completed for centuries. In the immediate future, however, they hope to drive tropical disease away from the towns and villages and to build up resistance, in the workers in the swampy jungles.

What does the record show In Brazil to back up that hope? It shows that the Rockefeller Foundation and the Brazilian health authorities conquered the fatal Gambia mosquito, which came from Africa by plane or ship to wipe out whole towns and cities in Brazil's northeastern states of Rio Grande Do Norte, Ceara, Paraiba, Pernambuco and Bahia. That five- year fight was ended officially about the middle of 1942 after months had passed without the appearance of a single mosquito. It shows that yellow fever, which once took a heavy toll, was driven from Brazil's principal cities and only occasionally does it crop up in the back-country. It shows that malaria, which once flourished far to the south, was ousted from the big cities and towns below Brazil's bulge and that the dread disease is under control in the cities of the tropical zone. When the United States, with most of its crude rubber supply from the Dutch East Indies and Malaya lost by Japanese conquest, turned to Brazil as its best potential source, it was seen immediately that 'maximum production could be obtained only by improving health conditons.

Throughout the history of Amazon rubber, workers in all branches have been laid low for days and weeks at a time by recurring attacks of malaria, the mosquito-horne scourge of the region. Often the disease is fatal. A clean-up and a distribution of cures and preventatives was in order. The idea fitted in well with the wishes of Brazil's president, Getulio Vargas, who three years ago had announced such a program but had lacked the resources and personnel to it out. Thus was born the Service Especial de Saude Publica (Special Public Health Service), a Brazilian organization with part of its capital supplied by the office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs.

Brazilian head of the service is Dr. Servulo Lima, formerly wilh the Rockefeller Foundation and later chief of the National Yellow Fever Service. Superintendent of operations is Dr. George M. Saunders, also formerly with the Rocke- feller Foundatoin and later with: Pan American Airways.

Both work under Brazil's minister of education and public health, Dr. Gustavo Capanema. Stationed at Belem, as director of the Amazon project, is Dr. Kenneth Chamberlain Waddell, who worked for years at the Henry Ford plantation on the Tapajoz river. Three major projects are under way in the Amazon: 1.

Construction of dikes and automatic tidegates at Belem, the Amazon export port, to keep back river tidewaters, which form breeding places for mosquitoes. One tidegate already has been built and others are planned. Ground has been cleared for dikes. 2. Extermination of malaria around centers of population like Santarem, Oyapok, Porto Velho and other big towns where no rryj- jor anti-malarial campaign ever has been waged.

3. Control of malaria elsewhere where people are living and working, by spraying swamps and pools, and by distributing quinine or Ale- brine as preventative or cure. Hospitals are to be placed at critical points as treatment and educational centers, where the workers will be taught how to care for themselves, and floating dis- go into the rubber country, with physicians or at least a nurse trained in malaria care aboard. Some 35 Brazilian doctors, plus many male nurses, already are working for the special public health service in the Amazon, besides several hundred workers trained in the fight against build drains and spray mosquitoes. Dr.

Ottis Rembert Causey of Baltimore, consultant in malaria and director of the service's laboratory here, says every worker must be a campaigner in the fight against the disease. "They must be taught all we know about avoiding the disease, and what to do if they catch it," he told me. "If a man does not get malaria, then lie is not potential source' of infection for others, for the mosquito carries the germ from one person to another. If he cures his malaria quickly, he reduces the chance of it being spread from him. He must avoid creating breeding grounds for the mosquitoes.

When they are inevitable, he must seek to kill ofl the insects. "Colonization and civilization often bring reduction of malaria indirectly, unintentionally. In the eastern United States, for example, the malaria rate has dropped very low. Part of the reason was the official campaign, but part was that residents, in improving their private draining, filling and so reduced breeding places." "Why is it." I asked, "that you believe the clean-up of malaria in the Amazon will take many, many years, when the Gambia mosquito was wiped out in the northeast in three?" "In the northeast." he replied, "considtions are different. The country is dry, with prolonged droughts.

The Amazon valley is covered with rivers. Most mosquitoes don't thrive in dry country but flourish in dampness. Tha Amazon zone is many times bigger than the northeast, much of it is unexplored and all of it is wet." Dr. Causey belongs to the "ounce-of-prevention-is-worth -a pound-of-cure" school when it conies to malaria and in stressing this to the rubber workers he tells this one on himself: "When 1 loft Baltimore for Ceara, a doctor said to me: 'I suppose you know you're going to get malaria. 1 I said I didn't think so.

because I was going to take precautions. For three years I slept under a net whenever I was in the open, wore boots in the evening, used a repellent on my skin, always lived in a screened house and cleaned up breeding grounds around it. And I didn't get malaria. "But I began to might have some unusual resistance, so up in Porto Velho not so Ions ago I relaxed my I came down with malaria." Doctors like Lima, Saundcrs and Causey know theirs is a big job. a vital job if the United Nations ara to get the rubber so sorely needed to win the war, and they're tackling it with every weapon of modern science, risking their own health and even their lives to help get that rubber out of the Amazon.

Gandhi Apathetic, Not So Cheerful BOMBAY, Feb. government communique said today there was very little change in tha condition of Mohandas K. Gandhi, now in the 18th day of a 21-day fast undertaken in an effort to obtain his unconditional release from internment at Poona. "He is somewhat apathetic and not quite so cheerful," the bulletin said. BUTTER AND EGGS CHICAGO, Feb.

receipts firm; prices as quoted by the Chicago price current are unchanged. Eggs, receipts firm; fresh graded, extra firsts, cars firsts cars other prices unchanged..