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PAGE I THE RtttmANfiEft MEWS The Rhinelander Daily News Published Every Evening Except Sunday by THE RffiNSLANDER PUBLISHES COMPANY Rhlnelandet, WlsCWiflfl CLIFFORD G. FERRIS, Editdf 6ftd Manager intefed 69 Second-Class Matter In the Post Office at Rhinelandet, Wis. I MEMBER OP THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the Use for fepublication of ail news dispatches credited to it ot not otherwise credited In this paper and also the local news published herein. MEMBER OP THE WISCONSIN DAILY NEWSPAPER LEAGUE TUESDAY. MAY 29, 1945 Ah0nfl definite time.

But reports from the I ne Russian zone of occupation give The second visitation on Tokyo in of effort to win the good 48 hours by some 500 B-29 left over wi11 native population. The things do not run together. 4.000 tons of bombs as calling cards, There wjn be n() emplpymcnt of This was eight, tons of bombs to 'German labor in this country to re- National Affairs By SET ER EDSON NEA Service Staff SAN FRANCISCO, May say that California Democratic leaders are delighted with the way things are working out in Washington puts it mildly. President Truman's scheduled visit to San Francisco to close the United Nations Conference gives the whole West a chance for better acquaintance. Truman made a vice presidential campaign speech here last year, but it attracted little attention and so did he.

But as President, with both the war and the peace efforts centered on the Pacific and with three good westerners just named to the cabinet, the West is getting a political lift such as it in to have President Truman put in a few political appearances on the side. Older heads in the Democratic the plane. The 500 B-29s carried a war damage, or to do any oth- organization are bomb load equal to that can-led by er WO rk. There i no war damage Itoo much of a purely political party two flights, of 1,000 planes each, of 0 re pnir and for other work there celebration. They realize that Truthe largest bombers used in blasting ni be, it is probable, more Amer- man is sti11 in his political honey- leans hands than can be kept busy.

moon an dt much fWrtlsnn whoo Germany. The bomb load the B-29 is capable An cffort The bomb load Uio U-29 is capaoic it jn be our desire to get our i ,.11 of carrying has direct relation to'prisoners back to Germany ns! man the party Stalwarts on his the length of the necessary flight. quickly a they can be absorbed western trip, but dV it'in such a Those now carrying destruction toj anc taken cure of there. way that no appearance will be Those now carrying destruction toj allc taken of there. the Japanese cities are based on i But we should not assume that no appearance will be an I given that the President is playing fields in the Marianas, more than (attitude of superior virtue on this politics.

There will be plenty of 1,500 miles away. To reach Tokyo I account. Our views, and purposes, time for that later on, when the a round trip flight of over 3.000 miles is necessary. would be different if in the course of the war our cities and country- Th'c purpose of the landing on ide had been torn to pieces to the Okinawa and the willingness to pay extent of the nations over- the heavy price that will have to be jrun by the Nazis suffered. paid for its capture is to obtain bases for the B-29s, and the lesser bombers that can be vised in devastating Japan after Okinawa is secured, and in attack on other military objectives.

Okinawa airfields will be about 400 miles from the nearest point on the home islands of Japan. B-29s flying from them will be able to increase their bomb loads in relation to the decrease in gasoline loads required to take them from base to target and back. The round trip mileage they will have to make will be half, or less, of what has to be made in round trips from the present bases. PCSSUfCS Further curtailment of allowance of sugar for industrial purposes is forecast. Curtailment for domestic use has been carried about as far as is practical.

Present allowances for this purpose are about down to rock bottom. The industrial users honeymoon is over. But there seems to be no inclination to feel that the'lutiire of the Democratic Party died with ROose- velt. In fact, just the opposite. While Roosevelt kept a number of diverse West Coast elements inside the Democratic Party, there was always a lot of factional jealousy.

And it was not at all uncommon to have various individuals going around the state party leaders to take issues direct to the White House. All this era of short circuiting political machines by direct pipelines to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, now seems to be ended. The amateurs, the crackpots, the are not faring any too well. But they are likely to have to carry the burden of any further curtailments. Control officials will be re- iluctant to stir up household con- in the position of having to work through the party machine or pass out of existence.

Henry Wallace and the extreme left-wingers are considered as good as dead by the regular Democrats. If this is true, only place the New Dealers can go is into a third party, for the regulars hope that day is over when some irregular could lead the state Democrats into new and untried paths. In 1932 it was William G. McAdoo who did this. In 1936 it was Upton Sinclair.

In 1938 it was John Olson, and it was 1942 before the regulars began to get things under control. Even though Republican Earl Warren was elected governor that year. Democrats now count heavily on the tradition that no California gov- ernor'has ever been elected for a second term, with the exception of Hi Johnson. Dems Have 17-6 Nationally, the California Democrats gained five congressional seats in 1944 to give them a representation of 17, to six Republicans. Washington representation -is, of course, important, but what the California Democrats would particularly like to see is recognition of their own machine here in the West.

There are over 150 federal agencies with state or regional headquarters here in San Francisco. Side Glances MAV 1945 in many of these even know each Key personnel agenqies don't other. If western Democrats could get a deputy Judge Vinson established here to serve as what State Attorney General Bob Kinney calls "a great oilcloth shoulder" on which they could all cry whenever problems of particular interest to the West come up, it would make a great many people happy. President Truman's message to. Congress, requesting broad power for a "business manager" type of national administration may provide some hope for what is obviously one of the major headaches of the of federal and state cooperation.

When Okinawa is taken and its (sumers by further reduction of airfields are restored, and new ones provided, the type of bomber that took Germany to pieces, up to this time not used against Japan, can be based close enough to the principal Japanese targets to make them as effective as they proved to be against Germany. They will supplement the B-29s, developed with the requirements of the war in the Far East in. mind and not used over Germany. their supplies. Pressure in sugar is due to decreased production, increased demand and pressure on the world's shipping for other than the usual purposes of transportation.

Sufear is an important as well as a tongue tickler. It will have a large Ciano Against War, Edda Mussolini Says By CURT RIESS Curt Riess, NEA international correspondent, had a series of conversations with Edda Ciano, daughter of Benito Mussolini, shortly before the Fascist dicta- place in the exports planned to tor was slain by Italian parti meet the pressing needs of the i countries close to the starvation line. When the best that can be In this fact and the carrying pow- done is donGi exports will fall far er and range of the B-29 are found i sho rt of what they should be. It is the basis for the forecast that Japan not proposed to inC rease them to is to undergo attack from the air sans. This is the second of two articles, now released from restrictions imposed by Countess Ciano at the time of the interviews.

PARIS, May Mussolini that will be far heavier than anything Germany underwent. Air command may not expect to win the war in Far East, but, as far as the home islands are concerned, it clearly expects to go a long ways in that direction. Only One at Large Of the major Nazi war criminals only Ribbentrop, long Hitler's foreign minister, remains to be ac- ipo'unted for. The other outstanding man among them still alive is Goer- "ing. HeCs, held for several years in which he blew up helpless Ethio plans in a "beautiful OPR.

1945 BY NEA SERVICE, INC. T. M. REG. U.

S. PAT. OFFJ "I've been driving (his bus for over but my husband stiir doesn't trust me to bock our car out of the garage!" left his family in Milan for some His daughter says he didn't always send money for their support. "Of course," she added, "Father just forgot. He had so many things to "think of." Edda exhibits no disapproval of her father's many affairs with women.

She seldom mentions her mother, who she seems to feel was not a substantial enough woman to have been II Duce's wife. What Edda will do with the Ciano diaries, now that they have failed to save her husband's life and her father also is dead, seems uncertain. She has had numerous offers for them, and she says that "My brother was so young," re- attempts have been made to obtain A any great extent at the expense of Ciano declares that her late hus- the American consumer. This coun- foreign minister in her fath- try will continue to have the share jer' Fascist government, begged IlifeVorite of the world's supply it has had Duce not to push mly Iavonte sponded Edda. "He really didn't mean any harm." She couldn't see why anyone should be perturbed about the Ethiopian episode, which had nothing to do with World War II.

The 1 Ethiopians were savages, and it would have been a good thing if they had remained under Italian rule, she suggested. She felt the same way about the grab of Alban- -Jf recent years. The existing shortage will continue for months to come. No matter how the war develops, the gap between production and demand cannot be filled over night. Production has to be built -up and shipping eased before normal conditions in output and distribution can be restored.

When they are restored in this War II. Among other things he opposed the attack on Greece. His opposition was not on moral or ethical grounds, however. It rested on fear that Italy would she stronger opposition than Mussolini anticipated. Read Diaries.

Edda permitted me to read, in Ciano's diaries covering the period since 1939, his entries on cer- country we will find that an old ain meetings with Hitler and Rib- problem has been exchanged for a hardly counts. All that is new one. Sugar, of all the materials about him indicates that for lends itself most readily to. a'long time he has been on the borderline of insanity, if not across it. bentrop that Ciano attended with Mussolini.

Her continual interrup- Goering will doubtless be convicted and sentenced to death. Von Ribbentrop ranks well up with him a an architect of the world's woes. If he is taken, there should be no doubt about his fate. But he may not be taken. It is within the bounds of possibility that he has made away with himself, as so many of the Nazi leaders lately in high place have done.

While the recitals of their suicides have been read and while search for those not yet accounted for has been in progress there has been, fortunately, no evidence either in this country or Britain, where it conversion into alcohol. If we have heard little of late about illicit alcohol and illicit liquors the principal reason has been inability to get in large quantities sugar or the grains from which alcohol is made. Present prices of liquors are so tions, apparently inspired by desire to justify her husband's position, made it impossible for me to absorb much new information. Ciano's diaries often speak disrespectfully of his father-in-law and political boss, whom he blamed for having brought about Italy's downfall by yielding to Hitler's high that illicit distillers would vll was naive when I have to escape detection for only a short time to make mountains of money. They will continue at present levels as long as taxes are kept up.

Taxes are the principal item in the cost of all alcoholic beverages and liquors. When the materials used for making alcohol are in free supply the revenue officers will find on their hands a job comparable to the haviakn mo war. "Didn't my father, after the Ethiopian war, make it clear to everyone? Didn't he officially state that he no longer wanted any territory?" I looked at her in amazement. "What about Albania? Greece? What about Munich? What about Italy's declaration of war against France?" I asked. It was a though she didn't hear noble experiment.

would be most likely to develop, of (one they had to deal with when the anything I said. She repeated stub- sentiment for soft dealing with country was in the grip of the bornly: ') father isn't guilty. My father "didn't want all this to happen. It is this cursed Hitler and this thrice cursed Ribbentrop and ail those German barbarians who must be held responsible." i Edda told me that contrary to I general belief, her father wa anti- i Semitic, but in a very primitive way. He believed that Jews were is, that their very look could bring misfortune.

This those standing first in war guilt. It seems to be an all but universal opinion that the punishment of death should be visited on the top flight Nazis, and that the members of the General Staff, who carried out their plans when they alone of all Germans had power for effective revolt, are co-conspirators with them against the weal of the world. Less than justice will be done if they are not appropriately punish- ed.If the General Staff is not brok- up and prevented from again taking form the world will deserve the worst that could happen to it State Press "If we had stopped in Albania, everything would have been all right," she said. "It is true," she conceded, "thfct my husband officially came out for the Greek war. He had no choice.

But as the world will see from this diary, he never wished it, always believing that we might run into more opposition than my father believed." Another point that she stressed repeatedly was that Ciano did all in his power to prevent the outbreak of war in 1939, and after, hostilities began he tried to arrange for an early armistice, but she said he was not taken seriously by the Nazi leaders. The diaries show Benito Mussolini as the reckless, utterly immoral egotist that the democratic world considered him. And this was supported by Edda's own story of the early life of the Mussolini family before the "march on Rome." In conformity with Socialist dogma Mussolini was not then married to the mother of his children. Following the party line, he opposed Italian entry into World War I on the side of the Allies until, after many window-smashing demonstrations against his residence, he shifted position. Then the Socialists did the window-breaking.

When Benito went to Rome he behalf Axis fear non-Axis that revelations they contain. Fortune Lost. At one stage she contemplated, as a spectacular gesture, turning their contents over to the late President Roosevelt and to Prime Minister Churchill. She went so far as to begin copying them on a typewriter but found the mechanics of that machine too much for ir, and gave up. I have looked them over, under her watchful eye, and I am convinced that they are genuine.

They are handwritten in large, readymade diary-books with a page for each day. Some days have only a few lines; for others Ihe notes overflow onto several extra pages pasted in. The covers were torn off when Edda secreted the volumes on her person while fleeing into Switzerland. Aside from jewelry, the diaries constitute most of her resources. Like the Nazis he despised, Ciano grabbed himelf much property and wealth, but it i all in Italy, and Edda assures me that none was transferred where it BOW is available to her.

Again, this was not matter of ethics. "It all came so fast," she said. Edda firmly intends to use the diaries to destroy those whom she considers responsible for her husband's death. But up to the time I talked with her she had not decided yet how that could best be accomplished. She scoffed at the idea of their being taken away for copying.

"I'll never allow myself to be separated from these diaries," she said. "I am perfectly- willing to have the diaries photographed while I am present. But the time hasn't come." News Oddities Bronze Bobby Sockers. CHICKASHA, May 29 The bobby sox co-ed of 1945 will be perpetuated in a bronze at Oklahoma College for Women. Post-war'purchase of a statuette was assured when 84 Seniors who graduated yesterday left $275 in war bonds to remind future students of The War Today Associated Pfesa War Aftalysi It is a tragic all the trappings of a cynic's while the United Nations labor in San Francisco to create a world peace structure, a bloody clash at arms should be going On among countries represented at the conference.

The fighting in Syria between French troops and natives is at best a nasty affair, and it could develop into an upheaval involving many countries if it were allowed to run its course. The United States and England are using their best offices to try to halt it. What's happened in Syria is this: When Syria and its little neighbor, Lebanon, were taken from at the end-of the last war, they were placed under French mandate. How eVer, the peoples of both these middle eastern countries have through the Centuries been fiercely independent and they continued to press for their liberty until France final ly promised it. The Hitlerian war intervened, but June 1, 1944, finally was set as the date when Syria and Lebanon should a-eceive full sovereignty.

Britain guaranteed their However, France independence, continued to maintain troops there and.has been negotiating for special privileges. Arabs Oppose Western Influence. Recently France moved in imore saying this was for the purpose of establishing bases for the movement of forces to the Pacific for the war against Japan. Then the trouble started, for the Lebanese and Syrians charged that their liberty was being ham-strung They demanded the withdrawal of all French troops. The French comply and fighting has broken out in Syria.

Here enters another newly created union of Arab states This comprises Egypt, Iraq, Trans- Saudi-Arabia, Syria, Leban- on and the.Yemen. The union estimates that affects a population A of some 80,000,000 Arabs. That sounds like a pretty big figure, Gut anyway a lot of folk are ifiVolve'd. Of course not all the Arab peoples are members of the union, but there's not only a racial bond of sympathy but a strong religious tie. tor the vast majority of them are Moslems.

One of the things which the union opposes is western domination and all its members now come within the "sphere of influence" of Eng- land or France. The general secretary of the union, is the Egyptian minister of Arab affairs, Abdel Rahman Azzam Bey, a tough fighter who wants complete independence for Arabs, not only in the Middle East but clear across Africa-to the Atlantic. Garner Much Sympathy, Well now, the union of Arab states is giving its moral support to Syria and Lebanon. At this juncture mor- A al support is about all they have to offer, since they lack substantial means to employ force. However, their unified opposition is in itself a serious thing and it obviously could grow into something much more grave.

Moreover, the Arabs A are likely to get the sympathy of other Moslem states even though the latter are not Arabic. Indeed, Indian Moslems already are voicing their sympathy. One of the worst aspects of this situation is its threat to friendly relations between England and France. This threat exists partly because Britain has guaranteed the independence of Syria and Lebanon, and thus is on a most uncomfortable spot, and partly because the Syrian clash may become a bone of contention in Palestine. England already has her hands full with the difficulties between the Jews and the Arabs over 'the question of the national home for Jews.

Hollywood By ERSKINE JOHNSON NEA Staff Correspondent the typical sox, slop-1 Astaire was wearing a white towel py-Joe sweater, hair ribbon ardund his a green nnd yoj HOLLYWOOD, May "You're going to sing them," all. Valid Excuse. CHICAGO, May 28 Torme, an Eighth grade pupil at the Parkside School, came late to his low tie where the belt on his trousers should have been nnd a worried expression on his face. There always is a worried expres- class one day last week and his lon on Fred Astaire's face when teacher wanted to know where he! he is rehearsing a new dance rou- tine, but today looked like a new had been. "In the school office," Torme It was, Fred confessed, popping Later the school principal called a pie of Sum into his mouth and the teacher, told her that one of her boys had stopped in the office and purchased a $10,000 war bond.

Produced First Explosive. Ascanio Sobrero first produced an explosive mixing nitric and sulphuric acids with glycerine to produce chewing madly. The floor a new and slippery. The 4-4 rhythm with tlie- five beat was difficult. There was so much going on besides dancing.

AsUaire and red-haired Lucille Bremmer, the M-G-M call sheet said, nessed in a 'manner by Al-J Many Offer Remedies for Congress By JACK STINNETT as a result of power. recrudescence of Already ot Work No agreement has yet been reached a to the extent German labor will be used in repairing the devastation caused by Nazi soldiers, but without waiting for agreement the victorious nations have already put the Germans to work. They are being used in Britain, to limited extent and in France. Much lurg- Better Lobby Bill (Milwaukee Journal.) Senator Gettelman offers a sub- an old Italian superstitution. ititute amendment to Mussolini never wantfri stitute amendment to an assembly bill on lobbying.

Under the amend- never wanted around him if he could help it. ment, lobbyists would be required Edd a says that she herself never to name the entertain The (Second Of A Series) a little more than four years, there have been several million words written and spoken about what is wrong with Congress. The joint Committee on the Or-; organization of Congress compiled more than 10,000 words of testimony in seven days of hearings legists whom the; 1 had anything against Jew7 On the a cTnfe original bill provided (contrary, as a young girl she plan- of hours a dav i nea to elonp only that lobbyists make weekly I ed to el wit one until her reports of their expenditures. lather discovered the scheme and The legislature has; been going through a lot of empty motions almost since the beginning of the session in an effort to prove that it dislikes the spending of money by lobbyists. It has, however been do anything which unwillin- intervened.

Later, when anti-Semitic laws were introduced in Italy, said she looked up her onetime fjance, who meanwhile had married, and helped him and his family migrate to South America She made it clpar throughout day. Roland Young, in "This Is Congress," considers the matter on almost every cne of his 275 pages. The Committee on Congress of the American Political Science Association, whose chairman is expert George B. Galloway, also staff director of the La Follette-Monroney committee, hag made an exhaustive ..,.,,,1,1 j. LUJJIJI iiiee, nas maae an exnaustive uouid fact SC ourage the spend- of the question for four years particuladv i Hobert Heller Cleveland, busi- sav ho ht i management expert, has made The assembly bill would be utterly ineffective as a control.

Every sa never did impress either her a previous effort to put teeth in it ntr husband. wa defeated. The assembly, it was clear, hud er numbers than in either of these countries are being worked in Russia. Their employment, however is not as yet part of a general postwar plan. It would occur.

arrangements were being made for grown disposing of them, as a matter of course. One of these days there will be, perhaps, agreement among the vie- torious nations as to the toll of similar though less extensive survey for the National Planning Congress and stu- who have applied to the problem are too to mention. Their panu- range from allowing female hand to -ive dri-rT, the in 1hat arm of government gets mus- uegjee 01 mf-jininK i diaries sn a 11 i-fj i 1 i 'f IB Jw LJUJ j. measure. labor to be taken in reparation for the damage done by the invading armies.

If agreement is not reached each will deal with prisoners in its bands as it sees ifit, Russia has been credited with purpose to employ hundreds of of prisoners for mi in- '''H be interesting i him as a follow i he fate of his proposal It lo bt ordered around ut interesting to w. what will that 1 saw my boy To give even passing mention be the miracle me S.CIJ- suL id ud lJlU of the to all of these suggested improve- are fillet! jnents is obviously impossible. Trv- -duce them to their least substitute A Sen. 'Robert and his denominators, they seewi view of Edda' de- to me to fall into these groups: (1) of the antiquated committee system; (4) an improved liaison between Congress and the President, and between the administrative heads of departments (cabinet members) and of the agencies; and (5) that members, both as committees and individuals, be given a trained permanent staff of legislative experts and advisers. This list isn't all-embracing as to details.

There is, for example, that important matter of greater protection of Congress against unscrupulous lobbies and pressure groups and the problem of how to better utilize scrupulous lobbies honestly trying to protect minorities against injustices. As we go along, however, we will see how even this troublesome problem will be more or less resolved by making Improvement No. 5 an accomplished fact, and adding a protective clause in Improvement No. 2. Jf all this could be accomplished overnight, Congress still might not be perfefMon as the legislative branch of democracy, but more than a score of persons who have written and testified on the subject are in pretty thorough agreement that if all or of these things could be accomplished it would be a big step toward that desired goal.

Certain it is that many of the objectives suggested would bring about an end to the flow of power away from Capitol Hill and a return of Congress to its constitutional duties of making the laws rather than rubber-stamping the policies of the Chief Executive and his departnients; or endlessly running errands 'or the fractional number of constituents who demand so much of a Congressman's time. (Tomorrow: More Money.) fred B. Nobel, who began his experiments in 1863, and who such explosives as dynamite and cordite. Land Fins. The fin-backed lizard, which lived on earth millions of years ago, wore a huge fin on its back, although it lived in dry desert.

Bright Planet. The planet Venus is so brilliant in July that it can be seen in broad daylight, and, after sunset, it actually casts a shadow. Frigid Coal Field. In the barren south polar continent of Anarclica, there is a coal field of more than 100,000 square miles. and Lucille seemed to be rehearsing something.

A chorus was going through an intricate routine, beating out the time with their hands. A carpen- er vvas cawing a piece of wood. A wardrobe woman was tinkering with Lucille's costume. We were talking to Lucille. Add Confusion.

As if there weren't enough confusion, songwriters Johnny Mercer and Harry Warren suddenly appeared on the set to preview the songs for Astaire's next picture, "Belle of New York." Producer Arthur Freed called everyone over to the piano. "You better listen to these," he called to Fred. "Why?" asked Astaire. still concentrating on the chorus and his gum. Freed said.

"Oh," yaid Astaire. Warren shifted a big cigar in his mouth from south to southeast, sat down at a piano and started ID play. Mercer, with eyes closed and a. pained expression on his face, sang half a dozen Lillian Russell, and "oops," there goes my hoop," and about a fellow on his last night out before his wedding. Lucille Bremmer, a very pretty red-head with freckles on her forehead and on her knees, said she was thrilled to be working with Astaire.

No. so long ago she was one of the ladies of the chorus at the Roxy theater in New York. In 1939, she was, voted "The Rockette Most Likely to Succeed." Producer Freed later saw her dancing in a Broadway night club and now she's succeeding as a new M-G-M She's Yolanda and Astaire is the Thief. Background of the picture is a mythical country named Piitria with a South American asmosphere. It's a wonderful place.

Everyone is kind and honest and happy which is why, of course, it is mythical Lucille is the richest girl in the country with a 75 million dollar bank account.and no taxes to pay. Cupid Gets Con-Man. Astaire is a confidence man who flees the United States with his A pal, Frank Morgan, and attempts to swindle Lucille out of her money only to wind up as her husband. There are several dance routines which Astaire plotted out after sitting for five hours in a studio projection room looking at all of gk his previous film dancing. He never repeats a step, he says, which is why he worries so.

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