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a a a a a a a THE PAMPA NEWS. SUNNY BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION BUILDING 1 "I assigned four men to yard duty--but we only had one lawn mower 1" News Behind The News The National Whirligig By RAY TUCKER CIRCUIT--The selection of Robert E. Hannegan as President Roosevelt's "front man" at the Chicago convention has been interpreted as a direct slap Vice Prestdent Henry A. Wallace. The new national chairman will -mind the fourth-term "draft" in the same way that Harry Hopkins engincered the third-term attempl ycars ago.

Mr. Hannegan has been extremely vocal in demanding F.D.R.'s renomination. Indeed, he has suggested that the President, if re-elected, may run again in 1948. But he has been extremely bearish on the Towan's chance nf being renamed for second place on the ticket. Recently the national chairman made a swing around the political circuit to become acquainted with his job and his job-holders.

He returned to Washington with private word that he had found. no sentiment for renomination of the Vice President. He explained that the Party workers were dead set against another helping for. Henry. BOSSES The reasons behind Hannegon's conclusions are obvious.

He met hardbolled Democratic pollticians. They did not like the way Mr. Wallace was forced down their throats four years ago. They do not relish the prospect that the Iowan, a former RepublicAn, may become Chief Executive in the event a Roosevelt- slate is elected and F.D.R. eventually retires from the high office.

In short, Mr. Hannegan talked only the bosses. He did not confer with the Hillmans, the Browders and other radical and labor leaders who insist that the Vice Presidential leftist be the running mate of F.D.R. He does not realize, perhaps, that Henry is supposed to corral the pink vote while the Chief Executive poses as A great conservative. SECRETS Roosevelt's most important political problem right now is to decide whether to rename or reject the man who made corn grow so high "out in Iowa." It ranks next to key questions involving prosecution of the war in Normandy and on the island of Saipan.

He wants to make a decision one way or the other before his cohorts assemble in Chicago on July 19. Mr. Wallace's political debits and assets have been listed. But there is another factor in his favor. He, will soon return from a good mission to Russia and China, where he posed as ambassador of the President with the latter's permission.

He discussed, than is generally known, serlous military and diplomatic matters with Stalin's Siberian representatives, and with Chiang subjects which may remain secret until the in-, side history of this war is written many years hence. MYSTIC -He wanted to discover -and he probably did why Chiang will not cooperate with northern Chinese Communists In 8 unified defense of their country against Japanese onslaughts. It is the big interrogation point of the oriental conflict. Unless their disputes are solved, Tokyo may knock China out of the war completely and postpone our final conquest of Japan for several years. No one yet knows whether undiplomatic Henry was able to compose these difficulties.

But if F.D.R. releases a White House statement to the effect that the V.P. helped IT'S HERE: Leaves From The Editor's Notebook Now that Congressmen and tors are home for the hustings, they are going to have one argument for reelection that will top all others: legislation for benefits to ex-service men. When this war is over, there will be approximately 13,000,000 men and women who have seen enough vice to participate In benfits. That's about 10 per cent of our total population.

Legislation now ready for the men and women who are being mustered out in increasing numbers daily 16 far than most people think. Mall Inquiries I receive here convince that few discharged veterans know all they have coming to them. So for the G. here are some pointers: Take any of your problems, from hospitalization to job placement, discuss them first with your local Veteran's Administration bureau. The Veteran's Administration has been authorized a half billion dollars for additional hospitals and hospital beds.

Its up to them see that not one vetcran goes without proper medical attention for as long as he needs it. Primarily, It also is their responsibility to see that every returning veteran gets his old job back, if he wants it, or another one If he desires a change. Actually this work will be done through the U. S. Employment Service.

In each USES will be a Veteran's Placement Service board. In almost every instance where claims are denied; jobs not obtained; hospitalization not provided; or other benefits passed over, there are provisions for appeal out of which should come a minimum of injustices. Veterans can step right into completion of lign school or college educations, A home or a farm or even finance a private business, with government aid. They can collect unemployment benefits If they can't find jobs, and can get cash help if their Jobs pay them less than $100 a month. can maintain their insurance.

They can repair homes with government funds; stock their farms and buy machinery the same way. They; get mustering out pay. rangIng from $100 to $300. In case of death in the service and their widows and families receive from $25 to $65 9 month. Non-service connected deaths will result in pensions from $45 both instances, there are additional payments for families with more than one child.

-BACK THE FIFTHOFFICE CAT Patron (posing for photo) -Pardon, me! What will they come to? Pholographer-Sixty-five dollars dozen, now look pleasant, picase! -0- An electrically-driven abrasive machine had to be used to remove lipstick from the marble walls of Radio city in New York. For removing it from the face; a wad of steel- wool will do. --0- A MAN'S CHARACER IS KNOWN BY THE WAY HE SPENDS HIS LEISURE MOMENTS, -0- Little Bobby came home from kindergarten wildly excited over the story the landing of the Pilgrims, which he told In great detail to Nana, Grandmother--And what WAS the name of the boat they came In? Little Bobby (hesitating) -Let's Bee Oh, I know, the Cauliflowerl -0- He wanted a horse for bunting and at last found one that took his fancy: He-Thei's a nice-looking animal. Is he a good Jumper? Dealer is it? Aly dear sir, if you want to keep that horse in any field you'll have to put a lid on il. -0- An old Scotchman was smoking in the walting room of a railway staA: porter said to hin: Porter -Don't you see that sign on the wall: "NO SMOKING Scotchman-Yes, 1 do, but how can keep all your rules? There's another on the wall, "WEAR JANEKLA CORSETS." -0- A man In the State Insane Hospital was dangling a stick with a piece of string attached over a flower pot.

A visitor approached, and ing to be affable, remarked: Visitor--How many have you caught? Lunatic are the ninth, -0-- If you want your dreams to come true, don't oversleep, -0- Sambo-Why 1s it dat a black cow gives white milk which makes yellow butter? Rastus-Dat'a easy; fo' de same rea. son dat blackberries 1s red when doy la green. Peter Edson's Column: AN' WHAT'LL YE HAVE, MY LADS? By 6. BURTON HEATH There appears to be some misunderstanding about the war production holiday that Donald Nelson has granted to distillers for the month of August. In case you happen to be interested, here are some facts about it.

The nation's distillers can--and probably will-make about 20 million gallons of 190-proof firewater during August. By the time that has been watered down to potable liquor it will be enough, in theory, to make 200 million "fifths" of rye and Bourbon and gin. That sounds like a lot, and really it ain't hay. But it's a lot less than you might think, and besides it's purely hypothetical. In 1942 It required 92 million gallons of whisky and 37 millions of neutral spirits to wet the national whistle.

That Is more than six times what cun be distilled during the August holiday, In' 1943 we put 66 million gallons of whisky and 25 millions of neutral spirits down the hatch--more than four tinies what can be made in Augyat. Even in the first four months of. this year, while we were ing loudly that whisky be bought. we managed to more, JULY 1944. Saturdas by Pampa departments, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated to the for pubnews dispatches to credited af etedited news publiabed this paper berethe ed in Pampa Post Ollice I 1 natter, Pampa News SUBSCRIPTION RATES 71.00.

per month. Paid in advance, $3,00 CARRIER In Pampa 950 per week, months. 16.00 pet months. 6 centa, $12.00 No Price pet dingle Copy order decepted in localities served br: cafzied delivers. in the White House Somebody figured the other day that Thomas E.

Dewey, If mustached elected, would be the first president In 32 years. That is interesting as far as it goes, but a it doesn't go far enough. After all, the subject of whiskers in the White House is not one to be dismissed casually. without splitting hairs over the matter, we propose today to give you a somewhat fuller exploration and documentation. noted that Mr.

Dewey's mustache In the first place, It should be 1s quite in the tradition of his party. For the first presidential whiskers came to the White House on the chin of the first Republican presldent, Abraham Lincoln. Before that, the people of the United States had elected smooth-faced presidents with monotonous regularity for 72 years, from Washington to Buchanan. (Sideburns don't count in our statistics.) Since Lincoln there have been A dozen Republican presidents, and three different Democratic Incumbents. And non-partisan total shows that the smooth- chief executives are, in the minority 7 to 8.

In fact, until Woodrow Wilson the clean-shaven vogue In started, whiskers of assorted sizes and colors had been familiar sight at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue except in the administrations of Andrew Johnson and William McKinley. There's no dodging the fact that whiskers are pretty much of a Republican prerogative. Grover Cleveland was the first and only Democrat of the post-Lincoln period who didn't give the barber carte blanche. He also was the first president to confine himself to a mustache. Of the '13 Republicans, eight were either strangers to the razor or had only a scraping acquaintance.

As to styles, the presidential whiskers may be classified thus--chin whiskers, Lincoln; full beards, Grant, Hayes, Garfield, Harrison; mustaches, Cleveland, Theodore Roosevelt, Taft. The mustaches might be subdivided as followshandlebar, Cleveland and Taft; scraggly, Roosevelt. That leaves Chester A. Arthur unaccounted for. He sported that fanclest spinach of them all--the shavstyle also affected by General Burnside.

Emperor Franz Josef of Austria, and the creator of Swamp Root Tonic. Beards figured in two close clections and broke even. Beardeded Rutherford B. Hayes beat smoothshaven Samuel J. Tilden by a whisker in the House of Representatives.

But the elegant chin adornment of Charles Evans Huges couldn't save his early lead over Wilson In the 1916 race. That's all. We just thought you ought to know, -BACK THE FIFTHBonds and Ballyhoo At a bond rally of the New York Curb Exchange, Fred C. Moffatt, its president, expressed the opinion that "stark reports from the battle fronts" rather than "theatricals" should be the persuasive factor in sale of War Bonds. Many will agree with him.

There is certainly a great deal of incongruity In bond -selling promotion, ranging from the theme of war's full tragedy and horror to such ballyhoo as three-way big lcague ball games and glorified bank-night auctions. The Treasury Department Is known to deplore the bad taste of some bond-selling methods. Its own campaign for advertisers is invariably dignified, and it still belleves that individual solicitation most potent sales method. But the Treasury knows that clifferent people need different kinds of persuasion to make them reach for their pocketbooks. It also knows that though some workers may use An awkward or undignified approach, their patriotism is unquestioned and their results satisfactory.

-BACK THE FIFTHThe Nation's Press LEND-LEASE GONE HAYWIRE (The Chicago Tribune) Lend-lease officials, the Associjated Press reports from Washington, are working on a scheme to continue lend-lease to Russia after the war for the rebullding of its industrial plants. The post-war shipments will not be gifts, as our present lend-lease seems to be regarded by our allies, 14. not yet by ourselves. The sup- the plies will be turned over to Russians on credit. This system is already being applied on such equipment as electrical generators, which will have a long life of peace time use after the war.

They are being charged to the Russians. The argument advanced for the scheme is that the American public is updoubtedly about. going It to hear a great deal more Is serted that these shipments will prevent a post-war slump in many lines of manufacture and permit factories now busy on war orders to continue their activities. Unless we are eventually paid for the goods, of course, the same effect would be obtained by dumping them in the sea. The United States should certainly do everything it can to foster trade after the war with Russia.

The natural limitation on that trade is the ability of Russia to pay for what we ship to her, in money or materials, elther Immediately or over a term of years. The Russlan shipments are being made on credit, but no information has sort been forthcoming as to what of credit Russia has established in this country. But whether the Russians can establish credit or not, the present toperations are clearly not within the purview of lend lease as it has been authorized by congress. Lendlease wan presented to this defense, country The a measure for our theory was that that defense would to rided by placing arms and am Common Ground De D. C.

41 speak the nass-word primeval, 1 give the din of democracy. By God I will Accept nothing which all cannot have their counterpart of cart In -WATT WHITMAN. What Is Patriotism? We hear lots of different claims nowadays as to what patriotism is. During war times people ate thelined to regard those engaged in war as the only patriots. It is true that it the war is one that has not been provoked by arbitrary laws, but is one of defense, the soldier is a very real patriot.

The most useful patriotism, however, comes from promoting principles and. freedom and an understanding that reduces or elimInates war. The real patriot is the man who teaches how to live logether in freedom and and harHe Is quite often the man who is condemned because he sanction certain forms of discriminatory, laws exploitation. which lead to True patriotism is very similar to true Christianity, As the late Everett Sermon on Dean the Martin Mount said, and the Declaration Independence were about the same, thing. Both of them promoted the natural rights of man.

it is the man, as James Russell Lowell observes who is not a slave public opinion and dares to be ton the right with two or three. The true patriot is the man who gives of his time and energy defend the helpless and make it possible for all people to use their talents to the full In seeking happiness. In short, the greatest patriot is one who promotes good will among mankind that result In peace. No Neutrality Dante 1s quoted as saying, "The nottest places in Hell are reserved for those who, in a period of moral crisis, maintain their neutrality." No one would contend that this column or this has peen neutral. It has invariably taken the unpopular side because the future must always be considered as well as the present.

The momentarily pleasant way of doing things is usually the pop-, ular way but the costly way In the long run: Since truth always wins when mtelligently presented, it must be. the duty of some to: point out the later disadvantages of the things that for the moment look pleasant. It is only with foresight that we As prosper. Herbert Spencer said, "It is for each to utter that which he, sincerely belleves to be true and add his unit 0: influence to all other units of influence and let the results work themselves out." munition in the hands of our allics. There is nothing in the Jend-lease act to authorize the use of lendlease funds for rehabilitation of other nations.

Congress, in fact, thought It was excluding such activities amendment to the recent extenslon of the lend-lease act. The amendment, proposed by Representatives Wadsworth and Mundt, Republicans, provided that the President cannot, in making any final lend-lease settlement, "assume or incur any obligation on the part of the United States with respect to post-war economic or military policy, except in accordance with established constitutional It was the very evident intention of congress in passing this amendment that lend-lease should be lend-lease and not a post-war Christmas stocking. The Roosevelt administration has gone blithely ahead with Its present program as if it had statutory authority for it when, as a matter of fact, the only statute bearing on the subject was intended to be a prohibition of just such action. Nor has congress authorizedand it is virtually certain that It would not authorize, if it were asked -the engagement of the government in post-war. export trade.

The lend-lease credit shipments to Russia are a scheme to confine export orders to deserving, Democrats. There is no the government should be an intermediary in such trade, If Russia has orders to place and the credit to justify shipments, post -war trade with that country should be handied by the corporations thet make the goods, not by a government agency. -BACK THE FIFTH----FAST AIRPLANE CARRIERS (Denver Post) The United States navy wasn't making any idle boast when it announced last week that the carrier task force it has organized is the most powerful thing of the kind in history. After administering 8 crushing defeat to a Jap fleet west of the Marianas, this carrier force moved up to within 753 miles of Tokyo last Thursday and Friday, and dealt the Japs another blow when it attacked Iwo Jima Island in the Bonins, Jap destroying planes at and least sinking eighty nineteen small surface craft. That's giving the Japs a taste of what is in store for the main islands of Japan.

The fact that the navy is using carrier task forces to strike at the inner island line of Jap defenses shows how confident American navy heads are of their naval periority. A few years ago, airplane carriers were regarded as the most vulnerable of all surface ships. But our navy has so many of them now, and they are so fast and well protected that it has adopted and is getting away with the daring strategy of making them the backbone of an offensive force. That policy eleminales a lot of the island hopping which otherwise would be necessary to get at the vitals of Japan DISTINCTIONS (Fort Wayne News-Sentinel) Of all the men mentioned as presidential nominee on either icket. onlv millionaire.

Only one has ever caused 8 memorial to be erected. to himself, only oneRoosevelt -has had a continuous "red ink" record throughout his career in pubile office. Only oneRoosevelt has ever advocated the packing of a Federal Court. hardly Some of these distinctions are Around Hollywood By ERSKINE JOHNSON The hardest part motion pictures is getting in them." Ask Walter Slezak, the gentleman who scored such a hit as the Nazi submarine captain in "Lifeboat." Such goings-on. He was mistaken for' his father, congratulated on A screen test he never made, and once discovered.

to his horror that his agent had lost him in a golf game. Walter Slezak tried to get In pictures for 12 long years. Made yearly trips to Hollywood between plays on Broadway. Changed agents almost as often as he changed shirts. But nothing happened until director Leo McCarey remembered him in a play he'd seen in 1932 and cast him AS a monocled baron In "Once Upon a Honeymoon," it was a riot.

Eight agents tried to sign him. What Walter Slezak has to say today about Hollywood agents cannot be printed in full. And you can't blame him. They kicked him around during those 12 years until his morale was almost atthe breaking point. That golf game, for instance: was under contract to this agent for almost a year without even hearing from his," Walter said.

"'Then I came to Hollywood on one of my annual trips from Broadway, went his office and his girl directed the to another agent. 'He's representing you she said. Later I learned my agent had run out of money while playing golf, had bet me against a client owned by this other agent. My agent lost by a putt." LOOK WHAT YOU MISSED! Walter hasn't since seen this gent who lost him in that golf game but he's anxious to meet up with himto show him his salary checks from Sam Goldwyn for his current role with Bob Hope In "The Princess and the Pirate." Also from a few other acting chores In "Till We Meet "Lifeboat" and "Step Lively." "Then there was that was congratulated on the excellence of a screen test he didn't One of his agents succeeded in getting him a screen test at MGM. The test was to be made an Important European opera star, also new to the screen.

But after three weeks of rehearsing the test, the studio decided the opera star never would be able to act and cancelled the test. Slezak was lost in the shuffle. Leaving the lot, he bumped into his big shot agent, walking with studio boss Louis B. Mayer. "Hello," beamed the agent to Walter.

"I saw your test in the projection room this morning and you were great-terrific!" Walter said he didn't have the heart to ask how the agent could have seen a test that was not put on film. He just nodded his head and said nothing, "Next day," he said. "I got rid of, that phony." SING On another occasion still another War Today Associated Press War Analyst This has been a gratifying weekend for Allied arms the world around, with substantial victories recorded in Normandy and Russia, And American completion of the bloody conquest of the strategic Island of Salpan in the Central Pacific. The Allies have made Important progress In Normandy. They finally have ripped the German battle-line loose from its bitterly defended anchors at both ends.

The Canadians and British took the ancient city of Caen on the Nazi eastern flank after 35 days of hell, while the Americans captured Ln Haye du Pulls on the western wing in the face of stubborn resistance. The fall of Caen is of particular importance because this Inland port and railway center was the key point of the German defense of the peninsula, Had we been able to stronghold early in the invasion, it would have made a great difference in our progress In breakIng into the French hinterlandprogress which the Allied command had hoped would be much further ahead than It 1s now. supreme Allied headquarters cautions us not to regard the victory at Caen as major defeat of the Germans in the field, although it is a "serious reverse." The significance of the capture of Caen and La Haye du Pults Is that it paves the way for the decisive battle which we must win before we can. free the peninsula of the enemy and thereby enable our forces to reach open roads to Parls and Berlin. This great clash may be expected soon.

-BACK THE FIFTH13 MILLION DOLLARS OVER HOUSTON, July 8 (P) the last day of the Fifth War Loan drive, bond sales in Harris county today totalled $95,000,898 or 625,892 over the goal, war bond headquarters announced. agent telephoned Walter and told him to rush right over to a certain studio. "You're up for a great part," said the agent. Walter rushed over to the studio and was rushed to a stage where.a '100-plece symphony orchestra was tuning up. "We'd like to hear you sing," said one of the executives.

"But I don't sing," said Walter, blankly. "Don't kid us." said the executive. "What would you like to sing. You can take your choice." It finally became clear that the agent and the studlo had confused Walter with his father, Leo Slezak, who once sang starring roles at the Metropolitan. For the sake of the record, Walter Slezak is very happy with his current agent, a chap named Jack Gardner.

By DeWITT MACKENZIE Salute to a lady By Victoria Wolf Copyright, 1044, NDA Service, Inc. THERE was only one thing for me to do after the telegram from the Navy Department: WE REGRET TO INFORM YOU THAT YOUR HUSBAND, HOWARD MOORE, WAS. KILLED IN ACTION, I enlisted in the Red Cross. The decision was very simple. It was in fact the simplest devision of my whole life.

How gave his life for his country; what shall I do with mine? No one needs me now. But the country needs nurses. People, right and left, call me brave. They are wrong, It's not bravery. It's escape into something more useful than I am.

As as Howard and I lived towether I was only concerned about our private happiness. And when he enlisted, though beyond the age limit, I agreed because a woman has to agree. But, in her heart, can a woman be happy or proud that her love leaves for danger? Happy and proud, words for great speeches in public! I was always jealous of his love for the sea, and I have always hidden my jealousy for this my rival, Howard didn't like small feelings, though he never made a fuss about big ones. He never talked about what might come later, saying: "It it should happen to me, you should But I know that his death has a silent message for me and I follow it. So where does bravery come in? It's all so natural and simple.

Turn on the radio any time and you hear: "Our country needs nurses. Three thousand nurses each month." It is good if someone needs you. I don't feel so needs you. I don't feel so lonely any more, I THE Chief Nurse of the Red Cross Headquarters had a major's authority, a private's waistline, Prussian general's looks. While I talked, she listened and scribbled notes on a block of yellow paper, finally saying, "Your case isn't simple." "What case on earth do you think is simple?" That made her stop scribbling.

"We only accept American certificates, you see. Your French one is not final here." I can easily understand everyone's distrust of French effectiveness and I don't mind it I have to be the victim of this distrust. Howard used to say the French couldn't do A single thing completely. They didn't even collapse completely. I did not go into detall and explain that I am not French-born, I enlarge on the all too history of my oftchanged citizenship.

I only agreed tHat it. would indeed be simpler if I been born in Brooklyn and had graduated from a U. S. 'school of nursing. Yeti I found myself- willing to take new training and another it be done in two or MONDAY, 10, Hour Adolf Hitler to solve these vastly important problems.

and if he insists privately on the agriculturist's renomination, Mr. Wallace may get it. On the other hand, whom will the Democrats put up as an alternative? In short, it begins to look as if the yogi mystic has wormed his way into the Democratic bosom, whether Mr. Hannegap likes It or not, STALIN-Russia's smooth sweep through the German defenses in the east has aroused some uneasiness in London and Washington. Military experts have informed President Roosevelt and Secretary of State Hull that the Wehrmacht could have erected a far stiffer resistance against the Red Army had it chosen.

They have shown in detail where the defenders made mistakes with seeming deliberation. The answer secms to be that Hitler intends to let the forces of Stalin get chief credit for winning the war. He wants the Cossacks to march into Berlin in advance of British Tommies or American G. I. Joes, which may explain why his disheartened and poorly supplied units are battling sO fiercely in Normandy and in Italy.

Hitler, according to our best diplomatic informants, has several for preferring a Russian to an Anglo-American victory. He may think that Germany con wrest better terms from Moscow. He may figure that Stalin, who has a greater interest in the Reich's economic future than Churchill or Roosevelt, would go light on him, A megalomaniac, he may, seck, as he suggested in Kampf, to drag the whole world down with him. He may want to bring Communism to 'the French shores of the English Channel as" a permanent and consuming threat to Western democracy. -BACK THE FIFTH- So They Say We've developed the game of where strategy has taken the place of muscle and condition and maybe we've lost something in the process.

Let's get these boys in shape and maybe at the same time we can teach them that it's hard work and discipline that makes. a. W. Spears, of Maryland football coach. There 1s still a lough fight ahead of us.

The wards not yet won; it will be won the sooner if in war work sticks to his complete victory has attained. -General Marshal, 'Admiral King; General Arnold. We clearly have air supremacy over the battle zone and its environs. German air strength even over industrial points in Germany appears to be approaching a state of of War. Henry L.

Stimson. During the past year more than three million babies were born in the United States with the lowest maternal and infant death rates in our hisory-and this in the midst of wart The wartime health picture of our country is most Herman Kretschmer, president American Medical Association, THE CENTER NATIVE DIES HOUSTON, July 8- (P)--Mrs. Mary Truitt Ross, 69, grandmother of screen actress Nan Grey, died at her home here today. She was born at Center where she lived for many years. tral spirits more than they do whisky right now.

There are close to 270 million galIons of whisky in storage--a four year supply at the rate It has been withdrawn since the first of the year. But on March 3 we had only 17,500,000 gallons of blending spirits, and that was less than enough, even at current low rates of consumption, to last through this year. If we use up our blending spirits and do not replace them, we shall all be forced onto a diet of straight whisky. So far as quality goes, that should be no hardship, But it would raise the dickens with quantity. Over all, the whisky that we buy has about two parts neutral spirits to every five part of whisky.

The brands vary from bottled in bond with no neutral spirits to 'one very popular trademark that is only onethird whisky, the rest being neutral spirits. As long as we have plenty of blending spirits, the whisky already in storage can be oxpanded to keep us drinking regularly if not plentifully. So don't be disturbed if the distillers make much more neutral spirits. than whisky. Thet will be the smartest things can our ea consumer A By KIRKE LL.

SIMPSON. Associated Press War Analyst, Imperative necessity of shortening Nazi battle fronts drastically where to meet the triple Allied ate tack from East, South and Notth was forcing the German High. C6mmand at the week end toward 1nust far to shape the nature the war in the critical months before winter closes down again in Europe. The cumulative effect of threefront warfare attrition was sapping enemy reserves, in both manpower and Italy and Franse, but most of all in Russia and Poland. It left him small cholce but whole-' sale retreat certainly in the East.

probably in the S8outh and possibly in the West to stand seige within the inner ramparts of his tottering continental, fortress. There can be no doubt that if the sweeping Russian breakthrough from White Russia to converge on every key communication junction in Pox land and the lower Baltic States from Brest-Litovsk to Dvinsk was not aided by a German attempt to fall back slowly to the Bug-Baltic inner defense line from which the attack ot1 Russia was launched; 1t represents the major nazi defeat of the war. The Baltic States and Finland are all but lost now to Germany, In the West her effort to contain the allied invasion bridgehcad In' Normandy is rising to its crisis. Only commitment of major Nazi strategic 1cserves to decisive battle in that remote theatre on the Western front conceivably could wall off General Elsehower's ever growing Invasion army. That German commanders in Italy and in the East are desperately pleading, for reInforcements also goes without saying.

Russian forces were less than 100 miles from Germany's own frontiers in East Prussia at the week end. -BACK THE FIFTHSTATE OVER TOP DALLAS, July. 8-(P)-Texas' exceded its $464,000,000 Fifth War Loan quota today with more than $25,000,000 to spare. State Chairman Finance Nathan Committee Adams of the Texas said that the the state $125,000,000 Ser- not les Quota for has been attained, however, and tmphasized that the sale of Bonds, AS well as F's and G's through the remainder of the month. will be counted on Fifth War totals.

-BACK QUOTAS OVERSUBSCRIBED? CORSICANA; July 8-(P)-Corand Navarro county had oversubscribed their fifth war loan quota of $2,975,000 today with bond sales totaling $3,144,271. RED CROSS. ICE Illustrated by Ed Gunder. The Chief Nurse had a major's authority, a private's waistline, and a Prussian general's looks. "Your case isn't simple," she said.

than 18 million gallons of whisky almost nine millions of neutral spirits. Mr. Nelson and the War Production Board are not putting the distillers back into the whisky business. All they did WAS say, in effect: "In October, 1942. we made you give (up producing whisky and begin making industrial alcohol because we needed your facilities.

Now we can spare you for one month. It's up to you-and the War Foods Admin- you with that month, "You can close shop and give all the boys and girls vacation, or you can make whisky--if you can get grain for it- or you can make blending The distillers aren't going to take a to vacation. Neither are they going make much Bourbon, Corn is too scarce needed for other purposes, They can make rye, because rye grain is relatively plentiful. Some will do that. Others will make, neutral spirits--powerful grain alconol such as few have even considered drinking since prohibition was repealed Neutral spirits can be used to make gin, to fortify wines or to blend whiskies.

As a matter of fact the drinkers of country need three months? Time is a vital factor nowadays." Perhaps this platitude did the trick. The Major became lier and picked up the phone. "I have a volunteer here," she said, "somehow different. Please come down for a. moment." While we were silently waiting, she continued writing.

It was a woman's office--without the "touch." Florence Nightingale's photo adorned one wall, a Red Cross poster on another, and a calendar on a third. When the doctor appeared, the room at once became full with him. He was very tall and rapid of in movement and speech--one those fine and rare doctors whom you immediately trust and obey. I explained my case again. Having handled many more intricate situations, his decision came quickly.

Three months' hospital training and then the usual final examination for graduation. "Are you ready to report tomorrow morning at Dr. McCormick's office, St. Luke's Hospital, South Spring I was ready, FOR ten days I am in acid, a haze of iodine, carbolic ether, and chlorine; and that poothes my nerves, Dr McCormick, observ. ins my clumsiness the very dust made an unflattering but inspiring remark: "You see, dis.

trust is a safe guess." I wonder wneuner a young girt; who hasn't seen much of hasn't experienced love and death can make a good nurse. I think, a woman must undergo a mental' training before she is truly At for this vocation. A training which neither school nor philosophy can give, only life. I was different a few years ago when I had my Arst training course in the Red Cross Hospital in Paris. The times were different, and circumstances, too.

It was Hitler who made me volunteer for the Red Cross then. Hitler and the cruelties he petrated. My father had died in a concentration camp. I was horrified and bewildered. I wanted to heal the wounds which the Nazis were inflicting, But I was too young, My youth hadn't.

the stamina. I had dreams and wishes and hopes and believed in lito and its miracles, in spite of all, And when I met Howard, wha was on a business trip through Europe, I fell in love with. him abandoned my job, and we married three weeks later. We had ten good years in his country- all for ourselyes. Now 1 am ready to live for others, ATe Be Continued).