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14 June 13, 1944. That Cherbourg Neck (Ti ST.LDUIB STARhTIMES rjtfiMi Drew PEARSON Merry Go Round Drtru Pearson's Washington Merry-Go-Round radio program Is on ike St or-Times station, KXOK 630 ktto-cjcles), each Sunday at 6 p.m. WASHINGTON. fFHE president's political adviser arent shouting about it. but they have received a 20-page report on the Texas "revolution from Texas New Deal Leader Alvin Wirtz.

plus a word -of -mouth report from one confidential envoy arriving from the rebellious Lone Star State. These appear to confirm the report that Jesse Jones and Will Clavton Jorces were behind the move in the Tessas Democratic convention to instruct electors to disregard century-old precedent Jn the! Electoral College and not necessarily vote for the winner next November. Published Daily Except Sunday fur-TUnea PublUhlng Co. ST. LOUIS.

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Biuineu MBf tr. (Hutnat 6000 Jiff riJI A fljM sag LETTERS Anti-Roosevelt Plotters In South Wave The FIaj As They Secretly Seek To Divide The Party Vote Here are some of the facts laid before White House political advisers: Chairman of the Democratic state executive committee who led the anti-Roosevelt grtxtp George Butler, Jesse Jones' nephew and attorney for "Jesse H. Jones interests." including banks, radio stations, newspapers, office buildings, building and loan associations. The White House has been informed that Butler has the reputation in Houston or never doing anything without consulting Uncle Jesse, and that many Texas interests seeking to do business with Jones" Reconstruction Finance Corp. employ Nephew Butler as their attorney.

It is inconceivable that he would act without Jesse' approval. Chairman of the Harris County (Houston) delegation which spearheaded the revolt asatmt Roosevelt was John H. Croaker, attorney for WUl Clayton, the man who alt at F. D. right hand when it comes to poM-war liquidation.

Working with Crooker was Lamar Fleming, head of the giant Anderson. Clayton At bieeest cotton brokers in the world, of which Will Clayton Is a partner. Both Fleming and Crooker came to Austin in advance of the convention to spearhead the drive against Roosevelt. Others active In the move included the following representatives of big oil and gas companies: George Heyer, president of Crude OiL a subsidiary of Sun Oil and In the employ the Pews, Republican bosses of Perm-svlvania; Clint C. Small, lobbyist for Humble Oil.

a Standard Oil of New Jersey cubskl- iary; Hiram King, chief lobbyist for Sinclair Oil; E. Towrtes. former chief co-msel for 1 Humble Oil; Neth Leachman, representaUve of Lone Star Gas. So far, the President has been too busy with the invasion to have any showdown with his secretary of commerce and Will Clayton. And if he should go to England, as reported last week, it is doubtful If be has any showdown with them at all.

A group of Democratic and Republican, congressmen, calling themselves the Monday Night Club, dropped in to nee the President on Monday, June 5. They did no know that this was the eve of Day. The President did. However, they got no Indication from him that momentous events were impending except for one slight sign. When the congressmen first arrived at about p.

the President was his usual wise-cracking self. "I funpofie we ought to take an inventory to find out how many of you boys will be bark next year," he remarked. "That's a good Idea, provided you believe in reciprocity." shot beck Rep. John SpArkman of Alabama, indulging in Washington favorite pastime of angling regarding the fourth term. But the President "didn't rise to the bait.

He had Just finished his afternoon swim and apparently was relaxed. He remarked that he was going to broadcast on the fall of Rome later in the evening, and explained that the problem of feeding the Italians was growing more difficult. "When Rome fell, we had several shiploads of grain at a nearby harbor all ready to feed the people," he commented, "and there in a good deal more on the way." He added that grain did not appeal to him as appetizing in its raw state, but that the Italians will get plenty of macaroni and spaghetti out of it. At about this time, the President lit a clgaret and his congressional callers noted that usually steady hand shook a bit. He looked in excellent health, but some of them were worried.

Leaving the office at the end of the visit, one of them asked Justice Byrnes about th-President' nervousness. Byrnes, who knew at was coming later that night, replied: "That man has an awful lot on his mind." A few hours later, the congressional callers realized how true this was. OerrisaC laborationist, Darinn. The stupidity of cur policy toward De Gaulle has now been highlighted by Mr. Roosevelt's Invitation to the French leader to leave the scene of his command at this critical hour.

Instead. Mr. Roosevelt and our State Department should name De Gaulle as at least temporary head of the French nation pending a vote of all his countrjTr.cn and thereby keep him in France where he is needed. Scott Fields Standing Army Of late, the long lines of Army Air Corps men standing outside the St. Louis and Belleville bus terminals have been growing longer.

They represent Scott Field's standing army the men who must spend six hours out of 24 to utilize a week-end pass in St. Louis. Actually, it does not take so very long to cover the 23 miles between the big radio school and the city, but there are so few buses available that the men must spend hours In line at the field and again in Belleville to get a ride across the river. And they must repeat the waiting to get back to the post. Nobody is blaming the bus company.

It is doing the best it can with the equipment it has. The magnitude of its job is made clear by the fact that in 1933 its buses were making three runs a day from Belleville to Scott Field. Now tbey make 147 trips in an average day and more when the week-end rush Is on. And, in the last two years, fares were carried between Belleville and St. Louis.

So far, the Office of Defense Transportation has turned down all requests for permission to buy additional equipment. The ODT's eagerness to prevent the manufacture of buses so long as the factories are needed to turn out military equipment is understandable and commendable. But the men at Scott Field are doing their bit, too. Perhaps if some of the ODT people stood in line with them just once, they would have a heart. On The Karelian Front Moscow reports that on the Karelian front long columns of Gen.

Govorov's Red Army troops are pouring through the shattered Mannerheim line. This campaign at the northern end of the long Russian battle-front looks like the final operation to knock Finland out of the war. It is too bad that the Finns did not get out while the getting was good. As they must have feared, there are not many Germans on hand to help them now. And putting the Russians to the necessity of undertaking the current campaign will hardly ameliorate the peace terms to come.

However, there may well be a broader significance to this northern campaign. It may have a larger objective than the mere elimination of Finland as one of the countries in the war against the United Nations. The fact that the Russians are also pushing a drive against another satellite, Romania, at the opposite end of the long front may presage a mighty drive against Germany itself. While the Nazis have shown no great inclination to defend Finland and while they may care little more for Romania with the exception of its oil fields, they cannot afford to long ignore fighting which threatens to turn the flanks of the Reich's eastern defenses. Yet v.ith the "second front" going full blast, they can hardly be in a position to line up self-propelled guns 10-deep on a 2000-mile front.

All in all, the eastern front, which Hitler opened so blithely after promising that Germany would never again fight two-front war, now must be for him the longest headache in the world, while to Marshal Stalin it must look almost like an invitation to strike when and where he chooses. Sanctuaries From Hate There is a simple, humanitarian logic about the system of "free ports" that President Roosevelt has proposed the setting up of islands ot refuge for the scourged of Europe in cities of the world still free from the Nazi heel. It is, then, amazing that such a storm of cold protest has followed the Presidents cablegram to Robert Murphy, when he outlined the plan to make Fort Ontario, N. such a free port for the refugees from Italy and Yugoslavia. We have nothing to lose by this broad gesture.

of understanding and practical assistance for those who seek sanctuary. They would stay with us only so long as it was impossible for them to live freely and in reasonable comfort in their homes; then they would return. Unless we are merely mouthing threadbare platitudes in our-protestations that we fight for freedom and the common man, we have everything to lose by refusing to grant this refuge. The free port plan, first advanced by Samuel Grafton in his column of April 15, is sensible, practical. Even more, however, is it charitable in the best sense of the term.

No Weather Beaurocrats? The Difference Between Nazi And American Justice Frank Murphy honored himself and the high court of which he is a member yesterday when he handed down the majority pinion setting aside the conviction of Elmer Hartzel of Chicago on a charge of sedition. 1 The man had been sentenced to five years imprisonment after being found guilty of sending to soldiers a series of articles which, it was charged, were calculated to incite disloyalty and insubordination in the armed forces. Justice Murphy and the Jority of the Supreme Court, however, found the evidence not sufficient to prove clear intent. In spite of the emotions which are naturally aroused by war, Justice Murphy said that "unless there is sufficient evidence from which a jury could infer beyond a reasonable doubt that he (Hartzel) intended to bring about the specific consequences prohibited by the act, an American citizen has the right to discuss these matters either by temperate reasoning or by immoderate and vicious invective without running afoul of the espionage act of 1917." Much in the same vein was the reasoning of Justice Frankfurter In handing down a unanimous decision which reversed the orders of the Federal. District Court and the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals cancelling the citizenship of Carl Wilhelm Baamgart-ner of Kansas City.

Not only are these decisions a far cry from the hysteria which marked all too much American law enforcement during the last war, but more importantly they are an affirmation of that very freedom for which we wage this war. Nothing could more clearly how the difference between the Nazi way and our way. In the United States, individual freedom la guaranteed to the very edge of sedition. Even where It seems that the line has been crossed, all doubts are resolved for the benefit of the individual rather than for that of the state. Admittedly, this Is a dangerous philosophy for the preservation of order.

But we believe only in order based on democratic authority on free acceptance by free individuals. Therefore, our freedom must always be coupled with responsibility responsibility for our own exercise of it and vigilance against Its real abuse by others. Yes, freedom is dangerous especially for tyrants. They can afford to tolerate very little of it. But for those who enjoy it, dom makes possible wide-roaming, so uninhibited, so thrilling a way of life that they will fight for it as men never fought for the regimented glories of absolute power.

Oak Fire The oak 'fire is sweeping across England. Already it has denuded the woodlands, is now running along the hedges and swirling about tidy cottages. The 'fire is set by the dak-leaf roller-moth. The caterpillar of the moth feeds on the young oak leaves which curl up and die. When the leaves are dead the first breeze sends them tumbling to the 'ground In a red-brown shower.

And that is the oak 'fire of English lore. The British do not feel too badly about the blight, for it occurs infrequently, the fire moth is rather pretty, the damage to the trees only temporary, and there really Isn't anything one can do about it, except to believe the old country saying: "When the oak 'fire falls great events are Impending. I EDITOR. STAR-TIMES: If ever a doubt ex-J lsted that all the sinister lorcea In the nation are leagued to stop Roosevelt, the vicious plot hatched in Texas, South Carolina, Mississippi and Arkansas to leave their presidential electors un Instructed should dispel It. Here we find all the Averys of the South combining with the "white supremacy" bigots in a scheme to Ignore what is certain to be an overwhelming vote for Roosevelt, and we may be sure that all of the professional haters, and the other little men with big Ideas, will contribute the-r bit to put the deal over.

What a shambles our two-party system has become! The inherited doctrines, vapid and meaningless, are nevertheless potent enough to divide the party vote into approx'Tiate halves and tills enables the politicians, where they happen to have a majority, to bank upon such blind allegiance as the chief stock in trade, assured in their minds that they can get by with anything short cf murder. Whenever they are caught they wave the Hag and evoke the Constitution and the gullible swallow the stuff whole. The controversy aroused by the soldier vote as to the true Intent of the Constitution is still fresh In our minds and now another glaring weakness In the document is paraded before us, for. believe it or not, II this dastardly plot Is put over, the electors could ipnore even a unanimous Roosevelt vote and serve the will of privilege. It is passing strange that our Constitution, which the American Fascists hold to be tit such grave danger, may always be count'd upon to provide the means and point the way for circumventing the law ot the land and the will of the majority.

What price victory if it means that our people are too bury winning the war to keep an eye on the termites at work at home? C. N. J. Max LERNER Bridgehead Into The Future Bid To Senator Clark Editor Star-Times: In tre past I have hundreds of Industries. It haj to be started some time; and it is fantastic that the cne man who tried to make this large and Important project a reality should be deprived of his Just immortality.

EDNA WAHLERT McCOURT. "Brother" Gerald Smith Editor Star-Times: The return of "Brother" Gerald Smith to St. Louis proves one thing and that in. nothing is too sacred for these "breeders" of hate. At this very time, when our mighty Invasion foroes are putting an end to the fascist tyranny in Eu rope.

"Brother" Smith continues to preach distrust in our. country's leader. Why don't the citizens of St. Louis do something? Other cities have 'barred-Smith why don't we? JiARION TRACKMAN. 0ier Editors' OPINIONS Mr.

Wallace's Mission I AST week, these columns commented on Vice-President Wallace mission to Chungking as an effort to put heart Into the Chinese armies and convince them that Allied promises of help wUl be kept. However, since thit interpretation was written, Newsweek, In its Periscope department in the issue for May 29. has said that Mr. Wallace in going to China is seeking to do nothing of the sort. He will have nothing to iay on military or political matters.

Instead, he will discuss only China's luture as an agricultural nation and will do his brst to make that country give up any idea of developing into a a industrial power. Ordinarily, one could puh this to tine side as just one more Journalistic surmise, and forget it. But it happens that the head cf Newsweek Washington bureau is probably closer to President Roosevelt than any other writer his authorized biographer. Ernest K. Llndley.

Therefore the chances are better than even that tins report of the instructions carried by th vice-president is true. If it true. It means that Mr. Wallace ts wasting his time in China. Of course the highly developed Industrial nations' of the west would like to see the hitherto undeveloped agricultural coinitries and colonial areas stay that way.

But it is not going to happen. Not all the oratory that can be turned lfjose in Chungking tan make it happen Just as rapidly a after this war. China will Industrialize. India will industrialize. Indonesia will industrialize.

Mexico and much of the rest of Latin America are already industrializing. Eventually even Africa will industrialize. That may present a discouraging prospect for American and British capitalism, already in desperate need of expanding markets. But no wishful thinking will change the facts. If it was to stop China's Industrializing that Henry Wallace was senjt to Chungking, then he is on a wild goobe chase.

From the Christian Century. BOOKS been a supporter of Mr. Clark and his father before him. but in Bennetts last race I learned some things I did not approve of. but had hopes that Mr.

Clark would be of more help than a new man. Sorry to say. I was disappointed. His record shows that he did not agree with the administration in its foreign policy, in its lend-lease bill, and several other articles. He also became an Isolationist, a party splitter and a very small force in winning the war.

In fact I think if he and a few others like him had not by their influence prolonged the goverunent's preparedness, the Pearl Harbor disaster may not have occurred. I am an average man. and many of my friends, I am sure, wUl agree with me. I feel that I would be safe in bidding Mr. Clark to prepare to retire and to take his seat amid the middle class of citizens, and be content.

W. C. The Sever Foundation Editor Star-Times: The decision of Superior Court Judge Joseph A. Graber. issuing an opinion favoring the claims of St.

Lex; is University to the Income of Mr. Sever's estate is greatly to be deplored. It Is Jut another evidence of the terrific chasm between the letter of our law and the spirit which should administer it. Everybody knows without doubt that it was not Mr. wish to establish some small department of technological research but to establish or assist a founda'ion upon which engineering development in the future might develop and grow.

His idea was Identical to that of Mr. Carnegie In establishing a library foundation, not some one department or edifice; and identical to that of Mr. Rockefeller in establishing a far-reaching medical foundation, not some branch thereof. Trie geophysical development proffered by St. Louis University splendid, and important; but it is contrary to both the letter and the spirit of Mr.

Sever's will. A geophysics department is not "a technological school," and such are the words which Mr. Sever carefully employed. Washington University Is the logical site for the development of an engineering school such as he envisioned. With his legacy as a fresh foundation, an enlarged engineering school here, supported by the community, would serve a magnificent purpose.

We have the field clear nothing west as far as California; or south; or north to Chicago; or east to the big state. A great engineering school here in St Louis would serve millions of young students in the middle west and De Gaulle's Partisans VO INVASION attacx nistory has ever i been tried on so massive a the vast assemblage of and supply ships, the shattering naval bombardment, the numberless sorties of planes, the use of paratroopers "on a large scale." as Churchill put it. "far larger than any that has been tvtn so far in the world." And even more important than pace is integration: to quote Churchill's graphic words again, all the factors of air, land, and sea warlaie have been lud "in the highest degree of intimacy." There are the kinds of operations at which, thanks to our engineering culture, Americans are as good as anyone in the world. Hut what lies ahead? We have thrown a bridgehead onto the chores of Normandy. But we have also thrown a bridgehead into the future.

What about that future? First of all, the heaviest fightmg is still to come months of it. But the fact is that, at last, HiUer's forces are being attacked from the west as well as from the east and the south and the skies. For the Germans this is now more than even a two-front war. It is a four-front war. Rommel must worry about the western landings, and Keslrlng about the war of mobility In Italy, and Ooer-lng about the war from the skies and his steeply outclassed Luftwalfe, and ail the commanders of the eastern sectors about the massing and regrouping of the Russian force.

The opening of an American air base in Russia and the start of the new shuttle-bombing routes which leave every point in Hitler's empire vulnerable to air attack, mark a new degree of Integration for the Allied air front, and for the military relations of the Americans and Russians. This ts Hitler's last mile. And it should mean that within a year the war In Europe should be won. and we shall be able to turn to the tasks of rebuilding. The nrtient invasion, like our other previous military operations In the European war theater, is bciror fouRht as a United Nations war.

The troops themselves, as lar as we know, are from America and from the Commonwealth. But they will soon be joined by the whole civilian population of France, and the same wUl be true tn every other country in which our men flght on the continent. This invasion will have proved a true and lasting success only if our political policy is constructed on the same base of collaboration as our military needs require. Our efforts to reconstruct Europe must be genuinely United Nations efforts Just as the combined fight against the Germans is a United NaUjns fight. Gen.

de Gaulle's speech to his French countrymen was a moving speech, but its severe failure to comment on Allied political intentions In France is clear proof that we still refuse to recognize the civil authority of the Provisional Government of the people whom we are liberating, and upon whose civilians we are to luliy as dangerous a thfwe cf our paratroopers whom we have cropped behind enemy lines. To win with the minimum casualties, we must have the fullest aid of a French people that believes pa.vlcr.atch- in our intentions. To organize the that statement must be multiplied by every nation in Europe. Only thus can we make this invasion a real bridgehead ir.lo the future. THE BROTHER.

By Doretby Clarke Wilson. Westminster. 325 pp. $IS. A ANY novels have been written around the 1' character cf Christ, but so far as I know this is the first work of fiction to use James, the brother of Christ, as the central ligure.

Dorothy Clarke Wilson wrote a play about the family of Jesus, and in doing research work for it she became interested in the character of- His broUtcr, James. James was associated with Christ longer and had a much more intimate knowledge of Him than any other person. It is almost inexplicable that so little is known of James, and the authorities Co not agree about what is known. A half dozen In the New Testament is the extent of our Information. At the outset he apparently was out of sympathy with the purposes of his brother, the Christ, but through the years there eame a definite change in his attitude, and in the book of the Acts we find him wholly devoted and loyal to his brother's cause, and he ultimately occupied the highest position of authority In the new church and was to suffer a martyr's death, Dorothy Clarke Wilson has written of these transitional years In the life of James, and the book vividly dramatically and.

of necessity. Imaginatively draws a portrait of the kind of man James must have been and the influences which, for more than 30 years, gradually broujrht the dramatic climax or unreserved acceptance and belief In the divine million of his brother. There are many complaints about the weather, it Is true, but not nearly so manv as there would be if the Government regulated it instead of merely predicting it. A temperance lecturer pours whiskey on a geranium, which kills the geranium. This prove that whiskey Is harmful to a geranium.

Fresh Breeze PRESIDENT ROBERT HUTCHIN3 of the University of Chicago finds a number of his professors airing their disatrreement with his views by the publication of a "faculty bill of rights." A a result there are rumors of the president's which he has refused to confirm or deny. Most onlookers interested in the development of higher education and dissatisfied with its obvious shortcomings, would consider the removal of President Hutchins from the American educational system with genuine regret. He has been courageous, critical and active and has not hesitated to inspect the foundations upon which many long accepted academic practices have been built and to question the validity of premises well lixed in tradition. Particularly he has challenged the doctrine that an ideal umvertity is a collection of scholars encaged in research and that tr.e teaching cf stud nts is but a by-product cf thi. primary ork.

l.t-ficiency in teaching, desnb-ed by many a lazy professor, he has regarded as prime importance. His irxurutx-ix ai Chicago has furnished a fresh breeze which a Kfxd many observing persons think has hr.a been needed in the field of secondary education. i From the XcshtiUe Tcnnesseci. The Scuttles By A jay America's official policy toward Charles De Gaulle becomes more bizarre and inexplicable every day. After snubbing De Gaulle, after throwing the French Committee of National Llberatirki Into dismay and confusion, and after refusing to be represented at a meeting In London with De Gaulle, President Roosevelt now grants the French leader an audience it he will come to America.

Of all times, now is the time De Gaulle Is needed most in Europe. Thousands of patriotic Frenchmen who have accepted the leadership of De Gaulle and who all these bitter years of occupation have worked underground for H-Hour, are now starting a work for which they have been preparing themselves. Sunday we learned through circuitous channels that the French under- ground, henceforth to be know as the French Partisans, have emerged Into the light and are spreading terror and sabotage In well organized attacks against both the Germans and those weasel men, the collaborationists. Had De Gaulle not crossed to France carrying with him the spark of liberty, the coal of freedom might have lain unignited throughout France. America, England and Russia are now the beneficiaries of the De-GaullLst underground.

It does not suffice to state the probable truth that there would have been other leaders around whom the French In their fierce love for freedom would have rallied. One might as well say there would have been leaders other than President Roosevelt around whom the impulses of reform and social progress would have rallied In 1933, or that someone other than Winston Churchill would have arisen to lead the British people through blood, sweat and tears to ultimate victory. We don't quarrel with other leaders, why should we quarrel with the leader of Free France? Today De Gaulle's long fight in behalf of French resistance is saving the lives of American and British, soldiers and shortening the war. For far less return we made a deal with the late, unlmentcd col Over There Mils This is a work cf fiction and. as in all such historical novels, the author fills in U.e gaps with her own conjectures and She has captured the mood of the historical setting and writes with pcwiic charm and strength.

As a historical novel of a difficult period, this book is a definite achievement. Its greatest value is in the pirtual overtones which echo with inspiring empharts all the way through. One clo-es the book with a finer appreciation cf the struggles la the minds and hearts or Christ's contemporaries to realize even a fraction of the lull Significance of His mes-Kase fcr human sou in every age and for all time. I should classify this book as devotional literature, without any sentimental and Insipid platitudes. The author seems to me to have achieved one of the primary requisites of good novel writing fldeUty and accuracy in characterization.

Her characters are etched with creative skill, and lmpres-iom cf them remain with vividness and clarity. The book will be of special Liter rut to Bible students, but as a fictional work it will have a ide appeal to the general reader ho demands literary excelxtice. fine d.c'.ici!. accurate portrayal and Interesting plot in the novels he reads. Its historical alue i-.

by knowing when his-Urv r.d- and liction begins, but the cumulative rev.ilt upon the reader is one of deeper appreciation of the work and influence of Christ an the 5pirltual development cf His brother. James. 25 Years Aco 1919 One policeman dead, a police sergeant critically wour.ded. a 13-year-old cirl shot through the fo bandits under arrest, $20,000 loot recovered, was the stcry of a holdup of the Meramec Trait Co. Gov Gardner ti.e request of Attcsr.ev D.r.Kl nd Ald'-rni: Hall nt of a law restor-n rapitai be Included as a subject f.r by ti.e jpeciaf session ot ti.e The glai.t I.ei.ithan established t-r ri-roicls en l.cr trl; to France and return.

She carrie.t 14.000 ofticers and men of the army nr.d r.avv and made the rour.d voj age 15 days, hours and 31 niuiutei. 50 Years The U. S. attcmev general preparing to bring suit for tlTl ti the Central Pacific. L'mn Pu-ific ar.1 Kansas Pacific railroads' alleged indebted ness to the government.

The population of Crtleay --cordxc to the srhuc! cir.ms. 1 Ti.e Mf-souri tr.ira't ned to Omaha alter it rial ck rtl mere than a million dollars' wcrt.n cf property. Smallpox as raging in. Nfw York City a quarter century ag and physician were sen into ti.e l.c::-ei to Vaccinate the "Now's the time for the Mtellite nations to trp up their all-out of tbe war ellort'." iUrcus in Tli New Ygrk Tin;.