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Saje, Athens, South Waverly, Waverly, N. Y. THE EVENING TIMES, TUESDAY, JANUARY 25, 1944 MORE "DIVISIONS" HITLER HOPES TO WIN WITH! Robert Quillen1 The Looey Is Just Another Soldier With Less Chance of Coming Back The Daily Washington MerryGoRoiiiid By DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON Not long ago, Pyramid of Companies A full chart of the British mica trust looks like a pyramid similar to the international chemical in the Justice department brought an anti-trust suit against two members of the British House of Lords and one of Britain's biggest companies, Imperial Chemical Industries. Now, the Justice department dustry. At the top stands the Brit ish Associated Electrical institute, under which comes Associated In is investigating anotner Brmsn group of companies in connection sulating Products company, which in turn controls Chrestien Mining with an alleged monopoly of a vi tal war material mica.

L.ia., 01 maia and T. F. Chrestien also of India. Then there are the Mica Insula Since history began, the greater part of the human race has played the role of under-dog. The many have always had reason to resent and fear the power and arrogance of the few.

Therefore the mos popular stories in every age have been those in which the humble, who are always pure in heart, suffer great injustice but at last triumph over the villainous rich. Nothing else delights us so much as seeing thqj straw boss get his come-uppence. Because of this background, the young commissioned officer in every American war has begun his military career with two strikes on him. One of the popular stories of this war concerns an incident that occurred in Washington soon after the attack on Pearl Harbor. A newly-fledged and rank-proud lieutenant passed a private who failed to salute him stonnwf the soldier and said: "You will tor of which Howard Sykes, Most people don't realize it, but today mica probably is the most important single material of the entire war.

Without it there would be no radar, no radio, no electric iormer fi-a-year man in Wash ington, is chairman of the board, gun controls and no detector de and Munsell with which Sykes is also connected, and whose vice president lives next vices. Yet there are indications that door to Jesse Jones' mica man, the U. S. government has allowed The British trust claims that it itself to be restricted in the production and importation of mica has competition from Ameri can firm of Blood and Schoon by a British trust. The trust has been operating right under the maker.

A little known fact is that noses of American officials. Howard Sykes, closely allied with What the Justice department is interested in is why production of tne British combine, is the son of Alice Adele Schoonmaker by her itand at attention and salute me fifty i iii mica is low, and whether monop marriage to Walter Synes. A colonel the passing crowd neara xne command and stopped to deflate the young In addition to Sykes' man, running mica matters for oly tactics are to blame. Today, despite the vital role mica plays in the war, we are officer's ego. Jesse Jones, the Justice depart forced to use paper dielectric de "Lieutenant," said he, "I supose you are familiar with the- regulations eoverninff the ment has discovered that an inter esting individual is head of the vices as a substitute for mica.

This is not satisfactory, and General Electric has spent $100,000 trying mica section ofWPB. He is Sidney conduct of an officer. He is required to return all salutes. I will keep score for you." ml j.1 1 i A. Montague, formerly of use Lib erty now with Asheville to find a better substitute, without success.

(N.C.) Mica Co. Both of these Most, of the stories inspired Dy xne lasw war had a more bitter flavor, and with trnnrf reason. Some misguided brass hat companies are controlled by Blood In order to get out from under the British control of mica, the decided that our army needed the English 1 XT War Production board some time ago urged tne production of mica in the United States. To this end, and benoonmaker, which has family ties with the British mica combine. The Justice department reports that William E.

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JAN. 25, 1944 Let's Have the Full Facts Possibility of startling revelations in high official Washington circles' still remains when the federal grand jury investigating the Hopkins letter affair makes its report if the jury is permitted to get the full story of the case. In view of the high position of several of the principals in the case, it is possible that the gag may be applied somewhere along the line, preventing the full facts from becoming known, but indications at present are that the grand jury is going into the matter fully. One thing is certain. The case is an odorous one, regardless of whether the letter is genuine or not.

If the letter is what it purports to be a statement that Wendell Willkie is the presidential choice of Harry L. Hopkins, White House aid no criminal action may be possible, but the people of the United States should he made familiar with the facts, inasmuch as such a- situation would indicate an attempt to create a uni-party government totalitarianism in the United States. If the letter is shown to be a forgery, as Hopkins asserts it is, the forger and all of his accomplices should be brought to book on criminal charges and the entire matter exposed, for the connotations of a plot to eliminate the two party system are similar. The revelations in the case so far make it apparent that George N. Briggs, suspended aid to Interior Secretary Harold L.

Ickes is directly involved in the affair, but whether his connection is that of the forger of the note or only as the man who passed on a letter received from his superior, is not yet clear. His remark to reporters yesterday, that he would not "be thrown to the wolves" indicates that he has talked plainly to the grand jurors and that his side of the affair may be fully a part of the record. In either case, there is a strong likelihood that the entire affair indicates a feud within the administration and a plotting for power which is reminiscent of the best traditions of the decadent royal courts of Europe, or of Germany under the Nazis. In this case, the people are also entitled to know the full particulars, that they may take action to remedy the situation. caste system to improve discipline, ana me effort to establish it gave many young officers delusions of grandeur.

There wereP Jesse Jones set up a special subsidiary of his Metals Reserve com and Schoonmaker, has boasted pany, called the Colonial Mica corporation. that he controls domestic production in the U.S.A., and that he even bought a mica mine in order to close it down and curtail pro some ugly newspaper stories. There are no such stories this time. You don't make dirty cracks about boys who pilot combat planes and score five for one, not about the boys who fly the great hnmhers throueh murderous flak to nulver- duction. The Justice department is con British Connections However, it doesn't look as if he had done much about escaping the British control.

The Justice department fii.ds that the man Jones has piaced in charge is George A. Purcell, who in private life used tinuing its investigation. There may be interesting developments soon. to head a mica company known Merry-Go-Round In the Library of Congress, back Backgr oiied of the War News From Fighting Front and Chancellory as Colonial Mica company. Now he is running, for Jesse Jones, the numbers of Esquire are kept in Colonial Mica Corporation.

Fur ize the Hun; nor about the mid-covered, rain-soaked boys who lead the slogging infantry against enemies who must be dug out of machine gun nests. They do lead; make no mistake about that. And they die. In one small engagement in Italy, one company lost every officer. The casualty rate for young combat officers is far higher than the rate for en- listorl mpn.

That alnrtP would discouraffe the Delta Collection, a special col thermore, it is considered signifi lection of sex books and other cant that Purcell was recommend erotica available to adults, not to ed for tiiis Jesse Jones job by Howard C. Sykes, who is intimately connected with the British adolescents. Tables have been turned since the days of aluminum shortage, when wood was rushed into service to replace light metals. Now lumber is so short that dirty cracks about the kids with shoulder mica interests, and neads one company affiliated with the British group. invasion is to try to cut them off and destroy them.

They are reported to be rushing up reserves in an effort to foil this plan, but Swedish dispatches report that Berlin military experts are worried whether they can get into action in time, in view of the Allied command of the air. growing United Nations onslaught from all directions. There's no way of concealing the preparations for an amphibious operation of this size frorn the enemy. The big fleet alone would give that away. The Hitlerites knew an attack was boiling up.

However they didn't know where the Allies were going to bars. i Significant also is the fact that Purcell is a neighbor of another big British mica official. Purcell WPB's Lumber Facilities branch is urging industry to substitute light metals for wood. British embassy officials, mindful of food and liquor shortages here, are avoiding the usual diplomatic entertaining. lives at 21 Collins Bloomfield, N.

next door to J. P. French, Though he holds the impor vice president of Eugene Munsell hit. Still, the significant fact is that as a normal measure of precaution they weren't prepared for an as Company, which is part of the HOW'S YOUR HEALTH. By LOGAN CLENDENTNG, M.D.

Season Due for Whooping Cough tant post of Senate whip, Senator Lister Hill of Alabama is facing a By DEWITT MACKENZIE Associated Press War Analyst Forecasting the outcome of a dangerous and delicate amphibious invasion, while it still is in its early stages, is like counting chickens before they're hatched, but we are observng moderation in saying that the Allied landing on the Italian coast below Rome has been going well indeed much more smoothly than even the most optimistic could have expected. Our side has been both smart' and lucky. Our success in getting ashore with virtually no opposition Saturday is of course, a tribute to the Allied command in concealing the exact sector of the projected landing from the Germans. But it's more than that. It signifies a general weakening of Nazi resistance in the fact of the British trust, (bykes, who put YOUR FEDERAL INCOME TAX tough primary fight is sault at such a strategic spot as opposed by big private power Purcell in his job, is connected with Munsell Company.) Thus, Purcell, who runs U.

S. mica op companies. erations for. Jesse Jones, could (Copyright, 1944, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) lean out of his window and discuss mica prices and production The season for whooping cough is at hand. with his next door neighbor, an official of the British group.

One thing the Justice depart It begins in the Northern States in January and February. In the Southern States the peak of incidence is in May. And the season for this disease lasts a long time, running into the summer months. Indeed in epidemics many new cases occur in the early summer months. ment is interested in, in addition to the urgent war needs of mica, is domestic production after the war.

The British trust long has TO THE PEOPLE OF THE VALLEY BONDS FIT PICTURE What is nearest and dearest to you is the safe return of your sou or brother or husband. You want to tee til the boys from this community built up the myth that its mica (obtained from India) is the world's best, just as the British Inexperienced parents are likely to regard it formerly sold the idea that Shef as a mild childhood disease. But it is far from The Literary Guidepost By JOHN SELBY field was the world best quality of cutlery steel. that. The little patients may become very sick.

come home soon sod safely. However, the Bureau of Stan Complications, such as pneumonia, make it dards, after testing samples from very dangerous. So precautions and proper various parts of the world, has treatment are alwavs in order. mi it 111 iiL'JI'i "NOBODY LIVES FOREVER," by You won't be very happy if that empty chair will still be empty when the BIG DAY st Ions last comes. The prevention of whooping cough by the use failed to find any difference between foreign and domestic mica.

India and the U.S.A. are the world's only important producing countries, but the product from India has so completely dominated world markets that the United W. R. Burnett W. R.

Burnett is still writing about bang-bang crooks, with a difference. Mr. Burnett is one of the few practitioners in his field of pertussis vaccine is fairly, although not universally, successful. The vaccine should be en between the ages of six and twelve months. A vaccine and an antigen are also used in the treatment, but not with any great measure of success.

we chose. The answer undoubtedly is that they didn't have sufficient forces to safeguard all potential invasion points. The ring of disaster is closing in on Hitler. He is being pushed to the limit to defend himself against the furious onslaught of the Red armies on the long Rus-so-German battle front. The Balkans also are straining his resources, and he has to keep western Europe manned for the final reckoning which is hurtling down on him He no longer is capable of throwing into the Italian fighting all the power he needs or into the fighting anywhere else, for that matter.

That's not the whole story, though. The Fuehrer perhaps could have made a better defense of the invasion had it not been for the Allied domination of the air over Italy and the superb work of the American and British bombing fleets. The Allied air force and navy has so disrupted communications both north and south of Rome, which is the hub of all Italy's main railways, that the Nazis must be hard pushed to move troops and supplies. The main German reservoir or manpower in Italy is north of Rome much of it in the far north and indications are that the railways above Rome were cut by bombing before the landings were undertaken. The invading troops captured the town of Nettuno and have driven several miles inland from their beachheads.

One would expect them to make an immediate effort to get astride the main coastal railway from Rome, and thus completely sever the German rail communication to their forces which are opposing our Fifth army along the line of the Garig-liano river. The Nazis are believed to have some five divisions in the battle line across the peninsula, and one of the main objectives of our new States supplies less than twenty who thinks crooks are people. He does not write mysteries, and as percent of its own requirements. RETURNS BY PERSONS ABROAD Federal income tax returns for the calendar year 1943 must, in general, be filed not later than midnight of March 15, 1944. Both members of the armed forces and civilians who are outside of this country on March 15, 1944, when the Federal income tax returns are due, will have automatic postponement of the due dates for filing the returns and for paying the tax.

In many cases, the postponement will make returns from these persons unnecessary until some time after they return to this country or after the end of the present war. An extension for the military or naval forces who, when the return or payment is due, are on active duty outside the Americas or the continental United States (the States and the District of Colum-bit). or are on sea duty, permits postponement of the filing or payment until the 15th day of the fourth month following the month in which they cease to serve on sea duty or outside the continental United States, but not beyond the 15th day of the third month following the month in which the present war ends. Earnings received from employment and personal services outside the United States (meaning, for this purpose, outside of the States, the Territories of Alaska and Hawaii, and the District of Columbia) are subject to income tax for 1943 unless the taxpayer establishes to the satisfaction of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue that he was a bona fide resident of a foreign country during the entire taxable year and that the earnings were received from an employer other than the United States or an agency of the United States. A citizen of the United States (Continued on Page 8) This became a subject of alarm far as 1 know, he never has.

Nei during the last war, and the Tariff commission subsequently re ther does he write long-beard psychological studies. He writes A new treatment which will be somewhat sur- ported: "Control of supplies by London was clearly manifest dur prising to most doctors is the use of adrenal cortex. At least it is surprising to me, and I His latest book is called "Nobody Lives Forever," and it is as ing the last war and was exer cised to the fullest extent through good entertainment as the season will provide. It is set in and Buying an EXTRA AR BOND of two fits into this picture. Brigadier General Albert J.

Browning, of on top ranking supply men, tells you "Where opposing armies have nearly equal equipment, losses are usually heavy on both sides. But where one side has superior quantity and quality, its losses of men are while those of the other side mount appallingly." Extra War Bonds foot the bill for extra war equipment. Your extra 100 War Bond has paid for an all-important tommy gun or an extra dip of bullets or an extra medical packet. Yon have made it posiible. "Left Back the Attack" with Extra War Bonds.

THE EDITOR. the British Ministry of Munitions. The total world supply, rigidly don't see how anyone thought of it. But it has a good theoretical basis I admit now that it has been explained to me. around Los Angeles, it concerns a controlled from London, proved just sufficient during the war for campaign against the large fortune of a gentle and naive lady by a top crook who makes the mistake of allying himself temporar Not the least dangerous of the symptoms of the needs of all countries except Germany and its allies." Today, Justice department offi ily with a low-grade mob, and it whooping cough is the vomiting.

This comes at the end of prolonged coughing fits and is simply a reflex due to gagging. cials are investigating to see whether the British, together with their friends in the U.S.A., are It is very depleting and especially because it still trying to keep production down so that their companies will causes a great loss of chlorides from the body. be supreme after this war also. is a tragedy. I don't mean by this that the book merely ends in a few deaths, but that the essential basis of genuine tragedy is realized.

This is that the reader must have some sympathy for the character involved. The crook is a man named Jim Farrar, crazy about a twerp named Tony, and served by a rea This may be the cause of the slow development Private Breger Abroad by It. Dav Brtgtr of immunity in the disease, for notoriously it is of long duration, and may last several months. The adrenal cortex helps to fix chloride in the body. That is the theoretical basis for its use, and, as I say, it seems to me sound.

sonably decent lawyer named Johnny. Jim is induced (for com plicated reasons), to take over the Back the Attack The Fourth War Loan is part and parcel of the preparations for the all-out smash at Germany and Japan, The slogan, "Let's all Back the Attack," conveys the note of urgency to everyone of us to do our utmost to make certain that we do not have another Dunkerque or Dieppe on our hands. If you have anyone near the battlefront and who has not you will want to sacrifice to the point of hurt to buy extra war bonds. This is the kind of a war you as an individual can't brush off. You're in it to the hilt.

Not since the very beginning of the Republic have the ringing words of the Founding Fathers "we pledge our lives and our fortunes" resounded so clearly and so truly. Because if we lose, we lose all not only as a nation but as individuals. In the big assault, in which men from this community men from your very home and your neighbors' homes will be braving every terror a Hitler can hurl against them you have a job to do. You can't afford to take the chance that you will not be needed. Every man and woman and even our children must deny themselves comforts and luxuries to put the money into extra war bonds in order to achieve in some measure the sacrifices which their sons, brothers, fathers, husbands and friends will make in the next few months, perhaps weeks.

The fateful days are here. In the years to come you will look back at the early months of 1944 and recall what you did to help save yourself, your family and your country. Every home which displays the Treasury Department's 4th War Loan, red, white and blue shield with its proud message, "We've Bought Extra Bonds," is adding its weight to the attack. In doing your duty in the forthcoming invasion to crush our enemies, you are first being loyal to your country. However, you must not lose sight of the fact that "buying bonds" and keeping them is actually saving money.

Bonds are savings. They are real social security, real oH age insurance. At least it works in practice. Studying over Flashes of Life By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS three hundred cases of whooping cough, Dr. Lewis Jacobs gave over a hundred of them no specific treatment at all.

These were the controls. In these the coughing lasted for 10 weeks the whooping for five weeks and the vomiting three and a half weeks. plucking of a rich Gladys Halvor-sen. Everybody involved, except the victim, realizes that it is dangerous to collaborate with a 'gang headed by a hop-head like Doc whatever his name was, but Jim does. He thinks he can handle anything.

The complication turns out to be something nobody had remotely suspected the master crook comes at first to respect and at last to love, in his warped way, the victim. He is forced to marry her, which is bad technique, and later he is forced to kill his junk-filled collaborator, the Doc aforementioned. But Gladys is still loyal, although horrorstruck. That is about all it is wise to Other groups were given antigen and other the city council passes an ordinance to accept a bequest from an estate. The will has, however, one provision concerning the gift.

The money must be used for the erection of a drinking trough for horses. Came The Dawn FORT BENNING, Ga. The Fort Benning sentry was alert as dawn peeped over the horizon at the post. He sounded a fire alarm after seeing a glow, but the firemen found it was the sun striking a barracks window. pertussis vaccine with hardly any improvement in the duration of these symptoms over the controls.

The group to whom adrenal cortex was civen showed that coughing lasted at most four and a tell, and perhaps more. The story I is stuffed with characters quite half weeks (as contrasted with 10 weeks for the controls), the whooping lasted two to three weeks (controls five weeks), and the vomiting one to two weeks (controls three and half out of the ordinary, one or two of Hairy Problem MOSQUERO. N. M. Men in this cowtown are mumbling in their beards.

The only barber moved away. Another moved in. but the draft board whisked him to the army. Townsmen cagily imported a woman barber from Texas. Before she could finish the job the state hustled her off for a license examination.

The license was denied. whom appear to have been intro Ordinance: No Ordnance PAW PAW, Mich. A 'small cannon of Civil War days passed out of the hands of the descendants of a Union soldier over the weekend. The present owner fired a shot heard 'round the village. Neighbors complained to police.

The citizen said he was 'only trying out the piece. Justice Glenn Huey dismissed the case when the cannon was turned over to the court. duced by Mr. Burnett for the weeks). Old fashioned treatments should not be aban- same purpose that impels women to strew themselves with costume jewelry.

But the hard core of the story remains always, and the denouement is certainly neither forced nor merely contrived. All the people have lungs that pump, hearts that beat, and emotions that fluctuate. Besides, the novel is fua to read. doned while giving this new remedy. The standby is a snug abdominal binder to give the whooper something to cough against.

Fresh air and small feedings rather than large are also "The train's due any minute in fact, there's the engi- Hollywood Language LOS ANGELES The plebian hot dog is now known at a frankfurter-on-a-bun stand as: "Steak in tights." For Horses Only CHICAGO The city of will be richer by $500 if helpful..