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Territories, Some Other Areas.

By WILLIAM

ip - PHILIP SIMMS }

Te _Scripps-Howard Foreign Editor

ASHINTON, March 2.—It is now fairly certain that

Joseph Stalin has already redra

Europe as he wants it

€ only thing likely to cause him materially to change id would be an Anglo-American invasion of Western

after the war.

stopping only at Berlin or points beyond.

nd is likely to emerge in an entirely new shape. She obably have a slice taken from her in the east and a ded by way of compensation in the west, giving her

access to the sea than ever. huania, Latvia, Estonia, Karelia, Bessarabia, Mol-

nd part of Finland are ore officially pro3, : as integral parts of viet Union. . happens elsewhere in Eupend§ on British and AmerPremier Stalin has not yet etail with regard to Pois reason to believe that insist on approximately the which Moscow and Berlin at the time of the 1939 par“This line ran from southern _via Bialystok, Brest-Lit-Vladimir, Valinsk and Lvov Carpathians near the junche Rumanian-Polish fron-

Would Lose Vilna : \ EE . y of compensation, it is ¥Russia would give Poland issia, Pomerania as far west in, and perhaps a-part of This would include Danzig er excellent ports on the as well as the old Polish and the strictly Polish harGydnia. ~~ - ; : hat Poland, herself, might all ‘this is not a matter

of it, certainly,|

be altogether to her lik- } an arrangement, for exd cost her Vilna, birtharshal Pilsudski, modern gorge. Washington. But ssia considers Vilna as to Lithuania, and Lithupelt nging to the. Soviet would seem to be little —or Britain, or Amerif Stalin should insist.

ays“for Russia Se who know Stalin best 1 do exactly that.

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ost ' consistent statesmen world.” He is always for Even if, like a clever player , football, he dodges this ‘that, his final goal is to the Soviet Union. What in September, 1939, therees an excellent clue in first of September, 1939, S Cros the Polish marching eastward. About of September, Russian ed the Polish frontier,

westward. Shortly there- |:

two armies met about ong the line sketched ‘ten days later, Nazi Minister Joachim von RibIt to Moscow. On Sept. in the morning, the Mosbroadcast the official anent of a pact fixing the new erman frontier and reveal‘new Polish state would ct. 31, in an 85-minute before the supreme Soviet, cated that “there can ion of restoring Poland.”

nd Now Russia’s Ally

nuch water has gone over since then. ~ Hitler - was ugh to attack Russia. , after bending danger- : unded the world by back so hard that today legions are on the run with ct of being beaten back frontier set in 1939. r, Poland has become gallant ally. Without wava2 moment, Poland forgot

‘done her by the Soviets|

out her hand in friend1ssia, therefore, is expectsider but probably not Phat is to say, Russia on to eastern Poland into te Russia blends, and ike Germany, the enemy ompensate Poland for her

EEL THE WAR , ICKES WARNS GTON, March 2 (U. P.), Secretary Harold L. Ickes day the American people d feel the effects of total than they have up

@ fishing industry conIckes said that food ly went to supply the .of this country and some: surplus for export, be used to feed many ns of people. ous food-producing e country are going to the limit if we are - we must, our armed an population of the 1s, and the number of will be freed one by one

i of ‘the axis

5t aiders will hear : BE of the medical “service, at 8 ow at the’ first aid n center.in the Irv-

35 RED CROSS GIRLS IN INDIA

Entertain Yank Troops and Arrange Dances With

Indian Women.

By A. T. STEELE

AT AN AMERICAN BASE IN INDIA, March 2.—Of all America’s gifts to her fighting men in this remote theater of the world battleground, few are more appreciated than those 35 young women who have been sent here by the American Red Cross to bring cheer into the humdrum exist- - ence of the Yank troops. ~ They are a part of the small foreé of Red Cross ‘workers, men and women, which is here to establish recreational centers, arrange entertainment, provide welfare services and otherwise take as much of the grimness as possible out of the business of war. It has taken a long time for American women to maze their appearance in any numbers on the Asiatic- front and they are still few encugh to be a curiosity wherever they appear. : When Miss Alice Todd, the first of the American Red Cross girls, showed up at this faraway base recently, the American boys were so pleasantly startled that they would stop her in the street and talk to her for the sake, as one of them put it, of “diseovering whether she was real or just a vision out of another world.’

1+ Set Up Centers It is the aim of the Red Cross to

iset up a “day room” or recreation

room, or both, in every American army post. The day room is a place where the boys can come at any time of day to lounge, read and listen to the radio. The idea is to duplicate as nearly as possible the living rooms of their own homes. Checkers and card games can be played, but gambling and drinks are out. When the Red Cross took over the recreation room at an American post recently, the enlisted men voted politely to rule out the sale of beer on the pretext that the local brand of this beverage tasted like dishwater and ‘was too highpriced anyway.> This saved the Red Cross the embarrassment of being dictatorial on the matter. 2 . Ong of the most difficult assignments periodieally given these Red Cross lasses is to mobilize refined Indian girls 4s hostesses for American dances. Indian etiquette fraditionally is so strict that when an Indian girl comes to dance she thinks she ought to bring her whole family with her. :

SAYS PRICE CEILING PLANNED ON HOGS

WASHINGTON, March 2 (U. P.). —Senator James M. Mead (D.N.Y.) disclosed today that Price Administrator Prentiss M. Brown outlined a plan to establish price ceilings on live hogs during a joint executive session-of the senate and house small business committees yesterday. He said 35 industry officials who attended, OPA representatives and congressmen generally agreed that "the step was the only possible means of keeping independent ‘packers in business.

Mesdames McNutt, Jones, Wickard Find Cupboard Bare

WASHINGTON, March 2 (U. P.). —At least three wives’ of cabinet members had_such a small supply of food in their pantries last week

that they didn’t have to declare any excess cans of food for ration book registration. Mrs. Jesse Jones, wife of the secretary of commerce, seemed to reflect the feelings of most of the cabinet wives when she said: “I had no excess for two reasons. I didn’t want to have more canned food on hand than I was entitled to, and I don’t have the storage space to keep a lot of canned food.” ‘Mrs. Jones thought she would “manage beautifully on what the government allows us.” She revealed that she makes the Jones’ soup, which will help some.

BATER RUSSIA

tly Has Changed Mind About Destroying Finland ut Is Expected to Insist on Baltic

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Times Special ; : LONDON, March 2—It was raining. Down the straight French road leading into Douai streamed a motorcade of olive-brown

escort. The king of England in the first year of war was arriving to inspect his divisions of that ‘afen 20

whith lined the road every sixth’ poplar - tree, until they had reached a large, pretentious villa with iron lace gates where the Union Jack and Tricolor drooped in. the wet. ber . British generals, most of them grown old in a service whose methods were out-of-date, stepped from cars to be presented; but there arrived suddenly without escort a small man with dark hair and dark mustache whose boots shone even in the rain. Energy . radiated from him, and as he strode to his place in line he looked round with a truculent glare, like saying “What the hell’s ‘this waste of time for?” : War correspondents - sajd his arrival eclipsed everyone, It was to this 50-year-old.Brit-ish general of the Irish guards, Sir Harold Alexander, that Lord Gort later handed the job of evacuating British forces from Dunkirk. + He was the last man to leave the bombed beaches and at the end, in the half-light, he toured the desolate sands to make sure nobody was left.

v ® 2 = ‘ Commando Proponent

to Alexander at this time:. “The position is catastrophic.” Alexander replied: “I am sorry, but I don’t understand long words like that.” During the months in Britain which followed Dunkirk it was Alexander, as GOC of the southern command in England charged with the defense against invasion

WASHINGTON, March 2 (U. PJ —MTrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt said yesterday at a press conference that King George and Queen Elizabeth of Great Britain are cutting down on clothes consumption and that “surely if they can get along on less and accept the fact, we can t00.” “We must take the canned foods rationing calmly and try to learn the point system,” she said. “The British women have learned it and certainly we are not less intelligent than they are. “And if the government has to ration other things we should accept with good spirits. It is just too stupid to hoard.” Mrs. Roosevelt said she planned to supplement canned foods con-

WAR WRITER ON CATHOLIC FORUM

Russell Wright, a war correspondent and photographer who twice was jailed by the gestapo for taking “forbidden” pictures inside Nazi Germany, is to appear at English’s - theater : next Sfinday at 3:30. p. m. under auspices of ‘the Indianapolis Catholic Forum. In connection. with his lecture, Mr. Wright will show and narrate his motion picture, “It's To- § tal War,” a documentary film Mr. Weight which, is said to be exclusive, dramatic and vivid, The film includes scenes of commandos in action, the allies’ bombing of Germany, U. S. troops’ on foreign soil, the U. S. navy in the Pacific and such: world personalities. as Churchill, Hitler, Goebbels, Franco, Petain and De Gaulle. There are scenes taken during the time of Hitler's rise to power, the civil war in Spain, invasion of Poland, fall of France and the war in Russia. Mr. Wright has covered the war fronts as a representative of press associations, Look magazine and Universal Newsreel. Edward J. Fillenwarth will preside. : —————————————————————————

ALTAR GROUP TO MEET

The March Band of the Altar society of St. Catherine's Catholic church will meet at 12:15 p. m. tomorrow in the school ‘hall for a luncheon and card party. Mrs. Martin Sanders will act as hostess assisted by Mrs. Herman Grote.

tary of agriculture, also makes her own soup and occasionally makes her husband’s supper. The Wickards also had nothing in excess of the quota because they feel they are the first family in the country that should stand ready to adjust their diet to wartime conditions. : Mrs. Paul V. McNutt, wife of the manpower chief, went down to her ration board to register for herself, her husband and daughter. Sne had nothing to declare in excess of the quota. Mrs. Harold L. Ickes, wife of the secretary of the interior, is so interested in’ her heme garden that she had barely time to register. The Ickes do not live on canned food, as they have a large farm at Olney, Md., famous for its yegetables as

Alexander, | “Is Modest; But Audacious in Battle

Humbers preceded by motorcycle

A STAFF OFFICER: remarked .

Mrs. R. Urges U. S. Shoppers To Léarn the Point System

senhower’s Right H and ?

«They swept past 9.2 howitzers

as -long as possible at the hands of a Japanese army smashing toward Rangoon. It was his job to save, as at Dunkirk, those fabulously brave men who fought so long against overwhelming - numbers and superior equipment. He arrived at divisional headquarters on the edge of the jungle ‘near Pegu. There was now no sign of elegance. the highly polished boots and instead of whipcord breeches it was khaki shorts, brown shirt and Sam Browne. The Japs had cut the road to the north of his new command. It was Alexander’s first official field job to dislodge them from their hew positions. He blew them -out. : And thereafter, following the retreat from Rangoon, he commanded troops who fought as splendidly as any who ever made history, i : They needed more men, guns,

and airplanes more than they

Sir Harold Alexander

of southern coastland, who was largely instrumental in: introducing both battle schools and the commando spirit into the army. A tough, aggressive fighter who three times has been called upon to wage vital defensive action to save a British army from crushing defeat, he is nevertheless an . advocate of the offensive. During southern command days, he taught Junior officers they must infiltrate; take advantage of any gaps

“We should not be content to “ sit behind concrete fortifications,” he said, “we should take every chance of hitting back where the enemy is least expecting us.” ' # #2 = Hurried to Burma

ALEXANDER, was taken from his southern command and sent by air to Burma to delay defeat

sumed at her New York apartment with gardén produce preserved at the Roosevelt Hyde Park estate. The White House lawns, however, will not be ploughed up, she added. “THe land at the White House is not suited for a victory garden,” she explained, “and<"it—_is wasteful plant inadvisedly.” In a discussion of utilization of older women in war industry and on the farm, Mrs. Roosevelt commented that “women over 50 often feel stronger than they did at 40.” She said women over 50 should take psychiatric and physical examinations frequently. “I'm 58,” she said. “I don’t know whether I could pass these examinations myself but I'd certainly be

probably needed a new general just at this moment. Yet it was Alexander who succeeded in knitting them together for the long, slow, heart-breaking retreat. ° --With this handful of men, Alexander fought for nearly three months a battle that, by all the rules, should have ended in one. These men, saved from. capture, now form. the nucleus around which the Anglo-American high command plans to form an army which will dwrest Burma back from Japan.

He Took No Credit

NEXT GEN. ALEXANDER, successfully fulfilled the largest assignment of his career. As com-mander-in-chief of allied troops in the Middle East, he turned the retreats of ‘Auchinlek and other previous Middle East military chiefs into victory with a mighty offensive that drove the foxy Rommel out of -Egypt and Libya and clean into Tunisia. Of his part in that great drive, a8 government .spokesman here said: “Make no mistake. That was Alexander’s battle. He was So modest -that, as Middle East communiques floated across his desk, he would deléte his name from dispatches to the world and

‘insert the names of Gen. Mont-

gomery and other staff officers.” Today, as deputy commander-in-chief under America’s Gen.

Eisenhower in the final phase of

the African campaign, Alexander enjoys the full confidence of London and Washington. It is felt that the man who in the last war commanded. a battalion of the Irish Guards at 24, and who himself went over the top in France 30 times, can impart the boldness and resolution of his character to British, American and French troops alike.

Gone were

N. Y. Governor Says He Won't Enter White

House Race.

. By S. BURTON HEATH Times Special Writer ALBANY, N. Y.,, March 2.—Governor Thomas E. Dewey of New York ‘flatly ‘and unequivocally has taken himself out of the 1944 presidential race. ; : In an exclusive interview with this correspondent Mr. Dewey said: “I shall not be a candidate for any nomination during this term. My sole desire is to do the best job I know how for the state of New York for the next four years.” This statement gained added significance because it followed closely upon reports from Indiana

‘|that Wendell Willkie, who took the

1940 Republican nomination from Mr. Dewey at the last minute, has about decided to be a candidate again, = -1948, Maybe? A Willkie candidacy was one thing which many felt would almost force Mr. Dewey to enter the 1944 race. The last three words of the first sentence of today’s statement— “during this term”—almost serves open warning that Mr. Dewey has the 1948 Republican nomination as his goal. ; : Politicians, some of them close to

‘Mr. Dewey, had hot been certain

how to interpret his previous denial of 1944 ambition, which originally was made at Saratoga last Aug. 24 when, accepting the guber-

"| natorial nomination, he said:

“Neither you nor I are here econcerned: with 1944. This convention and the Republican campaign are concerned only with the winning of the war and with good government for the people of the state of New. York for the next four years. “For my part, let me say right now that I shall devote the next four years exclusively to the service of the people of New York state.”

May Be An “Out”

Before talking with Governor Dewey I canvassed Republican leaders who have long been associated with him. None of them felt that the Saratoga utterance was a complete bar against ‘a 1944 candidacy. One said, and others concurred: “New York is part of the United States, and a president serves the people of New York in common with those of the other states. 'I do not believe that Dewey intends to seek a nomination, but if there were a “draft” he could accept and, if elected, could serve the people of New York from Washington.” Today’s statement, however, puts Governor Dewey’s own seal upon

and long-time intimate, Paul Lockwood, in a letter to an inquirer: - “He is not, and will’ not become a. candidate for any other nomina-

tion during his term.”

CHOOSE TO RUN]

the assertion made by his secretary.

:|the . destruction of ~non-German

R.A.F. Pilot Would Rather ‘Bomb Reich; Chief U-Boat Bases in France.

and The Chicago Dally ‘News, Inc. LONDON, March 2—It is ree grettable that the necessity to cone _ centrate on U-boat bases involves

"| towns.

George B. McKibben, Republican candidate, whe will oppose . Chicago’s long-term mayor, Edward J. Kelly, in forthcoming April elections.

BARES ‘PASSION T0 RAISE WAGES Requests Com From 2

PHILADELPHIA, March 2 (U.P). —Dr. George W. Taylor, vice chairman of the war labor board, said today that 70 per cent of all wage cases considered by the board are submitted by employers “who have suddenly developed a deep-seated passion to raise wages.” Taylor spoke at a joint labormanagement conference conducted by the regional WLB- for Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey, Virginia, Delaware, Maryland and the District of Columbia. “I wish you could sit at my desk and see the employers stream in saying, ‘We have an inequality in our plant. Unless you raise wages by tomorrow, there’s going to be. hell to pay at the plant’ ” Taylor said. “When I ask them what the matter is, they answer, ‘Our wages are sub-standard. It is a crime to ask anybody to work for wages like that.” ”

WLB Official Says 70%

Explains Formula ° Taylor said that the board's “Little Steel” formula which limits wage increases generally to 15 per cent of what they were on Jan. 1, 1941, “was never intended to prevent a decrease in the American standard of living.” “There has been some misconception about the objective of the Little Steel formula,” he said. “It is not ‘intended to insure that the standards of living will not decrease in this country. Of course they are going to decrease.” “I, for one, wouldn't want to go through this war without a material reduction in my standard of living or in my well-being, and I believe

The bomber command men pres fer attacking targets in the Reich because then German property is destroyed, German “lives are lost and the effect on German morale is much greater. But except for Wilhelmshaven— J which certainly is not being: overs looked—the chief Ge submae rine bases are on French soil, "At both St. Nazaire and Lorient, - everything possible that is needed for U-boat warfare has been put underground. U-boats are “gae raged” in concrete shelters and it not known how: much ‘other ese. ntial stores, etc, are similarly safe underground. ; - The present British bombing policy is, therefore, necessarily exe

berimental.

Deprived of Utilities

The united nations’ bomber come: manders are trying to ascertain whether bases can be rendered use less by the total destruction of ene tire ports which, thereby, are made uninhabitable and devoid of publie services like water, gas and light, That is what has already been done in Lorient, which was several times precision-bombed by the U..8 eighth air force and then plastered Sunday night by the R. A. F. ~ The sanie policy is being followed at St. Nazaire. Sunday night's ate : tack, it is understqod, was cer tainly the equal of anything that Lorient has had. i Despite the great strength of the force. sent out, only six night bombers were reported missing and the crews say that the opposition was only moderate with a very few night fighters. During earlier visits | many different types of night fighters were encountered there.

‘CUT MILEAGE’—F.D.R.

—President Roosevelt yesterday called for a 40 per cent cut in milee age of all government cars. He

‘| called upon each federal departs

ment and agency to appoint a mile« age administrator to organize and control the use of that agency’s vehicles tp effect the mileage cut. I ———— ed

DENTISTS TO MEET

The regular monthly. meeting of the Indianapolis Dental society will be held at 6:30 p. m, Monday in the Lincoln hotel. Dr. J. H. Sharon, Cincinnati, will speak on “Engineer=

that’s the real honest-to-God sentiment of everyone in this room.”

ing Principles Influencing Modern Dental Bridge Design.”

willing to try.”

Second Hairnet

® o Taboo, Girls Quit ST. LOUIS, March 2 (U. P.).— | One hairnet or two—that was the question as 25 women ammu- | nition makers left their jobs at the St. Louis ordnance plant, | firmly convinced that one net wasn’t enough. A The walkout came when a plant official decided to enforce the ruling that each woman employed must wear only one regulation ‘hairnet. The women maintained that it took two for proper protection of their hair. “Its our hair, not his,” one of the leaders said, “and we're going to protect it. What good are jobs if a girl loses her hair?” : Giving the women three days to choose between one hairnet and their jobs, company spokesmen said that if Veronica Lake could sacrifice her long tresses for wartime efficiency, women employees should be able to get along with one hairnet.

BILL WOULD DOUBLE SERVICE MEN'S PAY

WASHINGTON, March 2 (U, P.). —=Senator William Langer (R. N, D.) introduced a bill yesterday which would double the monthly base pay of enlisted men in the armed services from $50 to $100. The scale of compensation under Langer’s proposal would be: First grade, $188 a month; second grade, $164; third grade, $146; fourth grade, $128; fifth grade, $116; sixth grade, $104, and seventh grade, $100.' Chief petty officers would receive $176. Langer introduced also a bil to

prevent foreclosure of any mortgage held by the Home Owners Loan Corp. until termination of the present unlimited national emergency as proclaimed by the president May 27, 1941,

RULES FIRM MUST PAY REINSTATED |

WASHINGTON, March 2 (U. P).| —The supreme court ruled yesterday that employers who are ordered to reinstate with back pay workers discharged in violation of the national’ labor relations act, may not deduct from the ¢{ffyment amounts which the workers received as unemployment insurance during their idleness. Y The ruling was made ‘in the case of Marshall Field & Co. Chicago department store, which had been ordered to reinstate Anice Swift and Georgia Papas Kelly, The company proffered $1967 to Miss Swift and $895 to Miss Kelly minus payments they had reecived from - the Illinois unemployment

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