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Americans. View Kuomintang-Com-

munist Unity as Vital. By A. T. STEELE

Times Foreign Correspondent .

CHUNGKING, Nov. 13—Al-

though the military © situation: in|.

China never has been worse, signs are not lacking that significant reforms in China's political amd military structure may not be far off. . . Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell’s departure has not affected—in fact, it “has improved—the. prospects for such changes. There has been no breakdown as yet in the negotiations and discussions here. The next few weeks should show whether the impending changes will be many or few, and whether they will be superficial or fundamental. American interest in the current situation is based solely on the desire to bring the war against Japan to the earliest possible conclusion, with minimum expenditure of American and, of course, Chinese, lives.

Military Unity Needed

It is evident to Americans here, and to nearly all Chinese, that the basic requirement for the most effective Chinese co-operation in the war effort is military unity between the two major anti-Japa-nese elements in China — Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang and Mao Tse-Tung's Chinese Communists. These two camps must bury the hatchet, at least until the end of the war, if other reforms are to have the maximum effect. S80 divergent are the political views of these two parties that any fundamental solution of their differences cannot be expected for the time being. The best that can be hoped for is a truce which would make possible the maximum utilization of their respective military re- | sources (with American material help and co-operation) ' for the sole purpose of destroying the Japanese, This, if it could be realized, would lay the foundation for a greatly in-

. creased Chinese contribution to the!’

war and would have an enormous psychological effect on China's frustrated and. war-weary millions

Other Reforms

On such a base, other needed reforms like the reshuffling of personnel, the reorganization of the army, the reduction of transportation and supply difficulties, the improvement of industrial production and better allocation of American materials would have real meaning. The Sino-American atmosphere here today is more harmonious than it ‘has been for many months. Whether it will continue to grow better depends on the developments -0f coming weeks. The chances are no worse than 50-50

HINDU TO GIVE TALK ON INDIA’S PEACE ROLE

Ranendra Kumar Das of Caltutta, India, will spéak before the Indianapolis Lions club at its Wednesday noon luncheon at the Claypool hotel, Mr. Das will discuss “India and Its Role in the World Peace.” The young Hindu received his high school and college educations in India and has been a student at| the University of Illinois, the Ford School of Technology, the Carnegie Institute of Technology and the University of Cincinnati, where #he received the Taft scholarship,

EFORMS SEEN | ‘NEAR IN CHINA

in Chungking

{in the Midwest will be completed at

‘iat Columbus, O. Mrs. Drake is a

and Mr, and Mrs.

(will meet at 8 p. m. Wednesday at

JAMES McMAHON started out to admire the bombardier's wings which had been pinned on his father, 2d Lt. John E. McMahon, at Carlsbad field; N. M., but was led astray by some other shining objects he Tound as interesting. Lt. McMahon's wife, Rose Catherine, 5140 E. Washington st, seems equally interested, Lt, McMahon is the son of Mr, and Mrs. Lawrence E, McMahon, 26 N.. Tremont

ALUMNI TO NOTE 0.3. U. FOUNDING

Indianapolis Groups to Meet Here Dec. 1; Servicemen Are Guests.

Members of the Ohio State university alumni and alumnae clubs in Indianapolis will observe the 74th

anniversary of the university's founding at 8 p. m. Dec. 1 at the home of Dr. and Mrs. John H, Warvel, 4360 Kessler blvd. Guests of honor will be alumni statiored at Ft. Harrison, Camp Atterbury, Stout field and the naval armory, and wives of local alumni in service, Indianapolis alumni not affiijated with the club also have been invited, The alumnae Christmas stocking project for service men in hospitals

the meeting. Mrs, Robert E. Osborne, president, is in charge of the project. Two Delegates Named

The alumnae will send Mrs. Carl | E, Bruce and Mrs. Donald C, Drake to the mid-winter meeting of the university alumnae council Dec. 9

member of th@ council executive board as immediate past president, Plans also will be made for an alumni luncheon Dec. 4 at Guaranty cafeteria and a luncheon and bridge party for alumnae Dec. 12 at the home of Mrs. Hugh J. Baker Sr. 3062 N. New Jersey st.

Members of Committee

Mr. and Mrs, Wililam B. McCaw, general chairman, are being assisted by the following committee members, Mr. and Mrs. and Mrs. Hugh Mrs. Elmer L. Beeler, Mr, Herschel Goodman, Mr. and Mrs, Philip G. Beck, Dr. snd Mrs. Arthur PFocke, Mr. and Mrs, Bugene G. Rich, Mr. and Mrs. Roebrt Osborn, Mr, and Mrs. Hugh J. Baker Jr, Mr. and Mrs. Noble H. Poole, Miss Helen Draving, Miss Delores Marshall, Mr. and Mrs. Loren O. Brock Robert D. Wick. the reception com-

Robert T. Weiser, Mr. B. Stewart, Mr, and and Mrs.

Members of mittee are: . Dr. and Mrs. John R. Bwan, Mr, and Mrs.. Robert P, Joyce, Mr. and Mrs, Harry OG. Crawford. Mr. and Mrs, Claude B. Durham, Mrs. Hugh J. Baker 8r., Mra, Prank Evans, Dr. and Mrs, Marion R Shafer, Mr. and Mrs. Charles T. Harman, Mr. and Mrs. Don Rowles, Mr. and Mrs. Bliss B. Wells, Mr. and Mrs. Alan Al. bright, Mr. ‘and Mrs. Scott Legge, Mr. and Mrs. Donald Drake, Mrs. Maxwell McCollum, Mr, and Mis. Carl Bruce, Mr and Mrs. John H Jefferson and Dr. and Mrs. Clifton H. Wilgus,

CONVENE AT TEMPLE Southport chapter No. 442, 0. E. 8.

Southport Masonic temple, Mrs. Ora Brown, worthy matron, and

CHAPTER ENTERTAINS

Englewood chapter: No, 483, O. E.| 8. will entertain Mildred Y. Smith, | worthy grand matron, at a dinner at 6:30 p. m. today. Inspection will be held at 8 p, m. with May Spencer, worthy matron, and Ernest Spencer, worthy pairon, in sharge.

William Hartman, worthy patron, { will officiate.

GROTTO UNIT PLANS PARTY The Revellers auxiliary to Sahara Grotto will sponsor a card party at 8:30 p. m, tomorrow at the Fountain Square hall. Mrs. Frances | Hamilton is chairman,

Election Produces 4—Couni 'Em, 4—Cinderella Stories

By UNITED PRESS | Every national election- produces at least one or more political Cin derella stories, but Tuesday's bal. | loting produced four of them. Two of the election's rags to] riches tales concerned«G. 1's at Camp Lee, Va, another transformed a former Minneapolis stréet sweep-| er into a congressman overnight, and still another tailored a one-| time Idaho cowboy. into a United States senator. Cpl. C. Melvin Price, East St. Louis, Mo., was too busy unloading apples at Camp Lee to listen to the election returns Tuesday night and]

he didn't know he had been elected | election. He was dumfounded.

congressman {rom the 22d Illinois | district until Democratic organiza- | tion members notified him the following day,

In Army 13 Months Price, who defeated Republican

in the army for 13 months, He

made no. political speeches whatso- hag

ever, but depended entirely on his friends to carry out his campaign. The 39-yéar-old corporal,

the soldier.

“My victory makes me feel like a so

real representative of all .servicemen, and 1 know. something about. the enlisted men's pany of view,” he sald. Pleo. to Congressman 2 Another newly-elected CONgress-

0 “tfian who will be looking out for the

Sie Pfc. William J. Green Jr,

office,

(Ret to Washington to “look out for

{Richard P. Gale, Republican, until la tabulator's errér gave him an additional 10,000 votes to put him

Rep. Calvin D. Johnson,. had been 11 the lead by more than 2000.

since I got out of high school back in the nineties,” whose office before, except when he served army salary was $66 a month, said a5 president of the 3d Ward Demohe did not know when he would cratic club, but he had tried for be released from the sérvice to take | several minor posts. He was elected over his $10,000-a-year congres- on the Democratic - sional post in Washington, where {ticket and said he was he will look out for the interests of lof Woodrow Wilson,”

A draftee and the father of four childfen, Green was elected over incumbent C. Frederick Pracht, Republican, Green, a Democrat, is on leave of absence from his position in the Pennsylvania state treasurer's He said he was “thrilled” about his election and anxious to

the interests of the G. 1.'s” espepially, William J. Gallagher, a former Minneapolis street sweeper who

“did a little janitor” work to raise “under $200" for his campaign. ex{penses, wasn't thrilled about his

‘Beaten’ at First Gallagher was “beaten” hy Rep.

The 69-year-old Gallagher,. who been “political-minded ever

never held political

Farmer - Labor a “disciple

Gallagher said he planned to use mé of his congressional salary - to

redecorate his house. pr

* Glen H. Taylor rode into polities on horseback, but he'll ride to Wash-

ator from Idaho, * Taylor, a one-time cowboy 8 strel; beat Senator D, Worth Clark in the primary by only’ 202 votes, hut he piled up a 4000-vote lead over Governor C.

|llam, editor and publisher of the

ington in a Pullman as.U. Bashers. oy

FARM BUREAU | 70 MEET HERE

26th Convention Scheduled Wednesday, Thursday At Murat.

The 26th annual convention of the Indian rm Bureap, Inc, will be in session Wednesday and Thursday at the Murat theater. Wednesday's session will open at 10 a. m, with a message from Governor Schricker, - Hassil E. Schenck, president of the bureau, will speak at 11 a. m., preceding the commitfee appointments, Wednesday afternoon. speakers will include Dean Harry J. Reed, Purdue university, who will discuss the “Post-War Outlook for Rural Youth”; J. 8. Jones, executive secretary of the Minnesota Farm Bureau federation, and Eugene C. Pul-

Star and state director of war bond ales, who will speak on “The Farmers’ Quota for the Sixth War Loan.”

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Plan Memorial Service

A memorial service will be held at 3:20 p. m. with Mrs. Lillie D. Scott, chairwoman of the Social and Educational department in charge. The farm bureau queen will be crowned Wednesday evening and the winner of the public speaking contest will be announced. Judge Camille Kelly of the juvenile court at Memphis, Tenn, will discuss “Young America—~Our Greatest Asset and Responsibility.” . Speakers at Thursday's sessions include Edmona C. Foust, director of publicity for the Indiana farm bureau; Paul G. Hoffman, chairman of the Committee for Economic Development; Robert J. Watt, international representative of the American Federation of Labor; Roger Corbett, representative pf the American Federation of Labor, and Larry Brandon, secretary of the Indiang farm bureau,

*[Repiciican, eaudicate, yu lelection.

A. Bottolfsen, the|. i Tuesdays

desolate spruce forests of east Finland bands of escaped Russian war prisoners are living like fugitives in an attempt to avoid being re~ captured by Finnish soldiers.

On Most Subject. the Dionne Quintuplets Don’ f Acree.

~ But None of Them Has the Least Desire a Queen to Be

The following unusual interview was obtained fron the Dionne _ quintuplets by submitting a list of questions to them and taking down their individual answers, The children are now 10 years and six months old, ©

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7 By BRUCE McLEOD: United Press Staff Correspondent . CALLANDER, Ontario, Nov. 13.—~The Dionne quintuplets, dressed: in pink flowered dresses, sat on a sofa in their home here .and told in French what they think of such widely assorted sub Jects as Banta Claus and Americans. They agreed on only one thing. None of ‘them has the least

desire to be a queen. On all other subjects they gave varying answers.

A translation of the interview:

Q. What De You Think of Santa Claus? Yvonne: I like Santa Claus a lot. Marie: I like to have him come around to our house every year. Emilie: I hope he gets here this year, Annette: He's a nice man because he's always been so good to us. Cecile: He's fat but I like Him,

Q. What do you like about people? Yvonne: I like honest people. Cecile: I like people who can play the piano, Marie: I like people who are good to other people, Annette: I like people who are happy and gay. Emilie: I like people who are good to me,

Q. How big Is the world? Marie: It is very, very large. Emilie: It's a 10t bigger than the biggest house. Annette: It's very big. Yvonne: The world is so big nobody can get to the edge of it by walking. Cecile: 1t's too big for my eyes to see how big it is.

Q. Who are the people in the world? Emilie: Americans, French, Germans, , . Yvonne: Canadians, British . . . Cecile: There are Negroes and many Eskimos... Annette: Russians, the Indians, Cossacks... Marie: The Chinese and the Japanese , , ,

Q. Would you like to be a queen? All: No!

Q. Why wouldn't you like to be a queen? : Annette: I wouldn't want to be>honored all the time’ like a queen has to be, Emilie: A queen has to meet too many people. » Cecile: A queen has to sit down too much. Marie: A queen can't have fun. She's not free enough, ol anes If I were a Queen I wouldn't be able to do what I want 0, ; Q. What would you like to be when you grow up? Yvonne: I think aybe I would like to be a nun but I am not 80 surssabout that, = Cecile: Maybe 1 would like to be a musician, A musician can make people happy. Marie: I'd like to look after children, Emilie: It's a secret, ™ Annette: I think I would like best to stay with my parents.

* Q. Why do you like your sisters?

Annette: Because we have a lot of fun together. Yvonne: Because they set me good examples, Cecile: Because they always give me help, Marie: Because they are good to me. Emilie: Because they play good games. \ Q. What, are Americans? we Yvonne: Very nice people. Emilie: Very polite people, Cecile: Americans are doing a lot of work to help win the war. Annétte: American people have been very good to us. Marie: They have a very nice flag.

Q. What was the most wonderful thing that ever happened to you? Marie: The day of my first communion. I was excited. Cecile: It was to be united with our family. Annette: On my birthday one year, papa took us from the nursery back into the house where we were babies first. That was wonderful. Yvonne: The ‘most wonderful thing for me was the first night our whole family stayed together in the nursery-—-mama, papa and our sisters and brothers all together, ~ Emilie: For me, the most wonderful thing is'to have fun with mama and papa.

Russ Fugitives Hide in Finn Forests to Avoid Return Home

By NAT A. BARROWS

Times Foreign Correspondent

STOCKHOLM, Nov, 13.—In the

for not wanting to return to Russia, these war prisoners, estimated hy Finnish sources at several hundred, thus far, have managed for the most part to evade Finnish searching. parties carrying out stringent orders from Helsinki,

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Whatever their motives may be| Obliged by the Russo-Finnish to exist in the wilderness by killing armistice terms to turn over all|wild game and by night-time raids Russian prisoners, Finnish officials |upon isolated farms. are not especially happy over having to make awkward explana- |oners taken by the Finns have estions about these recent escapes. Those few Russians retaken by the Finns say that they managed

Finns have taken few prisoners.

and The Chicago Daily News, Inc.

Comparatively few German priscaped—for the simple reason the

Displeasure at Franco Intere ‘view May Be Blind to Aid Caudillo.

By PAUL GHALI Times Foreign Correspondent: BERNE, Switzerland, Nov. 13. German displeasure over Caudille Franco's recent statements to an American _ correspondent in which he proclaimed that Spain never had been Fascist nor had it been a close axis ally may lead to rupture of diplomatic relations between Spain and the Reich, ace cording to Berlin reports to the Swiss press today. Dr. Hans Dieckhoff, Germany's ambassador to Madrid, and Von Huene, its minister to Lisbon, at present in Berlin for “consulta tions,” will . not return to their posts; according to well-informed Berlin circles. The Berlin press airs profound discontent at the Spanish dictator's declarations but, according to poe litical observers here, this antie Spanish campaign against the man, who despite his present statements, has been the axis’ most faithful friend in Europe, is a blind simply intended to help Francisco Franco in his efforts to convince the ale

lies of his good faith.

GROTTO AUXILIARY PLANS 3 SESSIONS

Two meetings are scheduled by the Sahara Grotto auxiliary. next week. The ways and means come mittee of the Grotto auxiliary will

meet at 12:30 p. m. tomorrow at

the home of Mrs. Agnes Walls, 5911 E. 18th st., for a chicken dinner. The regular meeting of the auxiliary will be held Wednesday

at 4107 E. Washington st.

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