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Show Washington, D. C. ISOLATIONIST CTriD The nuptial rumor that the Chi cago Tribune's Col. Robert R. Mc Cormick was going to wed Mrs Helen Essary, widow of the Balti more Sun correspondent, was tolc to the President recently by one o: his aides. Both Colonel McCormiek and Mrs Essary are ardent isolationists ana vigorous critics of the administra. tion. In fact the colonel is consid ered the leading isolationist of the Midwest, if not the nation, while the Widow Essary, writing in the Washington Times-Herald, is prob-ably prob-ably the leading lady isolationist in the nation's capital. So the President received word ol this isolationist romance with considerable con-siderable interest. "I wonder," he mused, "what their progeny will be like." Note Later, Mrs. Essary heard about the President's remark and telephoned one of the White House aides to find out precisely what had been said. She did not comment as to whether the rumor of matrimony were true or untrue, but she showed great feminine curiosity regarding the President's comment. DAY VS. NIGHT BOMBING When Churchill and Roosevelt were in Casablanca, the British prime minister had a friendly argu-ment argu-ment with U. S. air generals regarding regard-ing the feasibility of daylight bombing. bomb-ing. Churchill was against it, arguing argu-ing that the British system of night bombing was much safer, did mora damage to the enemy. However, latest figures Just received re-ceived by the war department show that Gen. Ira Eaker was right in sticking to day bombing. These figures fig-ures show that U. S. bombers have knocked out Nazi fighter planes at a rate ten times greater than the British. Here are the figures: In July U.S. airmen destroyed 500 Axis planes, lost 108 bombers of their own. In other words we knocked out five times as many planes as we lost. In the same months, the British knocked out 129 enemy planes, but lost 258 of their own. In other words, the British lost two planes for every one they knocked out. The British were operating at night when they could not see the enemy so well, but also when the enemy could not see them. American Ameri-can planes, operating in the daylight, day-light, could better concentrate on enemy en-emy fighter planes, but also were better targets for the enemy. INFLATION REMEDY The President has a non-inflationary solution to organized labor's demands de-mands for wage increases to meet higher living costs: namely, non-negotiable non-negotiable bonds, payable after the war. Roosevelt revealed this secret during a confidential talk with R. J. Thomas, president of the United Auto Workers union, on price rollbacks, roll-backs, strikes and the War Labor board's Little Steel formula. Here is the summary of his views: Prices. Roosevelt stated that he would make a vigorous attempt to roll back Drices. He told Thomas that he would prefer that congress provide the money, but that, fail-ing fail-ing this, he would use either RFC or Commodity Credit corporation funds to restore the following food prices to their September, 1942, normal: nor-mal: Meat, canned goods, potatoes, milk and milk products. It would be too difficult, the President Presi-dent said, to attempt a rollback of clothing and personal services. He pointed out that rents already have been rolled back to March, 1941. Little Steel Formula. Roosevelt frankly stated that he was not enthusiastic en-thusiastic about any arbitrary ceiling ceil-ing on wages 15 per cent above those prevailing in January, 1941. However, he considered the Little Steel formula the best brake on wage inflation so far proposed. Instead, the President suggested that war workers would be much better off, and that the present wage stalemate between labor unions and the WLB could be broken, if work-men work-men agreed to accept non-negotiable bonds, payable after the war, in lieu of wage increases. CAPITAL CHAFF Manhattan Banker Jimmy Warburg War-burg was not only the mysterious "John Durfee," spanked by the President for calling Victor Emmanuel Emman-uel the "moronic little king," but he also was the fictitious "Wallace Her-rick" Her-rick" . . . Warburg has so dominated dominat-ed OWI'i foreign broadcasts that some people call it the "Office of Warburg Information" . INSIDE EUROPE Swiss Minister Charles Brugg-mann. Brugg-mann. brother-in-law of Henry Wallace, Wal-lace, is probably the only man in the United States who has recently passed through Germany. He not only visited Germany, but also France and Spain. In France ! he found the people downcast and downhearted. German soldiers on the streets of Paris went out of their way to be polite to the French people, peo-ple, even got off the sidewalks if necessary in deference to a Frenchman. |