Show ON Washington on D O C CUPID The nuptial rumor that the Chicago Chi Chicallo callo cago Tribunes CoL Robert R Mc McCormick McCormick Cormick was going to wed Mrs Helen Essary widow of the BaltI BaltImore I more Sun correspondent was told to the President recently by one of hi his aIdes Both Colonel McCormick and Mrs Essary are ardent and vIgorous critIcs of the Lion tion In fact the colonel is consid considered ered the leading onist of the Midwest it if not the nation nabon while the WIdow Essary writing In the Washington Times Herald is probably probably ably the leadIng lady isolationist In Inthe inthe the natIon s capItaL I So the PresIdent received v cord ord of I thIs isolationist romance WIth considerable con interest I wonder vonder he mused what theIr progeny silt be like Note Later Mrs Essary heard about the Presidents President s remark and telephoned one of the WhIte Howse Haase aides to find out precisely that had been saId She did not comment as asto asto to whether the rumor of matrimony were true or untrue but she showed great feminine curIosIty regarding the President s a comment DAY VS NIGHT BOMBING When Churchill and Roosevelt were la in Casablanca the BrItIsh prime minister had bad a frIendly aegis argument meat ment WIth U S aIr generals regard rig mg the feasibility of daylight bomb bomb- bombIng bombing Ing Churchill v as against It aegis arguing ing rig that the British system of night boning was much safer did more damage to the enemy 1 However latest figures just re- re received by the war department show that Gen Ira Esker Eaker was sight in a ticking stickIng s to day bombing These fig figures tires ures show that U S bombers have bave mocked knocked out Nazi fighter planes at a arate rate ten tunes greater than the BrIt sh Here are the figures In July U S irmen allmen a destroyed Axis planes lost bombers of their own In other cords we knocked out five tunes as many planes as we lost In the same months the British knocked out enemy planes but lost of their thell 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 well but also when the enemy could not see them Amen Ameni can planes operating m the day daylight daylight light could better concentrate on en enemy enemy emy fighter plans planes but also were better targets for the enemy The President has a non inflation ary a ny solution to organIZed labor s de mends mands for wage age increases to meet h living costs namely non Don negotiable n bonds payable alter after the war Roosevelt revealed thIS secret during a confidentIal talk wIth R J JThomas JThomas Thomas presIdent of the United Auto Workers union Ul on on price roll rollbacks rollbacks 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 prices He told Thomas that he would prefer that congress provide the money but that fa tail rig mg this he would use eIther or Commod ty Credit corporation funds to restore the following food prices to their thell September 1942 nor normal normil mil mal Meat canned goods potatoes milk and milk products It would auld be too the Press dent said to attempt a rollback ot 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 be was not en enthusiastic about any arbItrary cerl ce rig mg on wages 15 per cent above those prevailing in January 1941 Hoe er he consIdered the Little Steel formula the best brake on wage inflation so 80 far proposed Instead the President suggested that war workerS workers- would be much better oft off and that the present wage stalemate between labor unions and the could be broken it work workmen men agreed to accept non negotiable bonds payable after the war in lieu of wage increases CAPITAL CHAFF Manhattan Banker Jimmy War Warburg burg was not only the mysterIous John Durkee Durfee spanked by the President for calling VIctor Immanuel uel the moronic little king but he also was the fictitious Wallace Her HerrIck Herrick rIck Warburg has so dominated ed OWl s foreign broadcasts that some people call it the Office of Warburg InformatIon INSIDE EUROPE Bruggmann Swiss Minister Charles Brugg mann brother n m law ot of Henry Wal Wallace lace is probably the only man in the inthe United States who has recently passed through Germany I He not Dot only vIsited Germany but also France and Spain In France I he be found the people downcast and downhearted German soldiers on oes the streets of Paris went out aut of their way to be polite to the French pea peo- pie people even got off the sidewalks U If necessary is in deference to a French Frenchman Frenchman man |