Show II I I Washington D. D C. C PRESIDENT AND WIl WILLKIE LIlE Only insiders know it but after the President held his press conference conference conference confer confer- ence denying he had sent a letter to Wendell Ju Judge Sam and Steve Early rushed up to his desk and remonstrated that he had made a bad mistake They were afraid had rebuffed rebuffed re re- re- re buffed the man who had gone down the line for him per cent on taxes foreign policy and the war They caught me a little unprepared unprepared unprepared pared on that tha tone one the President admitted ruefully However I tried to tell them it was a personal question I didn't want to embarrass embar embar- rass Willkie by letting people think V h h. h onH T n Doli deal r the th- th President e ic t repeated to some of his cabinet that he hadn't expected the question at his news conference Explaining that he wanted to talk to Willkie about postwar postwar post post- war var peace plans and foreign policy not politics he indicated that he would go ahead with his plans for forthe forthe forthe the talk regardless of what had hap hap- The President was quite irked that n news ws about his letter to the former Presidential candidate had leaked out Only a few people knew the letter existed The carbon copy was not filed with his regular correspondence correspondence correspondence cor cor- and the first draft of the letter had been written in his own handwriting for Grace Tully his secretary to copy Despite this Willkie began to get queries about the letter weeks after he received it The news men making the inquiries cited White WhiteHouse WhiteHouse House sources said they had the tip lip from Presidential secretaries Willkie made no comment never admitted receiving the letter but he got the impression that the WhiteHouse WhiteHouse White WhiteHouse House wanted the story out Therefore you could have knocked him over with a feather when the President replied to newsmen newsmen news newsmen men last week that he didn't know anything about writing Willkie a let let- ter Immediately after the WhiteHouse WhiteHouse White WhiteHouse House denial appeared in the press Willkie's phone began buzzing with Republican friends warning him that Roosevelt would always kick him in the teeth They urged him to come out for Dewey ARMY DEMOBILIZATION PLAN Here is the inside story on White war House-war department plans for demobilizing demobilizing demobilizing de de- de- de mobilizing part of the army after the defeat of Germany The war department department department de de- de- de is planning to release about men immediately after a German armistice Under this plan the army will setup setup set setup up a point system for every manin manin man manin in the service and nd men with sufficient sufficient sufficient points will be retired Here is how the points will be calculated 1 For each month in the service service service ice every man will receive one point 2 Each month overseas will win count an additional point 3 For each battle honor a aman aman aman man will receive four points 4 The congressional medal of honor or legion of merit will win count four additional points 5 Each bronze star denoting service in battle will count four additional points 6 For every child a soldier will receive eight points 7 Married men without children children children chil chil- dren will also receive eight extra points There are are still several important gaps in this program which the army and the White House have not yet filled in There still is no special credit for age However it is al already already already al- al ready decided that because the army will have a greater need for air men in the Pacific a separate system will be De set up for discharging ing air corps veterans Of course the basic point which everybody I II I wants to know is How many points will a man need to get out That has not yet been determined It has been determined however that at the end of the Atlantic war the navy does not plan to release any of its men It U can also be revealed that President Roosevelt is anxious to o. o n. n Q- Q lOt lOt- u lU When the President discussed this plan recently with several senators they asked him how he planned to handle the problem of policing Germany and other occupied enemy territory after the armistice De ile replied that he hoped to do so by using men who have learned to like the army plus professional soldiers soldiers sol sol- sol sol- diers who were in the army before before be be- fore the selective service program program program pro pro- gram got under way He De also also- plans to use men who have had no overseas experience and want to volunteer for or it now |