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Show Washington, D. C. STASSEN-DEWEY DOUBLE HITCH? Very quiet moves have been launched recently by the Dewey and Stassen forces to get together in advance ad-vance of the Chicago convention. The approach was made through a close friend of Governor Stassen who came to see Governor Dewey the other day and suggested that while he couldn't speak outright for Stassen, the Stassen forces might be willing to get on the Dewey bandwagon band-wagon if Stassen could be assured of the No. 2 spot on the Republican ticket. Dewey replied that he had preferred pre-ferred Governor Warren of California, Califor-nia, but he would certainly be glad to consider Stassen for vice president presi-dent providing, of course, the Minnesota Min-nesota governor withdrew from the race for President in advance. It was left that Stassen's friend would write to him asking him categorically cate-gorically whether he would withdraw with-draw from the presidential race if given the No. 2 place on the ticket, and also whether his forces would cooperate to nominate Dewey. There has not been time as yet to receive a reply. What the Dewey forces want to prevent is any remote chance of a deadlock at' Chicago which might swing the nomination to Stassen, Justice Owen D. Roberts or to Will-kie. Will-kie. While they have so many delegates dele-gates they don't believe there is much chance of this. Nevertheless, they know that Pennsylvania's Joe Pew has been hoping for a deadlock which would throw the convention to Justice Roberts. NOTE Friends of Roosevelt are tfank in admitting they would much rather have Dewey as an opponent than Roberts. The Supreme court justice has cooperated with the President at Pearl Harbor, has an even better record than Dewey's in breaking up graft as prosecutor of the Teapot Dome scandals, is tall, handsome, a powerful, brilliant speaker. , However, GOP diehards consider him too much in favor of international cooperation: SEVEN-COME-ELEVEN Maybe war leaders are superstitious supersti-tious or maybe there is something to the old seven-come-eleven system sys-tem for shaking the dice. Anyway, Stanley Arnold of Cleveland has worked out a calendar of the war showing that every significant event has happened on either the seventh or eleventh of the month. Here is the calendar: Pearl Harbor Dec. 7, 1941 Declaration of war on Germany and Italy... Dec. 11, 1941 Fall of Guam Dec. 11, 1941 Fall of Wake Dec. 11, 1941 Invasion of Singapore. .Feb. 11, 1942 Fall of Corregidor May 7, 1942 Invasion of Kiska June 7, 1942 Invasion of Guadalcanal Aug. 7, 1942 Invasion of No. Africa. .Nov. 7, 1942 Invasion of unoccupied France Nov. 11, 1942 Retaking of Tunis and Bizerte May 7, 1943 Retaking of Attu May 11, 1943 FaU of PanteUeria June 11, 1943 Finally Mr. Arnold points out that the recent renewed attack on Italy started May 11 at 11 p. m. BREWSTER AXED The navy has decided that the controversial Brewster Aeronautical corporation will be the first to feel the axe of discontinued war production. produc-tion. This is good news for the country in that it means that war losses of airplanes are less than expected and that the navy will not need so many replacements. replace-ments. Actually our losses in the Pacific have been about 50 per cent less than estimated. Also, the news is extremely significant for the airplane industry, in-dustry, because Brewster will be the first big plane company to be turned loose on its own to manufacture commercial planes if it can get priorities. If it can't get them, it will have to fold. The Chance Vought company, also making Corsairs (the same type of plane as 'Brewster), will continue operation, largely because they were the chief pioneers of Corsairs. Also, the Goodyear company will continue, they being about to start on a big new navy plane. But the Brewster company will now have to fight either for new war contracts or else for priorities for commercial planes. It will be an uphill fight. NOTE The Brewster plant near Philadelphia, built with U. S. government gov-ernment funds, will be taken over by the navy and will work on "modification" "mod-ification" in other words, planes that need minor changes. The other oth-er Brewster plants around New York will finish up what they are working on and then fold. MERRY-GO-ROUND C. Mrs. Harold Burton, wife of the Ohio senator, complained that her husband's inside coat pocket bulged out with too many papers. So Burton Bur-ton now has his tailor put an inside pocket on both sides, to distribute the burden. C. It never leaked out at the time but, on December 7, 1943, the army was worried over a possible token attack on Pearl Harbor as an anniversary anni-versary raid. The whole island was alerted for fear the Japs would repeat re-peat their original performance. I |