Show U OP W washington D C RUSSIAN SOCIALISM WANES the russians are doing more than reversing reversing the direction of nazi mill tary movement they are also reversing certain important political and social directions americans in russia now report the reappearance ot of shoulder insignia on the officers of the red army tor for the first time since the dark days of the revolution in those days officers who supported the Bol bolshevik movement tore the epaulets from their uniforms as a mark ot of democracy those who failed to do so were regarded as enemies of the revolution and in so some me extreme cases mobs attacked them drove nails through the epaulets into their shoulders there is also a change in official awards or decorations indicating that bolshevik scorn tor for heroes of the past is vanishing three of the most coveted decorations of the soviet union today are the award of levski Nev ski who was a century prince and the awards of Suvo rov and kutuzov who were czarist generals at the time of napoleon also the st georges cross which would have been torn from the bre breast ast 0 of f the wearer a few years ago has made mad its reappearance at a official functions the U S public has the I 1 imbres m pres slon of modern n russians as d dressed in coarse formless clothing but re ports from the USSR today state that red army officers dress with such punctilio as to make american officers look shabby by comparison LITTLE AID TO CHINA just back from gen oral eral hap arnold chief of the air forces gave a glowing report to sec detary of war stimson regarding chinese resourcefulness in battling the japs he was amazed and full of praise for chinese ingenuity in repairing planes landing in co cow apas pastures and conserving fuel As far as general arnold is concerned he would like to send the chinese a lot more planes though in the past he hav has not been too keen about it incidentally one reason tor for sending him to china was to win him over to the chinese cause however despite madame chiang kai gr graceful cebul appearance here despite hap arnolds enthusiasm despite the presidents public statements china is not going to get anything much in the way of S supplies up plies reasons listed reasons are 1 the abe impossibility it y of opening the burma road now with the monsoon season only a few weeks off 2 the absolute necessity of cleaning up africa and preparing tor for a drive against hitler in europe 3 chinese political dissension which requires too many alms aims for person personal al armies some war weapons will be flown over the himalayas but not much more than in the past SECRET RUML PLAN VOTE the vote of tle the house ways and means committee on the ruml plan was secret but inside tact fact is it never had a chance of getting more than five votes the flood of mail reaching committee members at first favorable turned round and showed conclusively that the country was against outright postponement of taxes underlying d der lying sentiment expressed in the mail was that although high taxes hurt it was un unfair air to postpone to too much of the war cost to the next generation also the committee became more and more convinced that the ruml rum plan was largely cooked up tor for the benefit of top bracket incomes and it if taxes were forgiven one year it would mean shifting a much greater burden to lower income groups to make up the deficit this they concluded was just what mr war wealthy clients wanted CURE FOR TYPHUS by way of london has come word that the germans have evolved a cure tor for the dread disease typhus it if so it Is a discovery meaning the lives of thousands of men in the eastern front in 1914 general typhus was responsible tor for more lives than machine gun fire and from time to time it has ravaged the balkans russia and eastern europe ever since the german cure wa was s discovered by a dr van deerdock Me erdock and is a combination of and plasco chin U S public health officials have their fingers crossed regarding the cure but british medical circles seem to be favorably impressed CAPITAL CHAFF tl 0 general eisenhower Elsen hower has sent word to washington that there are too many news correspondents running around north africa fl 4 budget bureau has prepared a plan for or consolidating all branches of war department s signal ignal corps air corps special services and strategic services fathe senates 75 year old athlete theodore green ot of rhode island eats a buttered muffin and coffee for breakfast a bowl ot of soup and a glass ot of milk tor for lunch |