Show U W I 1 washington 0 0 PRESIDENT AND WILLKIE only insiders know it but aften the president held his press conference denying he had sent a lettefa to wendell wandell Will willkie kle judge sara sam Rosen tria and steve early rushed u to his desk and remonstrated tha that he had made a bad mistake they were I 1 afraid had rebuffed 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 on that one the president admitted rule ruefully fully however I 1 tried to tell them it was a personal question I 1 want to embarrass willkie by letting people think he and I 1 had a political deal later the president repeated tol to some of his cabinet that he expected the question at MB his news new conference explaining that he wanted to talk to willkie bout about postwar peace plans and foreign policy not politics he indicated that he hb would go ahead with his bis plans tor for the talk regardless of what had happened pen ed the president was quite irked that news about hi his letter sletter to the former presidential candidate had leaked out only a few people knew the the carbon was tot not med filed with his bis regular correspondence and the first draft of the letter had been written in nil his own handwriting for grace tully his secretary to copy despite this willkie began to get queries about the letter two weeks after he received it the news men making the inquiries cited white house sources said they had the tip from presidential secretaries willkie made no comment never admitted receiving the letter but he got the impression that the white house wanted the story out therefore you could have knocked him over with a feather when the president replied to news men last week that he know anything about writing willkie a letter immediately after the white house denial appeared in the press Will kles phone began buzzing with republican friends warning him that roosevelt would always kick him in the teeth leeth they urged him to come out tor for dewey ARMY demobilization PLAN here is the inside story on white house war department plans tor for de mobilizing part ot of the army after ohp the defeat of germany the war department part ment is planning to release about men timm immediately e gafter a german armistice under this plan the army will set ap P a point system for every man in the service and men with sufficient points will be retired here is how the points will be calculated 1 for each month la in the service ice every man will receive one point 2 each month overseas will count an additional point 3 for each battle honor a man will receive four points 4 the congressional medal of honor or legion of merit will count four additional points 5 each bronze star denoting service la in battle will count four additional points 6 11 for every child a soldier will receive eight points 7 married men without children d ren will also receive eight extra points there are still several important gaps in this program which the amy army and the white house have not yet filled in there still is no special credit for or age however it is already decided that because the army will have a greater need for or 0 air ir men in the pacific a separate 0 estem will be set up for or discharging air corps veterans ot of course the basic point which everybody wants to know is how many points win 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 can also be revealed that president roosevelt Is anxious to discharge hardship cases first when the president discussed this plan recently with several se senators tors they asked him how haw be planned to handle the problem of policing poll cint germany and other occupied enemy territory after the armistice he replied that he be hoped to do so by using men who have learned to like the army plus who were in the army before the selective service program got under way lie ile also plans to usi ne men who have had no overseas experience exper lenca and want to volunteer for it now CAPITAL CHAFF fl beusmans Bus mans holiday walter win cheu sitting in the stork shork club until all hours of the night on a vaca tion fl L seen fit at the capitol a pitol senator rus sell of georgia carefully teaching a stray dog to go through the revola ing doors of the senate office build ing the pup had got penned up in gide the senate Z t politicos are watching the earn cam laign of colorado newspaper pub usher lisher arthur Wi ramell GOP congressman chenoweth |