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Show , KAJ Xstf onkw pcamson, -UP iML-Ti. T! 1 l-i r?f w Washington, O 0. PRESIDENT AND WILLKIE Only insiders know It, but aftel Die President held his press confer ence denying he had sent a lettei to Wendell WiUkie, Judge Sara Rosenman and Steve Early rushed up to his desk and remonstrated that be had made a bad mistake. They were afraid ' FDR had rebuffed re-buffed the man who had gone down the line for him 100 per cent on! taxes, foreign policy and the war. "They caught me a little unpre- pared on that one," the President admitted ruefully, "However, ij tried to tell them It was a personal, question. I didn't want to embarrass embar-rass Wlllkie by letting people think he and I had a political deal." i Later, the President repeated to! some of his cabinet that he hadn't expected the question at his news conference. Explaining that he I wanted to talk to Wlllkie about post- jwar peace plan and foreign policy, not politics, he Indicated that he I would go ahead with his plans for the talk regardless of what had happened. hap-pened. The President was quite Irked that news about his letter to the former I Presidential candidate had leaked out. Only a few people knew the letter existed. The carbon copy was not filed with his regular correspondence, cor-respondence, and the first draft of the letter had been written In his own handwriting for Grace Tully, his secretary, to copy. Despite this, Wlllkie 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. IWillkle made no comment, never admitted receiving the letter, but he got the impression that the White j 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 didn't know anything about writing Willkie a letter. let-ter. Immediately after the White 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 House-war department plans for demobilizing de-mobilizing part of the army after the defeat of Germany. The war department de-partment Is planning to release bout 2,000,000 men immediately ifter a German armistice. Under this plan, the army will set up a point system for every man 'a the service, and men with sufficient suffi-cient points will be retired. Here is bow the points will be calculated: 1. For each month In the service, serv-ice, every man will receive one point. 2. Each month overseas will count an additional point. S, For each battle honor, a man will receive four point. 4. The congressional medal of honor or legion of merit will count four additional points. 5. Each bronxe star denoting service in battle will count four additional point. 6. For every child, a soldier will receive eight points, , 7. Married men without children chil-dren will also receive eight extra point. There are still several important gaps in this program which the Tmyand"the White House have not yet filled In. There still is no special credit for age. However, it Is already al-ready decided that, because the army will have a greater need for air men In the Pacific, a separate system will be set up for discharging discharg-ing air corps veterans. Of course, the basic point which everybody 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 can also be revealed that 'President Roosevelt is anxious to discharge hardship cases first. 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. He replied . that he hoped to do soiby using men - who have learned to like the army, plus professional soldiers sol-diers who were in the army before be-fore the selective service program pro-gram got under way. He also . .plans to use men who have had . no overseas experience and want to volunteer for it now. ' 1 -CAPITAL CHAFF C Busrrian's holiday: Walter'Wln- cheil sitting in the Stork club until ' all hours of the night on a vacation. vaca-tion. . sell &f Georgia carefully teachiifjs stray dog to go through 'the revolving revolv-ing doors of the senate office building. build-ing. The pup had got penned up in side the senate. (0. Politieos arewatching the cam piign,of Colorado newspaper pub lisher ArUiur Wimmell agalnsi GOP Congressman Chenoweth. i . i |