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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-08-15

A legal opinion on procedure
to be followed in the petition OF
Warren township residents for
incorporation of their area as a
city, Is to be rendered at the
next meeting of the Macomb
County Board of Supervisors by
Prosecutor Wilbur F. Held.
Petitions had been previously
been submitted TO Prosecutor
Held for a check as TO legal
number of names and validity
thereof. However, a question as
to who all shall vote on the city
issue was raised by several SUI
pervisors.
81 want a directive from the
board stating whether it is just
the people living within the in
cooperating area, or whether
the entire township shall vote
upon the issue" asked Supervis-
or Earl j. Tallman of Warren
township.
At that point, no member OF
the board being certain of the
answer, Held was called in for
a formal opinion.
81 have not been asked for,
nor notified of, an opinion in
the matter" Held said, land /
have not had the opportunity to
determine proper action. Since
the board is required to set a
date for the election to fall be-
tween a 40 to 90-day period, /
shall consult the statutes and
have an opinion by the Sept. 10
meeting"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-08-15
Allied Pressure Forces
Jops Out of India

SOUTHEAST ASIA COM
MAND HEADQUARTERS Kan
dy, Ceylon, Aug. Is - (P) -
japanese rearguards retreating
southwark along the Tiddim
road in the frontier region of
northeastern India have fallen
back again under continued
Allied pressure and fighting is
now under way only five miles
from the Burma border, head
quarters announces today.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-08-15

I was all right with my five
storekeepers until they were re-
placed by Waafs. The Waafs
were intelligent, but it took me
two months to make them real
ize they were not at home. I
often worked late at night cor
recting their mistakes, with the
result that Authorizations devel-
oped.-Ex-RAF sergeant, grant
cd a pension on the plea that
women in the British army
drove him crazy.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1944-11-16
HOUSEWIVES, MERCHANTS
WARNED AGAINST
CHECK Thieves

Check thieves and check forgers
will do their Christmas shopping
with stolen and forged checks if
merchants and housewives aren't
particularly careful according to
Frank J. Wilson, Chief of the U. S..
Secret Service, Treasury Depart
ment. "The government mails out
nearly one million checks every
day." says Chief Wilson, "and about
eight million go each month to de-
pendents of men in the armed forces.
Check thieves steal as many as they
can from hall and porch mail boxes.
Then they forge the endorsements
victimize retailers who are so anxi-
Gus to make sales that they fail to
consider the losses they may suffer
through carelessness."
The Secret Service offers some
precautions to help fight the forgery
racket. If you receive checks by
mail, be at home or have a member
of your family at home to receive
the checks when they are due. Then
they can't be stolen from your mail
box.
If you are retailer or cashier,
don't cash checks for strangers with
out proper Identification. Know
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1944-11-16

Your Endorsers! Before cashing any
check, ask yourself this question:
"IF THIS CHECK is RETURNED
AS A FORGERY, CAN LOCATE
THE FORGER AND RECOVER
MY LOSS?"
"Christmas is not a holiday for
the check forger," Chief Wilson
said. "He's on the job every minute,
always looking for merchants he
can fool. The only way to beat him
is to beat him to the punch. KNOW
YOUR ENDORERS = REQUIRE
IDENTIFICATION"
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1944-11-16
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
OFFICIAL TO ADDRESS
NEGRO LAWYERS

CHICAGO, Nov. 16 (ANP).-
Victor w. Renem, chief of the civil
rights division of the department
of justice, will be the guest speaker
of the public mass meeting of the
National Bar association conven-
ton here on Dec. l and 2.
Headed by Charles w. Anderson,
Louisville attorney and only Negro
member of the Kentucky legisla-
ture, arrangements for the two-day
convention are being handled
through subcommittee appointed
by Atty. Richard E. Westbrooks,
nationally known lawyer.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1944-11-16

At this session the new presi-
dent, Roscoe Dunjee, is expected to
outline his program for the year.
Members of the steering commit
tee are DR.. J. E. Walker, chairman,
Memphis; George w. Cox, Dun
ham, N. c.; Leroy Crayton, Cleve-
land; Joseph P. Geddes, New Or
leans; DR.. F. D. Patterson, Tuske-
gee.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1944-11-16
Business LEAGUE
OFFICIALS TO meet

MEMPHIS, Nov. 16 (ANP).-
Members of the steering committee
Of the National Negro Business
league will meet here Friday, for
it's first session since the Birming-
ham meeting in August.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1944-11-16
NAA(p TO ELECT OFFICERS
AT MEETING TONIGHT

The chief business of the meet
ing of the NAACP, which will be
held at Linden Center at $50
o'clock this evening will be the
election of officers. All members
are urged to attend
Evening star., 1944-03-24

can hope to escape the consequences
Of having fought on the Axis side.
II Anglo-American armies were
victoriouslys driving up through the
Balkans, as they were in the summer
OF 1918, the defections OF the last
war might be repeated. But the
prospect OF a Russian invasion and
occupa ton is a. different matter.
The chances are that the Germans
can reorganize their Balkan STRAIT
egy against the Russian advance as
easily as they did their strategy in
Italy against the Allies after the fall
of Mnssolini and the collapse of his
Fascist regime.
Still, the negative results of these
Balkan changes should be consid-
cradle. Such satellite troops as can
still be counted under German
orders will be less reliable and must
be supplemented by German divi-
sions which could be highly useful
elsewhere. An added strain has
thus been placed on the Wehrmacht
at a. most critical moment.
Evening star., 1944-03-24
Maj. George Fielding Eliot

checked by the Anglo-Indian troops
already in that area; indeed, the south
ernmost of the three Japanese columns,
that in the Tiddin region, already is
being broken up. Nor does there seem
to be any reason why there should be
any relaxation of pressure on the North
Burma front because of the operations
southeast of Imphal.
If Myitkyina is the objective, as now
seems virtually certain, of Gen. Still
wells mastery offensive, then We may
be confident that he has already as
sembled, at his forward depots, ample
supplies to see it through. The real
point about which success or failure
probably revolves is the ability of the
British Indian air-borne commandos to
keep the Japanese communications sew
cred until Myitkyina has been taken,
or at least until it is too late to relieve
that threatened stronghold.
This is certainly one of the boldest
operations of the war. Whether 1t sue
ceeds or fails, it shows what brave men
can do, and to what an extent imagi-
nation and enterprise can overcome even
the terrific handicaps of jungle, noun
tain and swamp. 1t should be q tech
nique increasingly effective against such
foe as the japanese, who for all his
excellent fighting qualities is likely
to be especially upset by the unexpected.
In the Burma fighting, where the Japa-
nese must operate at the ends of long
and tenuous lines of communication,
they can now have no feeling of security
as to any vulnerable place along those
lines; they must guard everything, for
there Is no spot in Burma to which our
planes cannot reach. Therefore there
Is no spot where an air-borne descent
may not be made. The Japanese have
hardly heard the last Of this form Of
attack.
(Copyrixht, 1pAA)
Evening star., 1944-03-24
The 'GI Bill of Riohts'

AS unanimously approved by the
Senate Finance Committee, the So
called "GI Bill of Rights" is much
more sweeping and generous than
any veterans legislation in our his
tory. An omnibus measure, it pro-
vides for disqualification, academic
education, vocational training, loans,
a special employment service and
unemployment benefits, with all
members of our armed forces eligible
under it when honorably discharged
after at least six months of service.
Perhaps the most outstanding
feature of the bill is the educational
provision. This is aimed primarily
at insuring against a serious ma
tional loss of Skills and potential
leadership, the development of
which has been interrupted by the
process of taking young men out of
school or apprenticeship to put them
into the hard business of war. Ac-
SoA AOlhl6ly, dII fCtCi ais, OI1 LIE OASIS
of qualifying tests, would be entitled
to special vocational training to
equip them for jobs in private in
dustry, or to resumption of their
formal academic studies at the Gov
ernments expense. Under this ar
rangement, which was advocated
some time ago by President Roose-
velt, full-time students would receive
$500 year for tuition, plus sub
sistence allotment of $50 a month
and an additional $25 monthly for
each dependent-in some cases, for
as long as four years.
Two other important features of
the committee-approved bill are
those covering loans and unemploy-
ment benefits. The loans, which
would be interest free for the first
year and which would run up to
$1,000 per veteran, would be made
to finance the repair, purchase or
construction of homes, farms and
businesGproperties. The unemploy-
Evening star., 1944-03-24

nent benefits, ranging from SIS to
$25 week for q maximum Of 50
weeks, and beginning one month
after the receipt of mastering
pay, would go to all ex-soldiers out
OF work through no fault of their
own. Like the educational program,
these two provisions are designed,
among other reasons, to cope with
the social and economic dislocations
incident to rehabilitation.
Properly named the Servicemen's
Aid Act of 1914, the measure has
been Endorsed by both the American
Legion and the Veterans of Foreign
Wars, and some quarters predict
that it will be supported almost as
overwhelmingly by the whole Con-
gress as it has been by the Senate FL
nance Committee. For although it
will cost between three and three and
half billion dollars-and perhaps
even much more than that-several
OF its provisions are absolutely essen
tial to an intelligent handling of the
problems that will crowd in upon us
when peace comes. Further, al
though the bill may seem to be on
the lavish side in things like educa-
ton, a good argument can be made
for it as project far -sightedly de-
signed to promote the war-retarded
development of a precious national
resource-the potential skills and
talents Of the millions of young
Americans now in uniform.
Commendable and necessary as it
may be, however, this proposed leg
islation is SOLDERING, too-sobering
because it reminds us that the CO.
loSSal costs of this struggle will not
end with the end of the shooting.
At the very least the measure will
involve an expenditure of three bill
lion dollars. Add to this another
three billions for the mustering-out
pay already authorized by Congress.
Add to it, too, the billions more
which are likely to be sought in fu-
ture bonus and pension drives. Add
everything together, in short, and
we find that the expenses of war in
this day and age-wholly apart from
the fearful price exacted In terms of
blood-are almost too much for any
nation to stand. even a nation as
rich as ours. Certainly, we cannot
afford to have the same thing hap
pen again in another generation.
Almost as much as anything else,
the costliness Of the "GI Bill of
Rights" is an exhortation to us to
do our best this time to help work
out and firmly maintain a world
peace that will endure.
Evening star., 1944-03-24
Dorothy Thompson

Union has not caused any stir in Lon
don. Mr.. Churchill is for the italian
King and the principle of monarchy.
washington Is tentative about it. Mr..
Churchill is forthrightly supporting Tito,
We are silent on the subject. Mr..
Churchill Is clear on the Finnish uues-
tion. We are reluctant. Mr. Churchill
has said that the Polish frontier at
the Curzon line is just and reasonable.
We are silent.
The plain fact Is that Mr.. Roosevelts
Government cannot, at this junction,
make any policy guaranteed against
reversal in seven months. Even If we
took stronger nne-for or against the
British and /or Russian policies-it
would be discounted in Moscow and
London, because Of the precarious
political situation here
World influence is not strength
alone. 1t is strength in continuity.
This continuity could be secured by
our political parties. Actually they are
destroying all calculations. Their
foreign political platforms are vague
and anyhow policy is not made by
platforms, but by continuous diplo-
matte actions.
WHICH III 1S4o, seeing fTaHce cOllapSe
before my eyes, I cabled from Paris
recommending that the Republican
party nominate Roosevelt and Willkie,
l was called insane. Why insane? Had
they done so, Roosevelt and Willkie
'or any other Republican Vice Presi-
dent) would certainly have been
elected and associated together for
four years. and the Vice President
could have been nominated this year
for the prime position, without render
ing America all but impotent for
months.
Political parties, which George
Washington called factions" warning
against the dangers that could arise
from them, are only instruments for
the Nation. When they consider the
Nation as their instrument, they are
not fulfilling their purpose.
Evening star., 1944-03-24
WLB At Work

Inc war LABOR BOafd mas Just
worked out another of those neat
little compromises which solve
nothing and appease no one.
A week ago the board refused to
receive evidence from the Amer
lean Federation of Labor, which had
been insisting that the board mem
bers urge the President to modify
realistically" the Little Steel for
mula under which wage increases
were to be kept in line with living
costs. 1t was added, however, that
the board might change it's mind
and listen to the AFL II future de-
velopments warranted.
Then came the CIO United Steel
Workers with demand for an in
crease of II cents an hour, frankly
designed to demolish the Little Steel
formula. The CIO asked for a
hearing on its claims, but the AFL
members OF the board, supported
by the industry members, were able
to block action. After a few days of
deadlock the compromise emerged.
The board authorized one of it's
panels to receive testimony on the
CIO demand. Then. to salve the
feelings of the AFL and to enable
that group to claim part of the
credit If the wage formula should be
preached, the board, reversing it's
action OF last week. directed an
other panel to take testimony on
the AFL demand for a realistic
modification of the formula. On
top OF all this the board next pro-
ceeded to serve notice that while
it can recommend a change in the
formula if its operation is creating
gross ineouities," the fact that it
is prepared to consider any evidence
submitted by the panels should not
be taken as an indication of any
present decision" as to whether it
will or will not eventually seek a
change.
,While these maneuvefings were
going on a board committee, which
for months has been investigating
the cost OF living at the request of
the President, remained strangely
silent. The labor members of this
investigating group Jumped the
gun" several weeks ago with a re-
port purporting to show an ex-
cessive rise in living costs, and the
conclusions of this report will serve
as principal basis of the new wage
demands. These findings, however.
have been denied by the Bureau of
Labor Statistics and refuted by the
OPA. Yet in the face of these Of
flcial findings. which destroy the
basis of the claim for higher wages,
and despite the failure of its own
investigating committee to return a
report, the WLB now proposes to 90
ahead with hearings to ascertain
whether it should or should not
recommend that the Little Steel
formula be scrapped and wage in
creases granted to groups whose
actual earnings place them among
the best-paid workers in the coun-
try.
Whatever else may be said Of this
muddled procedure, it certainly is
not calculated to inspire confidence
in the War Labor Board and it's
policies.
Evening star., 1944-03-24
Urges Help for Jews Now

To the Editor OF The Star:
In re your thoughtful editorial. "A
Wise Course" March 10, commenting
upon the shelving (by the congressional al
Foreign Relations Committees) of the
Palestine resolution, the writer goes
along with you Fundamentally as far as
you go.
He believes that the inept, poorly
timed portion of the resolution, with
reference to a political statehood for
Jewry, was largely responsible for the
advice OF Gen. Marshall and others to
hold the matter in allegiance.
He thinks, however that your editorial
stopped in the fourth inning" assuming
that you. like all Jewish Americans and
Christian Americans, have a genuine
concern for the millions of prosecuted
Jews in unhappy Europe.
Where are these people to 60, II not to
Palestine and other havens? What is
the meaning Of the recently appointed
War Refugee Board. il not promptly and
effectively to succoi these victims. not
only OF Nazi sadisn1, but of world laissez
falre OF decades standing?
In the spirit of an ACCOMPANYING edi-
torial, Great Animation and in the
spirit OF the lenten season, the thunder.
ing command We are our brothers
Keeper must ring in our ears.
ii we really mean to- save the Jews
'and others oppressed) of Europe. now
not later-is the time to save them and
ourselves in the process.
JOSEPH D. KAUFMAN
Evening star., 1944-03-24
Wants Museum Saved,
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor of The star:
About two years ago a new instit,,-
tlon was introduced to the people Of
WaSnngton-new perhaps to most of
the residents OF the District, but really
quite an old institution to the people
OF other cities where its influence has
neen lelt for years. I am speaking of
the Children's Museum, which is one
OF several such museums located in
most OF the large cities of our country
the f1rst being founded In BROOKLYN in
1899.
AT the time Of the founding of the
Washington Children's Museum. the
most suitable place that could be found
was the Villa Rosa. at 42l5 Massachu-
setts avenue, which at that time was
in a most deplorable, rundown condi-
ton. do not know very many of the
particulars pertaining to the ownership
OF the property, but I understand it
involved both the District and Federal
governments. After much patient labor
on the part Of the director of the mu-
scum the property was turned over to
her to use for the duration of the war,
after which time a more stable settle.
ment was to be made.
S>AhAS SCi tdHl tiidJ UIle museum had
a home for at least two or three years.
MISS Matilda Young, the director, and
group OF volunteer workers went
ahead with plans to convert the build
ing ana grounds into a recreational
ana educational institution for the
children OF Washington. This work has
been done largely by the children them
selves and any one doubling the value
OF such an enterprise should visit the
museum and see for himself the re-
markable change that has taken place.
Here children from to Is are free
under proper supervision to develop
their own particular hobbies to the best
OF their ability. Here they may run
and play over nine acres of wooded
land away from the noise and terror of
traf1ic. Here they can examine other
chlldren's handiwork and in turn ex-
hlbit their own with great pride and
satisfaction. Exhibits from every land
are so presented to them that they are
able to examine them without the usual
fearful warning, Don't touch" the
bane OF childs life. All this is avail
able to every child in Washington.
through the efforts Of group of people
who are practically giving their lives
LOT cause which should have the
support of every person who claims
any civic pride whatsoever.
And then what happens? Without
warning, with utter disregard for the
welfare OF the younger generation at a
time when child delinquency is on the
increase, the property is sold into pri-
vate ownership, sold right out from
under the hundreds of children who
have endeared this spot to their hearts
by many happy hours OF work and play
Can it be that the prospect of re-
neWed taxation, now that the property
is in private hands. was deciding
factor in such a move?
make this plea in the hope that
it is not too late to save this ideal
location for the children of Washington
or If it already be too late that some
other suitable location may be found
for the Childrens Museum. II it be
lost, then Washington has taken a step
backward. WILLIAM F. GREEN.
Evening star., 1944-03-24

country needs until the wars end, a Ma
tional Government, with continuity.
The mere fact that in seven months
there may be complete political over
turn is already reducing the United
States to a question mark behind
cipher in the councils of the United
Nations.
Important political decisions are in
the making-between Great Britain,
Russia and the United States Normally
speaking, the United States would hold
the key in this combination. Great
Britain, from the beginning, has chosen
to align herself with the United States
in preference to any other power. The
question of how every British policy will
be received by the United States has
affected all decisions.
The Soviet Union also has made it
clear that III the existing alliance, it
leans by preference toward America.
Before the British-Soviet 20-year alli-
ance was signed, Mr.. Molotoff came to
Washington in the hope of getting one
with us. There are greater possibilities
of conflict between the British Empire
and the Soviet Union than between the
United States and the Soviet Union.
The United States is the natural link
between the three Allies, fact which
should give great authority to our views
Even geographically, America occupies
the central position.
But there are already indications that
Britain and the Soviet Union are setting
out to make joint policies without us
a most unnatural state of affairs. Let
nobody call this an anti-American con-
spiracy. 1t is a necessity. One need
only imagine that it was the British OF
Russian governments that might be
completely overturned in seven months
How would that affect our policy? OBJ
viously we would draw closer to that
government whose internal and external
policies promised stability.
~ sc9@- x *x 81
Specifically, the recognition of
Badoglio ana the King by the Soviet
Evening star., 1944-03-24
Constantine BroVn

When these compromises appeared
sometimes to 60 too far, President
Roosevelt was warned by his advisers
familiar with European psychology that
we must not compromise with our prin-
ciples. Europe, he was told, has a pro-
found belief in the honesty and in
tegrity of America.
The peoples Of the strife-ridden con-
tinent, subjected to all kinds of political
double-crossings, have firm conviction
that the United States, young coun-
try, is politically honest. This, Mr..
Roosevelt was told, is our main political
baggage and it would be disastrous for
all concerned to allow it to be lost. Mr..
Roosevelt also was warned that unless
We scrupulously keep our word, the chaos
which will follow will be worse than
the war itself.
When President Roosevelt announced
soon after the outbreak of the war that
America would become the arsenal of
democracy" he reflected the will of the
vast majority of the American people
who were disposed to go to any length
to crush the totalitarianism which was
menacing our institutions. No one cared
great deal under what name this
totalitarianism was disguised Britain
and her Allies were fighting for prin-
clples close to our hearts and we had
decided not to allow them to go down.
Long wars always bring surprises and
shifts. This war has been no different
IN this respect. 1t is understandable
that some changes and readjustments
have to be made regarding the flexible
purposes OF the war. But it Is not con-
ceivable that there can be any bargain
ing with the principles which brought
us into the war.