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Rail Accident
Takes Grim Toll
One Moeomb Nan
Among 70 Decd

After surviving uninjured
scores of aerial missions over
German occupied Europe, an
East Detroit man and the ne
phew of a Mount Clemens wo-
man were among the returned
AAF heroes who met death in
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-09-15
5iegfried Line
Penetrated in
Three Places
Potton's Third
Army Wheels Through
Key French City

LONDON, Sept. 15-(P)-The
cities of Nancy and Maastricht,
strongholds at opposite ends of
a 18O-mile front, fell today to
the battering offensive of Am
erican armies which had driven
with SCATTERING force into the
depths of the Siegfried Line at
three places.
Nancy, a famed French bas-
ton of 121 900 on the banks of
the Meruthe in a crook below
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a train accident near Terre
Haute, Ind, yesterday.
They are:
Staff Sergt. Oscar w. Lange,
son of Mrs. Flora Lange. 14535
Eight Mile road, East Detroit,
and
See RAIL WRECK-Page 2
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IN GERMANY, Sept. Is -
$3.50 p. NJ - R) - The
great German communication
center of Aaachen is surround
ed and within American grasp
tonight. The Yanks are fight
ing in its outskirts.
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How u. s.. Armies
are Depl0yed

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$50 REWARD

Scottish Rite Diamond Ring
cost this morning downtown. DIR.
II. VI. williams, Medea Hotel
Adv.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-09-15
ROSEvILLE Filler DIES

Second Lieut.. Harry Nye
Jones, Jr., of Roseville, was
killed Wednesday, together
with eight crew members of
an army bomber which crash
ed in the desert near Triangle.
Idaho, according to an official
War Department announce
ment. Two Detroit army men
were also killed in the crash.
Kodiak mirror., 1944-03-04
i Storm Victim; Town Saves Team

Members squad bring shore the Ody Clarence a 3 1 Wo % Te 4S
  than inches of Southern California Rowland e
  the league franchise
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-02
The Resisting FiIipinos

1t is approaching two years since
the Philippines fell to Japan, but
as In other places overrun by the
enemy, resistance has not stopped
there. On the contrary 1t is vigor-
Gus enough to keep the occupiers
and their puppet government con-
stantly on guard-so much 50 that
both the Manila and Toxic radios
have been forced to acknowledge 1t
as problem Of disturbing proper
tions.
Only a few days ago, for example,
as recorded by the United States
Foreign Broadcast Intelligence Serv-
ice, the Japanese used the Manila
radio to appeal to "the people who
were misguided and now living in
the mountains and forests" to stop
their hit-and-run warfare and re-
turn to their homes. The appeal
went on to promise a pardon to all
who would do this, and it named a
couple of Quisling generals as being
eager to meet representatives of
guerrillas to work out a peaceful
settlement. Without saying so d.
rectly, the broadcast made it clear
that the patriots were seriously in
terfering with the so-called "in-
dependent" government and that
there would have to be an intensified
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-02

effort to put an end to their ac-
tivities.
There has been no authoritative
report as yet on the numbers Of
these patriots or on the work they
have been doing or on how they
have been able to keep themselves
supplied, but the indications are
that they represent a substantial
and well organized force and that
their efforts are worrying the Japa-
nese in much the same way as the
Nazis are worried in Europe. The
Toxic radio has been revealing in
this respect; in a recent domestic
broadcast, it declared that the
Philippine police force, normally
made up of 5000 men, had been
ordered expanded to 10000. The
misguided" Filipinos "in the noun
tains and forests" must certainly be
making themselves felt!
1t Is striking measure OF the
character of the people OF the
Philippines and Of Japan's failure to
win them over that such resistance
movement exists so long after the
formal surrender Of our American
and Filipino forces. They look to
us for eventual liberation, knowing
from first-hand observation the ma
ture Of the fate that awaits them
If we fail.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-02

. chance to be heard on these points
This new approach, incidentally,
merely denies Esquire access to sec
ond-class mailing privileges. II the
publishers can foot the bill 1t can
be distributed through other post
office channels, with the result that
the public, through the medium OF
the post Office. still may be exposed
to what Mr.. Walker apparently re-
CARDS as a demoralizing influence.
Whatever may be said for or
against certain of Esquire's features,
there can be no doubt that Mr..
Walkers decision is a disturbing one.
Fortunately, it is not to take effect
until February %. which will give
the magazine enough time to appeal
to the courts for a review OF what
seems to have been an arbitrary and
inconsistent administrative ruling.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-02
The ESQUIRE Case

1t is not easy to follow the reason
Ing of Postmaster General Walker in
depriving Esquire Magazine of it's
second-class mailing privileges. The
question originally at issue was
whether or not the publication was
obscene. To determine this, extended
hearings were held some weeks ago,
with the majority of Mr.. Walkers
own three-man trial board finally
ruling that Esquire was not guilty
and that proceedings against it
should therefore be dismissed. Mr..
Walker. however, has seen fit to cir
cumvent this opinion by basing his
action on the grounds that the mag
azine fails to meet the requirements
Of being Originated and published
for the dissemination of information
of public character or devoted to
literature, the sciences, arts, or some
special industry"
In other words, the charge of OBJ
scenity having been thrown out by
the trial board, the Postmaster Gen.
eral has acted against Esquire for
reasons which did not form the real
basis of the original hearings. At
first the magazine was to be deprived
Of its privileges because Of alleged
moral failings. but now it is to be
deprived of them because Mr.. Walker
thinks its contents, literary and
otherwise, do not contribute to the
public welfare and the public good,
as all periodicals are supposed to do
If they are to enjoy second-class
mailing rights. Presumably Mr..
Walker still regards Esquire as OBJ
scene, but lacking the trial boards
support, he has attacked from q new
angle. without giving the magazine
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-02
Comment From the Admiral

AS In the case Of General Eisen-
hower's recent statement on winning
the European war in 1914, Admiral
Kings interview with the Associated
Press on Allied progress and plans In
the Pacific derives significance from
Its source. General Eisenhower is
by no means garrulous, but in COM
parison Admiral King is a sphinx,
regarded by newspapermen, at least,
as embodiment Of the Nays tradi-
ton Of the silent service" which
speaks OF its plans only in terms of
accomplishment.
While predicting nothing, he is at
least willing to share with the public
his own expectations that Germany
will be defeated in 1914 and that the
pressure on Japan, continuing and
increasing since our assumption of
the initiative, will not wait to be
applied in full after the defeat of
Germany but will anticipate that
event. "Island-hopping," a term
coined in derogation Of what some
OF the armchair strategists have
impatiently denounced as failure to
60 about against Japan immedi-
ately. Is explained by Admiral King
as illustrating the limitations i'm
posed by lack of means" Their
availability will produce more
strokes. with more force at more
places.
Now, will Admiral Kings state
ment be regarded as Optimistic, +"
making the American people more
than ever "complacent," and should
1t not have been coupled with a
grave warning that we must expect
to pay a heavy cost in ships and
men? The Star does not believe so.
Admiral Kings reserved comments
evidently are offered on the theory
that the American people are intel
ligent enough to accept them for
what they are worth and not as a
signal either for hysterical rejoicing
or doleful headshaking.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-02
North Cape

the war has gone to many strange
places, but none Of them has been a
grander background for action than
the famous North Cape Of Norway
near which the scharnhorst was
destroyed. Considerable numbers of
Americans, vacation travellers in
happier times. have visited those
Arctic waters and watched the while
the huge and haggard shape" of
"the northernmost point Of Europe"
slowly rose against the sky.
Wedge shaped, dark grey slate
rock in its geologic character, fur
rowed with deep clefts, the huge
promontory has brooding, fateful
mien. 1t seems old beyond dreams,
relic of ages long anterior to the
coming Of man. Silence cloaks the
Nordkapp like shroud. A strange
and curious quietness customarily
affected the tourists as they landed.
The Hornvik on the northeast side
Of the hill is the starting point of the
climb to the top. A green messy
slope leads upward for a few hun
dred yards, then the path steepens
sharply and recourse must be had to
the assistance OF rope fastened in
iron stanchions. The apex is 1853
feet above the shore. It is not at
tanned without strenuous effort, but
1t Is worth Its cost.
A staff correspondent Of The Star,
writing for publication on October
81, 1891, described the experience in
these words:
We followed guiding wire for a
long distance across plateau to the
precipitous northern edge OF the cape,
from which we looked out across the
open polar sea toward Spitzbergen
and the pole. We hung over the very
edge Of this volcanic mountain and
looked down its bleak, jagged, deeply
cleft walls Of dark gray slate to the
sea beneath. Visitors from the ship
were scattered over the summit as
AASAAAooAoAA AO0 oAACAA, oOAAlC COA1CCtIlS
geological specimens and flowers,
some throwing stones over the preci-
pice into the ocean, some exploring
all the corners of the plateau. with
the varied views of ocean, rocky sur
face and snow deposits, some drinking
the champagne which was the sole
article in the stock Of an enterprising
vendor who occupied wooden struc-
ture on the summit, some sketching,
some gazing dreamily out upon the
mysterious expanse Of the Arctic
Ocean and endeavoring to realize that
they were within a few days steam
ing distance of the pole.
Thus it was in summer, under the
midnight sun. For the battle ending
in the sinking of the Scharnhorst,
however, only pallid semblance OF
daylight prevailed. The contest
ragged in somber darkness and was
on that account the more difficult
for both sides.
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Marking With Memory's
IndeIibIe Red

There Is no day that Is completely dead.
Yesterday fingers In the desert dust,
Marking iDtth nemory's indelibls red
Odors OF sage and cedar. oredsepood
must
Here Is q note you may remember tDhen
Late tointer's first Chinook came
gently sharing
The pungent alkdH tith Us again.
After those days Of desoluts for.
bearing.
There were the dry lakes near the
desert rim;
The frozen must1ng trails and Drift
ing snOtD,
The coyote uailino Oh tho butte Dhers
grim
Cattle tDere belloiDfn1, the circling
crotD.
And then q stir--d whispering mesa
sound.
4 ttoto soent scu'rytss ouey thatDtmg
ground.
CULLEN JONES. r
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In the Beatitudes, as In the entire
Sermon on the Mount, Christ may
be said to be defining in penetrating
and personal terms the nature Of
that happiness to which all human
hearts aspire, but which. 50 often,
In their ignorance and waywardness,
they incline to miss. To look anew
at Christ's version Of what constitutes
such happiness is splendid discipline
for all. Especially for those who
would do something more than mere
ly wish for happiness in 1914, here
Is preparation that Is preparation in
deed.
Blessed are the poor in spirit
blessed are the meek the mer-
ciful the peacemakers." Just who
are these whom Christ names? And
how are they become blessed or
happy In the midst OF the tumult
Of these times?
For one thing, let 1t be noted that
these whom Christ names here are
AhAAVAduoAo WIZ AidFC III ullA OcCply
OF life's cup. They are people who
have lived and who have experienced
hardship, toll, pain, grief, loss. They
are the ones who have struggled
against hard and impossible odds
rather than simply play the part of
bystanders or onlookers when Arma-
geddon was being fought. Do you
catch Christ's underlying idea? Hap
piness is not found in escapism, per-
sonal isolationism or in sheltered
ease Of life. We ind happiness, II
we find 1t at all, when we meet life
with all that we have, when we share
its battle, when we give ourselves
freely to its unceasing and heavy
demands.
What about such Z version Of hap
piness for 19442 Who will not agree
that such medicine, though hard to
take. Is still an excellent tonic for
these times? Who will not agree
that, when the present conflict has
become past history, one Of our
deepest and most abiding satisfac-
tons will be to be able to speak with
our own souls and to say: II, too,
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shared in that mighty struggle. My
part was small, but I did try!"
Another quality or attitude on our
part will help define this happiness
which Christ commends. Happiness
Is not 80 much 4 matter Of what you
have or own as it Is matter Of what
you are. Happiness is not 50 much
matter Of what men do to and for
you as 1t Is q matter OF what you
are pleased to do to and for men. To
receive this worlds worst and then
somehow to transmute 1t and to give
1t back to the world In the form OF
kindness. truth, mercy, love, this will.
no doubt, impose a tremendous de-
mand upon our selfish human nature,
requiring self-denial, sacrifice and
even death itself. Even so, let 1t be
observed by all-this hard, stony
path Of self-denial in the interest Of
good to others-this Is the upward
path that leads the human heart on
to happiness, to happiness both for
itself and for others.
ALI through the Sermon on the
Mount runs an insistent and unyield-
ing emphasis on the moral quality of
our daily living. Why do we do what
we do? What are our motives, our
intentions, our ultimate detectives?
AS Christ prizes deeply into the secret
places Of our hearts we sense a final
and vital truth. Happiness is the
fruition Of moral living. 1t is some
thing that only can come when, hav-
ing built the house OF life, we know
we have built it we'll, strong and safe
upon the solid rock OF obedience to
Gods eternal laws and the best we
know. The life SO planned and built
may indeed experience storms OF Vi
cissitude and disaster. Even so, it
shall ever possess within itself that
good thing which neither death nor
disaster ever shall be able to take
away. OF him whose Life is so or
dered, whether at the years begin
ming or at its close, We may speak
in the words Of the Jewish para
phrase Of the First Psalm, saying:
"Oh, the happiness of that mani"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-02
An indignant Indictment

An anonymous source in Wash
ington has informed newspapermen
that the seizure of the railroads by
the Army, the strike of the steel
workers and other threatened
strikes have needlessly prolonged
the war at the cost of hundreds of
thousands of American casualties.
The statement is weakened by its
anonymity. In addition, it is deal
ing with certain imponderables not
subject to proof. Labor leaders are
Interpreting 1t as antilabor propa-
ganda and with considerable justi-
f1cation resent its use, without nam
ing the source, by the newspapers.
The statement is based on highly
authoritative knowledge of condi-
tons in Europe. With constantly
increasing military pressure from
the outside. with so per cent OF
Berlin destroyed and other cities in
Germany slated for destruction, any
explosive incident among the con-
quered peoples will ignite the flames
OF revolt and hasten the collapse Of
the enemy. Without that explosion,
the war will be prolonged into the
summer, thousands of our soldiers
will die who might have lived. The
news that our Government has
called in the Army to run the rail-
roads, that the steel workers stopped
work, that other strikes impend, has
delayed indefinitely the internal ex-
plosion which was anticipated and
thus has prolonged the war.
That, at least, is the theory, re-
garded by its proponents as estab-
lished by facts which constitute a
disgrace and tragedy. The Star
admits. and it is matter of regret,
that it cannot reveal the source.
The Star believes. however. that the
source is not antilabor or prolabor,
not antiadministration or pro-
administration, not interested in
trying to place the blame or re-
sponsibility, but is actuated solely
by a righteous indignation that
these things have come to pass.
Is it not time that all of us-the
President, the leaders OF American
labor, the leaders of our Govern
ment-stop blaming each other and
exhibit some of the same sort of
righteous indignation over the fear
full muddle that we are creating
here at home?
Is it not time to abandon the
falllacious contention that there
is some fundamental difference be-
tween striking against the Gov
eminent" and striking against the
interests of the whole people of the
United States?
Is it not time to look again into
the merits of the theory that we
can order soldier to his death, but
that we cannot order his brother at
home to stay on the job that sup
plies the means to fight?
And is it not time to stop con-
graduating ourselves over the fact
that coal mines are at last pro-
ducing again, that steel mills are
manned again and that the railroad
trains are still running and indulge
in some frank self-condemnatio
over the fact that any group of
citizens, at this stage of the game,
is in position to nullify the efforts
of their fellow citizens to win this
uarp
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-02
Wars BuIunce Sheet

OF human affairs, seldom conform
neatly with our chronology. SO,
though this has been a year of
cumulative gains for the United Ma
lions. the tendency had already be-
gun when 1943 was ushered in. The
turn Of the tide in all major thea
tiers of action started in the autumn
OF 1912. BY last January /
big German army was hopelessly
trapped at Stalingrad, Rommel had
been beaten at Ell Alamein, the
Americans had landed in French
North Africa, the Raj was well on
its way to the mass bombing of Ger
many. while in the Pacific the Japa-
nese lava flood had been halted and
turned back at Guadalcanal, on New
Guinea, and in the naval battles of
Midway and the Coral Sea. This
year has thus witnessed the garner
ing Of Allied victories whose seeds
had already Been sown and begun
to sprout
Nevertheless, a high-light chro-
nology OF 1943 is impressive. In late
January occurred the memorable
meeting of Roosevelt and Churchill
at Casablanca, Morocco, with its
formula of unconditional sur
render for the Axis and its map
ping of subsequent Mediterranean
strategy. A few days later came the
end at Stalingrad. the greatest dis
aster of this war for German arms.
BY that time. the Allied squeeze on
the Axis in North Africa had driven
them to their last bastion in Tunisia,
and though the new American troops
suffered setback at Kasserine Pass,
the reverse was only local. The one
dark spot in Allied prospects was
the U-boat campaign, which was to
be overcome few months later.
Meanwhile the Russians had gone
from victory to victory, threatening
the Germans with a major disaster
that was temporarily averted when
they turned on the overextended
Red armies at the end OF winter. But
this was an interlude to the great
Red Summer offensive which. with
minor Interruptions, has never en-
tirely ceased and now seems to be
again in full swing.
The years most spectacular tri-
umphs were in the Mediterranean.
in Midway the end came in Tunisia,
and two months later the Allies
leaped the water gap to Sicily. Then
ensued the sudden collapse of Mus
solini and his Fascist regime, COIN
Gliding with the Allied invasion of
the peninsula that is working stead
lily toward Rome.
The autumn months saw the great
United Nations diplomatic offensive,
from Moscow, to Cairo, to Teheran,
and back to Cairo again. At those
momentous meetings all the chief
heads of the coalition met and con-
certed joint action closer than ever
before attained. Meanwhile, the air
war over Europe rose to a furious
crescendo, while in the Pacific ia
pan went on the defensive every
where.
The threshold OF new year thus
finds the prospects OF the United
Nations vastly brighter than they
were year ago. The rate of prog
ress during 1943 has been so sus-
tanned and so accelerated in tempo
that there is genuine possibility
OF final victory in Europe before the
end OF 1914. That splendid hope is
largely dependent upon the devo-
ton and self-sacrifice, not only of
the troops themselves but also of
those behind the lines-which means
all of us.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-02

establishment Of clinics, increased pub
lie health nursing, provision Of new
hospital facilities and disease-control
programs In recent years, financed
largely from local revenues. They do
indicate some Of the results OF increased
community awareness Of public health
problems and the adoption Of programs
based on realization that public
health Is purchasable,"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-02

The kind of labor dispute that
Will help win the war has at last
been discovered. There is a violent
controversy on in Montreal over
which man has established a record
Tor number of rivets driven in a.
Shipyard.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-02

Candy produced In Germany Is
scheduled to stop with the new year
except. Of course. the taffy that
Propaganda Minister Goebbels will
serve up ~ the going gets tougher.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-02

A private recently inherited ST.
100000. This should make him rea-
sonably safe from the hazards of the
payday crap game.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-02
The Quest for Happiness

By the Req Dr. Gerhard Lens
President OF the Washington Lutheran Ministers association
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-02

r1dden city.
In venereal disease control Washington
Is making commemorate improvement,
noted by the Public Health Service as
third best in the country between De-
cember Of 1941 and June, 1913. The steps
taken here have been the subject of
commentator from the military au-
thorities. The figures quoted above from
the book mentioned by Mrs. Roosevelt,
indicating that Washington is the black
est spot in the Nation as regards venereal
infection Of servicemen, are based on
some astonishing statistical nonsense,
the source Of which requires too lengthy
an explanation to be detailed here.
Complete statistics for 1913 are not
available, but the progress In public
health shown below continued in 1913.
The 1912 rates were in each case the
lowest in District history.
General death rate l43 1913
Infant mortality - 592 44.8
Maternal mortality ---- 81 %
Pneumonia deaths per 100000 1878 600
Diphtheria deaths per 100000 40 o.
These few comparisons striking
In view Of wartime congressional not
half tell the story Of what has been
done Tor what Il going to be done) In