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Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1945-11-09
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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-05-17
Calendar ofComi"s Gve"h
THURSDAY. MAY ~

wOMENs SOCIETY of Christian Service annual monc no
daughter banquet at Methodist Church parors, at $50
REBEKAH LODGE pot-luck dinner in Barron Hall followed
by regular meeting. Dinner at meeting az o p H.
FRATERNAL ORDER of Eagles, in Aerie Hail. at p m .
PUBLIC GAMES PARTY at VIEW Hall, sponsored by Ladies
Auxiliary Oskar Andreas Post at p. m
PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY in Girl Scout Hall over Jewe
Theatre, at
DANCE for service and women at USO Club Broadway
at $50 p. m.
KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS, at X c. Hail. 25 Cherry street.
at p
MIGNONETTE FLOWER CLUB with Mrs Cecilia Higbee, 81
Gibbs street, at D. All games parties closed until
Fall.
friday MAY lS
T. O. O. F. In Hall, initiation and nomination OF Of
ficerS. at p. m.
E. S. Chapter 247 special meeting for in
itiation, in Masonic Temple, at 7:45 p.
MISSIONARY SOCIETY of Presbyterian Church. with Miss
Anna Whitney 100 Grand avenue. at 2:30 m.
DANCING CLUB Harrison town hall to IL
FRIDAY FROLIC at Grace parish house, $50 to l:30
SENIOR CHOIR of Grace Episcopal Church. at the parish
house, at 1880 p.
SATURDAY. MAY lo
RUNMAGE SALE at SO Market sponsored by United
Workers Circle of Kings Daughters
BAKE SALE at VOLTS Millinery sponsored by Silver Lining
PARTY for and Masonic Service Cen
ter in Masonic Temple.
NINETWENTY CLUB at USO on Broadway at p.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-05-17
Benefit Bridge
Draws Crowd

APPROXIMATELY 100 per-
sons were present at Grace par
ish house yesterday, when the
Young Women's Epi scop |
League sponsored a public bene-
fit bridge party.
Dessert luncheon was served
at small tables conferred with
potted pansies, which were table
prizes. Mrs. Irwin Perry won
the door prize.
Mrs. Clarence Vernier and
Mrs.'K. G.. Purton were co-cha:r-
men.
MRS. ALGER SYME, who is
visiting her parents, DR.. and
Mrs. J. M. Croman, Sr.. will
leave for her home in Minnea-
polls, Mimi, Monday. Mrs. Wal
ter Lehner is asking few
friends in for bridge Saturday
evening for Mrs. Syme.
MR.. AND MRS. o T o
KUEHN entertained 38 relatives
and friends for dinner and sup
per Sunday evening, honoring
their daughter, Ruth Lucille,
who was confirmed in st. Johns
Lutheran Church, New Haven.
Guests were present from De-
troit, BEDFORD, Crosse Pointe.
Mount Cuemens, Ray Center,
Romeo, Meade and New Haven.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-05-17
Service Men Home
on Furlough, Leave

LORIN A. PARSONS, Romeo,
to Jl.le g.
HAROLD A. EVANSKI, Ut-
ca, TO June II.
1T. RAYMOND J KENT.
32i5 Groesbeck Highway, to
June II.
ROBERT HEN KEEL, 29l2
Broadway, TO June !
CARY DOBSON, North Ave
nue., to May %.
BENJAMIN w. KULMAN,
Richmond, 10 June 10
HARRY f. MAY. Sc Gibbs
street. to June Q.
LEONARD r CRZADZIN-
SKI. Route 2, 10 June 3.
WARREN RAY, 81 Grand
avenue. to May 26
WILBUR j JANKER, l04
Avery street. 10 June ,.
FRANK WALKER, Romeo, to
May q.
JOHN II. BLANCHARD, Uti
CA, to June Is.
ARTHUR BABIAN, AM SC.
Romeo. to June 2.
EUGENE s. SCHMIDT, Route
7, TO June IA.
RODNEY HILBERT, 81 Fcs-
sender street. to June IA
STANLEY T. DUNK, 10 Hub
bard avenue, TO May %
MERRELL l.. THURSTON.
70 Ac., 38 Ahrens street, to
June 2.
CARL c. MOODY, 73 Cherry
Lane, TO June 10.
JOHN W. REAM, Utica, 70
May IT,
ROGERS F. RENUSCH. Uti-
ca, TO June Is.
ANTHONY NJ. DUBAY, IS
Ahrens street, to May 81
KENNETH NJ. BLANK, Ro-
meo, to May 81.
WILLIAM FOLSOM, 1928
Gates drive, 10 May 30.
Bake Sale
A BAKE SALE will be held
Saturday morning at Wolff s
Millinery. North Walnut street,
from Q to II o'clock. Silver Lin
ing Circle, with Mrs. Elmo
Spears as chairman, is sponsor
ing the sale.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-05-17

MARINE TECH. SGT. HAIR
OLD E. RICKERT. %, is home
on 30-day furlough, after 20
months overseas as ground
creWman with a Fourth Marine
Air Wing torpedo BIO m b 7
squadron. He was based IN the
Solomons, New Hebrides, St.
Matthias, Palau, and the Green
Islands, and although he under
went bombing and Smelling, he
escaped injury. He attended
Mount Clemens High school,
and prior 10 enlisting in Decem-
Der, sl942, he was employed at
the Rickert Boat Works. A
brother, Leland, is with the
Navy, stationed in the Pacific.
SGT. Rickert will report TO Cher :
ry Point, N. c., for reassignment
on June Z. He is the son OF Kari
NJ. Rickert, Sc Floral avenue.
NJ SGT. ROBERT WATSON
is spending a 45-day leave ut
hcne. after 81 months overseas
in scotland, Ireland, England
and France, serving with a
headquarters division in Ord
nance. Son Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Hugh Watson, 1855 Glenwood
road, he wears the Good Con-
due, - dial, the Europeap Thea
ire RIBBON with one battle star.
He has been in service four
years. His aunt. Mrs. w. II.
Richard. Crosse Pointe, Will en-
terrain in his honor Saturday
evening.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-05-17
Service Man
Takes Bride

ROMEO-Mrs. Baerlin L. Gil
cher has returned to Romeo to
make her home for the present,
after brief honeymoon with
her husband, S/Sgt. Gilcher,
who has left for reassignment IN
the armed forces.
The bride is the former Mary
Louise Crissman, daughter OF
Mrs. Albert j. Crissman OF Ro-
meo and the late Mr.. Crissman.
Her husband is the son of Mr..
and Mrs. Orla Gilcher OF Detroit
and Kunkle. o. He made his
home with Mr.. and Mrs. Harvey
Norton in Washington prior to
entering the armed forces.
The couple was married in
Detroit at 4 o'clock April %, by
the Rev. Philip II. Bohn, life
long friend of the bridegroom S
family, in the Lutheran parson-
age. The bride wore a gold tail
ored dress, three-quarters length
gold coat with alligator and gold
accessories and corsage OF gar
denias. Mrs. l.. 7. Buck and Mrs.
Philip Bohn of Detroit attended
the couple.
The bride is employed by the
U. S. Army Engineers at Center
Line and Romulus. Her husband
has served three years in New
Guinea and the Philippines, and
has left for Miami Beach, Fla.
for new orders. Sgt. and Mrs.
Gilcher spent their honeymoon
in Southern Michigan and ONO.
MRS. WILLIAM MIKELA1T,
who has been attending Michi-
gan State Normal at Ypsilanti
has been elected president OF the
Theta Lambda Sigma sorority.
1t. Mikelait of the Fourth Ma
rine Division is in the South
Pacific.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-05-17
~ Wilson PTA Announces Plans for Third Annual CanWa
Wkh the Color, X

SECOND 1T ROB ER T A
STEWART of the Army Nurse
Corps. who returned 10 Camp
Mccoy, Wis. today after a
leave, was honored AZ a fare
we'll dinner Tuesday evening at
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. f. a
Stewart of Lincoln avenue. A
crystal bowl held white lIlacs,
white tapers were used i'm crystal
holders, and red, white and blue
streamers added the patriotic
touch. 1t. Stewart has spent the
past 10 days with her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Stewart.
100 Riverside drive.
THE THIRD son OF Mr. and
Mrs. Joseph PerShon 70 don a
uniform is Pvt. Jacob II Per
shon. 10, who has arrived al
Comp Fannin, Texas, for his
basic training. The other two
are T Sgt. Joseph PerShon. re
Gently wounded in Germany,
where he was serving with the
Signal Corps under Gen Patch;
and Pvt. George PerShon sta
toned with the military police
in Paris. The family home : at
2476 Gratiot road, Mount Glenn
ems.
PFC FREDERICK L KARK
who is somewhere in Germany
with the Ninth Army, has been
awarded the bronze star, ac-
cording TO his wife.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-05-17
Committees are Listed
for Friday June I Event

Mr.. and Mrs. Lyester Terry
art general chairmen for the
carnival, which in previous
years has been highly success
full Plans are TO open at $50
o'clock at the school, and COM
mittee chairmen for the several
concessions and displays are ar
ranged.
Listed are Mr.. and Mrs. Rob-
ert Beal, popcorn; Otto Nickel
and Kenneth Whipple, games;
Mr.. and Mrs. William Mason,
fish pond Mrs. Carroll Brown,
bake sale; Mr.. and Mrs. Ma
con Trabue, pop; Howard Hall
Ter, Boy Scout display; Mrs. Ira
bue, fortune telling; c. II. NAL
bin, door prizes; and Mr.. and
Mrs. Harold Hickman, ice
cream.
Proceeds from the event, the
only money-making project OF
Wilson PTA's entire year, are to
be used for playground equip
ment.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-05-17
Creen-MiHer
Vows Spoken

ANNOUNCEMENT is made
today of the marriage of Hazel
NJ. Green of Rochester, former
ly of New Haven, and Don B.
Miller of Romeo.
The wedding took place at the
home of the Rev. Oscar Bollman,
pastor of the Romeo Congrega-
tional church, on Monday, May
Ia. Mr.. and Mrs. Glenn c. Liv-
ermore of Romeo. brother and
sister-in-lay of the bridegroom,
were the only attendants.
Mr.. and Mrs. Miller left Tues
day for Houston and Port Ar
thur, Tex. They will be at
home at 1876 Walnut boulevard,
Rochester, after June /.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-05-17

ANNOUNCEMENT is made
today of plans for the third an
nual carnival sponsored by the
Wilson Parent Teacher Associ-
alton. Date for the event this
year is Friday night, June /.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-05-17
Dancing Club Set
for Garden Party

THE DANCING CLUB will
hold a Victory Garden party at
Harrison town hall on Friday
evening from 8 TO IL o'clock, it
is announced today.
Board of directors for the
group are Mr.. and Mrs. Franz
Rooney of Detroit, Mr.. and Mrs.
Robert Beale, Mr.. and Mrs. Har-
old Sherman, and Mr.. and Mrs.
Howard V. Groesbeck, Jr.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-05-17
Rummage Sale

A RUMMAGE SALE will be
held Saturday at SO Market
street, under the auspices of
United Workers Circle of Kings
Daughters, with Mrs. Carlton
Tucker as chairman.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-02-04
VINO SCHEDULES
EMPLOYER CHECK

Representatives of the War Man.
power Commission will commence
checking Wilmington employer,
establishment by establishment,
early next week to determine the
extent of their compliance with
VINO regulations on hiring work
ers, keeping within their employ
ment ceilings and handling their
turnovers through III United
States Employment Service.
Announcing the advent OF the m
vestigators, Wilmington Area Dl-
rector Henry I. Shepherd said that
first discoveries of violations by
checkers would be followed oy m
structive admonitions, and that op-
portunity would be given employ
ers to correct their errors before
punitive action was taken.
Each employer, it was pointed
out, should have in his possession
USES. referral card for every
male employe. This applies also
to female workers who were last
employed in essential work or
were hired from outside the Will
m.ngton area. Among male work
ers, only discharged veterans of
World War II are exempt.
Mr.. Shepherd asked the cooper
ation of all employers who have
est workers to other firms With
out the prescribed USES clearance
to help locate the employees so tina.
they may be returned to their first
place of employment or have their
transfers regularized.
Attention was recalled to the
fact that the War Manpower Com
mission still enforces 48-hour
minimum work week regulation in
the Wilmington area.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-02-04
Jefferson Standard
Shows Strong Gains

Substantial gains in all phases of
business were made during 1914 by
the Jefferson Standard Life Insur-
ance company, local manager H.
N. Radcliffe reported yesterday.
A communication from company
headquarters in Greensboro indica-
ted that 1914 ended with $40.032,-
074 more insurance in force than
in 1913, bringing the total operative
insurance to $542, 565,115
The agency force, depleted by
los members serving in the armed
forces, brought in $60,097,014 in
new business. This, combined with
a drop in actual mortalities as
against expected mortalities of two
per cent, together with a net in
vestment return of 4.53 per cent,
as against 3.3 per cent average
for all companies in 1913, allowed
a dividend of 40 cents per share to
be declared at the years end.
Company War Bond purchases
during the year amounted to $10.-
100000.
An oil-portrait of Julian Price,
entering his 26.h year as president
of the company, was presented to
the company, on behalf of the
agency force, by E. Frank An.
drews, leading agent for 1914.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-02-04
SPEED IN WAR
CONTRACTS SLATED

WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 III A
general speed-up in war contract
ing was announced today following
war production board request to
the Armed Forces that orders be
placed as soon as possible for the
whole of 1915.
WPB Chairman j. A. Krug said
the new steps would allow manu-
facturers and their contractors to
pull out the stops" and drive for
the years record-breaking war
production goal fortified by
realistic picture of the years
requirements"
Krug announced the Army, Ma
Wy, Maritime Commission and
Treasury department have direct
ed that government contracts here
after shall contain clauses requir-
ing:
/. That prime contractors place
all necessary sub-contracts and
materials orders promptly to as
sure that needed parts arrive in
time to meet delivery schedules
for the finished weapons.
9. That each contractor include
in his sub contracts similar
clause requiring the sub-contractor
to make equally prompt placement
of supplies ordered.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-02-04

The Greenfield Chapel Service - blu
Alexander & Mediation Board - mbs
a:151Dorothy Thompson's Talk - blu
8:30-One Mans Family, Drama - nbc
Crime Doctor, Dramatic Series chs
Stop or Go with Joe E. Brown - blu
8:45-Gabriel Heater Comments - mbs
8:55-Five Minutes News Period chs
900-Sunday's Merry Go Round - nbc
Magazine Theater and Guests chs
Walter Winchell Broadcasting - blu
Horizons; Sunday Concert Show-mbs
s:15-Hollywood Mystery Theater - blu
9:30-Album of Familiar Music - nbc
James Melton, Alec Templeton chs
Cedric Fosters War Comment nnbs
9:45-Jimmie Elders Hollywood - blu
The Jerry Cooper Show of song-mbs
1o:oo-Phil Spitalny & Girl Orch: - nbc
Phil Baker Take 1t or Leave 1t - chs
Life of Riley and VIM. Bendix - blu
Earl Wilson Talks Broadway nbs
10:15-Walter Hampden, Leonidas - mbs
10:30-Comedy Dramas, II. Lloyd nbc
We the People, Guest Show - chs
Variations by Van Cleve Orch. blu
10:45-The Columbus Boys Choir - mbs
l1:oo-variety and News q hrJ = nbc
News, Variety, Dance e h. = cbs-blu
Music Depreciation; Orc. e h. - rnbs
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-02-04
Local Sailor Receives
Token Of Appreciation
From Citizens Of Nevada

John Thomas Hoggard, Jr., SIX
&c, son of DR.. and Mrs. J. T.
Hoggard, of SOP Orange ST., who
formerly served on the battleship,
U. S. S. Nevada, was recently the
recipient of silver dollar, a gift
of the state of Nevada, as a token
of appreciation for his services
aboard the vessels.
The great silver state, proud OF
the record of her namesake, pre-
sented each member of the Ne
vada's crew with a silver dollar.
Hoggard is entitled to wear three
major engagement stars for action
in the Aleutians, the South Pacific,
and in the invasion of Normandy,
while member of the crew of the
Nevada.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-02-04
BUSY STORK

WASHINGTON, Feb. 3.-LR
The stork has been much
buster in this war than in
World War 1.
One reason, says census
Bureau expert John D. Du-
rand, is that various European
nations have deliberately
granted more furloughs for
married men to visit their
homes.
Another reason is that both
European countries and the
United States have paid allot-
ments to servicemen's depend
ents In this war.
In the United States the
birth rate has stayed SO high
for three years that the popula-
ton effect of the war has been
a large net gain. For every
soldier or sailor killed in the
war, six "war babies" have
been born-in addition to the
number of babies that would
normally have been expected
under the pre-war birth rate.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-02-04
JAPS STORM CHIHING

CHUNGK1NG, Feb. 3. -UP)-
Japanese forces have stormed Chi
hing, 40 miles east of Kukong, in
new drive toward the airfields of
southern Kiangsi province, a Chi
nese communique disclosed today,
and reports from occupied China
said the enemy was using Chinese
forced labor to build defense in
stallations from Singapore to
northeastern Korea, near Vladivos-
tok
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-02-04
OVER THE NETWORKS
SUNDAY. FEBRUARY 4
Eastern War Time p. M.

Eastern War Time r. M.
,..,,.s in programs as listed due to
late to incorporate
.ooo The Paul Lavalle Concert - nbc
~ TSrgsrs-Atlantic Call, Exchange - CPS
.a aslI and His Continentales - blu
IIitheran Half-Hour Services - mbs
Lung eta an Concert Orchestra - blu
!116o-Fifteen- Minute Newscast - nbc
- ny church of the Air Sermons - chs
Inn i1iP 3, Kennedy in Comment - blu
sonil Dixon in Commentary mbs
,s,s America United-A. F. of L. - nbc
-i coorpe Hicks From Overseas - blu
Singing Canaries Program = mbs-baslc
,%nsUs Of Chicago Roundtable - nbc
cyest Speaker for Is Minutes - chs
ean,n,v Kayes Serenade; News - blu
9 9a.l1,tj MYSTERIES, Dramatic mhs
,.15-Ed Murrow's Commentary - CHS
9.6o-Those We Love, Drama - nbc
- The Matinee Theater, Dramatic - chs
rbsDIain Jim, U.S.A., Drama - blu
CIV Riders. Servicemen's Quiz - mbs
o-sG-Iohn Chas Thomas & Song - nbc
News of World; DIN Downes - chs
National Vespers via the Radio - blu
A Sunday Afternoon Comment - mps
9,45-The Canary Pet Program - mbs
9.6G-World's Parade, Max Hill nbc
N. Y. Philharmonic Symphony - CPS
The Charlotte Greenwood Show - blu
Roosty of the A.A.F., Comedy - mbs
3:SO-Official Hour by the Army - nbc
Ethel Barrymore's Miss Hattie - blu
Nick Carter Detective Drama - mos
4,Oo-Darts for Dough, Quiz - blu-West
1t is Set to Music-blu-New England
Your America, Variety, Guests - mbs
43O-Music America Loves Best - nbc
Nelson Eddy Concert & Guest - chs
The Andrews Sisters Program - blu
What's Name of the Song Quiz - mbs
5:O0-NBC Symphony, Ormandy - nbc
Family Time & Patrice Munsel - chs
Mary Small in a Music Revue - blu
Let's Face the Issue. Forum - mbs
5:30-Metropoi;tan Opera Presents - blu
The Shadow. Mystery Drama - mbs
s:45-Bll Shirer in Commentary - chs
Goethe Catholic Radio Service - nbc
Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet - chs
Hall of Fame, Paul Whiteman blu
Quick as a Flash, Quiz Show mbs
6:3O-Great Gildersleeve Comedy. - nbc
Fanny Brice & Comedy Show chs
Upton Close and His Comment - mbs
6:45-Dick, Brown with His Song - mbs
7:00-Jack Benny Comedy Variety-nbc
Kate Smith Hour for Variety chs
Drew Pearson and Commentary - blu
The Cleveland Orchestra Hour - mbs
7:l5-NeWs Summary for Is Minis. - blu
T:30-The Banowagon Orchestra nbc
Quiz Kids and Joe Kelly M. c. - blu
8:oo-Chas. Mccarthy, E. Bergen nbc
Blondie-DagWood Comedy Skit chs
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-02-04

The japanese have organized a
large system of fire breaks in Tok-
20 by razing lanes of houses a
block wide and running for miles
throughout Tokyo,
Evening star., 1945-08-14
Todoy's War Story
Yonks in Budapest Fear Return
Will End Arabian Niqhts Dream

government formed by parties which
took part in the resistance move
ment. Cabinet posts were allotted ac-
cording to party strength by mutual
agreement. The Hungarian govern
ment is headed by Gen. Bella Miklas,
an old army officer. There are five
parties from right to left. the Citi-
zen-Democrats, the Small Holders,
the Social Democrats, the Peasants
and the Communists.
The Peasant party is only a rural
branch of the Communist party,
while the Small Holders are also
farmers with slightly less leftist
ideas. The Communist, plus the
Peasant party, now have bare
majority in the government, but the
Social Democrats and the Small
Holders usually go along with them.
The Citizen-Democrats, representing
the right wing In this quite leftist
government, are being squeezed out
and bitterly denounced by the other
parties. The Christian Socialists.
largely a Catholic church group.
never were allowed in the govern
Evening star., 1945-08-14
Todoy's War Story
BY THOMAS R. HENRY,
Star War Correspondent.

BUDAPEST.-A small group OF
Yank soldiers in Europe don't want
to 60 home for fear they will wake
up some morning from an Arabian
nights dream to find they are poor
men instead of millionaires. These
soldiers are attached to the Allied
Control Commission in Budapest,
under the command of Maj. Gen.
william S. Key.
I myself sometimes fear that the
fantasy of silk-gowned beautiful
women dancing to weird gypsy music
amid the ruins of this once lovely
city is all an opiate dream and I will
wake up in a padded cell in St.
Elizabeth's Hospital.
The orgy of silks, diamonds, old
wines, old cognac and the limitless
imitation spending of the Russians,
Yanks and British-this crazy dance
amidst the open graves-is out of
this world. But it's true No wonder
Yank soldiers fear the day of orders
home to ration cards and home
cooked meals. Every dinner here at
the enlisted mems mess is like a
hotel banquet and at the officers
mess something more.
This is Budapest, where anything
can happen any time. At the con-
vent where I slept last night T was
awakened at am. by wild shooting
In the street and the crashing of
glass. Bullets smashed convent win
oows and there was screaming and
running and gypsy music and dane
ing around the corner.
Since its capture in February.
Budapest has been Russian -occu-
pied city. 1t is not like Berlin or
Vienna, occupied in zones by all the
Allies. The Allied Control Commits
sion men are not occupation troops.
The Russians did a marvellous lob. as
In Berlin, in cleaning the city, or
ganIzlng government and giving
people food and a minimum of sup
plies. The Russian commander is a
former Soviet War Minister, Marshal
Klementi Voroshilov, an able organ
fzer with whom Gen. Key and the
British commander can work in
perfect harmony.
The control commission job is to
enforce the terms of the armistice.
chiefly requiring Hungary to pay
S3OO,0OO,000 in six years, of which
$200,000,000 is reparations to Russia.
The American members are well
satisfied. They believe this country
will be the first in enemy Europe to
get on its feet and meet all it obliga-
tions. The people are industrious.
They seem cheerful, not war-loss
bitter.
The Soviet quickly recognized the
Evening star., 1945-08-14

ment, though they played big part
in the underground. This group
resents its exclusion.
The leftist trend Is not due to
overt Russian influence as appar-
ent care is exercised to avoid propa-
ganda. The Nazi group in Hungary
the sinister party of the arrow
is being rounded up and jailed by
the government. Several leaders
already have been executed after
sentence by the peoples courts.
The city is getting back the rare
treasures taken by the Germans,
such as the hand of st. Stephen,
early King who Christianized the
country, and the crown presented
to st. Stephen by Pope Sylvester II.
1t was found hidden near Salzburg.
A great fete is planned for st.
Stephens day, August 20, when the
hand will be carried through the
streets in procession.
The tragic side of the Buda-
pest situation is the certainty of
food shortage, perhaps approaching