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Evening star., 1945-04-08
Nozi WerewoIves"

The official announcement over
the Berlin radio that a fanatlcal
guerrilla organization has been
formed both to fight the Allied
invaders and to punish native "col-
laborationists" is the logical imple-
mentation of Nazi theory and prac-
tice. The guerrillaS are given the
gruesomely colorful title of were
wolves" a name taken from pagan
mythologies common to Germany
and other parts of Central Europe.
The myth, widely known to Ameri-
can novel-readers and moviegoers
through the popularization of Ora
cula" and other horror tales. is that
of beings with the diabolical power
to change themselves from human
to predatory animal shapes, and in
that guise to prey upon normal
humankind.
Psychopathic though such con-
cept may appear, it did not originate
with the NaziS. The frustrated ma
tionalists after the last war who
terrorized and aSsassinated many
upholders of the Weimar Republic
through secret organizations called
one of those most notorious murder
gangs by the name of werewolf"
Also, the kangaroo courts admittedly
functioning in Allied occupied terri
tory which have already pronounced
death sentences upon German col
laborationists like the new Mayor OF
Aachen stem from the Medieval
Vehmgerichte-sec tribunals or
ganized to deal out retribution
against individuals who could not be
reached by ordinary legal processes.
The Berlin broadcast frankly ad-
mits the aims of the underground
movement It is to make collabora
ton with the Allies impossible and
finally drive them out of all German
territories" All Germans. regardless
of age or sex. living under Allied
control are ordered to give whole
hearted support to the Werewolves"
or suffer the direst penalties. Every
one must now decide" says the
broadcast, whether he wants to be
living or dead; whether he wants to
fight to the end living on our side or
capitulate to the enemy-and die"
The Werewolves themselves solemnly
VOW to risk death daily and JOY
fully" in a suicidal campaign of
death against every Allied soldier
without regard to "the childish rules
Of so-called decent bourgeois war
fare"
It would be unwise to discount
this manifesto as mere theatrical
hysteria. There are probably hun
dreds of thousands Of Nazi fanatics
Evening star., 1945-04-08
Europe's Disease Peril

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men who bring catastrophe upon
mankind is Plague. This grim
visitant usually comes somewhat in
the wake of War and Famine,
which create the conditions under
which epidemic disease thrives and
spreads. Likewise, the special forms
which such disease assumes are apt
to vary with each major visitation.
In World War I, for instance, the
chief scourge was that known as
| Spanish influenza, which reached
it's peak toward the close OF the
conflict and extended into the i'm
mediate postwar period.
A report just issued by the Health
Division of UNRRA reveals a sit
uation in Europe which, though
not imminently alarming, contains
grave potentialities" for widespread
epidemicS because of the debilitated
condition of most European peoples,
the intensity of refugee movements
on a vast scale and the fluid state
of civil administration. The for
tunate absence of disastrous epi-
denies thus far is due to the low
endemic level of most diseases in
Europe preceding the war, coupled
with notable advances in preventive
medicine.
Nevertheless, the incidence of dis
ease is rising rapidly in many parts
of the War-torn continent. AS al
ways under conditions of over
crowding, filth and breakdowns in
sanitation, louse-borne typhus is
locally acute menace. Diphtheria
has become "a leading disease Of
the war" while infantile paralysis,
dySentery, tuberculosis, malaria and
syphilis are all gaining generally in
prevelancy.
The new" disease of this war IS
epidemic jaundice. The report gives
the case history of this malady as
follows: From an obscure existence
among the garrison OF Malta ana
in a few German Army units, it
assumed proportions to interfere
occasionally with military opera
tions and spread among the civilian
population from the Lybian Desert
to North Cape" This disease, while
long known TO medical science, has
hitherto been relatively rare and
had never been considered capable
of attaining epidemic proportions.
Today, however, epidemic jaundice
exhibits IAN extremely high degree
of infectivity and capacity for COW
ering distances. Since its potential
tiles are unknown and means of
combating it have not so far been
devised, this disease deserves to be
closely watched" Fortunately, its
mortality rate has thus far not been
high, though there is no assurance
that it's virulence will not mount.
Evening star., 1945-04-08

washed, it is oiled Immediately.
Strange thing-the harness oil will
work into the pores of the leather
as the water dries out.
Hour by hour the work progresses.
Piece after piece is scrubbed, oiled
and put into the pile. There is
satisfaction in the process as the
dried, stained leather comes out
cleaning, clean and soft again.
And, of course, as lad works away
getting the harness ready for sea-
sons work, there is no law to pre-
vent him thinking about fishing
trip, the baseball game with Gen.
terville next week or the school
dance next Friday evening. Oiling
harness is not too bad; it is just one
of those inevitable jobs fellow has
to do sooner or later.
Evening star., 1945-04-08

willing to fight literally to the death
and capable of anything which will
further their cause. Against this
desperate minority there is no native
opposition. Experience has shown
that the German masses are passive
instruments of more than decade
Of Nazi domination. If underground
terrorism prevents any German from
collaborating with the Allies and
enforces practically universal pas
sive resistance, the Allied task of
governing and policing large coun-
try with some 60,0OO,OOO inhabitants
will be a herculean one. Further
more, the occupation authorities will
have to regard all Germans as po-
tentially hostile. which will prevent
even start toward the reorganiza-
ton and reorientation of the Ger
man people on constructive lines.
That, of course. is what the Nazis
desire. Their creed is literally "rule
or ruin" And they are going about
it in diabolically determined way.
Evening star., 1945-04-08
Il Farewell Message
By the ReD F. Bland Tucker
Rector of ST. Johns Church, Georgetown Parish 1885,

mean the coming of spring and we
rejoice. The real stability of ma
ture is not the frozen calm of winter,
but the assurance that life will
prevail. The stability we crave for
our world is too often the stability
of no change; the stability we need
is not some unchanging system but
the living eternal God, guiding the
world through all change. I'm the
cross of Christ I glory, towering DER
the wrecks of time The cross out
Wardly is tragedy, but it is in reality
the eternal love of God, the same
yesterday, today and forever.
Third-Faith is courage in the
face of the unknown future. AS thy
days, so shall thy strength be. We
know that we have been given
strength to meet call upon us, but
We look forward in fear of greater
calls to come. Yet the God who
helped us in the past can help us
each day, if we do not try to carry
the burden of the future along with
the present.
But we must not think of this
merely in terms of carrying burdens.
Faith is the courage TO undertake
tasks 1t is so easy to refuse tasks
with the seeming humility of saying,
Il am not wise enough for that"
But God has tasks to be done for
which no one is wise enOugh-and if
every one waits for that they will
never be done; but God with His
call to us makes also His promise,
"As thy days, so shall thy strength
be" AS We go in obedience to His
command, we can put our full trust
in His word.
Ten lepers once came to Jesus
asking Him to heal them. Go show
yourselves to the priests He COM
manded. And it came to pass that,
as they went, they we're cleansed.'
Faith then is the trust that leads
to obedience. In the midst of anX-
iety, change and fear, we seek the
peace of God. But we will not find
1t in retreating from the world but
rather in facing the world. For the
only way to have the peace of God
is to do the will of God.
Evening star., 1945-04-08
They Cannot Match Ii

In their first major sea a-and- air
effort to disrupt our invasion of
OkinaWa, the japanese have sue
ceeded only in demonstrating again
that they are hopelesSly outclassed
by our American forces. They can
not shoot as well, they cannot fly as
well, they cannot run ships as well.
and the result is that they get
whipped, and whipped hard. every
time they come out to challenge our
power.
Thus, on April 6, according to
Admiral Nimitz, they sent "a large
force of aircraft to attack our
ground installations on Okinawa
and our ships offshore. In this
action they managed to sink three
OF our destroyers and to damage
several other destroyers and smaller
vessels, but the price they had to
pay was very high-361 of their
planes shot down, with no air losses
reported for us in the Nimitz COM
munique.
Then, next day, one of our carrier
task forces intercepted part of their
fleet moving into the East China
Sea just off Kyushu, their southern
most home island. The result: At
a cost to us of seven planes, we shot
down thirty of theirs, left three of
their deStroyers burning and def
nitely sent to the bottom three
other destroyers, two of their light
cruisers and-richest prize of all
the giant 45,000ton Yamato, the
last of the superbattleships in their
crippled navy.
The overwhelmingly one sided
nature of this victory, however, is
not unusual. Two years or so ago
it would have been considered al
most unbelievable, but now we take
it more or less for granted because
our forces in the Pacifc-during
many months past-have repeatedly
proved their spectacular superiority
over the enemy. The Japanese
simply cannot match it, or even come
near to matching it. Qualitatively
and quantitatively, they are grow
ing increasingly helpless against
American power and American
heroism, and they themselves must
know by this time that the more
they attack the more they will be
battered and whitfield down until
they collapse or surrender.
Evening star., 1945-04-08

AS thy days SO shall thy strength
be. The eternal God is thy refuge,
and underneath are the everlasting
arms. Deuteronomy, xXxiii25,27
In one of the most touching stories
in the Gospel Jesus said to father
whose little girl was at the point OF
death, BE not afraid, only believe"
And these words sum up the first
fundamental thing that Christianity
has to say to us-the word of faith,
and faith not as soft and easy
avoidance of fact, but as the power to
face reality. Our text has three
things to say about faith that the
present day needs.
First-Faith is assurance instead of
anxiety. "Underneath are the ever
lasting arms" A child, afraid of the
dark feels his mothers arms close
around him and is treasured. She
could turn on the light and never let
him know darkness; but she does not.
She enables him to face the dark.
In this world of today, with our loved
ones in danger from which we cannot
protect them, we are afraid. Like the
child we cry out for the dark to be
taken away, but what faith brings us
Is to know that underneath are the
everlasting arms" Gods comfort is
not to make everything easy, but to
strengthen us SO that we can face the
dark In that companionship we can
intrust our loved ones to God, what
ever happens, because we are per-
suaded that neither death nor life.
nor things present nor things to come
can separate us from the love Of God
which is in Christ Jesus our Lord
Second-Faith Is stability in the
midst of change. The eternal God
is thy refuge" The stable founda-
tions of our world are gone, and
we feel like a man sliding down a
steep slope to an abyss. Everything
we grasp seems to break off in our
hands Jesus once said to people
who were fearful at the changes
coming upon the world, Learn a
parable of the fig tree. When it
shoots forth, summer is nigh at
hand" This change we know to
Evening star., 1945-04-08
OiIinq Harness

Olling harness is by no means the
worst job on the farm. 1t rates de-
cidedly above hauling out dressing
cleaning the henhouSe or wedding
strawberries. But it is one of those
jobs that gets put off. Comes the
day, however, when father lays
down the law. Spring work season
is about here. 1t is rainy Saturday
and just the day to oil the harnesses.
After fellow gets going it is not
too bad. The farm shop, with a
cheerful fire cracking in the old
Franklin, is a pleasant place. A lad
would not be averse to dropping a
few worms in the meadow creek for
trout, but still the heat of the shop
Is very welcome on a raw April day.
First, couple of pals of water are
set to heat on the stove and the
plank with its low board sides placed
from sawhorse to a tub. Then the
pieces of harness can be scrubbed
with a stiff brush, and the soapy
water runs back into the tub.
Taking heavy work harness to
pieces is a job in itself when the
leather is tough and unyielding. A
young man wonders why the job is
called oiling harness when so much
of the work is assembling, wash
Ing and assembling again. Piece by
piece the traces, breeching, lazy
strap, side straps, reins, breast strap,
choke strap, winker brace blinds
and cheek straps are scrubbed and
set aside. When a harness is
Evening star., 1945-04-08
Out in Front

In 1912, in the first of this war S
Red Cross campaigns and one that
was organized without adequate
preparation for the task involved,
Washington failed to make its
quota
The Presidents terse press con-
ference comment then was Wash
lngton papers please note" The
President repeated that comment
in l943, when the Washington cam
palgn went over the top, adding
that he was proud of the showing
made. Last year the campaign was
an even greater success, and this
year, with Washington finishing the
drive in record time with an un-
precedented 1l7.7 per cent of quota,
1T is possible that the District of
Columbia will lead the country
when the books are finally closed.
The Importance of this excellent
showing is not to be minimiZed.
For, while it is the natural result
OF sound organization, good leader
ship and hard work, it will come as
something of a surprise to those
critics whose knowledge and under
standing of Washington are the
superficial impressions of casual
visitor. Behind the front of crowded
streets and hotels and restaurants,
Jammed with war workers and
ltinerant travellers, there is the solid,
substantial community of residents
who have always taken an excep-
tional pride in their city and in the
manner of their response to any
patriotic appeal, whether it is an
appeal to buy War Bonds, an appeal
to serve in the armed forces, con-
tribute to the Red Cross, Community
War Fund or anything else.
These responses remain one of
the few means of self-expression
available to community denied
spokesmen of its own choosing.
They belle the uninformed COM
ments occasionally heard as to
Washineton's lack of civic con-
sclenceness. They reassert Wash
lngton's standing as one of the most
Intelligent and patriotic communi-
ties in the country, and it is highly
important that they never be per-
mitted to fall below the mark.
Evening star., 1945-04-08

prayed for the librarian, asking God to
make her woman worthy of her
office" He then took the position that
his statement was privileged" But the
court decided: "A slander can be per-
petrated in the form of prayer as read
lily as in any other form of speech and
no communication made by preacher or
priest to his congregation is privileged
because of such relation unless, per-
haps, when made in the discharge Of
his pastoral duties and then only with
out malice" Nothing in the story indi-
Gated that the librarian particularly
needed to be prayed for.
Evening star., 1945-04-08

If you are anxiously awaiting an
important telephone call, one of the
best ways to get it is to read a story
aloud to the family. 1t will come
just the moment before the thrilling
climax.
Evening star., 1945-04-08

Participants in the recent numer-
Gus promotions to full general realize
that. while enjoyable, these are not
permanent. They will sympathize
with Kipling's immortal character,
Private Mulvaney, who was always
remarking. II was corporal wanst,
-rejuiced afterwards-but a cor
poral wanSt."
Evening star., 1945-04-08
Back to NormoIcy'

From the Memphis Commercial Appeal
Our idea of reconversion is for things
to turn around so that the clerk will
not look put upon if we ask to buy
something
Evening star., 1945-04-08

Gen. Gordon struck before daylight on
the 25th. The attack was favored by
almost complete surprise and the Union
line was broken. AS the sun rose, it
seemed for moment that success might
be the reward of recklessness, but the
startled Union forces were rallied, Con-
federate plans miscarried and the assault
was beaten off-with heavy losses that
Lee could not afford and which he prob
ably should not have risked. BY that
time it had become evident that Rich
mond and Petersburg could not be held.
The only hope was to abandon the
capital of the Confederacy and seek a
junction with the forces under Gen.
Johnston.
On the night of April the retreat
began. But the powerful army under
Gen. Grant was not to be shaken off.
Pursuit was swift, and when subordi-
nate Confederate commander failed to
carry out Lees orders for the destruction
of bridge across the Appomattox River
thereby setting Civil War precedent
for the German failure at Remagen-
the sands had run out for the Army Of
Northern Virginia. An April Lee sur
rendered. Elsewhere there was talk Of
fighting on, of bitter-end resistance in
mountains and swamps, but within q
few days Gen. Johnston surrendered and
the end had come.
It remains to be seen whether the final
collapse of Germany will run true to
form. But whether it does or not, the
fact remains that, in the military sense,
the windup of this war with Germany
has adhered very closely to the pattern
Of the last phases of the War Between
the States.
Evening star., 1945-04-08
Fifty Years Ago

If anybody should be tempted to be-
leve that conditions have not altered
very much in the past
Times Have half century, a glance at
Chonoed The Star for March %,
Evening star., 1945-04-08
Member of the Associated Press

Entered at the Post Ofice, WASHINGTON, D.
as second-class mail matter.
The Mississippi enterprise., 1945-03-03
IL Recreation
VIA Counselors
Appointed

What may be the beginning of a
much needed rural recreation pro-
gram for colored farm people took
form recently when the War Food
Administrators Office of Labor
appointed IL Negro recreation
counselors through grant of funds
under the Lanham Act to serve the
farm labor supply centers in Flori-
da where 10000 colored Jamaican
Bahamian, and American workers
are cultivating and harvesting i'm
portant food crops.
Orientated through a weeks spe-
cial training course at Bethune-
Goodman college, Daytona Beach
Fla, the counselors have been as
signed to labor supply centers and
are now rapidly developing a re-
creation program for the farm work
ers and their families.
Among other things, the recrea.
ton counselors will direct games
present plays, provide for dancing
and other forms of recreations, and
they also will arrange religious
services for the workers.
The Mississippi enterprise., 1945-03-03
Pvt. Frank j. Durr
Killed in Action

News was received by this office
this week that Pvt. Frank James
Durr had been reported killed in
action somewhere in France.
Pvt. Durr was inducted into the
army June 9, 1943, at Camp Shell
by. He took his basic training in
New Orleans, after which he was
transferred to Camp Kilmer, N. j.
From Staten IslaEd he was sent
overseas, Decent 943, and
spent 8 months in England. On
September ID, 1914, he was report
ed killed in action in France.
This young soldier was a men,
Der of the st. Paul A.M.E. church
in Gulfport, where his father, Rev.
F. J. Durr, Sr., was pastor. He was
a student at the Gulfport high
school
He leaves to mourn a wife, one
odughter whom he has never seen,
a mother and father, host of aunts
uncles and other relatives.
Pvt. Durr was born, December
81, 1924 and was married July 6.
1912. He died at the age of 10
years.
The Mississippi enterprise., 1945-03-03
State Man
Wins Good
Conduct Medal

Pfc. Alvin Stovell, of the South
Pacific, son of Mrs. Corrie Coffee
Eupora, has been awarded the
Good Conduct Medal, for over a
year Of exemplary behavior, eff
cheney and fidelity as soldier OF
the army"
A native of Calhoun City, Sto-
vail attended the local school where
he took part in baseball and
basketball. After leaving school he
worked for his father who was
engaged in farming.
He entered the army in Septem-
ber 1912, at Camp Shelby. His ba-
sic training was received at Camp
Claiborne, La. Pvt. Stovall has been
overseas since March 1943.
AS a member of quartermaster
service company Pfc. Stovall is do
ing his part in shortening the road
to Tokyo by keeping supplies NOV
ing.
The Mississippi enterprise., 1945-03-03
.Greenville
Soldier Wins
Combat Badge

One of Mississippi's native sons
Sgt. Will H. Morey, with the 93rd
infantry division in the Southwest
Pacific area, has been awarded the
combat Infantryman's Badge while
serving in rifle company over
seas. This award given only to in
fantry men who show exemplary
action under fire was the second
honor to be given to Morey. Sgt
Morey previously received COM
mendation for the part he played
as assistant in a rocked launcher
team that silenced a number OF
enemy pillboxes in a recent opera
ton. During this action he was
wounded and received the Purple
Heart.
Morey attended Coleman high
school in Greenville, and left
school to accept a job with the
u. S. engineers on the flood con-
troll project in the Vicksburg dis
trict. He left this job 39 months ago
to enter the service. Morey now
serves as mortar squad leader in
rifle company.
Mrs. Pearl Morey, his mother
now resides at 3091s Broadway St.
Greenville.
The Mississippi enterprise., 1945-03-03
Who Must File
Declaration
Before March Is

A substantial number of Negro
taxpayers must file a declaration
of estimated tax for 1945 not later
than March Is, 1945, Joseph D.
Nunan, Jr., commissioner of inter-
nal revenue, said this week. This
is in addition to the filing of an
income tax return for 1914.
Declarations are required in gen.
eral from business and profession
al people, landlords, investors and
others who expect get more than
$1O0 of income this year from
sources other than wages from
which tax is withheld, and who
expect that their total income from
all sources will be $500 or more.
A declaration must also be filed
by wage Garner who expects to
earn this year more than $4,000
plus $500 for every exemption ex-
cept his own. For example, a wake
Garner supporting two dependents
must file if he expects to earn
more than $1,000. However, if a
person expects more than 500 of
which tax is withheld, he must
file declaration regardless of the
income outside of wages from
size of his wages.
The majority of wage earners are
excused from filing declarations,
for the reason that their taxes are
kept substantially paid up by the
tax that is withheld from their
wages every pay day.
Declarations also are required
from farmers who expect to have
$500 or more this year, but farm
ers, meaning persons who get more
than two-thirds of their income
from farming, may postpone their
1910 declarations until January Is,
1916.
A March Is declaration should be
accompanied by a payment of at
least one-fourth Of the tax esti-
mated to be due over and above
any tax being withheld from the
taxpayers wages. The remainder
is due in equal installments on
June Is and September Is, 1945,
and January Is, 1916.
Special forms and instructions
for the making of declarations have
been mailed out to all persons who
filed declarations last year. Addi-
tional copies are available at the
office of any collector of internal
revenue.