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Evening star., 1945-04-12

Comdr. Whitney paid tribute to
the Army's care In handling the
prisoners released during the Ma
Mia battle. He made special refer
ence to the medical and relief stats
at the Army replacement camp in
Northern Luzon, who furnished
them food. clothing and transpor-
tation while pressed hard by their
own duties.
Evening star., 1945-04-12

Prison, also IN
Manila. His wife,
Mrs. Stellamaris
Whitney, resides
at 1915 Rhodes
street, Alexan-
dria, Va.
Won Navy Cross.
Captain of the
C a lite N q v y
Yard when war
broke out, he was
W o u II q T q Dy a
bomb during an
early raid. One
of this wars first
Navy Gross med
ais h a d b en-
Evening star., 1945-04-12
Prisoners

Sergt. Belgium Borzelia, %. anti
aircraft artillery, son Of Mr.. and
Mrs. August Borzella, 1922 M street
Sc, is a prisoner of Germany. the
War Department said today. He
was first reported missing in action
IN Belgium December 2l. his BROTH
Ell. Mat Borzella, said.
Born in Altoona, Pa. Sergt. Bor-
zella attended Eastern High School
and Strayer's Business College He
worked at Mats Restaurant, Elev-
enth and M streets Sc, before the
National Guard. of which he was a
member, was modified. He went
overseas in october. 1943.
Pfc. Christy J. PerdikiS, 81. whose
sister, Miss Anastacia Perdikis, lives
at 4509 Kansas avenue NV. and
works in the War Shipping Admin
istration, was taken prisoner in
Germany November g. an Army
casualty release revealed today. He
was reported missing late in october,
Miss Perdikis said.
Born in Brockton. Mass, Pvt.
Per dikis attended high school there
and worked in the General Electric
plastics laboratory there He en-
tered the Army in December, 1943
and went overseas last August. His
mother, Mrs. Anna Perdikis, lives In
Brockton.
Pfc. Bishop F. Rupprecht. 2l. in.
fantry. was taken prisoner by Ger
many November 13. His aunt, Mrs
Catherine E. Rupprecht, lives at
1914 Trinidad avenue NE.
Listed as a prisoner now by the
War Department.. Pvt. Rupprecht
was first reported missing.
He went overseas last September
after going into the Army two years
ago. He attended Tech High School
and the National Radio Institute
Three Uothers-Walter. Coast
Guard; Philip, infantry, and VIII
liam, Army-are all overseas, Mrs
Rupprecht said.
Evening star., 1945-04-12
Todoy's Casualty Lists
Killed

Corpl. William F. Deeton. 81. well
known Alexandria athlete and for
mer lieutenant colonel in the George
Washington High School Cadet
Corps. was killed in action Febru-
ary q on Two Jima, the Navy De-
partment has notified his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. James D, Deeton, 4lo
North Fayette street, Alexandria.
Corpl. Deeton was born in Alex
andria. He played on the high
school football and baseball teams
and on amateur teams after gradua-
ton. He enlisted in the Marine
Corps in November, 1912, and won
his wings as a Paramarine. He
served in this branch until 1t was
disbanded. He was sent overseas 10
months ago.
A brother, Torpedoman James
Deeton. is serving in the PACING.
Mass was offered for Corpl. Deeton
Yesterday at ST. Mary's Church IN
Alexandria,
1t. Comdr. Bernard David Mack,
U, S. N, whose wife. Mrs. Betty Lee
Mack, lives at 4007 Connecticut ave-
nue NV. was listed on today's Navy
Department casualty release as Killed
in action. A story about nm ap-
peared in The Star Tuesday.
Evening star., 1945-04-12

About 3,70O sworn promises were
broken at once on the night of last
September 81 by American civilians
interned in Santo Tomas. Manila
Evening star., 1945-04-12

NOMINEE - Alfred SCHNEIDER
of st. Louis, whose nomination
by President Roosevelt yester-
day to succeed Wayne C. Tay-
lor as Undersecretary of Com
merce was approved by the
Senate Commerce Committee
today. Mr.. Taylor resigned
yesterday. Mr.. SCHNEIDER for
merly was connected with the
RalSton -Purina Mills.
-AP Photo.
Evening star., 1945-04-12
Wounded

1t. Lee II. Kemper, lnlantryman'
"a has been wounded in action the
second time, the War Department
has announced. Son Of Mr.. and Mrs.
John M. Kemper, 223l Newton street
NE, 1t. Kemper is now in a hos
pital in England suffering six shell
wounds in his back. suffered when
a German shell hit about foot
away from him. his mother said.
A native of Washington, Lit.
Kemper is a graduate of Mckinley
High School and the University OF
Iowa. He went into the Army IN
October, 1943, and went overseas last
September. He was first wounded
on November in France. His wife,
Mrs. Doris Mae Kemper, lives IN
Council Bluffs, Iowa. 1t. kemper
father is employed at the Depart
ment of Agriculture. Two brothers,
Its. James D. and John M Hamper,
jr. are in the Navy
Capt. Henry Van JOslin, % U. 5.
M. c.. is in a hospital suffering
wounds in the left arm and chest
received while fighting with the Attn
Marines on Two Jima in February,
it was disclosed today by the Navy
Department. Capt. Joslin's mother,
Mrs. Royal K. Joslin, lives a the
Wardman Park Hotel
Overseas more than year, Capt
.Ioslin entered into the Marine
Corps in 1910, when in his third
wear at William and Mary College
in Williamsburg, Va. He was born
in Portsmouth. N. H, attended the
John Eaton School here and was
graduated from high school in New
port. R. I. A brother, 1t. Comdr.
ROYAL knight Joslin. U. S. NJ, is
taking a postgraduate course at
Annapolis. A sister, Miss Beryl
Joslin. is overseas with the Red
Gross.
1t. Donald NJ. Call. jr, whose
parents live at 6026 Welborn drive,
Woodacres. Md. was wounded
March 10 in Germany, according to
today's casualty list. He is in hos
pital in England.
Lit. Call has been overseas since
September and was in the battle
for BaStogne. Mrs. Call. his mother
said. He has been in the Army two
years.
A graduate of Western High
School. Ii. Call attended the Uni
versity of Maryland. His father
works for the Defense Homes Corp.
1t. Calls brother. Pvt. John Call,
is IN North Africa with the AAF
ground forces
Pfc. Kenneth s. White, d. Sd
Army infantryman, whose father,
Dr. Marsh w. White, is con-
sultant TO the War Department
General Staff. was wounded in &C
ton March Is in Germany, the
War Department revealed today.
Pvt. White has been overseas only
a few months.
A graduate of Pennsylvania
State College, Pvt. White entered
the Army in June, l943. His twin
brother, Pfc. Malcolm White, is
also an infantryman in Gen. Pat
toms Sd Army, but Is now in
hospital with jaundice. his father
said. DR.. White lives at 730 South
Alfred street. Alexandria.
Pfc. John Anderson Parrish, 26,
former apprentice machinist at the
Washington Terminal Railroad, was
seriously wounded in action in Ger
many March IA, with the Gath In
fantry. His wife, Mrs. Mary c. Far
rish, 1921 Powhatan street, Alexan-
dria. is employed at the Air l. ells-
port Command at the National Air
port. His name was listed in an
Office of War Information casualty
report.
Pvt Parrish had been in action
Evening star., 1945-04-12
District Blood Donations

Yesterday --- 428 persons
Appointments broken
yesterday -- SO persons
Appointments may be made
with the Blood Donor Center in
the Acacia Building, 81 Louisi-
ana avenue NV, by calling
District 5000 between 9 am. and
$50 pm. weekdays, and 9 am.
TO noon Saturdays.
Volunteer women are needed
as daytime drivers in the Mo-
tor Corps, which transports 80
per cent of the blood donors.
Call Republic $500, Branch 1877.
Evening star., 1945-04-12

lived at 1924 K street NV, was
officially listed as wounded while
fighting in Europe.
1st Sergt. Charles V. Renaud,
whose wife, Mrs. Mabel M. Renaud,
lives at 1892 Third avenue Sc. was
included on today's War Depart
ment list of wounded
The following men were included
on today'S Army and Navy Depart
ment casualty lists as wounded in
action. Stories about them appeared
in The Star when the next of kin
were notified:
lst It, Charles H. Jones, jr.,
whose wife, Mrs. Phyllis V. Jones,
lives at 1877 Spring place NV.
Pfc. William J. Taylor. son of Mrs.
Carrie c. Hartung. 447 Twelfth
street NE.
COrpl. Robert NJ. Raves. whose
wife. Mrs. Maxine Raves, lives al
Edmonston Md.
lst 1t. Vernon II. Miller. u. S
NJ C. R.. whose wife. Mrs. Vernon
H Miller. lives at 6303 Broad Branch
road. Chevy Chase, Md,
Sergt. Henry A. Thomas, whose
wife. Mrs Margaret H. Thomas, lives
at l22 Wayne place Sc.
Missing
Sergt. James W. Cox. 81. has been
missing in action over Holland since
March % when his plane failed to
return from mission over German
occupied territory. according to in
formation received by his parents
MI and Mrs. William @. Cox. 306 z
street NE. He had been serving
overseas since December as aerial
engineer and gunner on B-26
A native of the District, Sergt
Cox attended Stuart Junior High
School, He was employed at the
War Production Board before enter
ing the service in April. 1913. 4
brother, Pvt William T. Cox, is sta :
toned in Texas.
I'd 1t. Charles p. Johnson, 20. has
been missing in action since Marcf
20 when his plane failed to return
from raid over Germany, his par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Paul johnson
1910 Thirty street, Mount
Rainier, Md, have neen informed
1t. Johnson had completed II mis-
sions as navigator of a BIZ wher
he was reported missing.
A native of Mount Rainier. 1t
johnson was graduated from Nc.
Klnley High School and had com
pleted year at the University Of
Maryland when he entered the serv.
ice in April, l943. He was sent over.
seas about two months ago. hi:
family said
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-07
Sherwood Island Again

We don't know of any state park that has been tossed around like Sherwood Island down in Fairfield County. It is one of the states three seaside parks, but one which never really reached it's zenith in the pre-War period and may not attain 1t even in the postwar era. However, there is still hope that Sherwood Island will become the mecca for seashore goers in Fairfield County that Hammonnas- sett and Rocky Neck are to other sec tions of the state
 Sherwood Island is one of the oldest state parks the state has, yet it is cer- tainly not the best-knoWn nor the most popular. It remained for years little known and seldom visited. AS a matter of fact SheWood Island was more or less a secluded nook until state solons decided to do something about making it available to public use. And when this happened the state almost lost what little hold it had on the park and shifted its attention to a shore resort further west along the Sound.
 It was about this time that public in- tereSt actually was centered on Sherwood Island and it started to come into it's own as state park and as a Seashore resort that belonged to the people and could be used by them. The war unfortunately interfered with great many plans for the development of the spot, but right now the state, through the State Park and Forest Commission, is continuing it's task of trying to make the area more accessible and more usable. Condemna- ton proceedings have just been brought in Superior Court at Bridgeport to get a fair price on parcel of land needed for the park.
 That has always been the trouble at Sherwood Island. There has been con- stant conflict between public and pri- vate ownership. AS we mentioned above it nearly resulted in the state buying an expensive resort some distance away and sacrificing it's holdings near Westport. But right now the state officials are apparently convinced that they have the right and the duty to proceed to make the seashore park an area that will be- long to all the people of the state and will afford those unable to enjoy lengthy shore vacations of day or two sea- son in the sun and along the sandy shores.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-07
Veterans and Quacks

The Army newspaper Stars and Stripes has taken an editorial crack at the "psychoneurosis fad" While admitting the value of reputable phychiatrists in authentic mental illness, it claims that every screwball with thick lenses and a long haircut is setting up shop as an ex- pert on the returning veteran.
 The service papers accusations may be a bit sweeping, but it's warning is timely. Somehow the feeling has grown up that every man who has seen combat is verg- ing on psychoneurosis. Families have been warned to watch for symptoms in returned veterans All this might well in- vite boom in postwar psychiatric quack- cry.
 Certainly most young men are going to be affected by exposure to the grim business of killing. Many are going to be noticeably changed. But all the changes vii not be pathological.
 If families will avoid the preconcelved suspicion that their returning serviceman is neurotic simply because he has been in combat, we doubt that the psychiatrlc quacks will get very fat.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-07

now, let alone embark upon an armed conquest of Europe.
 Russia, a kicked-around stepchild after the last war, is insisting today upon her place as great power and a major con- tributor to victory. Russian diplomacy is occasionally baffling and generally un- practicable. Americans - government, press and public-have sometimes been abashed by it's devious realism, and their diffidence has seemed like weakness and retreat.
 But there has been a different atti- tude at San Francisco. America has been realistic, too. Frankness and plain talk seem now to be the keynote. That's not going to create the atmosphere of We'd nesday evening prayer meeting at San Francisco, but it looks like the right prescription for settling not insoluble differences.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-07

There is little likelihood that Water bury would go in on a state pension plan for cities and towns if the opportunity were afforded later on. The Legislature right now seems disposed to act favorably on the proposed state plan, but it's optional with communities whether or not they join. Carter Atkins, executive director of the Connecticut Public EX- penditure Council speaking in this city last Friday night, said that the state system was intended primarily for smaller towns and cities and not those like Waterbury, Bridgeport, New Haven or Hartford which can finance their own systems. However, the state plan would not take over any existing pension systems of fire or police departments, which might endear it to members of the local forces.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-07

upon given up rel:sion fol good.
 1t seemed to all of us as W. at- tended the funeral that tnis had indeed been an empty life. Tie earth was sprinsing into beauty under the warm persuasion of spring sunshine. Yet this man had lived and died believing that there is 70 righteous and personal force behino the processes of nature. In the last fifty years he had probably rot uttered a prayer, and when he opened the Bible it was only to search for material to prove to re- ligious folk that they were mlstak- en. In all these years he aad never joined in the singing ot hymns or knelt reverentIy within the sacred confines of the 3anc- tuary.
 Singularly enough, his children are all Christians, and they request ed that the father be given Chris tian burial. There was not much one could say about the deceased. but there was much on that oCcd sion one could say about he 'orI- ous hope and power of the fattIl which this man had so long and so consistently denied.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-07
Current Comment

The biggest task of San Fran cisco is not negotiation. not char ter drafting. It is to create an or ganization which will be imbued with righteous spirit, an active principle.
 John Foster Dulles of New
 York, adviser to U. s. delega-
 ton.
 The great cause of peace and goodwill on earth is very much in the hands of the press, perhaps now the most potent force in the States and in large parts of the civilized world.
 Field Marshal Jan Christian
 Shuts. Premier of the Union
 of South Africa.
 The enemy has made much in his propaganda of the sure death, sure hit suicide technique, which is simply an atte-~nt, to crash planes on the decks of our ships Some major units of the fleet have been damaged but no battleship fast carrier, or cruiser has been sunk.
 Fleet Admiral Chester w
 Ninjtz
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-07
Selected Poem
TO DELEGATES AT SAN FRANCISCO (Molka Borden Kaufman in The Hartford Times

Hark, you builders of the future, Great architects of Saner worlds Hark! The thundrous voice of millions, The voice of the living the silence of the deae Command you to the task! Build well, build strongly
 You shapers of better life You molders of the destiny of man! The eyes of a sick world are upon you, The hearts of the weak and the crushed Cry to you from every corner of the earth! Hark the voice of the future To our children and chidrens children, And those to come after them. Within your grasp lies life more beautiful, A peace more enduring, saner civilization. You must not, you cannot, you will not crush iti Stand firm! Stand united! Guided by the will of suffering people, By the sorrows of lost generation. Not one of you must waver Not one of you must fater! On, on to the great task before you! On to a better, saner, safer world!
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-07

walked through the building with their typewriters and departed.
 Later as the foreign ministers were about to end their session, the four returned again, carrying typewriters. Again they were lloL required to show credentials. This time the Military Police were even removed from the Conferen:e doors. This time, if the typl- writer cases had carried TINT, the. four people making three trips to the Conference Hall, could nsve totaled 600 pounds of TN@. Or or the last trip they might have carried tommy guns to meet the delegates as they came out the door
 Neither the Military Police nor the local police would have known the difference.
 At the Opera House, where plenary sessions of the Confer ence are held, security is better. But the secret meetings If the 46 delegates and foreign ministers at the less-guarded Veterans building are much more import ant.
 Should a Hitler agent, want ing last-minute vengeance for Berlin and the end of Nazidom, execute a plot against these 46 key men of the world, civiliza- tion would be set back for years. And every other nation would blame the United States tor what happened.
 Some people have joked about Molotov's bodyguards and the Russian complaints about secur- ity. But the real fact is that on this point the Russians are the only realistic people at the Con- ference.
 NOTE: Yesterday while guards checked passes at one door oi the Conference, an MP left an- other door unguarded. So about 20 people turned down at one door, streamed into the unguarded en- trance.
 TOP PERSONALITIES
 By all odds the two most dom- mating figures at this Conference are Anthony Eden and V. M. Mo- lotov. They put all others, in- cluding the U. s. delegates, in the shade. Crowds swarm the St. Francis hotel, where the Rl:ssians live. hoping to catch a glimpse oi Molotov. Crowds crane their necks as the dapper British foreign minister enters the Conference Hall.
 The two men are direct op- posites, yet their lives have been closely interWoven. One was born of wealthy British aristocracy can trace his family back to the first Eden Baronetcy created by Charles III in 1872 The other comes from wOrker-revOIutiOn- ist family whom nobody ever heard of Eden is known as the heir-apparent of Churchill. . MolotoV is never known to hava Stalin Eden can and does cross swords with Churchill, but Molotov is never knuown to have rowed with Stalin Molotol was in power when Russia made its famous exit from the League of Nations. Eden was Ill tn. League Assembly at the time Despite their diametrically oppos ite backgrounds. Eden is tn, Britisher who Molotov knows ant likes best. In 1941 it was Edei who sat in the Kremlin witb tn Germans only 38 miles away ant signed the 20-year pact between England and Russia |. That wa one of Eden's three trips to Mos ] COW - one in 1885 to discuss trad
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-07
Conference Jitters

The first days of the San Francisco Conference were marked by good deal of factional pickering. The struggle be- tween the London and Lublin Poles formed a major center of dispute, and there was a stormy press conference sideshow put on by Tito and Mikhailo- witch champions of JugoSlavian repre- sentation.
 These and other flareups were probably unavoidable. There has been lot ot smoldering feeling which was bound to burn briskly once a rostrum was avail able from which the aggrieved parties could speak their pieces. And almost all of this feeling has involved Russia or communism or both.
 Hence it would seem, from Sub-Surface rumblings traceable to the Golden Gate area, that distrust and dislike of Russia are present where all should be sweetness and light. For this Russia is as much to blame as the opponents of all things communistic, or so it appears from dis tance. The Russians at San Francisco have beer4 by turns aggressive, adamant and inScrutable.
 But through all this it may be hoped that the delegates and their governments will bear two things in mind. One is RuSSia's present position; the other is the consequence of Russophobia, as evidenced in Europe today.
 To take the second point first, it should be remembered that fear and hatred of communism gave the world Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini. Whatever grandi- ose devilment they may have dreamed up later, it was their promise of salvation from bolshevsm which was largely re- sponsible for their original toehold. And that promised salvation served as cloak for their tyrannies and atrocities to the very end. In fact, Hitler's anti-commun- ism was almost more ingrained and vio- lent than his anti-Semitism.
 As for Russia herself, it is unthinkable that she wants anything but peace. Her land is devastated, her resources depleted, her people near exhaustion. Russia has done magnificent job, but she could not have won the war single-handed, and she knows it. It is ridiculous to believe, as vome people apparently do, that Russia would want to go to war over anything
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-07

relations, the 1941 try 10 sign the 2O-year alliance, and the trip to sign pact with Cordell Hui in 1943. He also went to Yalta with Churchill.
 EDEN'S PEACE HISTORY
 Mussolinis recent demise prob ably seemed like personal justice to Anthony Eden. Mussolin. hatou him, scoffed at him, called hlln 'that boy" and spread a story probably untrue, that Eden hao slipped on a rug in front of Mus solini's desk accompanied by phy' sical discomfiture and boisterous Mussolini laughter The late dictator resented Eden because or his strong stand against the Italian conquest of Ethiopia and his leadership in League sane tions against Italy.
 Eden knows what he is talk ing about when he says that the world could not stand another war. His two brothers were killed in the last war. He fought all through it, coming out with the rank of major Later he did his best to prevent war in Ethiopia, staging a terrific fight insidet he British Cabinet against Sir Samuel Hoare who wanted to let Mussolini have his way. Eden knew that if Mus solini broke down the Leagues peace machinery it was the be
 ginning of a world war.
 Eden married the daughter of the publisher of the Yorkshire Post, hates to wear glasses in public, as a result has to peer close to his plate ot see what he's eating. He is immensely pCpu lar with the British working class cs who say: "'E's proper gent. . One of Eden's grandfather $ Lord Auckland. was sent to the 13 colonies in 1778 to offer them home rule within the emp.ie, but it was too late The Eden ancestral home, owned by the family since the 18th century, was sold by Anthony's elder brother in 1886 because of high taxes. The Government now owns it. All the Foreign Minister of Great bri- tain has to remind him of h4s family's home is a photograph al- bum Eden has strong fol lowing with members of Parlia- ment, probably will be the next Prime Minister when Churchill re- signs.
 BELGIAN EXIT
 Though put in the shade by the spectacular figures of Eder and Molotov, San Francisco is studoeo with notable world statesmen One is Belgian Foreign Minister Henri Spaak, jailed for two year. by the Germans in the last war and imprisoned by Franco ant