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Evening star., 1945-01-21
THE BIRD TALKED BACK!
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he exclaimed. He was plainly rat
tied out of all sense of etiquette.
What about Aunt Laura?"
"Mr. Jason doesn't want you to
know this, Madame. But / think
you should" Murphy's voice
quavered. 81 don't know if I'm
doing the right thing"
"Of course. Tell me instantly.
"She's going to put her stock
in the Thorndyke Publishing Com
pany on the market. Mr.. Jason's
very upset about it, Madame"
Lily sat down. But l don't
understand. l didn't know she
owned any stock in the company.
Mr.. Thorndyke doesn't talk much
about that side of the business.
Son YES, she backed Mr.. Jason
from the start. Her brother, the
Bishop. you know, opposed MIR.
Jason's going into the business.
''And now Aunt Laura has come
around to Uncle Edwards way of
thinking?"
''Oh no. it's Mr.. Edward that's
come round. Because of MIR. Jason
doing such useful work for the Gov
ernment in the war. So of course
now - Miss Laura's against the
business"
But why?" Lily was puzzled.
II thought Aunt Laura was de-
voted to Uncle Edward. She's
never married and neither has he,
and she's kept house for him all
these years.
''She is devoted to him. Murphy
cast all discretion to the winds.
THE fact is the old lady just has
to be the boss. And the Bishops
hard-headed, too. Whatever he
says. she says just the opposite.
All they do is try to get the best
of each other. But Miss Laura's
terribly changeable. Always start
ing off on some idea. and then
changing her mind about it. That's
why I told you. l thought you
might get around her"
''How much time have We got?"
asked Lily slowly.
''She says she's going to her
lawyer tomorrow. Murphy re-
piled gloomily.
Lily got up. Let me think"
she announced darkly.
"If you could only get the old
lady switched onto something
elser' Suddenly Murphy recov-
cred his manners. "I'n - er- I'll
tell Mr.. Thorndyke spoke about
this to you, Madame" he said
manfully. I'm afraid he'll be very
annoyed. He didn't want you to be
uoyrSad
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You'll do nothing of the sort.
This'll be just between u.s." -.
Lily pondered the matter while
she dressed for dinner. Why didn't
Jason buy the stock himself, she
wondered. She knew very little
about his financial affairs. There
was a great deal of money in the
Thorndyke family. most OF which
would be Jason's some day; but
Lily didn't know how much, ac-
tually, he controlled now. Obv-
ously not enough to buy up the
stock. or he'd do it. And it came
at bad time. too. Taxes and War
Bonds and Jason's spending so
much of his time on government
service had cut down drastically
his last years income. she knew.
And of course that would be the
time Aunt Laura would kick up!
You might know that woman
who would refuse a wistful little
boy a parrot would do something
like that!
But furiously as she thought,
Lily could come upon nothing
more adroit than to be as winning
as possible to Aunt Laura in the
hope of softening her heart. All
through dinner she was so winning
that her teeth fairly ached from
the strain
Aunt Laura took no notice OF
her. Aunt Laura had withdrawn
definitely into her shell. She slipped
Rosa's famed Vichysoisse as lacka-
daisically as if it had been luke
warm spinach juice. She pecked
at Rosa's Chartreuse Souffle as
indifferently as if it had been
dish of rennet. The birthday din
ner was, indubitably. dud.
Over coffee. heavy silence fell
on them. Lily thought savagely.
The old vampire. to worry Jason
like thisr' For Jason did look wor-
ried. Perhaps the parrot would
cheer him up! Lily. frightened
by this prospect. tapped down to
the pantry to fetch Auguste.
AS SHE returned to the drawing
room, she found the silence had
been broken. my mind is made
up" Aunt Laura was saying in
her gentle, obstinate voice as Lily
opened the door. "It's no use dis
cussing it any further"
Lily advanced dramatically into
the room, Auguste's large gilded
cage extended before her. Happy
birthday" she called.
Jason seemed not to hear her
words. His hypnotized gaze was
riveted on Auguste. For gosh
sake" he cried, what have you
got. Lily? Not a parrot? Oh, this
is too muchr'
Lily paused, struck to the heart.
Couf;unpd nm f,noe 2T
Evening star., 1945-06-02
Mrs. Bethune Tells How PorIey
Looked to plain Old Woman

Mrs. Mary Mcleod Bethune, 60
year-old woman member of the
United States group Of consultants
for the San Francisco Conference
yesterday on her return to WASH
ington told what the conference
looked like to her-"not as an ex-
pert in world affairs, but just as a
plain, practical old woman"
"A lot of people are discouraged
about what's going on at that con-
ference she said. They look at
the record and what do they see?
They see the little nations taking
a back seat, and the big nations
ruling everything with the veto
power. They see the future of coun-
tries decided when no people from
those countries are there to talk.
They see the United States talking
about trusteeships and mandates
and colonies-instead of about free
dom for all people no matter where
they live"
II wish I could have had those
people with me, sitting in a chair
beside me at those meetings, seeing
what I saw"
Remembers First Day Well.
That first day. I remember so
well. All the big people in the
world, almost, were there, it
seemed. There was a man in a
Chinese dress. There was a Com
munist. There was a Buddhist.
There was a black man, there a
white. There rich man. there
poor. That man spoke one Ian
guage, this another. 1t looked like
they never would be able to get to-
gether on anything.
When a man got up to speak
you could kind of feel him hesitating.
You could feel the people thinking
about his dress. his ideas, his color,
his background. his language, in
stead of about what he was saving.
They talked slow and they didn't
say much. 1t was a cool feeling,
and a kind of scared one.
Then, slowly, day by day, there
came a warmth A man got up to
speak and they'd listen. They all
got drawn together and they forgot
their differences in the one thing
that mattered most-a chance for
peace. They didn't all agree about
the best way to get it. But they
knew somehow, they had to.
They got to trust each other Not
enough-but some. They began to
think less about the country and
more about the man. Take Russia
now. Lots of people think Russia
isn't SO good, because it's Com
munist But it was Molotov that
spoke out for independence Of the
Evening star., 1945-06-02
Il Erie Passenger Cars
DeraiIed, Engineer Killed
Iy the Associated Press

Ey the Associated Press.
GOSHEN. N. Y, June 2-Twelve
cars of Chicago-to-New York pas
senger train of the Erie Railroad
line were derailed and the engine
overturned near here last night,
killing the engineer
No one else was believed to be
injured, a ticket agent for the
railroad stated.
In New York, an Erie spokesman
identified the engineer as Orville
Crane of Port Jervis, N. Y, but
added that he had received no ad-
vice Of any Of the passengers or
other train crew members being
injured or killed"
The spokesman said the train,
known as the Atlantic Express and
operating between Chicago and
Jersey City, N. j., plowed into
empty freight cars that had been
derailed previously at a freight
yard one mile west of Goshen.
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colonial peoples. Molotov stood UP
there and you could feel the people
thinking-hes big man, a power
full man. He may be a Communist,
but what he said made sense to
democrat.
Everybody Compromised.
Everybody compromised. That's
bad. I wanted the United States to
sound out the loudest trumpet for
colonial freedom. I wanted the
small nations to have a chance, and
I wanted the colonies to be rep
resented. But more than all that,
I wanted chance at peace-and
some sort OF organization to work in
II everybody had to give in some,
well, that was better than losing the
whole thing. 1t would have been
good if they could have gone farther
along the road. But the main thing
was to get started.
Now our delegates made some
mistakes. But our delegates are
representing the American people as
a whole-you could see them prod
ding and thinking and working to
do what the people wanted. II
they didn't come out loud enough
for independence in the colonies, it
was because the American people
haven't made it clear at home that
that's what they want the most
in this country and in the world.
"Out at San Francisco I'd hear
the men talking and I'd see them
working, all day and all night, and
I'd see the things that came out
some of them are Disappointing But
the feeling among those men there
was one of need and desire for unity
and understanding. The men at
the conference are doing better as
individuals than they are as dele
gates. in showing us that it is pos
sible to have unity and when every
body in the United States and the
world is willing to work and COM
promise and worry about it, our del
Evening star., 1945-06-02
Arlington Boy, IA, Shot
In Brain, Is Recovering

Fourteen-year-old William Gum.
Arlington boy who accidentally shot
himself through the head with q
.22-caliber rife last month and
wavered on the point of death for
several days, is practically out Of
danger now, his doctor said today.
DR.. James Watts, Washington
surgeon who performed an opera
ton on the boy after the accident,
said the case was out of the ordi-
nary in civilian life, but that hun
dreds of similar head operations
are being performed daily by Army
surgeons on the fighting front.
The dangers resulting from the
boys wound, he said, were bleeding
and infection. The bullet went
through the frontal part of the
brain, he continued, and it was
necessary to cut away damaged
tissue and remove bone sphnters.
The youth was injured while at
tempting to pull the rife from be-
hind some boards between two
dressers in the bedroom of his home
at 20l6 North Taylor street.
Evening star., 1945-06-02
Buildings in Center
OF Damascus Scared
By Fire and Shells
BY FRANK O'BRIEN,

DAMASCUS, June 2.--Every build
ing in the center of the city ex-
cepting the French delegation edifice
today bore the marks of eunfire
from the French-Syrian fighting
which ended late yesterday.
One entire block between the
French barracks and the Serial
government house, was totally
gutted and SCARED by continuous
fire from French 75c which poured
mortar shells Wednesday and Thurs
day night.
The Parliament Building is riddled
from shell and machinegun fire,
while the interior. sacked by Sene-
galese soldiers, is shambles of
overturned furniture and papers
strewn everywhere.
Hotel Rooms Riddled.
The heaviest shelling was directed
against the center of town, the
northern residential district and the
citadel. The Orient Palace Hotel,
where most visiting foreign repre-
sentatives stop, still is standing but
few of its riddled rooms are usable
Telephone, telegraph and overhead
trolley lines are down everywhere
There is no electricity and food is
scarce.
British and Syrian patrols. the
latter almost too battle-weary to
stand, were maintaining order in the
streets, where crowds publicly burned
two French cars yesterday, one of
them reputedly that of the French
military commander, Olivia Roget.
Dead Still Lie in Streets.
The dead still were lying on the
streets in some places and the NUM-
ber of casualties will not be known
for some time.
In the citadel prison the stencil
and sight of bloated, dismembered
bodies was almost unbearable. A
bomb was dropped in the prison
courtyard Tuesday from low-fying
American Baltimore bomber in
French service, presumably lease
loaned to France.
The city. however, was in excited
good spirits as the result of the
cessation of hostilities yesterday and
President Shukri Quwati described
the inhabitants as "the happiest
people ever seen In the long history
of this city,
Evening star., 1945-06-02
Jap War Criminals
Already Being Dealt
With by Americans
~ the Associated Press,

LONDON, June 2-An American
Army colonel informed the United
Nations War Crimes Commission
today that the United States al
ready was dealing with Japanese
responsible for the mistreatment of
civilians and service personnel ia
the Philippines.
Col. Abe MacGregor Goff, one OF
the United States delegates, made
the statement In supporting Aus
tralla's request for immediate prep
aration Of list OF key japanese
war criminals.
1t Col. j. Oldham, Australian
delegate to the conference OF the
16-member commission, called for
immediate preparation OF the list.
He said 1t should be made the "pri-
orlty task" of the commissions
Chungking subcommission.
Col. Gotf said that, although the
united States was dealing with
the treatment of civilians and
service personnel in the Philip
pines at the hands of those vicious
little apes" America would like
help SO that when the inner circle
OF the japanese islands was reached
no war criminal would be allowed
to escape.
As the conference entered it's third
day the delegates concentrated on
methods for preparing evidence and
charges against enemy key men who
nave not yet been indicted. The
commission has disclosed that nearly
5000 have been listed.
Dutch Delegate Gen. de Baer ad-
vocated increased attention to the
task of apprehending those respon-
sible for:
l. Forced labor or deportation.
2. Starvation as an instrument of |
policy.
3. Forced movement of popula-
tions.
4. Looting Of art treasures.
S. Economic plunder of occupied
countries.
s. Ill treatment Of foreign woman
workers and their children.
Gen. de Baer contended there was
mo risk" that men such as Hermann
Goering would escape punishment,
but said that the War Crimes Com
must concentrate on catch
ing the officials mot quite at the
top who were at the root of the
evil"
Evening star., 1945-06-02

reference to the revision of treaties,
but when We reached San Fran
cisco and were able to get the
united support and consent of the
sponsoring powers plus the republic
OF France to this general language
Infinitely broader than anything
had contemplated in the first in
stance, I was very happy, indeed, to
present this language to the COM
mittee and the committee approved
it.
Respect for Treaties.
The argument against identifying
treaties as such in this paragraph
arises primarily from the fact that
respect for treaties must not be
weakened in any fashion in con-
nection with the thing we are under
taking. We cannot launch an inter-
national organization based on in
ternational integrity, and at the
same time Intimate any lack of
respect for the instruments through
which international integrity func-
NASAios
1T would be improper, submit,
to suggest any power or purpose in
the assembly to aSsaualt treaties as
such. This does not mean tnat if
conditions exist under treaties which
are alleged to impair the general
welfare or to threaten friendly rela-
tlons between nations or to collide
with the purposes and principles of
this charter, this subject is fore
closed to assembly discussion or
recommendation. Clearly this right
-esldes in the assembly,
The net result may be that con-
slderation of the general welfare
nay call for a recommendation that
treaty be respected by its sigma
,orleS rather than to be revised.
10000 Treaties in Existence.
Il submit that when he have been
able to write into this charter DOW
'r OF the general assembly to recon-
mend measures for the peaceful ad-
ustment OF any situations regard
eSS OF orlgln,-you are simply starting
o Wh1ttle away general power and
authority when you start to become
pecific in respect to anything.
L want to add that there are
10000 treaties in existence
n this world, A direct invitation to
lttack all of these treaties or any
proportion of them
'ould easily confront the assembly
With an utterly impossible task and
night well involve an infinity of
'asual localized considerations which
ought not to be brought to the at
ention of the assembly at all.
Evening star., 1945-06-02
Committee on Preamble
First to Finish Task

SAN FRANCISCO, June 2 (P,.-
The first United Nations Confer
ence committee to complete its as
signed task was one charged with
drafting the preamble, purposes and
principles of the projected world
organiza ton.
Under the committee statement,
armed force could be used only by
any member nation in accordance
with United Nations principles for
international peace and security.
"All members of the organiza-
tion," the draft says, Shall settle
their international disputes by
peaceful means in such a manner
that international peace and Sc
curity are not endangered"
Highlights include:
Preamble.
1--WE, the peoples of the United
Nations, determined to save sue
ceeding generations from the
scourge of war, reaffirm faith
in fundamental human rights, in
the dignity and value of every hu-
man being. -
Purposes.
To maintain International peace
and security, to achieve inter-
national cooperation in the solu-
ton of international problems of
an economic, cultural or humani-
tartan character. -
Principles.
"The organization is based on the
principle of the sovereign equality
Of all its members. = All mem
bers shall refrain in their interna-
tional relations from the threat or
use of force. The organization
shall should insure that states not
members of the organization act in
accordance with these principles
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oppression. Right must triumph.
From the truce to real peace
the way will be long-too long for
humanity seeking peace and quiet.
But it must be So Hatred must first
disappear and wiser councils must
prevail.
May God guide those who are
thying to bring about real peace
so much longed for by every one
The Pope said thousands whose
only fault had been their faith
had died in Nazi concentration
camps.
THE war in Europe is over" the
pontiff said. 1T is said that those
who take the sword will perish by
the sword. The entire world today
Is stupefed by the ruins. We had
foreseen these ruins"
The Pope said the church did
what it could to keep the Nazi
regime on the right path when 1t
was yet uncertain what pernicious
course" the Nazis would take.
Evening star., 1945-06-02

Church in Germany" AS Arch
bishop Eugene Pacelli, the Pope
was sent as nuncio to the German
Kaiser with a Vatican peace plan
in 1917 and remained as envoy to
the German republic until 1929.
The Pope declared that by con-
cluding its 1888 concordat with the
Nazi government the Vatican did
everything possible to set up a for
midable barrier to the spread of
ideas at once subversive and violent. "
Previous German-Vatican accords
had not provided adequate guaran-
tees of freedom of faith to Catho-
lies. the Pope added.
1T was not that the church for
her part had any illusions built on
excessive optimism or that, in con-
cluding the concordat, she had any
intention Of giving any form of ap-
proval to the teachings or tendencies
Of National Socialism, he stated.
The concordat, he said, provided
Catholics "a juridical basis for their
defense and a stronghold behind
which to shield themselves in their
opposition" in spite of "all viola
tions to which it was subjected"
Reviews Nazi Policy.
Reviewing Nazi measures against
the Catholic church in Germany
the Pope said that his predecessor
Plus xI. saw himself clearly faced
with deliberate violations of a
solemn pact" and had condemned
the Nazi creed in his 1887 Passion
Sunday encyclical entitled, in Ger
man. Nit Brennender Sorge'
c'With Burning Sorrow"D.
The papal document startled the
minds and hearts of men," the pom
tiff declared. "Many-even beyond
the frontiers of Germany-Yho up
to then had closed their eyes to the
incompatibility of the National So
cialist viewpoint with the teachings
of Christ, had to recognize and con-
fess their error"
The Pope said 1t naturally could
not be determined whether war
could have been averted had the
papal denunciation been needed by
all, but "in any case nobody could
accuse the church of not having
denounced and exposed on time the
true nature of the National Social
ist movement and the danger to
which it exposed Christian civiliza-
ton"
Cites Own Policy.
Speaking of his cwn policy during
the war, the Pope said he con-
stantly set forth demands and the
perennial laws of humanity and of
the Christian faith in contrast with
the ruinous, inexorable applications
of National Socialist teachings
which even went so far as to use
the most exquisite scientific meth
DDS to torture or eliminate people
who often were innocent.
This was, Tor us, the most op-
Fortune and we might even say the
only eficacious way Of proclaiming
before the world the immutable
of moral law and of con-
firming, in the midst of so much
error and violence, the minds and
hearts of German Catholics in the
higher ideals of truth and justice" !"
Speaking from his private library,
Pope Plus described the peace estab-
lished in Europe after six years of
struggle as very fragile" He de-
clared that passions aroused by the
conflict must cool before a peace
founded on the rights of all peoples
could be forged, in which the social
and economic causes of a possible
new war could be controlled.
Small and big nations want their
liberty" he said. After their share
their big share-in the victory,
they do not want a new system of
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egates can get the same achieve
ment as delegates that they are
getting as individualS.
San Francisco isn't building tho
promised land of brotherhood and
security and opportunity and peace.
It's building a bridge to get there by.
We've still got long way to CO."
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and killings of citizens without
trial or in personal vendetta" he
said. mo less sad Is the news that
has reached us from Slovena and
Croatia 0wo provinces of Yugo-
slavia)."
Recalls Post in Reich.
Pope Plus said he personally
had learned the great qualities of
the German people during his num-
ciature in Berlin when, "in an at
mosphere of liberty which political
and social conditions at that time
allowed, we worked for the consoli-
datlon OF the status of the Catholic
Evening star., 1945-06-02
Button Leeds to Robber

MILLIKEN, Colo. P.-When
Sheriff w. C. Tegtmen found a
button at the scene of a store rob-
berry, a quick check of the town
found youth with a button missing
from his shirt. He confessed.
Evening star., 1945-06-02

The War Bonds for Babies cam.
paign is still popular. Over 500, 900
Walt Disney certificates for babies,
showing all the famous Disney chart
acters, have already been distributed