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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-08-23
TOP O. THE MORNING
Lend-Lease

When it became apparent that the other
nations engaged in war with the Axis could
not finance their own war programs President
Roosevelt devised Lend-Lease for turning over
to them the products of United States industry.
1t was temporary arrangement intended to
exist only as long as the war itself With the
war won in Europe and, with luck, in the Orient
too, the need for Lend-Lease is over. Presi.
dent Truman, therefore, has ended it and
an effort will be made to take inventory OF
goods shipped abroad but not turned over.
Since 1871, when it was instituted, Lend-Lease
has absorbed some forty billion dollars At
present it is estimated that contracts for Lend.
Lease production approximate two billions and
that undelivered supplies abroad total about
the same amount.
There can be no complaint OF U. S. aid being
extended to nations which were our Allies in
the overthrow OF the Axis. The Axis had to be
destroyed, and this country was the only one
capable of providing the tools of war in sui
ficient quantities and at the necessary speed
needed for that purpose. But there may be
some reason to complain of the economic
structure of Lend-Lease which, in the final
analysis, was an arrangement Under which
the United States was to arm the anti-Axis
world-the arsenal of democracy Mr.. Roose.
welt called it-and take its chance of recovering
any part of the investment therein.
The emergency was great. Something had to
be done in big way. But in view OF the
reputation of war debts due this country after
World War l it is thought that something
definite should have been arranged for repay
ment of the vast supply of war material sent
from American ports, chiefly to England for
delivery to the sore-beset nations being over.
run by the Germans. in Europe, and China by
the United States were seriously drained for
the Allies, including Russia which would have
fallen but for Lend-Lease, and France. There
is reason enough, therefore. for the great army
Of taxpayers who have borne the brunt of this
expense to feel that they should have had
some assurance that the forty billion dollars
devoted to this program should ultimately come
back.
Well, some of it has come back. Great Bri-
tain, for example, repaid part of her Lend
Lease obligations while our forces were
quartered on her soil preparatory for the in
vasion OF Normandy Australia did well In the
same way, while American troops were getting
ready to start the long trip back to the Philip
pines under General Macarthur. It seems pro-
bable that Soviet Russia for all her strange
customs, will give good account of her Lend
Lease obi cations. But France would rather
forget what we did for her than remember it,
and China will be in no position for many
years to throw few dollars on our base drum.
Lend-Lease is going to cost American tax
payers a lot of money any way you figure it.
make an honest effort to meet their obligations,
instead of repudiating them as so many did
after 1918.
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TRANSP0RTPI,ANE
PREVIOUSLY MEAD
LANDING Wreck
BY JAMES HUTCur>o,,

LOLON AIR BASE-lp ~.
Navy transport plane was my ros. W
in for a hazardous landi SOn'1!
flying luck. sAiA and
Crew and passengers >,
tense, A glimpse through fl. ve'
saseway showed the pilot sw I'VE pa.
over the controls with grin Taaai
preston. Safety belts s''D vs s@
frightened by passengers in II. HsF.
dozen seats. The navigate nan i
radioman came out and b,, On,
themselves with backs agajn rsts.
bulkhead. Their expressions NM NJ, ,
carry much comfort for tbs s u
sengers. w P"
The big plane was comm. I, :,
landing with its hydrauIic. ~ ~" w
tenn out Of commission NY Is
meant landing without win, a 1.'s'
to check its air speed or br.l.. .
to stop it on the runway. AV'
The passengers were mostly w..
correspondents. The plane bs 's
started on a six-hour trim N ,.r .
them to an Allied base from t,, ,
hand stories about the Jan,aasas
hospital ship caught with guns ars
ammunition aboard. N''0
An hour out, the plane hit
severe storm. Rain beat nm ~.
wings and fuselage and Windows '
until it could be heard above ~.
roar of the twin engines. The niI L'
1t. Roy F. Cook, of Pepsacol.
Fla, swung wide to try to skirt i
He couldn't get over it at II NM
feet. He couldn't get under it with,
in the safety margin he had I,
leave for mountains.
He finally suggested turir,
back. There wasn't a dissentrs
voice from the passengers
AS the plane turned back
warning buzzer sounded sharnlr
During the buffeting a hydraurr
line had sprung a leak CooI
quickly lowered the LANDING
wheels while there still wa,
enough hydraulic pressure. rhst
eliminated the possibility Of
having to make belly landing
With wheels down for the lad
hour Of the return flight. the biz
worry was how to stop rolling on
the runway.
While Cook slowed the plane 10
80 knots, fighting grizzly to hit the
end Of the airstrip, the copilot FL.
sign Thomas Green of Boulder
Colo, pumped furiously BY
hand trying to build up ENOUGH
hydraulic pressure to operate the
brakes.
Cook made a beauty Of land
ing. The plane raced along the
runway. 1t sped past parked
planes. past airport buildings
Then Greens feverish pumping be-
gan to tell. The brakes grabbed
weakly, let 60, grabbed weakly
again. The plane slowed its roll
finally stopped so feet from the
soft dirt end of the nearly mile
long runway.
Passengers, who had been
buoyed by confidence in the pilots
and Ignorance of just how close a
squeak it was. went up to congrat
ulate the pilots.
Pm shaking like Leaf" COX
commented. That's : h e toughest
one I ever sweated out and |
never want another one like IT,
I'm nat shaking" added
Green. But my arm fees
paralyzed from working that
pump.
A correspondent came up
calling facetiously: ''toWels Tor
perspiring pilots! Towels for perS'
spring pilots.
my God," interjected Green
"He thinks that's funny"
Its sometimes blessing ous
here to be too ignorant to know
enough to be thoroughly scared
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CENSORSHIP SUSPENDED

LONDON, Aug. 22.-P-Internal
censorship in the United Kingdom
has been suspended completely,
Minister, Of Information Edward
Williams told Commons today.
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write and ask for the form on which
to file for a pension. Which enc is
it that l request?
A. Veterans Administration Form
534.
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EDITORIAL COMMENT
The End of Oscillation.

The atomic bomb did more than blow up E
japanese city 1t also destroyed for all tir,e
the principle of isolation and the notion that
any nation can go it's way without regard
to what is happening in the rest of the world.
Roanoke (Va.) Times
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-08-23

Many insects accoring to Photograph, have
their taste buds on the soles of their feet. No
wonder a fly likes to take stroll in sugar
bowl
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No Theoretical Limit.

With atomic energy, the picture is not so
clear We do not know what we have done.
we do not know the potentialities of atomic
energy except that it has no theoretical limit.
Roanoke (Va) World-Newss
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-08-23
so THEY SAY

New armies of occupation, other armies m
shifted bases in Hawaii, the Philippines and
rehabilitation camps, the constant call for aid
at disqualification centers, all spell necessity
for continuing vigorous activity by the USO
Lindsey F. Kinball, USO president.
Each person owes it to the democracy IN
which he lives to make his views Known
Cambridge, O., Jeffersonian.
We Roreans) are especially thankful to
the United States in helping our fight for
freedom and Observation-Disclosures Ham, ma
tional representative, Sino-Korean Peoples
League.
1t is downright stupid to keep whole lot
Of divisions here lin Germany when few
bombers and some atomic bombs would keep
the Germans in line.-Unidentified us Army
corpora, stationed in Germany.
The Big Three have given almost one-quart-
er Of Germany to Poland. If history means
anything that is not the road to peace, but to
future wars.-New York World-Telegram.
The word grenade, Photographs informs u.s.,
was taken from the French word for pome-
granate which it is said to resemble. And all
this time We thought the grenade was just a
sort Of junior-sized Chicago prohibition-era
pineapple.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-08-23

Each person owes it to the democracy il
which he lives to make his views known
Cambridge, O., Jeffersonian.
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Deaths Reported

Marcellia Agar. SO, $3.50 r st. NV.
Louis Oshinsky. IS, $40 Clifton Terrace
Apis
Erskine Hutcheson, ~. 81 Sth st. NV.
John King. "a, 1924 Huidekoper pl. NV.
arthur E. James, 81. I776 Mass. ave. NV
James F.. Wilay, 81. 1927 r / ave. NV.
Alvin A. Brown. Al. / Starboard Green, sw
Estelle Steinberg, 3S, 312 Farragut st. NV
John W. Davis. jr., infant. 8725 Livingston
Infant Brook. 1926 13tfr st. NV.
Infant Grobin, 1901 Trinidad ave ne.
Infants Forester, 1409 trinidad ave. ne.
Infant Wright. Arlington, Va.
Infant Warner. 1880 Conn. ave. NV.
Infant Blaine. $40 Otto pl. n.w
William H. Bum, II, 1923 N j. ave. NV.
Joseph Hawkins. 20. go ii st. ne.
Laura Geary. 81. 200 K st. Sc.
PhiliX Blacksher, As, 1928 18th st. NV.
Isabel Gordon, 43, 1928 l. st. NV.
Mary Barnes. 81, 1857 Euclid st. NV
Luther Harris, 81, 1416 Belmont I'd NV.
James Brown, "a, 1922 9Th st. NV
Beatrice James, 20, 1926 9th st. NV.
Infant Carter. 1856 Stanton ter. sc.
infant Thomas, Hkelsnd, Md.
Infant West. 1897 9Th st. NV.
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Carnegie Coke Plant
Workers End Stoppage
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
GARY, Ind. Feb. 27.-Four hun
dred and fifty workers in the Car
negie Illinois coke plant returned
to work yesterday, ending a one
day work stoppage which resulted
company officials said, in the loss OF
$500 tons of war steel and which
threatened the domestic gas supply
of the city.
The men agreed to resume pro-
duction after listening to appeals by
representatives of the Army and
Navy, Joseph Coin, sub-district di-
rector Of the United Steel Workers
of American (CIO), said.
The walkout started when -four
members of the union. Local 1914
left their jobs because three extra
men had been transferred from the
coke oven batteries to another de-
partment. The company said an
agreement with the union provided
for transfer of the men. but union
representatives denied this and said
the company had failed to CO.
operate"
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EXHIBITS.

Portraits of America" Children.
Museum, 4215 Massachusetts, avenue
NV, 8 to $50 pm. through Thurs.
day.
American annual salon prints
Arts and Industries Building, Smith.
sonian Institution, on Mall, 9 am. tx
4:30 pm. through Thursday.
| Aune Fruhauf caricatures, Public
Library, Eighth and K streets NV.
10 am. to 9 pm. daily, except Sun
day, 2 to 6 pm, through next Mon.
day.
Recent paintings by Karl Knath.
| through March 8, and Lea Halperr
ceramics through March 26, Phil.
lips Memorial Gallery, IL am. to II
pm. Monday; II am. to pm. Tues.
days through Saturdays, and to
pm. Sundays.
Etchings by Gene Kloss of New
Mexico, Smithsonian Institution, or
Mall, 9 am. to 4:30 pm. through
March II.
Old inaugural picture exhibit
Library OF Congress, 8 am. to IL
pm. Mondays through Fridays, s
am. to 6 pm. Saturdays and 1880
am. to 10 p.m. Sundays through
April.
Stiegel-type glass, OAR Museum
Memorial Continental Hall, 8:45
am. to 4:45 pm. weekdays, except
Saturdays, 8:45 am. to 12:45 pm.
through April TO-
LECTURES.
Health Problems of the Negro
by DR.. Paul B. Cornely, Howard
University health director, Douglas
Hall on university campus, 7:3C
O'Clock tonight.
Public Aid to Catholic Schools, >
by DR.. William E, McManus, as
sistant director, Education Depart
ment, NCWC, Study Guild Catholic
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Army Chaplain Talks
Al Baptist Mission

Army Chaplain Roy Parker, who
was with the troops in Europe and
North Africa, will speak at the
opening session of the Baptist
School of Missions at 7 pm. today
at the National Baptist Memorial
Church, Sixteenth street and Co.
lumbia road NV. The school will
continue daily at the same hour
through Friday.
DR.. Everett Gill ST., retired Euro
pean representative of the Foreign
Mission Board of the Southern
Baptist Convention, also will address
tonights meeting He will speak on
Europe and the Gospel" The two
speeches will be followed by a dis
cussion period.
Tomorrow's session will be ad-
dressed by DR.. Rufus w. Weaver,
former executive secretary of the
District Baptist Convention and au-
thor of Revolt Against God" and
DR.. Bradford Abernethy, son of DR..
W. S. Abernethy, pastor emeritus of
Calvary Baptist Church. DR.. Weaver
will speak on Religious Liberty"
and Dr. Abernethy, who is now with
the Commission on the Church and
Minority Peoples in New York, will
talk on 'Baptists and the Peace"
DR.. E, A. Friedell, secretary of
the American Baptist Foreign Mis-
sionary Society," and DR.. George w.
Sadler, European representative of
the Foreign Mission Board of the
Southern Baptist Convention, will
discuss the work of both the North
ern and Southern Baptist Conven-
tons in Europe on Thursday.
The closing session Friday will be
featured by DR.. w. w. Enete of
Richmond, Va, and Sammy" his
version of Charlie Mccarthy. The
meeting will be closed with a pag-
cant showing European peoples in
their native costumes.
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Donald
Continued From First Page)

while a single japanese soldier re-
mains on Chinese soil"
Mr.. Donald was the liaison man
for many of these offers. He has
participated in numerous Chinese
political events during 40 years as a
participant in Chinese affairs, in
Guiding more than 10 years with
Chang.
He said that contrary to general
belief the 1886 Sian. kidnapping of
Chang was not engineered by a
Communist. but by a certain Gen.
Yang, who was the Kuomintang
peace preservation official of that
area. Mr.. Donald was present
throughout release negotiations.
Mr.. Donald said Yang's motive
was to convince Chang that Yang
was not able to follow out the gen.
eralissimo's orders to attack the
Communists because the Commun-
lists were sending troops into the
field against the real enemy-Japan.
Mr.. Donald said Chou Enlai,
Communist leader most prominently
mentioned in current rapproche-
ment attempts between the Com
munists and the Kuomintang, was
actually the one man who enabled
Chang to depart unframed from
the 1886 Sian kidnapping.
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Where 70 GdI8r11
What 70 D2&1f
~ 48tG 49,: Ingq

Library, 1725 Rhode Island avenue
NV, 8:l5 o'clock tonight.
i LUNCHEON.
| Rotary Club, Willard Hotel, 1876
pm. tomorrow. Members ano
guests.
| MEETINGS.
/ Washington Branch, Society Of
American Psychologists, George
Washington University School OF
Medicine, 1885 H street NV, &
O'Clock tonight DR.. James M. Sher-
man, bacteriology professor, speaker
Building for Freedom Through
Co-operatives." sponsored by Po-
tomac Cooperative Federation
South Interior Building auditorium
8 o'clock tonight.
Phi Beta Kappa Association OF
Washington, Wardman Park Hotel
$3.50 o'clock tonight. Wilfrid Fleish-
err, author, speaker. Members and
guests.
Social.
Game night, Walsh Club for War
Workers, rear of 1923 Twenty
second street NV, 8 o'clock tonight.
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Shipyard Strikers
Being Placed in IA
Ey the Associated Press.

by llIc hSSONIo Ltd LCoS-
PASCAGOULA, Miss, Feb. 81
Draft boards began today classify
ing Ia the striking employees of
ingalls, Shipbuilding Co., while &C
tivity at the shipyards was at a
standStill.
The strike. called by the Metal
Trades Council (AFL) of PaScag-
oula, effects 10000 workers at the
shlpyard, which makes 18,000-ton
vessels for the Government.
Monroe B. Lanier, president of
the ingalls, company, said 400 men
reported for work yesterday, but
that they couldn't work because the
electricians refused to turn on the
power"
Mr.. Lanier also said he has been
told by James McIntee, secretary
of the AFL's Metal Trades Depart
ment, that the strike was eillegal
and improper" and that the strikers
would be directed to return to work.
However, F. L. Mancil, president
of the Metal Trades Council, said
he had received no word from ma
tional headquarters of the union
ordering the men back to work
Previously he had said the strike
was called because of the War Labor
Boards delay in acting on list
of union grievances, including a
demand for a closed shop
The Jackson (Pascago County
Selective Service Board said its files
were being canvassed in order to
reclassify strikers who are regis
tered with it. In nearby Hancock.
County the board announced all
strikers residing there were being
reclassifed into IA.
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Co|ored Group Landed
By Deputy Recorder

Deputy Recorder of Deeds Fred
erick S Weaver, addressing the As
ISOLATION of Oldest Inhabitants
(colored) last night at Odd Fellows
Hall, Ninth and T streets NV,
praised the organization for its sup
port of the proposal for the in
tegration of colored members of the
Fire Department in fire houses now
manned by white personnel.
Mr.. Weaver also commended the
association for its support of the
move to bring the voting rights to
District residents The grandson of
Frederick Douglass, Negro leader
and diplomat, Mr.. Weaver was in
PRODUCED by Municipal Court Judge
Almond w. Scott. William D. Nixon
president of the association, pre-
sided.
Joseph H. B. Evans, son of the
late Wilson Bruce Evans, first prin-
cipal of Armstrong High School
second Oldest colored high school OF
the District. told Of the achieve
ments of the Fair Employment
Practice ComHittee, of which he is
Ia member. ~
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Compromise Offered
To Avert New Bedford
Tire Cord Labor Draft
Ey the Associated Press.

NEW BEDFORD, Mass, Feb. 81.
"A compromise proposal was
thrown into this city's labor draft
controversy today by Mayor Arthur
N. Hartman which, he contended,
would obviate the necessity of fore
Ing workers into two tire cord plants
to overcome labor shortage.
Even as hearing was about to
open on appeals of rs textile work
ers from a War Manpower Com
mission draft" Mayor Hartman
said he would call conference late
in the day with management repre-
sentatives of the Fisk and Firestone
factories, which make cord tire fab
RIGS. He said he would ask the
arrangements to petition the War
Labor Board to pay a third-shift
premium and company paid insur-
ance for those drafted
These were two points on which
the workers from nine fine goods
factories and others had based their
refusal to accept employment when
the VINO reduced local employment
ceilings to send lit workers from
their old jobs to the tire mills.
Fisk and Firestone are making
heavy-duty tires for military use
and the War Manpower Commission
recently ordered 1T workers in other
firms to take over idle spots in the
cord factories after attempts to have
workers transfer voluntarily had
failed.
Mayor Hartman said he would
confer with Frank L. Burns. general
manager Of Fisk, and Joseph j.
Harvey, general manager of Fire
stone, and place his plan before
them. Gov. Maurice j. Tobin, he
added, had approved the plan yes
terday.
Antonio England, local director of
the Textile Workers of America
(CIO) said that if management ap-
proves the Mayors proposal, L feel
certain our people would volunteer
to work at Fisk and Firestone.
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Union Leaders Call
|ChrysIer Strikers
To Meeting Tonight
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
DETROIT, Feb. 81. - Strikers
whose walkout in the Dodge main
plant of Chrysler Corp. has made
idle more than 1900 employees and
interrupted production of war ma
terial were summoned by their
union executive board today to at
tend a mass meeting tonight.
The strikers have ignored War
Labor Board directives ordering
them to return to their jobs on
manufacture of parts for Super
Fortress engines, tanks, rockets and
antiaircraft cannon.
Chrysler spokesman said 1880
were idle at the Dodge main plant
5000 at the Dodge truck plant
which closed yesterday. and 500 in
other Detroit area factories where
banks of parts produced at Dodge
main were running low.
With the prospect that dependent
final assembly plants in Chicago as
well as Detroit might soon be af-
fected, the executive board of Local
3, United Automobile Workers
(CIO). was called into session to
discuss WLB and International
Union -to-work directives.
In return for an immediate re-
sumption of work, WLB officials
told representatives of the strikers,
the impartial umpire of disputes be-
tween the corporation and the
UAW-CIO would determine whether
he has the authority to settle issues
of eight discharges and production
rates in the B-29 engine depart
ment at the Dodge main plant
WLB promised to settle the issues
itself if the umpire finds he is not
so authorized.
Firing OF the eight men, who
were accused of loafing, resulted
in a walkout of several thousand
workers last Friday Union officials
contended the discharges violated
established grievance procedure and
were made without notification to
the union Although several ma
tional and regional JAW repre-
sentatives have protested the COM
pany's action, the union has threat
ened immediate action" against the
local and its officers if termina-
ton of the strike is delayed.
At an all-day show cause hear
ing yesterday, Army and Navy Off
GERS and management spokesman
predicted the shutdown of Chrysler
plants employing more than 100000
workers if the strike persists all
week.
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Steri|ize Jap Aliens,
0kIahoman Demands

BY the Associated Press.
Representative johnson, Demo-
crat, of Oklahoma, has proposed
that Congress authorize the sterili-
zation of japanese aliens held in
United States segregation camps.
His suggestion-in emphatic words
became public today in testimony
released by the House Appropria
tons Committee considering the re-
settlement of enemy aliens.
Il will say~for the record-and
want to be sure that it stays on the
record-that we should make ar
appropriation to sterilize the whole
outfit" Mr.. Johnson told his fellow
committee members.
The Oklahoman criticized what
he termed the "pamperlng" of Japa-
nese war prisoners and said our
citizens generally are getting fed
up" over the treatment of prisoners
and "so-called loyal aliens"
The remarks came during a COM
mittee hearing on plans to close the
enemy alien segregation centers and
return to private life most of the
10000 persons of japanese ancestry
who were hustled into custody when
war broke out.
War Relocation Authority officials
said they plan to close out all the
segregation centers except Tulelake,
Calf, by the end of this year. Tule-
lake-a camp for so-called recalci-
trants-noW houses about 10000
aliens under Army jurisdiction.
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Internee Home 9 Days
After Reaching Moscow
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
AUGUSTA, Ga, Feb. 27.-Nine
days after he hitch-hiked into Mos
COW after being liberated from a
German prison camp by Russian
troops, 1t. Frank Colley of Wash
ington, Ga, was back in his native
Georgia yesterday.
1t. Colley, 20, was captured by
the Germans near Faid Pass in
North Africa in February, 1943 He
was confined at Oflag "a prison at
Szubin, near the Polish Corridor.
On January %, 1945, the Russians
broke into the sector and many in
the prison were liberated. 1t Colley
and seven other Americans reached
Moscow February IT, From Moscow
the men flew to Washington, D. c.,
in Sc hours, arriving there Saturday
1t. Colley flew here from the Ma
tional Capital yesterday.