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Henderson daily dispatch., 1945-05-11
THE COST
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anldiln BrCadCastiug Company Con
respondent, Representing The Com
hired Allied Press and Radio.
Berlin, Nav 9-CDelayed1-
tip-I heard today from a
>Curcc who certainly y hould
knew an cStimat" of what il cost
the Russians to save their oun
Try ana come at last to this
triumph in Bcrlin-betWcen r.
G00,000 and l5,0G0,000 dead of
whom about half were soldiers
and half civilians.
There were times said a
Russian general, when We had
to lcSc half a million men at a
time to save the army itself"
any previous estimate of Rus
sian casualties. In June. 1911,
the Russians gave their last Off
ciai announcement of Soviet IS
ualtic>-5,30o ,00G killed, missing
and captured. No figures on
wounded were given.
In June, DNB, official Ger
man news agency, declared 20
zoe, 006 casualties had been in
tliCtcd ON the Russians. This fig
urc presumably included deal,
wounded and captured.
The Russians have given no
figure ON civilian losses.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1945-05-11
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Reparations

If it is the Allied intention to compel Ger
many to pay for more than minor part Of
the damage the German armies created in
conquered territory during World War II, the
process could not possible be completed in the
six years Edwin V. Pauley, American member
Of the Preparations commission upon ais return
to Washington declared the commission now
plans to continue tapping German production.
Were Germanys agricultural, mineral and
industrial resources confiscated for triple or
quadruple the time Mr.. Pauley mentions Ger
many could not pay the debt she owes to the
nations her armed forces overran in physical
properties alone to say nothing of insurance
for the survivors of civilians ruthlessy and
needlessly slaughtered.
There is no intention utterly to strip Ger
many Of all resources above what is actually
needed to sustain life for the people. Germany
could not work her way up in the trade world
if this were done and Germany's trade is in.
dispensible in a peaceful world. But it GER
tainly would not shape the punishment to the
crime to let her off with token reparations
payment.
If this were done the German element which
has been plotting wars for centuries and will
not be eradicated however severely the Allies
punish war-guilty Germans, the Allied nations
would continue to be considered SOFT and plans
for future war made forthwith.
1t is necessary to prove to all Germans
through the years that war does not pay, can
not be made to pay. With their land largely
rubble-strewn now they have this knowledge.
But if they are let off without paying heavily
and for a long time they will soon forget.
especially the young generation and be back
at the old tricks.
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Create Own Immunity

If the war had degenerated into an expert.
prepared to loose gases that would "blister,
choke and poison the blood and nerves. OF
the enemy.
Planes fitted with giant sprayers could have
come in at treetop height and exterminated
everybody in an area 1900 yards long and
300 wide Or at great height, bombers might
have dropped their poison with no one below
suspecting what was doing, and soon after
wards the invisible and practically odorless
cloud would have been smothering foes before
they could do anything about it. BY bomb,
mortar lana mine, artillery shells, grenades
and spray tanks too death could have reaped
such harvest as never before was possible.
knowledge that the United States was pre-
pared to out-best them in gas warfare doubt
less restrained the Germans from resorting
to it.
On top of the announcement of our prepare
ton for a gas war, which is made by Brig.
Gen. R. L. Avery, in command at the Edge
wood Arsenal, Maryland, the mind involvun
tarily turns to the atomic bomb two of which
were used in Japan with frightful results
The best assurance that this device is not
likely to become a weapon in any future war
les in the fact that while the United States
alone can now manufacture them, their for
mula will not long be secret and when they
are made by other major powers, none are
liable to use them lest their enemy resort to
them also.
1t will be like the knowledge Germany had
of Our preparations for chemical warfare.
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as closely land-locked as San Francisco bay.
Both have deep water too-far deeper than
any around Annapolis-and afford safe anchor
age for the biggest battlewagons. Both, too,
are served by excellent rail facilities and San
Diego bay enjoys a more equitable climate
than the other two. The Navy has long made
Use of San Diego for that reason, as well as
because of its available flat contiguous land
areas.
San Francisco would seem to have the edge
on the others, not only because of the prom.
inence it gained through the recent Security
Conference but the continuing campaign to
have the city made the permanent home of
the World organization.
Consideration of a site, however, may be
premature, as there has been no official ac-
ton regarding the establishment of a second
major naval academy.
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For Cleaner Sidewalks

Wilningtonians who happen to be downtown
in the early morning will note that merchants
generally have window-washers and pave.
ment-sweepers on the job at daylight By the
time the business day starts fingermarks have
disappeared from display windows and trash
from the sidewalks Except for garbage and
trash conta ners at the curb (many of which
unfortunately are not covered) the entire re.
tail district is as spic and span as the careful
housewife keeps her home.
Then some man finds that he has a single
cigarette in his package and after lighting it
throws the package on the sidewalk From
that moment on the city's down town appear.
ance begins to deterorate. Dirty fingers
smear shop windows. Pedestrians of high and
low degree Unfortunately drop trash of one
sort or another without compunctlon. By mid.
afternoon debris of hundred sorts litters side.
walks and only in slightly lesser degree streets
as well.
The dropping of trash is the less defensible
receive it all. 1t is only necessary to drop
trash in one of these cans at the nearest cor.
ner to keep sidewalks in shipshape condition.
If it were done Wilrningtons external appear
ance would be much improved and visitors
more favoraby impressed.
The smearing of windows is something else
again, and little can be done to prevent it as
long as children, who are always restless, &C.
company parents downtown.
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$50 They Say
SO THEY SAY

SO THEY SAY DIX
We have this International organization
Omitted Nations Charter) because a great in
dividual called Woodrow Wilson walked into
the world of thought with majestic idea Of
universal harmony Daniel L. Marsh
PRESIDENT Boston University
When I was in Europe I learned that the
British are thinking of Great Britain first, the
we're regarded as the biggest bunch of suck
ers in the world.-Sen. Burton K. Wheeler oil
Montana.
We know from opr experience in this coun.
try. that democracy is achieved only to the
extent that the majority believes in it. vigi
lantly protects it, and vigorously strives to
make it work-Columbus, O., Citizen
We can't maintain the present size Navy
It is too Dig, too much of drain on the
country.-Adml Raymond A. Spruance. com.
mander, U. S. 5th Fleet. ~ WILL
Although maintaining prosperity IN nor.
manent basis is admittedly a tough task for
which no dependable formula has vet heer
found, there certainly is nothing ia he oainel
by Realistically taking it for granted 49, +se
thing can't be done-Kalamazoo Mich
Gazette. Mlch.'
., lnere WI VIII no freeze on (war bonbs) re.
80 taI Ane United States Treasury regards
i ~, pohus as contractual agreements 49,
the United States has and .1,na,,a :,, ana
the Treasury. -- Wilson, Secretary OF
n.+;o.. understanding and respect between
60, d1iolS IS pest achieved by an axcb.nao -
p-.: anu accurate information -Ernest So
BRUSH Foreign Secretary oeVnl'
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Reporter Finds Peace Returning
Gradually 10 Pearl Harbor Shore

bors and general usage.
Those are restrictions which M
longer exist but the official langu.
age announcing their lifting does
not begin to describe the differ
ence such action makes in the life
of these Hawaiian isles.
Of course many such transfo~ma.
tons are similar to those taking
place back in the United States
Lifting of gas rationing has jam
med the Honolulu streets with
civilian auto traffic for the first
time in four years. With that ban
gone and waterfront and boating
restrictions also lifted you again
can see fishing and pleasure boats
pioughing through the surf off
Waikiki and other beaches all
around Oahu.
Also for the first time since the
war began Honolulu piers are lined
with fishermen of a dozen differ
ent oriental nations sitting hunch-
ed over their poles.
Previously barbed wire kept the
fishermen from the docks. 1t kept
civilians-except those with special
passes-away from military in.
stallations and utility buildings.
The barbed wires are mostly
gone now and so are the sandbags
which protected many such build
ings. Going too are countless air.
raids shelters hurriedly construct
ed just after Pearl Harbor.
According to Brigadier General
William Morrison, Office of In
ternal Security executive, that
agency will not be completely
liquidated until the japanese from
Hawaii who were informed on the
mainland are returned to their
homes here. His office also will
handle priorities for the return
of many thousands - other Hawaii
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-09-01
BY DOUGLAS LARSEN
NEA Staff CORRESPONDENT

WASHINGTON-Here are some
questions from veterans regarding
National Service Life Insurance:
@. I have heard conflicting re.
ports on how and whether l car
continue my Government Insur.
ance. Will you explain?
A. Yes, you can continue your
Government Insurance. You will
find it one of the most valuable
things you received from the serv.
ice. Just pay premiums to the Col
lections Subdivision, Veterans Ad
ministration. Washington Is, D. c.
@. May a person now in service
carry both U. S. Government Life
(converted) Insurance and Nation
al Service Life Insurance,
A. Yes, but the total of all Gov
eminent Insurance held by any
person may not exceed $4,000 al
any one time.
@. My husband has $4,000 worth
of Government Life Insurance
Does that mean I get it only if he
is killed in action?
A. If premiums are paid up tc
date you get the $4,000 in regular
monthly payments regardless oil
how your husband dies.
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Your GIRights
Questions and Answers
On Servicemen's
Problems

c. had a brother who was
killed in action. He had Just got
ten married and made his wife
the benef; ciary in his $4,000 Gov
eminent Life Insurance policy. His
wife claims she has enough money
to live on from that policy but |
understand the payments are not
very much. She is Is years old.
How much would the payments
be?
A. Payments are made in $40
equal monthly installments at the
rate of $5.51 for each $1,000 of in
surance.
Q. How much ereditor protection
do l have on nay National Service
Life Insurance?
A. National Service Life Insur-
ance policies are not assignable
and cannot be reached by ordinary
creditors. You may borrow on
them, but only from the Govern
ment.
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QUOTATIONS

If we want young Americans to grow up in
the pattern of democracy which countless
other young Americans have sacrificed their
lives to enthrone elsewhere in the world, we
will discourage all social institutions that put
a premium on snobbishness.-Jack son, Miss,
News.
There is no way by which the end of gaso-
line rationing can lessen the age of all auto
mobiles in operation, nor can the danger of
excessive rapid driving be overemphasized.
Tucson, Ariz Star.
If We are to be charged with the reponsi-
bility of maintaining peace Gin the Pacific)
we must have the authority and the means
-one of the principal means being authority
over strategic islands.-House Naval Affairs
Subcommittee report
The man at the next desk says it should
pc easy TO obtain an agreement between the
folk who want to keep daylight saving ano
those who want to return to standard time
After all, they are just an hour apart.
In New York the price of black market nylor
stockings dropped from SIS to S. Looks like
the atomic bomb may have blown up fe"
rackets, too
We'll bet Hirohito is so busy these days ne
mas had to cut down his usual l6-syllaole
poems to 10-syllable jobs.
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residents who were caught visiting
the mainland when the war started
and will handle the return locally
of thousands of dollars worth o.
impounded property-guns, cam
eras, radios, similar equiment-
which the military authorities
grabbed four years ago.
More important from the loca
point of view is the gradual re
turn to the old traditional Aloha
spirit of steamship day. or
Oahu island. Then business prac.
tlcally took a holiday while Homo
luluans flocked down to the pier
10 great boats from the mainland
Already the first ship from Sar
Francisco to bring a large grouE
of passengers to Honolulu since
the partial relaxation of wartime
restrictions has arrived at the
local pier. The band did not play
as in the old days and the Grove
was not allowed to flock cleal
out on the pier as it used to de
but plumeria, ginger and carna
ton leis were tossed to disem
barking passengers in a manner
reminiscent of pre-War days.
Many of it's passengers were
Hawaiians who had been strand
ed in the mainland during the
war but the remainder were Mali
hinis newcomers and all were
greeted with Alohas and leis.
Thus gradually peace is return
ing to Pearl Harbor, Honolulu
Oahu island and all Hawaii, bu1
some unmistakable touches Of
wartime living still remain.
American warplanes still patro
and practice dogfights in the skies
over Honolulu-and you still have
to- stand in line endlessly to gel
good meal anywhere in town
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Lend-Lease

We do not see eye to eye with President
written off.
In one way he is right in declaring Lend
Lease has been repaid in victory, but he
ought not t. ignore the fact that victory was
not achieved by the beneficiaries of Lend
Lease alone. United States armed forces had
a conspicuous part in winning the war. When
t. this is ..dded the fact that the people OF
the United States put up the $43 900 900 600
that was poured into lend-lease, it is obvious
that the nations contribution to victory was
much larger than any other nations despite
the approximately S., 600, O00,o 900 reverse Lend
Lease from or Allies.
The war debt of the United States is so
large that it cannot be paid off for generations.
If Lend-Lease is written off more years will
be required. Our grandchildren will still be
paying for material sent to our Allies in
Europe and the Orient, in addition to the
war tools ant ships we produced for our own
part in the victory and for transporting Lend
Lease chiefly to Russia and Britain.
This war, and the support we gave our
AIleS, Ids driven us 10 SCldpe the DOlIOln
OF the barrel many a time. Now that the
fighting has ended it is only fair that the ma
tons we outfitted for victory should draft a
repayment program. 1t need not be on large
scale. But for their own self respect, as well
as need it ought to be undertaken.
We forgave too many debts after the First
World War. We ought to know better than
do it again.
Mr. Trunans altruism is beautiful but Tn
businesslike.
Realism is needed instead.
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Pacific Naval Academy

The San Francisco bay area is hard at
work on plan for an Annapolis of the Pacific
The West coast has long wanted a naval
academy, and it appears that with the Pacific
taking lead role, it has been doing since
we got started on the with Japan in
big way, such an institution would be advan-
tageous there. But whether it should 60 to
the San Francisco bay region or to Puget
sound or San Diego bay probably will be a
holly contested proposition, if it is finally
decided to train Navy men on the Pacific
coast well as at Annapolis.
Both Puget sound and San Diego bay are
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By KENNETH DIXON

HONOLULU, Aug. 3d. (P) -
Gradually but Enthusiastically peace
is returning these days to Pear.
Harbor-the place where America s
war began-and it is quite a trans
formation.
1t is true there has been hardly
q shot fired in anger here since
that fateful Sunday afternoon, De
cember 7, l941, so it would seem
that Hawaii scarcely could be call
ed combat zone.
But this land of sweet Leilan
was where Uncle Sam first los;
his horse, SO to speak. Conse
quently for nearly four years the
Hawaiian barn door has been lock
ed in the most tightly -egimenteo
wartime control of any actua
noncombat zone in the world.
And now they are letting dowr
the bars again.
They are liquidating the Office
of Internal Security and resembling
its regulations, which included
Defining enemy aliens and regu
lating their conduct.
Establishing afraid alarm sys
tenn with regulations for traffic
and general behavior during all
raids Gronically there was ne
such system before that grim De
cember day and there has beer
no particular need for it here
since)
Establishing curfew-which was
varied from 900 to 1000 nightly
until just recently.
Establishing various water
front restricted districts and re
quiring certain identification
Regulating travel to, from anc
within the territory, establishing
mail and communication censor
shin and regulating ports and har
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BY w. G. ROGERS
Sowing the Wind, by Martha Dodd
Rraao. 60 sl

oOVAA6 VIII w AAANS Ny A'As~A sAA~ A|ONAS~
(Harcourt, Brace; $2.50.)
How to turn a good guy into a
Nazi is the subject of this flint
novel by the daughter of pre-
war American ambassador to
Germany
The book is perhaps a diplo.
matte event, but it's not literary
one. Miss Dodd's material is ex-
cellent, there are numerous dra.
matte incidents with an authentic
ring, and the climax holds the
readers interest.
But as fiction it seems mechan-
ical and contrived In being III
formative rather than. creative,
Miss Dodd reminds me a little of
Upton Sinclair These are the
notes for a novel rather than the
novel itself; if this is the first
draft, I should prefer the sifth, or
if the fifth, give me the 10th.
The hero disintegrating into =
villain is Erid Landt. His loves
are Lima and Kathe. At the end,
in Nazi fashion, he carries de-
struction with him.
Interval In Carolina, by William
Abrahams (Simon Schuster; S2.)
$2).
Sgt. Wallace Young believes in
love and honor, but his gentleman
ly intentions run smack into dat
OF debbil Sex.
A graduate of Harvard, with one
love affair already consummated
and ended, he finds himself in a
Carolina camp for a six-week stay
prior to sailing for the European
battlefront. On weekend
leave he picks up a girl, Jeanne
Storrs, in a hotel bar. He misses
her on the first try, accepts sub.
stltute, but succeeds the next time.
He does not stop at making love
to Jeanne; he must go on and tell
her, and himself. and even a
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DAlREN DESTINED
TO GET BIG PART
lNPACIFlC TRADE

The territorial agreement !.
tween emma and the Soviet jrnio'
makes Dairen one of the 49, ui!ion
portant ports in northeast Asi, ''t !,
Will become a free port for u,o.i y
commerce as well as a froo "Gi'o
port-export channel for BTasi iIll'
trade. Before the outbreak Of az
second $ World War The eitv's no r''
latlon was about 445, 1000. p0pU
Dairen, says the National r..
graphic Society, was first deva Ge~
ed by the Russians under IVY
cesslon granted by China in 1000
1t was designed to give Russi .'o
southern water gate for her rail-
way lines in Manchuria. also b~i1 ,
with China's permission. C cn'
structlon was centered at the sj,.
OF the Chinese village of Ta.1si0
The Russians called the nor,
Dalny, and opened it to world s w.
merce in 1901. Dairen was ANY,
pied by the japanese in 1904 DIV
ing the Russo-Japanese War D.
the Treaty of Portsmouth in 1oo5
1t was transferred to Japan. If wss
named Dairen by the Japanese
the nearest they could come 10 tbo
name of the old Chinese vilags
Dairen lies on the eastern co.,t
of Chlna's Kantoshu (KwaptDnol
peninsula, and is situated on w.
torla Bay, one of three smalIa,
bays that bite into the southeastern
shore of Dairen bay. The grown
of the city has carried it IN tbs
gentle slopes of a range of hin,
south of VICTORIA bay.
Russia had planned tai,or
made town with extensive harbo,
facilities, and had laid the ground,
work before the war with Jan.n
in 1904. When the South Mancbria
Railway Company became a lana
nese enterprise, after the war !,
took over the development and foL
lowed the Russian blueprints in jts
building operations.
Two distinct towns-a Europear
and Chinese-separated BY a
park area, were features of the de-
sign. Broad streets in a regular
pattern were projected to all Sec
tons. Trees were planted on both
sides of the streets, and walks
were paved.
Electric power and light, street
cars, telegraph and telephone ser
vice, and brcadcasting station
were in operation before the war,
Russian and European influence
on architecture was apparent in
the older structures, but a CITY.
bred American would have felt at
home among the newer office and
residential buildings.
A natural resources museum. a
laboratory for research towid
new uses of agricultural products,
and glass and ceramic works were
among the establishments fostered
by the railway company.
Port facilities include two break
waters. the newer one protecting
water area of $500 acres. More
than two miles of piers and docks
line the harbor. Steamers ranging
up to $4,000 tons can be berthed
along Dairen's waterfront. More
than 70 warehouses provide cargo
storage.
Floating cranes and shore hoSts
can handle cargoes from ship 10
lighter and from ship to shore.
Most of the wharves are linked to
the railway system. Dairen is
equipped to do major ship repairs.
Two floating dry docks were nor.
mally in use.