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Detroit evening times., 1945-03-09
SEX EDUCATION VITAL

Sex education. II waS agreed
should begin in the home.
Parents should see that a
youngster gets IL whether he
asks for II or not" contended
Mrs Oed. Most mothers do not
want sex taught In the schools
but at the same time do not
take on the responsibility for
enllghtening their own young
sters."
In 1897 the state law was
amended 10 permit sex education
in public schools with the pro-
vision that il must be taught by
a doctor or registered nurse. Not
mandatory, il is not included ir
the curriculum Of any Detroit
school.
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-09
ASKS MENTAL SAFEGUARDS

DR. Leo II. Bartender, Detroi,
psychiatrist. also recommended
legislation 10 require pre-maritai
mental health examination.
I'VE protect ourselves against
every conceivable danger except
mental health he said. "Such
legislation as now controls social
diseases is necessary"
The siX-day session. bringing Il
light intrinsic problems of mar
riage and family life as they exist
in Detroit today, will continue
through Monday.
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-09
YOUNG GIRLS COMPLAIN

AS one high school girl put II
"Older girls are taking our
boy friends from us. In order 20
compete, we have 10 look and
dress older, and we don't like It,"
Meanwhile, a lively discussion
on Sex Education in the Home,
was led by Helen O'Regan OF
Miller High School and Minnie X
Oed of Merrell-Palmer school.
"Prudishness In ser matters
has persisted In this country too
long" stated Mrs. O'Regan. II
do not believe schools, churches
or any other agencies can neg
ieet- 10 give information when
II IL needed. We are doing more
harm by hushing and tabooing
IL than by meeting II face to
face with q healthy attitude.
Evening star., 1945-11-11

Thirty million people perished in this
war. Many of those millions were people
of the conqueror countries, for in such con-
flicts the winners are only less horribly
damaged than the losers. And the atomic
bomb says to mankind. you amt seen
nothin' yet Wait till your next war!"
Reality demands that we divest our
selves Immediately of the idea that the
atomic bomb is American 1t was created
by cosmopolitan physicists. But no matter
who made the first one. the thing can no
more be an American property than can
earthquake or steam or photography. A
shower of atomic bombs from Guatemala
could write fnis to the United States.
Evening star., 1945-11-11

when the means to destroy life arrived in
mans hands there developed into his
mind the conception that could save him
from his dreadful machine
The Security Council of the United
Nations could protect the world against
the atomic bomb. 1t must have force of
international and scientifically trained in
spectors. The inspectors must have access
to every country. Then small police force
under the Council would be able to insure
the peace of the world. Aggressor countries
could no longer be aggressive and exist
Any isolationisrn, old or new. is now
peril. We cannot be or call ourselves the
most powerful nation IN the world" with
out rousing such mistrust and dislike of
the United States as was reused in us when
Germany set up to be a world dictator.
Our military forces. twelve million strong
at their best. and supported by our indus
trial might, do not make us the most
powerful nation" Showered by atomic
bombs, that whole power vanishes into
less than dust. For the magnificent fight
our forces have made we should be sogrow-
fully proud sorrowful for their suffering
and proud that they are our colmtrymen.
But they cannot do it again.
That is the lesson of Armistice Day,
l945.
Evening star., 1945-11-11
MAINE IDEA

PHlxE. Small bundles of ancient
wood Stats, foot-worn stone steps. and
hand-hewn timbers were being lifted
from van to the village green at
York, Me. Each piece bore number.
The numbers ran from one to 10000.
A giant jigsaw puzzle? No it was
Jefferd's Tavern, circa l760. Miss
Elizabeth Perkins was bringing an
other prize to her York County
Society for the Preservation of His
toric Landmarks
Miss Perkins had discovered the
tavern along an abandoned highway.
She went after the owner and plagued
him until he yelled, For Pete's sake,
take it away"
HUNTER To the people of York.
Miss Perkins is Mrs. Sherlock Holmes.
Instead of criminals, she hunts York
County landmarks. Building by build
ing, she hopes to save what is left of
one of Names oldest settlements.
York's first Jail was the spring
board. The Puritan girl about whom
Hawthorne wrote The Scarlet Let
ter" had been tried here. That meant
nothing to the town council. There
was new Jail. Tear the old one down!
Miss Perkins rang doorbells, got
petitions signed. Today, the Jail is the
villages show piece. Its dungeon
doors swing wide open to sight -seers.
Miss Perkins moved on, located
what she insisted was York County's
first school. York didn't agree.
''Shucks. that's just tumble-down
shack that's always been around"
scoffed the Oldest inhabitants.
Miss Perkins pointed to maps in
Banks History of York. There stood
Evening star., 1945-11-11

cism is the farmers expressed feeling that
the future should be faced with courage.
He himself, if not insane, would have been
badly frightened and he'd have tried Wig
orously to make the children and the farm
hand afraid to do what they were doing.
In some situations fear is more valuable
than bravery. When we look back through
the history of mankind we find that many
people would have done better for their
countries and themselves if they had been
afraid to do what they did
WHEN anyone says that we must face the
future with courage he is emitting the
atomic bomb from his calculations. What
we need is fear Before atomic bombs 60
into mass production in Russia, in Brit
ain, in France, in China, in Mexico and
Cuba, and in Italy, Germany and Japan.
God give us grace to be oowardly enough
to save ourselves by common sense!
For decades with every improvement
of artillery. airplanes or explosives. opti-
mists have said: Nov there will be no
more wars because the destruction would
be too horrible" But there ,oere more wars
The holocausts and the massacres de-
stroyed human beings by tens of thou
sands and all their works and property
with them - and the wars went on.
Evening star., 1945-11-11

that l told you those cans are
full of high octane gasoline?
That hay is very dry, John,
and this place is full of flies.
We shall have to plan how to
get nd of them. In the mean
time, while we wait to see
how things come out, we must
face the future with courage"
OF course nobody will be-
ieve this little story. Partic-
,Ilarlv Omen to realistic criti-
Evening star., 1945-11-11

Tloul AA0W OAA liHI AldAfOAAo
are like a family in a house
with walls built of dynamite.
WHAT would the members of
such a family do if, like our
selves. they could not move
to another house? / think
they would walk softly and
take care not to irritate one
another.
Fortunately, at the moment
Evening star., 1945-11-11
NnhMM;Er

VERDICT. A friend of ours who
took his family to Cape Cod. Mass,
for the summer vacation gleefully
tells this story of New England JUS
tice. Seems that his mother -in-law
applied for q. a.driver's license at the
nearest state motor vehicles bureau;
but after a road test she was turned
down fat
On what grounds?" demanded
the indignant lady.
The examiner faced her coolly:
Because you talk too much"
LEoW0RK. If American women are
champing at the bit to get at some
real. prewar stockings. Englishwomen
are champing even harder. Accord
ing to the London Sunday Dis
patch, a rumor got about that cer-
tain Wimbledon shop had a pair of
full-fashioned hose to sell. BY dawn
the next day 1900 ladies' had queued
up at the shop door. As near as we
can figure it. that's about one out of
every three eligible stocking -wearers
IN Wimbledon.
ALTITUDE. A tale has just come
to us about a sailor shipped into New
York for few days who, in the course
of doing Broadway, bought a second
balcony seat for musical-com
hit. After climbing innumerable stairs
he presented his stub to an usher,
who led him up several rows in the
balcony and then stopped.
You'll find your seat up about
there" said the usher, pointing. Il
can't go any farther"
is there something wrong?" asked
the sailor.
oh. no. It's just that when I get
above this level my nose bleeds."
1IC THREE Our advice to a GER
tain Fort Benning paratrooper is to
take up football as soon as he's dis
charged. His legal name is Harvard
Yale Princeton.
Evening star., 1945-11-11

An Armistice Day message from
q beloved American author .
0NTH floor of the loft of the farmers
" barn were some big open cans filed
with an unpleasant smelling liquid. One
day the farmer climbed the ladder and
found his small children playing in the
loft They were soooping up the contents
of the cans, splashing the liquid over one
another until all were well drenched with
it. Upon a mound of hay farmland sat
lighting his pipe and watching the sport.
This is difficult situation" said the
farmer. Children. aren't you forgetting
Evening star., 1945-11-11
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Evening star., 1945-11-11
The ioiI had q heroine

ine lou noo q nesO"e
the school - where she said it stood.
Somebody tore it down and put
the house up" argued the Oldest in
habitant. Miss Perkins yanked the
paper off the walls. Carved in the
wood by children were names of York's
ancestors. including the great-great-
grandmother of the Oldest inhabitant.
But unCovering your towns past
has its good and bad side. That same
maprevealed that Miss Perkins house
had been the home of a notorious
snuggier. hElEN W0RDeN
Evening star., 1945-11-11

Names and descriptions Of all charsctsrs In
nctioa sssxies and semi -hction articles h fhis
mag.xne are wholly inaginary. Arg name
which happens 10 be the same a. that sf aav
person. living dead. is satirsly eoiac11sDasi
Evening star., 1945-08-22

by Associated chungkng the Owls radio
print made photo circuit delivered
available to owl for transmission general.
Evening star., 1945-08-22
70 Seryicemen Hurt
In Santa Fe Limited
Crash in Arizona
By the Associated Press.


KINGMAN, Ariz., Aug. ga
collision between two sections OF
the Santa Fe's Grand Canyon
Limited yesterday afternoon caused
injuries to more than 20 servicemen
Santa Fe officials reported. There
were no fatalities.
The accident occurred at Fran
coma, Ariz.. "a miles east of Needles,
Calf, when the third section of the
limited, a troop train, struck the
second section which was leaving a
siding.
Officials said the second section
was occupied by civilian and Army
passengers. -Four cars of the second
section and the locomotive and
baggage car of the third section
were derailed.
The train was westbound from
Chicago and was due at Los Angeles
at 10 o'clock last night.
Two physicians and six nurses
from here accompanied the injured
In two special cars to Needles. The
injured servicemen were flown from
Needles to the Las Vegas (Nev)
Army Hospital in an Army bomber.
Santa Fe officials said seven were
known to be seriously injured and
that two were in a critical condition.
Evening star., 1945-08-22
Truman and TugweN
Confer on Puerto Rico

President Truman conferred today
with Rexford G. Tugwell, Governor
of Puerto Rico, and expressed the
view that Puerto Ricans should have
the opportunity to make a free
choice of their future relationship
with this Government, Mr.. Tugwell
later told newsmen.
The President authorizes me to
say to the Puerto Rican people that
all Americans are grateful to them
for their loyalty and service during
the war" Mr.. Tugwell said, land to
say that he feels such loyalty should
now be regarded by the opportunity
to reinforce their local government
and to settle by free choice their
future relationships with the United
States"
Pending legislation sponsored by
Senator Tydings, Democrat. of
Maryland, would provide for a pleb-
iscite in Puerto Rico to enable the
people there to determine their
future national status.
President Truman yesterday dis
cussed the Puerto Rican situation
with Resident Commissioner Pinero.
Gov, Tugwell, one of the original
Roosevelt brain trusters," was
asked about recurring reports he
planned to resign and said he could
not account for their origin.
They don't come from me-" he
said.
Evening star., 1945-08-22
Mrs. Wainwright Sends
Radiophoto 10 Husband

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Aug. ga message
from Mrs. Jonathan Wainwright to
her husband was en- route to Chung
king by radiophoto transmission
today.
At the suggestion of Owls over
seas branch, the Syracuse. Herald
Journal obtained from Mrs. VAIN
wright message to her husband
written on picture of herself.
The message said II am very
happy today, waiting impatiently for
your return. We are all we'll. Best
love to you. Kitty M. W."
The autographed picture was
Evening star., 1945-08-22
Truman May Attend
Veterans Meetings
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
President Truman may attend
and address the annual conven-
tions of three veterans organiza-
tions this fall, Milton D. lCohn, ma
tional commander of the Disabled
American Veterans, said after a
White House visit today.
He invited the President to speak
to the DAV convention in Chicago
the second week in October and
said Mr.. Truman replied he will
try to attend it as we'll as the meet
ings of the American Legion and
the Veterans of Foreign Wars.
Mr.. Cohn, who called on the Pres
ident with Millard Rice. DAv ma
tional service director, said the Pres
ident was in accord with their plea
that adequate compensation be paid
veterans and their dependents as
we'll as widows and orphans of de-
ceased veterans.
While the American Legion and
the WV have announced plans to
hold conventions in Chicago this
fall, ODT Director j. Monroe John
son said yesterday neither organi-
zation had applied for permission.
Present ODT restrictions limit the
number of out-of-town convention
delegates to $50.
Evening star., 1945-08-22
MercyCrew
Continued From First Paee.)

like this would have turned him
over to the loco ward"
Although the members of the team
were armed with revolvers, tommy
guns and hand grenades, Just in
case of trouble, Capt. Patrick Teel,
New York City, who was with the
1st Ranger Battalion at Anzio, said !:
It'll take just five minutes to make
us all dead ducks"
The flight to Korea from Sian
entailed a journey of almost 1000
miles over japanese occupied ter
ritory.
AS the plane got within 500 miles
of Keijo the radio operator, 1t.
Meredith l.. Price, Charleston. w.
Va, attempted to establish contact
with the japanese. Col. Bird and
Capt. Ryon G.. Hamm, Cambridge,
Mass, broadcast a message giving
the planes position and its mis-
Evening star., 1945-08-22

sion. They asked Tor instructions
from the Japanese.
The message was repeated 10
times before the Japanese replied.
I'VE are expecting you and we
guarantee you safe conduct" the
Japanese reply said.
When the plane landed a Jap
anese officer who identified himself
as Maj. Gen. Junjiro Ihara, chief
of staff for the Japanese forces in
Korea, asked Col. Bird his mission.
The American officer replied that
he was in Korea "as the initial pre-
Allied occupation representative, to
bring whatever help is needed by
Allied prisoners of war and to make
preliminary arrangements for fu-
ture evacuation in accordance with
the terms of peace negotiations"
Then you're not here to nego-
tiate a surrender" Ihara asked.
mo, our mission is purely human
itarian," Col. Bird replied.
Ihara said that the prisoners were
we'll and were being cared for, but
that the party could not see them.
The Japanese officer then advised
Col. Bird and his party to leave,
as 1T is not safe for you here"
Internment Refused.
Col. Bird requested that the mercy
group and members of the planes
crew be interned until the formal
surrender was signed in Tokyo, but
this was refused. Col. Bird then
said the plane would need gasoline
for the return trip. The Japanese
agreed to obtain the necessary
amount and said there would be
some delay. as it would have to be
brought from another field.
The Japanese at Keijo still
seemed to be in the war in a big
way. Factory buildings were in
tact and platoons and companies
marched back and forth with jap
anese sergeants barking orders.
On the landing strip there were
about so planes. including 20 Zeros.
Flight patrols took off and landed
regularly.
Japanese enlisted men stared at
the Americans with immobile ex-
pressions. In front of one barracks
a white -shirted officer was practising
executioner sweeps with a SamurI
sword.
Japs ConviviaI.
During supper that night the jap
anese were quite convivial. After
singing Japanese songs one asked
What Is the American Air Force
song?"
Led by Capt. John Wagner of the
Air Transport Command, from
Grand Island, Nebr., the Americans
let loose with the chorus of "Off We
Go Into the Wild Blue Yonder."
The japanese beamed and beat
time on the table with their fingers
After the American finished the
Japanese sang their air force song
THE Fighting Wing"
The next day the atmosphere be-
came tense again. When Col. Bird
asked Japanese officer to sign a
note saying the mission had ar
rived but was refused permission
to act, the major swore and made
stinging references to inferior per-
sons"
Shortly afterward the guarc
around the plane was increased.
The gasoline finally was poured
into the big ship and the Americans
and Koreans took off on the return
fight.
Evening star., 1945-08-22
War Prisoners
Continued From First Page.)'

there held a dance last night in
honor of the team.
A team Of % Americans and Ko-
feans who landed at Keijo, Korea,
in the midst of $4,000 japanese
troops in an unescorted, unarmed
transport plane was requested to
leave the next day by japanese
military authorities. who moved up
tanks and mortars. This group in
tended to make preliminary ar
rangements for evacuation of pris-
oners and to take them relief sup
plies.
The plane left Keijo for Weihsien,
where 1923 internees, about half of
them women, are quartered. The
general health of the internees there
was reported good.
1t. Gen. Albert C. Wedemeyer's
headquarters, meanwhile, said the
names of liberated war prisoners
were being compiled as rapidly as
possible and that some already had
been transmitted to Washington,
whence notification would be sent to
relatives.
Headquarters said that thus far
the name of 1t. Col. James P. S.
Devereux, leader of the heroic Ma
rine stand on Wake Island in l942.
had not yet appeared on any of the
lists.
Evening star., 1945-08-22
Col. Patrick Ryan Takes
Chaplain Office Job Here

Col. Patrick J. Ryan, former SUI
pervising chaplain of the 5th Army
in Italy. has returned to assume the
post here of officer in charge of the
Planning and Training Division of
the Office of Chief of Chaplains of
the Army. He is now on leave, after
having officially taken over his post.
The colonel and his mother, Mrs.
Evening star., 1945-08-22
Hunt for Uranium 235 Provided
Bomb MokersWith Touqh Task

human eyes without microscope
--and for maryland for many
types of atoms even microscope
would not see that number.
The problem is like trying to re-
cover a needle from haystack the
size of the Empire State Building
but in this atomic world there are
billions of empire states, with one
uranium needle in each. In 194l
when the separation was tackled
all the previous skill of science had
been unable to produce enough of
the common uranium in metallic
form to make more than few thin
dimes. There was no known method
of producing the thousands of tons
required
Several of the largest industrial
companies devised methods, but the
final process was invented by sci
entists at Iowa State University
Ames, under F. H. Speeding and j.
G. Rodden Of the National Bureau
of Standards. The official descrip-
ton reads that their method is
extremely simple, rapid and low
cost" 1t tells nothing more.
With uranium metal available, a
far harder job still was ahead, to
separate the needles from the
atomic haystacks. Actually six diff
ferent methods were tried success
fully to extract little of the pure
235. They included vaporizing the
metal, dissolving it in a liquid,
wEirling it in high speed centri-
fuges and electrolytic means.
The extraction in Tennessee
finally was done by two methods.
The one that produced the most
235 is electromagnetic. vaporized
uranium is given an electrical
charge. These particles are next
speeded up in a vacuum to hun
dreds of thousands of miles a Sec
ond, by the attraction of an elec-
trical field. Finally, still in vacuum,
they shoot out into a magnetic field.
The magnet making this field Is
the largest in the world, the one
originally intended for the 81 SOC. 900
cyclotron at the University of Cali
fornia.
The magnetic field forces the fly
ing metallic particles to travel in a
sharp curve. The result is like
throwing apples of different weights
out of high window into the
street; il all are tossed with the
same force, the heaviest fall far
ther out. The heavier uranium par
ticles travel farther. These are the
238 atoms. The 235 does not go SO
far and some Of it is recovered at
each toss.
I ndevising this process, which is
one of scores equally difficult, the
scientists tried TO different types OF
sources for the vapor and ia diff
ferent types of plates on which to
catch the atomic particles.
Vapor Is Screened.
The other method diffuses ura-
MUM vapor through thin barriers
Extremely thin sheets of metal H.
lustrate the nature of such barriers
The lighter weight uranium atoms
go through first, and some of them
can be caught before the heavies
pass through. This method requires
many acres Of barriers to obtain a
few grams of 235.
In about two years enough ura-
MUM 235 actually was separated for
bomb or other purposes. These
methods may pay off richly now
For they can be used to make far
more quickly and easily the concen-
tratlons of uranium with an en-
rlched percentage of 235 that will
help start the industrial fires.
Evening star., 1945-08-22

|P. P. Ryan, formerly lived In Mime
apolis, where he entered the Regular
Army In November, 1928. He served
In Hawaii on two occasions and then
held post here.
He became division chaplain Of
the Sd Division in November, 1912.
Going overseas, he landed at Casa
blanca with the 3d. In January,
1943, he was assigned as Army chap
lain when the 5th Army was formed.
He made the landing at Salerno,
Italy, and served through the italian
campaign.
Col. Ryan, Catholic, has been
awarded the Legion of Merit and
the Bronze Star Medal.
Evening star., 1945-08-22
Eost's Golfers Won't Get
New Balls This Year
By the Associated Press

BY Ine Associated PreSS.
NEW YORK, Aug. 22-Golfers in
the East will have to get along with
reprocessed balls for the rest of the
season, war or no war, but new balls
will be available for the late fall and
winter seasons in the South and
West. the United States Rubber Co.
said today.
Production will be started shortly,
It said, on new synthetic rubber
ball which will give about e5 per
cent as much distance as the prewar
ball" The synthetics were claimed
to be better than reprocessed balls.
First supplies will go to Army and
Navy recreation and rehabilitation
centers and full production is not
expected before next spring.
Evening star., 1945-08-22
Jap Envoy Gave GI
$40 in Manila to
Get Him Cigarettes
Ey the Associated press

BIZ the Associated Press.
MANILA, Aug. 22.-"Get me
cigarettes for this" the Jap
anese envoy to the recent
Manila Conference said as he
handed a CT guard two Amer
ican SIS bills.
The soldier complied, accord
ing to a radio dispatch from
Robert B. Cochrane, Baltimore
Sunpapers war correspondent.
The two cartons of cigarettes
the Jap accepted .avidly, but he
hesitated an embarrassed mo-
ment before taking the change
and stalking off with complete
poker face.
The change was Japanese
printed Philippine occupation
currency.
Evening star., 1945-08-22

The American Broadcasting Co.
previously had reported from
Chungking that Col. Devereux was
safe in camp at Peiping.