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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-10-03
IRUCKMAN BOUND
OVER FOR TRIAL

William Green, 33, Negro truck
driver, was bound over to Superior
court yesterday under $1,000 bond
on charge of breaking into two
Wilmington cafes after a pre-
liminary hearing in Recorders S
court.
Investigation by City Detectives
E. B. Murray and J. Wolfe and
Harry Fales, bureau of identifica-
ton superintendent, led to the ar
rest Saturday of Green and the
preferring of charges against him
of entering Harriss' Tavern, Tenth
and Wooster streets, on Septem-
Der 16 and again on September
II.
According to Officer Murray,
Green broke open the piccolo the
first time he entered the cafe and
stole about S35. On September q,
he allegedly took so pounds OF
lard, II chickens, IA steaks, Is
pounds hamburger and case OF
beer. Officers repeatedly recov-
sred a case of empty beer bottles,
three steaks, three chickens and
u pounds hamburger from Green S
apartment in the new Brooklyn
homes.
Murray testified Green admitted
the latter offense and also had
confessed to breaking into the
Manhattan Grill, 816 S. 18th street,
and robbing the piccolo and also
taking two boxes of socks. Some
of the socks were recovered from
GREEN'S apartment.
Four other Negroes were con-
victed today by Recorder H. Win
field Smith of participating in the
robbery of 10 tires and tubes from
the Maffitt Village Housing au.
thority warehouse between August
IA and September l.
Walter Beery, Negro employe
of the Housing Authority, was SEN
fenced to IL months on the county
farm after he confessed to Of
flcers that he had stolen the tires
Eight tires and three tubes were
recovered.
On the recommendation OF the
Investigating officers, Murray
Wolfe and Fales, Judge Smith or
dered Charles w. Hopes, Eddie
Newkirk and Isaac McRae to serve
six months on the farm, sentences
suspended on two years good be-
havior. Judge Smith said sen
tences were suspended at the
suggestion of officers who report
ed good cooperation on the part o.
the defendants after they were
apprehended.
Hopes was charged with steal
ing one tire and Newkirk and Mac
Rae with receiving two OF the
stolen tires, each. ;.
Probable cause was found II
the case of Bennie Green, 49, o.
East Wilmington, charged WIN
larceny of an automobile, ana nj
was bound over to Superior cour
under $1,000 bond.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-10-03

Groom, Chief Of the Wilmington
fire department in observance of
Fire Prevention Week by giving
talks at the various schools and
aiding city fireman IN fire drills
at the schools.
A. previusly announced the Jay
Gees Will sponsor the New Hanover
High School-Rocky Mount football
game Friday night to be held at
the American Legion stadium by
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-10-03
British Dock Strike
May Tie Up Mersey

LIVERPOOL, Oct. 2.-R)-Four-
teen thousand workers were idle
today in spreading dockers'
strike, and port officials and union
leaders said they expected the en-
tire Mersey dock system would
soon - affected.
Tha re began at the Birken-
head 5 eight days ago, with
1000 W0fkmen participating in a
walkout which union officials said
was unauthorized.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-10-03
TOURISM BOOMS

CHEYENNE, Wyo., Oct. -UH-
Tourist business is booming in
Wyoming, now that the war is over,
and many establishments report
they are unable to handle the in
creased volume. An estimated two
million dollars worth of business
was reported in 1941, which was
regarded as a peak year. Busi-
ness this year is expected to sur
pass even that.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-10-03
HAND OF CORN

WILLIAMSBURG, Pa, oct.-
Wp>-Frank Prohovic got away
from the customary ear of corn
and grew ''hand of corn" on his
farm. The corn is in the shape of
well proprotioned human hand in
cluding thumb, four fingers and
nails.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-10-03

Texas produces from 80 to IS
per cent of the sulphur output OF
the United States and about so per
cent of the world output.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-10-03

It has been estimated that labor
charges make up about 70 per cent
Of the cost of highway mainte-
nance
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-10-03

Louisiana has $4,000 miles in its
highway system of which 81 per
cent are hard surfaced.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-10-03

Potash in great comercial
Quantities is known to exist
throughout large area OF West
TAxas and Southeast New Mexico.
Evening star., 1945-05-14
Nix This Changing World
By Constantine Bro,vn

Similarly, the resolution introduced by
Representative Claire Booth Luce to
give asylum to Polish officers and SOL
dlers f1ghting in Western Europe and
Italy, IN the event they did not wish to
return to Poland, was not allowed to be
put on the air.
Until the Germans were defeated
there was the excuse that such political
news might give encouragement to the
enemy and thus prolong the war.
Henceforth. however. there seems to
be little valid excuse to prevent Ameri-
can newspapers and publications from
reaching the German people to show
them that after IL years of intellectual
darkness during which only the Nazi
philosophy was rammed down their
throats there is section of the world
in which people can express themselves
freely and unhampered by the official
blue pencil.
Even more remarkable Is the fact that
the news from German territories oc-
cupied by the American forces will be
subjected to an equally stringent censor
ship. Since there will be no further
military operations, except possibly the
repression of a few remaining fanatic
Nazis, it is hard to understand why the
people OF the United States should be
prevented from knowing how the democ-
ratization OF Germany is progressing.
~
Every one in this country understood
that one of our war aims, besides estab-
fishing just peace, was to help the
Germans out of the narrow path in
which Hitler and his mr. =, Il la 49,.
This, besides enforcing strong military
rule. was to be the task of our occupa- :
ton authorities. In a democracy the
actions and activities of Its officials
must be continually scrutinized by the
people themselves.
Military censorship is necessarily die
tatorial. It's reason for existence is to
prevent the revelation of military news
which might endanger the success of a
campaign and the lives of the soldiers.
But military censorship has never been
successful when applied to political and
other matters. Unless there are some
very deep reasons which induced the
military to establish blackout of news
from Germany to the people of the
United States, there can be no sense
whatever in such an action. except to
conceal from the American people some
hidden plans which are not in keeping
with our ideas of freedom and democ-
racy.
There is no informa ton yet as to
whether the supreme commanders of
the four Allied armies who are supposed
to work together in Berlin will make
arrangements whereby the rules and
regulations announced by the War De-
partment will be applied by the other
victorious countries.
Evening star., 1945-05-14
Oil Rationins' Explained
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor OF The Star:
In recent issue, a letter appeared
in your columns in which the writer
stated that an Ofice1of Price Admins
tration announcement that present
valid oil coupons will expire August 81
is alarming and represents breach Of
trust. The facts are these:
/. Fuel rationing plans for the 1944-5
heating season were first announced
on April IL. 1914. 1t was then made
clear that fuel oil coupons would ex-
pire on August 81, 1915;
q Again on September /, 1914, at the
beginning of the current fuel-rationi
program the August 81 expiration date
was announced by OPA:
g. The August 81 expiration date re-
peatedly has been announced since
then;
4. New oil coupons for the 1856
heating season will be issued in June
or July. There is thus no occasion for
hardship. Those who still have unused
oil coupons have from now until Au-
gust 81 to fill their tanks. They will be
able to start new heating season with
Oil in their tanks and a fresh supply
of coupons;
S. OPA has carried out it's contracts
to the fuel oil consumers in every re-
spect.
should appreciate 1t very much II
you would bring these facts to the at
tention of your readers.
ROBERT r. r. BROOKS,
Deputy Administrator for Information,
ONCE of Price Administration.
Evening star., 1945-05-14
On the Record
3 By Dorothy Thomson


the last war 1t was governed by the
Ottoman Empire.
Certainly from the humanitarian
viewpoint the JEWISH peoples situation
is desperate and extreme Yet here
have seen happier colonies OF Jews liv-
ing on their own culture than I would
have thought possible 20 years ago.
In fact 1t is the success. not the failure.
OF the Palestine colonization project
that creates an issue today.
1t would, therefore, seem simple to
open the gates and let nature take
Its course. The reason why this isn't
done is because the question is not
essentially Palestinian but because it
involves the entire Arab world from
the Russian border of Iran to Syria and
even into Morocco where the long slum-
berlng people are in need of awakening
to the concept of some sort Of loose
federation of Arabian states all of which
are unwilling to see Palestine pass out
OF Arab control. For Palestine is q
point OF outlet for Iraquian oil Jerusa-
lem is also the third holy city Of the
ISlam1c world and after Mecca and
Medina is point of pilgrimage.
The Arab question involves France
which is plainly jealous of her largely
Arabian empire and is still anxious
to keep her leading position among the
Western powers. Only in Syria and
Lebanon will France openly back and
aid the formation of Jewish common
wealth.
I seriously doubt If Russia's position
Is equivocal. 1t is reported that at Yalta,
Stain declared his disinterestedness.
Some young Zionists place great hope
IN Russia, but If one watches the care
full play of the Soviet throughout its
own Mqslem states trying to increase
Russian influence in the Islamic world,
one doubts any sincere support in that
quarter
Actually Russia has blocked immi-
grafton to Palestine from any territory
annexed in this war and has discour-
aged any from occupied countries.
Meanwhile, the British who alone have
the responsibility, get it both ways,
Evening star., 1945-05-14
Chino and Supplies

Though some correspondents dis
pute Chungking's figures on the en-
emy's casualties, there seems to be
no question that the Chinese have
scored q notable victory in smashing
the japanese drive on the American
air base at Chihkiang The drive,
which began on April 9, has clearly
come to grief, with Chiang's forces
reported attacking all along the
front in Human Province as a prel-
ude to general counteroffenSive.
Experience has shown that it is
prudent not to attach too great
significance to isolated japanese set
backs in China or to optimistic
statements by "Spokesmen" in
Chungking. This latest develop
ment, however, is definitely encour-
aging because it indicates that
Chinese troops are better equipped
than in the past and that the CO.
ordination between them and our air
support has been improved. All re-
ports seem agreed on this point-a
fact that lends added meaning to
General Chennault's recent state
ment that Chiang's forces, once they
are we'll armed. should be able. with
the help of our fighters and bombers,
to drive the enemy from the interior
provinces.
Lack of equipment has been one
OF the heaviest handicaps under
which Chinese troops have had to
labor. AS long as the japanese held
Burma, only the most meager kind
OF supplies could be carried into
China. But now the picture has
changed. Burma has been rewon
and the Stillwell Road and a great
pipeline from India are in operation.
All this, together with our air trans
port over the Himalayas and to-
gether with the fact that the Euro
pean war is over and Britain and
America can concentrate on the
Far East, obviously foreshadows a
time when it will be possible to send
in arms in quantity.
1t is worth noting, in this connec-
ton, that American troops from the
Persian Gulf Command have just
arrived in the China Burma India
theater. The supply line in this
theater is very long and difficult, but
so was the supply line from the Gulf
of Persia across Iran to Russia, and
yet our forces along that route sue
ceeded in delivering to the Red Army
millions of tons of equipment, in
cluding scores of thousands of We
hicles. With this as a precedent, 1t
is not unthinkable that a similar
miracle may be performed for the
Chinese.
Moreover, there is always the
strong possibility that there will be
American landings on the coast OF
China and that mountains of sup
plies will be brought ashore there
as In North Africa and France.
Evening star., 1945-05-14
Housekeeping Assistance

This is the third time that the fate
OF the Housekeeping Assistance
Branch of the District Health De-
partment depends on the willingness
OF House and Senate Appropriations
Committees to include the item in
the District bill, without Budget
Bureau concurrence and over the
tacit opposition of District budget
officers. 1t should be included
in the bill again. On the face
Of available evidence. it has JUS
ti1ed itself as proper form of aid
to indigents. If it is included this
year, the Commissioners should
make the item subject of public
discussion at the budget hearings
next fail and on the basis of testi-
mony adopt it as recurring item or
abandon it with some adequate ex-
PLANTATION.
The Housekeeping Assistance prof.
ect was one of the last to survive the
i, gradual liquidation of WPA. Two
! years ago the Senate Appropriations
Committee, with House concurrence,
took over the expense in the District
bill. Last year it was omitted from
the budget estimates and Congress
wrote it into the bill again. This
year the same situation exists and
the House committee seems inclined
to write it in again, with much testi-
mony favoring it and only the unex-
pressed attitude of budget officers
against it.
The service represented is tenn
porarily to furnish trained aides in
the h omes of medically INDECENT Dis
trict residents. Housekeeping aides
take care of the children, cook. mend,
clean and do the laundry. They do
some practical nursing. There are
about thirty aides, and in 1914 they
gave such service to 73l families,
involving 3,649 persons, of whom 81
per cent we're under IA years old.
The cost per family was about $40;
the average cost per day about $1.04
per person served. Availability of
housekeeping aides prevented hos
pitalization at public expense of
some patients, enabled others, eSpe-
cially maternity cases, to be dis
charged from hospital care earlier
than otherwise would have been pos
sible. Administered through the
Health Department, which seems
convinced of its Importance and
value, only families which would
qualify for public assistance are
eligible.
The District budget officers are
responsible for desirable economies
and evidently remain unconvinced
that this undertaking is necessary.
The local taxpayers should have some
opportunity to hear the pros and
cons and. through their spokesmen,
decide the issue once and for all.
Evening star., 1945-05-14
The Mighty Seventh

With the national goal fixed at
$4,000 100000, the Seventh War
Loan drive opening today sets it's
sights higher than most of its prede
cessors. From the purely military
standpoint, the need for it is OBJ
vious: Although Germany has sur
rendered, our armed forces must
have mountains of weapons to de-
feat Japan, and since taxes alone
cannot pay for these weapons, the
American home front must buy
bonds.
Moreover, as never before, the in
fiationary pressures of our wartime
economy must be guarded against.
Full employment and high wages
have given us an. unprecedented
national income, while at the same
time consumer goods have become
scarcer and scarcer In other words,
with civilian supply low and demand
high and with the scores of billions
of sollars we have in liquid assets
In savings banks or bureau drawers,
the danger of skyrocketing prices
and unbridled imitation is self
evident.
1t is because of this threat that the
new war loan drive is placing spe-
cial emphasis on Series E bonds-the
peoples bonds" More so than in
any past drive, individual buying
will be promoted to siphon off excess
purchasing power. Here in the Dis
trict individual sales are to account
for $4,000 900 of the total quota of
s113000,000, and in the Nation at
large they are to represent half of
the announced goal. Thus. in a
greater degree than at any time
since Pearl Harbor, every American
on the home front will have an op-
portunity not only to lend direct
support to the armed forces facing
Japan, but also to serve his own self
interest by striking blow against
imitation and adding to his postwar
economic security.
The opportunity is very good
one. indeed. Buying War Bonds is a
patriotic duty, but far from involv-
= ing any sacrifice, it enables all of us
to profit financially even while we
help pay for the weapons needed to
defeat Japan. Both in an immediate
: and long-term sense, no sounder
investment could be made, and this
is so obvious that 1t is hard to
believe the drive starting today will
Evening star., 1945-05-14

The official announcement that all
news to and from the American oc-
cupied zones in Germany will remain
under strict censorship has caused
surprise in most Washington quarters
except those in the War Department
which believe they know better than
any one else how to dose out informa-
ton to the German people and what is
a good news diet for the American
people.
For IL years Hitler was able to play
his nefarious game because he controlled
all the news channels in Germany.
Newspapers from foreign lands, particu-
larly Britain and, the United States,
came under the scrutinizing eye of Prop
aganda Minister Goebbels' minions and
as soon as they saw something run
counter to the Nazi ideologies the guilty
foreign publication was banned.
The radio was strictly controlled. 1t
did not suit the Nazis to have the Ger
man people know what the "decrepit
Anglo-Saxon democracy" was doing and
saying. One of the most powerful ele-
ments in the hands of the Nazis was
the strict censorship of news and all
other readable matter.
According to the official announce
ment from the War Department in
Washington, a similar situation hence
forth will prevail in the American-oc-
cupied zones in the Reich. These con-
sist OF Bavaria, Wuertenberg and Baden,
where the Nazi roots were not as deep
as in Prussia and consequently their
inhabitants are more likely to absorb
democracy as it is understood in this
country.
Instead OF giving the Germans them
selves chance to start the indoctrina-
tion OF their own people under strict
surveillance by the American AMG,
they will be given newspapers run by
the Owl. The news from the United
States will be scrutinized carefully bv
the officials of that organization operat-
ing under the AMG and no one here
will know what information concern
ing our mode of life will get through
to the papers published in our occupa
tional area.
The owl has handled foreign broad
casts from the United States to the
outside world for the last three years
and its theological record cannot be
described as perfect. Its broadcasts
were seldom known to the people of
this country-and then only accidentally
and the censorship was often doubtful
For instance. last March S, a broadcast
mentioning the letter written by Senator
Vandenberg to Undersecretary of State
Grew stating that the Yalta agreements
were satisfactory to him provided they
were fully observed. was kept off the
air by the owl. although the letter had
received wide publicity in the news
papers and magazines of this country,
Evening star., 1945-05-14

another. they are blasting japanese air.
fields in order to reduce the japanese
ability to support by air operat tions their
garrison on Okinawa. In all this, the
strategic f1exibility OF air power is very
fully illustrated. And what of Japa-
nese air power?
No doubt American readers become
very tired of being constantly told that
the japanese air force is virtually out
OF business, and the next day reading
that the Japanese have made another
air attack at Okinawa Yet it is true
that the Japanese air force is virtually
out OF business, and it is also true that
1t can be nuisance at Okinawa The
point is that every such statement is
on comparative basis. You compare
the present condition with the object
which the force in question was meant
to achieve. It's job was to guard the
island outposts of Japan's great Pacific
defense system, to keep all danger at a
distance while the Japanese consolidated
their captured empire and made them
selves impregnable.
The japanese Air Force was in very
truth the lifeblood of this BODY of
island defenses, lying thousands of miles
outward from the Japanese home is
lands. But the Japanese Air Force was
not able to do this job. it has been
destroyed piecemeal in the effort, and
it is now incapable Of any offensive ac-
ton at all on the strategic level: it
cannot anticipate any of our attacks,
1t cannot reach out to smash at our
concentrations or interfere with our
movements on q major scale 1t can
only 'Snipe." 1t can only fling suicide
planes against our ships and OCCASION
ally 1t does some damage.
Because at Okinawa we have more
ships closer to Japan than has hitherto
been the case these suicide and other
attacks are doing rather more damage
than heretofore; but it should be recog-
nized that these are sporadic attempts
by dying air force, not rising scale
OF effort by an air force whose power
is growing and waxing stronger.
Thus the blockade phase Of the war
against Japan proceeds, and the Jap
anese know as well as we do that the
assault phsse-the decisive phase-will
follow.
tcopyhsht, ls4S.D
Evening star., 1945-05-14

JERUSALEM.-I have prefaced nv
discussion on the Palestine question
with the preceding two columns on its
power and position in the postwar world
for, without thorough clarification of
the relations among the great powers.
no rational nor realistic approach can
be made 10 the question of the Jews
and Arabs in Palestine and especially
TO the matter OF creating here a Jewish
commonwealth.
II Palestine were an isolated little
country operated as it is under a League
mandate (actually 1t is administered as
British crown colony and without a
government OF its own, although con-
taln1ng some six or seven hundred
thousand Jews. more than half of whom
arrived since 1889, 1t would be a small
matter in practical politics for any first
class power to decide.
For the Jewish commonwealth oues-
ton is entirely matter of power. 1t
involves the British decision to act
against practically the unanimous will
of the Arab population. But it is in
the higher interest of many more state
less or threatened Jewish people to give
the Balfour declaration and therefore
permit Jewish agency, either through
restricted or greatly extended immigra-
ton. to rapidly change the Jewish mi
norlty into majority, and thereby to
create Jewish statehood.
-
To Britain's credit Is the fact that
it voted against moving a single Arab.
But great powers after the last war
have moved around peoples to create
solid ethnographic blocs-Turks and
Greeks, with ancestral roots in certain
places, were moved wholesale, and the
League counted 1t a success, though
some of us who saw it brought a silent
minority report.
In this war the Russians made huge
evacuations and changes inmpopulation
for political reasons and will make more
according to plan. 1t may be, and it is
argued. that Palestine never was an in
dependent state. For centuries before