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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-04-19
Shores Names
.Harbor Master
Miller to Aid
Rescue Work

ST. CLAIR SHORES - Will
liam c. Miller, on Tuesday eve
ming, was officially named mu-
nicipal harbor-master at the
regular meeting of the village
commission.
In effect, designation Of Mil
Ter, proprietor of marine
equipment firm and harbor.
means that his facilities and
knowledge of lake conditions
will be available to Police Chief
Harvey Champine.
Miller's functions will center
about rescue work and marine
regulations coming within the
scope of local authorities.
Throughout past years occa-
sional requirements for rescue
equipment and other related
lake police activities have de-
manded prompt action and it
was the expressed hope of viii
lage commissioners, in appoint
ing harbor- master, that the
most thorough safeguards pos
sib lmeay be provided.
Small boats, particularly, have
given officials need for swift
rescue equipment, during recent
years with a number of lake
tragedies stemming from sud-
den squalls and inexperienced
operators of pleasure craft.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-04-19
The Little Flower Just Can't
Avoid Grabbing the Headlines

| Guardia's career. Here are some
of the disturbances he has Gre
ated since New Years Day:
The curfew row has overlap
ped Fiorello's attempt to get the
Navy to send Chief Pharmacists
Mate Frederick Broks back to
Italy TO stand trial for allegedly
seducing a girl there.
simultaneously, through Chief
Magistrate Henry Curran, he was
laying on the shelf, by reserve
assignment, magistrate of his
own appointment who offended
by being willing TO run against
the Mayor if the Little Flower
seeks fourth term in Novem-
Der.
When these scraps began he
was just losing a fight to take
the licensing and policing of
New York's dogs away from the
Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty of Animals.
At the same time his License
Commissioner was closing q the
atrical production. Trio" that
he considered lewd and lasciv-
ious. He did it not by censor
ing, for which he had no author
ity, or by preferring charge in
court, but by refusing to trans
fer the theater's license until it
tossed Trio into the streets.
Meanwhile. by fiat, the May
or ordered the city's restaurants
to serve no meat on Tuesdays
or Fridays. and then, for good
measure, directed that Monday
meals be made from leftovers.
To make it harder for restau-
rants and housewives to ignore
this last suggestion, he arranged
to have meat markets closed on
Mondays.
Intermingled with these things
have been sporadic blasts at the
OPA; at theater ticket brokers
LaGuardia tried once to forbid
them to handle any hit shows);
at egg dealers; at meat dealers;
and all the time at "tin-horn
sports" meaning gamblers all
the way from basketball bribers
to church bingo operators and
two service men who made q
personal bet on a fight.
! But the surfew incident runs
into another consideration-the
long, close, affectionate cooper
alton between Mayor LaGuardia
and the man who, he says, is the
greatest figure this earth has
seen since Jesus Christ - Pres
ident Roosevelt.
FDR OPPOSES MAYOR
There are hints that at last
the President has decided to OPP
pose the Mayor if the latter also
should seek a fourth term. There
are two schools of thought as to
how the curfew defiance hits into
that situation. One is that, with
out Roosevelt support, LaGuar-
dia will need every vote he can
get, and hopes to gain some by
adding an hour to night club
time. The other Is that Fiorello
is warning his friend, by innu-
endo: IF you're through cooper
ating with me, I can spike your
projects. too"
Or, If the President really
hasn't decided yet whether or
not to help the Mayor in the
coming election, there are those
who wonder if this DISPUTE
proves how truthful Fiorello was
when he remarked, not long
since:
when I make a mistake, ]
make a beaut."
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-04-19

RANGER, Tex.-W.H-Looks
as il the Germans thought
Bud" Russell, former agent for
the Texas Penitentiary System,
was coming after them. Gordon
Taylor, with the Army in Ger
many wrote home that he found
a magazine clipping with Rus
sells photograph among effects
of q German prisoner Of war.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-07-13
Letters to The Star
Wants Stunters TO Go Elsewhere
for Their Antics
To the Editor Of The star:

To the Editor Of The Star:
Since the slight, and I use the word
loosely, airplane mishap out in Bethesda
and since the authorities who are Sup
posed to have command over these
pilots seem to have no control over
them, 1t appears to be up to civilians
to try to correct situation that easily
could be catastrophe.
AS you no doubt recall, two Navy
planes were playing tag with one an
other directly over the heart of the
shopping district in Bethesda. The one
that was st" got tagged, and the result
was that a plane crashed not over 200
feet from the busiest intersection in
town. No one was killed, but scores
could have been.
Stunt flying has come to be part of
our everyday life in an otherwise peace
full community. About four weeks ago
my 2h -year-old son and I decided to
take a walk around the block, when
suddenly out of the blue appeared one
Of our daily visitors. He swooped down
SO close to our roof that my boy became
so frightened he shook like leaf AS
soon as my heart went back to its normal
position called the Bureau of Civil
Aeronautics to register complaint.
If our Government cannot afford a
place for these air antics, I for one will
be glad to contribute to such a fund.
1t evidently takes very little space to
flirt with the angels for no sooner had
our roof-scraping friend passed over
than he was back again-only the second
time he came closer than the initial
attempt.
see no reason why we have to live
in constant fear Of these stunt flyers,
crossing our fingers and praying that
they miss again today. How about to-
morrow? I don't know how the rest
Of my fellow Bethesdians feel, but so
far as I'm concerned, If these boys must
play tag I'd prefer they do it somewhere
else. MRS. SYDNEY HARTFORD.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-07-13
The Conference Library
From the Manchester Guardian.

from tne Manchester GuAlulan.
Anotable feature of the San Francisco
Conference which has been conspicu-
ously absent from previous conventions
held In American cities has been the
provision Of valuable reference library
for the use Of delegates. A conference
of this kind obviously makes a constant
demand for technical information which
would be of little interest to an assembly
of party politicians mainly concerned
with the nomination of candidate for
the presidency. This collection has been
chosen by an official Of the Library of
Congress, who has drawn his material
from the archives Of the University of
California, Stanford University and
Mills College, as we'll as from the Hoover
war library and the San Francisco pub
lie library. The Library of Congress has
itself contributed file of the New York
Times since 1916. The collection also
includes a complete set of the publica-
tions of the League of Nations and all
available documents relating to the pre-
liminary conferences that have led UP to
the present meeting In fact, this unique
library has supplied answers to almost
every conceivable question about historic
cal precedents, treaties, mandates, boun-
diaries, and other matters Of interna-
tional Law.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-07-13
Casualty Lists

The latest announcement of Amer
lean combat casualties-the total
now is 1,049, 104-serves as a grim
reminder, If 1t be necessary to re-
mind any one, that this war is taking
heavy toll Of the men who have
been sent out to fight for this
country, and that those of us who
remain in supporting roles at home
cannot ease up in any respect for
even the briefest period of time.
During the past week the casualty
total was increased by 12,167. These
men were killed or wounded or
captured in the Pacific, and If the
war there were to go on for a year
with casualties running at the same
rate we would have to add another
$4,000 names to the list. All of us
hope, of course, that no such toll
will be taken, but the one way and
the only way to hasten the end of
the war and hold casualties to
minimum is to permit nothing to
interfere with providing the greatest
possible support to our combat
forces. Then 1t will be possible for
them to apply constantly increasing
pressure against the japanese, to
keep them continually off balance
and deny them any opportunity to
pause and consolidate their position.
For the benefit of those who are
inclined to minimize the contribu-
ton which some of our Allies have
made to the conduct of the war, it
might be pointed out that the British
have just announced their latest
casualty totals. In all, the British
have sustained 1927, 1874 casualties.
Nor have these losses come primarily
from the dominions, as is sometimes
claimed by thoughtless Americans.
The breakdown is as follows: United
Kingdom, 750,338; Canada, 101 ,o0s;
Australia, s2,2l1; New Zealand,
3s,7S3; South Africa, $685. India,
177,315, and from the colonies, 36,376.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-07-13

men suffered during some of his past
tits with us.
Whatever may be behind the
present apparent GOODNESS. and
whoever may be to blame for it, the
situation is regrettable. France
cannot afford to be on the outs
with us. Nor can we afford, for
that matter. to be on the outs with
Franco country vitality important
to the reconstruction of Western
Europe. The sooner our relations
improve, the better 1t will be for all
parties concerned. Personalities,
pique, fancied Sights ought not to
be allowed to aggravate matters.
What counts most is that France
and the United States should remain
the same good friends now and in
the years to come as they have been
in the long past.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-07-13
Report From Belgrade
By Netcbold Noyes, Jr,
star war Correspondent.

some very interesting and politically
far-reaching results.
Yugoslavia Is, Of course, a land In
which the agrariah side OF the economy,
engaging the efforts of the preponderate
peasant population, is of great deal
more general Importance than the In
dustrial side.
The agrarian side of the economy
seems to be coming in for Its share of
attention, too. In the Voivodina, the
government has acquired largestracts of
rich farmland as a result of confiscation
proceedings. These areas are now being
intensely and successfully cultivated by
peasants working under government
direction.
Whether this development represents
a move toward collective or state farm
ing on the Russian pattern is matter
Of speculation. The government Is
sensitive to any suggestion that 1t does.
1t Is hard to say why Tito's men
should be so anxious to deny the exist
ence Of what looks to most neutral OBJ
servers like an obvious tendency toward
collectivism.
One thing, however, seems clear to
those who have been watching this thing
for some time; namely, that within the
government -- even among the eager
young Communists of the inner circle
there is constant argument in progress
between those who believe they are
going too far and too fast down the
road to collectivism and those who do
not believe they are going far and fast
enough. If this Is true. current pro-
testations to the effect that economic
liberalism is the order of the day may
mean that at present the men who be-
iieve the government has gone too far
and too fast have the upper hand; that,
as one observer put it, having looked
over it's shoulder and found nobody
behind it. the government is now wait
ing for the public to catch up"
4
One or two onlookers have a more
cynical answer to the riddle of why this
regime which carries such big stick
speaks softly at present when discussing
economics. According to them 1t is not
impossible that, having scared the pants
off whatever private enterprise and
capital still exist, the government now
hopes to lure them into putting their
pants back on and coming out into the
open again.
There is always the possibility, too,
that the Communists, however eager,
may have discovered that the economic
reconstruction of the country cannot
be accomplished without the motive
power of private enterprise.
1t seems highly probable, finally, that
a good deal of the official talk about
relying on private enterprise to resurrect
the country may be for the benefit Of
public opinion in the United States and
Britain. For the Belgrade government
knows that foreign money, either in
the form of government loans or private
investment or both, may make lot of
difference to Yugoslavia in the days that
lie ahead.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-07-13
On Fighting for Freedom

To the Editor of The Star:
Commenting on observations made
by Maj. George Fielding Eliot concern
ing Senegalese troops in the Levant,
Mason T. White remarks that, since he
himself is of African blood. he per-
sonally resents seeing Africans fight to
free Asiatics.
Unless the history books deceive us,
hundreds of thousands of Americans
fought on this continent-an appalling
number of them dying-to free men,
women and children of African blood.
Was this wrong in principle?
If not, why should any one resent see
ing Africans fight to liberate peoples of
other races? Rather, should not this
incline those of African descent to fight
in turn to free other oppressed peoples?
But where are Africans fighting to
free Asiatics? The communication re-
ferred to contains the first and only in
timation have seen that African troops
are in Syrian garrisons for the purpose
of freeing the Syrians The latter seem
to have an entirely different view of the
situation. Apparently, your correspond
ent has not thought the matter out.
j. r. M.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-07-13

They must govern unanimously by de-
cree, without a constitution to which
to refer. I think we can safely predict
that under such conditions decisions
will be postponed and the country will
be run by the bureaucracy.
But III, at the same time, the four
armies, except for such unanimous d.
receives, are each supreme in a differ
emit zone, four different bureaucracies
will pursue four different policies.
The other suggestion - that Berlin
be governed by the four commanders
serving in rotation = is hair-raising
How long is each to serve? If each is
to be replaced every few months, no
authority can be created, for the Ger
mans will speculate on every successor
If each Is to serve for a year or more,
then the first will set the policy which
his successor must follower create
a revolution.
The only workable thing that can
possibly be done is mutually to pick
central strictly provisional government
Of Germans as widely comprehensive
as possible, and give it authority under
the control of the four, until condi-
tons permit genuinely representative
government TO be formed by popular
procedures.
Even under a rule of force, reason
must prevail, II any order is to prevail.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-07-13
Heart of Summer

July is the heart of SUMNER
turning point in the plodding, in
exorable treadmill of the seasons.
The old timers who have half
century of weather lore in their
memories are fond of issuing dog
matte statements to the effect that
we no longer have any spring; we
simply go from late winter into
the heat of midsummer.
Summer is the fruition of spring.
The blowing and planting and most
of the cultivating is done. Corn is
knee high and early in the month
the farmer puts the wing shovels
on his cultivators and "lays by" the
maize to develop. On hot. humid
quiet night when the dew is falling
heavily over the land the country
man believes he can hear the corn
grow. In the night pastures the cows
Craze and rest in alternate periods
and the faint tinkle of old Butter
cups bell comes across the fields to
the farmhouse porch.
There is spirit of quiet brooding
over the land. In the early morn,
as a man goes to the barn with the
milk pals over his arms, there is
a miniature symphony of soft music.
Not an exuberant, full orchestra as
In May. a. subdued orchestration as
the song sparrows, robins and war
blers welcome new day. At high
noon the full heat of the summer
sun pours down on the earth and
the countryside is quiet except for
the occasional call Of bob-white
or the long, melancholy moo of a
cow in the pasture-lonesome for
her calf in the dim GOODNESS of the
big barn.
In the evening the world stirs to
life. Robins and catbirds call from
the orchard. A cock pheasant sends
his hoarse challenge from the
brushy ravine. Chimney swifts
swoop and circle through the dusk
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-07-13
Necessary Controls
From the London Times.


The national emergency is not over
Until Japan is defeated and Britain's
transition from war to the tasks Of
peace has been effected in orderly
fsshion there will still be need Of state
planning II imitation and chaos are to be
avoided Ministers of all parties have
made it plain that in the years immedi-
ately ahead the demand for wholesale
and indiscriminate abandonment Of
government control will be as sense
less as the demand for its unconditional
retention in every particular. The gov
eminent are rightly pursuing an en-
pirical middle course. They have de-
cided that, If emergency powers are
to be used during the period of tram
sition for purposes not directly con-
nected with the war against Japan, they
should have the explicit approval of
Parliament. The object of the Sup
plies and Services transitional Powers)
Bill is to enable the government during
the next two years to apply certain
existing defence regulations for securing
at fair prices a sufficiency and an
equitable distribution of supplies and
services essential to the well-being Of
the community" for easing "the read
justment Of industry and commerce to
the requirements of the community in
time Of peace" and for aiding in the
relief and restoration of countries
plunged into grave distress by the war.
The bin permits the government, by
order-in-cou to apply to these new
and necessary ends all the more i'm
portant defence regulations governing
the control of manpower. industry,
transport and trade, to the requisition-
ing of property, the rationing OF sup
plies, and the control of prices.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-07-13

fThis is the fifth OF a series OF articles
on Yugoslapid. The strth tDiu appear
tomorrow
ROME (By Air Courier .--Yugoslay
newspapers recently carried little item
to the effect that the owners of a to-
bacco factory in Skoplje, without any
prompting at all, had turned over to
the government their entire plant and
business.
For outsiders, to whom such behavior
seemed hardly what one would expect
of the economic man, this bare an
nouncement had that tone of abrupt
mystery which characterizes the New
Yorker magazines most fascinating
news story of the week"
Those who had been watching eco
nonic trends in the new Yugoslavia,
however, we're not surprised. To them
Story-merely modern variant OF the
old saw, you can't fire me. quit!"
With every breath 1t draws, the Yugo-
slav government assures the world that
1t is friendly to private enterprise and
has no intention of taking over the
country's industry or its general pro-
QuCIlOIldl dIQ ldClAItlCos
It has, however, gone long way
toward doing just that. The government
explains that Yugoslavia's movement in
the direction of economic statism" re-
suits solely from the temporary neces-
stiles of the economic situation and is
not a matter of design. Neutral OBJ
servers with whom ! talked during my
recent visit to Belgrade have their
doubts. At any rate. the present trend
is unmistakable.
1t Is trend which is, however, ex-
ceedingly hard to document. So far as I
can learn, no one, with the possible
exception of few members of the inner
governmental circle, knows how far the
thing has gone In terms Of statistics.
Belgrade newspapers contain almost
daily reports of another concern being
gathered into the fold-and one can
add them up ana discover, for example,
that virtually the entire local textile
industry has succumbed-but the over
all picture remains indistinct.
Except in the unusual case of the
Skoplje tobacco factory, the govern
ment has generally proceeded to take
over industrial concerns only in cases
where the ownership has been con-
victed of collaboration with the enemy
or of having engaged in economic sab
otage or speculation contrary to the
national interest.
But since the mere fact that con-
Germ continued to operate during the
German occupation may prove sufficient
evidence to convict the ownership of
collaboration, and since the laws are so
drawn up and so interpreted that the
terms sabotage" and Speculation"
can mean practically anything, 1t is not
surprising that while engaged in a
laudable punishment of wrong doors
the government can, on the SIDE achieve
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-07-13
How Do We Stand Ii?
Toronto Globe and Mail.

From the Toronto Globe and Mail.
1t is truism that urban life is abb
normal. Life is, as 1t we're, pitched at
the city dweller in unmanageabls
chunks. with which he is unable to
build wall to protect himself, or
house to live in. His emotions are slim
ulated into Inconsistencies by contin-
ual sensation. His intellectual integrity
is debauched by manipulated headlines.
His entertainment is mass-produced and
distributed. The radio blats and
blares at him all day long. The roar
of Thousand factories, the tinkle of
the adding machine and the cash reg
lister beat remorselessly down on what
little Of his creative soul may still sur
vive. In sheer desperation he goes along
with the crowd, hopelessly looking for a
little peace in conformity, asking only
not to have to think. 1t Is rare in
diyidual indeed who has the viii or the
means to surmount the soul-destroying
pressure of urban life.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-07-13
Commends MIR. Lawrence

Commends MIR. Lawrence
To the Editor Of The Star:
In recent issue of The Star ap-
peared letter from one Chui Chun-mui
criticizing David Lawrence for being
concerned about the appalling number
of casualties in Okinawa and his sug-
gestion that inquiry be started to see II
mistakes have been made In that cam
paign which caused unnecessary waste
of life.
Mr.. Lawrence is right. And I will
venture to say that the great majority
of American people viii agree with him.
especially the relatives OF those who
are out there doing the fighting and the
dying. Unnecessary waste of life is
criminal And how shall we determine
whether mistakes have been made If we
do not make an examination and bring
the facts to light? We learn by our
mistakes; that Is if we have the sense 10
admit we have made mistakes and not
do as Chui Chun-mui would have us
do-cover them up and not look at them.
More power to David Lawrence
L. F. M.