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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-05-11
YANKS IN PERSIAN
GULF AREA MOVED

WASHINGTON, May 10-R-Ser-
vice troops already have been shift
ed to China from the Persian Gulf
area where they helped supply the
Soviet army, the Army disclosed
today.
A huge truck convoy, command
ed by Col. Paul R. Guthrie of $3.50
Kearney ST. Denver, Colo, made
the 6,OOO-mile trek from the Per-
sian desert to the Running, China,
supply center in what was des-
cribed as record time.
The convoy travelled by sea, rail
and highway. The first leg of the
journey from the Persian desert to
Calcutta, India, was made aboard
ship. From Calcutta the convoy
was carried on railroad cars to
the Ledo terminus of the Stilwell
highway. From there, it rolled I'M
der its own power over the high
way to Running. Every vehicle ar
rived intact.
The movement, it was revealed,
was planned long in advance-even
before the Japs were driven from
North Burma and before the Still
well road was opened.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-05-11
TWO LOCAL MEN
HELD MISSING

Three Wilmington men were in
cluded in the latest Office of War
Information list of missing ano
wounded with two other southeast
ern North Carolina men also on
the list. In all cases next of kin
have been notified.
They are: Robert Wesley Stay
ton, S 1-c, son of James Russell
Slayton, 312 Queen street, missing.
Pvt. Wilbur r. Corbett, son of
Mrs. Bertha P. Corbett, Whining
ton, missing in the European thea
ter Of operations.
Pfc. Johnnie R. Hall, son of Mrs.
Julia w. Hill, Warsaw, missing in
the European theater of operations.
Pfc. Harvey A. Prevatte, son of
Jasper Prevatte, Lumberton,
wounded in the European theater
Of operations.
Second 1t. George G. Van Dyke,
husband Of Mrs. Thelma M. Van
Dyke, 801 Central Boulevard, Sun
set Park, wounded in the European
theater of operations.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-05-11
POLISH QUESTION
RAISED BY EDEN

o.n FRANCISCO, May 103R-
,s SnJ Foreign Secretary Anthony
Bllsr''s said today the Is Polish lead
Luen crested by Russia included
ers .rlv all the leading figures of
.h ns''I Polish underground move
ment. o,o .rrested ha said
ma nersons the British thought
s Jr be included in a new Dem
oc enesking to a jam-packed news
, 1t Eden also reviewed the
' eulr Of the United Nations toward
wo oatino a world security organi-
eat;on and predicted that the prob
1 zs,,'o Of fitting in regional arrange
ls san+s would be worked out, al
though 81 don't yet see a solu-
tor" o,,,+;o, sho,,,a
No b1lilt upon the principle that
w. ureoional pacts are extremely val
uahIe in strengthening a world or
a ssnization, but regional pacts can
not n replace it,
''' Among the big power amend
,,ents TO the Dumbarton Oaks plan
IN which conference committees
uow are moving forward, Eden
dressed especially one which he
cid 90 would give the proposed world
. . council authority to def
initely recommend how dispute
threatening the peace can be settl-
ID and no great power can by its
veto prevent such recommended
ton being made
Dapper and smiling, Eden open
sd the conference at noon (PWT) !
nv saving that the British delega-
ton had sometimes wished very |
mich in the last day or two to be
At home, especially in London, be-
cause of what that battered cap
hal has experienced in the way of
war destruction.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-05-11
GENERALIZATION
SCCtE FOR ARMY

WASHINGTON, May TO- Up -
Here's how J. I. Joe can figure
his eligibility for discharge under
the Army's point system.
Suppose he's been in the Army
81 months. He gets So points I'M
DER service credit.
For ID months he's been over
seas and that adds another IS
points to his score.
He's won the Silver Star and
me Purple Heart and has taken
part in three major campaigns
recognized officially with battle
stars. Each of those awards is
worth five points, so he gets an
other Is points.
Back home he has a five year
Old daughter. She's worth u
points, since she's under 10.
30, striking a balance, the sol
aler gets total score of 81 points.
II takes only IS points to qualify
LOT release, so he can count on
gong home unless he's an excep-
uohally skilled man for whom no
replacement can be found immedi-
s!eiy. But ne has the army's as
sufance that every effort will be
i n: 10 obtain replacement for
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-05-11

1t appears to be, except for one
minute, the time used by the Rus
SLAMS.
The cease fire order, stipulated
in the articles of capitulation sign
ed by Germany and the Allies,
hecame effective at Sol pm.
EWT.
While records here designate
the precise time at one minute
y ahf, Marshal Stain, in
his recent address announcing vic
tory, referred to the order as be-
ing effective at ''240O hours" This
would be precisely midnight, Eu-
ropean time.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-05-11
Historians May Fix
End OF European War
May 7, Sol P. NJ.

WASHINGTON, May 10 u
Historians probably will fix the
time at which the European war
ended at one minute after mid
night, European time, May 8, or
Sol pm, Eastern War Time,
May Z. That is the time used so
far in War Department records
and probably will be recorded for
the department historical files.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-05-11
Savannah River Bill
Will Be Introduced

WASHINGTON. May 10. -Wp-
Ildlfman John H. Overton, D.,
Ia, OF Senate Commerce SUBJ
s solillhlttee on flood control, an.
n n1unced today that the committee
'. hlil start hearings June 10 on a bill
authority.
r; .he OH was introduced by Sens.
p rr,nafd B. Russell, D., Ca, and
Dofnet r. Maybank, D., S. C..
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-05-11
WEIRD LAND NOW PARK

yErr o,v LAND NOW PARK
pAn nnILoWSTONE NATIONAL
n, n"A, May lo-W.D-This beauti.
=, n naional park was first known
sh;. .ol1er's He'll because the first
No. e. man to enter what is now
nlor,pp; PARK returned from the ex-
' 'we;ra,, with wild tales of the
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-05-11

BUY WAR BONDS AND STAMPS
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-01-24
NO. 1850.
What Kind of q Dies Committee

There are plenty of subversve activities in America which con-
stiute a threat to democratic institutions. Having them officially ex-
posed to public inspection would serve a good purpose. But w are very
suspicious of the move made by Congressman Joseph e. Rankin at the
opening session of the 10th Congress to make the Dies Committee
permanent. OF all the men left in the House since the departure of
old committee from its tomb.
What we need is a group that will drag into the light all sorts of
totalitarian Vaccinations, all kinds of organized dsloyalty to our
democratic ways. 1t should cover all the different brands-fascism,
job it was set up to do 1t had no sense of responsibility and only the
vaguest notions of what constitutes evidence. Its laundering publicity
stunts were chiefly directed against trade unions and the New Deal
forces. It's methods were SO low-down that the public was inclined to
think well of its victims, whether they we're liberals, Socialists, Com
nunists or fasciss. Some of the worst elements in the country were
the benefciaries of this curiously refracted credit.
The Rankin motion to reeStabish the Committee to Investigate
un-American Activities o a permanent basis was passed by the old
combination of pol-tax Democrats and reacdonary Republicans. Ii
these elements in the House succeed in, their determination to dictate
the makeup of the new group, we shall have another squad of loud
mouthed witch hunters. Rankins recent speech showed that he is
scared. He scents a liberal plot to pack the committee with progressive
legislators who have brains and sense. In the meantime, we shall wait
and see what we shall see.
The New Leader does not object to an investigating committee
which will combat all totalitarian agencies-but we do object to a COM
miteee which will aid reaction by snnearng liberals, trade unonists
and Socialists, in one inclusive amalgam with Communicable New
Leader.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-01-24
RUSSIAN

Russian representatives here
learn quickly about the American
way" SO the Soviet Union this year
will be richer by a cool quarter of
a million dollars of advertising
from some of the biggest of the
big business corporations in Amer
lea. Amtorg, Soviet trading mono
poly, is preparing; a catalog of
American machinery firms and is
charging 5000 a page. The catalog
will III more than LOO pages in
two volumes. There will be be-
tween 700 and 800 individual adj
vertisers,' reports the Wall Street
Journal, constituting a blue book
of Americas heavy industries.
Some companies will use Is to 20
pages"
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-01-24
What Is Back of Labor Draft Scheme?
Have IF. DIS" Lieutenonts FoiIed to Give Him the
Facts, or Is He Attempting to Divert Public
Thinking From Other Issues?

The Presidents demand for legislation drafting workers for private
profit IS hard to explain, except on one of two premises:
Either the Chief Executives subordinates have not supplied him
With accurate information concerning the manpower situation in the
war plants; or the President is using this highly controversial draft
suggestion to shift public thinking from more embarrassing problems
People are asking for explanations concerning the break through"
on the Western Front and Hanson Baldwin, military expert of the New
York Times" an ardently pro-Roosevelt publication, is calling on Con-
to Immediately investigate the charge that the arms our men are
using in Europe are inferior to those Of the Germans.
why, at this stage of the war, are American tanks inferior to the
Baldwin demands. THAT they r inferior the fighting in
Normandy showed. In the recent battles in the Ardennes it was again
emphaticaly demonstrated.
This has been denied, explained away and hushed up, but the men
who direct our tanks against much heavier, better armored and more
powerfully gunned German monsters, know the truth"
Baldwin does not stop with tanks. He adds anti-tank guns, the
technique Of mines and mining, self-propeued guns and the Jet plane.
There is no lack of American inventive genius, n O lack of en-
fluffy of red tap" Baldwin says, There 81 over organization and there
IS lack of clear directive vision"
BY no stretch of the imagination can the American workers be
blamed for that lamentabe situation. They have made tanks and other
weapons of war according to the blueprnts laid before them by the
Army. They have made o much and sc many in every category that
we are superior to the Germans in quantity, but not in quality. At
least that is Badwins contention.
In justifying his draft proposal President Roosevelt emphasizes
that our boys on the fighting lines are entitled to the best we can give
them. Every American worker will agree to that, and that's exactly
what the American worker has been giving them Listen to what
General Marshall said only a few weeks ago.
You te workers. have made possible the overwhelming super
ionty in supplies and equipment that has enabled our armies and those
of our Allies to wrest the initiative from the enemy in every theater
of war;
No one will question that statement Yet President Roosevelt con-
tends that the men and women who have done his marvellous job must
be drafted in order to complete the task. In all his long message he
doesn't submit a single figure to sustain that conclusion-Labor.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-01-24
Peace Prophesies That Went Sour

VINO predicted the war in Europe would end in 1914? Practically
everybody. For instance:
Gen. Eisenhower: His late December, 1943, forecast was: 1--WE will
WIN tn European war in 1914" In August, he said: "The Nazis will be
President Roosevelt: In a message in January to the French Com
mittee in North Africa: 1894 will be the year of victory" latter, he
refused to prophesy.
Winston Churchill: In June, THE months of this summer NAV
bring full success to the cause of freedom" Later he set the date after
Christmas, then after next Easter, and finally made the indefinite pre-
fiction OF extremely heavy fighting for a good long time"
Gen. Arnold, on Feb. ID, 1943: II have a appointment in Berlin
a year from today"
Adm. King: THE defeat of Germany in 1914 may be expected"
Gen. Montgomery, last july: II believe that is quite likely-out
of the war this year"
Gen. Chennaut, in July: 81 think Germany will be defeated within
this year"
Gen. Clark, in January: I'VE are confident that 1914 will see us
victorious in Europe"
Sun Fo, Chinese leader, last January: Germany will be knocked
out between the spring and summer of this year"
Herbert Hoover, on Nov. 6, 1943: Certainly we are now in the
last stages of the war"
Senator McKeIer of Tennessee, in July "The Red Army will be
Representative May of Kentucky, in July Germany will cap
itulate by Dec. L."
War Planners: Chairman Woodrum of the House Postwar Military
Policy Committee said on Aug. 25 that the Army tentatively" looked
to Oct. as the date for the end of the European war. A London dis
patch of Sept. 13 said American wal planning chiefs had set Oct. 81 as
the tentative "outSde" date.
But as the largest headlines are still showing every day, the Ger
mans didn't quit in 1914. The Lufwaffe didn't fold up, man power
develop, Hitler didn't run out of oil and gasoline, the oIdline militia
rias didn't force the Nazis to caphulate, nor did any of the prophets
other favorite dreams materalize.
The failure of the clairvoyants, high-ranking one and all, should
warn the home front to throw away its false optimism and buckle
down to the job still facing us all in 1945-The ST. Louis Post Dispatch
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-01-24
The Price Of 90, 100000 Jobs

The New York Times thinks that President RooseveIts announced
objective of 100000 jobs is an impractical dream.
So do we-f the capitalist private-proft system is permitted to
front. .G2#
After this war is over jobs for everybody will be an impossibiity
unless -
l Industry is sOciaiZed and operated for the sole purpose of sup
plying abundance and leisure to the people.
2 The government is used Is a emergency reservoir into which
private industrys human SURPRISES can be dumped and used.
There is abundant evidence that the second device will be tried to
channel private inoustrys surplus humans out of normal industry and
into some form of government service when the war no longer is here
to do it, For one thing, it is what was done before the war - in a
relatively clumsy manner. Another forecast of the same thing is the
eagerness of President Roosevelt to foist a universal service" Oabor
That way some measure of economic security may be established
for 60O0O,00O American workers. But that way American workers
will be forced to pay for their bread by accepting a type of state cap
italisnn that, in other nations, is described as fascism.
There is only one way in which the workers of any nation can be
both secure AND free. That way is by sacrificing the private profit
and by producing to meet human needs instead of profit demands. And
even specialization will not bring freedom unless it is accomplished by
the masses. If the profittakers are forced to soGalize they will make
workers, IS well as wheelbarrows, the tools of a al-powerfull state.
No, we can't compromise this time. Capitalist freedom means the
freedom to hire and fire for owners and the freedom to work or be
jobess for workers. Socialist freedom means democratic management
Of socialized industry under a plan which will provide a useful task
for everybody. And no country will be able to maintain a little of each
for very long-Reading Labor Advocate.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-01-24
TEACHERS NEED
BETTER PAY

Low salaries in the teaching
profession - which is one Of the
worst paid of all the white collar"
occupants-have their evil effects
not only on the families of the
teachers but also on the children
of the entire nation.
AS conditions in education and
in the teaching profession stand
today, our children are being rob-
bed in huge areas of the nation of
the right to an adequate and good
education. Once lost, this can
never be replaced.
For several years now educators
and unions have been trying to get
Congress to pass a Federal aid to
education bill, appropriating some
$500, coo, 900 to raise salaries from
sub-standard levels and to improve
school facilities.
Opponents of the bill have con-
tended that this means Federal
control Of education, which they
picture as something ominous.
Actually no Federal control" is
contemplated. The funds in the
bill will be administered by the
local educational systems.
Sub-standard wages for teach
ers and lack of funds for schools
are working i~ncalculable harm to
means to end much of this damage
lies at hand in the bill just offered
in Congress. 1t should have the
support of every parent and every
American interested in our coun-
try's future. clio News.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-01-24
SAVING LIVES OF
MOTHERS, CHILDREN,
is SURVEYS AIM

Proper medical facilities for all
mothers and children in America
is the purpose of a proposed ma
tion-Wide survey endorsed by the
advisory committee of the Child
ren's Bureau of the Labor Dept.
The bureaus figures show that
zoo, 600 babies are born each year
in the United States without a
physician in attendance and that
half of the mothers who died in
childbirth could be saved if they
had medical care.
However, the survey would not
confine itself to maternity care,
but it is proposed to develop for
each State such figures as dis
tribution of children in urban and
rural areas; status of public health
and pediatric nursing; status of
free social services, and of school
health services.
A plan evolved from the survey
would likely became part of the
overall health center program re-
commended by the Pepper sub
committee on wartime health and
education.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-01-24
A TIP FOR @. P. A.
CHIEFTAINS

A reader makes a worthwhile
suggestion: Il e by the papers
that our army chiefs are going
after the black marketeers and the
men who have stolen government
supplies on the European fronts.
Four soldiers have been sentenced
to prison for 40 or SO years. Why
isn't this a good example for the
authorities here at home? LABOR
has printed many stories telling
how rich industrialists have rob-
bed Uncle Sam of millions. They
weren't sent to prison. In most in
stances, the judges showed a dis
position to kiss them and wound
up by giving them a gentle pat on
the wrist"
Probably the explanation is that
the army on the Italian and French
fronts doesn't recognize influence
while on the home front the rich
and powerful appear to be able to
get away with murder. Labor.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-01-24
FAVORITISM TO BIG
CHEATERS IS REBUKED
BY lRATE D

PHILADELPHIA. in this
court you'll not find one law for
the high and mighty and another
for the humble"
So declaring, Federal Judge
Harry E. Kalodner proceeded to
read the riot act" to officials of
the Office of Price Administration
for showing faVoritism in dealing
with rationing and price ceiling
violaters.
The judge was angry, and he
made no attempt to conceal his
feelings. His verbal castigation of
the o. P. A. men was provoked
when TREY asked him to send to
jail the owner of a small eating
place who had pleaded guilty to
selling 80 food items above cell
ing prices.
Judge Kalodner recalled that re-
Gently the o. P. A. had hailed be-
fore him on similar charges the
Bellevue-Stratford, the Barcley,
Henri's and other swank hotels
and restaurants, and added:
in those cases you were salts
fled with injunctions, but nov you
want me to send this man to jail.
/ won't send him to Jail when 9TH
ers can go, free by signing a piece
of paper"
The judge fined the little restau-
rant owner $500 and placed him
on probation for a year.
But let me warn restaurant
men not to take any comfort from
what l have done today" the judge
declared. Il want you to know
you stand a good chance of going
to Jail, no matter how prominent
| you may be. All offenders look
alike in this court"
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-01-24
M0RE,BILuoNs FOR "BtG BUSINESS"

big Business is doing very well. The Securities and Exchange
Commission reports that 1,271 of the leading corporations added $685.
100000 to their working capital in the first six months of last year.
They did somewhat better in 1912 and 1913, but in 1910 and 1871 the
annual increase was only $512,O 600 900.
For the four and one-half years from December, 1899, to June sc,
1914, these same corporations increased their working capital by &c.
34, 0O0, 900. The total is now ST., 49, 10000.
These are astronomical figures. The human mind cannot grasp
their significance. Yet they constitute just nj straw revealing the
tremendous prosperity of big Business during these days of tears
and sweat and blood"
In addition there are other assets and tax credits and other myS
teries of expert accounting which give big Business 40 or SO billions,
or maybe more. Unfortunately, many of the beneficiaries of this uneX-
ampled prosperity loudly protest that American workers should be
provided with postwar nest eggs" too.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-01-24

The survey will be made by the
American Academy of Pediatrics
in cooperation with the bureau
and the u. S. Public Health Serv-
ice.
DR.. Martha Elliot, associate
chief of the bureau, announced
that the advisory committee had
endorsed the survey.
The committee consists of 70
leading physicians and profession
al workers with the following
chairman: DR.. Nicholson j. East
man, professor of obstetrics at the
School of Medicine, John Hopkins
Univ, and DR.. Henry F. Helmholz,
chief of the pediatric dept. of Mayo
Clinic, Rochester, Mimi.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-01-24
OFFICE WORKERS
GET init CHARTER

Observation-Disclosures that this
is an historic occasion in labor his
tory" AFL President VIM. Green
presented an international union
charter here to the first conven-
ton of the newly formed Office
Employees International Union.
More than a hundred delegates,
representing $4,000 workers or
ganized into $50 local unions
throughout the country, in
attendance at the convention.
You are the pioneers in the
establishment of this union" Mr..
Green told them, "just as the early
pioneers established our country
on this continent. This is not
merely an incident in your life. 1t
is a great historic event, a great
experience.
AT this convention we are
launching a movement among the
white collar workers of the coun-
try which will mean a new life for
many of them and higher stan
dards of living"
The charter was accepted in be-
half of the union by j. Howard
Hicks, who served as president of
the International Council of Office
Employees Union which set the
foundation for the international
union.
Mr.. Green predicted that the
union can become the largest
single trade union in the world if
it succeeds in organizing eligible
workers.
! AFL Organization Director Frank
Fenton is presiding over the con-
vention pending the adoption of a
constitution and the election oil
officers.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-01-24
Expressing Patriotism

Two women have been getting publicity in the newspapers lately.
The first is said to live in ST Joseph, Mo, and is reported to have Slam
med a custard pie in the face of another who said she didn't care how
long the wa lasted because she was making good money" A G. L. in
France sent a dollar to the ST. Joseph Chamber of Commerce for the
patriotic pie HEAVIER. The chamber of commerce, however, cannot find
her. The fact is that she does not exist, and the story is just a variation
of a yarn printed in almost every war work center.
The woman whose brand of patriotism we admire more is Mrs.
Mary Slachaczynski, a scrubwonan in the La Sale Street railroad
station in Chicago. Mrs. S. has recently been going off to school in the
morning to study English and United States history. Finally, she felt
ready to become a United States citizen. When asked if she felt she was
worthy of citizenship, Mrs. S. opened her purse and showed pictures of
her two sons, me in France, the other in the Pacific; her Red Cross
went off to her scrub brush and pail. There is more than one way, it
seems, of expressing patriotic fervor. Christian Science Monitor.