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addition later of extra rooms without
spelling the architecture.
This idea Is good, and architects are
suggesting that such designs will trend
toward the New England Colonial, which
can ramble, or the international modern,
which, since 1t is not stabilized, can be
anything. After all, something went
out Of life when the Victorian house
went out of style. In the past century,
people started with houses which could
be extended In almost any direction.
But as people got suburban minded, they
proceeded on the assumption that when
they outgrew their houses they would
sell them and buy OF build others.
Now, however. we are starting with
budget Of 5000 to $4,000, but with
high expectation Of enlarged families.
Unless that Is made the basis Of plan.
ming, many people will be caught later,
unable to sell.
A real estate editor suggests that un-
less expansion is provided for in plans.
neighborhoods will be blighted at birth.
Out in the perimeters of big cities are
neighborhoods where people rooted over
Easements or made garages into tenn
porary houses -.
The recent housing conference in
Washington ended in a mild brawl. The
contractors representatives resented the
way the Government people pushed
them around" The labor people were
silent. There were no unanimous
recommendations. There is little unity
in this field.
But building must 60 on, and the
intelligence which must guide 1t must
come from wisdom gathered by many
individual builders who meet present
needs. but look carefully into the future,
tRslsased ~ In Associated Nswspapsss. hal
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-28
Hospital Dilemma

Action of the Veterans Admins
tration in appealing to Army, Navy
and civilian hospitals for total of
10000 beds on a temporary loan
basis serves to focus attention anew
on the seriousness of the problem of
providing proper and well-earned
medical care to returning war vet
Grams. Whereas existing veterans
hospitals have beds for slightly more
than 10000 patients. the Veterans
Administration estimates that more
than 10000 beds will be needed by
1850 to care for former members of
the armed services. Deficiency and
regular 1946 appropriation bills call
for approximately $4,000 additional
veterans beds. and $4,000 more will
be asked in the 1947 appropriation
bill.
Until these new beds are available,
however, critical situation con-
fronts the Veterans Administration.
Already it has been necessary in
some localities to turn away or defer
treatment of nonservice-connect
cases. 1t Is unthinkable that similar
treatment should befall veterans SUI
fering from ailments or injuries re-
ceived In combat service. That is why
Major General Paul R. Hawley, act
Ing surgeon general of the Veterans
Administration, has requested Army,
Navy and civilian hospitals to come
to the aid of the veterans. The Navy
already has responded with prom
Use of nearly 10000 beds by next
September, including 500 at the Be-
thesda Naval Medical Center and
200 at Portsmouth, Va, for veterans
of the Washington area. The Army
has been asked to provide another
10000 beds.
AS for civilian hospitals, the prob
lem of finding beds that can be
turned over to veterans is a difficult
one in many localities-and espe-
cially so in Washington, city al
ready suffering from severe pri-
vate hospital bed shortage. Here,
for example, the shortage has be
come so acute that Congress has
been asked to provide authority and
funds for large hospital center.
Testimony in behalf of this project
brought out that Washington's civil
ian hospitals are, for the most part,
outmoded and overcrowded and that
there is pressing need for 1,64S addi-
tional beds to meet immediate de-
mands. Under these circumstances,
there seems little likelihood that
local private hospitals can be of any
appreciate aid In the emergency
confronting the Veterans Admins
tration. The urgency of the prob
lem is so great, however, that new
survey of civilian hospital facilities
in the Washington area would be
In order.
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The future of Germany remains ut
terly obscure. James Marshall reported
this week from there that the growing
aspect Of the German mind is loss of
faith in anything at all. That is
Nihilism.
The roster OF crimes against humanity
solemnly read at Nuernburg as the pro-
test OF outraged conscience rings hollow.
for what crimes do not continue? Now,
1t is the turn of the Allies. Tens of
thousands OF men are carted off for
forced labor; millions of women and
children, expelled from their ancestral
homes, without ration cards or shelter,
TN plundered lands and freezing
weather, die as died the victims of
Himmlers concentration camps: no at
tempt is made to separate the guilty
from the innocent, and one of the
very highest American authorities has
said that the administrative burden of
trying to divide innocent from guilty
Is almost insuperable.
xS44 -
But the division OF innocent from
guilty is the whole task Of justice! The
massacre of the innocents-the chill
dren, at least-is criminal. Will no one
heed the noble words of the Chief Rabbi
OF Berlin, DR.. Leo Back, who languished
Tor years in concentration camps, and
was saved by what seems miracle?
The right to punish is only in
cumbent on man if he is willing to
aid. To punish and to aid belong to-
gether. Only together do they repre-
sent justice. 80.
Every wrong committed against
somebody, group or a single person.
Is wrong committed against the to-
tally Of men, against every single man.
Only where the consciousness of this
Is alive, real Righteousness results
some force of law"
The consciousness of righteousness
being dumb-it Is not dead; it sleeps
no justice can be done even to Hitler's
victims. The Nuernburg criminals are
tried, but all the great victorious powers
cannot find a haven for a hundred
thousand Jews still in concentration
camps, while in Indonesia, Great Brit
ain makes new Lidices.
You have been great. Great Britain.
Be great again.
Who is guilty?
I am guilty. You are guilty We are
guilty. Shall I, who never failed to
protest the monstrosities of the Hitler
regime. or to predict it would bring no
peace, believe now that measures flaunt.
ing every human right will bring happi-
ness and security to mankind? Shall
we, so sensible of the guilt of others,
be insensible of our own?
tReleased by the Bell Syndicate, Incl
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port painted such true picture Of the
actual situation In the two Danubian
countries and was so damaging to
policy Of appeasement that Mr..
Byrnes decided to place it among the
confidential papers mot to be re-
in either ~ the two oovsrnrosots
The recent reports from, tn. Anner,cer
diplomatic rnissions IN ~. cerital. ~
the three Balkan states saw that the
policy of the American Governmsnt
was death blow To the ron,,Ia tiors
of those countries who hed hn,,ad +hat
this country would renain . stench
defender OF democracv
At the london CoY,fsr.nc. ~. p,,.-
sian thesis that the nescs treat;s. NIT, NTH
the former German sstsIiitss sro,,,S 80 ~.
made only by the Pic Three had has,,
rejected. France insisted that bsr ,,os;-
ton in Europe REQUIRED her active nar-
ticipation in all negotiation ana future
peace agreements,
Moreover, she maintained that from
the point of view of particina tion n, the
victory. she had borne the brunt NJ Cor
many's legions because of her LOYALTY
to the treaty with Poland until she was
crushed. She also claimed that she had
never stopped fighting even though her
resources were weak. Frances point of
view prevailed in London, but was de-
feated at the Moscow Conference to
which she was not invited!
<.
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France Halves the Franc

The French Governments an
nouncement of its plan to devalue
the franc does not come as a sur
prise. 1t had long been obvious that
the "pegged" rate of so francs to
the dollar and 200 to the pound
sterling was flagrantly artificial, and
this defiance of financial reality led
to all sorts of bad economic conse-
quences such as encouragement of
foreign trade and domestic produc-
ton, and stimulation of the black
market. One of the chief reasons for
its retention thus far was to keep
down the buying power of vast num-
bers OF American troops, which
threatened to strip the country of
scarce and badly-needed goods.
However, it was deemed on balance
necessary to stabilize the currency
before ratifying the Breton Woods
agreement and initiating the three
year program of economic recon-
struction. So the step was taken.
The new rate cuts the value of the
franc by slightly more than one-half,
the ratios being 119.1o669 to the
American dollar and 480 to the
pound sterling. In practice, this
means that the franc will shrink
from the pegged two cents to a
trif1e less than one cent. The pre-
else figure adopted is the result of
compromise between leftist ele-
ments who opposed drastic devalua-
ton and conservative financial
circles who advocated more drastic
devaluation as being more realistic
and easier to maintain.
According to French financial
opinion, the success of the operation
depends mainly on keeping prices
down. And that will be a novelty,
because the outcome of the previous
devaluations to which France was
forced between the two world wars,
has invariably been a price rise pro-
portionate to the monetary cut Such
domestic price rises need not neces-
sarily be fully reflected in foreign
trade, on which the French govern
ment banks heavily to stimulate pro-
duction, especially in those luxury
lines wherein France has a tradi-
tional primacy.
The most interesting feature of
this operation is that 1t. will not
apply equally to the French colonial
empire. The full cut will take place
only In metropolitan France and
French North Africa, together with
the French West Indies. The rest OF
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French Africa, plus the islands of
st. Pierre and Miquelon, OF New
foundland, will undergo lesser cut,
while the French Pacific colonies
will remain on the old rate. Much
the same will be true of currencies
tied to the franc. such as the Syrian
Lebanese pound, the Indo-C Chinese
piastre and the rupee which circu-
lates in the small French establish
ments in India. That represents a
complex financial picture, due to the
varied economic circumstances in
which different parts OF the French
empire find themselves.
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Yamashita declares that his con-
science is clear. Probably the only
practical thing to do is to take his
word about an object so small that
no one else has been able to find It.
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1t has been suggested that navies
OF the future, if any, will travel
1000 feet below the surface. This
has already happened to most of
one navy of the past-apan's.
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Letters to The Star
inquiries About the Rent Act
and Apartment Houses

To the Editor of The Star:
If Senator ODaniel succeeds In dis
possessing his tenants from the IA
family apartment house at lis Second
street NE which he bought "in good
faith" for his own private occupancy,
the decisions of the d. G. municipal
courts ought to be reviewed by the
/ us. Court of Appeals.
1t is past comprehension why the
D. c. Rent Emergency Act should not
be cited in all its implications by the
attorneys involved instead Of uttering
such dogma as "the Senator bought
and paid for the property, didn't her"
Section five of that act by implication
confines dispossess to the private dwell
ing type, or to a unit in an apartment
house, which may be recovered by a
buyer for his own private occupancy.
If it meant to include q multifamily
house, 1t would have used the phrase
tenant or tenants" but it did not.
Three times it refers to tenant only
who may be dispossessed.
Section four Of the act states that in
order to prove good faith that he wants
the building for a private home the
buyer must Immediately" file plans for
the necessary alterations, If needed.
Immediately may not mean on the
same day and the same hour, but neither
does 1t mean nine months, which the
Senator has allowed to elapse before
filing plans for the extensive alterations
he told the jury he intends to make.
No plans have been filed to date. The
U. s. Court of Appeals ought to give
us an Interpretation of all this, whether
the singular tenant" does not exclude
wholesale eviction. G. L. REEFS.
Disagrees With Appeal of Pope
To the Editor of The Star:
The Star for December Is reported
the Pope's appeal to Christians every
where to 'reunite" with the Roman
church. Although not anti-papist, the
average Christian non-Catholic resents
the Roman church's chronic preten-
sions to overlordship over all Christians.
To the Pope's desire that Christians
shall be "one flock, under one shep-
herd" Protestants insist that the shep-
herd be Jesus himself rather than any
mere mortal. Possibly, as was said
few years ago about the speeches Of a
European leader. the appeal was meant
only for domestic consumption.
The obedient Catholic can UNDER
stand Protestant reaction to the papal
press release only by imagining himself
urged to reunite with the eastern
church or to embrace Mohammedan-
ism.
In this season, Protestant thoughts
additionally turn, not to Rome, but to
Bethlehem
Propaganda aside, let us love one
another. E. M. MILLION.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-05-10

Chairman Carl Williamson, whose
board is charged with the enforce
ment of the new laws.
Authorization of the regulations
was made by the 1945 general as
sembly, whose county-by-county
attempt to rid the State of what
it termed the vicious evil'' of
substandard or imitation wines re-
suited in passage of a statewide
wine control bill. While placing
wine control under the ABC board,
the 1945 statute leaves licensing to
the state revenue department. The
ABC board can, however, recon.
mend license suspension.
Williamson said the regulations
were drawn after a careful study
of Federal Government regula-
tons and those of other states. He
said that the North Carolina as.
ISOLATION for wine control has
promised its cooperation. .
The regulations supplement the
1915 Wine Control act. which be.
came effective May l. The act
specifies that only "a" grade no.
tells, cafeterias, cafes and restau.
rants may obtain ION premises
licenses for the sale of wine. I'm.
der provisions of the act, the ABC
board may establish standards Of
identity, quality and purity for
wines and may issue permits for
the sale of wines meeting its
standards, and may prescribe pro.
per containers, brands and labels
for wine.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-05-10
Mazi Puppet In Norway
Is Placed In Oslo Jail

Norwegians, drove up to the Oslo
police station with his six asso-
ciates in a luxurious bullet-proof
limousine.
(The Norwegian radio in a broad
cast reported in New York by
Owl said the six who surrendered
with Quisling were Axel Stang,
minister of physical education;
Johan Lippestad, minister of So
cial welfare; Rolf Fugelsang,
minister of propaganda; Ragnar
F. Schanke, minister of church
and education; Anders Vasbotten,
minister of the interior, and a
former minister named Won Kirsch,
not further identified.
Earlier, the broadcast said, DR..
ALI E. Whist, minister without port
folio, and Hans Skarphagen, min
lister of transportation, had also
surrendered. Four members of the
Quis1ing supreme court, an ex-pub-
lie prosecutor and a Nazi district
leader were reported to have CIV
en- themselves up yesterday
Quisling's minister of police,
Jonas Lie, who fought for the Ger
mans on the Russian front, was
ports he had barricaded himself
still at liberty. There we're re-
in suburban Oslo mansion I'M
der protection of several hundred
Norwegian Nazis. +
Meanwhile, plans for the removal
Norwegian cities to a central point
of German troops from principal
for formal surrender were discuss
ed by Brig. R. Hilton, chief of
the Allied Control Commission, and
Maj. Gen. Holte, German CHIEF
of staff in Norway,
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-05-10
FIRST OF CHIEF
GERMANS TAKEN
CONTINUED from Page One)

in the mop-up of this area of Aus
tria was Gen. Ritter Won Epp, who
commanded a brief defense Of
Munich but fled before American
forces broke into the city.
Goering readily posed for photo
graphers and talked freely of his
final clash with Hitler, whom he
described in a speech as late as
l943 as the greatest German in
history" he wore several medals,
including the Grand Cross of the
Knights Cross, Germany's highest
decoration, but complained that he
lost more than half his medals
When Allied planes bombed the
mouse where he was held prison
er at Berchtesgaden.
Both Goering and his wife, the
brmer Actress Emmy Sonnemann,
appeared to be in good health,
mough Germany's former No. 1
hostess wept frequently. There
were some moments; of doubt and
CONJECTURE before it finally was
decided that a small artillery
sporting plane was capable of car
1ying both its pilot and the cor
pulent captive to Gen. Patch's
neaaquarters. Goering appeared
'il1loUS TO get started
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-05-10
WARSAW MAYOR
IS REELECTED

WARSAW, May Gin strongly
contested town election here Tues
day, voters reelected Mayor A..
J. Jenkins, local contractor, for
another two, years. He was OPP
posed by e. F. Strickland, oil deal
er, and E. D. Williams.
Elected to the Town Board OF
Commissioners, were Floyd Strick-
land, hardware dealer, A. L. Cav
enaugh, general insurance agent,
and Stacy Britt, Jr., furniture deal
err. all incumbents.
New members elected to the
governing body were B. W. Pick
EFT, casket dealer, and H. F.
Finn Lee, theater owner.
Defeated in the race for Town
Commission were E. D. Sides, 7.
w. Waters, H. C. McCullen, Ralph
Best, S. w. Mariner, ]. ]. Barden,
former Town Commissioners M.
C. L. Aldridge, F. J Thomas, and
V. Orr and c. G. Miller.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-05-10
CURFEW LIFTED
IN NIGHT SPOTS
Continued from Page One)

whether the "curfew'' could be
enforced, Wilmingtonians cooperat-
ed almost" 100 per cent with for
mer War Mobilization Director
James Byrnes' brown out" rules,
which were designed to save pow
er, Cartier said. Although the
brown OUT was admittedly in
convenient to some people, it was
very small in comparison to the
sacrifices made and being made
by servicemen throughout the world
Cartier added.
Theater and night spot owners
said that they lost business be-
cause of the 'curfew'', but did not
voice any complaint about it. The
Tide Water Power Co. announced
On the radio that the Drown OUT
was over, and informed the public
that the lights would be put Oil
agam-the "bill'' in Europe has
been paid.
| E. Y. Stafford, theater manager,
said that midnight shows would
start again Friday.
The Plantation Club on Carolina
Beach road will go back to its
regular hours of pm. to am.
on week days and from 5 pm.
to 3 am. Saturdays, according to
Manager Henry Omirly. He said
that his business had been cut
about 40 to so per cert on satur-
day nights, due to the hours of the
'curfew", but did not compla3:
of the loss.
Mike Papellis, owner of the Fa.
NOUS Club and Grill Oh Carolina
Beach road, also said that he would
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-05-10
REDEPL0YMENT OF
TROOPS TO START
Continued from Pare One)

western Texas; Fort Bragg, N. c.,
serving North Carolina and South
Carolina; Camp Chaffee, Ark.
serving Arkansas and Oklahoma.
Fort Devens, Mass, serving Con-
|necticut, Maine, Massachusetts,
and Vermont; Fort, Dix, N. j.,
serving New Jersey, Delaware,
New York and Pennsylvania; Fort
Douglas, Utah, serving Indaho,
Montana, Nevada and Utah; Camp
Gordon, Ca, serving Georgia; In
diantown Gap, Pa, serving Chic,
lower Michigan and Pennsylvania:
Jefferson Barracks, Mo-, serving
Missouri and Iowa.
Fort Leavenwortn, Kas., Colo,
buckley Field, Colo. for overflow,
serving Colorado and Wyoming;
Fort Lewis, Wash, serving Wash
ington and Oregon; Fort Mac
Arthur, Calf, serving southern
California.
Fort Meade, Md, serving the
District of Columbia, Maryland,
Virginia and West Virginia; Fort
Sam Houston, Tex, serving East
ern Texas; Fort Mcpherson, Ca,
serving Alabama, Georgia, and
Tennessee; Camp Shelby, Miss,
serving Louisiana and Mississippi
Fort Sheridan, ILL.,, serving Illinois,
Michigan and Wisconsin,; and Fort
Smelling, Mimi, serving Minnesota,
North Dakota, South Dakota, Wis
consin and upper Michigan.
Somervell said the job of rede-
ployment would be even more diff
fidult than training and eqCipping
new Army in the United States
and transporting it to all parts of
the world.
cit took us two years to put one
and a half million men in the Unit
ed Kingdom before D-Day," he OBJ
served, adding however that he did
not mean to imply that it would
take that long to assemble the
necessary force in the Pacific for
the full-scale attack on Japan.
He pointed out that in the Philip
pines, Burma and China-prospec-
tive troop staging areas-there is a
lack of port, housing and trans
portation facilities while. in Britain
all the necessary facilities were al
hand. England too, he said. was
only 80 miles from the German
forces on the continent while Ma
Mia is 1,7OO miles from Tokyo.
| Much of the equipment and prac-
tically all of the men for the war
against Japan, he added, will have
to make $4,000 or $4,000 mile
trip. Those deployed in Britain for
the assault on the continent trav-
elled only 5000 miles.
Mai: Gen. Walter A. Wood, Jr.,
director Of plans and operations
for ASF, reaffirmed that the Ar
my expects to recover and use IN
the Pacific some 80 to rs per cent,
of the Army equipment in Europe.
About Is to Is per cent, he sald'
will be available in European ports
for shipment within three months
after We Day.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-05-10
BY The Associated Press

OSLO, Norway, May g. Nazi
Puppet Premier Vidkun Quisling
OF Norway, the man whose name
has become synonym for traitor,
was locked in the Oslo Jail today
and two high German officers were
reported to have taken their own
lives as result of Norway's lib
GRAFTON.
Qulsllng and six of his cabinet
members surrendered themselves
to Oslo police while members of
the Norwegian home forces round
ed up 400 of his followers through
out the city.
Josef Terboven, Nazi civil gov
ernor for Norway, and SIS 1t. Gen.
Rediess, chief of the German DO
lice in Oslo, were said to have
Killed themselves by shooting.
The 57-year-old Quisling was or
dered arraigned Immediately un-
der Norwegian law. The puppet
premier objected vigorously when
ne was locked in a cell, asserting
statesmen like me should not
have an ordinary CELL"
he also objected when the DO
lice took away a satchel he brought
to the jail. 1t contained chocolate
and bottle of cognac. For some
time after the cell door GLANCED
SMUT 1t was reported, the prison
er made speeches about call the
good things I did for Norway"
Qulsling, who five years ago was
plucked from obscurity by the
conquering Germans to head a
government that never was able
10 command the respect of the
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-05-10
PRAGUE IS FREE,
REDS ANNOUNCE
Continued from Page One)

succumbed with honor" said the
announcer.
An Associated Press dispatch
from the British Second Army
said a fierce battle was being
waged at Segeberg, Is miles north
of Hamburg, in a woods. where
300 fanatic German SIS troopers
and Marines were battling Ger
man soldiers.
The dispatch said the territory
had been made out Of bounds for
British troops and no British
troops had .nolested. German
troops were sent into the area by
their commander with orders to
clear it out.
Prague was occupied by the
Germans March IA, 1889, in one
of the Hitler strokes that culnina-
ted in history's most devastating
war.
The Czechoslovak news bureau
in London said some die-hard
German soldiers still were fight
ing in Moravia and claimed the
Germans were "ravaging all the
country"
'They have not given up" the