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Evening star., 1945-09-29
THE EVENING STAR, Washington, D. c.
SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 7e 1s45.

dicate faulty construction causes
about half the Nations fire losses
and that home modernization can
be financed under F'HA's Title pro-
gram by qualified lending institu-
tiOns.
Evening star., 1945-09-29

Mr.. Draper served with FILA for
about five years. Since 1943 he was
In charge of all field Offices and
mortgage insurance operations of
FHA. AS assistant FHA admin
istrator in the early war years. he
directed the FHA war housing pro-
gram.
Laurel outlook., 1945-09-19
STRIKES:
Hit Radio

Heading up a wave of strikes,
leaving over 100, 900 workers idle,
vas the walkout of engineers of the
National and American Broadcast
ing companies partly paralyzing ra-
dio programs and forcing executive
technicians to take over operation OF
the controls.
Though the strike ostensibly was
over wage demands, informed in
dustry sources said the walkout was
a iareup of a dispute between the
independent engineers union and
Jimmy Petrillo's American FEEDER
alton of Musicians, ALL, over which
of the two should represent the en-
ployees who turn the records for
transcribed broadcasts.
While the war labor board or
dered the radio companies to deal
with the engineers over the record
changers, the AIMS jurisdiction
over the so-called "platter jockeys"
has been recognized in Chicago,
Washington, New York and Detroit.
Because the big chains feared Pc
trillo might call his musicians out
on strike if they dealt with the en-
gineers over the record changers, it
was charged, they have been STALL
ing on the negotiations.
Laurel outlook., 1945-09-19
FOREIGN AFFAIRS:
British Ask Aid

In the U. S. to sell this country on
the feasibility of offering financial
assistance to Britain, Ambassador
Halifax and Economist Keynes de-
clared that a prosperous Britain,
getting its great exporting and i'm
porting machinery going at full
blast, would help assure the stabil-
ity so necessary for postwar peace.
Should Britain fail to secure suf-
ficient aid to rebuild its industry and
obtain raw materials for processing
into finished goods, Messrs. Halifax
and Keynes pointed out, the whole
intricate system of exchange among
nations would be affected, leading
to social disturbances the world
over and another outgrowth of isms.
Thus, in approaching the U. S.
on a basis of mutual concern,
the British came over as prac-
teal statesmen and not as beg
gars. Further, they disclaimed
any intention of seeking an easy
way out by negotiating interest
bearing loans, but rather stated
that they were opposed to any
type of debt of a burdensOme
nature which, like World War 1
obligations, would have to be
eventually repudiated.
In shying from the idea of an in
terest = bearing loan, the British left
the way open for an outright grant,
which would be strongly bucked
here, or a long-range interest-free
advance
Laurel outlook., 1945-09-19
WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS
.WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS -
Round upJapaneseW arLeaders;
Hog Slaughter Shows Big Dip;
British Seek Financial Aid

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Laurel outlook., 1945-09-19
Shape Italian Treaty

While the British talked dollars
in Washington, D. c., the Big Five
council of foreign ministers con-
tinued discussions in London con-
corning the future political and ter
ritorial makeup of postwar Europe,
with the diplomatists occupied with
drawing up an Italian peace treaty.
Foremost of the problems associ-
ated with an Italian treaty was the
disposition of the country's North
African colonies, with the British
repeatedly frowning on the Ameri-
can proposition for permitting the
Italians to retain their territories
under a United Nations trusteeship.
AS the eternal jockeying for
protective boundaries and rich
interests cropped up, the Brit
iSh were said to favor Italian
retention of only western Libya
while taking for themselves
eastern Libya covering Egypt
and Italian SOmaliIand fronting
the gateway to the vital Red sea
leading to the Suez canal. At
the same time, the French re-
pOrtedIy sought a slice of north
western Libya from Italy to
strengthen their own Tunisian
holding.
But if the disposition of Italian colo
MES posed a big problem, so did the
readjustment of Italy's European
borders, with France out for a re-
adjustment of the Alpine boundary
and Yugoslavia hot for annexation
of the strategic Istrian peninsula
with its rich port of Trieste. AS the
meeting progressed, the Big Five
said to have considered a COM
promise under which Italy would re-
linquish the peninsula jutting into
the Adriatic sea but retain Trieste
With U. S. and British pressure
for free and open elections in Ro-
mania and Bulgaria already having
forced the communists hands in
those countries, Yugoslav and
Greek rightists next came to the fore
at the foreign ministers conference
to request Intervention in the
political affairs of those Balkan
states to assure a fair and peaceful
democratic representation.
Laurel outlook., 1945-09-19
Eileen Sheets Becomes
Bride OF Pfc. Don Shay
At Ceremony Saturday

Tall baskets of fall flowers
formed the background for the
marriage ceremony when Miss
Eileen Sheets became the bride of
Pfc Donald Shay, Saturday, at the
home of the brides parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Homer Sheets.
The double ring ceremony was
performed at 2:3O in the afternoon
by Rev. M. ]. Wilcox, pastor of
the Methodist church, in the pres
ence of relatives of the couple. At
tendants were Miss Eleanor La
Prath and Charles Story, Jr. The
bride was given in marriage by
her father. Her cousin, Marlene
Freeman of Red Lodge, played
Lohengrin's wedding march.
A suit of blue wool with white
accessories and a corsage of red
rosebuds was worn by the bride.
Miss LaPrath wore a grey suit with
harmonizing accessories and her
was of yellow roses. Pri-
vate First Class Shay, the son of
Mrs. Ethel Shay, and his bride are
both graduates of Laurel high
school. He recently returned from
where he was with the para
troop division and will report to
Fort Benning, Ca, at the end of
his furlough.
Following a reception for the
Z party and guests, Private
First Class and Mrs. Shay left for
a brief honeymoon trip.
Laurel outlook., 1945-09-19
RELIGION:
Courses CHALLENGED

Traditional American separation
of church from state was the issue
Mrs. Vashti McCullom of Cham
paign, ILL.,, raised against the Cham
paign school board in her suit to
halt voluntary religious instruction
in the public schools in the COM
munity.
With both Mrs. McCullom and the
board prepared to appeal to the Su-
of the decision, the suit promises to
affect similar instruction in 1856
communities in 46 states. North Da-
kota and New Hampshire are the
only states without such religious
courses.
In bringing her suit as the inter-
ested party, Mrs. McCullom stated
that as the only pupil in his class
not enrolled in the voluntary 80 min
ute per week instruction in the Prot
estant, Catholic and Jewish faiths,
her 10-year-old son Terry had suf-
fered acute embarrassment. AS a
result, she said, indirect pressure
had been brought to bear against the
youngster to take the course, regard
less of his inclination, on public
school property maintained by tax
payers funds.
In countering Mrs. McCullom's
charge, the school board pointed out
that the courses we're outside of the
school curricula and purely volun-
tary, with the representatives of all
of the principal religious denomina-
tions conducting and financing the
instruction.
Aside from the state constitution
and statutes involved, federal inter-
vention hinged on the first amend
ment to the U. S. Constitution, which
provides: Congress shall make no
law respecting an establishment of
religion or prohibiting the free ex-
ercise thereof" . . . and section
l of the 18th amendment to the Con-
.stitution declaring . . . mo state
shall make or enforce any law
which shall abridge the privileges
or immunities of the citizens of the
United States; nor shall any state
deprive any person of life, liberty,
or property without due process of
law, nor deny to any person within
its jurisdiction the equal protection
Of the laws"
Mother of three boys and wife of
University of Illinois professor, 80
year-old Mrs. McCullom said that :;
while she realized the suit might
1arm young Terry, her deep con-
on separation of church from
state inspired her action. +;
Laurel outlook., 1945-09-19

Tuesday, Sept. 25.
The DeMolay Mothers club will
meet at 1880 p. m. at the Masonic
temple.
Laurel outlook., 1945-09-19
ID
Dbl:
Urges Careful Use

Housewives who find use for DOT,
the powerful new insecticide known
to chemists as dichlorodiphenyl-
trichlorethane, are cautioned against
placing the poisonous powder where
it might be mixed with kitchen sup
plies, by DR.. Morris Fishbein of
the American Medical association.
SIN large doses DOT is poisonous
to human beings and to a good
many animals" DR.. Fishbein said.
"When DOT is properly used, these
poisonous effects are controlled"
Laurel outlook., 1945-09-19
Plan JObIeSS Benefits

Though the senate finance
committee worked out a broad
postwar unemployment benefit
bill, the solons turned down
Pres. Harry S. Truman's recon-
mendation that jobless COM
pensation be raised to a maxi
mum of $25 per week.
Instead, the committee bent to
the task of shaping a measure
which would authorize the fed
eral government to contribute
funds toward extending the time
of state unemployment payments
60 per cent. Benefits now range
from SIS for IA weeks in Ari-
ona to $28 for 80 weeks in Con-
necticut.
Both federal and maritime
workers would be made eligible
for unemployment compensa-
tons under the proposed bill, at
the rate existent in the state of
their employment.
In addition, workers who mi
grated to war production GEN.
tiers would be allowed up to 5000
for transportation expenses
back to their old residences OF
new job locations. Money would
not be advanced for the ship
ment of any household effects,
however.
Laurel outlook., 1945-09-19
The Outlook SAYS:

Miss Dorothy Chopper returned
to Laurel last week from Denver
where she had been employed.
Girl Scouts of troop No. 2 have
been asked to turn in greeting
card money to Mrs. Hamlet and
to also return unsold boxes before
Saturday.
Sgt. Roscoe Branstetter arrived
home last week after being dis
charged from the service. He called
at the Outlook office to express his
thanks to all who had assisted in
sending him the paper while he
was in service.
Laurel outlook., 1945-09-19

total amount shipped.
When losses in the Pacific are
added to the previously announced
537,656 ship tons of cargo lost on
outbound moves from the United
States to the European, Mediterra-
mean, Middle East, North and
South Atlantic and Latin American
areas, a total war loss of outbound
army cargo at sea of 737,714 ship
tons is obtained.
Laurel outlook., 1945-09-19
American Ship Losses Small in Pacific

A total of 2OO, O58 ship tons of cargo
were lost at sea by the army in
the war against Japan, with 81
vessels sunk and 2 vessels damaged
while en- route from the United
States to the Pacific theaters.
Army cargo shipped to these
areas in the A months of the war
totalled 43,520,000 ship tons. Those
supplies lost at sea, therefore,
represented only 0.46 per cent of the
Laurel outlook., 1945-09-19
.ALENDAR
.oming Events.
Friday, Sept. FL.

Friday, Sept. FL.
The Eastern Star will conduct a
miscellaneous sale at the Montana
Power company office as a benefit
for the Masonic home at Helena.
Laurel outlook., 1945-09-19

can net gradually
began to tighten
around them, the
Nipponese govern
ment of Premier
Higashi = Kuni as
sumed the response
bility for rounding
up suspected war
in an eff
fort to head off a
suicide wave.
] apan's No. l
uyar lord +brOlroh-
Laurel outlook., 1945-09-19
Meals Need Contrast

Make a point of having contrasts
in meals and it will help to cover
I'M a lack of variety. Combine a
sweet with a sour; a bland with a
sharp taste. Serve some foods
crisp. some soft; some hard, some
chevy.
Laurel outlook., 1945-09-19

Hogs DOtUn

Though slaughter of cattle and
sheep during the first eight months
of 1915 hit new tops for federally-
inspected plants, butchering of hogs
dropped off severely, resulting in a
continued tight meat situation. Only
with an improved hog situation in
creasing the overall supply of meat
did marketing experts look forward
to an end of %rationing.
With August slaughter at an eight
year low, the eight month hog pro-
duction totalled 26, 921 ,667, away be-
low the 50,352, 226 mark for the
same period last year. During the
early part of September, hogs con-
tinued to trickle into leading mar
kets, with shipments commanding
ceiling prices.
Partly offsetting decreased hog
slaughter were record chickering's
of cattle and sheep for the first eight
months of the year, with 9,071 400
cattle killed and IS, 1850, 594 sheep. At
1852, ITO, the calf total was the Sec
ond largest on record.
Laurel outlook., 1945-09-19

out most of the Pacific conflict be-
fore enemy reverses forced his re-
tirement, eX-Premier Hideki TOTO
led off the suicide wave by attempt
ing to take his life as American
troops arrived at his country resi-
dence outside of Tokyo to arrest him.
Though TOTO misired, former wal
minister and army chief Sugiyama
used better aim to kill himself, and
ex-welfare minister Koizumi also
succeeded in taking his life.
Having first professed full respon-
sibility for the war before trying to
shoot himself, TOTO shut up tighter
than a clam following an improve
ment in his condition under the
watchful eye of American medics.
Refusing to talk on his sick-bed,
the ashen 61-year-old former Japa-
nese kingpin declared that he would
not answer questions without docu-
mentary reference.
Meanwhile, capital circles re-
vealed that TOTO and other sus-
pected Japanese war criminals
would have their unhappy day in
court before a four-power military
tribunal similar to the one trying
Nazi overlords in Germany.
Representatives of the U. S., Brit
ain, Russia and China will comprise
the tribunal, which probably will sit
in Tokyo and, as in the case of its
European counterpart, try foreign
government leaders on the unprece-
dented charges of conducting wars
of aggression.
In addition to trial on the novel
count of carrying on aggressive
warfare, japanese will be tried for
such crimes as racial persecution,
torture of helpless people, and muir
der of captured military personnel.
Though not questioning the goal
of bringing Nazi and japanese yer
lords to justice, many eminent
American lawyers have opposed the
procedure for trial, declaring that it
establishes a precedent for kangaroo
courts which might be used against
Allied personages in the future.
Laurel outlook., 1945-09-19
JAPAN:
Round Up Var Lords

With high japanese war leaders
taking their own lives as the Ameri-
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Peace Concludes II Years Of Costly World Warfare

ing flames twisted superstruc-
lures. Sickening clouds of
smoke covered the harbor.
In the blazing inferno eight
battleships - almost half the
US. Nays backbone and
10 other ships were sunk or
damaged and more than 5000
men killed or missing.
For the next six months the
news was like a bad dream.
SWAIN EVERYWHERE
Striking simultaneously at
the Philippines, Singapore, Hong
Kong, the Dutch East Indies and
the islands in the Pacific, the
Warriors of Nippon seemed
swarming everywhere at once.
Armed with their legend of in
vincibility, schooled in jungle
warfare and seemingly directed
with faultless precision, the Jap
anese stretched their empire
thousands of miles in a scant
three months.
Hawaii lay under the dread of
invasion, Alaska was in danger.
Japanese submarines prowled
the Pacific coast and California
had the filters and once was act
ually shelled.
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las Macarthur began his delay
ing battle. Manila was declared
an open city the day after
Christmas, but the Japanese
bombed 1t numerically.
Manila, where Dewey wrote
history in another generation,
was occupied by the Japanese
on January 2, and Macarthur
gathered his little army of $4,000
Americans and Filipinos into
the tight jungle-girt peninsula
of Bataan.
The American dug in among
the Banyan roots and began
writing the epic of Bataan. A
few patched up planes were
their only air force, submarines
slipping in at night their only
supply. horsemeat their fare.
They repealed many a bloody
charge. Capt. Arthur Wermuth
became the first zone man
army" of the war. But on April
II Bataan surrendered.
The loss of Singapore was the
greatest blow to British prestige
since Dunkerque two years be-
fore. The Japanese piled off
their wooden landing boats onto
the scarcely defended marshy
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coast Of Malaga at Kota Bharu
on Dec. 8, the date the war be-
gain In the Far East.
Two days later they struck
their second great blow at AL
lied Naval power when their
bombers bounced on two of
britain's proudest battleships,
the Prince of Wales and the Re-
pulse, and sank them off the
Malaga coast.
Having robbed Singapore of
its Naval shield, the Japanese
leapfrogged down the coast and
infiltrated British lines in the
jungle at night, to the amaze.
ment OF British generals who
never had believed an attack on
Singapore from the landward
side was possible.
Australians, British and In
dians were brave but outclassed
in this type of warfare. The Jap
anese beat them back onto Sing
apore's island on Jan. IL, and
after a short siege they plunged
across the strait into the Man.
grove swamps in a night attack.
The British lost an Army Of
100000 men, control of the ap-
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at the State Department In their
peace negotiations"

at the State Department In their
peace negotiations"
Never were treacherous ne
gotiations carried to such farci-
Senator Burton X. Wheeler, a
leader of the Isolationists, fer
vently expressed the white hot
indignation: THE only thing
now is to do our best to lick hell
out of them" The japanese had
done what everything before
could not do-unify the Ameri-
can people for war against ag-
erosion.
In Honolulu that morning the
Americans praised the Lord and
passed the ammunition. They
had need to place their trust in
Providence that Sabbath.
At 7:55 a. m.,, more than 100
Japanese planes from carriers
several days at sea caught the
bulk of the United States fleet
peacefully at anchor. Men were
asleep. The warning system was
not effective.
Into the closely packed lines
of warships japanese bombs and
torpedoes tore and ripped. Great
torpedoes tore and ripped. Great
battleships overturned. Tower
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Guam, the U. 8. island whose
Notifications had only been talk
ed about, fell on the fourth day.
For the first time since 1912 a
conqueror's flag waved over the
American soil.
Wake was next after an epic
14-day defense by fewer than
400 Marines.
Hong Kong, the British crown
colony, was attacked from the
Chinese mainland. The teeming
Asiatic city fell on Christmas
day. Some Of its handful of Ca
madam and British defenders
were bayoneted after being TAX
en- prisoner.
Repeating their success of
Pearl Harbor, Japanese air
strikes caught lines of parked
American planes on airfields
around Manila, and the invasion
of the Philippines started on
Dec. 10 with a landing at Apar-
ri at the northern tip of Luzon.
Other landings followed In the
Legaspi area southeast of Ma
Mia and Lingayen Gulf, north of
the capital.
With Filipino troops Loyalty
rallyinga bout him, Gen. Doug
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The death march of Bataan

The death march OF Bataan Z.
the saga from the thirst
parched- lips of Rickenbacker
and others like him adrift for
days and weeks on the Pacific.
The cockiness of Chen
nault's AVG, the Flying Tigers.
Doolittle's unheard- of
stunt, flying two-motored bomb
ers off the Hornet over Tokyo.
The resourcefulness of
Bulkeley's PIT crews. For
titude in the malarial jungles of
New Guinea and the leech-in-
tested mud of Burma. A
war under savage conditions
against savage men.
Associated Press dispatches
from Bataan gave the first ink
ling of how the modern Ameri-
can soldier was facing up to this.
He was cocky, slangy, humor-
Gus, ingenious, brave.
To Tojo's great surprise, the
Americans had not grown soft.
Thailand, a supposedly indie
pendent buffer for British Sing
apore, was the first to fall. Bang
kok, weakened by Japanese po-
litical infiltration, capitulated
on the second day of the war.
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Associated Press Foreign Staff
The Second great World Wal
of the century has ended with
the utter defeat of Japan. last Of
the Axis powers which conspirec
to divide the world into three
vast spheres of cruelty and bar
barism.
Peace has come after IA year.
of almost continuous war ir
Manchuria, Ethiopia, Ch n a
Europe, Africa, Asia and the is
lands of the Pacific.
The chief instigators Of this
enormous conflict in which close
to 100000 were killed OF
wounded in combat-not count
ing the millions killed by star
walton, aid raids and other caus-
es-have been completely un-
done.
Japan's military clique, choos-
ing to lead the people into what
amounted to national suicide, has
been smashed. The legend of
the divinity Of her emperor, cor
nerstone Of Japan's unique Gull
ture, may have been swept away
in the first major defeat Of her
2,6O5 years Of recorded or myth
cal history.
Hitler has disappeared in the
veritable Goetterdaemme r Il n &
that extinguished Germany as
unified nation. Mussolini, lv-
ing by violence, died that way.
The boast of Admiral Osoroku
Yamamoto that he would dictate
terms in the White House, the
greater East Asia co-prosperity
sphere, the Reich Of a thousand
years and the new order, Mus
solini's 5000, 900 bayonets and
the new Roman Empire, stand
today As empty vain glories.
ENSLAVED 500, 100000
The chain OF aggression, be-
ginning in Manchuria Sept. Is,
1891, reached its zenith in 1912,
when Japan's realm reached s.
900 miles either way, from the
Aleutians to Java, from Man
churia and Burma to mid-Pacif-
ic, and embraced m enslaved
population Of nearly 500. 600, 900.
Japan's militarists. dreaming
Of conquests more fantastic than
Genghis Khan's, stood on the
threshold Of dominion over L.
900, 900, 900 people.
Pearl Harbor, 1.-THE date that
will live In infamy," wrecked
that dream.
On that day, Dec. Z, 1941,
there was cast into the scales the
vast flood from the arsenal of
America, the high courage Of her
soldiers, sailors, marines and
airmen.
Small but elite air forces, sub
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HUMILIATING DEFEAT
The United States was tested
by the most humiliating defeats
of her history, but she also won
some of her greatest victories.
Fighting two great wars stimuli
taneously, she won them both,
and now energies upon a new
stage of world power, her armies
Of occupation spanning two
oceans.
But the cost is in huge Amer
lean cemeteries that dot the
world map, news names-Ba-
taan, Faid Pass, Corregidor, Sa-
lerno, Guadalcanal, Anzio, Coral
Sea, Casino, Midway, Tarawa,
st. Lo, Saipan, Aachen, Two
lima, the Rhine, Okinawa, the
Ardennes and many others
have been burned into American
memory forever.
Pearl Harbor was foreshadow-
ed by the Tri-Partite Pact of
Germany, Italy and Japan on
Sept. ~, 1910, but Americans
were astounded in the midst of
a quiet Sunday afternoon by the
White House announcement that
Japanese planes were attacking
that proud stronghold in mid
Pacific.
Even as Japanese bombers
were roaring over Diamond
Head, Tokyo's two ENJOYS called