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Detroit evening times., 1945-05-08
Brain Game

Five American cities boast
two major league baseball
teams apiece. Can you name
them >
2-Henry L. Stimson. secretary
OF war under Franklin ID.
Roosevelt, holds the same
post under President Tru-
man. He has held cabinet
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-05-10
A Project Revived

The Junior Chamber of Commerce did an
admirable thing on Tuesday evening when it
engaged in a discussion OF junior college
for Wilmington, thus reviving a project Of
primary Importance which had langushed
since the Board of County Commissioners de-
clined to call an election at which the people
would have chance to voice their opinion
of levying small tax for maintaining the
school
This organization of young business men in
Wilmington deserves the commentator Of the
community for its interest in the project. It
may be expected to become more active in
its behalf.
There is increasing sentiment that the COM
missioners assumed responsibility not prop
erly vested in them when they turned down
the petition for an election. This responsible
ty, in the view Of a growing section Of the
population, rests exclusively with the people,
and net with the County Commission which,
in the final analysis, is merely board of
stewards serving the people, and not debating
the peoples policies.
When the legislature passed the bill pro-
viding that an election might be requested
it was clearly that body's intention that the
people should have the final say 1t is graft
flying to forward-lookng citizens to note the
increasing public interest in the proposal to
have junior college here. When it is brought
again to the attention of the Board of County
Commissioners its supporters could do no bet
ter than be present in force and make their
voice heard.
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One More Decoration

Notwithstanding all the decorations avail
able in this war, yet another is needed 1t
should be some sort Of simple but easily
recognizable honorable discharge button for
the IL million men and women who, for more
than three years at much inconvenience and
eften financial cost, have served faithfully as
civilian defense workers.
No enemy plane has reached our shores to
justify their efforts. Often they have been
abused for interfering with our whims, and
very rarely have they been thanked by any
of us for whose safety they served. If Ger
mans or Japs really had come we should
have been extremely grateful for the. organi-
alton these volunteers perfected. Their will
and their effort were no less because our
mainland escaped bombing A little plastic
button, or some equivalent insignia identity
ing those who only stood and waited, seems
to be indicated.
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dens and aftermath Of war depends in large
measure upon the manner in which the home
population meets its obligation to the return
ing soldiers. The responsibility of holding the
line in the peace era which, heaven grant,
will soon start will fall upon their shoulders
in the years to come. They will be able to
discharge that responsibility with greater
credit. the United States will be a greater
nation and exert more powerful influence
in the world for good, if we who have had
no share in the fighting receive them with
whole souled welcome and provide place for
them in the work they are best fitted to do.
This is not the governments job. Washing
ton can give material aid, but the final re-
sponsibility lodges with the people.
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Daily Prayer
FOR TRUTHS PASSION

We pray for heightened hatred
against injustice and oppression
and cruelty and treachery, O Lord
God of righteousness. Be Thou
flaming Sword of Truth before our
Cause and our forces. Make clear
to us the justice of our aims, and
the holiness of our war against
the proud powers that would de-
stroy personality, abolish persona
freedom, restrict free worship Of
Thee and make man mere chat
tel of cruel state. AS we wage
war with those who would eStao'
ish a pagan order of life, grant,
o merciful Father, that we our
selves, in our personal lives and
purposes, may exemplify the truth
for which we fight. Save us from
all moral debilitation, and from
every compromise with evil. Keen
our passion for truth and light
and right ablaze through all our
experiences; knowing that, what
ever our loss and whatever our
sorrow, our reco1npense is with
Thee, in whose name we tlsnt
Amen.-W.T.E
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Watch For Bill

If you should happen to be around a ship
soon, keep an eye peeled for Bill Clark, who
is reported missing. 1t is thought that he
may have shipped as an able-bodied seaman
or perhaps as ships carpenter.
Bill is five feet six-and- a-half inches tall,
has sparse hair and a small mustachs is
hale and hearty, has neither false teeth nor
spectacles. When last seen he wore a blce
uniform with white metal buttons. He won't
refuse drink if you offer one.
If you should find more than one answer
ing the description, Bill will be the one vino
seems most at home on ship. He ought to-
He has sailed the seas more than half a
century. If cornered, he may confess to his
100 years.
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Home From The Wars

Unfortunately it is not yet time to give at
tention exclusively to 'our boys out of uni
form. In addition to the tens of thousands of
American troops that must remain in Ger
many more and more thousands Of soldiers
will have to continue the battle in the Pacific
until the last armed forces on Japan have
surrendered.
But with the war in Europe ended many
thousands of long-service veterans in that
theater will be discharged and return to their
homes. Also there will be large movement
of wounded soldiers, coming back for hos
pitalization, and additional thousands whose
service has not been long enough to entitle
them to discharge will join their fellows al.
ready in the United States on furlough, await
ing relocation.
Without relaxing an iota in the program
for making life more bearable for the men
still under arms, an expanding program for
the care and comfort of convalescents and
the entertainment and recreation of men on
THROUGH is a charge upon the civilian popu-
lation and the re-establshment of discharged
soldiers an imperative duty of business and
industrial firms.
Fmergence Of this country from the bur-
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Interpreting
The War
BY KIRkE L. SIMPSON
Associated Press War A.,

m war analyst
The Russians went al If n.S '
hog once they knew the us .a'0ie
Europe was over. Their snon,,. II
Gus demonstration before the Irn's
cd States embassy in Moscow E.
the fervor Of Russian greetjna as
American troops on the Elbs
Germany, testified to Russian r,- ~
lie appreciation of the Amer IaO,
share in the victory. al
The signing and sealing ot ,u
render terms at General Fiso"
hower's headquarters at Rev.
was just a preliminary stem ~
Russian eyes apparently. If ,oo
formal ratification of the CAM, 0A
iation in Berlin to satisfy Moscom
that the end had come.
That had been Russian practi,,
from the first in Announcing mix
tary victories. They waited lon.
sometimes, even after Nazi oft'
cial admission that particu1a,
city or fortress had been taken :,
confirm the news in a Stain ords,
i the day. The idea was, presum
ably, that the victory announces
should be beyond question. By tbs
time Moscow heraled it the CROWD
aiken had not only been occnnioa
but well consolidated.
In effect, of course, Russian
procedure tends to dramatic ths
German surrender in Russian eves
as a Russian victory with Allied
assistance, maybe it was planned
that way. AS this was written m
mention had been made in Moscow
accounts of the preliminaries At
Reims which set off victory cele.
brations on both sides of the AT.
lantic.
Be that as it may, there is Ger.
tainly no disposition this time in
this country or in Britain to start
an argument over who won the war
in Europe. Both nations are TOO
deeply concerned with getting Oh
without delay in the remaining
war against Japan.
Whether Russia is 10 join the
United Nations war fellowship
against Japan is the dominant
military unknown quantity Of the
moment.
Russian entry into the war in the
Pacific could have as great Or
greater psychological effect on
Japan than its immediate military
impact. 1t might induce 4 Japa.
nese surrender before utter devas.
tation is visited upon japanese
cities and communications by air
as a prelude to invasion.
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Food In Europe And At Home

The Agricultural Department estimates that
Europe will require twelve million tons of food
stuffs between August of this year and the
same month in 1896 if widespread starvation
adds the Department, may be wheat, but there
must also be plenty OF fats, eggs, meats, dairy
products and sugar.
Just what part the United States will have
to play in providing this food is not wholly
clear. But it is obvious that this country will
b. expected to carry the heaviest burden of
relief. There is no way to dodge this response
bility. Having suffered less at enemy hands,
save in battle losses and money, than any
Of our Allies and with our productive capacity
practically intact, the United States must be
the heaviest contributor Our own national well
fare for years to come inevitably will depend
Upon the restoration of war-impoverished Eu-
rope to a position of self-support. Otherwise
we will lack the great markets of the Cont
nent and be equally unable to receive En-
ropes production. The nations commerce will
hinge on Europe's recovery. Whatever h e
cost, the United States will be amply repaid in
later years for its investment in Europe's po-
tential.
At the same time it would be foolhardy to
feed Europe's starving peoples and neglect our
domestic needs. The food situation at home is
rapidly becoming not only intolerable, from the
consumers viewpoint but actually danger
Gus. When housewives enter stores looking for
bare essentials for the family table and en-
counter more empty than filled shelves, which
is the present situation, the time has arrived
for consideration of the national food needs
no less than Europe's.
There are said to be more cattle on range
now than for many years. Yet butcher shops
are as bare as Mother Hubbard's cupboard
This can be dre only to the bungling of bureau
Gratis. We have heard of Investigations of the
meat situation, but the meat supply continues
to diminish. Nor is meat the only scarcity
Eggs are fewer than needed. Butter is an I'M
obtainable luxury, save at rare intervals The
sad fact is that the food supply available for
the civilian population is not far from the star
walton level Unless something is done quick
ly to extend relief to the American people, the
restoration Of Europe and Americas foreign
trade will have little significance. vanishing
people cannot feed Europe or engage in COM
merce.
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The Literary Guidepost
arated from. her husband, VINO

arated from her husband WIN
in the army. c,ina
where he had been a doc'oi, =!
a jump ahead of the japanese S VIZ.
resented his defense OF 'ne ,r III
TINS of tn cir "co-pfosp =, .,
sphere. He wants to 60 oa ael.s1r,
soon as ever he can. HIS los wv n
patrician wife has had en0ugn mi.
treating cholera patients IN pii, s,.
tive, filthy Kansu village .;,. tor
prefers fashionable practice ~
her husband in England MI,
Bernard is not only the hero ' "
also the spirit of the oo0k :. +;
understand him better when ~ YES
quoting Greek than when NJ! NJ,
talking English" a woman .o '
of him, adding: though o. c COX
I don't know a word Of G5est b,
He's not hard to underS'ansu,+ he
son and daughter do just W ts nd
would have wanted though ns nv
never presumed to offer 'n'l
specific advice. rar
The story is leisurely; IN at 0,
it's genteel; but it has ts a. il.
characters who are reaAzeu ~ r,ee..
dividuals. You might enjoy '
ing them.
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the reappointment of Lilienthal was
part of deal" As the rumor
goes, in return for making only
a token fight against Lilienthaps
confirmation, Mcclellan will get ad-
ministration support for his amend
ment to the IVA act.
The Mcclellan amendment, re-
peatedly introduced by the 76-
year-old senator, would compel
IVA to turn into the treasury all
revenues received from operation
of the IVA power system. Conse-
quently, when the authority need
ed funds, it would have to come to
Congress for lump sum appropri-
alton like any ordinary government
department. This would invalidate
the whole IVA idea. It would de-
stroy its independence and put it
in the position of pensioner, which
is just what Senator Mcclellan
wants.
That such a "deap' would work
is highly doubtful. In the first
place, there are apparently more
than enough votes in the Senate
to confirm Lilienthal for another
nine-year term. When he was in
the Senate, President Truman was
strongly opposed to undermining
IVA in this way, and it is I'M
likely that he would now support
such a proposal.
Here in Washington, of course,
jealous bureaucrats have Ions
looked with envy at IVA. Chief
among these is Secretary of the
Interior Ickes, who would like to
incorporate IVA within the vast do
main of his department. He was
worked night and day to this end
and on at least one occasion, it
was thanks only to the personal in
tervention of the la e Senator
George Norris that his designs were
frustrated.
IVA is an experiment in gov
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BY w. G. ROGERS
INTERIM, by r. C. Hutchin-
can In sHn~ 4. anA

oVAA " sSA "a ~ 1VAAASAoAtp $kJs
A squad with a 25.pound field
gun, out on maneuvers on a dark
wet night, gets lost, comes smack
into a wall at the end of an un-
familiar road, and so introduces
Roger, who tells this story, to Or
chilly and Quindle and Kiss-C Chick
and Ginnie and Wag and others.
all so English it takes few pages
to learn which is place and who
is person.
Interim" is modest title. This
novel is more than that. It's the
war, but mostly it's people who
have problems only incidental to
war, problems of the kind which
develop in rich, varied, mature
personalities.
Hutchinson's prose is sensitive.
vigorous and often beautiful: he
unerringly picks the right word.
turns the phrase Interestingly. If
the plot is tentuous, 1t is handled
with discernment.
Bernard Quindle and his ill wife
Charlotte, parents Of Virginia and
Vaughan, live in the country. The
son Is a flier, the daughter is sep
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EDITORIAL COMMENT
INITIATION CONTROL

We should not expect to live as well in
wartime in peacetime. War causes waste
and waste costs money. We are approaching
the most critical days in the big gamble we
have undertaken. Now is the time Ia t;oh+a,,
our belts and take the necessary stems to
begin to strengthen our production canac;+,,
Let us not add to the fuel of initiation hv IN.
creasing costs and maintaining selling nricas
at figures which curtail production 1.e+ NC
strike at the cause of initiation and begin tn
build program which will work us out in.
National Grange Monthly. lie
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WASHINGTON CALLING {
by MI.)M |
MARQUIS CHllDs 2A|

WASHINGTON-The story of Da-
vid Lilienthal of the Tennessee Val
ley Authority is new kind Of sue
cess story. The flood of praise
following his reappointment by
President Truman, and particular
ly from the press, is one measure
of his achievement in new field
IVA is government, but it is de-
centralized government. The IVA
is not remote paternalistic pow
er laying down the law from the
distant mountain top of Washing
ton. 1t is by its very nature part of
the life of the Tennessee valley, a
working partner rather than an ar
bitrary boss.
In letter he wrote to Congress-
man Estes Kefauver Of Chatta-
nooga on March 2, President Roose-
welt put it very well. Written so
near the end, the letter reflects the
late Presidents deep satisfaction at
the general acceptance of IVA,
IAN instrument" in n Presi-
dents words. ''By which big gov
eminent need not be absentee gov
eminent. words, ''by which big
government need not be absentee
government
'TVA, under David Lilienthal,"
the President wrote, has shown
all of us that great national powers
can be exercised as government
at hand, at home, working with
the people and their local govern
ments where the people are. In the
wider development of that under
standing we shall continue to need
such courage and vision as David
Lilienthal has shown in the valley
of the Tennessee to the nation and
to the world
In some ways, the reappointment
of Lilienthal was a test for Tru-
man. The IVA administrator, who
consistently refuses to yield to pa
tronage grabbers, has an inplac.
able enemy in the president pro
tenn of the Senate, Senator Kenneth
Mcclellan of Tennessee. Repeated
ly Mcclellan, whose record for pa
tronage grabbing must by this time
have set some kind of worlds rec.
ord, has tried for LilienthaPs scalp.
Truman has gone out of his way
to extend traditional courtesy to
Mcclellan as president of the Sem
ate. He has invited him to sit in
cabinet meetings. But if he had
yielded to the stubborn Tennessee.
an, it would have been a signal
that Congress was to call the turn
on all touchy issues.
It will be interesting to see how
substantial is the opposition that
developes in the Senate to Lilien-
thaPs confirmation. In sense. it
will be a test for the Republicans
who pledged themselves to cooper
ate with the new President.
They can scarcely regard this
as a party issue, since newspapers
of all shades of opinion have ap-
plauded the Lilienthal appointment.
The issue has little to do with par
ty. There are many democrats, con-
spicuously Senators Bankhead and
Hill Of Alabama, who are as keen
for Lilienthal as Mcclellan is bitter
against him.
Reports are current, perhaps in
spired by Mcclellan himself, that
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Chinese Begin New
Drive In Human Area

CHUNGKING, May 9-tP>-lns
Chinese High Command annouM'
ed today that Chinese forces IN hu'
nan province launched a fresh gen,
eral counter offensive yesteTua!
and broke through japanese linF'
at several points. u,
The Chinese right wing reachsu
positions south of the man mgr
way to the American ali base cl a
of Chihkiang near Tungko"' "
miles away, the war bulletin sdi"
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inland, apparently near where we
nad just come from.
But no bullets came our way,
and soon 1 was back on the PIT.
cooling off at 30-knot speed on the
way back to the cruiser.
In the next few pieces I will tell
you something about the two weeks
I have spent on this ship.
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Lee Miller Covers The Pacific

and blown up bridges were i'm
peding the tanks: The troops were
proceeding cautiously, with. few
casualties, and the commanders
seemed satisfied with the progress.
Our little procession presently re-
turned to the pier, and as we
were boarding Admiral Royal
barge we heard brisk fire start up
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-05-10
BY LEE G. MILLER

ABOARD A CRUISER IN THE
CELEBES SEA-(by wireless)-
My D-Day landing on Tarakan Is
land having been woefully short of
dignity, since I hit the shore out
of breath and scrambling for COW
err, decided to try again on D.
plus-one.
. This time I took couple of
rear admirals and assorted other
officers along 70 make it more Of
fetal.
During pause on the way
ashore l was below decks on a PIT
boat reading a fistful of mail which
had just arrived by courier plane
from Manila. So 1 missed seeing a
Jap shell of maybe three-inch cali
Der hit the water a hundred-odd
yards from us. That's what a batch
of mail does to you out here.
Well, the PIT with Adnirals For
rest Royal and Russell Eerkey and
the rest of Us headed for the south
ern pier where I'd had trouble the
day before. I mumbled to Admiral
Berkey that maybe it might be
more comfortable to shift 70 a
smaller boat that could take us
clear to the inner end of the pier,
so that we wouldn't have to do a
tightrope act, maybe under fire, on
the pipelines spanning those three
breaches in the pier timbers.
The admiral thought the Aussies
would have repaired the gaps by
now, so we clambered onto the
pier and set out.
The first two breaches on the
400-yard pier had been patched
somewhat all right. But when we
got to the third one-the big one
it was still a gaping abyss, with
only the pipes to cross on.
The admirals looked, hesitated,
pondered, and came to the judi
cious conclusion that maybe the
northern pier might be better. So
our little column did rightabout.
Admiral Royal Communicated an
LCVP and we proceeded to the
north pier, which was intact.
You don't go around saying to
admirals, II told you So" but a
certain smugness may have crept
into my expression.
It was low tide, and the muddy
shore still bore deep tracks left by
the boots of the Australian assault
infantry that plunged ashore on
D-Day from small boats. Small
craft were fast in the mud here
and there. A bulldozer named Miss
Vermont was begged in yard-deep
muck. But trucks of many kinds
were plying the beach and roads,
in some places over steel airstrip
mating laid on sheets of fiber to
thwart the oozy mud. Big. LISTS
were unloading onto causeways
prefabricated from huge metal
tubes and floated in on D-Day.
Aussie troops were everywhere.
saw one with two fresh-killed
ducks and a look of happy antici.
patton. Others were sleeping or
cots, protected slightly from the
broiling sun by sheets of tin roof.
ing placed over mosquito-net
braces.
A cluster of oil tanks was IN utter
ruin. Some fires still burned. Shell
holes gaped. Areas of several acres
were burned and blasted till literal
ly nothing remained. But despite
five days of our Smelling and bomb.
ing plus Jap demolitions, number
of fragile native houses looked in.
tact, and several big Jap pillboxes
had an unscathed appearance. The
Japs apparently had decided tc
abandon them unnamed and
make their stand at an airstrip,
which on D-plrs-one was still be.
ing held:
We made our way to the tent Of
troops. We learned that electrically
controlled land mines were slowing
the Aussie advance on the airstrip,
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Fair Enough

Editors note.-The Star and the News
accept no responsibility for the personal
. views of Mr.. Pegler, and often disagree
with them as much as many of his read
ers. His articles serve the good purpose
OF making peon!e Think
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CLERGYMAN WORKS FAST

CAMBRIDGE. Mass, May u
MD-A Cambridge patrolman tois
up a ticket he had issued 70 :,
clergynan.driver when the cis' :.
explained, "Officer, you have =
hustle if you're goin to save sous.