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were these related developments
at home and abroad:
/. Any increase in meat prices
to consumers - or any immedi-
ate increase in meat supplies for
them - faded as possibilities of
the Senate's fod investigation.
2. The American Farm Bureau
Federation's Livestock Commit
tee contended pork and beef are
scarce because Washington Of
ficials planned II this way"
3. The British House of Com
mons heard a protest that Eng
lishmen could not be expected,
to wear their belts any tight
er" than Americans.
4. A new congressional food
See RATlONlNG-Page !
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Tanks Capture
Mannheim .
BY Telephone!

NEW YORK, March 29-The
British radio said today that
Mannheim had capitulated to
United States troops by tele-
phone.
An American officer heard
the telephone ring in a building
held by his troops, BIC said in
broadcast to Germany report
ed by the Office of War Infor-
nation. When he lifted the re-
ceiver. he heard voice saying:
This is an official of the
Mannheim municipal admins
tration speaking. Please cease
See MANNHEIM-PaGe 2
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least one INSTANCE, an employee
of a Mount Clemens dairy was
so unacquainted with his func-
tons as operator of the pasteur-
ization equipment that he did
not even know the purpose of
his duties.
WARN TOURISTS
DR.. DeKleine's statement yes
terday followed a whitening at
tack upon what he termed a
Sinking milk situation" by the
famous author, Paul DeKruif,
who announced that he is writ
ing new book for national pub
LEGATION warning that tourists
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u. S. Transports Stream Into Ryukyu<
Improper Milk Safeguards
Prompt Warnings to Visitors

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Boat Explosion

The Selfridge Field fire de-
partment Wednesday night an.
swered a call at 2705 Jefferson
avenue where a power-boat ex.
plosion had menaced the boat
house in which it was sheltered
The boat was owned by Hobart
Pennington. No one was injured
in the blast.
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German 'Tankfst'
Hailed as Weapon
to Halt Invasion

LONDON, March 20 -R -
The Nazi News Agency DNB
told the Germans in a home
service broadcast today that An
glo-American tank forces sweep
ing toward Berlin from the west
could be defeated with a weapon
similar to the American bazoo-
ka.
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DIR. DeKleine told the Mon
itOr-Leader today that he felt
his departments health expert,
Charles Gotta, had been SUBJ
jected to discourteOus treat
ment and utter lack of coop
Grafton when he appeared be-
for the Mount Clemens city
commission on Dec. IL in an
effort to safeguard the health
OF the people in this area.
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I r o m, a n d Is
C h e C k ing her
com p e titi o n
carefully.
S III l II L E Y
ID U p r E Y OF
T X o o p Is
IS e n i ~: Il
hope we win -
we can get q
troop flag with
I h e. p r ! z e
money" She is
lining up h e r
fri en- d s an d
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Following are representative
comments from various troop
members:
PATTY HENNING OF TROOP
10 intermediary: Its a swell
idea! hope our troop wins"
Patty Is making a list of all the
people she can collect vote tags
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Sharp Ration
Shifts Made
Pork, Canned Goods
Allotment Sloshed
Nv the Associated Press

WASHINGTON, March 20 -
OPA today posted new and high
er April ration point values for
two canned vegetables - peas
and asparagus - as we'll as for
pork, pork products and fats and
oils.
AS housewives thus received
another reminder that many food
items are growing scarcer, there
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Tokyo Reports
Invasion Move
u. s. Commanders
Still Remain Mum
BY LEONARD MILLIMAN
tsA rAitne

Associated Press War Editor
Japanese reported American
transports were moving into the
Central Ryukyu chain today
where unprecedently large us.
naval forces, pounding out a
week Of air and ship lombard
ments, left no doubt they were
preparing for another major in
vasion.
Tokyo radio said Okinawa,
325 miles south of Japan, was
the major objective; that 40 to
80" transports were trying to
reinforce U. S. troops already
on the Kerama Islands Is miles
to the west: and that American
movements indicated landing at
tempts also against Okino Daito,
nearly ESQ miles southeast of
Okinawa.
NO CONFIRMATION
American commanders said
nothing about any of this but
did announce their carrier and
land-based planes hit 43 hippo
nese ships and destroyed 80
planes. An enemy communique
claimed 80 American warships
were sunk and IA damaged in
See PACIFIC-Page 2
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LONDON, March 29-Rus-
sian troops have crossed the
Austrian frontier, the Free
Austrian and the Brussels rad
los said today. The Austrian
radio said several border viii
lagos in Burgenland province
had been seized.
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"a list Of new red point
values for April appears on
Page 8 Of todays' edition Of
the Monitor-Leader).
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PATRIOTIC ENDEAVOR
GirLsMap 7qgPickups

The enthusiasm of the citys $50 Girl Scouts in Mondays
Vote which
by adults local goingy today
in the words of the girls. themselves.
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Kelly Offers
Solution to
Tax-Distress

LANSING, March 20 - Up
Governor Kelly today drew
blueprint which he said would
be "the orderly way" for the
Legislature to proceed in pro-
viding additional aid to finan-
ally-diStressed local govern
mental units.
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The big Stain tanks and ar
mored cars of Marshal Feodor
Tolbukhin's third Ukrainian
Army, smashing ahead from cap
tured Csorna, hammered at the
defenses of Pamhagen, 80 miles
southeast of Vienna, St. Johann
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He said he desires that the
Legislature first adopt the
See TAXES-Page 2
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Great Russian
Arlll6red Force
periI5 Vienna
Red Army Now
Poised at Edge Of
Noxi Fortified Zone

LONDON, March 20 - R)-
The Red Army, lancing through
the shattered defenses Of the
Bradshaw gap in the Danube
Valley, has reached places
along the Austrian frontier, It
was reported from Moscow to-
Evening star., 1945-07-22
Breton Woods Rutified

The Breton Woods agreements
are not perfect, but in completing
ratification of them Congress has
taken essential action to insure
American participation in common
international effect to restore the
world to economic health. More
over, as the first nation to ratify,
the United States again demons
trates to all nations that it's active
cooperation can be counted upon
in the next peace.
Under the agreements there will be
established an international bank
for reconstruction and development,
and an international monetary fund
for currency stabilization. The
capital of the bank will be $780,
00o, 1000, some three billions of which
will be subscribed by this country,
while the funds resources will total
$4,000 ,0O0, 900, of which $2,750 900 900
will be American money. In relation
to other member nations, our con-
tribution will be by far the greatest,
but that is in keeping with our lead
ing economic position and the in
veStment may be considered sound
in the sense and to the degree that
we prosper as the world prospers.
There is no magic, of course in
either the bank or fund. They will
not of themselves cure the worlds
economic ills. Indeed, although the
bank is accepted almost universally
as good and essential agency, more
than few experts, despite congress
sional ratification. still believe that
there are serious flaws in the fund.
Nevertheless. by making it possible
through the bank to put war torn
countries back on their feet and by
setting up fund mechanisms to
stabilize money, the Breton Woods
Evening star., 1945-07-22
Desert Grapes
By The Req. r. Paul Schearrer, D. D.,
Pastor OF the Takonla Park Presbyterian Church.

Our generation is engulfed in a
wilderness of woe and despair. We
need not restate or analyze the
causes that have brought us where
we are. They are altogether too
painfully familiar Far more profit
able would it be for us to ask: Can
any good thing come out of desert
experience? Even a world convulsion
would not be in vain were it to lead
to world conversion.
The more directly we relate this
vast theme to our own individual
lives, the more we can hope to profit
personally. We have become VIC
timized by the size and scope of
current problems. We have grown
so accustomed to the terms "global'
and humanity" that we are inclined
to forget that we ourselves are the
units that compose the race and
human society. The Big Three with
their stats of expert advisers will
seek to find way out of the Wilder
ness in which the nations find them
selves. Each one of us must work
out the solution Of his own personal
problems.
There are periods In our lives that
resemble deserts: Seasons, when life
grows stale; stretches of illness and
enforced inactivity, times of separa-
tion and sorrow, a span of years,
maybe, which seems arid and drab,
due to our isolation or even imagi-
nation. In such desert experiences,
can we find any grapes of re-
freshment, inspiration or comfort?
Through the Prophet Hosea, God
assured the disconsolate Hebrews:
IT will bring you into the wilderness
and speak comfortably to you. And
I will give you your vineyards from
thence" We have Gods promise:
There are grapes in the desert.
u u X
Our life on this planet is made
possible by an unbroken supply of
atmospheric dust, essential in the
formation Of rain clouds. Whence
comes this indispensable dust? From
those blemishes of nature known
as VOLCANOES and deserts. Without
this veil of dust between the earth
Evening star., 1945-07-22

agreements - however imperfect
they may be - constitute an irn-
portant forward step toward inter-
national recovery, encouraging alike
to international investment and in
ternational trade. To that extent
they are likely to benefit every parti-
cipating nation, our own not least Of
all. Without them, or without some
thing very much like them, we could
only i.avite, as Secretary Morgenthau
once declared, a situation in which
each power again would pursue its
own aims separately through the
planless, senseless rivalry that
divided us in the past, or through
the outright economic aggression
which turned neighbors into enc
mics"
Accordingly, although they can
have at best only limited success
unless supplemented by such other
measures as the adoption of sound
internal fiscal policies by the mem
ber- countries, the Breton Woods
agreements may be regarded as a
historic and highly promising peace
building instrument. And it seems
particularly fitting, in view of our
prime economic position, that we are
first among the nations in ratifying
them. Certainly, If words and actions
mean anything, there can no longer
be any doubt abroad about the
earnestness of American intentions
to collaborate in the postwar world.
Evening star., 1945-07-22

and sun, we would shrivel upJ May
this serve as an analogy of life for
us? Dull, colorless and tedious years,
when the mind may be fallow or
the soul In straits, we call deserts"
BY the love and mercy of God. we
may find grapes in these deserts.
How rich has been the harvest
of desert grapesl One of the re-
warding inspirations of biographical
reading is the recurring revelation
of how men triumphed against great
odds; how they stubbornly refused
to let the sand prevent them from
seeing the grapes Of the desert.
Moses, from mountainous wilder
ness, came forth with the Ten Com
mandments. What are they but
desert grapes? Paul, as Roman
prisoner, penned several of his i'm
mortal letters. What are these but
desert grapes? Luther, confined in
the castle of Wartburg, did not
whine or whimper, but set to work
to give his people translation of
the Bible in their own tongue. An
other desert grape! So, also, John
Bunyan wrote his Pilgrims Prog
ress" while imprisoned at Bedford.
Still another desert grape! Milton.
having lost his sight, wrote not only
Paradise, Lost" but Paradise Re-
gained" More desert grapes! Ker-
nahan, armless and legless from
birth, sat in the British Parliament
before he died. Stevenson, invalided
and isolated in the South Seas, wrote
stories that have entertained the
world. Beethoven, though deaf,
composed deathless symphonies.
What are all these but desert grapes?
One of the most amazing develop
ments of our day is occupational
therapy. The reconstruction of
broken bodies and the restoration
of handicapped lives are almost be-
yond belief. What an abundant
harvest of desert grapes before our
very eyes!
The function of religious faith
is to enable a person. in spite of
the sands, to find the grapes of the
desert.
Evening star., 1945-07-22
Brook Spot

Before automobiles began racing
I'D and down the roads of the land
and the dirt roads gave way to strips
of concrete or macadam, there was
a time when brook spots served a
purpose. These spots were the
places where farmer drove through
the brook-around the weather
grayed, splintered-planked bridges
that crossed small creeks and
streams.
In the heat of midsummer, farm
ers on the way to and from town
liked to drive the team into the
brook and let the horses stand knee
high in the water. 1t was good for
the horses hoofs to stay in the
mud a few minutes-kept the hoofs
from cracking and splitting in the
dry time of year. Good it was also
for the fellies of the wheels-swelled
the wooden rims and kept the wood
tight against the outer band of iron.
Brook spots served their utilita-
rian purposes we'll But if by good
chance lad had the opportunity
to drive to town on an errand, a
brook spot was place of pleasant
interlude. While the Morgan mares
stood in the water and whisked
their tails at the fiies,.a barefooted
boy could roll his overalls high above
his knees and investigate the dim,
damp mysteriousness beneath the
bridge. 1t was high adventure in
mountain climbing to Chamber along
the slippery, wet, moss-covered
Evening star., 1945-07-22

when runaway team came dashing by.
The driver had lost control of the horses
and the toccupantssof the carriage were
in immediate danger of being thrown
out and probably hurt. without hesi-
tating moment, the young man rushed
out into the street and threw himself
at the front of the maddened animals
and grasped the reins. He was dragged
along for some distance but finally man
aged to bring the horses to a stop. The
occupants of the carriage were a
wealthy Frenchman and mis- wife who
were visiting in the city. When the
gentleman from France reached New
York, he had magnificent gold medal
made by one of the leading jewelers. of
that city and sent it on to the man who
had saved his life" Mr.. johnson, a
shy young man, was embarrassed by
the gift, "but the story finally leaked
out and now people are talking about
his daring and courage"
Evening star., 1945-07-22

rocks that formed the foundation
for the bridges -timbers. There
might be long, sinewy water snake
curled on one of the big base rocks;
there were likely snails and frogs.
Sometimes, if one we're lucky, he
caught glimpse of the OF king
trout that, according to local legend,
had been living in the deep hole for
many years. Yes, brook spot was
good place. 1t served a needed
function in the summertime-fo
farm equipment, horses and boys.
Evening star., 1945-07-22
Jopun's Air Force

There is more tnan little cir
cumstantial evidence to support
Admiral Mitscher's belief that the
Japanese are not holding back"
their air force against the day of
invasion, but rather that the en-
emy's combat planes, or such of
them as may be left, are grounded
for lack of some essential, possibly
gasoline.
From time to time Japanese
propagandiStS inform us that their
air force, including new weapons, is
being kept under wraps, waiting for
the opportune moment to strike a
telling blow. Presumably, we are to
understand this to mean that the
enemy flyers will come out of hiding
when we invade their home islands,
and that they will then seek to in
flict the greatest possible damage
on us. But that is not the function
of defending air force.
If the japanese had wanted to
use their air force to best advan-
tage, and if they had had the
strength, they would have made
greater air effort at Two Jima, and
certainly they would have held back
nothing to prevent the loss of
Okinawa, for with that base in our
hands the defense of Japan be-
comes hopeless. If it be assumed,
however, that some obscure strate-
gical concept dictated contrary
course in those instances, it is even
more difficult to believe that the
Japanese commanders have will
ingly grounded their air force while
our fleet has been bombing and
Shelling the main islands. These
attacks, coupled with the relentless
pounding from the B-29s, are doing
enormous damage to Japan. With
each unchallenged assault, the en-
eny'S ability to resist invasion de-
creases. Furthermore, if the enemy
flyers are looking for prize targets,
what more could they ask than the
big battleships and cruisers which
cruise so boldly in the waters
around Japan2 If these ships were
to be knocked out, our invasion
plans would be seriously set back,
and the mere fact that the Japa-
nese have not tried to destroy them
strongly indicates that they lack the
means of doing so.
That the japanese fully under
stand the real function of air power
is indicated by the context of a
recent broadcast by Admiral San
kichi Takahashi Addressing him
self to the Japanese people, he said
that Japan's earlier successes were
due to the fact that their air force
had overwhelmed American air
power. He was referring to the
early stages of the war, and, with
our fleet knocked out, there is no
doubt that in such places as the
Philippines, for instance, it was the
inability of American air power to
meet the challenge of the Japanese
air force which contributed most to
our defeat. But now the tables
have been turned, and we find
Admiral Takahashi telling his peo-
pie that the present inability of
their navy to fight does not mat
ter "as long as the air force, which
is the main strength, is sound and
healthy"
That manifestly is an admission
that the japanese have been
brought to the point where only air
power can shield them from inva-
sion. And, while we should be on
our guard against false hopes, the
fact remains that Japan'S air force,
if sound and healthy" is behaving
veru STRANGELY indeed
Evening star., 1945-07-22
Shukeup in Spain

When France was reorganizing its
national life after the collapse of
the Napoleonic empire in the de-
bacle of 1870, the question of mon
archy versus republic was the burn
ing issue. The problem was solved
in terms of formula uttered by
leading statesman of the day.. 1.-The
republic is the form of government
which divides us least"
If one substitutes the word mon
archy' for republic" this appears
to be the policy on which Generals
simo Franco is proceeding, his latest
move being drastic shakeup of his
cabinet whereby members of the
Falange party are replaced by mon
archists, this action coming hard on
the heels of his declaration that
Spain is entering the preparatory
period for return of the monarchy.
Whether Frances intentions are
constructive or are mere maneu-
yer to keep himself in power, GER
tain it is that Spain's political sit
uation is so extraordinarily complex
that case can be made out for the
establishment of the monarchy,
in a liberal, constitutional sense, as
the best method of averting a re-
newal of civil war.
In the first place, it should be
understood that the civil war of
decade ago was collision between
rival coalitions each of which con-
tanned within itself disharmonic
elements. The Spanish republic
was an uneasy combination of mod
crate Republicans, Socialists, Com
munists, Anarchists and Regional
lists, like the Galatians and Basques.
The Franquist revolt was supported
by the army, the church, two brands
of Royalists and the movement
known as the Falange, which aimed
at an authoritarian corporate
state" clerical in character and
more like the SalaZar regime in
Portugal than either Fascist Italy
or Nazi Germany. Frances most
fanatical followers were the Falan-
gists and the ultra-conservative
Royalists known as "traditionalistS,
who wanted a return to absolute
monarchy rather than revival of
the constitutional monarchy of the
nineteenth century.
One of Francois first political
tasks was to weld these and other
divergent elements into a unified
organization under his control. Ac-
cordingly, in the spring of 1887, they
were combined into single political
party with the significantly hybrid
name of "Falange Espanola Ira
dicionalista y de las j. o. N. S." At
that moment the Falange was the
most influential factor, and its
power increased with the Axis vic
tories in the early years of the Euro
pean war. But the military turn of
the tide involved corresponding
decrease in Falange prestige in
favor of monarchical and clerical
elements, who had always viewed
the Falange ideal with distrust.
Franco now appears ready to liqui-
date the Falange in favor of con-
servative regime purged of the taint
of Fascism, which might hope to
gain the support of Britain and
forestall a revolutionary upheaval.
Meanwhile, the exiled leaders of the
former republic have thus far been
unable to agree among themselves,
the moderates and extremists diff
fering widely as to their interpre-
tation of what sort of a republic
should be re-established If the en-
tire Franco regime collapses or is
overthrown.
Evening star., 1945-07-22

Ordinary people disagree with the
painters about modern art. Few of
them ever have heard of George
Moore, but many of them seem to
share his notion that what is wrong
with most Of 1t is that there is no
innocency left in 1t.
Evening star., 1945-07-22
Lubor Leadership
Christian Science Monitor.

From the Christian Science Monitor.
1t takes the courage and leadership
which has built up the labor movement
to maintain 1T In order. Union leaders
who are willing to face-down vociferous
minorities. instead Of allowing them
selves to be browheaten, do an indis-
pensable service to their unions and TO
the public.
Evening star., 1945-07-22

Norway used to be an attraction
to visitors as the Land Of the Mid
night Sun, but 1t win be long time
before 1t has as many visitors as
will soon be going to Japan, the
Land Of the Midnight Fire.
Evening star., 1945-07-22

When the Japs at last surrender,
they should be reminded that they
started the Pacific aspect of "this
double war" by refusing to heed the
civilized practice of nations when
about to engage in hostilities: "Ye
shall blow an alarm with the trum-
pets" See Numbers, x.9.
Evening star., 1945-07-22

II the oDT would enforce laun-
dry ban against unnecessary ravel-
ing we could put our shirt on a
horse at Laurel this fall, II there is
q horse there that can walk from
somewhere else,