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| Obviously it is Mr.. Truman's intention to Use
the WPB as the agency through which ne
hopes to get reconversion speedily under way
This is contrary to the boards previous belle.
that 1t would be eased out of existence as
quickly as it could be done without handicaping
governmental functions. We may assume than,
that the President proposes to use certain
special wartime bureaus as long as they car
serve useful purpose, under his supervision
In his letter to Mr.. Krug ne made no re-
ference to the quarrel between WPB and CPA
over pricing which leads to the supposition
that with most of the OPA's operations now
committed to the efficient guidance OF Secre-
tary OF Agriculture Anderson, it will not be so
forward with its oppressive policies and may,
indeed be destined for quick dissolution.
However this may be, it is upon the WPB
that President Truman places the heavy bur-
den OF inplementing reconversion. Perhaps it's
methods which sped war production to unprec.
edented levels will be equally effective in the
return to postwar production. We can only
hope that they are.
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More Bombs Needed?

In replying to the japanese offer to accept
the Potsdam terms of surrender if Hirohito is
permitted to remain on the throne,l President
Truman made one serious error, and with him
the other Allied powers directly associated in
ending the Pacific war.
He did not specify time in which Tokyo
should reply,
AS consequence the Tokyo radio broadcast
a Domei report Monday morning that the Of
hc1al text OF the Allied reply to the Japanese
governments offer of surrender had just been
received through the Swiss legation, although it
had left the White House on Saturday morning,
and from Admiral Nimitzs headquarters Sun
day night came the announcement that major
United States warship had been struck by an
enemy aerial torpedo
This proves two things; First, that the Jap.
anese are playing for time and, secondly, that
they will seek every possible opportunity for
treachery as long as they remain armed.
Having set no time limit on their acceptance
of surrender terms as laid down for the Allied
forces by President Truman, we may expect
that they will delay their answer to the ulti-
adds credence to this belief is found in a Lon
don report Of Stockholm radiocast which
says that Hirohito would ask the Swedish king
to act as his intermediary "since he would
consider it possible to negotiate only through
a person of royal BIRTH.
Negotiate? This is not to be negotiated
peace. 1t must be a dictated peace, with ia
pan doing what she is told The fact that the
word crops up at all indicates the Japanese
have still to be convinced they are defeated
The rest of the world knows it. Will it be
necessary to drop more atomic bombs on
Japanese population centers, including Tokyo
the seat of government, to force that fact home
to them?
There is qualification in the news that Amer.
lean air forces renewed their attacks after a
twentyfour hour suspension. This might be
enough. But there is no reason to withhold fur.
Their atomic bomb assaults if Japan decides to
keep up the fighting. And they should not be
long delayed.
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longer that | wing in China used
to be a junket, or that the Chinese
are suffering, or that the Japanese
are brutal. The Nipponese robbed
our expatriates, apparently, OF ev.
erything except manuscripts, and
for every refugee to return on the
Gripsholm, there has been a+slast
one book.
There are, however, excellent
decorations by Peggy Bacon.
Twilight Bar, by Arthur Koestler
(MacMillan; ST.
His first and last PLAY. this is
defined by the author as an "es-
cape in four acts" An island re.
public is warned by strangers
rom another planet that unless in
three days happiness is achieved
in our world, we shall all be wiped
out to make room for better peo-
pile. Reactionaries. liberals and
Reds fail to redeem us, but a
gossip columnist succeeds. Then
when fear of extinction IS removed
we lapse again into quarreling.
Though a neutral observer might
decide this world was far from
perfect, would not expect a COS.
sip-columnist government to i'm.
prove us. But it's certainly a boost
for a section of the press and all
very ingenious.
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Local Teacher Chosen

Ment on was made in these columns recent
ly to the university being set up in England
for American troops quartered there. 1t was
noted that large number of civilian teachers
from the United States were to be on the
faculty, along with former teachers still in
the armed services
Now it turns out that a New Hanover High
school teacher has been chosen. He is T. w.
Poplin, chief engineer of refrigeration at Camp
Davis. and for the past year and one-half in.
structor in refrigeration at night classes in
the high school vocational department.
Mr.. Poplin is being transferred to the War
Department for tour OF duty on August 20,
and will be assigned to teach refrigeration in
the Army's training program. He received his
training at North Carolina State and the Frigi.
daire Corporation, and has been engaged in his
chosen field of endeavor since 1926. At the
high school he conducted threes eighteen-week
courses. Approximately 4 hundred men com.
pleted his course
Wilmington is honored to have one OF its
teachers selected for the university faculty in
England
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WPB Gets Big Job

President Truman has put it up to the War
Production Board to do good job in getting
reconversion started in big way In his lette,
to the chairman of the board ]. A. Krug he
insists that the board use the same methods
in turning industry back to peacetime produc
ton it found it SO successful in building up wa,
production. He cited five planks ne wished
employed in the reconversion program:
/. Expansion of production of materials
now in short supply.
2. Limitation on manufacture of products
for which materials are not yet available.
3. Control of inventories to avoid hoard
ing and unbalanced distribution
4. Granting of priority assistance to break
production bottlenecks.
S. ALLEGATION OF scarce materials for the
production of low-priced items essential to
the sterilization program.
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Wait A Few Minutes

The erroneous flash of Japan's surrender
which went over United Press wires on Sun
day night and for which the United Press de.
mics responsibility all but started national
celebration which could have ended only in
heart-ache and disappointment for millions.
Because the United Press was not tardy in its
invest cation of the false report and in repudi-
ating it, and radio broadcasters as promptly
passed the contradiction on to their listeners
a bogus celebration was nipped in the bud
Whether the flash was sent by practical
joker or sensation seeker, who invaded Unit.
ed Press printer room and broke in on the
regular service giving the Washington sym.
boil, while no member of the staff was looking
is not known but this is not as CONSEQUENTIAL
as the creation OF system for handling
Hashes' by broadcasters which would pre-
vent repetition of such a hoax at any time in
the future.
This could be done if broadcasters, through
their association, adopted rule prohibiting
broadcasting a flash for at least five min.
utes after it received. The "kll' nm the
sunday night flash was sent by the United
Press in less than three minutes and broad.
casters Immediately put it on the air. If thew
had been under obligation to allow five minutes
to pass before giving out the original. no re.
traction would have been necessary.
Naturally radio stations want to give their
listeners outstanding news as promptly as thew
can speak into the mike. If, through action of
the association, they were required to let =
little time pass before flashing unverified re.
ports, the course of world events could not
possibly be changed nor the people harmed
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Editorial Comment
REATs THE MOVIES

Truth is not only stranger than fiction when
If cares to show what it can do, but it also out
does the movies Only few DAYS ago, for ex-
annie a large barrel of mucilage fell off a
truck that was going along Avenue on New
Works East Side The container burst wide
open and in order automobiles mlred down,
pedestrians lost their shoes a morse craving
~. ~ w. CON stuck and then fell, and confu.
CIV, VAS generally more prevalent than amuse-
, Too,r The films have done things with wet
ineae .rd soft tar, but imagine barrel OF
' ceT IN the loose! 1t is in the bracket
m nnn sn eeo in an electric fan autono-
h hHeV ru m at speed into load of kindng
We sternly reject the idea that it would n ne
good thing to say that Aven 4ar was Mernnhis
worse stuck up than Park fA"e'oe-
Commercial Appeal.
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[around this ship-had an expert
ence such as he never had as a
native OF Dallas.
He was roaring down on a road.
Suddenly, smack in front of his
gunsights, an elderly Japanese was
sedately driving horse and buggy.
1t. Robert Spafford, a peacetime
free lance writer who halls from
Hollywood, Is a combat camera
man who has taken few pictures
of Kanikaze suicide planes COM
ing head-on. He took movie shots
of a burning Japanese plane from
the sky to the surface and wears
shrapnel scar on his forehead
received when a bomb hit the car
rier Hancock.
Ice cream, a somewhat e
commodity. has taken the fancy
of English ships of this task force,
as borne out by the British de-
stroyer which sided up alongside
this big carrier.
what do they want. 1 wonder
unused seaman. Il heard thew
asked for a can of ice cream, "
replied another. He must have
been right for in a minute cylin-
der was sent over by the British
ship and it moved off with a lot
of tanned Englishmen lining the
rails, waving and grinning
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Bystander Finds Navy Can Be Mixed Up
Affair To Those Who Are Not In Know

operation of planes, regarding
postwar plans yielded concise il
not enlightening answers.
Walter L. Broughton, aviation
machinists' mate, first class, State
Hospital, Raleigh, N. c.: I'm go
ing to get out as soon as I can
when the war ends, then maybe
marriage"
Ted Elias, aviation machinists
mate, third class. st. Paul Mimi,
formerly employed by an under
taking parlor: II dunno"
Eugene Calabrese, aviation ma
chinists mate. second class, Des-
plains, Ill, mo plans
One of the incest Navy customs
besides not serving dehydrated po-
tatoes every meal is serenading
by the ships band Of fueling YES
sells working alongside.
The other day, a big tanker
pitching alongside did not come in
close enough so the band PLAYED
"Cuddle up a Little Closer And
for a minute it looked like the
tanker was coming aboard. The
crews seem to work better with a
little 1--WE.
Flying fighter plane over the
japanese countryside frequently
can result in STRANGE SIGHTS. I can
iawed John T. O'Neill-'Tex"-
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DailyPrayer
FOR OUR FATHERS RELIGION

eve have heard with our edis'
o God, our fathers have lolu w.
what work Thou didst IN 'AsA
days in the times of the old -
For they got not the lana III pOJ
session by their own s"oiu
neither d d their own ann saw
them; but Thy right hand DIV r.r
Thine arm, and the light o, IA!
countenance, because Thou i 1sls,
a favor unto them. AS InVa
vast with our fathers 50
Eternal and Almighty one, be WIZ w.
us today. May the faith Oh W.
fathers burn brightly IN our SoI"
Teach us to trust Thee as Tu-,
and love Thee as Loyalty as ~
our cody ancestors. ohy Nt ~,
Thee can come the victory
which we daily pray we wUs'
put ourselves wholly in Thy na r.o'
that we may do whatever Inv.
commandest, so that the enoS v,
seek may be in conformity . W..
Thy holy will. In humble oD
ence and con dence, we 'o !. Nj
our Cause to Thee, 0 Goa u
fathers. Amen.-W.T.E.
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with John S. Potter (MacMil-
Ian; $3.50.
Two Chinas, old and new, the
one at peace and the other at
war, fill this book with sharp con-
trasts.
Miss Booker, who has lived in
the Orient 20 years and been an
International News Service CORES
pondent, recalls in nostalgia pages
the China that used to be, or the
China she used to know, an i'm.
poverished country with i'll
dubitable advantages for well-to-
do, resident Americans.
Aga INST the ancient idyl she sets
the bleak facts of Japanese ag-
erosion and war. Potter, her hus.
band, an "old China hand" stayed
ter she had returned to the U. S.
to look after their children. His
part of the book covers intern
ment in Shanghai and repatriation
on the Gripsholm when it also
brought back Emily Hahn, Carl
Mydans and his novelist wife and
Russell Brines of the APP.
It's a fair to middiing book. 1t
won't hurt you to read it, nor help
you much. Few Of US doubt any
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 13.-REIt:
war job finished, congress today
faced the challenging task of level
ing off the bumps on the road
back to peace.
Members will return to the CAPT
tai early next month, probably on
September 4, if committees get.
ting ready to start work within the
week can have program ready
for consideration.
The recovering will put an end
to what the legislators had hoped
would be their longest vacation
since the war began. When they
left Washington several weeks
ago, they arranged to return on
October and many even now are
touring Europe. Others are getting
ready to sail.
The sudden setting of Japan
sun and the stark necessity OF do.
ing something to ease the transl-
ton from war to approaching
peace led to the decis. on to re-
convene congress ahead Of sched-
ule.
There has been no actual call.
Its date depends on the progress
committees can NAKED in the next
three weeks on a five-point pro-
gram that will receive must
rating when the members return.
No one on capitol hill denies that
the job ahead will be difficult. The
one thing essential for the war
effort that p o m o e. SEM
blance of harmony during the last
four years probably will be but
an historic phrase next month.
Many leg slators fear that pol
tics as usual will be the slogan
in congress from now on, especial
ly with congressional elections
coming next year.
To the five-point program out
lined by Senate Majority Leader
Barkley (Ky.) after conference
last Saturday with President Tru-
man, individual members undoubt-
edly will add dozen or more
points of their own. In many
are the seeds OF some firstclass
congressional fights.
II congressional leaders have
their way, top calendar spot will
go to legislation to liberalize the
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By RICHARD O'MALLEY
Substituting for Kenneth L, Dixol

SUBSTITUTING for Kenneth L. Dixon
ABOARD ADMIRAL MCCAIN s
FLAGSHIP OFF JAPAN up -
Things can seem mixed up in the
Navy to a bystander. Take the
case of Herman Brandenberg, sea.
man second class. of Nashua, N.
H., who was a high school boy
a year ago before quitting to joil,
the Navy.
Replying to a query as to what
his duties are, he replied, Il am
mess cook and I wait on table,
but I am really gunner and my
job is manning the 40 rnillimeter
guns. Then he sat down before a
piano on the hanger deck and beat
out a tropic rendition of Deep
Purple"
That brings us to James G.
Grady combat photographer first
class. Goodnatured. Navy wise
Grady was a St. Augustine, Fla .
policeman before joining the fleet.
He has flown 80 combat missions,
taking pictures. To point up the
original paragraph, Grady once
held a commission in the Army
Reserve.
Questioning three flight chack
crew members who have the job
of taking care of complaints on
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or consolidating agencies and blu.
reaus with overlapping or nom
vital functions.
Streamlining of the surplus prop
erty disposal program, with SUBJ
stitution of one-man control for the
existing three-man authority.
Continuation or abolition of nu-
merous War-born agencies set up
to steer the civilian economy dur
ing the war. The fight will be over
what civilian agencies should be
retained,
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TOP o. THE MORNING

Billy Sunday once said in sermon:
"Our old ship of state was launched in
prayer. In the constitutional convention
Benjamin Franklin, who had taken his
Turkish bath in French infidelity, but who
had too much sense to be an infidel all
the same, got up and said, I'VE cannot
form republic without Gods aid; there
fore, move you, sir, that this convention
be opened with prayer" The Constitution
of the United States was Graded in prayer.
The infant republic was nourished with
prayer.
Charles Haddon Nabers.
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Kansas City Physician :,
May Get Truman '''

WASHINGTON, Aug III. g. T,,.
1t. Col. Wallace GRAHAM VI @ors6r.
sas City will be APPOINTED r p'r5
al physician to President / UNIV
it was learned today. .,s
Graham, medical officer office If n tx Il.
Army, is a personal frienq 1, vi
President. He visited Mr. '' al.
to discuss the appointment Oh
urday. ,iT
The employment probably ably s ID.
become effective after w. .os T,
miral Ross T. Mcintyre ft ;.nnenI.
Washington from an sLv,iciah
Mcintyre was personal pD'
to President Roosevelt
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Congress Facing Job
OF Paving Peace Road

unemployment compensation pro-
gram. The administration wants a
guaranteed maximum in every
state OF at least $25 weekly for
of jobs and wants eligibil ty ex-
tended to many not now covered.
Measures to make this possible
with the aid of federal funds are
pending in the House Ways and
Means and the Senate Finance
committees.
The other four points cover:
So-called full employment propo-
sails to provide jobs for 10000, 900
people through cooperation o. la
Dor, management and govern
ment.
Reorganization of the executive
br anch of government by merging
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MY HOUSE is YOURS

STOCKHOLM (P) -SWeder
has donated $50 pre-fabricatec
timber houses to Denmark to be
set up in wardamaged towns or
the island of Bornholm. The gift
includes all materials for the
erection of the houses, except
foundation material.
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BY-PASSED isles
IN PACIFIC USEn
| TO PRACTICE ON
BY MORRIE LANnSp,

Aa-NDSBERG
,,, ABOARD ESCORT CARRIE,
WESTERN PACIFIC " ;,
must have been humjliatir.
Japanese garrisons Of Song SONG i0'
passed islands if they knew,
they probably did-tha, tbo;. '
portant outposts Of empire WY, M
reduced to practice targets. S''
The Marine Air Group Of a..
escort carrier used Japanese.,r,isS
Pagan island in the northern Mn, na
anas just the other day to sb,r,,,
their sights for the big show -'.a
then expected strafing OF inyaya ,s
beaches of Nippons MAINLAND I''n
By-passed islands in the v,,
shalls and famed Wake Isla,d =,
cupied by japanese since the ti w,
days OF the war, also have No..
used as warmer-up targets.
The once-mighty empire bavi..
OF Truk was worked over ,n
planes of the British Pacific ro,.
to get the feel of the Pacific
fore going into serious com6s.
closer to Nippon.
Pagan was just breeze Il,
gunners of the Marine group, mo,,
of them around 20 to Is wears olS
but veterans of many actions.
Take these four boys-M.T. sst
Robert Wolfe, Is of Springfield
Mass; T-Sgt. William E. BoIer
81, of Westport. Tenn; T-Sgt Or
rim L. Childress, %, Of Austin.
Tex, and Staff Sgt. Leslie L. Mat.
heyny, 81, of Ventura, Calf.
They're original members Of the
Marine Corps first torpedo bomb
er squadron, formed nearly three
years ago. In the carriers ready
room, too, are two creWmen from
the outfit which relieved them in
the Solomons. They are MT ST.
George R. Cozad, 20, Of Galesburg,
ILL.,, and S-Sgt. Peter J. Burke, %,
of Woodside, Long Island, N. Y,
Sergeant Woolfe arrived at
Guadalcanal with the pioneer TFB
squadron the day before the bate
of Savo island began on Nov, 10,
1912. He took a crack at some Of
the japanese transports seeking 10
reinforce their Guadalcanal gay.i.
son, and saw an enemy battlesaip
afire.
Waving aside his own expert.
ences, he said you ought to tcN
to my tailgunner, Bolen He really
had a time for himself"
Sergeant Bolen's story was that
six planes set out for Bouganvle
one night in April, 1913, and ran
smack into a storm off the Rus
sells. One bomber got back 10
Guadalcanal safely. OF the Is mon
in the three planes, three were
rescued. Bolen was one of them.
And that youngster writing
letter-he' MT Sgt. Wallace ].
Meid, "a, of Steilagoon, Wash, and
this is his third combat tour ct
duty in the Pacific. He wouldn't
say so, but Marine Pfc. Dana
Boraguidi, %, Of Berwyn. IL,
passed on the word that Reid was
the gunner who took over the con-
trolls and safely landed a dive
bomber after the pilot was killed
Two boys. s-Sgt. Elmer T. BIZ
lock, q, radioman of Concord, NJ
M, and Sgt. Shannon L. Doss, IL
tailgunner of Wilmark Ark, hare
been flying together since 'heF
days in the Solomons.
Others with South Pacific S5Tv'
ice include T-Sgt. Travis P 'c'
Gee, 20, of San Antonio, Tex; j.
Sgt. Herman E. Rice, %, Of Pleas
ant Hill, Ten; Sgt. Orrin A. War
shall, 20, of Los Angeles SOU
Warren L. Keer. q, of Brooklyn'
N. Y; S-Sgt. William N. Glloe.N
%, of New Rochelle, N. Y; CPL
Frank C. Feckley, %, Of Me9Iaa'
Ohio; and Sgt. James j. Rlch' 10
of Col1eoe Station. Tex.
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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 people Think
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QUOTATIONS

A noted psychiatrist says we are far more
nervous than were our ancestors. Small Won
der-they didn't have to listen to all those
dire predictions by radio commentators.
Hirohto may not have made better mouse
trap but the world--or, at least, a good part
OF it's certainly beating path to his door.
The golden age will be back, says Zadok
Dumkopf, when mother will smile as she sees
the kids playing tiddedly-winks with leftover
ration tokens.
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The Literary Guidepost

BY w. G. ROGERS
Flight From China, by Edna
Lee Booker, in collaboration
with John S. Potter (MacMil-
Ian; $2.50).
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Questioning three flight check
crew members who have the job
of taking care of complaints on
Evening star., 1945-07-24
Not This

are many Borneo homes where
heads are on display. Those who
live in these houses say that the
heads were taken by their ances-
tors.
The houses of Dyaks have walls
made of bamboo, and the roofs
are covered with a mating of wide
palm leaves. Strips of rattan are
used to sew the leaves to the
bamboo framework. Three men can
build house in from five to eight
days.
Homes of the Dyaks usually are
placed on platforms from to Is
feet above the ground. To reach
the platform, members of the fam
lily climb a slanting log which has
notches instead of steps.
An old custom among the Dyaks
is to pluck the hair from the face.
Little hair grows there in the first
place, but whatever fuzz appears
about the chin is taken out.
Both men and women among the
Dyaks chew betel nuts. Juice from
these nuts will darken the teeth
after time In the minds of the
natives, teeth are better looking
when they are black. To make the
teeth darker, they burn coconut
shells and mix the ashes with oil
to form paste. This paste is
rubbed on the teeth