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FOR YOUR SERVICE!

Use your phone to get your news
items to the paper. In st. Paul call
CEDAR O922 or Midway 8340; in
Minneapolis call BR 1896 or Mid
way S34O-Adv.
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CHITTERLINC SUPPER

Unit 35 of Pilgrim Baptist church
will give a chitterling dinner, March
II, at the home of Mrs. Lydia
Brown, 500 St. Anthony. Serving
begins at IL noon. Price is rs cents.
-Advt.
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What's What Among
the RailrOaders

Another gentleman waiter of the
MP, Raleigh Humburd-you and
your wife make a lovely couple,
Raleigh!
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SPORTS
By PERCY VILLA

The past week many have been
askin' my reasons for picking
Charley Riley over Jackie Graves
in their fight at
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$500. Minister'S Robes. with Black Velvet.
From $1,000. Taken from rental stock.
Descriptive catalogue mailed. Lindner,
158-RS West 33rd Street. New York City.
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''PrOblems of Humanity"
A HUMAN RELATION COLUMN WHEREIN THE TROUBLED
IN MIND AND HEART CAN SEEK COUNSEL AND GUIDANCE


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THE Able WALLACE SERVICE

CO 3l4 Third Street So. Minneapolis is. Minnesota
Evening star., 1945-06-06
Cunudiun Convoys
'om the Montreal Star.

From the Montreal Star.
Many of the mightiest conveys of the
war were marshaled off Canadian har-
bors and guided across the North At
lantic by the cocky little escorts of the
Royal Canadian Navy, which took over
mere and more of such work as the
battle went on-and with great effect.
Into Canadian harbors, too, came hun
dreds of the victims-battered ships and
the wounded men who sailed them
through disaster. There have been
dozens of stirring tales already told
about these conveys and more are still
to be released. One of the greatest will
be the one which shows how they lit
orally kept Britain alive in the darkest
days, which now seem so long ago
Without the conveys, in fact, we would
have lost the war.
And so tonight British merchantmen
will be sailing with lights ablaze and
radios speaking" in most of the At
lantic. the Mediterranean, North Sea
and English Channel. Many of them,
will bear their scars of battle for long
time to come, because there are too
few bottoms to allow their docking
now. But on those ships in port cam
outage is gradually giving way to the
house colors of prewar years and the
ports themselves have given up their
anonymity.
Evening star., 1945-06-06
No Noble Experiment

The Federal Works Agency's an
nouncement that the Capital Garage
is to be used as storage space for
Government files suggests that the
reason for it's abandonment as a
central garage for Government
owned vehicles is anticipated i'm
provements in the manpower situa-
ton" Which is something less than
candid. The real reason is that the
whole scheme for utilization of the
garage was a flop from the begin
ming and an inexcusable waste of
public funds.
In March of 1943 the Budget
Bureau informed the Federal Works
Agency chat / 400 Government vehi-
cles operating in the Metropolitan
Area were assigned to 100 separate
Government units and were stored
in 10 different locations. If they
could be assembled under one roof
and their repair and maintenance
centralized, money would be saved
and good example set for handling
$4,000 other vehicles throughout the
country.
The garage was leased for $134 ,929
year in August of 1943. The Fed
eral Works Agency understood that
an executive order would ensue, re-
quiring it's use by most of the agen-
cies. But the order did not materi-
alize. Five days after General
Fleming. Federal Works administra-
tor. was advising Representative
Randolph In November Of 1943 that
the cost Of storage per car eventually
would be about $12 a month, his
Evening star., 1945-06-06
This Changing World
By Constantine Bro,on

The Turkish government hopes to take
advantage of the crisis in the Levant
and enlist the support of the Arab coun-
tries in the Near and Middle East to
safeguard its sovereignty over the straits
and the Turkish area in Europe
The shell which Gen. de Gaulle has
caused to explode in Syria and Lebanon
is likely to bring about a situation
whereby the matter of those two inde-
pendent Arab states-as we'll as the rest
of the Mohammedan world-will have to
be ironed out. 1t is highly unlikely that
the question of India, where the Moslems
are in the minority, will be taken up at
any conference. The matter of the
territorial integrity and the sovereignty
of the rest Of the Mohammedan coun-
tries likely will come up for thorough
discussion.
Turkey is not an Arab country. But
because of her close connection with the
other Mohammedans in the Near and
Middle East she will endeavor to join
bloc which today represents a real force.
The Turkish delegates at San Fran
cisco have not attempted to hide their
concern over the pending settlement"
of the question Of the straits
1Icy hilU" llldt az 1cllcIdI anu at
YalIa the Big Three discussed the future
of the Dardanelles and from available
information it is known that Premier
Stalin's thesis that Russia cannot be
stif1ed any longer by the Turkish control
over the straits was approved by Presi-
dent Roosevelt and Prime Minister
Churchill.
The Turks, realizing that the u S. S. r.
now is the most powerful nation in
Europe, are willing to agree to any
formula which will not deprive them of
their sovereignty over territories which
have belonged to them for centuries
They are reported willing to neutralize
and demilitarize the Dardanelles and the
Bosporus and to give Russia and any
other power free access to the Black
Sea
But the representatives Of the Ankara
government at San Francisco have indi-
Gated that their country might be faced
with demands from Russia which are
not compatible with the rights of Turkey
over her own territories.
They are concerned lest Russia de-
mand that the naturalization of the
straits should mean that all Turkish
forces in the area be evacuated to Ana
Evening star., 1945-06-06
Beef Stew

Perhaps this is not the most fitting
time to talk about it, for any beef is
rarer than gold. Furthermore, the
arbiters of etiquette and the omnis-
cient commentators on the limitless
aspects of popular psychology are
dogmatically firm about certain
rules that indubitably gain friends
and influence homo sapiens. But
there are those who feel that beef
stew has never received the recogni-
tion to which it is entitled. In the
days when T-bone steaks and sirloin
steaks adorned the counters in limit
less. profusion, beef stew fought a
hard battle.
Now those who know have long
cherished correctly made potful
as one of life's good things A good
stew requires an artists hand. 1t is
nothing to be thrown together
hastily and eaten with casual toler-
ance. The chunks of meat must be
simmered long and slowly and then,
by and by, the potatoes, carrots, tur-
nips and onions are added to cook
in the same water. To a man of
discrimination it is little short of
criminal to cook the vegetables sep
arately and then dump them un-
tremendously in with the meat.
Furthermore, it is said there are
some barbaric persons who actually
add foreign substance such as
flour or rice to thicken the LIQUID.
To one who knows beef stew this
seems unbelievable, but many odd
and fantastic episodes occur in a
democracy.
After the stew Is completely
cooked. it must be set aside to cool.
Whep the time comes to eat, it
should be slowly and thoroughly
reheated. This brings forth the
full flavor. And when a soup plate
full of the delicious. nostril- -tingling
mixture is set before a man he
knows he has a meal unsurpassed
by any concoction yet evolved by the
human mind.
Evening star., 1945-06-06
Anglo-French Rift
BY Perfinar

The widening rift between Britain and
France cannot be accounted for by
Syrian affairs alone. The truth Is that,
all the wrangles in the Levant left aside,
Anglo-French relations have been
steadily deteriorating since last Decem-
ber Here are some facts which have
not yet been disclosed. Their con-
tribution TO the present estrangement of
London and Paris must be held funda-
mental
Last December, Gen Charles de Gaulle
and Georges Bidault, French Minister of
Foreign Affairs, went to Moscow and
signed there treaty of alliance with the
Soviet Union. A few days earlier, Winston
Churchill and Anthony Eden had been
received in Paris with great solemnity
and warmth of feeling But their hosts
sedulously hid from them the ma ior
diplomatic step they were about to take
and the first knowledge the English had
OF 1t was through direct communica-
ton from Marshal Stain.
The English keenly resented what was
to them an unwarranted lack of candor.
The fact that, unknown to Gen. de
Gaulle and Bidault, Marshal Stain had
volunteered the information, explains
why Churchill and Eden used Stalin's
good offices to approach the French
rulers for the conclusion of tripartite
alliance in which the Anglo Russian
treaty of May, 1912, and the con-
templated Franco-Russian treaty would
be merged.
Churchill did not complain on the re-
lection Of his proposal by Gen. de
Gaulle. The French head of state had
good reasons to produce in support of
the procedure he favored: The sigma
ture of two separate treaties of alliance,
one with Russia and the other with Eng
land As Gen. de Gaulle saw it. the
treaty OF alliance with Russia could be
made to work automatically while, in
the case of England, some flexible word
ing had to be selected so that all control
by public opinion should not be ruled
out. The British ministers understood
this but they did not forget that they
had been left in the dark Gen. de
Gaulle's reticence toward Churchill in
December is probably to be ascribed to
his fear of a British intervention in
Moscow before he had time to win Stain
over to the treaty.
Thus grudge was nursed in London
and 1t has become apparent more than
once. In February, Bidault went to the
British capital and got from Eden a
Evening star., 1945-06-06
Gas Against the japanese
By Maj. George Fielding Eliot

1t is clear that all japanese hopes
now are centered on the price they can
make us pay for victory. They cannot
defeat us, because they can no longer
have any hope of a return to the offen-
sive. Their sea and air power has been
so reduced as to be of little more than
nuisance value. What they do have left
is strong army, composed Of tough,
hard-bitten soldiers who know how to
die, and they have defensible terrain
which gives every opportunity for stub
born yard-by-yard defense Their
strategy Is simple-come and get us, and
see what it will cost you. 1t is the only
strategy which is possible under the
circumstances.
In other words the Japanese have
lost the war. and it is just a question
of making them admit it. To do so
may cost many thousands, or tens of
thousands, or hundreds of thousands of
American lives and infinite suffering
from wounds and permanent disable
ments. If we have to take Japan yard
by yard as we have had to take Two
and Okinawa and other places which
have been defended in this manner and
under these conditions, long after any
real hope OF holding them had van
ished.
To repeat-the Japanese now have
two main factors in their defensive
armory: Their foot soldiers and their
terrain.
Under these conditions we must once
more ask ourselves whether the time
has not come for us to consider once
more, and very carefully, the use of
chemical agents of all types in bringing
this war to a conclusion. In word
shall we use gas against Japan?
For some reason, which this writer IS
unable to comprehend the use of gas
in warfare seems to be shocking to the
average mind. We read with delight
of the use of incendiary agents against
Japanese cities, though we must be per-
fectly aware of the extent and nature
of the casualties thus caused. We ap-
plaud the use of high explosives in all
forms. We cheer the moving pictures
which show us fame throwing tanks 60
ing into the attack of Japanese positions.
But we shudder If anybody says gas"
Apparently 1t is more humane to kill
people from third-degree burns, or by
disnembering them By shelfire, than
Evening star., 1945-06-06

report on the proceedings at Yalta He
was disappointed to find out, afterward
that he had been given only part of the
facts. In April, Gen de Gaulle-who,
all along, was anxious to go ahead with
the alliance-paid formal visit to Al
fred Duff Cooper, the British Ambas-
sador in Paris, and urged that all de-
lays be curtailed. The British Prime
Minister did not react favorably to his
entreaty. In London, Bidault learned
that point upon which Gen. de Gaulle
laid great lnsistence, a formal accord on
Germany and the Leyant embodied in
an exchange of letters to be a prelimi-
nary to the alliance, did not prove ac-
ceptable TO the British government.
Those details make it plain that.
today, the dispute over Syria would be
less intense, and perhaps might be dis
posed Of altogether, if a general under
standing on Germany had already been
achieved. AS long as the Syrian prob
lem is discussed on its own merits, with
considerations of prestige swaying the
disputants and without reference to-
both nations larger and more i'm
mediate interests in Europe, it is hard
to see how way can be found out of
the impasse. r- ---s.
Gen. de Gaulle maintains against all
den!als that: British intrigues have
undermined Frances authority in Syria.
Those denials had been made known to
the President of the French government
through Duff Cooper. The British AM
bassador reported that they had not
made the slightest impression on De
Gaulle.
British intrigues or no British in
trlgues, the cruX of the matter comes
to this: When, on the morrow of the
defeat suffered by the Vichy forces in
July, l941, the Free French undertook
to fulfill the mandate held under the
League of Nations they had to do it
without the prestige which. particularly
in Asiatic countries, accrues to the
presence of numerous and well-equipped
troops. British and not French military
power was strongly represented on the
spot and it was easy for the natives to
make invidious comparisons. In such
circumstances, the Wisest course for the
French would probably have been to
give up the attempted show of power
Anyhow. the only chance of success
France had was that the British should
never allow the surrounding populations
to feel they did not stand wholeheartedly
with the French regime. So much they
did not do.
Evening star., 1945-06-06

executive officer was telling a Senate
committee that the cost, at that
time, was about $25 per car. plus
SITS for service. He also testified
that General Fleming never wanted
to get into the business, regarding
it as a headache"
And headache it has turned out
to be. A still greater headache is
that the lease has been renewed
twice and now runs until June 80,
l946, with option to renew to 1948.
The city's largest public garage is
being used to store files. except for
the relatively few vehicles owned by
the Federal Works Agency. The ex-
pertinent produced no economy,
merely demonstrated another way
to waste money.
Evening star., 1945-06-06
FEPC Appropriation

The Fair Employment Practices
Committee is faced with another
threat to it's existence.
Last week the House Appropria-
tions Committee, in reporting out
the supply bill for the war agencies,
failed to make any provision for
FEPC funds. This was a deliberate
omission, the theory being that there
is no cause to continue a temporary
agency created by executive order
when legislation is pending for the
establishment of permanent FEPC.
But this is a line of reasoning which
ignores the practical aspects Of the
matter.
Unless it is granted an appropria-
tion the present FEPC will cease to
function at the end of this month.
Nor is there the slightest chance
that a permanent FEPC will be in
existence by that time. On the
contrary, the legislation to set up a
permanent agency is facing long,
hard fight in Congress, and there is
no assurance that it will be enacted
in any form at this session. Con-
sequently, unless funds are appro-
priated for the existing FEPC, there
will be, at best, long period of
time during a critical phase of re-
conversion when there will be no
governmental agency to deal with
the important problem of discrimi-
nation in employment.
On its record the FEPC deserves
q better fate. During 1914 the
agency docketed 1885 cases. Salts
factory adjustments were obtained
In 1924 cases, the great bulk of the
remaining complaints being dis
missed because of insufficient evi-
dence, lack OF merit or lack OF
Jurisdiction. These statistics indi-
cate that the temporary FEPC de-
serves to be continued until Con-
gress acts on the pending legislation
10 create permanent agency. But
4 this is TO be done, the Senate must
neke the initiative In making avail
Evening star., 1945-06-06
The Purple Heart

1t came today. The gallant Purple
Heart,
But he is gone. Is 1t enough to hold
This honorable citation ot his bold
And selfless act; to k,loiD he did his pGrt1
Will it repay me for the times start
In sudden fear ,phen torture tales are
told?
Am / supposed to feel lone for cold
And Hfeless form that shoapssd sculptors
art?
All. nothing no,p can take the place Of
bright
Blue eyes, and grir, that ran from ear
to ear,
And clumsy feet that scuHed the
front room foor;.
And yet, felt he came tonight
To help me place the heart beside his
dear
Sport trophies, and said, Nom, hers
is one more
ANNA NASH YARgRoUox.
Evening star., 1945-06-06
Excellent BEGINNING

Inc deCldraClOn issued Jointly IN
Berlin yesterday by the four occupy
Ing powers-France Britain, Russia
and the United States-leaves no
room for doubt about the complete
disintegration Of Hitler's Thousand
year" Reich. Every aspect of Ger
man life now is subject, in varying
degrees, to the will of the victorious
Allies. A stern and far-reaching set
OF terms, covering such subjects as
disarmament, labor, communica-
tions, war criminals and the rolling
back of Germany's frontiers, is
already in effect, and additional
conditions will be imposed later,
when, as and If necessary.
Since there is no German power
left, since the government of the
country collapsed totally with the
total collapse of the Nazis, the
victors, as they now proclaim, have
assumed supreme authority and
have at last established the mechan-
isns necessary for the exercise of
that authority. There will be four
zones-eastern under Russia, north
western under the United Kingdom,
southwestern under the United
States and western under France.
The exact boundaries of these zones
have not yet been announced, but
each will be under commander in
chief appointed by the occupying
power. In addition, there will be
another zone known as the Greater
Berlin Area to be subject to inter
Allied occupation and a governing
authority made up of four COM
mandants named by the respective
commanders in chief, the four taking
turns as chief commandant.
Supervising all, as the central
agency, will be the Allied Control
Council made up of the commanders
In chief who, each in his own zone,
will exercise supreme authority on
instructions from his government.
In matters affecting Germany as q
whole, these four, each with a polit-
ical adviser, will act jointly, on the
basis of unanimous decisions, to
insure appropriate uniformity" in
the execution of common policies.
Under the council will be a perna-
nent co-ordinating committee and a
control staff organized into some
thirteen divisions to advise the coun-
Gil and to put its orders into effect.
The divisions, including civilian
personnel, will be active in wide
variety of fields ranging from mill
tary affairs to internal finance and
manpower.
In all probability, because the
problems raised by Germany's total
collapse are unprecedented in mod
ern history, this organizational
structure will work with something
less than perfection from time to
time, but considering the magnitude
and compleXity of the task facing
the victors, the setup seems to con-
stitute an excellent beginning at
least. The statement announcing it
clearly indicates that the four
powers are conscious of its possible
shortcomings, and there is plain
intention to make adjustments in
the light of experience.
Evening star., 1945-06-06

1t Is to asphyxiate them: apparently it
Is morally all right to burn them up
with flame, but very, very wrong to
scar their hides with mustard gas.
don't know why. But there it is-that's
the way many of us seem to feel about it.
Let us translate this, however. into
terms of American lives and see how it
looks. Let us take test case-Okinawa
Here we have sustained very heavy cas-
ualtles because we had to root out the
Japanese from rugged terrain, deeply
lndented by valleys and gullies, pock-
marked with caves, and further de-
Tended by all sorts of artificial defenses,
including deep shelters, trenches and
covered communications.
Now this sort of terrain prevails over
most of the japanese islands. The
Japanese, in defending Okinawa to the
last, are in effect saying to the Ameri-
can people: Look at what one little is
land is costing you. Are you going to
pay proportionate price for the whole
of Japan. piece by piece? The problem
will be much the same We can isolate
one piece of Japan after another. We
can knock out the Japanese guns and
tanks. We can shoot their planes out
of the air. But We still have to go in
and dig out their infantry-and pay
the price.
Would the use of gas help us in do
ing this job? Would it reduce Ameri-
can casualties appreciably? There can
be very little doubt that it would do so.
Persistent gases are heavier than air
They sink into valleys, caves and deep
shelters. They reach men in positions
which are perfectly protected against
the blast of high-explosive shells. They
are especially adapted for just the type
of warfare with which the Japanese
now are confronting us. Their use would
immensely reduce the margin of de-
fensive strength on which the last
japanese hopes are founded.
Gas Is no more the perfect weapon
than is high explosive. or fire 1t has
its limitations, just as all weapons do.
It will not win the Japanese war by
itself. But 1t will enable us to win it
at far less cost in casualties than we
can hope to do without it-and it is
on this cost to us that the Japanese
are now depending.
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