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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-23

report continued, 1T will result in
the discontinuance of the payment
of dividends on certain preferred
stock"
Some advantage will occur tc
shippers on present ABC lines. the
ICC reported, due to application OF
single-line rates instead of Joint
rates on shipments moving over
two lines.
During 1914. ABC Originated 2.
494 carloads of freight-principally
fruits and vegetables-and re.
ceived from other lines 1884 car.
loads of freight.
An old line in Georgia, Atlanta
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and loss and debiting an appropri-
ate amount to investment in COM
mon stock Of ABC.
A par value total OF $342, 225 in
ABC preferred, now held by At
lantic Coast Line, will be liquid
ated to ACL's credit at an ICC-ap-
proved figure Of $457, 938.
In the opinion of the 1CC, the
absorption of ABC will not result
in any increase in the fixed
charges Of any carrier, and does
not involve any guaranty or as
sumption Of the payment of di.
vidends or fixed charges in the
future" To the contrary, the lCC
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-23
John E. JOHNSON

Funeral services for John Ev-
erett johnson, IS, Route l, Lels nd,
who died Friday night at o'clock
in his home after a long illness,
will be held from the Goshen Bap-
fist church this afternoon at 2
O'Clock with the Rev. Woodrow Rob-
bins officiating. Interment will
follow in the Green Banks cene-
terry, near Acme.
Survivors include the widow,
Mrs. Lizzie Conklin johnson, two
brothers, Oscar Johnson, Magnolia,
and James Johnson, who lives in
South Carolina. Several nieces and
nepheWs also survive.
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BEGIN NEW SCHEDULE

: NEW YORK, Dec. 22-P)-
Carrying 81 passengers and a
Christmas doll for a little English
girl. a Pan-American world air.
ways clipper took off shortly after
4 p. M, (EST.) today, inaugural
ing the company's new schedule Of
daily flights between New York
and ENGLAND.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-23
City Briefs
CHURCH SPEAKER

"The Story of The Other
Man" will be presented by NJ.
L. Green, church social work.
err, in the Chestnut street Pres
byterian church tonight at 6
o'clock under the auspices of
the church Missionary Society.
Special Christmas music will
also be offered.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-23
POWER RESTORATION

MOSCOW, Dec. o. Up the
Soviet Union will complete the res
toration of all war-damaged cleo
trio power stations by 1948, the
news agency Tass said today. Be-
for the war, Russia ranked third
among the nations in electric pow
err output.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-23
BERNARD SHERMAN

Bernard Silverman, son of the
late Aaron Bear and Elizabeth
Bernstein Silverman, will be buried
in Oakdale cemetery tomorrow
when the train bearing the body
arrives in Wilmington.
Mr.. Silverman died of a heart
attack Wed, Dec. 10, in st. Johns
hospital, Long Island City, N. Y.
Funeral services were conducted
Friday in New York.
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AIRFIELDS RETrpv,.

. d Warsaw, Dec. o. lP' ~
pres press described as poland ".'F "a
turn to normally" were '' %i!., re.
i toaay by the official up'SsLosed
mat Is airfields used by y'ttibS e \
army now have been turned t,re Ned
to Polish airlines -'ieu oack
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STRIKE

PARIS, Dec. 22.-lR-Midafter.
noon editions of Paris newspapers
tailed to reach the stands tonight
as the result of strike of printing
room maintenance and printing
shop employees.
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hound runs in 10 states. The great.
est holiday exodus since prewar
days was taking place in Washing
ton. The Union Station was turn
ing away 400 to 500 passengers
from each train. Airline and bus
companies were swamped. Bos-
ton transportation officials re-
ported heaviest travel in many
wears
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BIBLE CLASS MEETING

BIBLE CLASS MEETING
The weekly meeting Of the
Mems Bible class of St. An
drews Covenant Pro sbyterian
church, located at Fifteenth
and Market streets, will be
held Sunday morning ut 9:45
o'clock. DIR. J. E. Evans is the
teacher. All men of the COM
munity are cordially invited to
attend.
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SIXTH IN NATION

w. E. (BilD Stanley, district
manager of Mutual Life Insur-
ance company of New York,
has just been notified that he
was No. l in North Carolina
and sixth in the U. S., in vol
ume of business for his COM
pany during November. The
company has 4,400 representa-
tives in the U. S.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-23
LICENSE PLATES

The Carolina Motor club will
be open for the sale of license
plates Monday, Dec. "a, and the
balance of the week with the ex-
ception of Christmas Day,
Minnie Payne, office manager
has announced.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-23
ABSORPTION OF Abe
BY ACL SET DEC. 81
CONTINUED from Page One)

Dec. 81, ACL has paid a total of
81, 5s7, 900 to ABC stockholders of
ABC preferred. This amount, the
ICC report showed, is carried as
profit and loss on ACL books.
Atlantic Coast Line, as indicated
by it's reports to the ice, proposes
to adjust it's accounts, upon com
pletion of the purchase, by remov-
ING the total charges from profit
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MEMORIAL, SERVICE

CLINTON, Dec. 21.-A memorial
service for Pfc. Herman Merritt,
Jr., will be held at Clinton Uni
versalist Church Sunday, Dec. 80
at three o'clock.
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CUNNINGHAM antr',st and Coast Wen, M.
eamrap :, in the early le2os mo 10
common stock was purchased j. is
1926. S0''aAons, IN
Evening star., 1945-05-26
The Political Mill
Bv Gould Lincoln

penditures Mr.. Truman has already
indicated a different course. 1t will
bring loud howls, but it will have the
approval CT majority in Congress and
among a great many mine
citizens How well he can hold to this
course will depend in large part on the
process of reconverSion from war to
peace economy. During the war, there
has been wide employment. Before
that the Roosevelt administration, de-
spite its efforts, was unable even to ap-
proach full employment.
The West is naturally pleased that
Mr.. Truman. in replacing Roosevelt
cabinet members, has picked Western
men. Pennsylvania s Biddle is moving
out of the Office of Attorney General
for Texas Clark New York's Perkins is
giving way to Washington's Schwellen-
souri's Hannegan will be Postmaster
General in place of Pennsylvania
Walker, and New Mexicos Anderson is
lure from Indianas S Wickard.
There is one cabinet Office the West
wants OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES of the In
terror. 1t is now held by Harold L. Ickes
of Chicago. Mr.. Ickes entered the cab
met when Mr.. Roosevelt became Pres
ident. He has been handed many i'm
portant and tough jobs and he has done
them all efficiently, from public works
on down the line. He is the best ad-
ministrator Mr.. Roosevelt had. His bit
ter tongue made him enemies. Whether
he wants to leave the cabinet I do
not know. If he goes it will be diff
flcult to fill his place.
1t is, apparently, an open season to
gun for Secretary of State Stettinius-
as we'll as for Secretary of the Treasury
Morgenthau. Mr.. Truman has given no
sign he intends to let either of them go.
Mr.. Stettinius is handling the United
Nations Conference, and doing it we'll.
If he emerges with an acceptable
charter of the new world organiza-
ton. as seems entirely probable, it will
be difficult to understand why he should
be dropped. Further what other man
in the Democratic party is conversant
with foreign affairs to take his place?
Sumner Welles, former Undersecretary
OF State, is the only one who comes to
mind,
Evening star., 1945-05-26
Living Together

When Henry A. Wallace says that
the Russian and American people
"instinctively like each other" he is
indulging in generalization which
might or might not stand the test
of critical examination. But no one
will doubt that he is wholly correct
when he says that the United States
and Russia are going to be the great
powers of the future, and that they
must find the means of living to-
gether.
For purposes of his recent discus
sion before the Institute of World
Affairs, Mr.. Wallace was concerned
primarily with industrial potentiali-
ties. The United States, he said,
has nearly half the worlds industry.
The Russians, moving with giant
strides toward induStrialization in
the past fifteen years, are on the
way to developing large share of
the remainder. And when the pro-
ductive capacity of Great Britain is
counted with that of the United
States and Russia, the facilities are
at hand for producing about IS per
cent of the worlds industrial output.
1t is obvious that the nations
possessing this enormous industrial
power have the means of profoundly
influencing, if not actually control
ling, the future of the world, the
real question being whether they will
exercise it for good or evil.
Mr.. Wallace, if not optimistic, is
at least hopeful. With respect to
the United States and Russia, he
points out that the two nations are
so placed geographically that they
have never had conflicting basic in
terests. Furthermore, he believes
that neither the American nor the
Russian people want to use tech
nocracy as an instrument of war,
but, rather, that both are desirous
of raising their own standards of
living without exploiting other
peoples.
To this end he urges the big in
dustrial powers to lend a helping
hand to the so-called backward"
areas, whose population totals more
than billion. BY doing this, in
Mr.. Wallace's opinion, the indus
trially powerful states not only will
improve their own chances of living
together, but will make of this world
better and safer living place for all.
Evening star., 1945-05-26

late the 1912 treaty might lead to seri-
Gus repercussions, not only in the for
mer French inundated territory, but
throughout the Arab world.
In spite of this warning an additional
cruiser was sent to Beirut with more
troops Gen. Beynet, who represented
the French provisional government in
Lebanon, presented at the same time
note to the Lebanese government de-
manding the following exclusive ad-
vantages for France: Granting of naval,
military and air bases, the supervision
OF the educational system in Lebanon
by the French, and the granting of pre-
cedence to the French diplomatic rep
resentative over any other foreign diplo-
mats regardless of rank or length of
service in the Lebanese republic.
These demands were made only after
the French security forces in Beirut
had been sufficiently strengthened.
The LebaneSe government considers
them incompatible with the treaty of
1912, which had granted the country
full self-government. Iraq, Saudi Ara
bia and Egypt. which are now striving
demand as an indication that the great
nations have not abandoned their old
political game.
They particularly resent the French
demands because they are made at a
time when world security, based on
lofty ideals, is being discussed at San
Francisco. where all these Arab states
are represented.
The American and British govern
ments view with disfavor the attempt
OF the French to compel the Lebanese
to accept terms which are not COM
patible with our ideas of sovereignty and
independence. They have so informed
the French.
The strong attitude adopted by the
Washington and London governments
regarding Marshal Tito's activities in
Italy has put halt to his attempt to
adopt the old-fashioned policy of grab
bing while the grabbing is good" Of
fetal quarters in Washington expect now
that the Yugoslav troops will continue
to withdraw from the areas they had
occupied without being compelled to do
so by force.
1t probably will not be necessary to
use the same tactics against the French.
But Gen. de Gaulle is being strongly
advised to change his attitude in the
Levant question lest the world be con-
fronted with an Arab problem" which
could have the widest repercussion
throughout the world. France unques-
tionably would suffer more than any
one else.
Evening star., 1945-05-26

SAN FRANCISCO, May ga "Tru-
man administration" is emerging-after
IL years of Roosevelt. The new Presi-
dent is not shaking of all of Mr.. Roose-
velts keymen. He is not abandoning
Mr.. Roosevelt's policies. He is, however.
gathering about him a new group. He
has already made four changes in the
cabinet, and has intimated others will
follow. He is sticking 10 the Roosevelt
foreign policies as they relate to war
and peace. But new problems in this
field will bring Truman policies beyond
a doubt. Further, there are already
signs that Mr.. Truman has different
conception Of some domestic affairs, and
of how the Government is to be run.
For man of whom little was known
and from whom, by some, little was
expected-the new Chief Executive has
succeeded in capturing the imagination
of the people in big way. He has faced
immediate problems quickly and with
firmness. He has made it clear to for
eign governments in his own converse
tions with their representatives, and
through diplomatic channels and the
United States delegation at the present
United Nations Conference that the
United States is willing and desirous to
co-operate-but that cooperation is not
a one-way street.
One of the greatest changes Mr.. Tru-
man has so far brought about is in the
attitude of two main branches of the
Government toward each other-the
executive and the legislative. The situa-
ton between Mr.. Roosevelt and the
Congress had gone from bad to worse in
recent months With the sole excep-
ton of determined prosecution of the
war, Congress was ready to oppose the
late President at the drop of the hat
and did on many occasions. President
Truman is showing no signs of knuckling
under to the legislators. He is, however.
on friendly terms. He has good work.
ing majority of his own political party
in both houses and, with reasonably good
management, he can get lot of work
done.
Mr.. Roosevelt was the greatest creator
of new governmental agencies this
country has ever seen. When he couldn t
get Congress to set them up, he did the
job himself. He was prodigal in ex-
Evening star., 1945-05-26
REORGANIZATION Plan

President Truman is treading a
well-beaten path in seeking reorgan-
ization legislation. Since the days of
the first Roosevelt, successive Presi-
dents have been dealing with this
problem of multiplying agencies.
Reform plans have come and gone
but the Government expansion con-
tinueS.
Congress and Executive alike must
share the blame for this condition.
Almost invariably the Inauguration
of governmental function has been
accompanied by the creation of a
unit to handle it. Seldom has thought
been given to how it might be brought
within existing framework. The re-
suit is the hodge-podge that exists
now, when Federal employment
hovers around the 100000 mark.
President Truman is starting with
a new approach. Instead of re-
organization statute of limited life.
he proposes permanent legislation
that would permit a progressive
shaking down of the multitude of
agencies: This seems like a good
idea The mere fact that something
should not be done about certain
functions today does not mean that
a change would not be desirable
tomorrow. A natural expansion of
government can be looked for and,
that being the case, it is logical that
the implements be at hand to gear
the machinery to developing needs
with the greatest efficiency possible.
The Presidents program has re-
ceived little attention in Congress
so far, but some question already
has arisen about his insistence that
no agencies be excluded from the
scope of the proposed legislation.
After the fight stirred by the late
President Roosevelt's sweeping re-
organization plan of a half dozen
years ago, Congress exempted some
of the more important units, and
there is some thought that this
should be done again. with the
quasi-judicial establishments being
mentioned particularly. There would
be good reason for that if other safe
guards were lacking, but Mr.. Truman
also urges that Congress retain it's
veto power over proposed changes.
This would seem to make exemptions
superfluous, since there is no reason
for endowing any establishment
with SacroSanct status.
Those aspects, however, all can be
cared for in time. The important
thing is that recognition has been
accorded to the huge job that will
be faced in cutting down the war
time establishment and bringing
order into what is left, and that a
move is being made to do something
about it.
Evening star., 1945-05-26
The Balloon Bomb

In war noted for such grim tech
biological wonders as the deadly W.
rocket and the pulverizing might of
our gigantic British and American
air power. the japanese balloon
bomb seems quaint and Intellectual
to the point of being silly. Now that
it's existence is no longer an official
secret, its military effectiveness can
be evaluated in the open. AS has
been widely known. it has been used
in sporadic attacks on the western
part of the North American MAIN
land for several months past. but
it has been a total failure.
Made of paper and carrying a
small load of explosives. the balloon
is let loose to travel thousands of
miles, willy-nilly with the variable
winds, in the hope that it will strike
something somewhere and perhaps
start forest fires. In their joint
statement on the subject. the War
and Navy Departments emphasize
its fantastic" inadequacies. It has
landed here and there in isolated 10
calities, but has effected no property
damage whatever. and there is only
one chance in many millions thai it
will hit any given place in the 1u-
ture. The Army and Navy speak of
it now only because children living
west of the Mississippi are going on
their summer vacations and unex-
ploded samples of the weapon may
be found lying around in wooded
areas or in the melting SHOWS.
Lest even one American life be
lost, therefore, censorship has been
relaxed and schools and civic organ
izations are being called upon. to
caution civilians-young and old
Evening star., 1945-05-26
This Changing World
By Constantine Broom

In spite Of the promises received from
our Allies that the flow Of legitimate
news will not be interfered with, q strict
censorship is enveloping some areas
abroad where there are incidents"
which may have repercussions.
Only very sparse dispatches have been
received in this country concerning the
disturbances in North Africa where in
the last few weeks there have been sub
Stantial casualties among the Arabs in
clashes with the French forces.
It is difficult at this time to ascertain
the real cause Of the Arab disturbances.
Some of the French authorities in
Algeria allege that the troubles are the
sequel of the temporary American super
vision in North Africa which had pam
pered" the natives to such an extent that
it was difficult for them to accept the
cid French system of administration.
American observers, however, maintain
that the trouble has deeper roots and
must be connected with the attitude Of
the French government in Lebanon and
Syria. In some American quarters the
fear Is being expressed that unless the
De Gaulle administration changes its
tactics toward the independent govern
ment of Lebanon and Syria altogether
the world will be faced with a serious
par.-Arabic movement.
Reports received in official quarters
here say that the fighting in the former
French territories is more
severe than censorship has permitted
news dispatches to say.
The clashes between the French and
the Lebanese were caused by the fact
that the Paris government wished to
change the meaning Of the treaty signed
by Gen. de Gaulle in London in 1912,
whereby he recognized the end of the
French mandatory power in Lebanon
and Syria.
After the French and British troops
defeated the Vichy forces under the
command of Gen. Dentz late in 1941 the
Free French government, following the
advice Of the British, agreed to permit
self-government in the inundated ter
ritory. This was soon followed by official
recognition of the new government by
the majority OF the United Nations, in
cluding Russia Britain and the United
States. Our representative at Beirut,
George Wadsworth, was raised to the
rank OF minister. Lebanon became a
member of the United Nations and has
a delegation at the San Francisco Con-
ference.
Late in April French warship was
sent to Beirut and landed troops The
Lebanese protested. The American and
British governments warned the French
that any further moves tending to vio-
Evening star., 1945-05-26
Laval and Franco

In asserting that the Allies should
Invite" Generalissimo Franco to
abdicate Immediately and that
France should break diplomatic re-
lations with him if he refuses,
the French Foreign Affairs Commit
tee raises questions certain to stir
up many-sided debate. but there
can scarcely be any argument over
the rightness of its demand that the
Spanish government hand over
Pierre Laval without further delay.
Laval's record is a sordid one.
Long before the war he proved him
self an opportunist of the meanest
Sort-a man who played both ends
against the middle, and the middle
against both ends. whenever he
himself could profit by it. His talent
for intrigue and for sharp, venal
practices was exercised to the full
after France fell. Placing his own
fortunes far above the fortunes of
his country, he lost no time in be-
coming the willing puppet of Berlin.
Anything Goebbels said. he faith
fully echoed; anything Hitler wanted
him to do. he tried his best to do.
Other Frenchmen - like Herriot,
for instance-remained French. They
loved France. They refused to do
anything that would hurt France.
And vast numbers of them formed
the great underground movement
that was to play such proud part
in liberation. But Laval was not
one of these. 1t was more rewarding
financially to be front man for the
Nazis. To his way of thinking France
was dead. but Laval was very much
alive, and Laval was going to take
care of Laval So he preached as
eloquently as he could for Goebbels.
Resistance was futile, he said; Brit
ain, Russia and America could not
win the war; Hitler's new order"
was a wonderful thing and would
endure for the next 1000 years. And
he saw to it that Frenchmen were
rounded up for work in Germany,
and he helped the Gestapo get its
hands on more than a few fighting
French patriots.
If the Spanish government insists
on giving sanctuary to this arch-col-
laborationist. France will have every
reason to feel incensed, and so, too,
for that matter, will all the United
Nations. For Laval is not a mere
political refugee whose only offense
has been to disagree with the au-
thorities of his native country. He