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Evening star., 1945-06-20
; Jap Industrial Cities
Hif With 5000 Tons of
Fire Bombs by B-29s
By the Associated Press.

&S tiS hcoOtldtcO lIcoS.
GUAM, June 20-Super Fort
resses dumped 5000 tons of fire
bombs on three japanese indus
trial cities today, setting wind
famed blazes which pilots said
were visible IS miles away. They
wiped from the map as a war
target one of the three cities,
Shizuoka, which is IS miles
southwest of Tokyo.
The $50 Super Fortresses, carry
ing out their 25th big incendiary
strike, treated the secondary indus
trial cities to the same ordeal by
fire that has erased most of the
factories in Japan's greater cities.
The Tokyo radio admitted fires
ragged out of control for five hours
in Toyohashi, also on the main
island of Honshu.
Greatest Raid on Cities.
Fukuoka, on the southernmost
island, Kyushu, and third target of
the day, was turned into a pre-
dawn bonfire, pilots reported. The
largest of the three cities, Fukuoka,
has a population of $4,000, Toyo-
hashi $4,000 and Shizuoka 212,000.
All three were raided before, but
today's strike was their first great
fire attack.
The Tokyo radio said go other
B-29s, continuing the aerial block
4I4 Nf 1oiI y,oiyoac aff
the west coast of Honshu and in the
Kanmon Strait between Honshu
and Kyushu.
Another Tokyo broadcast said 80
Thunderbolts and Lightnings from
Okinawa raided the smaller city of
Omura, west of Omuta, today.
Monday Fires Still Burning.
Flames from Mondays big raid
still licked at Omuta, also on Kyu-
shu, when the bomber formations
struck today.
1t. William w. Potter, Knoxville,
Tenn, described the pattern of de-
htruction in Fukuoka in this way:
"a path of fame 2 miles wide
ran from the dock area, where sew
eral ships were burning. back in
land for 10 miles. Over the central
target areas, smoke rose 10000 feet
in column miles in diameter"
II don't think We'll have to go
back to Shizuoka," said Maj Charles
Tibbs of Battle Mountain. New, a
B-29 flight leader. Other flyers were
even more emphatic.
Mass of Rolling Fire.
A crewman from the 58th Bomber
Wing, based at Tinian, saw a solid
mass of fire roll over Toyohashi, 189
miles southwest of Tokyo. Other
flyers, while so miles out, saw an ex-
plosion which sent up smoke for
14,0O0 feet.
A "confagration," visible rs miles |
away from Fukuoka, was reported |
by 73d Wing crewman from Sal
pan.
B-29 flyers who were transferred
Evening star., 1945-06-20
Succession
Continued From First Page }

nate the person who would be my
immediate successor, in the event
of my own death or inability to act
Il do not believe that in a de-
mocracy this power should rest
with the Chief Executive"
Most Senators who commented tc
reporters on the Presidents pro-
posal expressed general agreement
but there were variances of opinion
as to details
Senator Taft, Republican, OF
Ohio. an exception, favored retain
ing the present law of succession
but said a special election should be
held if a cabinet officer becomes
President.
Senator Tydings, Democrat, of
Maryland said he liked the Presi-
dents idea but thought Congress
should give the whole succession
problem "a thorough study, because
it is probably the most important
matter before this session of Con-
gress."
Evening star., 1945-06-20
their way home from plum picking

tlclI way NOWe ITOm plum-plCkllG
excursion.
Members of two families, they
were Earnest Lee Rudkins, IA, and
his three brothers, Leonard, IL;
Charles Paul, 8, and Lewis Earl, 6,
sons of Mr.. and Mrs. Earnest Rud-
kins, ST.; and Alvin Manus, 13, and
his 10-year-old brother Thurman,
sons Of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Manus.
The drownings occurred in a large
water hole left by the 1943 flood
along the Arkansas River.
Nine-year-old Millage Rudkins
accompanied the group but didn't
go in the water.
He said the four older boys de-
cided to go swimming. When they
began to sink after stepping into
deep hole, he added, the young by
ISLANDERS jumped in and lost their
lives in futile effort to rescue them.
The bodies were recovered.
Evening star., 1945-06-20
FOUND.

BEING OR REPORT, esp. from Sc. or
s-E. stray or abandoned animals to the
ANIMAL PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION
ZOO Wheeler rd. s.e., Congress Hghts
6. AT. 7i42.
Evening star., 1945-06-20
Eisenhower
Continued From First Page.)

jovially needed" the general about
late sleeping.
A profile in the cadet yearbook,
The HoWitzer," described him as
IAN enthusiastic and sonorous de-
votee" of Morpheus ION every pos
sible OCCASION 1t listed him as
a cadet sergeant in charge of a
company, sharpshooter and color
sergeant.
Evening star., 1945-06-20
Welcome in New York
Described as Glorious

NEW YORK, June 20 [P)-Gen.
Eisenhower left by automobile this
morning for West Point, acknowl-
edging he was tired-but still thrilled
by the tumultous reception given
him by New York yesterday.
When asked what he thought of
Evening star., 1945-06-20
LOST RATION Coupons

"a" GAS RATION COUPONS. lost satur-
day; tag No: 121-795. issued to HELEN
TERRELL. 437 H st. NV.
GAS RATION BOOK, E-356lS2, MEL
VIM SCHECTER, 1904 Blair Mill dr., Silver
Spring Nd. 81. 1866.
RATION BOOKS, No. 4, No. 8; pass;
Detroit evening times., 1945-12-30

over the United States. And nearly
100000 men, women and older
children rallied to the farmers
plight and saved the nations food!
This newspaper was one of those
in which Country Gentleman
sounded the alarm, and you in your
community responded CALAMITY.
AT your big family dinner this year,
pitch in. You've earned the right
to enjoy it!
Detroit evening times., 1945-12-30

holiday indeed. For early last
Summer our country faced a food
situation nothing short of perilous.
Our farmers were so critically short
of harvest help that they needed
over 100000 volunteers to save
Americas food and fiber crops.
Country Gentleman, as National
Spokesman for Agriculture. laid
the problem before the American
people through series of adver-
tisements in 236 newspapers all
Detroit evening times., 1945-12-30
-. from @bom
all BLESSINGS flom

Ihis is surely holiday season
when we can count our blessings.
Our men are surging back victor
ious from the worst of all wars.
Peace is in the making. And from
our rich fields and gardens and
orchards, food in abundance has
come forth and been harvested for
our holiday feasts, and for hapIess
peoples all over the world.
Yet it might have been a grim
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-04

When I ask him how he figures
that out he says. Well. we're about
the same age And l figure We
must have gone to different schools
together"
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-04

Seems that this Catherine the
Great has issued only one order for
the soldiers Of the Russian army
When she's reviewing the marching
troops nobody is 10 whistle at her
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-04

is beating my time / say TO him.
She's a swell-looking dish He
replies fervently, Brother. she's
whole dinner set"
There's ten or twelve Russian gen.
erals all in love with Catherine the
Great, who is also in love with
Catherine the Great
That army never goes 10 war eX.
cCpt with itself over Catherine. If
she sees swell looking corporal the
FIRST thing he knows he has sud.
denly been promoted to a seven.star
general
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-04

Every one Of GATHERINGS hand
some sWeethearts is at least six feet
tall in his stocking feet. After he
IS promoted 10 be a general his
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-04

Under her picture is a
line. Mae West, the wolf
In she's clothing"
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-04

Boss" said the Hired Man, when
she's on the stage l forget about
the calendar"
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-04

There he has plowed a sunken
road in front Of the picture of Mae
West Every time he goes by he
salutes and says. My old college
chum."
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-04

(AuthOr OF Never Dial q Telephone
With Can Opener.")
Il EN-. the bill poster. sticks up the
II picture Of swelllooking gal
on my old red barn. Her name
is Mae West and she sure is built
in every direction the weather vane
swings.
She's playing Catherine the Great
and don't call me Kitty.
She's got blonde hair revolving
eyes and she's wearing one OF those
evening gowns that should have a
coat and vest with IT,
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-04

Under her picture is a
line. Mae West, the wolf
In she's clothing"
Elmer East, the Hired
Man said. My Aunt Ella
was the most modest
woman / ever knew. She
always wore shower cur.
tainS in the rain"
Docs she In any way
remind you Of Mae
West?' | asked him.
"In a vague sort Of
way" he said, but not
rounding the curves"
| get permission from
the old lady TO go up
and see Catherine the
Great provided l keep on
my warm, red mittenS
when / applaud.
The Hired Man comes
along because he said.
This is the only time in
my life have seen a gal
who could say so much
without saying anything"
Well, the curtain goes
up in Moscow and there S
Mae West walking with
4 Russian accent.
The plot of the play is
to keep looking at Mae.
Well. I'm doing that.
but | think the Hired Man
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-04

Well. the next day the Hired Man
is doing his early spring plowing
He is whacking the old mule good
and plenty. But l can't find any
place he has plowed until / walk
around to the side Of the barn where
the poster is.
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-04

It's lot Of good, clean fun ex.
cept that Catherine has the startling
habit Of cooling off faster than an
Eskino's breath
Wei. I said 10 The Hired Man.
"she amt any springer She has
been buttering her bread for a good
many years"
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-04

"In a vague sort Of
way" he said, but not
rounding the curves"
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-04

Does she In any way
remind you Of Mae
West?' | asked him.
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-04

The plot of the play is
to keep looking at Mae.
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-04

Well. I'm doing that.
but | think the Hired Man
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-04

Well, the curtain goes
up in Moscow and there's
Mae West walking with
4 Russian accent.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-12-13
QUOTATIONS

The Job to be done by the United States in
Japan stretches farther into the future than
we can see If we get tired doing it and pull
out, we leave smoldering the embers of an
other and far more terrible world war.
Honolulu Star-Bulletin.
Jet engines for aircraft begin to be effec-
tive only at the point where propeller-driven
aircraft must leave off-that is, at speeds
above $50 miles per hour and attitudes great
err than six to eight miles.
C. Edward Pendray secretary
American Rocket Society.
If we are worthy of the cause we have
served at such great cost worthy of our
victory and of those who gave their lives
to win it, our faith will persist and prevail.
The Most Rev. Godfrey Fisher
Archbishop of Canterbury.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-12-13
Editorial Comment
CHICORY Chick

Now that the mares have presumably con-
sumed their oats, students of the deeper cur
rents Of the American scene can focus their
attention on ''bananica.' For the historian at
the turn of the next century will undoubtedly
find here 'solid'' clue to much of the turbu-
lence presently gripping the 48 States.
'Chicory Chick" in case you haven't heard
(but you must have, is simply the latest in
the series of American nursery rhyme and
barnyard balder-dash. The mad whrl began
in the last decade with 1.-The Music Goes
Round
Probably, to the historian with eyes for lit
tie things as well as big, these will seem like
American safety valves, Hitler puts the
squeeze on the Czechs, and we insouciantly
send three little fishes over the dam Comes
Pearl Harbor and lot of pushing around
and we make with Mairsy Doats.
Now we've won war, and seem about to
lose the peace, the day of new motors is
reluctant to dawn lot of people are I'M
happy, ard we wonder what TO do about it,
so we sing "Chala, Chala." The historian may
puzzle about 1t.
So do we. But the strange fact is that it
seems to ease some tensions. Chick, Chick,
tsk, tsk-Christian Science Monitor
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-12-13
Colds And Flu

The rapid spread Of colds and hue IL notice
able in Wilmington, due largely. we must as
sumo, to the sudden changes of temperature
and failure to keep out OF draughts and dress
warmly.
We can't do anything about tempers ture
changes, but everybody can do something
about colds and flu, particularly about their
further spread. Persons suffering from either
can, and most certainly should keep their
distance from their families, friends and fel-
low-workers. They ought to go to bed until
the attack is brought under control This is
especially recommended by all physicians
when the cold Is in the shifting stage or the
flu sends the temperature above normal.
Wilmington has been singularly free of cpl
denies since the war started, notable achieve
and reduction in the number of doctors, with
so0rnany entering the armed services 1t would
be sad indeed it, now that the war is over, a
grave flu epidemic should strike the city.
And it could if flu victims failed to take the
ordinary precautions against passing it on, and
persons with colds breathed or sneeezed in the
immediate vicinity of others.
It is all right for everybody in the grip
of these diseases to turn isolationist It fact
1t is necessary, in the interest of public health
and welfare.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-12-13
A Mans Best Asset

Admitting charge of sheer sentimentalism,
we believe the greatest chance for General
George S. Patton, Jr., is the arrival Of his
wife at his bedside.
The years Of understanding companionship
aging couples have experienced are their best
{ sset in emergency. The mere presence of
one doubles the courage of the other to en-
dure affliction, disaster, any adverse situa-
ton.
General Patton has had the best surgical
and medical specialists obtainable He has
been served by capsble nurses All that skill
could do for him has been done. But because
his wife is with him he is better situated to
face whatever fate has in store for him.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-12-13
Entry By Nationalist Troops
Lessons Shame, Humiliation OF Chinese

The argument likely will be SIM
ply that the authority of the Cen
trail government had to be reassert-
ed by force over these areas, and
that it was unable to flow back
automatically like water down into
a dry valley. And, furthermore,
that it did not have the strength
to flow back itself, but had to have
help to do so.
Chinese elation at being back in
Mukden also may be chilled by
the unconfirmed reports circulating
in Chungking that China paid Rus
STA quite a price in order to reach
the new agreement whereby the
Russians guarantee the safety of
returning Nationalist troops and
officials.
+ Some Nationalist officials, who
won't allow their names to be used,
even allege that the Russians de-
manded economic concessions in
Manchuria which would threaten
Chinese sovereignty there.
There is no confirmation Of such
rumors, and it also remains to
be confirmed that the Russians
have looted Manchuria' industry
as some reports have limited.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-12-13

tho former Jap: nese territory so vital to the
recovery Of China
The situation in this troubled region mas
changed so often since the Chinese commun-
lists set out to win virtual independence from
the Chungkng government that 1t would be
unsafe to assume that the arrangement be-
tween Chungking and Moscow IS Strohs
enough to lead to Manchurian peace. But II
would appear to be the most hopeful sign
thereof thus far seen on the Asia tic horizon.
AS long as the United States is definitely
committed to aid Chang, it is gratifying to
know that the Russian Allies are not to place
obvious obstacles in his path.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-12-13
By JAMES d. WHITE
Associated Press Staff Writer

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 12-P)-
Something of shame and humilia-
ton in every Chinese heart was
lessened today as Nationalist troops
moved back into Mukden and
Changchun, the industrial and ad-
ministrative centers of Manchuria
Many Chinese blamed their Ma
tionalist government for not max
ing firmer stand against Japan
when Manchuria was lost in 1881.
Others blamed the foreign powers
who stood by and watched Japan
grab and get by with it.
But the return to Mukden, where
it all started more than IA years
ago, is a mixed blessing in Chinese
minds. For the Nationalist troops
had to have American help to get
there and Russian permission to
reenter.
The difficulties which the Cen
trail troops have had getting back,
first into North China and later in
to Manchuria, may be resurrected
later by interested parties, and
should not be forgotten by anyone
who wants to keep the picture
straight in his mind.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-12-13
Headed For Chaos

Following the example of the auto workers,
the CIO unions which have voted for steel
strike on January IA resort to violent langua &c
in the statement Of their intention to tie up
indus ry. At no stage of the controversy
between G General M tor and the
United Auto Workers have union offlcli Is lost
an opportunity to charge management with
evil intent against labor
President Truman, who has sought legisla'
ton to prevent the interruption OF reconver'
sion by strikes and announced his purpose to
set up fact-hnding commissions to learn the
true state of affairs in industry no less thu n
in labor, has not escaped Among other things
he is accused of using policeman's bludgeon
to force labor into submission.
Now comes the resolution of the steel work.
ers calling their strike in which the industry
as a whole is accused Of determined AFRO
gance" and refusal to meet its obligations"
It Is held solely to blame for the present
gram vicious snti-labor and an attack on
our basic democratic liberties"
Obviously, in the opinion OF the unions
leadership. labor alone is right and manage
ment is wrong. AS the strike is for 81 a
day increase in wages and 100000 workers are
to be affected by the strike, it my not be
20 wonder both where the money
is coming from to meet the payrolls and if
the raise is granted what the price of steel
will have to be at the mills to allow a reason.
able margin Of profit on the capital invested.
The time cannot be far distant when the
non-union population Of the United States,
which far outnumbers union membership will
DENT nd showdown, and when Congress will
not dare to vote down legislation which will
give capital invested in industry an equal
break with labor.
II this is not done, the nations industry
generally will close down, for labor cannot
take over and operate it as was demonstrt ted
in the Higgins episode in New Orleans.
Labor control is no less necessary in the
nations security, than a strong military es.
Enlistment and control of the atomic bomb
Let 1t have equal consideration with them.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-12-13
TRUMAN TO BE ASKED
TO VETO JOB OFFICE
BILL AS AMENDED

WASHINGTON, Dec. 12.-UR-
President Truman will be asked
to veto legislation to return the
U. S. Employment Service to
state control next April l.
Informed sources said today the
President had not made up his
mind whether to approve or dis
approve the bill passed finally by
congress late yesterday.
But the Labor department had
two sets of plans ready. One sets
up procedures for return of USES
offices TO the states. The other
provides for retention of the SER
vice as a federal system if Mr..
Truman vetoes the bill and con-
gress does not override the Veto.
The President asked congress in
a September message to keep thi
service under federal administra-
ton until January l, 1947. He said
this was necessary to assure jobs
and employment opportunities for
the millions of workers forced to
transfer from war to peace pro-
duction. He was opposed by many
state governors.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-12-13
40 MILES

One Of our correspondents having used the
expression to the point of being irratating
we have just measured on map of Pales-
tine, the distance from Dan to Beersheba -
It is bit under 40 miles as the ruler rules
and so as the crow flies.
Odd, isn't it? The camel has passed the
footman, the chariot has passed the camel
the pony and stage expresses have passed
the chariot, the railroad trains have passed
the stages, the automobile to some degree
has passed the railroad train-and today 140
miles is but fifteen or twenty minutes to our
fastest planes. Years by the thousands have
sunk away into history Yet what is only an
inch on the map to the modern photographer
remains the initiative PERSONS supreme ex-
preston of vast distances-Dan to The north
qonian
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-12-13

Qualification Of such questions
must await the return of compe-
tent reporters to the scene in Man
churia, who may or may not be
allowed to report fully by Chinese
or Russian censors or both. 1t must
await, perhaps, the results of the
Big Three foreign ministers meet
ing which begins Saturday in Mos
COW, to which Secretary of State
Byrnes is taking his chief far east
ern affairs adviser, John Carter
Vincent.
1t may be only coincidence, but
the Chinese reached their new
agreement with the Russians for
the reoccupation of Manchuria
shortly after it was announced that
the new American Ambassador to
China would be Gen. George Mar
shall.
The full meaning of his appoint
ment presumably will be made
clear when President Truman an
nounces the instructions he will
carry with him when he leaves for
China, perhaps late this week.
These instructions hardly can
imply less firm Amc- :ican policy
in the Orient.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-12-13
Surgeon General Strikes
Back At Truman Critics

NEW YORK, Dec. 12.-(P)-Sur-
geon General Thomas Parran
struck back today at medical pro.
fession criticism of President Tru-
mans proposal for compulsory
health insurance.
If an affective plan is to be
worked out, Parran said in a pre-.
pared address, the medical profess
sion "should begin to explore the
problem effectively and come for
ward with solutions, not rejec-
tons"
The surgeon general, physician
himself, discussed the President's
proposed national health program
before the U. S. conference OF
mayors. Compulsory health insur-
ance is one of the programs five
points.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-12-13
Higgins Industries Must
Grant Paid Vacation Plan

WASHINGTON, Dec. 12-UD-
The War Labor Board today ord
cred Higgins Industries, Inc, OF
New Orleans to set up paid va
cation plan for its employees and
date it back to last Jan. /.
Under the plan, employees would
receive five days annual vacation
after one year and 10 days after
five years.
The board refused to rule on
four other issues in dispute between
the company and the New Orleans
Metal Trades Council (AFL).
These were inclusion of foremen in
the bargaining unit, veterans hir-
ing, temporary transfers between
crafts, and limitations on the un-
ions right to discipline its mem
bers.