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Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-07-04
UNRRA 70 DELIVER 3,8o5,0OO TONS
Or RELIEF SUPPLIES TO EUROPE

Washington - In a report sub
mitted recently to the committee
on supplies of the United Nations
Relief and Rehabilitation Admin
%lstration, Roy F. H~endrickson, dep
uty director general for supplies.
stated that preliminary estimates
OF supply and shipping require
ments for the second half of 1945
to six liberated European count
rles receiving UNRRA assistance
total $685. 600 gross metric tons
valued at 1913, OOO, 900, to be sup
piled by contributing countries,
including the United States.
This is more than three times
as large as the program through
June, when supplies delivered or
on their way to Countries receiv-
ing UNRRA assistance will have
totalled 1,229,113 metric tons val
ued at 1856, 300, OOO," Mr.. Hend-
rickson said in his statement as
relayed to the Office of War In
formatinon.
Out Of the 1895, 900 tons of
supplies from July through De-
cember 1945, if the quantities a
be obtained, Albania would receive
l 1000 metric tons valued at S19,-
0 10000; Czechoslovakia 884, 900
tons valued at $196, 600, 900; Greece
1,O34,0 600 tons valued at S171, OOO,-
600; Italy 10000 tons valued at
500, 900, 900; Jugoslavia $685. 900
tons valued at $242, 600, 900; and
Poland 929,0 900 tons valued at
1886, 000, 600, the Hendrickson re-
port revealed.
What will actually be shipped
and when it will be shipped, mir.
Hendrickson pointed out, will
depend on a number of factors, in
Guiding availability of supplies
and shipping, port facilities and
transport facilities to carry them
inland. I'm the last analysis, he
declared, the success of the pro-
gram will depend on the extent to
which UNRRA will receive the full
and unequivocal support of its
members, especially of, the major
supplying governments"
By the end of June, the report
sets forth, the relief and rehabi-
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-07-04

ltor Reading Labor Advocate
foretold by Socialists, where it is
no longer possible for civilization
to exist under those old, anarch-
istic processes that made the pro-
duction and distribution of wealth
look like an open poker game with
anybody privileged to sit in. Like
all rackets that start small and
become big, game of using the
worlds wealth and the worlds
people for the profit of a few will
have to be organized.
The Socialist answer to the
charge that planning necessarily
means the death of human free
dom is that
1t all depends upon who does
the planning and the controlling.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-07-04
NINE MONTHS OF PROHIBITION ENOUGH

McLennan County, Texas, which only last August became the
largest Dry county in the u. S. abandoned prohibition after trying
II ut tor nine months. The county, which has a population of more
than 100000 and Includes the city of Waco, voted to return to the legal
sale of beer in a election held last month. The vote w 10 1886 to
1896, a majority of 1,040 votes in favor for beer. In July, 1914, the
county voted out legal beer by a majority of 500, the vote being 8,768
to 1909. Wacos vote proved the deciding factor in last months cleo
ton, returning a majority of 1,234 votes in favor of beer, whereas in
the previous election, the city voted dry by a 226-voe majority.
1t is Interesting to note that the absentee vote was a small factor
the outcome of the election, totalng but 373, which included a few
service mems ballots.
In abandoning prohibition, McLennan County achieved the distinc-
ton OF being the first Texas county to return to beer, after having once
voted dry, since Repeal. McLennan's shift left 139 counties still drv for
beer out of the States total of 254 counties. Undoubtedly lutte a few of
the opportunity-The Brewery Worker.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-07-04

Another increase in the point
value of oleomargine, the poor
mans BUTTER is important because
1t threatens American dinner Ia
bles with further shortages in
foods that are vital to health. But
even more important is the fact
that this business of juggling the
necessities of Internationally and
without adequate explanation
brings into sharper focus the warn
ings now being sounded by op-
ponents of a planned economy.
The charge is that planning is
destructive of freedom - and the
arbitrary manner in which plan
ming is being done today appears
to support that contention. Ger
tainly, SO far as most Americans
are concerned, this business of be-
ing herded into line and told
what's what is a mysterious pro-
cess in which the people have no
part, but to conform. And GER
tainly it is not democratic in it's
procedure; in America no less than
In Nazi Germany the lives and
customs and general behavior of
the common man are shaped by
decree and by announcement.
We being told. We're told that
we can't have steaks. We're told
that we'll have to get along with
less lard. We're told that our coal
will cost us a dollar more per ton.
It's just like that; the little people
of these United States, like the
little people of other nations at
whom we poked ridicule when
fascism was budding in Europe,
stand and wait and wonder what
somebody is going to do with
them.
The way American people are
being manhandled right now gives
that man Hayek, who wrote a
book to prove that planning is the
Road to Serfdom,' something to
talk about. 1t also gives people
who want to be free something to
worry about and Socialists some
thing to explain.
fortunately for the Socialists,
they have an explanation that is
simple and logical and that has
been given in this and other So
clallst columns we'll in advance.
The. explanation of what is TAX
ing form right now is that
We ARE going to have a con-
trolled and planned be-
cause the evolution of production
n transportation has brought the
world to that place, long since
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-07-04
SURVIVE HARDSHIPS

The American Red Cross an
nounces that over 80 per cent of
American prisoners of wal have
survived their hardships in Ger
man prisons, and now are gradual
ly returning home.
The report emphasizes that the
chief victims of Nazi atrocities
were Germans who refused to bow
to Hitler and "slave workers. who
offended their German masters.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-07-04
MARRIAGE DECLINE,
DIVORCES GAIN

Statistics reflected rough going
for an old family institution
known as marriage.
There were 3,4O1 marriage IL
enses issued here this May, lO3
fewer than in May, 1914.
And also this May, 1549 divorces
were filed, bringing the 1945 total
to date to 1855. Only 7,211, or 7
per cent less, had been filed at the
same time last year.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-07-04
Some Fancy Focfs

In 1918, the last year of the first
World War, 761, 900 coal miners,
averaging 80 years of age, pro-
duced 678, 500, 900 tons of anthra-
cite and bituminous coal, an aver
age of 1928 tons of coal per a
In 1914 a total of 478, 500 coal
miners, averaging As years of age
(many of them past IS and 70
years of age) produced 684, $50, 900
tons of anthracite and bituminous
coal, an average of 1929 tons of
coal per man.
Did the coal miner do HIS Job?
The Progressive miner.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-07-04
TILTS LID ON WAGES

An employer who wishes to
boast the wages of his workers to
SIS cents an hour may do so now
without obtaining National War
Labor Board approval.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-07-04

1t is not the victory that makes
the JOY of noble hearts, but the
Observation-Disclosures.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-07-04
Planned Economy Here to Stay But it
All Depends Who Does the P|onnino

By INC HOFSES, Editor Reading Labor Advo
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-07-04
BILL TO ENSLAVE 3

The opening shot of one of the worst anti-labor legislative COM
ever to be launched in Congress and the press has just been
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-16
STATE TROOPERS
WOUNDED IN FIGHT
WITH FUGITIVE

PHILLIPSBURG, N. j., July IL
-R- Two State Troopers were
wounded today in a guntlght al
Brainards, a village seven miles
from here, with a man sought II,
connection with the axe-slaylng OF
his wife in Orange last night
Cpl. Jay Zeiss of the State Police
said the fugitive, who he identified
as Ernest Rittenhouse, 30, ex-
changed shots with the two officers.
left them wounded, then escaped
by foot into PENNSYLVANIA over a
railroad bridge to Martins Creek.
a town about seven miles north
of Easton.
Sgt. Cornelius O'Donnell, in
command of the Washington, N. i.
barracks of the State Police, was
in critical condition at Warren Hos
pital here with wounds in the ab-
dome nand arms. Trooper Fra
Perry, who received chest wounds
was listed as in serious condition
at the same hospital.
State Police said they had 40 fur
Their details on the shooting atfray'
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-16
AIR FORCE DAY SET
FOR AUGUST l, BY
GEN. H. H. ARNOLD

WASHINGTON, July 15.-W.D-
Gen. H. H. Arnold, commander OF
the Army Air Forces, tonight do
signated Aug. l as Air Force Day
to mark the 38th anniversary OF
Army aviation.
It was on Aug. I, 1907, that d.
vision of Aeronautics was created
'to study the flying machine and
the possibility Of adapting 1t to
military purposes"
The army air wing started with
one captain and two enlisted men.
Today it comprises more then g..
100000 officers and men and the
most powerful air fleet in the world.
Air Force Day will be observed
by all domestic AAF installations
and by as many overseas as pos
sible. In this country, formal re-
views will be held and the public
will be invited to inspect equip
ment and facilities.
purpose TO the day." the War
Department said, twill be to re.
port to the American public the
magnitude of air powers contribu.
ton to the victory in Europe and tn
the task that lies ahead Of the AZ.
| lied forces advancing against Jap
an"
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-16
BRITISH BESIEGlNG
JAPS IN so. BURMA,
MOUNTBATTEN STATES

CALCUTTA, July Is. = Up -
British 18th Army Troops have
seized the initiative from Japanese
forces in the Sittang river bend
in South Burma and are besieging
the main Japanese concentration
point of Myitkyo, IA miles northeast
of Rangoon, Admiral Lord Louis
Mountbatten' S Headquarters said to-
day. g..
British raiding parties attacked
Myitkyo. 20 miles northeast of Pc
gu, with machine guns and gre
nades while Thunderbo]t and Spit
fire fighter-bombers blasted enemy
troops in the area. communique
said
Ninety miles to the north, Japa-
nese artillery, covering the with
drawal of enemy troops toward
| Indo- China, shelled British posi-
ton on the Toungoo-India- China
road.
Liberator bombers yesterday
winged east of Rangoon across
the Gulf of Martaban and ham
mered the Moulmein-Ye railr d
tearing up the track at a number
of points in the Amin area.
In other air strikes, Thunder
bolts bombed and strafed a troop
area at Kalagy-Aunggyi, Is mile:
southwest of Mokpalin, and Other
PATS destroyed or damaged en-
envy huts at Kyunbin in the Pegr
hills.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-16
PROBE PROVES ARMY
GOODS NOT BURNED
AT BRITISH DEPOT

LONDON, July IS. Up Char
ges that repairable equipment was
destroyed by United States Army
troops at military depot in War
minister were found to be with
out foundation" by an official Army
investigating committee, headquar-
tiers of the United Kingdom base
announced today.
It had been alleged at the trial
of Alfred Grist, a former civilian
employee at the depot who was con-
victed of unlawful possession of
U. S. Army equipment, that thou
sands of dollars worth of motor
trucks, ambulances, tires, furni-
ture, motor accessories and tons
of timber had been burned at the
depot.
The investigation disclosed that
early last month one wooden am
bulance body and one two-and-one
half ton truck body, wrecked be-
You'd repair, were burned in order
to salvage the steel frameworks,
the official statement declared.
The statement added that the in
vestigation found no evidence to
support the geseral charges.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-16
AMERICA FACING
P0CKETB00K TEST

WASHINGTON, July 15.-R-
The pocketbook test of America ;
widened role in world affairs-the
question of United States partlcl-
patton in the Breton Woods None
tary agreements-comes up before
the Senate tomorrow.
Administration leaders. who have
insisted that unqualified approval
of United States commitments to
share in the 44-nation, $4,000, eoo
International Monetary Fund and
Bank is inseparable from overall
plans for world peace, are confld'
ent that approval will be given
with votes to spare. One Republ1-
can who opposes the plan said prl-
vately that it undoubtedly would
be approved.
But the three days or so OF de-
bate that will proceed the show
down may provide foretaste OF
some opposition opinion when con.
sideration is begun next week OF
the United Nations peace Charter,
even though ratification Of that
document is regarded as assured.
A preview of arguments to be
presented against United States
subscription of So, Its, 900, 900 to the
proposed International Banks capt.
Continued on Page Three; Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-16
Lehman May Resign AS
UNRRA Head Next Month

WASHINGTON, July Is. -U.R)-
Associates of Herbert H. Lehman
disclosed tonight that there is IAN
outside chance" he may resign
next month as director general OF
the United Nations Relief and Re
Mobilization Administration.
They emphasized, howeve :, that
the former New York governor
will quit as international relief
chief on only one condition: With
the knowledge that his departure
would rally the public behind
UNRRA's faltering efforts to ob-
tain enough food and relief sup
plies for liberated Europe.
Lehman is expected to decide his
course during his current tour of
Europe. He may announce his de-
clsion at next months UNRRA
council meeting in London.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-16
BERLIN TO RISE
AS TRADE CENTER

FRANKFURT ON THE MAIN,
July 15.-tR-Within another four
weeks battered Berlin will become
once more one Of the great gov.
eminent centers of Europe as the
Four Power Control Council takes
over its task of directing the gov.
erning of occupied Germany.
Already representatives of all
II divisions of the United States
group of the Control Council are
in Berlin as an advance echelor
to work out details of liaison and
cooperation with the Russians, the
British and the French prepare.
tory to the first full dress meeting
of thu Control Council.
By mid-August the Central Con
troll Council is scheduled to begir
functioning, thus focusing in Der
lin the Allied government of Ger
many.
AS American representative or
the Control Council Gen. Eisen
hover will spend part of his time
in Berlin working out policies anc
a multitude of details with Mar
shall Gregory K. Zhukov, Fiele
Marshal Sir Bernard L. Mont
gomery, and other Control Council
members.
Eisenhower, working in a spac
ious office here in building
which formerly housed the head
quarters of I. G.. Farbenindustrie
is expected to spend large par
of his time in Frankfurt, where
the American occupation activities
center.
Paris becomes of secondary i'm
portance, although communication:
zone headquarters will remain
there until the redeployment pro
gram is completed. This head
quarters directs the handling O.
supplies, communications n
transportation for the occupation
army in Germany.
Meanwhile Marseille, Cherbourg
Rouen and LIE Havre will continue
to be important centers for the
Americans in the redeployment o:
troops and the shipment OF sup
plies into Europe.
Both the 18th and the Sixth Army
groups are in the process OF being
dissolved. Their command func
Continued on Page Three; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-16
big Three" In Potsdam
For Historic Meeting

BERLIN. July 15-lR-President
Truman and Prime Minister
Churchill arrived in Germany's
ruined capital by plane today to
join Premier Stain in an historic
conference that may shorten the
Pacific war and decide the world
fate for wears to come.
The Big Three will begin discus
sions tomorrow in Kaiser Wilhelm
former castle in suburban Potsdam
and an unofficial estimate tonight
was that the conference would last
from ten days to three weeks.
Planes roared in over the bomb.
blasted capitol in an almost con-
tinuous stream from about 2:3(
pm. onward, bringing British AND
American dignitaries, while other
American, British and Russian
fighter planes patrolled the skies.
The president, accompanied by
his personal chief of staff, Admiral
William D. Leahy, flew in from
Brussels at Ais pm. Berlin time
(8:15 am. EWT), fifteen minutes
after Secretary of State James F
Byrnes had landed. They had spent
2 hours and so minutes in Belgium
Continued on Page Three; Col. y
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-16

Mount Falls
FIVE-MILE ADVANCE
Heavy Artillery Fire Sends
Japs On Run For

MAN LA, Monday. July 16.-(P)
Capture of one of the principal
oil fields in Eastern Borneo was
imminent today after Australian
troops pushed to within five miles
Of the center of Sambodja against
vanishing Japanese resistance.
Advances of five miles in two
days were disclosed in Gen Douglas
MacArthur's communique, and
they came in a sector along the
coast where previous gains had
been bought by the yard in heavy
fighting.
The wells of the Sambodja fields
feed the refineries of Balikpapan
which were wrecked by bombings
or set ablaze in the liberation OF
the port city.
The condition of the wells was
now known, but if the japanese
who have retreated from strong,
fixed positions under heavy pound
ing from land, sea and air follow
their usual tactics the wells will
be found dynamited and chokeo
with drilling tools.
The Australians were pushing
on toward Sambodja from th5
village of Anborawang, in the
heart of the difficult tidal swamp
region.
Australians and Dutch colonia]s
brought heavy artillery to bear ano
drove the Japanese from Noun
Batochampar or Smashed Stone
Ridge" six miles Northeast Of
Balikpapan.
This was an important obstacle
in the Northeastward push along
the highway leading to the port
and oil center of Samarinda, &C
miles distant.
This drive is concerted with the
one along the coast, since Samar.
india lies Sc miles north of Sam.
bodja.
The Japanese fought back stub
bornly, however.
Patrols were operating 30 miles
South of the ene.ny-held base Of
Jesselton in British North Borneo
Heaviest fighting still was in tht
Balikpapan area.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-16
10000 Raj Men Will
Help Police Germany

LONDON, July Is. -tR- More
than 20, 900 Raj airmen and ground
crewmen will assist in the air
policing of Germany, the air min
istry said today as new aerial
police known as the British Air
Force of Occupation in Germany
came into being.
The new force is a direct sue
cessor to the Raj Second Tactical
Airforce, which ceased to exist as
such. Air Marshal Sir Arthur Con-
ingham, commander of the second
TAF, relinquished his command
to Air Chief Marshal Sir Sholto
Douglas.
The makeup of the American oc-
cupational airforce has not yet been
officially announced.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-16
Newspaper Deliuerymen
WL[ Continue Wulkouf

NEW YORK, July Is The
head of New York. striking news
paper deliverynen said after a
mass meeting today that the work
stoppage would continue despite a
warning from publishers that h e
strikers would be dismissed unless
they returned to work tomorrow.
Joseph S:mons, president of the
Newspaper and Mail DELIVERIES
Union Unaffiliatedo, also said that
several unions affiliated with the
newspaper industry have agreed to
support the strike financially"
The meeting had been called for
the purpose of giving the strikers
an opportunity to vote on whether
they wanted to return to work, but
Simons said no formal vote was
taken.
'The men were here and heard
what we had to say and l read the
letters from the. various unions
which offered to support them, -
Simons said.
The strike, now in its third week,
has tied Up distribution of IA major
dailies and three racing forms.
Simons said other members OF
the union employed by papers not
affected by the work stoppage
would contribute 20 per cent OF
their pay for strike benefits. He
did not name the other unions he
said would give financial assistance
The strikers were warned last
night by the Publishers Association
of New York City that they would
be dismissed Immediately unless
they reported back to work at their
Usual time tomorrow. The delivery
men already had ignored three War
Labor Board directives and a pre-
vious ultimatum from the publish
ers.
Advised of today's action by the
union, the Publishers Association
in statement, reiterated its warn
ing that workers failing to report
to work tomorrow would be dis.
missed.
The Association added, however,
that any who did return to their
jobs would be assured that their en-
ployers would not make contracts
with any other union which would
endanger their jobs.
Nearly all Of the LOO strikers
attended today's closed mass meet
ing Not all were in favor of con-
tinuing the. strike, however, news
men learned by talking to the
union members as they left the
meeting hall. .......
One of the men told reporters
that the reason no.fornaal vote was
taken was because a motion was
made from the floor to dispense
with the vote after Simons had
read letters from other unions
promising support.
/ (Continuef1 on Page Three: Col, II
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-16
BAPTISTS TELEGRAPH
SENATOR'S RE DOCTOR
SHORTAGE IN CITY

In an effort to help relieve. the
critical shortage of doctors in
wilmington, members of the South
side Baptist church last night voted
UNANIMOUSLY to send to Senators
clyde R. Hoey and Josiah Bailey a
telegram requesting their efforts
IN behalf of the city in relation
TO the Army's discharging of doc
tors. 1t was felt that Wilmington
has dire need for additional medi-
cal men in view of the great in
crease in population during the
war.
The telegram follows:
In the light of the Arnny's plan
10 discharge some of it's doctors
ana as we have a critical shortage
OF doctors in Wilmington, the South.
SIDE Baptist church today unani.
mously voted to ask you to do all
you can in the interest of Whining.
ION Doctors signed, REV. ]. O.
walton, Minister