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Evening star., 1945-09-01
Rites 10 Be Held Tonight
For Mrs. Pauline Updike

Funeral services for Mrs. Pauline
Updike, 70. Of 637 Lexington place
NE, who died Thursday at her home
after a long illness, will be held at
8 o'clock tonight at the w. w. Deal
funeral home, 1912 Georgia avenue
NV, and at pm. tomorrow at
Front Royal Methodist Church,
Front Royal, Va. Burial will be IN
Front Royal.
Mrs. Updike was the wife OF John
B. Updike, retired carpenter. They
celebrated their 61st wedding an
niversary last November II.
Born in Browntown, Warren
County, Va, she came here in 1920.
She was a member of Epworth
Methodist Church.
Besides her husband, she is sur
vived by six sons, Grover c.. Reginald
B., John F., Shirley E., Arleigh A.
and Shadah v. Updike, and a
daughter, Mrs. Daisy V. Arnold, all
of Washington; two granddaughter,
and two grandsons, both with the
NAVY in the Pacific.
Evening star., 1945-09-01
Southern Editors
AssaiI Expressions
OF Racial Prejudice

White newspaper editors in the
South are overwhelmingly opposed
to the recent expression of racial
prejudice in Congress and feel that
such statements do not represent
the true feelings of the South, a
poll of 255 editors in 13 Southern
States, taken by the Southern Con-
ference for Human Welfare, re-
vealed today.
Questioned specifically on state
ment made in the Senate June 20
by Senator Eastland, Democrat. OF
Mississippi, criticizing the efforts
of Negro soldiers, SO per cent OF
the editors agreed that Senator
Eastland's statement was hazard
to the war effort, 87l4 per cent said
the statement did not reflect the
prevailing opinion of the Southern
editors and 75h per cent declared
the statement did not reflect the
opinion of the Southern people.
Senator Eastlands statement,
made during filibuster against the
Fair Employment Practices Com
mittee, was: THE Negro soldier was
an utter and abysmal failure in
combat in Europe = He has dis
graced the flag of his country. He
will not fight. He will not work" :"
OF the 255 questionnaires and let
ters received in the poll, % showed
some agreement with Senator East
land, 219 disagreed, and l3 were
neutral.
DR.. Clark Foreman, president Of
the conference, commented: In my
opinion, this is one of the most en-
couraging signs that the people of
the South are becoming increasingly
aware of the dangerous and un-
founded sentiments of such men as
Senators Eastland and Bilbo and
Representative John Rankin. Fol
the first time we have documentary
evidence that these demogogues be-
long to a dead order, and represent
no one but themselves and handful
of reactionaries who feed on their
patronage"
The editors taking part in the
poll head newspapers In the fol-
lowing States: Alabama, Arkansas
Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louis
lana, Mississippi, North Carolina
Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennes-
see, Texas and Virginia. In Mis-
sissippi, which Senators Eastland
and Bilbo, and Congressman Ran
kin represent, IL editors were di-
vided evenly between agreement and
disagreement with Senator Eastland' s
statement,
Evening star., 1945-09-01

ningly estimated our plight and
pedaled off again with an empty
tin can. Almost Immediately they
were back, cInging to the sides OF
honking little red fire truck OF
vintage of the 1920s. There were
eight aboard, and they had enough
gasoline to flood our tank, although
we asked only enough to get us to
Yokohama.
No Pay Except Cigarettes.
They pushed our vehicle until the
engine revived and would accept
nothing in return except few Gig
arettes. Every man had his smoke
going before we could get under
way. They flashed buck teeth at
us and waved as long as We could
see them amid the dissolution of a
community they had been powerless
to save.
There is not the least tendency
among our men to sympathize with
the beaten Japs. but at the same
time it was difficult to look upor
the little firemen in the light o!
enemies.
On another occasion, a Jap
urchin shouted at us Hello, Joe
okay, so sorry, please when We
stopped at a crossroads to ask the
way. But a dozen other willing
hands pointed the direction.
No Fear of Americans.
A few persons of European blood
who lived in Tokyo throughout the
war told me japanese propaganda
never convinced the city folk that
the Americans were barbarians who
would murder. rape and loot. I saw
no fear on their japanese faces
despite the lying propaganda which
has been their fare for years.
The japanese are being very cor.
rect. They watch every American
and take their cue from him. L
there is a salute, they return i
promptly. A wave of the hand o.
grin is returned in kind with in.
terest. The kids here are alfeady
chewing gum and precious bits O.
candy. They are learning fast tt
laugh instead of cringe when they
see Yanks, no matter how big ane
bristling with arms he may be.
The big American consulate anc
the Embassy in Tokyo, we were told
have come through the war in gooe
shape under the care of the Swiss
Yesterday we were talking to the
Swiss caretaker when a CT guare
opened his K ration. The Swis
nearly cried when he saw ane
smelled the cheese. 1t was most O.
the Americans supper, but he in.
sisted on handing 1t over to tn,
Swiss.
Evening star., 1945-09-01
Guerrilla Woman Officer Here
Describes Torture by Jops

Utinsky Of the sadism OF the Japa-
nese, who forced her to kneel on o
rack of split bamboo until the ends
cut deep into her shins.
Won't Trust Japs.
After 80 days they let her 60 With
a case of blood poisoning In her leg.
She described the japanese as in
capable Of loyalty.
II wouldn't trust them anywhere
in the world" she exclaimed. The
atomic bomb quieted them down, but
they are good at initiating and
there are plenty Of them in this
country to find out anything they
want to -know!"
She told of her reaction TO the
homecoming.
While l was waiting to disem-
bark at Wilmington, Calf, looking
too shoddy in a blanket and mems
shoes, saw women thought had
been from a circus to amuse US
they were wearing such crazy hats.
When I got to Los Angeles next
day and the Elks Club furnished
! me Win money 10 Duy clotneS
went downtown and bought one Of
those silly hats as well as trunkful
of clothes which I promptly forgot
and left in the store.
I'VE were all absent-minded at
first. We had been so scared for
three years, having to be ready
/ for anything at moments notice.
that I guess I just wore out my
mind. I'd get up to get n drink
and forget what I wanted. 1t was
embarrassing when people asked
me questions and I couldn't re-
member what they had said"
Instead of medals, all Mrs. Utin-
!. sky wants is a one-way ticket back
;. to the Philippines where she Is
| planning to do some relief work
and perhaps write a book about
her adventures,
Evening star., 1945-09-01
JobIess
Continued From First Page.)

out changing the weekly amounts
fixed by each State is being con-
sidered by Senator Vandenberg as
a possible compromise for the Kill
gore bill.
The Michigan Senator empha-
sized he is not committed to the
idea, but put it forward for dis
cussion after spokesmen for nearly
all of the States had objected to
Federal inroads on State control of
unemployment compensation.
The Finance Committee made
plans to work through today and
Labor Day in an effort to have some
decision ready when Congress re-
assemblies Wednesday.
A new complication developed
yesterday afternoon when Claude
A. Williams of the Texas Unem-
ployment Compensation Commits
sion testified 40 of the States
would have to call special sessions
of the Legislatures to make the Kill
gore bill effective
In Texas, and most of the other
States, he said, there are provisions
under which any supplementary
payments made to jobless indi-
vidual must be deducted from the
States payment. This would mean
that If the Federal Government
added 81 to the $18 paid in Texas,
that amount would have to be de-
Quoted from the $18, and the indi-
vidual would be no better off than
before, unless State laws are
changed.
"Fair Alternative"
One of the consultants to the
committee explained that the Social
Security Board knew of these State
provisions, but did not agree to that
Interpretation of their effect on the
Kilgore bill. Senator Vandenberg
put his suggested compromise to
Mr.. Williams at this point by say
| ing:
"The duration of benefits in the
States would average about 20
weeks. Let's assume this emerg-
ency proves more difficult than we
contemplate. What would you say
to leaving the amounts paid by the
States alone, and have the Federal
Government conflne its aid to con-
tinuing the payment for longer
period?"
Mr.. williams said that would be a
| fair alternative.
Evening star., 1945-09-01
Kent Cooper Cautions
Against Compromise
On Free World Press
" the Associated Press.

4
NEW YORK, Sept. 1.-Kent
Cooper, writing in the September
issue of Free World, warns against
compromise in this critical phase
of the movement to achieve world
wide freedom of the press.
with full picture of what we
have in the way of a newspaper
press" wrote Mr.. Cooper, executive
director of the Associated Press, I'VE
should, without apology, hope that
our kind of press freedom may be
guaranteed to the peoples of all
nations.
II do not start with the idea that
such hope may be impractical in
this troubled world. that we want
less than that, or that this is the
time to talk of compromise.
Referring specifically to the
newspaper press, we have seen
through the years, an unusual
growth with widening scope of re-
sponsibility in this and certain other
lands where the press has been
freeSt from Government reStrlcClon
or control and from political or
private subsidy.
"It is significant that where the
newspaper press has achieved this
full stature of independence, the
principles of full and unbiased re-
porting, of presenting facts both
pleasant and unpleasant, favorable
and unfavorable, has made greatest
progress.
He declared it -.as "a most hope
full augury that in the Soviet Union,
where the definition of press free
dom is divergent from ours, the
subject is being written about and
discussed He added it had been
predicted in Russia that improve
ment could be made in mutual
communication between the Soviet
and the American or any other
/
Evening star., 1945-09-01
Occupation
Continued From First Page)

Baguio tomorrow and sign surren-
der articles Monday for the remains
of his Philippines Army.
At Singapore, which Gen. Yama-
shita conquered in 1912, the Japa-
nese commander acknowledged Ad-
miral Lord Louis Mountbatten's or
ders to have the government house
ready for occupancy by Septem-
ber s."
The surrender Of $4,000 japanese
in the Solomons, New Guinea and
New Britain was to be received by
Australian 1t. Gen. V. A. H. Stur-
dee aboard the aircraft carrier Glory
at Rabaul.
| The 20,500-man garrison of the
Bonin Islands was under pledge to
surrender Monday after conference
between the japanese and Amer
leans aboard the destroyer Dunlap
yesterday.
The Netherlands Indies, last of
Japan's major conqueSts, apparently
would be the last to be relinquished.
Dutch officials spoke of matter of
weeks before the reoccupation of
those rich islands would be settled
finally.
Truk Surrender Planned.
The island fortress of Truk was
to surrender after surrender papers
are signed in Tokyo Bay. Marcus
Island already had surrendered its
2,455 men to the United States
destroyer Bagley.
The japanese at outlying bases
sent in reports that their troops
were in pitiful condition from disease
and hunger, and the home govern
ment was planning to tell the people
that the death toll from American
air raids on Japan itself was 450, 1000
nearly double the previously an
nounced figures.
Premier Prince Higashi-Kuni
promised a public discussion and
explanation of 'the collapse OF
Japan's fighting spirit" for which
he blamed her surrender.
Tokyo Occupation Deferred.
| For unexplained reasons, the
| HlllO1 lScli OSSdRdtAoAA VA ASAJo ooiAA
was deferred. (The British Broad
casting Corp. said Tokyo had been
placed "out of bounds to the Amer
ican occupation troops at the sug-
gestion of japanese officials" to
avoid incidents.
Eleventh Airborne Division troops
stood on the south bank of the
lTama River, at the southern edge
of Tokyo, and temporarily observed
that line of demarcation, but work
was being rushed on the bomb-dam-
aged American Embassy which later
will be Gen. MacArthur's headquar-
ters.
i For the present, however, the
focal point of Japan was Gen.
MacArthur's headquarters in Yoko-
hama.
But soon 1t shifts to the great
missouri, where Japan's leaders will
literally Sign on the dotted line"
Evening star., 1945-09-01

II guess I was just too Irish and
bull headed to give into the Japs,"
is the way Mrs. Margaret Utinsky
explains how she stayed on In the
Philippines under Japanese occupa-
ton to become a brevet lieutenant
with guerrilla forces.
The 45-year-old American woman
posed as Lithuanian to fool the
Japs in Manila but still was i'm
prisoned and tortured there before
she joined guerrilla force and
worked for months setting up med
ical clinics to help the American
and Filipino men harassing the
enemy.
With other persons liberated by
the American invasion of the Phil
ippines, Mrs. Utinsky finally re.
turned to this country where every.
body seemed SO fat and well
clothed"
Husband Died in Jap Camp.
| Her husband, John P. Utinsky, ar
Army engineer, was captured or
Corregidor and later died in Jap
anese concentration camp.
II hid my identity from the Nip
to avoid being interned by posing a.
Lithuanian with a forged passpor
made by clever Filipinos," Mrs
Utinsky recalled as she relaxed il
the apartment of friend here.
However" she added, "in 1874
the Japs got an inkling of my un
derground activities and took m
prisoner, accusing me of everything
except assassination of the EN-
peror"
After that, she recalled goin
through "the water cure" beini
burned with cigars and cigarett
J butts till she screamed with pair
and forced to watch a man whippe
to death. The scars on her fee
and legs will always remind Mr..
Evening star., 1945-09-01
Baltimore Papers Reach
AqreementW Printers

By the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, Sept IA contract
agreement between four Baltimore
newspapers and the Baltimore Typo
graphical Union No IL. affiliated
with the International Typograph-
ical Union (AFH, has been reached
after eight months of negotiations
Details of the agreement were
not disclosed by the Baltimore pub
fishers or the union officials. The
main question at issue was recog-
milton of certain recently adopted
ITU laws. The matter was before
the War Labor Board as a dispute
case when the agreement wa:
reached. but no decision has beer
rendered. The ITU asked that the
case be withdrawn, to which the
Baltimore publishers acquiesced
after the agreement had beer
reached.
Evening star., 1945-09-01
Leuse-Lend
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gress saying the $42,00,000,oO0 of
lease-lend might as we'll be written
off did not mean there would be no
settlements of a kind not involving
cash.
Victory, reverse lease-lend and the
prospect of free postwar trade be-
cause of lease-lend operations al
ready had repaid this country, Mr..
Truman said.
Called Defensive Measure.
Senate Majority Leader Barkley
today joined Secretary Byrnes in
making clear that the United States
expected some sort OF settlement.
Senator Barley. after comforting
with Mr.. Truman at the White
House today, told reporters that
lease-lend was adopted as a de-
fensive measure and that he did
not believe anybody ever had con-
templated that the United States
would be repaid dollar for dollar
but that this does not mean there
should not be adjustments and set
Elements in mar ways.
Mr.. Barkley SAID he had dis
cussed with the President the mes
sage which Mr.. Truman will deliver
to Congress on its return next week
He said the message will deal with
many subjects and might include
something on lease-lend settle
ments.
The State Department issued q
press release using as peg for Sec
retary Byrnes' remarks this ques-
ton:
I'm light of the recent lend
reports, are we to assume that all
lease-lend debts are to be Cancelled
and the only lease-lend settlements
required are settlements for ship
ments unused or undelivered at the
close of the WARP"
Assumption Not justified.
To this, Secretary Byrnes replied
There is no justification for that
assumption. Hasty generalizations
should be avoided. Nothing more
should be read into the recent lease
lend report than is written there
The President made no statement
ampllfying that report. The report
set forth factors to be considered ir
connection with the settlements
Those settlements are for future
determination.
The purpose of lease-lend was te
win the war and to win the peace
In the settlement of lease-lend We
are not seeking paper contracts t.
pay dollars which will not be avail.
able to our debtors. But that does
not mean that there are no lease.
lend settlements to be negotiated
LAS is stated in the recent lease.
lend report:
1.-The attainment of the long.
range security and economic objec
tives of the United States and tn,
other United Nations is task o
the greatest Importance if we art
not to lose the victory we have wol
at such tremendous sacrifles.
Will Seek Settlements.
1--WE shall seek, under the pro
cedure prescribed in the Lease-Lent
Act and our subsequent lease-lent
agreements with other countries, ant
through appropriate national ant
international measures, to achiev
settlements of our wartime lease
lend relations which will best Obtain
these objectives, and which will thu
establish the indispensable founda
tions of our economic well-being.'
One speculative explanation TO
issuance of the statement was tina
Secretary Byrnes sought to clear tn
air preliminary to conversations witt
the British economic officials du
here next week.
Evening star., 1945-09-01
Body Of Ex-CIeveIond
.BosebolI Official Found
2y the Associated Press.

CLEVELAND, Sept. IA body
identified by police and newspaper
photographers as that Of Lew Mu-
NAV, 80, former travelling secretary
for the Cleveland baseball club, was
found today in Lake Erie, a short
distance from Mr.. Mumaw's home.
Mr.. Mumaw had not been seen
since Tuesday night, his wife, Betty,
told police.
Evening star., 1945-09-01
Green to Speak at Grove
Of Father of Labor Day
Ry the Associated Press.

ASsOCIdttu 11ess.
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 1.-Wil-
liam Green. president of the Amer
ican Federation of Labor, will speak
at the grave of Peter P. Mcclure
Father of Labor Day" in one OF
the high lights Of the Labor day
observance here.
Evening star., 1945-09-01

80 years on the
scientific staff of
the Agriculture
Department.
A native of
Randolph, V t.,
DR.. Edison is a
graduate of the
U n ! v e rsity of
Vermont and re-
ceived e doctor
of philos o p h y
degree from the
U n i v e r sity of
Wisconsin. Be-
fore e n t e r / n G
the Agriculture
DeDartment, he
Evening star., 1945-09-01
To Honor Men in Service

The Kensington (Md) Volunteer
Fire Departments will hold special
services in honor of department
members in the armed forces at II
am. tomorrow at Christ Episcopal
Church, Kensington. The Rev. Wade
Stafford, pastor, will officiate.
Evening star., 1945-09-01

was assistant professor and bacte-
rioloeist at the Vermont College OF
Agriculture and Experiment Sta
ton. where he did both teaching
and research.
While there he developed new
facts on the micro-organlsms OF
maple sap and became an authority
in this field. This work led him
into the study of sugar beets and
diseases of various other vegetable
crops.
He lives at 1910 Fourth street
NV
Evening star., 1945-09-01
DR.. Howard Edison Retires
AS Agriculture Patho|oqist

DR.. Howard Austin Edison, plant
pathologist who specialized in the
study of diseases of potatoes and
sugar beets, retired yesterday after
Evening star., 1945-09-01

One out of every seven admirals
in the United States Navy is under
so years Of age and the average
age for the 273 70 b6.4 years.
Evening star., 1945-09-01
Jups
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system during the war was only
temporary patchwork" and the
system will not stand up to require
ments, Domei said. Accidents were
reported 13 times more often than
in 1887.
Evening star., 1945-09-01
FOUND

RTNGS (2), iadys, found uptown. write
1oasyiption to BOX 4s-S, Star.
Evening star., 1945-09-01

LOST-RATT0N BOOKS.
EATON BOOKS, Nos. 3 and 4, issued to
Dorothy B. Rollins of 625 s. Fillmore st..
RATION s BOOKS No. a, issued to vivian
Rickard and Barbara Rickard of 51S Mich
olson st. NV. GE. 1881.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1945-02-26
wins SOLDIERS MEDAL FOR
HER0ISM ON LEYTE

CHICAGO, Feb. 26 (ANP).-
Standing in the midst of an ex-
ploding ammunition and fuel dump,
ignited by enemy bombs after the
Americans had landed on Leyte,
Sgt. Alfred Cockrell, of Chicago,
fought fearlessly to prevent hot
metal fragments from reaching
other supply dumps. For this brav-
cry Sgt. Cockren was recently
awarded the Soldiers medal for
heroism.
In making the award for the he
roic action which occurred on
Leyte in the Philippines on the
night of Oct. 25, 1914, the war de-
partment stated:
when enemy bombs set fire to
a large ammunition and fuel dump,
Sgt. Cockrell risked his life by pro-
ceeding within 200 yards of the ex-
ploding inferno to remove hot frag-
ments from inflammable materials.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1945-02-26

eson, 1t. Ralph Metcalfe, Muriel
Smith, star of Carmen Jones'"
seven enlisted men and one charm
ing WAC. Final shots on the pic
ture are being made in Hollywood.
1t. Col. George H. Mcdonald and
Sgt. William (Bill) Chase, both at
tached to the Tuskegee Army Air
force are members Of the cast. 1t.
Col. Mcdonald launched VD con-
troll program at Tuskegee in 1912.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1945-02-26

In the midst of exploding artillery
and small arms ammunition and
terrific heat, Sgt. Cockrell, with ut
ter disregard for his personal safe
ty, fought tirelessly to prevent the
fire from spreading to other vital
supply dumps. This heroic action
resulted in saving valuable govern
ment property and is in keeping
with the highest traditions of the
military service"
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1945-02-26
Williams Defends FEpC and
negro Riqhis In Senate

s~sSssso 80
ASHIN GTON, Feb. 26
(ANP). - Aubrey Williams may
have doomed his chances to head
the Rural Electrification admins
tration when he dared to defend
the FEPC and the rights of Negro
workers during senate agricul-
culture committee hearing on his
fitness to serve in the post.
Grilling by Sen. Theodore G. Bill
bo, Mississippi's white supremacy
champion, brought out the fact that
Williams favors the FEPC and the
right of Negroes to work on basis
of equality with other American
citizens. Bilbo, who opposes Will
liams' nomination as REA admin
istrator, inquired:
"Do you believe that the United
dents executive order setting up
the FEPC, which resulted in the
breaking down of color barriers in
government c f t as, which
forced the two races to eat together
and which caused whites and blacks
to use the same toilets?"
81 completely subscribe to the
FEPC," Williams replied, realiz-
ing the danger of his reply. "I sub
scribe to the principle that there
should be no discrimination in en-
ployment because of race, creed or
color"
'Do you believe that the United
States government has a right to &c
into Mississippi sawmill employ
ing 10 men and tell the foreman he
must employ Negroes?" Bilbe
asked.
Williams, a native of Alabama
replied that ''if a Negro applicant
has the necessary qualification
and was rejected solely because hi
was Negro, the government has
a responsibility to stop that kind o.
treatment"
Both candidates in the last pres
idential election pledged support tt
FEPC, said Allen J, Ellender, Lou
isiana senator and a Williams sup
porter. Beside opposition from
anti-Negro forces, Williams nomi
nation as REA head has been op
posed by officials of the Alabam
Presbyterian church.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1945-02-26

The success of his department since
that time and the establishment of
the TAAF VD control school is
said to have been factors that lead
to the production Of the new VD
control film.
Sgt. Chase is assistant editor of
Hawks Cry, the Tuskegee Army
Air forces news organ.