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Evening star., 1945-04-10
Norwoy's Appeal

The dreadful plight of the Dutch
people still under German domina-
ton is paralleled by that of the
Norwegians. Indeed, the Norwegian
ordeal may be the more prolonged
and terrible, because, while the lib
Grafton of the rest of Holland is
seemingly near, Norway appears to
be still firmly in the German grasp
and it's redemption promises to be
proportionately difficult and costly.
1t would seem that the Nazis intend
to make Norway one of their final
refugees and fight there to the bitter
end.
What this might mean for Nor
ways national future is revealed in
an appeal by the Norwegian govern
ment in exile addressed to Sweden,
imploring that country to drop its
neutrality and aid the Allies to save
what can be saved" of Norway. The
Norwegian official statement de-
clares that the Germany army of
occupation in Norway. numbering
approximately 100000, is preparing
to make last desperate stand"
there. abundantly supplied with
equipment and stores, and ready to
Wreak general destruction before it
is overcome. Internal resistance is
being quelled by mass arrests, tor
ture of prisoners and the taking Of
hostages for reprisals. Frontal Al
lied attacks on the heavily fortified
Norwegian coasts, mostly mountain
Gus except for narrow fiords COM
manded by German heavy guns, will
entail heavy sacrifices. The only
vulnerable approaches to the Nor
Wegian fortress are across the Swed-
iSh land frontier. With Germany
itself about to be conquered, leaving
the fanatlcal Nazis in their Alpine
or Norwegian mountain lairs reduced
to an outlaw guerrilla status, the
Norwegian government feels that
the war has reached stage where
neutrality has become mere empty
word" and that both the Swedish
people and it's government are in
fact aware of their moral respon-
sibilities'
The official statement then goes
on to depict the catastrophe conse-
quences if the Nazis are allowed to
prolong their resistance and carry
out fully their diabolical designs.
Pointing out the terrible losses
which the Norwegian people have
already suffered from. five years of
German occupation and the sinking
of most of its large merchant navy,
the chief source of its prewar pros
perity, the statement continues: "1f
the Germans are allowed fully to
carry out their plans-if electrical
works are blown up, the fishing fleet
stolen. factories destroyed and rail-
way lines put out of service, the
economic destruction of Norway will
be practically irreparable."
This does not appear to be an
overstatement. Norway is intrinsi-
cally poor country. with cold
climate, little arabic land and few
natural resources. It's modern pros
perity was chiefly the result of long
term intelligent planning and the
scientific development of its few
assets. This patient labor. involving
many decades of time and heavy
capital investment, could be so thor
oughly undone by wanton destruc-
ton that generations might be
needed to repair the damage Nor
ways current peril is thus peculiarly
acute.
Evening star., 1945-04-10
Never to Be FORGOTTEN

With trapped Nazi forces in the
Netherlands facing a desperate situ-
alton. official sources in London now
believe that Hitler's W. campaign
against England is at last at an end.
For some days past the British have
been completely untouched by rocket
bombs, and the assumption is that
the Dutch launching sites have been
abandoned or have run out of sup
plies and that the weapons range is
too limited to permit effective firing
from areas still held by the enemy.
This is news that will deeply cheer
all of Britain. vi, the flying bomb.
was terrible enough, killing and
wounding tens of thousands of per-
sons, but antiaircraft fire and fighter
planes we're able to cope with it and
finally made it largely ineffective.
W., however, by which many thou
sands of others have been killed and
wounded since last June, has been
far more terrible A Stratospheric
rocket, its speed of descent has been
estimated at as much as 5000 miles
an hour, and there is no known de-
fense against it. except seizure of its
launching sites or the plants pro-
ducing it. Now that Allied opera
tions in and around the Netherlands
seem to have eliminated it as
menace, the British can we'll af-
ford to breathe sigh of relief, but
W. can never be rgotten-either
by them or by us-because a vastly
improved and vastly more lethal
version will almost certainly be used
If there is ever another war
There is good reason to believe
that if the Nazis had been able to
put vi and W. into action on a
large scale earlier than they did. the
present military situation would be
much less bright than it is. The
same may be said of at least one
other German secret Weapon-one
that the NaziS devised and set up
just bit too late for operation. This
weapon, according to the British
Information Service, was located
near Calais 95 miles across the
Channel from London and consisted
of battery of so giant mortarlike
guns designed to fire 120 pound
rocket shells at the rate of ten a
minute, night and day, from en-
placements deep underground. Had
it not been for timely countermeas-
ures by our Allied air forces, or had
the invasion of France been delayed,
these guns would have served as
deadly supplement to the flying
bombs and the rocket bombs.
Not much imagination is needed
to visualize how such weapons can
be perfected in laboratories and
testing grounds all over the world in
the years to come We can be thank
full that the Nazis did not have them
on time or in sufficient quantity to
affect the course of this war, but we
cannot let the matter go with that,
for nothing argues more eloquently
for an international security system
that will really work Nor does any
thing serve clearer notice upon us
that this country will be inviting
disaster if it ever again neglects the
development of it's arms.
Evening star., 1945-04-10

portionally with the other 90-odd per
cent of the citizens of the State.
There is no need to take too literally
the phrase, purely local legislation"
which you quote from Senator Tydings.
Many things which any municipality
has to do are not purely local" but af-
feet superior or adjacent governmental
Jurisdictions. The situation of Wash
ington in this respect is not so unique
as is sometimes alleged, although there
are, of course. certain unusual aspects
here A demarcation has to be made
for practical purposes anyhow, and
there are some things done now by the
Districts local government, under broad
authority from Congress, which are not
purely local." Practical considerations
of relieving Congress of unnecessary
burdens, as we'll as good American prin-
ciples of local autonomy, make it de-
sirable to shift that line of demarcation
from its present haphazard location to
a soundly planned one. When Congress
is actively considering changes OF this
nature in order to improve its own ef-
ficiency as a national legislature, we
have a golden opportunity to work for
bringing what are primarily df not
"purelyD local affairs more largely un-
der the control of local citizens, for rea-
sons of both national and local ef-
ficiency and justice besides.
The desirability of extending the
scope of authority of the loval govern
ment dncluding power to levy and spend
local taxes has been brought up from
time to time in discussions of the Nc
Carran home rule bill, but has not been
pressed for fear Of jeopardizing other
aims on which Senator McCarran and
other friends of the District seemed
more disposed to give active aid. The
present interest In "streamlining" the
work Of Congress suggests that the
Evening star., 1945-04-10
Spendthrift

/ haze fortune to run through my
fingers;
A wealth OF plum bloom, gold sunlight
that fingers
In paths of rich flame before 5e,peled
t,Dilght.
In silence descends.
/ am a spendthritt and rash tpith my
spending,
With ,Uonder enough and beauty for
lending.
o1rn a penthouse ,Dith space for 9
skylight
Until the day ends.
HELEN vIRDEN.
Evening star., 1945-04-10

Bernard Baruch will find a good
many things different in London
from what they are in America. Here
he could sit on his Lafayette Park
bench "for free" but reliable infor-
nation Is that. in spite of the war,
park sitters in London are still
charged the proverbial penny
Evening star., 1945-04-10

A master bedroom" is that sleep
ing chamber in house intended for
the fellow who takes orders from
his wife, his children and the help
and also paws all the bills
Evening star., 1945-04-10

time is ripe for making progress on
three things together-a properly broad
ened scope for our local government.
popular control of that local govern
ment, and District representation in
Congress to help both Congress and the
District in those matters which Congress
will still necessarily act upon. Ameri-
canizing the now voteless citizens of the
District will be incomplete until all three
of these things are done.
GEORGE w. HODGKINS.
Evening star., 1945-04-10
Further Praise for Chaplain

TO the Editor OF The Star.
The chaplain's letter appearing in the
Letters to The Star column April 4 is
something that should be emblazoned
on the front page of every newspaper in
the country. In quality of thought and
expression 1t stands close to the "Gettys-
burg Address" I would like to see this
in large type, covering a whole page Of
The Star.
ALBERT JOSEPH MCCARTNEY,
Evening star., 1945-04-10

No Limit on Sale Prices
To the Editor of The Star:
Would you please lift your voice on
behalf of justice?
OPA controls prices of rents, but there
IS no ceiling on the selling prices OF
used houses.
My landlord now wants to sell my
house over my head.
Many persons thus are forced to buy
houses at imitation prices.
What good does it do to stop tempo
rary gouging ION rentS and encourage
permanent gouging (on forced sales)?
If Congress would only put ceiling
prices on used houses-like ceiling prices
on used cars-it would save great deal
of imitation and exploitation.
AN UNFORTUNATE TENANT.
Evening star., 1945-04-10

Between the North Sea and the Harz
Mountains, German resistance on the
approaches to Berlin from the west
seems definitely broken The road to
the Reich capital. the roads to Hamburg
and kiel and TO the liberation of Den
mark, lie open. The German attempt
to hold the line of the River Weser
collapsed almost at a touch: there seems
virtually no possibility that the Ger
mans can fare any better at the Elbe
The reasons for this German collapse
are not far to seek. They lie in the
reports of German prisoners taken in
the west during the first week Of
April-228 900. The prisoner index has
always been the best criterion by which
to Judge military success, and this total
marks not mere Allied advance against
determined resistance but the dis
integration of the Wehrmacht as far as
this northern sector of the western
front is concerned.
German casualties. including prison.
ers. are said to be averaging $4,000 a
day, which means that in addition to
the prisoners, the Germans have during
that fateful first week of April lost
something like 10000 killed and
this, there are perhaps as many as
100000 German troops trapped in the
Ruhr pocket, and another $4,000 or so
virtually trapped in the Netherlands
What this adds up to is Just this
that the German armies facing the
army groups of Field Marshal Mont
gomery and Gen. Bradley have been
destroyed as cohesive fighting forces
They no longer exist save as shattered
remnants capable of carrying out a
desperate local defense of some key
communications point-Hannover for
eXsmple-but quite incapable of meet
ing an attack on broad front.
We shall probably see various Ger
man attempts to defend such places,
as the best chance they have of de-
laying the Allied progress; but We shall
see these places by-passed and left far
behind as the Anglo-American Armies
race across the northern plains of
Germany toward their junction with
the Russians.
The great Allied problem at the
moment is supply. 1t will be supply
difficulties which will be the chief
cause of any delay that now occurs.
not enemy resistance. But these diff
culties are being solved. The Rhine
itself has been the principal supply
bottleneck, because of the fact that
heavy wheeled traffic and tracked We
hicles must move across pontoon
bridges at well-spaced intervals and
at slow rates of speed
For this reason, one of the most
important military events of the past
few days has been the completion Of
the first Allied-built railway bridge
across the Rhine. at Wesel-a :nasnifi-
cent feat of high-speed construction
work by American engineers of the
l,056th Port Construction and Repair
Group, who finished the bridge in just
two hours under 10 days. Trains started
rolling over it on Monday morning
What this means, translated into
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-04-24
GaAnAa, of Coming Grenh
TUESDAY. APRIL "a

TUESDAY,, APKIl ~
PAGoDA TENT HIVE, of Maccabees, in Maccabee Hail. at
ARMADA CHAPTER 2e1, oEs, initiation banquet, past pat
rons and past matrons night. at $50 p. m"
DANCE FOR SERVICE MEN and women at UsO Club, at
LADIES AUXILIARY, Fraternal Order of Eagles. in Aerie
CIVIC eae cH 10 : 3 REHEARSAL RI in NJ. c H. S. Community
wcr TTG REGULAR I MEETING MEET in the Methodist Church at 1870
WEDNESDAY,, APRIL IS .
LADY MAccABEEs dessert bridge at Maecaoee Hall at
GRANT SCHOOL PTA bunco party at the school at 7:3o p. m.
IN HIS NAME CIRCLE covered dish luncheon at the Kings
Daughters Home at 1890 p
RED CROSS Home Nursing Glass, organization meeting at "a
North Walnut street, at 1870 p. m.
LUTHERAN WILLING WORKERS all-day quilting with Mrs.
Edna Matthews, AZ Lincoln avenue. at 9 a m.
ST. ANNE's GUILD, with Irene Lick, Hall road, at 8 p: M.
FIDELIS CIRCLE of Zion Evangelical Church, mother
daughter banquet at Inglesde Inn, at $50 r. m.
PATRIOTIC DAUGHTERS of America, Council 43, at Bar
HARRISON CIRCLE of Kings Daughters. at Harrison Town
PUBLIC GAMES PARTY at rs Cherry street, sponsored by
Knights of Columbus, at 8:l5 p. m.
THURSDAY. APRIL 70
MOUNT CLEMENS COMMANDERY 81, Knights Templar,
special concave, to confer the Order of Malta, in Ma
UNIFIED rHn5' wo % S CIRCLE G. of Kings Daughters, with
Mrs. Carlton Tucker, 1913 Jones street. at 1870 p. m.
PUBLIC CARD PARTY at the Kings Daughters Home, spon-
sored by Loyal Workers Circle, at 8 p. m. n
MARGARET BOTTOME CIRCLE of Kings Daughters, with
IT. Mrs tns Martin Martin H oa ma N5 80 Lod dew, s.o Avenue sd at R 2 p, m;
sponsored by st. Peters Meow, at ST. Marys club rooms.
PAST COMMANDERS of Pagoda Tent Hive of Maccabees.
with Mrs. Francis Goerig, 1876 North Gratiot avenue, at
8 p. m.
DAVIS CHAPTER, OES, friends night pot-luck dinner, at
p. m.
FRATERNAL ORDER Of Eagles: in Aerie Hall, at 9 p: m:
PUBLIC GAMES PARTY at VFW Hall, sponsored by Ladies'
Auxiliary: osksr Andreas Post a t 8 p M
THEosoPHIcAL SOCIETY in Girl Scout Hall, over Jewel
Theatre, at 3 p. m.
SPRING FORMAL DANCE for service men and women 1t
USO on Broadway, at $50 p. m.
GIRLS OWN CIRCLE of Kings Daughters pot-luck dinner at
the home of Mrs. Frank Prehs, 1875 Lodewyck avenue.
at $50 p. m.
FRIDAY, APRIL II
TRINITY YOUNG WOMENS LEAGUE, with Margaret Cas-
ow, North avenue, at 8 D. m.
WHATSOEVER CIRCLE of Kings Daughters, at the home Of
Mrs. P. X. McWethy, AZ South Wilson boulevard, with
Mrs. Harry Johnson, hostess, at 2 p. m.
SPECIAL MEETING Of Macomb County Board of Kings
Daughters with all leaders of circles at Kings Daush-
ters' Home, at 100 p. m.
OES FRIENDS NIGHT pot -luck in Masonic Temple at $40
D.. m.
SENIOR CHOIR Of Grace Episcopal Church, at the parish
house at 1880 p. m.
!. O. Q. F. In Barron Hall, at 8 D. m.
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Special Meeting

MRS. JOHN ARTHUR, presi-
dent of the county board OF
Kings Daughters, today an
nounced that all board members
and circle leaders are requested
to attend a special meeting to
be held Friday afternoon at 100
clock at the Kings Daughters
Home.
MRS. CATHERINE Campau,
North Broadway, is convalesc-
ing in st. Joseph Hospital for a
week or 10 days. She will well
come calls from her friends.
LADY M~ACCABEES, who
are sponsoring al dessert bridge
tomorrow afternoon in Barron
hall, announce that other card
games than bridge will be play
ed. The dessert will be served
at 1890 o'clock.
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Romeo Man
Takes Bride

A RECENT WEDDING Of In.
terest united Dorothy Hinkfoot,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Albert
Hinckfoot Of Lenox township
and Donald Kohlhagen, son oi
Mrs. Hazel Kolhagen Of Romeo,
Rev. Paul Schulz married the
couple in Trinity Lutheran
church in Richmond, April II.
The bride wore white satin and
georgette, a fingertip veil caught
to an orange blossom head
dress, and carried white roses
and sweet peas. Jean Engel Of
Romeo, cousin of the bride
groom, was maid of honor.
Mrs. Norman Kleinhaus of Rich
mond, cousin of the bride, was
matron of honor, and both at
pendants wore white marqui-
settle and carried roses and sweet
peas in shades of deep pink and
purple. Earl Hinckfoot, the
brides brother, was best man,
and Floyd Ebeling of Romeo,
Claude Harmon Of Richmond
and Edward Harms Of Romeo
were the other attendants.
3. Mrs. Harold Parker was solo,
ist, with Elsa Kaufman as organ
list.
A dinner for members Of the
Tidal party and families was
served at Shovan's restaurant in
Muttonville, and was followed
by a reception for ITS guests.
Mr.. and Mrs. Kohlhagen are llv-
ing in the Hunsberger apart
ments in Richmond.
MRS. CECIL MCDONALD,
dorothy Lorway), 106 Church
street, underwent an operation
for the removal of a ruptured
appendix yesterday at st. JOS
hospital. Mrs. Mcdonald
has been gravely i'll for the past
three weeks. Her condition is
still serious.
MRS. CHARLES CLIFFORD
Boyer (Jayne Meyers) and her
son, William Clifford II, Of
Grand avenue. have left for
Okla, to stay with 1t.
Boyer's parents, until 1t. Boyer
returns from duty in India.
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New Haven
Class Day Set

NEW HAVEN - The junior
class of New Haven High school
will present a three-act comedy,
MAS New Husband" in the
high school auditorium Friday
and Saturday nights at 8 o'clock.
Production of the play, which
was written by Leland Price, Is
under the direction of Mrs. Gre
craft of the faculty. Leading
parts in the play are being TAX
en by Myrna Sherman and Clar-
ence Milton, supported by Les
lie Hartwig, Wilbur Kuechen-
meister, Betty Peters, Emilia
Gorak, Barbara Kendrick, Ken
meth Haach and George Angus
tino.
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DONALD T. HUMPHREY. 20,

DONALD T. HUMPHREY. 20,
of 1889 North Walnut street, has
been promoted to the grade Of
technical sergeant, 1t is announ-
ced at 18th Air Force headQuar-
tiers in Italy. Sgt. Humphrey is
an engineer-gunner with a B-24
bombardment group in Italy,
and has completed 35 combat
missions against stretegic enemy
installations throughout central
and southern Europe. His group
has been awarded the Distin-
guished Unit Citation. Before
entering service in May, 1943,
Sgt. Humphrey was employed as
an aircraft riveter. His wife, for
mefly Marian Socia, lives with
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Thorn
as Humphrey at the above ad-
dress and all are hoping for a
furlough soon. They also have
another son, T/Sgt. Dwayne
Humphrey, serving with the air
force, who has won an Oak Leaf
Cluster for his Air Medal.
PVT. KENNETH LOGAN has
arrived safely somewhere over
seas in Europe, according to his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Tullie Lo-
gan Of Ormsby street.
TVS ELMER w. SOCIA Of the
army infantry, returning from
80 months overseas in the Euro
pean theatre of operations was
to arrive at Fort Sheridan last
weekend, prior to coming home
on furlough to visit his mother.
Mrs. Aubra Socia, Glenwood
road.
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meow Tea Planned
to Honor Mothers

ST. PETERS Council Of Nat.
ional Council Of Catholic Wo-
men will sponsor q tea for moth
ers of the six troops Of st.
Mary's Brownies and Girl
Scouts.
The event will take place at
2:30 o'clock Thursday In st.
Mary's clubrooms, with Mrs.
John Otto Smith in charge OF
arrangements.
EACH MEMBER Of Ever On
ward Circle may invite Q guest
for the potluck luncheon which
is planned for Wednesday, May
2, at o'clock at the Kings
Daughters Home. Mrs. William
Tucker. chairman, is being as
sisted by Mrs. Florence Nobel
and Mrs. George Simms, In
making arrangement for the
event.
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Service Men Home
on Furlough, Leave

WALTER A. BAUER, New
Baltimore, to April 80.
PVT. GWENDOLYN PEASE
to April 80.
PVT. YOSHIO KOBATA, Al
South Walnut, to May IL.
WALTER FROH, New Haven
to April 80.
r. S. INWOOD, Romeo. tc
May II.
WALTER w.. DePUYDT.
Smith street, to May A..
GEORGE M. MILLER, New
Haven, to May 20.
ROBERT KAZOR, Tair Ha.
ven, to May 2.
MICHAEL A. b o G. A c z,
New Haven, May 6.
JOHN CARL KEPSEL, So
Yeamans street, May 20.
CPL. CLARENCE FIEBEL-
KORN, 1913 Clinton street, to
May 5.
CHESTER ]. ROBERT, Route
S. to May 20.
Hill VAN HOLLE-
BEKE, 6618 North River road,
to May 2.
CPL. ULYSSES A.. PELTIER,
USMCC, SIS Kendrick avenue, to
May 20.
ROBERT E. SMITH, Washing
ton, to May IL.
LEO PERES. Utica, to May
10.
1T. MERRITT j. SCHWAN,
oil Elmway, to May 10.
EARL HEAP ROMEO, to
May 13.
F. R. MCINTOSH, Romeo, to
May 10.
HENRY H. HUFFMAN, 165
Clinton street, to May 4.
PVT. EDGAR B. KELLER, 3
Community drive, to April 20.
PAUL T. JOHNS, SO Gibbs
street, to May 4.
T/3 BAERLIN l.. GILCHER,
Romeo, to May 10.
JOHN l.. STADLER, r M sc,
Cass avenue, to May IL.
PVT. EDWARD V T,
Utica, to April %.
RAYMOND w. SHOE, Route
3, to May 2.
HERMAN E. ~CRANDALL, 5
Garden drive, to May 16.
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Loyal Workers
Sponsor Card Party

A PUBLIC PARTY will be
sponsored by Loyal Workers
Circle at the Kings Daughters
Home on Thursday, April 26 at
8 o'clock, it is announced to-
day.
Mrs. Joseph Shaw is chair
man Of the event, with Mrs. Ern-
est Howell and Mrs. Martin Ross
assisting. Reservations may be
made by dialing 9844.