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SiebenbuÌˆrgisch-Amerikanisches Volksblatt. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1917-1971, 1945-01-04

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SiebenbuÌˆrgisch-Amerikanisches Volksblatt. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1917-1971, 1945-01-04

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Evening star., 1945-02-01
No Doctor Available
From the Ottawa Journal.


Last week end an Ottawa man holding
a good salaried position died without
medical attention. His family physician
was out of town and despite many tele-
phone calls made by relatives, no medi-
cal man could be reached who was able
to respond to the call We all know
that Ottawa's doctors are hard-worked
probably in many cases overworked.
We also know that the armed forces
have drawn heavily on the medical pro-
feSsion, and for the moment we do
not question their needs But the Ca
madam civilian has some claim to medi-
cal services, too. Canada has many
medical and public health organizations
In cities and in the provincial and
federal fields. Some of them should be
able to draw up plans to meet the
publc's immediate needs. Possibly some
sort OF panel could be set up for nights
and week ends-like a panel of doctors
Tor duty in public wards of hospitals.
Or, medical associations might arrange
among their memberships that a certain
number be available for emergency
caIls-as pharmacists do on Sundays.
Evening star., 1945-02-01
Letters to The Star
Pictures Union Station Parade
of All the Worlds People

To the Editor Of The Star:
At the Union Station, most any time
All going some place-where?
A stenographer, colonel, mother
and couple of children, Chinese
officer (his rank Is hard to tell), a
private with his bag, probably on fur
lough; a second lieutenant, looking newly
commissioned: WAVE, WAC, a SPAR,
a couple Of wounded soldiers from the
Pacific, general, little gray-haired
lady much afraid, seaman first class
Stop-a newly arrived train with a
big party, one person surrounded by a
lot Of important looking persons and
secretaries, who also are surrounded by
more important and official looking per-
sons. They move quickly away and no
body sees much of them.
An anxious wife trying to locate an
expected husband, couple of MPs,
calm and self-assured; Canadian
CWAC with British WREN, blind
man, Coast Guardsman, chief petty
officer, Marine with line of service
ribbons, couple of race track touts
talking of the money they had won, a
British officer with his sWagger stick.
salesman with his briefcase. per-
haps containing an order for military
necessities; a chaplain, commuters to
Baltimore. Philadelphia, ETC., mostly
Government employees who can't find
places to rent in Washington; a states
man, groups Of soldiers with their over
seas packs, cadet nurses.
Soldiers with their wives, sailors with
their wives, Marines with their wives
and many of them with babies.
An Australian soldier, British sailor,
sweetheart going to see her friend at
one of the camps, Red Cross nurse, a
corporal, many civilians on pleasure
trips, Merchant Marine seaman, a
proud-looking ensign
There goes tWo-stripe admiral, some
more civilians back from Florida looking
nicely tanned, wounded sailor, a
Marine captain talking to some women
Marines, group of young ladies on their
way back to college after vacation at
home, USO unit going places to enter
tain, a smart ROTC cadet, an Army
nurse with Navy nurse more wounded
veterans, Canadian sailor talking
French with French soldier, three
star general anxiously looking for some
one, a businessman, New Zealand SOL
dier, some Government female clerks.
A colored soldier with his wife and
child, q soldier from the Netherland
Indies, Polish officer, couple of Chi
nese ladies in split skirts, a Brazilian
officer, farmer, Norwegian sailor. a
couple of railroad men and women, two
MP's with two prisoners of war. a Sea
Bee, paratrooper proud of his branch
The crowd continues-who are they
all? The gates open.
All going some place-where?
S. E. JOHNSON.
Evening star., 1945-02-01

of the picture as national political
figure.
Mr.. Wallace did not lose caste polit-
ically-with the great mass of so-called
llberals-by reason of his defeat in
Chicago. After this defeat-which was
in reality bitter blow to him per-
sonally-he went to work for the re-
election of the President in a big way.
This kept him strongly in the lime
light. But a second defeat-this time
at the hands of the Senate-might have
different result Not only would it be
a rebuff for Mr.. Wallace but also for
the CIO.
The antagonism of the more con-
servative Democrats to Mr. Wallace
really goes back to the President him
self. They have never felt themselves
strong enough for real revolt against
Mr.. Roosevelt. Furthermore, many of
them have ridden to victory time after
time on the coattails of the President.
They have no such debt to Mr. WAL
lace. They consider him fair game. They
have seen him unable to add political
strength to the Democratic ticket even
in the Midwest State from which he
halls. Prediction is made by some of
these more conservative Democrats that
if the party does nominate Mr. Wallace
for President in 1948 there will be
revolt, particularly in the Southern
States, that will spell disaster for the
Democratic ticket. -.
Mrs. Roosevelt has stepped out in the
interest of Mr.. Wallace's confirmation
as Secretary of Commerce, with the
RFC attached. The President sent a
letter to the Wallace dinner In New
York, highly praising the former Vice
President, He has appointed Mr.. Wal
lace to the particular place in his cab
met that Mr.. Wallace requested. 1t
looks as though the Roosevelt influence
was entirely with Wallace On the other
hand, there stands that letter which
the President wrote to Jesse Jones,
asking the latter to stand aside so that
he might pay a political debt to Mr..
Wallace. If the President had tried he
could not have written more damning
epistle. 1t is reminiscent of the faint
praise" letter he wrote about Wallace
at the time of the national convention.
1t has been said the President never
expected this letter to Jones to be pub
nshed. The fact is, however, that Jones
gave the White House an opportunity
to ask that the correspondence between
himself and the President be not made
public, and the White House made no
move in the matter. He notified the
White House he intended to give the
letters out-and then waited an hour
and half before doing so.
Evening star., 1945-02-01
The Liquor Industry's Rating

The Liquor Industry's Rating
To the Editor of The Star:
AS I listened with millions of other
American citizens to the Presidents
fourth inauguration ceremony I took
heart at the thought that we as ma
ton, represented by our President, still
looked to Almighty God for guidance
and protection. Prayer opened and
closed the ceremonies and the oath of
Office was taken with one hand upon the
Holy Bible. This Nation, I thought,
still believed in the Word of God and
the biblical precept that righteousness
exalteth q nation"
But the following day I attended
church only to learn that the brewing
Of beer and liquor and the delivery OF
such beverages are rated by the Gov
ernment as more essential to the war
effort than the work of spreading the
Gospel. The dispensing Of poison for
both soul and body is considered more
essential than the dispensing of truth,
light and salvation for the soul What
kind Of hypocrisy have We in the high
places of our Government? Can it be
that the revenue derived from the brew
ing industries has some influence on
the rating given them? If so, then our
Government is surely selling its soul
for mess of pottage" Unless the
Word of God is given higher rating
at the peace table than industrialism,
we cannot hope for a peace any more
lasting than the last one.
WILLIAM F. GREEN.
Evening star., 1945-02-01
White House Intervention

Public hearings before a subcom-
mittee OF the House Interstate Com
merce Committee on the Potomac
bridge controversy have been called
on temporarily because the President
wants to discuss the matter with the
Commissioners. In the press of other
business, he has not yet had an
opportunity to do so. No harm need
result from a delay. But the impli-
cations of the postponement should
be understood.
The controversy is whether to
replace the present Highway Bridge
by one six-lane bridge or by two
four-lane bridges.
The District Commissioners, the
Public Roads administration, the
Federal Works Agency and the Com
mission of Fine Arts are in favor of
two bridges. The Washington Board
OF Trade and the Federation of
Citizens Associations, adopting re-
ports which reflected extraordinarily
careful examination Of the pros and
the cons, favor two bridges.
Secretary of Interior Ickes and the
National Capital Park and Planning
Commission want one bridge.
While it is not the purpose here
to argue the merits of either plan,
the two bridge plan seems the more
logical and musters in its support
far more persuasive evidence, from
more qualified sources, than the one
bridge plan.
Involving, as it does, the opinion
Of experts, the results of traffic
studies and other such considera-
tions, the controversy should be
threshed out in public hearings with
opportunity for free exchange Of
opinion and presentation of evidence
on both sides. 1t would be as wrong,
from the public standpoint, for the
President to ask the Park and Plan
ming Commission and Mr. Ickes to
recede from their point of view as
it would be If he asked the Com
missioners to recede from theirs.
While it may be desirable that he
familiarize- himself with the nature
of the dispute, its settlement should
be left to Congress.
Secretary Ickes and the Park and
Planning Commission have easy
access to White House influence in
such matters, but this bridge matter
is not one to be settled by influence,
likes or dislikes. 1t calls for factual
evidence and a decision based on
public convenience.
Evening star., 1945-02-01
Thunder in the Nioht

A 0lIen, barking on distant hill,
Wakens the echoes, and in mn secret
heart
fare forth through the early dark
Not as one intent upon the xiii,
6ut seeking the freedom OF the ,uindy
night,
The quiet tDariness of moods
where ,Dild things pass on hidden trails
6eneath dim radiance. The stars are
bright,
Ihe scudding clouds race south
Or'Oen by ,oind that foaps, like ,udter.
Oo,on across their tanks. / lift mn head
70 snt1 the air; my mouth
drinks, tn great draughts, its cool, re-
freshing boon,
MY thoughts race on,odrd, leapino far
ahead,
Belling me on. like shadowy hounds
That course the hills and BAY the sickls
moon.
And there Is sudden thunder In the
night
Where browsing deer, on pointed sill
uered hooUes,
Leap through the underbrush and out
Across q ledge. IN startled fight.
CORNELIA B. FURBISH..
Evening star., 1945-02-01

a suicidal attempt to prevent our ships
from completely cutting of the lines OF
communications with the south. It is
from the south that Japan gets vital
raw materials.
In the meantime, the japanese forces
on Luzon are preparing for a long re-
sistance.
Some time before the American
landings, the Japs stripped Luzon of
everything that was movable They
transferred to Bataan all the food and
medicines they could lay their hands
on. Thus today the Japs, from the
point of view of supplies, are far better
off than the American Filipino army
was in 1912. With the support of the
aviation in Formosa the Tokyo mill
tary leaders expect to offer q stubborn
resistance to Gen. Macarthur even
after the capture of Manila.
The German disasters in Europe have
led the chiefs of stats in Washington
to revise their estimates regarding the
duration of the war across the Atlantic.
While they are not yet ready to say
that the German resistance will be
broken in a short time, they are
more optimistic than they were in De-
cember and January.
Neither Gen. Marshall nor Admiral
King at that time had any definite
idea as to when the Russians would
start their offensive on the eastern
front. And after the setbacks suffered
by the American 1st Army on the
western front, 1t was thought that Gen.
MacArthur's forces would have tn pet
along with fewer reinforcements of men
and supplies. The armies in Europe had
to be reorganized and properly rein
forced to enable them to resume their
offensive and thus they had to receive
triple priority.
Now that the situation in Europe has
changed since the Russian offensive, a
more liberal allotment will be available
for the ground and air forces In the
Pacific. This will enable the Mac
Arthur -Nimitz team to open operations
which might have been delayed had
the European situation not improved.
Evening star., 1945-02-01
This Changing World
BY Constantine Bro,Cn

American battle squadrons and task
fleets under the overall command OF Ad-
miral Chester NimitZ are roaming the
Western Pacific at will, disrupting the
Japanese lines of communications with
the rich islands in the south and pre-
venting reinforcements from being sent
To the Philippines and other areas
threatened by the American land forces
Under pressure of the military in
Tokyo, the Imperial Navy is expected
soon to be forced to make a suicide at
tack against the American naval forces.
The Japanese generals have been COM
planning for some time that the navy,
once the pride of Japan, has done MOTH
ing to support the far-flung posts the
army set up early in the war as an "un-
breakable barrier" against any American
force coming from the east
The entire grand strategy of the
Tokyo leaders has been based on the
full and complete cooperation with the
navy, which at one time had complete
control of the Pacific sea lanes. Since
the air accident" which caused the
death of Japan's ablest naval officer,
Admiral Yamamoto, the Japanese fleet
assumed purely defensive strategy and
hiAooSO ooiiiC 6oldCll OppOI
The japanese commanders. realizing
that the replacement facilities of their
yards were not equal to Americas, have
sent old and slow battleships and
cruisers to meet the reborn American
Navy, with disastrous results Now the
American superiority in ships of all
types, from modern 42,00O-ton battle
ships to submarines and destroyers, is
SO great that the naval strategists have
been looking for mistake due to over
confidence on the part of the American
high command to engage some isolated
American detachments with their entire
force. They failed both in the Saipan
and Sulu Sea battles.
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Now again the japanese fleet is look
ing for chance to meet the American
squadro which have come too close
to Japan's lifeline for comfort. There
have been recent indications that the
bulk OF the remaining japanese Navy,
under the pressure from home, will risk
Evening star., 1945-02-01
Differs With Mr.. Brown

To the Editor of The Star:
wish to call the attention Of Your
readers to three mistakes in the column
This Changing World by Constantine
Brown, which appeared in the January
30 issue of The Star.
l. Mr.. Brown calls Manchuria a bor-
der state of Siberia under Japanese
tutelage. AS matter of fact, the word
Manchuria is commonly used to denote
the three Chinese provinces of Liaoning,
Kirin and Heilungkiang, which force
fully were taken away from China by
Japan in 1881. A puppet government
was established there completely con-
trolled by the japanese. The failure of
the League of Nations to stop this
aggression greatly encouraged Mussolini
and Hitler and the so-called Mukden
incident of September 18, 1881, therefore,
generally is regarded as the actual be-
ginning of World War II. These Chi
nese provinces, to quote owen Latti-
more, were as much an integral part
of China as any other part, and will be
again" The return of these provinces
w SAAAAeA Wao oOiSAhAAy PASa6SSt W tiiC
historic Cairo Conference of President
Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill and
Generalissimo Chang Kai-shek
2. Port Arthur is not port of Korea.
The assertion is as wrong as to say that
Baltimore is a port of Guatemala.
g. Sinkiang Province is province of
China in the northwest. 1t now is under
the governorship of Gen. Wu Chung
shin, who was appointed by the Chinese
government at Chungking. There is no
Communist government in Sinkiang.
Ambassador Hurley never visited Sinki-
ang. He visited Yenan in North Shensi,
which is as far from Tihwa, the capital
of Sinkiang, as New York City is from
Denver, Colo. Two huge provinces,
Ninghsia and Kansu, stand between
Shensi and Sinkiang, and the Great Wall
of China runs between them.
CHEN CHIH-MAI,
Counselor of the Chinese Embassy.
Evening star., 1945-02-01
Confusing the Issue

AS the Senate begins its cOnSldera-
ton of the nomination of Henry A.
Wallace to be Secretary of Commerce
it is of first Importance that the real
issue be set forth clearly.
That issue has been subject to
considerable confusion. Mr.. Wallace
comes before the Senate as the ad-
vocate of what has been called an
economic bill of rights His program
calls for jobs for all who are willing
to work, higher pay, shorter hours,
lower taxes, better health facilities,
better schools, etc. To accomplish
this, he would have the Government,
using public funds, serve as sort
of pinchhitter for private industry.
No rational person is going to
quarrel with those objectives. Yet
the evidence indicates a deliberate
attempt by Mr.. Wallace's supporters,
and even by Mr.. Wallace himself, to
make it appear that those who are
opposed to him are also hostile to
his objectiveS. For instance, Mr..
Wallace said at his recent testi-
monial dinner: Those who voted
against me in the (Senate Com
merce) committee either believe in
policies which will make 10000, 900
jobs impossible or wish to destroy
all possibility of progressive Demo-
IN orfx
They are fighting against sound
principles upon which America can
survive as great and prosperous
Nation" In his own appearance
before the Commerce Committee, he
said: THE real issue is whether the
powers of the Reconstruction Finance
Corporation and it's giant Subsid-
iaries are to be used only to help big
business or whether these powers are
also to be used to help little business
and to help carry out the Presidents
commitment of 60,000,000 jobs. =
If the Congress does not feel that
the powers of the RFC should be
exercised in such way as to further
the objectives which have set forth,
then 1 respectfully urge the Congress
to take the RFC from under the
control of the Commerce Depart
ment. For I can tell you here and
now that if the RFC is left in the
Commerce Department will use its
powers in the interests of all the
American people"
That plainly is the equivalent of
saying that those who are opposed
to Mr.. Wallace are opposed to his
objectiVes and want to serve big
business at the expense of the coun-
try as whole. No doubt Mr.. Wallace
is sincere, but however earnest he
may be, he is pursuing reckless,
even an irresponsible, course which
he must know is calculated to divide
the American people into hostile
camps.
This is a fact which serves to
emphasize the point that the real
issue before the Senate is Mr.. Wal
lace himself. The question is not
whether his objectives are good, but
whether he has the qualifications for
the critically important position to
which he aspires, and it Is to be
hoped that the Senate debate will
make this clear beyond any pos
sibility of doubt.
Evening star., 1945-02-01
Distance From Berlin
By Maj. George Fielding Eliot

Every headline is informing the public
of the latest rumor Coming chiefly
from German sources) Of the distance
of the Russian advance guards from
Berlin It is exciting to read the dimin-
ishing figures. 1t is amusing to recount
the story of the nine-year-old Texas
schoolboy who rushed into the house to
ask his mother where the last radio
report placed the Russians.
"Seventy-four miles from Berlin" said
Mama.
"Aw! They were that far an hour
ago!" shifted Junior.
But sober analysis Of the situation
suggests certain reserve as to these
excursions and alarums.
If Marshal Zhukov, commanding the
Russian army group which is closest to
the German capital, is actually pressing
westward toward Berlin with his armor-
ed and motorized elements at the rate
of advance which the enemy radio as
cribes to him, then it is because he Is
satisfied that the whole German defense
system in Eastern Germany is on the
point of collapse and can be broken up
altogether with a few more good blows
ana llttle DOlUIlcSS. ouG VI Vilio OAolIl-
tegration, it must be said, there is no
sign elsewhere.
Certain facts must be kept in mind.
First, Zhukov is one of the ablest
senior officers In the Russian Army. He
is not impetuous, but rather cool and
inclined to caution. Like most Russian
Army and army group commanders, he
makes war along classic lines. He does
not throw away the book" And he
knows from long experience how dam
gerously resourceful an opponent the
Wehrmacht can be.
Second, Zhukov is operating, as far
as his forces now actually in Pomer-
ania and Brandenburg provinces are
concerned, under considerable difficult
ties because of the fact that well be-
hind his front the important railway
centers of Poznan and Torun still are
held by German garrisons This impedes
the full flow of supplies which the Rus
sian marshal might otherwise enjoy, and
it hampers him In the use Of the large
masses of infantry and guns which are
essential for decision against stout
ly resisting enemy who Is intrenched in
depth. Like the cavaEy Of old the racing
Evening star., 1945-02-01
War Crimes Problem

The circumstances surrounding
the end of Herbert c. Pell's service
as American representative on the
United Nations War Crimes Com
mission are disturbing, even though
Acting Secretary of State Grew has
just spoken reassuring words on
the subject. Mr. Pell is convincing
when he says that it is "nonsense"
to ascribe his failure to return to
London to the fact that Congress
did not appropriate money to cover
his work there; the real reason, he
declares. is that certain American
officials - presumably in the State
Departmental not want to punish
Nazi criminals as thoroughly as he
advocates.
Mr.. Pell's thesis is that the United
Nations should try Germans not
merely for the crimes they have
committed against the nationals of
other countries but also for crimes
committed against the nationals of
Germany itself, chiefly the Jewish
minority. 1t is on the latter point,
apparently. that there has been dis
agreement, some officials believing
that what a nation does to it's own
citizens is it's own business That
similar disagreement exists in Brit
ain is indicated by the fact that Sir
Cecil Hurst recently resigned from
the commission when the British
Foreign Office failed to go along with
the ideas shared by himself and Mr..
Pell.
If Mr.. Pell and Sir Cecil had not
been playing leading roles on the
commission. their departure from it
would not now seem so significant.
But in view of their Importance, and
whether they are right or not. it is
difficult to escape the conclusion
that something fundamentally Sc
rious has upset the whole United
Nations program to translate into
action past inter-Allied declarations
notably the Roosevelt Churchill
Stain statement of November, 1943
TO bring Axis criminals to justice
in the very countries where they
have worked their crimes. Mr.. Grew
says that United States policy is
definite, fortnight and comprehen-
sive." but Mr.. Pell. who has been
close to the subject, apparently does
not think so. and if American au-
thorities differ among themselves and
If British authorities differ among
themselves also, there is more than
little reason to wonder how America,
Britain, Russia and the other Allies
will be able to work out any Joint
approach to the problem.
The task of the War Crimes Com
mission, under the best of conditions,
cannot be anything less than ex-
tremely difficulc and complex, in
volving the grading of evidence and
the working out OF legal procedures
against an army Of individuals