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For Relief Of Railroads

. No more astonishing achievement during the
war period has come to public attention than
the performance of American railroads. Not
only have they been required to carry ire
mendous loads, passenger and freight They
have had to do it with diminishing working
forces.
Experienced men by the thousands have
been indicted into the armed services, leaving
the lines to get along as best they could
with small percentage of regular employees
and such unskilled help as they could pick
up
There have been many wrecks which were
directly traceable to inexperienced tr n
crews. But by and large, ever since the move
ment of troops and supplies set in in earnest,
the lines have done phenominally well.
Now, with the demand even greater h
when the war in Europe was at its height,
bee use of the necessity of moving a growing
number of mel and greater quantities of
equipment from the eastern seaboard to the
Pacific coast, the Office OF War Transporta.
has asked the War department to release
twenty-five thousand experienced railroad
AAASAA AASiAA
and grant furloughs to ten thousand more.
The proposal has the endorsement of War
Manpower Commission Chairman Paul "
McNutt and the Agricultural-La bor- M anage.
ynent committee of the McNut administra.
ton.
Under-secretary of War Patterson is said to
be reluctant to transfer men from the Army
for railroad work. fearing a breakdown Of
the point system. The ODT's request for mer
only who have the necessary points for dis
charge should overcome Mr. Patterson's OBJ
lection.
Surely, III consideration of the lines ser.
vices in the war emergency, and in the in.
terests of safety, ODT's request well deserves
approval. There are many thousands of mer
who could take the places of those whose dis
charge is sought and the others for whom
fcrloughs are asked.
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Baruch On The Peace

Bernard M. Baruch who was an advisor
of President Wilson in the former World War
and OF President Roosevelt in this one, whose
vision is extraordinarily clear, particularly on
economic and financial relations among ma
to-, gave valuable testimony before the Sen.
ate Military Affairs Committee. Because of
his wide experience and close association with
affairs of worldwide Importance, his recon-
m md atoms with respect of the kind OF peace
to be given Germany have especial signifi-
canoe.
told the committee it is essential to
world peace that Germany's war potential be
destroyed lock, stock and barrel; that friend
:ly relations must ne established and maintain
ed between Russia and the Western Allies:
that the great Junker estates must be divided
and Germany's trade be controlled; that Ger
ma. business organizations must be uproot.
&c everywhere, and universal military train
in. established.
The prime problem before the United Ma
tons, he declared Is how 10 prevent revival
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of Germany's war-making might. This is the
heart of making and keeping the peace.
If this is to be sure peace he empha'
sized I'VE must be prepared to see h e
peace through with an international organiza'
toll to maintain common unity among the
Allies, with determined preparedness, in
GLIDING universal military training, with ar
'as-long- as-it-takes' occupation of Germany,
with the judcious use of our great produc-
tive power and with living faith in our
democracy
Having failed to keep a tight rein on Ger
many afte1 World War l with tragic conse-
Quences, it is to be expected the same mis-
TAX will not be repeated now. Important as
the other recommendations made by Mr. Ba
rucn are, friendly relations with Russia ap.
pear the most essential to future security. They
cannot be based on appeasement, naturally
but a fair policy of give and take ought to
assure them.
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Daily Prayer

We pray for our fighting forces,
O God of battles, that they may
have stout hearts to endure the
rigors of weather, and all the (e'
dunn of waiting. and the tlerce
pressure of battle. Preserve them
from the perils of idleness ana
from all loss of confidence IN Us
and in Thee. Even while we no"
pray, do Thou make them SenSlol'
of our supplications in their DE-,
half. By the mysterious moVlns'
OF Thy Spirit, may strong Gun,
seriousness of our interest IN lheH'
sweep through their souls, May
they never for a minute tnlpa
themselves forgotten. Thou kno"es.
how dear to us are our men !. i.
service. Bind our hearts toge'a@
in a new unity of fortitude and iaI.
until the day of victory shall nf.s
the blessings of peace to all IL.
world. Then, in glad reunion ".
shall praise Thee as the Preserve :.
our Cause and the Author o. W.
b,nn;po.c A-oor w r F.
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Sea Claims 100000
Tons OF Army Cargo

WASHINGTON, June Is 'oS -
More than 100000 tons OF pLans ,r
tanks, artillery and other AIa ny
cargo were lost at sea curing ", ",
European war when 1O5 vess esq
were sunk and 10 others oa't! e.
ed while carrying supplies 10 l L.
rope, the War Department olS''0'
ed tonight. h
Most of the loss was caused a. =;
enemy action, with U-boats e; ~,
tied with sinking n ships, li, ~.
taking toll of six, and e'g"' ~
ing down in bombing attacks ,a : n
teen ships were involved III u
sions, two blew up and SIX wa
lost in storms or went aslours
Four were lost to unknown e'. ',ro1
A shipload of ham ana 'T Iost
meat was among the cargo % l4 ~,
Other losses ranged from ~ Sso,
locomotives to tiny elec'fc ,a .r
and included tanks, guns
rr,1ec. a,,orrrlnition 900
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Liberation Incomplete

When the announcement was made that the
Phi -ppines had been liberated from the Jan.
anese widely held impression was that no
more enemy troops were on the islands And
because OF this impression the fighting now
under way on northern Luzon is pulling many
persons.
With the recapture of Manila Bataan and
Corregador. which broke the back of ORGANIZED
japanese resistance, the Philippines were
berated, but large segments OF the japanese
forces fled into the north where they set up
new headquarters and erected defenses While
they were unable to undertake offensives in
strength and for the most part were pocketed
completely, their presence constituted men.
ace to full reoccupation of Luzon and. to a
lesser degree, Mindanao, where the situation
was similar
1t is to eradicate these pockets of resistance
th.t the present campaign was undertaken and
IS progressing successfully. The Philippines are
treeo from japanese rule and oppression, but
reconquest cannot be complete until they are
destroyed.
The same situation prevails on other islands
New Guinea and the Carolines for example
where similar campaigns are under way
Inc japanese are no longer capable of seiz.
Ing or holding control in any of them, but
they remain thorn in the flesh of Allied
victory as long as they hold foot of territory
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Strikes Double In Number

With some $1,000 and more workers idle
through strikes, the pledge given President
Roosevelt by union presidents that there would
be no more walk outs long as the war
continued are so much wasted breath.
The gravely alarming phase OF the strike
fever now sweeping the country is that strikes
have doubled in number since VE-Day. This
lis no hit-or-miss estimate. 1t comes from the
Labor departments Cancellation service
Howard P. Colvin, director of the service,
says that strikes reached twenty a-day peak
during the war in Europe. Since May g. when
Germany surrendered, they have climbed to
from thirty-five to fifty a day.
Excepting the strike at the Goodyear plant
and others in the automotive industry, involv-
ing thousands of workers with consequent de-
lays in the production of essential war ma
terials, most of the strikes are of trivial
nature, showing that workers accept little or
no responsibility for victory in the Pacific Mr.
Colvin says some have been caused by slow
delivery of pay checks and others because
wives were receiving higher pay than their
husbands in the same plant. Some have come
because lunch-time checker games were pro-
hibited
One day last week says Mr.. Colvin, when
forty-hve new strikes were reported, nineteen
Of them resulted from the discharge of one
two or three workers. These discharges, she
explains. like many OF the other grievances
which are causing strikes, should have been
settled through procedure provided by con.
tracts between management and labor
He ascribes three reasons for the present
increase in strikes, to wit, many workers feel
less responsibility for sticking at the job since
the defeat of Germany, war nerves, and hot
weather
Certainly none Of the three is a legitimate
excuse for quitting. There is more reason to
stay at work with the war against the Japa-
nese entering the final stage. The fighting
forces are combating war nerves more vail
antlv than anybody at home and assuredly
are enduring hot weather, much hotter than
any experienced in America, without com.
plain. They are getting raw deal from every
body who lays down his tools in this crisis.
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QUOTATIONS

He the gooo public oft1c1ap need not be
uinld or obsequious, but unless he really
serves he is not a good servant.
byron Price, National Director of Censorship.
America Upheld and fortified our self
respect and kept alive our aspirations for
liberty and independence
Mime. Vincent Linn, wife of Filipino briga-
dler general reported to be a prisoner of the
Japanese.
Until domestic service is treated like skill.
Gu trade, there won't be any domestic service
Mrs. Ethel M. Wood, British womanpower
expert.
II Britain's acres are not harvested to the
iuli this year. the people of this country eng
land) will undoubtedly have to exist next winter
on the most frugal rations within living mem.
DRY.
From statement by British National Farmers
! lion to Food Ministry.
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RED-GERMAN PACT
INDUSTRIOUS UNION

SEPT. 26 - I'VE have ALREADY
said that during the last few DAYS
some sort of plot was Matching be.
tween Moscow and Berlin and to.
day we have had a conformation
of it from Rosso Ambassador in
Moscow. 1t seems that Won Rib.
bentrop has returned to Moscow to
sign genuine military alliance,
giving Eessarabia and Estonia to
the Russians, and the remaining
part OF Romania to the Germans.
Absolute silence from Berlin.
THE Germans prepare to strike
a blow without our knowledge ev.
cry time. The alliance between
MOSCOW and Berlin is a monstrous
union made against the letter and
spirit Of our pact. It is anti-Rorne
and anti-Catholic. It is a return of
oarbarlsm against which it is our
historic mission to rise with every
weapon and resource. But will #
be possible for us to do so? Or
has not the game been decided
tragically already?"
SEPT. 27-"Berlin gives us alb
solutely no information. 1t is from
the press agencies that we learn
that Won Ribbentrop has left for
MOSCOW. On the excuse that his
time was so limited, Won Ribben-
trop refused to receive Attolico.
III Duce received Cmdr. Pecori
our naval attache in Berlin. to dis
cuss German requests for naval
assistance. They would like subma-
rlne supply stations from Us, aid
IN locating French-British con.
voys, and the transfer of some sub.
marines for operations in the Med.
lterranean. II Duce in the begin.
nlng was favorable. With Cavap-
narl (chief of naval Staff who
CONTINUED on Page Teny
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co our Qe1enSeS cOuld not nOld
against a French attack"
SEPT. 12-"After the Germans
accepted the Hungarian refusal
for transport of their troops, they
h similar request m a d e
through the Glorious Slovak Ar
my VILLAIN says the Slovaks are
to the Germans as jackals are to
hyenas. They are accomplices and
pimps."
SEPT. Is - "Bocchini (chief of
police says the state of mind in
the country is improving as word
spreads of the certainty of o u r
neutrality. The Germanophiles
can be counted on the fingers of
one hand. They are objects Of
scorn. Tevere,' an ultra-German
paper in Rome, is called Gold
of the Rhine 3"
RED SPECTRE STALKS
INTO THE PICTURE
SEPT. IA gistrati Gtal-
ian embassy official in Berlin) has
supplied hint of approach 'ng
Russian Intervention to absorb a
part of Poland. Russia is showing
signs of restlessness. 1t is mobiliz-
ing numerous classes, and lass
prints news of Polish border vio-
1ations and provocations. How I'M
imaginative men are when h e y
want to start trouble!''
SEPT. 16-'It now seems that
Germany wants to attack Roma
mia! This distLrbs the sleep of the
French and British. But the fact
that Russia is preparing to inter-
vene should be even more disturb
ing. An agreement with Japan has
been reached, or is about to be.
The Soviets can have a free hand
in Europe"
SEPT. 17-''The Russians have
entered Poland. The Poles have
put up some resistance, but what
can they do?. III Duce does not
believe that Germany wants to in
wade Romania They will be salts
fled to impose economic servitude.
conferences Hitler twice said King
Carol would pay dearly for the
murder of Codrianu CRomanian
Iron Guard leader).
I recall that during the Berghof
"Ribbentrop telephones from the
train Of the high command in Up
per Silesia. Russian intervention
has taken place according to a
prearranged PLAN
SEPT. ia long conference
with II Duce in the evening. I re-
port what l learned from Gen.
GRAHAM (chief of staff that at the
present time our first line forces
amount to only 10 divisions. The
other IS are patched up, incom-
pletely manned, and ill-equipped."
SEPT. 10 From Ron4ania
comes information that the Polish
military and political leaders have
been interned at the request of the
Germans
SEPT. 2-'I have spoken with
Starace Fascist party secretary
of the internal situation and have
told him that some of his methods
are not the kind to uproot anti
Fascsm. During the evening, in
Via Veneto, I saw harmless per-
son, patriot and Fascist, beat
en- up by small group of gang.
sters who were protected by the
fact that they belong to the party.
and by their certainty that they
would not be punished.
This unwarranted squadrismo
"a new word to indicate a group
of men used to attack, arrest or
even kill political opponents) &C.
ton is harmful. I am far from
deploring beatings when they are
well deserved. but it disgusts me
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CIANO'S DIARY
SEPT. ACCT. 5, 1899.

NeutIdllly III l1e early Gays OF
the war was a paying proposition
for Italy and Mussolini, who spoke
piously OF peace, actually wanted
his son-in-law, Count Ciano. to
throw some kerosene on the fire.
of European conflict, Ciano's diary
reveals.
Russian intervention in Poland
shocked and surprised the Italians
who, as usual, were uniformed.
Once the agreements had been
signed, Ciano was summoned per.
emptorily to Berlin and given one
explanation. Mussolini jealousy
watched Hitler catapult to fame
and hoped some one would stop
him. II Duce turned down a Ger
man request for naval assistance
in the Mediterranean.
Ciano wrote:
SEPT4-'1 accompany Macken-
sen German ambassador to II
Duce, bringing a message fr m
Hitler in which the conviction is
reaffirmed that the two regimes,
bound by common destiny, must
follow a common path. III Duce
still is dreaming about heroic un-
dertakings against Yugoslavia
which would bring him to the Ro.
manian oil. Gen. Favagrossa.
(undersecretary of state for war
production) said tonight he would
be happy if our resent stocks per-
mitted US to fight for three months
SEPT. s. Neutrality begins to
bear concrete fruit. The stock
market quotations soar, the first
orders to buy Italian industrial and
financial stock come from France
Boats resume their sailings at dou-
BILE rates and are full as an egg.
II Duce. must be told that we
need long period of neutrality to
enter the war later as he desires,
but not before the end of a year."
SEPT. g. Krakow fell today.
and the German generals p d
their respects at the tomb OF Pill
sudski. II Duce says this fine ges-
ture would have b impossible
Under the Germany of the Kaiser,
SEPT. I'll Duce still has in
termittent flashes of belligerency,
Whenever he reads an article COM
pairing his policy with that of 1914
he reacts violently in favor Of
Germany"
SEPT. 81 do not believe that
Hitler has the wisdom to be mod
crate in victory, and l believe ev-
en- less that the English, now that
the sword has been unsheathed,
are disposed to return to it's scab.
bard with dishonor.
HITLER SHOWS HIS
HAND IN HUNGARY
SEPT. 9. VILLAIN Hungarian
min'ster) says that the Germans
have asked the free use of rail.
roads in Hungary to attack Poland
from behind. The Hungarians. i.
are aware that this would be mere
ly a prelude to occupation. In
Vienna they already sing that 1--WE
will hold securely what we have
and 60 to Trieste tomorrow.
II Duce advised the Hungarians to
turn down the German request as
courteously as possible"
SEPT. 1o-Attolico Ambassador
TO Berlin) reports that among the
German people, unaware of what
has occurred, there are signs Of
increasing hostility Ito the Ital.
ians). Charges of treachery a n d
perjury are repeated often. Nor
ale in Germany is low though mil.
itary victories in Poland have gal.
vanized it temporarily. De Bono
| 0talian field marshaD is convinc.
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Russian Intervention In Poland
Shocks And Surprises Italians

to see idiotic and coWardly acts
of violence. This has become a
habit, unfortunately, with so many
OF the mercenaries employed by
higherups in the party -
SUSPECTS HITLER
IS BOTTLED UP
SEPT. "a - THE developments
occasioned by the Russian occu-
patton of Poland have induced II
Duce to revise his earlier optinlis-
tic judgment about the German
situation. He now goes so far as
to say that Hitler is bottled up, and
that the French and British can
yet succeed in pitting Russia
against Germany. II Duce desires
peace, only because the position
of a neutral is not to his liking"
SEPT. 25-''It is well to use a
small person to kill a large one,
but it is mistake to use a large
person to liquidate a small one.
This is II Duce's diagnosis of Rus
sian intervention at the request of
the Germans.
He is more than ever convinced
that Hitler will rue the day he
brought the Russians into the heart
OF Europe.
They have two weapons that
make them even more terrible:
Pan-SlaVic nationalism with which
they can bring pressure on the
Balkans, and Communism w h h
is spreading rapidly among h e
proletariat all over the world, be.
ginning with Germany itself.
'Teleki Hungarian prime min
lster) calls Hitler gangster, and
Czaky Hungarian foreign minis.
teri has sent word that Won Rib
bentrop does not conceal his ha-
tired for me. l feel much honor
cd -
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TOP o. THE MORNING

There Is no petition too little, any more
than one too great, for God to grant, if
It Is in harmony with his will.
]. Hudson Taylor
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Fair Enough

Editors note-The Star and the News
accept no responsibility for the personal
views of Mr.. Pegler, and often disagree
with them as much as many of his read
ers. His articles serve the good purpose
of making people Think
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THE SUPREME OPTIMIsT

The supreme optirnist evidently is one who
thinks that while it requires trained men anc
leaders to win war almost any amateur car
wi the peace-Winston-S Journal
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The District gallops along at speed of 60
miles an hour. You would, too-With your bare
feet on the burning desert sands.
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Grass is said to rank high in vitamins
We've noticed it puts up healthy resistanc
to the lawn mower
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The reason Pop got such swell marks for
his home work may be the fact there were no
radio serials to distract him.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-03-20
Henry

Continued From First Page
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ChilIum Heights Citizens
Ask Hearing on Bus Cuts

Protesting methods of the Office
of Defense Transportation and the
Public utilities Commission in cut
ting bus routes. the Chillum Heights
Citizens Association last night went
on record requesting that affected
citizens be given the right to pub
lie hearing.
George Merrilees, who presented
the resolution, pointed to the recent
ODT and PUG order curtailing
service on the K-4 route from Pea
body to LongfelloW street NE.
we were given six days notice
about the CUT he added.
The association also favored the
erection OF two 15-mile- hour
signs around temporary play
ground and police protection before
and after school hours for children
crossing New Hampshire avenue
and Macdonald place NE.
Mr.. Merrilees said that boys and
girls played ball games on a plot of
ground near the Masonic and East
ern Star Home and were in danger
Of being injured He asked for
signs on New Hampshire avenue at
Peabody street and at First place
NE
William Alewine presented the
resolution asking police protection
for children at New Hampshire
avenue NE
T. H. Naylor presided at the
meeting, which was held in the
annex of the Luther Rice Memorial
Baptist Church.
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Field Examiners Confer
AT Justice Department

A closed conference of the nine
Justice Department field examiners
began yesterday in the Justice De-
partment Building and will continue
through Friday.
The conference plans to improve
examination methods and hear At
torney General Biddle, James V.
Bennett. director of the Bureau of
Prisons, and others outline the de-
partment's work.
Field examiners periodically check
accounts of Offices of United States
attorneys, marShals. commissioners.
courts, probation officers. referees,
trustees and receivers in bank
ruptcy.
The sessions are the first at which
all examiners have met at one time