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Evening star., 1945-06-09
-Four Naval Vessels
Are Commissioned;
z Others Launched
BY the Associated Press.

t1S tHt hosOCidteu fEeSs.
Four new naval vessels were COM
missioned and two others were
launched in widespread ceremonies
yesterday and today.
The new heavy cruiser, U. S. S.
Oregon City, was launched today at
the Bethlehem Steel Co. shipyard in
Quincy, Mass, with Bing Crosby,
radio and screen star, and members
of a special subcommittee of the
House Naval Affairs Committee at
tending.
Mr.. Crosby was here to lend his
support to the Seventh War Loan
drive and the House Naval Affairs
Subcommittee members were en-
route to Maine to inspect naval es-
tabliShments. The group was headed
by Representative Mott, Republican,
of oregon.
The 13,oo0-ton oregon City is a
f1ush-decked vessel Of the Baltimore
class, with a main battery of nine
8-inch guns in triple turrets.
The heavy cruiser Columbus, the
feet submarine Ling and the land
ing ship dock, Tortuga, were COM
missioned yesterday in separate
ceremonies in Boston.
The Columbus, a $4,000 ton flush
decked vessel of the Baltimore class,
honors the Ohio capital city. 1t was
launched at Quincy last November.
Capt. Allen Hobbs of Washington
took command of the cruiser.
The Ling was launched at Cramp
Shipbuilding Co., Philadelphia, in
August, 1943.
/ The submersible was christened
by Mrs Edward J. Foy, wife of
Commodore Foy, deputy comman-
dant of the Army and Navy Staff
College at Washington. The Tor
tuga was launched last January.
The superdestroyer U. S. S. Strib-
ling, second warship to honor the
late Rear Admiral Cornelius K.
Stribung, who began 54-year
naval career in the war of 1912,
went down the ways at the Bethle-
hem Steel Co. Staten Island yard
last night.
The destroyer was the 107th built
by Bethlehem since the start of the
war
The U. S. S. Chloris, vessel de-
singed for on-the-spot repair OF
damaged aircraft, was commissioned
yesterday at the snipyards Of the
American Bridge Co. in Ambridge,
. Pa. 1t was described as IAN answer
| to the Jap suicide plane"
: 1t. Commander F. A. Celler,
| project officer for the Navy Bureau
of Aeronautics. said the Chloris is
! a repair vessel for aircraft engines
! and was constructed especially for
!, beachhead operations in forward
: areas.
She is one of the first of her type
= to be built on the hull of a LIST
: Qanding ship for tanks, he said. A
: distinguishing feature is a boom
? slung over the stern.
Near the Chloris on the ways is
: sister vessel equipped for repair of
aircraft fuselage and wings. The
TWO will leave together for duty in
the Pacific.
Evening star., 1945-06-09

water dripping all around" he said.
"All I could feel was smashed steel
and debris" Another sailor said
he thought he was having night
mare and was drowning in a river
tank. Another told how after he
had got to deck he remembered his
girls picture and went back to his
compartment to get it.
Next day they found a Japanese
torpedo boat near the scene of the
wreckage. 1t was unnamed with
two torpedo tubes on the sides.
Four of the crew of the American
ship are missing.
Evening star., 1945-06-09
Congress Pay Raise
With Wage Control
In Effect Opposed

If members of Congress decide to
increase the $4,000 salary now paid
Senators and Representatives, as a
substitute for the $4,000 expense
allowance Just voted to the House
alone, they may date it to take
effect after the war emergency, to
overcome some of the opposition.
Comments last night indicated
that an increasing number of law
makers feel the congressional pay
level is too low, but question the
wisdom OF raising it as long as there
is need for continuing the admin
istration's wage stabilization control
over workers generally.
Senators Overton,. Democrat, Of
Louisiana, and Bridges, Republican,
Of New Hampshire, who drafted a
bill yesterday to raise Senators,
Representatives and cabinet mem
bers to $4,000, purposely omitted
any date on which the raise should
start, so that the Appropriations
Committee could make that decision
when it acts on the bill.
Morse Criticizes Plan.
Senator Morse, Republican, OF
Oregon, former member of the
War Labor Board, has taken the lead
in deploring a congressional pay
raise while the wage stabilizatior
program is still in effect.
He took the floor late yesterday
| to criticize the House action, giving
its members the expense allowance
as most unfortunate" and to de.
clare that it was apparently con.
doned" by the President. He as.
serted the expense allowance repre-.
sents a direct violation of the wage
stabilization program approved BY
| Congress.
Members long have been made.
quately paid" said Senator Hatch
Democrat, of New Mexico.
Wherry Favors Leveling Out.
kociia tOI WiitIIS, nepuUIlCdil, U!
Nebraska said he thought it woulo
be inconsistent for Congress to vote
itself a pay raise while expecting
other people to remain under the
Sterilization Act. He added, how
ever, that he favors a leveling out OF
official salaries, with members OF
Congress paid at least as much as
the heads of administrative depar-
ments.
Senator Reed. Republican, of
Kansas took a light-hearted view q
the whole matter.
Maybe we should bow to the
expressed wishes of the President
and take the increase" he said with
a grin.
Evening star., 1945-06-09
Labor to Name Directors
For Kenny Institute
nv ,be assoo;o+,G p-aes

BY the Associated Press.
MINNEAPOLIS. June 9.-Labor
has been invited to name three di-
rectorS for the Elizabeth Kenny In
stitute, Minneapolis, Mayor Marvin
L. Kline, president, disclosed last
night.
Mr. Kline said letters had been
sent to William Green, American
Federation of Labor president;
Philip Murray. CIO president, and
B. M. Jewell. president of the Rail-
way Employees Council, inviting each
to name one member of the board.
Evening star., 1945-06-09
Wrist Watch Unwristed

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (P,.-Robert
Neathery finished smoking a cigar
cite in a parked city bus and opened
a window to discard the butt. Some
one grabbed his hand, removed his
wrist watch valued at $50. and fed.
Evening star., 1945-06-09
Reason for Fisticuffs

GREAT FALLS, Mont. tP).-For
almost an hour before police ar
rived two Montanans, aged 81 and
SO, battled in the street. At head
quarters, one with eight stitches in
his head, grinnsd and said:
"Shucks. we were just determin-
ing which is the toughest man in
Cascade County"
Evening star., 1945-06-09
Chase Deer OFF Airport

BILLINGS, Mont (P.-Pilots
swoop low over Billings Airport
and gun their motors to a thunder
Gus roar before landing. Reason
says Airport Manager Dick Lovan,
. is TO clear the deer off the runways.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-09-10
Solves Job Problem

A young Californian, born in San Francisco
and graduated from the Fresno Teachers Col
lege, who joined the Marines three years ago
and is now a lieutenant after seeing overseas
service, has solved his employment problem
for himself with great good sense.
He proposes to remain in the Marine Corps
indefinitely.
He knows of no other means, he says by
which he can so safely safeguard his future or
fit himself for a place in the postwar world,
after reconversion is completed and business
generally has found it's new bearings, than
by continuing in the service and taking adj
vantage of the opportunities he will have for
study and training.
This attitude is so different from that OF
most men in the armed services that it is re-
freshing. Might not the same decision help
many another man now impatient to discard
his uniform without job in sight to find the
path of security, Certainly it would help the
military authorities and possibly eliminate
need for further draft calls through voluntary
emil stments.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-09-10
Industrial Possibility

Now that slaughtering restrictions have been
removed, and in view of Wilnington's search
for new industries e time appears oppor-
tune for having slaughter house, and not a
dinky little backyard affair either, but first
class plant for processing beef and pork from
all parts of southeastern North Carolina.
It may be claimed that there is not enough
business Immediately in sight to maintain such
a plant, but might the reason for this be that
growers have found no encouragement to go
into the raising of meat animals extensively
as long as their product had to be shipped out
on the hoof at heavy expense, Might it not
be that with slaughter house which would
meet all federal, state and county sanitary
requirements, and with ample refrigerating
facilities, beef cattle and hogs would become
one of the main crops in the area?
1t seems great pity that the twelve months
of green pasturage available with proper seed
Ing should not be put to more profitable use
than in the past.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-09-10

be no hurry to put Hirohitp on trial as war
criminal, since the Allies decided to let him
live at the time of surrender
If he is good boy and obeys General Mac
Arthur's orders, he probably can be as salts
factory messenger boy as any Japanese:
Not until he has served his purpose in this
role would it appear necessary to bring him
into court.
The case against him would be as strong
later as it is now. He signed the papers that
started the Pacific war. His signature will
still be in evidence ..gainst him at any time
Having spared him in order to stop the fight
ing quicker. he might as well be made use of
as long as he may be needed.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-09-10
Put The Chest Across

Wilmington has been particularly fortunate
in that reconversion has not caused suspension
of operations of single firm.
Other cities with large industries, which
have been at work on war contracts for sever.
al years but are now idle, confront serious un-
employment problems and their business COM
munities are suffering great reductions in their
residents purchasing power.
With the exception OF reductions in the ship
yards working forces Wilmington has es'
capped this experience.
The city is prosperous and will continue In
its prosperity as the activities Of its forward
looking business men attract additional small
industries to restore the difference in payrolls
between those of the ship yard at peak pro-
duction and at present.
There is more money, in checking and saw
ings accounts and war bonds, probably than
the city ever possessed before. In these cir
cumstances it would be an act of default for
the budget set up for the Community and
War Chest campaign next month to be under
subscribed.
The only thing that could bring this about is
the general let-down in all circles following
Japan's surrender and the end Of open hostili-
ties. This must not be permitted to domi-
nate the Chest situation nor cause the redIc-
ton of single subscription.
If it did Wilmington would not be living up
t. either its responsibilities or obligations.
The budget calls for $166,375. more than
last year by $1,537. Because OF changing con-
ditions the allotments Of some organizations
are increased, of others reduced. The kathe-
rine Kennedy Home is stricken off the list
completely
Thursdays News and Fridays Star contain
the itemized budget and explain why some
appointments are larger ane others small
er than last year. Perrsal of this statement
should convince any reader that the Chest
organization, as a whole, is careful steward
of the funds entrusted to its care.
While studying the Chests budget. it Will
be in order for Wilmingtonians to start private
budgeting, in order to be ready when the
campaign opens next month with gifts little
larger than in the past to take care Of that
extra $1,537.
We mustn't fall down. Particularly must we
subscribe the full amount asked for. because
any underscription would have to be absorbed
by the War Fund, with tens of millions OF
persons throughout the world still IN need OF
the bare necessities of life.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-09-10
The Case Of HirohitO

simultaneously with announcement that
General Macarthur is sending his occupation
forces into broader areas of Japan and into
Korea, comes word that Washington expects
Hirohito to be deposed as emperor and tried
rs war criminal.
One group of capital observers holds the
view that the Allies will set up a regency for
the young Prince Akiaito and that the regent
will be an elder statesmen of the royal fani-
", II might turn out this way, but to do so
would upset the general policy of the Allies
since the war began with the German attack
on Poland, to wit, that peoples everywhere
should have the privilege of determining the
type of their own government. IT this plan is
indeed to be carried out, then the japanese
ultimately should have the right to choose for
themselves what kind of government they will
maintain in years to come.
Not that there is any hurry to establish a
Japanese government of any kind in the
home islands. Certainly it should not come
until the japanese have proved their right te
rule themselves and ability to live at peace
with their neighbors and the rest of the world
But ultimately Japan's government should be
such as the Japanese choose.
In the meantime, there would also seem te
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-09-10
Back Home To What?

Many OF tie emergency war jobs for women
are vanishing. Air raid Wardens and plane
spoilers are not needed now. Women who
beginning to come home.
Back home to what? Certainly not to idle
ness or routine housekeeping and bridge. Too
many of these women have learned that they
can keep home and still find time for in
spring, needed work outside.
They have training in special skills from
riveting to first aid. They have experience
in working with groups in shops or on volun-
teer committees. And they are women-which
means that they have deep inner knowledge
of the importance of home and children, OF
sound guidance for young people in these un-
stable times.
Wilmington can use women like this By
volunteering few hours a week to say, the
Girl Scouts, they can continue to do important
work. They can be friends and advisers of
girls who have been too much neglected in
the war emergency. There is place for Wom-
en- who can demonstrate how to change a
tire and the woman who will open her kitchen
to girls who want to learn how to bake cookies
for their friends in the Army and Navy.
The Wilmington Girl Scout Council reports
that more girls than ever before want to have
the fun and the citizenship training of Scout
ing. They lack leaders and meeting places.
Here's a real opportunity for the woman
who wants to keep on with volunteer work
that is important. Wilmington's Girl Scout Of
flee is open regularly from 8 to Monday
through Friday and from to u on Saturdays.
to give information about Girl Scout leader
shp-a war job with peacetime value.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-09-10
The Literary Guidepost

ample. he sketches its history, fl
nances and policies, and gives brief
biographies Of leaders like Sloan
and Kettering.
Though what he says is plain
enough his manner of writing is a
kind of stumblebum process, one
step forward and two steps back.
His pages are filled with references
to 'what I've just said'' or pro-
misses of things ito be taken up
later"
He writes as an after-dinner
speaker talks, in a hi-ya-fellas
style: history is a long train that
goes "toot toot;;' refomers write
"tripe;;" the text is sprinkled with
"ain't," "blankety-blank," gal,
OK" "Darned," "dum fool
In case you don't know the ap.
proximate area of this country, he
tells you seven times that it's g..
100000 square miles. He refers II
times to other books he has writ.
ten, and names five of them. He
says 10 times that he has been
abroad. He says six times that he
comes of ancient American lin
cage.
That's the trouble with this book:
too much lineage. Adams, or a wise
editor, should have cut these 275
pages to 100.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-09-10
DailyPrayer
For Clear Thinking

In a confused and perplexing and
war-torn tine, we cry to Thee, o
Eternal Wisdom, for the power to
think straight and clearly. We dare
to pray that we may share the
serene Mind of the Master, who,
in a difficult day, followed a plain
path to His ultimate destiny. We
crave His purpose to do always the
things that please the Father. Only
this plain perspective and purpose
can clear our feet from the en-
tangling morass Of every day dis
fractions. Illumine our minds that
we may seek the eternal goals that
make for present felicity. Deliver
us from the hurt and hurry and
harassment of devotion to little
things. May our souls soar above
the days bewildering ENDORSEMENTS
as we steadily contemplate Thee in
Thy providences and revealed will.
Thus would we put first things
first, because they last. Amen-W.
T,E
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-09-10
Noted Tokyo Military Careerist
Buried By Men He So Strongly Hated
BY REMBERT JAMES
Substituting for Kenneth L. Dix,


SAIPAN. July 10, 1914 - Delay.
ed - ZAP - 1t. Gen. Yoshibe Saito,
one Of the Tokyo military career
lists who dreamed of ruling half
the world, was buried with full
military honors today by United
States Marines.
1t was strange end for the
understood soldier of Nippon-in
an diversified American coffin.
Four strong Marines, of the
branch of fighting men which Saito
hated most, acted as pallbearers.
They carried the coffin, covered
with Japanese flag, to the grave
side, with as much ease as if it
were filled only with cotton. A Ma
rine bugler blew taps. The pail
bearers lowered the coffin into the
grave. A Marine rifle squad fired
the traditional salute.
Saito, commander of Japanese
held islands from Tokyo southwark
to Guam, had ordered his 10000
troops on Saipan to resist to the
last and kill themselves when I'M
able to fight longer. The Marines
believe he followed out that order
himself.
His body was found in a cave
on the northwestern side of the is
land. 1t was on a ledge at the
back of the cave and efforts had
been made to burn it.
When the American party return
ed the day after the discovery
there were eight living Japanese
in the cave.
The Americans and Japanese
battled at the mouth Of the cave
for some time. Then, during lull
in the fighting, Japanese woman
walked out and surrendered.
Fighting was resumed until all
armed Japanese were killed.
Saito's body was still on the
ledge where new efforts had been
made to cremate it by building a
bonf re on top of it. But the fire
had burned itself out.
The BODY WIS removed to the
US. Army's 9th Division ceme-
eserved for
enemy officers, the burial cere-
mony was performed by the Ma
rirc~.
Admiral Nimitz announced the
same day the above was written
that Vice Adm. Chichi Nagumo,
Japanese Central Pacific
Navy commander who led the
carrier attack on Pearl Harbor,
had been killed on Saipan SIX days
earlier. The announcement, which
also reported the death Of Japan
ese, Rear Adm. Yano. did not
mention General Saito.
Saipan was invaded June IA,
1914, in the initial anphibious
move of the Marianas campaign
to secure future American B-29
bases. 1t was declared secured
July 8.
Saito was among more than H.
900 Japanese dead buried on Sal
pan.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-09-10
BY w. G. ROGERS
Big Business in Democracy, by
James Truslow Adams (Scrib-

ner's; $2.75).
This book, which Adams, refers
to as possibly his "swan song'' as
a historian, is in general a hymn
to Big Business and more particu-
larly it's the apotheosis of General
Motors.
The Ford Company does not fare
anywhere near so well, maybe be-
cause Ford, without mentioning
historians, called history the
DUNK" And neither do the New
Deal, Roosevelt, Wallace, the no
torious" Wagner act, taxes, bu-
reaucrats, labor, reformers, lib
erals, radicals nor the press
which he complains does not fur
nish the news.
The world has always been
business. he says, but it remained
for America to develop Big Bust
ness which supplies jobs, satisfied
consumers manifold wants, en-
riches widows orphans and other
stockholders and builds weapons in
incredible quantities. "Perhpas our
Big Business is, after all, the
Mount Ararat on which the ark of
free civilization is to rest after the
world flood"
Using GIN as his principal ex-
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-09-10
"Man" Is Subject Study
By Scientists Sunday

MAN. was the subject of the
Lesson-Sermon in all Christian
Science Churches and Societies
on Sunday, September 8.
The Golden Text was from
Psalms II: /, Is. Hear the
right, O Lord, attend unto my cry,
give ear unto my prayer, that
goeth not out of feigned lips .
AS for me, I will behold the face
in righteousness: l shall be salts
fled, when awake, with thy like
ness"
Among the citations comprising
the Lesson-Sermon are the follow
ing from the Bible But now thus
sai:h the Lord that created thee
O Israel, Fear not: for 1 have
redeemed thee, I have called thee
by thy name; thou art Mine. Even
every one that is called by My
name: for I have created him
for My glory, I have formed him;
yea, have made him. This
people have I formed for Myself:
they shall show forth My praise"
isaiah 43: l Z, 2D.
The Lesson-Sermon also includes
the following passages from the
Christian Science textb k,
Science and Health with Key to
the Scriptures" by Mary Baker
Eddy: Man is idea, the image. of
Love; he is not physique. He is
the compound idea of God, includ.
ing all right ideas; the generic
term for all that reflects Gods
image and likeness; the conscious
identity of being as found in
Science, in which man is the
reflection of God, or Mind, and
therefore is eternal; that which
has no separate mind from God:
that which has not a single quality
underived from Deity; that which
possesses no life, intelligence, nor
creative power of his own, but
reflects spiritually all that be.
longs to his Maker" page ATS
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-09-10
Editorial Comment
NO BUBBLE IN NAGAsAK1

Seeming trivial details sometimes tell more
about catastrophe event than the big, stupe-
tying factors. An instance in point were last
springs photographs of shoes at Nazi murder
camps. Tons of confiscated footwear under
lined the horror in terms anyone could un-
derstand.
So it is with Nagasaki's end Estimates OF
lives taken and area destroyed tell the total
Of the atomic bombs destruction. But perhaps
brief paragraph like this, from W. H. Law
rence's New York Times Foreign Service
story, OF how Nagasaki appears from the air
reveals even more:
''Nagasaki looked like city which had
been burned out perhaps many months ago
and then thoroughly cleaned up. No debris
blocked the streets - because there was no
debris left''
Thousands of pictures have been published
OF rubbed European cities For centuries,
rubble has been an index of wars devastation,
Now we are custodians of force which wipes
clean even rubble. It is kind of ultimate
orror.-Detroit Free Press.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-09-10
REVIVAL OF FEPC
ROW TAKES SHAPE

WASHINGTON, Sept. 9'-'4'-1 :,
bitter revival of the congresSl0'''.
fight over creation of perfll'i'"'
fair employment practices COM
mittee already is building u
This became evident today as
Congressional advocates OF ''
anti1discr:mination agency IeN''
e.: Leir campaign to put it On ! . .ss
+ ,oks as a full time branch o! ;r No
sove YER instead Of a wartime
unit. ..,oe4 IN
his Thursday message that NV wv
permanent committee De 'e e. ne
spanked the new drive ana AZ +5e
same time, set in motion again gan N, he
conflict of opinions which KEEP KEEP t tor
Congress in heated deDd'eu
t months last spring. u.s
Eventually a comprise - 10
reached giving the FEPC, Sc 7a,e
by executive order OF me 4,rds
President Roosevelt, limited funu'
and limited life. nor.
Nj. Truman declared d I'D.
clared a permanent FLPC Is Is, MD mo.
ed to maintain substantial r ain
gress' made during the war .,;cas
overcoming many of the pre-
which had resulted in dlScrlli,,'
tior against minority groups, w.,
Rep. Randolph DIV s ,',h.
Chairman of the House laool ~ w..
con- mittee which wrote Inc po or.
FEPC bill, told a repoi w.
1--WE hope the Presidents re- . .,
will provide the spark to , lds1
passage of the necessary leglS'a
lion soon."