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Evening star., 1946-11-06

was read for him by one of the Of
ficials present.
Whatever qualms the public, in
general, may have had, they were
dispelled on October % when Mr..
Benes appeared on the balcony of
the historic museum building to read
a speech before thousands who were
celebrating Czechoslovakia' inde-
pendence day.
Work Is Cut Down.
What the public did not know.
however, is that the next day Presi-
dent Benes was again incapacitated
and forced to cancel several ap-
'pointments Since then he has re-
sumed work but has been forced to
cut his heavy daily burden virtually
in two.
If it is embolism from which he is
suffering this would explain how he
is able to continue working Medical
experts say that it is curious fea-
ture of this type of man killer" that
the sufferer can continue on and off
the job. sometimes over long Pc
riod. before it proves fatal.
What worries Mr.. Benes' friends
is his stubborn determination to
carry on without getting sufficient
rest.
(rnnyYiEht 194G1
Evening star., 1946-11-06
Darlington Girl Safe;
Police Hunt Abductor
BY the Associated Press

CONOWINGO. MD, Nov. GA
frightened 8-year- old girl was back
home today after two-hour search,
touched off by a report to the State
police substati ton here that she had
been kidnapped.
Maryland troopers, local police Of
ficers and an FBI agent were look
ing for man wearing hunting
clothes and driving a coupe with
Maryland license plates, described
for them by Sue Carol Smith after
she came running home across the
fields from the Susquehanna River
banks in Eastern Hartford County.
State Police Sergt. John Novicki
said the girl apparently had been
enticed into the car 'by the stranger
after he asked her to help him find
workman on the dairy farm man.
aged by her father, Robert L. Smith.
Charlotte Proudfit, Sue Carols
8-year-old playmate, called Mrs.
Smith when the car drove oil in
the wrong direction.
Sergt. Novicki said Sue Carol was
distraught and highly nervous when
she returned to the farm, about four
miles south of Darlington, but ap-
parently was unharmed.
Sergt. Novicki said the girl told
him she became frightened when the
man turned off on back road along
the river near Lapidum. She
screamed, made the man stop the
car, jumped out and ran. She was
about three miles from home at the
time.
Evening star., 1946-11-06
Army Officers Push
Rehabilitation Of
100000 0kinawans
B. -Keyes Beech
Foreign Correspondent of The Star and
the Chicago Daily News.


OKINAWA, Marianas Islands,
Nov 6.-Utterly devastated Okinawa,
scene of World War lis last major
battle and springboard for the in
vasion of Japan-that never came
offs slowly coming to life.
But whether the 100000 "Okies"
are to be considered liberated or
conquered people remains an open
question.
Military Government officers. who
took over the islands affairs from
the Navy last July. assume that the
United Nations will decide eventu-
ally whether the island is to be given
its independence from Japan, to
which it was inundated under the
Treaty of Versailles.
president Truman. through
his secretary. restated on Sum-
day. at independence, Mo, his
policy that the United States
should hold war-torn Pacific
bases for national securityJ
Ruled by Jap Standards.
I'VE are doing the best job we can
and are hoping that whichever way
the cat jumps, we don't get scratch
ed" said 1t. Col Donald c. Wilson
of San Francisco, Military Govern
ment officer.
"Okinawa is being governed along
the same lines as Japan proper, with
the aim to return of living standards
to prewar levels" he added.
1t is doubtful if any people were
made more wretched by the war
than the meek peace-loving "Okies."
Ninety-five per cent Of them were
left homeless by systematic lombard
ment when American forces invaded
this island in April, l945.
Their principal city, Naha. with
a population of 10000, was wiped out
For weeks and even months, the
"Okies" wandered, sick and dazed
over their island, unable to COM
prehend the terrible thing that had
befallen them.
Rehabilitation Proceeding.
The job of rehabilitation is pro-
ceeding slowly. The people have
returned to their land and built
homes of whatever materials could
be found. The Military Government
has raised health standards and i'm
proved sanitation.
Plans for the establishment of
completely self-governing communi- :
ties are being accelerated under the
watchful eye of the military.
Evening star., 1946-11-06
Papertroopers Set
New tuesday Record

Papertroopers in the second dis
trict of The Evening Star-PTA
wastepaper salvage campaign yes
terday turned in the best Tuesday
collection of paper which has been
made so far this fall.
While parents were using the
schools for the plebiscite, the Paper
troopers gathered 36.73O pounds of
old newspapers and magazines. The
days largest collection, $3.50 pounds,
was reported by the new Newell
Thomas School.
Other collections included Gid
dings, 1855 pounds; Van Ness, 1.49S
pounds; jefferson. 5,251 pounds;
Burroughs, 1,760 pounds; Brookland,
2,634 pounds; Emery, 1850 pounds:
lexington. 1850 pounds; Randle
Highlands, 1888 pounds: Ketcham
2,280 pounds: Dent, 600 pounds;
Brent, 152 pounds; Langdon, l,78S
pounds; Woodbridge, 2,128 pounds.
Collections tomorrow in the fourth
district, together with the leaders,
Evening star., 1946-11-06
1O-Year Drive 10 Stop
Shifting Sand Dunes
Begun in Palestine
By John A. ThoIe
Foreign Correspondent of The stor end
the Chicago Daily News

JAFFA, Palestine. Nov. GA 10
year war to halt the walking sand
dunes" now devastating large areas
of Palestine's Mediterranean coast
has been declared by the govern
ment.
BY S1,5O0,0OO forest-planting
program officials hope to pin down
the shifting landscape and win back
large tracts for farm use.
The Palestine Department OF For
ests estimates that $4,000 acres may
be brought back into cultivation.
That would represent tremendoEG
gain in this disputed country where
cultivsble land is desperately
needed.
Whipped by sea winds, the loose,
fine grained desert sand has piled in
waves to an average of about 2i2
miles inland 1t has swallowed many
mud walled farmhomes, engulfed
telegraph lines and threatened to
bury railroads. River mouths,
clogged with silt, have become stag
nant, malarial pools.
Aerial studies made by the de-
partment of forests indicate that
hundreds of years ago this region
of the historic plains of Philistes
was well watered and supported
relatively heavy population. Its
towns and villages then were on
the famed camel caravan routes
leading from Egypt to Damascus
and Baghdad and Jerusalem.
In the immediate prewar years
soil experts here were frankly baf-
fed. They did not then have the
technical knowledge to embark on
any major scheme to halt the dunes.
Now officials of the department
of forests have announced that ex-
periments conducted in the sandy,
southern desert regions near GAIA
have given them comparatively
rapid and generally effective" r:eth-
cd of sand flxation.'
The experiments at GAIA have
established that the growth of aca-
cia cyanophylla paintings estab-
fishes a windbreak, while the dense
mat of roots helps to tie down the
surface. Artemisia, retama ana
other perennials thrive in the spaces
between the acacias, and large num-
pers of ANIMALS aid in the process of
soil formation.
Three million plants have been
earmarked for planting on 900 acres
of sand-dune land this year The
department hopes to plant an ad-
ditional $500 acres during 1947
Forest department experts see
sand fxation work as a means of
boosting employment, and eventu-
ally the program will provide new
lands for the resettlement of farm
ers.
Evening star., 1946-11-06
Tojo S JaiIers Keep
Close Watch on Him.;
Goering Remembered
BY ihs Assoeiotsd Press

TOKYO, Nov. 6.-With a glance
over their shoulders at Nuremberg
United States military police keep q
close and stern watch over the last
Of the worlds war criminal sus-
pects-Hideki TOTO and company.
Col. Francis Crary of Washington
passes off the question of whether
security, regulations have been tight
ened since Goering's suicide, saying
it's like that one about have you
stopped beating your wife?"
Col. Crary's men assert, however
that If constant vigilance can fore
stall a Goering episode 1T won't
happen here"
Here is a glimpse of the security
routine as the AZ accused walk stol-
idly down the long, tunnel-like cor
ridor to. their cell black after their
day in War Crimes Court.
- Bus Closely Guarded.
They have just come from the
War Ministry Building, the trial
scene, in a closely-guarded bus.
Over these little men loom husky
American military ponce.
TOTO, who became the very SYM
Dol of the oriental end of the Axis
shifts his brief case from his right
to his left hand, reaches inside his
mustard -tcolored jacket, and
scratches his ribs.
Military police swing back the
steel door and count them into the
cell block, nodding at Mamoru Shi-
gemitsu, he. of the wooden leg who
was .Tojos foreign minister at one
time, limping along in the rear.
The cell block door clangs shut
and the prisoners go down the block,
falling out; of line to enter their
small, steel-doored rooms.
The doors close and through the
peep holes in each door guards take
up the watch.
The defendants are checked in and
out of their cells for baths, shaving,
exercise and religious ceremonies.
Defendants Well Fed.
They are fed we'll by the Japanese
government, but before their gener-
Gus meal of rice, fish and vegetables
is handed in it's probed by guards
looking for anything that might be
srnuggled. in.
Unlike the other 300 prisoners in
Sugamo, these 27 men are allowed
to bathe and shave daily.
Guards bring them out in groups
OF IL. six of whom battle while the
others shave. A guard issues each
prisoner blade for a safety razor
and the blades are collected before
they leave the bathroom
There are several hundred Japa-
nese working in Sugamo, but none
has contact with the prisoners.
The japanese who approach the
closest are the mess attendants, who
ladle food from large aluminium
kettles into the prisoners bowls.
Guards watch this process carefully.
Within their cells, the defendants
read, write and just sit. They can
go to religious services if they wish
The prison has a Buddhist shrine
and Buddhist priest makes regular
visits.
The prisoners are allowed one Wis
itor monthly, but they must speak
through screen in closely guard
ed visitors room.
Evening star., 1946-11-06
Czech Concern Grows
Over Failing Health
OF President Benes
By WiIIiom McGoffin

foreign Correspondent Of The Stor and the
Chicago Daily News.
PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia. Nov. 6.
Inside circles here are deeply con-
cerned over the health of President
Eduard Benes.
The 63-year-old, white-mous-
tached peasants son who became a
distinguished leader of his country
has shown alarming evidences re-
Gently of ill health. Some sources
even say he is suffering from embo-
lism (blood clotD.
Politically, it would be great ca
tastrophe, at this critical moment in
Czech history, if anything were to
happen to Mr. Benes, who is regard
ed as a good friend of the West.
Illness Kept Quiet.
Effort has been made to keep
President Benes' illness quiet. There
has been nothing in Czech neWspa-
pers about it and it is possible that
the accuracy of this dispatch will be
challenged.
People first became aware, on Oc-
tober 26, that all was not we'll with
the doughty little president, who led
the Czech government-in-exile in
London during the war Mr. Benes
was making a public speech here
when he was suddenly forced to stop
reading in the middle of a prepared
manuscript. He had to be assisted
off the brightly lighted platform
while the remainder of his speech
Evening star., 1946-11-06
Court Denies 0PA Right
To Set Carrier Rates

The United States Emergency
Court of Appeals has ruled that the
Office of Price Administration has
no authority to set rates for COM
mon carrier even where rates have
not been set by any other Federal,
State or local authority, 1t was dis
closed today.
The ruling was made in a case
involving New York concerns who
haul household goods within the
New York City commercial zone,
which extends over an area covering
New York City and certain sur
rounding territory.
The plaintiffs in the action against
OPA were Dunham e. Reid, Inc; :;
Hagens Van 81 Storage; Fordham
Storage Warehouse, Inc, and Nor
gan & Bro. Fireproof Storage Ware
house, Inc.
Evening star., 1946-11-06

sawed in and out of the lead in
New Mexico. Gen. Hurley had a
slight margin this morning.
Nevada senatorial battle gave Re
publican George w. Malone lead
over Berkley L. Bunker. Democratic
representative and former Senator,
with about two-thirds of the States
precincts accounted for.
With more than half of the votes
counted in Montana, Zales N. Ecton,
Republican, maintained margin
over Lief Erickson, Democrat, who
defeated Senator Wheeler in the
primary despite President Truman's
Endorsement of Wheeler.
After a nip and tuck battle SEN
ator O'Mahoney, Democrat, defeated
Harry B. Henderson, Republican, in
wyoming.
Evening star., 1946-11-06
Comment
Continued From First Page)

Iican to sit in the White House, sale
in New York that the election re.
turns showed the Nation is again
moving to the goal of free men"
This has been much more thar
just another congressional election,
he said. THE whole world, includ-
| ing the United States, has been fol
years driving TO the left on the to-
talitarian road of planned economy.
America is by this election the first
country TO repudiate this road.
Expects Others to Follow.
"And it defines that the Repub-
licar Party is the party of the
rig,it. We are again moving TO the
goal of free men. This de- on OF
the Uniacd 6 tes will have pro-
found effect Oh nation" v,1i"l have
been following clong the read to the
left
IN st. rsul, former Gov. Harold
E. S,as en- of Minnesota. an aspi-
rant for the 1948 Republican nomi-
nation for President, said:
The postwar verdict OF the
American people places a new re-
sponsibility on our Republican
Party
Il am confident that the new
Senators and congressman who are
predominantly young, progressive
Republicans will meet that response
bility in a manner that will contrib
ute to the advance of the welfare
of the rank and file of the American
people-workers, farmers and busi-
nessmen.
Wallace Urges Progressives.
Henry A. Wallace, New Deal for
mer Vice President and Secretary OF
Commerce, interpreted the results
as meaning the Democratic Party
will either become more progressive
or it will die
"Progressives must not be dis
couraged by the outcome of the cleo
tion,' he said
The Republican Congress will in
evitably multiply our economic prob
lens and the American people, who
fundamentally are always progress
sive in their attitudes, will then turn
to liberal leadership for help.
"As result of this election the
Democratic Party will either become
more progressive oEft viii die. do
not expect it to die"
In Cincinnati Senator Taft, Re-
publican, of Ohio said, in reviewing
the election results, that for the
first time in IA years the United
States no longer is in a state of
emergency.
THE results of the election show
the American people definitely are
opposed to giving an arbitrary CEN
trail government the power and
money to regulate their daily lives.
!; Under Republican leadership we
can sit down calmly and work out
the constructive measures necessary
for peace, for full employment under
private enterprise and for social well
fare. while leaving the people free to
run their own affairs"
Senator Guffey, Democrat, of
Pennsylvania, who was among the
Democratic casualties, took only 10
words to say what he thought:
The people evidently wanted a
change and they got it,
Senator Guffy's aides, who issued
the statement at the Capitol, said
that would be the Senator's only
comment. Senator Guffy flew to
Washington from Pittsburgh yester-
day.
Evening star., 1946-11-06

tCopyright, 1a46D
Evening star., 1946-11-06
Pony Girl Catches
Train and Husband
BY the Associotad ers.s

SEATTLE.-A pretty Australian
girl. Phyllis Cole, raced her pony
alongside troop train moving across
the New South Wales plains back in
October, 1943, and asked to see .
cowboy.
Richard Bresheare, now q, of this
167th Field Artillery Battalion, sol-
emnly assured her he was one, some-
what contrary to fact
They corresponded, met l8 months
later on his furlough and were
married here last October.
Evening star., 1946-11-06

lCopyriaht, l946.l
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-01-30
SPECIAL ENLISTING
DEADLINE JAN. 81
FOR ARMY GRADES

All members Of the Enlisted Re-
serve corps, who desire to enlist
in the regular Army in the grade
held at the time of discharge, must
enlist by January 81. After this
deadline any member of the corps
enlisting will be enlisted in the
grade of private, in accordance
with War department circular No.
7 dated January 8, 1916.
All officers, warrant officers and
flight officers. who were separated
from active service after May IL,
1915, and before November /,
1915, are still eligible to re-enlist
in the Regular Army in the First
grade, providing such. enlistment
is accomplished on or before Janu-
airy 81, 1916, according to 1t. N.
G. Cottle, local Army recruiting
officer. After the deadline, all
former officers desiring to enlist
in the first grade in the Army,
must enlist within 20 days from
date of release from active service.
The date of release from active
service is for this purpose, the last
day of terminal leave granted. 1t.
Cottle said.
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MERCHANTS DONATE
PRIZES FOR MARCH
OF DIMES BENEFIT

Manv prizes have been donated
by various merchants 1or JIG
March of Dimes benefit orloge
party to be held at Lake fores'
Community building tomofro"
night at 8 o'clock.
In announcing final plans TOR lne
party Mrs. E. L. Nigh, cnalrilla: u,
said last night that the party Is
creating a lot of interest in tne
community and a large crowo Il
expected to compete for the prizes
Among the merchants who nave
donated prizes are Gregg Brothers the
silex coffee maker; Snow White
laundry, credit SID FOR dry clean
Ing: Jones Shoe Repair shop, ~.
so credit slip for shoe repairing
| Lanes Lake Forest Drug store
makeup box; Williams Dry clean
ing. 81 credit slip; Todds Furniture
store. pictures and Silax tea pots;
Benton Beauty shop of Lake For
| est, shampoo, finger-wave ane
manicure; Fox Royal bakery.
large cake, which will be rattlec
off during the evening.
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TAR HEEL RUNS
BUSINESS FREAK

NEW BERN. Jan. 20. - First LII
Joseph E. Zaytoun, USMCR, Oh
New Bern, wrl1es from Tslngtao,
China, that he is directing one VI
the biggest business freaks ever
conducted successfully in military
annals.
AS post exchange officer for the
Sixth Marine division in the Pacl'
fic, which saw action on OklnaWa'
Zaytoun was ordered to set UP
post exchange on Guam. AS soor
as Japan surrendered, he was TOLD
~ open a similar unit in Japan
Then almost Immediately he was
assigned to get exchanges opened
in North China. After getting Il
post exchanges in readiness al
Tsingtao, he sent stocks to Chin
wangtao, 300 miles northward, fol
still another unit.
'Then I sat in the middle Of ar
avalanche of bills, acquisitions anc
statements coming from Guam
Japan, Chinwangtao and the Il
exchanges here, trying to keep q
balance between assets and Iiabil
ities," Zaytoun reported. For g
divisional post exchange office,
think this job is really the biggest
business freak in all military his
tory
!. Though it may be a freak, divi-
sion correspondents write that it
is a successful freak. Each month
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Operation Stork Heads
ForH-Hour CrewDubious

NEW YORK, Jan. 20 - U.H -
Operation Stork headed for its
H-Hour today, with 10000 diapers,
1900 safety pins and crew of old
salts more leery of babies than of
bombs.
The Grace Liner Santa Paula,
under War Shipping Administra-
ton management, steamed toward
ENGLAND to bring 585 British
brides and babies to -GI's-hus-
bands and proud papas-waiting in
the United States. The ship was
armed with 800 baby bottles, 100
basiaettes. 80 high chairs, 20 play
mems Is cribs and 10 dozen cellu-
loid rattles and over-stuffed plush
Dummies.
s1 am a bachelor myself" said
ships purser Julian Palaclos;
What will happen if I am called
upon to change diaper? l think
I would jump overheard first
Palacios figured if women didn't
get seasick, ne wouldn't have to
change diapers for their infants SO
he orlered ice cream served twice
every day on the eight-day voyage.
Ice cream rests well on the
stomach, he said.
The ships crew of more than
100 men had been through torpedo
and plane raids during the war,
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but nothing like this. Only 40 Of
them were married, and fewer
than 20 had children. They were
instructed to smile at all babies,
however, and to mutter 1900, goo,
whenever they had time.
Capt. Albin A. Anderson, fo1 81
years a Grace Line captain, was
the only crew member completely
free of worries about the shipload
of women and children.
IT had rs schoolteachers on one
trip" Anderson said. II don't think
any women and children could be
as much trouble as those school
teachers-or as seasick.''
The former luxury liners state
rooms had been converted first
for troops. Now they were con-
verified again for women. Three to
seven women will sleep in each of
the staterooms, on three-tiered
hunks. Babies all will have cribs.
Women with children will be
served in a Georgian-style dining
room. Just plain brides will eat
cafeteria-style.
A permanent army staff was
aboard and Maj J. j. Connolly of
(the Bronx, New York; planned an
indoctrination course for all the
future American citizens.
Two army physicians, four army
nurses, three civilian nurses and
three Red Cross workers will take
care of babies while their mothers
attend the daily movies and lee
lures.
"a man doesn't know how lucky
he is to have just one wife, until
he has to plan a trip like this
Connolly said. He had three pic
lures of his eight months old son
around his cabin, ''to make the
women feel at home when they
come in to see me-
On the diet side, for women
Operation stork" will provide
steak and fried chicken. For babies
1O8 cans of Pablum, "a cases Of
condensed milk, &c cans of corn
syrup and 86 cases of strained
baby food, along with fruit for
juice were on shelves or in deep
freeze lockers.
II got II cooks, and five bakers, ~
Palacios said. But we're all aw.
fully worried. I don't care what
nationality women are. They're all
alike and they all fuss. That's why
I'm a bachelor
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Wilmington Lady Spit
Up Acid Liquids For
Hours After Eut;,.

For hours after everv MAJ,
Wilmington lady used to snit a' a
strong, acidulous liquid mix yst up 1.,.I a
pieces of half-digested food win vi
says it was awful. At tine, one
would nearly strange. She S we
stomach bloat, daily head.o aaa
and constant irregular bowel '.vS
ton. Today, this lady eats d. de-
meals and enjoys them. And s ~.
says the change is due to tsL fns
lNNER-AID. Her food agrees Mig
her. "'A
No gas, b1oat or splitting u M.
eating. She is also free of head
aches now, and bowels are reguIa.
thanks to this Remarkable Men,
Compound. ~"
INNER-AID contains IL Gree.
Herbs; they cleanse bowels, rIss,
gas from stomach, act On slugpiS5
liver and kidneys. Miserable ns ''
pie soon feel different all over 5,
don't go on suffering! Get INNER.
AID. Sold by All Drug Stores here
in Wilmington.
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Junior Chamber of Commerce
announced last night there Will
he a meeting of the Scouts
NeignDorll 80. omn7ittee mem
hers next Tuesday night at
$3.50 at assembly hall. YMCA,
The committee is composed OF
Elliott O'Neal, district COM
missioner, and Ben Jones,
Frank Jones, Jack HARRISON,
Ed Howard, Luther Hodges,
Jesse Sellers, Reginald Mann,
Jacr Towel. Cyrus Johnston,
and Bill Herring.