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Evening star., 1946-10-02
Off-Street Purkinq Problem

The Commissioners would do well
to go slow in reaching a decision
on the question of recommending
outright removal of Federal control
over parking-facility rates in Wash
ington. Chairman P. Y. K. Howat
of the District Motor Vehicle Park
ing Agency is correct in asserting
that current low rates are factor
in deterring private enterprise from
launching new parking-center prof.
ects at this time. 1t is only fair
that OPA ceilings should be adjusted
to meet rising costs of operation.
But price control is not the only
factor initiating against expansion
of otf-street parking facilities. The
materials shortage is an important
consideration, too. And even if ma
terials could be obtained, the costs
of building a parking structure right
now are such that even if there were
no lid on parking rates the manage
ment would have to charge price
so high as to put him at a disadvan-
tage with competitors who built in
more favorable times.
If conditions were more normal it
probably is true that free competi-
ton would keep parking prices at
q reasonable level, without necessity
of OPA control. With plenty of ma
terials and labor at moderate costs,
investors would find it profitable to
put their money into parking enter
prises, as they have done in the
past. And the public would benefit
by more parking spaces off the street
at prices they could afford to pay
But conditions are not normal and
parking places are in great demand,
with no immediate prospect of a
revival of 1arge-scale parking con-
struction. This being the case,
removal of all parking-price re-
straints would leave the motoring
public with no protection against
exorbitant charges by operators who
might be inclined to take unfair
advantage of the situation.
Eventually, of course, when the
era of shortages and controls is
over, private enterprise can-and it
Is hoped will-do much to solve
Washington's acute parking prob
lem.
In the meantime it is to be hoped
that plans for. the Districts initial
Evening star., 1946-10-02
The Turtles Triumph

The Nays Truculent Turtle GER
tainly was. sticking its neck out
when it undertook to beat the Army
Air Forces long-distance nonstop
flight record of 8.198 miles, but it
obviously knew what it was doing.
Its crew and their superiors denied,
of course, that their prime or
even their secondary objective was
to take any records away from the
Army. They insisted that they
merely wished to test endurance of
plane and crew, but it would not be
surprising if they had their tongues
in their cheeks when they made
their avowals.
At any rate, the Navy could not
have been entirely oblivious of the
fact that the AAF. which wants to
take over the Navy's land-based
aviation, has been seeking bigger
and better records in the field of
long-distance flying. even while
glorying in its remarkable B-29 hop
from Guam to Washington last
November. Only a few weeks ago
the AAF announced that the same
B-29 was poised for a 10000 mile
flight from Honolulu to Cairo. via
the North Pole. Bad weather in the
Arctic has kept this plane earth
bound ever since the announcement,
however. And now the Navy, in a
new-type land-based patrol bomber,
has flown nonstop from Australia
to Columbus, Ohio, exceeding the
Army's planned Cairo trip by nearly
a thousand miles!
Will the AAF revise it's plans and
send a B-29 to some destination
more remote than Cairo? If so, it
will no doubt keep in mind the fact
that the original objective of the
Navy bomber was Washington or
Bermuda-the latter full $4,000
miles from down under. Perhaps
those who favor single air force
will contend that such competition
is destructive. There are many
others, however, who will see in
these contests a revival of the
healthy rivalry which kept both the
AAF and Naval Aviation abreast of
the latest developments in aeronau-
tical engineering and aerial tech
niques before World War II and
which helped to fit them for their
specialized assignments with such
historic success.
The SOLDERING side of these new
feats of our flyers is the realization
that both the Army's B-29 and the
Navy's record smashing bomber are
capable of carrying an atomic bomb
almost half way around the globe
a fact which will not be lost on any
potential enemies of America and
which raises, at the same time, the
possibility that if we can do these
things, others may be able to do
likewise It is at least comforting
to know that, until wars become as
obsolete as the dodo, our Army and
Navy airmen are not resting on their
well-deServed laurels.
Evening star., 1946-10-02
The Condemned

toric news from Nuremberg is that
Franz Won Papen, Hjalmar Schacht
and Hans Fritsche-with the Rus
sian Judge dissenting-have been
completely acquitted. AS for the
rest of the tried. the world at large
will be pretty much agreed that
their punishment, ranging from
varying prison terms to death by
hanging, is in keeping with the
western concept of justice and with
the nature of their crimes.
AS far as the guilty themselves
are concerned, they now amount to
little or nothing. except as symbols.
The worst Of them, the ones who are
to die. will be remembered for gen.
erations as men who were less than
men in the sense that they lived by
the law of the jungle-ruthlessly,
savagely, amorally, in a way that
offended earth and heaven and
brought immeasurable agony to
mankind. If they have made any
contribution whatever to civiliza-
ton, they have made it at this late
date only by passing into history to
be immortalized there as a black
warning to the future-a warning
that the nations can never again
afford to appease criminal nihilism
when it weds power and calls itself
government.
This condemned oup-Goering,
Won Ribbentrop, Keitel. Kalten-
Drummer, Jodl, Streicher, Seyss-In-
quart and the rest-represented evil
of a magnitude that is difficult to
comprehend even to this day. As
individuals they have long since
been broken. and their rule in Ger
many has crumpled with them. Yet
it is important to the future never
to forget that they came close to
realizing their dark designs. They
were young men once who had an
theology, but the theology was
twisted and vicious, and when they
came to power that power absolutely
corrupted them. Cold-bloodedly,
Systematically, by deceit and terror
ism, with truncheons, guns, whips,
gallows. brass knuckles. headsman's
ak and colossal lies. they first Sc
duced and enslaved their own coun-
try, and then cut loose with their
enormous crimes against humanity
at large. The story is too familiar
to need retelling. It Is enough to
say that this cream of the Nazi
leadership profaned all the decen-
cies of civilization and left a black
legacy that has upended our world.
How could men descend so low?
What thing in them made them
such fine tools of the devil? Why
did the people of Germany hand
themselves over to them? What
made the world fail to stop them
before they started? Some day the
theologians, the sociologists, the
philosophers and the historians may
be able to agree on precise answers.
But whether the answers are forth
coming or not, it is clear that in
Goering and his group there was so
terrible synthesis of evil and power
that mankind can tolerate its like
again only at the risk of self
destruction.
This is the one possible contribu-
ton that the condemned will have
left behind when the hangman. is
done with them: That the sound of
their names may be like a tocsin
from now on, and that the civilized
worlds shuddering remembrance
of them may be deep enough and
lasting enough to insure that the
great new Nuremberg law against
aggressive war will take root and
flourish as the years roll on.
Evening star., 1946-10-02

experiments in the f1eld of munic-
ipal fringe parking" will go forward
without further delay. The parking
problem Is of such vital public in
terest that its solution cannot be
written of as a responsibility wholly
of private builders or speculative
It is a community prob
lem demanding earnest and continu-
Gus attention of municipal planners,
engineers and traffic authorities.
Evening star., 1946-10-02
CONTIGUOUS Notions

From the New Orleans Times Picayune:
A general strike called in Mexico as
q protest against the high cost of living,
makes us think the Mexicans have been
borrowing some of our logic. Wasn't it
a United States idea that wages could
be raised without increasing prices?
Evening star., 1946-10-02
Justice at Nuremberg
By Raym ond MOley

Cynical views over the years that the
Kellogg BRAND pacts had no teeth have,
after nearly two decades, been answered.
Basically, the verdict at Nuremberg goes
back to q conspiracy to destroy the
peace of the world and subject to Nazi
tyranny q number of nations whose ma
jor interest between the wars was to
keep out Of war. The verdict Is justi-
f1cation Of the plan of prosecution de-
cided upon by Justice jackson and his
fellow prosecutors.
There was much dissent over this
plan. Some of the Allied nations
wanted . simpler course which would
have involved fixing responsibility for
lesser crimes than conspiracy. This
would have made for shorter trial.
Some Americans who were active in the
early stages Of preparation withdrew
because Of differences Of opinion with
Jackson. But jackson stuck to the
major point In his case, despite the
great dificulty Of proof and the inevita-
BILE decline Of public interest in . pro-
tracted and complex trial. Jackson held
throughout that the defendants were
not being tried for losing a war, but for
starting a war.
And he proved his point Nineteen
guilty defendants ut Nuremberg are feel
ing the unmistakable teeth in the
Kellogg BRAND pacts, in which Ger
many, among other nations. "solemnly"
renoupced war as an instrument OF
national policy. 1t Is the principle Of
these pacts that the Nuremberg trial
puts into the relations Of nations. Moth
ing more constructive has been estab-
lished in centuries OF agony and blood
shed.
The Second World War, says the
court, was due to planned aggression" :"
And the guilty defendants did the PLAN
ming and must suffer The record re-
veals how meticulously this plan was
made.
The record shows another point, Wig
orously contested by the defendants and
their lawyers. They tried, over and
over, to put all the guilt on Hitler the
Evening star., 1946-10-02

dictator. But they were not the mere
puppets of the Fuehrer. As the court
points out, a plan OF such scope could
not exist solely in the will and deter
mination Of Hitler. The objectives of
Hitler were no secret to the defendants.
In the presentation of evidence, Incl
dent after incident was proved in which
the defendants were present when Hit
Ter was discussing and perfecting his
plans to tear up treaties and subject
Europe to his viii. No compulsion
caused these men to 60 along with
Hitler. They accepted high Offices
gratefully and they enthusiastically gave
their aid to the master plan. Without
this cooperation, Hitler's ambitions, the
court said, would have been academic
and STERILE"
Two points concerning this trial and
Judgment need constant reiteration in
the face of doubts still entertained by
many American lawyers. The first is
that the defendants were found guilty
Of violating law which existed before
the commission of the acts charged
The court and the rules of procedure
were created after the acts Thus the
court was ex post facto; the law was
not. The second point is that the trial
rested not on Anglo-American juris-
prudence, but on a charter created by
the Allied nations which participated
in the trial. The essential point is that
the defendants were tried for violations
Of law to which Germany was a party
and they were given all the elements
Of q fair trial.
1t may be true that Napoleon and
Bismarck-even the Kaiser-would have
been guilty of violating treaties and
might, before this court, have been con-
demned. But their nations had not
renounced war. Modern Germany had
done SO under the Kellogg pact, and
for that reason these responsible leaders
are condemned. In this respect, hui
manity has made forward step from
the darkness of the past.
released by The Associated Newspapers)
Evening star., 1946-10-02
But They Cont Drop It!

From the Bridgeport Post:
"The American people are in serious
state Of fatigue" says Government
oficial. It is no wonder, what with their
carrying the world around on their
shoulders,
Evening star., 1946-10-02
Hard Words For Britain

I1arQ WOfQS FOf britain
To the Editor of The Star:
The first thing I did on reaching
Washington, fresh from the sanctum Of
small-town newspaper in North Mis-
sissippi, to take job in the Depart
ment of Agriculture, in September, 1893,
was to buy copy of The Star, and al
most constantly, from that time to this,
have been one Of your most faithful
readers; therefore, hope you will allow
me space in which to denounce the
British Empire for its unjust policy of
excluding the misplaced Jews of Europe
from Palestine.
AS one who adheres to the teachings
of Abraham, Moses and Jesus of Naza-
reth, I think Englands barring Of the
Jews from their ancient homeland is =
crime against humanity comparable to
the dastardly deeds of Hitler.
Britain cries aloud for the freedom OF
the small nations Of the world. yet she
Evening star., 1946-10-02
Preventing World War III

Preventing World War III
To the Editor Of The Star:
Until the Constantine Brown article
in The Sunday Star, too little emphasis,
it seems to me, In editorial and reader
comment had been placed on the tragic
fact that there is nothing the United
States, or the United Nations, can do
at this time to persuade the Soviet
Politbno to cooperate in just peace
for Europe. Undoubtedly the Russian
people want such peace, but wherever
in Russia that hope finds expression,
1t ruthlessly is silenced. We are not
dealing with the Russian people, but
with . small group of fanatics who con-
troll Russia far more absolutely than
Hitler, Goering and Goebbels ever con-
trolled Germany. They are drunk with
power and bloated with dreams OF
Communist dominated world.
Stalins recent semi-soothing state-
ment stands against his repeated as
sertions that the world is divided into
two irreconcilable blocs, Communist and
capitalist, that the two systems cannot
exist side by side, that conflict Is in-
evitable and will decide the future. We
waste time, in the face Of such state
ments, in futile discussion OF whether
the soft Wallace policy win secure
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Evening star., 1946-10-02

has been one Of the greatest small
nation enslavers and oppressors on
earth. She oppressed ireland and her
people for centuries and today rules
India and part Of Africa with cruel,
iron hand. Right now, she is cutting
her cards to move back into China and
resume her plundering Of the Chinese
people.
Old England gnashes her teeth at
Stain for grabbing the Balkan states,
when, as a matter Of fact, she is only
mad because the Moscow dictator beat
her to the gun.
As I see it, the only difference between
England and Russia is that England
hypocritically processes Christianity,
while Russia openly proclaims atheism.
JAMES S. MCCARTHY.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1946-02-26
Jackson DOy
DinnerPIons
Underway
SeS-a-Plale Affair
Slated Ger March 50

Local Democratic leaders were
today making plans tor attendance
Of q delegation from this city ct TIE
annual jackson nay dinner az the
Democratic Party Of Connecticut
which vii be held on SATURDAY,
March 50, ct the Hotel TAFT IN New
Haven. Deputy state Controller
Raymond thatcher Of East Hamp~
ton Is general chairman of TIE
event, which win be the customary
S25-a-plate affair.
As IN past years faithful Demo-
Gratis are also being encouraged 70
become patrons for the Jackson
Day dinner which means they viii
subscribe 500 instead Of SIS Tor the
privilege OF attending the dinner
and listening to the many speakers
extolling the. party.
Town Chairman Maurice r.
Tangney and local members Of the
Democratic state Central Commit
tee who include Atty. Frank Healey
and MRS. Winifred Mcdonald rep
resenting the 18th District and Mr..
Tangney and Mrs. Gertrude Gordon
representing the 18th, have already
received notices Of the Forthcoming
event.
It is expected that shortly formal
invitations win be issued to many
local Democrats who customarily
attend the jackson Day Dinner.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1946-02-26
No Reason For Puzzle

It makes some folks bite their
nails, they get so perplexed.
There's no reason why our pro-
gram should be a puzzle" Schram
said.
This is a public market and
any public market place is exposed
to abuse. Our member firms can
not refuse to take orders from the
public, because this Is, rightfully,
an open market.
But, on the other hand, We can't
an rd to be abused. Any wild ex-
cesses on the market would be very
detrimental to our business"
Schram said 1t was purely bus
mess proposition. The Stock Ex-
change, In order to maintain a
stable market, wants all buyers to
be well-informed before they buy.
Naturally. we believe that they
would be smart to go to members
of our Exchange for their informa-
tion," Schram said.
There are a great many broker
age firms in New York City which
are not members Of the New York
Exchange.
Purpose For National
At least IS percent Of the Ex-
changes business comes from areas
outside greater New York, and this
Is the why advertisements are on
a national basis.
Schram refused to comment on
the stability Of the present market,
and he carefully avoided the obv1-
Gus comparison between wild spec
ulation on the market and betting
on the races.
Every time I mention the races,
I get into trouble" he said.
But, Just the same, you might as
well know right now that there Is
a feeling along Wall Street that
you shouldn't regard q share OF
stock as you do a pari-mutuel tick
ct.
When he first started out, In the
early days, would Schram ever have
believed that some day he might
be advising certain people not to
buy into the market?
Emil Schram laughed.
Possibly not he admitted, but,
after all, times have changed"
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1946-02-26
Chur1ps Are Made
Chun1ps Are Made
Thinking of Specializing?
Don t! Here's Some AdOice
greet his buddy.
RY ROBERT RICHARDs

New York. Feb. % (UP) - II
you're heading for Wall Street
eager for a little free and easy
profit, we can give you a hot tip
straigh. from the president Of the
Stock Exchange. Gro home, and
forget about 1t.
Buy your wife a new hat, buy
yourself a new tie, or better still
buy war Bonds, but keep away
from these easy money" rumors
that are always floating about.
Not that Emil Schram, who has
been president Of the New York
Stock Exchange since 1871, is OPP
posed to speculation.
I'VE are not" he said today.
Speculation Is a good thing. It's
one Of the things which helped to
make this country great. But I'm
opposed to 1t being done by people
who refuse TO Use good judgment.
For the first time in its history,
the Exchange is carrying on an ed
ucational campaign by way Of adj
vertisements telling the little man"
not to be a chump, and not to in
vest money that he can't afford to
lose.
idea His Own
One advertisement concerns a
grapevine with the somber warning
don't listen 10 it." while another
shows a perplexed businessman
wearing @ Ounce cap and saying
Il tried to get rich quick"
The campaign idea was mine,
Schram said. II figured it out sew
eral years ago and We decided 10
put into operation right after We
Day. I believe the first advertise
ment appeared the day after w.
Day.
The advertisements are running
in over 400 newspapers and maya
zines, reaching an estimated audi
ence Of $4,000, 900.
Schram, tall and heavy set, seems
little puzzled by the public's sur
prise when it finds the Stock Ex-
change, Of all things. telling it not
to buy stocks. It's something like
a pinball machine rising up on its
hind legs, just as a player is about
to produce his nickel. and yelling:
Hey. think 1t over, wouldn't
do that"
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1946-02-26
FUNERALS

Funeral services for Rev. Dr.
James Edgar Gregg. 10. New Lenox
Road, Pittefeld, Mass, pastor OF
the First Congregational Church
Waterbury, from 1929 to 1871, when
he retired. were held today at 2:3O
.. m. at the First Church Of Christ
Pittslield.
DR.. Gregg formerly served as
pastor Of the church where his fun
eral services we're held while pas
tor of the First Church here. ne
was an organizer Of the Waterbury
Council of Churches and an active
member Of Waterbury Ministers
Association.
Funeral services at Pittsfield were
conducted by Rev. John Grafton,
pastor OF the First Church. Burial
viii be In PittSileid cemetery, fol-
lowing cremation at lakewood ceme-
terry. Troy, N. X.
A military funeral Of John +.
Feeley, 300 Noble Avenue. veteran
Of World War ]. who died Sunday
morning at the Veterans Hospital,
Newington, was held this morning
at s:i5 from the Mulyille Funeral
Home. 270 West Main Street 10 IS.
Peter and Paul Church where a
solemn high Mass Of requiem was
celebrated at Q O'Clock by Rev. John
sullivan, assisted by Rev. John
Kelly, deacon, and Rev. James
Woods, sub-deacon. MRS. Mildred
LeEotte was organist and soloist. An
honorary delegation from the Swift
Company was headed By w. r. Me-
Charles and p. A. Powers. Bearers
we're: Jeremiah Kieiy. Howard
Smith, John Harmon, John Kozu-
kauskas. George Ryder. and Frank
Pankiewicz. A military escort In
eluded, Capt. Howard Hiekcox. Sgt.
Wallace Inglis. Sgt. James Oracle.
SGT. John Dillon. Michael Montecle.
Capt. william Sheehy. Harold Roy
ale. Pfc. Richard Fadus. Pfc. Gil
bert Muzzicato and Peter Mcverry.
Church call and taps was In charge
Of Wallace Ingiis, JT. Burial was In
Calvary Cemetery with eommittal
services conducted By Father Woods.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1946-02-26

nostom, Feb. 2oy-(uPl-Weath
er forecasts
CONNECTICUT MA s ACHU-
SETsrs and RHODE ISLAND
Snow tonight possibly changing
to rain with some freeElng rata
On the interior valleys. Wednes-
day, mostly cloudy with httae
change In Temperatures.
EaNtport 20 Block Island
Southeast winds Increasing 60 70
10 rs miles an hour tonight ana
shifting 90 westerly On WedneN-
day. snow tonight probably
changing TO rain Block HHland 60
provsncetown. mostly cloudy We'd
ueuday with fair VARIABILITY We'd
neNday. Poor visibility in snow
and rain tonight.
DAILY ALMANAC
Moon rises mt 3s0S q. m.
sun rises at 8s3H n. m, sets at
vehicles must be lighted thirty
minutes after sunset.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1946-02-26

home this morning. Mrs. FIliere was
born April II. 1875, in France and
came TO this city 81 years ago. She
was the daughter Of the late Louis
and Clarisse CGrodimouge) Ducotey.
Surviving are her husband, Emile
F1l.ere. two daughters. Miss Helen
Filiere, Mrs. Carlson LaFevre; one
sister. Margaret Dueotey; five
grandchildren. all Of this city.
The funeral viii be held at $50
Thursday morning from the Alder
son Funeral Home. 70 Central Ave-
nue., to Sacred Heart Church where
a solemn high Mass viii be cele-
brated At Q o'clock. Burial viii be
in Calvary cemetery. Friends may
call at the funeral home tonight
from Z 10 Q and tomorrow from ? 70
5 and 7 10 3 p. m.