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The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1946-05-13
tension will take.

tension will take.
Rep. Dewey Short (Rep., Mo- a
member of the military affairs
committee, said that in his opinion
the house should ignore the senate
measure and ''send the hot potato
right back to them"
He said he would offer amend
ments to make the temporary ex-
tension conform with provisions of
the house-approved bill. The senate
resolution was a three-line docu-
ment which merely substitute July
l, 1916" for the expiration date of
May Is, 1916.
Ellender said that among those
attending the labor legislation con-
ference would be Senators Robert
Byrd (Dem., Va H. Alexander
A. Taft, (Rep., Ohio; Harry F.
Smith (Rep., N. j.; Joseph H. Ball
(Rep., Minn.), and James O. East
land (Dem., Miss.)
He predicted the final measure
approved by the senate would be
tough bill, but not as restrictive as
the house legislation.
AS an example, he pointed out
that provisions in the house bill ban
ming supervisory employe uninions
define even secretaries and similar
workers as supervisory employees.
He is offering an amendment, he
said, which also bans supervisory
employe unions, but defines such
persons as those who exercise in
dependent judgment" Persons who
work under anyone else" would
not be included"
Ellender also is offering amend
ments aimed at banning strikes in
public utilities whose rates are fixed
by the government and at outlaw
ing secondary union boycotts.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1946-05-13
EISENHOWER BANS
ARMY FOOD WASTE

WASHINGTON, May 13.-Gen.
Dwight D. Eisenhower, chief Of
staff, has issued stern directive
against army food waste as result
of the finding of civilian investi-
eating committee, it was revealed
today.
The committee, headed by John
L. Hennessy, executive vice presi-
dent Of Statler Hotels, Inc, New
York, was appointed by Secretary
of War Robert P. Patterson. 1t made
a two-month survey of food waste
in AZ army posts last fall and wrote
a report that set the quartermaster
corps back on it's heels.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1946-05-13

Eisenhower moved swiftly A war
department spokesman said that,
ming supervisory employe uions de-
before leaving for his current tour
of Pacific bases, the general or
dered:
1. Court martial proceedings
against any officer, who, through
negligence, permits the spoilage or
waste of government property.
2. Spot checks by the inspectors
generals office and a report direct
to him on any violations of army
fine even secretaries and similar
member of the military affairs
food regulations.
3. That the civilian committees
blistering Indictment be made
must reading" for all officers.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1946-05-13
FIGHTS LOOM IN CONGRESS
this week

WASHINGTON, May 13.-Con-
gress faces a showdown on two
highly controversial issues this
week with the senate slated to take
up drastic anti-strike legislation
and the house prepared for battle
over extension of the draft act be-
fore it expires Wednesday mid
night.
Aroused by United Mine Work
ers' President John L. Lewis Grip
pling coal strike, a group of sena-
tors will meet in the office of Sen
ator Allen ]. Ellender (Dem., La.)
today for a strategy conference on
labor legislation, despite the coal
strike truce.
Ellender said the purpose of the
meeting is to reach agreement on
what amendments will be offered
to the senate labor committees
strike control bill. Several senators
have introduced amendments vary
and tomorrow we will try and dove
ing only in technicalities, he said,
tail our proposals so we can put
all our force behind them"
The house meanwhile must move
swiftly on a draft extension bill or
let selective service die.
Many house members were indig-
nant tonight over the senate's fail
ure to take the house-approved bill
calling for a nine-month extension,
a five-month draft holiday and ban
ming the induction of teen-agers. In
stead, the senate passed stop-gap
45-day extension to clear the way
for consideration of the British loan
and labor legislation.
Chairman Andrew J. May (Dem.,
Ky.) of the house military affairs
committee, declined to express an
opinion on the senate's action but
predicted that the house will "do
something" before the draft act ex-
pires. He said there was no indica-
tion at present what form the ex-
Evening star., 1946-01-05
A Russian Habit

In failing to ratify the Breton
Woods agreements in time to be one
of the original members" of the
International Monetary Fund and
the Bank for Reconstruction and
Development, the Russians have
resorted to a course of action that
is not unusual for them "a fact
which makes it nonetheless mystify-
ing, and even disturbing, to the out
side world.
When the Breton Woods meeting
was held, a Soviet delegation ac-
lively participated in it, and from
the time the agreements were drawn
up until the deadline date for ratifl-
cation there was no indication that
the Russians intended to delay join
ing. Their only reported explana-
ton for the failure to ratify is that
they did not deem it appropriate to
do so sat this time" Much the same
explanation was offered last Octo-
ber when they withdrew from the
Quebec Conference which set up
United Nations Food and Agricul-
tural Organization, and they had
made similar moves befo that. 1t
seems to be habit of theirs to do
this sort of thing. and although it
does not preclude their joining up
later, it certainly tends to suggest
that they propose to make haste
slowly in cooperating.
Russia's present aloofness, OF
Evening star., 1946-01-05
Red Tope
From the Montreal Star.

From the Montreal Star.
A Toronto flying officer wanted to In.
vest $3.50 in Victory Bonds, the amount
he figured would be forthcoming from
his service gratuity. But he was wrong
in his calculations-by cents! Despite
all the advice given discharged service
men about putting their gratuities in
such sound investments as bonds, that
9-cent shortage led some one in Ottawa
to write him that your bond applica-
ton has been Cancelled, and your total
gratuity will be paid in monthly install.
ments"
Since the sorry affair came to light, a
spokesman for the gratuities' branch at
RCAF headquarters admits embarrass-
ment. And well he should be embar-
rassed. And so, too, should every one
who handles the spools of red tape
which bring about these stupid entan-
clements. Here is a man who wants to
invest $3.50 in government securities.
He is not given the opportunity of taking
cents from his own pocket to provide
the necessary sum; he is not even given
the chance to invest, say $700 of it in
stead.
This is service bureaucracy at its
worst.
Evening star., 1946-01-05
House by the Tracks

Time blackened by the smoke of mann
trains
And aging toiDard ,Dinter no1p in eue-
ming light,
The house slides by, unpainted sagging
porch
And broken pindoDs loud iDith lonely
fright.
The lean ailanthus tree in the front
door yard
Has shed its last, its bitter yello,0ed
Leaf;
rusted letter slot is eloquent OF quiet,
OF silence noto beyond all transient
grief.
Yet, empty fo,per bores on the Dindo,o
sills
Still testify to once happier time.
As it q shining nugget OF clear laughter
lay
Beneath the matrir of the years and
crime.
FREDERICK EBRIGHT.
Evening star., 1946-01-05
Life in London
Bv GauH MacGO,can

LONDON, Jan. (By Wireless In
an editorial today the Daily Mail paints
a grim picture of life in London as its
populace faces a new year under its
Socialist government.
THE British people, having fought
triumphantly through six years OF war,
have been defeated on their own home
'front.'" the editorial asserts. AT the
first real touch of winter, countless
homes have been deprived of heating
and cooking facilities they so sorely need.
The demand for gas goes up IN proper
ton to the fall in pressure.
'The people are living on minimum
food rations," it continues. They can
not buy enough thick clothing. They
are short of coal. They are forced to
shiver for hours in endless queues. They
turn home for a hot meal and little
warmth and comfort, only to be denied
the rudimentary necessities. The British
are colder in their houses than were the
French last winter.
THE gas has been reduced to a glim-
mer because of shortage of labor at
the producing end. The companies need
$500 skilled men, but the appropriate
agencies are apparently unable to find
them. The situation is fantastic and has
arisen not because of any dire emergency
but because the authorities have been
caught unprepared even to deal with
normal winter.
I'VE had many periods of severe cold
during the war. Then millions of men
and women were engaged in manufac-
turing munitions and millions more
were in the services. The gas works were
bombed by Luftwaffe, by V-bombs and
by rockets. They had to supply many
war factories. Yet never once, summer
or winter, did gas for the home fail as
it has failed In this first winter of peace.
Why is it that labor available then can
not be found now?
"One answer given is that while Lon
don's industrial requirements have re-
manned the same, the domestic demand
has increased heavily because returning
evacuees have added probably 100000
people to the population of the capital.
"This may be true-but did the Min
istry of Fuel and Power leave the needs
of those 1,500,000 to chance? Were they
crossing their fingers and hoping that
we would have an exceptionally mild
winter? If they did, they are out OF
luck.
"Mr. Shinwell emanuel Shinwell,
Minister of Fuel and Power must have
known of the dangerously narrow mar
gin he was working on. Did he con-
suit with his colleague, Mr.. Isaacs
George Isaacs, Minister of Labor, to
find out if skilled labor could be OBJ
tanned from less congested districts?
such skilled men might even have
been demobilized from the services in
time for the winter. If they could
| not have been discharged from the
services under the rigid rules of class
| B they might have been drafted out
on the grounds of urgent public neces-
sity. In any case such special meas
ures should surely not have been needed
1t would be strange If. out of the hun
dreds of thousands of men coming Out
| of the forces, mere $500 could not
| have been found with experience ir
Evening star., 1946-01-05
Want Our Apples
From the Hays (Kansas) News.

From the Hays (kansas) News.
Home boys returning from overseas
duty in Europe say the United States is
more disliked in Germany, France and
Italy than any other nation. Asked why
the people of these countries are preju-
diced against us, the answer of all the
veterans boils down to this: They are
Jealous of the United States. They are
jealous because America has plenty and
they are nearly destitute. Not that our
recent Allies in the war, the Italians and
the French, and our enemies, the Ger
mans, own up that they covet our
wealth, because they don't, the boys
say. With many of them it is an un-
conscious jealousness, these thoughtful
Yank veterans have decided. In France
the common complaint is America isn't
sending over enough food and supplies,
that the Allies would have lost the war
If it hadn't been for France. They
really believe that, too," one wet" re-
marked. But they always get back to
the subject of their own destruction and
our prosperity" A second veteran nod
ded his head and said that was about
the situation in Italy, too. Half dozen
of the home "boys who have been in
Germany, agree that the Germans envy
us our wealth and are bitter toward us.
"In tell you how it is" another vet
eran said. "It may be wacky COM
parison, but it's the best explanation of
the European state of mind toward
America can think Of. When a kid
goes to school with half a dozen apples
bulging his pockets and the other kids
don't have any, you know what general
ly happens. The boy with the big red
apples gets jumped on. Well. we're the
boy with the apples and what those
other boys across the Atlantic would
like to do would be to get all Of our
apples away from us"
This may not be profound reasoning
but it is simple way to span the gap
OF causes and effects usually bridged
with the conclusions OF economists.
psychologists, diplomats and f1nanciers.
1t Is general CT impression and it
doesn't sound like It is far off the beam.
Evening star., 1946-01-05
Policy Toward Germany
By Mai. George Fieldine Eliot

There are several decisions to be made
with regard to American policy in Ger
many which affect our present and flu
ture security and the world peace.
OF these, the most important Is the
basic policy on disarmament of the
Germans. Careful studies have been
made. We understand the elements
of the problem. But there are certain
differences of viewpoint as to the ex-
tent to which the Germans should be
deprived of industrial plants, machine
tools, and so forth. These differences
range between two extremes: Those who
would build up German industry "es-
sential to European recovery" and those
who would wipe out all industry in Ger
many and reduce the German people to
an agricultural and mining economy.
Between these extremes, any number
of middle courses have been suggested.
1t is largely a question Of your point
of reference-that is, with which of the
two extreme positions you begin. You
may start with the premise that you
will leave the Germans everything ex-
cept that which can be definitely ascer-
tained to be dangerous; or you may
start with the premise that you will
deprive the Germans of everything save
that which can be definitely ascertained
to be essential to the maintenance OF.
subsistence economy.
\
All too frequently it is possible to
detect in the arguments based on the
first premise an u1dercurrent of dis
trust of Russia owe must have strong
Germany as a bulwark against boil
shevism')-and it is not always easy to
rule out the profit motive "a healthy
German industry essential to the main
tenance of our European marketD.
Those who-like this writer-begin
with the second premise hold the view
that a strong Germany means the re-
turn of fear and chaos in Europe, that
we can never have European stability
If we permit Germany to become strong
economically or in any other way, and
that the only possible solution lies in
a redistribution of the European indus
trial potential in such manner as to
render it impossible for the Germans to
regain the economic dominance which
Evening star., 1946-01-05
Alas, Bermuda!

In preWar Gays one OF CIle niCer
and more wholesome things about
our traffic ridden, horn-honking,
gas-perfumed urban civilization was
that anybody could get away from
it for fortnight or so by saving a
little money each week until he had
enough to take trip to Bermuda.
BY plane a person could get there
in about four hours, or If he wanted
to inhale the fine, clean air of the
Atlantic and enjoy some shipboard
life, he could leave the clamorous
city behind him and be on the fra
grant and multicolored island after
only two days and a night at sea.
Then, unless he were incurably at
tached to the internal combustion
machine, he would Immediately be-
gin to feel a lifting-up of the heart
and sense of physical refreshment.
For the sun would seem just right,
and the pastel hues of the coral
houses, the deep green of the foliage,
the riot of flowers. the glistening
white sand and the wonderful green
blue waters would be more pleasing
to him than anything he had seen
in long time.
But all this was merely incidental;
the real and overpowering charm of
the place was that its roads were
free of autos. Autos were banned.
The way one got around was on his
own two feet or by pedaling BIZ
cycle or hiring horse and carriage.
No rush. No traffic jams. No gaso-
line fumes. No internal din of
screeching brakes and impatient
horns. Only splendid quiet in
which self-locomotion would serve
a mans health and help him in no
time to get rid of his municipal pal
lor and tone up his decibel-worn
nervous system. Thus Bermuda just
a few short years ago.
Alas, though, it appears that the
use of machines, like the use of
cigarettes, can be habit-forming.
The exigencies of war having forced
the island to resort to autos on a
large scale, the people there now
seem incapable of giving them up,
and the Legislative Council has
wiped out practically every law BAN
ming them. To any one who yearns,
at least once in a while, to revel in
being a fugitive from city life, this
will come as dismaying news.
Evening star., 1946-01-05
Juvenile Crime Wave

For the SecOnQ LlIIle Ill leCeie
weeks President Truman has di-
rected attention to the alarming"
increase in juvenile crime which has
marked the war years and which
continues unabated. He urged the TOO
delegates to the Miami convention
of the International Association OF
Chiefs of Police to concentrate on
this problem, after ]. Edgar Hoover,
director of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation, had warned the police
officials that a major postwar wave
of gangsterism, spearheaded by
young hoodlums. may be expected
unless drastic remedial measures are
taken at once. And Mr.. Truman has
followed up his appeal to the police
with letter advising Attorney Gen
eral Tom Clark of his deep con-
Germ" over the situation.
The President, the Attorney Gen
eral, the FBI and the police have
good reason to be alarmed over the
juvenile delinquency outlook. Mr..
Truman noted that some categories
of juvenile crime have increased
more than $50 per cent since Pearl
Harbor, and Mr.. Hoover told the
police chiefs that arrests of bobby
sox" age girls have jumped nearly
200 per cent since 1889, while arrests
of boys under 18 have increased 48
per cent in murder cases. 10 per
cent in criminal assault cases and
101 Ser cent in offenses involving
drunkenness or drunken driving.
And the trend upward goes on all
over the country, according to police
reports.
It was with such shocking statis-
tics as these before him that Attor-
ney General Clark has moved to set
up in the Department of Justice an
entirely new bureau. charged spe-
cifcally with studying the causes OF
this upsurge of youthful lawlessness
and devising means to combat it. AS
a corollary of the departments ac-
ton, Mr.. Clark has proposed that
agencies and groups interested in
the problem be invited to attend a
national conference on the subject
here in the near future. a plan
which meets with the wholehearted
Endorsement of the President. Such
a conference is desirable not only
because it should result in a CO.
ordinated attack on the problem by
public and private agencies but be-
cause the attendant national pub
licity should help to arouse parents
to their responsibilities in the crisis.
That it is vital to bring home to each
individual parent his obligations as
model and guide there can be no
doubt. Law enforcement authorities
lay the burden of blame for the rise
in juvenile crime on wartime laxity
in parental discipline, due to dis
rupted homes and wartime preoccu-
patton of parents with other duties.
sUnless there is full cooperation
from parents, the officials will be
waging their anticrime battle under
almost inSuperable handicaps.
Evening star., 1946-01-05
Won B|omberg's Affidavit

Field Marshal Werner Won Blom-
berg's affidavit to the International
Military Tribunal at Nuremberg does
more than lend significant support
to the prosecutions effort to estab-
lish the war guilt of the German
general staff. 1t serves also, how
ever .ur- ingly, to forewarn the
world Germany is likely to try
aggress. again unless the victors
make sure this time that it is kept
powerless to do so.
The Von Blomberg affidavit makes
crystal clear that the German Army,
after it's defeat in 1918, never had
any intention of living up to the
terms of peace. Instead. from 1919
on, starting almost as soon as the
First World War came to an end, it's
staff officers plotted to win back the
territory that had been lost, notably
the Polish corridor. To this end,
according to Won Blomberg, secret
re-armament began in Germany
about 10 years before Hitler came
to power.
Won Blomberg is in an excellent
position to testify. From 1919 until
1888, when Hitler removed him as
Minister of War. he was one of the
key figures in the German Army.
Before 1889, he says, his fellow
officers were not opposed to the
Fuehrer "since he produced results
which they desired" After that,
they began to condemn his meth
ods" but they failed as a group to
take "a definite stand against him.
AS for Poland, they obviously did not
mind his aggression there. because
they-Von Blorberg included-al-
ways regarded it as "a sacred duty
though sad necessity" to wage war
ito wipe out the desecration in
volved in the creation~of the Polish
corridor" And in this about 80
per cent of the German people were
of the same mind"
Wholly apart from its current
bearing on the Nuremberg trial, this
testimony plainly has an important
meaning in relation to the long
future. Germany lost relatively little
In the last peace. but it promptly
began to plan another war to wir
Evening star., 1946-01-05
Displaced Baltic Peoples

TO the Editor OF The Star:
I wish to take exception to the views
expressed in a news article regarding
displaced persons of Baltic origin now
residing in Germany. 1t not only con-
veys false impression but a completely
distorted picture.
While in Germany, made it point
whenever opportunities presented them
selves to exchange views with persons
of different nationalities and to find out
for myself why and how these persons
came 10 be in Germany. Not only was
there strong dislike for the Germans
among the Baltic peoples but for the
Russians as well, because of the brutal
regimes that were imposed upon them,
first by the Russians and then by the
Germans. Most of these persons came
to Germany reluctantly because they
had no other place to turn to and were
caught, as it were, between the devil
and the blue sea. Others were compelled
by the Gestapo to migrate to different
sections Of Germany and work as slave
laborers.
No one can tell me that persons who
were compelled to migrate to Germany
and work for mere pittance for Nazi
overlords and even be beaten at times
can have any love for them. No one can
tell me that Poles residing in that sec
ton of Poland east of the so-called
Curzon Line, who were caught between
the German and the Russian crossfires,
can have any love for the Russians
when Russian partisans burned Polish
homes and molested Polish people. No
one can tell me that the former Polish
prisoners of war, who were in the War
saw siege and who held off the Germans
as long as they could land as best they
could without the aid of the Russians
when they were on Warsaw's outskirts)
can have any love for the Russians. No
one can tell me that these persons have
desire to return to their former homes
so long as their lands are not free and
Independent but under Soviet despotism
and enslavement.
| 1t Is time that we should see the
picture in its proper perspective and
defend the rights of displaced persons
in Europe whether they be of Baltic,
Polish, Balkan or Jewish origin.
Let's stop talking glibly on issues and
have the courage to stand up and speak
out for the rights of peoples. Let us
make the United Nations Organization
workable, democratic in operation, and
devoid of power politics and of the
Chamberlain-like appeasers in our Gov
ernment who have hand in the forma-
ton of this Nations foreign policies. Let
us not make peace a mere illusion but
reality in 1916. RETURNED GI.