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Evening star., 1946-03-03
War on Famine

In expressing the view that the
initial meeting Of his newly formed
Famine Emergency Committee was
the most important gathering held
in the White House since he became
President, Mr.. Truman was giving
proper emphasis to problem so
critical and so grave as to threaten
not only the health and the very
existence of innocent millions
abroad but the program for re-
storing order and peace to war
torn world. 1t is extremely difficult
for a well-fed and well-clothed and
healthy America to sense the mag
nitude of the disaster which faces
great masses of men, women and
children in Europe and Asia as an
aftermath of wars destructiveness.
According to Herbert Hoover, whose
long interest in alleviating human
distress has led him to keep himself
thoroughly informed on latest de-
velopments, the best available in
formation is that from 100000 900
to 5Oo,0O0,000 people are menaced
by the specter of mass starvation
this year.
Mr.. Hoover contrasted this picture
with Americas Widespread dinner
tables and with the fact that wheat
and other grains are being fed to
cattle in some OF our Western States.
President Truman proposes to use
the new Famine Emergency Board,
OF which Mr.. Hoover is honorary
chairman, and Chester c. Davis is
active chairman, as sort of strategy
staff to plan and expedite a global
war on famine. America must take
the lead in this war because it has
the greatest single reservoir of food
available for relief of the hungry
hordes abroad. AS Mr.. Hoover
pointed out, this is not merely a
matter of compassion and generosity
toward our fellowmen; it is mat
ter of forestalling despair of type
that can lead to mass unrest, dis
order, even anarchy. To the United
States and to other nations which
have undertaken to insure peace for
the world, there is an element Of
self-intereSt and elf-protection in
volved in this campaign.
AS planned, the program Of food
conservation here in order to save
lives elsewhere will be primarily a
voluntary one. Distribution will be
through UNRRA. The chief appeal
will be for wheat and fats, COM
modities which can be supplied
without serious inroads on our own
food stocks. Only slight sacrifice
will be required of each individual.
No money will be sought-just a
Tightening of belts, Experience has
shown that Americans need only
to be convinced of the need and
their response will be prompt and
generous.
Evening star., 1946-03-03

pentant, find the quiet place, feel
the spiritual power, and know the
source of its existence, and the truth
which it presents. II the church
knows these things and possesses
them, it will be the leavening in
fiuence for an atomic age, rather
than one OF the many noises clamor-
ing for a hearing.
The voice of the church must be
one Of certainty and confidence rising
out of experience and faith in God.
One of the early voices of the Chris
tian church, the apostle Paul, said,
Il know Him whom / have believed"
For a world soaked and saturated
with knowledge of secular and ma
terial things, the church must speak
OF spiritual values and realities with
certainty rising out of experience.
This Is the only reason for us to speak
at all.
The voice Of the church must be
one Of quiet, expressive brotherly
love, following the pattern OF the
Master who said: Come unto me all
ye that labor and are heavy laden,
and I will give. you rest" To a world
where prejudice, animosities and bit
terness find such favorable breeding
places, the church must speak un-
biased in love and labor and man
agement, enemy and friend, Jew and
gentle, bond and free, colored and
white. Though it might bask within
the walls of its ritual and worship
and wish that the world might 20
by, the world doesn't; 1t comes to find
help and satisfaction, and the church
must speak Of love to all or lose its
right as redeeming force for Christ.
But the church's voice must be a
voice tempered by experience and
knowledge Of the possession of eternal
truths which existed long before this
age came into being. And it must
speak with voice measured by the
consistency Of its own deeds in order
that 1t may carry authority to
world seeking order out of chaos.
The voice OF the church must be
heard
Evening star., 1946-03-03
Example at Ford

The contract worked out by the
Ford Motor Company and the United
Automobile Workers is a heartening
example of how collective bargain
ing can operate when the parties
engaged in 1t are animated by a
mutual spirit Of fair play and rea-
sonableness. On the one hand. the
company granted numerous conces-
sions, including wage increase OF
lS cents an hour. on the other, the
UAW, recognizing the unions obli-
cations in a commercially straight
forward manner, assumed definite
responsibilities, agreeing to such
conditions as Ford's right to dismiss
any employees found guilty of par
ticipating in slowdowns or playing
an active role in illegal strikes.
AS it stands, this contract-which
is awaiting ratification by the
unions rank and file-can of course
be as good as it seems only if its
terms are lived up to after it goes
into effect. But 1t has a reassuring
background, not least because the
negotiations leading up to it ran
over a protracted period without
once being complicated by a strike
or by a serious threat to strike. Both
Ford and the UAW, in other words,
appear to have used the collective
bargaining process the way 1t should
be used, sincerely and on a two-way
give-and-take basis, with the result
that they finally reached satisfac-
tory agreement without resort to
the embittering and economically
wasteful pressures of a lockout or
work stoppage.
In these times Of labor r-mar,age-
ment strife. all this comes as a rare
and refreshing exception to the rule,
contrasting sharply. for instance,
with the strike conditions that have
paralyzed General Motors for more
than 100 days. It is something that
makes one wonder why the same
can not be done throughout industry
in general. Surely, If collective bar
gaining can work in the case Of the
JAW and Ford, it ought to be able
to work elsewhere. The example set
in Detroit merits the attention of
any one who may have been losing
faith in the ability of men to come
to terms, without rancer or strong
arm methods, in the field of indus
trial relations.
Evening star., 1946-03-03
Russiu in Monchuriu

In special announcement, wholly
unequivocal in tone, the State De-
partment now has completely dis
credited a recent declaration by the
Russian commander in Mukden
that the Red Army has been re-
moving industrial equipment from
Manchuria in accordance with q
Big Three" understanding reached
either at Yalta or Potsdam. The
fact Is, on the word Of our own
Government, that no such agree
ment exists, which is another way
of saying that Soviet policy in this
inStance-as in others-has once
again been operating opportunist-
ically, without reference to Ameri-
can, Chinese or other Allied interests.
1t may be that the Russians are
entitled to some percentage of the
Manchurian equipment, but 1t is
abundantly clear that they cannot
justify themselves in hauling away
any of it now. The matter obviously
is one that should be handled by an
inter-Allied reparations commission.
Certainly, In view of its last-minute
entry into the war against Japan,
the Soviet Union cannot exercise
a priority claim, the simple point
being, as Secretary Of State Byrnes
declared the other night, that mo
power has a right to help itself to
alleged enemy properties in liberated
or ex-satellite countries before a
reparation settlement has been
agreed upon by the Allies"
The fact that the Russians have
nevertheless been removing equip
ment on their own, without any
inter-Allied consultation whatever,
is one OF several reasons why their
intentions in Manchuria have re-
Gently been giving rise to deeply dis
turbing suspicious. Other reasons in
clude reports that they seem-de-
spite a Moscow denial-to be plan
ming to stay in that vital part Of
sovereign China for long time to
come and that they are pressing
Chungking for additional conces-
sions going far beyond the terms of
their thirty-year treaty with the
Chinese. Some of these reports have
come from unnamed sources and
have been rather vaguely worded,
but still they persist and as long
as they do persist Soviet policy in
East Asia will continue to have all
the marks Of 4 trouble-breeding
enigma.
The situation thus calls for the
kind Of clarihcation our State De-
partment is reported to have re-
quested in notes sent recently to
both Chungking and Moscow. At
the moment many Of the reports
are Of too ambiguous nature to
serve as basis for sound judgment.
Accordingly, the sooner our own
Government-whose interests are
deeply involved-can give an official
accounting of just what is going on
in Manchuria the better able the
American people will be to see the
picture In focus and make sense
Of it, one way or the other Mean
while. there can be little more than
worried and suspicious guessing.
Evening star., 1946-03-03

produced his Christ in the House of
His Parents" in 1850. The Huguenot" in
1852, THE Order of Release" in 1853,
The Rescue" in 1885, Sir Isumbras at
the Ford in 1857 and THE Black
Brunswicker" in ls60-all popular pic
lures. But his fame was still better as
sured by The Boyhood of Raleigh"
which he executed in 1870 THE Princes
in the Tower" in 1878 and a long list of
notable portraits, including those Of
Gladstone, Salisbury. Newman. Carlyle,
Irving and other celebrities. He drew
Charles Dickens after the novelist's
death. His choice to head the Academy
was by the unanimous vote of its men,
oers. The honor, however only briefly
was enjoyed. Sir John died on August
l3. 1896
gathering of members Of the
Shakespeare Club at the home of Nj.
and Mrs, Harvey
Shakespeare Club Spaulding was
Meeting enloh'cieo s.o IN me
Is, 1896 The first scene of the third
act of Much Ado About Nothing" the
fourth scene of the third act of King
Lear and the courtship scene from
Henry v" were performed by amateur
players who had rehearsed with serious
intent and Col. Hay recited "A Large
Cold Bottle and Small Hot Bird" not
written by the Immortal Bard but pos
sibly by Francis Bacon.
The Star for February 2S, 1896,
featured a lengthy article concerning
the attractions of
PostoI Museum "the museum at the
p.x;.v.d Post Once Depart.
ment" In which al.
lesedly "the collection of postal ap.
pliances" was very complete" The ex-
hibits listed were: Mail team used in
Northern Michigan. model of 6o-foot
mail cars with electric lights and heat.
ers, model of nat boat steamer from
Florida, model of City of Paris grey
hound" uniforms Of railway mail clerks,
special delivery boys. letter carriers,
etc. letter pouches, mail bag locks. ar.
ticles seized In the mails as contraband,
including human skull with 1919 of
postage due on It," postal card that
went round the world in 100 days, an
account book of Benjamin Franklin,
etc. Where. it may be wondered, are
| these relics now7
Evening star., 1946-03-03
Necessary Example

From the petFeN News.
It. Gen. Homma has been condemned
to death by "musketry." better death
than that to which he sent thousands
subject to his mercy as captives in the
Philippines. . This Is justice. insofar
as we know how to impose it. 1t falls
far short Of vengeance, which our feel
lngs as people and our standards of
human conduct fortunately forbid us to
wreak. However, Homma could not be
allowed to live. His execution may serve
purpose. Cruelty is inseparable from
war, but not necessarily cruelty for its
own sake. Civilizations judgment Of
Honna, the general who countenanced
that kind Of cruelty, may add its little
to making this less cruel world.
Evening star., 1946-03-03
Our Problem Particularly
From the Indianapolis New.

FFCiH 1IIe IHuIdNaPoIIS NtES
In their well-fed complacency, Ameri-
cans have little conception Of the extent
and bitterness Of the suffering abroad,
Of great cities where five thousand, ten
thousand are dying each week. of the
shrunken bodies and stunted minds of
the great destroyer. Nor can we shrug
Of our responsibility by saying that this
is not our problem. It is our problem.
Hungry men are desperate, and revclu-
ton or anarchy abroad would menace
cur own peace and security.
Evening star., 1946-11-10
THE SUNDAY STAR, Washington, D. c.
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 10, I946

Security; Tuesday, Facing New
Tasks; Wednesday, Developing
Better Communities" Thursday.
STRENGTHENING Home Life; Friday,
Investing in Education" and Sat-
urday, Promoting Health and
Safety"
"Open House" Planned.
More than 40 schools have sched-
uled "open house" events. Dean
Elmer Keyser Of George Washing
ton University will speak at 8 am.
Wednesday at an assembly for par
ents and teachers at Roosevelt High
School.
DR.. Harold Benjamin of the Office
Of Education will speak during cere-
monies Friday at Wilson High
School at 8 am. Two vocational
high schools, Chamberlain and Bur-
dick, will hold open house Wednes-
day, the former starting at pm.
and the latter during the day.
Among the elementary schools,
the Community Planning Group of
Gordon School will meet Thursday
evening to discuss problems of edu-
cation, while Stanton School has
scheduled display by its craft
classes from 2 to 3 pm. A Nor
wegian mother will be the featured
speaker at the Truesdell School
which has planned program
stressing international relations
starting at am.
Paul Junior High will open its
cafeteria to parents Thursday at
noon to afford them an opportunity
to eat a typical meal served pupils.
Evening star., 1946-11-10
Nozi Industrial Moster-Minds
Moved to Nuremberg for Trial

of Maxhuette, largest steel plant 1r
the United States zone.
The months of investigation
brought out, according to decarteli-
zation officers, that Kaletsch as the
financial genius of the Flick COM
bine directed the hush-hush opera
tions that built up Flick's holdings
from stolen French, Czechoslovak.
Russian and Jewish plants and
mines.
Head Of Slave Workers.
Won Hoven, according to the in
vestigators, was one of two direc-
tors of the personnel and welfare
section of Maxhuette, a section
which employed tens Of thousands
of slave workers.
The unhappy foursome. their COL
lars up against the bitter wind,
were silent as the guards, Pfc. Del
bert Station of Ben Hur. Va, and
Pvt. Angel Rodrigues of New York,
hustled them into the truck.
Fairly soon, Decentralization Of
ficials said, another truck will re-
move Heinrich Koppenberg, who
headed a German aluminium COM
bine in Berlin and another in Nor
way, where the Nazi government
spent 2,000, ,0O0, 900 marks in a strug-
gle to obtain the metal.
Three other Germans - August
Rohdewald of the Deutsche Bank
Hugo Zinsser of the Dresdener
Bank, and Franz Hayler, Hitler's
former undersecretary of State for
economics. probably will be sum-
moned to Nuremberg on recovery
from illnesses,
Evening star., 1946-11-10
District Schools Join
Nation in Observing
Education Week

Washington schools today Joined
with others throughout the Nation
In the Goth annual observance OF
American Education Week, with
Education for the Atomic Age" as
the theme.
Thousands of parents are expected
| to visit the schools to participate
In programs scheduled after tomor-
rows holiday.
Climaxing the series of events
locally will be a day-long conference
Saturday sponsored by the Educa-
ton Association of the District OF
Columbia at the Mayfower Hotel.
The conference will begin at 1890
am. with q talk by Mrs. Pearl
Wannamaker, president Of the Ma
tional Education Association and
superintendent of public schools fol
Washington State. She will discuss
Education in Japan" drawing OF
her experiences as a member OF the
American education mission to
Japan last year.
Other Speakers Listed.
Other speakers include DR.. Will
lard E. Givens, executive secretary
of the NEA, and DR.. Goodwin Wat
son, professor of education at Co.
lumbia University. ~.
The observance Is sponsored by
the NEA, the United States Once
of Education, the American Legion
and the National Congress OF
Parents and Teachers.
Superintendent of schools Hobart
M. Corning will broadcast over
WRC at $50 pm. Thursday in a
15-minute discussion of Education
in the Nations Capital" The talk
is to be sponsored by the High
School Teachers Association Of the
District.
In a memorandum to all school
heads, DR.. Corning has asked that
appropriate programs be planned
for the purpose Of calling the at
tention of the public to the vital
role of education in the life Of oul
democracy"
Truman Quoted.
He quoted from a message from
President Truman stating that the
week of November 10, should be
an occasion for all citizens to visit
the schools and give serious thought
to the theme selected for this year s
observance"
Daily topics suggested by the NEA
are: Today, "Practicing Brother
hood; tomorrow, Building World
Evening star., 1946-11-10
by the Associoted Press

FRANKFURT, Nov. "a canvas
covered United States Army truck
rolled up to the pillared. bomb
SCARED Reichsbank in Frankfurt
yesterday and four Germans
bundled up against the cold in
shabby, worn clothes-climbed in
Two CT guards clambered after
them.
In this ordinary street scene OF
present-day Germany, American
authorities began transferring to
Nuremberg the master-minds OF
Nazi Germany's industrial war ma
chine for the forthcoming second
war crimes trials.
The oldest of the worried-looking
Germans was Friedrich Flick, q
phantom German armament maker
whose secrecy-cloaked name until
recently was unknown abroad and
among millions Of Germans. The
others were his sons and aides.
Power Bigger Than Krupp.
American officials described Flick
as the greatest single power be-
hind the Nazi war machine" a
power far bigger than Krupp and
one-time possessor of an industrial
empire worth $4,000, 900.
An official of the United States
Military Governments decarteliza-
ton branch handed. out an an
nouncement that said merely:
Friedrich Flick, 64; his son, Otto
Ernest. 80; Konrad Kaletsch, 48,
and Werner Won Hoven, AZ, are
being turned over to the United
States Sd Army custody at the re-
quest of Nuremberg authorities.
The CT truck driver said his Or
ders were to proceed to Nuremberg
where the trial of leading Nazi doc
tors, industrialists and militariSts
begins next month. Nuremberg au-
thorities would not say if all four
would be tried, but Flick has been
mentioned as an almost certain de-
fendant.
Behind the transfer of the four
industrialists- of a group to
be removed from Frankfurt - lie
months of exhaustive exhumation
of secret records by the decartei-
zation branch. which has had the
main job of probing the activities
of Nazi industrialists of the Ameri-
can zone.
Worked Anonymously.
Piles of facts on Flick's fabulous
secret industrial empire will be sent
to Nuremberg shortly on the heels
of Flick and members of his COM
bine.
These, Decentralization officials said,
show that Flick worked under a
constant cloak of anonymity in his
financial jugglings from 1888 to his
arrest in June, 1945, since which time
he has been jailed in Preungesheim
Prison outside Frankfurt.
In IL years of Nazism he report
edly built UP a combine in which he
owned outright or almost totally
129 concerns and had minority hold
ings in at least SIS plants-nearly all
turning out ornaments for the Nazi
war machine.
His son was removed in the sum-
mer of 1945 from his job as head
Evening star., 1946-11-10
Palestine
Continued From First Page.)

were planning to carry their activ-
tiles Into the heart of Britain
were published in London more than
a week ago and a Foreign Once
spokesman said extremists might
try" such measures. Guards already
have been strengthened at other
British embassies in Europe.
Intended to Use IRA Tactics.
Following the blasting of the En-
bassy in Rome several days ago, the
London Evening News said the jew
ish underground chiefs intended to
use IRA Irish Republican Army
tactics. with the assassination OF
public men, the blowing up of gov
ernment buildings and sabotage OF
industrial installations and big ho-
tells, communications. postal services
and so on"
The Irgun Zvai Lemmi broadcast
tonight called the Rome bombing
an historic event" and pormised
others. It said 'the fact that we
have now completely disrupted Pal.
Evening star., 1946-11-10
Love for RuttIesnoke
Lands Man in Court
BY the Asseeioisd Press


NEW YORK, Nov. 8. - A senti-
mental attachment for rattlesnake
his pet for 20 years took Robert
Butler, So, into Brooklyn court to-
day.
Neighbors complained that Mr.
Butler violated the city code by
possessing a wild and vicious ami
mal," but Mr.. Butler told the magis-
trate:
II love that snake; perhaps you'd
like him too If you saw him."
A patrolman who peeked into the
box housing the pet said the snake
was five or six feet long and "bie
around as your fist"
The magistrate postponed decision
until Tuesday, the Society for Pre-.
vention of Cruelty to Animals has
the snake.
Evening star., 1946-11-10
Charles Grant Dern Dies;
Retired FromGun Foctory

Charles Grant Dern, 80, OF 1886
B street Sc, retired employe of
the Naval Gun Factory, died yester-
day in Providence Hospital.
Funeral services will be held at
l pm, tomorrow at Chambers
Southeast Funeral Home, SIT Elev-
enth street Sc, with the Rev.
Allan Poore officiating. Burial will
be in Cedar Hill Cemetery.
Mr.. Dern was born in Maryland
and was a member Of the New
Jerusalem Lodge No. 9 of the
Masonic Order.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs
Lille D. Dern, three sons. Charles
c., jr., Russell H., and Herbert S.
Dern, one daughter, Mrs. Dorothy
Stuart, five grandchildren and one
great grandchild.
Evening star., 1946-11-10
HARD
of HEARING

Mony people troubled with de-
feetive hearing hove deIoyed get
ting q Hearing Aid beeouse Of the
size and weight.
Many do not weor their present
Hearing Aid for the some reason.
Recently the Bell Telephone Lob
orotories ond the Western Electric
Co. have developed on Amplifier
espeeioIl, designed to use the new
smoII, light weight, low voltose
lotteries at o lower operating cost.
The new design eliminates the
necessity Of corryins large bulky
poekose at one pIoee.
Other advantages ore exeep-
tionol tonoI quality, wide frequency
ronse and voriobIe volume. plus q
very effective extroneous noise
eliminotor.
This new Hearing Aid comes in
both Flesh and Block ond odopto-
bic to people with either slight or
q severe heorins loss.
Evening star., 1946-11-10
Arabs See Republicans
REVERSING Truman Policy

CAIRO, Nov. R).-The Arat
League predicted today that Re-
publicans who were victorious ir
last Tuesdays American election!
would be "a bit less hasty" than t;1e
Democrats and would mot try to en-
danger American interests in the
Moslem and Arab worlds by sup
porting an unjust case" in Pales-
tine.
Failure Of President Truman's
party in the election was expected,
the leagues daily bulletin said, mot
Evening star., 1946-11-10

estine railway schedules is an ex-
ample of what we can do"
All nighttime railway operation
has been halted in Palestine follow
ing six attacks on railways in less
than two weeks.
A Colonial ONCE spokesman re-
fused to indicate what counter
measures were being taken to pre-
vent the rumored invasion" by Jew
ish refugees who were reported hop
ing to sift through the British
coastal control of Palestine by sheer
numbers.
Haifa dispatches earlier this week,
however, quoted British naval in
telligence officers as saying at least
100 ships, most Of them "unsea-
worthy" caiques and schooners, had
been purchased by Jewish under
ground organizations, many paid for
with American funds, and that
these ships were lying in wait in
Southern European ports, including
Genoa. Marseilles, Trieste and Pi-
raeus.
Refugees Hard to Handle.
The same dispatch said methods
Of halting the shipment OF refugees
to Palestine were to be discussed at
Malta this week by naval authorities
under Admiral Sir Algernon Willis,
Mediterranean commander in chief,
and Palestine police.
At the same time that the Co.
lonial Once spokesman discussed
reports of a "hass exodus of Jews
from Southern European ports, an
authoritative government observer
commented on reports that Jewish
refugees in some UNRRA camps in
Southeastern Italy were becoming
unmanageable.
There has been a good deal OF
speculation about UNRRA camps
and there have been rumors about
the improper use of UNRRA ia
cilities," he said. He added that
some of the camps were "strategical-
ly situated from the point of view of
traffic" tn Palestine