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The Diets of the Baltic States
were dismissed. New elections
were ordered by the Soviet
erected puppet governments.
New election laws were enact
ed by decree. Members of the
electoral commissions were ap-
pointed, either directly or in
directly, by the heads of the
puppet governments. AS a pre-
lude to the elections, numerous
Baltic patriots were arrested
without trial by the NKVD,
that they might be excluded
from the elections, since the
law provided that persons un-
der arrest had no right to vote
or to be elected to office. The
campaigns and the elections
themselves were engineered by
Moscow through specially sent
commissars and through the
local Soviet legations. All po-
litical parties and organizations
were closed with the exception
of the Communist Party, the
membership of which had al
ways been negligible (the Lith-
uanian Communist party had
barely 1900 members in Feb,
1941.) Prediction meetings
organized by the Communist
Union of Toiling People" were
the only ones permitted. Votes
for the candidates were taken
by a show of hands. The num-
ber of candidates corresponded
exactly to the number of depu-
ties to be elected. Only one
list of candidates-that on the
Communist ticket-was present
ed.
In the. campaign, the main
point stressed was "enforce-
ment of the Mutual Assistance
Pacts" and friendly relations
with the Soviet Union" No
mention whatsoever was made
by any responsible person of
the TRUE purpose of the cleo
tions, that is, of the incorpo-
ration of the Baltic States in
to the Soviet Union.
Voting was compulsory. Of
ficials, employees, and work
ers We're threatened with the
loss Of their jobs if they did
not vote. The passports of
the voters were stamped at
the polls, and everyone under
stood the meaning of this pro-
cedure. All those who refrain
ed from voting were branded
enemies of the people," Ev-
en- citizens of foreign coun-
tries were forced to vote. The
passports of some Americans
who have since returned to this
country bear such a stamp.
No attempt to check a persons
right to vote was made; courts
of justice were not empowered
to consider complaints of ir-
regularity in the casting of bal
lots. There was no way for
the voters to register opposition
in these one-party elections ex-
cept by casting ballots which
were not valid. This however,
was of no avail, since it is by
no means certain that all the
ballots were counted. The Of
ficial results of the voting were
published in a London newspap-
er twenty-four hours before the
polls were closed. In the face
of this and other facts, the pro-
claimed results - nearly 100
per cent in favor of the Com
munist-imposed candidates =
can not be credited. The deep
ly religious Baltic peoples, who
have always felt themselves to
be a part of the Western world,
could not conceivably have vot-
ed for Communism, which they
Dirva = Field. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1915-current, 1946-06-07
VALDZIA PRISIDEDA

Kongrese Washingtone nu-
tarta skirt puse pinigu is %
milijonu dolariu sumos kuri
numatyta reikalinga Cuyahoga
upes Clevelande pagilinimui ir
pastatymui septyniu gelezinke-
liams tiltu per upe.
Dirva = Field. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1915-current, 1946-06-07

REIKALINGAS KAMBARYS
Lietuviu seimoje, vienam Wy
rui, pageidaujama SUI valgiu,
lei galima. Praneskit tuojau:
DIRVA, $500 Superior Ave.
Telef. EN-. 4486.
Dirva = Field. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1915-current, 1946-06-07
PARSIDUODA NAMAI

1767 E. 33rd St., pietus nuo
Payne Ave., 2 seimu namas
ir pavienis namas uzpakalyJe;
uzpakalinis neuzimtas ir virsu-
tinis neuzimtas. Klauskit tuoj
1855 E. 33rd st.
Dirva = Field. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1915-current, 1946-06-07

MiESTO elektrOs stotis nu-
matyta padidinti praleidziant
tam tikslui S6,OOO,00O. Elek-
tros tiekimas bus tuomi padau-
gintas SO nuoS.
Dirva = Field. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1915-current, 1946-06-07

DEERE, Dakota proud Of It. Robert Perhng Williams
Decorated with the Navy Gross and the Distinguished Flying Cross It.
Williams spottng German sub while plotting Navy Torpedo Bomber
the Atlantic attacked the enemy without supporting fighter planes He
released depth charges all of which close sinking the sub and
throwing hosm extraordinary
Achievement It. Williams received the Gold STAR War Bonds buy depth
charges or such heroic service. Us yDeaytme
Dirva = Field. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1915-current, 1946-06-07

TRAFFIC nelaimese Cleve-
lande Xxi BirzeliO 4 uzmuSta 81
asmenys. Pernai per tick pat
laiko uzmuSta buvO sc.
Dirva = Field. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1915-current, 1946-06-07

CUYAHOGA apskrities 1O4I
kapinese randasi palaidota 49,
356 veteranu visu Amerikos
karu.
Dirva = Field. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1915-current, 1946-06-07

''Dirvai" issiraSyti nereikia
laukti pradzios metQ-idekit
i laiska 81 dahar ir ''Dirva'
lankys jus istisa pusmeti.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-04
The AlcatraZ Battle

Prison battles between convlcts and
guards are not infreQuent, but the COM
hat at Alcatraz differs from most In
that the prisoners involved apparent
" are we'll supplied with firearms.
Where did the guns come from?
Alcatraz has been considered i'm,
pregnable not only so far as the con-
finement of felons committed to 1t,
but the smuggling of weapons, as well
How is it that a group OF des-
perate men could acquire an arsenal
of sufficient size to wage such q
battle?
When it is all over an investigation
probably will reveal q sad breakdown
in discipline.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-04
Juvenile Delinquency

Juvenile delinquency did increase
rapidly and alarmingly during the war
period here, but if, as Juvenile Judge
Alan Marshall suggests, the 1910 Cen
sus was the basis of the Doctor San
der's estimate, and the great popula-
ton growth ignored, the percentage
of Observation-Disclosures is far too
high.
Doctor Sanders, associate professor
of social work at the University of
North Carolina, who has tabulated
juvenile court records for the thirty
month period following this nations
entry into the war, places Whining
ton next to High Point, which he says
had a 42.4 per cent increase. Probably
the situation in High Point was much
the same as in Wilmington, and con-
%sequently his computation does not re-
fleet the true condition at the popu-
lation peak in either city.
The war period is past, but it's eff
feet upon the children and the youth
Of this community fingers. The war
was as unsettling upon juveniles as
upon adults. Wilmington has had some
distressing examples of this. Boys and
girls from homes in which ADEQUATE
training and supervision have been
lacking have operated in concert in pill
fering from automobiles and in holder
%thievery. The stolen property room at
police headquarters is filled with loot
recovered after their night prowlings.
The problem is to find means for
leading the wayward to recognize that
wrong-doing, whatever its immediate
rewards, does not and cannot be made
to pay, that upright living alone Of
fers dividends.
Chief among the needed means is
proper home influence. Kindly bp+
strict parental guidance is as essential
in developing proper habits in the
young as adequate instruction and all
pervision is needed by novice EMPLOYEES
In any business.
L the home influence is right, with
full consideration of recreation. tho
need for supervised play on an extern
Hve schedule at public expense would
shrink, as would the punishment of
d~elinquents which is applied also at
heavy public cost.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-04
Time Is Precious

If the present Paris Conference of
Foreign Ministers should end sudden
ly with nothing accomplished, as is
limited in a dispatch from the French
capital, it would cause no surprise.
It has been apparent from the Sec
ond day Of the parleys that the West
ern "bloc" and Russia are as far apart
on matters under discussion as they
were when the first similar meeting
was held in London and ended in a
deadlock.
In an effort to avoid clashes the
meetings were placed on an informal
footing on Thursday but without the
h%oped-for result. On the contrary it
led only to palmer speech and prob
ably widened the gap.
1t is a great pity, because the min
listers are primarily charged with the
duty OF putting treaties into accept
able form, and if this is not done, the
prevailing unrest in the world will not
be lessened.
Obviously more precious time must
pass before the Russians are convinc.
ed they alone cannot dictate peace
terms for any Of the former enemy
countries, and time lost now cannot be
caught up, as n catches up on sleeI
after too many late night outings.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-04
Your IRights
Questions and Answers
On Servicemen's
Problems
Nv DOUGLAS LAKSEN

WASHINGTON Inc veterans
Administration is now ready to
pay Cor correspondence courses
for veterans. VA has signed con-
tracts with SO schools which fur
nish such courses, and contracts
with other schools are under ne
~gotiation. Courses can be taken
only from one of these schools
which has signed a contract.
The government will pay for the
cost of the course and books UP
to a total of $500. No subsistence
will be paid a correspondence
school veteran.
It is possible for an e%x-service-
man who hasn't f S h e d high
school and who doesn't have
enough equivalent military school
ing to qualify for a diploma to get
a degree in this manner. Then he
can start college under the edu-
cational benefits of the CT Bill of
Rights.
Any money paid by the govern
ment for correspondence courses,
however. will be deducted from
the total amount of educational
benefits due a veteran.
Most Of the schools which have
signed up with the Veterans Ad-
ministration give regular scho-
lastic credits for work successful
ly completed. A veteran should
make sure, however. that credit
will be given for a specific corre-
spondence course, if he plans to
use it toward a degree.
Information on what courses are
available and what schools are ap-
proved under this plan will be
furnished by any VA contact Of
fetal OF by any of the many edu-
cationa1 in o rmation centers
throughout the country.
Most correspondence schools re-
quire that a student take periodic
examinations to prove that he is
making satisfactory progress. In
their contracts with VA, it is stin-
ulated that reports Of this prog
ress be furnished the government
to show that the veteran is really
learning something. II he is NOT,
ne will not be allowed to continue
with this type OF education.
Many Of the SO contracted
schools are state universities
which are offering special exten.
sion courses.
Questions will be answered only
In this space-not by maiI,)
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-04
Events In Palestine May Be Warning
On Trend Of Thought For World Peace

Both sides have historic and
religious backgrounds to their
arguments.
Their reactions thus far general
ly stop short of two important
points just at this moment in world
history.
The first is: The Middle East is
a highly strategic area involving
the Suez canal-the main catwalk
between the bigger towers of the
war-weakened British Empire.
This empire cannot be mentioned
these days without thinking at the
same time Of Russia's expanded
postwar influence-and our own.
Some Arab politicians are nibbling
at this, limiting that they will look
to Russia for support if forced
to.
The second point is this: are ma
tional aspirations going to he, in
the long run, the key to peace?
This is a question directly af-
fecting the United Nations Organ
i~zation, which is apparently the
largest hope mankind has Of find
ing a way to settle his difference
in peace.
The U. N. still is being formed.
L still is so weak that it cannot
grapple directly with big issues
because it still has no power-yet-
to enforce its will.
If the U. N. can be developed
into a higher authority, the ques-
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-04
Religion
Day By Day
BY WILLIAM T. ELLIS
A MEMORY OF MoAR

Onch, in the Greek Church ir
Medeba, across the Jordan, in the
Land Of Moab, / met a Russian
pilgrim, an officer and a gentle.
man, who had undertaken to trav.
erse afoot the route Of the. Children
Of Israel.
l had just come up from Petra.
and had escaped a massacre at
kerak by only a day; so I tried
TO dlssuade him, showing him that
the Arabs were out and that he
would probably be killed within a
week.
That memory is very clear. of
the young soldier pointing upward
and saying, God will take care
OF me-" When I saw that he would
not be deferred, I shared my con
densed food and thirst tablets with
MN, and asked him to write ma
from Mt. Sinai, should he arrive
there. He promised to do so. but
l never heard from him. Probably
he persisted.
Nevertheless, I would rather be
mat young Russian pilgrim, bent
on a molly quest, despite danger.
than the gross and filthy priest
SAFE in the fortress church in Me-,
dena' and despising all dreamers
and devotees.
GIVE us questine hearts. O Cod
and the spirit that seeks .ft.r
Ihee' whatever the cost. We thank
The for all pilgrim souls who
nave dared all in pursuit of Thy,
self. Amen.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-04
Mckinney On
BRIDGE
BY WILLIAM E. MCKINNEY
Americas Card Authority

AInCTICd 3 SdTu
Here is a percentage problem
that has been discussed for weeks.
l am showing you only u spades,
because We are going to concen-
trate on that suit and the missing
queen.
South is declarer and has plenty
Of entries into dummy. West opens
the king of clubs and declarer
wins in dummy with the ace, re-
turning the three of spades. East
puts on the four-spot, declarer
goes up with the king and West
plays the jack. ,
Now South goes back over to
dummy and leads the five of
spades, East plays the eight.
Should South take the ~finesse?
When East follows to the second
spade lead, the only missing spade
is the queen. Some players say
that the chances are exactly $3.50
for East or West to hold the queen.
However, Fred Kaplan of New
York brings out the point that
West still has II cards in his hand.
having played the club king and
spade jack; therefore there are II
chances that he holds the queen
against 10 chances that it is in the
East hand, East having played a
club and the four and eight of
spades. Others say there is less
likelihood Of finding a doubleton
queen-jack in the West hand than
Of a singleton jack. In my opinion
the odds favor East to hold the
queen.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-04
TheLiterarv
Guidepost
BY JOE WING

by JOE WlNO
CHARLES DICKENS, by Una
Pope : Hennessy Howell, So
skin; S4). e.
If you have SHE'D away from
Dickens novels because they are
long and full Of extraneous as well
as pertinent detail, you had better
shy away from this biography.
To get the well publicized new
information that Charles Dickens
put his wife aside after % years
and took a showgirl mistress, the
reader must wade through 46
pages ,iampacked with minutjae
on what Dickens did, read and
said on most of the days Of his
SO years. And there isn't much IN
formation on the showgirl, Ellen
Ternan, except that Dickens Found
her weeping because she had to
display herself too much in her
act. Dame Pope : Hennessy has
sifted thoroughly for the first time
the voluminous Dickens letters but
her selectivity. writing ability and
insight have fallen short Of her
industry.
It's an important biography new
ertheless that will repay any STU
dent Of Dickens or OF genius IN
general.
Starting as a factory boy, BE-
coming an ace reporter thro1'h
his own industry and ability
Dickens was a celebrity with tlVe
servants and Pickwick to MS
credit at %. It's hard to realize
the hold he had on the English
and American publics. Not only
did his novels and Christmas
stories sell by the hundreds o.
thousands Che could get a thoo'
sand undepreciated pounds for d
short story at the drop OF a nav,
but he packed them in at thea'eIs
and halls here and abroad TO ned.
dramatic readings from his own
works. He had more fun at thaL
than at anything and he Amos
literally laid huge audiences in '"V
aisles.
The creator of Scrooge and MIS-
and Oliver Twist and Ll.'Ie
Neil and half a hundred otnsi
classic characters was a top WHO
dyed his hair, also an earnest anu
successful social reformer as GER
by Karl Marx. He fatne-5u
10 CHI ildren, supported whole
houses full of relatives, was one
the most successful magazine
editors of the day, a chronic trat'
sler, an intimate of the great
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-04
QUOTATIONS

The Azefbaijahs managed TO overthrow the
despotie regime which We would like to elm
mate blaedieSsig II WI can. But continuation
Of the pre- sem system whereby a few people
rule the country while the masses are worse
off than ssffs af the European Middle Ages,
will only lead 10 revolution iradj Iskanderi,
leader OF revolutionary Tudsh Party In Iran.
You can't have Discipline with undue frater.
nisatien between the men and the officers who
have Is give the efders.-Gen. Joseph Stilwell,
9th Army commander.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-04
BY JAMES d. WHITE

Associated Press Staff Writer
A proposal has been made for
Palestine.
It may be good or bad, but the
two peoples it would affect most
Jews and Arabs-say they dent
like it.
Why? The Jews say the quota
of 100, 900 Jewish immigrants isn't
enough; the Arabs say it's too
much.
An obvious but largely mspoken
reason is that both groups view
the report as blasting their sepa-
rate national aspirations-the re-
port proposes that Palestine should
be neither a Jewish nor an Arab
state but should be under trustee
ship.
The British, who still hold man
date to Palestine, UNDERSTANDABLE
art alarmed.
They hear Jews refusing to give
up their arms and Arabs calling a
general strike and talking about
mobilizing all Arab youth to tlght.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-04
BOMBER FLIGHTS
TO TAKE MEASURE
OF C0SMIC RAYS

WASHINGTON, A Sorio.
flights by a specially eoninnaa o.
20 bomber will measure the 40 D.
sity of cosmic rays at various s-l aIli
tudes and ATTITUDES, it is anno, 1r'l'
ed by Gilbert Grosvenor nrou
dent of the National Geograobi.
Society. 'pi4c
Cooperating in the project -.
the National Geographic societ,'
the Army Air Forces, and tho pcs'
tol Research Foundation Of a..
Franklin Institute at Philade1nbis
Starting late in May, four rpl,na
trips will be made between q noiN
near the northern border Of tha
United States and the magnetic
Equator. The exact route has nM
yet been selected. One flight will
be at $4,000 feet, and the o+b ori
will be at lower attitudes - Is am
$4,000, and 5000 feet.
The flights will constitute fl.
first systematic and continuous re-.
searches at selected attitudes
throughout a 70 : degree NJ
latitude.
The studies are designed to Oh.
tain better experimental evidence
OF the nature Of cosmic rays, parti-
Giles of great energy which orioi.
nate outside the earth's atmor
phere and constantly lombard tha
earth. The plane will be fitted ont
with Geiger counter ''telesconos"
So arranged as to record cosmio
ray activity in the vertical direc.
ton.
Specifically, the scientists con-.
Quoting the tests want to measure
the intensity of mesotrons. parti.
cles into which the primary RAYS
are believed to split after enter.
ing the earth's atmosphere. These
mesotrons. about 200 times as
heavy as electrons. have a short
life - only a few millionths Of =
second.
The secondary particles are be-
lieved to represent the end prod.
ucts of an atomic disintegration.
Virtually all the primary cosmic
rays are used up in forming sec.
ondary radiation before low altj-
tudes r reached. Consequently,
readings at various heights NAV
give further informatin about the
nature of the primary particles.
The B-29 tests will be a continual
ton of investigations begun in 10.
IS, when the National Geographic
Society and the Army Air Corps
sponsored the record flight Of the
worlds largest balloon, Explorer
II. Equipment to study cosmic
rays, furnished by the Bartol Re.
search Foundation, was among the
scientific apparatus contained in
the balloon, which ascended to a
height of 1886 feet.
This research showed that inten-
sity of cosmic rays, amount Of the
earth's protective layer of ozone
gas, and electrical conductivity Of
the air G~onization) attain maxi
NUNS about II miles above the
earth.
Supervising the Forthcoming
tests are DR.. Lyman J. Briggs,
chairman of the research commit
tee Of the National Geographic So
ciety; Major General Curtis E. LIE
May. deputy chief of Staff in
charge Of research and develop.
ment. Armv Air Forces; and DR..
w. F.. G. Swami, director Of the
Bartol Pesearch Foundation.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-04
OPA Hits RFC

The American public heretofore has
been the chief victim of Office of Price
Administration failure to set ceiling
prices so that a profit may accrue to
producer and dealer. Now it develops
that n important government agen-
cy, along with the public, is feeling
the pinch too, and not enjoying it.
The Reconstruction Finance Cor
poration, which operated so extensive
|ly during the war, still has some in
dustrial plants on it's hands which it
is required to keep in production but
can't do so without losing money.
For example, it's synthetic rubber
plants are heavy losers, and the Cor
poration is destined to absorb at least
SOL, 900, 900 debts on it's purchase and
sales program this year.
Another example, more impressive
than rubber, is to be found in the OPP
Grafton of a tin smelter in Texas. 1t
was built by the government at the
wars start and is owned and operated
by the RFC. AS the story is told by the
Wall Street Journal, when the plant
was started tin concentrate, the basic
raw material, cost about 48 IL cents
per pound of tin content, and since a
large part of this was of good quality
Far-Eastern ore it could be processed
into finished metal at an average cost
of only about 8 to 8 IL cents a pound.
1t was on this basis that the O.P.A. set
it's ceiling price of 81 cents a pound on
the finished metal.
Today, rising prices for material and
labor have boosted the plants final
costs to u cents a pound. But the price
agency has turned down all requests
for an increase in the selling price
the plant must still sell at 81 cents a
pound.
Since VI Day the R.F.C. has sold
many of its war plants and is daily Of
fering others to private industry. Of
ficials have become reconciled, how
ever, to continued Government opera
ton of the Texas smelter at least until
1913. One official says: 1--WE couldn't
ever give it away until O.P.A. lifts the
ceiling on finished tin"
Is it too much to hope that when
the whole story of OPA ceilings and
the injustices they have been respon-
sible for is told, including the position
in which this federal agency, support
ed by the peoples tax money, is plac-
ed, there will be a common-sense re-
vision of the ceiling schedules which
will encourage instead of hamper in
dustry?
Let the Senate look into the situa-
ton fully before taking final action
on the measure sent over by the House.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-04

Questions will be answered onrv
IN tnis space-not by mail.)
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-04

ton is whether it can be done be-
fore it is too late and an interna-
tional war-probably an atomic
war-beats supernatural authori-
ty to the drew.
Evolving a world government
peacefully is slow business.
Palestine is another sign that
our time gets shorter every day.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-04

We all hope a civilian commission
will continue dev elopment OF atomic
energy. The military, however. is
Interested in seeing that the country
is not threatened by the misuse of
this new weapon. The Army has
70 intention oft attempting to limit
scientific research.
Gen. Joseph Stilwell, 9Th Army
Commander.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-04
STAR Dust
In the Wrong Place

In the Wrong Place
In a New York night court a
lawyer named Dan O'Reilly was ex-
planning to the court the absence
Of a much-needed witness, when
the missing man suddenly appeared
and advanced down the aisle to the
enclosure. He was a night watch
man, and carried a lighted lantern.
Thinking to add a little levity to
the occasion, the magistrate inter-
jected: "Is this Diogenes?"
Yes" was the quick retort
from Mr.. O'Reilly, that is Do
genes, but he won't find the man
he is looking for here"
The judge got more laughter than
he had bargained for.