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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-25
In Short 49,.

Scheduled: President Truman for a
new Flying Whitehouse to replace the
SACRED Cow" sometime this sum-
mer. 1t will be a new six-engined
Douglas DC-6) to be christened IN
dependence"
Dropped: By Newburyport mer-
chants, their widely heralded 10 per-
cent price cutting program because.
they said, of lack Of cooperation from
suppliers.
Accused: By the U. S., three Soviet
satellite states in the Balkans CAL
bania, Yugoslavia and Bulgaria) of
defying authority of the United Ma
tons by refusal to cooperate with a
U.N. investigating committee in
northern Greece.
Protested: BY Britain, fund raising
in the U. S. to support terrorists and
unauthorized immigration into Pales-
tine.
Recommended: By the House Post
Office committee, revision of postal
rates to bring in an estimated $780,
000,0 extra revenue.
Applied: Italy, for membership in
The United Nations.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-25
Saga
International Stowuwoy

A ~17-year-old Texas boy who ran
away from home at the age of IL and
spent five years knocking about Eu-
rope and Africa as a mascot of Ameri-
can troops was convicted of entering
Germany Illegally and wearing an
Army uniform without authority.
The boy, Antonio Brandez, was or
dered sent home to the United States
by an American Military Government
Court in Frankfurt.
His fantastic career as a stoWaWay
and camp follower began in 1912
when he left San Antonio and slowed
away on ship to England. There he at
tached himself to American troops
and as their mascot flew to Africa,
then followed them across Europe
into Germany.
He even went home with the troops
after We Day, slowing away on a
troop ship. He found his mother dead,
however, and soon tired of civilian
life SO he went back to Germany in
l946-again'a as a stoWaway.
Again he joined an Army unit as
mascot. He was arrested in Munich
but escaped. Recaptured and sent to
Bremen for deportation, he escaped
again. He made his way to Frankfurt
and headed for Paris. The French ar
rested him in S%trasbourg and re-
turned him to the American zone.
Military authorities now treat him
as a small but very slippery customer.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-25
Vital in Peace & War

Il HUNGER bedeviled a size
"A able segment of the worlds
population, food shortages brought
new friction in the A~nglo-Ameri-
can zones of Germany. ,
Amid near-famine conditions
in their ruinous industrial cities, the
n time Herrenvolk grumbled bitter
ly as they staggered toward a third
hungry postwar summer.
But British and American admins
traitors showed little willingness to
apologize in view of the worldwide
need; and while America rushed ex-
ira cargoes of provisions to Hamburg
and other German ports there was
talk in military government circles of
.inaugurating a new "get tough" pol
icy. The characterization" program
was not stern enough, some American
sources indicated.
More pointed than official COM
ments was the criticism which Ger
man-born novelist Thomas Mann, a
prewar fugitive from Nazidom, lev
elled at his former countrymen.
German 'Self-Pity'
Germany is again already misusing
her liberty and democracy" the IL
year-old author reported in London.
She refuses to acknowledge that mis-
cry and tragedy are not hers alone. -.
1t is self-pity, part of the national
egotlsm, which is preventing Ger
many from cooperating with the AL
lies in her revival"
simultaneously U. S. Gen. Lucius D.
Clay announced a campaign to tell
Germans what the western occupiers
have been doing to help them. Com
munist propaganda, he said, is stress
ing the food shortage in the British
and American-held areas. He also an
nounced that Bavarian peasants were
relinquishing boarded grain stocks
under new AMG pressure.
But Germany remained only a side
show in the world food picture, which
has been coming slowly into focus
after a devastating winter.
From neat British fields to the
Ukrainian plains, the full toll of ad-
verse weather was being written in
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-25

Experts said the attempt to tow
the huge ship to the mainland was
recognized beforehand as a big gam
BILE but the buyers would have made
a big profit on their investment if
they had succeeded.
The sale was on a 'where is and
as is" basis. Since there were no pas
sengers, formal certifcation of sea-
Worthlness was unnecessary.
The venerable warship left Pearl
Harbor in tow of two big seagoing
tugs on May 10. She was due in San
Francisco Bay on Memorial Day. Six
days out, the captain of the tug Her
cules radioed that the Oklahoma had
begun to list heavily.
He was ordered to head back for
Pearl Harbor but a little later the
dreadnaught parted the tow lines and
plunged to the bottom. At that point
the sea is about three miles deep.
The tugs stood by until daybreak,
but so clearly had the Oklahoma died
that not even a scrap of debris was
seen.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-25
Medicine
T%ronspIanted Hearts

Vladimir Demikov, ~3O-year-old Rus
sian psychologist, has succeeded in re-
placing the hearts and lungs of dogs
with the respective organs of other
dogs, according to the MoscoW Ne2os.
The experiment was completed on
seven dogs, all of which came
through the operation satisfactorily,
although zone lived more than eight
days.
Demikov said the dogs behaved
normally and were able to eat and
drink after the operation. He attrib-
uted death not to any disturbance in
heart action but to pleurisy which de-
veloped in the thoracic cavity.
Russian scientists have had consid-
cradle success in transplanting hearts
of frogs but Demikov's experiments
are the first reporting success with
warm-blooded animals.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-25
isl
Million Dollar Catches

Whalers hauled $1,000 5000 to
$125, 900, 900 from South Pole waters
during the four-month season this
year but American whalers were not
among them.
The estimate is made by DR.. Ray
mond M. Gilmore, biologist of the
Fish and Wildlife Service, who ac-
%companied the Byrd Antarctic Expedi-
ton to make a whale count and
tabled 663 over $4,000 square miles.
Fifteen whaling ships operated in
the Antarctic from December 7 to
April 7. They included seven Nor
wegian vessels, three British, and the
rest Japanese, Russian and Dutch.
The catch is limited by interna-
tional agreement to $4,000 blue whale
units a year. A unit consists of one
blue whale or two fin whales.
1T was the first whaling since be-
fore the war and with Europe's need
for fats, they caught the limit" said
DR.. Gilmore.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-25

world wars, did she fire a shot at an
enemy.
In World War I, she was based at
Berehaven, Ireland, but saw no &C
ton. AS a training ship in the peace
years, she was in collision with a rail-
road barge at Bremerton, WASH, and
with the battleship Arizona on an
other occasion.
She was anchored at Pearl Harbor
on December 7, 1941, and capsized
within IL minutes with five japanese
torpedoes in her hull, trapping many
of her crew in their hunks. The Navy,
determined to fight her, raised the
Oklahoma 18 months later but engi-
neers found it too costly to reft and
modernize her and she was aban-
doned late i'll 1914.
The Oklahoma, commissioned in
1916, cost $75, 600, 900 and took four
years to build. James Fighting Ships
listed her and her sister ship, the
Nevada of Bikini fame, as SUPER
dreadnaughts, first of the "all or
nothing" theory of ship construction
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-25
Aerial
Plain Plane Talk

A picture of an American aviation
industry Slowly bleeding to death"
and in urgent need of a fve-year pro-
duction program backed up by a def
mite government policy was drawn
for a Senate subcommittee on con
merce last week by representatives
of the industry.
They reported a financial crisis"
within the industry because of sharp
contraction of production and of a
great need for long-range planning in
research and development if Britain
and Russia are not to outstrip the
United States in technical advances
and number of planes.
Oliver P. Echols, president of Air
craft Industries Association, and a
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-25

100000 to relieve Turkey and Greece
in an effort to prevent the spread of
Communism, led to new demands in
some quarters for an integrated U. S.
aid policy.
In Washington it was announced
that such a long-range policy might
soon be forthcoming from the State
Departments policy planning staff,
after a survey of world conditions.
With prospects of a bumper 1947
wheat crop, America appeared more
than ever like a rich uncle in a needy
world.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-25
u. S. Aid Program
IlI-Fated Oklahoma

with tremendous armor, ten 14-inch
guns, so ive-inchers and many small
er weapons. She was 583 feet long,
108 feet wide and carried a crew of
1900 fighting men.
Stripped of her guns and super
structure, she lay a rusting hulk in
the Pearl Harbor roadstead while the
Navy debated whether to sink her or
cut her up for scrap. Eventually she
was sold for $4,000 to the Moore
Drydock Company of Oakland. Calf.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-25
NeW Shih|
IN Empiire

Rn11AlN, Staggering
ically in the sG posfg : scoas>
mas been forced into au" ~ss Noat
pres OF retrenchment. ' InJi,s me-
ence, a move which rloepe2
Winston ~Churchilrs ~ pFonps
that the British emn %irosulshed'
broken up" The BTitjsb Was bs
military garrisons At [ o1It1 navy Il
the world are nowhere ' aess roe
strength and further cu rfaI PREM
expensive military main+on ralInat
the offing. 'enance
Informed sources closa -
ish War Office disciosea % ,1 he b.
that England is preparing last rs
over to the United States 10 10 a&
bility for defense Of f'@ t5s 1Nl' ,9@a
ranean and the middle east. i nSs5s
the Suez Canal. The em T'' slGllt>
defense will be withdraw u n1 :
Africa. 70 E
The shift will not mean .,.
ment of Britain's economio 'oa1or'
lltical interests in the mid5 a5' n
however, these informants Soi5 e s&
fixed the timetable for witb S5.o, la7
military and supply bases N' to
Africa at two to three Years u S
U. S. a Mediterranean po,r.,
This revamping of a 50. S%sr -.
policy of imperial defense p, ss'
possible, the London Informs 's|
by emergence of the United S.a.' s~
an active Mediterranean power W.
definable interests to defend
In Washington, Secretary of C..
George c, Marshall said he + di5 'a'
agree with London Suggestions q,
developments in the Mediterr,,~,.
meant a shift in military resno,'
blllty there from Britain to tbs u
o1her factors behind the decg,
to fortify East A2-.oa are undp,,.5
to include the governments nIs3..
to quit India by June, 1913. and T.
instability of Palestine. There !, a.
the uncet tain constitutional fut~. ~ =
the Sudcr, whose status now Il,
subject of an Egyptian appeal BIZ,
the United Nations.
New Day for Africa
The effect of the shift on tbo OH.
nomic, social and political futws
Africa is bond to be tremenJw
The War CGice is reported ia Ss.
accepted the principle that anv Nm.
print for African defense sItrstt9L
would require active cooperatm
native peoples. Another importng
step would be coordination of porI
with France and Belgium, Brita,
most important and politically YdI
able neighbors in Africa.
British, French and Belgian colonial
administrators convened in Paris III
week to discuss African probenl
Expected from the Paris conferenI
are tripartite commission to speed
intensive development program tI
southern, central and ~eqaatMisI
Africa.
Britain's dependence on the md1l
east was revealed by Foreign Seud
tary Ernest Bevin before ParliamdI
we must maintain a continual nj
terest in that area" Bevin DECLARED
IF only because our economic al
financial interests are of such w
Importance to us and to other cun
tries as well.
IF those interests were lost to
the effect on life in this country wG.
be a considerable reduction in ia
standard of living"
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-25

Dates
Tuesday, May ~

Tuesday, May u
Anniversary (ninth), Golden
Gate Bridge, San Francisco
(world's largest suspension
bridge).
Wednesday, May %
Birthday (13th), Dionne quin-
tuplets.
Friday, May 80
Memorial Day Except in Ala,
Fla, Ga, La, Miss, N. c., S. c.
and Tenn.).
Confederate Memorial Day
(Va.).
Saturday, May 81
Anniversary (153rd), Congress
enacted first copyright law.
Belmont Stakes at Belmont
Race Track, N. Y.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-25
Hot Shots

. Plastic surgeons from hall a qua
major cities are being recruited D.
hundreds of facial crippleS al~s
the Texas City survivors. The Py'.
which will begin in July, IS 2s.. ~,
the largest plastic surgery eiio1 ~
attempted after a civilian ols'' u, d,
0After his plane lost its pIos:D"y. , :,
5000 feet over Amityyille, y ~ q
pilot landed his ship safely a-.
it sheared off two power lines - !: 4,
a house by Is feet and broke VI a,
tops of about so small maple 'A' "
trees. c.-.s
Burns, 10, leaned against a Ign .s in.
A short circuit in the wiring -' n.
the anchor bolts and the meta .a;. b,
crashed to the street PAU % B
When he came to in a ho' l3.,' Il
shouted, II didn't do IT, W."
waiting for a bus nr;,s 4
. In Chicago, Clarence Il-+3' 4
was awakened by his Psls s+s, }
when a marauder tried to s- ~, J
apartment. He had time 10 ,
gun before the thief wake ~, b
stead of firing, however ne .1.5 ~ "a
weapon down, announcing, /?
to beat the stuffing out Of w. ,nI
lice, summoned by nelghooL'' ~, d:
badly bruised 23-yeaf-ol0
into custody. .,.,s 0;
Q In Munich, German ola .a.,cG
keteers now are selling s.sr q
used personally by the FQel' pt,
wrist watches worn oy nj;
Americans pay thousalla55 rs " isct3 ii
for them, never aware OF lll5 3s
Hitler never smoked anu
wrist watches.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-25
Farms
Inflated Acreage

Sale of farm lands has slacker
almost everywhere in the Una
States, particularly on the Pail
coast, bringing predictions Of an e
of a boom in progress since 1851
President Truman, in recognlan!
what he termed a SERIOUS proo'1'
has asked Secretary of Agricll'
Clinton Anderson to call a %conteEsr'
of government agencies and farm O
CARNATIONS on June 9 to develop
program for discouraging further j
fation in farm real estate prices
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-25
Quotes

Ex-President Herbert Hoover:
There are only two occasions
when Americans respect privacy,
especially in Presidents: those
are prayer and fishing"
James F. Byrnes, former Sec
rotary of State: There is too
much talk about war and too lit
tie talk about peace"
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-25
All or Nothing

The battleship Oklahoma, first of
Americas superdreadnaughts, escaped
the ignominy of the scrapheap last
week by sinking at sea while being
toWed from Pearl Harbor to a Pacific
coast %boneyard.
Thus ended the %colorful but I'M
heroic career of a ship that never sue
coded In fulfilling her destiny. Not
once in her 81 years, spanning two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-25
Wary Scientists Hold
Fate Of Civilization

MANKIND, still jittery over awesome implications of the atom,
wi was given another Jolt by science last week in a major report
m hio1ogical warfare-a lethal field in which man still knows no
control. The %40OOO-word document, prepared five years ago and kept
secret by the government until last week, is like the Smyth report
on atonoic enerev the dictionary Of its field, outlining all the possible
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-25

crop deficits. In the Orient a world
rice shortage was being probed by a
United Nations committee, as millions
faced starvation in China and else
where.
U. S. Aid Program
Recognizing that now, as in the
past, the chief burden of alternating
widespread chaos must fall on the
United States, Congress finally APP
proved a $350,0o0, 900 aid fund to con-
tinue relief in Europe and China.
This, coming on the heels of $780,
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-25

P~ARADox-Whie millions hunger in Europe, U. S. DESTROYS
Pofofoes. Under subsidy program, government guarantees
farmers $225 per busheI. Federal men dovse kerosene
(above) on 50 tons Of potatoes near Foley, Ala, to make them
unhf tor consumption and avoid sIusting the domestic market.
Shipping and dehydrution costs bar their beino sent obrood,
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-25

Washington is very jittery, and
President Truman is scared blue
% If these Congressman are
right, a panic of tremendous pro-
portions could take place with
people leaving the big cities and
seeking refuge in the self-sustain-
ing sections of the Central West.
refer to areas with thir own
food, fuel and housing supplies
and which are not dependent on
railroda transportation.
90 If that time comes. or when
the danger is fully evident, it will
be too late to prepare for it. You
cannot take out fire Insurance on
your house when it is burning!
Yet today there are several ways
to prepare yourself and family
both against communistic upris-
ings from within and Russian
bombs without.
Both Of these factors would dam
gerously affect industry in and
around many large cities. The
Just "hedge" would be to mi
CRATE with your families to small,
interior city in the Central Area
OF the United States. If you don't
care to take so definite step now
you can at least now make a start
by re-arranging your investments.
In the light of this situation there
are three classifications OF invest
ments to be considered. These are
Safest Investments. Bomb Targts
and Semi-Protected Investments.
Safest Investments should in.
clude those companies whose as.
sets or sources Of materials are
decentralized, Or underground or
indestructible. Among these are
certain Land, Chemical and Min.
ing companies most of whose as
sets are well scattered, we'll bur-
leo Or obtain from the sea. Also,
companies processing or packing
food products whose assets are in
or near Agricultural Areas. Some
Lumber and Sea Food companies
should be included in this group.
Bomb Targets should include
most heavy industries such as
Steels, Locomotives, Automobiles
and Machinery. Other companies
whose principal income is derived
from Food Distribution in large
cities would be vulnerable. Util
tiles, including transportation,
gas and electricity. Electrical
Equipment Manufacturers. large
Department Stores, Drug Com
panies and Restaurant Chains
would all be open to attack.
Semi-Protected Ivestments are
those based upon somewhat scat
tered assets with at least the
greater portion in safe" areas. ]
have in mind such industries as
the Container Companies, certain
Meat Packing Companies, Oil
Companies, Chain Store Systems.
Communication Companies, and
finally Publishing Companies
whose good will and reputation are
in the same category as trade
marks and cannot DE "bombed'
out.
When 1 am in New York City
with my banking friends, I am
inclined to be bullish. When in
manufacturing centers with those
plagued by severe labor troubles.
1 become bearish. When, however,
l am out here at the very center
of the U. S., viewing u great
virgin areas Of grain, forests,
minerals and happy people, l am
neither. bearish nor bullish, l
however, do advise my readers
now to get and keep out Of dept.
Hope for the best, but prepare for
the worst,
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-25

Certainly, the agricultural sec.
tons out here are happy and see
no reason for any business deres.
sion.
Cd My manufacturing friends
are very much upset by labor's
demands and believe that soon.
e-s or later" we will witness a
Great Depression with millions
of unemployed. Commodity. real
estate and stock prices will b.
very much lower than at present,
they claim.
90 When visiting Wa shington,
| find a belief that unless Rus.
sla collapses in the meantime
there will then be a communistic
uprising in the U. S. If our Fed
eral Government is not then
taken over by the Communists,
through democratic procedure,
certain state and city govern.
ments certainly will be. Yes,
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-25
Babson Forecasts Fair
Business For Two Years

EUREKA, Kansas, April "a. -
I hope l am wrong; but the fol.
lowing is a brief summary Of my
vision for the next five or more
years whatever Russia may do
This, moreover, is based UNION
forty years of forecasting exper.
fence and the expenditure of mil.
lions OF dollars on business re.
search.
% am reasonably sure of at
least two more years of fair bus
mess. If the U. S. Adopts the
right international policy, this can
be extended to five wears or more
Evening star., 1947-10-24
Letters to The Star
Bread Slicins as Home Problem

bread Sl1c1ng as Home Problem
To the Editor OF The Star:
Concerning your editorial in The Star for
October 18, wish to express my opinion as to
the slicing Of bread by the bakeries. I agree
with the statement that probably saving of
wheat could be accomplished by half pound
loaves of bread, as some families are small and
others do not eat much bread. feel, however
that to change over all of the machinery for
the slicing of bread would create an unneces-
sary burden on the bakeries.
When the OPA ordered slicing of bread dis
continued during the war, the objection was
to the waste caused by slicing of bread in the
home. In my family there are several children
and whenever they wanted q sandwich, they
would try to slice the bread themselves; the
bread would be broken up, sliced unevenly,
and a good portion of the loaf wasted. This
was not because it was too much of an effort
for them to slice the bread, but because we
were not equipped in the home. as were the
bakeries, to perform this job. I do not be-
lieve the slicing takes any flavor from it, If
the loaf is kept properly wrapped. OF course.
bakers bread never has been, never will
be like mother used to make. We do not expect
that, because of the volume Of production. If
necessary, all of us good Americans are ready
to help save wheat for the starving peoples Of
the world; but say: Let's keep to the pound
loaf of bread, and keep slicing the same.
j. FENDAIL COUGHLAN.
Evening star., 1947-10-24
This Is Carrying Security Too Far

There is no question about the need for
Federal security regulations to safeguard
certain official secrets. But the proposed
inclusion in new set of departmental
rules of provision which would prohibit
release of information that would cause
serious administrative embarrassment or
difficulty is carrying peacetinle censor
ship too far.
This remarkable provision is contained in
a tentative draft of instructions prepared
for guidance of Government agencies in
the handling and safeguarding of official
papers The proposals were drawn up by
the Security Advisory Board of the State
Defense Co-ordinating Committee, in ac-
cordance with a suggestion by the Presi-
dents Loyalty Committee. In the main
the rules provide reasonable and necessary
standards for the classification of informa-
tion as secret" "conf1dential" or ere
stricted" in such sensitive" agencies as the
State, Defense, Justice and Treasury De-
partments and the Central Intelligence
Agency.
Whereas such regulations are essential
for the protection of national security, it
is now proposed that the "confidentiar'
classification be extended to matters
which may have no relation whatever to
security but which, at the same time,
might be embarrassing for some official
or make things difficult" for him. More
than that the same clause would hold
confidential any information which would
be "prejudicial to the interests or prestige"
of IAN individual" as well as of Nation
or governmental activity. And the reg
ulations would apply to all Government
departments and agencies. In fact one
nonsensitive agency, the Veterans Admin
tstration already has put the proposals
into effect If there are special situations
which, from time to time, require adher-
ence to such far-reaching censorship rules
as these, they are not described in the
proposed regulations. This leaves the door
wide open for officials to hide incompetency
or other evils from public view. Assuming
that the authors of the new rules had no
such intention in mind, the nonsecurity
provisions should be revised to eliminate
any phraseology that could be used to
shield administrative shortcomings or
worse