North Carolina Newspapers

FOUR__ — Hilmtngtmt &tar North Carolina’* Oldest Daily Newspaper Published Daily Except Sunday Bv The Wilmington Star-News R. B. Page. Owner and Publisher_ Entered as Second Class Matter at ton. N. C.. Postoffice Under Act of Congres of March 3. 1878. SUBSCRIPTION KATES BYCAKKir-n IN NEW HANOVER COUNTY Payable Weekly or In Advance rs._>;i “S | Eft 3 & « ? Year "“I”-- 15-60 13.00 28.00 (Above'Tates entitle subscriber to Sunday issue of Star-News) By Mail: Payable StricOy in Advance 3^ 3 Months —y 4 00 7.70 5 looo 8.oo 15.15 (Above rates entitle subscriber to Sunday issue of Star-News) -WILMINGTON STAR (Daily Without Sunday) l Months-$1.85 6 Months-$3.70 1 Yr.-$7.4C When remitting by mail please use check or U S P. O. money order. The Star News can not be responsible for currency sent through the mails. — MViurRTrn OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS AND^ALSO SERVED BY THE UNITED PRESS With confidence in our armed forces—with the un bounding determination of our people— we will gain toe inevitable triumph—so help ns G°d‘ _Roosevelt’s War Message. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1945. THOUGHT FOR TOD AX Charles H. Spurgeon reckoned as the highest compliment ever paid him the words of an open enemy who said: “Here is a man who has not moved an inch forward in all his ministry, and at the close of the Nineteenth century is teach ing the theology of the first century, and is proclaiming the doctrine of Nazareth and Jerusalem current eighteen hundred years ago. Publisher Unknown. _v Wise Measure Approval by the General Assembly’s joint education committee for appointment of a con troller is wise. The schools are the biggest business in North Carolina, require more of the state’s funds than any other part of the state’s system, and certainly need a business manager. That is what the controller would be. The constitutional amendment adopted in the last general election did away with this office, but even before the election there was half-promise by those advocating the amend ment. The necessity was clear even as the office was being abolished. The new measure, which has yet to go through the House and Senate, corrects this. It does seem that no corporation, concern or governmental agency having the expendi ture of millions of dollars on such an important thing as schools or anything else would do without a business manager. They wouldn’t. That would be regarded as essential as having technicians, professional people and others. _v_ Worse Trouble Apprehension that the Nazis may seek a haven in the Western Hemisphere when their house in Germany comes toppling down is expressed by Secretary of State Stettinus. He warns America to be on guard. If some should slip through from across the Atlantic and find refuge in the vast reaches of South America or Central America and Mexico they could do a great deal of damage. Then they would be at our back door in stead of across an ocean. They are skillful schemers, crafty brutes, deceitful spies. They could worry the United States for a long time if ever they get a foothold, however small, in the New World. They must be watched, repressed, slapped down. There will be no peace, no contentment wherever they are. Unless necessary steps are taken to prevent such an influx from Nazi lands—and all the Naz:s aren’t in Germany—there will be trouble long continued. TJiey are unfit to pollute the air of the Americas; too dangerous to have around in this hemisphere. Among the persons who will seek refuge in the New World will be some of these rattlesnakes. They must be filtered out with every load on every steam ship. --- Iwo and Berchtesgaden By coincidence, our Army Air Force bomb ers made their first business trip to Berchtes gaden, Germany, bn a day when the Marines ■were in the midst of the bloody battle of Iwo Island across the word in the Pacific. Thus we were reminded that the lessons and techniques being learned on Iwo, one of the most fiercely defended spots of earth on the face of the globe, may one day be applied to that other tiny portion of our planet where Hitler and the remants of his band may have to be dug out from behind their bristling de fenses. It appears that the successful landing on Iwo was possible largely because of the les sons learned at Tarawa. Iwo has been a fiercer battle than Tarawa. The initial losses were higher, but they were expected. The strategists who planned the attack knew thal a high price for this crucial dot on the map was inevitable, however reluctant they maj have been to commit the lives of gallant fight ers in payment. Tarawa was a surprise in the strengih of the Japs’ defenses, the fierceness of their resis tance, and their ability to withstand the heavj preliminary bombing and shelling. But Ta rawa’s lesson was reflected in the 74 succes give days of air bombardment, joined in the last three by naval batteries, which punishec Iwo before the landings were attempted. This time the Marines were not surprise! to find the Japs alive and fighting. They wer ft’ alive because they, too, had learned some Isesons and had exploited a friendly terrain to the utmost in fortifying their volcanic rock. The defense of Iwo is no mere preview of the Japs’ defense of their homeland. Geo graphically, Iwo is the homeland—not a pre carious conquest like Guadalcanal or even Lu zon, but part of the inner circle of Japan’s island possessions. Iwo is the beginning of the end, the end of the home island’s security from sky, sea and land attacks. However long Japan may hold out on the Asiatic mainland, the loss of Iwo means the beginning of incessant bombing. But if Iwo is the beginning of the end, Ber chtesgaden will probably be the end itself. A last stand there is only conjecture, but many signs indicate it—the reports of elaborate prep arations, the growing peril to Germany’s northern cities, the stubborn German stand in Italy, the physical advantage of defensive war in the Bavarian Alps, the likelihood that Hit ler and his gang will fight desperately for their lives when all hope of victory is gone. Berchtesgaden is no Iwo, and the Alps are not the Pacific. But the problems may not be too dissimilar. So perhaps Iwo’s “eight square miles of hell,” where skill and courage match ed crafty defenses and desperate, fanatical fury, many be remembered to advantage if the rats of Nazidom are finally cornered at Ber chtesgaden. _\r_ Up To Governor Cherry South Atlantic ports are preparing for the most competitive race for commerce in their histories. With only one exception—Wilmington—all are pressing state-aided plans for terminal expansion. With the pent-up flood of world trade that will gush forth with the peace as the grand prize, they figure in millions for development as they move to the starting line. Today, they are all practically on an even basis as far as traffic is concerned. But all realize that the best prepared ones will get the jump with the firing of the gun when the war ends. Frankly, unless something is done and done immediately, Wilmington will be left at the post. The era that will unquestionably find this country engaged in its greatest world trade will pass us by. If we, assisted by the state and federal gov ernments, do not improve our terminal fa cilities, obtain better freight rates and widely advertise the advantages of the port, then the others will race so far ahead that the Port of Wilmington may forever be relegated to an even less desirable position than it has held in the past. The water-borne commerce of North Carolina will continue, for many years to come, to pay higher freight rates through other states’ ports and support their terminal facilities. Here is the picture as to other Southeastern ports: We cannot forget that Norfolk normally handles nearly all of North Carolina’s com merce, with the exception of fertilizer ma terial and petroleum products. This port alone has more wharves and warehouse fa cilities than all other South Atlantic harbors combined. South of us the South Carolina legislature is considering the expenditure of $16,000,000 for new terminal developments at Charleston. The spirit that the project is much more than just a development for that city is spreading throughout the state. As an example, at a meeting of industrial leaders in Greenville on Feb. 16, 120 of these executives representing the state’s Piedmont area voted their whol hearted and unqualified endorsement of the program. Likewise, Georgia is busy. There is a plan for expenditure of millions for development of the ports of Savannah and Brunswick now before its legislature. After visiting the Ala bama-owned docks at Mobile, the interested legislators introduced a bill for the creation of a State Ports authority with power to issue bonds up to $15,000,000. In his remarks to the delegation, Governor Chauncey Sparks, of Al abama, said: “In my opinion, no single invest ment that Alabama has ever made has con tributed sc bountifully to the progress of the state as the Alabama State Docks. It is easy to see the direct results but it is impossible to measure the indirect benefits that have ac crued since the great project wds started.” The port of Tampa also has an ambitious program involving the expenditure of several millions for modern and adequate terminals. Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana have al ready spent great sums to provide port fa cilities for the commerce of their states, the _il _nnA liroctcrn +orritGTlAC UPTiPr ally. Today, the State Planning Board is sched uled to present to Governor R. Gregg Cherry a report on its findings, and possibly de finite conclusions, obtained during the recent inspection trip here. This report will, to a large degree, determine the fate of the pro posed terminal finance bill, a comparatively simple measure through which the state can finance its ports on a self-liquidating basis. The Governor’s reaction to this survey will determine the port’s future. If it is favorable it will mean the "go ahead” signal for development of a harbor adequately equipped to serve North Carolina. If unfavorable or suggesting a delay until the war is over, it will be a serious setback from which the port, in view of the extensive preparations under way elsewhere on the South Atlantic, may never recover. It is now up to Governor Cherry. -V When told of the distressing lack of re sponsibility on the part of so many mothers, people are inclined to shrug their shoulders 1 and blame it on the war. This is not the case. Child abandonments are symptoms of t social ills which grow worse in wartime.— Mrs. Ethel R. McDowell, Chicago Municipal 1 Court social service director. XJLXiJ TTXXimixi>-i-i.v*’ Fair Enough ' (Editor’s note.—The Star and the News accept no responsibility for the personal views of Mr. Pegler, and often disagree with them as much as many of his read ers. His articles serve the good purpose of making people think.) By WESTBROOK PEGLER (Copyright, 1945, by King Features Syndicate) While the bleeding-heart or socio-political personality of the Roosevelt government has been insisting that we are all brothers under the skin and that discrimination among us on grounds of race, creed or color is un-Ameri can, the Supreme court has quietly given us a decision to the contrary. According to the majority opinion of Justice Hugo Black in the case of a native American named Fred Toy asaburo Korematsu, of San Leandro, Cal., it is lawful and correct in certain circumstances, to imprison in concentration camps native Americans of good reputation who happen to be descendants of immigrants from a coun try with which we are at war. By the dictum of the majority opinion, up holding the conviction of Korematsu, if now we were at war with Russia, all children and descendants of immigrants from old Rus sia, including many of our most influential union leaders, could be rounded up and in terned indefinitely in desert camps. Probably, in the long run, they would lose not only their liberty but their property as well through inevitable neglect, depreciation and sale at distress values. Ironically, Felix Frankfurter, who concurred in a separate opinion, being a native of Austria, a country with which we find ourselves at war, would seem to of fer himself for internment as an unreliable person. However I say only that Mr. Frank furter "would seem” to do this because, in common with some of his brethren, I have difficulty understanding his opinions and am ever mindful of his proviso that to draw plain meanings with plain language is to in dulge in pernicious over-simplification. Obvi ously it is even more hazardous to draw plain meanings from language which, what ever its other virtures, certainly is not plain. Justice Black, an old Klansman, took note of the contention, upheld by other justices, that Korematsu was sent to a concentration camp "solely because of his ancestry but, . ‘ . , . • . _ j : _ J 44 Wlin a audigm j-aw, v*w**wv* “Korematsu,” he says, for the court, “was not excluded from the military area because of hostility to him or his race. He was ex cluded because we are at war with the Japa nese empire” and because the military au thorities on the West coast decided that mili tary urgency demanded that all citizens of Japanese ancestry be temporarily segregated from the West coast. From that, I believe, a logical mind would proceed to the conclu sion that if Adolf Hitler had not attacked Russia and, presently, this nation had gone to war against both Germany and Russia, all persons of German and Russian ancestry, including many who were most active and influential in the Political Action committee in the late election, could be deported to con centration camps. At this very moment, in deed, Senator Robert Wagner, not a descen dant of German immigrants but, like Frank furter, an immigrant, himself, is at liberty only by virtue of the forebearance of the mili tary authorities, and F. 11. LaGuardia, too, if it comes to that. Justice Murphy, dissenting, relied on an im putation of probable disloyalty to Korematsu, strictly on the ground of undiluted racial strain, by Lieut.-Gen. DeWitt, then command er of the western defense command, who fur ther remarked, informally, that “a Jap’s a Jap.” Mr. Murphy seemed to palter with the majority momentarily when he noted the ab sence of evidence that individuals had so be haved as to justify their “exclusion as a group.” Apparently, if some number of them had so behaved, he would have been willing to consider the exclusion of innocent among the guilty. I _ i._V\ O nilllc nuwevci, Hi « —o tr - - himself together for he says: “To infer that examples of individual dis loyalty prove group disloyalty . . . is to deny that under our system of law, individual guilt is the sole basis for the deprivation of rights. This inference, which is at the very heart of the evacuation orders, has been used in support of the abhorrent treatment of minor ity groups by the dictatorial tyrannies which this nation is now pledged to destroy. Justice Jackson, also dissenting, scorned compromise entirely. “A citizen’s presence in the locality was made a crime only if his parents were of Japanese birth,” he wrote. Korematsu had been convicted of an act not commonly a crime, to wit ’’being present in a state where of he was a citizen, near the place where he was born and where, all his life, he had lived ” A German alien enemy, an Italian alien enemy, or even a native son of native ancestors with a personal record of treason, but out on parole, all were exempt from the order while this loyal native was ordered away and punished for his refusal to leave. Thus, Mr. Jackson finds that Korematsu s fault was nothing that he did but his racial “If any fundamental assumption underlies our system,” Mr. Jackson further wrote “it is that guilt is personal and not inheritable. Here is an attempt to make an otherwise innocent act a crime merely because this prisoner is the son of parents as to whom he had no choice and belongs to a race from which there is no way to resign. If congress in peace-time legislation, should enact such a criminal law I should suppose this court would refuse to enforce it.” Where now does the prevailing opinion leave us in the field of racial discrimination, ac cording to the Supreme court? For all his effort to deny the racial con sideration, the Black opinion flouts the prin ciple of Fair Employment practise in domest ic industry and commits the court in advance to repudiation of the anti-discrimination scheme proposed in the state of New York. For if, as he says, Korematsu could be pun ished because we are at war with a country which, as far as we know, he never saw, by imprisonment in a concentration camp, then surely it is a lesser deprivation, if, legal ly, it can be called any deprivation at all, to deny a man a job for *ny arb.trary rea son. This, however, now is the law of the land and millions of the bes native Amen cans, are in danger of arbitrary imprison ment by order of local military commanders only because their parents or even b-eir grandparents came from Germany. And, by this dictum, had Russia been Ger many’s ally when our country wen o war, much of the dominant personnel of the p0 litical action committee would be subject to the same treatment to day. They might be punished not for any personal guilt but for a turn of international politics over ■which they had no control. Your War-With Ernie Pyle BY ERNIE PYLE IN THE MARIANAS ISLANDS— (delayed)—Before starting out on my long tours with the Navy, I’ve decided to visit the famous B>-29 Superfortress boys who are bomb ing Japan from here. This came about largely because I have “kinfolk” flying on the B 29s, and I thought I’d kill two birds by visiting and writing at the same time. So here I am, sitting on a screen ed porch in my underwear, com fortable as a cat, with the surf beating on the shore and a lot of bomber pilots swimming out front. The B-29 boys, from comman dant clear down to lowest enlisted men, live well out here. They are all appreciative of their good for tune, and I’ve not heard a dissent ing voice. Of course, they would all rather be home, but who wouldn’t? The man I came to visit is Lieut. Jack Bales, another farm boy from down the road near Dana, Indi ana. Jack is a sort of nephew of mine. He isn’t exactly a nephew, but it’s too complicated to explain. I used to hold him on my knee and all that sort of thing. Now he’s 26, and starting to get bald like his “uncle.” Jack's folks still live just a mile down the road from our farm. But Jack left the farm and went to the University of Illinios and got edu cated real good, and was just ready to become a famous lawyer when the war came along and he Anlistpri. When I telephoned Jack and said I’d be out in about an hour to stay a few days, he said he would put up an extra cot in his hut for me. When I got there the cot was up, with blankets and mattress covers laid out on it. Jack had told the other boys he was having a visitor and on the assumption it was a woman, Jack had six eager vol unteers helping him put up the cot. When I showed up. skinny and bald, it was an awful letdown, but they’ve all been decent about it. Jack lives in a steel Quonset hut with 10 other fliers. Most of them are pilots, but Jack is a radio man. He and another fellow have charge of all his squadron’s raido. He does not have to go on missions except now and then to check up. But upon arriving I learned, both to my astonishment, and pride that he had been on more missions than anybody in his squadron. In fact, he’s been on so many that his squadron commander has for bidden him to go for a while. He doesn’t go on so many be cause he enjoys it. Nobody but a freak likes to go on combat mis sions. He goes because he has things to learn, and because he can contribute things by going. Another mission or two and he will have had his quota authorizing hm to go back to rest camp for a while. But he seems to show no strain from the ordeal. He’s pretty phlegmatic, and he says that sit ting around camp gets so monot onous he sort of welcomes a mis sion just for a change. During flight Jack sits in a little compartment in the rear of the plane, and can’t see out. In all his missions over Japan he’s seen only one Jap fighter. Not that they didn’t have plenty around, but he’s so busy he sledom gets to a win dow for a peek. The one time he did, a Jap came slamming under the plane so close it almost took the skin off. Like all combat crewmen, Jack spends all night and at least half of each day lying on his cot. He holds the record in his hut for "sack time,’’ which means just ly ing on your cot doing nothing. He has his work so organized that it doesn’t take much of his time be tween missions, and since there’s nothing else to do, you just lie around. Jack says he has got so lazy he won’t be able to face a job after the war, sc thinks he’ll work into civilian life gradually by going back to school again. The B-29 fliers sleep on folding canvas cots, with rough white sheets. Sleeping is wonderful here, and along toward morning you us ually pull a blanket over you. Each flier has a dresser of wood en shelves he’s made for himself, and several homemade tables scat tered around. The walls are plas tered with maps, snapshots a*id pin-up girls—but I noticed that real pin-up girls (wives and mothers) dominated over the movie beau ties. In fact eight of the 10 men in the hut are married. Although the food is good here, most of the boys get packages from home. One kid wrote and told his folks to slow up a little, that he was snowed under with pack ages. Jack has had two jars of Indi ana fried chicken from my Aunt Mary. She cans it and seals it in Mason jars, and it’s wonderful. She sent me some in France, but I'd left before it got there. Jack took some of his fried chick en in his lunch over Tokyo one day. We Hoosiers sure do get around, even the chickens. WASHINGTON CALLING by MARQUIS CHILDS WITH THE AMERICAN 78TH DIVISION, In Germany—Over the brow of a hill goes a long line of GI’s, single file. They are going from a forward-area rest camp back into the lines along the Roer river. It’s just routine. And yet, some how. for a newcomer to this strange world of war, it is unbelievably dramatic to see them silhouetted momentarily against clear, sun ny sky before they drop out of sight into the next valley, which, like the hill itself, is within easy range of enemy artillery. There’s nothing in the least dra matic about their behavior. It’s as casual as though they were march ing into a high-school assembly— and many of them look just about that old. A woman correspondent in our jeep sets them off. They give wolf cries. They yell to the men just ahead to look out for what’s com ing. It passes all along the line, called forth by a woman where wo men are non-existent. Ahead is the town of Schmidt— or the skeleton that was left of the town of Schmidt after the Ameri cans drove the Germans out. Wrecks of houses sit on the brow of a hill, with a view of the flooded Roer down in the valley. It cost American lives to take this insignificant place. There were careful plans based on intelli gence brought back by patrols. All for this little town of a few hundred people in the Roer valley. That is what is hard for those of us who live outside the orbit of the war tc realize—the agonizing cost of every yard of ground gain ed here in the heart of the Sieg fried defense system. This is a 50 mile contraption of death—pill boxes, mines, dragon’s teeth, booby traps—all buttressed by the Roer, by the rolling forrested terrain and, beyond that, by the Rhine. Before we cross the Rhine, thou sands of American boys will have tost their lives in this toughest, fier cest struggle against a diabolically ingenious enemy. That is what we outsiders must somehow under stand. It all sounds so simple in the headlines, and we begin to wonder why it doesn’t go faster. After all, we say, look at the Rus sians. Men who have planned for weeks what to do about the Roer river, the high banks on either side of it, and the two dams that control he level of the water, can give some interesting answers, lhey know how devasting is enemy fire from high ground directed against assault boats on the fast-flowing Roer. The men up here don’t talk very much about what they are doing, but you can’t help feeling their re moteness from the world from which you have come. They talk with a kind of hesitation that might almost be indifference. It’s a sense of being cut off from everything familier and secure out of the past. “Out of this world” is one of the phrases the GI uses most often. He uses it in an effort to express the alien quality of almost every thing that happens to him in the hell of war. There are degrees of being “out of this world.” Back at headquarters, the men feel pretty (Continued on Page Ten) Interpreting I The War I By kirkk l. si tip so y 1 . Associated Press War Analyst I Collapse of a 40-mile segire- M S the Nazi West Wall defense I between Roermond ar.d 3oxmee‘: I on the Maas appears close as. f American south and British-C*.* 1 lan north jaws of a potential tra 1 close in on its communication? Its fall would see the end of th" Siegfried Line fortifications of the Rhine and expose the rive itself to Allied attack alone';,! whole lower reach from Bonn Emmerich, The plight of Nazi forces in the Roermond corner already is crit, cal. American Ninth Arm* tanks surging northeastward out of' wide bulge to the’ west rim of th* &ft valley have cut the Roe.. mond-Gladbach railroad and also are threatening the parallel high, way. A German retreat from this dangerous pocket to escape entrap, ment, abandoning the small sec' tor of Dutch soil they still hold at the Roer-Maas confluence and the fixed Siegfried Line defenses be hind it, appears in the cards. That may be the moment Field Marshal Montgomery is waiting for to signal into action his Brit, ish Second Army, lying al ng the Mass between the American Ninth and Canadian First Armies. The Roermond anchorage is vital to enemy hopes of clinging to the whole sector from that point through British-fronted Venlo to the Boxmeer area where the Can adian bulge to the Rhine begins. With such enemy communication hubs as Uedem, Calcar and Kep peln overrun by the Canadians j driving southward down the left bank of the Rhine, the Allies are gravely threatening entrapment of major enemy forces west of the river. The developing Canadian-Amer ican north-south squeeze operation is only one phase of the surpris ingly swift American two-army lunge in the center, however. Ninth Army elements already are on the left bank of the Erft, the last river moat guarding Cologne. Available maps show only one bridge across the Rhine between Cologne and Dusseldorf. That spans the river just southwest of Dusseldorf where the Rhine makes a double bend westward There are half a dozen bridges still in tact below Dusseldorf, however, and the imDlication of the strong Ninth Army push into the gap be tween the Erft and Gladbach is an effort to squi^ze Nazi retreat lines into such compass as to ren der them desperately vulnerable targets for air strafing. _-V Daily Prayer for compassion While war rages over the world, O Lord, may our hearts remain serene and steadfast, and estab lished upon the firm foundation of Thy father care. Deliver us from all meanness of mind and from the hurt of hate. Lift up our hearts to fellowship with Christ’s own spirit of compassion, even toward our enemies. In 'he dreadfulness of war, may we oe delivered from all ignoble pas sions. Make us brave in action, but pitiful in victory. So shall we conquer our own souls, as "ell as our misguided foes; and be ready for a peace animated by the Spirit of Jesus. Amen.-W. L E. -V Town Plans Storm Cellar GREEN FOREST, Aik., Feb. 27. _(U.R)_This small Ozark town has twice been visited by destructive storms. So the Green Forest Lions Club, looking forward to the com ing “tornado season.'’ is considei ing a proposal to build a public storm cellar — complete with rest rooms. The cellar would be about 30 by 50 feet and would be placed in the center of the town square. --V Woman Doctor, 82. on Job MEREDITH, N. H„ Feb. 27.—'U. ■) —New Hampshire's oldest prac ticing woman physician is D • Mary N. Sanborn, 82, who has been serving the town of Mere... for more than 50 years.__ The Literary Guidepost By W. G. ROGERS “WARSAW GHETTO,” By Mary Berg (L. B. Fischer; $2.75); “NO TRAVELER RE TURNS,” by Henry Shoskes, edited by Curt Reiss (Double day, Doran; $2.50). “No Traveler Returns” is sub titled “The story o' Hitler’s great est crime,” and so it promises to be hair-raising, breath-taking, skin-prickling. “Warsaw Ghetto ’ is subtitled “a diary,” without one superlative, unpretentious; might be interesting, might not be. They are about exactly the same thing: the nine-mile-square ghetto which the German government brutally forced upon Jews in Po land’s capital in November, 1940, and obliterated, even more brutal ly, in April, 1943. The principal differences are in iicated substantially in the titles. Shoskes bedecks his account with what might be called the maga line touch, makes his villainous Mazis blacker than black, spills nore blood than a body can con :ain, kills his victims not just once ant maybe once and a half . . . like Dryden’s rampaging hero who slew his enemies thrice. Where Shoskes overstates, Miss Berg understates. Some readers may welcome the spice in s,10slv'’’ but I found myself more persuad ed by Miss Berg. Actually, both books asser 1“ one of the great riddles of time is the democratic peoples hesitancy about telling Hi’lei, > words he would understand, stop slaughtering Jews. There are many dreas of agiee ment, and even of I similar if no identical observation. Both write:* tell of Gestapo agents who p deo out Jews’ beards by the room; o mercenary Latvians and Lithuan ians who shot down Jews for lu“> of theaters, cafes,' schools, man** shift rikshas, the hyrse-drawn ley and that unsatpry pan c a (or Kohn) and Healer; of ls obliged to strip andtciance for •« Germans; of chilA-tn shot o death; of janitors moping up e blood spilled in the streets by 1 Nazi masters; of the suicide ol ghetto mayor Adam Czerniaku*. Shoskes . . . and Rets . . . are more diplomatic, Miss tBerg rr.uie blunt. She recalls frankly the num ber of Poles who were!anti-Semi tic. She praises the ; Russians. Shoskes offers, howevei^ a fuller account of the last battle in me ghetto . . . which M£,sw Hers had already left on her vlay to Amer ica.