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The Star News can not be responsible for currency sent through the mails._ MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS AND ALSO SERVED BY THE UNITED PRESS With confidence in our armed force*—wltt the unbounding determination of our people— we will gain the Inevitable triumph—so help ns God. Roosevelt's War Message. SATURDAY, APRIL 28, 1945. . TOP ’O THE MORNING Religion should be a rule of life, not a £-dial incident of it. DISRAELI. c* ’ _V_ By Way Of Contrast Simplification of menus for German prison ers of war in this country has been effected in most areas. It is not explained by provost marshals that changes and reductions are not infuenced by a spirit of retribution and were planned before the truth concerning Germany's treatment of American war prisoners came out. In light of what we have learned about this, it is hard to understand their squeamishness. Here is a typical bill of fare in American prisoner of war mess halls: Breakfast. Apples, oatmeal, fresh milk, cof fee cake, oleomargarine, coffee. Dinner: Liver, boiled potatoes, sauerkraut, lettuce salad with dressing, bread, oranges, coffee. Supper: Bak ed beans with fatback (the upper half of a s'de of pork after the belly, loin, ham and shoulder have been removed), boiled cabbage, fried potatoes, string-bean and mion salad with dressing, bread, raisin twists, coffee. Contrast this with the swill provided Amer ican war prisoners in Germany, and keep calm if you can. - V Nations Attending And Missing The San Francisco Security Conference got away to a bad start when Commissar Molotov maneuvered Secretary Stettinius out of the permanent chairmanship and Britain’s com promise proposal for alternating chairmen was turned down cold. It appears that Russia W’ants to be a party to a security organization —provided Russia can say what kind of an organization it is to be. In great international gatherings heretofore the chief representative of the host nation has been the presiding officer — a courtesy that needs no explanation or excuse. That Commissar Molotov sees fit to override this precedent suggests he will exert a dominat ing influence on later proceedings which may not be to Russia’s liking. But the present purpose is not to throw cold water on the San Francisco parley which may yet produce the groundwork for lasting peace, but to give an account of the nations partici pating in the deliberations and the nations W'ithout representation. The forty-six participating powers, headed by the “Big Five,”—the United States, Great Eritain, France, China and Russia—are: Australia, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Cana da, Chile, Columbia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Cecho alovakia. Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Greece, Guate mala, Haiti, Honduras, India, Iran, Iraq, Leb anon, Liberia, Luxembourg, Mexico, Nether lands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Pan ama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Saudi Ara hia. South Africa, Syria, Turkey, Uruguay, Venezuela and Yugoslavia. Eighteen nations are excluded for various reasons. This does not mean they may not be invited to join a peace league later, if the ma chinery for such an organization is created. The formula for admission was included in the Dumbarton Oaks draft. To receive an invitation, a country had to have met two requirements: (1) It must have declared war on the Axis. (2) It must have aigned the United Nations declaration. Those requirements automatically cut out *ome nations. Here are the left-outs: Tne neutrals — Sweden. Switzerland, Eire, Spain, Portugal, Afghanistan. The enemy—Germany and Japan. Hungary, Finland, Those with vague diplomatic status— 1. Denmark has no government in exile. 2. Poland still is caught in that London Warsaw tangle. , 3. Iceland haa been almost an ally, with United States troops based‘there, but it hat not declared war. 4. Italy declared war on Germany and pan in 1943, but it #till ii technically at war with Allie*. 5. Argentina ha* declared war on Germany and Japan but has «ot been admitted to the United Nations. 6. Thailand, although invaded by the Japa j nese, is an unknown quantity. -V Forces Joined ’ it has come at last. Russian and American ) forces have united in the very waist of Ger j many, at Torgau, a town where many years ) ago another Russian Army joined its Austrian 1 allies in their war with Frederick the Great. Thus the thousand-year dynasty envisioned by mad Hitler comes to an end, inglorious | for the Nazis, triumphant for the United Na ) tions. First contact was made by accident on Wed nesday when an American jeep failing to re ceive an order to stop at a certain point kept moving east, twenty-three miles beyond its intended destination, and found the Rus sians awaiting an order to move into the Elbe town selected well in advance by the com bined staffs for the junction. The actual join ing of forces in strength came at 8 o’clock Thursday night. Now all that is left of Hitler's once might; military power are three resistance zones, one in Holland and north Germany, another in Berlin, and the third in southern Germany. In the first British and Canadian armies are making rapid progress with Bremen and Ham burg, Germany’s main port cities, in flames. Berlin is overrun with Russian troops whose « chief purpose, besides razing the city, is to capture Hitler. In the South General Patton’s Third American Army is speeding with re sistless power toward another junction with Russian forces and the alleged redoubt Hitler has created in the Bavarian mountains for a last stand by his most fanatical followers. With German resistance growing lighter in all these areas, and even SS troops surrend ering in great numbers, with highways lined by German soldiers watching but not oppos ing advancing Allied armies, it would appear that the end of the war in Europe cannot be far distant. Whatever troops still loyal to Hitler may be afield, it is obvious that the tremendous forces now sweeping the Reich under Allied colors will not require much time to wipe them out. Although it had been assumed that a stubborn stand would be made in the Ba varian hills it now appears that even the most hardened of Nazis have had enough of fighting and dying in a lost cause, and will not require much persuasion by Patton’s tanks to call it a day. While this junction at Torgau does not mean the war in Germany is over, as President Truman said in a statement made simultane ously with London and Moscow, it does mean, as he adds, that the hour for which the Allies “have toiled and prayed so long draws near.” After what the world has suffered at the hands of the German war-makers this as surance is sufficiently, consoling to send ev erybody to bed tonight with hearts freer from worry and anguish than in a long time past. At the same time, it must not lead us, in our rejoicing, to overlook the war in the Pa cific which is still to be won and which de mands the most consecrated effort at home to assure victory. . -V— One With Ninevah And Tyre Berlin is dying. The Russians obviously are determined to destroy the city totally, in retribution for the German destruction of Stal ingrad. And they are very near the end of the job. Encircled, with Red troops rooting the ene my out of cellers and subways, with flames spreading among what buildings still stand, the seven hundred year old city, which repre sents the heart of Nazism, and in which Hitler and his murderefs plotted this war, is being reduced to ashes and its defenders smashed. This is the city that Goering said would never hear the hum of enemy aircraft, never feel the impact of enemy bombs. Jiow Goering is deposed and may be dead. Now Hitler is depending on his intuition to defend Berlin. Now Goebbels is reported in flight. The end of Hitlerism, as typified by the city, is but a short time ahead. If Hitler is in fact hiding within the burning city his capture cannot long be delayed. No hole or crevice, however concealed or deep, will be unexpior \ « ed by the invading Russians. Thus the city in which the torch of war was lighted, and the man who held the match, are doomed. Berlin will become one with Nineyah and Tyre. The problem then will be to see that no tyrant power ever again rises to destroy an other Stalingrad, another Berlin, and no bandit gain the strength to plunge the world into war. The attempt to bring this about has been started at San Francisco, where representa tives of forty-six nations are assembled with the aim of finding the way to permanent peace. Despite a turbulant start it can still be hoped that the way will be discovered. -V The cover design of every history of glori ous war should be a crutch.—Roanoke (Va.) World News. -V The best tonics and the most effective “beauty treatments” for 'women and men are out-door physical exercise, cheerfulness, men tal exercise, kindness and good will.—Raleigh Times. i ► ----- ■ — * -.-* 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 o: making people think.) BY WESTBROOK PEGLER (Copyright, 1945, by King Features Syndicate) SAN FRANCISCO, April 26—Senator Robert M. La Follete, Jr., United States Senate, Washington, D. C. Dear Senator: Not too long ago for my rememberance, you were running one of those badgering commit tees there in the Senate whose purpose was to punish citizens who should spy on private organizations, ostensibly voluntary ^but in most cases compulsory and ifi many cases rackets known as labor unions. I have been wondering why you never called on me because I am a hardened old offender and it would rejoice me greatly to tangle with you on this proposition. As I understand your attitude, you hold that it is wrong to spy on such outfits. On the contrary, I regard this as a public service and in my work I have had the assistance of many unwilling members who were dragooned into unions by the new deal against their will and w.th no protest from you, and of many another willing but rebellious [union worker who was being persecuted by union bosses. It wasn't necessary ior me iu see* mem. They came to me with their troubles and told me what was going on and, as one result, quite a few criminals have gone to prison who would have been protected in their rac keteering if you had scared us off. They would tell me about shakedowns in the form of fees and assessments, personal terrorism and grafting by union bosses who would sell the members out to employers and we would get busy and pretty soon we would have the crooks wired. ‘ By the way, what have you ever done about that, Senator? You don’t hold with racketeering do you? I don’t think I get your attitude when, in the presence of notoriofls conditions, you would give us a law which would make it dangerous to investigate such doings. If private or unofficial individuals were for bidden to do this, who would do it? Certainly the Department of Justice hasn’t done it al though John Edgar has in his files down there in the ■ same building with our august Attorney General absolutely authentic police pedigrees on hundreds of such bums. And I am sur'e you remember that when the House of Representativs passed a bill to forbid at least a few racketeering practises and sent it over to the Senate, this reform was strangled by a Senate committee and buried in the dark of the moon. You didn’t do anything to bring it out of committee, either, so I draw the conclusion that you were not interested in the prevention of such predatory unionism. Why shouldn’t we spy on unions, anyway? The unioneer has a right to spy on the em ployer, hasn’t he? He can buy a share of stock and sit in on the board meetings, for instance, and tell the wide world all that everybody said. He can plant a clerk or stenographer in the front office to filch carbon copies of inti mate business correspondence and sell the employer out to his rivals and by this espi onage can anticipate any move that the com pany is contemplating, such as reduction of the force or change in the managing staff. How do you suppose I ever learned about the big insurance shakedown in the boiler maker's union by which the son of-the union’s president got an income greater man we pay the President of the United States derived from premiums paid by the members who had to buy this insurance to get their jobs building ships for the government in this war? Do you think I got it from the Department of Labor or the War Labor Board? But you know bet ter than that. You know they protect and per petuate such rackets. I got it from members, from one-time, horny-handed boilermakers and ship-builders who just couldn't get any relief within the union and were tossed around for trying. We didn’t stop the racket but we did get the old man out of there, although boosting him into the title of president emeritus the mob gave him a sweet raise in pay which certainly was inconsistent with the little steel gag. Maybe, though, in another year, we will bust the insurance racket, too. These things do take time, especially under a national ad ministration that connives and cooperates with racketeers at the expense of the workers on the daily jobs. One of the most interesting little jobs of espionage in my experience was done by a nice young ffellow in New York who went to a meeting of a local union whose boss had been convicted of a stickup in which the victim was Mrs. James Forrestal, the wife of the Secre tary of the Navy. This gangster was strictly an underworld bum and he wanted some mon ey to pay for his defense and his appeal and he was go;ng to shake down the poor suckers for it. My young friend walked into the meet ing and acted like a bolshevik, sounding off with denunciations of the employers and hint ing of a ruthless plot to railroad a fine labor leader to prison because he was improving the condition of his fellow man. It took quite a lot of nerve but he had what it took and he came out with a fine report of all that took place. Our labor spy later lost his life in, the war and the people who hoisted Mrs. Forrestal, at last reports, were alive and well in prison. The-most important result that I can see of a forbiddance against espionage on unions would be to make it even harder if not impossible for the victims in the unions to get publicity and eventual relief. Because you know that Depart ment of Justice won’t do a thing and you, yourself, have never lifted your voice to pro mote new laws which would give them a chance within the unions. Why don’t you cite me for spying on thieves and racketeers? Do me something. WESTBROOK PEGLER. _V_ EDITORIAL COMMENT DR. BUTLER STEPS DOWN Columbia University will hardly seem the same without its incredible president, Nicho las Murray Butler. During the 43 years of his leadership, Columbia has become a truly great center of learning, in quality as well as in magnitude. And throughout, Dr. Butler has been its peripatetic advertisement and ambassador extraordinary. He has been call ed “the most comprehensively decorated indi vidual'extant.” He has known just about ev erybody, including every Br.tish Piime Min ister since Gladstone, and has crossed the Atlantic over 100 times in. keeping his con tacts bright. He has “been in there fighting vigorously on most national and world issues which have arisen during his career. He may, officially, leave the president’s chair, but he cannot re sign from the American scene. One cannot hide so cosmopolitan a luminary under the bushel of retirement.—Christian Science Mon itor, I- " TOVARICH! —J Your War-With Ernie Pyle I _ Editor’s Note: Yesterday the Morning Star carried what was be lieved to have been Ernie Pyle’s last column. In addition to the story which appears here today, we will print several others which we have just received from Ernie on Okinawa. We believe he would have wanted us to. As a great re porter, a great newspaperman and a great person, he would have wanted his -stories to go through, despite his tragic death. BY ERNIE PYLE OKINAWA— (by Navy radio) — Back nearly two years ago when I was with Oklahoma’s 45th Divi sion in Sicily and later in Italy, I learned they had a number of Na vajo Indians in communications. When secret orders had to be given over the phone these boys gave them to one another in Nava jo. Practically nobody in the world understands Navajo except another Navajo. Well, my regiment of First Di vision marines has the same thing. There are about eight Indians who do this special work. They are good marines and very proud of being, so. There are two brothers among them, both named Joe. Their last names are the ones that are dif ferent. I guess that’s a Navajo custom, though I never knew of it before. One brother, Pfc. Joe Gatewood, went to the Indian school in Albu querque. In fact our house is on the very same street, and Joe said it sure was good to see somebody from home. joe nas ukcii uui ucic uucc years. He is 34 and has five chil dren back home whom he would like to see. He was wounded sev eral months ago and got the Pur ple Heart. Joe’s brother is Joe Kellwood who has also been out here three years. A couple of the others are Pfc. Alex Williams of Winslow, Ariz., and Pvt. Oscar Carroll of Fort Defiance, Ariz., which is the capital of the Navajo reservation. Most of the boys are from around Fort Defiance and used to work for the Indian Bureau. * * * The Indian boys knew before we got to Okinawa that the invasion landing wasn’t going to be very tough. They were the only ones in the convoy who did know it. For one thing they saw signs and for another they used their own in fluence. Before the convoy left the far south tropical island where the Na vajos had been training since the last campaign, the boys put on a ceremonial dance. The Red Cross furnished some colored cloth and paint to stain their faces. They made up the rest of their Indian costumes from chicken feathers, sea shells, coco anuts, empty ration cans and rifle cartidges. Then they did their c.*vi native ceremonial chants and dai'ces out there under the tropical palm trees with several thousand marines as a grave audience. In their chant they asked the great gods in the sky to sap the Japanese of their strength for this blitz. They put the finger of weak ness on the Japs. And then they ended their ceremonial chant by singing the Marine Corps song in Mavajo I asked Joe Gatewood if they really felt their dance had some thing to do with the ease of our landing and he said the boys did believe so and were very serious about it, himself included. "I knew nothing was going to happen to us,” Joe said, "for on the way up here there was a rain-, bow over the convoy and I knew then everything would be all right.” * * * One day I was walking through the edge of a rubbled Okinawa vil lage where marine telephone line men were stringing wire to the tops of the native telephone poles. As .1 passed, one of the two line men at the top called down rather nervously saying he was afraid the wobbly pole was going to break under their weight. To which one of the men on the ground, apparently their sergeant, called back reassuringly: “You’ve got nothing to worry about. That’s imperial Japanese stuff. It can’t break.” * * * There are very few cattle on Okinawa but there are lots of goats ahd horses. The horses are small like western ponies and mostly bay or sorrel. Most of them are skinny, but when you see well-fed ones they are good-looking horses. They are all well broken and tame. The marines have acquired them by the hundreds. Our company alone has more than 20. The boys put their heavier packs on them but more than that they just seem to enjoy riding them up and down the country roads. They have rigged up rope halters for them and one marine made a bridle using a piece of bamboo for a bit. They dug up old pads, and even some goat skins to use as sad dle blankets. But it’s surprising how many men in a company of marines don’t really know how to ride a horse. WASHINGTON CALLING by MARQUIS CHILDS WASHINGTON — When the war with Germany ended in Novem ber of 1918. Herbert. Hoover had more than 16,000,000 tons of food stored in America and ready to ship to starving Europe. Of the 27,000,000 tons used for rehabili tation in the first year of the peace, at least 16,000,000 tons came from this country, and of this total 2, 400,000 tons was in meat products or vegetable oils. That is a lot of food. It is more food than we have today to do a job that may be twice or three times as big. As the delegates as semble in San Francisco to write a world charter, they should remem ber that it is hard for hungry peo ple to think about cooperation and world peace. Three years ago, Hoover estima ted that more than 500.000,000 peo ple would be suffering some de gree of food shortage after the end of this war. Knowing food and knowing Europe, he called the turn on those countries which ,-will be much worse off than last time/’ He named Norway. Holland, Belgium, Fiance, Greece, Poland, Yugoslav ia and the Baltic states. As boss of the entire world food supply at the end of the last war, Hoover had extraordinary powers, and he used those powers to the fullest extent to save millions of Europeans from starvation. Then, as now, shipping was short, out Hoover took drastic steps to make sure he obtained every possible square foot of space. One step he took was to compel both British and Americans to take ships off trade routes and use them to carry food for the relief of Eu rope. That is not being done to day. We are exporting luxury goods to South America and getting back what are, by any wartime defi nition, non-essentials. Similarly, the British are reported to be using ships in the Far Eastern and the African trade in an effort to de velop post-war commerce. A second step taken by Hoover was to obtain virtually all the ship ping held by neutral countries for the job of feeding a stricken con tinent. While neutral shipping com panies were compensated for the ships they chartered to the relief administration, it was made very clear that the ships had to be forth coming. , That has not been done this time. Sweden, for example, has a con- j sid,erable pool of reserve ships. ; Those who are connected with i the Hoover food administration in sist that per capita consumption of food here at home was lower dur ing the war years 1917 through 1919 than from 1942 through 1944, despite the fact there was no ra tioning under law in World War 1. A look at the statistics tends to bear this out. This is particularly true when you compare 1917 or ’18 with 1944. Per capita meat consumption last year was 147 pounds, as compared with 136' in 1917 and 143 in 1918. For chickens, the comparison is 17.8 pounds in 1918 and 23 pounds in 1944. For cooking fats it was 10.6 per person in 1918 and 16 in 1944. Mo statistical proof is necessary, however, to show that our food controls have failed. In this fail ure, it seems to me, are the po tentials of great misfortune, if no disaster. Ir. the last war, the whole em phasis was on appeal to the patrio tism and the humanitarianism of the American people, the proces sors of food, both wholesale and - (Continued on Page Eight) Interpreting The War By KIRKE L. SIMPSON* Associated Press War Analvist However portentious the j.'., link-up.of Allied and Russ:sr, a ies in the heart of German-. on tn" Elbe seems, an even more' iirV-4 ant similar junction farther "so'-V impends. American Third Army eleme plunging down the Danube va;:e.! virtually unopposed were repore* in tank-radio touch with jjj Army armor plowing northwes-' ward up the same stream. Thai would indicate patrols were in less than 30 miles of each othe when the incident was recored many hours ago. A junction on the Danube would split the Nazi Bavaria Alps ias,. stand citadel off from both Ge-. many and Czechoslovakia, expose it and its Berchtesgaden nerve center* to immediate attack. The mere fact that a Russian tank- I radio was heard in American lines indicates that the Red forces'ate far beyond their last officially Moscow reported positions. That chaos and disillusionmer.1 are spreading fast even among the Hitlerized youth of Germany and Nazi army elements as well s$ German regular forces is vividlv indicated in front line dispatches describing the first Russian-Amen can contact scene at Torgau in the Elbe. To efficit that touch with Red troops, American jeeps plow ed their way through hordes of German civilians in flight from the Russians, hoping for she ter with in American lines. Freed Allied ■war prisoners, marching beside informal columns of Gvman troops vainly seeking to surrender, added to the utterly fantastic scene as pictured by front line correspondents. Obviously, nowhere from the lower Elbe to the Sudeten moun tains is there anything approach ing organized resistance. There is no convincing evidence of German will to prolong the fight except in isolated cases of die-hard groups. It is no longer a war in much of Germany, but a problem for the victors of what to do with the mobs of refugees, both civilian ar.d military, caught between closing Allied and Russian lines. If there is any semblance of a fight-to-the-death attitude any where in Germany except in Rus sian beset Berlin, it is around the falling North Sea and Baltic ports in the fail shriveling northern pocket. Southward in Austria and Bavaria predictions that a stub born last defense of the national redoubt would be encountered have so far gone unfulfilled. Press men at the front have dubbed it instead the “redoubt of doubt'’ in token of that. The situation in Italy no less shows military disintegration a' j work. American troops on general Clark’s left of line leaped into Genoa at a bound. His center in captured Verona closed the Bren ner Pass escape gate on the main body of the foe fleeing before him. He had in effect split northern Italy apart to the Alps, penning ; up most of its Nazi garrison in the west. French troops are moving into Italy from the west along the Mediterranean coast with no in ! dicated opposition. The situation lends fuli credence to Italian ant. Nazi radio reports that the Ger mans are negotiating with par tisans for a general surrender. -V Daily Prayer FOR WORTHINESS OF VICTOR! Because we have sought objec tives learned in Thy word, and be cause the help of Thv strong am has been with us, we have won great victories in this war. y praise and honor to Thee, the uoo } of Battles. Thou hast been on or: side, against pagan foes who hate flouted Thy name. Now we p.«! that we may be fit for our victoir In humble acknowledgment of - h help hitherto, may be set aoco rebuilding a destroyed world. v liver us from vindictiveness am hatred and all baser P»ssl"ns' May our forces be as cnivalro-- •" peace as they have been victorr in war. Open all hearts to ^ awareness of the new. high u ahead of us, the fulf.lmen • which is impossible unless v.e — _ the Spirit of Jesus. Father, - give our sins, and open up ’ the richness of the spirituaj. •• Make us keep in the quest for ■■ and for Thy will and m world’s welfare. Send peace ■■ 'J time. O Lord. Amen. The Literary Guidepost By W. G. ROGERS “THE BUILDERS OF THE BRIDGE,” by D. B. Steinman (Harcourt, Brace; $3.50). Biography is a lot of hard work. The man who tackles it has to satisfy that vague thing called the truth; he has to deal person ally with his subject, if living, and placate him, or with ids subject’s heirs and assignees; he has to please a publisher, he needs to please the public, or a section of it. So no man undertakes the job :oolly; he either loves his subject 3r hates him. Steinman is the lov ing kind. He lifts John Roebling, vho built the Brooklyn Bridge, :o pinnacles way out of sight of sven the bridge’s soaring towers. Slot content with making the elder Roebling an engineering genius . . md he was certainly one of the !9th century’s boldest and most ndividual builders . . . he also :redits him with a kind of super latural power, in particular over lisease. The lion really needs no lioniz ng; the facts in themselves ard istounding enough. Born in Ger nany, where he studied under Hegel, John Roebling came < - i country in 1831, founded •• burg, Pa., mede wire rope ••• - ^ tories later moved to Trem'U' Roebling, N. J. He was * an undying and bitterly believer in the suspension a and his three masterly, ru- -j( ly significant structures were at Niagara and Cincinnati Brooklyn Bridge. The span caused his death by nC ‘Tggj^ and crippled his son, " ington A. Roebling, the book - ond subject. . h fesd John Roebling, thougn r.e , nine children, was narav could be called a family • character as father ana _ is described, but not recie But Steinman becomes a ' plete delight when he deals the Brooklyn Bridge i of matchless esthetic “Sound building is bf J.a’\ building,” he says, and • v(, be said too often. In the h structure, Steinman sees ^ try” in the enormous *Pa ' r|, ’“timeless strength” of the -» • “the simple and natural , that endures.” There was I single concession to orna. • j tion, no conscious art, S
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