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MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS AND ALSO SERVED BY THE UNITED PRESS With confidence in our armed forces—with the unbounding determination of our people— we will gain the inevitable trinmph—so help ns God. Roosevelt’s War Message. TUESDAY, JUNE 26, 1945 TOP 0’ THE MORNING There Is no petition too little, any more than one too great, for God to grant, if R is m harmony with his will. J. Hudson Taylor Wealth Of Knowledge James Sloan, Jr., who has been a member of the White House Secret Service staff for thirty-two years, has had enough. He will re tire on July 1. This month he is enjoying a vacation. Ever since Theodore Roosevelt was president, he has been guarding chief executives. What he could tell, if he dared write his in timate relationship with them: Probably you couldn’t buy what he knows for a million dollars, but plenty came under his observation during the administrations since he was spar ring, wrestling, walking and riding companion of Teddy. Taft, Wilson, Harding, Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Truman have been under his care. He could let many a cat out of the bag. _\r_ For Relief Of Railroads : No more astonishing achievement during the war period has come to public attention than the performance of American railroads. Not only have they been required to carry tre mendous loads, passenger and freight. They have had to do it with diminishing working forces. Experienced men by the thousands have been inducted into the armed services, leaving the lines to get along as best they could with a small percentage of regular employes and such unskilled help as they could pick up. There have been many wrecks which were directly traceable to inexperienced train crews. But by and large, ever since the move ment of troops and supplies set in in earnest, the lines have done phenominally well. Now, with the demand even greater than when the war in Europe was at its height, bee use of the necessity of moving a growing number of meu and greater quantities of equipment from the eastern seaboard to the Pacific coast, the Office of War Transporta has asked the War department to release twenty-five thousand experienced railroad men from the Army, on the point system, and grant furloughs to ten thousand more. The proposal has the endorsement of War Manpower Commission Chairman Paul V. McNutt and the Agricultural-Labor-Manage ment committee of the McNutt administra tion. Under-secretary of War Patterson is said to be reluctant to transfer men from the Army for railroad work, fearing a break-down of the point system. The ODT’s request for men only who have the necessary points for dis charge should overcome Mr. Patterson’s ob jection. Surely, in consideration of the lines’ ser vices in the war emergency, and in the in terests of safety, ODT’s request well deserves approval. There are many thousands of men who could take the places of those whose dis charge is sought and the others for whom furloughs are asked. Baruch On The Peace Bernard M. Baruch, who was an advisor of President Wilson in the former World War and of President Roosevelt in this one, whose vision is extraordinarily clear, particularly on economic and financial relations among na tio*~, gave valuable testimony before the Sen ate Military Affairs Committee. Because of his wide experience and close association with affairs of world-wide importance, his recom rr. .ndations with, respect of the kind of peace to be given Germany have especial signifi cance. e told the committee it is essential to world peace that Germany’s war potential be idestroyed lock, stock and barrel; that friend ly relations must ne established and maintain ed between Russia and the Western Allies; that the great Junker estates must be divided and Germany’s trade be controlled; that Ger ma*. business organizations must be uproot ec everywhere, and universal military train in,, established. The prime problem before the United Na tions. he declared ir how 1o prevent revival of Germany’s war-making might. This is the heart of making and keeping the peace. ‘If this is to be a sure peace,” he empha sized, “we must be prepared to see the peace through with an international organiza tion to maintain common unity among the Allies, with a determined preparedness, in cluding universal military training, with an “as-long-as-it-takes’ occupation of Germany, with the judicious use of our great produc tive power and with a living faith in our democracy.” Having failed to keep a tight rein on Ger many after World War I with tragic conse quences, it is to be expected the same mis take will not be repeated now. Important as the other recommendations made by Mr Ba rucn are, friendly relations with Russia ap pear the most essential to future security. They cannot be based on appeasement, naturally, but a fair policy of give and take ought to assure them. -V Strikes Double In Number With some 87,000 and more workers idle through strikes, the pledge given President Roosevelt by union presidents that there would be no more walk outs as long as the war continued are so much wasted breath. The gravely alarming phase of the strike fever now sweeping the country is that strikes have doubled in number since VE-Day. This is no hit-or-miss estimate. It comes from the Labor department’s conciliation service Howard P. Colvin, director of the service, says that strikes reached a twenty-a-day peak during the war in Europe. Since May 8, when Germany surrendered, they have climbed to from thirty-five to fifty a day. Excepting the strike at the Goodyear plant and others in the automotive industry, involv ing thousands of workers with consequent de lays in the production of essential war ma terials, most of the strikes are of a trivial nature, showing that workers accept little or no responsibility for victory in the Pacific. Mr. Colvin says some have been caused by slow delivery of pay checks and others because wives were receiving higher pay than their husbands in the same plant. Some have come because lunch-time checker games were pro hibited. One day last week says Mr. Colvin, when forty-five new strikes were reported, nineteen of them resulted from the discharge of one two or three workers. “These discharges, “he explains. Tike many of the other grievances which are causing strikes, should have been settled through procedure provided by con tracts” between management and labor. He ascribes three reasons for the present increase in strikes, to wit, many workers feel less responsibility for sticking at the job since the defeat of Germany, war nerves, and hot weather. Certainly none of the three is a legitimate excuse for quitting. There is more reason to stay at work with the war against the Japa nese entering the final stage. The fighting forces are combatting war nerves more vaii antlv than anybody at home and assuredly are enduring hot weather, much hotter than any experienced in America, without com plain,.. They are getting a raw deal from every body who lays down his tools in this crisis. XT Liberation Incomplete When the announcement was made that the Phi.lppines had been liberated from the Jap anese a widely-held impression was that no more enemy troops were on the islands. And because of this impression the fighting now under way on northern Luzon is puzzling many persons. With the recapture of Manila, Bataan and Corregador. which broke the back of organized Japanese resistance, the Philippines were • berated, but large segments of the Japanese forces fled into the north where they set up new headquarters and erected defenses. While they were unable to undertake offensives in strength and for the most part were pocketed completely, their presence constituted a men ace to full reoccupation of Luzon and, to a lesser degree, Mindanao, where the situation was similar. It is to eradicate these pockets of resistance th,.t the present campaign was undertaken and is progressing successfully. The Philippines are freec from Japanese rule and oppression, but reconquest cannot be complete until they are destroyed. The same situation prevails on other islands —New Guinea and the Carolines for example —where similar campaigns are under way. The Japanese are no longer capable of seiz ing or holding control in any of them, but they remain a thorn in the flesh of Allied victory as long as they hold a foot of territory. QUOTATIONS He (the gooa public official need not be timid or obsequious, but unless he really serves, he is not a good servant. —Byron Price, National Director of Censorship. * * * America . . . upheld and fortified our self respect and kept alive our aspirations for liberty and independence. —Mme. Vincent Lim, wife of a Filipino briga dier general reported to be a prisoner of the Japanese. * * « Lntil domestic service is treated like a skill eu trade, there won’t be any domestic service. Mrs. Ethel M. Wood, British womanpower expert. * * * If Britain’s acres are not harvested to the full this year, the people of this country (Eng land) will undoubtedly have to exist next winter on the most frugal rations within living mem ory. ( —From statement by British National Farmers C'ion to Food Ministry. 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 of making people think.) BY WESTBROOK PEGLER (Copyright, 1945, by King Features Syndicate.) NEW YORK, —The grand jury is a noble in stitution even though it sometimes is manipu lated by politicians to reward and protect their friends and persecute their enemies. It has the right to initiate investigations without the permission of the district attorney and, in a test it might successfully defy the orders of the court. It can exclude the district at torney from its hearings if it decides that he is untrustworthy and, pointedly, several fed eral grand juries have a right just now, and I should say, a legitimate occasion, to inquire thoroughly into Elliott Roosevelt’s loan of $200, 000 from John Hartford, the president of the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea company, the large grocery chain. Congress, too, has the power to investigate any matter which commands its attention, but the primary purpose of Congress is legislation, and its investigations should be restricted to legislative matters or conditions which seem to require reform through legislation. In the case of Elliott’s loan no act is pending which would justify an inquiry, and the laws already existing would seem to cover any conduct which might be disclosed by the testimony of all concerned. I have reason to believe that such testimony would be that Elliott obtained other large sums from other individuals, at least two of whom were encouraged by the late President Roose velt to accommodate his son, one of them being then under consideration for a presidential ap pointment to an office of considerable pres tige which later did come through. Testimony could be elicited in any sincere investigation, alleging that Elliott’s uncle. Hall Roosevelt, the brother of Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, was concerned in the original negotiations for the $200,000 loan from Hartford, that he later sug gested that he, himself, be loaned $50,000 by Hartford to finance a business of his own and that negotiations were initiated look ing to the engagement of Mrs. Eleanor Roose velt, herself, by Atlantic and Pacific as a radio commentator but were dropped by de cision of Mr. Roosevelt. There would be testi mony, I venture to say, that William Sirovich, the new deal congressman, who participated in Elliott’s negotiations, also approached John Hartford with a proposal that Hartford pro duce on a radio program a dramatic play which he had written and that down to thi day Hartford has received no proof that the $200,000 was used by Elliott solely for the purpose for which it was loaned, although this is not to allege that it was not so used I say only that testimony would be given that Hartford recived no proof that Elliott com plied with this phase of Hartford’s under standing. Now here, obviously, is an opportunity for a political dredging operation of the kind that the new deal political terrorists delighted in when the administration was young and reck less of the consequences of the precedent which it was creating. That precedent has since resulted in a harmful confusion in the public mind which now, from force of custom, beheves mistakenly that Congress is a sort of open-air grand jury whose function is to smeai the political outs for the advantage of the party in power. It will be observed, how ever, that the ins, being the relics of the new deal, have suddenly become aware of the pure original purpose for which Congress exists and are exerting themselves to prevent such an inquiry. However, the Federal Grand Jury of the southern district of New York or the New York County Grand Jury, could go into the original deal and pursue the ramifications revealed by the testimony without any request from either the federal district attorney, who is an ap pointee of the late President, or Frank S. Higan, the county prosecutor, who is now en gaged in a political campaign and might be unfairly suspected of playing politics whether he dici or didn’t bring the case to the county grand jury’s notice. The negotiations took place and the money was passed in Manhattan so both grand juries have jurisdiction. But the federal grand jury has the advantage that its subpoenaes a’-e good anywhere in the United States and could command the attendance of important wit nesses who live in Fort Worth, Tex., and other states It could ask Jesse Jones to reveal his conversations with Hartford, with Caruther Ewing, Hartford's attorney, with Elliott and with “the family” who, by Ewing's statement, waited to compromise the $200,000 debt, and ask Jones who put up the $4,000 which Hart ford accepted in settlement. It could call all the others whom it had reason to suspect had made large loans. The grand jury could ask for independent investigators other than the FBI which, un fortunately, seems to have compromised it self by the neglect of some of its members to maintain their austerity. Its proceedings would be secret and the public and the po litical outs thus would be denied any purely scandalous but otherwise unimportant tes timony. But one function of a grand jury is just that. It has very informal rules but it separates evidence from scandal and if no indictment results the mere scandal is sup pressed, as it should be. The subjects of greatest popular interest here are ethical, political and historical. The throbbing questions are whether President Robsevelt encouraged individuals who were un der consideration for political favors to lend money to his son and then permitted or even contrived the discount of loans, whether the Treasury will disallow as a deductible bad debt a debt which obviously was bad and what place Mr. Roosevelt deserves in history if he did this. Circumstances have put it up to Elliott to vindicate his father’s name. This cannot be done convincingly in the secrecy of a grand jury whose report of no indictment would mean only that no criminal offense was al leged. That would still leave a serious imputa tion against the late President. -V THE SUPREME OPTIMIST The supreme optimist evidently is one who thinks that while it reauires trained men and leaders to win a war almost any amateur can wi the peace—-Winston-Salem Journal -V Grass is said to rank high in vitamins. We’ve noticed it puts up a healthy resistance to the lawn mower. The ostrict gallops along at a speed of 60 miles an hour. You would, too—-with your bare feet on the burning desert sands. The reason Pop got such swell marks for i his home work may be the fact there were no radio serials to distract him. I David and Goliath ■CA Smtet. tut CIANO’S DIARY Russian Intervention In Poland Shocks And Surprises Italians SEPT. 4—OCT. 5, 1939. Neutrality in the early days of the war was a paying proposition for Italy and Mussolini, who spoke piously of peace, actually wanted his son-in-law, Count Ciano. to “throw some kerosene on the fire” of European conflict, Ciano's diary reveals. Russian intervention in Poland shocked and surprised the Italians who, as usual, were uninformed. Once the agreements had been signed, Ciano was summoned per emptorily to Berlin and given one explanation. Mussolini jealously watched Hitler catapult to fame and hoped some one would stop him. II Duce turned down a Ger man request for naval assistance in the Mediterranean. Ciano wrote: SEPT.4—“I accompany Macken sen (German ambassador) to II Duce, bringing a message from Hitler in which the conviction is reaffirmed that the two regimes, bound by a common destiny, must follow a common path. . . .11 Duce still is dreaming about heroic un dertakings against Yugoslavia which would bring him to the Ro manian oil. . .Gen. Favagrossa. (undersecretary of state for war production) said tonight he would be happy if our pesent stocks per mitted us to fight for three months * * » SEPT. 5— “Neutrality begins to bear concrete fruit. The stock market quotations soar, the first orders to buy Italian industrial and financial stock come from France. Boats resume their sailings at dou ble rates and are full as an egg. II Duce. . .must be told that we need a long period of neutrality to enter the war later as he desires, but not before the end of a year.” SEPT. 6 — “Krakow fell today, and the German generals paid their respects at the tomb of Pil sudski. II Duce says this fine ges ture would have been impossible under the Germany of the Kaiser. * * & SEPT. 7—“II Duce still has in termittent flashes of belligerency. Whenever he reads an article com paring his policy with that of 1914 he reacts violently in favor of Germany.” SEPT. 8—“I do not believe that Hitler has the wisdom to be mod erate in victory, and I believe ev en less that the English, now that the sword has been unsheathed, are disposed to return to its scab bard with dishonor.” HITLER SHOWS HIS HAND IN HUNGARY SEPT. 9. — “Villani (Hungarian minister) says that the Germans have asked the free use of rail roads in Hungary to attack Poland from behind. The Hungarians. . . are aware that this would be mere ly a prelude to occupation. . . .In Vienna they already sing that “we will hold securely what we have and go to Trieste tomorrow.’. . . . II Duce advised the Hungarians to turn down the German request as courteously as possible.” SEPT. 10—Attolico (ambassador to Berlin) reports that among the German people, un-aware of what has occurred, there are signs of increasing hostility (to the Ital ians). Charges of treachery and perjury are repeated often. . .Mor ale in Germany is low though mil itary victories in Poland have gal vanized it temporarily. . .De Bono (Italian field marshal) is convinc ed our defenses could not hold against a French attack.” SEPT. 12—‘‘After the Germans accepted the Hungarian refusal for transport of their troops, they had a similar request made through ‘the Glorious Slovak Ar my.’ Villani says the Slovaks are to the Germans as jackals are to hyenas. They are accomplices and pimps.” * * * SEPT. 13 — ‘‘Bocchini (chief of police) says the state of mind in the country is improving as word spreads of the certainty of o u r neutrality. . . .The Germanophiles can be counted on the fingers of one hand. They are objects of scorn. ‘Tevere,’ an ultra-German paper in Rome, is called “Gold of the Rhine.’ ” RED SPECTRE STALKS INTO THE PICTURE SEPT. 14 — "Magistrati (Ital ian embassy official in Berlin) has supplied a hint of approach'ng Russian intervention to absorb a part of Poland. Russia is showing signs of restlessness. It is mobiliz ing numerous classes, and Tass [prints news of Polish border vio lations and provocations. How un imaginative men are when they want to start trouble!’’ SEPT. 16—“It now seems that Germany wants to attack Roma nia! This disturbs the sleep of the French and British. But the fact that Russia is preparing to inter vene should be even more disturb ing. An agreement with Japan has been reached, or is about to be The Soviets can have a free hand in Europe.” SEPT. 17—“The Russians have entered Poland. . .The Poles have put up some resistance, but what can they do?. . .11 Duce does not believe that Germany wants to in vade Romania They will be satis fied to impose economic servitude, conferences Hitler twice said King Carol would pay dearly for the murder of Codrianu (Romanian Iron Guard leader). I recall that during the Berghof “Ribbentrop telephones from the train of the high command in Up per Silesia. . .Russian intervention has taken place according to a prearranged plan” * 1 * SEPT. 18—“A long conference with II Duce in the evening. I re port what I learned from Gen. Graziani (chief of staff) that at the present time our first line forces amount to only 10 divisions. The other 35 are patched up, incom pletely manned, and ill-equipped.” SEPT. 19 — “From RorAania comes information that the Polish military and political leaders have been interned at the request of the Germans.’’ SEPT. 2—“I have spoken with Starace (Fascist party secretary) of the internal situation and have told him that some of his methods are not the kind to uproot anti Fascism. During the evening, in Via Veneto, I saw a harmless per son, a patriot and a Fascist, beat en up by a small group of gang sters who were protected by the fact that they belong to the party, and by their certainty that they would not be punished. . , . “This unwarranted squadrismo (a new word to indicate a group of men used to attack, arrest or even kill political opponents) ac tion is harmful. I am far from deploring beatings when they are well deserved, but it disgusts me to see idiotic and cowardly acts of violence. This has become a habit, unfortunately, with so many of the mercenaries employed by higherups in the party ” SUSPECTS HITLER IS BOTTLED UP SEPT. 24 — “The developments occasioned by the Russian occu pation of Poland have induced II Duce to revise his earlier optimis tic judgment about the German situation. He now goes so far as to say that Hitler is bottled up, and that the French and British can yet succeed in pitting Russia against Germany. II Duce desires peace, only because the position of a neutral is not to his liking.” SEPT. 25—“It is well to use a small person to kill a large one, but it is a mistake to use a large person to liquidate a small one. This is II Duce's diagnosis of Rus sian intervention at the request of the Germans. “He is more than ever convinced that Hitler will rue the day he brought the Russians into the heart of Europe. “They have two weapons that make them even more terrible: Pan-slavic nationalism with which they can bring pressure on the Balkans, and Communism which is spreading rap dly among t h e proletariat all over the world, be ginning with Germany itself. “Teleki (Hungarian prime min ister) calls Hitler a gangster, and Czaky (Hungarian foreign minis ter) has sent word that Von Rib bentrop does not conceaf his ha tred for me. I feel much honor ed.” RED-GERMAN PACT ‘MONSTROUS UNION’ SEPT. 26 — "We have already said that during the last few days some sort of plot was hatching be tween Moscow and Berlin and to day we have had a conformation of it from Rosso (ambassador in Moscow). It seems that Von Rib bentrop has returned to Moscow to sign a genuine military alliance, giving Bessarabia and Estonia to the Russians, and the remaining part of Romania to the Germans. Absolute silence from Berlin. "The Germans prepare to strike a blow without our knowledge ev ery time. . The alliance between Moscow and Berlin is a monstrous union made against the letter and spirit of our pact, It is anti-Rome and anti-Catholic. It is a return of barbarism against which it is ou* historic mission to rise with every weapon and resource. But will it be possible for us to do so? Or has not the game been decided tragically already?” SEPT. 27—"Berlin gives us ab solutely no information. It is from the press agencies that we learn that Von Ribbentrop has left for Moscow. On the excuse that his time was so limited, Von Ribben trop refused to receive Attolico * * * "II Duce received Cmdr. Pecori our naval attache in Berlin, to dis cuss German requests for naval assistance. They would like subma rine supply stations from us, aid in locating French-British con voys, and the transfer of some sub marines for operations in the Med iterranean. II Duce in the begin ning was favorable. . .With Cavag nan (chief of naval staff) who (Continued on Page Ten) 'Jap Persuader* By BONNIE WILEY TINIAN— (A —This i- , Toughy who swaggers 4en if walks Toughy is a Japanese" ,6 or, blasted out of a cave " Americans took Tinian He's Wh6n gant and cocky, to be sure huf0' Toughy several Americans ‘° lot of his own countrymen d 8 their lives. He's helped brine•* more than 400 Japanese hido^ on this Pacific island. Uts “Toughy is no traitor *0 u • people. He’s a saviour for theL i declared Maj. Charles F Erb ,’ U. S. Army intelligence office,' 1 Los Angeles. Touchy serve, ' “persuader” for the -Tinian v,.*! club,” the Army intelligence of that has cleaned most' of th8, over Nipponese out of Tinian hif and caves. Well - dressed, well - feci, cl Toughy goes out with the sold i guards, drops down imo ca. ' where he knows Japanese are hi a ing, climbs up jungle hillside dives into thick cane fields to coo vince his countrymen that pmn ' ganda about American torture aft killing of prisoners isn t true. Toughy’s conversion to the American way of thinking h or* of the war’s most bizarre tales A Marine patrol literally blew him out of a sea’s edge cave. “We took him to the hospital for treatment of a wound in hi, hark" Erb said. “His name was a tough one to pronounce, so we decided to just call him Toughy. It seen-, ed to fit him.” “Suddenly,” the major continued “Toughy looked at us and said through the interpreter: T km* where there are eight more Jap not far from where you captured me.’ ” “Toughy was taken to the Cross relief office and outfitted with care “After a long conversation about his life as a boy in .Japan-he was a jockey and is only 22 years old now—we gave him a good meal and a chance to rest all he wan*, ed. Later that night we asked him who he thought should go out to convince the eight Japs he had mentioned and, with but a mo. ment’s hesitation, he volunteered asking to be sent out at dawn.' Toughy’s orders were to bring the Japanese to an open patch in a cane field. “We told him to come back after an hour if he couldn’t talk them into surrendering,” Erb said. “He was back in 40 minutes, coming up the hill with a nondescript cob umn of shabby Japanese.” Toughy was eager after that to serve as “persuader.” He has lin ed himself up a volunteer crew and works with other converted Japanese to convince his country men they should surrender. “You probably wonder why this Japanese, Toughy, has been so will ing and eager to help,” Erb re marked. “Well, the answer is sim ply that we’ve convinced him that the Americans, in order to make this island absolutely secure, would rathc-r take the remainder ol the Japs alive. This man has been made to envisage a new life ahead for him, notwithstanding his gov ernment’s edict that all those who surrender are officially dead, and he intends to help in the creation of it.” Erb starred in football at the University of California in 1921. 1922, and 1923, playing on the Gol den Bear wonder team. He be came acquainted with Japanese when he toured Japan with a col lege baseball team. At the age of 22 he was head football coach at the University o( Nevada, the nation’s youngest. , Two years later he coached the University of Idaho team to a tie for the Pacific coast champion ship. _v_ Daily Prayer We pray for our fighting forces, 0 God of battles, that they may have stout hearts to endure the rigors of weather, and all the te dium of waiting, and the fierce pressure of battle. Preserve them from the perils of idleness and from all loss of confidence in us and in Thee. Even while we nov. pray, do Thou make them scnsio.e 'of our supplications in their be half. By the mysterious moving! of Thy Spirit, may a strong con sciousness of our interest in them sweep through their souls, EE i they never for a minute thim themselves forgotten. Thou know how dear to us are our men ■” service. Bind our hearts toge.-’ - in a new unity of fortitude and fa until the day of victory shall b - the blessings of peace to a1*' - world. Then, in glad reunion. shall praise Thee as the Presei -• our Cause and the Author of happiness. Amen.—W.T.E. Sea Claims 500,000 Tans Of Amy Cargo WASHINGTON, June 25 More than 500,000 tons of plane-’ tanks, artillery and other A..*, cargo were lost at sea dur.ng 'j' European war when 105 were sunk and 10 other? ca:- - ed while carrying supplies rope, the War Department ai.-c ed tonight. , * Most of the loss was caused ft enemy action, with U-boats ft ited with sinking 77 ships, mi ■ taking a toll of six, and e.g- ‘ ing down in bombing attacks, teen ships were involved in c ^ ^ s.ions, two blew up and six . lost in storms or went a“r°L" Four were lost to unknown ca. A shipload of ham 51 d ft' meat was among the cargo Other losses ranged fr-«• *eJ locomotives to tiny elec’lic. ‘ 3, and included tanks, gut ?■ P’’ 1 n-nfo?.
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