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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 triumph—so help ns God. Roosevelt’s War Message. SUNDAY, JULY 22, 1945. TOP O’MORNING Are they praying for us at home? Are they meeting together for prayer? Or going on still in the usual way ' As they did when I was there. We thank them for all their money We thank them for all their care. But Oh, just tell them dear mother We are needing so much their prayer!— From a Soldier’s Letter. -V Right Of Congress Alone The Star-News agrees with former Presi dent Hoover that the San Francisco Charter should be ratified by the Senate but that “Congress should never part with its powers to declare war.” No individual, certainly not a member of the Security Council alone, should be vested with the right to plunge the nation into war. That right is hte constitutional responsi bility of Congress. It should never be taken away. This does not mean, however, that the Unit ed States member of the Security Council should not have power to order special police duty for any branch or unit of the nation’s se curity forces in emergency. A chief of police does not have to ask permission from the city government to call out 'nis reserves for riot duty. The right is inherent in his office. By the same token our Security Council member need not ask per mission to call out the troops or air force of fleet to suppress an incipient war move. But if the flare-up threatened actual and devastating war, so that the entire armed forces of the nation would be needed, and a declaration of war alone could meet the emer gency, then the President should still go be fore Congress, state the case, and ask its sup port in making that declaration. _v_ Norwegians Plenty Sore ' Some seventy-odd days have passed since the German surrender and no German troops have been removed from Norway- Their pres ence is proving a trial for the Norwegianpeo ple who suffered so greatly during the Ger man occupation and w&o are still unrelieved of many of the burdens they were compelled to shoulder by their persecutors. We read in , an Onslo dispatch: “A sort point is the fact that the over ■ ■ whelming mass of green-clad Germans are enjoying themselves lolling in water, bashing in the sun on the beaches, and lovely moun ‘ tain lakes, and strolling aimlessly about the beautiful country-side, while Norway itself is j faced with a desperate shortage of manpower to avert a grave fuel shortage next winter.” Another sore point is the filth left by the Germans. The same dispatch adds: “This correspondent visited the debris-lit tered filth-encrusted Gestapo prison and tor ture chambers at Victoria Terasse, where, the Germans had made last minute efforts to de stroy as much as possible the evidence of their crimes. “Victoria Terasse proved to be only one example of the disgraceful manner in-which the Germans carried on during the last weeks or months before peace. "The stately Furulund Villa, near Oslo, which served as a Gestapo bastion and com munications center during the last months of occupation, was still unbelievably filthy after days of Norwegian effort to clean it up. "It is the same story with schools, hospit als, and other public buildings which the Ger mans used' for military purposes. "Days oi sweeping, scrubbing, and painting were required before the quarters approach ed a livable American standard. The Same is true at the Trondheim in the British zone. Hotel Britannia in that city, before the war Norway’s most charming place, looked like a pigpty when this correspondent visited it. Ev en the glass dome and the tops of the high walls were splotched with filth.” We read further that some five thousand Germans are concentrated in a rail-junction town under a fourteen-man police guard, anc fAOe thousand are in Trondheim vicinity, a! many as the total population of that city In the Orkla valley the natives are outnum uered by well-fed Germans who neither J:or nor sew but spend their time desporting ir the sun. Naturally the Norwegians are plenty sore and asking what Is to be done to rid thou ‘ land of the surrendered enemy. The Highway Hearing Sometime before he died President Roose velt developed a master plan for a super highway network to connect all sections cl j the United States, in the building of which | jobs would be provided for tens of thousands : of returning veterans. Because President Roosevelt was not familiar with conditions in all regions and obviously prepared his map without consulting persons in close touch with regional conditions and needs, ,his final draft was far from adequate. When Mr. Roosevelt’s map was first dis tributed.the Star-News pointed out that North Carolina’s entire coastal region was not rep resented, nor was there provision for feeder highways from the coast to the interior. Gov ernments of communities in the excluded ter ritory and the state’s delegation in Congress were urged to call the attention of authorities with the great project in charge to the over sight and ask that the map be revised to in clude the coastal area and connect it with the heavy industry territory to the northwest and west. The appeal apparently has been dormant, if not actually forgotten. For the State Hign way Commission, which announces a hearing on the highway plan at its offices in Raleigh on Wednesday, says that the cities indicated along the original route will be represented and that Raleigh, which is overlooked will have a representative present to show why it should be included. No reference is made to a Wilmington delegation. Because this hearing is liable to settle all highway routes in the state the Star-News repeats is appeal that the City Council and the County Commission attend the session, together with all citizens with the best in terests of southeastern North Carolina at heart and present Wilmington's claim to serv ice by the :'nter-area highway system which is to have such an important part in the post war national development program. Unless this is done and appeal made with sufficient pressure to assure its adoption, Wil mington will find itself cut off from the agri cultural and industrial areas of the ihterior for the underdeveloped, circuitous roads that have been in service for years. And all the j time Wilmington will have the best nort j through which the products of the interior can j move to coastal or foreign markets. . -v John Q. Due For New Deal The Senate’s approval of tax revision un der which corporations will have an improved chance to reconvert to peacetime production is a welcome step in the right direction. But what the American people generally want the Congress to do is to cut the federal waste that has characterized the war period so that revision downward of income taxes may be made. The public, no less than corporations, needs a chance to reconvert to peacetime living, and unless there is a considerable reduction in income taxes, the process is going to be a sacrificial rite. For some years the public has been led like a lamb to the slaughter. The time has come to give relief from the tax burden wh'ch is so largely the result of governmental extravagance. Old John Q. is due for a new deal. -V Hitler’s Whereabouts Argentina doesn’t fancy reports that Hitler and his lady love are basking under the Pata gonian sun, and being imaginative as well as outwardly repentant, comes across with a story that they are happily enshrined in the Antarctic. Buenos Aires dispatch quotes the news paper Critica of that city as saying they are in “Queen Maud Land’’ on the Antarctic conti nent “where a new Berchtesgaden is likely to have been built” during a German expedi tion to that section in 1938 and 1939. Not to be outdone in the guessing match on Hitler’s whereabouts, the Russians now claim he and his girl friend are in Palestine. Why not Hollywood? -V m A 1 • i •_ iuu mmmiuus Ambition, often, is a dangerous thing Caesar, you remember, was ambitious, and look what they did to him. Now, its Leopold of Belgium Leopold wanted to go home and be king again. But the Belgians could not forget that he surrendered the Bel gian Army to the Germans and accepted the hospitality of the Nazis while his people were being subjected to torture and their land de spoiled'. So the Belgian Senate, following the lead of the Chamber of Deputies, voted to exile him and ’continue the regency under Prince Charles. As this legislative action is the legal procedure set up for such cases, Leopold is an outcast, and while he probably will have a place to lay his head it will not be in the imperial palace, nor will his head ever be heavy with the weight of the crown. If Leopold had not been ambitious he would have abdicated and his future lot been better. Look at what the British did for King Edward when he abdicated. He'll never lack a soft berth. -v Too Bad In view of the extra-curricular activities of Elliott Roosevelt while his father was in the White House which Westbrook Pegler has revealed, it is to be regretted that the caustic columnist was not following unsavory trails during the Harding administration, and was 1 as ardent a democrat then as be is a repub lican now. At Potsdam By ANNE O’HARE McCORMICK Mr. Truman and Mr. Churchill spent their 'irst day in Berlin surveying the ruins. The soviet 'leader was there all the time, though hey did not know it, and while there is no •eport of his poking about in the wreckage of fitter’s Chancellery, it is hard to believe hat he could resist the temptation to view the remains of the huge mausoleum in which bis arch-enemy is supposed to have met his death. There are moments when the drama of our times seems to focus on a single scene. The meeting at Potsdam is one of those moments. We can hardly take in the sense of what is aappening until it is spelled out :'n a picture ike this. The picture of three men walking in a graveyard. They are men who hold in their hands most of the power in the world, and the graveyard they gaze on is Germany, only a little while ago a stronghold it took their combined force to storm. The background is in a way more striking than anything in the picture. For the human ’igures wandering in the debris are so dulled and beaten that they take no interest in the meeting that is to decide their fate. The contrast between this apathy and the :xcitement of the crowded streets when An :hony Eden and Sir John Simon visited Ser in in 1936 or when Chamberlain was cheered n Godesberg in 1938 measures the depth of German defeat. But also it serves to throw nto high relief the new figure in this confer ence. The spotlight this time is not on the Russian Generalissimo whose armies are in possession of the palaces of the former Kaisers and the headquarters of the elite of the old Reichswehr. It is not on the British leader vho must keep one ear cocked for the electoral rerdict that will decide his role and Britain's lost-war DOliev The kev figure ic the Amori. .an whose name was as unknown throughout he world a few months ago as it is today to he cowed inhabitants of Berlin. The only conversations we shall hear while the conference is in session are imaginary con versation. And though as the meeting proceeds issues will be argued out that affect the lives of states *nd populations, for decades to come, the most piquant of these unreported talks was the colloquy over the luncheon table yester 3ay when Stalin and Truman sounded each other out. This was not a full-dress conference or one of those fabulous official banquets the Russians stage to honor and bemuse their guests. It was probably the first time Stalin ;vcr sat down to a meal of liver and on'ons with the head of another Government.And it is unlikely that matters of high import were dis :usses at this first meeting. The Soviet chief tain was undoubtedly genial and jovial; per haps he tried out on the new President the rather Rabelaisian jokes President Roosevelt used to quote to his intimates. Mr. Truman may have displayed his own brand of home ly Midwestern humor. Certainly the two men were sizing one another up, Stalin warily, with sharp eyes that miss nothing; Truman openly, with the shrewd scrutiny of the Mis sourian who is not over-impressed by poten tates, royal or proletarian. Yet the two might well have been impressed, might even have been nervous, for great is sues depend on whether they ‘‘get along” or not. They speak for the two greatest powers on earth, and while it is. of course, absurd to assume that their personal relations are all-important or that they can decide national policies by themselves, the fact that such power stands behind their words gives their exchanges extraordinary influence. In the next few days, or weeks, these two men, neither of whom has had much intercourse with hte outside world or long international experience, will set the pattern of the peace. In these decisions Mr. Truman will be the key factor. This is only another wav of sav ing that the United States is in position to give direction to world policy. In this enter prise Mr. Truman is in some respects more representative of emerging America than Mr. Roosevelt was. He typif'es the forwardlooking mind of the Middle West, the region in which national policy is made and broken, and he mixes with a Rooseveltian and Wilsonian re cognition of the necessity of international co operation a little of that native suspicion of foreigners which Stalin should understand, be cause it is the leit motif of Soviet poliqy. Mr. Truman inclines to put special empha sis on the economic background of political problems, and every observer of the world to day knows that unless the elementary eo nomic needs of the liberated peoples take prio rity over every other question there is no pros pect of peace. Whether Stalin gives the same weight to economic factors is a question. Will he favor any modification of the closed eco nomy in Russia itself, or even in the Soviet zone of occupation? This is a matter of the first importance to European recovery. It is Iso a matter in which the Unuited States can exert great powers of persuasion, and since Russia has as much reason as we to act to prevent chaos in the dangerous passage from war to peace, there is ground for hope that Stalin will agree with the President on what things come first. Obviously political settle ments will have no reality unless the desperate needs of the next twelve months are first provided for. The first test of the collaboration of the President and the Soviet leader and of the competence and responsibility of the Big Three will be on their ability to work together in th's field.—New York Times. -V Editorial Comment THE HIGHEST DECORATION A visitor at the home of Eugene O’Neill was told by the playwright: “Come with me for a moment. I want to show you some thing of which lam very proud.’ He led the guest to the dresser in his bedroom and started rummaging through the drawers. O’Neill pushed aside the Pulitzer Prize medal he won for “Anna Christie”; he pushed aside the second Pulitzer Prize medal he won for “E'eyond the Horizon.” He tossed aside the Nobel Prize parchment, found another docu ment and held it up. “Here. This is it,” said O’Neill, and displayed his ablebodied seaman’s certificate.—Leonard Lyons, in the Philadel phia Record. IT WAS EXPECTED (Raleigh News and Observer) Nearly all the great and near-great either are descended from Tar Heel ancestors or have relatives in the State. And now James MacClamrock is authority for the statement that General Ike Eisenhower has relatives in North Carolina, in Stanly, Lee and Cabarrus counties. Writing to The State, he says- “In North Carol na his relatives have Anglicized the name and spell it Isenhour.” Ike fought like a Tar Heel and we are glad to claim kin.—Raleigh News and Observer. A PROBLEM WLhat you 1°/bout a fellow who once iJ,brS"G=“ ecS,,ri:“““'»* j°k DISMAL LOOKING PLACE, AIN’T IT? WITH THE AEF Nazi Rumors-And Fact By DON WHI1EHEAD (Substituting for Kenneth L. Dixon) FRANKFURT. — Iff)— Communi cations in Germany are in a cha otic condition but grapevine is spreading a great many rumors which military government offi cers beieve are inspired by Nazis and Nazi sympathizers. “The wilder the rumor the fast er it spreads,” said Lt. Col. R. K. Phelps of Saginaw, Mich., com mander of the Frankfurt military government detachment. Here are a few of the rumors and comment by the military gov ernment: “Marriage will b e forbidden among Germans for a period of five years.” No such regulation is being considered. “Any woman who gives birth to more than a certain number of children, variously three or four, must pay a penalty of 1,000 Reichsmarks.” This is almost too ridiculous to bother denying and has no basis in fact, but it seems the Germans will believe any thing. “German universities will not be permitted to open for many years.” Plans are being consid ered to open universities as soon as teaching -staffs test books can be de-Nazified. A Herman Goering is well treat ed by Americans because he was a traitor to ijrermaii.y anu &duu taged the Luftwaffe. There will be a trial but it will be only for show.” Here is the old line of ‘‘we were betrayed but not defeated” that gave Nazism its start. The best answer will be what happens to Goering. ‘ Rudolph Hess is and will con tinue to be well treated because he was a traitor to Germany.” The answer to that is the same as for Goering—wait and see. “Military government officers at Hanau and other United States army officers are in the pay of the Russian government. These of ficers grant only small rations to the German people in order to produce discontent so that the peo ple will be driven to communism.” Their rations are smaller be cause the Germans no longer can rob other countries of food, trans portation has broken down, and there is not enough food on farms to feed the people as they are accustomed to being fed. The Ger mans haven’t begun to feel the hunger they forced on other peo ples, but they will unless they pro duce more of their own food. “A military government officer at Hanau permits agitators to con tinue their actions because it ben efits communism.” Investigators found this was the result of ob jection to individuals who were with their rights of free speech as guaranteed by military govern II1CI11. t'lutiauiauuuo. utimano, uu used to free speech, interpret every utterance that is not sup pressed as having government support. “American soldiers in Frankfurt have been ordered to enter apart ments of Germans for the purpose of throwing out furniture and burning it.” All furniture removed from German homes is inventoried and held for the owners. “American soldiers at control points on highways permit travel ers to proceed in directions away from their homes without passes but refuse to allow them to re turn home. The soldiers were or dered to do this to confuse the Germans and cause discontent.” Investigation of this rumor failed to uncover any instance in which the practice occurred. Certainly no such order over was issued. “German soldiers released from American prisoner of war camps are forced to swear that they will not reveal mistreatment which they received.” Coming from peo ple who are past masters at mis treatment—as photos of Dachau and many other camps so amply prove—this is a little hard to take. “Hereafter only paper money bearing a bank’s stamp will be honored.” This rumor backfired to the benefit of the military govern ment since it resulted in an in crease in bank deposits. There is no basis for it. 25,000 Airmen, 750 Planes To Remain On Continent As Aerial Police Force -- LONDON, July 21— (P)—Approxi mately 25,000 men and more than 750 aircraf. in seven U. S. heavy bomber groups and three fighter groups have been ordered moved to the continent as ^art of the Al lied occupational air force to police Germany, U. S. Strategic Air Force headquarters announced to day. Throughout the war all U. S. Eighth Airforce planes were based in England. The British Air Ministry recent ly announced that more than 90, 000 RAF airmen and ground crew men would assist in the air polic ing of Germany. The number of U S. Ninth Airforce personnel to re main in the occupational airforce has not yet been announced. Their units will likely bring the total strength of the Allied air police force to around 150,000 men. No large-scale movement of bom ber groups has yet begun, the Air force announcement said, but three fighter units already are occupying their new bases in Germany. They are the 55th, 355th and 357th Mus tang groups. Seven heavy bomber groups—All Flying fortress units — are de signated to remain in the European theater the 92nd, 94th, 96th, 100th. 305th, 306th and 384th. It was officially reported that ap proximately 55 per cent of the V E day total of 200,000 Eighth Air force personnel has already been redeployed to the United States. The following 20 bomb groups have completed movement to the United States: 44th, 91st, 93rd, 351st, 381st, 389th, 392d, 398;h, 401st, 445th, 446th, 448th, 453d, 457th, 585th 466th, 467th, 482d, 489th, and 491st. Fourteen other bomber groups which have completed movement of aircraft and air crews, but whose ground personnel are still in Entr'«nH i+in I tar. conversation..- in p0^‘c'Tt» ■ ae week end despite * I leagre official word fro- I hree conference as -n • '"‘I I r progress of its deUb^r*'1 I Such tntimations as Qb ! 1 he press, however onl- , :i ■ .eighten expectation on 4!edt«| 1 the Atlantic that debI teighten expectation on -h ' s|‘ I f the Atlantic that erring the'duratio ■ nth Japan would be r-aX I The titanic Anglo-Amsrica ii tir attack on Japan that com * I inabated throughout the lightened that expectation ifter city, both coastal aju?! erior, in Japan was withered tomb blasts ui tr;cc! I »y naval guns. Thor- was i ii ective reaction by the foe 0f, I tort except for a hornet’s ■ '. ' I intiaircraft fire stirred up b- ’■ ■ier planes which located and st I acked hide-out Japanese wa-crtl it the mouth of Tokyo bay. "’i In.._ ' * ‘Km g Enemy warships had lain nactive to conceal then- presei ;| at the main Japan naval base" : hat area, Yokosuka, throne •* aeated air raids on Tokyo and y'. tb cohama. They ignored evet Ik, looming of Allied naval guns )ff shore on the opposite ■ - he entrance to Tokyo bay he fact that they were :rom air and attacked touched » .heir ack ack batteries at lay " The essent al fact of the week, outside of what undisclosed v standings may have begun to ta.s shape in Big Three discussion SS was that for a week or mnf; American and British warcrat: oE all categories including the v modern and powerful battleshipiH afloat, roamed up and down •’.( Japanese Pacific coast unci.,.} enged by sea or air. Nowhere ddf even coastal batteries open itp ,. though battleships, cruisers i | ighter surface craft more thel mce were in easy range of ev 1 shore mounted field guns. Only -A \ vast combined carter fleets rti i| mained far out at sea to laur.:;(El their air flotillas and receive again to be fueled and armed tttpj fi’-r+VhOT’ o+forlrc There is no parallel in his— for such bold inshore naval opt:; tions against a maritime pov.e:. 3 Prior to the naval battles ofg| Philippine sea Japan certa::; I still rated as third naval pc'.wji in the world, surpassed only yl Britain and the United States. A:| I er Pearl Harbor she undoubted; m stood second in sea power aim | yet today she is incapable oi y | fending her own shore line cry from naval as well as air am.. s The long or even short ra r j effect of that fact on the Japa—_ public will to continue the uscy.B fight is yet to be assessed. Ill effect on Russo-Japanese rolatieB already strained by Moscow d ! j nunciation of the otherwise ;J : perpetuating Russo - Japanes® peace pact is also yet to a learned. It should not be overlooked fell before the Big Three finally bcmS their talks in Germany press i:fl vices from American correspor.c y ents accompanying President T:. man reflected their expectation)I developments relating to the ; with Japan. They stressed parties larly, whether on information ;| belief, that both Mr. Truman a Mr. Churchill were primarily cc:| cerned with ways and means )® cutting the casualty cost of uli mate victory over Japan and iw® Tkely to seek Russian partic;- 1 tion as the most effective way £' insuring that result. -v COMMUNISTS PLAN PARTY RE-BiRTI NEW YORK. July 21. - ^'j| Delegates to the New York Communist Political Asso convention were reported by ■ leaders today to be stf0r;U;l favor of re-establishing a - ■ munist party in the United fl The two-day convention, opened today, is closed to | press. Dr. Bella V. Dodd, a'; j president of the State. As> • • ■ told reporters after tne l sion: “There is no doubt m in. that we will go back in tjfl munist party system ana ■ tempt to get back on the ». ■ Gilbert Green. ^ . added that there w I that an overwhelming m the 1.000 delegates “ M against the Browdei p uphold the Foster-Duclos P Earl Browder, natim- .. ■ president, led the “ culminated in disso 1 Communist party, an •b,;|l of the CPA in its place’ 1944. ,ere Browder's policies > posis-’B at the time by Wilha; ■ pa.:-i chairman of the ^0!?‘been -s!B and more recently h ., by Jafl eled “opportunist error* ques Duclos, leac.!- .. ; .1 munist and a kr r;ir<:.or>B former Communis. ‘ a p