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MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS AND ALSO SERVED BY THE UNITED PRESS MONDAY SEPTEMBER 17, 1945. TOP O’ THE MORNING Few men can grow in spiritual strength without the public ordinances of worship. Campbell. Realty Prices Steady A forecast is made by the United Business Service of Boston that real estate prices will hold relatively firm for several years. De clines. in some war industry centers where prices were inflated by temporary housing shortages are inevitable, says the service, but other areas will benefit permanently from wartime industry and population gains. The service points out that building costs are about one-third higher than prewar, and there is little prospect of any substantial de cline for several years. This increase in costs will be reflected in the selling prices of new homes, and in the market values of existing properties—which are influenced by replace ment costs as well as by demand. Most potent sustaining force affecting real estate prices will continue to be the nation wide housing shortage. New building during the war period has not even kept pace with fire losses. With buying power at record levels, an unprecedented number of people have funds to buy or build a home. More war bonds are earmarked for this than for any other purpose. Military demobilization will intensify the housing shortage. There will be many de ferred marriages, and large numbers of home seekers among those married just prior to or during the war. GI loans will facilitate home ownership by veterans. Higher rents as con trols are lifted will also stimulate home build ing and buying—both for owner-occupancy and income purposes. The inflation-hedge appeal of property, low mortgage rates, and tax in ducements to home ownership are other bullish factors. Ultimately, the coming building boom will begin to catch up with demand, and have an adverse effect on pr.ces. But this point is still several years away, in the opinion of the service. “Cloak And Dagger” Work The columnist, Marquis Childs, from time to time has had something to say about the Office of Strategic Services, better known in the fighting forces as M'aj. Gen. William A. Donovan’s “Cloak and Dagger Outfit.” Now that the OSS has told its own story it is easy to see why Mr. Childs’ references to it have all been commendatory. Its record is out standing. Operating behind enemy lines in sixteen countries, its members delivered upward of 27, 000 tons of American supplies and weapons to the underground, supplied military intelli gence and rescued some thousands of Ameri can airmen. rur me 111&1 ume ui uur mjuiuny uisiury an American Army fought on untried fronts with novel tacts. Its theatre of operations was ‘behind the enemy lines.’ It worked and fought in France, Belgium, Holland, Denmark, Nor way, North Africa, Italy, Greece, Yugoslavia, Albania, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Burma, Si am (Thailand), China and French Indo-China.” And the report continues: “The secret army operated not as a large unit but in small groups of from two to thirty members. Frequently, however, they operated with larger underground forces, which they trained and helped to lead it. harassing at tacks against the Japanese and German rear. They attacked enemy troops, destroyed bridg es, roads, trains, vehicles, communications, power lines, vital factories and military in stallations. “The members of the army penetrated ene my territory by dangerous night and day para chute drops, by submarines and small boats and overland through the lines. Some even landed in small planes at hidden airfields. Each unit carried a radio for communication with OSS headquarters in the theatre.” Statistically, the OSS shows that during 1944, supplies parachuted into Europe totaled 8,805 tons, of which 3,055 hit France; 3,335. tons, Poland; ninetyfive tons, Belgium; nine tons, Denmark; 551 tons, Norway; fifteen tons, the Netherlands and 1,745 tons, Yugoslavia. “Food, arms and clothing were packed ir containers nearly six feet long, each of which could hold over 300 pounds,” the OSS said “From OSS packing stations, the containers were transported to near-by airfields, anc flown over enemy territory by the United States Army Air Forces and the Roya ] Force. To insure that the supplies actually reached the resistance forces, OSS military personnel parachuted behind the lines to meet leaders, contacted their homes by radio, and arranged the time and place of dropping the supplies. “Most of the operation took place at night, and flares and flashlights were used as ground signals. Whenever possible, soldiers in OSS who knew the exact dropping zone accom panied the pilot on his mission and gave the signal for the containers to be dropped.” In Burma, the report adds: “From Febru ary, 1943, to July, 1945, at a cost of fifteen Americans and 184 natives killed, the OSS trained-and-led guerilla forces accounted for 5,447 Japanese killed and 64 captured; de stroyed fiftyone bridges, nine railroad trains. 277 military vehicles, rescued 232 airmen; greatest total of American personnel engaged was 131 officers and 418 enlisted men, working with 9,200 natives; 6,275 tons were dropped to the underground in Burma and Thailand; 550 men were parachuted into the jungle.” The United States has not previously gone in for “cloak and dagger” work. That has been chiefly practiced by Europeans. But with this record, it is obvious that Americans are quite as skillful. It is to be hoped that this kind of warfare need never be repeated, but if it is and with this record setting the ex ample, we may be sure Americans will do their full share of it. Strike Threat Beginning on General Motors, the United Automobile Workers of CIO threatened to strike unless there is a 30 per cent increase in pay. Following General Motors the union leadership will go to work on Chrysler and Ford. If the workers in the plants of these three leading automotive concerns, do vote to strike, the production of motor vehicles will be cut to a minimum at a time when the motor vehicles of the nation are ready for the scrap heap. Union leaders in the automotive industry and the tens of thousands of workers under their thumb, having lived in comfort and se curity at home while other millions of Ameri cans were fighting two wars at oppos.te ends of the world, and after receiving fatter pay envelopes than they ever did before, propose now, that the actual fighting has stopped and before the fighting forces are demobilized in toto, to tie up an essential industry of peace time, as many thousands of workers did in wartime, to the demoralization of the industry. Whether they realize it or not, they are doing a kindness to inflation which is liable to get completely out of hand if they are successful in securing the advance in pay they propose to demand. A wise government should be prepared to add this 30 per cent increase to the taxes al ready levied upon workers in auto factories, if only to set the brakes on inflation to that extent. The unfortunate part of this strike move ment is that it stems from labor leadership, that thousands upon thousands of workers, seeing the economic danger of such a strike, have no sympathy with it but because of their compulsory union membership will be unable to avoid walking out at an order from above. Indians Did As Well Ten years ago, Oregon had a disastrous forest fire which caused loss of life and mil lions of dollars damage, including the destruc tion of tens of thousands of acres of the finest Douglas fir timber in the world. Nature start ed to erase the scars immediately and in the past decade new forests of Christmas trees have begun to cover the blackened hills and mountains. This fire was similar to others in earlier years. Then in 1945, fire started again in the old Tillamook burn and raged largely out of con trol for a month, destroying new growth and old green timber, until rain stopped it. According to reports, the state and counties are as unprepared to fight forest fires suc cessfully as in the days when the Indians in hr.bited the land. A forest fire is a terrifying spectacle, inis only emphasizes the fact that definite steps should be taken to study ways and means to limit its destruction to as small an area as possible. Surely some provision can be made for studying and adopting methods which will save one of the nation’s greatest national re sources—its forests—which protect watersheds, soil and wild life, and furnish the basic build ing material for the nation. Fire prevention has long since become an exact science in cities, and there is no excuse for states or counties or the Federal govern ment delaying in adopting methods to assure protection for the forest lands. The Tillamook burn in Oregon in 1945 should be one of the last glaring examples of the ravages of forest fires due to the indifference or neglect of communities that are blessed with such natural resources. Soft Ride The Texas implement dealer who drove a new tractor home from Detroit has won quite a bit of attention as a hardy pioneer of the highways. But we are reserving our cheers until we find how he traveled from Weimar, Tex., to Detroit. If he came those 1574 miles in a day coach and under present traveling conditions, he may have chosen his home-going conveyance from a purely selfish desire for comfort. We’d take a traetor ourselves, any day. FOR^E OF HABIT It is difficult to get over war plant ways. The other day a whistle blew while I was doing the dishes. I dropped two cups and went into the parlor to rest.—“Rivetena,” in the Chicago Tribune. Fair Enough (Editors note.—The Star and the News accept no responsibility for tne 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, Sept. 16—The Supreme Court recently decided that a labor union, hitherto empowered to act in restraint of interstate commerce, even by resort to false and de famatory statements against innocent business firms, and by highway robbery, loses that privilege when it acts in concert with a non labor group. Even a corrupt and criminal band, dis guised as a labor union, may prey on the public if it acts solely in its own interest, but if one or more legitimate business firms, pay ing taxes and abiding by all laws, should be forced into partnership with the union, the restraint of trade then becomes illegal. The case was an injunction suit by a group of manufacturers of switch boards and other electrical equipment residing outside the city of New York. The plaintiffs charged that Local 3, of the International Brotherhood of Electri cal Workers, of the A. F. of L., had agreed with certain manufacturers and contractors within the metropolitan area to exclude their products from New York. It was argued that this combination was a boycott against many large non-resident man ufacturers excluding them from the greatest single market in the country. Had the union imposed this boycott by itself, simply by de claring the plaintiff manufacturers to be “un fair,” these companies and the public would have no relief. In previous cases, the Roose velt court had ruled flatly that a union was the sole judge of its own interests and of the means that it might use to advance those in terests provided it acted by itself or in con cert with other unions, but not with tax-paying employers or other non-labor interests. The plaintiff manufacturers contend that, in the post-war building business in New York, where vast numbers of new apartments will be needed, the restrictions created by Local 3 would add heavily to the cost of construction and thus to the rents. It is not here represented that Local 3 is disreputable or that its important offices are occupied by criminals, with one exception. The reader may form his own opinions as to its character. William A. Hogan, the treasurer of Local 3 for many years, was sentenced to Sing Sing on July 17, 1922, for grand larceny, first de gree, to serve from 1 1-2 to three years. In July, 1923, Governor A1 Smith commuted his term to the time served. Governor Smith said the commutation did not suggest any doubt as to Hogan’s guilt. Hogan was released be cause his family needed his support. The peo ple proved that he had missappropriated $21, 675 from the rank and file benefit funds. After his release he was restored to the position of trust in which he had been ninfaith ful and the parent or international brotherhood made him international treasurer. The business manager of Local 3 is Harry Van Arsdale. He has been convicted of as sault, first degree in a shooting case, in which two men were wounded, and of inciting to riot in a strike. Both convictions were reversed and the indictments were dismissed thereafter. In the first case the sentence was from six to 12 years. In the other, the sentence was one to two years. The shooting occurred in the local union hall on Feb. 24, 1933. William Sorenson, a union member, was shot in the shoulder and stomach, and Frank Dooner, also a member, was shot in the hand. Within an hour. Soren son made a statement to the district attorney, saying: ‘‘Van Arsdale pulled a gun. He fired at me and the first bullet hit me in the stom ach. He fired another shot at me.” At Bellevue hospital, Dooner said Van Ars dale had no gun, but he later said someone had threatened him with injury if he did not keep his mouth shut. Henry Godell, another member, who had been with Sorenson and Dooner was not avail able to testify. He was murdered near his home four months after the shooting. No ar rest was made in the murder case. Adelbert Letscher gave testimony at the preliminary hearing of the charge against Van Arsdale on May 27, 1933. That afternoon acid was thrown in his face. He testified at Van Arsdale’s trial and his mention of the acid was stricken out. However, in summing up. the prosecutor referred to this testimony and this reference was. in part, the basis of the reversal. . On April 30, 1935. the district attorney, mov ing dismissal of the shooting case, told the court that Sorenson and Dooner had received, between them, out of the union’s funds, $15,000 in settlement of suits against the union on account of their wounds. Therefore they no Ion ger aesirea to prosecute van Arsaaie. In July, 1941, the New York Police Depart ment found one Albert Litscher on a Local 3 picket line and reported that, on questioning, he admitted that he was Adelbert Letscher, the victim of the acid. Van Arsdale, powerful he has been in Local 3, insists that the decision to pay Sorenson and Dooner $15,000 was freely taken by the membership. At one of the general member ship meetings, however, his popularity, if that is the correct word, was shown when, by a motion from the floor, he was nominated for re-election and then re-elected by acclaim. Usual procedure calls for a ballot election on a day other than the day cf nominations. Van Arsdale has visited Russia as an American unionists. Local 3, with 20.000 members, is believed to be the largest local in the entire American union movement. Most of its members how ever, are in Class B. This means that one skilled electrician, with a Class A card, has a vote equal to that of an entire local union of “3” members, who do monotonous, unskilled work in factories. Moreover, B Class unions, whatever their size, have each only one rep resentative at the international conventions. A Class unions have one delegate for each 100 members. _ Editorial Comment AS SHE IS SPOKEN . Down in New Orleans a patriotic civilian SJd" “J. st«««^ «* klad lad's own .<what time does «rss£^-i«. „ 14Se’ sad-ianned , ***£ r SeouTBuS” scratched his !*ead' Fand beautiful Brooklyn he answered in Pur toity'”—Baseball ese, "it cwnmences at t ree tony. Magazini. LOG ROLLING TIME IN WASHINGTON Strikes, Busy Picketers Indicate Reconversion In Swing At Honolulu - -1 BY KENNETH L. DIXON HONOLULU, Sept. 16— UPl —Re conversion is hitting full swing in the land of sweet Leilani: Already ’there have been three or four strikes, and it’s nothing to find pickets in front of some downtown business establishment. Local newspapers are spotted with advertisements by manage ment saying that union men are not trying to get along, etc., etc., and advertisements by unions say ing that management is a such and-such, etc., etc. The Hololulu Chamber of Com merce and steamship iine people already are hard at work on new international advertising cam paigns designed to entice main land tourists to this isle where palm fronds wiggle romantically and coconuts go clack clack in the gentle Pacific breezes. The photo graphs being printed daily are hard to resist—you know, luscious bathing beauties and handsome gents riding surfboards in on the crest of waves at Waikiki. Also there’s a new move under way to publicize and exploit all of the islands in the territory, rath er than just Oahu. Part of this is probably due to business interests of the other islands, but part doubtless is inspired by the ter ritorial realization that at least some servicemen are going to be making derogatory remarks about Oahu when they get back home again. Like so many other places where American boys had expected to be thrilled and delighted — due to travel talks and steamship adver tising—Oahu has been found to be just another joint packed with uni forms and much too far from A As a matter of fact, the Stars and Stripes, servicemen’s newspa per here, spells out Oahu in print like it sounds—Wahoo. It’s just that no place can live up to a man’s imagination and hopes. He’s always disappointed when he has to stay—whether he wants to or not—in a long-dreamed-of spot like Hawaii. People who plug the Hawaiian Islands as the pearl of the Pacific and an ideal vacation spot already are realizing that they may have to look to some of the other is lands—besides Oahu—to really do a job of selling them to Americans back on the mainland. Reporters who were out at Pearl Harbor recently when the late Vice Adm. John S. McCain passed through and gave his unchanged, firm opinion on the Japanese peo ple, still are talking quietly about one statement the peppery little flying admiral made: The Japanese, he said, “are go ing to take a lot of killing at some future date.’’ Everyone has read that; but what the Admiral added and what few have read was the comment: “Thank God, I will be dead by then.’’ The boys have thought about that a lot, because he died within 48 hours. One of the things that impressed Honolulu people most about Gen eral Wainwright, hero of Bataan and Corregidor, was not what he said or didn’t say about his suf fering at the hands of the Japanese It was what he did for local people. Literally scores of servicemen and women here asked for his au tograph on anything from short snorter bills to scraps of white, colored or even black paper. And Wainwright spent literally hours at a desk, tired as he was, painstak ingly signing his name. Even when he couldn’t hear what autograph hunters asked him, because of artillery-induced deafness, he just smiled and kept on signing. Y The Literary Guidepost By XV. G. ROGERS The Lonely Steeple, by Victor Wolfson (Simon and Chuster; $2.50). The Eldredges, whose daughter Addie is the principal character in this absorbing novel, live on Cape Cod, there are many chil dren, the mother is a hunchback and the father ends his days by drowning, a fate which, Addie thinks, after the time he took her alone at 14 to Billingsgate island, is the least that could have hap pened to him. Blaming herself for that island experience, Addie fears she is really bad. She wants to tell hi story to the “head man” and the matron where she is confined, and since they won’t listen, she writes it opi Married for a time to Ed Purdy, divorced by him and befriended by Halsey Fowler, she still can not forget Ed. He married her to spite his father. Halsey wants to marry her for her own sake. It is Halsey who takes her to the Station Hill church, scene of some of the most moving passages in this [ haunting novel. V’olfson, successful dramatist but making his first published venture into fiction, practically tied his hands behind his back be fore he began his story. He tells it in the first person, limits the intellectual caliber of his narrator, sets it all at the end of the last century and on Cape Cod, popu larly associated only with light fiction plus of course clams and summer hotels. But in spite of these handicaps, or perhaps because of the tremen dous pressure they exert, Wolfson brings to life a remarkable per sonage and an equally remarkable situation. Addie stays in charac ter from first page to last, but the depths of her strange, thwart ed nature are revealed fully. The jacket suggests a yardstick: the Sophoclean tragedy. The sur prising thing is not that the book misses that, but that it misses by so little. If it lacks the clean, sweeping line of great tragedy, if the emphasis is on situation and plot, however superb, so that on occasion you suspect you can identify the craftsman’s hand, this is still certain to be one of the best novels you’ll read in a long, long time. Daily Prayer FOR ONENESS WITH GOD AND MAN In Thee, O infinite and over-rul ing God, all nations and peoples meet to find their full destiny. Thou art God over all, blessed for ever. Thou art the home of hu man hearts: we pray today that we may abide in Thee, as the branches from the vine. Even war, with all of its horrors, has but in creased the1'world’s sense of de pendence upon Thee. Our eyes arc being opened to the realization that only in Thee is full and final peace to be found. In unity with Thee, we would find fellowship with all men, regardless of class or color or creed. We cry to Thee. O prayer-answering God, for 3 sense of oneness with all mankind that will make their sorrows our sorrows, and that will lift us out of all our self-centeredness. Hear us, O Lord, in Heaven Thy dwell ing place; and when Thou hearest, forgive. Amen.-W.T.E. ELECTION DATE SET LONDON, Sept. 16.—(AP>— The Moscow radio, quoting a Sofia dis patch, said tonight the Bulgarian elections would be held Nov. 18. The broadcast said the elections, previously postponed after protests of the United States and Great Britain, had been approved by the regents with cabinet concurrence. New Zealand became a self-gov erning dominion Sept. 26, 1907. Hay Crop Hit Hard By Rains, Wake Advises RALEIGH, Sept. 16. _ Wake County farmers have lost thou sands of acres of good hay this sea son because of rainy weather and, as a result, they are seeding many acres in supplemental grazing crops and in permanent pastures, which furnish the cheapest source of feed. County Agent L. T. Weeks of the State College Extension Service says that the quality of most of the hay saved in recent weeks is rather poor because the growers delayed the cutting of the hay due to bad weather. Nazi Protests Right Of Government Trial VIENNA, Sept. 16. —<.p> The authority of the Renner Provision al government to set up courts was challenged today in the appeal of a Vienna chemistry professor from a recommendation of death by hanging. The professor, Dr. Joern Lange, tl, a Nazi party member, was con victed yesterday of destroying an 30,000-mark microscope just before the Russians entered Vienna, a 1 of murdering two assistants who tried to stop him. He admitted the destruction but denied killing one man and said he shot the other in self-defense. Russian Leader Orders Confiscation Of Books BERLIN, Sept. 16.—(.?>)— Field Marshal Georgi Zhukov today or dered the confiscation of all Nazi and German militaristic literature in Soviet-occupied sections of Ger many by Oct. 15. All former state or public libraries and other in stitutions having libraries also j ust deliver their card indexes to the Russian military commander. HONSHU, JAPAN’S MAIN ISLAND IN SIZE,IMPORTANCE Swarming by sea and air inu the Japanese “heartland,- Ames can occupation forces are tats' over in Honshu, Japan s ™ ? valuable territorial posses^'™ Honshu, or Main—as the name ' literally translated-is the largest and most populous of the nation home islands. Honshu can be corn pared to southern New England and the Middle Atlantic State! in the United States, or to England in the Scotland-England-Waie, make-up of Great Britain. It tains the seat of government most of the industrial centers, the lead, ing ports, and once-important sea and air bases, says the National Geographic Society. On this island is the ancient capital of Old Japan, Kvoto now sometimes called the western capital. Between it and the mod ern capital, Tokyo, lies Japan’s “Sacred Mountain,” the volcano Fuji, to whose summit Japanese pilgrims have long faithfully as. cended, and into whose crater thousands of fanatical suicides have flung themselves. It was to Uraga harbor, on Honshu, at the entrance to Tokyo Bay, that Commodore Perry came in 1853 to open the way for communications between self-iso lated Japan and the outside world. Stretching like a ragged are between Hokaido and Kyushu islands, Honshu is nearly 800 miles long. Because of its” elongated character and deep indentations, it has an extremely long shored line. j-.iKe most oi Japan, Honshu is rugged and mountainous, with limited open acreas for cultivation. Its ranges, running generally northeast and southwest and met by innumerable cross ridges and side branches, have forced com munication routes to follow chief ly the coasts, making cross con nections through available valleys by way of winding, many tunneled lines. Japan’s first railway was built in 1872 on Honshu island, an 18-mile link between Tokyo and Yokohama. With an area close to 89,000 square miles, counting offshore islets, Honshu is about the same size as Tennessee and Mississippi combined. It holds, however, more than 48,000,000 people, compared with only a little over 5.000,000 for the two American states. More than two-thirds of all the inhabi tants of the Jap home islands live on Honshu. Of these 6,773, 804 were reported in Tokyo in '1940. The northern third of Honshu, less favored by harbors, soil, and and climate, is comparatively developed. It is in the remaining portion of the island that Japan's major big cities—prewar trade and industrial centers, and war time sources of much of the coun try’s military strength—are situat ed. Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoy, Kyoto, Kokohama, and Kobe, Japan’s leading six cities in terms of popu lation, are all found within the j southern two-thirds of Honshu. I Furthermore they are all within less than 300 airline miles of one another, a significant factor in the air attacks directed against war production of the country. Tokyo, Yokohama, Nagoya, and Koke were hit in the first dramatic air raid over Japan in April, 1942. On smaller Hiroshima, facing the In land Sea from the southwest coast of Honshu, the first atomic bomb was dropped. Tokyo is not only by far the largest city of Japan, but, normal ly, third in rank among world cities after London and New iork. It also has long been one of the nation’s chief manufacturing cen ters, specializing in peacetime foodstuffs, metal goods, textiles, chemicals; and in war essentials such as steel, ships, and planes. Near-by Yokohama, deep-sea foreign-trade port for Tokyo, and an outstanding industrial city in its own right, has been important also in the production of ships and steel, as well as chemicals, machine tools, tanks and t*actors. It accounted for the refining of a large share of Japan’s petroleum products. un tne omer ui& ... Jap cities, Nagoya and Osaka have been reported also prominent in the output of steel, ships, and planes; Kobe in steel and ships, Kyoto in pianes. Prewar Osaka was known as the "Manchester ° Japan” because of its huge codon textile industry. The six rne.ro polises were regarded as the mo westernized of Japanese clie3 .with emphasis on American sty ■ N Sagoya and Kyoto (the lattei pan’s capital for more than thousand years) had retained however, much of the old JaPa ' along with modern developmen ■ Besides its urban centers, shu holds the largest and only tensive plain of Japan Pr°Pe^ productive area highly impo. in this mountainous hard- 0_cu vate coun ry. This regjrl " Kwanto Plain around Tokyo, • an area of several thousand 'r-lu‘ miles. Normally it supports aa timated 12 to 15 million P® P ' including 80 towns of above ■ Other fertile but smaller P are also found on Honshu m• “ vicinity of Nagoya, ana a ; ! Kyoto. Kobe, and Osaka, the island provides a large s - of Japan’s typical prodiuc a, eluding rice, garden Prodl'c®' J fruits, wheat, barely. Mulberry production for silkworms i important. Maine is the only state :n ^ union that touches only one state.
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