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ticipation in cooperative world security. For
when the treaty finally comes to a vote, a
single senator who happened to get out of
bed on the wrong side that morning could
wreck the hopes and aspirations of 139,000,-
000-plus U. S. citizens.
So every citizen has a vital interest in
Senator Vandenberg’s wisdom and unselfish-
ness when he comes to vote at San Francisco,
and in every other senator’s wisdom and un-
selfishness when he come to vote on the
treaty. j
God give them courage and strength and
wisdom. __________________
Over The Rhine
What is in many ways the most vital and
interesting phase of the war in Europe is now
at the showdown stage That is the crossing
of the Rhine by allied forces. .
They stand at the river along a 70-mile
front, but their objective is not to stand at
the river, but to cross it and smash whatever
German opposition may exist on the farther
DIE L ORELEI
ON THE HOME FRONT
side. . . _
About all the average American knows
about the Rhine is that it is wide, deep and
swift. He has heard of the maidens who in-
habit the rock and lure sailors to their doom.
He has read about “the castled crags of
Drachenfels.” and in his history book he
has mooned over pictures of the Visigoths
with their bodies clothed in skins and their
heads decorated with cow’s horns, pushing
across in small boats to pillage and burn the
countryside to the west.
But the Rhine is more than a powerful
river defense line. It is a symbol to every
German who breathes. “Die Wacht am
Rhine” was his great song before the in-
meMeer the Japs permitted few Red Cross famous Horst Wessel was deified by the
supplies to be distributed, but American men, Nazis, and gave his name to a new Germa
. women and children liberated there have
testified that their lives were saved by the
margin of two or three Red Cross food pack-
age distributions.
Its activities are manifold, always on the
side of mercy and the service of humanity.
Its blood bank section has been instru-
mental in saving the lives of thousands of
American wounded.
Its homefront activities are not so much
publicized, but here too the great American
Red Cross has spread its protecting arms over
many a distressed individual or family, ren-
dering the most practical kind of assist-
We suppose quotas in war bond drives are
necessary. However, there is one campaign
that should have no quota, local or national,
but should be carried just as far as the peo-
ple's generosity will take it. •
That is the Red Cross campaign now cur-
rent throughout the country.
“If it hadn't been for the Red Cross we
wouldn't be here" is a common expression
among American war prisoners back from
Europe. Red Cross food packages-just one
part of Red Cross service to war prisoners—
had kept them from starvation. In the Phil-
By JAMES MARLOW
WASHINGTON. March 6—(P)
—Lest we get to thinking how
bright we are, here's something
to chew on.
It was put together by the U.
S. chamber of commerce to show
the connection between education
and economic well-being.
The moral is: the better school-
ed we are, the better we live.
Savs the chamber:
"Education Is a challenge to
American business (because) it is
an essential instrument in the
expansion of our dynamic econ-
omy."
The chamber suggests that
educators and business men get
together to "talk things over.”
Here goes with the chamber's
findings:
An average of about 60 percent
of the grown-ups in this country
have an 8th grade education or
less. Only 10 percent have gone
to college or beyond.
The two main factors pulling
down the average: the low level
of negro education in the South
and the many older foreign-born,
people, particularly in the north-'
eastern states.
Only about 4,222,000 native born
white people have had less than
5 years of schooling. This is 7.4
percent.
But among the entire negro
population the percentage having
less, than 5 years of schooling
averages 41.3. >
School attendance:
Twenty-five states had 50 per-
cent or more of their 14-19-year-
olds enrolled in public or private
schools in 1940. (That figure
shows the normal situation be-6
fore we got into the war.)
The highest records of attend-
ance in 1940-those above 60 per-
cent—were made by Washington,
Utah and Nevada These were
followed closely by California,
New York, Kansas, Wyoming and •
Nebraska, with percentages be-
tween 57 and 58 1-2.
The lower records of attend-
ance generally are found through-
out the southern states. Mississ-
ippi with 27 percent and Alabama 6
with 28 percent W
And, of course, the low attend-
ance in the south is more pro-
nounced among the negroes than
among the whites.
• • •
Salaries of teachers:
The chamber says “the range
in average salaries for 1940. be-
tween 82.604 per year in New
York and $559 per year in Miss-
issippi. would indicate that equal
educational opportunity does not
exist among the states.
"Granting living costs are not
comparable, it Is impossible to
secure the same quality of teach-
er at 21 percent of the other's
cost. Fourteen states paid an
average salary of less than $1,-
000 per year in 1940."
The chamber made a breakdown
along educational and economic
lines and found that:
"The Increasing percentages of
those completing a higher level
of education are found in the
higher income brackets. It would
appear reasonable that the ma-
jority in the very low income
groups of low level education
x x x could improve their econ-
omic status by education of the
right kinds."
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anthem.
Already it is apparent that General Ike
Eisenhower has made good his promise to
destroy German armies west of the riverj
barrier, but one significant item we must
note: Most of the opposition in recent days
has come from the Volkssturm, indicating
Hitler’s better divisions withdrew to posi-
tions east of the Rhine. ,
That the river will be bitterly defended
goes without saying. But it will also be |
crossed by allied armies. The English Chan-
nel offered no particular problem, except the
piling up of supplies and the mechanics of
invasion Our losses along the Rhine could
conceivably be greater than in the Nor-
mandy landings, but no defenses the Ger-
mans have prepared can hold our forces for
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CORRESPONDENT'S NOTEBOOK IM
IN GERMANY-(AP)—One of
by Hal Boyle -
would wear white
snow suits.
Washington Calling
ITALIAN SITUATION IS MUDDLED
ance.
Let’s take the lid off whatever quota we
may have on the Red Cross funds campaign,
and give and give. Every pennywillbe --------
wisely and usefully put to work in behalf of long. .
Meantime, there is no room for optimism
on this side of the Atlantic. We are at the
crucial stage of the European war, when
our men need more and more of everything
—and need it right now, not next week or
next month. Ten-day stoppage of tank and
truck production by a strike, and failure to
get 300 additional men to work in the tire
cord factories of New Bedford leave a bitter
taste in the mouths of Americans whose
men’s blood incarnadines the swift waters of
the wide and winding Rhine.
This is the time for all-out production, all-
out support by the homefront of the men who
are tearing the guts out of the German war
humanity.___________
The Human Equation
A great sigh of relief went up throughout
the country when President Roosevelt assur-
ed Senator Vandenberg that he. Vandenberg,
would have a free hand at the San Francisco
United Nations conference.
The other republican delegates to San
Francisco had already indicated acceptance
of membership on the U. S. delegation Sen-
ator Vandenberg is now expected to do so.
This incident is indicative of two things:
first, President Roosevelt’s determination to
play along with the senate in building post-
war security; second. GOP skittishness about
seeming to cooperate too far. Senator Van-
denberg’s fellow - republicans had already
parleyed with him, warned him not to be
played for a sucker Reduced to basic Eng-
lish, the meaning of it was that the senator
was not to do anything that would hurt the
republican party as such, or anything that
Would help the democratic party as such.
Now that he is free of strings insofar as a
democratic president is concerned, the natural
next question is: will he be free as far as his
republican affiliations are concerned?
This obvious courting of a single United
States senator has blood-chilling implica-
tions. As a nation we pitch in and achieve
virtual 100 percent unity in beating our
enemies into the ground, but when it comes
to settling the peace to insure maximum re-
sults from our sacrifices, we get right down
to the old human equation where a single
senatorial bellyache could wreck U. S. par-
machine. ,
They have every right to expect it. with-
out question, without alibis or excuses.
The Quiz Corner
Q—What is the population of Iwo Jima?
A—In 1940 it was 1151. in 223 households.
Q What is the total amount of gasoline
A—For the first quarter, 1,144.000 barrels.
Q—Where is Fort Mills?
A—On Corregidor.
Q_How many soldiers were killed in 1944
among all belligerents?
A—2.000.000, estimates a life insurance
company.
By MARQUIS UHILDS
ROME—Almost every Ameri-
can and British officer with
whom I have talked about the
plight of Italy uses one word to
describe the situation That word
is “hopeless."
The Italian people have been
on a 22-year political debauch.
The hang-over from fascism is
terrible. It will not be cured
in a day or a year or decades.
The government of Premier
Bonomi represents next to noth-
ing, There seems tn be no force_
within the country that can
make itself felt Prominent
Iulian anti-fascists who surviv-
ed both inside the country and
in exile have said to me that,
if Italy ultimately goes com-
munist. as many fear it will, It
will be by default for lack of
proper direction from any other
source Thst seems to me to be
a cogent appraisal of the ex-
isting situation.
The Bonomi government
makes many plans, but most of
them never get beyond the pap-
er stage Recently, after much
prodding from the allied com-
mission, the government an-
nounced a series of urgent re-
forms that Included abolition
of the black market, raising of
wages and taxes, and the confis-
cation of all wealth in excess of
what was owned in 1922 the
latter measure being based on
the assumption that increased
riches must have come as a re-
( sult of fascist connections No
one, however, has very much
| confidence that these reforms
essential if the Italian economy
is to be rescued. And so the
allied commission has had to do
some more prodding
— During nearly ayear.—that
commission has been trying to
make some kind of sense out of
this fascist-ridden, war-weary
country The same thing has
happened over and over again.
It's been a little like trying to
restore a sick octopus to life.
Repeatedly, the commission has
told the government that It
must take steps to carry out food
distribution rather than rely on
allied officers to do the job. The
result is exactly nothing.
"Black market" is a loose term
but, used in the broadest sense
to describe transactions outside
the theoretical price and ration
control, it would cover perhaps
70 percent of the Italian econ-
omy. according to informed
sources familiar with the long
struggle to get the Italian sys-
tem restarted.
■ Today everyone takes the
black market for granted. Only
a few weeks ago, rail service
from Rome to Naples was re-
opened for civilian passengers.
The price of the journey was
fixed by government decree at
125 lire. With the lira equal to
one cent at the official rate ex-
change That's a reasonable
price, but Italians with whom I
have talked have shrugged their
shoulders and said that, within
a month or two, you would have
will be carried out.
Q What ailment common to non-flyers is LACK OF machinery
mA by high-altitude flying? I The machinery does not exist
inA rootnache. Pressure changes cause I to take such steps many of them
swelling of the pulpy innertooth.
to go to the black market to get
tickets and pay two or three
thousand lire
Those who attempt to analyze
the Italian situation always add.
of course, that nothing can be
final so long as northern Italy
remains in the hands of the
Germans From northern Italy,
particularly from Milan, in the
past came the political forces
that gave direction to the en-
__tire country.____________
SOUTH IN POORHOUSE’
In the north, too. is the great-
est concentration of industry,
and therefore also skilled and .
politically conscious workers:
The south, which we inherited
by conquest has been tradition-
ally a poor-house and a museum
for tourists.
—In the German-held north to
day are many prominent fascists
who escaped at the time of the
allied sweep up the Italian pen-
insula They were effective op-
erators within the fascist frame-
work and they have left be-
hind an administrative vacuum
which appears to be difficult to
fill. ,
In this connection, in talks I
have had with allied officers,
they almost invariably shake
their heads with something like I
despair, and say that. after all. |
Mussolini did do "some good for
these people," and how else ex-
cept through dictatorship can
you make anything of such a
country Then they add that
"Mussolini went too far," that
that was his mistake
One can understand their
pessimism in dealing with Italy,
but I think their analysis fails
to go deep enough A dictator
can never stop at given points.
Power breeds corrupt, and cor-
ruption feeds on itself A dic-
tator must go on to self destruc-
tion, and he pulls the country
down with him That is the grim
object lesson of Italy today
(Copyright 1945 by United
Feature Syndicate, Inc.)
the star patrol scouts of the wes-
tern front is a full-blooded Na-
vajo Indian who has killed 40
Japanese and at least six Ger-
mans—and thinks his Boy Scout
training helped to make him a
medal-winning soldier.
Twice-wounded Pfc. Clifford
(The Chief) Etsitty still likes to
lead combat patrols and has made
some hundred volunteer expedi-
tions into enemy territory to
gather information.
The 20-year-old Mexican Springs,
N. M., Indian doesn’t look par-
ticularly menacing. He is small-
5 feet 5 tall and weighing 147
pounds-but he has the wiry en-
durance built up by years of
range riding and bronco busting
He has proved himself a hero
in two theaters of war—the Pacific
and European—but he would ra-
ther go on patrols than talk about
them. He speaks slowly, looking
steadily at you through deep
Brown eyes and twisting his neat
small hands nervously. He is
calm and unruffled but he isn't
used to talking.
“I got my Japs on Attu in 30
days there," he said "It was
mostly night ambush work. We
pick a place in the snow and lay
there untU the Japs tried to coma
up. Then we would pick them off
I used an old model Springfield
rifle then Now I use an Ml.”
“The Chlef" received his first
Purple Heart on Attu where a
bursting mortar shell smashed his
jaw. He spent five months in
a hospital at Dutch Harbor and
two more months in a Texas hos-
pital. Then he was sent to the
99th division and now he is the
prize scout of Company G.
“I could see very well at night
when I was on Attu," he said.
"But I got a piece of shrapnel
just above my left eye and it cut
down my vision on that side. I
don't mind night patrols but I
would rather go out at daylight.”
"The Chief " goes out with eleven
other men on combat patrols and
with three men on listening post
patrols He always goes first-
end that's the way the men with
him prefer it. They rely on him
heavily. He carries only a rifle,
no knife and no food because
most patrols last only about three
hours.
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By ELMONT WAITE
TWENTY - FIRST BOMBER
COMMAND, Guam-()— All these
new gadgets on our super air-
planes are wonderful, agrees Maj.
Gen Curtis E Lemay in fact,
he remarks with sharp emphasis,
our mechanical contrivances are
so advanced that it is getting
pretty difficult to find men suffic-
lently trained to operate them
"Equipment certainly is away
ahead of personnel," is the way he
puts it. This is particularly true
with B29 bombers in long-range
work.”
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Too Much Stuff—
ALUMINUM SURPLUSES PILED HIGH
The War Today—
FINAL SURGE INTO REICH AT HAND
Close Shove
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By PETER EDSON
NEA Washington Correspondent
WASHINGTON, D C March
8—Over a billion pounds of war-
produced magnesium purchased
by the government at fictitious
OPA ceiling prices of 22 1-2 and
20 1-2 cents per pound may in the
long run cost the government
nearly three times this amount.
The discrepancy—which would
make the government’s magne-
slum cost over 660 million dollars.
Instead of something over 200
million—is one of the more start-
ling facts that should be brought
to light in s -
month’s Sen-c -
ate Small Bus-
iness Suo- J
mittee investi- ,
gation of the ,
light metals sit. ri
uation, just now A
getting under 1
way. 1
The 400 mil- |
lion dollar dlf- 1
ference may be 1
merely a mat-
ter of bookkeep- EDSON
Ing and It may be that the extra
costs are justifiable as war costs.
But the extra costs are there and
they are beginning to show now
through a number of closely re-
lated facts:
1. The war expanded magnes-
ium production industry is now
operating at only 15 percent of
its rated capacity
J Nearly all government-owned
magnesium planta are now shut
down __.
3. There are now tremendous
stockpiles of magnesium variously
estimated at “double the neces-
sary reserve” and “enough for 19
years’ peacetime consumption"
4. The two privately owned
magnesium producing companies,
Dow and Kaiser, can more than
I supply all postwar commands and
5 The government-owned plants
are therefore unsalable and, will
have to be written off as a mere
cost of the war or disposed of at
a fraction of value
NEEDS OVER-ESTIMATED
TO 90-FOLD EXPANSION
The reason for this somewhat
embarrassing situation is simply i
that requirements for magnesium
were vastly over-estimated and
the industry was over-expanded
In 1939 U S industry actually
consumed 6.450,000 pounds of
magnesium.
Under war pressure and panic
planning, the industry was ex-
panded 90 times to a rated pro-
duction capacity of 586 million
pounds a year
Today the industry is operating
at a rate of only 90 million pounds
a year. 14 times greater than pre-
war production but only one-sev-
enth of capacity
Government war agencies went
all-out in planning this tremen-
dous capacity On War Produc-
I tion Board directives Reconstruc-
tion Finance Corporation made 52
commitments for s total of 453
million dollars to build new mag-
nesium plants
It is this 453 million dollar cap-
ital investment which it charged
off as a war cost and pro-rated
against the approximately one
billion pounds of magnesium pro-
duced between 1940 and the end
of 1945, would add to the actual
ceiling prices which the govern-
ment has paid for its magnesium
an overhead of around 45 cents
a pound, or more than double
the cost of the metal itself
The government Is now whole
owner of 12 magnesium plants
and half owner of a thirteenth.
WPB began to cut back these
plants production a year ago. 1
first by 50 percent, then by shut-
ting them down completely In
all—nearly 4000 workmen have
been laid off by these cutbacks
and sent to other war jobs.
Biggest of the closed plants is
Basic Magnesium in Nevada
once called by the Senate War
Investigating . Committee the
worst contract the government
ever made
DOW HAS MADE IT FOR
12 CENTS A FOUND
Dow chemical has been the big-
gest and most successful opera-
tor, furnishing the know-how for
other operators Dow was in the
business before the war and some
of its magnesium has been pro-
duced at 12 cents • pound. Dow’s
own mother plant at Midland
Mich., is still going
The only other privately owned
plant is Henry J Kaiser’s Perma-
nente Metals in California Using
a new process, Permanente had
trouble with its early production
and costs were higher than the
OPA celling prices WPB there-
fore recommended that Kaiser
De paid out-of-pocket costs in the
form of a subsidy This was done
on 51 million pounds at a cost of
$2,700,000, and average of 16 cents
a pound
RFC loans to the Kaiser Com-
pany to build Permanente total 28
million dollars. Kaiser has pledg-
ed the profits of some of his ship-
building operations to retire this
debt, and the Kaiser Company's
latest balance sheet shows a sur-
plus of over 32 million dollars
from which Kaiser says the gov-
ernment loan will be repaid in
full.
Only chance for the government
to break even on most of its other
magnesium production ventures is
through development of a great
postwar boom in magnesium
trains, planes, autos, etc.
By DEWITT MacKENZIE
Associated Press War Analyst
It would be difficult to find a
better summary of Germany’s
desperate straits than is given by
Dr Rudolf Semmler, Nazi propa-
gandist. who declares darkly that
“never in our history have we
General Eisenhower puts his
forces over the Rhine for the
drive to meet the Russians in
Berlin. And don’t let anyone tell
you that the crossing wen-4 be
rough, for It bids fair to be one
been in such a |
nigrave situation
| of the major amphibious opera-
tions of the war—carried In part
by naval units. This wide and
deep river, with its, cross-cur-
MNever hairite
SIsood so total
FEA Y alone
9 The fresh suc-
fuelo’A
TLYP lies on both the
Wenfontsplac
Aforthe final
caA flia surge which will
MACKENZIE carry them into
the heart of the Reich. In the
West we are up against the last
great natural barrier—the Rhine
itself. In the East the powerful
Russian thrust almost to the
gatea of Berlin’s port of Stettin
safeguards the Red northern
flank and paves the way for the
offensive to end all offensives.
Hitlerdom is about to collect
the full wages of sin—and Dr. |
Semmler shows that he knows
full well what that is.
This doesn’t mean that the A1-
lies haven’t tough fighting ahead
of them On the contrary, the In-
dications are that they have
Semmler says— and I believe cor-
rectly—that the "German Com-
mand is preserving the highest
possible number of troopa for the
decisive buttle " -
Nazi Field Marshal von Rund-
stedt appears to have succeeded
in getting a very large number
of his first class troops—his
striking - armies" - across the
Rhine
This means thst he may be
able to put up a stiff fight when
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rents, is a formidable obstacle.
especially with strong enemy
forces guarding the east bank
However, we shall get across. We
may be, sure that the plans for
this great adventure long have
been completed and that much
of the equipment already is close
at hand.
MILWAUKEE. March 8—4*5—
Ray Barber, a guard at the audi-
torium. opened a basement door,
started shouting not singing)
. "Hold that tiger- both of ’em." He
got back through the door and
pushed on the other side, one
tiger pushed, as they-eyed each
other through the glass door panel
But Barbet won because the tiger
didn't know about spring locks 1
The two jungle born bengals,
AWOL from a shrine cirrus with- |
The cure for which he is known
throughout the airforce: Contin-
ued. Intensive training after the
crews reach the combat areas.
The general doesn't get along well,
he acknowledged, "with people who
put their feet up on their desks
between combat missions"
And General LeMay is an au-
thority on long-range bombing.
He heads the Twenty-First bomb-
er command.
The Army's youngest major gen-
eral at the time the 38-year-old
Ohioan attained that rank in
March, 1944. General LeMay
trained and took to England the
flrat heavy bombardment group
to bomb Germany and Nari-held
Europe effectively
It was General LeMay who In-
troduced pattern bombing by for-
mations of heavy planes, and put
into tactical use for the first time
In the Eighth air force the com-
bat formation which still la stand-
ard In those same early days he
did much to Improve bombing ac-
curacy in the Eighth air force.
He waa credited with heading the
obest of the heavy bomber divisions
By Webster
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, R. Black, Judge Presiding
Blanche Hooker vs. J. W Hooker et
al suite for divorce.
Mamie Pearce vs. Noah Pearce, suit
for divorce.
Alfay Steele vs. John A Steele, suit
kilen Winters va Eddie 3. Winters
suit for divorce
C D James vs. Nellie Marie James,
suit for divorce
in that air force during his service
as commanding general. Id bomo-
ardment division, from June 1943
to June 1944.
Tonnage became his motto, and
tonnage still Is his bombing by-
word
"Tonnage is what does it," he
asserts Even when the weather
is sour, and you do not get a good
run on your target. If you have
enough bomb tonnage you'll knock
the hell out of it anyhow.”
And tonnage doesn’t depend
simply on the “capacity” of each
plane and the number of planes
available, he pointed out. “There’s
s difference in planes. Just as
there is in automobiles of the same
model—and crews have varying
abilities, too One crew can get
by safely with a heavier load than
another crew—it depends on their
training and experience.”
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