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With confidence in our armed forces—
with the nnbonnding determination of our
people — we will gain the invitable
triumph — so help us God.
—Roosevelt’s War Message.
SUNDAY, AUGUST 17, 1944
Our Chief Aim
To aid in every way the prosecution of
the war to complete Victory
TOP OF THE MORNING
You who like to play at Bible,
Reading piecemeal, hit or miss,
Now a bit of John or Matthew,
Now a snatch of Genesis.
You who treat the crown of writings,
As you treat no other book—
Just a paragraph disjointed, *■
Just a crude impatient look
Try a worthier procedure,
Try a broad and steady view;
You will kneel in very rapture
When you read the Bible through!
—MISSIONARY MONTHLY.
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The Road To Berlin
(By The Associated Press)
1— Western Front: 315 miles (from Stolberg).
2— Russian Front: 312 miles (from outside
Pultusk).
3— Italian Front: 583 miles (from below
Rimini).
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Coming Back
One of these days the doorbell will ring and
there once again, like the first robin of spring,
will be the Vanished American. You remem
ber, the cheery and persistent citizen with
the sample case of brushes or hosiery, or per
haps a mechanzed carpet sweeper. We won’t
say when that day will come, for fear of
being called complacent. But come it will.
And a typical chapter in American life will
be resumed.
Plans must be shaping up already. For it
would be a great mistake to think that recon
version will begin and end at the factory.
Even now the general staff of door-to-door
salesmanship probably has the maps spread
out and is pondering new strategies and tac
tics for the day when the all-out campaign of
persuasion moves forward again into every
street and countryside.
Canny consumers would do well, then,
to reconvert their thinking into peace
time channels. Otherwise they may run into
some early pitfalls. The first one probably
will be the false aura of cordialtiy that is
bound to pervade the resumption of front
atoop merchandising.
The Vanished American, returning to his
appointed rounds, will certainly be welcomed
as the Americans were welcomed in
Paris. Maybe his wares won’t be dreams of
streamlined transparent plastic. But to the
housewife, down to the last bristle of the
vegetable brush and reduced to wielding a
broom, they will look like the dawn of a brave
new world.
This won’t last, of course. The encyclopedia
vendor will follow the Fuller Brush man. The
vacuum cleaner salesman will be succeeded
by the boy who is working his father’s way
' through high school by means of magazine
subscriptions. The big parade will be on.
So if she is forward looking, the housewife
even now will be brushing up on her
sales resistance. She might practice up on that
old Scandinavian housemaid impersona
tion she used to use when the salesman ask
ed, “Are you the lady of the house?’’ That
always eased the shame of falsehood with a
touch of light-hearted drama. She might give
some thought to her neglected footwork, for
It takes speed to beat the salesman’s toe to
that strategic territory between the door and
the jamb.
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Victory In Second Blitz
• Another story of resourcefulness and rugged
courage has come out of London — the story
of the victory of the second blitz. It is per
haps even more inspiring than the accounts
of the first Battle of Britain. For here Lon
. don’s defenders were confronted with a new
weapon, unpredictable, stealthy, speedy, tm
iffected by weather. It demanded new
countermeasurs.
The betaild story now tells how these coun
ter-measures worked. And it reveals that even
before Allied troops in France blocked
off the robot coast, British brains and effort
and American co-operation had already beaten
the flying bomb.
There •were 80 frightful days of the second
blitz. But the passing weeks brought promise
of victory. In the first month, defenders were
able to bring down 40 per cent of the missiles.
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At the end, coast defenses were stopping 70
per cent of them, and inaccuracies reduced
to 9 per cent the bombs that reached the
target.
The toll in lives and property, though not
so great as in the raids of 1940-41, was tre
mendous.
But If the attacks cost the Allies and Lon
don heavily, think of what the Germans paid
for the attempt and the defeat. Frustrated in
the beginning through superior intelli
gence and air power, they were unable to
launch the flying bombs in time to achieve
the maximum results.
But the most damaging result at the
abortive vengeance was the fact that, having
put all their eggs in one basket, they had to
sit by and see the eggs smashed. Airplane
and other production was cut back to make
flying bombs. They were sold and oversold
to the German people. But the physical and
psychological punch was blocked. The “miracle
weapon’’ wound up a dud. And Germany took
a long step closer to defeat.
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Russia And Pacific War
Naturally the decisions reached at Quebec by
President Roosevelt and Prime Minister
Churchill on further operations against
the Japanese cannot be made public. But
it is to be taken for granted that with Hitler
defeated in Europe Great Britain will go all
out with us to defeat Hirohito. That has been
assured by the British Premier almost from
the start of the conflict.
What is of greatest public concern is the
attitude of Russia after victory in Europe.
Will Russia then take a hand in the
war in the Far East, either through partici
pation of her armies or by providing Siberian
bases for her American and British Allies?
The concensus is that Stalin will not withhold
his hand when his forces have played their
important, in fact their indispensible, part in
overpowering Germany. Russian interests in
the Orient are so great it is inconceivable that
Stalin should refuse material aid in defeating
Japan which, unconquered, would continue to
menace the peace and safety of all peoples
and geographical subdivisions in the Asiatic
area.
It will be to Russia’s advantage to continue
at her Allies’ side until peace has been re
stored throughout the world. In the mean
time, it is well to remeber that because Rus
sia’s Siberian forces have delivered a number
of effective border blows the Japanese have
not dared skeletonize her armed units in Man
churia but has dept them practically immobi
lized there lest the Russians progress from
border incidents to major attack.
Despite the removal of some divisions from
Manchuria for action in the Hankow-Cantcn
railroad area, Japan has still many more
divisions there which without the threat of
Russian assault could long have been in ser
vice elsewhere and which have to be supplied
continually with food and munitions needed
far to the south.
Russia has had /part in the Pacific war to
this extent. Will Russia come in more active
ly, when Germany has been beaten? The
question presses for an answer, which can
come only after the European phase of the
World war has been concluded.
Origin Of Jobs
The job producing possibilities of foreign
trade and a larger merchant marine are not
as yet fully understood by the people of the
United States. For example, many of our most
important employing industries export from
10 to 50 per cent of their production.
Robert H. Patching Vice-President, W. R.
Grace & Company, gives figures which are
of interest to workers everywhere. They show
that automobile exports accounted for 1 2-3
months of the total annual employment in
that industry; for two months employment in
agricultural implements and machinery; 3 1-3
months in the tractor industry; A 1-3 months
m the power-driven machinery industry; 1 1-2
months in the printing and bookbinding in
dustry. These examples are typical of many
others.
The United States cannot produce all the
things it needs. Nor can it consume all the
things it must grow and make in order to
provide a high level of employment,, Exports
and imports are bound to assume a lgrger
importance to the national welfare in terms
of employment — jobs,” said Mr. Patchin.
‘‘But the jobs are not merely those in field
or factory. Every item of export and import
trade requires an infinite variety of labor
and service before, during and after the
article takes form. For this reason, no satis
factory enumeration is possible of the' amount
of employment in ma jaiiours or the number
of jobs for which our foreign trade is respon
sible. Many agricultural products enter into
manufactured exports, but are not credited to
agriculture in export statistics. Vastly more
corn is exported in the form of lard and pork
than in grain.
American exports create employment from
the time a hoe is struck in the ground
or a ton of iron ore is taken from the earth,
until loaded aboard ship and delivered in a
foreign market. And this is tue of imports
as well as exports. For an imported article,
from the time it is landed on the dock,
creates labor. Those planning jobs for re
turning soldiers and sailors, and workers re
leased from war industries, should realize that
foreign trade is vital to domestic pros
perity.”
ft is well for our citizens who may live
and work and produce a thousand or more
miles from our seaports, and who have never
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even seen the ocean, to realize that their jobs
or their businesses may well depend on our
future foreign trade.
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Sad Example
The recent battle of words between former
Ambassador William C. Bullitt and the Soviet
newspaper Pravda may be a minor skirmish,
but it is nonetheless depressing. Mr. Bullitt
wrote a magazine article from Rome which
contained 3 catalog of fears and indictments
of the Soviet Union, credited to sources general
ly defined as “the Romans.’’ Then Pravda an
swered in the rich and uninhibited prose for
which it is famous, calling Mr. Bullitt several
varieties of liar.
It seems a pity that Pravda could not re
alize that Mr. Bullitt is no longer a member
of our government and that he was, rightly
or wrongly, writing as a private citizen in
a country of free speech and free press. It
seems an equal pity that Mr. Bullitt didn’t
realize that the fears of these vaguely defined
Romans are the same Bolshevik bogeyman
with which Hitler and Goebbels have long at
tempted to divide the western allies from
Russia.
Too many such impetuous incidents are go
ing to jeopardize international cooperation and
good feeling.
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Congressional
'SUTTLETIES'
The inside on the Washington scene of
interest to the Carolinas.
By HOWARD SUTTLE
Star-News Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, Sept. 16.—Two North Caro
linians who head important house committees
regard the pre - election recess slated to
start next week - end as merely an opportunity
to “catch up’’ on some important committee
work.
Rep. Robert L. Doughton, of Laurel Springs,
chairman of the House Ways and Means com
mittee and head of the joint Senate - House
Committee on Taxation, expects to devote at
tention to the joint group’s study of postwar
taxation problems.
Rep. Graham A. Barden, of New Bern, chair
man of the House Education committee, looks
forward to more time for collaboration with
representatives of America’s Institutions of
higher learning in an investigation, authorized
by the house, of the problems of the colleges
in universities.
Doughton and his colleagues have reduced
the problem of postwar taxation to a very
fine point, wherein they seek to determine the
amount of taxes necessary to meet govern
mental expenses and the amount of anticipat
ed national income.
Working on this basis, Doughton believes
they can grrive at a postwar tax program
that will enable both large and small oper
tors to peace time business instutions to
make more specific plans for the future.
Barden’s suggestion that leading educators
be brought in to assist in formulation of a
postwar education program for the nation’s
universities and colleges, when adopted,
brought the enthusiastic cooperation of the
National Education association, from which
12 prominent men were appointed as an ad
visory committee. Dr. Francis J. Brown is on
leave from the New York university faculty
to direct the study.
PLAN COAST AIRLINE OCT. 1
Civil Aeronautics Board officials are appar
ently endeavoring to clear the decks and
make possible inauguration by October 1 of
the new route of National airlines from Jack
sonville, Fla., to New York, but stops at Wil
mington must be postponed until the army
permits use of either Bluethenthal field or the
air field at Camp Davis.
G. T. Baker, National president, has filed
a schedule that provides for two daily round
trips over the coastal route, one between:
Miami and New York, through Jacksonville,
and the other between New Orleans and New
York, through Mobile, Tallahassee and Jack
sonville. The schedule has CAB approval.
There remains only the announcement by
the board that the interests of national defense
no longer require that inauguration of the
service be held up. Such an order was being
circulated over the proper CAB desks over the
week - end, with formal announcement of its
approval due probably Monday or Tuesday.
The board still has under advisement Na
tional’s application to include New Bern in its
schedule of stops.
It’s likely to be some time, however, before
Wilmington. New Bern and Norfolk will re
ceive National airlines service, for Uncle Sam
has said that the landing facilities at these
places must serve the war effort and to permit
commercial air service would interfere.
Also due within the next few weeks is the
report of CAB Examiner Ross I. Newman
on the so - called Great Lakes - Florida case,
in which nine lines are competing for license
to serve proposed routes between Detroit, Chi
cago and Cleveland, through the Carolines,
to Florida.
CAB s public counsel, Vernon C. Kolhaus
and D. Franklin Kell, have i -commended that
Delta airlines be given Knoxville . Charlotte
Columbia and Cincin^tti - Chicago links
its present Atlanta - SXvannah - Knoxville -
Cincinnatti route, and tnot State airlines, of
Charlotte, be given a feeder line from Louis
ville to Wilmington, serving North Carolina
airports at Greensboro - High Point, Winston
Salem, Charlotte, Burlington, Raleigh - Dur
ham, Fayetteville and New Bern.
Since oral arguments must follow the ex
aminer’s report, a decision in the case by
the board is not expected before late Decem
ber, probably not until next year.
FARMERS REDUCING MORTGAGES
Farmers of North Carolina and other south
ern states are taking advantage of the so
called war “boom” to reduce the principal
on mortgages held by the Farm Credit ad
ministration on their property, according to
I. W. Duggan, FCA governor.
Repayments, greatly exceeding the total of
new loans, have enabled Tar Heel farmes
to substantially increase the equities in their
farms, contributing to ,,the total of $400,000,000
in repayments to the FCA by farmers of
the nation during the fiscal year, 1944.
Farmers also have substantial savings in
war bonds, Duggan declared, urging that such
savings be “maintained and not wasted in
land speculations, as they were after the First
World War.” Such a program will enable
the farmers to “withstand the hazards of con
version” to peace time operation, Duggan con
tended.
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NOT QUITE EMPTY BUT PRETTY LOW DOWN
Rhineland, Penetrated
By Allies, Is Sore Spot
With American troops reported t
inside the German frontier at the ^
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point where France, Luxembourg
and Germany meet, the Rhineland \
again takes its place as a history- t
making region of Europe. «
The German Rhineland, says the \
National Geographic Society, in- i
eludes territory along the more x
than 400 - mile course of the Rhine 1
river as it flows through or along x
the border of Germany. j ;
In its upper, or southern reaches.j t
the Rhine follows roughly half of ;
he Franco-German boundary)
Line, which thrusts a deep V east-) <
ward into Germany. North ol the I
lalfway mark, the river flowsl c
northward away from the border, :
then turns west marking off a! x
broad area of the west - central 1
Rhineland, nearly 100 miles across,) 1
as measured from the Yanks’)
opening wedge. ] (
In this general region some of, 1
Germany’s most valuable and)(
productive country is found. It e
bolds the industrialized Saar Dis- x
trict, adjoining the French fron- 1
tier, which produced more than'l
10,000,000 tons of coal annually. Its. x
fertile farmlands along the Rhine) 1
and other river valleys normally; t
provide barley, wheat and other,]
grains, potatoes, tobacco, grapes, 1
and other fruits. In its many com- 1
mercial and manufacturing cent- 1
ers, such as Mannheim, Frankfurt.
Mainz, and Kobelenz, machinery t
and chemicals, leather goods, e-x- 1
gines and other automotive prod- 1
ucts have been turned out for Ger- i
many’s once - powerful war ma- z
chine. i 1
Near Saarbrucken, iron and steel j
center of the Saar District which1 i
in 1935 voted to return to the Reich,' ]
German troops in June, 1940, broke 1
through the French Maginot Line, i
A an ^ l"
3 move westward and capture
rerdun.
Nature presents the Allies with
number of useful routes to fol-j
3W through this central section of
he Rhineland. Such important riv.1
rs as the Mosel, Hahe, and Glanj
(ind northeastward through'
anges of hills and mountains, to
neet the greater stream of the
thine. Railway and highway com
nunications run more or less par
llel with the rivers and strike off
etween them, forming a consider
ible network.
The Rhineland has long been one
if Europe's political sore spots and
lotential sources of conflict. West
f the river's central and upper
tretches lie the Alsace and Lor
aine regions, tossed back and!
orth between Germany and
i’rance.
After the First World War, the
lerman Rhineland was occupied
iy the Allies. Under the provisions
f the Versailles treaty, the north
rn section, with Cologne (Koln),
/as to be occupied for five years;
he central area, with Koblenz, for
en years, and the southern area,
zith Mainz, for fifteen years.
Moreover, a 31 - mile strip east of
he Rhine was ordered demilita
ized and th* Germans forbidden
o build any fortifications in t h e
thineland or to assemble German
roops thefe.
As it turned out, all of the Allied
roops were withdrawn from the
thineland by the end of 1930. In
936, Nazi Germany repudiated the
greement not to militarize the
one and dramatically marched
roops into the region. That same
ear, the Nazi government also
lenounced the Versailles treaty
irovisions which had declared in
ernational the Rhine and other
mportant German waterways.
I11U5 rAnlldAiw
ENVELOP VAUEYO
BARI, Paly, Sept. 16.——
Strong elements of Marshal Tito’s
Jugoslav partisans pushing north
ward west of the Morava river
against scant opposition have en
veloped Valjevo, captured nearby J
51ovac and taken Lajkovac, the 1
latter only 34 miles southwest of
Belgrade, Yugoslav capital, it was
earned heretoday.
On the way they occupied Rav- j
aa Gora, former headquarters of .
the Serbian Chetnik leader, Gen. ‘
Draja Mihailovic, who now is j
;aught between the partisans and j
the Germans and facing almost j
certain capture by one or the oth- )
it. 1
At the same time other forces
aperating from the Adriatic fort
ress of Vis completed the libera- j
tion of three more important Dal- ,
matian islands, including Korcu- s
la. The largest in the group, Brae, ,
had been cleared earlier of the
enemy after a bitter four-day ,
Eight. J
The capture of Lajkovac, only 23
miles from the point where the
Belgrade-Sofia railroad and high
way run side by side placed them
in an excellent position to cut off \
the last escape route of strong t
Serman garrisons at Nis, Lesko
vac, Kraljevo, and Krugujevac,
which also are threatened by com- ^
bined Partisan-Bulgar forces mov- £
ing westward from Pirot and by I
elements advancing up the line# c
af communication from the south.
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PLANS TO WED e
HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 16. —(,fP)— t
Singing screen actress Marilyn t
Maxwell will be married in New c
York at 5 p.m. tomorrow to radio
and film player John Cdhte, she in
formed her studio by telephone to
day. The ceremony will be per- r
formed at the little church around v
the corner. e
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The world’s first electrically run 1
Lailroad train was operated in the s
United States in 1887 n
25 Years Ago J
(FROM THE FILES
OF THE STAR-NEWS)
SEPTEMBER 17, 1919
The annual reunion of Companies
1 and B, heavy artillery, will be
teld tomorrow at Burgaw.
The board of education has ac
[uired by purchase from Harriett
lellamy the northwest corner lot
it Market and 13th street. Pur
hase of this property gives the
loard of education all property on
darket street from 13th to 14th
lack to Princess street. This will
ie used for the new high school
luilding.
Dr. and Mrs. A. H. Harriss and
amily have moved from' their
ummer home on the sound to
pend the winter season at their
esidence 409 Dock street.
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Sutler Heads Negro
Division Of Chest
E. M. Butler, insurance man,
;as elected to direct the work of
oe, Negro division of the Com
nunity Chest, at a meeting of ne
ro committeemen held yesterday
fternoon. it was announced by W.
tanald Stewart, general campaign
hairman.
Other officials of the negro divi
ion will be B. T. Washington, gen
ral secretary, principal of Willis
on primary school; R. F. Lee,
i-easurerr; H. Cal Moultrie, publi
ity.
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GOING TO ITALY
NEW YORK, Sept. 16.—(A3)—Do
mestic relations court justice Ju
enal Marchisio, president of Am
rican Relief for Italy,. Inc., said
)day he would leave soon for Ita
r to administer * distribution of
ripments of food, clothing and
ledical supplies
EASTERN TOBACCO
AVERAGE BOOSTED
WILSON, Sept. 18.—UP) — The
war food administration and the
State Department of Agriculture
said today that despite lower qual
ity offerings, flue-cured tobacco
markets in North Carolina's east
ern belt increased their average
by $1.13 during the sales week end
ing Friday.
Averages for some leaf, smok
ing leaf, and cutter grades were
up $1 to $2 over the previous
week’s quotations, WFA said.
Some priming grades showed $1
increases, while limited offerings
of green primings showed a de
crease of from $2 to $3. However,
the bulk of sales brought from $40
to $46.
The volume of sales was heavy
every day during the week, with
33,495,631 pounds being marketed
at an average of $41.91 par hun
dred. This brought the season’s
gross sales to 77,702,072 pounds,
which averages $41.50, or $2 under
the*, price ceiling.
Offerings during the week were
composed of a considerably larger
percentage of low and common
qualities and a correspondingly
smaller proportion of fine, good
and fair tobaccos, WFA said. A
large increase in the percentage
of leaf grades sold resulted in this
group becoming the predominant
offerings for the first week this
season.
War prisoners were being used
on some of the markets and in
some factories in an effort to re
lieve the labor shortage.
WFA said some tobacco* still re
mained to be harvested in the belt,
while the U. S. crop reporting
board’s Sept. 1 forecast for type
12 is for 367,410,000 pounds, an in
crease of 30 per cent over 1943.
Average prices on a limited
number of representative U. S.
grades, with changes from the
previous week:
Leaf: Good orange $.46 unchang
ed; fair orange $46 up one; low
orange $44 unchanged; common
orange $42 unchanged; common
green (orange side) $35 up one.
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Egg Ceiling Prices
To Be Released Soon
RALEIGH, Sept. 16. — (fP)—A
simplified schedule of ceiling
prices for eggs to be effective in
54 eastern North Carolina coun
ties will be released soon by the
Office of Price Administration’s
district heaquarters here, it wr,
announced today.
T. S. Johnson, OPA district di
rector, said the district would be
divided into two zones under th^
new regulation, replacing the cur
rent and more complicated regula
tion, and egg prices for the entire
year will he covered.
Under the new regulation ceiling
prices for eggs will be reduced
in eastern counties, he said.
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Hyde County Crops
Damaged By Storm
RALEIGH, Sept. 16.—(A>)—Dam
age to crops in Hyde county from
a storm which swept through the
coastal counties on Thursday, has
been estimated at $200,000 by J.
P. 'Woodard, county agent in
jgde.
Woodard said that all cotton
which had not been picked was a
total loss. Soy beans were severe
y damaged, while pecan and oth
er fruit trees were damaged as
much as 75 per cent.
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OLDEST MEMBER
NORTH WILKESBORO, Sept. 16.
|A*) The North Wilkesboro Kiwa
ms club today laid claim to the
oldest member of the Kiwanis in
ternational. John E. Luther, who
celebrated his 101st birthday a few
says ago, joined the local club yes
terday. -f
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New York city has 578 miles of
waterfront
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Interpreting
TheWar
By KIRKE L. SIMPSON
Associated Press War Analyst
QUEBEC—This mid-SeptMr,
veek-end goes into history ^
ettered with significance, it s„.j
•he end of the war in Europe J
jroaching swiftly and here
Quebec the end of the war in ^
:ompletely mapped.
From here on the labors 0f th
nen who lead the United Nat *
'ellowship will be no less arduo''
;he problems that comron*
10 less grave. But tney L™
reached a turning point m
struggle so far advanced un J
road to military victory over Gt'
many and Japan alike that tii'
rest can be left confidently ;0 th*
lighting men while national lesj
ers turn to planning tne \vays ar ‘
means, political, economic -5
social, to secure and console
the final assured triumph — 5
out of it to fashion enduring Be,„
for the world.
Talk Next Steps
That was the evident preoccuna
tion of President Roosevelt and
Prime Minister Churchill as tie!
closed out their personal share in
the military deliberations that
brought them again to Quebv
They had stamped their necessa v
approval upon the broad strategic
design for victory over Japan a].
most within hours of their arriva1
here less than a week ago. They
had also exchanged ideas ij.
formally on the next necessary
steps to be taken in Europe-ani
particularly in Germany - whK.
Russian and Allied armies have
trampled out between them th*
last vestigate of Nazi armed re
sistance.
The war maps about them at
the conference headquarters in ih,
grim old citadel of the vast Cha
teau Frontenac showed almost
from hour to hour startling
changes all pointing to early vic
tory in Europe, and to crumbling
Japanese sea defenses.
Speculation ran rife in Quebec
when the conference assembled
here as to whether part of its
duty would be to name an over-all
Allied commander for the war
against Japan or for the Pacif.c
sector of that* war. No such pur
pose, it developed, was on thi
Quebec agenda. The Pacific com
mand question had peen settled
long in advance.
Nor can there be any doubt that
MacArthur is fully satisfied with
the share now assigned him, he
recapture of the Philippines. Tnat
will be made clear in due course
when the division of duties be
tween Allied theater commander*
in Asia from the Pacific to the
Indian ocean, and to CJiina can
be revealed.
UNRRA FINANCES
TO BE DISCUSSED
By SIGRID ARNE ,
MONTREAL, Sept. 16. - -
Representatives of th* 44 nation!
today prepared to discuss the cri
tical problem of whether UNRRA
money should be used for the aid
of Italy, a question that may bring
to light sharp differences of opin
ion among the delegates from Al
lied countries.
Help for Italy would represent
a major change of policy in th*
Uni'ed Nations’ relief and rehabi
litation administration and observ
ers said the issue may cause heat
ed discussions as the council mem
bers began to plan the care pi
millions of Europeans caught in
the path of war.
The European members, led oy
the Norwegian group, plan to stand
solidly against UNRRA relief for
Italy. They point oot tiat soou.d
UNRRA’s policy be changed to
permit the use of Allied money in
Italy. They point out that should
similar expenditures in Germany,
a procedure which the men from
Europe's invaded nations oppose.
On the other hand, the United
States and the United Kingdom,
tht two largest contributors w
UNRRA. now have armies in Italy.
These armies are forced, for mu;
tary expediency, to finance an
administer relief to Italy.
The opening wedge for consid
eration of Italy was made this af
ternoon by the United States . ^
presentaiive. Dean Acheson, as;.
tant secretary of state. Ache*’',
requested the council, in its ■■■■
plenary session, to set up two n •
conference committees: One
policy and one for procedure. _
are interpreted by observe, s
being the necessary machinery^
consider the problem of relie -
Italy.
-V
Japs Surrender barrier
Of Upper Chindwin R^e1
SOUTHEAST ASIA COMMA^
HEADQUARTERS. KANDY. Ct
LON. Sept. 16—UP)—The Japans
apparently have surrendered
great natural barrier of the upp •
Chindwin river in western Bu- .
and still are in flight east''«
headquarters announced toda>
Patrols of the British Hth ary
braved the monsoon-swollen '
rents of the Chindwin, crosse •
the east bank and found that ‘
2,000 to 3,000 survivors of an ■
fated invasion of India from upr
Burma had vanished. ^
Moving up to the river's * ,
bank in force, the British f°
hundreds of enemy dead and so _
stragglers — the same eviden
of disintegration that has mar*^
the Japanese route of retreat **’
ward from the Allied base of _
phal which these forces hoped
seize.