Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 May 1945 — Page 11

Cruiser at Sea

ABOARD A CRUISER IN THE SOUTHWEST | ¢ PACIFIC (By Wireless).—We had been told that on | our second morning at sea there would be a drill | of some kind. \ After breakfast I was ;, writing > my ‘cabin. The ~ loudspeaker ~ suddenly “rm “Torpedo hit on starboard side. Torpedo hit on starboard side.” Well, I. thought,” "I got writing _to do. I've had. lifeboat drill on liners in peacetime. I know how . to get into a life jacket. I'll just stay here and get on with this copy. . After a while the loudspeaker got aftér me again, “Fire in the laundry,” it said: “Fire in the laundry. 4 I went on working. Steel doors were being slammed, men were dashing about in | the passages and other bustling noises tried to inter- | fere with my work. But I typed on.

A Little Too Nonchalant | THEN THE LOUDSPEAKER said, “AH hands | abandon ship. All ‘hands abandon ship.” | And all of a sudden it occurred to Miller that | maybe he was being a little too nonchalant, Maybe | the loudspeaker wasn't crying wolf every time. So | I got going swith considerable speed. I managed to | follow some seamen through a scuttle—a circular { hole in a hatch cover that can be opened when the | hatch is closed. It's just about big enough to let {a man through. | Well, T didn’t see anybody jumping averkicard, It { wis just a drill after all. But at least I learned { when I would be expected to go if trouble did come, i and where to get a life jacket, and how to tie it on—

| it was a different type from the ones.I'd met before. - —sive as well as an” efficient instrument.

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

YESTERDAY, while some of the downtown office workers were in a confetti-throwing mood, the city's | “Keep Our City Clean” cart was observed parked ¢ in front of Block's Washington st. store. :The street, | sidewalk and even the air were full of confetti and torn. paper. The cart attendant " ‘was nowhere in sight. Perhaps, . suggests Jeannette M. Miller, he. ~ just gave up and went home. Incidentally, wonder how long it will take the city to get all this debris removed from the streets. Some of it probably will be around for weeks, in view of the help situation.~ , One of -my agents reports seeing a seagull walking in a field on W. 34th st. 3 ‘It's pretty far from the nearest large ‘lake. My agent swears it wasn't an oversized pigeon. . In case you've forgotten how hard it is to find a home for rent, : here's an item appearing in the Indiana Real Estale Journal, published by the Indianapolis Real Estate l Board: “Do you remember we all promised to assist Ruel Steele, .the “governor's secretary, in If finding a house? Let's do everything we can. Let | us know. Thanks.” Gosh, if the whole Real Estate | board can't find a home for the governor's secretary, | there's not much hope for us common people. , Mrs. Frank Schussler, 806 N. Bosart, won't | have any trouble remembering the date of V-E day— along with world war I Armistice day. Armistice day, I Nov. 11, fell on the birthday of her father, Gustave ll Jonas, who died last year. And V-E day coincides i with the birthday of her husband, a first-class pharmacist’'s mate aboard a coast guard-manned LST in | the Pacific. . .. Note to Donna Hall, Gosport, Ind.: You ‘can_ obtain -information on organizing a Girl i Seout troop in your town from the Girl Scout re- | gional office, 540 N. Michigan blvd., Chicago, Ill

| Expensive Garbage } AN APARTMENT dweller (3300 block, N. MeI ridian) went foraging the other day and made a big haul—several pounds of bacon and some sausage. | It wasn't black market meat, either; Delighted, she

. took it home, separated what she was going to keep’

| World of Science

DETERGENTS, SOMETIMES called by the paradoxical name of “soapless soaps,” are going to find

Ff increased use in* the American home after world,

i war II i This is the opinion of one of the nation's largest manufacturers of soap, the Procter & Gamble. Co. of Cincinnati, 0., which points out that the development of these detergents represents the first major change in the chemical nature of seap in the many centuries of soap making. The chief advantége of the new detergents lies in the fact that they can be used to do special jobs which ordinary soap won't do. For,

this reason, the company does not +

i expect .them to supplant she fa- . miliar type: of soap but to supplément it by taking | over tire jobs that they can do better, ; The new detergents work as- well in hard water as in soft. Some of them will even work in salt water, where ordinary soap is practically useless. In hard. . water they do not form the familiar ‘rings’ around | wash basins and bath tubs,

Dissolves Dirt, Grease ORDINARY SOAP is a chemical combination ot a fat, such as tallow or a vegetable oil, with a sod¥. The ckmansing action of soap consists of its, dissolving dirt and grease. More exactly, it emulsifies them, However, the salts found in hard water, particu"larly the lime, reacts with soap to form an insoluble curd. This creates the familiar and bothersome “bath t tub rings.” The new detergents are synthetic products com-

My Day

NEW YORK, Tuesday—All day yesterday, as % went about New York city, the words "“V-E day” were on everybody's lips. Part of the time, paper fluttered through the air until the gutters of the streets were

filled with it. At Times Square crowds gathered— , but that first report the other night had taken the edge off this celebration. No word came through Washington and everybody still waited for ‘official confirmation. Today it has come. Over the fadio ‘this morning President Truman and Prime Minister Churchill have spoken<s the war in Europe is over, Unconditional surrender has ' been accepted by the Germans. I can almost hear my husband’s voice make that announcement, for I heard him repeat it so often. The German leaders were not willing to dccept defeat, even when they knew it was inevitable, until they had made their people drink the Yast dregs in the cup of eomplete conquest’ by the allies. Europe is In ruins and the weary work of reconstruction must now begin. There must be joy, of course, in the hearts of the peoples whom the Nazis ‘conquered and who are now 'free again. Freedom without oi gd Brion has little mean- . ing, My husband always said that freeddm from want and freedom ni aggression Verf win Awin freedoms

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By Lee G. Miller ”

. IT. CMDR. HUGH A. "HANNA of Rock Island, ‘mm. the gunnery officer. of the cruiser, took some of us—

including Brig. Gen, Ear] Barnes, who was ‘aboard as

a ‘support, aircraft controller,” for .the Tarakan, Borneo, operation——to see some of his tools.

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Magical Devices WE CLIMBED gingerly into lofty towers crammed with magical devices, We crawled into a gun turret through a low scuttle-like igloo entrance, Within the turret we groped down some dark steps through one crowded chamber ‘after: another, until we were| peering down into an ammunition chamber. © We

decided to take Hanna's word that there were ‘more |-

shells below, and powder. "He took us through other torturous passages _ to “plot”=the plotting room, which was refreshingly chilled. “A fot of men work in. here,” Hanna explained. “And they may work 20 hours at a stretch so it's a: good thing to have a comfortable temperature.” Hanna showed us one maryelous contrivance after another and explained how automatic braing take various reckonings—the speed and course of our ship. and of the target and of the wind, and various other things—even to the slight deviation caused by the wear and tear in the gun barrels—and “generates” an answer ‘to the *problem.” The problem being to land a hunk of hot metal on a Jap plane or warship or shore battery, whether it's day or night, within human vision or not. . He showed us great switchboards which can divert the fire control from a damaged diréction center to an undamaged one... He showed us a great ganglia of electric cables, and alitomatic devices which set shell fuses %to function in the desired number of seconds, and some things I can’t write about. I began to understand why a cruiser is an expen-

SECOND SECTION.

1,300,000 G'S

INFIRST GROUP TO COME HOME

Length of Service Abroad Chief Factor in Selection.

By NED BROOKS Scripps-Howard Staff Writer WASHINGTON, May: 9.—Length of overseas service will carry the greatest weight in the selection of the 1,300,000 G.:1.'s entitled to discharge from the army as a result ot victory in Europe, informed sources disclosed today. Combat duty~and battle honors are to be assigned second priority

on the point score for demobilization

plan: Duration .of service in the United States will come next and family status last.’ The specific evaluation of points awaits official announcement but the high rating placed on overseas duty is evident in army predictions that not more than 2 per cent of the total number to be released will be

for herself, and left on the kitchen table two ces ages, one chntaining two'pounds of bacon and ‘the other a pound of sausage. Later, she returned to the kitchen to get this and take it over to her sister. But it was gone, You can imagine her consternation. “Did you see a couple of packages here on the table?” she asked hor. uncle, who lives with her. “Oh,” he replied, “you mean those packages of garbage? Sure, I threw them down the incinerator.” Golly, I'll bet she, as well as the .bacon, really was “burned up.” . +» The apartment building custom of wrapping garbage ‘before tossing it in the ‘incinerator produces another item. A woman who lives in the Spink-Arms started for work—at ‘the courthouse the other morning. While cutting® through University park, she noticed she was carrying a package. She quickly discovered it was garbage she had meant to toss in the Much embarrassed, she stuffed it in one of the corner trash boxes. , .. An agefht reports noticing signs appropriate to the food shortage on the windows of three stores just south of 22d st. on Meridian. On one window was lettered, “Grass Seed.” On the next, “Horse Meat,” and the third, “Gold Figh" The Other Side : THERE ARE TWO sides to every story. And the one in this column Monday about the hit-and-run pedestrian who collided with an elderly woman in Block's apparently was no exception. The story, as relayed to this.column, was that the “hit-runner,” a young mother carrying an infant in her arms, didn’t stop after the collision in'which the older woman's arm was broken. Well, the young mother called me last night. She said she didn’t run away—stuck around a couple of minutes until she saw the injured woman’ was being taken care of. Here, in brief, is her story: “I was walking caréfully because my baby just had been given a _shot by a doctor. Suddenly, I felt a light bump-—scarcely felt it—and out of the corner of niy eye I saw this woman fall down. I remember leaning over and saying something to her. A crowd gathered quickly." A man leaned over and felt the injured woman's arm. A floorwalker said for him not to touch her. He said it was all right becayse he was a doctors I was scared and thought tter go on home.” Well, that’s the other side of -the story,

By David Dietz

posed of trick molecules built by chemists to overcome the dificulties of ordinary soap. Each molecule is a so-called long-chain molecule "so constructed that each end of the chdin does different job. Ome end is an oily end capable of dissolving dirt and grease. The other end is a salty one which dissolves in water. The oily end of these | molecules will not react with the salts found in hard | water and so will not make a curd, *

Thousands Spent

PROCTER & GAMBLE say that they have had , chemists working on the problem of synthetic detergents for the last 10 years and that hundreds of thousands of dollars were spent to finance the re-

search and to build pilot plants in which the manufacture of the new products could 'be tested on a modest scale. : # The first detergent to be manufactured ip commercial volume had its basis in cocoanut oil, which was treated chemically to form an dleohol known as lauryl alcohol. This was further modified by chemical treatment , form the molecule of the detergent. Detergents aré sometimes called “wetting agents,” because they will make things really and thoroughly wet in a way that water will not do. For example, if water is spilled on a polished table top it collects in small drops, leaving most of the table dry. In a less obvious way, watef behaves the same way when you wash clothes or china or your

A physical property known as surface tension causes the water to try to stay in the form of droplets. ‘The synthetic detergents have the ability to tter job of wetting and. washing is obtained.

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By Eleanor Roosevelt,

The necessity to share with our brothers, even though it means hardship for ourselves, will now face all of us who live in the fortunate countries which war has not devastated. 1 cannot feel a spirit of celebration today. I am glad that our men-are no longer going to be: shot at and killed in Europe, but the war in the Pacific still goes on. Mén are dying -there, even as I write. It. is far more a day of dedication for us, a day on which to promise that we will do our utmost to end war and build peace. Some of my own sons, with millions of| others, are still in danger. I can but pray that the Japanese leaders will not force their peofle to complete destruction, too. "The ultimate end is sure, but in the hands of the Japanese leaders lies the decision of how many people wilkhave to suffer before ultimate peace comes. What are our ultimate objectives now? Do we want our allies in Europe, and later in the Far East, W have the opportunity to rebuild quickly? “Looked at selfishly, we will probably gain materially it they do. That cannot our only responsibility, however, The men who fi to a chante to build a lasting peace, What we do in the next months may give them that chance or lose it for them, : » If we give people bread, we may build friendship among the peoples of the world; and we will never have De without friendship around the world.

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t this war are entitled |:

men who have stayed in this coun-

try.

Two Factors Count py To match the point scores of combat velerans, men on home duty would have to have unusually long

service records and large families.

Allowing for .some variations for “military nécessity,” army‘ officials |

say the point system will be ap-

plied rigidly. They point out, however, that a

high point score is not necessarily an assurance of discharge since the

number to be released will hot be

spread uniformly over the various branches of the service. forces, for example, will release few of its members.

Theat

The army, moreover, has speci-

fied tht ‘military necessity” takes precedence over the point system.

No man in a unit that remains

in service can be declared surplus until a qualified replacement is available and officials point out that milgary needs may require an immediate transfer of an outfit without regard to members’ credits.

rating

Age Eventually to Figure The 1,300,000 to be demobilized

during the coming 12 months are in addition to 700,000 expected to be released for overage ‘or unfitness for further service.

Age is not an element of the

point system But it will become

factor of increasing importance in

discharges involving fitness. Men 42 and over are now eligible to discharge and the army is expected

to cut this first to 40, later to 38. With the army's 700,000 officers, military necessity will figure more

prominently than in G. I. ratings.

Consult Officer's Desire Point ‘scores will be less rigidly

applied and in addition the army will také into consideration the of=

ficer's desire to remain in or get

out of service. Officers in essential

posts will be retained Tegardlesy of their wishes. - : Not all of the men to be dis-

'charged will be those who helped {defeat Hitler's legions. G. I's in the Pacific and faraway outposts are equally entitled to discharge

under the master demobilization

plan announced last September

atter 8 poll of the servicemen them-

| selves,

Third From Pacific The army estimates that about

half of the 1,300,000 will come froin

the European theater, about a third

from the Pacific and outposts and

the - remainder ‘from amohg men

now in this country under the servmice rotation program.

Thus, officials point out, some of

the men to be sent to the Pacific directly from Europe or by way of

the United States will be replace-

ments for veterans of Jap campaigns

Poinis for combat duty are to be

awarded ground troops who participated in engagements within light artillery range of the enemy,

Some house military affairs com-

mittee members, to whom the system was revealed in broad outline,

protested tHat the combat points discriminated against ground crews and other essential forces behind the lines. + Coming Through U. 8.

To compensate partially for this,

army officials said they were con-

sidering a modification under ~hich the points for overseas service would be stepped up progressively, About two-thirds of the combat units destined for the Pacific will be : routed through this country, where they will be given turloughs ot shout 30 days. fewer than-half of the service

“outfits, however, will have visits at

home; the majority: will go directly to the Pacific to prepare for the mass movements later. -

The total size ot the army is to be reduced only from 8,300,000 tol. 6.989,000 and.draft quotas will be

continued above the level needed for replacements to permit the dis ‘charge of men with long service records, since troops moving to the Pacific will have Wp priority on transportatlbn, the

of thou~

sands of men eligible for discharge

will be delayed for months, Men with the highest point scores will

come by, alt transport; approximately a half million will be re-

turned by boat by Jan. 1. «i

GROTTO AUXILIARY . MEETS TOMORROW

The ways and means committee ‘of the women’s a of Sahara Grotto will meet for a luncheon at

Dora L. Hunter, self-appointed benefaciress of the downtown pigeons, and Jer attorney, Ira M.

Nelis today. » » » Generalissimo Dora L. Hunter, 2945 Park ave., won another round in her private war against city administration forces attempting to ‘curb. the pigeon population of downtown Indianapolis. Despite a city ordinance pro-. hibiting the feeding of the pigeons, the self-styled champion of the feathered legions has con-

Holmes, faced Judge John Mc- |

tinued casting corn in University park. Yesterday she was arrested within, the park proper. This morning, Judge John McNelis heard her case in municipal court 3 and sustained her attorney's motion for dismissal. The action came when her attorney, Ira M. Holmes, proved the city had no jurisdiction within the boundaries of the park which is state property. Patrolman. Alex Sabo, one of the arresting officers, testified that he knew only by hearsay

that the park was ‘state Property,

Yanks inh Europe About- Face

To Join Final G. I. Jap Hunt

By JOSEPH MYLER United Press Staff Correspont Ss

armed might, which helped doom Germany, is now turning to hurl its! entire weight against the world's! last axis nation. A total force of 10,000,000 men is expected to be used in the final assault of the Japanese empire, Japan, already fighting a losing war, must now get set for blows far heavier than anything she has suffered thus far. Her military destruction, assured for some time, will now. be accelerated. She has the choice—stated yesterday by President Truman—of unconditional surrender or “utter destruction” of her warmaking power. : The redeployment bf U. 8. forces for the final assault upon the enemy in the Pacific is under way. It wil] take time and tremendous effort, this’ shifting from a twofront to one-front war, And. the enemy is strong. ; ~ Adm, William D. Leahy, the President’s chief of staff, has warned that Japan still has “perhaps 7,000,000” troops. But the process of arraying superior might against the Eastern enemy has started, and its tempo will be increased until all of this country’s power is concentrated for the climactic blow. : There are an estimated ',000,000 army troops already in the Pacific, To them will be added most ot the remainder of the nation’s post #/-E day army, expected by the war department to total 6,968,000 men, "3,270,000 in Navy Already dedicated primarily to victory in the East are the’ navy's 3270000 men and women, the marine corps’ 475,000, and the coast guard's 172,000. This gigantic force will now give its undivided attention to Japan. Thus the nation will have a total of about 10,800,000 men and women in uniform between V-E and V-J day. Most of -them, except for European occupation forces, will be available for use in the war against Japan. At the navy's disposal, exclusive of the power" contributed by Japan's other enemies, are 1200 warships including 23. battleships, 91 aircraft carriers and swarms of cruisers, destroyers, submarines and lesspr vessels. The industrial production ‘which first © dismayed and = then ' overwhelmed Nazidom will now flow in irresistible flood to the East. “ No one knows what effect uti: mately the example of Germany will kave upon Japan. The as-

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WASHINGTON, May 9.-—-U. S.| | will fight to the last.

sumption here, however, is that Japan's war lords, like Nazidom's,

Gen. Joseph: W. Stilwell, com- | mander’ of the army ground forces, said on the strength of long experience fighting Japanese that they. are “even more savage -and ruthless” than the Germans. Acting Secretary of State Joseph C. Grew, who for years was U. S. ambassador in Tokyo, said Japan “Is strong, and she is still fighting with cunning and tenacity.” But even the Japanese militarists, Grew said, must know “that they will ‘be crushed.” If they know that, they may ununderstand the message delivered to them yesterday by President Truman. For whatever it was worth toward Shortening ‘the war, Mr. Truman hurled this psychological bolt at the enemy: Not Enslavement “Unconditional surrender does not mean the extermination or enslavement of the Japanese people.” * This could be construed only as an . invitation to the Japanese .to save themselves from the destruction visited upon Germany. But this country is not banking on any expectation that the Japatiese will save themselves through surrender. Gen. Brehon B. Somervell, commander of the army service forces, has already begun the gigantic task of moving men from west to east. The war department disclosed that the piecemeal collapse of «Germany made it possible to curtail troop and supply movements to Europe well before V-E day and start redeployment of troops. The mass movement from Europe “is just about to*get under way,” the war department said. and all transportation facilities, ships and planes, will be utilized to the utmost to eothplete it. In the process of redeployment the army will release about 2,000,000 men. The air forces, already shifting to the east, plan to make fuller use of the rotation system than it could when there were two fronts. The navy will replace non-essen-tial men 42 years old and over. But draft calls will not ‘be reduced for --the present, and the

fighting forces do not intepd to!

release a single man essential to the struggle against Japan. Spokesmen for government, ine dustry and labor meanwhile ‘have promised that the men . fighting Japan will get all the tools and supplies they need to finish the job. There will be some cutbacks and some reconversion, but . the emphasis will continue to be on war production.

Up Front With Mauldin

“AE FACING

: at one of the most delicate times in history.

HARD TEST IN

Three-Power Government Will Move Into Berlin Soon.

" By ROBERT J. MANNING United Press Staft Correspofident WASHINGTON, May 9—The Big Three alliance, history's most powerful military coalition, today faced the most difffcult test of their ability to agree. Most of the world awaited the answer to a fateful question: Can the United States; Britain | ° and Russia co-operate in peace as| they have done in war? i “The problems are just begin-| ning,” ‘a highly placed American official commented, “and we have an amazing lot of them already.” The official end of the European war prompted reports that President Truman would waste little time in arranging his first. meeting with Premier Stalin and Prime Minister Churchill. Many Questions The Big Three were split over Poland.. There was a potential dispute over Austria, Political developments in the Balkans were not altogether satisfactory to the three allies. Points were still unsettled in the occupation and con trol of Germany. These and other questions provided an important reason for such

servers felt “that France's Gen. Charles De Gaulle, who was’ excluded from# the Crimea: conference,’ would be called in this time, Probably as urgent as these immediate questions was an issue not concerned with the Big Four’s role in Europe—Russia’s plans for the Pacific war. Stalin already has denounced the Russo-Japanese neutrality pact.

Move Into Berlin °

‘Without waiting for a new Big Three—or four—conference, however, the allies prepared to put into operation the four-power machinery for controlling defeated Germany and the miniature four-power plan for occupying Austria. Reliable. .sources said that “as soon as they've cleaned up the purely military phases” of Germany’s defeat, the British, Russian, French and American officials picked to govern Germany] would move into Berlin. : The ‘late President - Roosevelt picked Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, supreme allied commander in the west, to fill the Unité States. seat on the Berlin commission. But, U.S. official said, “it is not completely certain” that Eisenhower’s military skill wasted on a peace job with a war still going on in the Pacific. Yalta Plan Details of the control plan, with Eisenhower - or some other top U. S. military man, and British, Russian -and French counterparts Jointly administering Germany, are as follows: At the top, with supreme command over everything, will be the Berlin commission - agreed on at Yalta. i It will have final word on the treatment of the German people, control of German industry and administration of essential government services. The four-man commission will, for all practical purposes, be ‘Germany’s “head of state” for some time. It eventually. will be. transformed into an allied civilian high commission.

Conflict Possible In the ‘middle will be a co-ordi-nating commission, actually* a working committee. It will comprise military officers of lower rank

a top-level parley. Diplomatic -ob- |

would be

EUROPE RULE!

- stabilization proposals,

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Reciprocity Called Vital Peace Factor

By CHARLES T. LUCEY Scripps-Howard Stafl Writer WASHINGTON, May 9. — A house post-war planning come= mittee studying foreign: trade ree lations urged today: . Extend the Dumbarton Oaks idea to the economic field, bee cause economic co-operation among nations is as essential to world peace as political co-

_operation.

The com- ° mittee took a strongly internationa list stance in world economic matters and urged Mr. Lucey a world conference to consider reduction or elimination of trade restrictions. - Goverriment ‘officials say there is a good possibility of such a conference. It pegged much of its case on the proposition that the United States—or any other nation—ecannot be a-salesmap without being also a customer. It may buy from other nations as well as sell ‘to them 2 o 2 THE COMMITTEE did not pass specifically on the Bretfon Woods world’ regponstructjon and but it = underwrote their objectives of , promoting and stabilizing worig. ' trade, It came out for the reciprocal trade program. >

All this seemed especially ime portant because thefe is a sizable group of Republicans on this committee, too—Reps. Gifford (Mass.), Reece (Tenn.), Welch (Cal), Wolverton (N. J.), Hope (Kas.), Wolcott (Mich.), Lefevre (N. XY.) and Simpson (IIl.). : They may not have subscribed heart and soul to everything the committee, headed by Rep. Colmer (D. Miss.) said—but neither did théy Nile a dissenting report. » » s THE: COMMITTEE, tracing the direct .connection*between world trade and world peace, made its case this way: “When one country sets up barriers against imports from other countries, the other countries almost always retaliate by establishing trade restrictions of their own. In this way, trade controls engender ill will and jealousy among nations, ? “The development of such ecoe nomic warfare during the poste war years would obviously under. mine the economic foundations of a durable peace.” The enormous capacity of the country to produce. consume -and save must result in post-war years, the committee said, in extensive exports, imports and foreign in. vestments—with a goal of “expan« sion in all parts of - foreign — Commerce.” : “After thé war,” the report said, “the U: 8. will be a natural lend. ing country. Our potential save ings, at full employment, will be enormous.”

who will represen: the four zones of occupation” into which the defeated enemy nation will be divided. | This secondary commission will “co- | ordinate” policy” in the different! occupation zones, One of the potential trouble spots, some high officials feel, is the possibility that the four powers might | dider on their plans for governing | their respective zones of Germany. The lowest echelon of the Berlin government will be a series of com» | missions, one fof each of the German ministries. | Some present ministries will be | abolished—defense, munitions and! aviation, for example, as well as Joseph Goebbels’ “ministry of propaganda and enlightenment.” Foreign affairs, finance, food and agriculture, transportation and eco-| nomic affairs ministries will be retained.

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. Top Authority Four generals will share responsibility in some of the ministries | while, for practical reasons, one man agreed upon by the four pow: ers may have top authority in oti - ers. Some civilians may be cluded in these commissions. One’ will be all-civilian—the for-| eign affairs ministry. Robert P.| Murphy, political -adviser to Bisen- | hower, will serve with the rank of | ambassador as this country's “foreign minister” for Germany. Maj. Gen. Lucius D. Clay, a top army supply officer and former assistant war mobilization chief, will be the American civil affairs chief in occupied Germany, American officials admit that many difficulties face the allies. The Job of getting agreement on day-to-day problems, it was pointed out, will-be an acid test of allied unity

We, the Wome Teaching More Exciting i Success Game . |

By RUTH MILLETT

THAR BUSINESS of President Truman's putting in a long dise tance call to Miss Tillie, his high school English teacher, to tell her that he had made another of her former students his press secre tary, ought to give schoolteachers a ll over the country a lift. Not just because the President of the United States ! remembered a teacher with enough affection to want to let her in on a piece of news interest her. But because it suggests a game that teachers can play to relieve the monotony of teaching the same subject over and over, year after year.

The game is, of course, laying private bets on which students are likely to become important citizens in another 30 or 40 years; which ones will remember old school friends when they do reach positions of importance: and which ones will remember their teachers with affection. ” ® ”

A GAME like that ought to

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in-| make school: teaching infinitely

more fun. In a democracy we realize that any mother’s son has a chance to bécome president. But .a high school or grade school .teacher—with all the hyn dreds of students she helps to educate — has an even betler chance of having one of- “her boys” become famous. “ And the ones who. make the grade aren't always the ones.a teacher would expect to go far.

_That is what ought to make thie