Site Ed. Note: The front page reports that the Nuremberg trials had been scheduled to start on November 20.

It was reported that former Reich economics minister Walther Funk broke down crying when he received his indictment. He asked for immediate counsel.

Boo-hoo.

Julius Streicher appeared to struggle with language, saying, when handed a list of lawyers including Jewish names, that it was a list for "somebody who is anti-Semitic?" He also stated that in Germany, a defendant had the right to reject a judge who was "impartial" and wondered if America had a similar rule.

No, in America, Herr Streicher, all judges are "impartial".

In Argentina, the Army had issued permission to Juan Peron to run for the presidency on April 7, as long as the Government remained impartial in the elections. Peron had been returned to power two days earlier as his Peronistas struck across the country in celebration, bringing most commerce to a halt.

In Caracas, Venezuela, the United States Embassy was fired upon the previous night as revolution spread through the country, pitting rebel, military, and Government forces against one another. The rebels took control of the President's residence at Miraflores and the nearby military academy.

General Hap Arnold, chief of the Army Air Forces, told the Senate Military Affairs Committee that V-2 rockets existed which could travel 3,000 miles, with more accuracy than those used by Germany during the war, and that the only defense to them was an alert and powerful air force. He advocated combining the Army and Navy under a Department of Defense.

While the contention would ultimately come true, it was not correct in 1945, except as speculative plans. The O.S.S. had begun recruiting, under Operation Paperclip, German rocket scientists and technicians, during the summer of 1945, the limitation ordered by President Truman being that no Nazis be included in the recruitment.

Following V-E Day, the British were permitted by the Soviets in their occupation zone to launch, from Cuxhaven, eight rockets assembled from parts cobbled together from Peenemunde and throughout Germany, the flights taking place from October 2 through 17, 1945. The longest of the flights was but 155 miles. The others ranged from 50 to 140 miles, with two ending in failure on launch.

On October 19, 1962, the Kennedy Administration entered the fourth day of the Cuban Missile Crisis, as summarized five years ago in conjunction with The News of October 19, 1937.

In the eleventh in the series of articles on the fall of Bataan and Corregidor in April and May, 1942, General Jonathan Wainwright tells again of his farewell to General MacArthur on March 10, the General, under strict orders from FDR, departing the next evening from Corregidor for Australia where he would set up his new command post. On March 12, General Wainwright assumed command of all forces on Luzon, about 70,000 men, not all combat troops. By contrast, General Homma at the time, with new landings at Lingayen Gulf, had about a quarter of a million Japanese troops under his command.

The American Navy under General Wainwright consisted of two or three small minesweepers, some miscellaneous craft, and four PT-boats under the command of Lt. John Bulkeley, the PT-boats which transported General MacArthur to the point of departure by plane.

His air force was comprised of one P-40, in bad condition. Just prior to that time, they had managed to get three more P-40's flying. But after a successful raid on Japanese ships at Subic Bay, the three cracked up on landing. The Japanese radio had reported, risibly, that the attack had been conducted by 27 B-17's, fourteen of which had been shot down.

General Wainwright moved his headquarters south to Mariveles. Supplies became a major problem but General MacArthur had left supplies under the command of Brig. General Lewis Beebe on Corregidor, to the frustration of General Wainwright. On March 15, he visited the Rock to try to acquire increased supplies but was told by General Beebe that it was not practicable. The result was that rations, already cut to the bone, had to be cut by another third for the men to last until April 10, the date on which the last of the scrawny horses of the 26th Cavalry had been shot.

Meanwhile, on the night of March 20-21, word came from General Beebe that General Wainwright had been promoted to lieutenant general.

A woman in Pontiac, Michigan, was killed on "lover's lane" with a knife through the heart and a hatchet and small axe. Police were looking for two unidentified witnesses to the crime.

A 21-year old employee of a bag factory in Savannah, Georgia confessed to butchering his companion, a 17-year old boy, and burying his dismembered body parts around the city in different locations. The two had reportedly quarreled after visiting a roadhouse.

In Upper Marlboro, Md., the Sheriff of Prince Georges County lashed a stripped man ten times with a whip for having beaten his wife and knocking out two of her teeth. A witness, saying that the whipping was not as hard as those administered by his father to him, added that the Sheriff "did it very nice." No skin was broken though large welts were raised on the defendant's buttocks. He was then allowed to go free.

At the time, corporal punishment by whipping was allowed under an 1882 Maryland law. It was the first whipping ever administered legally in Prince Georges County.

In Billings, Montana, a quarantine imposed October 8 from an outbreak of 54 cases of polio, was being gradually relaxed after eight deaths. Churches and theaters would be reopened on Sunday and the most likely carriers of the then deadly disease, children under 18, would be allowed to venture forth again from their homes.

Whether it was part of this outbreak, we don't know.

On the editorial page, "Occupational Disease" suggests that the picture of G.I.'s of the occupation forces hanging around with geisha girls in Japans was a more frightening prospect than their counterparts in Germany spending time with plump frauleins. It suggests the perception was the result of physical racial characteristics of the Japanese, the "slant eyes".

Yet, it was characteristic, it says, of the G.I. to domesticate when he stopped moving around. The same had held true in Australia and England. The number of Dutch, French, and Belgian G.I. wives was lower than British, likely for the fact that the fighting was heavy in these areas, not allowing the G.I. much time to fraternize.

The initial policy imposed by General Eisenhower of non-fraternization in Germany had to be abandoned as impracticable, as prohibition only made matters worse under the rose.

It suggests that the problem had been succinctly stated by the Australian soldier who wrote to his girlfriend early in the war: "These Australian girls haven't got anything you haven't got, but they've got it here."

"With a Sigh" comments on General Marshall's statement that one of the primary reasons for unification of the services would be to afford a world-wide military espionage system to replace the "coffee cup intelligence" acquired over diplomatic dinners by military attaches prior to the war.

"Excelsior" discusses the apparent confusion of the public with regard to DDT, the pesticide developed and used in the jungles during the war. It was believed that the pesticide would starve to death fish and fowl by killing insects.

It was, of course, predictive, entomologically speaking, that is, of that which had not been, at least in recorded time, but was to come.

"Kiss of Death" discusses the simplistic premises adopted by the Chicago Tribune of Col. Robert McCormick: isolationism except in cases of imperialistic motives as with the Spanish-American War; opposition to liberalism as foreign in origin.

"Proper Name" comments on finding out from the war crimes indictments the middle names of Dr. Hjalmar Schact, the Nazi Economics Minister and president of the Reichsbank, as "Horace Greeley", that it was appropriate as he was now scheduled to go west.

The excerpt from the Congressional Record has Representative John Rankin of Mississippi rising to pay tribute to the D.A.R., then pointing out that anti-Zionist Jews who did not want a homeland in Palestine were also anti-Communist. He suggested that, without waving a red flag at Britain and stirring up a war with the Arabs, the Jews could find a homeland east of the Urals in the Soviet Union, where they would be at home, as every Communist among them, he says, came from Russia.

He then returns to the D.A.R., calls Communistic the attacks on it for its recent refusal of the use of Constitution Hall for a performance by pianist Hazel Scott, wife of New York Representative Adam Clayton Powell, on the basis of her race. He also resented an unnamed member of the House having stated that Bess Truman was "the last lady" of the land for her refusal to renounce her invitation to a tea in the wake of the controversy. He regarded Mrs. Truman as one of the finest women ever to grace the White House.

Representative Emanuel Celler of New York found it unfortunate that Mr. Rankin would consider it waving a red flag at Britain by merely discussing the hapless plight of the Jews in Europe, seeking entrance to Palestine as a refuge. "It is the gentleman's habitual process of red smearing and witch hunting."

Moreover, the D.A.R. had nothing to do with Palestine and so to inject the topic into an hour reserved for discussion of Palestine was inappropriate. Mr. Celler states that he deplored the D.A.R. action in repeating the behavior exhibited toward Marian Anderson in April, 1939, prompting the Roosevelts then to sponsor a performance by Ms. Anderson from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on Easter Sunday of that year.

"Surely it cannot be said that only white people can play as beautifully as Miss Hazel Scott or sing as gloriously as Miss Anderson."

Incidentally, we cannot comment on the new album as we have not yet had the opportunity to purchase it and listen to it. We had to save our shekels for the concert. We hope the singing is better, though, like the melodious times, in the olden days.

The opening band was pretty good, by the way, not in such dire straits, as we could hear them plainly and could see them, with the spotlights and stage lights fully lit. Maybe everything was broken by the time of the second act.

One thing though: we realized as we were going in that we had forgotten to bring along our copy of The New York Times. But we did think about it. In fact, right in the middle of the one about the Highway, we thought of the solution to why it is that the 50th anniversary tracks the same days of the week as what might have been the Hard Rain. It is because the 13 intervening leap year days added to the 50 advancing days of the half century equate to 63 days, a number divisible by 7. Just tell them Mercury of the winged slippers told you. That's who told us.

Drew Pearson discusses the G.I. resentment to the successful efforts of Senators Richard Russell and Walter George of Georgia to obtain from Secretary of War Robert Patterson the release from the Army of Sgt. Charley Trippi, possessed of only 41 discharge points, that he might return to play football for the University of Georgia. His entire service had been stateside. He also was a reasonably proficient typist and the need for clerical help in the Army had clogged the discharges, as many had to stay on with more than the requisite 70 points for discharge to accelerate the discharge process. Discharge had been especially slow from Drew Field, where Sgt. Trippi had been stationed.

He next reports that the Truman home in Independence, owned by the President's mother-in-law, Mrs. D. W. Wallace, would be guarded through the winter by four members of the Secret Service, despite the fact that it would remain empty. The Secret Service personnel who had guarded the "Summer White House" during the warmer months thanked the Trumans for their hospitality but described Missouri as the "State of Misery".

Mr. Pearson next discusses the pending Atom Control Bill, initially shrouded in secrecy, now made public. It provided for a nine-man committee comprised of dollar-per-year men from big business, a practice against which President Truman had actively railed while in the Senate. It was being reported that the President had let the Army send the bill to Congress without studying it. If passed, the prospect existed for such companies as DuPont and Union Carbide to control the future of atomic power. If properly developed, atomic energy might replace electricity, gasoline, and coal, areas in which big business had huge investments.

Among his "Capital Chaff", he reports that Henry Morgenthau, former Secretary of the Treasury, had published his book, Germany Is Our Problem, which President Truman had refused to clear while Mr. Morgenthau was still in the Cabinet for its political dynamite.

Mr. Pearson congratulates Army General Arthur Esterbrook of Santa Ana, California, for allowing the men under his command to air their grievances. He does not mention that it was also within General Esterbrook's command that some 40 former prisoners of war were recently found consigned to K.P. duty before discovery and apology.

Atomic scientists had adopted two slogans: "Victory in the Second World War is our last victory", and "World War Two is either the last war or the next to last—After that the lights of the world will go out".

He reports also that the President for the first time was losing support among Democrats, wanting more stress by the Administration on foreign affairs and labor relations.

Marquis Childs discusses the search for a remedy to the collective bargaining situation, the Ball-Burton-Hatch bill, requiring compulsory arbitration of labor disputes, being the most drastic of the proposals. It was not likely to pass in its then present form, as it would remove freedom from both labor and management to engage in arms-length bargaining. It was being opposed by both the U.S. Chamber of Commerce or the National Association of Manufacturers.

A letter writer comments on a special feature by former Associate Editor Burke Davis on teacher salaries in North Carolina, the author, not a teacher, advocating higher pay for the educators of the children.

Another letter writer questioned why, if Bess Truman truly disagreed with the decision of the D.A.R. to deny the use of Constitution Hall for a concert by Hazel Scott, as reported October 12, she had also not canceled the invitation to a tea given by the D.A.R., stating that the two events were unrelated as the invitation to the tea had been issued and accepted prior to the incident with Ms. Scott. The writer points out that Eleanor Roosevelt had not participated in any function given by organizations practicing discrimination. She advocates that the new First Lady practice what she preached.

Samuel Grafton states that the country, by the perception of most Americans, had "bogged down into some sort of crisis since the war ended". It was being called by Washington reporters "the situation". But at least recognition of the situation was the first step on extrication from it.

"There are those who desperately want to let nature take its course, both at home and abroad; and they have had their hour; but now it begins to grow cold and men blow on their hands, and remember how, not long ago, the sun shone and they will soon speak, and they will be heard."