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killing
Continued From Page One

SOntihucu TIOui aBS ohC
customed TO criminals state
ments:
Il just got tired of telling her
not TO trifle with me or else !
would kill her. So ! arose from
bed and got the hammer from
outside the trailer. But when ]
went TO do it, she was sleeping
so peacefully / just couldn't, so
l threw the hammer out the
window and got back into bed.
BLUDGEONS WIFE
Il lay there thinking and
couldn't sleep. Figuring If
/ didn't do il now / might never
get the chance again. So ! got
up and dressed again, and went
out and got the hammer. Then
| hit her again and again.
l wasn't sure whether ! finished
her, so / got kitchen knife. l
tried to plunge it into her
throat. l don't know whe-
Their ] made it,"
Manuel "made it," Coroner
William D. Clyne reported the
woman's jugular vein severed
by a deep throat wound, and
three-quarters of the left side of
her skull caved in.
Cold-bloodedIy Manuel relat-
ed to the prosecutor and State
Police Sgt. Stanley Carlson, of
Center Line, the unhappy mari
tai relationship leading up to
his crime.
After living in Van Dyke for
many years, he married his dead
wife three years ago. He was
employed steadily at the Bundy
Tubing Company and she at the
Chrysler Tank Arsenal in War
rem Township.
Repeatedly. he said, his wife
had "trifled" with other men
and had been drinking exces-
sively, and on June 20 he warn
ed her that if he continued to
live with her she must correct
these habits.
81 promised her / would kill
her if she did not change" he
told the Prosecutor.
$50, when we returned from
a visit to relatives in st. Louis
and Oklahoma on August %,
and she was still trifling with
me, / reminded her again.
GRIM ROUTINE
But it didn't do any good"
Manuel explained coolly. I'm
the early hours of Tuesday
morning we had another dis
cussion, not really an argument,
but I had lost all patience. Aft
er she was sleeping l made up
my mind"
Manuel related that he left
the trailer after the murder and
took a bus to Melvindale. From
that community he wrote and
mailed a letter to a Mrs. Baugh-
man, the lady on whose land
they parked the house trailer.
In it he listed the names and
addresses of his wife's three sis
tiers in Oklahoma, and added
"When you receive this /
will be dead. Notify them"
Mrs. Baughman received the
letter Wednesday morning; hur-
ried over to the trailer with it
to inform Manuels wife - but
found the coroner and police
there ahead of her.
TRAINS TOO SLOW
Manuel said he later planned
to commit suicide beneath the
wheels of a train, but observed
that they were moving too slow
and I didn't want to take a
chance on them stopping"
With deliberate emphasis he
concluded his murder narrative:
II don't know what your
death penalty is in Michigan
hanging or shooting or what.
I'm willing to pay it. I've al
ways figured it's an eye for an
eye and tooth for a tooth. !
murdered my wife, now let the
law take mine"
Michigan's death penalty, life
imprisonment, will be the laws
answer TO Manuels plea, Held
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Utica, Center Line Vets
Dedicate Roll of Honor

to purchase articles Of use to
the public. A wheel chair is
being delivered this week and
will be loaned where needed,
* pulmotor is also to be in
cluded on the list.
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Many here at home are talk
ing Of a quick victory through
collapse of the German army.
l tell you that such a collapse
is not yet apparent to our men
who are locked in combat with
brutal, resourceful and stub
born enemy. - Secretary Of War
Henry l.. Stimson.
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Robots
Continued From Page One

ing all over these places in
France and will know a great
deal more then than we do now"
The defense afforded by the
balloon barrage, anti aircraft
guns and fighters was perfect
ed to such a high degree that
81 of 10l bombs fired at Eng
land Aug. % were shot down,
he said.
We seek the closest strategic
and material union between
Britain, Australia and America.
No life can be lived anywhere
in the Pacific Ocean without
friendship between the
three of us. - Sir Keith Muir
doch, Australian editor.
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Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac,
famous French explorer, found
ed Detroit, Mich, in 1701.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-26
With The AEF
Making Merry With The Maquis

danced-the Maquis girls as
delighted as the doughboys.
The burly Maquis bartender
grinned happily and watched
the villagers who were smil-
ing, too.
Tnen it ended. The girls went
in and changed their clothes.
They put away the parachute
slips and the print dresses.
They donned their fighting
clothes, picked up their pistols
and maps and hand grenades
and went back to the woods
to harass the retreating Ger.
mans.
Still dazed, the doughboys -e-
turned to their jobs of keeping
the Germans retreating.
Then the bartender picked
up his stem gun from the bar
and disappeared into the night.
The dance with the Maquis
women was over.
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for the doughboys. They had
seen movies showing how much
Americans like to dance.
VOLTA: that was it. They
would give party and dance.
The 20 officers and men of an
artillery and engineers outfit
We're willing, but where would
they get the girls?
That would be easy, the
villagers replied. The women
of the Maquis would attend.
So the villagers sent word
into the hills and sure enough
the Maquis women came. The
bartender of the little tavern
where the dance was held NOV
ed the chairs off the floor and
laid his stem gun On the bar
where it remained all evening
with the drinks passed back
and forth owe: it.
The orchestra was single
accordion-but it was plenty.
And the women! When they
came in they laid pistols, maps
and bandoliers aside, disap-
peared a few moments and
then reappeared in the little
tavern door.
W h at transformation!
They also had laid aside their
heavy fighting clothes. They
had put on slips made of the
purest parachute silk, from
parachutes which the Allies
had dropped months ago, and
then had donned the pretty
print dresses their feminity
never would quite permit them
to part with during their years
OF living and fighting in the
woods.
ut was a wonderful party
especially Yvonne,'' said 1t.
Bob Silva of Kansas City, Mo-,
ana LII. Robot Dean OF Phila-
delphia nodded in agreement,
adding:
"She put her guns and maps
in a purse and just danced.
She was beautiful. She had
beautiful hands, too, except
where she cut he- finger lift
ing a machinegun."
"You would never know she
had been fighting Krauts for
three years." said 1t. Neil
McPhail of Cincinnati, Ohio"
it was wonderful. L."
Mey all danced as
you would finish dancing with
one another would come up"
said 1t. Clark Depury Of
Tampa, Fla.
Until after midnight they
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Psst, Ernie! Wanta
Run For President?

Ernie Pyle's fame has in
creased to such proportions,
according to Sgt. Jack Foisie
in a long New York dispatch
to the soldier newspaper
Stars and Stripes (Mediterran-
can edition., that Ernie could
run for President and stand a
fair chance # being elected,
say some observers of public
opinion"
Foisie, who has been writing
domestic news TO Stars and
Stripes after a long tour Of
duty in the Mediterranean.
said:
ANY report on the home
front would be incomplete
without the meteoric success
story Of Ernie Pyle. =.
''Some Of his reports from
France have surmounted his
previous efforts, so far as the
readers are concerned
'His health and his feelings
are as much news as P-esi.
dent Roosevelt's
''To many, the man from
Indiana has become symbolic
of all the trials and tribula-
tons. the fears and the hopes.
Of their own people overseas"
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USES employees
TO WORK CLAIMS

Representatives Of the Whining.
ton U. S. Employment Service Of
flee will receive special training
Tuesday in methods Of handling
claims of war veterans under the
G. I. Bill of Rights, claims under
which will start in the USES Of
flee September 4, it was announced
yesterday.
Claims for unemployed veterans
will be accepted starting Septem.
Der 4, but for self-employed vet
Grams, those earning less than $500
a months, claims will sta-t in Oc-
tober, and these will receive adj
justed benefits. Benefits will
amount to $40 week for a mini
mum of "a weeks and a maximum
Of 81 weeks, based on length of
service in the armed forces.
Basic requirements as to eligi-
bility are: active service since
September Is, 1910; active service
for minimum of 80 days; and
discharge from the service under
conditions other than dishonor-
able.
Benefits to be paid veterans
come from the federal government
through the Veterans Admins
tration and have no connection
with the unemployment trust fund
paid in by North Carolina en-
ployers and for the benefit of their
workers who may become unem.
ployed. Any Unemployment Com
pensation funds accumulated prior
to military service by workers
may be available to them after
any war service benefits have
been exhausted.
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NO ARRESTS MADE
FOR SCHOOL DAMAGE

No persons have been apprehend-
ed and punished in connection with
the wreckins of Chestnut Heights
school several weeks ago, where
over thousand dollars in damage
was done, J. w. Grise, assistant su-
perintendent of schools said yes
terday.
eff progress has been made in
learning the culprits we have not
been advised" Grise said.
It is understood that the Sheriff's
department has been working on
the case. Juvenile authorities have
not been consulted in the matter,
although teen-age youths have been
suspected.
Hundreds of panes of window
glass were destroyed, light shades
ruined, and glass doors shattered.
The Chestnut Heights affair was
the last and worst of series OF
school-Wreckings in the communi.
ty.
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Four From This Area
On Army Wounded List

The War department made public
Yesterday the names of four South.
eastern North Carolina soldiers who
nave been wounded in action in
the European area.
They are:
Pvt. Raymond Curry, husband OF
Mrs. Laura E. Curry of 1918 Dock
street, Wilmington.
Pvt. James E. Terrell son OF
Mrs. Grace B. Terrell of Burgaw.
Pvt. John A. Lewis, son of Mrs.
Geneva C. Lewis of r. F. D. l,
Rocky Point
Pvt. Jessie c. Pugh, son Of Mrs.
Claudia M. Pugh of HOS South
Eleventh street, Wilmington.
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announcements

We PURCHASE ALL MAKES OF USED
sewing machines. Singer Sewing Ma
chne Co., 304 No. 4th st. Dial 1926.
0JlSIDE PARTY FISHING BOAT "LU
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BY KENNETH L. DIXON

WITH AMERICAN FORCES
IN SOUTHERN F R AN E,
Aug. 20-Delayed)- lR - In
years to come a score of
American soldiers will spend
many evenings telling their
children and grandchildren
about their. dance with Ma
quis women who came out of
the woods and hills to pitch a
welcome party.
I got the story from Sgt.
Stan Swinton of Ann Arbor,
Mich, formerly on the staff of
the Associated Press and now
a Stars and Stripes writer. He
talked with the doughboys the
next morning when they were
still blinking their eyes and
wondering if it wasn't just a
beautiful dream.
This is how it happened:
High on a hilltop sits the
village of Beaufort, surrounded
by timber in which the Maquis
Free French of the Interior
who have been fighting three
or four years as woodsmen-
lived like modern Robin Hoods.
The grateful Beaumont viii
layers wanted to do something
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EXECUTORS NOTICE

EXECUTOK'S NOTICE
Having qualified as Executor of the
Estate Of c. M. Butler, late Of New
Hanover County, North Carolina, this
is to notify all persons having claims
against the Estate of said deceased to
exhibit them to the undersigned at 500
Murchison Building, Wilmington, N. c.,
on or before the 5th day of August,
1S45, or this notice will be pleaded in
bar of their recovery. All persons in
debted to said Estate will please make
immediate payment.
This 4th day of August A. D., 1914.
MURRAY G. JAMES,
Executor of c. NJ Butler.
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1So.-Legal
EXECUTORS NOTICE.

EXECUTORS NOTICE
The undersigned having qualified a
Executor under the Will Of Mrs. Carrie
E. Prince. notice is hereby given to all
persons having claims against the Estate
of Mrs. Carrie E. Prince to present such
claims to the undersigned for payment
on or before April ~. 1945, or this
notice will be pleaded in bar Of rec
overy.
All persons indebted to said Estate
will please make immediate settlement
This 10th day of April, 1914.
THE WILMINGTON SAVINGS g. TRUST
COMPANY, EXECUTOR UNDER WILL
OF MRS. CARRIE E. PRINCE. DE-
CEASED
Evening star., 1944-08-22

were winning the World War. Politically
the same discomfort existed In America,
however. The late President Wilson
called for the election Of Democratic
Congress to uphold him in carrying for
ward the war and making the peace.
His plea, however, fell on deaf ears.
Victory and the armistice came only a
few days after the 1918 congressional
election, won by the Republicans War,
with the great sacrifices 1t inevitably
entails, is never popular.
The strength of the argument that
Mr.. Roosevelt is needed to make the
peace remains to be tested. The Amer
lean people want a peace that will
last. The vast majority Of them are
willing 70 collaborate with our Allies to
see that such peace Is made and up
held. Many Of them differ, however on
the degree Of collaboration, from the
extreme internationalist to the ultra
nationalist. Mr. Dewey. the Republican
standard-bearer,h has agreed to interna-
tional collaboration-even to the use of
force to maintain peace. President
Roosevelt has come around to the view
that such collaboration as there is must
be among sovereign states.
This being the case, domestic prob
lens, aside from both war and peace,
will continue to increase in importance
as the political campaign gets into full
swing. 1t is on these domestic problems
that the Republicans have their best
chance to victory. September is just
around the corner. During that month
and october Mr.. Dewey and Mr.. Bricker
and the Republican campaigners gen.
orally must convince a majority of the
voters that they are capable of taking
up the burden of government and meet
ing the issues of the day. No one be-
lieves that the war will not be won,
whether President Roosevelt or Mr..
Dewey is in the White House next
January.
Congress attempt to curtail political
information or propaganda which goes
to the armed forces was silly. The men
in the armed forces, If they are to vote
and they should-are as much entitled
to all the arguments and discussions of
the political campaign as are other
voters. That means, of course, the argu-
ments Of both major parties. Wisely,
Congress voted to amend the law.
Evening star., 1944-08-22
A Fair Request

In rebuking Senator Truman for
repeating what he describes as false
statements" concerning the Pearl
Harbor disaster Rear Admiral Hus-
band E. Kimmel asks for an end to
the circulation of "untruths and half
truths about this matter" until he
has chance to tell his side of the
story. The request certainly is a
reasonable one.
Admiral Kimmel was the Navy
commander at Pearl Harbor when
the japanese struck on December 7,
ls41. He and Major General Walter
c. Short, the Army commander, have
been accused of negligence in con-
nection with the attack, but they
have not been brought to trial in
court-martial proceedings because of
the interference with the conduct of
the war which, might result.
The effect of this is, however, that
these accused officers, for nearly
three years, have been denied oppor-
tunity to clear their names. That
is very serious matter, to be con-
doned only on the ground OF war
necessity. AS Admiral Kimmel points
out, this was not his decision, but
the decision of higher authorities in
Washington. He says that he has
always been anxious to have a public
hearing so that the American people
may pass judgment on the basis of
all of the facts of the Pearl Harbor
affair. Certainly. considering the
disadvantageous position in which
Admiral Kimmel and General Short
have been placed as a result of cir
cumstances beyond their control, the
least that others can do is to refrain
from embarrassing and possibly in
juring them by the repetition of
Evening star., 1944-08-22
New Nuzi Plane

Allied censorship has been lifted
enough to add at least a few vague
details to the bare bones of earlier
reports about the Nazi rocket-pro-
PEELED plane. We learn now that it's
official name is the Messerschmitt
1853, that it is an interceptor and
that it appears capable of complet-
ing vertical dives that represent the
fastest controlled flight ever made
by man-faster even than the record
established by an American Thun-
derbolt diving at the rate of $40
miles an hour
The effectiveness OF the new plane
has still to be disclosed. Theoreti-
cally, however, with such speed at it's
disposal, it SHOULD have a great ad-
vantage over our present bombers
and fighters. Yet, for the very rea-
son that it is so fast, maneuvering it
and shooting from it may present
unique problems requiring a unique
and difficult sort OF flight training.
The reports to date suggest that it
has been sent against our air fleets
over Germany only in small num-
oers, that its range is strictly limited
and that it is not too formidable or
swift to be invulnerable, our fighters
having succeeded in shooting some
OF its kind down in direct combat.
The potentialities of the plane
(called the flying wing" or "jetty"
by American flyers are, Of course,
very great. If the Nazis had been
able to employ it in large numbers
during the height of the Anglo
American bombing offensive in the
months before D-day, the present
overall military situation might
have been a lot less bright than it is.
But the Messerschmitt 1853 appar-
emily is making its debut too late
and on a scale too little to have any
appreciable effect on the course of
the war, and its chief significance
accordingly seems to lie in what 1t
portends for the long future. A
similar plane jet-propelled is in
production in the United States and
other Allied countries and may we'll
be as good as or possibly better than
the Nazi product, but whether it will
be put into large-scale action before
Germany collapses remains to be
seen.
All we can be sure Of is that the
arrival OF this new kind Of plane
marks a new and probably far
reaching advance in the field of
military aviation. It's implications,
like those OF the flying bomb, are
revolutionary as far as warfare Is
concerned. How tanks and standard
bombers and fighters have been
Evening star., 1944-08-22
The Political Mill
By Gould Lincoln

For months the politicians, Demo-
cratic and Republican alike, have quail
fed all their election predictions with
the comment that much will depend
upon the war situation in November,
when the voters 60 to the polls. With
Allied armies pressing Germany on four
fronts and Gen. Macarthur and the
United States Navy marrying the Japa-
nese In the Pacific, it Is apparent today
that, barring unforeseen catastrophes,
point Of view will be excellent All
election predictions from this point on
must take that into consideration.
Will these victories aid in the re-
election Of President Roosevelt. the
Commander in Chief? 1t Is possible to
figure 1t either way. From the Demo-
cratic angle, 1t may be argued that the
country will wish to continue in ONCE
the man under whose leadership these
military accomplishments have been
achieved. The Republicans. on the
other hand, will argue that the war is
practically won. that 1t will 90 forward
with as much vigor under q Dewey lead
ership as under that of President
Roosevelt.
=
If Germany is out of the war by No.
vember-as may be the case-or is on
the threshold Of absolute defeat, the
voters may be inclined to give more and
more thought to the domestic issues
which confront the country. They will
ask themselves whether they desire four
more years Of Mr.. Roosevelt's rule, prac-
tically all of which may be postwar
years Without the war Mr.. Roosevelt
would not have run again-and most
people will agree that without the war
he could not win.
There have been many signs the
American people were ready and anx-
tous for a change In administration
Republican victories in every section of
the country-except the South-durine
the last two years are significant enough.
When the Republicans win elections in
border States like Kentucky and West
Virginia and Maryland. as they have
done, and in Missouri, the Handwriting
is on the wall for all to read without
the war. few people would have any
doubt about the election result next
November.
No presidential election was held in
1918, when this country and Its allies
Evening star., 1944-08-22
Flotsun

On the shores of the heart, the old tide
making hon,eUard
Leaves at times the strangest fotsam:
Wedther-stlrered tokens from the past
Returning after years ddritt on nlisty
seas.
Poor toreckaoe. can these be the dream
ships that went out,
Rosy-sdiled, at morning from ban.
nered harbor?
Surely, these other bldckened hulks
iCeTe neper mine;
! t0ouId dtso,on them, yet they stir In ne
The echo OF a past beyond my past,
A racial memory.
Here lie the clues to n,edsureless antio.
uity,
Forgotten. hauntingly remembered
And battling Gs the fngerprtnts Of long.
dead men.
NEz BARCLAY KIRBY.