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Enakopravnost. [volume] (Cleveland, O.[Ohio]) 1918-1957, 1944-12-20

soteski OBJ Saw proti Ljubljani.
MISC smell ovirati zivahne plov-
be po Saw in konjicev, XII so po
ozki cesi vlekli po vodi navzgor
ladje, natovorjene zitom in vi
nom S Hrvatskega "a Ljublja-
no, "a vecji del Kranjske, "a
T'rst in ostalo Primorje. Narava
je tn postavila navidezno ne
premagljive zapreke. Obiti je
bilo treba ogromne pecine Oh
najostrejsih. savskih ovinkih.
Toda inzenir Ghega je prema-
gal tudi te ovire krivinami
proge, da Sc je zvrstil ovinek "a
ovinkom, kakor dotlej Sc mixer
ma svetu. Ii kraji so bill takrat
sila redko naseljeni in .je bilo
treba zgraditi nujno potrebna
zavetisca in stanovanja "a ze-
lezniske usluzbence ma progi.
zidani most je bill dolocen "a
slavno postajo proge, kjer maj
hi Sc tovorilo S savskih ladij in
,oz vse blago Hrvatskega in
odkoder maj bi pozneje >stekla
tudi. zeleznica proti Zagrebu.
"Novice" SO takrat pogosteje
porocale O zldan5u proge. Ce-
prav je delo ob silnih terenskih
tezavah magic napredovalo, je
vendar vlada Sc priganjala, ka-
kor to razberemo il "Novic'
dne 13. junija 1849: "Te dni je
prislo vnovic ministrsko pove-
lie v Ljubljano, da zeleznica mo-
IA do meseca augusta biti do
koncana, da Sc DO potem voz-
MA po Mi zacela."
In res je Ghega zmagal, da je
80. julia ze vozil prvi poskusni
vlak cd Celia do Zidanega mo-
sta. lzdelan pa je bill v glavnem
ze tu d najtezji del proge Oh
Saw do Ljubljane, da so mo
vice. lahko dine Is. augusta spo-
rocile svojim bralcem; "Zelo Sc
Sovoli in ia vesela novica Sc
ludi mnogih dunajskih caso-
pisih bere, da prihodnji mesec,
ko SC DO prvikrat splosna voz-
MIA po zeleznici il Celia do
Ljubljane odprla, Sc bodo cesar
V Ljubljano pripeljali, odkoder
Sc bodo tudi v Trst podali. Ko-
lcra Sc je ma zeleznici krog Ia
gorja zacela.'
Tako Sc je torej priblizal
slavnostni dan 18. augusta, roj-
stni dan takrat komaj 19-letne-
ga cesarja Franco Jozefa, ko je
prihrumel IL Celia prvi poiz-
llusni "hlapon.' O TEN SO poro-
Gale Novice, da Sc je "popol-
dne oh treh prvikrat po zelezni-
ci IL Celia v Ljubljano pripeljal
hlapon (Locomotiv), kateremu
kmetje lukamatija pravijo. Brez
vse spodtike Sc je pripeljal lie
10 ovencan v 4 urah in pol il
Celia.
Drugh pot pa bi lahko v treh
urah prisel, ker ne DO incl ma
poti mic preiskati, kakor zdaj,
ko je bila prva poizkusnja. Ne
izrecena mnozica ljudi, dezelni
poglavar in vec drugih uradni-
kov je hlapon Z veseljem spre-
jclo v kolodvoru.
Tako Sc je torej zeleznica pr
vic dotaknila Ljubljane. Pote-
klo pa je Sc mesec dni, ola je
b;la proga slovesno odprta. We
liko je bilo razocaranje, ker ce'
sarja k otvoritvi nj bilo in je
lsot svojega zasto 2nika poslal
nadvojvodo Albrechla.
Enakopravnost. [volume] (Cleveland, O.[Ohio]) 1918-1957, 1944-12-20

mu prijatelji kratko praviio
Bog, njegovi najboljsi privately
gledaliski igralec Richard Des-
pres in kako ga je opisala ME-
gova maceha.
Richard Despres je mlad j.
fralec, XII je uspehom igral ze
tudi v filmu. Boguslavski je bill
clan kluba, v katerem so bill sa-
mi mladi igralci in Sc neznani
in nepriznani umetniki. Despres
je vedno sanjal uspehu v sill
karstvu. Tovarisi so inneli Boga
radi. Pripovedoval jim je O svo-
j zalostni mladosti.
Bogov oce je bill Rus in po po-
klicu krojac. Pridobil 81 .je fran
cosko drzavljanstvo &c preden
je bill Bog rojtn. v zgodnji mia
dosti je Bog izgubil mater. Zan.j
jc nekaj let skrbela starejsa
sestra, XII pa je nekega dne tu-
di izginila il Pariza. Gee Sc je
drugic ozenil: Bogova vzgoja je
bila odtlej zanemarjena. Trpel
je, ker nj incl moznosti, da bi
Sc izobrazil in dosegel svoj vi
soki zivljenski ideal. Vedno je
rad cital.
Mladi Bog je tako dorascal
oh poeziji in navdusenju "a sill
karsko umetnost, a moral 81 lie
tudi sluziti vsakdanji kruh. Maj
pref je bill sluzbi pri nekem
stricu potem je bill natakar, fo-
tograf, statist V filmskih ate
ljih, a mixer nj incl obstanka.
Bog je cutil V sebi ogenj ge-
Mia, veroval je, da mu je ma
klonjena posebna usoda. VrgeI
Sc je zopet ma slikarstvo, a S
svojimi deli nj bill zadovoljen.
Najbolj vneto je kopiral Waite
auja. Despres mu je dokazoval,
da je Leonardo de Vinci mai
vecji mojster, toda Bog je trdil,
da je Vatican vecji.
Obenem pa je cudaski Bog
propadel, kajti navadnega de-
Ia Sc nj vec lotil. StradaI je V
svoji sobici, V kateri je spal ka-
kor puscavnik ma tleh. Prijate-
iii so mu pomagali, kadar SO
mogli.
Nekaj dni po tatvini je Bog
zaupal tovarisu Despresu, da je
tat "Brezbriznika''. Ia dan je
bill kakor ozarjen cd neke no.
tranje radosti. "Glej, je rekel
prijatelju "kako sem pomladil
Brezbriznika in popravil, o3istil
in mu vrnil prvotno lahkoto.
Moje delo je sedaj koncano, po-
pisal sem, kako sem ga restav-
1iral in kako je treba take u
metnine restavrirati."
Zadnje dni - je Sc dodal
Despres, Sc ie Boga lotila po-
trtost. Hotel .ie sliko poslati mi
nistru "a prosveto in priloziti
svoj rokopis ter 81 nato konca-
tt zivljenje.
Bog je prijatelju Despresu
tudi pripovedoval kako je sliko
odnesel iz Louvra. V trenutku,
ko je sliko zavijal v casopisni
papir, je pristopil k MENU neki
clovek, najblz kdo izmed 60
stov, XII SO 81 ogledovali slike v
muzeju, in ga vprasal, kaj de-:
la. Tat mu je odgovoril mirno:
"Vidite, sliko zavijam, ker mo-
ram danes Sc dclati'. Nczllancc
So je za5udil: Danes morate
delati, sal jc nedelja!." :" Tat j.
odgoVorii: "Da, ma zalost!'
Maceho Bogrslavskega pa 50
noVinarji dobili ma francosll
Rivieri, kjer pgezivlja po5itni,
&C svojim mozem. Ia je. izja-
villa, da je ~Sergej lopov in de.
lomrznez, XII nj sposoben "a n5s
beno posteno delo,a in ki "a crav-
lja denar, kolikor mu ga oce IL.
roci. 10 SO jo yprasali ali S,
DO vrnila takoj v Pariz, Sc j,
maceha nasnaeja'a in rekla, da
Il niti r,a r,iSal ,1n nri1a IN IA
Enakopravnost. [volume] (Cleveland, O.[Ohio]) 1918-1957, 1944-12-20
Draginja
r. G. Ss MetrCDOZe

r. Z. ~ MetTCpOLe
Sc zadnjic je ona iezila,
kan peda Sc je skotalila.
"Ti lump salamenski pove.j,
&c ne, obeutil hos slapo glei!"
"No, NO; le pocasi zenicka,
il pravim; sal nisva telicka.
Ne YES, da draginja velika,
Sc sopiri med nami - hudika?
Grem k brivcu in recem: Tine!
mi ostrizi in raziraj kocine,
Da lep bonn V nedeljo, sal YES,
kosmat Sc ven prikazat ne smes.
Tine STRIFE in skarjami miga,
in ko je finis, tako-le zariga:
samo copak in pol bos dial,
ce ne, po glavi sam hos oral.
He, res zvita buca je to,
pc glavi orati je silno tezko.
Ko Sc zena hotela uciti bi,
potem JAZZ bill bi brez skrbi.
Grem V liker stor po snopcek
da namocim malo 81 gobcek,
in flasko ruma "a lipov cal,
ker khan in prham kot zmaj.
Tam pri okencu pravi mozak.
daj dvanajst copakov, roiak.
Pijaca je to liz starega kraja,
kjer vojna in buna razsaja
Prevec "a to brozgo; godrnjam,
ko stejem grose in trepetam.
Sc dedec zasmeje in drdra,
Sc glihat tukaj mic ne da.
Grem k trgovcu po obleko,
ST izberem belo ko mleko.
Vprasam "a lajbelc - ga nj,
namesto zifer pa knott svetli.
Mister povejte kaksna je cena,
obleka je redka kot koprena.
stirideset cukov; ljubi moi
in teks poVrhu; gvant DO tvoj.
Cd jeze sem skripal z zobmi,
toda pomoci nohene tn nj,
Rad bi nu ga vrgel nazai,
al nag hoditi; nj prijetno zdaj.
Grem k sustarju po solne,
Velike, prostorne kot colne.
ker zagnanci in kurja ocesa,
strlijo kot cesnje cd telesa.
Ferdamano nogo I'll imas,
ekstra sune treba - bal gas.
Kostale bodo petnajst cukov,
bos njih plesal in ukov.
Ia sustar je pa cd hudirja,
brbra kot mesetar, krompirja,
81 mislim, ko odhajam il stora,
maj Vrag te pocitra - pokora.
Grela k do-.ta-.,,: n J. ziskavo,
Ga pregieda mi treDuh in glavo.
Nelkaj menoj je narohe,
mi kruli kot mlel bi otrobe.
Iohtar pritiska mi Instruments
trka, poslusa in pravi; glejte:
Moja ucenoSt dosegls je to,
da ovcrholat treca tc ho.
eImas rcvmo, lanaEegc = zares,
osloVski kaselj, sv. Vida Piles.
I'll hos moral v spital,
a rneni petindvajset kearov dial.
Vidis ljuba Ii zenica,
tako Sc danes eek zabliska.
slaro tvojo lc daj V kraj,
ker zdaj je vojna - direndaj.
IA V Sapi sem Eosu natrobil,
do cyenk SO je silno poglobil.
Nikel al dajm naj primakne,
"a krizn.us maj bonus iztakne.
Pr. strzni me. hos je pogledal
grdo,
debGlo je pljunil in rekel take:
To znaGi, da 81 vrazji komunist,
socialist, prekocuh, antikrist.
In zabliskala Sc se druga peda,
eek dal njej sem seveda.
Prinesla je IL stora kraco, teleta,
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-15
Thoughtless Thieves

Theft of the ambulance of the Motor corps
of the Wilmington chapter OF the American
Red Cross from it's downtown parking place
twice within the past month was reported yes
terday.
To some this may be a light matter but.
place Of the vehicle in it's work are considered,
it takes on quite a serious light. The first
time the valuable ambulance was TAKEN it
was found later in the vicinity of Camp Davis.
yesterday chapter officials were notified that
it had been seen near Camp Lejeune." Ell
forts to locate it there were not Immediately
successful and the Highway patrol was alerted.
The ambulance, through the good work of the
Motor corps, is put to many worthwhile uses
each week, chief among them being transpor.
tation Of sick wives and other relatives Of
servicemen. Person who steal such a vehicle
are pretty low individuals but perhaps even
as thoughtless as they are, they would be less
prone to do so if they realized its importance
Its absence is \ real handicap to one Of the
most active arms Of the chapters service pro-
gram. In addition, each time it is driven away
without proper permission there is consider
able likelihood Of 1t being damaged or de-
stroyed.
: Meantime anyone having any definite infcr-
nation about the ambulance is asked to call
the Red Cross chapter here
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-15
Situation In France

As this is written, Germans once proud and
destruction in brilliantly planned and execut'
ed Allied trap in France.
Yesterday an Allied staff officer declared
cit will be a military miracle if the Germans
should get out anywhere near whole. This is
the end of German army To this was added
the prediction by General Eisenhower that the
coming week will be one Of the most momen-
tous in the history Of the war-a fruitful week
for us and fateful week for the enemy.
But don't let this swift successful turn Of
many within the immediate future. Remember,
there are still three Nazi armies remaining
in France which are not engaged. Some d.
visions from these have been shifted into the
present battle and are lost in the Allied pocket,
however
According to Merrill Mueller, representing
the combined American Networks in France,
some of the enemy divisions east OF the Seine
are lower units Of poorer quality, but the fact
remains that these three armies have plenty
of power and drive.
Of the situation, Mr.. Mueller also has this to
say: ''Only political collapse within Ger
many-another attempt on Hitler to succeed
could possibly deliver this war to an armistice
within the next week. There is slight chance
that political collapse may show its first
manifestations on either the Russian or the
Allied battle fronts with the German army's
effort to rid itself by revolt Of it's new Nazi
commanders. But even so our terms still are
unconditional surrender and clear roads to
Berlin.
Gen. Eisenhower has been in almost con-
slant conference with all his battle comman-
ders for the past three days. He is working at
pressure reminiscent of the closing days of
the Tunisian and Sicilian campaigns
These are the closing days of the cam
paign in northwestern France and the next
phases are the campaigns in northeastern and
southern France
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-15
Daily Prayer
FOR LONELY HEARTS

Daily we fervently pray to Thee,
our Father in Heaven, for our sons
and brothers and husbands and
kindred and sWeethearts and
friends who wear our Country S
uniform. May their bodies and
souls be precious in Thy sight.
We pray also for those who wait
in 1onelineSs and in yearning for
the return of these dear ones, after
victory. Give them great faith and
courage. Out OF Thy Father heart,
pour comfort into their suls. Thou
hadst a Son whom Thou gavest
to the service Of mankind: Thou
understandest the yearning and low
of all these lonely hearts. May
their separation and sacrifice puri-
fly nd exalt their own lives, max
ing them wholly worthy of the be-
loved ones whom they have given
to their Country's Cause. Suffer
no cloud Of misunderstanding or
dimness of love to arise between
them. nd speed the day, O In
finite Ruler of the Universe, when
wars hottest detectives may be
achieved, and peace returns to a
better world than we have ever
heretofore known. this we pray
in the Name of Jesus. Amen
WIFE.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-15
Issues And Personalities

Intimate acquaintance with celebrities is
They are fortunate that they do-that is, if they
are interested in fair appraisal of the &C.
lebrities abilities rather than in their auto
graphs. For to know famous person-crooner
baseball star or statesman-is usually to suf-
fer warped judgment. The impression of
outweigh his attainments.
So perhaps Col. Edmund w. Startling, who
died last week. was not the ideal man to as
sign places in history to the five presidents
Of the United States whom he guarded for
80 years. But his opinion of them is never
theless valuable. For we had the gift, so rare
among celebrity-knowers, of being able to di-
vorce fame and achievement from personality.
Thus he knew and judged the presidents as
men.
And what did this TALL quiet, steel-eyed, soft
spoken Kentucky colonel think of the White
House residents he served? II never knew
president" he once said. 'who wasn't subject
to human error, like any other man. But Meth
er did Lever know one who was not a gentle
man."
The presidents he knew so we'll and guarded
so well were Woodrow Wilson, Warren G. Hard
ing, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover and
Franklin D. Roosevelt. Perhaps five more dis
similar men never occupied the executive
mansion. Colonel Startling knew them in sick
ness and health, good temper and bad, hours
OF indecisions and encouragement and tri-
umph. He like them all and they liked him.
1t is quite certain that he would have enjoy
ed the same friendship with Charles Evans
Hughes, James M. Cox, John w. Davis, Al
Smith, ALI Landon and Wendell Willkie if the
voters had given them four-year leases on the
White House.
And what has all this got to do with the
millions Of Americans who never even shook
the hand Of senator, let alone president?
Only this: lot of these Americans in this hot
summer have been making themselves even
hotter with highly personalized arguments
about presidential candidates. And since they
don't know either candidate, they don't know
what they're talking about.
There are some clear cut issues in this cam.
palgn. But these voters are losing friends and
failing to influence people by skipping issues
IN favor Of vtuperative remarks about per.
sonahties, voices, mustaches, blue serge suits,
wives, dogs, and what have YOU
Neither candidate is an orge. Neither is
| Matching fiendish plot to throw the country
to the dogs, the Indians, Adolf Hitler or JOSEF
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-15

The private knew that He knew that the gen
erals wife and the colonefs mother feels as
his own mother might, or the mother of his
buddy
Death has never been more truly the great
leveler than in this war. 1t takes not only the
buck private and the three-star general but
the civilian in his home and on the street. No
one is immune to grief And death is close IN
London as well as on the battlefront.
1t is a war of unprecedented, repeated trag-
edy. It has shown the world unbelievable cruel
ty and unsupported bravery-so much OF both
that If the world will but remember, it can
never be shown again.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-15
Puss In Bucks

line cat who is heir apparent to $100, 900
fortune has developed nerves and dyspepsia
in addition to fame and fortune. He's undoubt-
edly worrying about taxes. He's apprehensive
about touches and maybe blackmail at the
hands Of those alley companions Of his care
free, penniess days.
He now suspects that every human that
strokes him. offers him saucer of milk or
sprig of catnip may be fortune hunter.
Cats may look at the wealthy, as well as
kings. Busters done just that-and now he
jumps at the slightest noise and can't keep
thing on his stomach
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-15
What Others Saw
NO SWAMP
o. o. Phillips in the Wallace Enterp

o. U. Phillips in the Wallace Enterprise
Wallace has been s1ugged A mighty wallop
below the belt has been swung by an Asso.
ciated Press Correspondent from Wilmingto
In news release from Wilmington dated
August 2, and carried in the daily newspapers
Wednesday, giving an account of the terrific
wind storm which swept inland Tuesday night
the AP Correspondent made the following In
famous statement:
THE storm which ragged in Wilmington be-
tween and 10 p.m passed inland into the
swamps OF Eastern North Carolina and on into
coastal Virginia before spending ITSELF
AS a matter of fact and to keep the record
clean, the center of the tornado winds swept
through Wallace, an industrious clean and thrift
ty town, and it is located in one of the finest
farming sections in North Carolina, and it is
not swamp hole as the Associated Press
Correspondent would infer.
1t is a much better town than most APP Cor
respondents have ever lived in, or better than
most Of them can ever expect to live in, and
it is not located in the swarnps of Eastern
North Carolina.
The bank clearings in Wallace average
around 100000 day and that is more than
cities ten times the size of Wallace can show on
the records.
Wallace has many "firsts'' which no other
town within the borders of North Carolina can
meet, regardless of their size or location and
it will continue to maintain it's progress.
The inference made by the AP Correspondent
is not appreciated and we want the world to
know that we resent its infamous meaning.
NJ
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-15
BY JOHN SELBY
Labor Lawyer" by Louis
Waldman (Dutt0n; $3.50.

l doubt very much whether the
year will provide better graph
OF the relationship between sue
cess and a mans opinions than
Louis Waldman's autobiography,
Labor Lawyer
The book begins with the Wald-
man family in its Ukrainian
home. The home was the village
inn, the family was Jewish, and
the time was early in this century
when the pogromschiks were
about. The Introductory scene
shows the Waldmans hiding in the
inn, and when at last the heavy
boots they had feared could be
heard stomping the hard ground,
It shows the Waldmans timidly
opening the inn door. 1t was not the
nlack Hundreds on the march, but
the Waldmans' non-Jewish neigh
. pols, come to fight if needful at
their innkeeper's side.
Louis Waldman finally got to
New York, and literally battered
MS way into knowledge of the
law, and eventually a practice. AS
most New Workers. know, he be-
came famous for his knowledge Of
labor politics and labor law, and
slsnoaen his practice never has
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-15

mans used them for strong points,
or put artillery observers in them,
and they just had to be blasted
out.
Most of the French farmers evac-
uate ahead of the fighting and filter
back after it has passed. It is pitt
full to see them come back to their
demolished homes and towns. Yet
it's wonderful to see the grand way
they take it. =
In a long drive an infantry COM
pany may go for couple of days
without letting up. Ammunition is
carried up to it by hand, and &C.
casionally by jeep. The soldiers
sometimes eat only one K ration a
day. They may run clear out of
water. Their strength is gradually
whitfield down by wounds, exhaus-
ton cases and struggling.
Finally they will get an order to
sit where they are and dig in. Then
another company will pass through,
or around them, and 60 on with
the fighting. The relieved company
may get to rest as much as a day
or two. But in big push such as
the one that broke us out of the
beachhead, few hours is about all
they can expect.
The company was with got its
orders to rest about 5 one after
noon. They dug foxholes along the
hedgerows, or commandeered Ger.
man ones already dug. Regardless.
of how tired, you may be, you al
ways dig in the first thing.
Then they sent some men with
cans looking for water. They got
more K rations up by jeep, and sal
on the ground eating them.
They hoped they would stay there
all night, but they weren't count
ing on it too much. Shortly after
supper a lieutenant came out of a
farmhouse and told the sergeants
to pass the word to be ready to
move in 10 minutes. They bundled
on their packs and started just be-
fore dark.
Within half an hour they had run
into a new fight that lasted all
night: They had had less than four
hours rest in three solid days OF
fighting. That's the way life is in
the infantry.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-15
The Literary Guidepost

been confined to such matters
alone, it also never has been a
general practice in the usual sense.
Politically, Mr.. Waldman was a
Socialist in a day when Socialism
was considered dangerous, not
to say leprous. creed. But grad
ually, Mr.. Waldman began veer-
ing more and more to the right,
and his book shows that the more
he veered to find greater was his
tendency to find communists be-
hind every bush. He was Socialist
candidate for governor of New
York three times, in 1928-30-32,
but shortly gave up that pursuit
for a place as one of the Arneri-
can Labor Party organizers. He
was New York state chairman of
the Social Democratic Federation
(the right wing Socialist group
as late as 1941, although the year
before he had resigned from the
American Labor Party.
Mr.. Waldman retells manv of
his cases, and some of these are
exciting and certainly the work of
an ingenious lawyer. But the
chapter most interesting to Mr..
Waldman's former socialist con-
frers will be his blistering de-
nunciation, in Liberty League
language, of what he calls ''the
popular front. >" He believes this
a political Trojan horse.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-15
Good Soldier

She took it like the good soldier she isl
her friends said of Mrs. Clare Hustler McNair
Mrs McNair knew how to be good soldier
she mad good soldier for husband, 1t. Gen.
Lesley McNair, commander of the ARMY
Ground Forces. She had one for son. Col
Douglas McNair. General McNair was killed
tn action in Normandy. Two weeks later Colo
mel McNair, her only child, died in action IN
Guam.
Other women have been good soldiers in
this war, too, though we hope that few have
had to sustain the loss of their whole family
with such tragic swiftness. And it il mot n
discount the heaviness Of any other woman,s
loss to say that the country surely feels a
particular sympathy for Mrs McNair.
Generals are supposed to die in bed Bu+
Lesley McNair was not that kind. He had done
m invaluable job The responsibility of max.
ing the American G. I. Joe the kind of soldier
he is today was General McNairs. and he mot
It, But that was not enough. General McNair
wanted action. He was wounded in Tunisi,
and went back for more. He was the highes,
ranking American officer ever to be KILLED in
4 front-line area OF fighting. It is not surpris
ing that when his son, too, lost his life, it ha
pened ..up 'front.'"
Mrs. McNar's friends say that she was mos,
touched, out OF all the many letters Of sym.
pathy she received, by one from a private
whom she had never met. This is understand
able. For death, which had struck down the
general with the common soldier, had made
the generals wife one with the mothers O.
thousands Of those soldiers in common grief
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-15
2O.338 Carolinians
Want Service Ballots

RALEIGH, Aug. 14-lRHSecre-
tary of State Thad Eure said to-
day that a record breaking total
of 1882 applications for absentee
ballots for servicemen and women
to use in the general election No
vember 7, were received this
morning.
This newest group, added to the
total of 1910 received Saturday,
brings the total number of app1i-
cations from Tar Heels in service
to 20, 1913, the secretary said.