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Bradley beam., 1944-08-05
By SGT. EDGAR A. LANSING
 ENGLAND.


 1t was an unusually warm day. The precipitation dripped off my nose as I scuffled along the lane. I was on my way to visit with Gaf- fer, nonagenarian, and veteran of many wars. l stopped a moment to light a cigarette and when I looked up, blowing smoke, I could see Gaffer leaning on a crooked stick, in the shade of a large and ancient tree.
 "Gaffer," I said, cheerfully, q hope it's warm enough for you? Surprisingly nice weather isn't it? Hard to believe there's war go- ing on. Everything is to pretty. .."
 sOh, shut up," said Gaffer and he snorted moment, letting his toothless jaws work in a mumbling fashion. "You talk too much. Think you know all about everything just because you're a soldier. I can re- member the day when l could have taken four of ye in me hand at one time and let others guess what I was holding. Shut up! Let me talkw Gaffer fixed me with his glittering eye which was black and bright. For a moment he pulled at his snowy mustache. Then he sat down in the shade of the tree. There was nothing for me to do except hold my tongue and sit down beside him.
 Aye it's beautiful day." said Gaffer. He leered at me. He said something about seeing all the sol diers on the green with their girls. I ignored his petty lecheries. Re- monstration would only encourage him. I pulled my cigarette apart in the approved manner and hav- ing dispose of it, learned back as though to doze off. Gafer, immediately prodded me with his stick. I knew he couldn't let me sleep. In a moment he became con- municative again.
 At that" he went on, "you're not such bad soldiers, after all. l was watching a few of you in the cinema the other night and I ad- init I was pretty disgusted with the way all you Tanks snivel over sentimental scenes. However, aft CT watching you fellows on the obstacle courses, and after mark ing how you do drive your little jeeps, Pm inclined to think you're just naturally the right sort for a nasty fight.
 "Not that any of you can equal me in my prime! You could never do that; but some of you, especial ly some of your infantry, come mighty near initiating me in spots. I reckon some of you are pretty fair soldiers" thanked Gaffer for his generous words and also sug- gested that perhaps some of our men might exceed even his terri fic youthful abilities. This he de nied vehemently even going so far as to say that I was an unprinci- pied pipsqueak. I denied that was unprincipled. Gaffer fell suddenly silent. l offered him a cigarette. He claimed that he hated Amer ican cigarettes and that he smoked them only out of courtesy to me, but never saw him refuse one. We both lit up and smoked rumin- atively for few seconds. After a bit, Gaffer prodded me with his stick and indicated that the near est pub, the Fox and Hounds, was now open for business. He dwelt
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Private of the Week:

Private of the Week: Last week an Eastern Private got
 the nod. This week we turn to Western sod. Years ago, the Oregon trail... Was the source of many a colorful
 tale. Then it was horses, now it is cars As over the trail roll the balloon
 tires. If it's World War II or Western
 sage Pvt. Paschal Keeps Them Roll
 ing" this mechanical age.
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In Orlando, Fla, ack ack train
ing is given indoors through the
use of synthetic searchlights and
airnlane targets reduced to scale.
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LIONS WILL HEAR
DISTRICT LEADER

The Wilmington Lions club will
observe 100 per cent Attendance
Day Thursday, with Jesse Jones
of Kinston, governor of District 81
C.. as special guest of the occa-
sion.
Letters had been sent out yester-
day by Joe Hood, club secretary,
urging all members to be present
Thursday. "
During the current week, Lions
clubs all over the world are max
ing special effort to have every
member of their organizations
present at their meetings this
week.
In line with the policy Of Lions
International to honor individual
club presidents on this special at
tendance day, the Wilmington club
will pay tribute to the. local presi-
dent, W. E. Yopp, one of the mos
popular members Of the club here
Stressing the need for full at
tendance at each meeting during
the balance Of the 1944-45 club
year, Secretary Hood also an
nounced yesterday the program
chairman for the remaining
months. They follow:
September: M. E. Billiard, j. R.
Benson and George 3iggs.
October H. N. Hayden, c. L.
Harriss and Dudley Humphrey.
November: Foster Edwards, Ted
Heath and L. M. Massey.
December: A. L. Meyland, j. T.
Nickle and D. J. Fulcher.
January: D. c. North, James
Lawson and Donald SeWell.
| February: L. C. Robertson, W
R. Jones and Ralph Rollins.
March: C. F. Radclift, L. T. Ian
den and James Smith.
April: Felix Scroggs, J. I. JET
fries and Sam Gresham.
May: A. w. Britt. Bill Nc
Glaughon and Buddy Newton.
June: Bill Berry, T. D. Mat
!. thews and A. E. Rucker.
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weeds and making hoeing unneces-
sary. II
Some are using the tractor to
cross pillow. with the cotton being
grown in check rows 40 inches
apart each way. This means very
little need for the hoe in late
summer. Then there are some II,
600 cotton choppers in operation.
These latter are mostly used in the
Texas plains country although a
few are being used in the Delta
now. 49,.
Many of those who are not in
the cotton growing business are
worried about what will happen to
labor if the great producing farms
of this section all go into the nae.
chanical handling of the crop. One
farmer told me that if he did not
grow his cotton by machinery he
could not keep the labor he now
had.
There will always be a need fol
some hand labor on the farm. II
will be needed for the odds and
ends of the farm work. The best
and most intelligent of this labor
will be needed to operate the ma
chimes. 1t will be a task to teach
them, however. for the young mer
are not on the land. They are gone
Only the old and the very young
are there and in 10 more years
the old will be too old to teach
mechanization.
1t may mean that new genera
ton will have to come about be
fore INFLAMMATION is realit,
but, at any rate. these landowner
are preparing for it and they meal
| to grow cotton because they Sa,
that there is no better crop o.
earth nor one that means more t.
| more people. Thesfight will be al
interesting one.
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Tho nrice of peace with the Allies
.ho,,ld be war by Germans against
40 Nazis. That is the only way to
d;s+;nsuish clearly between Nazi
and non-Nazi Germans. 1t is the
only way to destroy as its roots
INV notion that the Nazis, driven
underground, remain the true
German patriots resisting the Al
lied world. It is the only way to
promote the appearance OF Ger
mans who have broken irrevoca-
h1v with Nazism, who have made
themselves by their own actions.
the forerunners of democratic
Germany.
Il is. moreover, the only way to
shorten the tedious and dangerous
business of occupying Germany.
I. we have not only to occupy, dis
arm. and for a while to govern,
but also to purge, pacify and po-
lice the whole German nation, we
have an infinitely difficult task,
not the least of the difficulty being
the need to coordinate the action
of three or more occupying powers
in it's endless and controversial de-
tail.
Copyright, 1914, for the starr
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PRO-NAZI LEADER
FLEES TO TURKEY

ISTANBUL, Sept. 8.-(Delayed)
-CP-Peter Grabovsky, Bulgarian
minister of the interior under for
mer Premier Bogdan Philov, and
founder-leader of the Bulgarian
Fascist youth organization, arriv'
ed in Istanbul today aboard a
special plane as a roundup of for
mer pro-German leaders continued
in the capital of the Balkan king
dom.
Another plane was reported to
have taken the fascist leader Nj
kola Tsankoff and D. Krapchev.
editor of the fascist newspaper
Fora, from Sofia to Berlin.
It was not clear from reports
reaching here whether the govern
ment of Premier Kimon Grorgiev
set up in Varga, had yet moved
to Sofia.
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JAPS THREATEN
KWEILIN CENTER

CHUNGKING, Sept. 10 up =
Chinease battled today to stave off
a grave threat from japanese who
had surged down the Human
Kwangsi railroad, menacing the
important center Of Kweilin, but
the high command declared none
of the invaders had yet punctur-
ed the Kwangsi provincial borde-;
The japanese were last reported
in the captured town of Tungan. W
miles from Kweilin, after taking
the American airbase OF Llngl1ng'
only about IL miles from the
Kwangsi frontier.
| The communicate said the sitaa'
ton around Tungan, 50 miles SOUTH
west of Hengyang, Canton anKoW
railway center. was unchanged
The Chinese said they still were
holding Changing, 81 miles south
Of Hengyang.
CA Berlin broadcast OF Tokyo dis.
patches declared the Japanese ha7
captured Hsinning, 40 miles north
west of .Tungan, an area rlcn IL
gold and TIM
Gen. Joseph w. Stilwells head
/ quarters announced that Z. S. hea
w bonbers sank japanese de
stroyer and a sailing ship south o
i Hong Kong on Friday and sarl
| four freighters in the South Chln'
| sea the preceding night.
i Mitchells attacked the Llngln'
airfield in widespread operation
which extended from Canton u
the Yangtze against airfields, bar
: ges, trucks, troop columns AM
bridges. 49,.
t CA Japanese imperial headquar
tiers communique declared Cheng
Il tu, ITS miles northwest OF Chung
: king. was the base from Whlcl
u American Superfortresses bompe'
; Manchuria Friday, and that Jap
5 anese planes attacked the air bas
of the B-2e's returned from tn
$ raid The Japanese declared 40 Q
II the big U. S. aircraft were she
: down or damaged. This claim wa
not confirmed by dispatches fror
superfortress base yesteroa
! which said the attack was an III
pressive fizzle.'o
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RUSSIANS THANKED
FOR AIDING AIRMEN

MOSCOW. Sept 1o.-LP'-The
British in Moscow have expressed
to the Russians their pleasure at
the dispatch with which the Rus
slams took care Of Raj airmen
who were forced to land on the
eastern front after dropping sup
plies to underground fighters in
Warsaw.
A small group of the airmen,
mostly South Africans, already
have been handed over to the Brit
ish who expect to send them Out
of the country soon.
The British likewise expressed
thanks to the Polish army which
gave full military funerals for two
creWmen who were killed wher
their plane landed near Polish
lines in no-man's land.
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DEWEY ATTENDS
CHURCH AT HOME

OWOSSO. Mich, Sept. 10. ~
The governor of New YORK anu
Republican nominee for President
of the United States became just
"Hey. Tom today as he took re-
spite from his cross country cam
paign tour.
Drawing a sabbath curtain on me
weighty problems of winning inc
war. insuring the peace and caulh-
ING the nations economy, GoV'
Thomas E. Dewey went to ms ooy-
hood church on this beautiful, sun
nv Sunday morning with his wire
and mother and then rested brie1-
Iy before returning to his war
against a fourth term.
Owosso was agog at the return OF
its illustrous son. Flags, bunting
and banners flew everywhere eH.
cept in the quiet sanctuary OF
Christ Episcopal church, where the
three Deweys occupied the filth
pew center.
The sabbath calm was in mark
ed contrast to last nights bolster'
Gus reception on city hall steps,
where Dewey called for the cleo
ton this November Of a "tresn,
vigorous. courageous" new admin
istration to strengthen the country
and prevent future wars.
So great and clamarous became
the crowd around his motaer s
white frame home in Oliver street
after the City Hall reception vat
police finally roped off the area
to give the candidate a qule'
nights sleep after his swing
through Philadelphia, LOUISVILLE
and Lansing, Mich.
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BUY WAR BONDS AND STAMPS
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TODAY and TOMORROW
BY WALTER L1PPMANN
What Kind Of German Surrender?
WALTER LIPPMANN

themselves physically into their
hands,
We have demanded Of Italians,
Romanians, Bulgarsz and Firms
that they do more than to cease
fighting us; we have, demanded
that they assume their share Of
the risks and costs of dealing with
our. enemies. We should n OF de-
'rnand less Of Germans, allowing
those who are tired Of war to re-
sign from the war While Allied
soldiers have to bear the whole
burden of dealing with the Nazi
guerrillas, the, groups Of saboteurs
sand gassassins who will set traps
and ambushes for them in the al
ley of the cities and at might on
country roads,
We must distinguish, therefore,
between military contlol, or even
the military government of Ger
many. and the immediate task of
purging,4 pacifying and policing
| the Maxi fanatics operating as
guerrillas or as an underground.
I'VE must find ways to induce and
compel Germans to bear the
]brunt' of. the dirty work of mop
ping up the Nazi, system. We
must not blunder into a situation
Where either we have to do the
whole job or the job is not done,
while the mass of the German peo-
pie sit by passively, protected and
fed by our occupying troops. and
wait to see whether or not there
is a future. for Nazism and pan.
Gerrnanisnn. .,@ T.
1t has often been said by crit.
les Of Allied policy that our terms
are so severe that there is no in.
ducement to Germans to play a
part in overthrowing Nazism. What
inducement could we offer the
Germans which was so attractive
that they would take risks, like
these of the F.. F. I. in. France
against being massacred by the
; Gestapo? The only inducemen
which will make men take such
risks must come from patriotism
, and the love of liberty. When ane
, fif Germans fight for German lib
, erty with some part Of the fanati
cisn with which they have Tough
to enslave others, they will have
, begun to earn their freedom, ane
they will begin the restoration, ir
, the only way in which it can be
gin, Of Germany among the ma
, tons.
: We must demand that any gov
t eminent claiming to speak TO,
. Germany bear large part of thu
r burden of settling with theNazis
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Carolina Farm Comment

in grade is not SO wide after all.
In other words, hand labor will
give a higher grade Of cotton, free
of trash in the early pickings but
lower in grade in the later pick
ings. This is not true in the case
of the mechanical picker.
Then, too, the lower cost of r
ing by use Of the machine also
makes difference in the final
profits. =. ----q
hope none of us will get the idea,
however, that these mechanical
pickers will solve the harvest prob
lem this fall or in the next few
years. There are not enough OF
them available Nor will there be
until mass production can be start.
ed after the war is over and more
steel is available. One of the large
farm machinery firms has bought
$50 acres of land near Memphis ano
only waits. for the day when it car
build a factory and start produc.
ton of the mechanical pickers.
These pickers cost about 3,00(
each and are not yet perfect. They
are being improved each year ane
are, Of course. much different thai
when the work was started on then
in an experimental way some q
years ago. They are probably
where the automobile was wheI
Mr.. Ford began the manufacture
of his Model T.
But it is not only cotton picker
that are being used by the progress
sive cotton growers to lower hi
cost of production. Some grower
are using flame cultivators whicl
throw white hot flame across tn
cotton bed killing all the grass ant
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AS we come nearer to the end,
we shall probably find that there
are two radically different ways in
which the unconditional surrender
Of Germany can come: about. The
Germans may surrender in bits
and pieees-by regiments, divisions
armies, and, when the Allies enter
Germany, by cities and provinces.
Or Gernan authority may appear
which offefs to surrender the whole
country al once.
! Both fofms of surrender will
I present us with grave problems
calling for swift decisions on high
policy. Moreover, Allied policy, if
settled before the final collapse,
may determine which form the
surrender is to take. 49,
! Let US examine the problem OF
an overall surrender. A German
government asks for an armistice
with unconditional surrender. The
question at once is: what is the
Authority of this government, ir
] what sense is it able to surrender?
Marshal Badoglio surrendered un
conditionally, but in fact he was
able to deliver to General Essen
hover only bits and pieces of The
Italian armed forces; the Allie.
have had to fight for more than {
: year to obtain possession of thu
Italy which Marshal Badoglio sale
he was surrendering.
, Now, even if we assume that =:
l. German Badoglio was able to sur
render the Reichswehr, which i!
by no means altogether certain be
cause of the special Nazi divisions
surrender of that sort would
still leave the Allies with the hug,
and dangerous task of purging ant
subduing the Nazi regime.
For this reason the Allies mus
almost certainly be prepared to tel
any German government that
must prove its authority and it
reliability by positive acts-mor
precisely, by arresting and deliver
ing to the Allied command tn
leading members of the Gestap
and Of the Nazi party, and tn
chief war criminals in the army
If the German government, whic
is offering to surrender. will not d
this, it will disclose its bad fait
and mo reliance can be placed upo
its signature. If the German gov
eminent is unable to do this, the
it lacks effective authority; tn
surrender is only partial SUI
render, and. the Allies can grar
the safety rof surrender only
those Germans who in fact dellve
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We must demand that any gov
eminent claiming to speak for
Germany bear a large part of the
burden of settling with theNazis.
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Big Underground Quarry
Greatest Raid Shelter

PARIS. Sept. 10. - Up, - Inc
worlds largest single air RAD
shelter, a 4OO-year-old underground
stone quarry. is being viewed, with
the greatest interest by Eighth U.
S. Air Force officers conducting a
bomb damage inquiry.
The quarry, used in prewar days
to grow mushrooms. is near the
Renault automobile plant and was
converted to a shelter to accom-
modate 10000 plant workers. Its
100, 600 square feet Of floor space
is an orderly labyrinth of connect
ed tunnels 10 to so feet high, miles
in length.
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Nv n. JETER

ton growers in this great producing
area OF the Mississippi Delta are
girding themselves for finish
fight for the crop which they know
best how to grow.
Some, of course, are waiting to-
see just what will happen after the
war and are continuing to grow
cotton as they have in past years;
but. the leading plantation owners
are beginning to think OF a high
quality lint al a low cost OF pro-
ductien
There has been a remarkable
change in the thinking OF these
leading growers. Few Of them
would ever before hear a sugges-
ton that they should grow low
priced cotton. But now as they
view the competing fibers, such as
rayon and other synthetics, and as
they learn how cheaply Brazil and
other countries can grow cotton,
these Delta growers are wondering
| if they, too, must not produce at
lower COST
For that reason, they are using
better producing varieties, as we
/ are in North Carolina, are prepar-
ing their land better IN the spring,
are fertilizing it with nitrate fer
tilizer, and are cultivating rapidly
and thoroughly.
One Of the main jobs before them
is to lower the cost of production
and this means that the land is
being broken by tractor plows and
the cotton is being cultivatde in
check row fashion Sc as to dc
away with as much hoe labor as
pos sibie Even though many plan.
tations still have their tenant fam.
lilies, the owner plows all the LAND
on the farm and does al Of the
cultivation with the tenant being
charged for his particular snare o.
the work.
This means that the seed BED
preparation is much more efficient
than formerly and that if costs
much less per acre. The same ides
is followed in the cultivation anc
this leaves only the picking as Z
main labor problem.
This is still q great problem be
cause many Of the Negro mer
have gone into the armed services
sending back to their families tn
government checks, and the Wo
men vino formerly picked cottor
are not SO eager for the work. I
was possible for the plantation
owners in past years TO bring on
from the towns great quantities o
labor to pick cotton but this sup
ply has decreased. I =
In 1912, for instance, cotton grow
ers nearby TO Memphis got 7 100
Negro cotton pickers day out O
the town. Last fall, they got onl,
5000 a day and this fall, your CUES
is as good as any. The pickers hav'
incomes Of their own and are no
looking for work. ~
There are about % meohanica
cotton pickers now in operation i
the Delta country. Each Of thes
pickers will gather cotton fror
about six to seven acres a day. an
while the cotton may contain som
trash it will cost only about S.
bale to pick cotton with the n1t
chanical picker as compared wit
s25 to $50 bale when picked b
hand.
The mechanical picker will prof.
ably lower the grade bit in tn
early picked cotton but because
can get the cotton out early. tn
improvement in the later pickle
. cotton Is such that this differenc
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-31
JAN- Pr TO EER- 20

Aqudrius-Get this month off
10 a good start. Go over errors
of last few weeks for sole pur-
pose of finding ways to prevent
same mistakes and hindrances
now. But don't dwell on the
past, look ahead!
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%-Ga.a Rheele.

HOT DAYS ahead call for
air-cooled accessories. Crochet
your young pillbox and purse
Of summary straw yarn. Smart
and penny-Savlng.
Send Is cents in coins for
every Laura Wheeler Pattern,
Write name and address
plainly.
Only IS cents more brings
you our new 32-page Needle
craft Catalog-l33 illustrations
of designs for embroidery, knit
ting. crochet, quilts, home deco
rations and toys.
Send your order 10 the Laura
Wheeler Pattern Department.
l225 Times Square, Detroit 81,
Mich.
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A CHILD born on this day:
Versatility, activity. love Of
travel and diversion are out
standing. Can succeed in va
riety of fields, particularly those
that would bring you before the
public eye. Talent for music.
Copyright 1914, by King Features
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can grow more In the same size
of garden.
The difference between this
year and last is difference Of
attitude. Last year there was a
lot of fanfare. a lot of folks
who started and didn't finish.
Those people have fallen by the
wayside. This year were down
TO bedrock-the solid, sensible
gardeners who know what they
are doing and are out to do a
good job.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-31
Vacuum Bag
Emptyine Hint

IF EMPTYING the vacuum
bag Is your unfavorite house
hold job. sprinkle a little water
onto the newspaper into which
you empty il and il will elimi-
nate scattering of the dust and
lint.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-31
MAY 81 TO JUNE FL

Gemini-Here's the chance to
make up for lost time! Put your
head together with whomever- Of
sound ideas and intelligence you
meet and plan better methods.
discuss improvements.
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EER. Ia No MARCH ao

Pisees-Today will need some
prodding TO keep il on the wholly
favorable side Give precedence
10 urgent matters. especially
those concerning the welfare Of
many. Know your aims.