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William Allen White, Famous Editor, Die>

found wisdom, with biting sarcasm
or with gentle tenderness.
Two editorials
A ssrcsstic editorial. What's the
Matter with Kansas written in
1895, skyrocketed him to national
prominence. A poignantly. tender
one. written in 1921 after the acci-
dental death OF his daughter. Mary,
became a classic.
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CHICAGO-INS-- William Earl
Mester. 3s. of suburban Evanston.
who is classified At in the draft
because OF infantile paralysis suf-
fered as a hid. made another con-
tribution to the war effort today.
With Mester when he appeared at
the Red Cross blood bank in Chi
cago to give his 18th blood dona-
ton we're is friends who each gave
a pint OF blood.
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Mightiest Battleship Ever
Built Will Slide Down WAYS

in the complex task OF preparing
the Missouri's hull for launching.
More than 10000 pounds OF grease
coated the ways on which the Mis-
souri, ested, the 500, 0O0, 900
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rector OF Owls domestic branch,
that the enemy actually had "brut-
ally murdered most OF the $4,000
prisoners taken at Bataan." In their
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Flashes Of
Late News
THE WEATHER: Tonight:
Colder, Flurries

NEW YORK-INS-The govern.
mental breakdown on an alleged
black market liquor ring in the
New York area resulted today in
the indictment OF IL men on
charges of conspiring to sell whis-
key at prices above those set by
the Office OF Price Administration.
Individuals indicted included Ar
thur lombard, New Haven, Conn. /;
Harry Noyick, Jacksonville, Fla;
Philip Peters, Detroit; William j.
Regan. former Detroit banker; and
Edward Turner, Miami night club
owner.
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"Doolittle" raid on Tokyo on a far
greater scale. Clark said Emperor
Hirohito should be hanged and To.
kyo bombed "out OF existence"
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a growing demand for intensified.
ton OF the war in the Pacific. Sew
eral members OF Congress, led by
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-01-29

Wantonly Slain
Adding fuel TO the nations fam
ing hatred OF the Japanese was the
charge by Palmer Hoyt, former di.
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KINDLNG WOOD. Michigan LAD
der Co. Adv. lzs-ss
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OTTAWA-INS-Oficial revela-
ton of japanese atrocities toward
Allied prisoners of war raised
grave concern" in Canada today
over Nipponese treatment Of more
than 1900 Dominion subjects cap
tured during the early months of
the Far Eastern war. Prime Min
lister w. L. Mackenzie King. in
statement to the House OF Com
2 mons. said the Canadian govern
ment has naturally been gravely
concerned over reports of condi-
tions among prisoners of war in
Japanese hands"
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See SHIP-Page 2
lnAnA UAnAnru nu.s NLnRn AnnAn :
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WHITESBURG, Ky. - ms -
Full production was restored today
following a three-day walkout Of
approximately $500 miners and
employees of the Consolidation Coal
Company. Satisfactory adjustment
of differences, said to have result
ed from the laying off Of machine
operator, was announced late yes
sterday and men on the night shift
began to return to their jobs last
night.
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CHICAGO-INS- Five children,
ranging from two months to IL
years in age, died today when fire
destroyed their frame home in
Stone Park, a southwest suburb.
The fire occurred during the morn
ing hours while the parents, Law
renee and Caroline Porter, were
at work in a defense plant.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass.-INS-Deep
tragedy prevailed IN a cambridge
home today in the wake of a mad
homicidal outburst by the father of
six children. A few hours after
George Brennan, AZ, had slain two
of his daughters-one 21a years
old, the other barely fve-months
old-he took his own life in a
Boston railroad terminal.
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark.-INS-Mrs.
Dwight Eisenhower, wife Of the
chief of the Allied invasion armies,
was vacationing today in Hot
Springs. With her were her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. John S. Doud
of Denver and Herbert A. Block Of
Pueblo, Colo. Mrs. Eisenhower
resides in Washington, D. c.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Is joining
the United States in embargoing
bhipments OF petroleum products
10 Spain. It was learned authorita'
lively today. II was pointed out.
however, that Britain had little or
DO oil TO spare for Spain, whose
chief source has been the West
krn Hemisphere.
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See TAXES-Page 2
speed Victory, Buy MORE Bonds
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NEW YORK-INS-War bond
sales have more than doubled in
New York since the disclosures by
the War and Navy Departments OF
Japanese atrocities against Amer
lean prisoners OF war, 1t was an
nounced today.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-09-05
Same Old Bunk

No one will deny the seriousness of Iondon's
flying bomb attacks. They are murderouslv
destructive assaults Of defeated military ma
chine which has turned to slaughter without
nope OF military benefit. They have revolted
the civilized world. And yet there is a sor. Of
grim hunor in DR.. Goebbles' petulant com.
plant about their Indifferent public reception
RADIO monitors tell us that Goebbels and his
oroadcasters are protesting bitterly that the
Nazis aren't being given enough credit for
tnese attacks. And indeed the Nazi propa-
ganda machine is in a bad way For with
the German armies breaking up in France.
the Russians advancing in the east and Hit
ler's Balkan satellites cutting loose, the robot
attacks, frightful as they are, remain side.
snow. However artful the Goebbels ballyhoo
might be, the world and even the German
people would be looking the other way.
But Goebbels isn't artful. And his chief
trouble is that he is lying again, as he has
been Tor years. He has lied even when he didn't
need to, as when the Germans were winning
III the early days Of the eastern war. That
wasn't enough. Goebbels had to annihilate the
Russian armies-repeatedly.
Early in the flying bomb barrage, Goebbels
told the world that London was completely
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abundant production and free interchange, not
nicely regulated equity.
1T is as mrealistic to consider national eco
nomic activity apart from its international re-
precussions as it is to draw distinction today
between the home front and the battle lines.
The connection between domestic and inter-
national economic policy is so intimate that
for many practical purposes they constitute a
single entity
The future is in the hands of the American
people. If they will but inform themselves and
act wisely upon the strength of their informa-
ton. lasting peace is within reach. No other
people have ever been blessed with such an
opportunity-or obligation.
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End To Come On German Soil

: It may well be that American forces have
crossed the German frontier, as reported from
neutral sources without official confirmation
at the time this was written, and are fighting
the enemy on the holy sol' OF the fatherland.
On the other hand, the Americans may not
actually have penetrated Germany's borders
but are waiting to consolidate their positions
and await the delivery Of supplies needed for
the final thrust.
These are matters for the Supreme Com
mand to decide The fact remains that at no
remote day the battle will be carried into the
unusual situation of having to defend them
selves within their own boundaries and surren-
der on home, not foreign, soil.
The battle ahead will be hard one despite
Germans will have the advantage of terrain.
To be overwhelmed they must be driven from
mountain positions, which will be as difficult
as it was in Italy. Even if the Siegfred line
proves less formidable than the Germans
claim, as most authorities believe it WILL there
will still remain the Vosges range and the
billy wooded areas which form a barrier from
the Swiss frontier, to Aaschen, 240 miles north
ward to clean up.
The Allied aim, it would seem, will be to
seize the Saar and the Ruhr basins, from
which the Germans receive their chief armor-
ed equipment. The principal question apparent
ly in Supreme Command minds is whether the
job can be finished this month or whether the
Germans will be able to postpone surrender
until the autumn rains set in and slow down
the attack, thus carrying the war into another
winter
However this may turn out it is inevitable
that the war in Europe will be ended On Ger.
man soil
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The Literary Guidepost

New York Times. With the former
he became accustomed to objec-
tive reporting with a wide audience
in mind. With the Times he &C.
quired the habit Of generosity-the
Times hes sometimes been &C.
cused OF printing too much about a
matter but never of being parsi-
monious. Both organizations have a
reputation for accuracy.
This is important, because par
tlcularly in the accounts of our
long defensive action from Pearl
Haroor to Midway, a lot Of face
saving has crept into the record
MIR. HALEY has not hesitated to
say what he thought of plan
successful Or otherwise, nor has he
been afraid to criticize general
situations, such as what he thinks
is the coddling of the Japanese pop
ulation Of Hawaii after Pearl Har-
Dor.
There are still other reasons that
make this a unique book. Mr.. Hal
ley writes soberly of sober affairs.
but a gentle twinkle Of hurnor is
never far away, and there are
plenty OF salty phrases that would
not, l fear, survive the Times COW
desk even in wartime
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destroyed. When this line became ridiculous
he had to try something else. So now he is
saying that the 10-weeks' robot attacks are
'the greatest and most prolonged lombard
ment in the history Of war;
That, too, is bunk. The Nazis have been get
ting an average OF 100 one-ton bombs through
to London each day. Seventy days Of this 1000
tons of bombs. II Goebbels has forgotten how
much more than that the Allies dropped on
Berlin and other German cities in repeated
1000plane raids, the world-including the resi-.
dents of those cities-has not
It must not be concluded, however that the
robot attacks are really falling short of Nazi
expectations, simply because Nazi propaganda
makes outlandish claims for them. The con.
clusion might be logical with normal people.
but the Goebbels circle is not normal. For
Goebbels it is not enough that these sneak at
tacks are new and potent horror He must
lie about them, simply because he is con-
genital and perennial liar.
1t may be that Goebbels has forgotten what
truth is 1t may be that Hitler spoke truly when
he said that if you tell a lie often enough
it will be believed-but it is clear now that he
should have added that the only ones who end
up believing the lies are the ones who tell them.
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By JOHN SELBY

Pacific Battle Line, by Foster
Haley macmillan; $3.50.
Foster HALEY avoids several Of
Tie worst faults that beset CORE
spondents' books in his Pacific
Battle Line" The first Of these is
complete lack Of proportion-each
man seems to believe that the par
ticular segment Of action he saw
YVES unique, or at least he tries
to make the reader believe it. The
result is sometimes almost farcical
Mr.. Haley has seen, very likely,
as much of the Pacific war as
any other man, and his book IN
cludes all that. It includes in adj
dition the other actions, so that
the result is a clear and genuinely
balanced account of one great thea
ter OF war in the two years after
Pearl Harbor. It is therefore a MIS-
tory of the period, and not merely
a few scraps thereof.
But this would be worthless with
out certain other matters in Mr..
Hailey's equipment, factors d u e,
quite likely, to the fact that his
training has included long periods
with The Associated Press and the
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"You can't light that, it's too
pretty.
An Army colonel said, They
should have sent fireplace and
mantel along for you to exhibit
it on
For days there was a line of
soldiers and correspondents at my
tent wanting to see the stove.
Twice we got ready to light it
while photographers took pictures,
but at the last minute we couldn' t
bear to, and put it away. The boys
all kidded me and said they bet
I never would light it.
Necessity finally drove me to it..
That was in Paris. / had given
my old stove to friend, thinking l
wouldn't need one any more. But
the eating situation in Paris was
drastic at first, and we had only
the rations we brought with us in
dividually.
So at last I had to break down
and, light my stove in a hotel
room in Paris. Some of the boys
had joked and said it was so beau
tiful it probably wouldn't work. But
it did. 1t practically melted h e
hotel walls down.
So to all of you who had a hand
in the stove, my thanks and graft
tude. But if this keeps up I'll have
to be careful about admiring in
print any Baldwin locomotives or
steam shovels.
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In The Peoples Hands

With the end of the war in sight, people are
beginning to think o. the day when readjust-
ment to peace can be made. Part OF that re-
adjustment must include a new conception of
the United States in relation to the rest of the
world. Hereafter, the problems of the world
are our problems. If there is another war. we
will be in it.
It is our responsibility to help Law the foun.
dation Of enduring peace by seeking to re-.
establish equal trading opportunity and free
markets. Admittedly, this may take time. but
failure means another world depression and an
other world war, in the opinion Of J. B Cond.
life, Professor of Economics in the univer-
sity of California, who declares that: 1.-THE
whole case for expanding international trade
is that there is gain, not loss, to the national
economies participating in such trade. In the
circumstances of the immediate postwar period
it does not require much reflection to realize
that not loss but disaster, is threatened if the
channels of trade cannot be re-opened PROMPT.
ly There is little chance Of relatively smooth
conversion from war to peace economy unless
this conversion can be carried out in an ex.
banding system of international collaboration
''In the successive emergencies of recent
years so much stress has necessarily been laid
upon the regulation Of all sorts Of prices
That the more important necessity Of maintain.
ing active and healthy markets has come to
be forgotten. The foundation Of prosperity il
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Daily Prayer
FOR WARS CHILDREN

Upon our hearts O Father of US
all, lies heavily the burden of war S
children - suffering, homeless,
fatherless ones in Nazi-conquered
lands; and all who, in the United
Nations, are deprived of the tender
care Of parents. AS Jesus loved
little children, and had compass
sion upon them, so would we bear
them in dear remembrance and
care. We bring to Thee the boys
and girls, who, by the exigencies
Of war, are deprived of home train
ing; and subject to new tempta-
tons and hardships. Make soft our
hearts within us that we each may
fulfill to the utmost our duty to-
ward these inheritors of a ne W
world. Without fit children from to-
day we cannot have fit men and
women for tomorrow, with its long
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MISSING IN ACTION

Mr.. and Mrs. A. C. Musselwa:e
of AT Martin street, have been
notified by the War department
that their son, Cpl. Mitchell A.
Musselwhite, 81, has been miss.
ing in action somewhere in France
since August 8. Corporal Mussel.
white entered the service Feb. z,
1912, and received his training in
the tank battalion at Fort Lewis,
Wash. He has been serving over.
seas for six months. Another son
of the Musselwhites, Chester 7.
Musselwhite, is assigned to a
Navy station at San Diego Calf.
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so THEY SAY

Do not talk to me of good Germans. The
only Germans that we have seen are not hui
man. They are worse than animals. No ami
NAL would stoop to the things that the Ger
mans have been doing for the past four years
Andre LeBord, French underground leader
No nation is worthy of the name OF nation
that will not fight for its own freedom We
Koreans have been doing that. unarmed ana
outnumbered, as well as unaided and unnotlc-
3D. for "a long years.-Dr. Syngman Knee
head Of Korean government in exile.
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Lieut.. William Weaks
Captured By Germans

The parents and wife of Lieut..
William T. Weaks. who was report
ed missing in action over Germany
on March %. have been advised by
the War department that he is a
prisoner Of war in Germany.
Lieutenant Weaks was a naviga-
tor On BIT plane Of the 9Th Air
Force operating from a base in
England.
His home address is 702 Central
boulevard, Sunset Park.
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With Ernie Pyle

IN FRANCE (By Wireless) -
The last time l was with the 'front.'
line medics-a battalion detach-
ment in the Fourth Division-they
showed me a piece in The Stars
and Stripes about Congress passing
the new $40 month pay in
crease for soldiers holding the
combat infantrymen's badge.
This combat infantry badge is a
proud thing. mark of great dis
tinction, sign on a mans chest
to show that he has been through
the mill. The medical aidmen were
feeling badly because the piece
said they were not eligible for the
badge.
Their captain asked me what I
thought, and so did some Of the
enlisted aidmen. And I could tell
them truthfully that my feelings
agreed with theirs. They should
have it. And I'm sure any combat
infantryman would tell you h e
same thing.
Praise for the medics has been
unanimous ever i nc this war
started. And just as proof of what
they go through. take this one de-
tachment of battalion medics that
I was with.
They were 81 men and two of.
ficers. And in one seven week
period of combat in Normandy this
summer they lost nine men killed
and ten wounded. A total of 10
out of 80 men-a casualty ratio of
nearly so per cent in seven weeks!
AS one aidman said, probably
they have been excluded because
they are technically noncombatants
and don't carry arms. But he sug-
gested that if this was true they
could still be given a badge with
some distinctive medical marking
on it, to set them off from medical
aidmen who don't work right in
the lines.
So I would like to propose to Con-
gress or the War Department or
whoever handles such things that
the ruling be altered to include
medical aidmen in battalion de-
tachments and On forward.
They are the ones who work I'M
der fire. Medics attached to regi-
ments and to hospitals farther back
do wonderful work too, of course,
and are sometimes under shellfire.
But they are seldom right out on
the battlefield. So I think it would
be fair to include only the medics
who work from battalion on for.
ward.
have an idea the original ruling
was made merely through a mis-
understanding, and tn a t there
would be no objection to correcting
it.
You must hear about INV new
stove. You may remember that
last winter in Italy we mentioned
how practical and wonderful + h a
little Coleman gasoline stove was
for soldiers in the field. Well. that
remark had repercussions.
1t seems the employees of h
Coleman Stove Co., in Wichita KS
were very pleased. It made them
feel that they were doins soma.
thing worth while for the war
So in. appreciation they decided to
make up special stove as a pift
for me.
We kept hearing about # ove,
here for weeks, and waited for =
the way children wait for Chris
mas. The other corresnond. 49,
were as excited about it as VIZ
At last it came. Boy, YOU should
see 1t. 1t is an exact duplicate IT
the regular stove, except that this
one is all hand made and chro e,as
ium plated and has nv nam. az.
graved on it, like a ioving c, un
One OF the correspondents said AID
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framing tl,5 in infantry at CAM
Wheeler, Ca, and attended @ a.4
GERS candidate school in C.i r,,'
vile, Fla. He was transferre5 :,
the Army Air Forces in Ansn, ~
l943. and attended the AAF A,
Intelligence school in Harrjsb,l.r
Pa.
Lieutenant Hewlett's last Stain,
before going overseas was at n.
Ardmore Army Air base, OH.
He is the son of Addison HsT,
lett, ST., chairman Of board A.
county commissioners, His wife i,
Crockette Williams Hewlett
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IS MONTHS FOREIGN DUTY

Sgt. Cecil G. Potter, son Of Mrs.
Alice H. Potter of RID. !, Ke.
Evansville, has been on foreign
duty for 18 months and is entitled
to wear three overseas stripes;
An airplane armore- with Nit
chen bomber squadron, he holds
the European-Middle East-African
ribbon and the campaign star,
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Paris Radio Reports
Nazis Seek Compromls'

NEW YORK, Sept f. OR I'M,
The Paris radio quoted r7oaE , Sr
it said was Basic aW !% ' Mi NM
dispatch to the London Dals n.sd
ror that the German goVefnt ...,
has been making efforts 10 ra
lish contact with Aimed lep-c oot.
tatives in order to obtain a w.
promise peace urhic,
The French broadcaS'' .;ons"
said this was the most SEW! rsp
peace attempt yet maze wa
orded hy CHS
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RECUPERATING

Pvt. Arthur Long, son OF Nh
and Mrs. D. P. Long Of WINNIE
ton, is at WEIGH Conyalesceht nv
pital. the Army new recondi.-..o,,
ing center in Daytona Beach ~.
Before entering the Army IN ~. NJ.
tembe--, 1910, Private Long W. ~.
employed by the Jackson beVe. '.si
company. He has since s stsl..'t
over two years in the souSn" 4,
Pacific, where he received '''
presidential unit citation.
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ARRIVES sAFF1v

Pvt William Earl Hutssn h,
just notified MS paren,z NJ "a'
Mrs. ]. W. Huffman. Of p;. aa'
PARKWAY n.i Lake Forest. Of his s' rs.
arrival in Italy. A 9en r'.s Sats
Company "I' in the vos Of
Guard, ne entered active sa.,.5
IN September, 1910, ard Is>s s'ylss
transferred to Service cor M s''
Before leaving for overseas ,'psAy'
j., ne spent a seven-day iurIousb e1y ,
his parents. 's" VIII
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on April 3, 1871 as a prl7aTs' AI'E,
serving with the Engineers anu
railroad battalions in LoIsanl
and Ohio, he was sent to ottlce'
candidate school in Aberdeen Mo-
He graduated as an Ordnance Vi,
ficer on Dec. II. 1912 and Ser'; ,.
thereafter for several months !,
Hunter Field, Savannah, Ca, sal
Kelly Field, San Antonio, lexds
Since Aug. "a, 1912, he mas 0s e.
serving continuously with w u,
Ninth Air Force in England sn'
France.
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hard task of a remade world
Speed the day of complete victory,
o Lord God Of Hosts, that we may
be in time to salvage our price
less youth. And Thine shall be the
glory, as Thine is the Power.
Amen,-W, T. E.