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those countries, SO tnat automooilee
60 there and are sold by the halt
million each year instead Of by the
thousand. We are rebuilding Gus
toners.
Must Pay With Goods.
"But don't forget that they have
to pay with their goods and raw
materials. They can't pay with
anything else. This is all business
proposition, not handout."
Specifically, as an example Of
what the withdrawal of dollar sup
port from foreign nations can mean,
Mr.. Taft cites the fact that Ameri-
can purchases, loans, spending by
tourists and remittances abroad
slumped from $500, 900 600 in 1929
to $2.500, 900 900 in 1882. the low
year Of the depression. The result
was unemployment and stagnant
trade everywhere.
The United States, according to
Mr.. Taft, must expect to stand by
the foreign businessman who has
been encouraged to open q mine or
factory to supply our wartime de-
mands, continuing some purchases
In the transition period until he can
readjust his business to normal con-
ditions. .....-
It is recognized that this policy
may mean sharp criticism from GER
tain domestic groups of producers
who are determined to maintain
their postwar production even If II
is uneconomic, and that their COM
plants may receive support In Con-
gress.
As an example there is cited q
bill recently introduced by Senator
Scrugham, Democrat, of Nevads
which would guarantee the contin.
ued purchase Of metals from small
mines with a high production cost
Mr.. Taft emphasizes that the United
States should not pamper foreign
producer at the expense Of hi.
American rival, but should try tt
give all q fair break during the
/ transition period.
Believes Controls to Continue.
Foreseeing the need of strict Gov.
ernment economic controls in the
early postwar period, Mr.. Taft be.
lieves that price control and ra.
tioning must be expected to con-
tinue for some time in order to pre-
vent imitation and other disloca-
tions.
Some international economic
agreements, too, seem necessary, Mr.
Taft believes, to stabilize world
trade and shipping after the war
The pattern Is not q new one, for
the United States already Is a party
to compacts regulating the now OF
sugar. wheat and coffee. An inter-
national agreement on distribution
of the worlds shipping also Is an
acute postwar need, as the United
States merchant marine after the
war win be the largest In the his
tory Of the world.
Fortunately our wartime CO.
operation with the British through
the Combined Food Board, the
Combined Food Board and the
Combined Raw Materials Board and
the Combined Production and Re.
sources Board have established I
pattern o1 eloss and eacient cola.
bofAt3on. "
s d Is
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The Home Front
By DaDid HinshGtu. putnam. J

Neither brilliant nor particularly
analytical. "The Home Front" -
nevertheless q pretty comprehensive
review OF what has taken place In
industry, labor, agriculture and
Government since Pearl Harbor. It
represents the middle -ro6d
view Of our war effort. 1t Is not
antiadministration or proadminis-
tration. It praises the rank and file
OF labor, and condemns wildcat and
jurisdictional strikes. 1t voices the
feeling Of many against Government
red tape and procrastination In the
handling OF rubber. food, manpower.
priorities and production In general,
Mr.. Hinshaw has done . com.
mendable Job In putting together q
mass Of material on the events ct
home UP to the time his book went
to press. Even the casual newspa.
per reader knows Of the tremendous
amount that has been written pfo
and con on every conceivable phaao
Of the war effort. All this material
has been boiled down. and crgaps
ised into . alnOoth, running account
And that h . pretty tough assig1kc
ment BANBRID0E CRI6Ts:
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Best Sellers
FICTION.

Strange Fruit, by Lillian
Smith.
A Bell for Adano, by John
Hersey.
The Ra10r's Edge, by w.
Somerset Vaughan.
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, by
Betty Smith.
Bedford village, by Hervey
Allen.
NONFICTION.
I Never Left Home, by Bob
Hope
Here Il Your War. by Ernie
Pyle.
Ten Years In Japan, by Joseph
G. Grew.
Yankee From Olympus, by
Catherine Drinker Bowen.
Watching the World, by Ray
mond Clapper.
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rule In the case Of this novel. Amer
leans ought-yes, ought-to read it.
It presents q picture of what we
may call. grossly. European psychol-
ogy, which today ought to be part
Of our awareness.
The fact Is that whether we are
prerevolutionary stock or just nat
uralized we lean on the mother
continent" tradition, we see In Eu-
rope greater age and experience and
more mature culture. Distance en-
chants our view and we remember
the good things which we left be-
hind and forget the evil from which
we fied. Indeed, we incline to forget
that we did fee, though most of us
are here because European intol-
erance or lack Of opportunity made
life impossible for us or our an
cestors.. And we also forget that
life in America begins at q point
which Europe has not yet reached,
that whereas we have freedom as
matter of course the basic struggle
there still is to achieve it. We ad-
mire medieval art treasures-and
think Of them as being as remote
from Europe's present as from our
own. But to millions Of Europeans
now alive the medieval mentality Is
the shaping one.
This novel should correct some
of that forgetfulness., 1t is by a
European and Is not written with
the detachment Of q spirit freed
from the horrors with which it
deals. Rather 1t Is q cry from the
depths. The reviewer can think Of
no comparable work in recent Amer
ican fiction except James T. Far
rell's studs Lonigan." which was
also a deliberate depletion of un-
speakable conditions made to the
end that the author might feel
himself cleansed.
Lieutenant Bertram" is q story of
a young German pilot from shortly
before the outbreak of the Spanish
civil war to the latter part of that
struggle In the early chapters the
life In the German training camp
Is the subject, in the latter the fight
ing in Spain. But 1t Is not the
abominable acts of the hero and his
companions which the author exerts
himself to make us see. It Is,
through those acts, the determining
conditions of life on q continent
where Naziism could appear and
develop. The Nazis are merely the
spearhead Of long shaft Of misery
which Is Europe. The best which
the author can show US, In contrast
to the stumps and remnants of
souls which are the Hitlerites, Is
the rebels against that misery, and
they, though fighters for freedom,
are also forced into such unnatural
patterns as hardly to be recognized
as human. He sums it up by saying
that there Is no answer to the ma
tional question, 'Why?" in Europe.
Life there stands against nature in
all its aspects.
Americans looking after. the peace
for . grateful population of men
like themselves but temporarily de-
prived Of liberty, could hardly do
better, the reviewer repeats, than to
read Lieutenant Bertram." It
shows us with great precision where
the dark continent lies today.
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By Msry-C Csrtsr Roberts.

vsriegated stable Of celebrities with
whom she Is palsy (dear NoeD, o.
her choice IN noises which keep her
awake ct night, she does not loss
herself; she pulls up In time and
gees on around Robin Hoods barn
to the place where she was going Al
the time. You can depend on 1t.
And on the whole the reviewer
would remark that u Just - well.
Trivia about the frst person singular
to the length OF three volumes are
considerable. Hors d'oeuvres IN box
car quantities really have to be good.
Argentine Diary
By Ray Josephs. Random
House,
Ray Josephs was Buenos Aires
correspondent for Pm, the Chicago
Sun and, believe 1t or not, varietv
during the period when he kept this
diary" from January, 1913, to JAM
uary. 1914. The political event to
which 1t is chiefly devoted Is the
military coup of June I, which pnt
President Ramirez In power. Tho
background stun Is the accumu-
lated evidence which Mr.. Josephs
saw on every hand that this coup
was . move toward Fascism and
against inter-American solidarity.
The warning for the future Is that
though Ramirez did finally break
on diplomatic relations With the
Axis powers, Fascism goes on apace
IN Argentina, imported unaltered
from Berlin, but bearing the Span
ish export stamp. a
The Falange, as Mr.. Josephs sees
1t, Is a Nazi-Fascist organization,
taking Hitler's orders and aimed 1t
spreading Hitler's espionage, Sab
otage and propaganda throughout
Latin America with Argentina as .
base. As Of last January Mr.. Jos.
ephs credited the outfit not only
with suppressing Argentine democ-
racy. but with fostering the Decem-
Der military coup In Bolivia. Hs
Is fun Of alarm about the situation.
His book is repetitious and would
be much more effective II cut to
about one-third its length.
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A Well Full of Leaves
BIZ Elizabeth Muers (Morroan 1

| ~ NssSoSSSfS M BCfS. tMOTUUsf
In this first novel, Miss Myers "a
revealed as a writer with ideas and
the skill to present them interest.
ingly. She has q few unccnvincing
dramatic traits; her characters
tend toward the sensational, and
she Is forever putting speeches into
their mouths. But some Of the
writing exhibits q mastery Of Ian
guage and an imaginative turn or
mind that command respect and
leave the impression that this Is q
talent of some stature.
The story she tells is Of the Val.
ley family, composed Of . mother
whose moods range from waspish
to murderous. . father who Is .
wilted remnant Of a man and four
children.
Laura, the third child, tells thu
story. Early in life, she discovers
her ability to escape from the bru.
talities that surround her by con-
centrating on the wonders of life
itself, and upon the formation and
personalities of inanimate THINGS.
mus, while her mother Is in th0
midst Of q TRADE, Laura Is able to
stand untroubled, letting her mother
dissolve before her eyes by focusing
her complete attention on such .
thing as q clod Of earth or q piece
of bread. 1t is an intriguing idea,
and one feels that 1t could find q
place in any life; but Laura goes
In for 1t to an almost fanatical
extent. and becomes downright
tiresome at times, although that
was evidently not Miss Myers In
tention. -
Contemplating the story Of
Lauras triumph over her environ.
ment is that Of her brother Steve,
who emerges from his pseudo
childhood with permanent grudee
against humanity. It Is not q
pleasant little tale, this one Of d
potentially brilliant man who, Of al
the world. loves only his sister, and
that to an almost leechlike degree.
LUCY McCI ,EN1N
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American Dialect Dictionary
By Harold Wentworth.
(CropeUJ -

The reviewer will freely admit
that she is not familiar with the
body Of studies which classifies
American dialect. Beyond q few
commonly known works, such ~
Mencken's American Language"
she has not gone into it. But she
Will risk recommending this book
anyway. She will recommend It a
easy to use, as pretty comprehensive
and accurate. It has some obvious
faults, such as disproportion In tts
quoted usages Of dialect words and
terms, some Of little interest being
accorded columns Of quotations as
against a line or two for others
much richer in flavor and history,
And 1t draws much more heavily on
the South than other parts Of the
country. Notwithstanding, it Is q
good book to own. It contains q
huge fund of information and IL
most entertaining to read.
1t Is alphabetically ARRANGED
straight through, regardless Of
whether its material Is one word or
a phrase. 1t includes pure dialect
terms. dialect variations on estaH.
lished words, mispronunciation3.
poetic and archaic expressions,
turns Of speech, compounded words
and 80 on to the number of 5000.
with information as to where, wheu,
how and by whom used. Long
sweetening," shooting match" !"
''peart," "owdacious," ''lay or" "for
to-" "nighder," "laylock," "leanter.~
shed Of" "quile," "toadfrog"-such
old Americanisms as these make up
the body of the work. But along
with them one may find the modern
"irregardless" and the dreadful "on
account Of" followed directly by .
subject and verb. 1t is rich reading
and, even though it does not cover
the whole country, q huge job Of
scholarly work
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Lieutenant Bertrom

Lieutenant beTtr0m
BIZ Bodo Uhse. Translated
From the German by Gather
inc Hntter.. (Simon & Schus-
ter.)
The reviewer does not often rec
ommend . book In . missionary
spirit, confiding to her readers that
the work holds message" which
they will find beneficial. It Is not
her business to deal in "oughts" OF
that nature. But she viii break the
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London had some relief from the
buzzbombs during the past week but
concern over them is shown by the
evacuation Of several hundred thou
sand persons from the capital during
the week. Some difhculty wsG re-
ported yesterday in this connection
as thousands upon thousands were
unable to find temporary refuge In
other parts Of England. There were
suggestj-ns Of compulsion to come
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-02-24

You can take 1t from CT. Joe
himself. the Genus Military Police
Of the present war is a combat
troop Of the first order, and a de.
cent fellow. He's in the MP's be-
cause Intelligence listed him as q
cool chap under IRE, bit Of a
diplomat. and a soldier who can
keep law and order with lot of
courage for when the going is
tough.
It's a new army and a new MP,
made so by special courses con-
Quoted for every battalion Of Mill
tary Police in training. An example
is the recent turning of Philadel-
phia's scenic Paramount Park into
a beachhead. Every phase Of
landing, from an MP standpoint,
was enacted. Similarly throughout
the country, the MP's learn by do
ing.
No longer is the MP labeled a
headquarters Snooper with pen
chant for cracking soldiers on leave
over the head with billy. The
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-02-24

chances are, the MP on foreign
service is just out of the lines
himself, or just OF a beachhead
where much Of the success of the
operation depended on his ability
to direct traffic, duck shells and
keep communication lines from
snarling.
Or, maybe he's lying refiectively
on a hospital cot, direct from some
crossroads where a shell banged
before it whizzed. Crossroads, the
fighting men tell you, are the bane
OF soldiers existence and con-
tribute greatly to his r1on-existence.
Every enemy artilleryman knows
their exact location. Time after
time, they chuck over a shell lust
for luck, in the hopes that it might
land on a jeep, a truck, in the
middle of a marching column, or
just on the back Of someone's neck.
It's the MP's job to be out there
on the crossroad, a permanent clay
pigeon and a living bulls-eye, to
keep supply lines open, reinforce
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mentS and requirements moving IA
the right direction, and rear traffic
out Of the way Of an advance.
IT'S q long, gruelling program
that makes an MP, q training
course that includes as many prob
lens as any other combat troop.
He practices Judo, preparing for
either the little brown brother or
the super-race. He digs foxholes,
mounts machine guns, practices
with the tonmy-gun, learns traffic
direction and Is q bit Of a com.
mando with blue and white bras
sard.
He does his setting-up and push.
ing-up exercises, studies motor
transport problems, digs deeply into
the science Of mapreading, guards
lines Of communications, collects
and guards prisoners Of war, and
learns where to send command
cars, scout cars and lines of
armament. He studies radio to
keep in touch with headquarters,
with troops ahead and with troops
in the rear.
He learns camouflage, and he
learns how to take over a hostile
town. The art Of quellfng anything
from a two-man fight to a free
for-all Is Just another course on
his program. He knows how to
tread his way through a captured
village, tommy-gun at the ready,
with intent to polish on any snipers.
He knows how to clean city streets
In an emergency.
His reward for long, painful
months for rigorous training Is the
right to land with the first wave
Of attackers. Then he sets UP his
post and keeps the second, third
and fourth waves going In the right
direction.
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MRS. ". MOORE
FLORIDA GUEST
briggs Street Resident Vis-
iting Son, Johnny, and
Daughter-in-Law
WATERVILLE
Correspondent, Alice MacMul-
len, Phone 3-7217

Waterville, Feb. 24-Mrs William
Moore of briggs street is visiting her
son Johnny and family in Sarasota.
Fla.
Petty Officer First Glass George
F. Goggin, has returned to Santi-
ago, Calf. after spending 30 day
leave with his parents Mr.. and Mrs.
George Goggin of Huntingdon ave-
nue.. For the past 8 months he has
been in the Pacific area.
Mrs. Ralph Benson of Pembroke
avenue Is III at home with the grippe
Mr.. and Mrs. James Laundria of
New Hartford visited for few days
with Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Seery of
Thomaston avenue.
John Seery Of the Maritime Serv-
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Mademoiselle OF Armentieres
Won't Know the Changed MP's
BY RUSS GREEN

this " -
q the veterans Of World War Iose swasbuckg spiral
pueu men OF the Marine who kept marching
Justify singing ambiguous Rabeian verses Of
how the MP back and 30 feet
q To all " -SO~-~
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-02-24

There, probably the Mademoiselle
from Armentieres won't recognize
him. He's a changed guy.
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| i've stationed at Hoffman Island. n.
T.. visited his parents Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank Seery Of Fort Hill and his
wife and baby. His wife Is the for
mer Peggy Heaney.
Mrs. Edward F. HoIleran OF I8a
Homer street is a patient at st.
Mary's hospital where she re-
Gently underwent an operation. She
is reported resting comfortably.
Raymond Mattson who recently
entered service In the Army is sta
toned with the Infantry at Camp
Croft, s. C.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Brown had
as visitors over the weekend, Pvt.
Francis j. Stack and his wife and
baby. Pvt. Stack had been studying
at Lehigh University in Pa, but is
now at Fort Knox, Kentucky.
Shea Chairman
Patrick Shea, alderman, is chair
man of the Honor Roll committee In
the Willie" assisted by Mrs. Edward
Martin, Fred Truelove, Mrs. Joseph
Benoit, Mrs. Joseph McArole, Mrs.
Louis Dadario, Mrs. Olive Ahrens
and Miss Ruth Martin.
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Marshalls. And he won't be salts
fled until he's done it on the in
vasion coast of France.
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In this war, he's done it at Qua
dacanal, at Oran, on Sicily, at
Salerno, at Tarawa and in the
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-06-30
Dies
AT Spartanburg

SPARTANBURG. S c., June 70
RABen Hill Brown. who served
as mayor Of Spartanburg for three
terms from 1925 to 1887, died to-
day at his home here following a
three weeks illness. He was 81
years old.
Brown, long a prominent figure
in civic and political affairs here,
was born in Cowpens. He came to
Spartanburg in 1905 to practice law
after attending Wofford college and
the University of Virginia.
He was a member Of the state
legislature from 1908 to 1912. and
was president of the Spartanburg
chamber of commerce from 1915 to
1918. He was a past president Of
the South Carolina Bar association,
The funeral will be held at sac
pm. tomorrow at First Baptist
church.
The survivors include his widow
Mrs. Clara Twitty Colcock Brown;
three sons, all in the Army, Capt
Brown of Mt Airy, N. c.
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PAVING CONTRACT
LET FOR VILLAGE

A negotiated contract In the
amount Of $26,5O0 has been award
ed to the contracting firm Of F. D.
Cline Raleigh, to pave all
streets in the Vance and Hewes
sections Of the Maffitt Village hous-
ing project, it was announced yes
day by Henry R. Emory, executive
director Of the Housing Authority
Of the City Of Wilmington.
Cline had entered a low bid Of
SAC, 009, but a change of specifica-
lions was responsible for the re-
duction Of the contract price,
Emory explained.
/ An ALLEGATION Of funds to bear
the expense Of paving the Raleigh
section of the housing project sis
expected within a few days"
Emory added.
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Of calling a woman from . Maj
fit Village drug store.
Police yesterday were checking
with Mullins, S. c., authorities,
where the youth was born, to de-
termine his correct age.
Bethea, the officers added, adj
mitted making improper ad-
vances to white women in tele-
phone conversations over period
of time. He told the officers ne
was forced to make the calls by
"a bunch of boys" and that all
phone conversations had been held
with white women.
Fales and Murray asserted the
arrest OF Bethea breaks up a
case we've been working on fo-
months. We've had complaints the
past two years from women living
at Lake Forest and throughout
Wilmington that they were insult.
ed by some unknown person on
the Telephone"
The Negro youth, they said. de-
scribed his method Of phoning the
women. He simply Tipped through
the phone directory and selected
a number at random. If a woman
answered the phone, he made i'm
proper advances, often soliciting
dates.
It was the cooperation Of a
white woman, whose name was
not revealed, with the law en-
forcement officers that eliminated
in the youths arrest.
The policemen had heard of
many of the anonymous CONVEX
sations and had filled dates made
between the phone caller and some
Of the women, but to no avail,
they said. On many occasions, he
told the women he would meet
them at certain places and would
be driving a black Pontiac sedan.
Police said he never showed up"
The officer described the man.
ner in which they caught Bethea.
"He called woman at II a. m.
yesterday and she, in cooperation
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BuY WAR BONDS AND sTMPAs
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with us, made a date for him to
call her again at 4 p. M, after
he inadvertently mentioned that a
DR.. Shaw was trying to use the
same telephone line. We checked
and learned that DR.. Shaw oper-
ated a drug store at Maffitt Viii
lage. At p. m. we were there
and arrested Bethea in the act
of calling the woman. He ad-
mitted he was trying to make a
date with her, and also to calling
a lot Of other white women il the
past"
Fales and Murray asserted that
many women had been left In
a Frustrated condition after the
improper advances made by the
anonymous telephone caller. In
one case, young girl nearly had
nervous collapse"
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YOUTH ARRESTED
| in MORALS CASE

Wilmington police last night
were attempting to ascertain the
proper charge to be lodged against
q youthful negro who was arrest.
ed yesterday for alledgedly max
ling repeated telephone calls te
white women in which improper
sadvancse were made.
The youth was held on techni-
zeal charge of vagrancy pending a
Specific charge.
officer E. B. Red" Murray and
Harry E. Fales, superintendent OF
the New Hanover Bureau OF 1den-
gtification, identified the youth, who
has been making insulting re-
marks to white women over the
phone" as Elliott Bethea, of 102 F
Battle street, Maffitt Village. Be-
thea, who claims to be but 10
but whom authorities believe IS
l6 years of age, was arrested at
APO p. m. yesterday in the act
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PAPERS DISCOVERED
In CHURCH STONE

One Of the cornerstones Of st.
Andrews Presbyterian church was
removed yesterday from the posi-
ton it has occupied since it was
laid in October 1888.
The hollow stone contained a
copy of the Wilmington Messen-
ger" and other papers that should
prove Of historical interest, Walter
Sprunt who has been associated
with st. Andrews since it was built
announced today.
A second cornerstone is expected
to be removed from its present
site within a few days. It is dated