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The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1944-01-06
RELEASE PEACHES TO
CIVILIANS

Approximately 100000 cases Of
canned peaches, previously set aside
for government purchase, have beer
released for civilian supplies ard
will reach some retail markets
within q few weeks.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1944-01-06
COMMISSIONERS IN
SESSION

County Commissioners Klinke,
Mahoney and Hoisington held their
regular monthly session this week
but report only routine matters en-
gagged their attention.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1944-01-06
CAR LICENSE PLATES HERE

Mrs. Letha Sauer, county treas
urer, wishes announcement made
that car license plates have ar
rived. Car plates this year are made
Of plastic, truck plates Of metal
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1944-01-06
MARRIED.

Percy w. Bartlett o1 Standpoint,
Ida, and Virginia G. Cnllyer Of Bon
ners Ferry, Ida, on Jan. l. by he
Rev E. Roy Fort.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-11-01
Clark's Valuable Services

When Rep Bayard Clark interviewed at Wash
ington in behalf of the Captain of the PORT
office in Wilmington he demonstrated again
that this city, as all other communities in his
district, has real friend in the House Of
Representatives.
But for this quick action on his part the
office would now be non-existent and
southeastern North Carolina be without the
services of the Coast Guard No resident in
this area can help but feel the kindlinest senti-
ment for the Seventh Congressional District
representative.
There is an aspect of the effort to have
the Captain of the Ports office continued which
ought not to be ignored. Mr.. Clark has started
the job 1t remains for Wilmingtonians general
ly to support him in the work.
He cannot do it alone. There must be solid
support here especially when high executives
of the Coast Guard arrive to survey the situa-
ton, if the temporary arrangement n r
which the office continues to function is to be
made permanent, or at least for the duration
What Mr.. Clark has done deserves the COM
plete cooperation of all waterfront interests
and business firms. We can do no less than
give him this cooperation.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-11-01
An Echo of 1913

We have all been hoping for long time that
civilian food supplies.
There is little reason to doubt that with bet
ter foresight at the top-that is to say, among
the men who have been given unlimited powers
over food and at the same time have lacked
wide experience in the food business-many
of the shortages could have been prevented
and less ono1ous system OF rationing set
up. With experienced men making the rules
there is no reason to think that warehouses
would long have bulged with boarded supplies
while the households Of the nations lived on
short rations, that butcher shops would have
lacked for meat while the cattle on thousand
hills were ready for slaughter, that raw sugar
in great quantities was not unloaded because
refineries were already overWorked and ware
houses unable to contain more.
But there is nothing to be done about that
phase of the problem now. The bureaucrats
were, and still are, in control. But there is
another phase that ought to be considered 1t
has to do with the feeding of some ten million
or more persons in the armed service, who
are winning this war; for us. They must be
fed, well fed, and regularly. To some extent it
is possible to put up with the over-hoarding,
when this need is considered There could have
been better judgment at the top, from the
first. But we must endure the laundering with
what grace we can summon, in the knowledge
that the war will not continue forever and even
tually dictatorial government will come to
an end.
A bit of verse, not much better than dog
geral, which had wide publicity during h e
former World war, fits the case with some
appropriateness:
Little Jumps of sugar,
Little grains of wheat,
Little chops and outlets
That we refuse to eat,
Fill the mighty ocean
With a sovereign fleet,
And make a sturdy army
Impossible to beat
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-11-01
The Literary Guidepost

Americans never venture. He un.
derstands the forces that at first
made isolationists Of many men,
the sectionalism which survives
from the 1865, the MIND patterns
OF the lonely herder in the foot.
hills. I think he sees the pattern
OF America as a pattern for the
world itself.
For near the end of his book
he says, in effect, that it would
be futile to expect the world to
become one great room filled with
frightened strangers. He does not
believe it necessary that nations
lose their nationhood or forget that
they and their immediate neighbor
have things in common which
they, and China TO. example, may
not have in common.
THE critical period in the life
Of a national society comes" he
writes, when it has to learn new
habits, acquire new emotional at
titudes, possibly unlearn some old
lessons, forget some old and once
useful habit. The cost of the nee
essary adaptation is very great"
But not too great DR.. Brogan
thinks. Understanding is not
enough, but it is an indispensable
beginning.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-11-01
Michigan Park Program

| Michigan proposes to spend SIG, 232, 900 on a
plan, drafted by the state conservation depart
ment, places especial emphases on develop
ment of the Porcupine Mountain forest
museum chain of southeastern Michigan
parks the Karen Dunes park, the Sterling
state park and the Tahquamenon Falls re-
gion.
The program will be submitted to the state
planning commission before it goes to the
legislature for consideration along with other
postwar financing measures
One feature of the plan is $3840 900 pro-
posed expenditure for park access highways.
Largest single park expenditure planned is 49,
$4,000 for the large Sterling states park which
will be designed to attract persons from all
parts of southeastern Michigan
Second largest amount is asked for the Porcu-
pine Mountain park, which is still in the pro-
cess Of acquisition. Included in that project
are $1,50O,00O for an access highway; $50o,0oo
for interior drives; 100000 for winter sports
development; $25 900 for foot trails; $780, 900 for
winter sports development; $4,000 for foot
trails; 100000 for construction of tent and
trailer camping areas; and $4,000 for tourist
lodgings.
An expenditure of 81, las, 900 in Warren Dunes
park would include two $4,000 bath houses,
a cafeteria and numerous other buildings Also
planned is ST. 1888 900 expenditure on the Tah-
quamenon Falls Park, which is virtually I'M
developed This would include tourist housing
Accommodations.
Highways costing $500, 900 are planned in the
development project for southeastern parks.
The program includes $4,000 for developing
10 to is picnic areas in the region, $4,000 for
bathing and beach development $3.50, 900 for
tent and trailer accommodations. $250O0 for
parkways and parking areas and $4,000, 900 for
81 aiding and filling.
Among other major expenditures proposed
are 100000 for the Port Huron park; $638, 500
for the Bay City Park; $685., 900 for the Algonac
park and SAT-, 900 for the Muskegor park. Sew
eral other areas will receive appropriations
for smaller park developments if the plan is
approved.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-11-01
Astronomical Speculation

The arplane has added mystery we'll as
revelation to warfare. We can send aircraft
over Germany to look and photograph as well
as to bomb And yet except for the fringe
of border on which the Americans and Rus
slams stand, Germany remains as battling and
only tantalizing glimpse which deepens rath-
er than dispels the mystery.
There was, for instance, the report that 9th
Afr Force flyers brought back from the Ruhr.
These flyers gazed down on the Ruhr cities
from what, as space goes, was an insignificant
distance But they were as remote as astrono-
mers gazing at Mars through telescope. And
what they saw was as fruitful of speculation
as the Marian canals.
What were those creatures doing down be-
low? 1t was night yet they had the lights.
turned on This hadn't happened since the
Allies first flew over the Reich. What were
they up to? Was it a trick? Were they in
viting further destruction? Or had they be-
come fatalistic or dispited past the point of
caring?
And what were the "bluish white flashes"
observed issuing from lighter buildings and
fire? Did they mean that a civil uprising
had begun?
Some guessed that the Germans were hastily
trying to move heavy factory machinery farth-
err behind the lines. Others thought that they
might be working day and night to turn out
. Ill +I,o+
in the line of imminent Allied occupation.
Neither explanation seems very logical. If
machinery is worth salvaging and new goods
are worth manufacturing, then they are at
least worth the customary blackout precau-
tons. Besides, these theories would not explain
the lighted trolleys and airfields which the
flyers noted.
AS for the supposition of street fighting, that,
too, seems unlikely. According to common
sense and the best tradition of gangster NOV
les, nobody would turn on the lights in a
room before taking a pot shot at an adversary.
But what are those flashes, then? An as.
tronorner might easily explain them il thew
were few thousand light years out in the
universe. But observed in the streets of Dus.
seldord, they battle analysis.
One thing at least is certain. Something is
amiss in the unquiet tenor of wartime Ger
man living. And we incline to the Astronomical
conjecture that the whole thing is a SOP tt
disintegrating German morale.
The Ruhr cities have been bombed, repaired
bombed. rebuilt, and bombed again-througl
blackouts and through clouds. Night ate
night their residents have waited in darkness
The bornbers didn't always come. But eve
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-11-01
BY JOHN SELBY
"The American Character" by
d. w. BrOgan (KnOpf: $3.50.

u. w. DIVSdA \AAOpA, pN.CVJe
One of the Book of the Month
Clubs better choices is book of
medium length by an Englishman
with an Irish name Dennis W.
Brogan. For many years DR.. Bro
gan has spent a great share of his
time in this country; he even at
tended classes at Harvard, at one
time. He has been trying, through
these same years, to interpret the
United States to Great Britain,
and especially England, One of
the products of this labor is 1.-THE
a m eri an Character" which
makes quite as much sense when
read by the American it discusses.
as when read by the Englishman
who is supposed to learn from it.
DR.. Brogan is not sickeningly
nice about us, but most of his
readers will believe, l think, that
he writes from both experience
and liking. He has visited an as
tonishing number of truly Ameri-
can places, not only the coastal
showplaces, but little Illinois
towns, little southern towns, farms.
other places where millions Of
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-11-01
Prayer
For Greater Prophets

Lord, we would hear trumpet
tones in our times, as from pro-
phets of old. Give voice and ut
terance to the men called to speak
for Thee. Grant unto many the
gift of speaking suthoritatively, to
the highest level of our aspirations
and to the deepest depths of our
feeling. We want to be awakened
and aroused and set into action.
So qualify the watchmen upon the
walls of our Zion to sound great
trumpets greatly. Thus would we
be quickened to e true sense of
our dangers and of our opportuni-
ties and of our duties. We want
to live up to the level OF the great
hour Thou hast sent upon us, with
out Tagging or Indifference. There
fore we pray that the trunpets of
God may sound, and that we may
have ears to hear and hearts to
respond.-Amen.-W.T.E.
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BY KENNETH L. DIXON

WITH THE AEF IN FRANCE,
Oct. 25.-DelayedO- Up German
soldiers along the Western front
probably still are wondering what
happened to the "5:15" which al
ways came through from Berlin on
time.
And across no-man' STAND. little
way behind the American combat
line, the boys behind the guns of
a certain artillery battalion a e
grinning at their new role as
'trainbusters.
AS usual, the "5:15" was chug-
ging busily down toward the front,
carrying supplies for the wer-
macht. Suddenly there came an
explosion from alongside the
tracks. Quickly, the conductor
yanked a rope to signal a halt.
High in an observation post on
the other side of the front a dough-
boy called excitedly into a field
telephone: Looks good. The whole
train of about 40 cars has stopped.
Now. Let them nave it"
A few thousand yards away, Sgt.
John Gest of Loveland O., was at
the other end of the telephone. He
motioned to Gunner Corp. Clearance
Ransford, Cincinnati, O., who took
a last look through the sight. Pvt.
Richard E. Woinle of Minneapolis
kept carrying ammunition up be-
side the guns.
"Okay!" said Sergeant Gest,
five rounds" He paused, then
barked out, "'fire!"
Pvt. Charles F. Taylor of New
bern, N. c., yanked the firing Ian
yard. The big gun spat fire and
smoke, laundering sound and then
sat back on its tracks like a tired
dog suddenly sitting down. T h e
hammer clicked, breech slammed
shut, and again it fired.
On the other side of the front,
the train barely had screeched to
halt when the second shell
screamed in and exploded. T h e
conductor stepped down and went
up to examine the damage to the
engine. Just then anothe-' one land
ed. The engineer jumped down
and examined the conductor. Then
still another landed
"Yipe!" yelled the observer over
the phone to Sergeant Gest. THAT
did it. You got the engineer tool"
For little while longer, the bat
talion's guns kept barking. Then
all guns settled back on h r
launches for the last time before
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-11-01

The War
BY KIRKE L. SIMPSON
Associated Press War An,,,

Allied success in drivlng NJ,
forces from the south bank NJ '' ga
Mas in Holland achieved . u'
goals. WV
Early use of the Antwerp Com.
municationS hub was brought WIZ, G.l''
in sight to bolster an expecteJ ' vi
newal of the drive against ~. .s
many's Siegtried line anchorags 81
the lower Rhine. vi
And it freed the whole leno.,
Of h Flushing-Br NiimaosnA
Anthem hard-surfaced highwavo o o
cept its extreme western en5 e.
Walcheren island. Elimination -.
that last obstacle to full Allied usa
OF the road is in progress. VIII
final clearance of Walcheren tss.
movement of priority traffic for
Field M a r S h MONTGOMERY
troops should be possible even h.
fore Antwerp can be put into COM
mission as the main Allied let,
flank supply base.
1t seems unquestionable that soi
cure Of that road to suppleman.
the anticipated clearance ~
Schelds estuary approaches TO An.
tWerp and it's extensive and nm
damaged dock facilities for spa
going craft figured importantly in
Allied plans. The considerable nor,
of Flushing on the south shore NJ
Walchern island at the mouth ot
the west schelde estuary offers
good weather protection for shin.
ping, obviating delay while the Is.
tuary itself is cleared of silt or
enemy-placed distractions.
Allied spokesmen have made mn
secret of the fact that it was ths
supply lag that gave the foe 4
chance man his Siegfried line de.
tense after the retreat from
France. That handicap has been
virtually removed now. Little Al.
led delay in moving in heavy force
to crack or urn the north end NJ
the Siegfried front is to be antici.
pated.
There will still be some weeks
of relatively good weather in The
Dutch battle theater. General Els.
enhower and his army command.
ers can be expected to make the
most of it nov that they have
gained elbow room south of the
Mas and freedom from danger Of
an enemy thanking attack.
On Montgumerys right the
American First army h a been
marking time since the capture Of
Aachen to await completion of the
British-Canadian operation south
of the Mas. It's left flank sue.
cessfully bore the brunt of Nazi
diversion assault which dented
American lines but failed to at.
feet in any way Allied overall
operations.
There was striking evidence in
that Nazi counter action of the
straights to which the foe has been
reduced to hold his western front.
It came too late and lacked the
power to accomplish preview Of
1t furnished its own preview Of
what to expect when General Els.
enhoWer signals a full scale at.
tack on the Siesfried line.
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Deep in the Heart

When the French city of Die was liberated,
the first outfit to enter in pursuit of the flee
ing Germans was the seth Division. The CRATE
full mayor wanted a victory parade and re-
view, but time was too short The seth had to
push on swiftly. Yet its members, in their
speedy passing, seem to have paused long
enough to impress the local citizenry with
the virtues and Importance of their majority S
point of origin.
Today the main street of Die has been re-
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when they didn't the waiting was nerve-wrack-
ing.
The bombers still come And soon the cities
will be in range of heavy artillery and field
guns Then blackouts won't matter. So per-
haps the soldiers and civilians Of the Ruhr
decided that if they must die they would
rather die with the lights on. And if they
escaped they deserved a brief respite from
the years of unlit nights before the enemy
arrived.
And perhaps Hitler's government, which had
no other hope or comfort to offer a despairing
population, agreed.
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easing forward, pointing their Curl
GUS shouts into the morning air,
trailing a little smoke from each
muzzle. One more telephone call
came in.
1.-THE Sis won't be there this
morning." said the observer.
This same battalion, Incidentally,
Identifies its howitzers with vari-
GUS pinup pictures painted on var
GUS places on the guns. The gun
which is bossed by Gunner Corp.
Arthur Buckner, Bestran, Tex,
thusly is named Betty Cradle. "
However, the battery caught con-
siderable fire the other day during
which the picture of Betty lost its
legs to piece of flying shrapnel.
Everybody laughed when Corpo-
raj Buckner wrote Betty, explain
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-11-01
LETTER BOX
ROOSEVELT VS.. DEWEY

To The Editor:
Never in American history has
so much been involved in the cleo
ton of a President as in the pres
ent instance. There are more ma
tional and international problems
and complications awaiting solution
than at any other period of the
country's growth.
One thing the voters can all be
grateful for-that the candidates OIL
the two parties are the best they
could have put up, circumstances
considered.
Whoever is elected will have nc
bed of roses. In fact some who
would otherwise be ardent support
ers of Mr.. Dewey are in no rush
to see him saddled with the in
evitable backwash and aftermath
OF the war. Doubtless some of Mr.
Roosevelt's friends feel the same
way about him.
One thing seems fairly certain
that every atom of influence thai
Hitler Co. can command will be
thrown in the scales against Roose.
welt. This is no reflection on Dew
ey's proven ability and staunch
Americanism. It merely means that
Hitler and his fellow gangsters
don't love Roosevelt, and they hope
that the excitement and confusion
Of a change in administration will
give them a much better chance
to win the peace. This may be one
reason they fought on so stubborn.
ly-to hold out until after the
American election. However, Dew
ey has much experience in fightine
gangsters, and if he should be elect.
ed, Hitler and his crew NAV find
themselves in the position of mill.
tary company who felt that thew
had a hard boiled COMMANDING
officer; and yet, if a change was
made, the new officer might be 50
much worse that his predecessor
would seem almost like a saint in
comparison.
Praying people the country over
should offer earnest petitions to
God that He will direct the election
OF the right man for President in
this, the most terrible period of
world history since we became a
nation. All voters should cast aside
party prejudices and make out the
ballots with an humble prayer that
God will guide them in so doing
,,, F. H. WILLARD
Wilmington, N. c.,
Oct. 81, 1914.
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WITH THE AEF
Altering A Timetable

ing what had happened to her legs.
They quit laughing when two 10x12
autographed pictures of the star
legs and all-arrived with a long
letter of sympathy. But Arthur sort
Of hates to put such pretty pic
lures out in the weather, even on
gun.
Pvt. Emmett Bumesnill, Hous-
ton, Tex, artilleryman, examined
the cigar box carefully. He'd just
received it from home. There
wasn't a single scratch or mark
on it but still he's just pulled a
chunk of shrapnel out of one of
the cigars which had been inside.
II know what it is" he explain
ed, They've b m b e d Texas.
They're trying to scare us into a
separate peace"
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SENATOR WHERRY
PANS 9TH TERN

CHARLOTTE, Oct. 81 Up =
Declaring that 81. is high time
that Jefersonian democrats Joined
hands with republicans, as Ame,i'
cans with Americans, in defeating
the New Deal, Sen. Kenneth S.
Wherry of Nebraska, republican
whip, appealed tonight TO Nortn
Carolina democrats to oppose the
fourth-term candidacy of President
Roosevelt.
"There is but one party organ
ization that is making a fight 10
save this country from the HIM.
mans, the providers, the Hop'
kinses, the Hagues, the Kellys, Inc
Washes and the Pendergasts, ne
asserted in a prepared address,
cit is the republican organization.
Senator Wherry spoke under 'ps
sponsorship of the Repuonc'.
State Executive committee, al
mass meeting here.
The Nebraskan declared tn@'
there is a chance in North CaEr
lima" for the republican elec'ols
committed to Governor Dewey
receive a majority in the NoVeA
Der 7 election.
Striking at the fourth term :. cam
didacy Of President Roosevelt H.,
said: II sincerely trust that your
distinguished senator-and my ~ ~
teemed colleague-the Hono. s.s
Josiah w. Bailey, will introouv'
into the next Congress his resoia
ton for a constitutional ameha
ment limiting. the office Of "a,
President of the United o'a,es
two terms. If he does, l shall SUI I
port it. If he does not l Snaa
introduce such resolution ny
self -
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named Avenue de la Division du Texas. This
certainly ought to aid and comfort all Texans
It shows that their soldiers state pride is
still functioning, even in the midst of war
and on foreign soil. Not only that but it has
given at least one French city a constant re-
hinder of the Lone Star axiom that, though
all Texans are. Americans, the vice versa prop
osition doesn't hold true-not by darned
sight.
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u. S, Bombers Breach
Vital German Cana


LONDON, Oct. 81 n ~ ~.
Liberator bombers breacheo 49,,
Mittelland canal at Minden' W. s.t
many, one Of the RelchS iror
important east-west inland , wa.s
ways, last Thursday, and Oil a otr.,
the canal dry for about NV NV.
miles, the U. S. Strategic AT /"
ces announced today .,.l
An 85-foot section OF the C ,aa,.
wall was DESTROYED, and al l's
30 barges and tugboats % m,
stranded, a communicate salu' . +
canal links central n / eas' srd
Germany with the Ruiz valley o.
Rhineland.
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Sales OF automotive replacement
parts after the war are expected
70 exceed seven hundred million
collars year. That would exceed
by IS per cent the average replace.
ment parts business for the years
between 1888 and 1910.
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COMPLETES SERVICE FAAil

JACKSONVILLE, FLA, oc,. -
-P)-Mrs. Virginia B. hInosL t IN
husband is Master Sergedn' -,
the army, two sons are IN lne W.! ~
and a daughter is in the "A'r "a,
Yesterday, Mrs. Llndsle!
sworn into the WAC.