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Henderson daily dispatch., 1944-08-18
THEFT CASE
IN HANDS

Frank Florence and Daniel Scog-
gins, who We're apprehended in New
York city Wednesday in possession
Of an automobile stolen here from
j. II. Barrier, have been turned over
to Federal authorities, Sheriff f. A.
Cottrell reported today.
The men were being held in New
York until they could be brought here
for trial, but have now been turned
over to Federal authorities.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1944-08-18

Most nuts are made more dIgeStlble
by being ground into nat butter.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1944-08-18
CHOSEN

New Bern, Aug. l3.-Miss Mary
Scott G,urley, who has been librarian
for OnsloW county with headquarters
at Richlands for the past two years,
has been elected librarian for the
New Bern public library. She has
accepted the position and will begin
her work here September |. Whine
in New Bern, she will max her home
with her uncle and aunt Mr. and Mrs.
Harry B. Edwards.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1944-08-18
Slump Strikes
Cotton Prices

New York, Aug. 10 (AP)-Cot-
t%onfutures opend unchanged to 2
cents a bale lower. Noon prices we,>
Is to 80 cents 4 bale lower. Octobel
q .G6: December Zl.47; March 2l.Z6.
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The Literary Guidepost

married young because she "got
caught') and she loved her hus-
band and their baby dearly-and
lost both. She became a secretary.
married her fabu]ously rich boss
and he died with dispatch and
small fuss -four years later. Anna
was left with million a wear in
the 'thl7ties, when most of us were
worried about the rent. She want
go to show ewisburg, her home
town.
so IN New York she made the
acquaintance Of a well-born and
entirely INDECENT, woman OF. great
good taste and understanding, and
with her as m p an ION. she
stormed the frenetic pre-wa. so.
clety OF Europe. She was caught
IN France when the Germans ad-
vanced she tried to escape to the
south In her Rolls Royce, and the
road was machine-gunned bv the
conquerors. That was when the
miracle came.
Anna disappeared from the
smart world, and what she did you
must let Mr.. .Bromfield tell Vol
was as interested in the manner
Of telling as in the story itself
rms is saying quite a lot, for the
last tnlrd OF the novel is Mr.. Brom-
field at his best.
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Time Limit Off

We hold no brief for the OPA or the ration
ing system, but certain late reforms in opera
tons cannot be denied mede of praise The
latest evidence Of willingness to remove a
handicap upon the rationed public is the an
nouncement that expiration dates have been
eliminated for red and blue coupons. Hence
forth these little pieces of perforated paper
will be useable as long as they last-or ra-
tioning is abandoned.
The decision is not without a motive, ma
turally Housewives are said to have ex-
changed coupons for tokens, which have no
time Limitation: AS there is no way to prevent
this, the OPA does the sensible thing by re-
moving limitations from coupons. If this had
not been done the supply Of tokens would
give out and it would be as difficult to keep
them in circulation as it was for while to
find enough pennies to meet the demand.
Even so, the change will relieve some of the
rationing strain upon housewives, many of
whom have been hard pressed at times to
use up their coupons before expiration dates.
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university, explains that these experiments in
a test tube should not be regarded as can
Ger cure for human beings. ALI that can be
said now, Professor Woods adds, is that the
"selective lethal effect of penicillin on cells
OF mouse sarcoma opens up a new line of in
vestigation
But that is something in itself. 1t encour.
ages hope that science will ultimately find
the remedy for the greatest scourge human
flesh is heir to.
One by one the terrible diseases which have
taken tremendous toll of human life have been
overcome. Smallpox diphtheria, typhoid few.
er, yellow fever, pneumonia, even tuberculo-
sis if discovered in time, are no longer
plaques. 1t is reasonable to think that can
Ger may ultimately be added to this list. And
penicillin may be the agent of its destruc-
ton.
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prevail throughout Germany, 1t is unlikely
that Germans can continue to accept bomb
ings as casually as they do the weather.
There must be tremendous confusion in the
wake of these bombings, in addition to de-
struction. The confusion must mount with
every raid, however high the morale. A read
ing of excerpts from Swedish and struggled
German newspapers, collected by Owl, indi-
Gates that.
These reports reveal the growing problems
of the government and relocations that follow
reported bombings. There is inference Of a
smoldering undercurrent of unrest in the &C
counts of new regulations and increasing ar
rests. There is card system for those who
must stay in bombed cities and work. another
for those permitted to leave.
If an evacuee's house or apartment remains
intact it is requisitioned to shelter the home
less. And the evacuee is not aways welcome
elsewhere.
Berliners received extra rations because of
the bombings, since Berlin is the heart of
Germany and of the New Europe of the fu-
ture'' But that isn't much comfort to the
people of Frankfurt who have also been bomb
cd.
These are only few samples Of few
stories from inside Germany. We don't gloat
over them But we can be glad, even for the
civilian Germans sake, that life under Hitler
grows more intolerable.
The German people know the cure. Until
they effect it, they can expect THE bombs and
the disruntion and disease and death and the
radio warnings-every hour on the hour.
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NaZis Broadcast Raids

Every hour on the hour, and frequently in
between, the German radio now oroadcas tx
reports OF progress OF Allied bombers over
Nazl territory. Secrecy is gone and with it
efforts to prevent the bombers from riding
the domestic radio beams
Bombings have become part of daily life,
like the weather And the broadcasts, like
weather reports, give warning of the storm
OF retribution that surges day and night across
the land Of the master race
Americans who recently came from Ger
many on = prisoner exchange tell us that the
first six months Of their internment Allied
oombings strengthened, rather than weaken
ed, Nazi civilian morale They were speaking
OF morale in Baden-Baden, not Berlin or Ham
IPurg. But even II this bulwarked morale does
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No Cut In Pay

General Macarthur has made a sensible
answer to the Australian suggestion that we
cut the pay OF our forces in the southwest
Pacific to the Australian army level. He favors
raising the Aussies' pay.
A good chunk of our tremendous war ex-
the American taxpayer doesn't begrudge it.
Nor does he think that our C. rs at $50 per
month and keep, plus overseas pay, are
being overpaid.
From what we hear of the Aussie soldier,
it probably isn't too much for him either.
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BY JOHN SELBY

"yS'hat Became Of Anna Boil
ton," by Louis Bromfield( Harp
ers $3.50.
Although his Mrs. Parkington"
has not yet disappeared from the
book stores, Louis Bromfield is
ready with another novel, and
therefore with another demonstra-
ton of the novelist's technique
such as only he and Somerset
Vaughan can make, these days.
This is not Mr.. Bromfield's best
novel; it was, l think, serialized
in one Of the slick magazines last
year, and it shows some signs of it,
But it was fine noval. and it
can be taken as model of a
certain type of construction. One
of the passions of beginning nov
elists seems to be their uncontroll-
able desire to tell their story "dif-
ferently," a desire that leads them
into a mess of flashbacks, previews
and the like, and leads their read
e-s into slow case Of the lit
erary hereby-geebes. What Be-
came of Anna Bolton" will show
them the trick.
This is simple story, based on
a simple idea taken from the pub
lie dominian Anna is shanty Irish
girl from an Ohio river town who
had all the requisites for success
excepting distinguished birth. She
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With Ernie Pyle

was killed, and our cook got a
broken arm.
The sidWalks have shell holes in
them. Engineers repair new holes
in the streets. Military police who
direct auto traffic occasionally are
killed at their post.
Broken steel girde-s lie across
the sidewalks. Marble statues fall
in Uttered patios. Trees are up
rooted, and the splattered mud up
on them dries and turns to gray.
Wreckage is washed up on shore.
Everywhere there is rubble and
mud and broken wire.
Yet this German shelling and
bombing has had only the tiniest
percentage of effect on our move
ment of supplies and troops into
the beachhead One day of bad
weather actually harms us more
than month of German Smelling.
1t is thrilling thing to see an
LIST pull anchor when its turns
comes, and drive right into the
harbor despite shells all around.
And it is thrilling, too, to see the
incessant hurry-hurry-hurry of the
supply trucks through the streets
all day and all night despite any
thing and everything.
From all indications we are sup
plying our troops even better by
sea than the Germans are supply
ing theirs by land.
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Cancer and Penicillin

It is possible that penicillin eventually will
prove the means by which cancer may be
cured Investigations have not gone far
enough to give any real assurance Of this, but
at least it has been proved that penicillin
does destroy cancer cells under certain con-
ditions without harming normal growing cells
DR.. Ivor Cornrnan Of the Wistar Institute
of Anatomy and Biology in Philadelphia has
told of experiments with penicillin in Science,
the official organ Of the American Associa-
ton for the Advancement Of Science. He re-
veals that studies Of mouse cancer cells cul-
tured in test tube prove hat-penicillin has
a selective killing action" on these cells with.
out affecting normal cells growing in the
same tube.
That is as far as the experiments have
gone, and Prof. Francis Carter Wood, director
Of the Cancer Research Institute Of Columbia
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NAILS WORRIED
ABOUT CASINO

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS,
NAPLES, March 28-lR-Showing
mounting uneasiness about their
TANKS in the Casino area, the Ger
mans after a sharp but unsuccess-
full attack in the hills north of the
stronghold are laying steady
artillery barrage on Allied posi-
tons to the south, it was announc-
ed today.
The Nazis, obviously puzzled as
to where the Fifth Army might
strike next in an effort to break
the Italian deadlock, attacked yes
terday along the road between the
villages of Cairo and Terelle, some
four miles from Casino. but were
thrown back by Allied artillery and
infantry. An enemy patrol that ma
neuvered around to a point north
east of Cairo also was scattered.
Preceding these two exploratory
thrusts, German artillery and NOR
tars sprayed the entire area lib
orally to discourage any concen-
tration of Allied forces for a flank
ing move through the hills.
For the second day hundreds OF
Allied guns smashed steadily at
German strongpoints in the south
west corner of Casino and along
Highway leading from the shat.
tered town to Rome. The great
est weight of shells was thrown
at the Hotels Continental and Des
Roses, into whose ruins Nazi para
chute troops have burrowed. Ger.
man artillery replied in a night
long pounding of Allied positions
south of Casino.
Six different patrol clashes were
reported on the Anzio beachhead
mainly in the Cisterna and Car
roceto areas, and it was disclosed
that three small German attacks
|of platoon strength were broken
up Sunday afternoon.
The Allied heavy bomber force
was inactive, but lighter craft
swarmed out in some 1,40O sorties
against railway lines, bridges, air
fields and other targets througout
central Italy. Three planes were
lost and two German craft were de-
stroyed of about IS seen over the
battle area.
Strong formations of invader
Dive bombers and Boston light
oombers blasted railway yards,
warehouses and factories at Settle
Bagnl on the northeastern out
skirts IF po,o.
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Too Smart

There used to be an expression in common
use but seldom heard now, which was applied
to show-off youngsters-boys of the know
it-all variety who made general nuisance
Of themselves on all occasions. Such boys
were said to be 'too smart for their britches''
-(not breeches).
The term could be applied with especial
fitness to General Charles De Gaulle. Ever
since he escaped to England and set up head
quarters there he has caused unlimited trou-
ble True, he did some good work in the
beginning in organizing French refugees for
the war, but soon he became so deeply i'm
pressed with his own importance, and cult
waited political ambitions so assiduously that
the little he did then has more than been
offset by the trouble he has since made.
Now he tells the French Consultative AS
sembly at Algiers that France doesn't need
lesson from anyone" and insists that the
Assembly ignore foreign plans for a post-in-
vasion regime in France. The sense of this
is that he will tell France what is to be done
yoke.
General DeGaulle has done no fighting for
France that can in any way contribute to
her liberation. He made one inglorious expedi.
ton to Oran, to be sure, but ever since has
confined his activities to stirring the political
whirlwind. Now he views himself as Frances
great redeemer.
1t had been hoped that he might allow
the French people to choose their own govern
ment Britain and the United States have
contended that the war must be won first
and that as soon as France was ready for
self-government' the French people should be
given free hand in establishing it.
That is the logical procedure. But not Gen.
eral DeGaulle's He wants no lesson from
anyone-particularly from anyone in Washing
ton or London. He is in for a lesson however
whether he wants it or not. When the Germans
and the Vichyites are disposed of, General
Dwight W. Eisenhower will decide the course
OF French affairs until the people themselves
are capable of taking over. Verify Genera
De Gaulle is too smart for his britches
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Interpreting
The War
BY KIRKE L. SIMPSON
Associated Press War Analvst

In contrast to the stalemated Al
lied campaign in Italy, Russian
forces have dealt tottering Gov
man armies in the southeas+ern
Ukraine another swift BODY bIoa,
with the capture of Nikolaev
The fall of the port city on tba
Bug estuary exposes Odessa IN
direct Red army attack from tbo
east and northeast.
Just how many German and
satellite troops are still east ~
the Dniester, hemmed in from ~
north by the Russian breakthronob
to the eastern foothills of the ca
pathian mountains, is a matter NJ
guessWork. Most military observ
ers have put the number around
100000, excluding the trapped for,
ces in the Crimea.
1t is clear, however, that virtual
ly all Axis forces still east of tho
Dniester must funnel back into
Odessa or its environs for escans
by land CT sea. And with Nikolanv
in Russian hands an immediate
Red army surge across the lower
Bug for converging attack on
that Black Sea port seems ind.
Gated.
Far to the northwest in IN.
Proskurov pocket another SEQ.
ment of the German army seekins
to extricate itself from the Ukrains
ian death trap seems all but Sur,
rounded. ALI rail and important
highway outlets from the pocket al.
ready have been closed by the
Russians.
The speed with which the Rus.
slams are breaking up the whole
German front on the Black Sea
flank into dwindling segments
serves to emphasize the begged.
down Allied campaign in Italv
Historians, nevertheless are apt to
credit some considerable share of
the Russian victories to the diver.
sion effect of that Anglo-American
surge into the Italian peninsula.
1t is pinning at. least Is German
divisions there and as many more
in the Balkan peninsula at time
when they were vitality needed to
help stem the flood-tide of Rus
sian attack.
In any event, writing the Italian
campaign off as a failure at this
stage despite set-backs at Casino
and in the Anzio beachhead is
premature. April is a balmy month
in central Italy. Good weather
will free Allied superiority, the
element upon which Anglo-Amer-
lean strategists counted primarily
in launching the peninsular cam.
paign, for its first full and sus-
tanned use in the battle.
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Governors Poll

After polling governors on the soldier vote
to think that the plan to allow voters in the
armed services to cast federal ballots only
is generally looked upon with favor. States
rights is still vital concern of Americans
despite inroads in recent years upon the
peoples rights.
Washington correspondent sizing up the
situation when only one governor had failed
to reply to the Presidents inquiry observe:
these trends:
l. majority of states prefer to use
their own rather than federal ballots.
2. Only 81 states show an inclination to
use federal ballots; as large a number are
neutral or hostile; half a dozen are uncer-
tain.
3. The states like the current soldier
vote bill, not because it offers restricted
opportunity for federal ballots to men
overseas, but because it places added Ar
my and Navy transportation facilities at
the services Of the states for their own bal
lots.
a. The governors replies frequently are
indefinite, whether purposely or nadver-
tently, in reply to Mr. Roosevelt's two re.
a'e' "tieulel eA1StllB State law permits
use OF federal ballots and whether, lacking
authorization now, the governors could GER
THY state action to validate federal bal
lots later Many of the gubernatorial re-
plies are vague to the extent of ambiguity.
o. Inc states emphasis leaves the issue
OF distribution still clouded. How soldiers
Wrlte-ln requests for state ballots can
reach the states, and state ballots can
reacn the soldiers, particularly those at
front lines who are taking greater risks
and sharing severest hardships.
Ihls shows, despite the ambiguous attitud
Oh some state chief executives wide margin
in favor of state ballots. It is apparent tb
green light will not willingly be given tn,
fourth term.
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Reorganization Needed

The best intentions in the world may be
entertained by salvage agencies in Whining.
ton but from the first call for tin cans it has
been obvious that good intentions won't do.
1t may be that householders do not do
all that they might to package waste paper
Or strain kitchen fats but this does not offset
failure to gather in systematic way all paper
and fat available.
There has been but one successful salvage
campaign conducted here. 1t was when the
newspapers sponsored the collection of scrap
metal. It may safely be said that until similar
organizational effort is put into any other
campaign for materials needed in the war
program there cannot be equivalent success.
AS for fats, it is not only the claim of a
restaurant keeper that he accumulated 500
pounds of drippings and could get no one to
collect it, nor the vociferous denial by one
salvage volunteer, that invites attention. We
have heard on good authority that butchers
buy fats, as they are urged to do, until their
refrigerator rooms overflow and cannot get
them collected. Fats, like paper and tin, seem
to be subjected to hit-or-miss gathering, and
it is mostly miss.
1t is not surprising that the people are dis
gusted. They responded readily enough when
they were asked to take their tin cans to Ger.
tain corners and everybody remembers the
appearance Of these corners for long time
afterwards Cans accumulated until the cor
ners looked like dumping grounds and finally
were hauled off by the city garbage crews
after rusting out from exposure to rains.
We have seen piles of papers and magazines
at curbside that remained so long they literal.
ly disintegrated in successive rain storms.
Surely it is time for the reorganization OF
salvage work in Wilmington or, if not that,
acknowledgement that Wilmington cannot
make it's normal contribution to the nation S
stockpiles of war-needed materials and give
up the effort.
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PRESIDENT DOWN
WITH BRONCHITIS

WASHINGTON, March 90 R -
President Roosevelt went to t h
naval hospital today for X-rays be-
cause of the persistence of case
of bronchitis which he has had
now for three weeks.
Telling his press-radio confer
ence about it. Mr.. Roosevelt said
he felt fine aside from the ailment
which kept MIN coughing a n d
wheeling even as he talked with
the reporters,
"You don't view yourself with
alarm" reporter asked.
Laughing, the President said not
al all. About one case of bronchitis
out OF 4S, 500 develops into pneu-
monia, he remarked, Tut he would
not put that into the headlines.
Mr.. Roosevelt kept to his living
quarters in the White House most
OF last week because of a cold and
the bronchial trouble, his secretary
reported that he ran no fever, how
ever, and he held his regular Fri
day conference with the cabinet
and the press.
He was in good spirits today,
joshing a woman reporter by tell
ing her she should go into harvest
ing, and enjoying couple OF
laughs at the expense of his secre'
tary, Stephen Early. over the fact
that Georgia publisher had pro-
posed Early as the Democratic
candidate for vice president
Laughingly, Mr. Roosevelt want
ed to know whether Early was
citizen. He said he knew Early
came from down around Chariot
tesville Va.) and once was GU.
zen, but that was before the ClVll
War and he didn't know how he
stood now,
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Daily Prayer
THE ABUNDANT LIFE

We acknowledge with grate1u
hearts the growing determination
of men the world over to find
better way to live. We rejoice IN
the great leaders from all ranks
OF society whc have been ralseu
up to blaze the way toward a larS-
er truth and a sounder righteous
ness. Help us. o God, to ylelo
ourselves to this new spirit of the
age, which will not believe thai
poverty and disease and crime
must be accepted as a necessary
part of our everyday life. Help US
to trust Thee that the way shan
be found to reduce these evils 10
a negligible minimum. Give us, we
pray, open mirds and stout hears
that we may see the heavenly W
sion and commit our lives to IT,
Make us all willing to sacrifice
present and personal comfort 1or
the future welfare of the whole
race Of man. Amen.-George W.
Coleman.
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Easter Party Notes
Prepared By The City
Recreation Department

The Municipal Recreation De-
partment has prepared bulletin
OF Easter Party suggestions which
includes ideas for decorations.
favors, invitations, refreshments
and games. 1t may be obtained
tree of charge at the City Hall,
it was announced yesterday by
Jesse Reynolds, City Recreation
Director.
The decorations suggested are
suitable for homes, schools and
churches. Particularly a m u i n g
among the games suggested are
the Fortune Telling Eggs, Eggstra
Fresh Eggs, Scrambled Eggs and
the Feminist Easter Bonnet games.
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BROWNS

GOLDSBORO, March 28.- H -
Elizabeth Ann, the infant daugA'
ter OF Mr.. and Mrs. ]. C. Smith
was drowned yesterday when she
apparently fell into a wash pot
In the rear yard Of her home
Wayne Coroner Willie Seymour
said
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TOP OF THE MORNING
If 1 might control the literature of the
household I would guarantee the we'll be-
ing of church and state. BACON.
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Our Chief Aim

To aid In every way tie prosecution Of
the war to complete Victory.