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to France with the Fourth Infan-
try.
Smith fought with distinction in
the Third Battle of the Marine
and at Chateau Thierry and was
wounded. The stocky, athletic,
young officer discovered he liked
army life, possibly through he
redity, as his grandfather fought
with the Prussians in the Franco
Prussian war.
Today "Beedle's'' greatest as
set is his talent for organization.
He d avs typical Teutonic
>thoroughness in mastering details
and carrying through complex
operations with precision and &C.
curacy.
In 1889 Smith had the perma.
nent rank of major but Mar
shall and Eisenhower found in the
blunt : speaking young officer
talents to accomplish difficult
jobs, and he has risen rapidly.
When Eisenhower was assigned
to the European theater in the
Spring of 1912, Marshall asked him
what he wanted and Ike" replied:
'Beedle" AS a result Smith fol
lowed Eisenhower in Europe ano
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Esenhouers Shadow Makes Generals Dream, Come True

let 60 with terrific blast-similaf
to destruction wrought in London
by buzz-bombs.
Rennes began setting its NUM-
cipa.. house in order as soon al
the Americans moved in. A crowd
of between 10000 and $4,000 gath
cred in the main square In mid
afternoon listened to speeches sang
the French and American national
anthems, then heard the names Of
the New York City officials.
The mayor who held office u,l-s
der the Germans and was accused
of being a collaboration was re-
placed by a man selected by Gen.
De Gulle's committee Of national
liberation. The ousted mayor was
permitted to remain in his home
while other collaborationists were
rounded up by the resistance move
ment and herded into underground
dungeons where members of the
resistance group had been impris-
oned themselves. d,
Women predominated among up
wards of 100 persons seized by
nightfall and accused of being col
laborationists.
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RENNES WELCOMES
u. S. LlBERAT0RS

RENNES, France, Aug. 6.-LB-
Delayed)- americans liberated
Rennes today after four years of
German domination and tonight the
city whose heart was blasted by
German demolitions was celebrat-
ing in a festive Mardi Gras atmos-
phere.
Through broken glass and deb
ris, the celebrants marched sing
ing the Mars sillaise, and embrace
in every khaki-clad soldier en-
conferred in the blacked-out streets
A bright full moon overhead cast
in sharp relief the jagged, saw
tooth ruins of buildings torn apart
by the enemy before his flight
southwark, but this somber pic
ture failed to dampen the fervor
of the ELUSIVE French, who ac-
corded the Americans a moving
and heartwarming welcome.
Before making their exit, the
Germans set off tons of demolition
charges and mines. The station and
railyards already had been damag-
ed heavily by the Allied air bombs.
The Allied bombing had been &C
curate and effective. Damage was
confined chiefly to communications
in this hub of rail and road traf-
fir for the while of Rrittany
! The charges set bv the Germans
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Feud Between Pro-Nazi
French Moves Into Open

. MADRID, Aug. 6.-(R-The long
standing feud between arch-colla-
borationists marcel deaf, Joseph
Darnand and jacques Doriot on the
one hand and Pierre Laval and
Marshal Petaia on the other has
broken into the open and is spread
ing throughout France dispatches
said tonight. ~
Deaf, who apparently heads the
-collaborationist clique, seems
to have gotten German backing
by blaming Nazi defeats in Nor
mandy and Brittany upon Vichy's
wait and see' policy which per-
rnitted the spread of the resistance
movement.
Darnand, who controls all Vichy's
police as well as the anti-resistance
militia, has revoked tn eappoint-
ments of many regional perfects
who drew their authority from the
government.
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except for a brief period at the
start of the North African opera
ton they have been inseparable
ever since.
Smith suffers from stomach
ulcers and sometimes is forced
to bed with them. When his ul-
GERS are in an uproar the. stat.
treads lightly, speaks softly.
HE scares everyone half to
death when his ulcers are acting
up" is the way one officer puts t.
Although his is shadow job
there is no question of Smith be.
ing a personality in his own right.
His rapid-fire. answers to compli.
Gated problems impressed ever
Churchill who is one of his ad.
mirers and calls. him bulldog. ,
Smith signed the armistice with
Italy, as Eisenhower's representa-.
tive.
Blunt and single-miaded in de.
voting all his life to military
work, Smith is no political gen.
eral and has never been hesitan
to speak his nina on shilly-shal
lying that hindered military eff
fort.
His brushes with the press
sometimes have been caustic ane
severe but when he decides to sa,
something he ususally has twice
as much to say as the average
staff officer and says it with more
clarity and briefness. His hobbie.
are fishing-rods and flies-anc
training hunting dog. He recently
was taken on salmon fishing
expedition in Scotland by the Brit.
lsh. He was the only one in the
party to catch any fish.
While tough and severe in deal.
ing with suborS.nates on military
problems, he has the reputation OF
having great charm and he per.
forms many social duties Eisen.
hover has ruled off his agenda
He is good story teller and pop.
ular in London social circles.
Z. AT supreme command head.
quarters he had private runway
Leading to Eisenhower's office anc
was the only one allowed to break
II at any time on the commander
ln-chief unannounced.
While Eisenhower as awav -
which is frequent now-snitt
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Carolina Farm Comment

resistant strains which are being
field tested and are proving to be
suited for growth where this trou-
BILE is present. For the time being,
these Blackshank resistant strains
are being used almost altogether
in the piedmont but with some fur
Their perfecting will be adapted to
the coastal plains.
Great pressure is being exerted
on some of the county agents
to permit cooperating farmers to
save seeds from the resistant to-
baccos now under test. However, it
will not be known until October
Is whether or not these new strains
meet all the storage, manufactur
ing and chemical requirements for
good quality of flue cured smok-
ing tobacco.
Mr.. Moss is working in cooper
alton with the tobacco companies
to run manufacturing and storage
t e S t S and if his new resistant
strains produce tobacco on wilt in.
tested land, and, at the same time,
will provide quality of leaf that
is disable for cigarette manufac.
ture, then a great victory will have
been won over this Granville Wilt.
But Pitt county farmers are win
ming other victories over the pests
and production troubles which have
beset them. They used Dinitro dust
this spring to save the early corn
crop from the nymphs of the cinch
bug which crawled from the ripen-
ing small grain onto the immature
green corn and threatened, for a
time, to destroy it.
Progress also is being recorded
in the production of high yield
ing hybrid corn. Out in Pitt
County field, the other day, I saw
a strong man trying to pull up al
stalk of hybrid corn and unable
to do so until he had twisted il
sidewise and had otherwise worked
with the stalk until the great bunch
of fibrous roots had been torn
loose from the sandy soil, Hybrid
corn is drouth resistant, an impor-
tant factor in North Carolina at
this time
Brantley Speight is doing an ex-
cellent job in developing certified
seed of some of the better hybrids
bred at the North Carolina Expert
ment Station. County Agent Hen
dirk makes the point, however, that
not all hybrids are suited to Pitt
county or to any other county. This
work is still in it's infancy but it
shows that science is helping the
North Carolina farmer to march
towards a better day.
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II STOPPED DOSING
my CONSTIPATION
A YEAR AGo!"
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At you are still dosing your con-
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.no for it: Then, just about year
go tried KELLOGG'S ALL-BRAN. I
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pqt, scientists say, KELLOGG'S
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BY IVES GALLAGHER

LONDON, Aug. 6.-tR)-What
does it take to be an ideal chief
of staff?' The answer is to be
found in 1t. Gen. Walter 0edell
"Beedle'' Smith, tart tongued
shadow commander for supreme
commander of the Allied Expedi-
tionary Forces. For that is how
Gen. Dwight ,. "Ike' Eisenhower
describes his chief of staff. Eisen-
hover says he knows only four
men in the American army cap
able of being great chiefs of staff
and 'Beedle' rs he calls his as
sistant, is the best of the four.
That likes" opinion is shared
by Gen. Marshall is seen in the
fact that Marshall gave "Beedle"
the important post as secretary to
the combined chiefs of staff and
the American Army general staff.
Before Eisenhower requested
Smiths. assignment to Europe, the
chief of staff was almost never
heard from in warfare. He is the
ususal Shadow" for the supreme
commander, seeing to it that the
commander-in-chief's policies are
carried out in detail.
Eisenhower said the command
er's relation to his chief of staff
is the same as that of a man who
aims his car distant objec-
tive and the man who drives it,
watching out for ruts and dumps
coming up before the objective is
reached. It's tough, hard and
often thankless task and 999 out
of every 1000 generals would
prefer to have an army or corps
Of their own.
But 46-year-old Gen. Smith has
twice turned down appointments
to new posts which would have
put him on his own-not for lack
Of desire but out of loyalty to
Eisenhower and determination
to see much of his own planning
and work through to the end.
Smith is one of the few aon-
West Point or, in fact, non-mili-
tary college men to rise to the
rank of Lieut.. general. He was
working in a motor car company
when he enlisted as a private in
the last war, was seat to 90-day
officers training school. and went
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I also saw some of Eugene Moss
famed 400 strains that seem to be
of extra fine quality. The new 402
strain, as I saw it grown on the
seed farm of Brantley Speight near
Winterville, was as fine a tobacco
as l have ever seen in North
Carolina. 1t also has certain resis-
tant qualities, believe, to the root
rot disease.
ThS1 there are the Blackshank
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-07
RIDDLE IS ASKED
TO CORRECT PAC
POLITICAL ABUSE

WASHINGTON, Aug. g. R -
Don Dies D-Tex) today formally
requested Attorney General Biddle
:. take immediate steps to "cor-
rsct' political abuses which the
rowan attributed to the CLIO Polit-
i.al Action Committee.
Dies, chairman of the house COM
o;tt.e on un-American activities,
,.id his committee has evidence
indicating that the PAC has in
.orfered' in primary elections and
hos spent large sums of money
-. to influence" the outcome.
information gathered by his COM
oittee, Dies said last week, will
10 made available to Biddle, and
unless the attorney general acts on
Il BY September 1, he threatened
N start congressional action.
stressing need for prompt ac-
linn Dies wrote Biddle that the
current political campaign will
he over in few MONTHS adding
N these unlawful acts are be-
mo committed now and the bills
,or these acts are being footed by
the people of the country who pay
the salaries of the men and women
who are defying the law"
Specifically, Dies requested Bid
die to investigate to determine
whether government officials who,
he claimed have been active in
pAC work, have violated the Hatch
Act restricting political activity of
federal employees and whether the
noEtical action committee has vio-
lated election laws.
THE forces now marshaled I'M
der the banners of Sidney Hillman.
and Earl Browder, using at differ
emit times different organization
names to cloak their activities and
skirt the edges of the law" he con-
tinued have just recently altered
their course by setting up still an
other organization known as the
National Citizens Political Action
committee
Former Senator George W.
Norris. last night accepted the
honorary Craftsmanship Of the new
group ii
Dies asked that "close scrutiny"
be given the new organization
which, he said, intends to raise
two funds of three million dollars
EACH to support the democratic !
presidential and vice-presidential
nominees in the coming election.
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DESTROY PLANES

MOSCOW, Aug 6.-tP>-Ameri-
can Mustangs destroyed "a planes
on August in their latest shuttle
operation between Italy and the
Soviet Union, it was announced to-
day. Four were destroyed On the
ground and 20 shot down in the
air. Three locomotives were shot
up along with troop train and
six anti-aircraft batteries.
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shoulders hundreds of tasks rum
ming the supreme command. He
usually arrives at his office about
9 am. and stays until 6 pm. and
is on call "a hours day.
Smiths work now does not deal
with current military problems
in France. He and his staff are
busy planning battles which will
take place five or 81 x months
from now deep in Europe, and
seeing to it that supplies will be
there when they are wanted.
The general married the former
Mary Eleanor Cline shortly after
World War l. His wife now lives
in Washington.
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CHINESE OCCUPY
INNER TENCCHUNC
By SPENCER MOOSA

cHUNGKING, Aug. 6.-LP-Chi-
nese troops have occupied the in
ner defenses of Tengchung, main
objective of the Salween offensive
and key to a junction with 1t.
Gen. Joseph w. Stilwelrs Burma
forces, after scaling the centuries
old walls of the city with medic
val type ladders and using ultra
modern flame-throwers to cut
their way forward.
The victorious Chinese also
swarmed through gaps punched in
the 15-foot thick walls OF the
town by skip-bombing B-25's of the
U. S. 18th Air Force. The medium
bombers, coming in at tree-top
height, sent delayed skip bombs
hurting at the base of the city
wall blowing skyward massive
rocks which had been in place
since the days OF Marco Polo.
The story of the Chinese entry
into Tengchung was reported from
the headquarters of Brig. Gen.
Frank Dorm of the American "Y-
Force operations staff, and said
savage fighting was in progress
inside the city as 1000 beleaguer-
ed Japanese Desperately tried to
lsht their way out of the Chinese
encirclement.
After repeated Japanese failures
10 break out, Chinese of the Goth
army group renewed their assault
ana swarmed into the city, the re-
port said.
The operations were observed
toy 'Y-force" Liaison officers and
hundreds of Chinese villagers
rom posts on the hills around the
city.
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COMMANDER

SUPREME HEADQUARTERS
A L L E D EXPEDITIONARY
FORCE, Aug. 6.-CP-Brig. Gen.
George P. Hays, 81, is the artillery
commander of the American Sec
ond Infantry Division now fight
ing in France, supreme headquar-
tiers announced today.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-07

A teaspoon of curry will do
things for dull French dressing.
A sprinkling OF chopped hard
cooked egg can be added too.
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Before this war is over, there may be only two
kinds of people in America -.
I. Those who can still get to work
in automobiles,
z. Those who are forced to walk.
If you want to be in the fortunate group who
will still ride to work in automobiles, join Cuffs
Anti Breakdown" Club today. How do you do
= it? lust come in for Cuffs Protective Main
tenance Plan!
This plan was conceived by experts in car
care. Gulf developed it because car maintenance
is most important civilian job. (The Govern
ment says civilian car maintenance is one of the
services essential to winning the war because
out of 10 war workers use automobiles to get to
work.)
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-03-29
PRO-NAZI ARGENTINA

Significant Argentine facts re-
ported in the Washington Merry
Go-Round Apri, 10, 1899, exactly
five years ago, but pooh-poohed by
the State Department:
Inside reports indicate that Nazi
penetration of Argentina goes deep
Nazi svmpathizers include
Argentine officials in high places
Not yet published are Nazi
activities in connection with Ar
gentine Government oil wells
Ricardo Silveya, director of Govern
ment oil wells, is one of the lead
ing Argentine pro-Nazis. His neph-
ew, Carlos Silveya, is editor Of
Clarinda. chief Nazi magazine =.
Alfred Jonitza, German vice con-
SUI, recently was caught landing in
a. private plane after flying over
Government oil fields, with photo
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-03-29
Empire Classifleds Pay!
NOTICE TO CREDITORS

In the commissioners Court for the
Territory of Alaska, Division Num-
Der One. Before FELIX GRAY.
Commissioner and ex-officio Pro-
bate Judge, Juneau Precinct.
In the Matter of the Last Will and
Testament of IDA FOSS, de-
ceased.
NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN
that the undersigned was, on the
14th day of March, 1914, duly APP
pointed EXecutrix of the Last Will
and Testament and of the estate of
Ida Foss, deceased.
All persons having claims against
the estate of deceased are required
to present the same, with proper
vouchers attached, to the under
signed at Juneau, Alaska, within six
months from the date of this notice.
Dated at Juneau, Alaska, this 18th
day of March, 1914
ANNA JENSEN,
Executrix of the Estate of
Ida Foss, deceased.
First publication, March Is, 1914.
Last publication, April 5, 1914.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-03-29

than $3.50 per capita In those years the interest rate
which the government paid on its obligations was
about 38 per cent At the end of 1943 that rate had
been cut almost in half
The national debt which the country must
carry be liqudated and maintained only if are
able to maintain large national income. If we
should slump back to the 1928 level debt charges
alone would consume important percentage of our
total earning power. If, however we can hold the
national income to SIPS 900 betterit is we'll
above that nowthe interest charges while they will
be highly important factor, need not be runous.
The fact that the country will be in for long
period of high taxes when the ends cannot be
denied But the rate of that taxation will be much
lighter on each individual the country over if it is
possible KEEP total earnings at levels high enough to
met postwar obligations but low enough to keep us
outside the spiral of initiation
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Punish the Offenders
Cincinnati Enquirer


1t was stiff medicine which an Agiers court
dosed four of the IL officers and guards of the
Haderat Concentration Camp Accused of torturing
antiFascis internees, under the leadership OF the
Vichy Government, the quartet was sentenced to
death Testimony indicated that the Frenchmen on
trial had used Nazi concentration camp tactics in
North African reign of terror.
The sentences do not augur we'll for Naz leaders
who have been guilty of similar practices in all parts
of Europe Here is another indication that ind-
viuals who have perpetrated brutaties and horrors
on helpless prisoners will be forced to pay for their
sble Germans recently convicted of these same
offenses in Russia have received death sentences at
the hands Of a Soviet tribunal
History shows well-marked tendency, the
ending of hostilities, toward full forgiveness of
atrocities committed during the heat OF conflict Such
an attitude supplies incentive for brutality. AFRO
CANT conquerors looking back to the record of other
wars realize that they probably will escape punish
ment for the crimes they may commit; they have
done it before and reason they can do it again.
1t would be wise them to remember these facts
in considering atrocities at the end OF this conflict
There will be strong temptation to get the whole
business and done with to punish few and
forget the Demands of the recovery period will
be great and taxing; will have little time or
energy for tracing criminals for bringing them
to justice.
If do follow that road-and it will be the easy
road regardless of what enthusiasts OF the
present may lead to believewe will be encouraging
future and future atrocities However if make
the effort to punish every offender relentless officers
and men in future years, looking backward will spare
the lash for fear of cutting their own backs
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-03-29
NOTICE TO CREDITORS

In the Commissioner Court for the
Territory of Alaska, Division Num-
Der One. Before FELIX GRAY,
Commissioner and ex-officio Pro-
bate Judge, Juneau Precinct.
In the Matter of the Estate of
JAMES F. BOWLING, deceased.
NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN
that the undersigned was, on the
l4th day of March, 1914, duly APP
pointed Administrator of the estate
of James F. Bowling, deceased.
All persons having claims as ainst
the estate of deceased will pI asent
them with proper vouchers and duly
verified, to the undersigned a. Jul
neau, Alaska, within six 90 m )nths
from the date of this notice.
Dated at Juneau, Alaska, thi 18th
lay of March, 1914.
II. l.. FAULKNE1,,
Administrator.
First publication, March Is, 1914
Last publication, April 5, 1914
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THE POSTWAR DEBT

No one knows of course, what the national debt
of the United States will be at the end OF the war
But according to figures reported by the Citizens
National Committee in Washington, it now is about
POT per capita and before peace may mount to as
much as $1,000. Add that to the ordinary civilian
debt and the debt of various subdivisions of gov
eminent, and that very man and woman In
the nation will be up to hsor her-ears in the red
by the time Mr. Hitler and Mr.. TOTO are safely out
of the way
1t is interesting to note that the national debt
was only Sl2 per capita at the beginning of World
War that it was $3.50 al the close-an increase of
$500 per cent At the of 1912 American citizens
owed 1926 per capita At the present figure-$l 2o7
we have increased this figure about $50 per cent If
the $4,000 figure reached the increase will be some
thing 600 per cent.
When our national income was between S45,0O0,-
900 900 and 100000 the national debt less