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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-01-16

book. The Case OF Patience Worth
Scientists offered one explanation
which leaves out the supernatural.
Patience Worth. the invisible. il was
pointed out. might be "dissociatcd
personality" OF Mrs Curran
When Patience was in her teens the
family moved 70 California where She
married George Peters She, herself,
became a mother but the ghoStly
Patience, apparently, had no interest
IN being a grandmother and paid no
attention 20 the new child
The marriage was brief The couple
separated in 1887, and a little later
went through the divorce mill In
1870, Patience became Mrs Behr
In 1898 as Mrs Curran was sitting
az the ouiia board it spelt out
cryptic message
we are nearing farewell II has
been well 10 speak for a time, but
silence is eternal and soon, too soon,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-01-16

birth % girl with
ctcs and aIU..- s-
specified and trH
days later d.rI I.e infant
b rC3u.e tho late Patience
Worth Behr
The unseen Patience gave advice
through the oula on how 10 save her
living namcSake whose hold on life
was teuuou~ She ordered the first
doctor dismissed and gave recipes
for strange herbal medicines. Her
orders We're carried out
Little Patience lived. and wore the
quaint Puritan clothes her spirit
guardian prescribed
Sometimes when Mrs Curran
scolded her The child would say, ASK
Patience If I'm wrong"
Nationwide interest developed A
Patience Worth cult sprang up, and
the curious floCkcd 10 the Curran
home in st LOUIS 10 see Mrs Curran
take the supernatural dictatiOn
Among nofahleS who became inter
cSted was Walter Franklin Prince of
the Boston pSNChiCal Society He paid
a long visit and wrote an interesting
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-01-16


II have a queer feeling MAJ,
as though tins were going 20 be-
my last birthday
little later the young woman who
had been "mothercd 10y a ghost be-.
gan 10 lose weight. She complained
of sleeplcSsness. of an oppressive feel
ing that descended upon her each
night
a doctors diagnosis showed heart
ailment not OF a serious nature
However she continued 20 complain
OF insomnia And, one night few
weeks ago, after taking a sleeping
tablet. she died
The attending physician pronounced
death due 10 natural causes But TO
believers in the ghoStly Patience
Worth, there was another. less IA.
tiOnal answer.
The Puritan Patience, they felt.
having realized the earthly expert.
enceS she sought, no longer had any
use for the human beings througl
whom She had realized them,
TIE AMERICAN WEEKLY ~
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-01-16

my. voice again must be-
mute
Mrs Cuwan fell grave.
ly III, and, during, the
same year. died.
Since then Patience
Worth tho long dead
Puritan maid has never
communicated by oWi8
board with her adopted
daughter and namesaka
nor so far as is known
with anyone else
Those who believe u
ghosts however. prob
ably would suspect thar
Puritan Patience haa
something 10 do with
remark made 10y Mrs
Bohr shortly after her
27th birthday last Octo.
bcr Though seemingk
in good health. She oh.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-01-16

inrN -. 1870
The Nome nugget., 1944-12-25
RELIEF SENT
TO FORCES in
SOUTH BELGIUM
By NED NoRDNEss

PARIS, Dec. 25.-(AP)-Amer-
lean relief columns are today
swinging through Luxembourg
and southeast Belgium in the
first effective counter action
since the German break-through
it was disclosed by allied head
quarters today.
The Yank forces have bitten
into the southern flank of the
German penetration, which In
its momentum. has now reached
Libramont, only % miles north
east of historic Sedan. the allied
high command reported.
The weather was another fac
tor which led to the accelerated
allied action in the air as well as
on the ground, when the
worlds mightiest air force also
swung into action, with $500
sorties against the German in
vasion columns, cutting destrus-
tive swaths in the forces which
are hammering at the allied rear
bases.
With the lifting of the 48-hour
time lag on frontline news, head
quarters gave the report of the
situation in these words:
cit is obvious that in eight
days since the German threw
the dice in what will probably
be their last big gamble, the
Americans have had time to re-
form their lines"
Encouraging news also came
from the northern flank where
Field Marshal Karl Won Rund-
stedt has been forced to pull
The Nome nugget., 1944-12-25
ANYWAYS
Pan American Anyways


December 10Th passengers to
Fairbanks were Mr.. and Mrs.
Num-, Walter Glavinovich, Axel
Edman, Derrell Roe, Mr.. and
Mrs. Edgar Pilodeau.
December goth incoming pas
sengers from Fairbanks were
Grafton Wickerham, Mrs. Flora
Wickerham, Malta Wickerham,
lynne Wickerham, Mrs. Fern
Beevers, Mrs. Lillian Anton,
Master Billy Anton and Mrs.
Carolyn Reynolds. Passengers
from Nome to Fairbanks were
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Moneymaker
and two children, John Reader,
Mr.. and Mrs. Chris Roust and in
FAINT and Mr.. and Mrs. Thorulf
Lehman.
December 23rd, outgoing pas
sengers were Mr.. and Mrs. Chas.
Berg, John Hubert, Albert Hen
Messy, Dale Green, Marvin
Shaw and Mrs. Laura Anderson.
Alaska Airlines
Capt. Duggan came in the
The Nome nugget., 1944-12-25

back one of his crack SIS divi-
sions because it was so badly
mauled by the Yank doughboys.
In the Ma1medy section the
Germans have left many dead in
the snow, while below Malmedy
the Americans have lost Stavelot,
five miles to the southeast, and
st. Wits, IL miles southeast of
Stavelot, to het retarded spear
head advance.
The Nome nugget., 1944-12-25
THE NOME NUGGET

Lodestar from Anchorage with
four mechanics for Alaska Air
lines and load of freight. The
Lodestar returned to Anchorage
with Arthur Wilson, R. w.
The Nome nugget., 1944-12-25
PAGE TWENTY-SEVEN

Philips and Don Cline.
Capt. Mackenzie and Co-Pllot
Hola came in with Mrs. MacCor-
kle and daughter, and Jim Blan-
ming.
The Nome nugget., 1944-12-25
ENRoUTE TO
STATES

Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Berg, Nome
mining folk, are enroute to the
States for visit, and medical
attention. Mr.. and Mrs: Berg
have not been in the states for
II years. They will go as far as
pennsylvania and visit rela-
tives.
The Nome nugget., 1944-12-25
LEAVES FOR

LEAVES FOR
TELLER
Morris Thompson left for Tell
er to spend Christmas with his
family.
The Nome nugget., 1944-12-25
GREETINGS
TO THE BOYS
ION CHRISTMAS

'imon Pushruk, King Island.
Jacob Reuben, Nome.
Thomas Riley, Nome.
Ernest Rivers Fairbanks.
Pete Rock, Teller.
David Russell, Seattle.
Henry Secheus, Elm.
Sam Sango, Nome.
Milton Seidenverg, Nome.
! Gilbert Semaken, Kaltag.
Alfred Sereadlook, Wales.
Burke Semaken, Kaltag.
Milton Seavey, Nome.
Nolan Shook, Gambell.
Floyd Singyke, Teller.
Walter Slack, Jr., Nome.
Howard Slwwoko, Gambell.
Kenneth Sly, Nome.
Joe Skorik, Nome.
Henry Sookayak, Shaktoolik.
Calvin Soosuk, Unalakleet.
Lars Soosuk, Unalakleet.
Vincent Soosuk, Unalakleet.
Charles Soyster, Nome.
Woodrow, Spagnola, Seattle.
Edward Smith, Nome.
Simon Stanley, Kaltag.
Joe Stanilaus, King Island.
Wilbur Stephenson, Nome.
Harvey Stewart, Nome.
Carl Swanson, Haycock.
Morris Takak, Shaktoolik.
Peter Takak, Shaktoolik.
Robert Teetuk, Nome.
John Thomas, Nome.
Vincent Tocktoo, Taylor.
Russell Tookaylok, Solomon.
Carl Topkok, 1g1oo.
Sam Tucker, Bluff.
Charles Tungewenak, Wales.
George Turner, Bluff.
Harold Tweet, Teller.
Wilbur Tweet, Teller.
Elmer Ulrickson, Nome.
Ralph Ulrickson, Nome.
Rudolph Ulrickson, Nome.
Trygve Ulrickson, Nome.
Daniel K. Walsh, Nome.
Pierce Walsh, Nome.
Fred Waid, Nome.
David Walluk, Nome.
Willis Walunga, Gambell.
Harvey Watson, Nome.
Happy Wemaruk, Nome.
Charles Weokoluk, Nome.
Alex Weyionnia, Shishmaref.
Jim Weyenna, Teller.
Earnest Weyanna, Teller.
Esau Weyiouanna, Shishmaref.
Archie Wheeler, Nome.
Ephraim Wheeler, Nome.
Floyd Wheeler, Nome.
Billy Wilcox, Nome.
Lars Willoya, Nome.
Rudolph Willoya, Nome.
Harbert Wilson, Kaltag.
Dewey Wingnealook, Shishma-
f.
George Wood, Nome.
In the Navy
Robert Bauer, Nome.
Burrel Crisp, Seattle.
Raymond Decker, Spokane.
Walter Dowd, Nome.
Charles Esch, Portland.
Erik Hay, Nome.
Frederick Hougland, Nome.
Everett Jones, Nome.
Gunnar Loe, Seattle.
Norvin Lewis, Jr., Nome.
Sterling Montague, Nome. =
Melvin Braund, Nome.
Tolbert w. Scott, Nome.
David Russell, Nome.
Wilbur Tavis, Nome.
In the Coast Guard -.
Erval' Brisson, Seattle.
Thomas Givan, Nome.
Charles Geode, Nome.
I'm the Marines
Clyde Baker, Nome.
Merlin j. Davidson, Nome.
Marvin Jordan, Fresno.
~
NRoUTE TO
TATES
Mr.. and Mrs, Chas. Berg, Nome
lining folk, are enroute to the
tates for a visit, and medical
ttention. Mr.. land Mrs: Berg
~
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-03-26
The AdrOit Dewey

Thomas Z. Dewey, governor OF New York,
is exceedingly adroit He has long let It be
known that he will not seek the Republican
often he delivers an address in which he
criticizes the national administration for some
obvious blunder in policy by which he man.
ages to keep his name before the public.
The significance Of this is that while he as
sures everybody he will not seek his parry
nomination he has not said he will refuse to
be drafted for it, and shows no disposition to
let himself be forgotten. It Is notable that
as Wendell Willkie loses favor with the Re-
publican leadership and Governor Bricker
grows more loquatious Dewey finds occasion
oftener to speak out, not as a candidate but
merely to voice personal objection to the
course of events at Washington.
It is crafty work cunningly done, parti-
cularly as his objection invariably has had
wide public expression. Mr.. Dewey does not
seek the nomination, but with consummate
skill he is maneuvering himself into position
to be drafted.
Present reference is to his speech before
Une HIeSS IllOlOS1 oPAC1o 1AoSOSAo'AoAA VI A>~''
York in which he accused the Washington
administration of fostering deliberate and
dangerous policy of suppressing news. Not
since the war began has any subject aroused
more public Indignation than the failure of
government to take the people into its conf
dence on what transpires in war theaters,
but instead issues bulletins in which facts
have obviously been distorted or withheld.
His illustration was the failure to announce
the shooting down Of % transport planes by
Allied gunners in Sicily. He might have gone
back to the Japanese invasion OF the Aleu-
tians. which was discounted in government
communicates and became known in its true
implications only after the enemy was strong
ly entrenched. But the case he cited is enough
to make the point he had in mind and prove
his argument that Washington is not treating
the public fairly in the matter of war news.
AS the public had previously and virogously
protested the governments silence on the
tragedy in Sicily Mr.. Dewey was perfectly
safe in voicing his protest too. He could ruffle
no one not in the castle guard at Washington
by doing So What all this seems to indicate
is that he knows the game Of politics and is
playing it like master.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-03-26
HANNECAN NOTES
nth TERM TREND

BOSTON,, March 25.-tRERob-
ert E. Hannegan, chairman Of the
Democratic National committee,
said today there was a definite
desire" for a fourth term for
President Roosevelt, not only
among Democrats but among
many Republicans with whom he
has talked in his current swing
around the country.
II am especially pleased" he
added, ''by the fact that many
persons have told me that, al
though they are registered Repub.
licans and have been for many
years, they intended to vote for
the President.
'They said they wanted to keep
him the head of the government
during the perilous time of war;
Asked, at a press conference, il
this meant the President definitely
would be a candidate for re-elec.
ton, the chairman replied:
II did not say that. I said these
people showed a definite desire tc
have him reelected.
MANY of hose with whom
talked" he said, "were women
with sons in the armed forces.
They seemed to feel that the ad
ministration was doing everything
possible to protect their boys and
they wanted no change during the
current hostilities.
flanagan, who just completed
a tour of Massachusetts, Connect.
cut, Vermont, Maine and New
Hampshire, after having visited
Texas, Minnesota, Kansas and
New York, said his conferences
included many informal discus.
sions with individuals.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-03-26
Interpreting The War

up of the southeastern front from
Russia to Italy was essential. Hun
gary is the key to that inner brac-
Ing for what Prime Minister
Churchill once dubbed the soft
under-belly" of the Axis, military
.ealizm doomed any Hungarian in
dependence of thought or action
as surely as German occupation
dooms Budapest to eventual Allied
and Russian saturation lombard
ment. That must come. Implicit
in the Nazi move to place all COM
munications with the south and
southeast, via Hungary, under in
slant Nazi control and use is the
necessity of protecting the Buda-
pest hub from such ravages by
air as the Berlin similar hub in
he west has been subjected to.
That means shifting fighter plane
strength into Hungary at the time
every air fighter that can take
wing will be needed in the west
and in Poland and the Baltic states
when the Russian-Allied assault
aimed at Germany itself begins
to roll.
The air shift might already be
in progress, geared to the seizure
CT Hungary 1t could help account
for reluctance Of Nazi fighters to
take on Allied day-and-night mass
raids over Germany except to COW
er special Allied targets and under
favorable weather conditions.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-03-26
Postwar Planning Program

For some years the Star and the News
published daily on this page list of projects
for the advancement of southeastern North
Carolina, adding new ones as their need be-
came apparent When the war descended upon
us and the community's effort was concen-
trated upon victory, local and area undertak-
ings had to be abandoned for the duration,
and the list of projects was omitted But they
are not forgotten. AS the return Of peace
draws nearer and postwar planning goes for
ward, ii is appropriate to restate them here.
They are still essential to the full develop.
ment of the Wilmington area, and deserve
top place on any community program for he
years ahead:
Public port terminals.
marketing facilities.
Seaside highway from Wrightsville Beach
, Cor higher to Baldhead Island Cor Myrtle
Beach,
Extension of city limits.
Thirty-six foot Cape Fear river channel,
wider turning basin, with ship lanes to in
uusll:al sites along the eastern bank south
Of Wilmington.
Paved river road to Southport via Orion
plantation.
Il Development of pulpwood production through
sustained yield methods throughout southeast
ern North Carolina.
Unified industrial and resort agency sup
ported by countrywide tax.
Negro health center for southeastern North
Carolina developed around Community hos
pital
Adequate hospital facilities for whites.
Junior high school and junir college
Tobacco warehouses for export buyers.
Development of native grape growing.
Modern tuberculosis sanatorium.
There will be need for new projects and
for the expansion of some old ones when
peace has returned But these remain funda.
mental undertakings, in the completion Of
which Wilmington and its entire area will
derive lasting benefit
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-03-26
Fostered By Government

generation ago. laws were passed pro-
hibiting combinations in restraint Of trade.
Today labor is cursed with combinations
IN restraint of employment
1t has become impossible for an Americ an
workman to earn a living in basic indus ries
without paying for that privilege, and COM
plying absolutely with the dictates of all
powerful union combinations in restraint Of
employment
soldier home from the bloodiest battle
Held, where he fought to perpetuate the ideals
Of freedom, would find himself blocked in
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-03-26
BY KIRKE l.. SIMPSON
Press War Analyst

The mad month of March is fad
ing amid a furry of Axis-Allied
preparatory activities which leave
no doubt that the war in Europe
is looming to its crisis for Ger
many, OF that the Pacific battle
stage has been reset for new tests
of japanese staying power.
From all sides the foes of the
besieged Axis mates are closing
in despite all the distance odds
against them. Punched between the
Russian offensive in the east that
knows no seasonal halts now, the
fury of Allied air attack from the
west, and the slow but unwaver-
ing Anglo-American diversion
pressure in Italv Hitler is obvious
ly readying the inner walls of his
shriveling European fortress.
Sure Sign
No surer sign of what Berlin
knows to be impending in the west,
and from the east against that
inner defense ring still keeping the
war out of Germany itself except
by air, could be asked than Nazi
occupation Of Hungary.
The fiction of a Nazi-erected
European new order hegemony
founded on popular acceptance of
Hitle-ism in unwilling Balkan sat-
elite states and expected even in
Nazi-conquered countries has been
dropped by Berlin. 1t has no real
place in Nazi war conceptions and
could not stand up under the ne
cessities of military expediency.
Nowhere within fortress Europe
outside the reich. except where it
rests on German bayonets, gesta-
20 espionage and strong-arm re-
preston is Nazism firmly plant
ed. Just how strong it still is in
Germany itself coming events may
soon disclose. A year and more of
Nazi defeats and retreats have
deeply undermined German mill
tary prestige even at home, helped
imponderably in the softening up
the European continent for Allied
invasion.
Against that western invasion
threat and the Berlin-expected
Russian smash at the weak Nazi
eastern flank from the Carpathi
ans to the Baltic German snoring
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-03-26
Congressional
'SUTTLETIES
Tho inside ON the Washington scene OF
interest to the Car0linas.
BY HOWARD SUBTLE
Star-News Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON, March 25 - Approximately
So 00O 900 is expected to be expended In the
Tar Heel state to farmers who meet pro-
visions of the soil conservation program.
This figure is based upon the payments
for 1914, set at $8,833, 900. A reduction is
anticipated for the next year, due to the fact
that crop-adjustment payments have been dis
continued.
N. E. Dodd chief planner, advised the COM
mittee that the farmers are demonstrating
increasing interest in the soil conservation
program To illustrate, North Carolina farm
ers received a total of $963,00o for soil build
ing conformance in 1896, as compared with
So, 1888 in 1914.
The program, administered in the various
counties by the county agents, provides for
planned fertilization, crop rotation, proper
paintings, terracing, use of cover crops and
other moves designed to build up farm land
rather than 'wear it OUT
The record shows that, in 1913, North Caro-
lima farmers participating in the program
used 100000 tons of lining materials, "a, 665
tons of -phosphates, $4,000 pounds Of
rye grass 1,382,872 pounds of clovers 1884,
63S pounds of winter peas and $4,000 pounds
Of hairy vetch.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-03-26
Back To The Constitution

4 The Senate took a significant step when it
voted to withhold funds from any government
agency year OR more old without specific
congressional appropriation. It is intended to
prevent the diversion Of money from one
agency to another, and strikes directly at
the Fair Employment Practices Committee
More Importantly 1t is move toward the
return to constitutional government.
The Constitution provides that all matters
pertaining to public money must originate in
Congress, specifically in the House. Because
OF the war and also because the administra-
ton has not been willing to submit to re-
straints provided by the Constitution many
privileges have in recent years been granted
the Chief Executive or assumed by him with
the consent of rubber-stamp Congresses
In the creation Of the bureaucratic system
which now exists it was essential that he
have at his disposal vast sums of money te
be disbursed as he saw fit. This has brought
about conditions which were not contemplated
by the Founding Fathers. On the contrary
the Founding Fathers took precautions agains
them by specifically defining the duties O.
the Congress with respect to the nations fl
nances.
Now, and after years OF unconstitutional
submission to the executive branch Of govern
ment, the legislative branch has taken pre-
Iininary step for the revival Of constitutions
government. The executive branch is to b
shorn of power to dispose of the public fund
without first securing congressional authority
It is blow to bureaucracy, and decidedl
in the public interest The start thus mad
deserves to be carried to full restoration c
I the Constitution.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-03-26
GIRL WILL TESTIFY
in LONERCAN CASE

NEW YORK, March Is Up
The blonde showgirl Wayne Loner.
gan escorted to the theater tn.
night before his heiress wife wa,
bludgeoned ard strangled arrived
today from Miami to testify as
states witness in the Royal Cana.
dian aircraftman's trial for first
degree murder.
Lonergan's statement to deter.
tives in Toronto when he was taken
into custody identified the actress
Mrs. Jean Murphy Jaburg, as the
persons he escorted to a musical
comedy and to night clubs on Sat.
urday, Oct. %, the night before
Patricia Burton Lonergan's nude
battered body was found in her
fashionable Beekrnan Hill apart
ment.
He also has said he took her to
lunch on Sunday, hours after the
state contends his heiress wife was
slain.
Meanwhile, Lonergan remained
in good spirits, his attorney, Ed.
ward V. Broderick, reported. He
spent his time in the city prison
reading books, and showed no
signs of encouragement, his coun-
sci said.
Two Toronto policemen, detec,
tive sergeant Arthur Harris and
Detective Gordon Gerguson. who
took Lonergan into custody In that
city, conferred with assistant dis
trict Attorney Jacob Grumet dur.
ing the day. The officers came to
New York after Broderick said in
court he wanted to question them
about Lonergna's treatment.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-03-26

getting a job in his chosen industry, in the
majority of cases, unless he signed on the
dotted line, and paid the sum demanded by
some labor boss for the right to work.
Our own government has aided and aoef-
ted this combination, in defiance OF every
nrinciple of liberty, and contrary to the right
Of 4 free man to join or not to join any
lawful organization.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-03-26
Our Chief Aim
To aid in every way tie prosecution Of
the war to complete Victory.
THOUGHT FOR TODAY

Death is not the end; it is only a new
beginning Death is the porter at the
Kings lodge, appointed to open the gate
and let in the Kings guests into the realm
of eternal day Our life is not land
locked lake enclosed within the shore
lines of seventy years. 1t is an arm Of
the sea We are immortal! How then
shall we live today in prospect of an
eternal tom0rroW?-Jowett.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-03-26
POLICEMAN KILLED

NEW YORK, March %. - (P) -
The Bern radio reported tonight
that 80 German policemen were
killed and large number injur-
ed in Rome Thursday when they
were assaulted by Italian patriots.
The broadcast, recorded by CHS
said that for every slain German
the Nazi authorities have decreed
that 10 hostages will be shot.