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Milford chronicle., 1945-06-08
Sussex County Schools Make
Excellent Record In The
Seventh War Loan Drive

Calvin +. Afflerbuch of the Sus-
sex schools. has announced the
percentage of assigned quotas at
tanned by the schools Of Sussex
Milford chronicle., 1945-06-08

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Postscript of the Apache sentinel. [volume] (Fort Huachuca, Ariz.) 1945-1946, 1945-09-07

( CNS EIere's where you
stand, at the moment, on
getting that discharge:
l. President Truman call
ed upon Congress to cont in
ne ohe draft Of, men aged
Ii to g to provide occup-
alton armies and speed up
rehabilitation Of the men
who won the war. Said he
uAn unf orgivable discrirl-
inatio would re suit if We
should favor those who
have had no military scr
vice by suspending their
induction at the cost Of
requiring further sacri-
flee from those who have
already done their part"
i. p Selective Service
will call up so, 900, nen
for the Army and l., 900
For the Navy during Sep
TENDER, which is the mum
Der sought By the services.
~ AAF Will discharge
l,40O, 900 in a year. Jun
Tor officers appear in a
good position for disch-
arge, as point scores for
separation were cut, as
follows flight officers -
80; I'd Its w; LIST Its -
$50 and captains and up =
70.
~ Ell with Is points
Will not be shipped over
seas again. n IID spokesman
told a House Corrn ttee
that this will go down to
90 soon. He added that the
critical. score Will be
dropped to 80 arid points
earned since We Day COM
puted as soon as Gen Lac
Arthur says he needs no
mora n Or-,hat + yoo,,c
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-05-07
NAzl ECONOMIC
PROBLEM CITED

MOSCOW, May 6.-tR-"The use
O, German labor for restoring the
countries Germany ruined natur-
ally will effectively aid in the
economic disarmament Of Ger
many" the magazine War and the
Working Class said today.
although the public in Allied
countries upholds the idea Of US
ing German labor" the article
said, 'there are however some
circles which are against this idea.
The opponents OF labor repara-
tons express the fear the re2ara-
ton will be a loss to world eco
nomy-contribute to the economi-
cal starvation of Germany, her
poverty and this in turn will affect
world trade.
eve must note that this fear is
not new. Such reasoning was ex
pressed after the last world war
It is well known that the affair
ended by giving the Germans gen
erous loans which helped exhaust
ed Germany to build gigantic
military industry and prepare fol
second war;"
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-05-07
WITH THE AEF
On That G. l. GloryRoad

recent prisoners. S-Sgt. George B.
Spansy OF Durham, N. c., was
taken during the Belgian break
through when the 106th Division
positions were overrun. S-Sgt.
Marion Jacobs of Commerce Sta
ton, Mimi, fell into German hands
in France, and Sgt. Harry Zum-
stein OF Bradford, Pa, was taken
prisoner while with the 26th Di-
vision on the Saar river.
A couple OF other guys-S-Sgt.
Ronald F. Glenzer of Curtiss, Wis,
and Robert L. Griffin of Pana, ILL.,,
were captured in the fighting
around Metz.
But they had all been together
in the Luckenwald prison camp,
from whic thhey had just escaped
during a German counterattack,
and now they realized they had a
ride back to the American lines.
Slowly we turned the jeep around,
being careful not to get off on the
mined shoulders of the road. Then
they piled in. Contrary to all reg
ulations we got about nine men in
side the jeep. More piled on the
radiator, the front bumper, any
where they could hang on. Then
we started the return over some
Is miles of questionable territory
to the last place we had seen Am
erican soldiers,
If it was hard to describe the
confusion during the first meeting
with this gang, it's completely i'm
possible to try to explain the terri
fic exhilaration as we started
back. During the. next couple of
hours we made two trips in order
to pick up those we couldn't get
the first time. And always it was
the same.
AS the jeep began to pick up
speed they shouted and swore and
yelled back and forth, and we
Joined in the wild, crazy chorus.
We had some K-rations, and they
seized them like kids grabbing
Christmas candy.
"Who would have thought we'd
ever like K-rations? Amt this
wonderful? How's the war going?
Man alive but it's good to see CPS
again. Have you seen these blank
etyblank Russkys in action? They
treated us swell, but I'd hate to
be fighting them. Where do we 60
from mere? How long do you think
the Pacific war will last"
And so on, and on, just a rattle
Of questions and chatter, with no.
body answering half of the cues
tons, and nobody expected to. It
was just hilarious letting off of
steam. And we were as bad as
they.
An hour before, we had gone
along that road with the old fam
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-05-07
WHITEYlLLE MAN
LAUDS RED CROSS

WHITEVILLE, May 6. - ANY
thing that you can say about the
Red Cross will not be too gooo
was the testimony of 1t. harry L.
(Bob) Jordan, son Of MI. ana Mls.
D l. Jordan of Clarkton, Route
who arrived home Tuesday 1ol-
lowing liberation from a Ieri'ian
prison camp March 20.
Following a forced march over
many miles to an Air Corps camp
in central Germany, he found Reo
Cross packages and CT clothing
awaiting him. To a man who mao
been in a cell for three days WITH
out food and very little water, ana
who. still on an empty stomach
was forced to march with heavy
flying clothes to q distant prison
camp. those Red Cross packages
were like a gift from the Gods.
A navigator on BIZ based IN
Italy, 1t. Jordan was forced 10
bail out over Vienna, March IL.
When he landed the Gestapo selz-
ed him and placed him in cell
where he was ignored for three
days, during which time he was
given no food and only three glass
es Of water.
At the expiration of three days,
he was turned over to the Luft-
waite, which, after holding him
there one night, placed him and
others on a train headed for an
air corps prisoner of war camp.
Long before the train reached its
destination, he and his companions
were taken off and forced to march
the rest. of the way. With heavy
clothes and thin-soled flying boots,
he was completely exhausted and
footsore when they reached camp.
It was at this camp where the
Red Cross packages and CT cloth
ing were found. Upon arrival he
was taken to the hospital prison
where he was treated.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-05-07

nothing in the whole political
experience of mankind which
teaches us how four nations as
diverse as the British, the French,
the Russians, and the Americans
are to govern and administer a
huge population which is in the
material and moral condition OF
the Germans.
All that one can say is that I'm.
less these four powers manage to
work together, they will not only
fail to deal with the German prob.
lem but their failure will divide
them and separate them cata-
strophically. There is no hope
whatever except in their unanirni'
ty, which can be maintained only
by kind of fanatical patience, BY
invincible determination to give
and take in order that they car
act together.
The German problem is so diff
cult. the consequences Of failing
to solve it would be so terrible
that all other issues among the
Allies must be dealt with in rela'
ton to it. First Of all the Polish
problem: the Allies cannot affore
not to find a solution, and tina
must mean that all the irreconcil
ables, in Warsaw, In London, il
Moscow, and In San Francisco
will have to be over-iden. 1t is idi
otto for the Allies, who have t.
undertake the awful reSponsibilit,
Of dealing with Germany, to be
come estranged and embitteree
because they haven't the common
sense to agree on say two Pole'
from the Peasant Party and tive
from the Socialist Party whs
could become ministers in ths
Warsaw government.
Never mind who is to blame fol
the failure to agree thus far. Lee
the historians worry about that
There has to be an agreement
about Poland because, without it,
we shall never get agreement
about Germany. And with the
mighty armies Of the Allies In
physical contact, Disagreement
about Germany Is something, tina.
simply cannot be allowed to occur.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-05-07
SAN FRANCISCO.

In our times we have seen other
great states 60 down in Wrack
and ruin to defeat-CZarist Rus
STA in 1917, Hohenzollern Germany
and the Hapsburg monarchy in
1918, Mussolini's Italy in this wa
The defeat of Hitler's Reich diff
fers from all of them. The differ
ence is not, as Albert Speer, the
Nazi minister of munitions, has
sought to make us believe, in the
enornity of the devastation. Nor
is it in the completeness with
which the army has been defeated
in battle. 1t is that the German
nation has surrendered without
making an effort of any kind to
redeem its honor.
The end is total defeat in total
disgrace because no Germans have
come forward who might claim bv
their resistance to Nazisn, even in
its last hours, to be the represent
atives of better Germany.
1t will not be easy for the Allies
to deal justly and honorably with
a nation which risked everything
in orde-' to subjugate others, and
then risked everything to avoid
punishment, but which has risked
nothing to save its soul and to
prove that it is capable of taking
an honorable place in the family
Of nations. The Italians fought
badly in this war, probably be-
cause their hearts were never in
1t, but in the end they showed that
they could fight and die to re-
store the honor of Italy, and that
Italian Fasc1sm can be exterminat.
ed by Italians. It may not have
been a pretty spectacle to assassi-
nate Mussolini, and cast him into
the gutter, and hang him by the
heels in a public square. But it
was rough justice and it goes to
prove that while many Italians
have been brutaized by the long
degradation of Fascist rule, Italy
has not been totally corrupted.
There is a good future for italy
because the Italians have proved
that they themselves know how to
detest the crimes of Fascism, that
they themselves have the will to
judge its crimes and to exact pun.
ishnent for them,
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-05-07
Two Sons Of Philippine
President To Be Turned
Over To New Government

MANILA, May 6.-tR9Two sons
of Philippine President Sergio Os-
mena, held in custody ia Manila
by United States Army authori-
ties as suspected. collaborationists
with the Japenese, will be turned
over to the Philippine government
after the war, it was disclosed to-
day.
One son, Sergio, Jr., %, was
captured by the Americans in a
Lingayen gulf town after the
Yanks invaded Luzon through that
gateway last January. The other,
Nicasio, IS, was apprehended in
Manila after American occupa-
ton of the city. Details Of the col
laboration charges are being with
held.
Nicasio and Sergio, Jr., are sons
Of the commonwealth president by
former marriage. Their mother
Is dead.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-05-07
TODAY and TOMORROW
BY WALTER LIPPMANN

How are the Allies to make an
honorable peace with the German
nation when there are no Germans
who have come forward to re-
deem Germany's honor? 1t is non
sense to plead that the Gestapo
was too powerful. Millions Of Ger
mans have been willing to die for
Hitler, but very few indeed to DIE
in order to lift the curse OF Hitler
from Germany and from tbs
world.
Millions of French, Dutch, Bel
gians, Poles, Czechs, Norweglans.
Danes, Italians, even Austrians.
took the risks of the Gestapo, ano
knew how to be tortured and te
die when they could not outwi1
the Gestapo. But in Germany
what resistance there was mus
have been feeble and scattered In
deed, or there would have beer
some sort of German rebellion to
give a little dignity to the fina
collapse and surrender.
There would have been Gef
mans who rose up, not to help the
Allies, but to help Germany, te
seize the criminals, to offer them
selves as the pioneers of new
Germany. There are none, ane
so we are left not with a natior
but with a demoralized and dis
graced inchoate horde, incapable
Of accepting moral responsibility,
for what has happened or of par
ticipating in what needs to bf
done
The problem Of Germany be
comes, whether we wish 1t or not
the problem of the four Allied
powers. They must now occupy
and govern the wreckage and the
remains of the German national
state. There are no precedents for
solving such a problem. There is
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-05-07
First u. S. Infantry
General To Be Killed
Buried With Honors

BOLOGNA, April 23.-(Delayed
by censorship)-PEThe body Of
Brig Gen. Gustav J. Braun, assis-
tant commander Of the U. S. 34th
Division, who was shot down in q
small observation plane last March
II, was found in a marked grave
just south of Bologna three days
ago.
Braun, the first infantry general
to be killed in combat during this
campaign, had been inferred ap'
parently with full military honors
by the Germans in a small valley
just west of Highway IS, near the
hamlet Of Cola Selvamaggiore.
Over the grave had been placed
a large wooden cross with the rec
bulls head emblem Of his divi
sion burned into the wood. The
grave was marked BRIG. Gen
Gustav Braun, staff Of 34th In
fantry Division, died March IL
1916"
"
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-05-07
BY KENNETH l.. DIXON


WITH THE AEF IN GERMANY
May 3 -Oelayed)-P-When we
raced around that bend on the
lonely road we had already decided
we weren't going to Berlin today.
There had been several vicious
suffers from German machine
pistols as we passed resistance
pockets. Even when we were
among the Russians we got only
cold stares and suggestive gestures
with their rifles.
So when a struggling gang OF
guys in various pieces of cast off
G. I. clothes formed literal road.
block in front of us, shouting and
screaming in hysterical excite.
ment, 1t was a relief to have a
good excuse to give up the Berlin
junket for the time and skid to a
halt.
Hey. They're G. rs! Stop her,
It's jeep! hey, you GIL. 's-what're
you doing here! jeez! hello! hello!
hello! hello" their jumbled yells
rambled off into excited nonsense.
A stocky guy with almost flowing
curly beard actually kept stroking
the jeeps radiator as man would
pet dog. That was S-Sgt. Floyd
Severson of Fargo, N. D.. who was
captured at Kasserine Pass in Tu.
nisia March II, 1913, when the Ger.
mans overran his 776th tank de.
stroyer battalion.
cts the first jeep I've seen ir
more than two years." he grinned
through his beard 1T looks wonder.
full. Whoinell are you guys any.
way, and how far is, it to our lines?"
We didn't get a chance to answer
him for at least five minutes. The
rest of the gang kept pumping our
hands, shouting more questions,
and telling us not to go ahead be.
cause a big scrap was in progress
They had just made it through be.
cause nobody was paying much
attention to escaped prisoners these
days.
Man but it's good to see an
armed American CT again." said
Corp. Paul Christpoulous of Akron,
Ohio, who also was captured in
Tunisia. He fondled the driver
carbine.
It's almost impossible to describe
the confusion as the rest of them
| T0rr,
Steve ]. Boros, also Of Akron; Sgt
Fred Bayer of Pittsburg, Kans.,
and Cpl. Raymond Roland of Den
yer, Colo, all First Armored Di-
vision boys captured in Tunisia.
There was a lone Italian cam
paign representative-Cpl: Joe
Myers of Cohoes. N. Y, who was
captured at Salerno.
| The rest Of the gang were more
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-05-07
Riddled Body Of Nazi
Field Marshal Found

WITH THE BRITISH SECOND
ARMY, May 6.-tF-The riddled
body of Fedor Won Book, who as a
field marshal commanded the Cen
trail Army Group in the German
invasion of Russia in June, 1941,
was found north of Hamburg to-
day by British troops.
He had been dead about week,
and may have been caught in a
strafing raid. Won Books body eth
er had been ignored or not recog-
nized by German troops, and was
left for burial squad to pick up.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-05-07

liar queasy quivering in the pits
of our stomachs, wondering if the
next corner might bring the stac-
cato bark of somebody's machine
gun.
But now we thought. "the hell
with it." We were on the glory
road taking liberated yanks back
to their people-our people. nothing
could happen to us now. And moth
ing did.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-05-07
CIVILIANS THREATENED

PARANG, Mindanao, April 26.-
(Delayed-LRE rogant japanese
militarists treated their own civil
lians almost as cruelty as the Fill
pinos during their three years &C.
cupation of this second larges
island in the Philippines.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-05-07
PLANE CRASHES

HAVANA, May 6.-W.H-Batista
airport officials announced tonight
that a plane, believed to be carry
ing American military personnel
stationed in this regian, crashed at
the mountain village of Siguanea
near Cienfuegos on the south coast
of Cuba.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-07
Purchase British Bases

Washington, Sept. 7-(UP)- American economists today were exploring the possibilities of par tially solving Britain's financial problem by U. s. purchase of some of the 09-year leaseholds on which Atlantic naval bases were built.
 It is one of several ideas Ameri- cans are considering in their search for @ feasible and reasonable way of helping Britain get back on her economic feet. It may never get beyond the thought" stage be- cause of many obstacles mostly political-in the way of working out such an arrangement.
 Some of the advocates of such a plan, however, argue that if 1t could be done 1t would 90 a long way to- ward solving the British transitional financial problem.
 The British contend they cannot further increase their foreign debts with Q regular loan; the Americans contend that tl.sA. domestic poli- tical situation will not allow con- cideration of an outright grant. Some economists asked why not look for something that Britain could sell and the United States wants?
 The most obvious answer is the bases built on land acquired by the U. S. from Britain in March, l04l, in the famous destroyer-for-baseS deal.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-07
ReconverSion IdIes o5,OOO Workers
 Major Production
 of Nation Choked
 By Strikes
(By United Press)

Nearly 95,000 workers were idle throughout the nation today in labor-management disputes many over reconversion problems.
 The Detroit industrial area count. fed 10000 absent from their jobs Unable to keep assembly lines mov- ing because of lack of parts from the strike-bound Kelsey Hayes Wheel O., the Ford Motor O., laid off approximately 25,000 employees and warned that it's other plants throughout the country would shut down, by end of the week if parts were not forthcoming.
 Auto Production
 Automobile production was par alyzed at the Hudson Motor Car Go. where strike of 800 supervisory em- ployes affected 5000 production workers. Minor Detroit area strikes accounted for the other idle.
 A back-to-work movement was ex- pected momentarily among 15,00( strikers at the Consolidated Ship yards at Orange, Texas, as com pany officials announced an agree ment with AFL pipefitter over lay off procedures.
 Some 1000 hatd coal miners re. turned to the pits in Pennsylvania but the labor picture was clouded by the threat of strikes among white collar Westinghouse Electric Corp. employees in five states.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-07
JobIess Pay Bill Backed By Lobof
 Union LeGders Make Appeals
 For Possoge

Washington, Sept. 7.-(UP)-La- Dor leaders made last minute ap- peals today in an effort to save the unemployment compensation bill from death or a thorough wa- tering-dowr by the House Ways and Means committee.
 President William Green of the American Federation of Labor wrote committee chairman Robert L. Doughton, D., N. O., that current unemployment was direct result of federal policies.
 "E1e did not fight the war by separate state armies nor let war contracts through state procure ment agencies" Green said, Tt is the sudden termination of war con- tracts by federal agencies in line with federal policies properly es- tablished by Congres that Is the cause of the unemployment with which we are confronted. " Congress- Duty
 Tt is clearly, therefore, the duty of congress to act to meet the needs arising from these policies especially in view of the fact that the states were given a year in which to prepare for this condition and made only meager and niggard- ly changes in the provisions of their laws"
 Davis J. Mcdonald, secretary treasurer of the United Steel Work CTS (CIO), testified before the committee that VJ-day threw 175,- 600 members of the union out of work.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-07
Adm. Mccain CosuoIty

San Diego, Calif., Sept. 2 - CUP -Vice-Admiral John s. Mccain who died less than 24 hours after returning to this country from sur render ceremonies in the pacifie. was worn out from the strain Of fliN final battle against Japan, Q Navy physician said today. Mccain, peppery, 01-yeaTspi4 commander of famed task force 5a died suddenly of a heart attack laEi night at his home in nearby Cornns ado.
 He was a veteran of 4i years 6 the Navy. Mccain was exhauated from his activities in the last folIl months in the final effort Co batter Japan to her knees. the Navy doetQe said.
 The slight, wiry admiral, one q the Navy's strongest advocates 0l air power, was suffering iron slight cold but generally coneidered in good health when he afkiV&a here Wednesday from Pearl HAls Dor.
 He had planned to spend 6 z0# days resting at home before c0ntIIs+ uing to Washington. D. O.. where he reportedly was to accept n Nas|e ton as director of Naval Ve12EaIIs Affairs in the Veterans Adminl ton.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-07
vhiteC CoIIor Strikers

Pittsburgh, Sept. 7-(UP)-Leo F. Bollens. president of the Feder- ation U Westinghouse independent salaried unions, said today 12.O00 white collar employes of the Vest inghouse Electric Corp, would strike at g e. m. Monday in six states for incentive pay.
 The salaried workers have asked incentive bonuses similar to those for hourly-paid workers. A. w. Bob- ertson, Westinghouse president, said the white collar workers had been given a 30 per cent base pay in- crease since January, l04l, raising their average pay from $2lS to $202 a month. He said the bonuses asked could not be granted without in- ereasing the pri ol Westinghouse products, which would need govern ment approval. N
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-07
Educational
 Needs VitoI'- pr. GiImortin
By BETTY BLANCHARD

Dr. John c. Gilmartin, newly elected superintendent of schools, today joined the "back to school" appeal on the part of civic, educa- ton and labor leaders throughout the country.
 Emphasizing that the time is soon approaching when a high school diploma will be necessary to enter any vocation or profession, Dr. Gilmartin vigorously urged young men and women to return to high school to complete their edu. cations.
 Education Versus B0om- Times
 Dr. Gilmartin said he wishes to impress upon the minds of young men and women, who had left nigh school to work in war factories, that the high wages received were merely product of the wartime era. When the world returns to normal, he emphasized, education will be the vital armor in the fight for success in the business and inc dustrial, world.
 "The time is already at hand when employers are requesting a high school diploma," the school superintendent said. "Education al- ways has been the foundation and the surest means to success in any
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-07
"A Million U. s. Church Membership 23 Million Romon / Catholics Lead
 All Denominations

New York, Sept. 7.-(UP)-Church membership in this country reached an all time high of 72,402, ,669 per- sons, more than 52 per cent of the p0puiation, according to the 494G edition of the Yearbook of Ameri- can Churches published today.
 The l945 membership in 256 re- ligious bdoies represents an increase of 3,99l ,4e3 in two years, Dr. Ben- son Y. Landis, editor of the Year. book, said.
 Thirteen groups reported more than million members each. Ro- man Catholic church membership totaled 23,419,70l. Twenty -three Baptist denominations reported membership of 14,208,193; twenty Methodist denominations reported 9,o24, ,842 members and 20 Lutheran denominations reported 5,129,147.
 Others reporting included: Jewish congregations 4,641, ,1e4; Protestant Episcopal church, 2,227 ,524; Pres byterian church in the U. s. A.. g. 040, 39o; Disciples of Christ, 1,672,- 365354, anr Congregational Chris tian churches, l,075, ,4o1.