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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1945-01-18

body November S in Luxembourg,
according to an official report from
the War Department. His mother
reports that he has returned to his
outfit He entered the Army in No
vember, l943 and was sent oversee
in March, 1914. He attended Rock
vile High School.
4
Lansing Z. Broadhurst, Jr., Ger
mantown, with the Transportation
Corps in France, has been promoted
from Second Lieutenant to First Lieu
tenant. He was one of so Transpor-
tation Corps officers who won pro-
motions in recognition OF their ex-
cellent performance in moving sup
plies to the armies since D-Day.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1945-01-18
PUBLIC SALE

Having sold my farm to Roland Mackenzie located on
Seven Lock Road mile past County Home will sell at public
auction the following personal property, on
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1945-01-18

35 HEAD OF STOCK
AND rs MILK COWS.
Some will be fresh by
day of sale and some
being springers, others in
good flow of milk. l
Ayrshire bull entitled to
papers. 2 heifers about
l year old. 1 Guernsey
bull, 6 months old, en-
titled to papers and 1
heifer 6 months old. This
hard is q nnixad hard
Henderson daily dispatch., 1945-06-18

The quota set for US is bie-as big as the n
for it. Last year by this time we had had
Wa Loans. This time we must lend as m
in n loan as in those two.
But if our fighting men are to have the G.
the rest, the chance to live again, we m
lend to the limit.
So when you look at the chart on the RICH
don't finch at the amount your country a
you for.
The brave men in the picture didn't fiji
and they've certainly met their quota
Americans.
50 can vel
Henderson daily dispatch., 1945-06-18
look al those e

look os these men.
There are hundreds of thousands more like
them. And before this war done, there's no
telling how many will start the long voyage
home-on their backs.
Think about that trip.
As our battle'lines move farther and farther
away, the road back becomes longer and
more painful. And more eostIyl
Taking care of that costly part is our job.
It's up to us to see that those who have really
made a sacrifice are given every bit Of help
no matter what we must sacrifice" to do it.
And this 7th Wa Loan Wiu NEAR sacrifice.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-08-20
BY CHARLES E. HONCE
Supplement one, the American
language. by H. L. Menskeu
(Knnnf. c5\

To contemplate H. L. Mencken
as the producer of that vast enter.
prise 1.-The American Language" is
to look upon at least the Eighth
Wonder of the World.
Probably no one man ever be.
fore has turned out such a pro.
digious piece of research written
in such sprightlv style. Probably
no other man even would dream
of undertaking. virtually on his
own. such an overpoWeriag project
ito which there can never be an
end so long as Amer can is spoken) g.
Fer. while Mencken he's a vast
number of correspondents who
send him material, the job of re-
search, and of reading, digesting,
assembling and writing seems to
fall on his shoulders alone.
Mensken's huge work advances
briskly today with the appearance
of supplement One" 1t is as big
as the original book.
Mencken has followed a unique
plan in the Supplement by tieing
it up with the original work chap
ter by chatter, but it remains an
entity in itself, and virtually all
the material is new
The first editien appeared il 1919
in mode<t 374npages. The second
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Save Gas Ration Book

II you pasted your gasoline ration book in
your scrap book when rationing was stopped
you might as we'll cut it out or float it off the
page. 1t will not be needed again. bless
goodness, for gasoline, but will helm ration
boards In their next big job of distributing new
tires. With limited supply on hand. it IS
obviously intended to issue new tires to r
CAREERS flrst carders next and the multitude
OF card drivers only after the others arc
served.
Many an card holder will have lust com.
plant against this procedure, if it is indeed tho
me1hod to be used for, to a large extent. thew
are Just as essential in the postwar nrogran,
OF business az they were during the war
although their Importance was persisten+,,,
overlooked or minimized, and their tires are
Just as tnreadbare as those of C and B carders
Inc outlook is that the official attitude to-
"aro them will not undergo any more change
respecting tires than it did for gasoline. And
inc ooards will require applicants for new
''fes TO present their gasoline books as the
quickest way of learning which class thew sre
ln-favored or despised.
AT any rate Washington has told gasoline
DOCK holders to have them handy until +iro
rationing is lifted
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-08-20
Frenchmen Working Toward Golden Era
of Bath, Refrigeration In Every Home

were killed by bomb ngs and she'll
fire, 10000 were executed by tAe
Germans as French traitors and
900 died as slave laborers for
the Reich. French clocks, now six
hours ahead of New York time, will
be turned back an hour.
The French telephone system
is currently one of the more myster-
ious phenomena on the face of
the globe. 1t is common exper-
fence to find yourself suddenly con-
versing with someone who has tele-
phoned you while you were talking
to someone else Apparently f nding
your conversation dull for caves
dropping purposes, the operator
simply cuts in another call. A call
via civilian lines from here to
Reims, IS miles distant, takes at
least three hours. Girl operators are
hard to find because the salary
is $65 monthly.
Much has been spoken about
Frances food shortage-the stark
sacts are that a Frenchman who
before the war ate IS pounds Of
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-08-20
Fort Fisher Commission

The new commission appointed by Governor
Cherry for the Fort Fisher National Park is
conomendable. With R. Bruce Etheridge, chair
man of the North Carolina Board of Conserva'
ton and Development, as ex offcio chairman
tbe four men named to be affiliated with him
Fred D. Poisson Oscar F. Cooper, Hargrove
Bellamy and the Rev. Andrew ]. Howell-are
eminently fitted to direct the affairs OF the
reservation which heretofore has been utterly
Inadequate in comparison with Fort Fisher S
historic importance and which, it is to be
hoped, will be greatly expanded and improved
in the near future.
Fort Fisher deserves to rank with the other
great battle parks of the country stemming
from engagements in the War Between the
States. Former federal neglect is unpardon'
able If it is useless to look to Capitol Hill for
funds for it's development we make no reser'
walton to the declaration that the people Of
North Carolina could lend their aid in securing
necessary money for that purpose from the
State Treasury to no better group of men
than this commission just announced by Cover.
nor Cherry.
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Opportunity Knocks

General Brooks announcement that the
Army alone expended more than five and
one-half billion dollars in seven southeastern
states between 1899 and the close of the war
affords citizens Of the region incentive to util
ize the large part OF this investment still in
hand for the development of new and ex.
pansion of existing industries.
Not all OF this money has remained at the
places of disbursement. but sufficient did to
enable the communities where much of it was
invested in construction and payrolls to have
unprecedented financial resources which,
properly reinvested, will assure economic secu.
rty on a scale never before envisioned.
This huge sum of money turned loose in
the southeast by the Army is but part OF the
total capital poured into the area during the
war. Industries with great payrolls and heavy
absorption of raw materials followed the Army.
They are still here and although Army con-
tracts must be cancelled they still can be re-
converted for peacetime production, If on a
slightly lower scale.
There will be no reason or excuse for the
southeast to fold up now, as it did after the
former World War. On the contrary there is
every reason for it to redraft its program for
worldwide outlets. But to take best advan-
tage of its postwar opportunities the southeast
must have vision and leadership and employ
the services of skilled management, not only
for directing the activities Of old concerns but
the establishment of new Observation-Disclosures
financed by the capital the region has &C.
cumulated.
Naturally, thought centers on Wilmington
and its future, which is brighter than after any
other war. There has never been so much
capital here available for investment. The
citys leadership is already engaged in an eff
fort to attract new industries. In addition this
leadership could serve good purpose by
attracting local capital investment in needed
plants and encourage the investors therein to
look about for outside management if Will
mingtonians are not available for the job.
Wilmington got its share Of the five and a
half billions expended by the Army What
money remains could not be better invested
than in industrial projects from which the
whole community might benefit and cargoes
be provided for the ships that will moor at
Wilmington docks when the sea lanes are
again bearing peace-time commerce.
We have previously proposed that Whining.
ton employ an industrial agent of wide ex.
perlence to direct such a program, and take
occasion to renew the propossI
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Germans Labor For Reds

There has been some complaint in the West.
srn Allied capitals because Russia steadfastlv
refuses to tell what is being done with manv
thousands of German prisoners of war Thara
should be no dissatisfaction with Moscou, -.
silence on the subject now, because the Bus.
SLAMS said long before the German surrender
that they would compel German capsives to
rebuild the cities and factories they DESTROYED
in their advances upon Russian soil
Nor can there justly be dissatisfaction with
Russia's policy. The German forces in Russia
wantonly destroyed whole towns not because
they were legitimate military detectives hu,
to display their power as conquerors Thei,
trail was marked by Russian peasant blood
unnecessarily She'd by farms despoiled, vii
lages wiped out, cities bombed and shelled
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-08-20
By ROBERT WILSON

Substituting for Kenneth L. Dixon)
PARIS, Aug. 19.-P)-A bathtub
and refrigerator in every French
home is one facet O. program und.
er which the poorly housed French
people hope to raise their standard
of living closer to the American
standard.
THE French are the worst-housed
people in Europe reconstruction
minister Raoul Dautry says. Our
hygenic level hasn't made any pro-
gress since the time of Charles X
$780,"
In addition to sanitary COM
plants, French farmers in Br tany
resent the dollar a day paid Ger
/ man prisoners working their farms
while the French farm labor wage
is fixed at 80 cents daily. France S
population is now estimated at 49,
300, 900 which is 900, 1000 less than in
September, 1889. An estimated
100000 troops were killed in 1889
40, another $4,000 from then to the
wars end, while 100000 civilians
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Husky US. Auiators OF 9Th. Air Force
Ferry French Children From Morocco

speaks little French, was acting
steward on the flight.
Best passenger we ever had"
he said, was an old woman who
just sat and smiled and didn't say
aye, yes or no the whole way. And
was she glad to get back to
France!"
AS the plane roared down the
runway for the takeoff the chill
dren sat big-eyed, clinging to thier
mothers. Once aloft they kept their
noses glued to the cabin windows
until, one by one, they fell asleep.
And LaGasse was right there to
cover them with flight jackets, tuck
blandets around them and confor-
tiers under them.
I've got a baby back home my
SELF" he explained, looking at a
sweet-faced little French girl. "Just
about this size now. too, l guess. :"
When lunchtine came on the
five-hour flight, the crew gathered
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BY HELEN AMP

Substituting for kennethL.D iAOn)
PORT LYAUTEY, Morocco - H
The huge flying Fortress was
being loaded for its mission. Husky
crew member spsssed the cargo
carefully fromman to man.
1t wasn't bombs they were hand
ling this trip. The cargo was
French children.
The same planes that once bomb.
ed the Germans out of France are
now taking French refugees back
to it. The remnants of the Eighth
Air Force - the 92nd and 384th
bombardment groups - had been
flying 85-point men form 1stres,
France, to Casablance and return.
ing with empty planes.
At the same time, $1,000 French
refugees in Morocco were trying to
get back 10 France. The Eight
Air Force volunteered to transport
them free of charge and the for
ress crews got a new job.
"Who ever would have thought
we'd be playing nursemaid to a
bunch of French" said T-Sgt.
Jack Henderson, Cincinnati, a Il d
Sgt. Robert Hamblin, Bowling
Green, Ohio.
In the last six weeks more than
1000 - mostly women and chill
dren - have been returned to
France, 10 to a plane, 200 daily.
Passenger lists are made up by
the French authorities and bag
gage is cleared by the air transport
command. But the Eight Air Force
does the flying.
boy, did we have trouble at
first" said 1t. Eli Faye of Greens.
burg, Pa, in charge of clear
ances for the ATC. They'd bring
in luggage as big as a table. And
the kids were climbin all over the
plane, opening doors and every
thing.
1--WE bring 40 CTS down a trip
but 10 Frenchennn are enough to
take back" said S-Sgt. Victor J.
Riordan. Milwaukee.
1t. Left R. Ostnes, Seattle. point
ed out that few of the French pas.
sengers ever had flown before and
almost all of them became airsick
But grumble and growl as they
oio, as CTS always will, not ore
OF the boys could enough for /ie
passengers = three women. O :, e
pretty l6-year-old girl, and six
cnlioren ranging from tow to 10
Sgt. Leon V. LaGasse. Nashua
~ H. who is French-Canadian and
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meat yearly now has 16 pounds,
compared to the American con-
sumption of al pounds per capita
n 1914; II pounds of fats compared
to SO pounds in France in 1899, and
10 pounds OF sugar compared to
Al five years ago. French neWspap-
ers care ully pointed out that under
the law Gen. Petain's condemna-
ton to national indignity" means
he no longer has the right to the
title Marshal" France currently
has 100000 Nazi prisoners at
work and hopes eventually to raise
this number to 1,40O, 900. AS first
Preparations" she anticipates $780,
600 pairs of shoes from a German
factory at Pirmaeson.
French newspaper editors strug-
gled heroically trying to translate
blood and CUTS when Gen.
George S. Patton, Jr., came to
Paris. In French slang the Ameri-
can monicker came out sang ct
Gran" (blood and intelligence and
sang ct tripe.'
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DeGaulle's Visit

From the time General deGaulle set up Of
fees in London, after his escape from
France, there has been cumulative score OF
objections to his conduct. Whether he has been
led by ambition or sheer egotism in his
course we will not attempt to decide. But the
fact is clear that he did not know how to
"play the game at the start and has not
since learned.
He has been as temperamental as an opera
diva, and for the most part has done all he
could to turn the French people against their
deliverers from the Germans the United
States and Great Britain but chiefly the
United States.
Now he is coming to Washington, is sche
duled to visit President Truman on Wednes.
day. 1t is as difficult to predict what will
happen then as it has been to foresee his con-
duct on any occasion in the past. But because
he will confer with United States president
possessing an entirely different personality
from his predecessors, it is possible that a
better understanding between the French
leader and Mr.. Truman may be the outcome
Of their interview.
1t has been often commented that presi-
dent Roosevelt and General deGaulle were
TOO much alike to get along amicably save on
the surface, and that the relations between
the United States and France could not be
improved as long as they depended upon this
pair OF showmen. If the comment is in anv
way accurate, the forthcoming meeting at
the White House should he FREQ fro,, ann
tional discord at least
But If, Notwithstanding Mr. Humans ecuable
disposition, his visitor persists in his old atti.
tude and continues to nurse his sold antino.
thies, the American people NAV as ve,,
abandon all hope OF being helpful to France
or expect to enjoy Frances friendship as long
rs deGaulle retains his power in France
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The State Department

ihe resignation of Joseph c. Grew as Under.
secretary OF State after forty-one years spent
:" "le couhtry's service mostly in the .oreiqn
neio' and the appointment of Dean Acheson.
former assistant Secretary as his successor.
10 "Ioely viewed with favor, but not because
mere has been any fundamental fault with
Mr. Crews career
oh Tile contrary, he is highly respected both
as an Official and as citizen His service as
United States Ambassador to Japan for ten
years prior to the war placed him in an-un.
exceiled position to advise the administra.
tlon on conditions in the Orient when his
knowledge WIS most needed.
He is credited with having had considerable
influence in shaping the American policy of
using the Japanese emperor after surrender,
decision. however, which still has to prove
Its merit practical means Of effecting
quick compliance with the Potsdam declara-
taon' instead OF pretty theory.
Mr.. Grew, at sixty-five, and after a long
diplomatic career, is richly entitled to retire
ment and rest
That there will be still other changes in the
State Department, following acceptance OF the
MacLesh and Holmes designations, is clearly
indicated, though they may await the return
OF Secretary Byrnes from the London session
OF the Big Five foreign ministers, for which
ne will soon be leaving the capital. In view
Of the fact that our diplomacy and foreign
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The Literary Guidepost

and third editions came out at tive
year intervals and then there was
hiatus until 1886 while Mencken
was editing The American Mer.
curry. When it came time to get
out the well known Fourth Edition.
Mencken's accumulation of new
material was SO vast and his the.
sis had changed to such an extent
that thorough rewriting was nee.
essary. The author had found that
American, instead Of drawing
away from Standard English
seemed to be in the process Of
bobbliag it up and reducing it to a
dialect.
In planning Fifth Edition, Men.
cken saw that book Of 1000 pages
was no go and so, instead, turned
out the present Supplement.
This doesn't leave much space
to tell about the contents, but that
isn't particularly necessary. The
work is similar to the productions
which preceded it: the style is Just
as electric and the whole affair
is full of entertaining, enlightening
and startling facts about this mar
velous language of ours. Even the
footnotes are lively reading.
This is my meal ticket" Men.
cken once wrote in copy of 1.-The
American Language" in describing
it for a friend.
The world probably will call it
his monument.
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in the radio room to eat and the
French children punched at h e
door to watch.
They are riding with the eating
est crew in the air force" said
T-Sgt. Jesse Gonzalez, Kansas
City, Kas., passing out candy bars
to the children and sandwiches to
the mothers.
Whatever our families send US
from home, we always save to
bring on this trip" said 1t. Harry
A. Shinkle, Jr., Topeka, Kas.
'These French sure are starved"
Radio operator S-Sgt. Red R.
Sweeney Des Moines, was busy let
ting one small boy lesten to the
plane radio and up front 1t. Lewis
R. Ahner, Jr., Chicago, was bait
ling to keep the ship level.
At the first sight of France the
who'd crew pointed and shourted
to the passengers. who crowded to
the windows. One woman turned to
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to glut the lust for destruction of arrogant
Germans.
From the days when Hitler's troops were dew
asting large areas of Russia, it has OBJ
viously been the intention of the Russians to
rebuild and rehabilitate their nation with
German labor, once the victory was won.
Who can blame them?
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Editorial Comment
SAVING OUR SOIL.

Needed conservation on North Cardinals 81
$4,000 acres of land would require PSF 200
man-years Of labor, according to an estimate
by the United States soil conservation service.
Methods of conserving and improving the
North Carolina land would embrace contour
planting, cover crop, crop residue manage
ment, crop rotation, green manure crops, Pc
rennial hay crops. strip cropping, terracino,
etcv The total land suitable for cultivation in
the state now is listed at 16.288,0 900 acres with
1887 900 acres suitable for occasional cult
walton and IL ,476.0 900 for grazing or woodland
use.
Much of this program can be carried out
by individual farm owners and their employees
and tenants But in order to attain the most
satisfactory results the soil conservation pro-
gram should be a cooperative and co-ordlnated
one tended 10 subject whole districts to con-
sistently followed plan. In certain phases of
the soil conservation program, therefore, the
supervisory efforts of the federal soil conser-
walton authorities and agents will continue un-
doubtedly to play vital role.-The Twin City
Sentinel (Winston-Salen).
"IN PRESENT MOOD"-
The New REPUBLICS capable Washington cor
RESPONDENT, who keeps up with the trend at
the national capital, reports Congress- in its
present mood, will almost certainly reject post
war compulsory military training"
Members who spend the holiday with con-
sti+,ents will find outside OF military circles.
that sentiment against this un-American policy
Is overwhelming Its advocates know that un-
1ess thew can rush it through before peace. or
while war fever is active, it is doomed That
is why they moved in early and fired off their
artillery while war was still waging. The New
Ramblic quotes a soldier as saying: 1.-The
,rnfessional military men in Washington are
irving to force CONSUMPTION through congress
)" He feels that system Of conscrint arm
les is likely to lead to war rather than to
1900 and cities his experience. "as draftee
~ IA months Standing, that army discipline
is often degrading Illuminating and brutallz-
ing" and warns that the milltarism M; we are
4.., IL CONSUMPTION bill is passed-Ralelgh
News and Observer
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policy face a strange new world it is to be
expected that Mr.. Brynes will seek men for
key positions in his office best qualified to
meet and deal with the changed conditions
ahead 1t is to be hoped that he will be as
fortunate in other selections as he appears to
have been in the choice of an Under-Secretary.
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press an American hand r.5 'n' ,o o.
tears in her eyes salo' wv SOFT
j osld see l3em . II
times" said Sgt. La0p ia, junl
women weep and the s s,saol Z =
up and down, but thss sitsd."
too sick to get really eScl'eD'
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PRICE CONTROL END' :

BOGoTA, Aug. ~ s,,;,ss:
Colombian government .ods1
price control in ,.r
view Of the wars end
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TOP O, THE MORNING

Behold, it shall come TO pass in the
latter days, saith the Lord, that Will
pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh.
Joel 2; rs