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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-02-01

Before affiliating with the Red Cross,
Quint was on the editorial staff of the
Columbus Citizen.
Three Bluffton men, all in the Army
medical corps met in the Philippines
recently. They are Ctpt. Wade Ba-
singer, son of DR.. and Mrs. Francis
Basinger and his cousin T/5 Ken
meth Basinger and T/5 Emerson Mis-
wander, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Noah
Niswander.
Edwin Badertscher, truck driver
for the Page Dairy plant here was
late in getting in from his route
Tuesday afternoon and thereon
hangs a tale worthy of movie plot.
The timely arrival of the Bluffton
trucker averted a situation which
might have resulted tragically for
six-year-old school girl marooned in
Tuesday mornings blizzard.
With the wind blowing a gale and
temperature near zero, Badertscher
while driving his route was attract
ed by the sight of the child crying
as she stood with her dinner pail
and books in a snow drifted farm
lane near Ottawa.
Stopping to investigate, the child
sobbed out her story-school had
been dismissed early because of the
storm and the bus had taken her
home, but when she arrived at the
house she found the door locked and
her parents gone. Expecting that
the child would be in school until
the usual time in the afternoon they
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-02-01

Bluffton basketball fans enroute to
the high school game at Bellefontaine
last Friday night saw an army trans
port plane crash about 10 miles north
of Bellefontaine in the vicinity of
Belle Center. Clayton Bixel and
Ralph Reichenbach saw the plane
smoking as it went over Bluffton
south bound and Leroy Traucht saw
the plane burst into flames shortly
before it crashed. Other Blufftonites
enroute to the game sighted the red
glow of the burning plane. The plane
carried four men, three of whom were
belived to have been killed. The
fourth parachuted from the plane
safely.
If you write to soldier in New
Guinea, your letter may be handled by
former Bluffton man-two of whom
are in the Army's postoffice there.
They are Harry Bogart, former Bluff
ton rural mail carrier and Gerald
Scoles, son of Dow Scoles near Bluff
ton and brother of Guy north on the
Dixie.
With ration points hiked for butter,
some Bluffton women are again re-
viving the almost forgotten art of
home butter making. According to
our information the top from four
quarts of milk properly processed in a
small glass churn or mason jar will
turn out approximately a half-pound
of butter.
Word that Harold (Don) West
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-02-01

had made no provision Tor her
early return.
Knowing that her grandparents
lived mile down the road, Bader-
fischer bundled her into the heated
cab of his truck and bucked snow
drifts for the mile stretch and then
carried the child quarter of mile
down snow-drifted lane to deliver
the child safely at the grandparents
home.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-02-01

Vegetables get minerals from the
soil. II the soil is deficient then the
vegetables will be low in minerals.
An inadequate mineral supply in the
soil has also been shown to cause a
decreased vitamin content of vege-
tables. Mineral deficiency may also
delay maturity, and even be respon-
sible for the loss of crop due to an
early killing frost.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-02-01

Word that Harold (Don) West
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-03-02

ing cancer from the German
body, which for generations has
produced only misery and pain
for the whole world.
During my stay at Yalta, l saw
the kind of reckless, senseless fury
and destruction which comes out
of German militarisn. Yalta had
no military significance of any
kind, and no defenses.
Before the last war, it had been
resort for the Cars and for the
aristocracy of Russia. AfterWard,
however, and until the attack upon
the Soviet Union by Hitler, the
palaces and villas of Yalta had
been used as rest and recreation
center by the Russian people.
The Nazi officers took them over
for their own use; and when the
Red Army forced the Nazis out
of the Crimea, these villas were
looted by the Nazis, and then near
ly all were destroyed. And even
the humblest of homes were not
spared.
There was little left in Yalta but
ruin and desolation.
Sevastopol was also scene of
utter destruction-with less than a
dozen beild1ngs left intact in the
whole city.
Ihad read about Warsaw and Lii
dice and Rotterdam and Coventry
but 1 saw Sevastopol and Yalta
And 1 know that there is not
enough room on earth for both
German militarism and Christ
ian decency.
OF equal importance with the
military arrangements at the Cri-
mean Conference were the agree
ments reached with respect to a
gneral international organization
for lasting world peace. The foun-
dations were laid at Dumbarton
Oaks. There was one point, how
ever, on which agreement was not
reached at Dumbarton Oaks. It in
volved the procedure of voting in
the security council.
At the Crimean Conference,
America made a proposal on this
subject which, after full discus
sion, was unanimously adopted by
the other two nations.
It Is not yet possible to announce
the terms Of that agreement pub
licily, but it will be in very short
time.
When the conclusions reached at
the Crimean Conference with res
pect to voting in the security coun-
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-03-02

ci1 IRE made known, I believe you
will find them a fair solution OF
this complicated and difficult prob
lem. They are founded in justice,
and will go far to assure inter-
national cooperation in the main
tenance of peace.
A conference of all the United
Nations of the world will meet in
San Francisco on April rs, 1915,
There. we all hope, and confident
ly expect. to execute a definite
charter of organization under
which the peace of the world will
be preserved and the forces of ag-
erosion permanently outlawed.
This time we shall not make the
mistake Of waiting until the end
of the war to set up the machin-
cry of peace. This time, as we
fight together to get the war over
Quickly, we work together to keep
it from happening again.
l am we'll aware Of the consti-
tutional fact-as are all the United
Nations that this charter bust be
approved by two-thirds of the Sen
ats of the United States-as will
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-03-02

some of the tother arrangements
made at Yalta.
The Senate of the United STATES
through its appropriate represen-
tatives, has been kept continuous
ly advised of the program OF this
government in the creation Of the
international secruity organization.
The Senate and House OF Repre-
sentatives. will both be represented
at the San Francisco Conference.
The Congressional delegates to the
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-03-02

San Francisco Conference will
consist of an equal number of Re-
publican and Democratic mem
bers. The American delegation is
In every sense of the word-bi.
partisan.
World peace is not a party ques-
ton - any more than is military
victory.
When our republic was threat
ened, first by the Nazi clutch for
world conquest in 1910. and then
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-03-02

by the Japanese treacber,, .
partlsanship and politics D,a W. 1871,
a ass BY nearly every A Te1e laid
to n,lu o, every resource was dedic r.ta;
c ~ our common safety, The s's sa
CONSIDERATION con de to the cause l of same sam.
tic American and ~, NelY patrio.
soul overseas. 'y human
Inc structure of world Dear.
continued on Page Thirteen,
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-03-02

EDITORS NOTE: The fol-
lowing test is taken from the
original manuscript as draft
ed for presentation by Mr..
Roosevelt to Congress and
does not include the last min
ute interpretations that he made
in is delivery
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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-13
CASE AGAINST YOUTH,
ACCUSED OF SHAPING
CHILD, is POSTPONED

On the petition of the defense
council, a Recorders court hearing
for a 17-year-old father, accused of
painfully injuring his four-month-
old son by severe face slappings,
yesterday was ordered postponed
until Wednesday. The defendant
posted $500 bond for his appear
ance.
Carl Ward, of Maffitt Village,
was arrested late Saturday morn
ing on warrant sworn out by the
18-year-old mother of the child.
She had told officers that her hus-
band slapped the infant on the face
earlier in the day because it cried
and refused food, w. H. Stanley,
chief of Village police, said.
Three hours after the incident,
Chief Stanley said the baby still
carried the imprint of four fingers
across its forehead and face. He
said blood was issuing from its
nose and between it's eyes when
police viewed the baby. Photos of
the child taken by Wilmington po-
lice are expected to be exhibited
at the hearing.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-13
Easy Passage OfBond
Deadline Bill Sighted

which would enable it to under
take matter Of so, great impor-
lance to the community as the
purchase of a public utility, with
out a vote of the people"
The bond measure, the second
local bill to be presented to the
1915 Legislature by Rep. LeGrand,
was formulated with the purpose
Of allowing the City and County,
separately or jointly, to issue
bond-series to finance the building
of tobacco warehouses and public
terminals for the Port of Whining
ton, he said.
Enactment of the bill would give
the City and County the alterna-
tive of financing the port project
locally, if other plans do not ma
terialize. The possibility of State
aid in this Improvements program
has been taken Under ADJUSTMENT
by the State Planning board.
The possibility was advanced
that Mr.. LeGrand would introduce
this week the amendment to the
Pension act with some changes. >
The City-prepared legislation is
asking to bring under the benefit
program the employees of the Alco-
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-13
HILLMAN URGES
new LABOR BODY

LONDON, Feb. H. R Sidney
Hillman, declaring that peace set
Elements are being made which
demand labor's participation, pro.
posed today the immediate estab-
lishment of a new world labor or-
ganization in which the American
Federation of Labor as well as
the CLIO would be represented.
The chairman of the CLIO Poll
teal Action Committee said mem
bers of the existing International
Federation of Trade Unions were
unable to agree among themselves
and charged the ALL, an IFTU
affiliate, with nursing narrow
factional feuds, petty jealousies
and anti-Soviet bias
He spoke at a session of the
World Trade Union Congress in
which unions from 40 countries
are represented. The AFL, which
has contended that the WTUC is
dominated by Moscow, is not par
ticipating.
proposing that the WTUC should
create the new world labor organ
lzation, Hillman said the current
conference should designate a
committee to implement its deci-
sions and declarations, call a con-
stitutional convention and prepare
and circulate drafts of a constitu-
ton among organizations invited
to attend the constitutional conven-
ton,
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-13
SERVICE ARGUMENT
END IS FORESEEN

New Hanover's representative to
the lower House yesterday predict
ed that the controversy that ragged
several weeks between Whining
ton firemen-policemen and the
City Council over the City's move
to repeal the 1941 Civil Service
act and set up a new-type com
mission, and lately has been on
the wane from a publicity stand
point, would be "settled by next
Weekend"
Refusing to elaborate other than
to call his forecast a Legislative
hunch," Rep. J. @. LeGrand said
81 feel sure that the affected par
ties will come to agreement by
next weekend.
No public announcemen as to the
decisions of the City-Police and
firemen have been forthcoming
since Mayor Ronald Lane called
upon individual councilmen not to
form ultimate opinions until the
Council as body could study the
oDJectlOnS OF the polce-1lr emen
group to its new measure.
However, it is understood that
Mayor Lane and Councilman Gar
land S. Currin have for the past
few weeks held various confer
ences with the four-man commit
tee from the two City departments
and it is probable that Mr.. Legrand
referred to some compromise he
expects the two committees to
work out.
Members of the two departments,
through their appointed committee,
have repeatedly raised objections
to the repeal of the l941 bill, which
they described as 1.-THE one we want
to keep
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-13
ARMY RECREATION
CAMP TO BE SOLD

The first military camp of any
size to be declared surplus and
offered for sale in North Carolina,
the Carolina Beach Recreational
Area, will be sold soon to the high
est bidder by the War Department,
through the War Department Real
Estate office in Raleigh, Walter F.
Williams, project manager, an
nounced yesterday.
H. E. Hicks, of the Wilmington
Army Engineers office, explained
that the 141 structures on the
area to be sold would have 20 be
moved by the buyer as the land
does not belong to the Government
He emphasized that the sale has
no connection with the disposal OF
Fort Fisher, saying the area was
about mile from the town Of
Carolina Beach on the Ethyl-DoW
plant road.
Sealed bids, in quadrupicate,
will be received until 10 a. n. Feb.
ruary %, and then publicly opened
at the office of the project man
ager.
Bids may be submitted for one
or any number OF items, but a
separate amount must be bid for
each building or improvement con-
shutting an item, Mr.. Williams
said, adding that lump sum bids
covering several or all items will
not be considered.
The right is reserved, as the in
terest Of the Government may re
quire, to reject any and all bids,
to waive any defect or informally
in bids received and to accept or
reject any item or items of any
kind, unless such bid is qualified
| by specific limitation.
The camp, Mr.. Hicks explained,
originally was constructed for a
recreation area for troops and later
used as quarters for combat
team.
The individual structures are
now subject to inspection by pros.
pective purchasers and will be
sold las Isl and where is
Information as to the meaning
of the provisions of the invitation
for bids and any additional intor.
nation should be obtained from
the Division Engineer, Real Estate
Project Manager, 915 Insurance
building, Raleigh.
Structures for sale include an in.
Urinary, officers club, motor re.
pair shops, mess halls, oil houses,
gas stations, storehouses, post ex-
change, adninitration building,
headquarter- building and guard
house.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-13

A Wilmington-sponsored bill to
extend to 1949 the deadline of the
Statewide Bond-Limitation Act of
1913, carrying a limitations clause
preventing the purchase OF the
Tide Water Power Co., by the
City, was in the hands Of the House
Judiciary Committee yesterday
with favorable action expected to-
day, according to Representative
j. @. LeGrand.
An amendment to the legislation
prepared by City Attorney W. B.
Campbell was inserted by Mr.. Le-
Grand. He explained that Il should
not like to pass legislation which
would enable the City Council to
undertake a matter of so great
Importance to the community as
the purchase of public utility
without a vote of the people. .
Mr.. LeGrand said he felt "rea-
sonably sure the bill will be
passed by the General Assembly.
lr an explanation of his action,
the New Hanover representative
pointed out that Statewide rev.
enue bond bill was passed in 1888
to permit municipalities to issue
self-liquidating revenue bonds.
This expired in 1914, so that the
Legislature in 1913 extended the
authority to March l, 1915 with
out limitation as to what the bonds
could be issued for"
Mr.. Campbells bill, approved by
the City and County, proposed to
extend to 1949 the authority "only
insofar as it affected New Han
over county and its municipali-
ties" Mr.. LeGrand said. 81
amended the act to provide that
it does not authorize the issuance
of revenue bonds for the purchase
of property, assets or facilities of
any public utility now furnishing
gas or electricity to the City of
Wilmington or its residents.
The 1888 bill permits the issu-
ance of bonds without a vote of
the people for various purposes,
among them being to purchase and
operate facilities for furnishing
gas and electricity.
THE City Council might, if it SO
elected, issue revenue bonds with
out vote of the people for the
purchase of the facilities of the
Tide Water Power Co. While
the present Council has declared
it is no longer considering this
step, a new Council will be elect
ed in May, and until the personnel
Of the new Council is known,
should not like to pass legislation
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-13
TODAY and TOMORROW
BY WALTER LIPPMANN

Many are saying that the Black
Sea conference will mark the be-
ginning of long peace o. of an
other world war. If that is true, if
the Allies are at the fork of the
road, what is the crucial problem
which, decided one way, leads to
peace, and decided in another
way, to war?
Without a doubt it is the prob
lem of how the Germans are to
be pacified, reconstructed, and read
mitted into the community of
states. If the Allies can agree on
that. there is no other issue for
which diplomacy cannot find a So
luton. But if Germany is the field
of irreconcilable dipute, all other
differences that present themselves
in central Europe, the Middle East
and the Far East will tend to
become insoluble.
The paramount importance of the
German question is not always
fully appreciated in American dis
cussion, and also perhaps to write
off the German is totally defeated,
and then to dwell on other ques-
tions-in the liberated countries
and in the colonial and dependent
areas of the world-as separate
areas of the world--as separate
and somehow unrelated to the
German question. But the fact of
the matter is that the most i'm
portant of these other questions
have been raised as result of
the German aggression, and they
can be solved by friendly agree
men: among the Allies only if there
is agreement about the future of
Germany.
The stark and simple but con-
trolling fact in the whole world
situation is that Germany lies
between the Soviet Union and
Great Britain, France, the United
States. War cannot be waged be-
tween the democracies and the
Soviets without crossing Germany,
without the one or the other max
ing an ally of Germany to be the
spearhead of the attack. In eastern
Asia neither the Soviets nor the
westerners could in the foresee-
ablefuture deploy their forces and
fight decisively. If there is to be
the third world war, which it is
our supreme task to prevent, tne
center of the conflict could only be
whether Germany, restored as
power, was to be joined
with the Soviets against the west,
Or with the west against the
5oviets.
It is just as well for US to spell
out the matter in these brutal and
elementary terms because, then,
we can see most clearly what the
problem is, what is at stake, and
in. what direction we must 20 to
achieve peace. For nothing is more
certain than that the German war
party will remain active, though
it is for a time hidden, if the pos
slbllity exists that Germany could
make deal with the westerners
against the Soviets, or vice versa.
1t is equally certain that recipro-
cal suspicion among the Allies that
one or another was contemplating
such a deal will promote the tend
ency to make such a deal.
The absolute foreclosure of this
possibility is the indispensable first
condition of any kind of peaceable
and free Germany. The war party
in Germany will never disappear
if there is any chance what<5er
that Germany can divide the Allies,
can bid comparatively for their
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-13
LOCAL BOARDS SET.
TO AID VETERANS

In an effort to aid returning vet
Grams. draft boards throughout the
state have taken over the making
Of monthly statistical reports on
the amount of assistance rendered
veterans and will make more de-
tailed reports to State Selectlve
System headquarters in Raleigh,
officials of Draft board No. 1 an
nounced yesterday.
Local boards will interview each
returning serviceman, whether he
is a registrant of that board or
not, and if he needs any assistance
under the &c. I. Bill of Rights;
will refer him to an agency for dl-
rect help, it was said.
If he desires new job, the
board will refer him to the U. S.
Employment Service, and it he
wants his old job, he will be re-
ferred to the boards re-employ-
ment committeeman who. in turn,
will contact the veteran former
employer.
In a regional meeting held here
Saturday, 1t. Col. Thomas Upton
of Raleigh, assistant director OF the
State Selective Service, told 19
draft board clerks from IL sur
rounding counties that the purpose
of the service was ito establish a
friendly relationship and coopera-
tive spirit between the returning
veteran and his local boards"
Local boards have expressed
their willingness to cooperate IN
every possible manner with the en-
largement of the North Carolina
Veterans Assistance and Postwar
Employment program, it was said.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-13

favors, can work herself back to
place where she holds the bal
ance of power between them.
Agreement about Germany is,
therefore, the fundamental condi-
ton of a world peace. 1t is by
their success in proving to one
another that their aims in Ger
many are essentially the same
that the Allies can learn to trust
one another, and so to collaborate
on the other questions.
1t is obvious that when this has
been said, we do not yet have
common policy and a plan for the
treatment of Germany. But unless
we see the matter in this perspec-
tive, we shall not get to common
policy and workable plan. The de-
termination not to let Germany di-
vide us is not in itself map
of the intricate road we shall have
to travel. But it is the fixed star
by which we can tell whether or
not we are headed in the right
direction.
Have we the warrant for behev-
ing that the real intention of our
allies is, like our own, to make the
defeat of Germany the beginning
of a long peace? l think we nave
no reason to doubt it. Those who
dc doubt it cite claims and actions
taken by one or the other of the
Allies. The justice or the wisdom
of these disputed points is GER
tainly arguable. But what cannot
l think be asserted is that in these
affairs the Interior purpose of the
Soviet Union, Great Britain, or
France is its own ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
rather than its own security
through a lasting peace.
If in fact, as some assert, the
Interior purpose of any one of
them were aggrandizement and
domination and conquest, they
would not be carrying this war to
its final conclusion in the total de-
feat of Germany. There, l submit,
is the objective proof, far more
conclusive than words could ever
be, that a secure peace is what our
allies want. For if they did not
want that, they would not now be
more closely united than ever to
destroy the German power. Each
of them has had the chance, each
has had offers, to make terms
with Germany against the others.
The French had it under Petain,
and the French nation refused.
The British had it when Rudolph
Hess came to England in l941 just
before Hitler attacked the Soviet
Union. The Russians have, we
may be sure, had many offers. If,
as some so gibly assume, their real
object was not peace but domina-
ton through power politics." any
one of them in it's turn could have
won the game Of power politics by
playing the ace of trumps, which
was to negotiate a separate peace
and alliance with Germany.
That they did not do that, but
have spent their blood and their
treasure to achieve the total defeat
of Germany, is to any one who I'm
derstands the games of power poll
tics, the surest proof that our
allies have not been playing it.