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PETAIN TO FACE
TREASON CHARGES
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\SVlktAAACu axe OACJ
have an explanation with them
after the victory
Before the Allies invaded France,
De Gaulle publicly had termed the
aged Petain. an "evangel of de.
cadence and branded laval and
other Vichyites as a "band of
traitors"
The French foreign office an
nounced that Switzerland had noti-
fled the De. Gaulle government OF
the marshall's arrival and that
Petain had requested permission
to pass through Swiss territory in
order to surrender himself as a
prisoner at the French frontier.
The French communique an
nounced that Petain would be
summoned to appear for his trea-
son trial May 1.-THE date was
set today by the ministry Of an
formation before news of Petain's
surrender was received here-but
that the erstWhile PROXY hearing
would be postponed then to give
him time to prepare his defense.
A government spokesman dis
closed that the Germans originally
applied to the Swiss government
for permission for Petain to pass
through Swiss territory. -
The marshal and his wife arriv-
ed at the SWiss-Austrian frontier
shortly before 9 am. He remained
in his car during the hour-long
frontier proceedings but waved to
the crowd as he left tiny Saint
Margarethen for Saint Galler
where the presently is staying I'M
til he leaves for France.
France was electrified by the
news of the Marshars arrival in
Switzerland and of his plans tc
stand trial.
Few Frenchmen had ever ex
pected that the former hero Of
Verdun, whose troops successfully
stood off 80 of Germanys best divi-
sions in the first world war, and
who coined the famous slogan
they shall not pass" would ever
stand in the docket. But they had
eagerly awaited the public read
ing of his private papers.
The charge of high treason
against Petain is based on prob
ably the largest dossier ever COM
piled against any accused person
in France Thousands of docu-
ments. official communications
letters and records of his cores
pondence with the Germans VII
be introduced.
The prosecution, headed by
Andre Mornet, said Petaln's dos
sier would show the whole story
of events Immediately leading uk
to the fall of France and the rec
ord of what occurred thereafter
most of which has not been dis
closed.
The prosecution also. said the
dossier would show with almos'
complete accuracy the extent te
which the French collaboration
acted on direct orders from him
It also was known that the prose
cution would attempt to prove thai
Petain was in communication witt
the Nazis even before the war.
Gen. De Gaulle himself may oe
called upon to testify since he VIZ
present at the stormy session II
June, 1910, when Petain announc
ed he was going to sue for al
arnistice. The marshal was ada
mant when De Gsulle and othel
military leaders argued that thu
French army still was capable O
holding a large section OF France
| especiallY the Brittany coast.
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george Leftwich Named.
New Baptist Moderator

me spring session of the Will
nun h.ng'on Baptist Association was
.eia at the Carolina Beach Bap.
; rs. church recently with George
.eltWlch, of Temple Baptist church
pplesldlng as moderator. The Rev.
n .ue Bradley resigned from this
p sa;' and now is serving as
MISSIONARY with the State board,
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Negro Demonstration
Clubs To Hold Revue

The New Hanover Negro home
demonstration clubs, under the di.
rectisn Of Rebecca E. Lawrence,
will note their spring achievement
day with dress revue in Willis
ton Primary school at 10 am. Sat
urday.
Models from feed bags, recon
ditioned garments and all-new out
fits will be displayed. A specialist
from Greensboro will award prizes
for the best outfits modelled.
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CLOTHING DRIVE
NEARING CLIMAX
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(COntInued from Page OneJ
clothes are shipped to the State
central warehouse at Raleigh.
Church auxiliaries and PTA's
are being kept busy packing the
clothes at the various :; centers,
Dosher said. .. Z
The chairman appealed to all
citizens to carry their used cloth.
ing to the nearest church or school
this week, the final week of the
drive. ~
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new they
HaS1AND||
YESTERDAY RESULTS

American League
St. Louis at Cleveland ppnd.
Detroit at Chicago ppnd.
Boston at Washington ppnd.
only games scheduled
National League
New YORK 5, Philadelphia 2.
Boston 5, Brooklyn 6.
Chicago at Cincinnati ppnd.
(Only games scheduled.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-04-25

The Lone Star Route Highway
is 1,130 miles long, and connects
the Great Lakes with the Gulf Of
Mexico.
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Brazil gets its name from its
earliest article Of export, pau Bra
bill, a tree from whose heart-wood
a valuable crimson dye was ex-
ira cted.
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BUY WAR BONDS AND STAMPS
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sary hardsilips The OPA has not yet solved
the problem Of distribution, and maintains
certain restrictions that obviously are against
the public welfare, but Administrator BoWles-
has made some progress and seems deter
mined to make more.
Civilian food needs are not satisfactorily
administered, as witness the shortage OF
meats. There has been something radically
wrong here for a long time It could be,
however, that past mistakes will point to their
own cure. In that case, the OPA will be
the proper agency to apply the remedy.
For this reason, and because Of the world
situation in foods, continuation of the OPA
may be advisable But it should continue only
if President Truman applies to its operation
the common sense that has been 50 apparent
in his decisions since assuming the presiden.
ey.
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Lee Miller Covers The Pacific

Igo to Indiana and talk to Ernie S
father and his Aunt Mary, and to
his schoolmates at Indiana Univer-
sity. He ought to talk to people who
worked with him in the old days in
Washington when we were young
and carefree and Ernie met Gerry.
And with some of the old aviation
crowd who used to gather at Err
MES and Gerry's place at 1855 N St.
S. w., in Washington think that
was the number-and talk shop or
sweat out the disappearance of a
mail pilot.
He ought to comb through Err
MES letters to his friends-there
is a bale of them at my office,
and Gerry and Cavanaugh and Roz
Goodman and lots of other people
must have many letters tucked
away.
1t ought to be a careful job,
not slapdash thing to "catch
the market" I don't think Ernie is
going to be forgotten in a hurry.
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Ito be cleaned out by fire and
sword. The Germans still hold
some of the chief French ports.
They are fighting hard in south
ern France, where, incidentally,
they appear to be receiving aid
from Franco Spain in spite of the
bringing protestations of friend
ship for the democracies that have
recently come from Franco.
Because the American advance
has been so rapid across. major
supply lines inside Germany, the
final battle in the Bavarian Alps
may not be as prolonged as some
have feared. 1t should not, how
ever, be discounted. The setting is
ideal for a vengeance fight by the
fanatics Of German fascism. Such
a fight might prove very costly.
From our point of view here at
home, the proclamation OF We
day at this time would encourage
the foolish fallacy that the war
is almost over and our response
bility ended. It would come at a
time when of necessity certain
controls are being frightened rath-
err than relaxed.
Assistant Secretary OF War John
J. McCloy has just returned from
tour of the European battlefront
| to confirm what many have said
recently-that the task of rehabil-
itation in Europe is an overwhelm-
ing one. We must try to play our
part in that task. 1t is a phase
of the war itself, and failure in
this final phase will mean that we
have stopped short of victory.
Taking the word of our military
planners, we must prepare for a
prolonged war against Japan We
have yet to come up against the
main mass of the Japanese Army,
and there, too, fanaticism will
play part.
In calculating the end of the
war, Gen. Eisenhower and our
other military leaders have made
one mistake. They have assumed
that the decision to surrender
would come in Germany when it
was apparent, by any reasonable
or logical standard, that military
defeat was inevitable. That was
why all plans were based on
German capitulation la t fall
sometime between October Is and
| November 1.
But the Nazi leaders are moi
reasonable or logical. They are
fanatics determined to impose
their will on Europe or bring the
whole continent to utter ruin.
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Vote At Carolina Beach

Carolina Beach held town election on
Tuesday in which five members of the BOARD
of Aldermen were selected from eleven can
didates. They are: W. G. Fountain, who led
the field. A. P. Peay. Thomas A. Groom, A.
L. Jewell and A. L. Reynolds. Mr.. Groom
who is connected with the North Carolina
Shipbuilding Company, is the only successful
candidate who is not hold-over.
While congratulations are due the winners,
and are herewith rendered, the election dem
onstrated that the people of Carolina Beach
take their politics and their duty to vote more
seriously than the people of most American
towns and cities.
The registration totaled 627. The total vote
was 544. The polls closed at $50, not at
shutdown. If the closing had been simultaneous
with sunset probably fifty more ballots would
have been cast Many voters arrived at the
polls too late. With this half hundred more
votes in the ballot box, the total would have
been well over 80 per cent of the total reg
istration.
The voters of Carolina Beach have set AN
example the people of Wilmington would do
well to follow In the recent election less than
so per cent Of the registered voters went
to the polls.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-05-03
BY w. G. ROGERS
"THE BEST FROM YANK,
THE ARMY WEEKLY" (Dut-
ton: Sc. sol

COH, 9o.oUJ.
If you can't go to war yourself,
the next best way to learn what
it's like is to read these excerpts
from Yank.
In theory the man who does the
soldering should be the one who
can give the best account of it.;
this book proves that theory cor
rect. This. is the story from the
inside out. Yank's writer's are in
uniform; they tell you not only
what the soldier. sailor and Ma
rine do, but what they are; not
what combat looks like, but what
it is.
1t may not be the story the
boys parents want to hear. There
are no heroics, little idealisn;
there is some vulgarity; there is
the rock bottom truth about our
enemies written by the men who
see the most Of them, and it isn't
pretty.
But it's very real and warming.
You'll laugh with Sad Sack and
Artie Greengroin. grit your teeth
at some doings of japanese, Ger
mans and Italians, weep as our
men suffer and die.
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Is Hitler Dead?

II we were dealing with an honorable foe
more credible. As it is, and in view of German
contempt for the truth, the report Of his pass
ing which was made by the Hamburg radio is
generally accepted as another Nazi trick. Ev-
a dental chart and physical markings. and we
will believe him dead Lacking this evidence,
the Allied world at large will, remain in its
present doubling Thomas frame fnind
This view fingers in may minds despite
President Trunnan's statement that Hitler is
dead, and Moscow's announcement to the same
effect.
1t may be he did suffer a brain hemorrhage
and succu1nbed to it. But he is known to have
doubles, at least two Of them. And because
he stole great wealth from the German people
and is reputed to have secreted much of it
outside the Reich, it will be believed by many
that he left one Doubt to die for him in a
Berlin burroW while he made his escape after
operations that changed his whole physiogono-
my.
Whether it ultimately develops that h faith
err of Nazism is corpse or not, it is apparent
that the Nazi party in Germany has undergone
changes at the top Admiral Karl Doenitz has
become fuehrer, allegedly by Hitler's appoint
ment before his rurnored demise. Doenitz is
a Navy man, and commanded Germanys sub
marine fleet. That gives him military rating
and might make him acceptable to the Allied
High Command in arranging for Germany
the former World War, but may not be as
crazy now as the rest OF them.
Heinrich Hmniler seems to be out probably
because Of the great numbers of Germans he
executed. Won Ribbentrop is missing from the
German councils, but save for his craftiness in
negotiating treaties to be broken he never
counted for much. Goering is gone Goebbels
is has been. The whole Hitler hierarchy has
fallen. The house of Cards the mad Austrian
sign painter built in a Munich beer hall is
destroyed.
It inevitable from the beginning No
man can dominate the world. Alexander Cae-
sar, Genghs Khan, Napoleon proved that The
pity is that the world had to pay such high
price in lives and property to prove it again.
The hope is that out of this war will come a
pattern of peace that no later dictator can
tear to shreds.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-05-03
Ten Staff Assistants
Arrive AT Camp Davis
On Red Cross Forces

CAMP DAVIS, May 2 Ten new
staff assistants of the American
Red Cross reported 10 Cam0 DAYS
last Sunday for further training as
recreation workers. They received
the first part of their instruction
in Washington, D. c. The glls Wal
prepare here for a period OF '@'
weeks and then be assigned u
overseas recreation clubs.
They are: Marion R. Graoe.a
White Plains N. Y. and Charl@1s
w. Davenport, PittsficId Mas
formerly associated with l''s
magazine. Mary Dunbar Ala. a
Ga. was an editorial assistant " Il
the War Department and OWE
Margaret Yunghahn Jcsoy on,
N. j., former assistant drecf1. d
student activities at Ne" Z
University; GeorgIna " Cree,
Great Neck, l., l., n. " Va !
Department: Catherine A. E+'' =,
Santa Ana California. teacae. d
Santa Ana schools; Lois Iaar
man, Worthwhile, Michigan. t-'.
TWA Airlines; Alice j, Wo'1'3.J3
Kansas City, Mo, secretary ' s.l
copy writer; Kay c Well ADJ. ..
querque N. M, commerce. al.' .
and Doris l.. Keane, formerly c'[
nected with the Rock Island Raf
road.
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body else ever did. She writes
beautifully.
But Gerry hasn't been well these
past few years, and now that the
thing has happened that she dread
ed during those lonely days and
years in Albuquerque-well, I guess
it's out of the question.
If Max or somebody does write
book about Ernie, it ought to be
the whole story, not just a gilded
Success story" or Parson
Weems fable.
Maybe John Steinbeck would do
it, or Ernie's old friend Paige Cav
anaugh, or Milton Mackaye or Dor
othy Disney or any one of many
writing people who were Ernie's
close friends. But let them picture
the whole man. Ernie was no card
board saint. He used bad words
sometimes. He drank sometimes.
It was fun for him to relax. with
friends over few highballs.
Any biographer of Ernie should
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-05-03
WASHINGTON CALLING 6
by MIEM
MARQUIS CHlLDS &@,3|

WASHINGTON-From all indi
cations the proclamation Of We
day has been indefinitely post
poned, and that is wise deci
sion.
The proclamation was to have
come with the juncture of the U
S., British and Russian troops or
as an alternative, with the fall Of
Berlin. Announcement of the enc
Of the war in Europe would have
come simultaneously from the Al
lied commanders in the field.
That was the plan agreed upor
just before the great drive across
the Rhine was launched. Gen, Els
enhower expected resistance tc
that drive to be much greater thar
lit was. He was far from optimis
tic in the days just before the big
push.
In one respect, his fondest hopes
have been exceeded. Organized
military re 81 s ce has beer
slight, and our progress has beer
correspondingly rapid.
On the other hand, the Nazis
are working with fanatical deter
mination to create the utmost
chaos and confusion. And they are
succeeding all too well.
Germany mot surrender
There is no longer any coheren
German state. There are only ia
natical bands bent on a rebirtf
of fascism in the ruins of Europe
To subdue these bands. to elm
mate the so-called pockets. of re
sistance dotted through Europe
will not be easy. Months of hare
fighting. still lie ahead. AS Presi
dent Truman pointed out, the hou1
of final victory in Europe is no
yet here. That is why any proc
lamation of We day at this time
would tend to create a dangerous
illusion.
A Nazi garrison is holding ou
on the Isle of Jersey in the Eng
llsh channel. They were strong
enough and aggressive enough, no
many weeks ago, to conduct {
raid. on the coast of France ii
which they took prisoners ane
plumber.
On the other side of Europe
more than 10000 Germans arr
still on Crete in the Aegean. A
last reports they were full of fight
with sufficient stocks of food anc
ammunition. German anti-aircraf
batteries on Crete still force Brit
ish flyers to approach their tar
gets with healthy caution.
Between Jersey and Crete are
many garrisons-some of then
Numerically strong-that will have
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The Literary Guidepost

In this generous seloc.an ~
some 300 big pages There .
ties, fun in the caa0s cd -'-.
and abroad, our Alike, '.I ''-
GERS as seen by their .'.'.
and our men as seen r. IT,.
equals in story, cac,q@ d
tograph. Only in vc- 4;
servicemen-Writers fall -.-' "
adequate expression ~
Yank has 125 staff n0e7 CTS II
prints IS different e5'1
around the world At tie
book went TO press o. Oh. ~,
members had been Killed ss,[ -s
held Purple Hearts and there VIZ. ...
other medals. Among the Wl,,s- =.
Walter Bernstein, Marion ne s
grove and william Saroyaa? a.
we'll known to a civilian atale,,.,
Yank's editors selected THIS ''1
terial. arn
"OTHER MEMS FLOWERS
selected and annotated Dy
P. Wavell Putnam SOW
There are 400 pages ~ .s.n ~
and most of them the fe.f
shall knows by heart. K~ IT,.
Browning predominant r
are also Blake, Dryden H'' ~,
Shakespeare. Poe, "anon IN.
by Wavell. A soldiers ta5ie -
teresting.
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OPA And The Future

president Truman places the stamp of his
approval upon longer life for the Office of
Price Administration, saying the needs of our
Allies and the threat Of anarchy abroad no
require continuation of the office. He is re-
ported to have told Chester Bowles, OPA ad-
rainistrator, that had it not been for the sta.
Utilization program 1--WE should have had run
away initiation"
The thought Of price control Under Truman
is not as repugnant as in the early days Of
the program when, from the public view
point, the sole idea was to impose unneces
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Adding Machine
Stops Epidemic

Medical science has developed many ap-
pliances for preserving health and preventing
epidemics but it took this war to include the
comptometer among them.
Sounds cockeyed but it's true. An influenza
epidemic was spotted by adding machines
Most careful records are kept of American
soldiers by the medical records division in
London. Many enlisted men, Wacs, and ci-
villain men and women sort cards covered
with notations of battle casualties and hospi-
tai cases. They Use many types of machines,
from the little hand manipulated to the great
electrically operated ones.
1t was from the graphs and charts pre-
pared by this office that the scope of prepa-
rations for hospital beds, ambulances, medi-
cal personnel and other essentials were de-
termned for D-day
Kathleen Mclaughlin, in the New York
Times, writes:
making of these records begins as wound
ed man get first aid on the battlefield with
the medic often scribbling his notations I'M
der fire.
The first stop in processing the cards adds
symbols representing each type of injury as
we'll as the weapon that inflicted it, which
are used to obtain the quick breakdowns in
any category.
Analysts with extensive experience inter-
pref the charts and graphs produced by this
section and it is through them that most of
the major trends are detected.
'It was combination of these procedures
that caught the flareup Of influenza in the
fall of 1913, which was then pin-pointed on a
map to reveal its concentration, and controls
were then instituted that prevented It's
spread"
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BY LEE G. MILLER

MANILA-(by wireless)-Before
l get on with writing about the war
out here, l though l might have a
little more about Ernie Pyle.
As matter of fact said long
ago that if Ernie ever got killed
I'd go home at once and try to
write biography of him. 1t ought
to be done. But it looks as if I'll
have to stay overseas a while.
Maybe 1t. Comdr. Max Miller, au-
thor of II Cover the Waterfront"
and many other books, would do a
biography of Ernie. Max loved him
and Max was with him for weeks
in the Pacific.
But nobody ought to write book
about Ernie without Ger2y's help.
Gerry is Ernie's wife-"That Girl'
he used to mention in his column.
If Gerry were in better health she
ought to write a book herself. She
knew Ernie far better than any,
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In Pennsylvania And
The Ruhr

While anthracite coal miners in this coun-
try, under the leadership Of their dictator
John L. Lewis, quit work at crucial period
of the war, the coal mines Of the Ruhr dis
trict are in operation again and soon will
be putting out enough fuel to meet the needs
civilian needs in Europe.
The job Of getting Ruhr mines back into
production is being done by American, Brit
ish, French, Belgian and Dutch engineers
men who have seen war at its worst and
only by the interposition of kind providence
are. alive to perform this great and helpful
task assigned to them
The miners in Pennsylvania anthracite fields
have no experience OF war, nor any idea OF
its horrors and suffering. They have homes
to dwell in. They eat three times day No
open fields under shell fire as a bed for
them no K-rations gobbled Under tanks or
trucks during momentary pauses on the way
to- the front But they strike because their
old contract has expired and Lewis tells them
not to work until they get new one, wher
the coal they ought to be mining is needed
for production of war TOOLS. .
They probably will win out. The emergency
is too great, and the WLB too easy, to stand
out for an equitable deal between miners anc
operators. But it appears very likely tina
when the soldiers come home from the wal
coal mine strikers and all strikers everywhere
will have to settle with them, and the settle
men will not be a soft one