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JOIN THE NAACP

will save himself delay in the
end.
The veteran who fails to file a
claim at the time of discharge
may do so later by obtaining a
form direct from the Veterans Ad-
ministration facility (hospital or
soldiers home) nearest his home
town. Or he may obtain one from
his community's Red Cross chap
ter or from any veterans organ
ization or from his Aerie.
Veterans Administration facili-
ties are located in these cities:
ALABAMA: Montgomery, Tusca-
loosa, Tuskegee.
ARIZONA: Tucson, Whipple.
Contributed by Archie Fumer-
ton, life member Fraternal Order
Eagles, also life member Disabled
American War Veterans.
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FLASH

Why not buy yourself a hunk
of Post War Security for just 49,
500 with $1,000 down? See this
grand duplex with double garage,
large shed, with $1S2 per month.
Hurry Make US an offer.
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That is the attitude of not only
the majority of the 100 arrested
men but of the dining car unions
and the Joint Council of Dining
Car Employees, which Richard w.
Smith heads. Most of the men
deny any knowledge of the al
legged thefts, said Harrison r.
Brooks, a dining car union rep
resentative. They are supposed to
have deprived travelling GPs of
steak, chicken and duck dinners.
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Dining Car Unions to
Fight FIJI Charges

CHICAGO.-The federal govern
ment and the Erie and New York
Central railroads will have to
prove their case against 100 din
ing car walters, arrested last
week on a charge of meal swim
ding against service men and
women,
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Patton's Shifts

1t seems that General Patton no sooner gets
set to take major objective than he is direct.
ed to detour and started toward another.
After Normandy it looked like he was to
occupy Paris. But he was told to skip it.
Then he. was headed for Berlin and when the
way seemed clear for his advance upon the
Reich capital he was told to veer southwark
apparently to link up with the Russians at
Leipsig, but again he was told to swing further
south, which indicated to the easy chair stra.
tegists that he would contact the Russians at
Dresden.
When General Patton and his. Third Army
were only forty miles from Dresden another
order came from headquarters eliminating the
Russian juncture and sending him with his
valants to the Danube valley and the Alps
One might suppose that General Patton, de.
MED so many spectacular maneuvers, would
be down in the mouth especially as he is a
temperamental fellow craving the spotlight
But it is reported that he is in most cheerful
humor, his face wreathed in smiles.
There must be reason for his happiness.
What it is must remain matter of specula-
ton, but it would appear that he has been
commissioned to clean out the last island Of
resistance in Germany or German held ter
ritory.
For some time General Patton and his Third
Army have met little resistance, and 9th
he and his men love a fight. We must assume,
in the absence Of better information, that
they are going to have fight in Hitler S
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Set Sights High

The proposal to create at Warm Springs a
great memorial to former President Roosevelt,
where he fought and won his battle with in
fantile paralysis and from where thousands
of victims of this disease have regained Use
Of twisted, shrveled legs and arms to take
their place in the world again and earn indie
pendent livelihoods, certainly deserves popular
support. 1t would be infinitely better than
rearing monument to his memory and plac-
ing bustof him in Statrary Hall.
But in planning for Warm Spri lgs and its fur
Their development haven for polio vic
tins it would be we'll to consider the financial
situation of thousands of families into whose
homes the disease enters If the institution is
to meet the greater need and fulfill it's highest
destiny it must be sufficiently endowed to
treat many patients without charge and even
pay for their transportation to and from the
institution.
Many millions of dollars would have to be
raised and invested in sound Understanding
securities to make this possible. For this rea.
son the promoters of the Warm Springs Roose-
welt memorial movement will have to set their
sights high
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-04-27
Still The Same Alternative

Tn his address to the delegates at the San
Francisco Security Conference. President Trc-
man. among other things said: "We still have
choice between the alternatives: The con-
limitation of International chaos, or the estab.
lishment of a world organization for the en-
forcement of peace"
We are particularly impressed by Mr.. Tru-
mans use of the word "stilP' in stating the
case. The choice is not new. 1t existed after
the former World war. When the Senate OF
the United States rejected the League of Ma
tons it made choice that laid the founda-
ton for the international chaos Hitter brought
about.
The bitter fight in the Senate over the League
of Nations was party fight, with republican
clique led by Senator Lodge determined to de-
feat Wilson's cherished dream of a lasting
peace. The league never had chance, lack
ing United States membership.
1t is not unfair to think that had we been
represented at Geneva when Mrssolini was
rampant there would have been sanctions
against Italy and Mussolini would not have
dared make war In Ethiopia 1t was that
Ethiopian war that marked the first out
rage of the growing dictator group and en-,
couraged Hitler to militarize Germany for the
war he was so soon to launch.
With the league lesson learned, and well
known among delegations to San Francisco
from so many nations, it is to be expected
that partisanship, as such, will be repressed
regardless Of what quarter it might spring
from, and the decisions affecting the peace of
the world for generations to come be reached
solely upon the principles of right and justice.
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Slower, Please

Third Street property owners at their or
ganizational meeting, outlined splendid pro-
gram in the carrying out of which the stretch
Of the thoroughfare involved should rapidly
be materially and permanently bettered
One recommendation particularly is called
TO the City Councils attention. 1t is that oil
tankers be compelled to travel at speed
not exceeding fifteen miles an hour there.
It was pointed out that the vibration caused
by them when they move at higher speeds
is known to have cracked plaster in homes,
and the new Legion headquarters was pointed
out as an example. This is not the only
building in which walls show great cracks,
all traceable to the same cause.
But this is not the only reason it would
be advisable to bring down the oil trucks
speed Their laundering fast through Third
street causes many light sleepers to lose q
nights rest And if they waken sleeping per
sons how much worse is 1t to have them
disturb invalids who, though not sleeping
may be resting.
Certainly it would serve the public welfare
to REQUIRE oil tankers and all other heavy
vehicles to move at low speed, and not only
on this section of Third street, south to Cas-
tie, but on streets in all residential areas.
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eime and served as chief Of its puppet Cham
her of Deputies for time he protested an
ordar of Laval in his customary blunt man.
ner and went to Jail for it.
Now he is free. Somewhere in the WIDEN
inc field of Russian operations Red troops
came upon him and turned him loose. 1t
would be dangerous for him to remain IN
France Even if he escaped trial and execu-
ton for his Vichy services. he certainly could
not get along with De Gaulle and clash
with him would lead to further trouble for
the 72-year-old man who, for all his years,
,robablv has lost none of his stern sense OF
right. He is one Vlchylte VINO coulo 1lno
ASYLUM in the United States with popular ap-
prevail.
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The Literary Guidepost

Gertrude yields irrevocably. bfue;
pays for Marian's education aa.
that's all he pays for and all '
gets. ,l
Marian herself is the cen'.a
problem. We stay with hef W
some five years, out of high seN ".
and through college, or out OIL y. IT
yard where she first met her "
vorced neighbor Bruce ana -. IA.
New York where she finds Ls ~.
The problem of the girl pee .,'s,
ing conscious of desire lntflsam m
many writer's, but few Of Ms a,
are adequate to handle it. we ii u.
are interested definitely, ouI
norant; you. women are ln10fA''7
but inclined to be reicent. ,..
Miss Hardwick has the inlo, . ad
ton and she is not reticent' !nastp| ,
she is honest and frank. wi o,rt
more, she writes subtly. She hn Iot
how to pique a readers lnIs.'
And she doesn't let him cow,
"Sick Bay" by Alex "A''
(Scribner's; 81. 4,
This is the gayer side. II 'he c,+d
one, of being a sick sailor oe Il
does good two bakers dozsu' "a
cartoons, and dedicates the1' M.
doctors, nurses, corpsmen ana r.s ~
tients at the Norfolk Nava ~
ing Station.
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Herriot Freed

Many notable prisoners of Germany are
finding their way back home either to live
in security or stand trial, as in the case of
Marshal Petain and other Frenchmen, for
treason. For the most part American interest
is mild It centers chiefly in the release Of
military prisoners from German torture pens
and charnal houses. But word of the freeing
of one German captive is certain to be re-
ceived with genuine pleasure in this country
The man in Edouard Herriot and the rea-
son is that he alone of all high French dig
nitaries at the time demanded the French
government pay it's debt to the United States
following the former World war, Back in the
twenties, that was. when war detbs were a
matter of keen interest and all countries,
save Finland and sometimes Hungary, were
repudiating them as often as payments fell
due With unexampled courage, NJ Herriot
stood up on his pudgy legs and declared that
France ought to pay on the barrel head with
out further ado and evasion, and was prompt
~ ridden out OF office
Furthermore, M. Herriot could not abide
Laval. Although he had Joined the Vichy re-
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Another War

War has broken out in the Western Henri
sphere. Unlike the war in Europe and the
Pacific it stirs warmest sympathy Washing
ton can be imagined as saying: Let us
know if there is anything we can do to
help 1t involves no international complica-
tions levies no drain on manpower. Even
with the San Fracisco conference occupying
the spotlight, the United Nations wish it well.
Columbia has declared war on house flies.
The sanitary department at Barranquilla has
imported 1000 wasps Immediate victory is
not foreseen. The wasps and the flies will
engage in no aerial warfare. Instead the
wasps, if they pursue their customary hab-
Its, will feed on fly larvae and so kill of
the oncoming generation before it is born,
and we may suppose the people of Barran-
qrilla will do something about exterminating
living flies aloft by swatting them as they
aGght.
ALI success to the war;
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You're Telling Me

Astronomers tell us that every day more
than 100000 meteorites strike the earth's
atmosphere. Who's throwing rocks at us?
Mars-or Venus?
Some falcons, according to Photographs,
live as long as $50 years. They enjoy both
high life and a long one.
Cost of living is terribly high in Japan.
Well, the H,ips should have known that Hiro-
hito and his gang were no bargain.
Nothing, mourns Zadok Drfnkopf whose ia.
vorite cage team lost the annual tournament
looks so forlorn as basketball IN April.
Postwar gold mines, we read will be air.
conditioned, Gosh, this should make treasure
hunting doubly enjoyable. 49,
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WASHINGTON CALLING
go J.
by
MARQUIS CH1LDs

contains very careful provisions
limiting the right to obtain cred
it's. Certain requirements are laid
down, and if the borrowing coun-
try does not comply, then the di-
rector of the fund can refuse the
loan.
The adoption of the Breton
Woods plan is not going to bring
the millennium. with w all
Street paved with gold and choirs
of angels singing in the Stock Elk
change building. AS the bankers
have pointed out, its usefulness is
limited.
But it does seem to be a DE-
ginning. The United States worked
with Britain and France to hold
the chief currencieS of the world
on an even level. Our treasurer
entered into bilateral sterilization
agreements with Latin-American
countries, and out of that opera
ton came a profit of. 100000, 900.
Breton Woods carries stabiliza-
ton the next logical step, in a
formal international compact.
President Truman, at his first
press conference, gave his COM
plete approval to the plan in Ian
guage that no one could misun-
derstand. Hearings b fore the
House Banking and Currency COM
mittee are still going on. Repre-
sentatives of many large organi-
cations have come out for Erection
Woods as an economic prop tn
der the political plan that will
evolve at San Francisco.
The delegates out on the West
coast are going to have one ear
cooked at Congress. They will
want to know whether we intend
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BY w. G. ROGERS
1.-THE Ghostly LO r." by
Elizabeth Hardwick (Harcourt,
Brace: S2.50l.

Love is the subject of this first
novel. Miss HardWick may pretend
to write about Marian Coleman and
Bruce, or the senior Colemans, or
the inscrutable Hattie, or Gertrude,
or Florence and Jesse, but her real
subject is love, love like an i'm
mense longing, an enormous and
Unsuitable appetite, sometimes very
proper and sometimes reprehensi.
BILE, often mysterious, always pres
ent from the girl of 16 to the dying
grandmother, from the right side
Of the railroad tracks, the white
side, to the wrong side, where the
Negroes live.
But if this is about love, there
is no actual love in all the 800
pages. Love doesn't quite materi-
alize, it stumbles, it hides, it
evades, and finally it is renounced
bravely, almost in the grand man.
ner.
Marian's mother has run all over
the country with Marian's father
in the effort to keep him to her.
self. Marian's brother Albert gets
married, much as a man gets 4
cold, and there's some love in it.
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WASHINGTON While the dele.
gates at San Francisco are SOL
enonly debating the form which the
wcrlo security organization is &C
take, Congress will be considering
the economic ana financial props
that are essential if any interna.
tional organization is to be more
thar hopeful gesture
The Reciprocal Trade Agree.
ments bill and the Breton Woods
| Agreement are just as important
as what comes out of San Fran.
cisco. That may be why the ad.
ministration has apparently decid.
ed to allow these measures to get
no further than the committee
stage until after San Francisco.
That seems to me a dubious de-
cision. 1t might be better to put
the full responsibility sqrarely up
to Congress and let the debate &c
on while the delegates of the. As
nations are our official guests.
Breton Woods, in particular, is
a test of our intentions. Are we
going to talk noble peace while,
on the economic side, we insist
on keeping the old weapons that
finally lead to war?
The Breton Woods plan-agreed
to by representatives of "A nations
sets up two international organ
izations. One is a bank for re.
construction and development.
Everyone, including the American
Bankers association, is for that
part of the plan.
The second part of the agree
ment has stirred a controversy.
This is the international monetary
fund.
1t is pool of money formed
by the contributions of all men,
Der nations. We put up so many
dollars, Britain puts up so many
pounds, the French so ma'.y
francs, and so on.
Then, if a country feels that its
currency is depreciating-slip-
ping downward in rela ton to world
prices-that country can come to
the monetary fund and get sta
Utilization loan. If England had
large payments to m k e in
France, she would get francs from
the fund and agree to repay the
credit later in pounds sterling.
This would help to do away with
currency speculation-the kind of
gambling in money which has
made big profits for a few peo-
pie at the expense, often, of cur
rency stability. It would help to
eliminate the kind Of funny bust
ness with bio k e d crrrencies
which the Nazis, under the guild
ance of crafty Hjalmar Schacht,
carried to fantastic lengths.
The bankers object because,
they say, the privilege of getting
credits is mon discriminatory"
That is a bankers word meaning
they would like to see tighter re-
strictions put on the privilege OF
borrowing from the fund.
The treasury experts, who have
nursed the agreement along from
the beginning, reply that the 90
page Breton Woods agreement
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Daily Prayer
OF THANKS FOR HEROES

AS we bow in prayer 10 lhee
for victory, Eternal Father, our
hearts upleap in thankfulneSS loF
the heroism and idealism of our
boys in the service. We thank Thee
for what they mean to US, and 10,
what they mean to our Allies. Sui
keep them brave and true SAVING
them from loneliness and from MS
givings concerning US at home. En-
able us all to live up to the hlgn
level of the holy Cause that engages
our powers; and to find our oea
finding thee. For this is the daAy
and agonizing cry of our neaf,s'
that we may know Thee, and Js'
sus Christ whom Thou hast SEMI
Open the eyes of OUR spiritual III,
Outstanding, that we may osn0la
Thee as our Father and our Co.,
Deliver us from doubts and lnolf
ference and enable us TO see some
what of Thy purposes in ms cha"
tening war. Amen.-W. l, L.
to stand behind our noble prois'
sions of good will.
Copyright 1915 by United tea'u''
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days after. Now in his off moments
he sits at the side of the road and
plays for punches of Okinawans
that the marines have rounded up.
They seem to like it.
Johnny had lot of trouble with
his accordian down south in the
tropical climates. Parts would warp
and stick and mould and he con-
tinuously' had to take the thing
apart and dry and clean it.
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Your War; With Ernie Pyle

But it was worth the trouble. 1t
had kept Johnny from getting too
homesick. He brought it along with
him from America just for his own
morale. He knew the accordian
would probably be ruined by the
climate, but he didn't care.
81 can always get a new ac-
cordian,' Johnny. said, "but / can't
get new ME-"
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interpreting
The War
BY KIRKE L. SIMPSON
Associated Press War AL


The long awaited junction ~ Al
lied-Russian forces in Gern.n,.
fast changing its potential ,c.
and meaning even though first ~.
trolls contacts in some Elhe r;,
sector are still to be annouro.,
With the great Elbe estn.r.,
port of Bremen in British bsas
and the similar Oder estuary c;..'
Of Stettin taken by White Rnss;.E
armies, a general merging of P~.
sian lines on front 200 miles
more wide from northwest Of r."
lin to east of Leipzig appears w.
pending. The jaws of the gr ,n''
wise are already closing down a a.
squeeze last Nazi resistance o,,, =;
the north, clear to the Bsls
coast. Far to the south the Tb;rs
Army is clarnping its grip on tts
Danubian river port of Passan !.
within sight of turning the s,.
northern water barrier guardinr
the Nazi Alpine redoubt.
The unknown factor in the sor.,
was the distance Russian rG
umns, pushing up the DAMN.
from Vienna or crashing tbrongS
the Australian Alps in a direct linz
with Berchtesgaden, had to go
Moscow has been silent as TO thpi,
progress for many hours An Al.
lied-Russian junction on the Dsr
ube may be much closer than cpr
rent progress reports would ind.
cate.
General Patton's tanks pusbn,
down the left flank of the Danubs
valley on the German-Austrjar,
Czechoslovakian frontier corne,
near Passau will be in a position
to turn potential Nazu northern
defense lines south of the Danube
when they reach that city if it /,
not already in American hands
A major Danube tributary, the
Inn, flows into the greater river
from the southwest at Passau A
Danube crossing east of Passau
would expose Salzbkrg and Berch.
tesgaden to immediate blitzkreig
attack. Patton's tanks were last re.
ported racing down converging
highways that meet at Passau
from Tittling and Rhornbach.
Every report from the European
fronts bore out Secretary Slim.
sons unusually emphatic state.
ment in Washington that German
military power had been every.
where broken with flat finality'
The American War Secretary,
echoed by Prime Minister Church.
ill in London, gave his words add.
ed meaning by the assertion that
the situation in Germany Should
be a direct warning to Japan Of
what is coming to our enemy in
the Pacific"
There is no question that a be.
ginning on assembling that vast
striking power beyond the Pacific
has already been made. Much Of
the equipment used last June to
jump the channel from Britain 10
Normandy and the specially train
ed personnel to man it probably
has already started for the Pa
cific. Troops, seasoned veterans Of
European battlefronts, will follt'
as they can be released by gen.
eral merging of Allied and Rus
sian fronts for the final mopplng'
up in Germany, the battle Of the
pockets" as Mrs. Stimson styled
it, for there are only pockets Of
Nazi resistance, big or little, that
remain.