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STRANGE BEDFELLOws

The fight over Aubrey WllllaIlS as Rural Identification Adminis- trator has lined up one of the queerest conglomerations of friends and enemies the Senate has seen in years. Solons who seldom agree on anything are uniting either for or against Aubrey Williams.
 Some of them are influenced because they don't think Williams believes in God. Some are the backstage tools of the big utility lobby, now invoking religion to de- feat Williams-though actually he is one of the most God-fearing men in Washington.
 Spearhead of the opposition to Williams is one of the Senate's unique and seldom-heard-from members, Bushfield of South Da- kota Bushfield has two major claims to fame First, he is the author of last years Appropriation Bill to compensate an Indian squaw, "Winnie-Left Her Behind" Second, he has had more millionaires living far distant from South Dakota, contribute to his campaign than anyone in the Senate.
 Here is the record of contribu- tions when Bushfield was elected in 1942: From Wilmington, Della ware, Lammont du Pont sent S4,000 all the way to South Dakota; also his brother Irenee du Pont sent s2,500, plus another s2,500 from their associate in General Motors, Alfred P. Sloan; plus $2,000 from another du Pont-in-law, Donald Brown.
 The Millionaire Mellon family also contributed heavily to elect this unknown gentleman from South Dakota: Sarah Mellon Scaife, $4,O00; Ailsa Mellon Bruce, S5,00O; and L. w. Mesta, S1,000 Then the Joe Pews of Sun Oil in Pennsylvania sent along S6,000; Col. Mccormick of the Chicago Tribune sent $5,000 and Mazey harmon of Tennessee, President of the General Shoe Company, sent sl0,000, despite the fact that the
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ence, s. C.-231 miles of line 5. :. Gen. Macarthur has been subject to some criticism for storming the fortress of Corregidor instead of saving U. S. lives by waiting to starve the Japs out, as they did with us. The Navy defends Mac Arthur, however, explaining they had to use Manila Harbor right away to get ready for coming drives against Japan and China. Jap-held Corregidor blocked that use until subdued.
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hostile definition of Communism which shocked some Senators present.
 And that" said Tobey, twas written by that great radical 4 Grover Cleveland"
 Tobey's comm e Us didn't disf suade Bushfield, who continued his line of questioning. Finally Mon- tana's Burton Wheeler. no friend of the Administration interrupted:
 When I ran for Governor of Montana" Wheeler said, they claimed that if I was elected Gov ernor there would be free love in Montana
 T asked the fellow who charged we with that" Wheeler continued, whether he would move to North Dakota from Montana if we had free love there. Of course he never answered"
 A few minutes later Bushfield, still laboriously thumbing through the Dies files, quoted a Denver, Colorado, editorial calling Williams la Communist.
 At this, Senator Scott Lucas of Illinois stared at a Chicago Tribune correspondent present and beloved: That's nothing. In my last cam- paign in Illinois, one of the largest newspapers in the state ran an editorial headed 'Comrade Lucas but it didn't seem to bother the voters any" (Copuright 1945, Bell Syndicate Inc. J
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HOROSCOPE "The stars incline
 but do not compel"
TI1ESnAY. MARCH 6

TUESDAY, MARCH 6
 After early morning, benefic as- poets rule today. An suspicious date for launching new projects or starting important work. Heart And Home
 This year is to bring to all women many evidences that the world has changed permanently for them. Girls who have been petted and in dulged now must accept lasting financial responsibilities. War work CTS, sustained by patriotic zeal 'for the duration, must cheerfully ac- cept economic burdens that con- tinue after peace has been attain ed.
 Business Affairs
 There are signs that warn of fu- ture commercial competitions among members of the United Nations. Un- deriving all factors related to per manent peace will be the urge for spreading markets. Stern realities will conflict with lofty ideals. National Issues
 Midwinter's high death rate has emphasized demands for system that assures medical aid for all per- sons. Epidemics of diseases con- mon among children and great mor- tality among aged persons are pre- saged. The last months of l945 may be noteworthy for history-making legislation.
 International Affairs
 As the two great wars progress, the seers prophecy victory over Japan sooner that had been pre- dicted. Lack of ships and oil sup plies will hasten defeat of our Pacific enemies.
 Persons whose birthdate it is have the best of prospects for the year. Men and women in the armed Ser vices will gain high praise. Money should be plentiful.
 Children born on this day probably will be dreamers whose talents justi- fy visions of success. They should be carefully reared.
 (COpyright 1945)
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20 YEARS AGO f{ME {y9m EMPIRE
MARCH 5, 1925

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should guest remain after luncheon?
 If there no game guest is free o twenty minutes.
 O. a a playing golf together without both bags?
 A. should her own bag
 O. Is it proper with after-dnner coffee? A. Not unless S especially requested
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THE NEW ORDER

There time when thrifty person building oulwarks against death and old could just about chart his course. He could put his savings year by year in nonspeculatve investments and be pretty tain with the aid of compound interest of accumulat ing modest estate. However, in the last few years TWO great economic changes have taken place-the
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Daily Lessons in English v v. L. GORDON

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hints to his colleagues that if John L. Lewis and the mine owners did get together it was sure to raise the cost of living and might break the Little Steel Formula. He urged therefore, that the Government make up it's mind how much in creased cost it would permit, if any, and let the coal industry know right away;
 Finally Ickes urged that factories adopt coal saving devices and said he would send his experts to fac- tories to advise with them. He also urged the Office of Defense Trans portation to clean up transporta- tion snarls on the railroads so the coal mines could ship coal.
 You can't operate the mines without cars to ship the coal" said MT Ickes.
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CAPITAL CHAFF

ASSlSJdQC OeCTetdTy Ol OtdCt Ocdll Acheson has been talking about resigning after the San Francisco United Nations Conference in April. If so, Oscar Cox, the man who really ran Lend-Lease for Ed Stet- tinius, will step in to take his place. It now looks as if Judge Sam Rosenman, White House confi- dential adviser, would be appointed to the U S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia when Judge Justin Miller of that court replaces Judge Curtis D. Wilbur in California :. ]. Judge Rosenman took 65 pounds of paper reports with him on the airplane to Europe when he flew there to study the liberated countries. Officials re- marked: "They weigh almost as much as the dog" Rosenman dropped the liberated countries like a hot cake to return home with the President The Japs are frantically building forts along 1000 miles of the China coast. They figure that landing in China will be our next move . Some of
 ficials inside the Justice Depart ment want to commute the death sentence of Nazi saboteur Cole paugh to 30 years instead of life because he surrendered to the FBI. :. Congratulations to the Atlantic Coast Railroad Line for installing radio-telephone as safety device from Rocky Mount, NC, to Flor
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HECKLING WILLIAMS


 Thus the doughty Bushfield was elected. Now he has been leading the campaign against Williams partly by reading editorials and speeches from old Dies Commit tee reports, trying to show that Williams is a dangerous radical.
 At one time, however, Bushfield's s questions seemed so silly that even Republican members of the Senate Agricultural Committee couldn't take it. Republican Senator Tobey of New Hampshire, becoming bored, sent a clerk out for a volume. When the clerk returned, Tobey read into the record none-too-
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top contribution under the Hatch Act is $5,000.
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Washington Merry
 Go-Round

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Weather report: High. s7; low, s5; cloudy.
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J. J. Meherin, travelling man, arrived on the Adr itka where he had been calling on the trade.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-07-15
In Short

Arrested: Near Karlsbad, Germany,
Gestapo officer Hans Forster, accused
of directing the Lidice massacre.
Missing: Off Newfoundland coast,
Raj plane carrying British officials
home from the San Francisco con-
ference.
Launched: At Philadelphia Navy
Yard, new 27,O00-ton aircraft carrier
Princeton to replace the one sunk by
the japanese off Leyte.
Relaxed: Prime Minister Churchill
at Hendaye, France, in post-election
vacation.
Lifted: For the first time since the
attack on Pearl Harbor, Honolulu's
10 PM. wartime curfew.
Missing: Sgt. Simon Eden, eldest
son of the British foreign secretary.
on a fight over Burma.
Rode: Seven miles through the
Niagara River rapids in steel bar
rel, William RED" Hill, Jr., in
memory of his father who did it
thrice before.
Crashed: Off Kwajalein en- route
home, veteran Superfort "Dauntless
Dottie," first to bomb Japan, killing 10
of her IS occupants.
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Statistics
Military Discipline

The hanging this week in Kansas of
five German prisoners of war for the
murder of an anti-Nazi fellow prls-
oner topped more than 300 death SEN
fences imposed by Army courts mar
tial during this war, although only
1O7 actually were carried out. Com
mutation to life or lesser terms were
ordered for the rest.
The Army said those executed with
one exception were guilty OF murder
or rape. The exception was a soldier
convicted twice of desertion under
fire in Europe. A total of 1888 SOL
diers were under confinement in this
country or abroad.
No Navy personnel was executed
during the war. Thi- spring 22,O09
sailors, Marines and Coast Guards
men were held in prison or disciple
nary barracks.
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Redeployment Is Rapid
ABROAD: Troubled Waters

over feeding the civil population in
the American and British sectors by
agreeing on contributions from all
zones of occupation. A similar solution
was found for the fuel problem. Gre
alton of an inter-Allied governing
authority for the partitioned German
capital was also arrived at.
In Washington, a special House
Food Investigating Committee back
from tour of Europe, reported wide
spread starvation and epidemic would
sweep the continent this winter unless
a unified food program was instituted.
The breakdown of normal transpor-
tation had left city jewellers without
access to food while great deal OF
the rural production went into the
black market. Particularly in France,
the members reported, there was an
apparent lack of incentive by farmers
to produce.
Almost everywhere there was lack
of official direction over food produc-
ton except in the United Kingdom and
Germany where strict supervision and
satisfying production were evident.
The Writhing Sun
The great aerial scourge of Japan,
predicted by military leaders for
months, got underway this week.
Saturation raids by carrier and land
based planes blasted the home islands
from dawn to dusk.
The mighty U. S. Third Fleet, COM
prising fast carriers protected by
45,0O0-ton super dreadnaughts, lay off
Tokyo and sent wave after wave of
bombers and fighters over the capital.
More than 1000 Navy planes kept up
continuous dawn to dusk lombard
ment
All branches of the U. S. air might
combined to throw at least 5000 air
craft against Japan since July l. Car
rier pilots returning from sweeps over
the capital reported complete aerial
domination.
Radio Tokyo screamed the carrier
plane assaults constituted a Yankee
attempt to crush japanese air power
in the Tokyo district.
Tokyo newspapers reported lne
saturation raids were prelude to IN
vasion. One termed the aerial assaults
"the first step of aggression"
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Aerial
Secret Weapons

Americans found two sensational
new German war planes that had
been developed too late.
One, a fighter-bomber, night inter-
ceptor or reconnaissance plane with
propellers in nose and tail, had cruis-
ing speed of $50 miles an hour at 25,-
O0O feet. Using only the nose engine,
the plane made $50 miles an hour.
The plane, built by Dornier, did not
see action; about 40 models were COM
pleted at the time of surrender. In a
TEST flight across France with U. S.
pilot at the controls, the German
plane landed four minutes ahead of a
FOL Mustang supposed to be escort
ing it.
The Nazis completed a 1OO-ton sea-
plane, powered by six 1000 horsepow-
ef engines, early in 1943. This worlds
largest flying boat was designed for
iohgrange Atlantic reconnaissance but
me fuel shortage made it white
elephant.
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Ballots Round The Globe

Argentines will 60 to the polls "be-
fore the end of the year," promised
President Edelmiro Farrell this week.
He said the election would be COM
pleted Gin accordance with the gov
ernment's pledged word, unhurriedly
and unyielding to pressure from i'm
patient persons"
Farrell asserted Argentina had an
aspect of general unrest created by
elements which, he said, did not al
ways have the good of the country at
heart. He referred to the recent STU
dent strikes, conflict between capital
and labor and damaging rumors" by
the press.
Col. Juan Peron, vice president,
b1untly warned of disunity promoted
by ''demoniac agents of eviP' and said
those who attempt to provoke insur-
rection should remember that once the
struggle begins it will continue Ito
the bitter end
Gen. Charles de Gaulle's provisional
government set Oct. IA for the first
French general election since before
the war. At that time voters will de-
eide between whether to discard the
Constitution of 1875 and it's bi-cameral
system of government. They may vote
for new national assembly which
will draft a new constitution.
Polish Polls Delayed
In Warsaw, Premier Edward B.
Osubka- Morawski of the new Polish
provisional government reported that
the projected Polish national cleo
tons must be delayed until nearly
100000 Poles abroad have been
given chance to return home. Har-
vesting, resettlement and repatria-
ton, he said, should come first.
Poland intended to expel all Ger
mans, Osubka- Morawski declared. eve
don't want them OF. our SOIL" he said
eve don't wish to be harsh or raise
hatreds but all Germans simply will
have to get out
Meanwhile in London, third of the
divided Polish Socialist partys lead.
ership recognized the Warsaw govern.
ment and called for all nationalist to
return to Poland and help rebuild the
country.
In Berlin U. S., British and Russian
army leaders ironed out a dispute
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This & That

@ In Kansas City, John K. Smith, Is,
father of two children, discharged
from the Army with 1913 points, en-
listed in the Navy.
O At Fort Douglas, Utah, eight Ger
man prisoners were killed and 2O
others wounded by berserk U. S.
soldier guard who machinegunned
their tents at night. Under arrest, he
said: "I'd dc it again.
% In Paris, 1886 soldiers awaiting re-
deployment were polled on the ques-
ton: SHOULD wives and sWeethearts
be allowed to come to Europe at this
time" Result: 594 nos, 1873 yeses, the
rest dunnos.
@ Port Huron, Mich, boosted the
champion daddy in the U. S. armed
forces in Pfc. Wilbert Fluery, father
of IS children; allotment, 1854 a
month.
@ In Grand Rapids, Mich, ex-Marine
Robert Barnes, who lost leg fighting
Japanese, replied to letter stating he
was overpaid $139 before discharge:
Don't kid me. There's no such thing
as an overpaid Marine"
@ In Orange, N. j., DR.. Leon F. Whit
ney, veterinarian, urged birth control
for dogs in order to halve the nations
100000 canine population until
food problems of the world are
solved
q In one of the first civilian tests OF
DOT, fog generator spread lethal
mist for mosquitoes and flies over
Jones Beach State Park, N. y, an
hour before Sunday crowds sWarmed
the sands to lounge, bathe and sun IN
comfort.
o In Miami, the city planning board
decreed Nuts to San Diego, Calf, ="
while granting the west coast cltys
request for coconuts as seed Tor fu-
ture palm trees.
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Upcoming
Sunday, July Is
St. Swithin's Day
Monday, July 16
District of Columbia, estab-
lished 1890
Eclipse
Through A Glass Dorkly

A strange twilight shrouded half
the earth as the moon moved slowly
across the face of the sun. The July
9 eclipse achieved totality in 70
mile band which started at sunrise
near Boise, Idaho, and ended IN the
Kirgiz Republic, Siberia, at sunset.
The rest of the U. S. and Europe was
treated to a partial blackout.
The phenomenon excited both the
scientist and the man in the street:
The latter stuck a piece of smoked
glass before his eyes and "Aahed!''
appreciatively.
To the scientist, the eclipse was one
of series that started at the North
Pole in 1889 and will end at the
South Pole about the beginning OF
the 18th century Meanwhile eclipses
in the series will march across the
earth's face, 10 years and a few days
apart, each time moving farther
southwark.
Groups Of astronomers Travelled
thousands of miles to observe and
make scientific records, but some
were foiled by clouds. Harvard scien-
fists atop l1,318-foot Fremont Pass
in Colorado were hampered by over
cast but photographed the eclipse
with a coronograph, the only one in
the U. S. University of Pennsylvania
and Franklin Institute scientists in
Saskatchewan, Canada, enjoyed ideal
conditions but clouds hampered Rus
sian astronomers.
The next chance to view total
eclipse will come on June 80, 1854,
in northwestern Michigan, Wisconsin
and southern Minnesota.
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Three
T0C0nfer

DOTSDAM, rocco summer re-
J. sort of ancient German emper-
ors, bristled with uniforms this
week. Where once strutted tall
grenadiers of Frederick the Great,
Prussian Uhlans and goosestep-
ping Wehrmacht divisions, vigilant
Red Army men guarded every corner
with tommyguns.
Potsdam, military garrison town
and cradle Of German militarism, was
being prepared for the third meeting
of Big Three Russian guards were
supported by U. S. and British soldiers
in keeping with the international
aspect of the meeting, but it was on
the Soviets that the responsibility
lay for never before had Premier
Stain been so far from the Kremlin.
Although it was the third Big
Three meeting, this would be the first
for President Truman. Stain and
Prime Minister Churchill had con-
ferred with Franklin Roosevelt at
Teheran and Yalta.
Among the problems to be discussed
are the rehabilitation of Europe and
long range occupation of Germany.
Stain is expected to propose con-
certed action by the major powers to
force Spain to democratize her gov
eminent. There also are the problems
of Poland, Greece and the Balkans.
Red Role In Pacific
And certain to be discussed, al
though perhaps not for publication,
is Russia's role in the Pacific war.
There had been rumors that Presi-
dent Truman and Churchill might
hold a preliminary meeting before
sitting down with Stain, but Mr..
Truman denied those reports before
sailing a week ago with corps Of adj
visors, including his new Secretary of
State, James F. Byrnes.
1t was Mr.. Trumans first journey
outside the U. S. as President and he
will carry out all the functions of
Chief Executive as did Mr. Roosevelt.
U. S. Army signal experts strung a
network of cables to the Potsdam
headquarters from which Mr.. Truman
will be in constant touch with Wash
ington during the conference.
If the President makes an expected
visit to London after the conference,
he probably will be invited to address
both Houses Of Parliament, returning
the visit Churchill paid to Congress
shortly after this country entered the
war
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for the Pacific. This week the Navy
revealed its new fighter bomber, the
Corsair F4U-4, one of the fastest
single-engine aircraft in the world.
The new Corsair travels 425 miles an
hour, carries ton of bombs or rock
cts and climbs nearly 1000 feet
minute faster than its predecessor.
This week the Navy launched two
new aircraft carriers, one, the 27,000
ton Princeton to replace its 10,000-ton
namesake sunk by the Japanese off
Leyte. The Nays new 45,000-ton
super fattops may now or soon will
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FAR EAST: Allies Are Massing For The Kill

By the end of the year, the War
Department said, ~ of the 66 divi-
sions that fought in Europe and
Africa would be back home or on the
way. Under present plans, 81 divisions
will embark for home from August
to January; eight divisions will re-
main in Europe as occupation forces.
and Is will remain abroad at least
until the end of the year.
In releasing redeployment statistics,
military authorities said the informa-
ton would not bring aid or comfort
to the enemy so much as it would
demonstrate conclusively that the
Army intended to throw against Nip
pom the largest force possible.
Eleven divisions already have re-
turned or are now arriving in this
country. All have been ticketed for
the Pacific front In addition, head
quarters of the First Army has been
returned en- route for the Pacific.
Aerial Redeployment
The Army Air Forces already have
flown $500 planes with 51,l84 crew.
members from Europe to the U. S.
for redeployment to the Pacific, &C.
cording to Brig. Gen. Earl S. Hoag
During the summer approximately
1850 twin-engine planes and 4,115
four engine bombers will be flown
home. Because Of heavy air traffic OF
our-engine aircraft over the north
and central Atlantic routes, the twin
engine A-26s and CATS will be flown
over the south Atlantic by way of
Marseille, North Africa, Ascension Is
land, Brazil, Trinidad, Puerto Rico
and the U. S.
A chain of ships has been estab-
lished across the Atlantic and will be
notified by radio of aircraft depar-
lures for overwater hops so that
rescue can be speeded in the event
of accident.