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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-08
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can-sponsored far Eastern Advi-
sorry Commission.
8. A peace conference to wind up
terroritorial matters growing out OF
the war and to settle reparations
problems.
4. Cooperation among the major
bowers in troubled Lsia.
5. Centralized control of Germany
in spite of French obstruction Of
centralized transport and communi-
cations agencies.
A report from London earlier in
the day said that British Foreign
Minister Ernest Bevin had promis-
ed the French government that no
subjects directly affecting France
would be discussed. If this is true,
it is not believed the question Of
control of Germany will be taken
up.
Michael ]. McDermott, special
assistant to the secretary, said he
did not know how long the discus
sions would last. He said the meet
ing had been arranged as a result
of a suggestion by Byrnes and
which he had communicated to the
Russian and British governments.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-08
THE WILMINGTON MORNING STAR WILMINGTON NJ c.
BRITISH lombard
JAYANESE POINTS

BATAVIA, Dec. 7-4R- Twelve
British planes dumped three tons
of bombs today on Indonesian gun
positions on lake shore south Of
Ambarawa, and gunned and bomb
ed buildings in a densely wooded
hideout area on the opposite side
of the lake.
Clashes continued at scattered
points in Java, as British and
Netherlands leaders returned to
Batavia after attending a confer
ence in Singapore yesterday called
by Admiral Lord Louis Mountbat-
ten, Allied Southeast Asia COM
mander.
The Netherlands news agency
Aneta said there was no immediate
comment from either 1t. Gen. Sir
Philip Christison, Allied command
er in the Netherlands East Indies,
or acting NEI Governor General
Hubertus Van Nook. The confer
ence was called to consider the
situation both in Java and Indo.
China.
The air assault on the Ambar.
ava gun positions was ordered
after Indonesian resistance forces
had begun firing again at intern
ment camps in that area. British
transport planes continued to evac
uate ailing and injured womer
and children from Semarang, mid
Java port city 20 miles north o!
Anlbarawa.
The British said three Indiar
troops we're killed and nine wound
ed yesterday while escorting sol
hungry refugees from the trouble
torn southern half Of Bandoeng
rs miles southeast of Batavia. Al
Allied spokesman described thu
action as a ''heavy battle"
In the past few days 40 Euro
pean, Dutch and Eurasians wer'
abducted in the city before the.
could be moved to safe areas, tn
British added.
The Indonesians said their Minist
er of Internal Security, Amir Sjari
fuddin, had gone to Bandoeng t.
confer with the British and tn
west Java Governor Soetardjo.
A British officer and six Yves
Yorkshiremen are missing iron
a patrol of 10 sent along the rail
way west of Soerabaja yesterday
The British announced. The tire
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-08
MINISTER SLASHES 4
NEGRO INTRUDER TO
DEATH WITH KNIFE

SUMMERTON, S. c., Dec. T.
P-The Rev. M. T. Taylor slash
ed to death an unidentified Negro
he aWoke to find standing between
his bed and that of Mrs. Taylor
about 3 o'clock this morning. Sher-
if F. L. OVERLY reported
Mr.. Taylor said he seized the Ne
gro's coat and in the scuffle they
went into an adjoining room. Real
izing the Negro was getting the
better of him, Mr.. Taylor called to
his wife to bring him a knife.
He cut them burglar several
times, and he died in about Is min
utes.
Sheriff OVERLY, Coroner Thigpen,
Chief of Police Travis Davis and
Sheriff's Deputies J. E. Childers
and c. F. Blackman responded to
a call from Taylor.
Their investigation showed that
the intruder had already passed
Taylor's pocketbook and pistol out
a window to an accomplice. who
escaro1
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-08
rWA ADVANCES HELP
ERECT VOCATIONAL
SCHOOL IN HAYWOOD

WASHINGTON, Dec. 7. - (P -
NJ. Federal Works Agency today
lido n loans to communities In
1 T1orida. Mississippi, North Caro-
Ina and Tennessee to plan public
works. The advance are repayable
without interest when construction
starts.
The list:
Florida-Florida State Improve
ment commission, Supreme Court
building at Tallahassee, estimated
cost $500, federal advance $10,-
Bl6.
Mississippi - Prentiss, approx
mately 10000 linear feet of street
improvements, $751;, 500, and $5,-
sri: Forest, approximately, AZ
miles Of street improvements, $780,
900 and s5,0l9.
North Carolina-Haywood Coun-
ty Board of Education, vocational
school at Waynesvi1le, estimated
cost 1925, 500, federal advance &c.
600.
Tennessee - Crossville, 40-bed
general hospital, $310, 900 and &c.
$50.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-08

Out of every 100 men in New
Hanover county who registered
and were examined for entry into
the armed forces, 1903 percent
were rejected for military duty.
Spencer B. King, Jr., research
assistant for the Institute for Re-
in Social Science It tn
University of North N-rolina, sup
piled the figures for New Hanover
county in the course of extensive
research and study. into state fig
res on Selective Service in North
Carolina.
The North Carolina rejection
rate average was 44.68 per cent.
Forty-eight of the states 100 coun-
ties were below that level; So above
lit. New Hanover ranked 50th in
the state.
The rejection rate was based on
all reasons for exclusion from mill
tary service. TAe overall figures
included both white and colored
|registrants.
New Hanover's percentage of
white rejectees was considerably
above the states average, being
80 per 100 registrants. That
figure ranked New Hanover 9th in
the state.
The county's percentage Of Negro
rejectees, however, was excep-
tional high-61.o8 per 100, 62nd in
the state.
Among the. nine southeastern
North Carolina counties, the aver
age as compiled by New Hanover
county was the low figure. Onslow
with 1896 was SECOND, with Bladen
in third place with an average of
50.35. The balance of the south
eastern states with there average
were:
Robson, 51.51; Duplin, 51.73;
Columbus, $3.50; Sampson, 1927;
Fender 1929 and Brunswick last
with 5000.
Lowest average of reflections in
the state was Clay county with
1925 per cent, followed closely
by Polk and Henderson with 31.74
and 1884 per cent, respectively.
Greene county had the highest
average of $500.
These rates or percentages are
a combined figure of both white
and colored reflections in the vari-
Gus counties. The rejection figure
for whites in the state was 37.35,
while average colored rejection
reached a figure of 1928 per cent
Over a statewide survey it was
found that rejection rates were
lower in unurban or semi-urban
areas, or counties where fewer men
were engaged in agricultural ac'
tivities. Fewer men were rejected
where subsistence farming rather
than commercial farming prevail.
ed. On the other hand, the figures
showed, fewer men were rejected
where general living and educa-
tional figures were higher.
Generally. most of the lower re-
lection rates of the survey were
found to prevail in the Western
part of the state while the per
cent per 100 men showed much
higher figure throughout the Eas-
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cotton PROGRAM
WILL Be TALKED

yALE1GH, N. c. Dec. 7-R-The
...nization of Gotten production,
n' :, .even-point Gotten production
~" 'a,ran for North Carolina will be
r '.;s, topics Of discussion at the
'p ..t,ns of the North Carolina
s Ginners' association here
' a, address by President George
Al .stord of Red Springs will open
! J.. one.day program. Dean I. o.
W. .uh of the N. c. State College
sea. asion service will explain the
Ah WV - point production program
ssssn ,,,.ted with the help of agri-
p '',,ura1 experts and farmers to
ee' p.s the States cotton future.
Dl ntbsr speakers will include W.
Scott. State Agriculture COM
A ';..ioner;; Edward Lipscomp of
,n9 I.,j Tenn, director of sales
n p.notion and public relations for
National Cotton council; DR.. H.
W Jennings, director of research
- :, tbe Riverside and Dan River
~ '.,,on mills, Danville, Va; and
" .r. E. Pratt Of Birmingham.
T AIs.'presdeat of the Cotton Gin
Machinery association o,
winners OF the North Carolina
sv..aere cotton growing contest
I u he announced by DR.. >Schaub at
"' luncheon netting. Irwin Morgan
Tarmville. president of the N. c.
cotton Crushers association, one
N. snonsors of the cotton-groW-
Inv contest, will preside.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-08
-R0RlTES GIVE
| A0N CREDITS
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return to the principle Of non-dis-
elimination in trade, with a conse'
quent descriptive effect on the trade
unity of the empire.
British participation in the Bret
ton Woods plan would put into
action at once a large part Of the
funds which will be forthcoming
from the United States if Congress
approves the loan.
1.-THE British governments view,
said a Laborite spokesman, lis
that Breton Woods In itself is
good agreement worth adopting.
and ore which becomes much bet
ter in connection with the loan
agreement.
He said it did not involve a re-
turn to the gold standard, but
seemed to provide "a compromise
between the need for international
monetary stability and domestic
needs for flexibility."
British press reaction was va
ried.
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men who returned sd
s: s:s ns! '.:'' ..sss uni
at Wonotjolo, British
tanks destroyed an auM
dump and cleared the entif. ~fe.
of Indonesians.
Except for occasional sniping.
the situation remained quiet in
Batavia
"a -.4llsh naval vessel touring
the Sumatra coast to destroy Japa-
nese ammunition dumps complet-
ed its work at Benkoelen in
southern Sumatra without incident.
British troops were still seeking
a British Brigadier and British
woman Red Cross worker report
ed abducted near Padans.
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SEEKS RADIO STATION

WASHINGTON, Dec. 7. - R -
The Whiteville Broadcasting COM
pany asked Federal Communica-
tons Commission authority today
to operate a radio station on 1240
kilocycles, $50 watts and unlimited
hours.
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WEATHER
from Page One)

WASHINGTON, Dec. 7.-tPeWeather
bureau report # temperature and rain
fall for the "a hours ending pm. in the
principal cotton growing areas and
pISeWhere.
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Obituaries
MAJOR E. p. MEREDITH, JR.


Mrs. N. w. Humphrey, Whining
ton, received word yesterday of
the death of her brother, Major D..
P. Meredith, who died suddenly
this morning at his home in Wash
ington, N. c.
Major Meredith had returned to
Washington several days ago from
service in the European theatre.
He was on terminal leave at the
time of his death.
The deceased is survived by his
wife, Laura Buttu Meredith, two
sisters, Mrs. Humphrey and Lieut..
ALA P. Meredith OF Chapel Hill,
also on terminal leave following
overseas service, and brother
James T. Meredith Of Washington.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-08
TIMOTHY WILLIAM sTALLINGs

WALLACE, Dec. Funeral
services for Timothy William Stall
lings, 90, Of near Wallace, will be
conducted at the home, Saturday
afternoon at o'clock with the
Rev. J. N. Evans, pastor of Wal-
lace Baptist church, officiating
Interment will be in Cedar Gene
terry near Wallace.
Mr.. Stallings died Friday morn
ing at 2::30 o'clock. He had been
in declining health for several
years.
Surviving are the following chill
dren; Arlie Wesley Stallings, Mar
shall w. Stallings, Hiram Boney
Stallings, John A. Stallings, and
Miss Emma Stallings.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-08

The standard gauge used by
American railroads - four feet,
eight and one-half inches-comes
from the fact that ancient Roman
chariots used the gauge and SUBJ
sequent vehicles of transportation
followed suit.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-08
County Below Average
In Military Reflections

tern and Southeastern part Of the
state.
The accompanying table affords
a complete picture of the surveys
findings in the nine Southeastern
North Carolina counties.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-02-08
BY PETER EDISON

WASHINGTON, d. C.-Mon-
tana Senator James E. Murray's
highly controversial "ever-nor-
NAL economy" bill, officially tit
led "The Full Employment Bill
of 1945," has just been introduc-
ed in the new Congress after
complete job of overhauling and
rewriting.
When Senators Murray, Tru-
man and Revercomb put the
idea for this bill in a report
submitted to Congress last Dec
ember, their purpose was mere
ly to stimulate discussion Of
their original concept of prepar-
ing an annual budget for the en-
tire national economy, private,
as well as public, and then try
ing to do something about it.
Discussion developed immed-
lately and in quantity, hot and
cold. From all the criticisms
material was obtained for re-
drafting the bill in the form in
which it is now before Con-
gress. In the redrafting, Sena-
tors Robert F. Wagner of New
York, Ebert D. Thomas of Utah
and Joseph c. O'Mahoney of
Wyoming playe important
parts and the revised bill has
been introduced with the back
ing of these three as well as Sen
ator Murray. Backed by this
important Senatorial quartet the
bill easily becomes one of the
major detectives of the new
Congress and as such it is
worth some careful study.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-02-08
AMERICAN UNDERGROUND

The story Of the American underground" is be-
ginning to unfold with the landings in the Philip
pines 1t is story which makes civilian life in occu-
pied Europe almost pleasant by comparison. Mem
bers Of the European resistance could move abroad
in daylight and live sembIonce Of normal life, at
leost until they we're suspected But American civil
ions in the Philippines knew only hiding and flight
from on enemy even more brutal than the Nozis.
White skin was death warrant.
One story hos been told Of the civilian on Min
donoo who escaped With his wife and child and lived
and fought with Filipino euerrillos. When his wife
become too i'll to move and the Jops we're approach
ing, he shot the woman and child. Then he turned
his gun on the Jops and killed many before he him.
self was killed.
That is only one story Of tragedy and Of humane
couroee. This man did not know when rescue might
come, if ever. But he knew his enemy, and what
awaited his wife at their hands, So he took her life
and his chId's, and gave up his own in lonely,
hopeless fight.
At home we have been hearing cross-fire Of
charges to determine the responsibility for
preparedness in the Philippines. As these charges
grow Increasingly political let US not forget to ex-
anime them honestly and make sure thot they ore
worthy both of the victims and the avengers.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-02-08
HOME NURSE.
BY Iona l.. TROTT
Assistant- Director,
Red Cross Nursing Service
Written far-NE Service

One OF the tragedies OF a pro-
longed illness for a child is that
he is very likely to develop UNI
desirable behavior traits that
have to be overcome when he
RECEIVERS. In their anxiety about
him and their eagerness to do
everything to make him COM
Portable and happy, parents US
ually overindulge the child.
AS result Of illness the child
become emotionally unstable
and is more easily irritated than
usual. When he finds that whin-
ing and crying get him anything
he wants he learns a lesson in
how to win attention and influ-
ence parents that he will use in
definitely if permitted.
l dropped in to call one day
on frail woman whose four
year-old son had recently re-
covered from an attack of pneu-
monia. She met me at the door
carrying him in her arms. He
was fully dressed and had been
allowed complete freedom Of
activity for several weeks. But
his WORKOUT mother told me
plaintively that he demanded
that she carry him around the
house and feed and care for him
as if he were a baby. She was
afraid TO refuse because when
she put him on the floor he fell
over screaming, and bumped
his head until she took him in
her arms again.
RESUME NORMAL ACTIVITY
A sick child must be treated
with every consideration for his
comfort and happiness. But the
same gentle firmness should be
used in guiding him, and en-
couraging him TO maintain his
independence, so far as the ply
stefan permits, when he is sick
as when we'll. OF course he may
be INDUCED in the little things
that will make him happy. but
he should not be allowed TO
think that whining and crying
will get him what he wants.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-02-08

of trump and discard two clubs
on the king and queen of spades.
This will leave you two trumps
In dummy to ruff the two losing
clubs. But you just can't get
back and forth. Maybe you WILL
find a way to work it out. How
ever, every one who played H IN
the duplicate contest went down
one.
In regards to the bidding,
North's jump to six diamonds
may sound optimistic but South
did open the bidding and jump
ed to two no trump, SO perhaps
we should not be too critical.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-02-08

gene-poWered - meaning slow
moving and easy to pass.
Everything on wheels is load
ed down. to capacity with freight
and passengers. Local papers
are full of advertisements an
rouncing that some one is drlv-
ing a halffull truck from here
to there and is willing to take
paying passengers at so much a
head. It's common sight TO
see heavily laden truck addi-
tionally burdened with two
dozen travellers sprawled'as best
they can on top of the freight.
It's impossible to drive 10
miles without being hailed a
dozen times by hitchhikers who,
judging by their luggage-which
includes everything from a
couple of suitcases TO household
furniture-need a ride in the
worst way.
It's far from easy to move
around southern France today.
Once you arrive at your des-
tination there's the all but in
surmountable problem of getting
a room for the night. Hotels in
all major cities are full, many
of them with refugees. Some of
these French homeless have
been evacuated by the govern
ment from war-blasted cities in
Normandy. Brittany and the
southeast. Others--a tragic num-
Der of them-have moved to
the large cities from the dozens
of small country towns which
the Germans RACED on the slight
est pretext.
Even if you're travelling on Of
fetal business, there's no guar
antee that you'll be able to get
q room. Nine chances out of ten
you end up billeted with a priv
ate family. In one city outside
Bordeaux we were billeted in a
small hotel which announced
that il had rooms all right, but
would we mind letting them
have our sheets and blankets so
they could make up our beds?
EARLY BIRDS
Getting any hot water is a
gigantic problem everywhere in
France, since coal for heating
water-or anything else--is all
but non-cxistent. The most COM
mon solution to keeping clean,
where any solution is available
at all, is at public baths which
have hot water perhaps one day
a week.
Any one imbued with the
popular superstition that the
French are allergic to hot water
would get a rude shock if he
got up early to take a BATH in,
say, Toulouse. l had to wal:
something over three hours,
despite z a. m, arrival, before
reaching the head of a line of
avid Toulouseans anxious TO get
hot tub at one of the city's
handful Of public baths which
are open Oh weekends.
Tourists with unlimited gaso-
line for their cars (Which is like
saying tourists with diamond
filled teeth) can still eat and
drink in southern France in
much the same way tourists ate
and drank in the good old days.
Each region still has a supply OF
its own particular speciality, so
that it's simply a matter of
transportation TO get a decent
meal.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-02-08
. FLASHES
OF
LIFE .
INTO BREACH

SCHENECTADY. N. Y, Feb.
8 - (49 - The Schenectady
Railway Company has three
new buses, but it took the presi-
dent of the company and two
union officials to bring them
here from Cleveland.
With no drivers available TO
make deliveries, Edward c.
mckinley, railway president,
and Charles Wieher and Leroy
Bostwick, president and vice
president of the Transport
Workers Local 159 (CIO), spent
30 hours driving the buses from
a factory over SnoW-clogged
roads.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-02-08
Rowing Reporters

(Americans who toured
southern France in the better
days would find many draw
backs to such a tour today.
These notes, made after
12O0-mile tour from the Loire
to the Spanish border and
back via Bordeaux, explain
what it's like tOday.)
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-02-08
BY TOM WOLF
NEA Staff Correspondent

PARIS - The only pleasant
part of a tour Of southern France
in this sixth year of war is that
driving is a positive pleasure.
The major roads are in excellent
condition, with only a few short
detours for bridges out or
stretches impossible as the re-
suit of Allied bombing or Ger
man destruction.
There is practically no traffic
on the roads except on foot or
bicycle. What automobile traffic
there is, almost entirely gazo-
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-02-08
. IN HOLLYWOOD

of set" G.. l. newspapers, please
don't copy.
Metro wrote check for
$4,000 for What Next, Cor
poral Hargrove?' sequel to "See
Here"
Merle Oberon will wed Luc-
len Ballard, the cameraman,
when and if she divorces Sir
Alexander Korda.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-02-08
MCKINNEY ON
BRIDGE
BY WILLIAM E. MCKINNEY
Americas Card Authority

Here's a tantalizing h a n d
that I am going to let you waste
a little time on. 1t certainly ap-
pears that if you time this hand
correctly, you should be able to
make six diamonds. Counting
your tricks, 1t seems as if you
simply should take two rounds
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-02-08

Q-How fast can a motion
picture camera operate?
A-One has been developed to
take 5000 pictures second.
O. What is the mineral
wealth of Chinas Kwangsi
Province, now under Jap mill
tary domination?
A-Coal, tin, anthony, lead.
Q-What is Photography?
A - Study of fractures in
metals.
Q-Where do we get the name
goulash?
Ats q German corruption
Of the Hungarian gulyas (goo-
yash), which means cowboy.
Gulyas is the stew Hungarian
cowboys cook over a campfire.
Q-What city is called the
Minneapolis of Europe?
A-Budapest, capital of Hun
gary.
Q-Who first used flame
throwers in warfare?
A-The Germans, in 1915.
Q-How many lieutenant-gen-
erals are there in the u. S. Ar
my?
A-37.
Q-What two principal chem
icals 60 into manufacture of syn
thetic rubber?
A-Butadiene and styrene.
Q-What delicacy was origi-
mated in Strasbourg, France,
now in the fighting zone?
A-Pate de foie gras goose
livers), in 1852.
Q-What is the native Ian.
guage of Ethiopia?
A-Amharic.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-02-08
A LEAK IN THE EVIDENCE

SPOKANE, Wash, Feb. g.
R Three men arrested for
drunkenness and a case of beer
seized as evidence were loaded
into a jail-bound patrol wagon.
But police had to stop en-
route. The prisoners were drink
ing the evidence.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-02-08
STIMULATES
CONGRESSIONAL REFORM

Senator Murray makes clear
that his bill is no LOB budget"
bill as it was originally misun-
derstood 10 be in much of the
press comment, and as Senator
Robert A. Taft of Ohio criticized
it as being in his recent New
York speech.
The Murray-Wagner- Thomas
O'Mahoney bill, as it must now
be identified, would provide for
a far-reaching and fundamental
reform of Congress through its
proposal to create a joint COM
mittee of Is Senators and Is
Representatives to receive from
the President his annual esti-
mates on the national economy.
This joint committee would be
required to present to the Con-
gress an annual bill which
would in effect add up all Sec
tors of the national economy,
private as we'll as governmental,
and recommend national pol
icy for dealing with the coun-
try's financial and employment
well-being. This would insure
an annual or even more fire.
quent debate in Congress on
national economic policy and it
is intended to lead to the adop-
ton of fiscal policy which
would seek to prevent initiation
as well as depression, thus con-
tributing to the maintenance of
a national lever normal econo-
my"