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so THEY SAY

The threat from the east has been con
sdered much worse than the threat from the
west, and as many troops as possible have
been committed against it.-German prisoner
on Western Front
1t Omitted Nations Conference) is no longer
body for gate-crashing by smaller powers
1t is a body which has a special duty fol
world peace, for world security, and great
powers on it have special duties thrown or
them such as they never had under the Ole
League.-Field Marshal Jan Christian Smuts
Union of South Africa.
In technical sense we have solved our
problems of production. In a human sense
they are very far from solved, and they will
never be solved if either society or the in.
sponsibility. DR.. Everett Case, president
Colgate U.
designations in high places will set bad
example for thousands of war workers who
also would like to prepare for peacetime liv.
ing.-Rep. Earl Lewis (R) of Ohio.
United States than there will be hands with
which to do it.-Bernard Baruch, presidential
adviser.
When you bark a command or threaten
punishment they German civilians) fold up
like yellow rats, click their heels and meeklv
obey The only language they understand is
the language of force.-Lt. Gordon w. Seins
Of Chicago at Hamborn, Germany.
Now we're in a position to work over the
Jap forces at our leisure at the least possible
cost to ourselves. It will be a pleasure.
Marine Maj.-Gen. Roy S. Geiger at Okinawa.
Economic warfare, depressions, hunger,
poverty and despair-these are the conditions
that undermine democracy and block its de.
velopment, that breed tyrants and aggressors
Iand that turn nations against one another.
These are the conditions that we must fight
to master if any international organization is
to succeed in preserving the peace.-Secretary
Of State Edward r. stettinius Jr.
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Death Too Good

Again comes the report, without confirma-
ton, that Adolf Hitler has been shorn of his
power in Germany. London hears that Helm
rich Himmler is in the saddle.
Every so often and always lacking anthem
ITCHY rumors spread that Hitler is stark mad,
in disgrace with the party, even held in pro
tective captivity. And as often utterances
and orders credited to him find their way
into the daily press.
The fact seems to be that nobody, save
possibly in military and governmental quar-
tiers, outside Germany, and probably not
many people lin the Reich knows where Hit
Ter is, what his condition is, and what his
closer associates propose for his future.
The only news that could awaken genuine
interest is that Hitler has been taken prisoner
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President Truman

With the nation stunned by President Roose-
velt's death. it is heartening to know, as his
close associates were quick to declare, that
President Truman was second only to Mr.
Roosevelt in knowledge and understanding OF
the world situation and best fitted to carry
out his policies for world peace, as well as
the closing phase of the war. President Tru-
mans pledge to continue in Mr.. Roosevelt's
footsteps therefore is deeply and gratefully
significant.
His quick assurance that the war will be
pressed to a successful conclusion is well de-
signed to stimulate the confidence of this
shocked nation and the United Nations of the
democratic world President Truman will
have one distinct advantage in this emergen-
cy He will have the advice of President
Roosevelts military and naval leaders who
helped him shape the strategy and plan the
campaigns that have been prosecuted with
such outstanding success in Europe and the
Orient. In General Marshall and Admiral
King, President Truman may place as great
reliance as did President Roosevelt AS for
the commanders and personnel OF the armed
forces in the field it may be confidently ex-
pected that the shock President Roosevelt
death caused will be succeeded by redoubled
determ nation to fight the battle as he
planned it and end the war the quicker.
And when the war is over and the powers
gather to draft the peace, he will have the
support of the men who were in President
Roosevelt's confidence at the peace table with
HIM.
With the people behind him to hold up his
hands for victory ana for peace, it is right
to think that President Truman will measure
up to his responsibilities
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The Literary Guidepost

letter and fees. A friendly 0lShop
gets a French prisoner to 40 al
tons work in the garden. II :"
ends in so-called miracle
Though there are Benelma" - :,
Illustrations as good as ever
story doesn't come off. l am Nv
amused by what seems lnteha. :.
to be satire, not even shochsa q,
what seems intended as olc'I
of German brutality. -,
There may be laudable sympo
ism in the island which "asa:'
away, bu. it can't be expresss1
or at leas. isn't on this occaAo,.
with the characteristic BENZ.
mans talent a very rare On -
enjoyable one, as for instance :.
II Love You, I Love You, | w.; s
YOU" Wit and fancy don't i i..,
with gore, and the Germans lu'
aren't laughing matter. -.
The authors conclusion Is ST.. ,
Gus enough; there isn't nl1 y.
hope that the German people q,
ter slavery under tie NaziS' Il. coz =,
or will even want to recover .s
own liberty by their own eli0'"
That may well be true.
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College Election Requested

The County Board Of Education, meeting
Hoggard chairman, addressed request to
the Board of County Commissioners to call
an election for a junior college. The recent
session of the State Legislature passed a bill
presented by Rep. J. @. LeGrand providing
for this election. 1t was an enabling act only.
Authorization must come from the county
commission The decision rests with that gov.
ernmental body.
vious A Junior college would offer advan.
tages to all southeastern North Carolina
Among them is the fact that parents in the
area who have been entering their children
expense would be enabled to give them equal
educational benefits at home, or near home
in the case Of families living in nearby coun-
ties The training obtainable at the school
could be conducted for the most part without
break in the family circle.
Furthermore it is known that federal edu-
catonal funds are to be largely distributed
among junior colleges If the opportunity to
create junior college here is passed up, other
communitions in the state would be able to
act and New Hanover county 60 without, to
the detriment Of the county's educational sys-
tenn and the loss Of a potential student body.
The scent tax provided for in the enabling
act would not have to be permanent 1t was
proposed primarily to tide the school over
until it becomes self-supporting, only as long
as maintenance by the public is required.
The building is available. The Lake Forest
school, built at federal expense, may be used.
But the government reserves the right to
make any other disposition of the structure
it wishes if the county stops using it for
a later date, after the building, had been
otherwise disposed of, the county decided to
create junior college, as it inevitably would
under the pressure of public demand, it would
have to erect building, and the cost to
the taxpayers would be much heavier than
the Scent tax now proposed for temporary
maintenance.
It is also understood that materials and
ma chinery belonging to the Maritime Com
mission, in use at the North Carolina Ship
building Company plant, could be obtained
for shops it is proposed to establish for train
ing in trades and crafts as soon as they
are no longer needed at the shipyard
There are so many reasons for the county
commission to approve the project, it is hard
to foresee how any opposition could exist.
Let the date be set soon for the voting
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Your War; With Ernie Pyle

guns behind us, then of passing
shells, lew dark figures coming
and going in the night, muted vol
ces at the telephones, the rifle
shots, the mosquitoes, the stars,
the feel of the damp night air up
der the wide sky-back again at
the kind of life had known so long.
The old familiar pattern, I'M
changed by distance or time from
war on the other side OF the world.
A, pattern SO inbedded in my soul
that, coming back into it again, it
seemed to me as 1 lay there that
I'd never known anything else in
my life. And there are millions Of
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BY w. G. ROGERS
THE BLUE DANUBE" by Lud-
wig Bemelmans Viking; So.

This story is laid OIL an island,
which is no island at all in flood
time, situated at Regensburg in
the blue Danube, which is not
blue, flood or no flood; it concerns
Germans, very few of whom
are not !>:azis; and though it's fine
Bemelmans in some details, it
isn't Benleimans in total effect,
Anton, his two aged sisters and
niece, Leni, have found a mid
river refuge which is compare
lively safe, since, disappearing for
part of the year, it has no legal
existence and its inhabitants live,
so to speak, with one foot outside
the law. They raise white beer
radishes Tor sale.
In Regensburg are a poetic as
SCISSOR and gauleiter, Nazi
hacks and the villains of the
peice. They regard Anton as a
Bolshevik but don't quite know
how to manage his downfall.
Goaded too far, he cuffs the shu-
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WASHINGTON CALLING s
by I'm
MARQUIS CHILDS 1919

WESTINGHOUSE Friday nigh
Democrats throughout the nation
will sit down to Jefferson day
dinners which, as in the past, have
for their chief objective the collec
ton of funds from the faithful
Everything over and above the &C
tual cost of the dinner will 60 into
the party treasury.
While the need this year IS no
so urgent as in recent years, whe1
Democratic account books were
written in red ink, Chairman Rob
ert Hannegan wants to set a RECORD
on this Jefferson day. Both lr
Washington and out in the country
he has been organizing with furi
Gus zeal that astonishes old line
regulars who have come to take
politics for granted in off years
One thing that Hannegan h a S
done is to make thorough check
on the contributions of the federal
departments to the party in the
Presidential campaign last fall. The
survey revealed some very inter.
esting things.
1t was shown, for example, that
the Department of the interior had
contributed a total of only 5000.
This stirred Bob Hannegan's ire
Think of it, he told friends, in that
department with several hundred
employees above the $4,000 a year
level, and that's all the loyalty
they showed. The total was less,
flanagan pointed out. than his own
contribution to the party in his
old ward in St: Louis, to say moth
ing of his gift to the National Treas
ury.
The White House authorized Han.
negan to call a meeting of Cabinet
members or their representatives
at which he discussed with great
frankness the question of party 10y
atty. The Department of the In.
terror was represented by Under
Secretary Abe Fortas. Far f r m
being embarrassed by the $500 to-
tai, Secretary Ickes was reported
to have been hurt that he did not
receive greater recognition for the
part he played in the campaign
as a speech maker in various
sections of the country. Now on his
thirteenth year in the Cabinet, the
old curmudgeon has developed a
fine disregard for the more vrl-
gar aspects of politics, such as
digging up the cash to pay cam
paign costs.
To make sure that the govern
ment departments do their duty in
connection with the Jefferson day
dinner, flanagan has notified each
Cabinet member that Senators up
for re election in 1916 and ell
congressman will be furnished with
a list showing who attended from
each department.
eff you don't turn OUT said the
frank spoken chairman, you will
be serving notice on these men and
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interpreting
The War
BY K1RKE L. SIMPSON
Associated Press War A,,,

analyst
Victory complete and final !.
close within the grasp of the uni...
Nations war fellowship in G..
many. 1t will be a victory =.
alone over the armed might =.
Germany; but over the brutal ~,
debasing Nazis PHILOSOPHY WY
would have brought mankind dan a'
again to the slough of barbar;.Sn
from which it had climbed ''n
painfully through the centuries i"
Yet the chief architect o. ~.
victory, Franklin Delano Roosev a,s'
lies dead amid his years and bes
ors. He was not spared 10 ses ~.
fulfillment-only to know cert,
ly that it was at hand; that man =,
good will had rallied around W.
world to keep the faith as he ks s.
it to death. "
His death has cast pail of ca,
row over world scene otherw;'.
bright with promise, flaming W."
hope despite all the blood syss.
and tears still to be shed W..
too, it has steeled his countrvms,
and their allies everywhere ~
press on unchecked in their v.ctorv
stride.
An even erimmer purpose and
determination at the fighting 'front.',
and at home will pay a create
tribute to a fallen leader than ary
man made monument.
He VINO runs could read tb.,
action to the Presidents untimeIy
death from men of all walks of f.
and many tongues everywhere, il
came from the highest and tts
humblest; from grieving comrade,
of the broken triumvirate of vic.
tory-Prime Minister Churchill and
Marshal Stain; from admiral,
and generals; and from weary men
in battle, getting on with the war
For all Americans and for their
allies, that assurance was prompt.
ly and solemnly stated by Presj.
dent Truman upon whom the man.
tie of highest authority has fallen
so suddenly in all is heavy weight,
1t was his first word after the sol.
emnization Of his own elevation 10
the Presidency, his first thought
as commander-in-ch:ef of a nation
at war, and it carried no CLEAN Of
hope for topping Germany or tot.
tering Japan.
Realization of that fact marked
even German and Japanese first
reaction to announcement Of Mr..
Roosevelt's death.
The qualities. and the influence
of his successor with his fellow war
captains in reshaping the destiny
of the world, are yet to be tested.
He has signalled that there will
be no pause in relentless war and
no check in following the pathway
toward assured world peace the
dead President had boldly mapped.
The war lords of the disintegrat,
ing German-Japanese axis can find
no comfort in that first action Of
the new American president; but
men of good will in Germany
and Japan, if such there still be,
may take hope that for them, too,
beyond defeat lies the dawn Of a
new era, an era bright before the
vision of Franklin Delano Roose.
welt even as his eyes closed in
death.
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the darkness, voices of men rum
ming the war at the front.
Not long after dark the rifle
shots started. There would be a
little furry far ahead, maybe a
dozen shots. Then silence for many
minutes.
Then there would be another
furry, way to the Left. Then 81
Hence. Then the blurt of ma
chine gun closer, and a few scat
tered single shots sort of framing
it. Then a long silence. Spooky.
All night it went like that. Flares
in the sky ahead, the crack of big
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versation was not with the PresF
dent, but with Mrs. Roosevelt, VINO
then had far greater doubts aoou
the fourth term than anyone else
close to her husband.
1T is not fair of you to ask
Franklin to run again unless you
are prepared to see that ne mas
a Congress which supports ms i1l,
eign policies" Mrs. Roosevelt san
in the course of that conversation
Hannegan has never Forgotten
those words. 1t is one reason lit
is working so hard to organize a1
election that, in the past, has oesn
forgotten in Washington until 'nsss
or four weeks before the voters
were to go to the polls. WorH-hS
a IA or 16 hour day, Hahh''
gan has recently turned down s .'
eral tempting offers-one sor wv
900. a year-from private business
He wants to prove that he can a.
an organizational job equal OF W
perior to that of "A, which every
one credited to Sidney Hillman.
Copyright 1945 by United Re"
lures Syndicate, InC.)
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women that you don't care what
happens to them next year."
AS a curtain raiser to the 1916
congressional campaign flanagan
gave an off record dinner at the
Statler hotel some time ago. He
invited all members of the House
who won their congressional con-
tests last fall by fewer than 49,
900 votes. There were 40 congress
s.onal guests at the dinner. OF this
number, 81 had won by fewer than
10000 votes, and several h d
squeezed through by majorities of
only few hundred.
At each Congressman's place
was tabulation showing exactly
what had happened in the indi-
vidual's district, with an analysis
of the political background looking
to 1916. Attached was a detailed
QUESTIONABLE asking each indlvi-
dual Congressman to list all the
factors which might contribute TO
his defeat or his re election next
year. The tabulation provided by
Hannegan showed the vote in the
separate districts for president,
governor, senator, congressman
and so on.
flanagan opened the session by
pointing out what had happened in
the off year of 1918. when a re-
publican victory was interpreted
as rejection of Woodrow Wilson
plans for League of Nations. That
flanagan warned, might well be
be repeated in 1916 with equally
disastrous consequences.
One reason for Hannegan's zeal
is his vivid memory Of q CONVEX
sation he had in the White House
less than wear ago That ron.
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BY ERNIE PYLE

| OKINAWA -(by Navy radio -
Our first night on OkinaWa was
uncanny and full of old familiar
sounds-tl,c exciting, sad, weary
little sounds of war.
It had been six months since I'c
slept on the ground, or heard E
rifle shot With the marines it was
about the same.
was tagging along with a head
quarters company of a regiment.
We were en- a pretty, rassy slops
out in the country. The frontlines
were about thousand yards
ahead. Other troops were bivou
acked all around us.
There were still a few snipers
hiding around. An officer was
brought in just before dark, shot
through the arm. So we were or
our toes.
Just at dusk three planes flew
slowly overhead in the direction
of the beach. We paid no atten.
ton, for we thought they were
ours. Bui they weren't.
In moment all hell cut loose
from the beach. Our entire fleet
and the guns ashore started throw
ing stuff into the sky. I've never
seen a thicker batch of ack-ack.
AS one of the marines said, there
were more bullets than there was
sky. Those Jap pilots must have
thought the world was coming 70
an end to fly into a lead storm
like that only 10 hours after we
had landed on Okinawa. All three
were shot down.
AS deep darkness came on we
got into our foxholes and settled
down for the night. The country
side became as silent as a grave
silent, that is, between shots.
The only sounds were war sounds.
There were no country sounds at
all. The sky was a roit of stars.
Capt. Tom Brown was in the
foxhole next to me. AS we lay
there on our backs, looking up into
the starry sky, he said:
"There's the Big Dipper. That
the first time I've seen that since
I've been in the Pacific" For, you
see, marines of this division have
done all their fighting under the
Southern Cross, where our Big Dip
per doesn't show.
AS full darkness came, flares
began lighting the country ahead
of us over the frontlines. They
were shot in shells from our battle
ships, time to burst above our
lines, and float down on para
chutes. That was to keep the coun-
try lighted up so we could see the
Japs if they tried to infiltrate,
which is one of their favorite
tricks.
The flares were shot up several
per minute from dusk until the
moon came out full. 1t was very
bright after that and the flares
were not needed.
But all night long two or three
ships kept up a slow Smelling of
the far hills where the Japs were
supposed to be. 1t wasn't a bonn
bardment; just two or three shells
per minute. They passed right over
us and ] found that passing shells
have the same ghostly window
shade rustic" on this side Of the
world as on the other.
My foxhole was only about 20
feet from where two field tele-
phones and two field radios were
lying on the ground. All night, Of
ficers sat on the ground at these
four pieces of communications and
directed our troops.
AS 1 lay there listening in the
dark, the conversations was start
lingly familiar-the words and the
thoughts and The actions exactly
as I'd known them for so long in
the infantry.
All night I could hear these low
voices over the phones-voices in
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and his future rests entirely with his can.
tors. Word that he is dead would cause uni.
versal disappointment in the Allied world.
Death is too good for him. He ought to be
made to pay higher price for his crimes.
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ISSUE HACK LICENSE

RALEIGH, April 12.-(P)-Tun'
ing back the calendar, Raleigh Of
ficials issued the first horsedrawn
hack license requested of them in
20 years. Grady H. Norton OBJ
tanned the license for a refurbish'
e-I four-passenger surrey and a
pair Of bay horses, saying he
would use the vehicle to transport
persons to suburban golf courses
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Practically all the gunpowder
used by both sides in World War
II is manufactured from WOOD
pulp.
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The threat from the east has been con-
sdered much worse than the threat from the
west, and as many troops as possible have
been committed against it.-German prisoner
on Western Front.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-18
Donald Nelson's S
Govt. Travels
Cosr Wife

CHICAGO, Jan. 13 CUP)- di-
vorce suit against Donald NJ. Nelson,
Glencoe, Illinois, charging the fer
mer war production board chairman
with desertion, was on file in supe-
Iior court today.
The bill, asking reasonable ali
mony and attorneys fees, was filed
yesterday by Mrs Nelfon and said
that Nelson deserted her December
IS, 1910, when he went tc Washing
ton to assist in the formulation OF
the rational defenee program.
They were married December 10
1926, and have no children.
Nielsen, a former Sears, Roebuck
SZ Co. executive, was named chair
man Of the WPB in January, 1912.
retaining that post until last Sep
tenb:r so, when he resigned after
an intra-agency quarrel over reccn-
version problems.
Following his refigration, Nelson
embarked on a five-week tour Of
China, New zesland and Australia
as the Presidents personal repre-
sentative.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-18
Cupboards Are
Subject Of
Acacia Ne e+inq

Mrs. Mildred richardson was
hostess to members Of the Acacia
Hcme Department. Wednesday with
Miss Florence Glenn, county GEM
orstraticr agent, speaking on
kitchen CT. boalIs at the morning
session ! >
Miss Glenn told i.5w to build cup
boards and how to arrange shelves
fer extra room.
Fotluck luncheon was served at
noon, followed by a business meet
ing in the afternoon, at which the
group decided to meet only once a
month, on TIE third Wednesday.
They also mace up list Ct subjects
On which they would like Miss
G,ern to conduct meetings.
Those present were Ruby Ray,
Ruby lehman, Jessie Littre'l, Do
cthy Cowan, Carolyn Mcconnell,
Helen Becson, Xyltlia Sutherland,
Irene Norris, Miss Glenn and the
hostess.