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The echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1942-1960, 1945-05-18

Funeral services were held Monds.,
May 18th, at 200 o'clock from tho
New Hope Baptist Church for Mrs
Lizzie Williamson. The funeral orr.
ton was beautifully delivered by her
former pastor, Reverend Luke Beard
pastor of 10th Avenue Baptist Church
Birmingham, Alabama
Professional, organ; song, asleep
In Jesus" choir' scripture reading
prayer-Rev. C. Rush. Song: 81
Know My Jesus Cares" Booth and
choir; coincidence: my Task" Mrs.
Thelma Bennett; remarks, Reverend
R. L. Young; Obituary, Mrs. Esther
Bitter; appreciation, Mrs. L. F.
Brooks; GIVE Done My Work" Mrs.
Hattie Mccain; Sermon, Reverend
Luke Beard; "Safe In The Arms Of
Jesus, choir; occasional. Interment
followed in Odd Fellows Cemetery
with the Enterprise Funeral Home
in charge.
The echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1942-1960, 1945-05-18
Formal Dance

The Wechsler Junior High School
featured formal dance Friday even
ing, May 18th from the Colored USO.
A very pleasant evening was had.
Music was furnished by Red Adams,
The echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1942-1960, 1945-05-18
Folk We Know

Mr.. james S. Walker of Mt. Olive,
Miss, brother of President Ellis
Walker, is finishing his college work
this school term at M. l. College.
Mr.. Walkers many, many friends re-
joice with him in that he is finishing
his college work.
The echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1942-1960, 1945-05-18

Miss Hazel Cole, sister OF Mrs. Min
ME Collins who underwent a serious
operation at the Meridian Sanitarium
seems to be doing nicely.
The echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1942-1960, 1945-05-18

Messrs. Willis and Chandler, off
cials of the Universal Life Insurance
Company, Memphis, Tenn, We're in
the city Monday for a short while en-
route to Columbus, Miss ,
The echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1942-1960, 1945-05-18
Visited Mother

Mrs. Lille Rec Young visited hen
mother, Mrs. Matte Perkins in Fan
nins and other relatives and friends.
of Jackson last week for Mothers
Day. She reports a lovely visit.
The echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1942-1960, 1945-05-18

Miss Sadie Mae wilkins is in
the city visiting her sister, Mrs.
Elvie Jordan who resides in the
Frank Berry Court. Miss Williams
lives in Forest.
The echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1942-1960, 1945-05-18

Prof. ]. B. Pettus, Civilian Instruct
of the Army Air Forces, Technical
School of Boca Field, Florida, was
in the city visiting Relatives and
friends.
The echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1942-1960, 1945-05-18

Mrs. Nettie johnson heceived a
Mothers Day token from her son
who is in the AIMED service of which
she prizes very dearly.
The echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1942-1960, 1945-05-18

Mr.. John Toole of Stonew&ll was
in the office last Saturday on busin-
ess pertaining to his lodge, No. 80,
of which he is Vice President.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-04-04
FOREIGN FACTORY
UTILIZATION URGED

PHILADELPHIA, April 3.-o'-
The greater use of French and
Belgian production would ease Ar
my supply problems in Europe
and civilian shortages at home,
says W. Y. Elliott, WPB vice
chairman for civilian require
ments.
Writing in the current issue OF
the Saturday evening Post, ELL
Oft who returned recently from
an inspection tour on the contl-
nent, urges the tapping of the IN.
dustrial facilities of France ana
other liberated countries.
THE Nazis had about halt OF
the production of France working
for Them" Elliott points out. LIB
Grafton begins to look a little less
rosy to French Workmen VINO are
idle in very great numbers.
Elliott and his inspection group
were convinced that "the recuper-
alive powers of France are very
great" Tn=y noted also great
reserve of manpower in France.
The inspection party, he says
etched to get production from
some of the facilities they saw
both in France and in Belgium.
These facilities, he explains, SUI
fered Surprisingly little dam
age"
AS an example of how France
could help to relieve shortages
Elliott points out that one OF oul
greatest shortages is in cottor
duck. In normal times French anc
Belgian cotton textile industrie:
produced two billion yards OF cot
ton goods, annually.
The French wooden and worstee
industries were very little dam
aged" he says, and both Britain
and the United States have al
embarrassing surplus of WOO
which could be used.
Elliott concludes:
ut would be a great thing fol
the civilian in the United State!
if broader reconversion o
French industry could be arrang
ed. BY helping to get France int
production now, we shall be do
ing the biggest job we can, a
this stage of the war, to help u!
out of our own wartime shortage!
here at home
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-04-04

trying to destroy German culture
and blot it's traces from European
civilization. The British are at
tackled more in sorrow than anger,
as European nation which be-
trayed the cause of a United Eu-
rope by ignoring the fuehrer' S
generous offers and fighting on
the wrong side.
At the same time, every effort
is made to convince the Germans
there are people even worse off
than themselves. In France, Bel
GUM, Italy, the populations are
said to be living under ruthless AL
lied military oppression and near
the borderline of starvation.
Although always doubtful of
such assertions, 1 could not be
amazed at the real conditions saw
in southern Holland and Belgium.
The people are not only well-dres-
sed but apparently well-fed and on
the friendliest terms with Allied
troops. For the first time in years.
1 saw goods in shop windows and
people freely buying and selling,
even if the prices are high.
In Germany there is virtually
nothing to buy.
All you see in the stores is a
dusty cardboard advertisement
for some product no longer avail
able. A butchers window contains
a couple of plants and sign INC
meat" A baker has only dummy
loaf on display. The weekly meal
ration is so minute, it is hardly
worth eating. When it comes it of
ten has a curious odor and i.
sometimes tuberculous.
The bread ration for civilians
which also was given to prisoners
of war-was about 12O gram!
daily or enough for five or 81,
slices. 1t is black bread with j.:
large proportion of potato flou,
but quite good. On it one spreads
margarine made from some Goa
tar by-product and jam made from
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-04-04
Rd
detour.'
by

WASHINGTON-On the basis of
my own experience, 1 should say
that political censorship of tn e
news out of western Europe is neg
ligible. Occasionally it is invoked
to protect the feelings of Allies
in the war, but such instances
seem to be rare.
In eastern Europe the story is
quite a different one. American
correspondents have not been per-
mitted into countries liberated by
Soviet armies. Briefly they were
allowed in Bucharest, but Soviet
censorship there made it impossi-
bic to write more than obvious inn
pressions.
In Yugoslavia, during a brief
stay, I encountered a political CEN
sorship that was severe and at
the same time exceedingly naive.
Having written two columns sum-
ming up surface impressions, I
concluded by saying that it was
clear that Marshal Tito still faced
very grave problems.
He is confronted with ancient ra
cial hatreds, famed by adroit Nazi
propaganda aimed at setting Croat
against Serb and Serb against Slo-
vene. He must try to work toward
the forms OF democracy in a part
of the world where dictatorship has
been the rule rather than the ex-
ception. Granting Tito the utmost
good will. it seemed to me then, as
it does now, that the outcome can
be determined only with infinite
patience and the passage of time.
I then took my copy to the cen
sor. He proved to be a stocky,
powerfully built officer of the
Partisan army. He remained stand
ing while an assistant read in Ser
bian what I had written. From
time to time he made notes on the
back of a match box. When the
reading was finished, he requested
several minor changes of informa-
ton which might have been re-
motley connected with military Sc.
curity, and those, of course, were
made without question. Ths1,
however. he announced that it
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-04-04

would be necessary to strike out
the discussion of Yugoslavia' fu-
ture and any doubts as to whether
it would become a democracy.
'You don't understand" he said.
Field Marshal Alexander made a
speech two nights ago and he said
that we had a democracy. Also he
said we had achieved Slavic fed
Grafton. So it must be true
That ki1d of censorship grows out
of insecurity. 1t is sympto.natic of
a new regime that is feeling its
way uncertainty, improvising in
most government departments.
The British, with at least our
tacit acquiescence, have under
written Tito. They saw no alterna-
tive except years Of bloodshed and
violence. Now that he has power
full backing and is free of the fear
that the Western powers might in
tervene, Tito should surely be able
to relax some restrictions and,
foremost among them, this naive
censorship.
It is calculated, it seems to me,
to engender suspicion and distrust
where, with a free exchange of
news, none need exist. That is true
throughout eastern Europe. A flood
of rumors about conditions in Buda-
pest is being damned behind the
Russian refusal to allow anyone
from the outside into that stricken
city.
Conditions in Hungary's capital
can hardly be more appalling than
in Cologne or Frankfurt, where
bombing and siege have done their
worst. But in the absence of first
hand information, sinister reports
are circulating about the horrors
that exist in the streets of tn e
once beautiful city on the Danube.
This, it seems to me, is a les
son which Russia must learn it any
real understanding is to grow up
between the partners in this war.
The phrase, sphere of influence"
seems logical when the Soviet
Union insists on maintaining bar
riers around the countries occupied
by Soviet troops.
Correspondents Of the Soviet
news agency Taas have the same
opportunities to visit the Western
front as any other correspondent.
A Taas correspondent in Soviet
officers uniform has all the privi-
leges of the hotel in Paris that Is
headquarters for the several hum
dred reporters covering the wa r
from there.
The present policy of exclusion
in eastern Europe-and the restrlc-
tons are broad enough to cover
US. officials as well as correspon-
dents seems of a piece with the
shrill criticism that emanates
from such Soviet journals as War
and the Working Class. At Yalta
the Big Three were reported to
have discussed frankly this prob
lem of free exchange of news. 1t
would BE good to see some tangible
evidence of the changes agreed to
at the end of those talks.
Copyright 1915 by United Feature
Syndicate, Inc.)
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-04-04

O'Berry, Coldsbc-c, enc year;
Fourth District, DR. H. o. :>ne-
berger, Raleigh, two years; Fifth
District, R. P. Richardson, Reds.
vile, two years; Sixth District.
]. W. Umstead, Chapel Hill, two
years; Seventh District, y. L.
Dawkins, Fayetteville, t h rec
years; Eighth District, Ryan NC
Bryde, Raeford, three years; Ninth
District, DR.. T. V. Goode, States
vile, three years; Tenth District,
Dr. Yates Palmer. Valdese. four
years; Eleventh District, Francis
A. Whiteside, Gastonia, four
years; Twelfth District, Baxter L.
Jones. Bryson City. four years.
Members at large: Leonard L.
Oettinger, Kinston, Mrs. Andrew
Blair, Charlotte, and Mrs. Rivers
D. johnson, Warsaw, all for four
year terms.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-04-04
Governor Proclaims
Friday AS Army Day

RALEIGH, April 3.-P)-Gover-
nor Cherry today proclaimed sri
day, April 6, as Army Day in North
Carolina, honoring "the men and
women serving in our Army on the
continent and in far-off places. :"
Goveror Cherry, meanwhile, an
nounced that he would attend
Army Day ceremonies at Fort
Bragg as the guest of Brig. Gen.
John B. Kennedy, post comman-
der.
In connection with Army Day,
the Governor called upon "every
citizen to take part in patriotic
ceremonies, and to display the
flag from public buildings, bust
ness establishments and homes in
tribute to the valor of the Army
of the United States.''
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-04-04
r. Gator Maddrey
HEARING AID C0NSULTANT
TO HOLD
FREE PRIVATE
DEMONSTRATION
at the
Optical Shop

Located in the Jewel Box
100 N. Front St., Wilmington, N. c.
We'd, April and Thurs, April 5
Hours 900 am. to 500 pm.
All hard of hearing should plan
to attend these Free Demonstra-
tons at The Optical Shop on Wed
nesday and Thursday. They place
you under no obligation of any
kind and Mr.. Maddrey will be
pleased to help you with your hear
ing aid problem regardless of
what make or model hearing aid
you are now wearing. Improper
ly fitting hearing aids are the
source of most of the difficulties
you find today states Mr.. Mad
|drey. Rarely if ever do you find
two people with the identical hear
ing aid problems, practically every
case has it's own peculiar problems,
that is why it is so important that
you get properly fitted with an
instrument which will most accu-
rately compensate YOUR hearing
loss, since we contend there are
varying degrees and types of deaf
ness and each should be handled
by q competent hearing aid ex-
pert"
These demonstrations are spon-
sored by the Raleigh Hearing Aid
Co.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-04-04
ARMYFO0D NEEDS
RISE Il PER CENT

WASHINGTON, April D. R -
rne Army announced tonight that
~ food requirements for this year
',orld be IL per cent Of the es-
MATED 280 billion pounds avail
WI. .hls for distribution. This is an
+ increase of 20 per cent over what
was needed last year.
The figures were given by I'm
,.rsecretary of War Patterson in
statement issued in the wake
q criticism in Congress Of Army
tood, buy ing activities and COM
nIaiDts of boarding.
In this connection, Patterson re-
;4arated an assertion that "the ar
Nv has no stockpile of FOOD" but
a N, carry minimum working re-
.srves just as wholesalers and
retajlers do to assure a steady
-novement Of food to the consum-
sr" To guard against disruption
81 supply working stock levels
ore maintained in filler depots for
averseas demands and in region
~ denots for camps in this coun-
Killer depots are authorized to
carry not more than a 60-day sup
NV and regional depots not more
han II; 45-day supply, said Pat
terson.
As recently as a year ago, Pat
+erson said, the normal volume of
tood in the pipeline of supply for
+Toops in this country was at a
oo.dav level, but careful house.
y.ening' had reduced this. The
voluue of food in the pipeline for
overseas averaged 108 days, but
has been lowered to about 10
DAYS, he added.
The possibility of early victory
in Europe holds little hope for re-
auction of Army food requirements
during 1885," he said.
Computations based on various
assumed dates for We day indi-
cate no substantial reduction in
NET requirements but many shifts
among the various types of food
required. The problem of feeding
civilians in liberated and occupied
areas will increase tremendously.
Troops in the European area
on We day must still be fed and
will require increasing quantities
of perishable foods. such as meats
and fresh dairy products. AS their
number decreases through rede-
plovment TO the Pacific or return
to the United States, the amount
Of food going to the European area
to feed our forces will decrease
but the amounts going to the Pa
cific will increase.
The Arrny's requirements are
not confined to feeding its own
100000 men, said Patterson. It
buys for Navy personnel in the
aters where the Army is respon-
sible for supply; provides food for
an increasing number of prison
ers of war; for allied military for
ces depending on the Army for
food and for liberated civilians in
former eremy-occupied areas.
Patterson declared "the Army
is we'll aware that it is only one
Of many groups with claims on
the United States food supply" and
added: Nor does the Army sub
scribe to the theory that Army and
other military requirements must
invariably be given first priority.
with the civilians getting only what
may be left over.
Along with other agencies, the
Army from time to time has ad-
justed its claims to avoid serious
impact on civilian supply" he
said.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-04-04
RATION ROUNDUP
GAS Of Monday. April y

Wy Inc ASoVSAdtC0 L 1851
MEATS, FATS, ETC.-Book four
red stamps is through KS good
through April 20. Stamps Us and rs
and Az through Do good through
June 2; E2 through y good through
June 80; K2 through Pr good through
July 81.
PRocEssED FOOD L Book four
blue stamps CO through CO good
through April 20; H2 through M
good through June 2; NJ through So
good through June 30; TT through
X2 good through July 81.
SUGAR-Book four stamp IS valid
for five pounds through June 2. Next
STAN pbecomes valid May 1.
SHOES-Book three air p l a NJ
stamps 1. and valid Indefinitely.
OPA says no plans to cancel any.
GASOLINE-15A coupons good ev-
erywhere for four gallons each
through June 81. B-6, C-6, BIT, CT
coupons good everywhere for five
gallons each.
FUEL On-Period one through
five coupons good everywhere through
current heating season. Last years
period four and five coupons also
valid.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-04-04
Correspondent Tells
OF Despair In Reich

Godfrey H. P. Anderson, an As
ISOLATED Press war correspondent,
was freed by Allied forces last
week, ending more than three years
IN Axis hands since his capture in
North Africa. Here, in the first of
four daily stories, he gives an up
to-the minute picture Of the hope
lessness of the German people, and 4,
the frantic propaganda efforts to
revive a dead cause.l
By GODFREY H. p. ANDERSON
PARIS, April 3.-tREThe once
proud Herrenvolk now make up
the most war weary nation in the
world.
Judging from what I was able to
see during my last days of cap
tivity, there is hardly a German
left who believes the war can last
more than a few weeks. Only the
merest handful of party fanatics
believe it possible to snatch any
kind of compromise peace.
1--WE know it is all hopeless
now" said one soldier wounded
five times on the eastern front
But Himmler just won't let us
give in. lost my home in Saar'
brucken through bombing and my
wife is in occupied territory. Now
they have taken my last boy, aged
16, for a parachute unit and thai
is suicide job. It's crying
scandal they still make us fight
when everything is lost and we
have no equipment"
This growing attitude of de
moralization, fast spreading tt
troops from the civilian population
is driving Nazi leaders to new
desperate lengths in their propa
ganda.
Every radio and every news
paper represent the Russians al
ravening beasts burning their wa,
through every village, raping wo
men and dragging hundreds o
thousands away to slavery in ST
IBERIA.
Americans are portrayed a
bloodthirsty gangsters, wantonl.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-04-04
FOOD AGREEMENTS

OTTAWA, April 3.-4RHAgree-
ments have been signed by Col. J..
j. Llewellyn, British minister Of
food, and Canadian Agriculture
Minister Gardiner by which Brit
ain will take all the beef, bacon,
ham and eggs Canada can supply
to the end of 1916, it was learned
TODAY.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-04-04
COLLECTIONS

GREENSBORO, April 2.-R -
Internal Revenue collections for
the month of March in North Caro-
lima amounted to SOL, 1853, 929. 04
Charles H. Robertson, collector,
announced yesterday.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-04-04

AS cause Of death. accidents
rank fifth in the United States,
exceeded only by heart disease.
cancer. cerebral hemorrage and
nephritiS
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-04-04
CHERRY APPOINTS
HOSPITALS BOARD

RALEIGH, April 3.-tR-Mem-
bership Of new Hospitals Board
of Control to have supervision over
North Cardinals four mental in
situations was announced today by
Governor Cherry.
Appointment of the new board
was authorized by the last Gener-
al Assembly as part of re-organi-
cation program for the hospitals at
Raleigh. Morganton, Goldsboro
and Kinston. The 1945 Assembly
provided that the board be COM
posed of one member from each
of the States IL Congressional
districts and three members at
large, completely re-vamping the
former board membership, which
consisted OF four representatives
from each of the three sections
of the State.
New board members, appointed
to serve for terms of one to four
years, are:
First District, T. G. Bynum,
Edenton, one year; Second Dis
trict, w. G.. Clark. Tarboro, one
year; Third District, Thomas
grape skins with saccharine sweet
ening.
The rest of the Germans war
time diet consists mainly of po-
tatoes. The ration of $500 grams
(about 10 pounds) weekly when I
first arrived in Germany Gin Sep
TENDER 1943) was cut twice, to
$500 grams q IL pounds) and
then to 5000 grams (about six
pounds) per week.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-04-04

Insects have killed more men
than all the wars in histroy put
together.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-08-14
LEST WE FORGET
BY Strauss Gantx

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all free loud and of better
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tighter
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The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-08-14
Prayer Of Thanksgiving
BY Rev. H. Norman Jackson. Minister of the First
Congregational Church. WYandotte Michigan

Eternal God who the hope of all mankind we give
Thee thanks for the Peace which has Thy children
throughout the world The night of darkness has passed and
the day of terror longer with The tumut the
shouting dies and from the hearts of the goes forth
Lord God of Hosts be with yet-LeSt forget Lest
forget We rejoice in this hour that the things of the Spirit
of God still ve that nothing has taken away the spiritual
foundations of our life
Give unto u.s. Father wisdom we take up the task
of building united world in which shall be no more
Help to dedicate ourselves to the spiritual nSghs and
truths which Lord and Master Jesus Christ taught
this earth Enable to walk humby before Thee with
another May know and daughters of
the Living God and all under the Faherhood
of God Keep alive hearts Thy vision of new heaven
and EARTH of society upon the earth which none shall
hurt be hurt by injustice hatred cruelty May we seek
first Thy kingdom and its righteousness that common
life may be enriched and gorified
We hold in grateful memory fallen and COM
radeS who have died that might live May be worthy
OF their sacrifice Comfort those who long for the touch
vanished hand be Thou the Companion the lonely and
refuge the discouraged the distressed and the defeated
Upon the sick and wounded beSeech Thee besow Thy
healing Power Lift upon them all the light of Thy counter
ance and give them peace
Hear prayers, beseech Thee for those in the
Armed Forces who have been given respite from the shock
of Grant them the blessing of gratitude and safe
return to their homes
Thou has been dwelling place in all generations and
unto Thee lift up hearts Thy mercy endureth for
and Thy compositions eth Now that the storm
Of has passed and face day, may we
know Thy spirit is with and will lead into new
order of life where Thy will done in heaven
Cleanse us of all nsincery and seshness and renew
right spirit within May Thy children in all corners of
the world know "the meek shall inherit the earth"
All these things ask in the of Jesus Christ the
Prince Of Peace. Amen
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-08-14
Proud OF City's
Part In War
Says Mayor

LET us thank God that this ter
rible war is over, and let us pray
for just and lasting peace" Mayor
Louis w. Benin said today when
he heard the radio announcement
that the japanese had surrendered
to the United Nations.
The city of Wyandotte can be
justly proud of the part they played
from the beginning to the end. Let
us join together again and do our
part in taking care of the boys as
they come back home" he contin-
ued.
I'VE have proved that much can
be accomplished by being united.
Therefore let us all ask the help
Of God for a speedy return to the
normal way of life"