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anyway, if you'd like to, Pix" He shook his
head. The people who let me in on all this
said that even in all that heat you managed to
stay sweet and fresh, keeping worn out G.I.'s
from forgetting what pretty American girl
looked like, and that you could always come
up with smile late at night as you handed out
doughnuts to boys just back from mission ...'
81 always did like doughnuts."
He shook his head again you, Pix. The
Red Cross. A recreation worker"
"Only it wasn't all recreation" she said. ut
was heartache and horror and dirt and sweat
and being dead tired all the time. 1t was
pounding on broken down old piano when
felt more like bawling it was talking to
some homesick kid when couldn't get out of
mind what the last one had told me it was
seeing those boys take off and sometimes not
come back it was tough, it was really
tough. -"
II can imagine" he said grimy. ut was also
dangerous But it must have been the strain
that got you the worst, although you did
manage to wait until you got shipped back
here with malaria before you cooked up one of
the fancier nervous breakdowns. Gosh. Pix -.
Pix :. they said you were in bad shape for
a while.
Entirely cured" she said, Beautifully
cured
She held out her arms straight before her.
"They don't even shake any more"
He took her hands roughly and pulled her
forward "Why didn't you tell me? When
you gave so much - when you might have
given all you had - why did you let me think
you we're still the girl who just danced and wore
clothes?"
''BEcAUsE l still am" she said, her words
coming out in a rush, almost uncontrollably.
''Oh, I'm something else too, think; stood
up fairly we'll in New Guinea; l can do all
right in tight place; found out that had
good stuff in me and I'm going to find other
wavs to use it. But, Scott, I'm still that other
girl, too. I'll always be Pix; I'll always like
new, gay, shiny things; I'll always be little
silly. And wanted you to know that, you see;
if you knew that, if you knew it and didn't
care, if you could still ask me to marry you
then, and do it straight and say the right
thing -
He was holding her now. 'You crazy, pxil-
lated goof," he said "Golly but love you.
Oh Pix, but love you. .. Well what about
it? Did say the right thing?'
Yes she said. and her voice was less than
a whisper, because she could hardly believe
that she was back in his arms. Darling, you
said just the right thing. - The End
Evening star., 1945-12-23
BUTTERFLY GIRL
Continued from page sepen

new clothes and going places well, why
shouldn't you have liked all that? should
have been glad you were having good time
and were happy. But no, had to read you the
riot act No wonder you turned me down"
II trust you used different methods the
next time you proposed to someone" she said.
There wasn't any next time, Pix. There
was never anyone else
Il know" she said. Her hand was trembling
and she cupped it firmly over the arm of her
chair There hasn't been for me. either"
Pix" He had turned to her again and looked
straight at her Look; it isn't too late. l love
you Pix. Marry me. I'm asking you again"
'"BUT I'm still the same Pix she told him.
"You know what I'm like You've known me
all my life. You watched me get spanked when
/ wore my dancing school shoes to the picnic:
you know how many fountain pens lost in
high school; you were there when / sneaked
out of the educational lecture and went to the
circus. You even gave me my name. after we
saw that Garry Cooper movie about people
being pixillated, and I've been Pix ever since.
You know all about me, Scott"
/ m not so sure, lie Sdiu ooHlctliiicS L
think don't know anything about you. But
still say love you"
Look at me-" she said Here am, silly
girl with gold bug in my hair dancing in the
towns swankiest Canteen. Historys in the
making and I'm still Pix. Are you sure you
want me, Scott?'
I'm sure he said.
The music had stopped some time ago.
Let's get out of here" he said. 60 and
get your coat I'll meet you at the door.
She got up and went to the lounge without
even thinking My coat, she thought dazedly.
Oh yes, my coat. She shrugged into 1t and had
to button it twice; her fingers felt numb and
stiff He wants me, she thought. He wants
me: he loves me; he said So There was no
room in her thoughts for anything else. Busy
with makeup, using automatic gestures, those
words kept ringing through her mind
When she joined him, she could tell at once
that someone had told him. In just that little
time someone had told him.
He took her arm and they went outside with
out speaking.
Pix" he finally said Whats the idea,
holding out on me? - Why, Pix?'
Il had to, didn't want you to find it out -
SO soon"
They got into the car and then he turned to
her. 81 didn't know - before he said. i
honestly didn't"
Good"
"You went into the Red Cross as recrea-
ton worker"
''If you say it was just to get dates, mayhem
will break loose"
They told you it might be New Guinea and
you went right ahead
'If you say thought might get nice sun
tan there I'll hit you
81 won't, but you can go ahead and hit me
Evening star., 1945-12-23

Happily, on this Christmas, the long days of
waiting for the home ecoming of loved ones in the
we'll have the year-round Joy of seeing familiar
faces and things without interruption. Among
them will be Dole Hawaiian Pineapple Products.
As they make their appearance, and you help
yourself to them, we re your taste will tell
you that they delicious ever.
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DR.. Meadows Trial
Goes FORWARD Today

GREENVILLE, June "a. Up
Trial of DR.. Leon R. Meadows.
charged with embezzlement and
false pretense, will be resumed to-
morrow morning in Pitt County Su-
perior Court with the prospect that
the prosecution will rest its case
during the day.
The former president Of East
Carolina Teachers College is charg-
ed by the State with the misappro-
priation of more than $4,000 in
special college and student funds
while head of the institution.
He was tried for the first time
last spring, trial that lasted eight
weeks and resulted in mistrial.
The defense has indicated that
DR.. Meadows probably will be call
ed to the stand this week.
Thus far the State built the foun-
dalton for it's case on testir, ny
virtually identical with that SUBJ
mitted to the jury during the first
trial. 1t is attempting to show that
the defendant used college funds
with which to provide improve
ments on properties he owns in
Greenville. It was brought out dur
ing the first trial that DR.. Meadows
owns numerous dwellings here.
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WASHINGTON, June "a U.D -,
Sen. Homer Capehart, R., Ind,
back from a tour of Europe, said
tonight that the ban on G. is
f.aternizing with German frau
leins is as unenforceable as pro-
hibition and should be revoked.
Love is blind he said. You
can't change human nature.
Other Senators just back from
Europe generally agreed, pointing
out that 1.-The poor boys are lone
ly' and that German girls are
''quite attractive and healthy.
Sen. John L. Mcclellan, D., Ark,
said that although he found many
soldiers who were unhappy" about
the ban, he felt that the policy
was wise for the present.
IF a girl is pretty, American
soldiers don't care if she happens
to be German, he said. Il am,
of course, too old for that sort OF
thing but I'd complain, too, II l
were younger-and over there.
Sen. Homer Ferguson, r., Men,
said the non-fraternization order
needs more time Ito be tested.
One senator who asked to re-
main anonymous predicted a wave
of weddings when the policy Is re-
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SOAP FIRM LEADS
BUYERS OF SPACE

NEW YORK, June "a W.H -
National advertisers spent total
of $216,O00,0O0 for advertisers
space in English-language week
day and Sunday newspapers in
1910, the Bureau of the American
Newspaper Publishers Association
said today.
The bureau said that the total
did not include expenditures by
national advertisers in various CO.
operative arrangements with deal
ers, which, it pointed out, would
heavily increase" the figure.
The bureaus announcement was
based on it's sixth annual edition
of expenditures of national adj
vertisers in newspapers, maya
zines, farm journals and chain
RADIO" compiled by Media Rec
ords Inc.
This years edition, the bureau
said, lists a record number of ma
tional advertisers who spent $685.
900 or more in any one of the
four media covered. The number
i, 628-was 129 above the 1913
figure and 421 higher than the
number in 1912, the announce
ment said.
Proctor and Gamble, whose ma
tional advertising expenditures
were greater than any other COM
pany's in the two previous years,
again headed the list for advertis-
ing in newspapers and in the four
media combined, the bureau said.
Others in the top 10 companies
to spend the largest totals for
newspaper advertising alone were,
in their respective, order: Colgate
Palmolive Peet; Seagram Dis
tillers Corp; Lever Bros; Stand
ard Brands; General Motors;
Coca-Cola; Brown and Williamson
Tobacco Corp; Schenley Distillers,
Corp, and General Mills.
Standard Brands, Brown and
Williamson and Schenley Disillers
moved into the top 10 listing
since 1913. Colgate advanced to
second from third place in 1943,
Seagram to third place from sixth
and Lever to fourth from seventh
place.
Companies placing after Proc
tor and Gamble in the top 10 ad-
vertisers in all media were listed
by the bureau as: General Foods,
General Motors and Lever Bros,
which retained second, third and
fourth, places respectively, which
hey held in 1913.
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THREE TAR HEELS
GET DECORATIONS

CAMP LEJEUNE, N. c. June
24.-Three Tar Heels were among
the eighteen men who were award.
ed Purple Heart Medals at this
camp this week.
The men, fifteen Marines and
three sailors, received the medals
for wounds suffered in action in
the Pacific.
The men receiving decorations
were: Corporal Hanley Hays Pain
ter, Bryson City, North Carolina,
who was wounded at Two Jima !;
Sergeant Raymond A. Shipton,
High Point, North Carolina, who
was wounded at Two Jima; Priv.
ate James c. Melton, Lenoir,
North Carolina, wounded at Two
Jima; AOM &c John A. Purick OF
Roslyn, New York, wounded in
the Philippines; Private First
Class Clifford w. Wilson Of Mill.
boro, Virginia, wounded at Two
Jima also: EN- &c Louis Polisse
of Lodi, New Jersey, wounded at
Corregidor; Private First Class
Stuart Colman of Detroit, Mich
igan, wounded at Guam; Sergeant
Robert Louis Baluh of Mt. Pleas
ant, Pennsylvania, wounded dur
ing a Naval bombardment; Gun
merry Sergeant Lee Augustus Eng
Ter of Williamsport, Pennsylvania,
wounded at Two Jima; Sergeant
Joseph August Nebrask of Scran-
ton, Pennsylvania, wounded at
Two Jisna; Seaman 1-c Carl Vim
ton Lee, J a C k son, Michigan,
wounded when Jap suicide
plane crashed into his ship; Priv
ate First Class Annie Leonard
Lee, Jr., of Panama City, Florida,
wounded at Two Jima.
Private First Class Henry Clay
Strother of Oakdale, Louisiana,
wounded at Cape Gloucester; Cor
poral John William Hosking Of
Prospect Park, Pennsylvania,
wounded at Two Jima; Technical
Sergeant Robert Fred Melville of
Rochester, New York, wounded
in the Marshall Islands; and
Corporal Herbert P. Schmidtchen
of Sharpsburg, P n n S y Nv ania,
wounded at Two Jima.
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RESIDENTS AWAIT
ACTION ON MEATS

Following the announcement Of
City Manager A. c. Nichols that
the meat shortage is expected to
be relieved by July 1, Wilmington
ians this week are awaiting word
from the Office of Price Admins
tration in Washington after a petit
ton of more than 500 names had
been presented in a plea for more
meat for New Hanover county.
Although no word had been re-
ceived last night. it generally is
believed that additional meat for
this area will be forthcoming
soon.
The main point in favor Of adj
ditional meat for this area is the
immense Shift in population from
the tributary section of New Han
over county, according to Repre-
sentative j. Bayard Clark. He re.
ferred to war workers who are
spending a great amount of ration
points not issued in New Hanover
county.
Representative Clark pointed out
that grocers within New Hanover
county should record those ration
books not issued within New Han.
over, and the records should be
submitted to OPA.
THE OPA," he said, should be
prevailed upon to accept these
figures in making an adjustment"
Mr.. Nichols pointed out follow
ing his return from Raleigh last
Friday that he conferred with
State OPA officials in the hope OF
securing an easement Of restric-
tons against the slaughtering of
cattle and hogs produced in this
vicinity.
However, he said that City Off
Gals particularly are working on
some earlier relief.
Although the progress in obtain
ing additional meat quotas for this
area has been slow, Wilmington
ians are hopeful of settlement
soon.
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Two NOW PAYING
LARGE DIVIDENDS
CONTINUED From Page One)

covered hell hole they fought Tor
was now a refuge for hundreds OF
air crewmen who otherwise would
have been lost. but Two means
more than the lives of B-29 crew
men saved now. Two means IN
creased operations against the enc
my: it means total war against
the Japanese mainland and a
quicker finish to the war for every
one."
Two was still a battle-ground
when 1t. Raymond F. Malo, Dan
vile, ILL.,, brought his crippled
plane down on the island with his
gasoline tanks running dry - the
first B-29 to land on Two. During
March, 81 others landed and then
Two began to pay off. In April 20S
Superforts landed and in May $40
came down. On June l, following
a daylight attack on Osaka, total
of 81 landed on Two.
The 21st Bomber Command list
ed the following as among the rea'
sons Two was worth the price:
l. Its possession increases the
bomb tonnage per plane. The is
land cuts the return trip from ia
pan in half and, if necessary
means from 1000 to 5000 MOI
pounds per aircraft.
2. 1t means that more OF the
Superforts which take off from the
Marianas will reach the target. On
practically every mission num-
Der of B-29s fail to reach the goal
because OF navigational errors,
weather or battle damage. With
1--we available, that number is re-
duced greatly because the pilots
still go ahead when they are in
trouble, knowing Two is available
as a haven.
3. Two means greater Superfort
efficiency. 1t. J. W. Bradford. San.
ford, Fla, said What relief to
know that Two is there. Morale
and spirits are boosted and effici'
ency is raised to the maximum
where your mind is at ease" Capt.
FreJerick D. Weber, Amityvil!e,
NJ Y, said whenever l land at
Two 1 thank God and the men who
fought for it."
4. Two makes fighter protection
possible for the B-29's. Capt. Al.
bert M. Herrera, Sacramento,
Calf, said spirits and enthusi,
asm runs high when word gets
around we're gonna have fighter
cover"
S. Two makes possible more eff.
Gent weather planning. One of the
biggest hurdles to overcome in
bombing Japan successfully is
weather. Two makes it possible for
planes to 60 out on more frequent
missions to take foreca SITS.
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Ban On Fraternizi11g
Rises Ire OF Senators

Taxed, adding that he understood
the ban on marriages already is
being broken.
He described German girls as
the prettiest ones I saw in all of
Europe" and noted that British
Field Marshal Sir Bernard L.
Montgomery was quoted in a re-
cent dispatch as saying they are
sabotaging the determination ban
by wearing as few clothes as pos
sible
A similar ban in World War I
was revoked in 1919 when it prov
ed unavoidable and thousands OF
Doughboys billeted in private
homes on the Rhine brought Ge--
man wives and some babies home
with them.
Sen. Chan Quincy, R., S. D., be-
lieved the same thing will happen
again. He noted that even during
the Civil War Federal soldiers
were marrying Southern girls
when feeling between the North
and South was at it's worst.
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, SUI
preme Allied commander, said
last week that non-frate-n1zatlon
will remain in effect until the last
elements of Nazism are destroyed.
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RATION ROUNDUP
BY The Associated Press

MEATS, FATS. ETC. Book Four
Red Stamps E-2 through J-2 good
through June 30; K-2 through P-2
good through July 81; o. through
u-2 good through Aug. 81: va
through Z-2 good through Sept go
PROCESSED FOODS--Book Four
Blue Stamps No through So good
through June 80; To through x~2
good through July 81; Y-2. 70 and
Al through CT good through Aug
81; d. through HI good through
Sept 30.
SUGAR - Book Four Stamp Sc
good for five pounds through Aug. 81.
NGxt stamp valid Sept. l.
SHOES Book Three Airplane
Stamps i, and 3 good Indefinitely.
OPA says no plans to cancle any.
Next Stamp valid Aug. 1.
GASOLINE - 16-A coupons good
for six gallons each through Sept. 81.
IS, B-7. B-8, c. CT, and CO
coupons good for five gallons each.
B-6 and C-6 coupons expire June 80.
FUEL OIL Period one through
five coupons good through Aug. 81.
Last years period four and five
coupons also expire Aug. 81.
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''Hun1an Pin Cushion"
Has Yen For Chick Farm

WASHINGTON, June 24.-W.H-
Clifford L. Luton of Bradbury
Heights, Md, did not strip and
show why he has been dubbed 1.-The
human pin cushion" But he rue
fully conceded that he has the nee.
essary qualifications.
Needle cushion would be more
exact. In the past five years, his
middle epidermis has absorbed
more than 1000 needle shots for a
lot of unpronounceable and very
unpleasant ailments - mainly sta
phylococcus septicemia and osteo-
myelitis.
And that total, he said in an in
terview, is not counting the innu-
lmerable preliminary jabs the nurs-
es made before finding the strate-
gic vein.
Most Of the shots were peni-
cillin, the miracle drug. His doc
tors believe he holds the world S
record for penicillin injections. He
started taking it in April, 1914, be-
fore it was released for general
civilian use. Since then, he's had
more than 100000 units.
Luton, at 35, appears patient
and cheerful despite the narrowing
five years which more than once
brought death close. A strapping
six-footer, he looks to be a very
robust specimen.
He is philosophical about the
whole thing, but he has deep re-
sentiment against tile manufacture
ers. Until Oct. IA, 1889, he was a
bricklayer foreman. That's the day
he dropped hunk of tile on his
toe And that's when the trouble
started, only at first he didn't
know it.
That hunk of tile produced sta
phylooccus septicemia, a type of
blood poisoning. His doctors told
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RED ARMY STAGES
MAMMOTH PARADE
Continued From Page One)

ARMY and the Soviet peoples, sec
ondly that the Bolshevik party was
a great organizer of victory, thlro-
" the genius OF Stains leadership
and fourthly, the necessity OF con-
stantly perfecting the Red Army S
fighting ability.
For us, it is unseemly to De.
come conceited or complacent'
Zhukov said.
by the joint efforts OF the grea'
mowers, the Soviet Union. the Unit
ed States and Great Britain, fas'
cist Germany has been smltten'
her monstrous war machine has
been destroyed" Zhukov added.
.sThe criminal Hitserite govern
ment has been annihilated. T h e
hotbed of German Fascist agrees
sion in Europe has been liquidated.
Hum anity has been freed from Its
worst enemy"
Five Soviet marshals-Rod(on Y.
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Nation Faces Shortage
OF Fish For Winter Use

WASHINGTON, June "a. -R-
A severe shortage of fish next
winter was forecast today by the
Wildlife Service of the Interior De-
partment.
The forecast was based upon the
fact, the service said, that civilians
are consuming so large a portion
of the current catch that little is
left for storage for winter use.
Stocks of frozen fish on June
were said to be Is per cent below
normal although fish production is
running ahead of last year.
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Malinovsky, Leonid Govorov, Ivan
S. Konev, Alexander Vassilevsky
and Kyrill Meretsko-and army
generals Ivan Bagramian and An
drei Yeremenko took part in the
parade, wearing all their decora-
tons.
A detachment of Polish officers
carried Polish battle flags.
For the first time since the Red
revolution, prelates of the Ortho-
dox church were present at pub
lie demonstration in the Red
Square, invited in recognition Of
the church's contribution to VIC
tory, they were Metropolitan Nj
kolai, second ranking prelate of
the church, and Father Kolchitsky,
dean of the Yelokhovsky Cathedral
and third ranking prelate.
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him only IA patients in medical
history have recovered from it.
Luton didn't pay much atten-
ton to the blow at first. Except
for sore toe, he was all right
he thought. A couple of months
later he jumped off a scaffolding.
That did it.
The germs had been hiding in
the Emphatic glands and the jump
Jared them out into the blood
stream. He was in the hospital from
July to September with more all
ments than he can remember the
names of.
He had phlebitis of the leg, pleu-
risy, a cardiac heart condition, in
ternal assesses, a collapsed diaph-
ragm, and of course, staphylococ-
Gus septicemia. He was delirious
for three weeks.
In all, he has been to the hospi-
tai nine separate times, most of
them long visits. He's had five ma
jor operations, 10 blood transfu-
sions, the penicillin and substan-
tial quantities of sulfa.
The septicemia is gone now, but
in its place is osteomyelitis, d
bone disease. The doctors say he
may have to have another opera
ton to graft in new bone for one
that is rotting.
Luton has tried to work off and
on between hospital visits, but
he hasn't been able to stay at it
long. Right now he's taking it easy.
He's given up hope of returning
to bricklaying. His ambition now is
to buy poultry farm and settle
down to raising chickens. He likes
that idea because he would be his
own boss. Besides, there wouldn' t
be any loose tile around. And if he
drops an egg on his toe, it won't
matter much.