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first rumblings OF movement to
scrap our armament in favor at
treaties, or to lay up our ships to
save a few dollars"
The United States, he said, needs
Navy of "such superiority in size
and strength that no foreign power
or combination of powers will ever
dare to attack this nation or its
POSSESSIONS"
Speakers on tonight's programs
included vice Admiral Patrick N.
L. Bellinger, South Carolinian, al
Charleston, and Rear Admiral
Jules James, commanding the
Sixth, Naval District, at Whining
ton.
At both Charleston and Whining,
ton thousands of visitors inspected
warships recently returned from
the battles in the Pacific, and ota
err facilities.
The Charleston Navy Yard ane
the Cherry Point Marine base were
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CRIMINAL SESSION
SLATED FOR COURT

The regular fall term Of crimi-
.ol court. together with sessions by
.be county grand jury, will begin
sere tomorrow with Judge John j.
Burney presiding.
Charges against two young wom-
~ Mrs. Annette Hasslinger, who
e alleged to have embezzled funds
trom the Peoples Bank, and Miss
norris McNarney, arrested in con-
noc+ion with the theft of diamond
ing from a Wilmington jeweler,
will be heard.
preston Lockamy, 6-year-old
driver of the car in which his
voljnger sister, Margaret, met her
Ssath. will be tried for manslaught-
Ell Monday.
others facing trial at that time
an major counts are: Raymond
Andrews, manslaughter: Saems
Moore. highway robbery: Thomas
pnbjn Woods and uclus Wilson, as.
sault with deadly weapon with in
tent TO kill; Benjamin Huffman, at
tempted criminal assault; Joe Will
lie Murray, embezzlement.
Toe Mcqueen, Negro, will stand
trial for murder on charges aris-
inc from the fatal shooting of his
11-months-old .liece, Fredonia Nc.
Queen.
Tuesdays docket lists only minor
cases. Wednesdays session is
scheduled to be highlighted by the
murder trial of Joseph Miles.
thursday and Friday will be de.
voted to the disposal of number
of drunken driving and assault
cases.
All cases which have not been
nlaced on the term calendar are
set for Monday, Oct. 20, with the
exception of appeals from Record.
ers court, which are scheduled for
Friday, Nov. 2.
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helped visitors along, and kept
them from falling.
Last night dances were held TOT
crewmen of the ships at three OF
the city's USO clubs for the second
consecutive evening.
Members of the Cape Fear Coun-
try club honored Admiral Jules
James at a cocktail party yester-
day afternoon at $50 o'clock. o.
ficers from all the ships attended.
The Admiral and Mrs. James
were guests at a luncheon at the
Cape Fear club yesterday after'
noon before the official ceremonies
at the city hall. Guests included
Capt. and Mrs. Ralph Mills, Com
mander and Mrs. Peter Brown Rrti'
fin, Bishop and Mrs. Thomas T.
Wright, Mr.. and Mrs. Hargorve
Bellamy, Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Per
ry, Mr.. and Mrs. ]. Laurence
Sprunt, Mr.. and Mrs. j. Holmes
Davis, Mr.. and Mrs. w. S. NC
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TEXTILE UNION WILL
ASK IS CENTS RAISE

BOSTON, Oct. 27.-(P)-A mini
mum wage of IS cents per hour and
a general wage increase Of Is centA
per hour will sought in the wool
en- and Worsted industry by the
Textile Workers Union Of America
(CIO). =,
At a national conference Of the
wollen and worsted division OF the
union today $50 delegates unani.
mously approved these and five
other demands to be discussed with
manufacturers at union-manage.
ment conference Nov. S and 6.
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Mahon, 1t. Commander E. M. Col
lison and C.. Med. Davis.
Golf courses in the city have
been opened to all personnel
aboard the five craft, allowing
them to play on the courses with
out charge while they remain In
Wilmington.
All of the men aboard the five
ships docked here have seen action
although two of the ships, the de-
stroyer Harlan R. Dickson and the
escort Coates, were used as train
ing ships. The pashieu and Green.
ling have long, impressive combat
records in the Pacific, and a hlsh
toll of enemy shipping to their
credit. Tentative plans call for the
departure of the five Warsh1p:
Tuesday afternoon.
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dent can secure the accomplish
ments of his ideals better in the
future than we seem to be able to
do in the present.
Senator Moore (R-Okla.) agreed
that no one could quarrel with the
precepts laid down by M. Iru'
man.
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THOUSANDS VISIT
WARSHIPS HERE
CONTINUED from Page One)

girl paused before she started
through the circular hatchway.
INV hose" she said plaintively.
Aboard the destroyer Dashiel a
sailor was explaining the torpHo
tubes to an interested crowd Of
bobby-soxers. Sailors stationed al
strategic intervals along the gang.
blanks leading up to the ships
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TOP ASKS PROOF

WASHINGTON, Oct. 27-N -
Congressional Republicans asked
for nroof of the pudding today on
President Truman's 12-polnt fos-
eian policy program. Democrats
generally expressed hearty agree
ment with his pronouncement.
Chairman aft (R,-ohio) OF the
Senate MINORITY Steering commll-
tee told a reporter he thought Mr.
Truman had laid down IAN aam'r'
able statement of principles"
'The difficulty lies in applying
those principles to actual prop,
lens that the world faces today,
Taft declared. II hope the P-esl'
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thrown open to the public for the
first time since before Pearl Har.
Dor.
Detroit evening times., 1945-10-24
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who have not yet been poisoned by fanati
cal philosophy of lies and hatreds and nation
al megalomania, and those who can remember
when free German thought still existed With
those of Is to IS, there can be no hope Of
swift or easy conquest
The task of re-eoucating Germany TO live
peaceably in a world Of tolerance, culture
and progress is the work of generation
Even if the Allies could agree on common
definition of freedom and democracy, they
could not police every schoolroom in Ger
many to see tina, the teaching conformed
to that definition
1t takes great hope and great courage to
commence that helpful treatment. But there
is no way to begin except by beginning.
Probably there will be little glory for the
men who do it. Yet they are launching fate
full experiment whose result may shape the
course Of European history in the next so
years.
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Your War; With Ernie Pyle

Suddenly he was startled. Start
led is a mild word for it. For
here he was, caught with mis- pants
down, so to speak, and in front
of him stood Jap with a rifle.
But before anything could hap
pen the Jap laid the rifle on the
ground in front of him, and be-
gan salaaming up and down like
worsniper before an idol.
The Jap later said that he had
been hunting for weeks for some
body without a rifle to give him
self up to, and had finally figured
out that the surest way to find
an unarmed prospective captor
was to catch one on the toilet!
But don't let these little after
math stories mislead you into
thinking the Japs are easy after
all. For they are very nasty
people while the shootin's going
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Senate GroupSeeksHealth
Facilities For War Victims

! vice-connec,ed ailments, but for
anv other disability SIS we'll.
Because the committee consld-
ers community hospital facilities
generally nsdeQus;e, It recon-
mended that the Government con-
tinue to offer hospital care for
any veteran who needs it, wnen
facilities are svsilsole and he is
unable to pSy for private hos
pitalization.
The Senators estimated that
veterans of tbs current and pre-
vious wars, together with their
families. eventually may com
prise from one-third to one-half
of the nations population.
The committee figures that a
network of 1900 mental hygiene
clinics for each 100000 pop
ulation-should be developed for
the maintenance of mental health.
The committee plans to issue
more concrete Recommendations
on the medical care problem after
further studies.
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He Who Gets Snubbed

General de Gaulle has been criticized con-
siderably for his deliberate and deplorable
snub of President Roosevelt, whom he refused
to meet in North Africa. But somehow we
feel a sneaking admiration for the testy, I'M
glamo~ous general, bad manners and all.
Certainly General de Gaulle and the ma
ton whose provisional government he heads
were roundy snubbed by the Big Three, who
undertook to make decisions vital to France
at the Crinnea Conference without bothering
to consult the French government.
France is a country of great history,
proud tradition, coura geous survival and hope
full future. Her recent misfortunes scarcely
merit the paternal brush-off she got at Yalta,
and General de Gaulle can scarcely be blamed
for resenting it vigorously.
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The Literary Guidepost

of ancient Prague, would tell us
something about Czechoslovaka.
Certainly these are not American
stories, nor great ones. But they
are indefinably representative OF
another people.
But if the writing is slow-paced,
as if it were tagging far behind us
in a sedate and quiet past, the writ
ers belong tragically to the present
Biographical notes say of several Of
them: The causes of his death Gin
German-occupied Czechoslovakia)
are unknown nothing has been
heard of him." nobody knows
whether he's dead or alive;;' nc
more has been heard of him; :"
nothing is known of his fate;" The
was executed as a hostage"
Who but a Nazi could imagine
any harm in these honest, open
hearted authors? Read their stories
and the few selections from their
poetry and you may not learn
as much as you had expected about
the country which was doomed at
Munich. But read the excerpts and
notes together and you learn lot.
The able editor has served a worthy
cause: his Czechoslovakians write
about what we should love but their
book informs US about what we
should hate.
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New Campaign At Aachen

In about a month, if present plans are not
changed. Allied Military Government will re-
onen the grammer schools of Aachen. And thus
will begin one of the wars most important
campaigns, the re-education of Germany.
The AMG officers are faced with ire
mendous task The schoolrooms of Aachen
are to them what New Guinea was to Gen
hower-the first step on the long, painful and
endlessly difficult road that leads to extermi-
nation of the Axis.
Aachen will be only small beginning to
test opposing strength and try the weapons of
assault Efforts are now being made to choose
teachers and textbooks, and already these
efforts have brought samples of the trouble
that lies ahead
Teachers had to join the Nazi party to hole
their jobs One difficulty in Aachen and else
where, will be to find redeemable teachers
who became Nazis from expediency and moi
conviction.
Then there will be the problem of wha
to teach OF course literature offers as man,
antidotes for Nazi poison there are RENE
dies in a volume OF materia medica Blu
where in the free world Of letters is star
to be made? And what will best assure speed.
assimilation and real start toward menta
and spiritual health?
Except for the absence of death and danger
the conquest of NaA bigotry will be infinitel
harder than the conquest of Nazi arms. Oppc
sition will be found on all sides, impregnabl
because it is intangible
The start toward victory will have to b
rnade with the very young and the old: thos
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 25.-R-A
Senate subcommittee estimated
today that between 100000 and
100000 Americans will incur
disabilities in the war, and urged
that existing health facilities and
programs be greatly expanded.
1.-The men and women in the
services have been accustomed
to the best in medical and hos
pital care" said Senator Pepper
(D-Fla.), chairman of a subcom-
mittee on wartime health and
education which made the report.
They will not be satisfied with
anything less than the best when
they return to civilian life"
The subcommittee recommend
ed that the Veterans Administra-
ton be given responsibility for
the medical care of veterans with
service connected disabilities,
with chief responsibility for the
medical care of an estimated 49,
O00,0O0 veterans without such dis.
abilities resting on their own
communities.
me report suggested that pres
ent laws be. revised to make it
possible for veterans with service
connected disabilities to obtain
capitalization and out-patient
reatment not only for their SER
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found out later that he even used
the officers outdoor shower bath
after they got through, and raid
ed their kitchens at night.
There was Jap prison enclo-
sure nearby, and for weeks, peer
ing out of the bushes, ne studied
the treatment his fellow soldiers
were getting, watched how they
ate, watched to see if they were
dwindling away from malnutri--
ton.
And then one day he came out
and gave himself up. He said
ne had convinced himself they
were being treated all right, so
he was ready to surrender.
And here's another one. An
American officer was idly sitting
on an outdoor box-toilet one even
ing after work, philosophically
studying the ground, as men will
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Primal

Theory that nations rise and fall by progress
and decline in agriculture is elaborated upon
in book ''Tran1pling out the Vintage, by
Joseph A. Cocannouer, to which attention Is
called by Howard Blakeslee, Associated Press
Science editor There is warning for America
in it.
He finds that America turned to fate tor
her food supply. with hit-or-n1iss policy. he
points to Rome's robbng her small farmers
and drawing them, disgruntled, to her cities,
to become rabble There is further arrestlng
material given, how Babylon treated her farm
ers as slaves; how Egypt became corrupt IN
high place and neglected agriculture; how
China has survived for 5000 years because
agriculture is regarded as the noblest OF the
occupations.
1t is held by the author that the soil is the
basis of national life which is another way OF
saying that everybody has to eat every day,
most of them three times day. In hazy
way we all recognize this. Remember the
runs on the grocery stores in the early days
when rationing began to pinch? You hear
all around you the complaints about lack OF
butter There is nowhere to get food except
from the soil, excepting always the sea, and
a steady diet of fish would be too monot
onous Some diettians maintain that is what
makes the Japs do like they do.
George Washington extolled agriculture as
the first of callings. Thomas Jefferson was
one of the first scientific farmers in America.
Benjamin Franklin held it in high regard.
Others who have made progress in the develop
nent of grains and other products making two
ears grow where there was but one. have
been mankinds benefactors The theory has
been advanced that Mccormick STAYED off ma
tional starvation when he invented his wheat
reaper.
Every city, however great, must look to the
farm every day. Cut off its milk, bread and
meat for week and there is conservation
Every industrial plant relies primarily on
bread That is as important to cotton mill as
cotton is, to a foundry as steel. If agriculture
declines, SO will nation. If an independent
farmer is succeeded by peasant, that Will De
the beginning of the end.
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Daily Prayer
FOR GODS CARE

Before ever we existed, Thou
didst think of us, o God. In the
ages that lie back Of the stretch
of time which our puny thoughts
can grasp, we were in Thy thought
and for US Thou madest this beautl-
full world which we are rnarrlng by
war. Because our needs were more
real to Thee than to ourselves
Thou gavest us Thy Son to be our
Saviour from sin. Now, by very
day providences, which are none
the less great and tender because
we do not comprehend them, IhoI
art caring for US with a care that
is almighty and all-wise and all
loving. Teach us, then, to be al
peace in our hearts, despite war S
terrible tldings. May we nestle as
little children in the co iciousneSs
of Thy protection Drive from our
hearts all fear and worry, by the as
surance that we and our sons IL
service are in Thy compassionate
keeping. Help US to trust Ihee
wholly. our Father, for things niue
and things great; for our Temporal
needs of today, and for our etelAa
salvation. Amen.-W.T.E.
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guilty of. An attorney who served
in the case states that Mrs. Frank
Allen, the mother of a family of
minor children, no longer was mar
ried to their father when he died
of injuries suffered in an automo-
bile accident in which the late first
Mrs. Ickes lost her life. Thus it was
not the widow" whom MIR. Ickes
carried to the Supreme court of
New Mexico in suit for seventy
five hundred dollars, but the "es-
tate" such as it was which des-
cended to the children. Moreover,
Mr.. Allen was bonded for seventy.
five hundred dollars which the in
demnity company might have had
to pay had the estate" lost the
suit. With the help Of the company
tate" such as it was, which des-
the estate dfeated Mr.. Ickes.
The attorney, now in the arm
ed forces, states that funer-
al expenses were among the
losses OF the plaintiff. These
corrections are offered in the in
terests OF accuracy and fairness to
man who publicly called himself
a curmudgeon, meaning an avari-
cious and niggardly miser.
Westbrook Pegler
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BY w. G. ROGERS
Hundred Towers" edited by F.
Eicohor. eS S0l

Weiskopf IL. B. Fischer; $3.50.
Baynish Zisovich asks credit at
the store, asks loan from the
blacksmith, asks patience from his
hungry family, but they all turn
him down Misc says goodby
to his parents and to Zuzka, gets
into the carriage behind Duro Cab
anyi's fine steeds, rides off to the
station to join other imperial re-
cruits, shakes the mayors hands,
waves as last farewell to his father
out the train window Marie
Hoshinska wants her husband, who
was killed in the mine, buried near
his parents, Sc good farmer Ira
tinec lends his horses to transport
the body and his son Vaclav as
driver, and Anchka has trip there
with him, and back alone with the
young and ardent Vaclav
The stories from this Czecho-
slovak anthology are about sim
pie people, and are told simply;
even the selections from the more
experienced, or more worldly,
Hostovsky or the Capeks, Karel
and Josef, are free of sophistica-
ton.
The editor hoped this book, which
takes its title from the 100 towers
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interpreting
The War
BY ELTON c. FAY
Associated Press War A..

The Rhine will be both . ~.
and a hindrance to tie Allied =,
mics now smuggling toward 49,,
historic river. U''
First, it will be an asset w..
the main bridges cut bv bo,b wv" W..
teal and strategic bon5bjng C 1ac'
man forces must rely on bi s,,.
temporary and uncertain ponfoo.
bridges for getting the man t boS',
OF their troops across 10 The 10y.
bank. east
BY comprising the Nazi force,
back against the west bank tbess
is the chance that substantial nn 'rrs
bers of the enemy can be dest .-,,.'
ed or captured.
Thereafter, the Rhine will !.
come a major obstacle t-n,ss,
thanked from the north by ii.
British-Canadian armies or tror
the south by American force,
there, a crossing must be made br
the American First and Ninth A.
mics against opposition. AT mid,
day yesterday American troo0s
were less than is miles from en-
logne on the Rhine.
To throw bridgehead across ,
river several hundred yards wide
in the face of fixed fortificstion
perched on c1ags, will require the
best efforts of American combat
troops, engineers and airmen.
There is a strong possibility that
crossing directly at Cologne will
not be attempted initially. The bulk
OF that city is on the western bank
with suburbs sprawling north and
south. If tactics of the past are fol-.
lowed, it may be expected that
American forces will flank the civ
at either side, leaving it to be
mopped up later after getting on
with the prime job of crossing the
Rhine.
Even with bridgeheads secured
on the east bank, the path ahead to.
| ward inner Germany can, and prob.
ably will, be thorny. 1t is to be as.
sumed that the German command.
by now resigned to the idea Of
Allied advances, has prepared for
such a situation.
Stretching eastward from the
Rhine is a heavily settled area.
Villages astride the main roads are
ancient, medieval towns of narrow
streets and thick-walled buildings.
Every village, every house, can
become strong point. Bridges,
highways and fields are mine
ready to be blown up in the face
Of advancing Allied troops.
To expect any rapid progress
through this area is to expect a
collapse of enemy resistance not
now in prospect.
The methodical advance Of the
First and Ninth Armies should be
looked upon not as the expected
main offensive in itself but as a
developing action, When the Brit.
ish-Canadian forces at the north
and the American Third Army at
the south begin wheeling in to join
the First and Ninth in a broad.
front attack on the Rhine, the Of
fensive will be entering its fully
developed phase.