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PAGE SIX THE DAILY ADVANCE, ELIZABETH CITY, N. C. MONDAY EVENING, MAY 7, 1945. Pub!l»hed Every Evening Except Bunday at Elizabeth City. North Carolina. SrHSCHIPTrON BATES — BY MAIL to the Albemarle (in advance)—One Year $5.00. Two Years $9.00. Three Years $13.00. One Month $1.00. Three Months 2.00. Six Months $3.00. Outside the Albemarle On© Year $8.00. Two Years $15.00. One Month $1.25. Three Months $3.00. Six Months $& 00. BY CARRIER ill,3 Copy 5c. One Week, (pay carrier)—20c. One Month, (pay office in advance)—87c. Two Months $1.74. Three Months, $2.60. «*» Months, $5.20. One Year, $10.40. Members: Associated Press, AP Jeatmes, Audit Bureau of circulations. Southern Newspaper Publishers Associa tion, Newspaper Enterprise Association, North Carolina Press Association. entered at the Post Office of Elizabeth City, N. O., M ©©0- ond class matter. The associated Press and AP Features is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of news dispatches appearing n this paper and also to local news published therein. Advertising Rates on Request: General-National Advertising Repre-tentative: Ward-Griffith Co., Inc., New York, Chicagd, Charlotte. Atlanta, Boston. Detroit. MONDAY, MAY 7, 1945. Mitchell and the Surfmen Along the Outer Banks below Oregon In let and on Roanoke Island there must be, among men who are by now beginning to be old timers, a grim, almost exultant sat isfaction in the laggardly bestowed recog- nicon that has come, at last, to the mem- oi of a man the men of the Outer Banks knew as one of their own kind—the un afraid, the dauntless and the sometimes tempestuous. ft lacks yet a little of 20 years since an A ny court martial stripped Brig. Gen. Vv dam Mitchell of his rank, of his com in. id, and sent him, disgraced into retire- in nt. It is a little more than 20 years since ( neral Mitchell, living with the late great Cy pt. John Allen Midgett at Chicamicomico Ck A st Guard Station, demonstrated to any wks would see that there is nothing save human courage that can withstand the pc er of an airplane. Along the flat sands of the Outer Banks G neral Mitchell based 30 bombardment a -craft and a little way off the beach there were two -outmoded battle craft. It was a dramatic demonstration of the fear ful might of wings—but there were none to look and to believe except the crews of lone ly stations along the Banks, and here and there a few men, like Alpheus W. Drink- w. ter, from Roanoke Island. They saw what was happening — happening actually ere .Bird what could happen in a tomor- xuw that has become'today. But there was something more than that — bo-e was Mitchell himself. Some of th m rode the skies with him. They were af in of aircraft but they trusted Mitch el. Captain Midgett rode even to Langley Field with him, and so, if memory serves, did Drinkwater. Their belief in the man amounted to a passion—and it continued. When humiliation was visited upon him— and it might be as well to remember that Douglas MacArthur was a member of the Court—they felt and expressed a fierce re sentment. But now that vindication has come in the guise of a posthumous award ing of the Congressional Medal and the per manent rank of major general, the men along the Outer Banks may forgive—but forgetfulness comes hard for them. () We All Did It Discursive eyebrows were lifted three weeks or so ago when Lieut. Gen. Carl Spatz, another Pennsylvania Dutchman born not many miles from where General II. II. Arnold was born, announced that the war in Europe had been won. General Spatz has commanded Allied air power in Europe, under the direction of General Arnold and with the help of Lieut. Gen. Im Baker. f rom' many quarters there was sharp assent, and a resurgence of perennial dis cussion as to who won the war and wheth er aircraft co ild be totally effective against an enemy. Nobody in the Army Air Forces was foolish enough to enter the discus- sioq, it being the doctrine of air power that the Air Forces were members of a team, with specific tilings to do. Things like ripping up defenses in a football game so somebody carrying the ball could get through. Undoubted^, and unfortunately, there continue in high places in both the Army and Navy officers who are unable to see any virtue in a weapon except those in which they have, specialized. An artillery man will stubbornly insist that there is no implement for winning a war except a can- ' non, or there is nothing effective against an enemy except a battleship. And, inevit- • ably, there are aircraftmen who believe that nothing will win a war except an air- plane. And these are sub-divided into groups, each of which believes that his bomber, or his fighter, alone is efficacious. Interesting academic discussions these are, and allowable in times of peace. But in war time men at war need every weapon they can lay hand to. And it may be that it is a sign of returning peace in the world when we can hear from the defeated their notions of what defeated them. Here is Field Marshal von Rundstedt, the last and ablest of Germany’s field commanders, who says “air power was the prime factor in the defeat of Germany.” Air power battered his communications, immobilized his reserves, destroyed his sup plies and the source of his supplies. When that happened Germany’s defeat was as sured. Air power did all of. them—but it was an Infantryman who finally caught von Rundstedt and bundled him off to cap tivity and illuminating reflection upon how Germany came to its present unhappy but eminently satisfactory state. The answer is, simply, that we all did it. 0 National Whirligig By RAY TUCKER WASHINGTON — Hitler’s Bavarian re treat amounts to hardly more than a pent house by comparison with the redoubt the Japs have built for a possible last-ditch stand in North China, Manchuria and Ko rea. Hirohito’s haven in the wastes and forests of northern Asia may be less ro- mantje than Berchtesgaden, but it is far more formidable. By withdrawing army-navy personnel, the imperial family, technicians and indus trial managers to this vast area, which equals in size the territory lying between the Great Divide and the Pacific Coast, the enemy might hold out for an indefinite period. These lands have been closed to foreigners since the “Manchurian Incident” in 1937, which led to their conquest by the Land of the Rising Sun, although Korea was gobbled more than 40 years ago. But Army-Navy Intelligence, State and Commerce attaches and other agencies have pieced together information about this possible battlefield. The Russians, who may soon renew the 1904- 1905 war they waged on Tokyo in these eastern provinces, have kept a watchful eye on Japan’s military modernization of this border country. Moscow has always anticipated a clash with her the 1941 nonaggression pact that Stalin has de held belief in Washington is that the date for the’ belated showdown may not be far distant. There were frequent encounters between the Reds and the Nips in these stretches before they signed ancient foe in these remote regions, and a widely rounced. Soviet participation, now that Nazidom has crumbled, would help to shorten what otherwise might be a prolonged and desperate struggle. RESOURCES—Japan developed anQ indus trialized the enormous natural resources of these three countries solely for military purposes. First, as a buffer against invading Russians, but since 1941 and even before as a source of supply for a war against the United States and a prospective retiring ground. The integration of this region’s industries with Japan’s war economy has been deliberate and complete. Hardly any consumers’ goods are manu factured for local markets, as the enslaved natives are made to import necessities from Tokyo. # * $ * SHIPS—A House subcommittee’s behind-the- doors discussion of berthing the expanded U. S. Navy suggests that Washington expects much more Allied help in the Far Eastern conflict than has been expected. It indicates that numerous warships flying the Stars and Stripes, like certain veteran Army units, will be through for the dura tion after a German collapse. In the exchanges it developed that we shall have so many vessels after V-E Day that there will hardly be enough area in the narrow waters of the Orient for them to operate safely and com fortably, especially after the British pitch in. Confidential figures on our naval growth seem incredible. Naval spokesmen asked the House Appropria tions Committee dealing with their affairs for one hundred seventeen million dollars to build docks, wharfage facilities, repair shops etc. They explained that they do not intend to lay up hun dreds of units in oil and cotton, as was done aft er World War I, and let them end as “white ele phants.” They want permanent and modern lodg ings pending final determination of armament questions. BERTHS—Committeemen were amazed at pre sentation of the problem at this time, thinking it premature. But Secretary Forrestal’s represen tatives insisted that a start must be made imme diately. They were given twenty-seven million dol lars, and will receive the balance later. Finding enough berths after V-J presents great and unique difficulties. All except battleships and cruisers will be anchored in fresh water, if pos sible, as the motion of- waves and the effects of salt water in ocean ports hasten their deteriora tion. But coves and inlets on our navigable rivers will scarcely accommodate them. The Great Lakes would be an ideal garage, but the larger vessels cannot reach those inland bodies. So, if any community has warship space it wants to rent or give to Uncle Sam, it should lodge its claim now. —— 0 You Said II, Mr. Headmaster The problem of American education is not to .secure adequate financing. It is to set up a sys tem of schools good enough to be worth financing. • Dr, Allen V. Heely, headmaster, Lawrenceville (N.J.) School. 0 Il’s German People, Too After all, this is the third time Germany has behaved like this. It isn’t all Hitler. The German people must take some responsibility for their leaders.—Dean Virginia C. Gildersleeve of Bar nard College, San Francisco Conference delegate. Daily Washington Merry-Go-Round By DREW PEARSON San Francisco — On October 9, 1934, a bomb thrown in the streets of Marseilles killed King Alexan der of Jugoslavia and changed the fate of the world. The Jugoslavs blamed the French for not pro tecting their king, and swerved away from their traditional alli ance with France into the German orbit. The bomb was thrown by a Croatian fanatic carefully trained in a special German sabotage school. Its repercussions started a new European alignment and helped the beginning of another war. Today, in San Francisco, secur ity precautions are so shockingly loose that the same tiling might easily happen. Foreign delegates have complained about them, but nothing has been done. Mean while the ease with which an out sider can get into the Conference unidentified would be laughable if it weren’t potentially tragic. On one day while 4b top dele gates, including the foremost for eign ministers of the world, were sitting in secret session at the Veterans’ Building, two newspa permen plus two University of Southern California co-eds made a test of getting into the building without credentials, carrying four typewriters. The four typewriters could have contained 50 pounds of TNT each, totaling 200 pounds. Thrice Unchallenged The two men and two girls drove in a taxi, not a Conference car, through police lines without being stopped, and walked into the Veterans’ Building without showing credentials. They walked the entire length of the building, through the hall alongside of which the 4G delegates were sit ting, and then left still carrying their typewriters. Twenty minutes later they re turned. The taxi stopped at the police lines, but both the Military Police and the San Francisco Po lice waved to them to go inside. । No credentials were shown. They also entered the Veterans’ Build ing without credentials, walked through the building with their typewriters and departed. ' Later as the foreign ministers were about to end their session, the four returned again, carrying typewriters. Again they were not required to show credentials. This time the Military Police were ev en removed from the Conference doors. This time, if the typewriter cases had carried TNT, the four people making three trips to the Conference Hall, could have to taled 600 pounds of TNT. Or on the last trip they might have car ried tommy guns to meet the delegates as they came out the door. Neither the Military Police nor the local police would have known the difference. Secret Meetings Endangered At the Opera House, where; plenary sessions oTthe Conference are held, security is better. But the seecret meetings of the 46 top delegates and foreign ministers at the less-guarded Veterans’ Build ing are much more important. Should a Hitler agent, wanting last-minute vengeance for Berlin and the end of Nazidom, execute a plot against these 46 key men of the world, civilization would be set back for years. And every oth er nation would blame the United States for what happened. Some people have joked about Molotov’s bodyguards and the Russian complaints about secur ity. But the real fact is that -on this point the Russians are the only realistic people at the Con ference. Note—Yesterday while guards checked passes at one door of the Conference, an MP left another door unguarded. So about 20 peo ple turned down at one door, streamed into the unguarded en trance. Top Personalities By all odds the two most domi nating figures at this Conference are Anthony Eden and V. M. Mol otov. They put all others, includ ing the U. S. delegates, in the shade. Crowds swarm the St. Francis Hotel, where the Russians live, hoping to catch a glimpse of Molotov. Crowds crane their necks as the dapper British Foreign Minister enters the Conference Hall. The two men are direct oppo sites, yet their lives have been closely interwoven. One was born of wealthy British aristocracy, can trace his family back to the first Eden Baronetcy created by Charles II in 1672 . . . The other comes from a worker-revolution ist family whom nobody ever heard of . . . Eden is known as the heir-apparent of Churchill .. . Molotov is known as the heir of Stalin . . . Eden can and does cross words with Churchill, but Molotov is never known to have rowed with Stalin . . . Molotov was in power when Russia made its famous exit from the League of Nations. Eden was in the League Assembly at the time . . . Despite their diametrically oppo site backgrounds, Eden is the Britisher who Molotov knows and likes best. In 1941 it was Eden who sat in the Kremlin , with the Germans only 38 miles away and signed the 20-year pact between i England and Russia . . . That was one of Eden’s three trips to Mos cow-one in 1935 to. discuss trade relations, the 1941 try to sign the 20-year alliance, and the trip to sign a pact with Cordell Hull in 1943. He also went to Yalta with Churchill. Eden’s Peace History Mussolini’s recent demise prob ably seemed like personal justice to Anthony Eden. Mussolini hated h’m, scoffed at him, called him “that boy” and spread a story,' probably untrue, that Eden had slipped on a rug in front of Mus- idini’s desk accompanied by phy sical discomfiture and boisterous Mussolini laughter . . . The late lictator resented Eden because of hjs strong stand against the Ital ian conquest of Ethiopia and his leadershin in' League sanctions against Italy. By JOHN PEELE Howard Fast, Citizen Tom Paine. The World Publishing Com pany, 2231 West 110th Street, Cleveland, Ohio. 341 pages. 81.49. Ernie Pyle, Here Is Your War. The World Publsihing Com pany. 304 pages. $1. **** Here are two of the best war books reprinted to make them available at most reasonable cost to the average reader. Although both are war books, one is a novel of Tom Paine, the American pensman who virtually equalled the contribution in writing about -—: . the ideals of the Revolution, and the other is a factual re- port by Ernie Pyle which the Book-of-the-Month Club se lected as one of its choices in 1944. The book about Tom Paine is unusually entertaining and en-' lightening. Despite his ability Paine was born in poverty in Eng land and came to the American colonies to better himself. He eventually became an edi tor in Philadelphia, whicli became the first national capital. By writing "Common Sense” Paine made a contribution to the literature of tile American Revo lution that embodied its essential ideas of freedom and independence as well as Thomas Jefferson’ De claration of Independence. However, Jefferson was a wealthy Virginia attorney and planter while Paine had no claim , to prominence or wealth. There-1 Eden knows what he is talking about when he says that the world could not stand another war. His two brothers were killed in the last war. He fought all through it, coming out with the rank of major . . . Later he did his best to prevent war in Ethi opia, staging a terrific fight inside the British Cabinet against Sir Samuel Hoare who wanted to let Mussolini have his way. Eden knew that if Mussolini broke down the League’s peace machin ery it was the beginning of a world war. Eden married the daughter of the publisher of the Yorkshire Post, hates to wear glasses in public, as a result has to peer close to his plate to see what he’s fore it was not until he was dead that his work was recognized. However, Paine’s book with his ideas of freedom and independence swept the Nation, and the col onies' perusal of it helped to crys- talize the thoughts throughout the New World. Paine left the colonies for Eng land and France, and in France hq became a member of the French Convention. He was im prisoned and served for months in Luxembourg prison. Returning to America, he came back poor and despised and utter ly lacking the recognition he de served. Fast is one of this country’s major historical novelists. He handles history accurately and vividly without distortion. Ernie Pyle was the Scripps- Howard newspaper chain column ist on the World War II fronts. His book deals chiefly with the North African campaign in elim inating the Germans from that eating. He is immensely popular with the British working classes who say: “’E’s a proper gent.” . . . One of Eden’s grandfathers, Lord Auckland^ was sent to the 13 colonies in 1778 to offer them home rule within the empire, but it was too late . . . The Eden an cestral home, owned by the family since the 15th century, was sold by Anthony’s elder brother in 1936 because of high taxes. The Gov ernment now owns it. All the For eign Minister of Great Britain has to, remind him of his family’s home is a photograph album . . . Eden has a strong following with members of Parliament, probably will be the next Prime Minister when Churchill resigns. ^Oti^Qv^i by JU. Philip j Epitah for Hitler Here lies Hitler Lots littler. I Notice of partnership dissolu tion: Dissolved: Partnership of Schickelgruber and Mussolini, on account of death, complete revers al plans, etc. Japanese papers please copy. . Explanation for a Nazi general signing the surrender papers: “Gentlemen, this is the Nazi sa lute spelled backwards.” “Goebbels. Reported Killed”— Headline. Our guess would be that the microphone just backfired. “Germany is alone, if one does not count her Ally, Japan.”—Sta lin. * * * And, Joe, if we only knew whether you were counting! Europe (as it looks over the complete Allied victory in Ger many)—Popper, the insecticide man’s been here! Top-soil Note Judging by evidence unearthed These bright gardening days The last rose of summer Is definitely being supplanted By the first rows of spring. Pearl Strange Tyrrell Grocers lo Get Ait! in Posting Prices Columbia, May 7—Several Price Panel Assistants in Tyrrell Coun ty will assist the grocers in post ing the revised community price lists now in effect for processed foods, W. S. Carawan, Chairman of the Tyrrell County War Price and Rationing Board, said today. “Together the grocer and the consumer can do -more than any other groups in the country to re- straih runaway prices because the average family spends more for food than for any .other essen tial,” Mr. Carawan said. .area, but Pyle gives the readers the best portrait of the personal ity and reaction of the battle front American soldier available so far in this war, Incidentally, the movie, The Story of G. I. Joe, starring Bur gess Meredith, was based upon this volume. Bible Class Gives $60 To Burned-Out Family The Young Men’s Bible Class of the Berea Baptist Church Sun day morning donated $60 to the family of George Key, a member of the class whose home on Creek Road was destroyed by fire Wed nesday of last week. He carried no insurance on clothing or house- holi? equipment which were con sumed by the flames. A miscellaneous shower for the Keys will be held Wednesday eve ning at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Luther Whitehurst, Newland Road, it was announced. The house in which the Keys made their home was the prop erty of C. R. Pritchard. Theatre Says Pictures Service Men Returned Hertford, May 7—Mrs. Vera H. Broughton, manager ot the State Theater announced today that the pictures of service men and wo men that were turned in to the local theater to be made up into the films that show at the theater each week have been returned, and that all persons who brought in pictures may get them by calling at the State Theater. The third set of a series of the film will be shown Thursday and Friday night. The names will be announced in this newspaper, be fore the showing. Funeral Mrs. Robinson Plymouth, May 7 Funeral ser vices for Mrs. Allie Roberson, 57, of Plymouth, who died on Friday in a Rocky Mount hospital, were held Saturday afternoon at Hor ner’s Funeral Home here with the Rev. P. B. Nickens, pastor of Lud- ford Memorial Baptist Church, in charge of the rites. Interment fol lowed in the family cemetery, in Pitt County. The daughter of Jesse B. Bul lock and Lavonia Bullock of Pitt County, Mrs. Roberson had lived in Plymouth three years. She was a member of the Gum Swamp Baptist Church in Pitt County. Surviving are six sons, Sam of Tarboro, Alton of Elizabeth City, Harvey of the U. S. Navy, Hugh of the U. S. Navy, Carl of the U. S. Army, and Ira Jr, of Plymouth; one daughter, Doris, of Ply mouth; one brother, Howell Bul lock of Pitt County. ( Mrs. Roberson’s husband, Ira Roberson, died several years ago. BLONDIE It’s the Lothario in Him! «„ ewe VOTING RED RYDk — A Near Miss By Ua>..iA 'Illiil. KEEP OUT OF THIS. RYDER* Th: DUCHESS IS OLD ENOUGH TO GET ALONG WITHOUT TOUR ««> ADVICE, telC'K I 'D ULB BUDDIES That WHEN THE 1 DUCHESS ENTERS ThE HAUL IMG BUSINESS SHE IS THREATENED DY E-05S DlISICK WHOSE MONOPOLY SHE* ENDANGERS WWW DOE's ANX 6000 0P- AND - ObMVMfo MADHOUSE. 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