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With confidence in our armed forces—wit!
the unbounding determination of oar people
we will gain the Inevitable triumph—so hel]
as God.
Roosevelt’s War Messagf
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 24. 1944.
THOUGHT FOR TODAY
Comes again the Holy Night
As in days of long ago;
Waiting hearts again should see
Heaven alight and hearts aglow,
For the Father heart of God
Throbs with yearning love the same
And the Saviour longs to save
As when first to earth He came.
FRED SCOTT SHEPARD.
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Extension Of The Limits
We hope there now will be reasonably com
plete agreement on the proposal for extension
of the city limits.
The latest plan, published last Sunday, ap
pears to have received careful study and while
it may have some imperfections, it seems
acceptable generally. We hope it will be intro
duced in the General Assembly and approved
there, that the referendum provided in it will
be called as promptly as possible, and that
the proposal will then be ratified by the voters.
The method suggested in the bill bearing
Representative-elect LeGrand's approval for
bringing about the extension is a democratic
one. and offers adequate safeguards to the
suburban residents that their interests will be
considered and that city services will be fur
nished with reasonable promptness. The bill
pc ,its the people to have the final say at the
polls on the extension question. It is not likely
that there can be anything seriously w'rong
with such a proposition.
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Britain’s Tactlessness
The commentator Gabriel Heatter, recently
reporting on a conversation with a cab driver,
on the Greek imbroglio, said the driver turned
and said: “You know what I think? I think
this is the first battle of World War Three.”
Certainly it is to be hoped that the difficulty
can be adjusted before this kind of thinking
becomes general. The fighting in this greatest
of all wars will have been a fruitless and
ghastly thing if it turns out to have been
only the prelude to an even more devastating
world struggle. The issues are so involved
and the locale so remote that it is no easy
thing to pass judgment on the Greek situation.
The British contend that they only want to
maintain the status quo long enough to per
mit a free election, and that their interest
for the present is to prevent the radical fac
tions from seizing control by force.
Admitting the truth of this, it must be said
that Churchill and the British army have been
tactless in the extreme. Surely there can have
been little reason for designating the Greek
Leftists as gangsters and ruffians. One has no
difficulty in concluding what effect this must
have on Britain’s Russian ally.
The urgency of an early meeting between
the leaders of the three great Allied powers
daily becomes, more apparent.
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Don’t Repeat The Mistake
The war in the Pacific has reached a stage
where it can be said that Japan virtually has
lost the great island empire which it wrested
from the United States, the Netherlands and
other powers in the first months of the war.
Our position on Leyte island in the Philip
pines seems secure, and the invasion of Min
doro is meeting with such easy success that
naval bases looking directly upon the South
China sea seem assured. With sea and air
dominion over the Philippines area already
established, the Japanese soon will be sub
stantially cut off from access to the Dutch
East Indies, perhaps even from Singapore and
Burma.
But we should not fall into a state of un
timely optimism such as characterized our
attitude about the European front. The war
with Japan almost certainly is farther from
an end than the German war. After the island
strongholds are liquidated or left to die on
the vine, there will remain the tremendous
task of an invasion of the Asiatic mainland
to be followed by the supreme test—an attack
on the Japanese home islands. It would be
foolish in the extreme to suppose that suc
cess in these endeavors will come as readily
as it has come m the island offensive. The
island campaign leads itself to the use of our
naval and air arms, and with naval supremacy
there almost is no limit to what we can
achieve in the way of tactical surprise. These
conditions will not prevail in a land offensive
against the centers of enemy strength.
The Nation must be prepared for a long and
costly struggle in Asia, and must not make
the mistake of assuming that the war effort
on the home front can be relaxed.
Is There A Santa Claus?
In answer to many requests, the follow
ing editorial written by Francis P. Church
! in 1897 for the New York Sun is reprinted:
* We take pleasure in answering at once and
- thus prominently the communication below,
expressing at the same time our great gratifi
cation that its faithful author is numbered
among the friends of The Sun:
0 “Dear Editor—I am 8 years old. “Some of
5 my little friends say there is no Santa Claus,
j “Papa says. ‘If you see it in the Sun it’s so.’
3 “Please tell me the truth, is there a Santa
1 Claus?
Virginia O’Hanlon
“115 West Ninety-Fifth Street.”
5 VIRGINIA, your little friends are wrong.
) They have been affected by the skepticism of
> a skeptical age. They do not believe except
“ they see. They think that nothing can be
- which is not comprehensible to their little
- minds. All minds, VIRGINIA, whether they
\ be men’s or children’s, are little. In this great
» universe of ours man is a mere insect, an
ant, in his intellect, as compared with the
: boundless world about him, as measured by
the intelligence capable of grasping the whole
of truth and knowledge.
Yes, VIRGINIA, there is a SANTA CLAUS.
He exists as certainly as love and generosity
and devotion exist, and you know that they
abound and give to your life its highest beauty
and joy. Alas! how dreary if there were
no Virginias. There would be no childlike faith
then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable
this existence. We should have no enjoyment,
except in sense and sight. The eternal light
| with which childhood fills the world would be
I extinguished.
Not believe in SANTA llauo; you migni
as well not believe in fairies. You might get
your papa to hire men to watch in all the
chimneys on Christmas Eve to catch Santa
Claus, but even if they did not see SANTA
CLAUS coming down, vhat would that prove!
Nobody sees SANTA CLAUS, but that is no
sign that there is no SANTA CLAUS. The most
real things in the world are those that neither
children nor men can see. Did you ever see
fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not,
but that’s no proof that they are not there.
Nobody can conceive or imagine all the won
ders there are unseen and unseeable in the
world.
You tear apart the baby's rattle and see
what makes the noise inside, but there is a
veil covering the unseen world which not the
strongest man, nor even the united strength
of all the strongest men that ever lived, could
tear apart. Only faith, fancy, poetry, love,
romar :e, can push aside that curtain and view
and picture the supernal beauty and glory be
yond. Is it all real? Ah. VIRGINIA, in all
this world there is nothing else real and abid
ing.
NO SANTA CLAUS? THANK GOD! he lives,
and he lives forever. A thousand years from
now, Virginia, nay, ten times ten thousand
years from now, he will continue to make
glad the heart of childhood.
-V-—
Wilmington After The War
The'bad news from the European front may
be no time to renew the discussion of Wil
mington’s postwar prospects. Certainly all
necessary energy should be put forth in this
community as in all others to support our
fighting men.
But at the same time, we should not lose
sight of the fact that employment after the
war is a matter of supreme importance to
Wilmington and New Hanover county. The
cessation of wartime activity will leave thou
sands without work. Unless jobs are provided
for them, they will go to other localities or
on the breadline, and the community would
face a crisis of unprecedented proportions.
We suggest that every citizen be giving
thought to this problem, and let no reasonable
prospect for new post-war industry go un
noticed. Suggestions for such industries may
be directed to the City Planning Board, at the
City Hall. The Board is making plans for de
veloping post-war industry and employment,
and suggestions will be of great value.
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A Wailing Wall
The construction at Front and Red Cross
streets of a Wailing Wall, counterpart of that
built in Palestine from the stones of Solomon’s
Temple, is being seriously considered by fuel
oil officials of the Wilmington War Price and
Rationing office.
The Jerusalem wall is open for lamentation
only on Fridays, whereas the Wilmington
weeping-place could easily be filled daily, the
Office of Price Administration people think,
by ration - applicants who have squandered
their fuel coupons on two cold spells and find
themselves now bereft of heat for the remain
ing 89 days of winter.
The over-use of oil allowances is ascribed
to a number of circumstances, of which some
a re valid excuses and some are not, but none
of which is likely to procure additional cou
pons. Some applicants sheepishly admit that
they expected V-E Day, with a concomitant
relaxation in east coast oil restrictions, to
have arrived ere now. Some are temporary
residents who weathered last winter in sum
mer-style houses at Wrightsville Beach and
kindred communities, but have been caught
short by colder weather and lessened oil allot
merits this year.
Bound by rigid rulings against the urgings
of their own sympathies, the fuel office clerks
bemoan their inability to help the shivering
prodigals, but if the wall goes up, they prom
ise, they will gladly join in the wailing.
CAROLINA
FROM THE
‘ CAPITAL
i" By ALLEN J. GREEN
■-Slar-News Washinglon Bureau
WASHINGTON, Dec. 23—With Eluethenthal
, Field, a Class V airport, scheduled to revert
10 public ownership after the war. Wilmington
1 is in position to become a leading Southern
air center, in the opinion of the National
, Aeronautic Association, if some advance plan
ning is done now.
Expansion of Bluethenthal by the Army dur
ing the war gives the city a field suitable
f for the largest aircraft now flying and a logi
• cal stop on north-south air routes as well as a
' potential terminal for east-west flights.
1 Bluethenthal’s facilities, NAA officials point
1 ed out, makes it ideal as a terminal for short
“feeder” airlines, operating in between locali
ties not on the main air routes with freight
and passengers. The close conjunction of the
field to New Hanover truck farms point to
speedy development of an air freight service
after the war. Air freight, in carload and less
than carload shipments, nas become a reality
despite the war and one commercial airline is
now carrying carload lots of spinach, lettuce
and other perishable vegetables from Cali
fornia fields to Eastern markets at feasible
ratfes to growers. As postwar competition de
velops, air freight rates can be expected to
drop.
witn air ireignt, naa says, New Hanuver
growers can extend their market range—can
take advantage of the best prices offered on a
dozen Eastern and Northern market centers.
NAA's position, however, is that commercial
a;r developments are only a small part of the
post-war aviation picture. With manufacturing
advances made during the war, private planes
—safe and well within the average person’s
price range as today’s automobiles— are going
to appear on the market in quantity.
This postwar private plane, according to
NAA, is potentially as useful and necessary
to the average person as his automobile. The
hitch is that the private airplane is now com
parable to an automobile without a road on
which to operate since airports are not con
venient to downtown areas.
In order for cities like Wilmington to take
advantage of the air age, NAA argues, it be
comes essential for the city to provide facili
ties like those now provided for automobiles.
Which from the NAA point-of-view isn't as hard
as it sounds.
cl uuu*pdl USctll, IlUIl-piUill rttrlUIlriUllUcli
association, is conducting a nation-wide cam
paign for airparks, flightstops, and airharburs
—to bring the private flier to the city.
Wilmington, it points out, will probably in
augurate a slum clearance program after the
war. Part of the area cleared could be de
voted to an airpark—a small field right in the
heart of the city for the average citizen flying
into town to work, or shop, or for the tourist
stopping over. Edges of the metropolitan air
park could be used for park and recreational
purposes. Cost would range from an estimated
minimum of $25,000 up.
On the Cape Fear river, it points out. a
small plane airharbor for aircraft equipped for
amphibious operation could be developed at a
cost ranging from $1,000 up for a ramp and
hangar facilities. With the anticipated large
scale air tourist movement up and down the
East Coast from Maine to Florida, an air
‘ motel" would be feasible with adjacent cot
tages where the traveller, out for a weekend
hop, could stay overnight.
Development of such facilities, NAA con
tends, would attract thousands of air tourists
annually to Wilmington for sightseeing, rec
reation and hunting and fishing—and spell the
difference between a town on an airline and
an air center.
TAR IIEEL HONORED
Maritime Commission will name another
Liberty ship, now under construction at Sa
vannah, for a North Carolina merchant ma
rine hero. The vessel will be christened the
George R. Poole in memory of a P• !cigh-born,
53-year-old assistant engineer who died in the
torpedoing of the SS Gulfstate, a tanker, on
April 3, 1943.
CAREER NOT ENDED*
Tar Heels around the Capitol read political i
motives in Sen. Robert R. Reynolds' farewell
speech in the Senate last week—and point out
that the junior senator, who declined to stand
for re-election, left himself a springboard for
re-entry into politics if he so desires. He de
clared:
“Mr. President, in reference to statements
as to the rebirth of large-scale isolationism, as
a humble citizen of the American republic, I
wish to express my opinion to the effect that
within tw'O years from now the people of the
United States of America wall have turned
again to isolationism and to real, genuine
American nationalism.
“I wish to say further, Mr. President, that
in my humble opinion, if we had stuck by
isolationism and attended to our own personal
business, today we would not be involved in
wars everywhere upon the face of the earth.
As I have repeatedly declared in this body
for years gone, unhesitatingly and unblushing
ly, I am today more thoroughly in favor of
isolationism for America, more thoroughly an
American firster and an American nationalist
than ever I was in my life, because I have
observed without any difficulty whatever the
results of internationalism, what it has brought
about in Greece and Poland and elsewhere
abroad, and the consequences of our having
indulged in that which is contrary to Ameri
can firstism and to American isolationism.”
Should events prove him right, and the rest
of his colleagues wrong, Sen. Reynolds, who
plans to open a law practice here next year,
may again return to the political arena.
CONGRESSIONAL PAY KAlSRS
When thr new Congress convenes in January,
the representatives and senators are going to
be confronted, once again, with the delicate
question of raising their own salaries. A bill
to raise the salaries of both groups from $10,000
to $15,000 a year died for want of action last
week and its supporters are planning to re
introduce it. .
The idea is more logical than it might ap
pear at first blush, its supporters argue. In
past days, a senator or Congressman was in
Washington perhaps six months out of the
year, could devote the rest of the year to
maintaining his private business. Now, in ad
dition to being required to stay in session for
the majority of the year, he must maintain
two homes. More and more of his time is
required to handle non-legislative problems
between his community and various branches
of an expanded Federal government. Like
other white-collar workers, he has been caught
in the rise of cost of living.
Pay raises proposed in the Vinson bill,
which will be reintroduced, are from $10,000
to $15,000 for representatives and senators;
THE GREAT MYSTERY
WHKE
IS IT?
Sw y
A Prayer At Christmastide
The man or woman does not live
—nor has ever lived—who could not
profit by this Christmas Prayer by
Paul Warwick, which appeared in
The Atlanta Constitution. Read it.
Clip it. On Christinas morning,
when all is quiet, slip off into a
corner and read it again. It will
cleanse the soul and bring peace
to the troubled heart.
* ♦ *
This morning, O Heavenly Father>
I wish You would turn me wrong
side out.
I'm a fine one to be telling You,
but there are millions of Your peo
ple in this war - torn world who
are all shiny and bright, inside,
where their secret dreams lie
sleeping, but who give off no glow
ai all w'hen you look at the part
that shows.
Help me and all those others,
Lord, to wake up those ideals and
urge them into action. Help me
get control of the little things: the
words and deeds that are blemish
es on what You intended to be my
immortal soul. Then, the things
that matter most will take care of
themselves.
To bulwark the unity our nation
needs today, and as a personal
habit. Lord, help me to be toler
ant, even of intolerance. Let me
not only cling close to the doc
trine of live-and-let-live with my
everyday neighbors, but make me
man enough to reason calmly with
my friend when he unthinkingly
echoes some banal but deadly opin
ion or epithet—charged with ra
cial. religious or personal r-eiti
dice which does not spring from
patriotic motives. Save me from
the cowardly smirk of agreement.
: when I don't agree at all.
Keep me from bigotry and false
pride. . .and let me feel the same!
| degree of warm self - satisfaction I
'from the friendly smile of my low-j
liest acquaintances as I do from;
i the infrequent handshake of the
( mighty.
Stay my tongue from gossip and
backbiting. . .and make me think
j instead of so living that evil things
! may not be said of me when I’m
the one who leaves the room. Let
humility snuff out envy of others’
I success: let good will drown my
thoughtless criticism; let me be
generous in praise for those who
still have ears to hear it.
Let me not cravenly turn my
head, muttering unconvincingly to
myself about the miserable pit
tance I give to charity, when a
ragged, begging derelict accosts
me on the street. . .but give me
ample grace to hear the poor dev
il’s story for what it may be
worth.
When I wander into frantic wor
ry and futile fears. . .remind me
of that dark night of boyhood, when
the ghostly foots'eps which pursued
me, faster and ever faster, across
the vacant lot. turned out to be
[the ribs of my corduroy breeches,
rubbing against each other.
Teach me to think again the sim
i pie thoughts.
Let me be brave enough to sav
I don't like smutty stories or. if
that be inconsistent with tolerance,
let me at least refrain from reply
ing in kind. . .and cause me instead
to think as I thought on a day in
my childhood when I found a late
autumn flower, fullblown, imprison
ed in early ice.
Let my shame at needless pro
fanity arrive two seconds before, in
stead of one second after, the im
pulse to utter blasphemy. . .and let
me remember more often the re
ligious awe I felt when I first
heard the surf pounding on the
stormswept shore.
Guard me from illusion that lis
teners are held in thrall by my
tales of bygone hangovers. . .and
let me taste, instead, in memory
the unaffected ecstacy of my first
orange with a hole cut in top by
the kitchen knife.
Let there be no moment of any
day, Lord, when m" love for my
loved ones is not eloquently mani
fest in my words and actions; let
not my preoccupation with other
things cast a shadow over the
steady light of my devotion.
Keep me from petty irritations.
Let the impulse to hug my son
hard to my chest flow over me
when eager, confident questions
are about to irk me into impa
tience. . >as well as when I see
him in soldier - cowboy-airplane
dreams on his midnight pillow.
These are just samples, Lord.
What I mean is—while You need
all of us so much—let me play an
everlasting parley on the little good
that’s in me. . .let me pyramid
my worthwhile emotions into a job
of work that will really count. . .
for my family. . .for my friends. . .
for my country. . .for mv fellow
man. . .and through them all for
You,
With all my heart I ask it. Lord.
Amen.
WITH THF AFF
Meet The OPA Of Chengtu
BY JOHN GROVER
Substituting for Kenneth L. Dixon
CHENGTU, Szechwan, China—
(Delayed) —<2P) — He's the “OPA
Administrator of Chengtu,” the
boss of the downtown ward of this
2,200-year-old west China metrop
olis. And he's a GI Joe who
couldn't order chop suey without
pointing to a menu in his native
Chicago 18 months ago.
On his job, he’s a combination
international banker, etiquette au
thority, lovelorn editor and infor
mation supervisor. That’s PFC. C.
J. (Chick) Breckinridge, who used
to manage a small Chicago loan
office at 1 North Pulaski street.
"Breck” was assigned a desk
in the Chengtu Military Police of
fice nine months ago, a detail of
the Army Special Service Forces.
He was supposed to help bewil
dered GI’s find their way among
the town's more than 500,000
equally puzzled Chinese.
The GI’s wanted steaks, souve
nirs, silks and jewels for the girls
back home. Breck admits he did
not know his elbow from a bale of
hay in Chinese when he first
came.
It’s all different now. Some of
the Midwest’s “git up and git”
that made Chicago the Nation’s
fieight handler” has been trans
planted to this town where pigs
are still toted to market in wheel
barrows.
An index was made of Chengtu
shops, including an approximate
fair price schedule. Rickshaw
rates were posted to keep payday
happy GI’s from blithely paying
eight to ten times the normal tar
iff. Then the vexing problem of
from $75,000 i0 S100.000 for the pres
ident. and from $15,000 to $20,000
for the vice-president, speaker of
the house’ and cabinet members.
money exchange in war-inflated
Chinese currency had to be licked.
Chinese merchants — and none
are smarter—like the feel of GI
Yankee pocket lettuce and the ex
change rates had the doughboys
fiscal foolish. When they were
handed a bale of crisp, new bank
notes totaling $4,800 Chinese for
one U. S. $20 bill, it seemed like
financial manna.
Breck and helpful, ethical Chi
nese, learned that some exchange
artists were giving Americans
only $240 Chinese for $1 U. S.
while that day’s going rate was
260 to 1. At that rate, a monej*
changer could net a profit of $75
U. S. without much trouble every
day.
So Breck got the dope on the
exchange rate daily and announc
ed it to shop-bound soldiers. When
GI Joe knows the score, he’s hard
to chisel.
Then, Chinese steaks didn’t jibe
with American memory of
T-bones So this “Chicago Manda
rin’’ toured the approved restau
rants and taught cooking. Now a
half-dozen Chengtu restaurants
feature “double thick steaks.”
The infrequent merchant who
jacks up prices beyond reason is
checked. The word goes out from
Breck's office that some one is
sharpshooting, and GI business
disappears. This crude OPA sys
tem works. ;
To the Yanks, Brack's the final '
authority on where, what and
when. From buck private to gen
erals, they consult him on living, ,
shopping and dining. j
He's stuck, though, when asked i
‘ where could a guy get a date?” j
Chinese girls don’t “date.” But, ;
otherwise, Breck has Chengtu in (
hand. j
Already, Breck who has learned
China and Chinese, has been given f
several flattering offers to stay
here am manage postwar enter
prises, but he says he'll speak his
Chinese in a Wentworth street
chow mein parlor in Chicago after
the war.
Breck is the only son of Dr. and
Mrs. C. J. Breckinridge of Chi
cago.
NEW HUNGARIAN
REGIME PLANNED
70 HELP ALLIES
LONDON, Dec. 23.—(iP)—Moscow
announced tonight that a provision
al Hungarian National Assembly
had been elected in liberated por
tions of that country and had start
ed work at Debrecen to establish
a new provisional government
which would cooperate with the
United Nations
The broadcast of the Moscow an
nouncement, recorded here by the
Soviet monitor, said the 230-mem
ber assembly held an organization
al meeting December 21 and is- ■
sued an appeal to the Hungarian
people to br?ak with Hitler’s Ger
-nany and join wdth the United Na
;ions.
The new government as it is au
horized to set up w'ould rival the (
ruppet regime of pro-Nazi Ferenc
Szalasi w'hich has fled from be
sieged Budapest to Sopron on the '
Austro-Hungarian border.
The assembly elected as its pre
sent, Bela Zede, professor of the 1
urisdical academy at Miskolc. 1
fice presidents are Kalman Santo, 1
irofessor at Debrecen University s
nd Dr. Sandor Yuhadnagy, a lea- '
[er of the Reform Church in Hung
ry.
It met in a building of the Re
arm College. ]
Interpreting
TheWar
By KIRKE L. SIMpS0\
Associated Press War
Bleak battle news from | fS‘
confronted home from rLp
■ms Christmas Eve week-end
:“'„e "“»•
It seemed clear tha‘ the
)ld Nazi surprise counter
n Belgium and Luxembourg 5
approaching a crisis it n ,*as
f deeply through Ameri fn 5“*
Army forward echelons 'on £
once dormant sector but 51
slowing up short of any deci?
result beyond throwing ill 5
winter offensive plat - 0U? of j5?
American losses, unquestionaK’
ceavy both in battle caUSS
material, are yet to be revest
The cost to the foe also still
oe reckoned except for one fa , °
of tremendous significance p .1
sry man, tank, plane or gun 1
out of action in enemy rank-5 L ‘
resents relatively a neater inS
into German reserve stren-",
man does any similar Americ
or Allied loss.
That is the factor inat in th.
long run will crush Germany '
total defeat. That is the circum
stance which inspired the rinbr'
battle order cal] by the
generalissimo, General Eise
hower,, to his troops.
"By rushing out from fixed de
lenses the enemy may give us i:lf
chance to turn his great gamble
into his worst defeat," the Eiscr
hower order said.
There was no "backs-to-the-wall"
or "die-at-your-post” flavor |0‘his
summons. On the contrary lne
general told his armies in effect
that Nazi desperation had gjven
them an opportunity thev could
not otherwise have foreseen f,r
weeks or months of slogging, si0,'
pressure against deeply fortified
German defenses.
By every sign available tne
crisis for the Nazis cannot be Ion
deferred.
The German commander has ful
ly committed to this action a
fourth or more of his total avail
able divisional strength m the
west, and a far larger proportion
of his crack field units as distinct
from Fortress troops. If he has
overreached himself as Eisenhow
er and his staff obviously believe
he has, the evidence of it is all
but certain to be clearly apparent
within the next few days.
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SENATE SEEKING
LOUDER^SESSION
By TOM REEDY
WASHINGTON Dec. 23.- « -
Some senators want microphones
lor Christmas.
They are getting tired of cupping
their ears.
The thought of putting an am
plifying system in the enate
chamber has horrified members in
the past but now the move is on
again. '
It is gaining support, too.
Something might be done about
it in the 79th Congress.
Senator Andrews (D-Flai has a
resolution to install microphones.
His Florida colleague, Pepper,
wants to go even further. . . he
has a proosal to put the Senate
proceedings on the radio.
Support is coming from those
senators whose hearing isn't so
good any more. Half the time the;
don’t know what the other hall :>
saying.
“The Senate is working with toe
most important business of the
generation and this is not time,
mey feel, to be missing anythin,,
’Ine Senate has to solve some
problems before it can install mi
crophones however.
One of the biggest difficulties is
presented by t h e senators the...
selves. Tney walk around aimless
ly from desk to desk, talking =J
tne while. You just don t b, ■■
what part of the chamber theji
turn up in next.
Anomer objection that is be...s
raised is that the Senate may hs;e
to go into secret sessions and some
of the members don’t want ‘ ■
wires around that can be tappe
Senate Secretary Edwin A. Ham-;
said that objection has been y
ed before and it carries a in
weight. ■....
Some system of portable ■■■■ ■
phones might be worked ou •
However they do it, there .
a loud huzzah from the press»
ieries. Some days I forget m, «•
trumpet and miss a lot » a '
quotes.
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JAPAN PROTESTS
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OF MERCY VESSU
Bv The Associated Press
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ported today an official Pr°te-'' ,
seen made to the d sink*
government over the aile^
ng of a Japanese hoffjdj
he Muro Maru by
slanes in a raid on Manila
December 13. . wai
Domei said the hospital: sh P .
jombed and strafed an ,j,e
lank several hours latel
•esult of the attacks. . .;oai
The Federal Commum - y
Commission, which picke ^
Domei report, said h '' ^ for
ast in English and i“i " I
American consumption. ert.
Domei asserted the In =• * Ja3.
nent had been notl*ie ’!s tr.a'
ary through neutral eh* ^..,1
he Muro Maru »'>■’ Gc.«
hip in accordance wi n ■
a Convention.
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