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MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS AND ALSO SEKVEI) BY THE UNITED PRESS With confidence In our armed forces—with the onbonnding determination of our people— we will gain the Inevitable triumph—so help ns God. Roosevelt’s War Message. ^ SUNDAY, APRIL 22, 1945. I TOP O’ THE MORNING X the home is spiritualized the Church is Tttalized. W. F. McDermott. -V--— Vote Tomorrow Do not forget tomorrow’s primary election. Five candidates w.ill then be chosen for the City Council. Their names will appear on the ballets to be cast in the main election on May 8. Although other names may be written in on May 8, there is no doubt that the five nominated tomorrow will be elected. They will have the final say in all matters pertaining to Wilmington’s progress or retro gression during the next two years. After they take office the public must accept their decisions and policies. The only alternative is the referendum, which would be costly and uncertain. The five among the fourteen candidates best fitted for the duties they will face should be chosen by a large majority of Wilmington’s qualified voters. Selection by a minority would not be satis factory. You are urged, therefore, not only to re member tomorrow’s primary but to |o to the polls and cast your ballot for the five you believe can best serve the city during the period between the war and the re-establish ment of peace. Don’t fail to vote. _sr 4 Define Aggression The Star-News is in complete agreement with former President Herbert Hoover’s de claration that the San Francisco conference should decide upon the definition of “ag gression and that this definition should in clude ‘direct or indirect subsidized govern mental propaganda in other nations.” The proposal was part of an address by Mr. Hoover before the Foreign Policy Asso ciation in Philadelphia. He added: Aggression in this world is not confined to the old - fashioned threats or to military action or even to economic pressures. Our experience with the Nazis who infiltrated their poisonous propaganda and fifth columns into the lands of peaceful neighbors should indi cate that there is a new form of aggression in the world. Whereupon he called for • new definition of aggression, and said: “The enforcement cf such a provision would help cure that cause of wars which grows out of crusading faith, political or otherwise.” Aggress;on is the bugaboo of the future. Germany proved bow easily it may be initiat ed and nurtured, how insidiously it may be spread, bow effective it may be when an ag gressive power considers the time ripe for an attack. It is not forgotten that after the last war when Germany was on its uppers, Norway took in many German children, cared for and edu cated them until they reached manhood and womanhood; and how these very youngsters, »ow grown, became the fifth column of Hitler in the period preceding his invasion of Nor way. What happened there, happened also in Holland and Belgium, if in lesser degree, but with such baneful success that when the Ger man armlei invaded the Low Countries they were met by hordes of German nationals who had been succored by the people marked for Nazi destruction. It was this infiltration that paved the way for German invasion and imple mented the German attack. Obviously a new definition of aggression is needed. But even more than a definition, the need is for suppression of aggression in the bud. How this can be effected ought to be one e£ the major tasks at San Francisco. A Toast Hitler has passed his fifty . sixth birthday. May he never see another. --V Yum-Yum R is reported Arab envoys to the San Fran cisco conference have given their Okeh to American apple pie. Now if the San Fran cisco ehefs will only give them epoon bread. . . , J Convincing : The German People It may be that the Nazis at the top have succeeded in keeping the German people in ignorance of their armies’ barbarism and atrocities in the lands they have attacked as well as their cruelty toward both'political and war prisoners at home. Or it may be the Ger man people have deliberately closed their ears and their eyes to what has been goirg on at Nazi instigation inside and beyond the Reich. We have no way of knowing. But it is ob vious that the German masses are surprisingly indifferent to the conduct of Germany's armed forces and local Nazi governments, and are concerned only over the necessary destruction now going forward as Allied and Russian troops penetrate deeper into the Reich. They are greviously stirred now that the war is brought home to them. In other wars German armies have succeed ed in keeping the fighting on foreign soil. The price of warfare has not had to be paid at home, save for the loss of sons and husbands who have not returned. Germany, as a geo graphical subdivision, has been invaded sel dom and never on tne present scale. This is what holds a reasonable hope that lasting peace may be established in Europe. The people of Germany are learning that they have not only to pay reparations. They are paying by losing their homes, their livestock, their household possessions. They are paying by having their farms tramped over by Allied troops, the streets of their towns and cities littered with the rubble that once was build ings. In their ignorance they claim that the Ger man armies never did anything like this, but they have nothing to say when asked about Tox terdam and Lidice, Stalingrad and Sevastopol, or Coventry. Maybe they do not now what the Germans did to these cities. The Nazi leaders have done what they could to prevent them from learning. But, with their own land a battle field they are learning what war means at last. It is possible they will remember, they 'and their children and by legend their grand children, the terrible price of war and sow the seed of peace among the people for many generations, so that if another Hitler tries to stir them to back another war they will do away with him before he becomes a menace. It would seem that war inside Germany with the overthrow of German resistance, such as is happening now, is the best guarantee of a lasting peace that could be found. This is why millions of people condone the destruc tion now under way in Germany and hope it will not be ended until the job is finished. i. At Swiss Border Some 250,000 German civilians and workers, according to a Berne dispatch, are it or near the Swiss border seeking entry. What to do with them is the problem. Swiss mili tary units have been mobilized to prevent dis turbances and, presumably, herd the throngs to relief stations. The real danger, as we see it. is that war criminals, disquised and bearing false pass ports, are among the refugees. If they find asv lum in Switzerland and their disquise, is not discovered in time, they will escape the pun ishment they deserve and may escape to other lands—notably Argentina or Japan, where they can live out their lives in safety and comfort. It is not to be supposed they have failed to gather a share of the loot the Nazis have accu mulated in overrun countries and even in Ger many itself. Switzerland is obligated to deliver to the Allies all know war criminals. But, lacking second sight, Switzerland cannot be expected to penetrate all disquises, if it is true that Nazi freebooters are among the thousands of refugees knocking at Switzerland’s door. The only way they might be discovered is for the Swiss to segregate all refugees under military guard and permit Allied intelligence agents to give all the third degree, without a rubber hose of course, and learn their pre vious record. It would be a tremendous job, but we know of no other way to catch up with fleeing war criminals who may mingle in this refugees horde. -V EDITORIAL COMMENT A HAPPY BLUNDER When the form and substance of his first broadcast to the nation are long forgotten by his hearers, they will be able to recount with pleasurable remembrance President Truman’s little fumbling of the niceties when he appear ed before the joint session of Congress. Who will forget when the applause died down how the new President started right in to address Congress and then the whisper com ing over the air from Speaker Rayburn: “Let me present you first, Harry?” That was a human bit that somehow or other was American irr its simple blundering. This people got a chuckle out of it which set them in good humor for what the. President had to say. — Miami Herald. TOO MUCH WORRY We are constrained to believe some times that there is too much worry and £iub-dub over the problems of the returning soldier who will turn civilan and slip back into civilian life just as quickly as he can shed the OD. All the discharged veterans we know here have gone back to work, some in their old jobs and others in new jobs. All they want is a chance to go to work. Gastonia’s most decorated sol dier, *o far as we can find out, the former Pvt. Freck Huffstetler, wounded six times, wearer of a whole chest full of medals .and ribbons, went back to work' within a week after he had been discharged, thus setting a most worthy example to future returning sol diers. — Gastonia Gazette. CAROLINA FROM THE CAPITAL By DAVID BRINKLEY -Siar-News Washinglon Bureau WASHINGTON, April 21.—Senator Clyde R. Hoey is taking every opportunity to speak and work for the Bretton Woods monetary agree ments and the Dumbarton Oaks plan for world peace. He still has not broken his silence on the Senate floor, but he has appeared before several Washington political and civic organi zations to campaign for his beliefs that the two meetings formed an important part of the foundations upon which the peace must be laid. From his conversation it is apparent that these two issues now are Hoey’s foremost in terests and that he plans to talk and fight for them as long as necessary. It is ap parent, too, that a great deal of speaking and working will be needed, because in spite of all the thinking of the contrary, islolationsim in the United States Senate is not dead. Hoey and all the others who plan to vote this country into a responsible participation in word affairs will not find the job easy. And they themselves would be the first to admit it. ANOTHER CONTROVERSY Another controversial issue to come uj^soon —an issue on which the lines already are clearly drawn and which is expected to bring President Truman’s first real tussle with Con gress—is the proposal to lower tariffs. The line between endorsement and opposition is clearly and sharply partisan, since the tariff is one of the oldest points of disagreement between the Republican and Democratic par ties, one of the few issues on which party lines are clearly separated. It started out a few weeks ago as Mr. Roose velt’s idea, and presumably President Truman will follow it through. Here again Hoey plans to go along with the administration, since he believes “the President should have the power to negotiate reciprocal trade agreements and to set tariffs at whatever level is to the country’s best advantage.” WONDERING Washington’s afternoon teacup balancers are wondering how the Trumans will live on the President’s $75,000 salary. Though that figure may sound big enough, it’s relatively small after taxes are deducted and when you re member the scale on which the President is required to live. The White House is maintained by the government, but many expenses includ ing food must be paid by Truman. Most other Presidents, including Roosevelt, have been pri vately wealthy and could afford the expense of being President, but until a few years ago Truman was still paying off debts from that ill - fated Missouri haberdashery. BUSY ^AN It looks now as if Senator Hatch of New Mexico is going to be the busiest man in the history of the world. You can get it on the most solemn authority that. Hatch, a close friend of President Truman, is«going to be Secretary of State, Secretary of Commerce, Secretary of the Treasury, Attorney General, and so on. All these rumors come from those who are “close to Truman,’’ and there are so many of these that a group of writers at the Press Club has formed an association called ‘Men Who Are NOT Close to Turman, Inc.” RUMORS Speaking of rumors, Washington unquestion ably is the hearsay capital of the world. In one afternoon, one news bureau had calls from people saying they’d heard and would like to verify these rumors (all false): That the war was over, former Secretary of State Cordell Hull was dead, Hitler had been cap tured, Movie Actor Van Johnson was dead, and Von Papen was in Washington. THIS AND THAT IN SHORT: Col. and Mrs. John Boettiger, son-in-law and daughter of the late President,, have joined Washington’s Army of house - hunt ers, since they no longer can call the White House home. So far, they’ve had no luck. . . Nothing was heard from former vice-president “Cactus Jack” Garner during last week’s ceremony except a note to President’Truman written in lead pencil on blue - lined paper. . . Washington is being circularized by a group pressuring" for an independent India. Their ads describe the country as “India, the skeleton at the feast”. . .at the Navy, where abbrevia tions such as LST and LSM are popular, there’s a new one: 3-DMTD. It refers to the in strument of war used by most officers station ed here—the three-drawer, metal - top desk . . .during the list year nearly 9,000 civilian Navy- employes quit their jobs. And the Navy, after spending $176,000 recruiting and trans porting new workers to Washington, wound up with a net loss of 283. ._v_ EXCELLENT CHOICE The North Carolina Educational Association is fortunate in its new leadership. Mrs. Annie Laurie McDonald, of Hickory, is exceptionally well qualified to serve as president of the N. C. E. A. for the ensuing year. Mrs. McDonald brings to the task a per suasive personality, sincerity of aim and pur pose, zeal for selfless service and broad ex perience,' both as a classroom teacher and as a leader in her professional group. On the other hand, she has not been touched by political or other outside influences and is, therefore, free to devote her services exclusive ly to the cause which so intimately concerns the teachr and the child. In the past efforts have been made to in volve the association in partisan politics. Mrs. McDonald is no politician and her wide pop ularity and efficiency as a leader of her pro fessional group should enable her to reunite any dismembered or contending elements with in the teacher organization and re-orient the course of the whole group toward the ad vancement of education in North Carolina.— Winston Salem Journal. The planet Jupiter, astronomers tell us, is 1,200 times the size of the earth. That’s where Der Furious and his boy friends should have gone to look for that “extra living space.’’ * * * Zodak Dumkopf, who claims he never gets any breaks, says it’ll probably be his luck to be confined to his home on V-E Day with an attack of German measles. . * * * Allied soldiers found no trace of the Pied Piper when they captured Hamelin but let’s hope they bagged some of the rats—of the swastika species. * * * The hollow handle and head of some Amer ican Indium tomahawks doubled in brass as peace pipes. That certainly beats the white man at converting swords into plow shares. THEY SEND A BOY TO-DO a MAN’S WORK Youve a NATHTy .%4CK THREE COMMEND CHARITIES WORK Three letters commanding the services of the Associated Charities were released yesterday following approval of their publication on Thursday by the agency’s Board of Directors, at the motion of Rabbi Mordecai M. Thurman. IThe work of the Associated Charities was complimented in in communications received from B. P. Adkins, superintendent of Community hospital; Dr. E. P. Cut ter, Consolidated Board of Health; and William H. Montgomery, area director of the Boys’ Clubs of America, New York. - The letter from Adkin follows: “Please allow me to express my sincere thanks and that of the Hos pital staff to you and your staff for the splendid cooperation which you have given this Hospital since I have been here as Superintendent. Your department is doing a great service for those of our City and County who are ill, and in finan cial distress, through your investi gation of each case and recommen dation of help for the deserving ones. In that way you render us much assistance since we cannot possibly make as thorough investi gation of each individual case as you can. Should be constantly questioning ourselves as to whether we had extended help to one who did not need it and refused a de serving case. The ready response, and unselfish spirit which your department shows each time we have an oc casion to call upon you is most commendable.” The communication from Dr. Cutter follows: we are encouraged xu iwwvc reports from the State Board of Health showing that our clinic has a good standing among clinics referring infectious patients to the Rapid Treatment Centers. “Many indigent patients bene fited by this hospitalization because the Associated Charities of # Wil mington paid for their transporta tion to and from the hospital. “Doctor Elliot and I wish to ac knowledge and to thank you and the Association for this support.” Mr. Montgomery’s letter follows: “Although I am rather tardy in acknowledging your kind fhvita tion of January 25 to attend the Fiftieth Anniversary observance of the Associated Charities, may I say that your letter was delayed somewhat due to my frequent ab sences from the city. “I am sorry I did not receive the invitation in time to extend my greetings, but I am sure under stand. I have always been interest ed in the excellent work of the Associated Charities, especially during that period of time under your capable and efficient leader ship. You certainly are to be con gratulated for the fine work you are doing and I look back with pleasant memories on the small part it was my privilege to play during the time I was associated with you and the other splendid members of the board.” -V GRANTED DIVORCE WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., April 21.—(U.R)—Mrs. Ailsa Mellon Bruce, daughter of the late Andrew Mel lon, former secretary of the treas ury, was granted a final divorce decree here Friday from Col. David K. E. Brucem., The couple had been separated since October 1943. Mrs. Bruce was given full custody of their 11-year-old daugh ter. No alimony was asked but a property settlement .was made part of the record, court officials said. Rocky Point Soldier Is Killed In Action Pfc. Samuel J. Langston, son of Mrs. Sam Langston, Rout e 2, Rocky . Point, died March 9 of wounds received m action on Lu zon, according to a message re ceived by his mother from the War Department. Pfc. Langston entered the Ar my in July, 1942, and left for the Pacific theater in January, 1943. He was stationed in Australia in the spring of 1943. Since that time he has been in several major en gagements on New Guinea and Leyte. He had been in the Philip pines since last fall. He is survived by his mother; two brothers, Sgt. W. B. Langston, U. S. Army, Kearney. Neb., and Edward Earl Langston, of Rocky Point; three sisters Miss Blanche Langston, of Charleston, S. C., Miss Maude Langston, Rocky Point, and Mrs. S. A. O’Brien, Ar lington, Va. Memorial services for Pfc. Langston will be held at Riley's Creek Baptist church at 3 p.m. today. —--v Pfc. Clyde B. Case Is Wounded In Action Pfc. Clyde B. Case, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Case, of 1111 Grace street, has been wounded in action in Germany, according to word received by his parents. Case, who was hit by shrapnel, had been serving with the First Army since D-day. A letter writ ten by a Red Cross worker stated that he underwent an operation and was now improving. In service since September, 1943, Case received his basic training with the Field Artillery at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. Overseas since May of last year, he had been a member of a machine gun crew. ROMEO POINTS TO CIVIC OBLIGATIONS Robert R. Romeo, incumbent for a City Council seat, declared yes terday he felt he was obligated to the people of Wilmington to re main in office until “a number of items pending before the Council” are dealt with. He named these as city limits extension, completion of the water works system, incinerator, audi torium, and in addition, the im portant task of conversion from war to peace-time conditions. Councilman Romeo’s statement follows: ‘‘My decision to offer for re election to the City council was reached after a careful study of the various problems involved. There are a number of items pending before the Council, such as city limits extension, comple tion of the waterworks system, incinerator, auditorium, etc. Also we are faced with the most im portant task of conversion from war to peacetime conditions. In this connection there are a num ber of decisions which must be made very soon. “It is my considered opinion that these matters can be most effectively handled by a person who has been keeping in close touch with all phases leading up to final action. I feel therefore that I owe an obligation to the people of Wimington to remain in office until these matters are dis posed of. I am willing to continue my responsibility to the people until the job at hand is finished.” -V Parrots don’t know what they are saying when they “speak.” Their talk is merely mimetic func tion enabling them to readily re peat all kinds of sounds including words and phrases of human speech. SAMPLE BALLOT .— " OFFICIAL PRIMARY BALLOT City of Wilmington, North Carolina INSTRUCTIONS: 1. To vote for a candidate on the ballot make a cross (X) mark in the square at the left of his name. 2. If you tear or deface or wrongly mark this ballot, return it to the registrar and get another. \ FOR MEMBER OF THE CITY COUNCIL (VOTE FOR FIVE) ( ) GEORGE W. ALLEN, JR. ( ) ROBERT S. LeGWIN ( ) GEORGE H. BRINSON ( ) ERNEST R. MAYHAN ( ) GARLAND S. CURRIN ( ) BEN McGHEE ( ) JOHN H. DAVIS ( ) THOMAS E. MURRELL i ( ) WILLIAM HENRY EZZELL ( ) ROBERT R. ROMEO ( ) KINGSLEY LEE KING ( ) J. E. L. WADE [ ) W. RONALD LANE ( ) W. E. YOPP • ] Primary Election April 23, 1945. 1 H. G. Carney Chairman City Board of Elections Ht Interpreting The War By J. M. ROBERTS, JR Associated Press War Analyst The American armies on th, western front appear to have co~ pleted their job insofar as central Germany is concerned. Patton and patch are turmn, south, Simpson and Hodges busy cleaning up the territory have overrun so rapidly. Gerow, new 15th Army appears t0 ! been assigned more of an 0cc'. pational than an immediate figh‘„ j role, cleaning up behind the Third and Ninth Army spearhead, which ripped central Germany ^ to shreds. ■ 5 ln‘ These irmi.es will have theh uses, of course, in. the cleanup but the major portion of the remain, ing north German seems to h" a British and Russian job If ar* Americans move north or much farther east it probablv would b, the Ninth Army closing up on th, British right flank as they head northward toward the Baltic. The -speedy closing-up of th, Russians to our forward lines h-< raised the question of command but the argument probablv will prove purely abstract. It seems likely that the Russia,,, and the western Allies have • J assigned their zones of conquest and that operational problems will lie almost wholly in the field of liaison rather than in tactical com mand. These zones probablv c,.' form, roughly at least, to the zones of occupation agreed upon poltically. The Russian occupation zone ha, been described as east of a line running slightly west of Beit Following through on this, the lt'o of the Elbe and Mulde rivers woub seem the logical demarcation. The British are expected to oc cupy the northwestern and the Americans the southern sections ’ There are any number of reasons why the various armies should themselves conquer the area thev are going to occupy when fightir.® ceases, and it appears to be sham mg up that way. A much similar situation is possible as the Amen, cans turn south. Austria and Czec cans turn south. Austria and Czechoslovakia do not involve the occupational zoning problem (at least so far as we know about Austria). But when we meet in Europe will be over. -V LETTER BOX SAVE IT FOR VETERANS What I have to say has no in tended bitterness and it is not meant as fault finding. I do not know the facts and, therefore, am not in a position fo criticize any. one’s action. If I were in the seats of those who make the plans for the government of the city, I would certainly like to know what all the people think and say. Nothin* can be accomplished by an atti tude of “getting someone told" Much can be accomplished by res- I soning together. May we call this a symposium of the street? What is contained : here comes from people as they walk about our streets. Enough has been said about the cutting of' the trees on Chestnut street. Vast numbers of the citi zens were angered but the expla nation of those who had it don? has been accepted and all but the sufferers feel better about it. But why, asks the man on the street, does the city go forward with a program of sidewalk pavinj when material is at an all-tim" high and labor is scarcer than ever before in the history of the city? The cost is, therefore, hind er than snould be paid by a mu nicipality. All of the tax payers have not benefitted by the unprecedented wave of piosperity. Widows living on the annuities of their deceased j husband's life savings are in far worse shape now than when fh? dollar bought a dollars worth. The price of everything required for living is sky high and taxes are a burden. Local taxes should de crease as federal taxes mount It is heard that the city's sur plus is very large. Some say buy bonds with it and some say cut the tax late for it is not the busi ness of a city to build up surplus es. No one says undertake a par ing program as an outlet when the cost of the program is at a . maximum. It has been advanced that w ’ should be a post-war planning proj ect* There will be many a returned veteran then and why not save th ‘ money ar,:i save these jobs for 1 ■ men who really deserve far bet than even this. But judging tr.e future by the past, there many apples sold on street mi ners in the early nineteen twer iej by men who had been prorr..^ better. Promises are now fc- - made to men doing the same of fighting a war. Ar the ! ' ^ ises going to be kept or are ^ I going to pave streets with moB* .vhich would help them’’ , There is nothing closer lr> neart of the people of Wiln..»2 •• ;han that boy doing a mans f Adth his heart back home in " hington. Doesn’t Wilmington tni ;nough of him to hold a :im? Can’t that paving be P° , soned? Some seven thousa Memos for Joe went from nington in the Red Cross Dm rhat many people want these ]■ teld. j I If they can’t be. the mothers m M athers would feel better ■' ^ i •easons for not doing it "ere Mained. I I am not hitting at »or im pulling, as an old soldier, omeone—your boy and mine. Interested Citizen Vilmington, N. C. April 21. 1945. -^-.to film Eighty per cent of a m0V eorPct- i manufacturing plant is P rJi tal darkness during working •“
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