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Today And Tomorrow By WALTER Lll'RMANN _i ( j U;e bill (S. 758j for a national . ,, L esiabiisnxnen., it may be ° tiiat this is now the best pos ^ pv bid Decause it has been ^,-etcl to by tne civilians, the . sailors and airmen who Vji ^aVe to live unaer it and make *•’ .or’i. Tnis is no shotgun mar ’’,'ac Nor is it a marriage ar l irfd by the fond parents who Think they know better than b^de and groom. It rs no nbeme which is to be imposed ?T‘01l die armed forces by out “de •efficiency experts" or blue r'T ,i makers. Nor is it a scheme 1'vented by the military politi ‘•:gu< one branch of the armed the product of prolonged debate by our proven military leaders- The debate has ended in ;l ajj-eement. The fact that the ?,L Department and the Navy Department, that Patterson and Formstai, Eisenhower and Nimitz :,,d Spaatz are agreed that tnis , . tiie bill they want is a compell L reason for favoring this bill. !^ere is no use passing another bT* even if some one prefers it, that they do not all agree tc. For L whole o-bjeci of the legislation ‘ ,0 increase the harmony of ti e various arms. The fact that they haVe harmonized themselves and re agreed on this bill is the best practical reason for believing that we bill will promote harmony. The reason that they have been fought to agreement is that they what is the real issue. It is clearly what is the real issu. It is that a peace and in .war the President, as Commander-in-Chief, must of necessity “unify” the armed forces. The question is not whether they shall be “unified.” It is whether !he President is to be enabled to know what he is doing when he acts as Commander-in-Chief. This bill is in essence a bill to make the President a more effec tive Commander-in-Chief. It is r0t a bill about how the Navy, the marine corps, the air corps, the infantry, the armored divisions, the medical services, and what not, art to be composed, equipped, re cruited, trained, officered, paid, fed, clothed. It is in the last analysis a bill about how the President in the White House is to make the decisions which as Presi dent and Commander-in-Chief he must make about the whole com puo ted business of national de fense. * * * The bill create a Secretary of National Defense, who is in sub stance the President's deputy in the whole field of military affairs. Below the deputy there are a Secretary of the Army, a Secre tary of the Navy, and a Secretary of "the Air Force. The President's I deputy does what the President now has to do—he promotes agree ments and decides differences among the various branches. He gives his whole time to this task whereas the President can. of course, give only a little of his time to it. He is supposed to be a mail of eminence in his own right. Probably he will be. For this par ticular appointment will be scru tinized very carefully by Congress, the armed forces, the veterans and' tiie general public. Yet the decisions of the deputy are not final. The three secre taries under him, each normally the special advocate and guardian of his cwn service, have the right to appeal from the decisions of the deputy to the President. But in deciding the appeal the Presi dent will be, so to speak, the Su preme Court and not the court of first instance. Thus the ap peals will reach him in a form wheie the real issues nave been eiuciuaiea. * * * The bill does not, therefore, as -ome may uUiik or rear, mmge mto one reatureiess mass all me ngiiung men wnose traan.uns are uisuiici uecause they nave oeeorne ! ais.inguisned in giorious actions over so long a time. That kino of me.ger would in the name oi economic efficiency destroy that military eliiciency, wmen uepends iinaliy on the martial spirit of a ngming organization. 0101 does Uie oili submerge any ] oi the branches and the special ties, each of which has, of course Us own pleauers, its zealots, ano even its fanatics. On the contrary, ihis oill is designed to enable the President to juage as wisely as oystematic cumomed advice makes possioie, now the demands of each service and munch can be ba. anced against the national supply of fnoney ana materials and men, I and maoe to fit the political ana strategic'lnte.esis oi me nation. * * * The President now has to make all these decisions anyway. The Constitution requires him to make -hem. The practical administra tion of government compels him to make them. But as things are now he has no systematic ana orderly ivay of knowing whether he has heard ail the facts, has interpreted and weighed them fairly and wisely So his decisions are spasmodic, are impiovished, are casual, are guess work and may be amateurish. It it the weakness at the very top of the chain of command tnat i the bill is meant to correct. It might therefore be described not as a merger, which it certainly is not, or as a unification bill, a term which begs the question, but as a bill to equip the Commander-in Chief to do his job. Copyright. 1947, New York Tribune Inc. TRAFFIC BOYS WILL ENJOY FROLIC TODAY AT CAROLINA BEACH More than 50u boys from city and county schools will frolic to day at Carolina Beach. The event is the annual Traffic Boys’ picnic under the sponsorship or the Wil mington Police department. When the event is all over, prizes aggregating S500 in value will have been distributed to the nappy youngsters. Buses will leave the Tileston school at 10 a. m., carrying the boys to a day’s pro gram of contests, swimming, eat ing, fishing and general merri ment. Sgt. W. R. Zibelin heads the ar rangements committee and Capt. John Davis is assistant. SHIPPING NEWS IN PORT Freighter (Danish) S. S. Lila Dan from; Equador, Canal Zone, and "San ta Mario, Cuba with cargo of sug- j ar for this port and other cargo for New York. Heide and com pany, agent. INWARD BOUND Tanker S. S. Atlantic Coast from Atreco. Texas, with petroleum products for Atlantic Refining comnany. CLEARED AND SAILED Tanker S. S. Clevelander after unload ing cargo of petroleum products. Heide and company, agent. STEEL COTS Sturdy, steel folding cots. 76” long, 36” -wide and 17” high. Used. m r MACHINIST VISE Heavy duty machinist’s stationary vise. Six-inch jaws, opens to ten inches. Used. WELDERS HOSE Welder’s hose, red. Four ply, 2 of fabric and two rubber. 5-16 inch inside diameter, 11-16 inches out *ide diameter. LIGHT FIXTURE GUARDS Standard thread ... 18 threads to one inch, 7-182 x 4 5-16" diameter. Heavy steel wire, mounted on brass ring. Unused. WILMINGTON, NORTH CAROLINA tm-m-is K OF CTO HOLD ONE - DAY MEET Co^venHcn To Open At WrightsviPe Beach On Saturday Joseph F. Lamb, supreme sec retary, Knights ot Columbus, who will make the principal address to* the North Carolina Knights ot Co lumbus state convention at Wrights ville this week-end, will arrive in W'ilmington today, according to Gordon Doran, grand knight of the Wilmington Council. The one-day convention will be held on Saturday at the Ocean Terrace hotel, and 400 delegates from all parts of the state are expected to attend. A solemn high mass at St. Theresa church, Wrightsville Beach, is scheduled for Saturday morning. State officers for the coming year will be elected dur ing the_ two business sessions in the morning and afternoon; and the convention will close with a banquet and dance on Saturday night. Other convention guests expect ed to arrive today include, Bishop Vince-nt S. Waters, Raleigh dio cese, Francis J. Hazel, Asheville, supreme treasurer, and Edward McHugh, Cleveland, Ohio, su preme director. Under the direction of Mrs. Gor don Doran, chairman of the ladies committee, a full program, in cluding boat rides, has been ar ranged for Saturday. Convention committee members include Charles Peschau, entertain ment, D. A. Lockfaw, toastmaster, J. Herbert Bailey, and Frank J. Gordon, registration. WMFD TO PRESENT CAMERA FAN SHOW Program Series To Run Thirteen W e e k s As ! Feature - | Written and broadcast especially for persons who are interested in photography, whether it be se riously or merely a snap-shot hob by, is a new series of programs which '.rill begin tonight over radio station WMFD. Every Thursday night, for the next 13 weeks, WMFD will present, as a public service feature, a fif teen minute program prepared by members of the Wilmington Cam era club. The first show, tonight at 6:45 o’clock, will give the fundamen tals of photography, and some basic facts about cameras. The programs have been ar ranged in such a way, as to first introduce the picture - making art and then progressively to intro duce the more complicated features ol good photography. The United States rubber indus try- has almost doubled in size dur ing the past five years and has converted largely- to the production of synthetic rubber. "Star gaxbr ARIES Mar. 22 9 Apr. 20 2-35-52-61 62- 65-66 TAURUS I Apr. 21 • May 21 4- 5-46-48 50-’0 GEMINI P May 22 kJune 22 6- 11-19-20 39-55 4 CANCER ^ June 23 ^ July 23 8- 9-13-15 24-57-60 lIo i, July 24 I Aug. 23 44-45-47-59 63- 64-68 » VIRGO Aug. 24 » Sept. 22 7- 12-14-25 69-75-77 -By CLAY R. 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Today the Dionne quintuplets, quiet-looking, serious young girls, celebrated their 13th birthday by taking the day off from school. Tonight there was a family din ner and after that movies and a miniature concert. When the girls — Yvonne, An nette, Cecile, Emilie and Marie— came down to breakfast this morn ing, there was a yellow gold wrist watch, a gold chain and a religious medal at each of their table places. Thewatches were gifts from their father, Oliva Dionne; the chains and medals from their mother, Elzire. The girls won’t get their usual birthday dresses until they go to Ottawa next month. Although they have reached teen age, the quints so far show little signs of becoming bobby soxers. In fact they don't go for Jazz music. They all are studying serious music and their dancing is confined to learning to waltz. The girls dress alike, usually in flower-print dresses and grey flan nel blazers, red bobbysocks and saddle shoes. Each has developed individual traits by now. Emilie, for instance, is left-handed. The Dionnes are religious peo ple and one of the highlights ol today’s birthday celebration was the blessing of the statue of the blessed Virgin in the nearby Grot to by the Rev. Alexander Claude Vachon, archbishop of Ottawa. Mama and Papa Dionne recall ed with varying emotions the hec tic morning 13 years ago. It was 1:30 a. m. when Dionne rushed to the home of Mrs. Donalda Legros,. a midwife and an aunt of Mrs. Dionne. “It was very cold that night,-’ Mrs. Legros, sitting in her gift shop here, recalled today. “When I arrived Elzire said, ’Aunty, I don’t think I’ll be able to pull through this time.’ ” At the age of 24, Mrs. Dionne al ready had five children. Yvonne, frist-born, came about 4:10 a. m. Emilie and Cecile were next. The children were born about 15 minutes apart. “They were all black from chocking and so delicate appear ing it seemed as though the first skin had been removed,” Mrs. Legros said. “After massaging each baby and drawing its breath until we heard a wek cry, we rubbed it with oil and rolled it in a warm blanket. It then was plac ed in a basket at the foot of Mrs. Dionne’s bed.” Mrs. Legros, now 57 years old, still has that old clothes basket. It served as an incubator until one was rushed here from a Toronto hospital. “It still seems a miracle to me that they lived to have grown to be talented, lovely girls, Mrs. Legros sadi. BODY FRESHNESS Banish odor this pleasant easy way C Why endure l. 1 r-& strong-smelling soaps when a daily bath with fragrant, mildly medicated Cuticura Soap banishes grime and odor instantly, leaves you feeling wonderfully clean and confident! Finish with fra grant, borated Cuticura Talcum to ab sorb perspiration, guard against of fending. Buy Cuticura today! "How {Jt s different! 9 # # Once we wore old-fashioned type nylons. € Once we even went bare-legged. Now, we combine the best of each of these styles and wear no-seam nylons ...» the seamless nylons that give you the bare look, plus sheer stocking beauty. The truth is that men hate bare legs. They only want legs to look that way. That is why no-seam Nylons solve the summer problem so beautifully. Seamless nylons give all the sheer smooth ness of bare legs, with none of the blemishes. HOSIERY DEPT—FIRST FLOOR Barelejr Nylon-Nudes by: — CHanes 20 Denier • Shade Masque $1-75 Pair Bareleg Nylons By:— cLarkwood 20 Denier • Shades: Masque $1.50 Pair Bareleg Nylons By: — cJlatternit 30 Denier • Shades: Commando Cheer $1-40 Pair i I (Belh" W_ilhams ----■£**“ MARSHALL BACKS ! MAY REPUTATION Son Of Former Congress man Admits To Agree- ,, ment With Garsson’s WASHINGTON, May 28—(U.R)— F.obert May, son of former con gressman, Andrew J. May, ad mitted over objections of defense counsel today that he once held a profit-sharing agreement in the multi-million dollar Garsson- mu nitions combine. He told a jury trying his 71 year-old father and Henry and Murray Garsson on charges of war fraud conspiracy and bribery that his father saw a copy of the contract before it was signed. This -contradicted the elder May's earlier statement that he knew nothing about the agree ment in advance, but young May quickly added that when the con tract was shown his father last night, ‘‘it refreshed his memory and he recalled that he had look ed at it at that time.” The agreement, signed at Miami in the office of Francis M. Miller, an attorney, gave young May 50 per cent of the profits of any sub contracts obtained by Miller’s construction firm. The son was called as a defense witness after Secretary of State George C. Marshall and seven of the former congressman’s House | colleagues had testified as to his | honesty atid integrity. Marshall, wartime chief of staff, said that at that time he looked t>icn May as a "man of in.egrity and I heard no comments to *he I ror.irary.” | The House members said the one- | time chairman of the House Mili '.ary Affairs committee had a gone reputation for truth honestv anc ; fair play during his years in con- i gress. Crcss-examinalron of you..- May produced repeated objections by Warren E. Magee, his father’s at torney, and Charles J. Margiotti, counsel for the Garssor.s. There were three bench conferences atic one in chambers, but in each case the court ruled that questions by Chief Prosecutor William A. Pais ley should stand. The witness said hr also obtain ed a subcontract from the Erie Basin Products company, Inc., a key Garsson firm, for the manu facture of 60.000 shell boxes, at a meeting in Miamr in 1943. He said he first ranted to make the boxes at his home i Prestons burg. Kv., but could not find enough lumber. Finally, he saia the work v..s transferred 10 the E..de Milling and Lumber com 1 ty, Miami, in which he had a 50 per cent interest. The profit snaring agreement, he said, was with H. L. Heath of the Heath Marine & Construction company, represented by Millet. It called for young May to re ceive 50 per cent of the company s profits on all Army tent poles produced under a subcontract with ihe Garssor.s. The elder May testified Iasi week that he was in Miller’s office when the contract was arranged but that he had paid no atten tion to what was going on. He said he did not learn ot the agree mem until his son vs driving him home later in the day and ad vised Robert to withdraw. Dial 2-3311 For 'P'.vspnper i-er.ve IF STOMACH BALKS DUE TO GAS AND BLOAT Help Get Food Digested to Relieve Yourself of This Nervous Distress Do you feel all puffed-up and miserable after every meal, taste sour, bitter food? 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