Brief Review Of State, National And World News Daring Ihe Fast Week
1LUOYD GEORGE IS
MJumiFTl TO SECRETARY
London — David Lloyd George,
Uptime minister of Britain in
«£he -first World War, Saturday
tenanted Miss Frances Steven
ason, his ■secretary for 30 years
■sand the "glamor girl” of the Ver
sailles peace conference.
The quiet ceremony took place
*5*t the Guilford registry office
Lloyd George’s farm at
*Chatt, Surrey, where the elder
-statesman lives in semi-retire
r emit
Miss Stevenson, 55, has shared
ienore of his life and his full car
•e»r than any other woman ex
'eept his wife with whom Lloyd
"CSeorge said he “lived in perfect
^harmony” for 53 years.
Hi< first wife, Dame Margaret
-Unyd George, whom he married
*in 1888 when he was an unknown
^lawyer of 25, died in 1941.
HJSADER SAYS VICTORY
IS STILL FAR AWAY
Hew York — Dwight D. Eisen
*nower, in a radio address from
-^Algiers, warned that an allied
>sactory is a “long, long” way, off
■sand "over a bitter, rough road.”
The allied commander in chief
Sin the Mediterranean and Sec
retary of the Treasury Henry
iQfcwg&rithau, Jr., who is visiting
s. ’War theaters, spoke in a
'war bond broadcast recorded by
■ f*NBC. . .
- Gen. 1 feserihower declared:
* '•This is a hard war, a bitter,
^iTtads ’-war. Make no mistake.
P*t ‘wai he :a long, long way to
Istfital ’vietory, over a bitter,
rough road. Our men know it,
s^nd are ready for it. But they
*want -to be assured above all
veTSe that the "home front is be
hrind them.” j:
SS8 MEN KILLED BY ^
TANKER COLLISION
~ Rplm Beach, Ha. — Eighty
right men were killed off the
'^Tamin' <waast recently when two
‘^tankers cdlfided and exploded,
'^burning to rdeaJth scores of men
Sand hurtling bodies hundreds of
•Seel into the air.
Majority of victims were trap
hped below deck and were burned
tfcoudeath while flames ate every
-ssqasre "Torch of paint off each
"Vessel. Others died x>n deck,
^bliojr bodies ’ Charred "and seared
~ "hbCfOnd recognition. Skeletons
'www* Tound ta bunks of one tank
• When it was'taken to port and
"■'SatvaBte estimated that more than
men 'were blown to' bits.
' Shwsn*y-eigb.t bodies were re
COPPER PENNIES TO
COME BACK IN JAN.
Washington — The copper pen
ny is coming back from the war.
Mint Director Nellie Tayloe
Ross announced that beginning
Jan. 1 production of the old cop
per-hued one-cent pieces will be
resumed through the use of ex
pended small-calibre shell cas
ings.
No effort wil> be made, how
ever, to recall the much-criticiz
ed dime-like steel pennies that
have been pouring from the
mints since early in the year.
With more than a half-billion al
ready in circulation, they will
continue to be minted right up
to Dec. 31 in order to meet an
unprecented penny demand. Af
ter that date, no more of this
type will be made.
PLENTY OF TURKEYS
LEFT FOR CIVILIANS
Jersey City — If turkeys are
scarce in civilian markets this
holiday season, don’t blame it on
the army, the quartermaster
corps’ depot here said.
Army buyers said turxey re
quirements for the armed forces
amounted to about 8 per cent of
the total supply, leaving 92 per
cent of the 1943 crop for civilians.
And, the army added, the arm
ed services are not hoarding any
turkey or buying, any more than
is needed to assure the men over
seas some good holiday meals.
The army bought only 8 per
cent of the crop, but tljat amount
ed to 23,000,000 pounds, and it
will go to the Navy, Marine
Corps and Coast Guard, as well
as the Army. Of the mountain
of Turkey, 12,000,000 pounds will
go overseas. "v;.
N. C. BANDED BIRD
FOUND IN COLOMBIA
Raleigh — Harry Davis, direc
tor of the State Museum, said
Tuesday that on^ of 1,000 beach
birds banded by him on Pea Is
land, Dare county, more than
three years ago, has been found
crippled in Riohacha, Colombia,
South America.
The birds were banded in nest
ing colonies before they were
able to fly, Davis said, so that
i definite information could be ob
tained on their migration habits.
moved from the vessel after
flames had devoured most every
thing in sight, leaving only a
helpless hulk.
Blazing Trail Back to Wake Island
r"»»
Combat air crews of naval planes talk over their adventures after
returning from an attack on Japanese positions on Wake Island. During
three air attacks navy planes dropped 326 tons of bombs which leveled
enemy defenses, sank two small ships and destroyed 61 enemy pianos.
Plies raged In shops, barracks, and storage sheds.
Senate Hears Demands That
U. S. Join In Postwar Policing
Washington — A solemn Sen
ate opened a postwar policy de
bate this week and met immedi
ate demands that the United
States pledge itself to join in an
international military force to
prevent future wars.
Without such a pledge, declar
ed Senator Ball (R-Minn), “the
odds are against preventing
World War m.” i -
Ball, urging a military force
amendment to the broad-termed
policy resolution presented by
the Foreign Relations Commit
tee, declared there is a “studied
attempt to rush this resolution
through the Senate without any
full attempt to explore by debate
its implications or meanings.”
“Why, after months of delay,
this sudden haste?” he asked the
crowded Senate.
Earlier Chairman Connally (D
Tex) of the Foreign Relations
Committee snapped: “I’m not
here to be heckled” when Sena
tor Pepper (D-Fla.) questioned
the specific meaning of general
terms in the committee resolu
tion.
This measure pledges the Unit
ed States to join “with free and
soverign nations in the estab
lishment and maintenance of in
ternational authority with power
to prevent aggression and to pre
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serve the peace of the world.”
Pepper asked whether the ref
erence to “free and sovereign”
nations would' admit France to
our postwar plans.
“Anybody knows that when
France becomes a free and sov
ereign nation she will be eligi
ble,” Connally replied.
Pepper asked if that meant
that no plans embracing France
would be made now.
“Would you want to admit
France now,” snapped Connally,
“under the leadership of Laval
20 PARATROOPERS ARE
killed at ft. benning
Fort Benning, Ga. — Twenty
officers and men were killed Sat-'
urday night when an army trans
port plane crashed at Lawson
field here while, on a routine
night parachute mission, the pub
lic relations office announced.
The dead included two officers
and three enlisted men of the
army air corps and 15 enlisted
men fr6m the parachute troops
here.
The plane crashed shortly af
ter taking off from Lawson field,
public relations officers said.
Fire broke out when the plane
crashed, trapping all occupants.
with Hitler’s bayonets sticking in
his ribs?”
Ball took the floor after Con
nally—joined by Senator Van
denberg (R-Mich) and Gillette
(D-Iowa)—argued for adoption
of the committee’s resolution
Gillette cautioned the Senate
against “quibbling, over wordi
and jeopardizing the very thini
we are trying to do.”
“If the purpose in seeking
speedy action,” countered Ball
“is to deliberately keep the Sen.
• (umIUam on uaitiia onrl Son.
era! as to leave every individua
member free 'in bis own con
science to advocate, support 01
oppose whatever interpretatioi
might suit him in the future
while at the same time conveyinj
to the American people and ou
Allies the impression that i
strong and clear position ha
been taken, then I submit tha
such a procedure contains fa
greater danger to the security o
the United States and the future
peace of the world than coul<
possibly arise from the mos
acrimonious kind of debate ii
the Senate.”
Pleasant Grove
News
Mr. and Mrs. Quincy Blevins,
of Cherry Lane, visited Mr. and
Mrs. William Hendrix, Sunday.
Miss Ruby Anderson spent the
week end with her sister, Bessie
Anderson, at Cherry Lane.
Mr. and Mrs. Rufus Hutcheson
and three sons, of Abshers, visit
ed Mr. and Mrs. Frank Richard
son, Sunday.
I Mrs, Caroline Brinegar, of
Springfield, spent Sunday with
ler son, Charley Brinegar. t.
Mrs. Florence Wagoner is Visits
ing her daughter, Nannie, at Win
ston-Salem. Mrs. Amanda Smith
and Jane Cleary are occupying
her house while she is away.
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