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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1912
THE BEAUFORT NEWS, BEAUFORT, N. C.
PAGE TWO
CLASSIFIED
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Washington, D. C.
NOT ONLY A FIGHTER,
BUT ALSO A DIPLOMAT
Gen. Dwight Eisenhower has a lot
of tough jobsi in Africa, and one of
them, which doesn't get into the
headlines, is to be the diplomatic
negotiator among high French offi
cials. Among other things, he has been
very adroit in handling General Gi
raud, who escaped from France
dressed as an old woman and who
now is In command of French forces
in North Africa.
Actually, General Giraud expect
ed to be commander of all forces in
North Africa, both French and
American. He is one of the highest
generals in the French army, and
before France fell, would have re
placed General Gamelin as chief of
staff had he not been taken prison
er. Therefore, since he outranks
Eisenhower and has had much more
varied experience, it is not unnat
ural that Giraud should aspire to
be commander-in-chief of the en
tire North African operation, includ
ing the U. S. army.
Eisenhower, however, has a
charming personality, a broad grin,
smattering of French, and had
little trouble in handling General Gi
raud. Another complication was the fact
that Giraud hates Admiral Darlan.
Yet Darlan, as a member of the
cabinet, outranks him. In addition,
there is General Nogues, another
top-ranking officer. So it has been
worked out that Nogues commands
the French civil population, Giraud
the French army, and Darlan the
French fleet.
SIDETRACKED PLANES
When Wendell Willkie conferred
with Stalin in Moscow, the Russian
leader was critical of the British for
sidetracking American lend - lease
goods in Scotland and substituting
for them inferior British war sup
plies. The inside story of this can now be
told.
Last summer, a shipment of Aira
cobras was en route to Russia from
the United States and the convoy
stopped to refuel in the British Isles.
At that time, General Eisenhower,
preparing for the second front in
Africa, asked that these fast fighting
planes be given to him instead of
being sent on to Russia.
General Eisenhower was so In
sistent that he finally went to Prime
Minister Churchill personally, who
finally agreed that -the Airacobras
be sidetracked for use on the forth
coming African front.
OVERRULING ROOSEVELT
More and more it looks as if Fer
dinand Eberstadt, the Wall Street
broker, is becoming the most pow
erful man in the War Production
board and one of the most powerful
in the government. It hasn't leaked
out yet, but recently he managed
to overrule the vice president of the
United States, the undersecretary of
state, and Lend-Lease Administra
tor Ed Stettinius.
Some time ago, Eberstadt ap
pointed as chief of WPB export pri
orities, Major Tom Armstrong, of
Standard Oil of New Jersey, who
had operated in various Latin Amer
ican countries. Armstrong had been
vigorous in bucking the development
of Latin American government
owned oil companies, and the Latin
Americans don't like him. There
fore, they squawked when they
heard he would now sit in their all
important priorities position where
he could decide whether they could,
or could not, receive oil equipment
to develop their government-owned
industries in competition with Stand
ard and private companies.
Undersecretary of State Welles
agreed with the Latin Americans,
and protested to the President. So
did Vice President Wallace of the
BEW, and also Stettinius, who buys
lend-lease oil equipment for Latin
American governments.
As a . result of these protests,
Roosevelt ordered Donald Nelson to
dismiss Major Armstrong. Howev
er, Eberstadt in effect has over
ruled the President. He insisted that
Armstrong remain. And he is still
on the job.
CAPITAL CHAFF
H Mrs. Roosevelt, looking from an
airplane on the new marble struc
ture known as the Jefferson Me
morial, remarked, "I doubt if Jef
ferson would have liked to see mon
ey spent that way."
CThere are already 225,000 appli
cations on file for commissions from
civilian life.
CExcept for a few rare specialists,
the only route to a commission now
adays is to get into the army as a
private, then attend an officer can
didates school.
C. Not to be stalled by lack of gaso
line, one sightseeing company in
Washington has hired and repainted
an old two-horse ten-passenger wag
on, which drives around the capital
as "Victory Sightseeing."
CWarning that the war department
will dispense no more "cellophane
commissions," Secretary Stimson
says it does no good for applicants
to write appealing letters to him,
which open with the catch phrase,
"I know what a busy man you are,
but" . . . Some people write to
Stimson at his home, expecting per
sonal attention.
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This photograph, radioed from London to New York, and sound
photoed to Chicago, shows United States Rangers and equipment arriving
at a beach near Oran, Algeria, in boats as they prepared to occupy the
French possessions on the north Mediterranean shore. In between the
two key ports, Algiers and Oran, American landings encountered only
slight resistance and made deep penetrations. This is one of the first
pictures of land operations to arrive in America.
Conference in Wilds
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Lieut. Gen. Henry H. Arnold (center), commander of V. S. army air
forces, is shown in conference with Maj. Gen, Alexander Patch Jr.
(left), commander of United Nations forces at New Caledonia, and Rear
Adm. John S. McCain, U. S. navy, (right). New Caledonia is a vital link
in protecting our shipping to Australia. Soundphoto.
Jimmy Wilde Jr.
The spirit of that famous old-time boxer, Jimmy Wilde, was hovering:
over the western desert of Egypt recently, when Jimmy Wilde Jr., son
of the former world champion, boxed with another aircraftsman for the
entertainment of their buddies. Jimmy Jr., who knows how to put op
bis dukes, by the way, is shown at the left.
Josef Stalin Addresses Moscow Soviet
While events of breath-taking Importance were taking place in North
Africa, Josef V. Stalin, head of the Soviet Union, addressed the Moscow
Soviet and other public organizations in observance of the 25th anniver
sary of the revolution and founding of Soviet Union. For the first time
Stalin wears a decoration, that of "hero of socialist labor." Soundphoto.
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Using an ordinary bakery mixer,
Tom (left) and Jimmy Richards ol
Los Angeles, who call themselves
"monkey wrench researchers," are
shown turning out a batch of the
synthetic rubber they have devel
oped. They say it can be produced
from waste vegetable matter, waste
milk, etc., and can be made for 35
cents a pound, compared with 40 to
70 cents for other synthetics. They
say Rubber Csar Jcffers is "inter
ested." For Tree Italy'
Count Carlo Sforza, former for
eign minister to Italy, now an exile
in the U. S., leads in move for a
free Italian national coancil. The
purpose is to form a fighting legion
of Free Italians to join hands with
the Allied forces in North Africa.
New Guinea Romance
Lieut. Lloyd Thompson of Troy,
Texas, who has been in New Guinea
for some time, gave nurse Maude
Patterson of Weatherley, Pa., m
friendly welcome on her arrival.
They have known each other for
some time, and shyly admit they
might be engaged.
Toy Dog Show
Two of the entries In the Chihua
hua class of the toy dog show, held
in New York for army emergency
relief. The pup at left, "Thein's
Pinto," wears the army uniform,
and the other, "Thein's Little Man
n," wears the uniform of the navy.
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' A SERIES OF
SPECIAL ARTICLES
BY THE LEADINO X
WAg CORRESPONDLyTS
Dead Letters from
Germany
By Maurice IlindiiB
(Wt.U Fexurt Through special rrn
mtnt with American Magazine)
These letters, an armful of them,
fell in my lap with a rustle like
windblown leaves. "Fresh from the
front," said my host, a widely known
Russian writer. I am in Moscow,
hunting for news.
These letters had been gathered
from German dead on Don battle
fields. The paper was ragged, but
the decorative envelopes were of va
rious colors, white, blue, and pink.
All were written in Gothic script,
many in pencil.
On top of the heap lay a postal
card, shiny with two large drops of
blood. It was from mother to son.
The writing was scarcely legible, but
from the few words I could make
out, the soldier and his mother loved
each other deeply. The blood indi
cated that the soldier had carried it
close to his body.
There was something spectral
about this postal card, about all the
letters. They seemed like voices
from the dead. But they weren't.
They were voices from the living
inside Germany.
Russians Collect Letters From Dead
The Russians have collected hun
dreds of thousands of such letters,
and also diaries, from the German
dead. These have been read, digest
ed, put away. In the absence of
direct relations between the United
Nations and Germany, they are the
only authentic source of information
about Germany and the German
people that we now have.
The letters are intimate and per
sonal from parents to son, from
brides to grooms, sisters to brothers,
wives to husbands. They are as
good a mirror as we have today of
Germany, of the conditions of life
and state of mind of civilians and
soldiers.
85 Per Cent of Letters Ignore Politics
The outstanding feature of this
correspondence is that 85 per cent
of all the letters completely ignore
politics, rarely mentioning the fuehr
er or other Nazi chiefs, or referring
to Nazi doctrines or practice.
Perhaps this is why military cen
sorship is so lenient. Seldom are
there any deletions, even when the
writers speak frankly of hardship
and sorrow, or of such delicate sub
jects as the deterioration of the
morals of German women.
An Italian named Giovanni Volpi,
working in Kufstein, Germany,
writes to an Italian soldier at the
Russian front: "I'll tell you frankly,
German women have lost all control
of themselves. They have gone out
of their minds."
German Women 'Loose.'
So while Germans by the thou
sands die daily for the supremacy
of their race and the purity of their
blood, their women at home, despite
Nazi ideology and Gestapo vigilance,
indulge in no small amount of race
defilement. That's one reason, no
doubt, why German mothers and
fathers show increasing anxiety and
bewilderment at the "foreigniza
tion" of Germany through the pres
ence of millions of alien laborers
and war prisoners.
"You ask me," writes a father to
his son, "how Berlin looks these
days. Dear Fritz, Berlin has be
come an international city you can
hear every language in this street."
Vienna is no better. Bettie Schum
mer writes her husband: "Life Is
hard in Vienna. The city Is crowded
with foreigners ... In the trolleys
you hear only Italians,- Spaniards,
Hungarians, Czechs, Slovaks,
Greeks, Bulgarians. Viennese are
hardly seen."
Religious Folk Air Complaints.
Most of the letters are filled with
complaints. Religious people feel
hurt because the church bells have
been melted into cannons. Now and
then there's a letter about the treat
ment of elderly people which tells
most by what it leaves unsaid. There
are endless complaints of hardships.
The information in letters found
on the German dead, intimate and
personal as it is, leads to some strik
ing deductions. The people Inside
Germany hate the war and want it
to end. They are tired of hardships,
sick of sacrifice. They lament the
moral disintegration of their young
women; they shudder at air raids;
they weep over their dead.
But nowhere do they betray the
least suggestion of German guilt or
regret for horrors which the Ger
man armies perpetrate.
Hard as is their life, they know
neither starvation nor desperation.
Nor do they expect Germany to lose
the war. To expect them at this
time to revolt against Hitler ia as
futile and puerile as to expect the
fuehrer to live up to his promises
or the treaties he signs.
The Allies airman has made him
self very unpopular in Germany. He
is to Germans the "supreme villain"
ol today. They hate him.
pDUS
Released by Western Newspaper Union.
FIGURES released by the United
States department of commerce
prove conclusively that America is
the most recreational-minded coun
try in the world. The figures deal
with the state of sports in the United
States through three different eco
nomic periods boom, depression,
and the prewar year.
Hard to believe Is the fact that
sports attendance soared so high In
1941. The commerce department
estimates that $73,000,000 was spent
in watching sports in 1929 the boom
year. The total dropped to $;2,000,
000 in 1932 at the depth of the de
pression and zoomed to $175,000,000
last year.
Baseball turnstiles clicked to the
tune of $17,000,000 in 1929, $10,000,000
in 1933 and $20,000,000 In 1941. Col
lege football showed a similar gain:
$22,000,000 in 29, $20,000,000 in '33
and $48,000,000 in '41.
Bowling has increased 250 per
cent in the past 10 years. The 1941
total was more than $94,000,000. Pro
fessional football continued to grow
despite the depression. In '29 only
$700,000 was spent on the game. This
grew to $1,000,000 In '33 and to
$3,000,000 last year.
'No Decision'
Philadelphia Jack O'Brien, for
mer light heavyweight champion
who recently lost his final bout to
the Grim Reaper, was one of the
most colorful of the old-time ring
men. His death revived stories of
his famous bout with Stanley Ketch
el, the Michigan Assassin.
The Ketchel-O'Brien tilt was a 10
round no-decision affair, fought in
New York. Even though the fight
ended with O'Brien on the floor, un
conscious, he always listed it in his
record as a no-decision contest, with
the notation that he had been saved
by the bell. His followers argued
that he actually won the fight, even
though unconscious at the end. They
claimed (with quite a bit of logic)
that O'Brien had the better of the
greatest part of the fight and should
have been recognized as the winner,
regardless of the last few seconds.
A rematch settled the argument for
a while. Ketchel knocked O'Brien
out in three rounds, proving his su
periority and saddening the followers
of O'Brien.
Corporation
Beau Jack, one-time Negro locker
boy of the Augusta, Ga., National
golf club and recent winner over
Lightweight Allie Stolz, has long
been a corporation. Twenty busi
ness men had 20 shares in him, but
he paid them all off. He is said
to work on an allowance of $5 a
week, the remainder being banked
for him.
When Beau defeated Stolz, the 20
sponsors of his professional ring
career honored him at a party in.
New York. He deserved the honor
Sammy Angott was supposed to
be the only man who stood between
Stolz and the title.
About the Phils
When the directors of the Nation
al league ordered the sale of the
Philadelphia Phillies, they did so
for one reason the league is tired
of advancing money to the club and
refuses to go on doing so.
Ford Frick, president of the Na
tional league, pointed out that early
stories gave the
wrong impression.
"The directors are
not after Gerry Nu
gent's head," he ex
plained. "He has
not received a per
emptory order to
get out . . . The
league is not in a
position to give Nu
gent more financial
assistance, and
some way must be
devised to go on
Ford Frick
without it. What will happen I hon
estly do not know."
Franchise Change?
Incidentally, the American lea
is safe from a recurrence of its an.
nual problem requests from the
crowns lor a handout. When the
league turned down President Don
Barnes last year the club proceeded
to make some necessary changes,
with the result that it made money.
However, Barnes still believes the
day will come when the Browns
will represent Los Angeles rather
than St. Louis. "After the war the
Pacific coast is certain to have big
league baseball," Barnes said. When
Iia itm frflfhfaA fihift
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last year be got a cold shoulder
from fellow American league mag
nates. Sport Shorts
, On the average a referee has to
call 125 plays a game.
m Colgate's starting right tackle is
Bill MacMichaeL an engineering stu
dent who gets away from classes
for practice only one day a week.
He has been able to play from 40
to 50 minutes in each of the Red
Raiders' games.
, One baseball writer on the Amer
ican league's most valuable player
committee ranked Joe Gordon fifth,
Ted Williams sixth.
DEPARTMENT
RAZOR BLADES
KENT BLADES Jr
Gems of Thought
T ET us have faith that right
- makes might, and In that
faith let us to the end dare to
do our duty as we understand
it. A. Lincoln.
Applause is the spur of noble
minds, the end and aim of weak
ones. C. C. Colton,
Thin man it fret of servile bamh,
Ol hope to rise, or fear to fall;
Lord of himself, though not of lands.
And, hat-inn nothing, vet hath all
1IEKRY WOTTOy.
Be strong, and quit your
selves like men. Old Testa
ment. A fine genius in his own coun
try, is like gold in the mine
Benjamin Franklin.
How To Relieve
Bronchitis
Creomulslon relieves promptly be
cause it goes right to the seat of the
trouble to help loosen and expel
germ laden phlegm, and aid nature
to soothe and heal raw, tender, in
flamed bronchial mucous mem
branes. Tell your druggist to sell you
a bottle of Creomulslon with the un
derstanding you must like the way it
quickly allays the cough or you are
to have your money bock.
CREOMULSION
for Coughs, Chest Colds, Bronchitis
Mother of Misery
Employment, which Galen calls
"nature's physician," is so essen
tial to human happiness that indo
lence is justly considered the
mother of misery. Robert Burton..
Millions of people suffering from simple
Piles, he found prompt relief with
PAZO oinimenl. Here's why: First,
PAZO ointment soothes Inflamed sress
relieves psin and itching. Second,
PAZO ointment lubricates hardened,
dried psrls helps prevent cracking and
soreness. Third, PAZO ointment lends
to reduce swelling and check bleeding.
Fourth, it's easy to use. PAZO oint
ment's perforated Pile Pipe makes ap
plication aimpte, thorough. Your doctor
can tell you aoul PA go lmm.
Needed Solitude
Solitude is as needful to the im
agination as society is wholesome
for the character. James Russell
Lowell.
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Find the Scrap to
O Eliminate the Jap
SNAPPY FACTS
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parable tire for the present day
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(with ration certificate) for about
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