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PAGE TWO MYERS NEWS-PRESS THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL 6. 1044 Quickest Eyes Win, Moler Tells Lions Europe's Children Candidate Gets $25 Contribution, Willkie Quits As Wisconsin rW ill I i jt velt's 27,243,466 in 1940, Willkie polled a popular vote of It waa a record, Herbert Hoover had received the previous record republican total of 21, in 1928. But for months, newspaper reporters and others who make it their business to try to know what's going on have been asking the question among themselves. Few attempted a positive explanation. But none denied that where there was Willkie political strength in 1940, they were finding increas I One Slug All' "Keen eye-sight ami smart trigger fingers of countless young Americans in both fighter and bomber planes are going to speed our victory," Col.

Duniel I. Moler, commanding officer of the Buckingham army air field, told members of the Lions club at last night's dinner meeting at the Palms. Col. Moler said he stress-ed eye-sight because he knew of the "great work" being done by Lions clubs all over the world in educating the public to protect their eyes. "Buckingham is still rough camp in comparison to some older military establishments," said Col.

Moler. "But the gunners turned out nre the most efficient of fighters in flexible gunnery. Our air losses are as low as four per cent because of superior training. For instance, we have a classroom where gunners and pilots must learn to recognize the flashed pictures of planes in one-hundredth' of a second." Bob Halgrim, past Lion presi- i dent, explained the work of Lions clubs in visuul uid while inducting Jerry Logdon as new member. Irby Black as chairman of the nominating committee presented the following slate of proposed of- ficers to be elected at a meeting two weeks from last night: J.

B. Spillers, president to succeed, Dr. J. V. Giddens, W.

C. Griffin, Bob Woods and Ralph Fry, vice-presidents, Burt Chapman, lion I tamer, James Albert, tail twister, George Gorley, secretary-treasurer with Clarence Tooke jind Jack Blalock to serve as directors with the officers. Mr. Spillers announced that the club had raised $700 to build a porte corhere for the service entrance of the Lee Memorial hospital. I A' 1 tii "if 1 -1 )j hVw kssLji Finishes Him Ends Cumpuigit for C.O.P.

Noniinalioii as Dewey Si-ores Smashing Victory Continued from Page One convention which half a dozen oth ers were rated far more likely to control; back to a day when he arrived, a big fellow of six feet several inches, a crowd around him throughout whirlwind nights and days a candidate for the nomination but without the an nounced pledge of a single dele date. The Philadelphia Story All these things those watching Willkie tonight could recall aw they could recall the climax of the Philadelphia story: on the sixth ballot, aided, many said, by a flood of telegrams inspired by Willkie-backers and by whooping, hollering galleries, Willkie won the nomination. Beaten by Franklin D. Roosevelt in November, Willkie promptly cranked up another campaign pointed toward 1944 the campaign that was ended tonight by his own words of retirement, the campaign that came a cropper in a Wisconsin Willkie went to take but which took Willkie instead. "It has been my conviction," How To Relieve Bronchitis Creomulslon relieves promptly because it goes right to the scat the trouble to help loosen and expel germ laden phlegm, and aid nature to soothe and heal raw, tender, Inflamed bronchial mucous membranes.

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"Billy" Wells listed $50.80 for advertising und $5.0 for traveling in addition to to costs of qualifying for a total of 201.90. Jimmy Roberts, unopposed for re-election as tax collector, replaced Hnain Bryant, candidate for county judge, as the top spender. The tax collector's total of $379.10 was made up of $371.35 in qualifying fees and $7.84 for advetrising. Bryant, who filed his statement Tuesday, listed expenses to date at John Boring, who has no opposition for re-election as tax assessor, filed the secund highest total yesterday. His $310.90 qualifying fees plus $7.15 for advertising added up to $318.05.

Harry Hendry, cundidiate for reelection as school superintendent, listed expenses of $274.03. This was made up to $227.63 for qualifying, $15.52 for advertising and $1.25 for gasoline. Harry Stringfellow, running for re-election to the county commission from the islands listed total expenditures of $72, including $00 for qualifying and $12 for traveling. Will Gibson, who is being opposed by two candidates in his bid for re-election to the commission from the Bonita Sjirings-Estero district, listed $0 for gasoline and $4.48 for advertising which added to the qualifying fees made a total of $70.48. Commissioner Alvin Gorton, unopposed for re-election from the Fort Myers district, listed only the 00 quqalifying fee.

Carol T. Byrd, of Olga, one of six in the race for constable, listed $17 in advertising in addition to the $2.73 filing fees for a total of $19.73. MISS KELLEMS CHARGES LOVE MAIL STOLEN Continued from Page One Kellems to state her views on the tax structure now, Senator Reed interposed: "I can tell you what she thinks of it in a line she thinks taxes ure a (iatfmed nuisance." Miss Kellems said she came here primarily to confer with officials about work her firm is doing for the navy. Attending luncheon with her as Senator Reed's guest was Miss Marian Martin, vice chairman of the republican national committee. Hoc a use of his expert marksmanship Lieut.

Hamilton Mc-Whorter of Athens. is known to shipmates as "One Slug." He has 10 Jap planes to his credit. During the Feb. 16 attack on Truk he shot down two Zeros in six seconds and a few minutes later destroyed another. He now is on leave in the United States.

Willkie said here tonight, "that no republican could be nominated for president unless he received at the convention the votes of some of the major mid-western states. For it is in this section of the country that the republican party has had its greatest resurgence. Big Test in Wisconsin "Therefore I quite deliberately entered the Wisconsin primary to test whether the republican voters of the state would support me and in the advocacy of every sacrifice and cost necessary to winning and shortening the war, and in the advocacy of tangible, effective economic and political cooperation among the nations oi the world for the preservation of the peace and the rebuilding of humanity. "The result of the primary is naturally disappointing and doubly so since the delegate who led the list is known as one active in or- ganizations such as the America First, opposed to the beliefs which I entertain. Then Willkie admitted he now knew he could not be nominated- and he quit.

Nor did he, in quitting, commit himself to support the republican nominee whoever he may be al though "earnestly" expressing the hope that the republican convention will nominate "a candidate and write a platform which really rep resents the views which I have ad vocated." Still a Questiai Mark Thus Willkie 'remains a question- mark, despite his insistence on brushing off inquiries from those who have sought to obtain from him a declaration as to whether he will support whomever the party may name. The story of what happened to the following of Wendell Willkie from the time he captured the 1940 convention up to his retirement tonight must await some future unfolding. Against Roose- IAUGH, EAT, TALK, FREE OF EMBARRASSMENT It's so easy to enj'oy all-day confidence when your plates are held in place by this 'comfort cushionj'adentist'sformula. Dr. Wernet's vent sore gums.

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J. Nightingale spoke to Ki-wanians yesterday at their luncheon meeting at the Elks club on silver coins and the value of having a bobby. "All businessmen should have a hobby, no matter how simple, in which they can find relaxation," he said. Mr. Nightingale showed Kiwan-ians a part of his coin collection, including half dollar pieces dating from 1791.

He explained that in 1794 when the first half dollar was made there were 58 varieties more than at any other time. He pointed but that the eagles on the coins varied because of the hand AlldruwtH-JOtMoKtylMcIt ItndMlghfJ ing Dewey strength in and rallying also to Bricker und others. Why Willkie Failed Some politicians thought it might have been the nature of Wilkie's attack his dogged determination to get his views before the people, his fighting for an idea to which ho hud become committed. Certainly there was an unmeasured amount of resistance in Wisconsin to Willkie's very aggressiveness, ut least among those opposed to views. Suid Fred Zimmerman, Wisconsin secretary of state and leader of the Dewey forces who was high man in the race: "Wisconsin would not be blitzed like the republican convention of 1940 was blitzed at Philadelphia.

Zimmerman should know his nolitics. He has led the Wiscon sin republican ticket in seven different elections. Simultaneously Willkie's man agers announced that lie is cancelling future campaign trips, including a speech at Sioux City, tomorrow nitrht, and a visit to Michigan. He will return to New York after his speech tonight. RUSSIANS GET RAIL JUNCTION OUT OF ODESSA Continued from Page One ncluded Strassburg and Baden, 32 and 30 miles distant.

Razdclnaya, 40 miles northwest of Odessa, is astride the railway through Tiraspol to Rumania, and by taking it the speeding Russians forced the Germans to fall back on Black sea lines or a combination rail and ferry route for escape from the Odessa region, Flight by sea was unlikely, with the soviet Black sea fleet in control of those waters, while the rail-ferry crosses the wide Dniester river estuary close to the coast, under easy fire of the fleet in addition to any aerial force the Russians might bring to bear on such slow traffic. For the second straight clay the Russians were silent about the Rumanian- where American airmen gave the red army a direct hand by 'bombing the railway yards at Ploesti, the vital Rumanian oil-field center 190 miles southeast of the Iasi battlefield. The Pliesti raid was the fourth allied air assault in 48 hours on Balkan centers Budapest and Bucharest having been struck previously in attacks timed to help the red army. Emphasizing the significance of the victory above Odessa, Stalin said capture of Razdelnaya, "an important strong point in the German defenses at the approaches to Odessa," cut off "the main road of retreat to Rumania of the Odessa enemy groundings." Simultaneously with this triumph by the third Ukrainian army, the first Ukraininan army 270 airline miles to the northwest was winding up one of the bitterest individual campaigns of the war. The Russians were fighting through the streets of stubbornly-defended Tarnopol in a house-to-house combat, dispatches to the Moscow press said.

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'rom where "Willie Wells was always fond of fishing. Now he writes from somewhere overseas: "There's a song the fellers eing, goes: 'Praise the Ixrd, we ain't a-golu fishln'-and I guess it's so. But you know, dad, sometimes I sure wish I were back fishing for trout In JScward's Creek again." And I guess that's the way all our soldiers feeL They're fighting a war-and they mean to fight It to a finish-till they can come home to the little pleasures that they've missed so We Ain't flip! XiV U. S. BOMBERS RAID PLOESTI TO BACK REDS Continued from Page One position, the Americans encountered severe anti-aircraft fire.

While the attack on Ploesti was underway, other U. S. heavy bombers hit Nis, an important railway junction in east-central Yugoslavia. German communications with the northern Rumanian front, where nazi forces are falling back before the advancing Russians, may have been crippled by the Aniwiean heavy bomber attack on Bucharest Tuesday, it was disclosed today after a study of aerial photographs. Bucharest Hard Bit Considerable damage was inflicted on the main Bucharest railway yards, an allied spokesman said, despite the desperate efforts of 200 German fighter planes to intercept and divert the raiders, who flew over GOO miles from southern Italy to deliver the first American blow at the Rumanian capital.

Reports indicated that bomber gunners destroyed at least 415 enemy planes in a sky fight that lasted over an hour, while escort ing Lightning ami thunderbolt pilots claimed three more. The allied Mediterranean air foice lost 12 planes during the day, some of them on the Bucharest mission. Bucharest was left one-third covered with a thick cloud of sinok, returning pilots said. One string of bombs that hit squarely in the Bucharest rail yards was believed to have destroyed 80 freight cars. A round-house was partly destroyed and fires were left blazing in a block of warehouses.

A locomotive depot received several hits, and photo interpreters claimed bomb bursts among many industrial buildings and a military barracks. Bucharest, in addition to being an important transit point for the Balkans, also stores great quantities of oil from the nearby Ploesti fields. Information reaching here through non-military but reliable channels indicates that the bombings are adding to the confusion and unrest already raging in the Balkans. I Joe Marsh Women Wanted Wanted White women to work in Tailor Shop. Experience not necessary.

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GRAHAM GOVERNOR The creator of the war's most shocking book is a woman photographer, Therese Bonney, who has put together a set of pictures and scarcely any words to make an eloquent and challenging story titled "Europe's Children." It tells, as nothing else has told, the tragedy that is following in the wake of rampant iiaziism; and it proves, as nothing else has proved, that the military defeat of our enemies is not the decisive ending of this war. Miss Bonney says: "Wars of the were fought on the battlefields, but this one is carried into the homes of the people and is done even unto the least of them the children. The agonies that are suffered by the plain people in this war are written in the faces of starving children. These people must be given aid and hope if they are to be of use when the day of victory comes and a new and better world is to be built. The pictures she has taken actually come from post-civil war Spain, France before and after the collapse, blitzed England, ncutrul Sweden, and concentration camps in German-dominated Finland.

But almost any of them, she says, could have been taken in almost any European country. Mabel Therese Bonney was horn in Syracuse, N. spent most of her girlhood in California, where she attended college. Other schools and degrees followed. After studying in Paris.

she spent most of 20 years abroad, working to further cultural between France and the United States. An author as well as a photographer, she became a war correspondent. Ten publishers turned down her book on the tragedy of Europe's children before Duell, Sloan and Pearce issued it. The pictures above, all selected from the book and all copyrighted by M. T.

Bonney- are thus identified in her own brief captions: (Top) To concentration camps they went the children all over Europe. Heavy burdens for weary mothers. (Center) At times it seemed almost impossible to trudge on. (Below, left to right) Taken from their own countries where war rages saved from starvation and then sent back to starve again. They are so helpless.

One shoe left-rags. IX MEMORY OF DEAR SISTER LUEA WADE A precious one from us has A 'voice we love is still, gone, A place is vacant in our homo Which never can be filled. God in his wisdom has recalled The bound the love has given All the body slumbers here, Her soul is safe in heaven. Written by a sister. Beulah S.

Kaulz. HOLY. WEEK SERVICE The Presbyterian chinch will hold a holy week service at, 8 o'clock tonight. This observance of the communion takes the place of the quarterly communion. The choir will sing "Calvary" by Rod ney, with Carl Fink as soloist.

The minister will speak on the subject "The Lord's Supper." The communicants' class and others will be received into the membership of the church. President Millard Fillmore installed the first bathtub in, the White House in 1851. COMMON made dies that were used. In citing the 1X04 dollar as the most valuable he said there are only two accurate ones known to be in existence. "Coins must not necessarily be old to be valuable," he said.

"The condition and rarity determine largely their "Coins have been made from eveiytihng including platinum," Mr. Nightingale said. "The Swedes ut one time used bronze coins, weighing up to 17 pounds and China once had money in the shape of a hatchet." In telling of his commemorative coins he said the first commemorative 50-cent piece was the 192 Chicago-Columbian exposition coin. Jhe musical portion of the program was given by Miss Ann De.n-ington, singing Morning" by Ole Speaks and "Easter Parade" by Irving Berlin. She was accompani ed on the piano by Mrs.

Bonnie Durrance. 0 Guests at the meeting were Bert Hyde, Cleveland, Bill Wall, West Palm Beach; Lt. Jack McDowell and Boh Brown. BIG NEWS I.N LONDON LONDON. 'Thursday April 6 'A') London's morning newspaper's gave prominent, front-page display today to the withdrawal of Wendell Willkie from the republican presidential race, but there "was no editorial comment, probably due to the late hour at which his announcement was released here.

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In review, I would point out, more now than when the purpose of the transactions tax was first proposed, that all forward thinking on post-war employment security now agrees that a substantial measure of public works projects must be financed to sustain workers payrolls in non industrial and tourist community areas. The same forward thinking is latterly emphasizing the necessity and importance of stabilized real estate taxes as a prerequisite to post-war private construction investment and payrolls. The trend of financial journals and State Chamber of Commerce advices and observations are to markedly, if belatedly, emphasize the need tor public works employment in the early post-war era. With the factual needs of the budget now confronting the early and previous estimates upon which the pronounced hazards of a too high ad valorem tax and post-war suppression of construction investments and of community payrolls was predicted, the business interests of this community are compelled to face the reality of the City Government's need for new revenues from sources other than ad valorem. I submit that for either business or the Council to evade recognition of this reality is to evade respective responsibilities of community leadership.

Nobody likes taxation but mere dislike or personal reluctance does not excuse the moral and social obligation of private business to sustain and support the community facilities and services which provide its opportunity for private enterprise. I would, therefore, propose that the Council should now reassert the City's financial needs and purposes by newspaper advertisements and radio. That part of the tax which will be an increased cost nn the community will, for the most part, be paid by the public. We should take the City's claims for the tax to the public for a decision. If the public's decision is nn, then we should abandon our effort and repeal it.

If public attitude sustains the tax, we should contest any attempt to render it invalid. To assert such intentions and policy and to reassert the good faith of equitable and indiscriminate applications of the Test Period Tax, I propose adoption of the following resolution: "Be it resolved by the City Council of the City of Fort Myers: 1. That the City of Fort Myers does hereby reaffirm its purpose to enforce the objectives and the provisions of its 61-day test period Transactions Tax Ordinance, and to fully contest legal actions against its validity. 2. That pending the outcome of such legal actions against the validity of the Transactions Tax Ordinance, all revenues paid in or collected thereunder shall be escrowed in special account until the extent of its validity shall have been determined.

3. That should the validity of the tax be impaired or nullified to an extent that would defeat the purposes of equality of burden and general application of the tax, then all such revenues paid in or collected thereunder shall be wholly returned to the respective payers. 4. That depending upon the favorable or unfavorable results and experiences with the 61-day test period Transactions Tax Ordi-" nance, the City thereafter proposes to enact either a permunent Transactions Tax Ordinance, containing equitable differentials and with productive objective of $150,000 annually, or an native tax of equal productivity based on an "ability to pay" revision of the present Occupational License Tax structure. 5.

That notice be given to all taxing positions that filing of returns in payment of the tax is due between the 1st and 30th day of April, as extended by city council, and that in such notice a pledge of confidence and privacy regarding such returns shall be reaffirmed, Resolution adopted April 4, 1944 and notice of same ordered spread in the public press, CITY OF FORT MYERS By Sam D. Fitzsimmons, Mayor "Praise the Lord Agoin' FishirT" much-the sweet feel of a trout rod a pleasant glass of boor with friends the smell of Mom's fresh baking from the kitchen From where I sit, we folks at home have an important obliga-tion-to keep intact the little things that they look forward to from the front rod waiting in the corner to the beer that's cooling in the ice box. Don't you agree? Mean' Elm In Person on "Everglades Drainage" At Fort Myers Thursday Night 8:15 O'clock At the Court House (Paid Political Advertisement) Copyrigtu, 1941, Brewing Industry Founjutun 0.