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CHARLOTTE OPA
AIDE ARRESTED
r JARLOTTE, Dec. 14. — (g>) _
. ulS F Brumfield, district com
rodhv price specialist of the local
nW agency, was arrested by Fed
... j agents here this afternoon or
Faroe's of “unlawfully, knowing,
,nd willingly” agreeing “to ac
- t f,om one T. Earl Heffner 2f
C r cent of the net income that said
Epffncr might receive in a fraudu
Lt manner in return for services
-endered as officers of the United
c*ates Government,
The charges were preferred by
. ,ius a. Dale, special investiga
t r of the OPA in1 elligence unit.
Brumfield was brought before
•t ited States Commissioner Nat C.
White for a preliminary hearing.
Heffner, Charlotte accountant
d ‘representative of the OPA
district agency, was arrested sev
eral days ago on a Federal charge
Lt he accepted a bribe of $250
an agreement with an unnamed
!'cal businessman to make and
deliver an audit which would “in
ulate this man’s establishment
from penalties for possible viola
tions of OPA regulations.
Heffner has been bound over
;0. trial in Federal District Court.
Pastor, Facing Morals
Charge Offers Plea Of
Guilty To Minor Count
WHITE PLAINS, N. Y., Dec. 14.
n The Rev. William C. Baxter,
"7 rector of St. Bartholomew’s
Protestant Episcopal church, ar
rested November 21 on charges of
carnal abuse and impairing t h e
morals of minors, pleaded guilty
today to a lesser charge of inde
cent exposure.
District Attorney Elbert T. Gal
lagher consented to the plea, which
was entered in city court, in order,
he said, to save two boys the em
barrassment of testifying in county
court, where trial on t h e other
charges would have been held.
Judge Stewart Roe placed the
clergyman under observation for a
week in the Grasslands hospital
psychiatric division and set De
cember 21, when a probationary
report will be available, for sen
tencing. Maximum penalty for the
ofiense is one year’s imprisonment
and ?5C0 fine.
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Crop Insurance Law
Revived By Senate
WASHINGTON, Dec. 14. — (ff>) —
The Senate today passed legisla
tion: Reviving Federal Crop In
surance.
Prior to final action, the Senate
rejected 45 to 24, an amendment
to permit member banks of the
Federal Reserve System to ab
sorb exchange and collection items
as overhead expense. It was pro
posed by Senator Maybank (D-SC).
The Senate previously had
amended the measure to authorize
spending $30,000,000 next year to
expand flax production.
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Today and Tomorrow
By WALTER LIPPMANN ---
"j 1111 “ ume mere ought to be
agreement in Moscow, London anc
Washington that none of them has
as yet solved the problem of es
tablishing a generally accepted gov
ernment in newly liberated terri
tory. Marshal Stalin has not yei
found the answer in Poland or Yu
goslavia, nor Mr. Churchill in Bel
gium and Greece, nor Mr. Roose
velt and Mr. Churchill together in
Italy, nor did Mr. Roosevelt alone
have the answer when he was try
ing to form a French policy. At the
very least it is evident, therefore,
that there is a great problem here
which is not going to be solved, or
even clarified, by absent-mindedly
using the old rubber stamps about
Bolshevism, reactionary imperial
ism, power politics, and democ
racy.
The problem, though different in
detail and in degree in each coun
try which was overrun by the Nazis,
'has nevertheless certain common
and fundamental elements in all of
them. It is the problem of how to
unite the legally recognized gov
ernment with the armed forces of
the resistence. This problem can
not be solved, and it is not being
solved, by saying that every one
should accept the recognized gov
ernment and wait until orderly elec
tions can be held. In most of liber
ated Europe, perhaps all of it, it is
for the time being impossible to
hold elections. In Greece, for ex
ample, there has been so much de
struction that a great part of the
lists of voters have disappeared,
bridges are down and tunnels blown
and railway tracks plowed up, tele
graphs and telephones are out of
order. As far north as Lamia, which
is well to the north of Athens, the
Germans left behind them five loco
motives in working order and about
ifty railway cars! It is evident that
Greece must have an acceptable
'overnment which creates the ma
erial conditions in which elections
are possible. Elections must follow
md they cannot precede the estab
lishment of an effective government
hat the people accept.
The question is how to institute
a government immediately for this
interim period. Mr. Churchill has
tried to answer the question in Ita
ly, in Belgium, and in Greece by
s giving his support to the legally
i recognized authority which bears
: “those powers and traditions the
■ continuity of which many countries
- have highly developed.” In the exe
■ cution of this policy, he has run
• afoul of the armed patriots of the
• resistance, and has found himself
■ denouncing them as Bolshevists, an
■ archists and brigands.
This is a tragic conflict because
: to Churchill above all other men
■ the world will be forever in debt
: for having rallied the resistance to
, Nazism.
In the last analysis the conflict
has arisen. I believe, because Mr.
Churchill is trying to apply the
1 great principle of legitimacy in gov
ernment without a correct appre
ciation of the unprecedented condi
tion of affairs which the Nazi con
quest and occupation have created.
The European governments
which existed in 1939 have the title
deeds of continuity and legitimacy.
But their titles are impaired be
cause in one way or another these
government failed in the iiighest
duty of a government, which is to
maintain the independence of the
nation. In some cases other failure
was honorable, in others not so
honorable: in all cases the burden
of resisting conquest was at least
shared by the organized forces of
the resistance within the German
lines. These resistance movements
had no legal titles. Yet they per
formed the greatest function of
legitimate government, which is
to preserve the national Indepen
dence.
By'virtue of this the extra-con
stitutional forces have themselves
acquired e title of legitimacy which
in justice and in expediency must
be recognized, which cannot be ig
nored and overridden. In a very
real sense they too represent that
“continuity” of “powers and tradi
tions” which Mr. Churchill finds
in the established governments, but
in them alone. The problem is how
to fuse the legitimacy acquired by
the resistance movements with the
legitimacy inherited by the old gov
! ernments.
| This cannot be done by ordering
the resistance movements to hand
over their arms to the governments,
and then to dissolve and disappear.
Where this has been attempted, as
in Greece and Belgium, it has led
to bloodshed, or as in Italy to stag
nation and confusion. The experi
ence of France, and what is likely
to be the experience of the Nether
lands and of Norway, demonstrates
that in this interim period after the
Germans leave and before the coun
try has recovered some semblance
of a normal life, government is pos
sible only if the resistance move
ment is treated with high respect
as one of the legitimate pillars of
the provisional state.
There are no clear and obvious
precedents to guide us in this sit
uation. Statesmen have to break
mew gropnd in order to amalga
mate what remains of the old states
—because it is not discredited by
treason, collaboration, or coward
ly incompetence—with the new au
thority formed in the struggle with
the Germans. The French Consul
tative Assembly, which combines el
ements of the old with the represen
tatives of the new is almost certain-,
ly the prototype of the best that is
possible in the way of a popular ,
foundation for government in a new
ly liberated country.
It is certain, I think, that the old
governments cannot survive with- j
out the support of the organized re
sistance movements. On the other
hand, it is true also, and realized,
I believe, by the resistance lead
ers that they alone cannot discharge
the whole responsibility of govern
ment. They have lived and fought
inside the German lines and in this
terrible struggle many of their best
men have perished; all of them
have been cut off from contact
with the rest of the world; all of
them feel that for four years they
have been out of touch with affairs.
They need, especially in their for
eign relations, the leadership of
men who have lived in the free
world.
But they will never accept the
leadership of such men if the first
proposal put to them by the return
ing exiles is that they should dis
arm, dissolve, and disappear. For
they will trust the men from the
outside only if these men begin by
trusting the men who were inside.
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Gen. Marshall Inspects
Three Southern Camps
WASHINGTON, Dec. 14.— UR -
General George C. Marshall, army
chief of staff, paid surprise per
sonal inspection visits to three oi
the Army’s large replacement
training centers yesterday and to
day, the Army announced.
Traveling by air, Gen. Marshal
Wherever that fundamental con
dition is violated there will be thj
most serious kind of trouble.
visited in rapid succession Fort Mc
Clellan. Alabama; Camp Wheeler,
Georgia, and Camp Croft, South
Carolina.
The inspections, the department
said, were in the nature of a check
up on innovations and scheduled
training resulting from experiences
in front-line warfare.
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WASHINGTON. Dec. 14. — (fl>) —
The Senate confirmed today the
nomination of Norman Armour of
New Jersey as ambassador to
Saipan. He succeeds Carlton
Hayes.
Governor To Speak
On Racial Problems
CHARLOTTE, Dec. 14. — MP) —
The answer to the question “is the
Soutn solving its race problem?”
will be sought Saturday night on
the Columbia Broadcasting Sys
tem’s “People’s Platform” pro
gram originating here at the CBS
studios of station WBT.
Governor J. M. Broughton, D.
Hiden Ramsey, general manager
of the Asheville Citizen-Times will
be heard along with two of the
State’s Negro leaders, C. C. Spauld
ing, insurance executive, and Dr.
James E. Shepherd, head of the
North Carolina College for Ne
groes.
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Deer Stalker Killed
By Accidental Shot
MARSHALL, Ark., Dec. 14.—
Stalking a deer from a tree perch
Howard Douthitt, 35, Bentinville.
Ark., mechanic; was killed acci
dentally when a hunting com
panion who caught a glimpse of
his red can mistook him for a
coon and fired.
The accident occurred at Big
Flat near here yesterday. The
companion, a resident of Forrest
City, was cleared of blame at a
coroner’s inquest.
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