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The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-01
New Ration Books Will
Be Issued To Members
Of u. S. Armed Forces

WASHINGTON, July 81 Up -
The Office of Price Administra-
ton (OPA) announced today plans
for making the new ration book
No. 3 available to all members of
American and Allied armed forces
who need them.
Special application blanks will
be distributed by commanding Of
ficers about August IS, and appli
cations will be mailed to a central
office in Chicago. Inmates of Joliet
Qllinois) prison will do the clerical
processing of the applications.
When civilians applied for the
book, recently. servicement were
excluded specifically so that their
applications could be handled sep
arately and without duplication.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-01
Carolina
Bird-Lore
THE HOUSE WREN
By C. S. Brimleyl

For years we had been call"'
the Carolina Wren, the h0'"
Wren" as it was the one common
in our lots and gardens and breed
ing. in anything that was F";
around that would hold n''-
and it was rather funny to fs''
Of it in northern books and aI''"'
on birds as being bird 0 u
deep woods and thickets not f91a. ,l.
around houses at all. IN tneSe os ~,
the true House Wren OF 'ne Op,~ s"..
was known only to us as '"s a ~
ried transient that passed tnF'.:
in the spring on its way nofIa' s,% o.,
again in the fall on its Wa! y. ..... Ds
to its wintering ground isI" AL.
south, However, in the twen'ls.
change came and how lar "
90 no one knows. House WIZ VIZ,
the genuine kind, grayer ana S,r ..,.
er than the Carolina Wren VT
out a white stripe over uNe
and with a shorter tall Oe5"
breed in Salisbury and WEI
ed by Elmer Brown ara Z, NJ,
Hoffman, since then tney c.e -
spread nearly all over the .1 9
though they may be Sos-, 3s-~ 4.
from the southeas''.p III
in all the larger towns o- D,,.,s:1| ,,
of the State, Beaufort R.c ..r
Winston. Greensboro, A,a, ,..s
statesville. Charlotte, just 10 j. ~ i.
a 3'1 few, WI Whether this porteaa,r :.
disappearance of the C9Eol-lI' ~
with its ringing freedom, =.
DOM song from our E'.r .i.ss.t
gardens I do not know '.~ ....
the latter bird has been gr, r.5s
is way farther north OF IS's ....-
The House Wren lays larger -,
IS of eggs, but nests IN 5l,'.T Il ..or,1
same sort of situations o-o ~ c.ss
,ans. bird boxes, or any .,..s
handy receptacle, neltne. :" np
$ particular. Let Us nope ..r !!
,ver, that the two speeies arrc
long together and nel'he. IN q
tie the other. and SO far sr, ~
,wn neighborhood the c'5ors .sa.
lave more than held the"
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-01
More Power To BOWles

Chester BoWles, new chief deputy admins
ing than anybody has done since that pesti-
ferrous office was set up to bewilder the people.
We can only hope that at least some of the
reforms he proposes are carried out.
One of these is the reorganization of all
OPA divisions, if that is necessary, to get a
little common sense into the bureau and its
rulings. Another is to tell the country more
of the why's and wherefores of rationing. If
he does these things, or even one of them,
the people will shout his praises from the
housetops.
Among his observations which have strong
appeal: 'Rationing and price control must be
explained over and over in factual language
that anyone can understand . The Amer
lean people will cheerfusly accept regulations
in wartime provided they really understand
the need for them "OPA cannot be
run solely from Washington
And he is further quoted as believing:
OPA regulations need to be made easy
for businessmen to understand and live
with.
OPA must at all times stand up against
pressures from industrial profiteers, farm
produce spectators and everyone who
wants bigger share than his neighbor.
OPA will always imply that citizen is
right until he is proved wrong
All this is cheering. It remains to be seen
whether he has the courage and the endurance
to win on these lines. Washington, being what
it is, will do its best to pin his ears down
as it has for other good men.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-01

We may be sure, however, that any general
movement will bring down the fury OF the
Allied air force and every ship be destroyed.
The Germans are no longer in position to
enforce their demands upon Italy. That power
has been transferred to the Allies. Rome may
delay and Badogio may have to give way
to less vacillatipg premier, but it is still
General Eisenhower, and not Hitler, who holds
the whiphand over Italy.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-01
Railways Shaky Link
In Italian Defense

Bombing of the rail yards al
Rome hits vital spot in the Ital
ian transportation system which
is playing an important role ir
Italy's war strategy.
In the summer before the out
break of the war, Italy had in all
about 14,500 miles of rail, says
the National Geographic Society
Nearly three-quarters of this mile
age was state-oWned. Many sec.
tions of the routes have been cleo
| trified, with the result that power
stations and power lines supply.
| ing the necessary lifeblood of such
transport have become outstand-
ing military objectives of Allied
airmen.
Coastal Lines Vulnerable
Nature has marked the course
and modified the character of the
Italian railroad system in way
unfavorable to Italian defense.
Because of the great mountain
backbone of the Apennines, run
ming the length of the boot" two
Of the three major trunk lines hug
the eastern and western coasts.
For long stretches they are vul.
nerable to Allied naval attack.
Linked by steel along the west
ern coast are such important and
already heavily-bombed ports as
Genoa, Leghorn, Naples, and Reg
gio Calabria, opposite Sicily. Cen
trail Rome is less than 20 air miles
from the sea. 1t is a rail junction
Of several main lines, from which
a short spur runs to the little sea.
port of Anzio.
On the eastern coast rails edge
the shore from Rinini to Termoli.
Pushing inland from the latter
port, they return to the Adriatic
to join the potential invasion
coast" ports of Barletta, Bari, and
Brindisi. In the south, the often
hit naval base of laramie is situ-
ated on the largely coastal branch
that connects the eastern and west
ern railroads. For the entire length
of the broad under-arch of the
Italian boot, this minor line hugs
the shore within sight of possible
sea raiders.
The Italian rail system is linked
with that of Europe only by pas.
sage across the giant arc of the
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-01
Our Postwar Problem

There is good reason to think that when
the war is won, world trade will to very
large extent drift toward its old pattern. Ma
tions among the vctors with rich colonial pos
sessions will again set up machinery to con-
troll if not actually monopolize markets for
commodities over which they formerly exer-
cised dominance.
Rubber and quinine provide fair example.
Before the war they came principally from
the Dutch East Indies There is no reason
to believe that any part of the former control
of them will be voluntarily surrendered. 1t
is more probable that The Netherlands, having
been victimized by Hitler, will seek to impose
even greater control over both as a means
of recovery from the losses sustained during
the war.
They are cited not to direct dsquieting at
tention to Holland but to point a case and
to note that after winning the war and the
peace, nations now fighting the Axis and not
having extensive colonies will still face the
task of winning place in the postwar world.
the United States, which will have invested
so much of its wealth and resources IN VIC
tory that its struggle to hold proper posi-
ton in affairs and commerce will call Tor
great thrift ingenuity, business sense and en-
terprise by its people and government.
The United States is not in this war to
gain a foot of ground or dollar OF profit
Literally, and despite the four freedoms, 1t
is fighting for survival. 1t must be recog-
nized then. that its task will no: be finished
its most difficult job will still lie ahead. Seek
ing no gain in battle, having no imperial
ambitions, this nation must not only solve
the problem of self-support but the greater
problem of participating more extensively than
in the past in world trade, through which it
may hope to discharge part of its tremen-
dous national debt.
It must not again be caught short, say, OF
rubber and quinine, because price levels at
foreign supply sources are prohibitive.
The return of peace will find the United
States impoverished. Its mineral wealth, in
cluding petroleum, will have been drained to
near to the vanishing point. But it will still
be in the best position among all the warning
nations in arabic soil, in shipping, in a ir
power, and best of all it will not have lost
a jot or title of its ingenuity and inventive
genius.
Proper use of these, together with complete
stoppage of the waste which has character
lied its war effort and bureaucratic domin-
alton, will bring it out victorious in it's great
est postwar task. But it must understand
that competition will be keener than at any
time in it's existence. A three hundred billion
dollar national debt will call for complete
revolution in the national economic life, start
ing with the government and extending into
every household.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-01
Our Chief Aim
To aid in every way the prosecu.
tion of the war to complete Vic.
tory.
THOUGHT FOR TODAY

THOUGHT FOR TODAY
"What are these wounds in thy hands,
Lord Jesus
Hands that were else SO fair?
"Knowest thou not that the Lord who
bought thee
Ever that sign must bear?
So must thy name on my palms be craven
Making thee mine for aye;
Only the hands that were pierced could lift
thee
Out of the miry clay,
Lift thee, and carry, and hold, and lead
thee
Into the Promised Land;
Safe 1 keep, and no man shall pluck thee
Out of my wounded hand"
ANNIE JOHNSON FLINT.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-01
COINCIDENCE

There is a nonpecuniary salts
faction at times in the actions of
financial statistics, possibly be-
cause our sense of the orderly-so
often outraged in Wall Street -
suddenly finds itself satisfied.
Every one has noticed how often
totals of figures arrange them
selves according to patterns, as in
GAO, ,046, or 77l,771. More than oc-
casionally a single number will
dominate an entire series of cal
culations, illogically but fascinat-
ingly. About three years ago the
New York Curb Exchange pro-
vided one of these strange pat
terms. The number of stocks which
rose, Gne number of stocks which
fel, and the number of stocks
which were unchanged on that day
were the same. Yesterday it re-
ported an equally strange coin
cidence Its five most active stocks
all moved one-fourth of point,
three up and two down.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-01
interpreting
The War
BY KIRKE L. SIMPSON

The long awaited first ,.:,,
crack in the Nazi-Fascjst tllal a
arch over Europe showed it, AVIS
In Italy this portentous war l a'Sei
to hint at ;he dry-rot defaot;.eS week
beginning everywhere to onsn l@,!Sm
its foundations. e"a" at
AS suddea'y as Kaissr r.,
helms bayonet-built hons. VII,
cards began topping about CO Of
man ears a quarter Century ogF' aes
the sinister edifice Hi.Ieyy :So; ~
Mussolini have reared in its i, ana
is rocking 7ow with omen, image
disaster. its JUNIOR arcbiteos Gt
Duce, has gone down in ~. Il
long crash in Italy, CARRYING Araa' n.iS'
him the whole Fascist wine WIN
babel of runner of impending T.!
ian and Balkan defecti,n iod 1Yal'
rothing certain except the ca.es cIa.s
cut fact thai Hitlerized Germsn,, 1e%,,
is being isolated. ''''iy
The day is close at hand NJ,
she must fight alone. And "ilsA 4
full weight Of two-front a war Ue
pressing in upon her from oo.s
and south. Her western dpforsS eaS'
are offering no security from, 'NseS S
glo-American air attack that Ni,' IL.
ripping the industrial beart @' Is
Germany to ehreds, city bv a.. VI
Plant by plant. WY
No Pause
Whatever It's ultimate resr,.
the political rpheaval in Italy 3 t5a.
foretells her own and Nazi Jo"' ''Ia'
caused no moments pause in NTo'il' p'
sian and Anglo-American % efforI. t,rS,
to crush Germany between tbs
Jaws of a colossal military v;aa
The unconditional suTrprda. lSe,
terms set down for the foa Ni "
allied councils at CasabIaro, ,n
many months ago were being ,ra
stated to Italy, collapsing Ike
punctured balloon, and TO Co..
many and japan as we'll Th9+
the crash of Italy must bring with
1t not remotely but soon con-. '
verging Allied sea and air no~.
er to deal as sternly with ,1ansn
as with foes in Europe is written
for Tokyo's war lords to read tor
themselves.
That Gasabianca pledge ike ,ce
unconditional surrender demand
is destined 10 be implemente1 far
sooner than Prime Minister
Churchill and President Roose.
welt and thei1 military advisers
could have deemed possible when
they foregatnz red on French Afri.
can soil to map major strategic
directives now bearing fruit
around the globe.
With or without her surrender
Italy is already all but out Of the
war as an Important factor That
means early release of Allied ma.
val strength and shipping from
the Mediterranean for use else
where in attack. 1t means by ev.
cry portent that the inching, slow.
notion American-AuStralian Of.
fensive in the upper Solomons and
LII western New Guinea is but a
preliminary skirmish for battles
to come in the Indian ocean-Paci.
flc theaters.
And the southeastern sector Of
the Japanese defense arc is being
found vulnerable even now. Real
lists in Tokyo can already see the
doom of the'" fatal alliance with
the Axis in Europe They can
read it in fnethodical American
sea and air O?mbardment Of thei:
lost legion on KiSka in the Aleu
tlans and in probing thrusts at
Japan own island outpOsts. The
roads to Japal itself are being
certainly prepared as was IL
road to Italy
--V-
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-01
WHEN LADIES DISAGREE

Inc three women members of
the State Board of Cosmetic Art
EXAMINERS ne reported to have
Engaged in knockdown and
drag-out fignt in their office in
kalelgn this week. Somebody's
makeup probably was mussed. -
Fayetteville Observer,
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-01
CALLING

Ihe invasion of Sicily and the
constant air attacks upon main
lana cities r.ust be bad enough.
but particularly maddening to the
people OF 1talv must be those pep
statements coming with increas-
ing frequency from their fascist
cosses.-Charleston Is. c. Even
ing Post.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-01
ANOTHER RECORD

Another top record for North
Carolina is its contribution of man.
rcwer for the war effort. The
Ter Heel state led all others of the
Union in signing up 1,103 17-year-
olds for our Navy during the
month of June. They are part of
the flock of 1908 taken in dur
Ing the six months period starting
the first of the year. What it
takes 10 give the Germans and
Japs what they deserve these boys
probably have it. More power to
em-and to our Navy-Raleigh
Times.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-01
BAD NEWS

More bad news on the home
1ront. Those ducky little $4,000
bills are becoming scarce, ac-
ccrdlng to the treasury depart
nent. Oh, well. the watermelon
season is virtually over.-CharIes-
ton Is. c. Evening Post.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-01
TIRES PREFERRED

1t happened in Norfolk, Va. A
man stole four tires from car,
tut left a purse and diamond ring
undisturbed Or the front seat. He
a-sc left note. Roses are red.
V'olets are blue. We like your
JeWels-but your tires are new!"-
Stars and Stripes London, Eng)
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-01
HOPE YET FOR MIR. HOOVER

Fl1teen months after Pearl Har-
Dor they found regular work for
carney Barnch. So stick around.
Mr. Hoover, with your creden-
tails aud letters of reference from
three substantial citizens of your
community. Richmond CVa)
1imes-Dispatch
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-01
AW. SHuCKS,

Astrologers who claim to know
ty stargazing the date when the
second front will open will main
tam secrecy when they meet next
week at Harrogate. - London
(Engo Sunday Chronicle.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-01
GOOD ADVICE

A husband writes Dorothy Dix
tHat he feels like a stranger in
ms own home He really should
crop N there oftener. Norfolk
fVa.) Ledger Dispatch.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-01
AS Others Say 1t
STYLE NOTES

Seemingly the small Victorian
tides on chair backs and dollies
under things on tacles are max
ing a comeback as millinery. -
Arkansas Gazette.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-01
Fair Enough

Editors Note.-The Star and the News accepts
responsibility for the personal views of Mr. Pegler,
and often disagree with them ~ much ~ many OF
his readers His articles the good purpose Of
making people think
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-01
Civilian Defense
Timetable
New Hanover High School Room
107 at 8 p. M.
FIRE DEFENSE A

FIRE DEFENSE A
Monday, July 26 and every two
weeks thereafter.
GENERAL COURSE
Tuesday, July 27 and every two
weeks thereafter
GAS DEFENSE b
Wednesday, July % and every
two weeks thereafter.
FIRST AID 10 HOURS
Beginning Monday night July 26,
and continuing Wednesday nigh
July %, Friday July 20, Monday
August 2 and Tuesday, August 8,
at First Christian church Third
and Ann streets. A 3 P. nj. Miss
Louise Siler instructor. Anyone
desiring to take course is asked to
attend,
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-01
TRAINING SCHEDULE FOR

TRAINING SCHEDULE FOR
MAFFITT VILLAGE
General Course
Thursday, Jury e.
First Aid
Beginning Friday, July %.
First Aid
Monday, July 26.
First Aid
Tuesday, July q.
Fire Defense A
Thursday, July 20.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-25
Need Reserves.
In Coast Guard

Civilians familiar with handling
boats may enlist as temporary
members of the United States
Coast Guard Reserve and thus re-
lease regular coast guard person
mel for duty in combat zones, il
was announced today
Capt. Thomas A. Stanley, dis
trict coast guard officer, said
civilians enliSting in the temporary
reserve would man patrol boats,
lilehoat stations and Serve on
Great Lakes steamers on part
time basis.
Temporary reSeTvists will be
drawn from the ranks of civilians,
Is or over. not eligible for regular
service because of age, dependen-
cieS or minor physical disabilities.
Applications should be sent TO the
United States Coast Guard, els
South Canal street, Chicago.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-25
NaZi Tells Balkan PeriIS

LONDON. r'eb. 25 (UP).-A
German propaganda reporter who
visited the Jugo-Slavian front re-
Gently found the German occupa-
ton forces fighting on IAN elastic
invisible front" against bitter win
ter weather, wild mountainous ter
rain and well armed" Balkan
guerrillas employing rifles, hand
grenades and scorched earth tac-
tics.
In an article in the Munich
newspaper. Muenchner Neueste
Nachrichten. porter Iahans
Koenig admitted frankly that the
Jugo-Slav partisans and Draja
Mihilovitch's Chetniks were inn
posing "the most difficult of tasks
on the German infantry forces.
Koenig told of his experiences
with German battalion which
spent five or six days filled with
.privationS" in the January cold OF
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-25
JAW Appeals
To Roosevelt

Exclusion of the armed forces
from any control over war pro-
duction, ALLEGATION of manpower
or materials was urged today
upon President Roosevelt by r. j.
T h omaS, UAW-CIO president.
Thomas said that such a move
would increase this country's out
put by p per cent.
I'VE urge you to free the
armed forces I'm this time of
world crises from all RESPONSE
bility save that of using the
machines, supplies, men and
weapons supplied by the home
'front.'" Thomas wrote the Presi-
dent.
He asked that a single civilian
war production agency representa-
tive of labor, industry and the
public be put in full control of all
war production.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-25
Operation
Restores
Cut Nerve

CHICAGO, Feb. % CUP).-Dr.
David BodIan, Baltimore, today
described a new method of repair
ing severed nerves by employing
the same principle used by boy
making a willow whistle.
The new procedure. calle d
Sleeve grating makes it pos
sible to close irreducible gaps in
injured large nerves in a single
operation, Rndian said in the cur
rent journal of the American
Medical Association
While the operation so far has
been tried with encouraging re-
suits only on rheSuS monkeys,
Bodian said, there is every reason
to expect the same results on man
and the method may prove invalu-
able in treating war wounds.
Bodian said the sliding sleeve
graft is made by looSening the
outer portion of one nerve stump
for a distance somewhat longer
than the gap to be bridged.
This loosened portion is slipped
up TO join the end of the other
stump in much the same way a
boy slides the yielding bark off a
willow twig TO make a whistle,
or an electrician slips the rubber
insulation off a wire to make a
splice. The two nerve stumps are
then Sutured. or sewed, together.
A modified method is used when
the inner sheathS of the nerve
offer too much resistance to such
a Sliding sleeve
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-25
i. 5. Civil Service
Needs Specialists

An urgent need for mechanical
engineers. automotive specialists
and Is male or female Inspector
itrainees was voiced today by the
United States Civil Service. branch
office in room 4l0, Federal Build
ing.
Salaries for engineers and spe-
cialists range from $1,000 10
$4,000 per year. Prospective in
spectors will be trained at the
University of Michigan at salary
rate of $1,400 per year, plus 81
per day living expenses.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-25

snow-filled valleys and ice-coated
mountains, then received orders "a
proceed to a certain point where
1.-THE enemy sits-part of a we'll
armed Balkan revolving brigade.
THE objective was to out
smoke small widely scattered
bandit nests and drive a new
wedge in that elastic, invisible
front which for months here
I'm Bosnia has imposed the most
difficult of tasks upon the Ger
man infantry with constant
movements, endless marches and
eternal battle against the OBJ
stacles of wild country" Koenig
wrote.
With its motor vehicles inn
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-25
Car Rdtioning Quota
For March Raised

WASHINGTON, Feb. % (UP).
The Office of Price AdminiStra-
ton today set a quota of 37,lOO
new passenger automobiles for ra-
tioning in March compared with a
February quota of 29,650.
The March rationing quota for
new adult bicycles was set at 81
100 compared with a February
total of Sc. 700,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-25

modified by cold, the battalion
was forced to rely on mule-drawn
mountain sleds. Reaching the first
village after hours of strenuous
marching, the battalion found that
the guerrillas had burned it and
destroyed the only bridge.
The men and animals of the
battalion suffered terrible hard
ships, Koenig said, in constructing
"a pontoon bridge with their own
SledS because the guerrillas had
taken or destroyed all building
materials. AT night the thermome-
ter dropped 20 degrees, feet were
like chunks of ice in Shoes" and
blankets no protection.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-25
563 Find Photos
Of Kinin Service

HAIRY ' Avs 1884 ChArevoiX, III,
SON. Cpl. RAYMOND l.. Alyca-
Mrs Leo 5 Schuot 1850 Dexter, ne
nephew. It. James b Nallun.
Mrs FdAth stevens, 1927 Central, ne
son Cpl. Thomas {. Ruchman.
Mrs Jane Le!cT 1867 ST. Mays +. he
brother, stan sgt Frank RozanskL
Mrs Cecil IaEc $3.50 Field, her son
Pf, Gene ~. Page.
Mis- William Robertson, eA2s Noitlug
ham. her brother PVT Rufus SeAy
James N PAYNE ss45 AGNES. his son
PVT James " Payne IT,
Mrs Alex kr| 1924 GrecnVleH, hsl
brother. PFC. John Fialka.
John Luumala 2i213 Waidron, Farm
iurton. ms brother Pc. Donald Lu0msla
MIS- Edith puwlef. 1883 Dawson, Davi
son Mich. her son.
Mrs clara puvsn. AIS Eastawn. he
son. CpI george T1QNaT
Mrs John Gruber. 1850 Novara, hel
son Pfc. Albert GrubeT.