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Star Stah Photos.

the other afternoon. With 1t she
wore one of the new bow ties and
added sable scarfs and a match
ing muf for smartly ensembled
effect. Equally blond Patsy
Bride perches g. delectable pink
feathered calot atop her curls.
Mrs. Jules Winkleman looked the
part of the smart businesswoman
at recent luncheon. Her
simple suit and trim, unadorned
hat was refreshing contrast to
the t1owered, beveiled chapeaux
seen about town,
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neither fashion-right nor patri-
otic. And usually it's next to
impossible. Two touches of bright
color, such as a yellow coat and
suit blouse in the same shade are
quite enough. Key your hat and
bag color to the ensemble, but
remember that they need not be
so completely matched that you
look like a woman who has been
sprayed with one shade from tip
to toe
Evening star., 1943-04-11

and securely thrown over the
shoulders.
These three-piece costumes are
particularly smart on slim girls,
but are often too bulky, no
matter how fine the material,
on the larger woman. Better for
the lady with excess poundage is
a dressmaker type of suit, with
soft lines to disguise slight bulges.
It Is nonsense to think that you
Evening star., 1943-04-11
Suits to Lead Line Of March
Printed Frocks Also Revv

can't wear q suit. It may be
true that some women are too
heavy for starkly tailored types
and for the short coats that
"cut them of In the middle"
But there are many variations
such as suit-dresses with becom-
ing and thoroughly wearable
lines. Avoid too heavy fabrics
and concentrate on a suit with
surface interest in the place you
want 1t. That means that II
you're particularly heavy through
the hips you may turn your at
tention to shoulder and yoke
interest which attracts and holds
the eye. Minimize the heavier
portions Of your figure by the
selection OF proper cut and color.
Remember that an mbroken line
is much more slenderiMng than
a cut-up silhouette. And leave
the short bolero jackets and
high-waisted skirts to the slim
and young.
Also to be reckoned with This
year are prints. for women will
want to supplement their ward
robes with smart little dresses
in interesting new fabrics and
designs. There are prints great
and small, although broadly
speaking you are likely to find
the large patterns in one piece
frocks, the smaller ones in two
piecers. Again, the larger woman
will want small subdued print
in many cases one that almost
runs together" to achieve her
unbroken line. Sweet, simple
and girlish" figures can, on the
other hand, go in for some Of
the more daring designs In rayon
crepes and jerseys.
There are some quite outstand-
ing novelty styles among tho
latter. Successful are the dressy
rayon crepe frocks with detach-
able matching scarfs. Among
the most popular is one with a
lacy black design on a pastel
background, both the front clos
ing of the dress and edge of the
three -cornered scarf trimmed in
black lace. You may use the
scarf at your waistline in an
apron effect or drape it, man.
tilla-like, over your head for
evening. Other novel touches are
rayon jersey dresses with neck
laces made of the print. These
are not just ropes Of the fabric,
but are actual "beads" covered
with material.
Along with suits and print
dresses, the shirtwaist and skirt
mode is high ranking In the
spring fashion picture. The
other night at a meeting of vol
unteer war workers the girls were
requested not to wear slacks,
socks, sweaters or shirtwaists
and skirts to servicemen's dances.
However, the new versions of the
skirt n shirt should be perfectly
acceptable, for the skirts are
deftly draped and completely
trim looking with their slim lines.
The "shirtwaists" usually turn
out to be good-looking crepe or
rayon jersey blouses, sometimes
printed, often ng-sleeved.
All of which means that when
you hear the term "shirtwaist
and skirt" it doesn't mean a thick
tweed skirt and an unimaginative
blouse tucked inside. It is more
likely to mean q combination
that looks like a dress, we'll
styled and figure f1attering.
Evening star., 1943-04-11
Brilliant Colors Of the United Nations Flags
Find Smart Reflections in Our Room Decor

Since the day 1t became evi-
dent that If we wanted things
this year we would have to make
them ourselves, we have been
pointing out what could be done
with little expenditure and
plenty Of ingenuity. We have
said BE brave with color, use
fabric and paint for decorative
interest, make over and make
do the things you have" Now
one Of the stores in town has
done just this, so this week you
may go to see a series of small
rooms which will solve many of
your own home problems, and
give you all that color and fab
ric courage" we have been talk
ing about.
II we told you to paint the
walls of tiny dining room real
spectrum purple you might raise
your hands in horror, but go and
see! You will find how clever
and appealing this can be when
It acts as a background for a
lovely glazed chintz called Gar
den Walk" used for draperies.
With It's lovely blues and purples,
pinky beige and clear yellow on
q white ground, this fabric keys
the whole room.
All the furniture used is the
regular store stock of unpainted
furniture made distinctive and
individual with paint. Corner
cabinets, chairs around the room
and the drop-leaf dining table
are painted beige with a pinkish
cast. The inside of the cup
boards pick up the clear lemon
yellow which lights up the whole
room. Chests at either side of
the room to hold linen have blue
tops and drawers. Above them
are tiny blue hanging shelves
backed with the drapery fabric.
White, open edge milk glass
plates with colorful center dec
orations make charming wall
decorations. Sounds simple,
doesn't it? And it is-when q
clever person shows how 1t can
be done.
Next to this is a studio room.
It might be a living room,
young persons study or that
extra room In the house which
you Ak up for war guest"
Complete in its living accom-
modations 1t may be living room
by day and bedroom at night, by
merely removing the huge
square bolster pillows which
make the comfortable bed into
o sofa.
Done in shades Of bright and
gray green accented with two
tones Of coral color, it is both
stimulating and comfortable.
Small chests form lamp tables at
either end of the sofa. Open
shelves are broken on one side
of the room by a chest of draw
ers and on the other by a gen.
erous desk. Lamps with match
ing shades, placed at the same
height, give nice balance to the
room. All of the sectional
pieces are available unpainted.
Here distinction comes from the
clever choice of color, the very
fine paint job and the way each
piece Is carefully placed for COM
Portable use and room balance.
Juniors room will bring from
every little boy the same plea we
heard this morning, %, Mommie,
] want It," Bright cobalt blue
walls. blue and white diagonal
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or navy dress or suit, and it's de-
lightful with yellow and even
with some soft shades of pink.
Frequently print dress will pick
up the violet tone to give an en-
sembled effect that has the touch
of fine, individually designed
costume. In the same way
shrimp pink" coat will take to
combination with a great many
other colors. Don't try to match
all your accessories this wear. It's
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and newsreel variety, will take
up their stations outside WASH
ington churches to record for
posterity the entrance or exit Of
prominent and well-dressed Capt.
talites. Very young feminine
Washingtonians will wear navy
coats with white pique collars
and poke bonnets with streamers
down the back and flowers under
the brim.
Evening star., 1943-04-11

Quality instead of quantity is the keynote in buying
spring shoes this Here models haze INFESTED
their precious number in footwear adapted
their Easter ensembles At left, trim caskin pump ,vh
medium heel and perforated fiat bo,. Openoe and heel
pumps in perforated leather selected for dress
shoes wih oot.faterine front bo,vs
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"sneak preveaV" of Washingfon's beautiful spring
and breeses is enjoyed BY Mur;el Maddox and
Patti Maadi" vho also breOiew their Easter fnery At
le Mariel trim, Engish.made suit in soft ereen
Oh colof plaid obcoat repeating the green tone Patti
has chosen printed dress of rayon jersey fopped yh
new uersion Of the Chesterfield, this one in falle
Evening star., 1943-04-11

Black plastc fae" makes the handbag at left,
to be ~ leather gloves boastine ,vhe backs and
black palms. At right leather in a brown, ouerhe
shoulder bag vh "sfay-oben closure for Convenient han
ding The sloves tUo.toned bro,cn and beige ,vih
leather palms and hand-crochefed backs. Small bunches
Of fo,Oers ribbon make charming lapel sadee
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-07-31
1taly's Hope

Fighting between Italian and German troops
in northern Italy would have more significance
If Italian soldiers were better fighters. But
the incident is not without important impli.
cations At least 1t proves that the downfall
of Mussolini has given Italian troops new
heart, and It probably is not far afield tc
believe that they reflect the spirit of the
Italian people generally.
One and all they want to be freed from the
German yoke. They could not hope to come
out ahead in combat with the Nazis. They
could, however, become valuable aides in the
battle against Hitler.
One very important aspect Of the Italian
situation is that Marshal Badoglio has utterly
failed to repress the peoples spirit of re-
bellion or prevent demonstrations against the
Nazis This surely indicates they realize that
they cannot sit on the sidelines as spectators
Obviously they see that if their country i,
again to be relieved Of oppression they mus
do their part In bringing it about. 1taly's hop.
nos rests with her people.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-07-31
Spangler Helps Roosevelt

1t is the fate of any man before the public
we find Senator Guffey denying that Presi-
dent Roosevelt's radio address was tinged with
politics and Harrison e. Sangler, chairman
of the Republican National Committee, pro-
claiming it campaign speech especially de-
signed to win the soldier vote because of its
era.
1t is not for us to say whether Mr.. Roosevelt
had fourth term in mind while composing
his broadcast as his political opponents were
quick to declare. But if he had, and if he
views the soldier vote as one means of win
ming in the next national election, he is not
as astute politician as we have always be-
ieved him. unless he is prepared to explain
satisfactorily to the armed forces how organ
lied labor has been able to do pretty much
as it pleased in the war emergency, causing
the loss Of millions of man-hours Of produc-
ton by strikes which have jeopardized the
lives of men the fighting fronts and, as
history may prove, delayed the victory.
Mr.. Spangler has been employed to point
the finger Of scorn at President Roosevelt at
every opportunity and, being a serious soul,
feels obligation to do something to earn
his salary. But he is poor psychologist as
this and previous attempts to hurt the Presi-
dent indicate.
If Mr.. Roosevelt is elected to a fourth term
he will have Mr.. Spangler, as well as the
war, to thank for it.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-07-31
Black Tax Market

The general idea was that pay-as-you earn
system of collecting income taxes would be
painless except for bookkeepers who would
have their work increased. You earn little
and get a little less on payday. Then when
quarter-day rolls around you get no tax bill.
The Treasury has its cut of your earnings,
you keep what you have, if any, and every
bodys happy. 1t was to be as simple as that
But it isn't. The Washington correspondent
Of the Greensboro Daily News tells how it is
imposing a heavy burden on the little bust
ness man. He says employers are having to
absorb the tax to keep their employees from
quitting their jobs and going where the rates
Of pay are higher. Unless the employers want
to 90 out OF business, they have to pay the
tax OF their workers themselves, he says,
and it is costing them millions of dollars.
They can't complain because they are vic.
lating the law and if caught would be sub
jected to heavy penalties And obviously work.
ers who quit their posts don't want the real
reason for so doing to come out because they
are supposed to be frozen to their jobs
and you must trump up an excuse for quitting
which could not survive close scrutiny.
So it seems we are developing black mar
ket in taxes too, and one that would be harder
to deal with effectively than any previously
uncovered.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-07-31
The Literary Guidepost

ly, the green manure" was bur-
RED so far it did no good and that
years of burying plant food out of
reach was more responsible for
exhausted soil than anything else.
he decided to experiment, and he
is sure his hunch was right. On
MS experimental plo.s near Ely
ria, O., his ordinary and even in
1erior soils have become high
yield lands, and the soil rapidly
improves from year to year.
In addition, he finds that by
dlsking in the green manure" he
controls erosion. and eliminates
the need of commercial fertilizers.
General use Of his system would
eventually restore the sinking wa.
Ter table. and (although he ad-
mits that scientists disa agree)
might also control many pests and
improve the vitamin content of the
things raised on such soil.
Exhausted soils produce low
quality food, and thus an endless
chain is set up. Mr.. Faulkner's
experiments have shown a good
deal. and people who have watch
ed French peasants in their field
may suddenly recall that their
marvellous yields are produced by
the Faulkner method.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-07-31
Inching Along

Geology is playing an important part in de-
laying Allied capture of Munda airbase on
New Georgia island Coral hills thereabouts
have many caves. The Japanese have set up
machinegun nests in them. From these hide
outs they are able to spray surrounding jun
giles with deadly fire, with the result that our
soldiers and marines are able only to inch
along, under such cover as they can find,
until near enough to silence a nest with gre
nades. This is why the advance is recorded
in yards.
Yet each yard traversed brings nearer the
DAY OF Munda's fall, after which the tempo
OF the battle throughout the entire southwest
Pacific area and ultimate attack on japan
may be speeded up. In the Allied strategy
Munda must be taken, along with the other
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-07-31
Daily Prayer
FOR OUR FATHERS RELIGION

1--WE have heard with our ears,
O God, our fathers have told US,
what work Thou didst in their
days, in the times of the old .
For they got not the land in pos
session by their own sword,
neither did their own arm save
them; but Thy right hand, and
Thine arm, and the light of Thy
countenance, because Thou hadst
a favor unto them" AS Thou vast
with our fathers, so, O Eternal
and Almighty One, be with us to-
day. May the faith of our faith
ers burn brightly in our souls.
Teach us to trust Thee as truly,
and love Thee as loyalty, as did
our godly ancestors. Only from
Thee can come the victory for
which we daily pray. We would
put ourselves wholly in Thy hands.
that we may do whatever Thou
commandest, so that the ends we
seek may be in conformity with
Thy holy will In humble obedi
ence and confidence, we confide
our Cause to Thee, o God of oul
fathers. Amen.-W. TIE.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-07-31
BY JOHN SELBY
"PLOWMAN'S FOLLY" by Ed
ward H. Faulkner (UE:versity Of

WdIu IA. duIkucT (OEsVcrS1ty OF
Oklahoma; $2).
If Edward H. Faulkner's "Plow-
mans Folly" did not sound SUI
perbly logical it still would have
interest, because any man who
deliberately flouts centuries OF be-
l'ef automatically acieves atten-
ton. And Mr.. Faulkner does this.
He would have farmers turn in
their plows for scrap. He insists
that our patronizing attitude to-
ward those retarded nations
which tickle the soil with prlmi
tive plows is monkey-business
and therefore the greatest calam.
i!y that could come to China would
be millions Of fine, sturdy Amerl.
can plows. BY Mr.. Faulkner )
reckoning, one of the reasons cer-
tain countries like India and Chi
ma have been able to support
their swarming populations at all
lies IN the fact thai they do not
plow deeply. If we export any
thing in the way of soil disturb
ers to such places, we should. ac-
cordlng to the same reasoning,
send disk harrows.
Mr.. Faulkner decided years ago
that when soil was plowed deep.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-07-31
You re
Telling Me

Camels, according to Facto-
graphs, often carry load of 1,4O0
pounds 80 miles a day. The ship
of the desert, it seems, is really
a freighter.
!
Junior wonders why those col
ored maps of Europe don't show
Sweden, Portugal, Switzerland and
Turkey in a neutral shade.
!
The official Chinese dictionary
consists of 40 huge volumes. Look
ing up word in that language
must come pretty close to a
career.
=!
An expert angler tells us that
bass only bite when they are
angry. But how, wonders Zadok
Dumkopf. do you 60 about pick
ing fuss with fish?
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-07-31
AS Others Say 1t
Low DOWN ON U. s.

FBI has arrested Nazi woman
propagandist whose duties consist
ed in sending back to Berlin news
reports illustrating our decadent
democratic life. Divorce, social
scandal, cafe society, blatant lux
ury, determination of our public
life by the prominent place ac-
corded to women it is an old
story. Herr Goebbels could have
found this stuff in books written
about America fifty years ago. II
is one more example of how gov
ernments will pay out good money
to spies for bringing in the kind
of information to be picked up in
any good encyclopedia.
Still, the incident does furnish
possibl useful idea for a text
book to be used in the re-educa.
ton of the German people; such
as we find ourselves suggesting
from time to time. This small
primer would consist of a sum.
mary of what Germans were told
about democratic decadence-
America, Britain. France-before
and during the First World War,
and what happened to the Ger.
mans in that war; and again a
brief chapter on what the Ger.
mans have been told of decadence
in the democratic world during the
present conflict. When the Ger,
mans have learned by heart what
happens to them every time they
run up against decadent- demo.
cracies they may hold back the
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-07-31
Overlooking Brains

DR.. Minnie L. Maffitt, president of the Ma
tional Federation on Business and Professional
Women's Clubs, complains that the war is
being slowed down because the government
is not making use of women's brains.
Not to be bitter, and conceding that there
are many exceptions-there are those who
hold that the war is being slowed down be-
cause of the governments failure to s e
brains.
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Our Chief Aim
To aid in every way the prosecu'
ton of the war to complete Vic.
tory.
THOUGHT FOR TODAY

As matter of fact most people have
to stub their toes and then go tumbling
down with clash, measuring their length
on the earth, and getting some scars that
stay before they can be nightly used. So
many strong wills are strong enough to
be stubborn, but not strong enough to yield.
Gideon's pitchers had to be broken before
the lights flashed out and brought panic
to the enemy.
s.. d. GORDON.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-07-31
Raymond Clapper Says:
u. S. Aerial Supremacy
Frozen In African War

except that this kid knew his bust.
ness.
We sighted the coast of Sicily
in midafternoon of a perfect sun.
ny day. Looking out at our for.
nation as it came in, it appeared
like school of those flying fish
that skim the water alongside ships
plying tropical waters. We landed
where our troops had come in a
lew days earlier. There we loaded
cur gear into jeeps and set out to
find our way around the island
of Sicily.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-07-31

island outposts of Japan. to remove enemy
striking power, disrupt enemy communications
and open the way for the final showdown
with the Japanese in their own land.
Mundas capture is taking long time, and
the attack is costly. But however hard the
going, it is on the road to Tokyo and our
forces are on the way.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-07-31
By RAYMOND CLAPPER

SOMEWHERE IN SICILY (By
Wireless, delayed) After we had
finished luncn out Of our K rations
in the shade made by the wing
of our transport plane at North
African airfield, we climbed back
in. In a couple of minutes ne
field was a dense cloud of dust
as the mass of transport ships
warmed up for the flight across
to Sicily.
We knew how German transport
planes were shot down like ducks
in the closing days of the Tunisian
campaign. But now the Allies air
supremacy mas made it possible
fer us to ferry large numbers OF
transports across without danger.
That SHOWS the difference between
controlling the air and not con-
u rolling it.
We had as many fighters over
head fol- escort as there wei e
transport planes. We flew in for
nation, very close to the water,
so that no enemy could sneak up
under us. Ou. fighter escort criss-
crossed overhead I have used the
term fighter cover" many times,
but never before did l realize that
it can be literally a cover. Direct
iy over us was this mass of fight.
ers, circling and sweeping h G
flanks of our formation, so that il
would have been impossible for
enemy planes to get near us. Ac-
tually no enemy planes were
around. A fighter pilot told me
he had not seen an enemy plane
in the last five days, although he
had been in the air most of that
time.
As we got out over the water
redheaded, freckle-faced kid
popped out of the operating COM
partment and told us to put on
cur Mae Vests. He said that il
tie plane was forced down it would
float for 40 minutes, giving every.
body plenty Of time to get out.
The redhead proved to be the
crew chief, Technical Sergeant
Melvin Engei, of Portland, Ore.
That made me homesick for Port.
land. 1 find that I get homesick
Tor most any place you can name,
# it is in the States, as I have
been in most of them.
Our plane convoy was really an
l1rrl, MO hoyylnl
Army jeeps over on that trip, plus
much other material. These cargo
planes are DC-3's, the same as
American commercial passenger
lIanes. Thew will haul 80 persons
Il mean 80 using the metal bed
pan seats which you must ride on
over here.
Almost before we had settled
Gown we passed Pantelleria, ris-
ing like a big rock out of the
Mediterranean. We could see the
city clearly but were unable to dis
tinguish any of the bomb damage,
which l hope to see later.
We were travelling on a plane
named Father Time" which had
been a second home to half doz.
en- of us for few days. We flew in
It from the air-force command
post to a Flying Fortress field for
the Rome raid. After returning
from Rome we flew in it to the
main Allied headquarters in the
rear, and then back to the for
ward command post, in all cover
ing as much mileage in Father
Time as we did on the Fortress
trip to Rome
The pilot, Lieut.. Joseph A. White,
tow-headed kid from Greens.
boro, N. c., made the most beau
t'ful landing you ever saw, in Sici-
ly, despite a terrific cross wind
rlus the propeller wash from the
plane ahead That landing had
all the elements for a crackup,