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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-10-28
CHAPTER ONE

tile pure azure OF the
SKY, the red, white and blue OF
the flag flying from the tower aton
the City Hall were clearly bright,
Inc four corners beloved broadly.
almost without a flutter in the
warm October wind.
IL was very warm for October.
yet 1t seemed to Beth Kinnan.
whose eyes had strayed too often
from her typewriter in Judge May.
1leld's office to the never-ending
line OF men coming and going to
and from the registration office in
the City Hall, that a chill, blown
across the seas, had laid its clam
my hand upon the brightness of
the day.
The line, stretching halfway
down the block, seemed never to
diminish or change. They had been
coming like this steadily since 8
O'Clock, men from the mills, from
the offices and stores, from schools
and street corners. all the youth
of Pennington.
From where she looked at them,
Beth could not read what must
have been in their faces, but draw
ing on some inner knowledge, she
knew that there stirred. in their
breasts, mixed with the Darkness
of answered questions, a kind of
excitement that no woman could
feel. They; too, must realize, as
she did, that from this day on their
lives and the lives of their women
folk would be changed.
Something for which, disdaining
to call it fear, she had no name,
boiled within her. 1t was an in
articulate mingling of anger and
helplessness and sickness over
what had happened to the world,
to her world. She folded her hands
in her lap and lifted her eyes to
the sky above the flag.
Serenity, an outward lie, seemed
to encompass her, written in the
thoughtful pose of her braid-bound
ashen hair, in the stiffness of her
slender figure, in a kind of sweet
sadness about her mouth, which
was too broad for mere prettiness.
Day dreaming again."
Peg Woodruff, the nurse in DR..
Lancy's offic> across the hall, had
spoken from the door.
Beth shook. her head and once
more she locked through the win
dow to the dark line OF men, draw
ing the other girls glance.
Peg sighed. 'Dreary prospect,
isn't it?'- she asked. mot that
there ever were enough men in
this place. Now there'll be less.
1t would be fun, though, if the
government would put up a train
ing camp near here, wouldn't it?'
Beth smiled wryly. II don't think
there's anything about it that
would be fun, Peg"
"Shucks, honey" Peg perched
on the judges desk. Things are
just beginning to pick up, come
alive in this country. Lots more
money, better jobs, men b e i g
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-07-13

tam funny business Their gents
figured their racket was gonna
last forever. They overestimat-
ed their muscle. They overesti-
mated their political pull. They
forgot all about Congress when
they sponsored the veto. Further
more, Congress was scum any,
way, as they saw it. But then
that is when the miracle hap
pened. Congress awoke, gaunt
and hungry like a bear after an
all winter sleep. Boy. How il
bounced on that veto.
Anybody who has a pencil or
any kind of writing tools, should
get himself a post card and scrib-
BILE a line to his Congressman
Give the old pelican 3 cheers
tell him his spunk is refreshing.
Tell him to get going on more
vetoes. and get the country back
on terra firma.
Yours with the low down.
10 SIERRA.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-07-13
Lsstherneck Pitching Ace
hasterful Hurled Him
self To 30 Victory Over
Lsague-Leaders

A no-hlt no-run ball game is the
frosa Possession of the Marine.
s~14y oecsuss last night they
p1Iied the seasons most startling
1p@t - shisewashing the Island
ssrsice Mens League leading Ma
tai Opsrafing Base By a 80 score
A&@sn u Mas dimunitive Boz
3hr@at 81 Asheville. N. C., whose
rsaHaerful mound artistry was the
hKT a. victory His mates. too,
w~rT on ihe bsam for the kill and
hksy executed tao timely double
Says 10 quench a threatening
cxmfi.grafion.
The clash was called at the end
4 ne fifth xtanza but by that
$3.50 st.e damage had been done
D. IN fhe Marines half all three
nana Nsre made.
Llfsrfaan. eenterfieldeT. and
9rE.na. lssffieieeT. opened the
AAmT ~sth walks Hank Woodland.
@.raxsd h@neTnan. advanced Line
nmn an = long fly 60 right field
Fr~d Owens. first sackcr. went
aDmm @n an infield out that sent
xmTEnon 60 second bat Morgan.
&Aamt&inp. came through in the
rck ~ time Nifh double "a right
sl6. sooring both men.
" crossed the plate himse.l.
4l6Htiy afiesA3 ards. when PnariOn.
ifa t.sssrnan. lived on an infield
8iHpiny
Until fhe fatal fifth. the game
~As = terrific pitchers duel Pat
rniteFAsn Vi the mob was setting
az MARINES d0wn in fairly stric'
smaes allowing them bat two
t.ns end tanning SIX. One double
DA@y tAeiped him out
hanrusf had > more difficult as
n.&fusenf bai ~ never faliered
fa@@ers Cos ihe p4ce-setters reach
q tA4ee IA the second. third and
Eta frames fsuf each time the
4srsfses Nere more than equal 10
fhs prezsa1re II the occasion
sinrt.at tanned five and walked
ff1rF
SQnr~xna foT the Marines on
~wrry pasrh ~as > large delega-
fsan from CFaAgs Dock. second
pan1~ traua "A tne circuit. thar can
tAks 1Nss The loops leadership
a. ae1satsnK she Marines Thugs
4as Taae mob now has ten vic
iaHisn ard four losses. Craigs
D,sk t.oias = record of nine and
nsse
rssiigfst - ioss-up affair with
~ Hueptal opposing Fort Tay-
80 TowsorroN the Sound School
rIsea hsfs vsfh the SECTION Base
and Frlaay the third place Coast
Ganra wtii test The Air Station.
Ssaurday the soldiers return TO
mcst1n - meeting the Sound
SsnamA Sunday - the most inn
EnstAni asy a AL for IN a double
hnaars the slate calls for the
frurial meeting 81 Craig's Dock
sr.a si,s mob The other half will
pa az Scctlon Base against the
Marines
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-07-13
Hang Him Out

An Irish Guards officer called
up a sergeant and spoke of the
unsoldierly appearance of a re-
cruit.
He looks very slovenly. ser
geant."
Yes. sor."
Are you sure he Washes"
Yes, sor."
Absolutely certain ne Washes
Yes, sor, but he dries a bad
color. sor.'
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-07-13
MNE BOB SHR0AT UPSET
STRONG mob nine WITH NO.
4 Hut N0-RUN GAME LAST NIGHT
AUTHOR WALKS Sc
MILES FOR STORY

w" AOhh. July l3.-TneO-
dore Pratt, Florida author of Lake
Worth, has had some tough writ
ing jobs IN his time, but never any
hafder than his seventh novel
about Florida, The Barefoot Mail
man. to be published July % by
DUEL, Sloan and Pearce, New
York. (S250).
The action of this new book
takes place along the southeast
coast of Florida between Palm
Beach and Miami in the Eighties.
Al that time there were no roads
and the mail was transported
along the beach by a mailman
who walked barefoot. Pratt. who
likes To have things right when he
writes, took this Sixty-six mile
stroll himself to get the feel of it
and TO be able to describe the
beach along the way in his book.
The barefoot mailman, several
of whom are still living, did il in
three days. II took Pratt five, and
ne SAYS II nearly killed him. And
that was only the beginning of the
chase for material. For over two
years he searched out early Flor
ida material in every library in
Miami. Coconut Grove, Fl. Lauder
dale. and the Palm Beaches. From
there he went to the Florida His
torical Society at St Augustine,
10 Rollins College at Winter Park.
10 the Jacksonville Library
Then to the Library of Congress
and the New York City Library.
II took him three months TO run
down d pamphlet he had heard
about He talked with dozens of
pioneers and every former bare
foot mailman he could locate.
Pratt. grateful for the help fur /
nished him by pioneer and pres !
cnt-day Floridians. says there !,
y ere so many of these that he isn't 1
even attempting to thank them
u list them in the foreword of his
book The foreword states that the
u. 6. Post Office Department has
retained no record of the beach
mailmen. though in the
Vest Palm Beach Post Office there
ire murals depicting the carriers.
1t Hillsborough Inlet. near Pom
,ano, the Lake Worth Pioneer As
ociation has erected a memorial
plaque, with an inscription telling
# the mysterious death of the
nail carrier. James T. Hamilton.
when he tried To swim the river.
n flood. after an unknown person
lad removed his boat to the 9TH
r side.
Pratt has used this actual Incl
lent and many other true tales of
pioneer Florida days in The
Mailman" He tells of the
Uay Palm Beach got its name. of
The Great Wine wreck along the
coast when a Spanish ship de i
posted its contents on the beach.
A picture Is given of the famous /
narrow -guage Celestial Rail
which ran between
Jupiter and the former town of
June Many still living remember I
the houses Of refuge built along |
the coast for shipwrecked sailors. !
As a climax to Tine Barefoot
there is the story of
the curiously contested election
once held over the site of the
for Dade County. then
nearly the size of Massachusetts.
The author gives the exact num-
Der of votes cast according to old
records still in the Miami City
Hall. There was a bitter fight. end
ing in theft of the records, be-
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tween Miami and Palm Beach fac
tionS.
Theodore Pratt has specialized
in writing about Florida. A recent
article of his in Golfers told about
tropical fish in the state He Is the
author of two motion pictures with
Florida locales. Mercy Island, -
and luke Girl" His other Flor
ida books are Big Blow" MIR.
Limpet." and three murder mys-
ieries he wrote under another
name.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-07-13

if you had been
living in lux
ury and some
body started
p ullin g the
floor from I'M
der you. / got
in mind the
new labor Law
where the top
squawks can so
to Jail for GER
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-07-13
THE LOW DOWN
HICKORY GROVE

1t is not hard to see why some
labor bosses are non-plussed, and
feel terrible. You would sound
off with alarm too, like they do,
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-07-13
DIVORCE RECORD IN JUNE

RENO, MELVILLE June is
the traditional month of mar
riages. it brought Reno its big
geSt divorce business in the
states l2-year history of six
week divorces-534, boosting the
total for the first six months of
l943 to 1911, another record.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-07-13

Walls 7Gee Pop. there's man
- thr circus Who Jumps on a
isa@a.s taack. slips underneath.
ouirilsT bald II rs tail and finish
- - on tfe horses neck"
Dsds EastS easy did all that
To- firF 60 fvser rode horse :
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-07-13

Tsr scotch patient was fumb-
iisE ifs.hM pe<Hei
Yea don't need 10 pay me- m
na0ancs aid the dentist
Tn nnt going 90. was the re-
p1y Tn only counting my money
brfsHe y0u give me the gas.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-07-13

OiJT PRESSES pleas 90 public "a
klmF i.nanA uli September.
Evening star., 1943-12-26
GOOD ALL THE TIME i!
Do you keep CHEEKY greetings and good
deeds for Christmas only? Read this -.
by Charming Pollock

no authority to engage people, but you
talked your manager into giving me job.
I've waited twenty years to get even
In these times of stress and strain, the
smallest kindness blesses him that gives as
we'll as him that takes. In 1928, when |
produced Mr. Moneypenny. there was
little dancer who seemed always on the
verge of tears At last learned that her
mother was dying. and asked the girl why
she didn't stay home Il can't afford to
lose the salary" she said. OF course, told
her that she wouldn't lose it. For a while
we had seven dancers instead of eight -
a matter of small consequence. But every
Christmas receive card from her which
gives me perennial thrill.
Bread cast upon the waters has way
of returning, buttered and honeyed. and
marked, with love-" For though many
of the prizes in that Jolly lottery" are
merely the inner glow of satisfaction,
sometimes the prize is something very big
indeed Witness this story told me by a
taxi driver. MY wife was very ILL.," he
said. Our doctor said she'd have to have
a special kind of operation. that only a
few of the biggest surgeons could do. |
own my cab, and on my way home one
afternoon l saw middle-aged lady with
big bundle. l was thinking of my wife
guess - anyway l pulled up and said,
Hop in; I'm going your way. and it
won't cost you cent!
j HE lady smiled, and helped her into
the cab. The address she gave me was
about half mile away and, being full of
my troubles, told her about EN- My
brothers DOCTOR she said. Give me
your telephone number and I'll ask him
what you'd better do The next day, a
nurse called me up to ask if l could bring
my wife to see the doctor He turned out
to be a famous guy - DR.. John Erdmann
- and he operated, and saved my wife's
life. When l asked for the bill, the doctor
said, That was paid in advance You gave
my sister the benefit of your services,
and I've given you the benefit of mine
Gosh, all I did was give the lady lift"
It's grand idea, that, giving lift,
whether of the body or the spirit, and l
suspect most of my readers have proved it
for themselves should like to read your
stories, as you have read mine. and hope
you will send them to me. Meanwhile,
if you have been happy over this holiday
why not carry its essence throughout the
year? Why not greet your fellow man to-
morrow, and the next day, and thereafter,
with, Wrong date, of course, but Merry
Christmas all the samep'?
Evening star., 1943-12-26

p HAD called my brother to offer the
compliments of the season. and a
d woman's voice had never heard be-
fore answered the phone.
Wrong number" she said. cheerily,
but Merry Christmas all the same!"
She probably forgot the incident in five
minutes - but, because of her geniality,
have remembered it dozen years.
Christmas is "a good time; kind, for
giving, charitable. pleasant time; the only
time know of, in the long calendar of
the year, when men and women seem to
open their shut-up hearts freely -. and
l say. God bless it!' The words are those
ofScrooge' nephew in Dickens "A Christ
mas Carol" story which is just one hum
dred years old this Christmas. 1t is SEN
timent we all agree with, but why should
Christmas be the only time when men and
women open their shut-up hearts?
oCRooGE himself might have argued that
if we give on Christmas, we also receive;
but isn't that true of all the year? An
editor friend of mine calls it "a jolly lot
terry" and has made game of observing
the return of bread cast upon the waters.
His best instance, perhaps, is the tale of a
crusty English officer he met while he
was student at Oxford, and who offered
my friend the use of his London fiat.
"A long time ago." the officer explained,
Il encountered Bostonian, like yourself,
who was extremely good to me. Now feel
as though l were repaying him."
And that reminds me of a story | have
written before was in Africa after the
last war when Allenby's army was ship
ping home, and had waited months for
accommodations aboard vessel leaving
Egypt Finally we secured cabin in a
boat sailing on Monday. On Sunday l
learned l must have permission from the
British Commissioner of Police - who
never saw anyone on business on Sundays.
In DESPERATION, | called on His Excel
lency and spent an hour persuading a
secretary to take in my card Five minutes
aftaward, the Commissioner appeared,
all smiles, led me to his Office, where he
opened his desk and stamped my pass
ports. When thanked him, he said,
"You don't remember me?"
NO." replied, ''but always shall"
Before l succeeded to my title" the
Commissioner related, Il went to America
as an actor in a company that was strand
ed a couple of hundred miles from New
York. l had exactly shilling when 1
blundered into your Office. You we're a
theatrical press agent then, and you had
Evening star., 1943-12-26
REMEMBER!
by Sigrid Undset
kohei Prize Wiaaes ond Avfkor
of"kritin Lovruasdoffsr"

LAST WEEK on this same page l
read the poem, Christmas: Over
Germany" by Joseph Auslander
and the accompanying letter in
which Herbert G. Pell, American
member of the United Nations War
Guilt Commission, raised the ques-
ton of our postwar attitude toward
the German people. welcome this
opportunity to add my comment:
If the coming peace leaves the
next generation of Germans a
chance to build up new war
machine, the wronged and tortured
children of Europe will grow up
obsessed by single fear: Destroy
the Germans or be destroyed"
The small children know. They
have been starved. deprived of their
parents, driven from their homes to
make room for the ''Herrenvolk."
The older children know. Their
health has been ruined, sometimes
permanently. They have been de-
prived of schooling and thus rem
Evening star., 1943-12-26
FOOD In "A
by Henry A. Wallace
Niee-Aes;denf
Of tie United Stofss

FOOD will be the dominant world
problem in 1914. Even if complete
victory comes, as we hope it will,
next year there will still be the
problem of a hungry world.
Remember that from 1918 to
1924 there was more misery in
Europe than during the war itself.
Evening star., 1943-12-26

Lack of food was one of the root
causes of the desperate totalitarian-
ism which produced Mussolini and
Hitler. Unless there is the most care
full planning no,U, hunger will again
sweep war-torn lands and plant the
seeds of violence. Starvation abroad
tomorrow will mean trouble in the
United States the day after tomor-
row.
If you do your part to produce
and conserve food on the home front
it will hasten an early victory and
a lasting peace The time is near at
hand when food will be a more per-
suasive argument for democracy
than airplanes.
And if we really work for victory
now, we'll eat better than ever be-
fore when peace comes.
But "WtH You Go Hungry tn
1912" See Clemfntine PaddLet0rd's
article on Page 4. - The Editors.
Evening star., 1943-12-26

dered unfit for other than menial or
servile labor. They remember the
firing squads that made millions OF
them orphans. They know that the
Germans work with view to the
future; if Germany must lose this
war, its sons will have a better
chance to win the next war against
neighbors Systematically crippled.
NORWEGIAN CHuDRE1I will
remember how their teachers were
tortured because they refused to
teach vicious and degrading tenets.
Children from the eastern part of
Europe will remember how their
mothers and sisters were kidnapped
into the brothels of the German
Wemmacht.
A soft peace with Germany vii
condemn the children of Europe to
everlasting fear and a hell of hatred.
In their parents it will kill all hope
of ever seeing their children return
to normal life - all hope that they
may ever look forward towards the
future with faith in life and courage
for more than war and death
Evening star., 1943-12-26
THIS Week
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Evening star., 1943-12-26

Names anA Aeseiptioas a an characfers =
fiction stories and semi fiction articles In tins
magazine are wholly imaginary Any name
Which happens to be the same a. thaf q arp
porsoa. living deAA. h eatiroay ooincidentnA
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-29
3O,6O6 Hours
Overtime Due
Welfare Staff
Council TO Be Asked
for Ruling Monday
on Leaves With Pay

The Detroit Department OF Pub
lie Welfare is saddled with more
than 10000 hours of unpaid over
time which have been piling up
during the last Is years among its
salaried employees, welfare officials
revealed today.
According to Max r. Barton,
secretary of the welfare depart
ment, the 3o,606 hours are divided
between the welfare divisions in
the following manner: Receiving
Hospital, 5000: social service. 49,
397, and the city physicians office,
1883.
PRACTICE ALLOWED
The practice of granting en-
|ployes leaves of absence with pay
and permitting them to get other
jobs has been condoned by the well
fare commission, Mayor Edward J,
Jeffries Jr., and other city officials,
with the exception of Corporation
Counsel Paul f. Krause, who in
sists the practice is illegal. Budget
Director David V. Addy will seek
a council ruling Monday.
Meanwhile, the city treasurer's
Office was pointed out as an ex-
ample of how overtime can be cut
down.
I'VE have no overtime here"
Treasurer Albert f. Cobo said.
al do not know tt our method OF
eliminating It is applicable to
other departments. We found
the trouble and eliminated It."
City records show that $500
was provided in 1888 for overtime
and extra help. This sum has
shrunk to $4,000 for extra help
only, while the volume of work
has increased and the size of the
staff has decreased.
REGAIN 5000 HOURS
According to Daniel ]. Ryan,
senior administrative assistant to
John F. Ballenger, general super
lintendent of the welfare depart
Iment, Ballenger took the job first
lin 1888, and left in 1886.
He was succeeded by G.. r.
Harris and in March, 1912, Bal
tienger again took the post through
competitive examination.
"When Ballenger got the Job
last year." Ryan explained,
"there were $4,000 hours OF
overtime accumulated I'm the
social service department alone.
I'm the year since then, 5000 of
these hours have been cut of.
"The big overtime load was
because 1888 was an unusual
year which saw many major
strikes. In that year, 255,000
families applied for aid. OF
these, 10000 were given help
on welfare rolls.
cit was not until last year,
when BaIlenger took over again."
Ryan continued, that any order
was given TO stop overtime. The
department Is in n peculiar posi-
ton. Because the load Il never
permanent IL Is impossible to
plan for q permanent staff"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-29
Walking Urged
AsChurch Aid

The war and its effect upon
church attendance highlighted the
first session of the 10th annual
convention of the Episcopal
Diocese of Eastern Michigan.
The Rt. Rev. Frank w. Creigh-
ton, bishop of Michigan, declared
Public worship has become
increasingly difficult because of
gasoline rationing, Sunday war
work, demands of the armed
forces and loss Of revenue.
use crowded buses, share
rides or walk to church. Our
forefathers walked"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-29
Photo BY Times stan Photographed

all the Americans on Guam. only
seven, we FIVE nurses and a chief
petty officers wife and baby,
were given our freedom"
Lieutenant jackson was to visit
the Pontiac and General Motors
plants in Pontiac today and three
OwosSo industries tomorrow. She
participated in ceTe m on les al
which the army navy L was
awarded Sharples Chemicals, Inc.
in Wyandotte yesterday after
making a tour of the Fisher Body
CorDoration.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-29
83, Webs Girl, ID
Retired Oklahoma Farmer Marries His Dream
Then Goes Back to the Farm to Settle Down

BROKEN BOW, Okla, Jan. %
(UP).-Having survived four
wives and SO winters, John Elder
finally found and married his
dream girl" 15-year-old Dorothy
Lee Chilcothe.
Several years ago Elder retired
from farming, but not from ro-
nance. He had dreams, he said,
dreams that told him what he was
going to do.
A month ago he met Dorothy
Lee in Broken Bow. Here in the