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The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-03
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Editors Note.-The Star and the News accepts no
responsibility for the personal views of Mr. Peger,
and often disagree with them much many Of
his readers. His articles the good purpose OF
making people think.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-03
ON TO BERLlN'

The red tide rolls toward +a ak ..
and we hear increaslns Aile3
German preference loi acno JOB
rather than a soviet oc."T T1nor,
Jacksonville (Fls.D TiIne'''
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-03
Our Chief Aim
To aid in every way the prosecu.
ton of the war to complete Vic.
tory.
THOUGHT FOR TODAY

l bind unto myself today
The power of God to hold and lead,
His eye to watch, His might to stay
His ear to hearken to my need.
ST. PATRICK.
Evening star., 1943-01-31
By James d. White,

mine what has been done and what the
situation actually demands.
But we do know that the Army took
along certain amount of barter goods
for its immediate needs The amount
has not been revealed.
Reports indicate that to date we and
the British have shipped in total of
more than 10000 tons of non military
goods for civilian relief.
The British were able to send quanti-
ties of coal, fertilizers, flour, fodder, rice,
barley, edible oils, margarine, seed pota-
toes, soap, powdered and condensed milk
for children sugar, meat, fish, curry
powder, JAM whisky, gin, rum, coffee,
tea, dried eggs, vegetables and soup.
Shipments From United States.
Our shipments have run to sugar, tea,
sulphate, condensed and evaporated
milk, soap, matches, tobacco and phar-
maceuticals including medicines and
hospital necessities.
We plan to ship regularly flour. milk,
soap, refined sugar. cotton goods and
fants' clothing, work clothes. cordage fish
nets, heavy canvas, jute sacks, phar-
maceuticals, fire brick, copper sulphate,
Chemicals metal and electrical products,
auto parts and small amounts of agri-
cultural machinery. truck tires and news
print.
Figures on shipments are secret.
Evening star., 1943-01-31
ORTIZ AFRICA NATIVES FAILURE TO BRING RELIEF
HeyHu @VAm tkAr rChNuUb rInuhrf

Chances are that Yusef Haddad-the
doesn't think so much OF Uncle Sam
yet.
The unbeliever with the whiskers has
sent an army into the land Helmeted
legions OF Americans swarm through
Morocco, Algeria and part of Tunisia.
Even though they brought their own
food and supplies with them, they are
nuisance to the ordinary guy like Yusef,
as any army of occupation cannot help
being, no matter what its intentions.
And Judging from the latest reports,
the jeep-driving infidels (this is from
Yusefs point of view, and we ought to
be interested in that have not yet pro-
duced the things he and his people
need 50 bitterly.
Natives Cold and Hungry.
Yusef is cold in the mild North Afri-
can winter, because he has no cotton
cloth to replace his tattered garments
The NaZis took what there was. He is
hungry. The Nazis took the food from
the cities, where his cousin Ayoub Obyad
(the Algerian Jim White VOWS that the
sons of the Prophet starve daily.
Out in the country, Cousin Mohammed
Ali boards his scanty food reserves, and
his sheep and camel herds are dwindling
Yusef and Ayoub and Mohammed Ali
every day have to listen to the COM
planning of their women-that there is
no tea, no thread, no supplies for the
baby.
And if child should fall i'll, who in
the name of Allah is to find the medi-
cine for him?
The polyglot population of North AZ
rica is beginning to grumble that the
Christians from Hollywood have thus
far failed to bring the plenty they
promised
In the crowded markets and gossip
buzzing lanes of a hundred cities, we,
the United States, are on trial
For North Africa is our first venture
in liberation in this war. Not only the
North Africans will judge us by what
Wo do there. The whole of occupied
Europe and Asia is watching us
The word from Washington is that
help is definitely on the way, and In
quantity. If an excuse is to be made, 1t
is that you can't launch the biggest
Evening star., 1943-01-31

Through these lists of articles runs
a definite pattern, designed to relieve
the most immediate needs of popula-
ton of more than 100000 people.
These right now are staple foods in the
cities and the common comforts of life
anywhere such as tea, coffee and condi-
ments. Emphasis is also placed on TAX
ing care of children and in relieving
the shortage of clothing.
Farmers Are Hoarding.
North Africa normally produces sur
plus food, but the Nazis have stripped
the country so bare that people are
starving in the cities while the farmers
hoard desperately. Obviously we are
trying to ship in some food now. and at
the same time get North Africa back
on its feet as producer by helping its
agriculture, fishing and small industry
Specified relief goods will probably be
distributed through American organiza-
tions, but goods purchased by the French
high commissioners Office are expected
Evening star., 1943-01-31
By Lisbeh SoIHng.

war against the Russians with horror:
'They are fighting along a gigantic
front and against an enemy who-I have
to make this statements not made up
of number of men, but of animals and
of beasts. We have seen here what
bolshevism can make out of human be-
ings. We shall not submit to those at
home the facts which are at our disposal.
1t is the most atrocious thing human
brains could conceived"
Sure of Victory.
SO sure of victory Hitler felt he could
afford to be complacent I'VE have pro-
vided SO we'll for adequate supplies that
1t has been possible for me to suspend
production (of ornaments and ammu-
nitionD on quite an extensive scale, even
while being engaged in a gigantic war
Of materials. This because I know that
there is no enemy left for us whom we
could not subdue by means of our
already existing supply of ammunition"
Hitler always gloried in what he
termed Axis action and deed as opposed
to what he described as the democra-
cies endless flow of futile words. Yet
year ago yesterday on the ninth ami
versary of the Nazis assuming power in
Germany and saeven months after the
attack on Russia, he delivered himself
in the Berlin Sportpalast of an intermi-
nably wordy harangue on international
history. He became irascible in school,
boy fashion:
This prattler, this drunk-bold Church.
Ill, what has he in reality accomplished
in his life? This perfidious fellow is a
lazybones Of the first order. Iong and
stormy applause.) - One of the most
pitiful phrase -mongering natures of
world history, incapable of creating any,
thing, of accomplishing anything, of per-
forming creative acts capable only of
destroying "+*. OF his accomplice in the
White House I would rather not speak
at all, moreover-a wretched madman
Great applause)"
Hitler, creator of a cruel, terrorizing
Gestapo which perfected its methods on
German citizens in German concentra-
ton camps, shuddered at law and order
in the United States: "" They (the
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unemployeD undertook hunger march
on Washington to be sure, to the White
House or to the Capitol, but they are
dispersed somewhere by the police before
they can do it, with rubber truncheons
and tear gas, and so on, all Of them
things which do not exist in autocratic
Germany. We have not used these
measures against our people at all, we
manage without rubber truncheons and
without these things, without tear gas
We are resolute in our remuneration Of
them" =" >"
He considers himself anointed by
Providence:
"1f the war is inevitable, then I
should rather be the one to conduct 1t,
not because I thirst after this fame; ON
the contrary, I here gladly renounce
that fame, which in my eyes is no fame
at all. My fame, If Providence preserves
my life, will consist in works of peace,
which I still intend to create. CThun-
derous applause0
Curious Uncertainty.
80 But the German people may be
persuaded also of one thing-that the
year 1918, as long as live, will never
return" (Applause) s5.s
y Yet there lis curious uncertainty:
And this January 30th. How this year
Is going to end, I don't know. Whether
or not the war will end this year l do
not know. But I do know one thing
wherever the foe may appear he will this
year be fought as before It will again
be year of great victories"
The armor-plate surface of Nazi in
vincibility cracks for the first time in
Hitler's Berlin speech of April 26, 1912
After the customary TRADES Hitler makes
three astonishing implied admissions:
He exorcizes the Russian weather; de-
mands from the Reichstag authority to
deprive any one presumably members
OF the aristocratic military hierarchy of
office and privileges, and threatens feebly
to retaliate against British bombings of
Germany with-of all lthings-intensifed
submarine warfare This sounds strange
from the warlord who, one and half
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|eIieVer Invaders Of Their Lund

to be distributed through normal COM
mercial channels.
From now on the United States will
supply the larger proportion Of the food.
with Great Britain concentrating on
items which she can spare more con-
veniently.
American relief shipments, inciden-
tally. rate shipping priority next to mill
tary supplies.
This non-milltary traffic is not all one
way. We are getting manganese, cobalt
ore and cork for our war effort and
civilian needs. The British. meanwhile.
are shipping out iron ore, phosphate rock
and superphosphates, zinc ores and con-
centrates and lead bullion and ore.
How Nazis Handled 1t.
The importance OF keeping Yusef Had
dad and his cousins happy is indicated
by step the Germans are reported tn
have taken in Tunis when they allowed
Arabs and other natives to loot French
ships and warehouses and flood the city
with French money which they presum-
ably had printed themselves for occu-
pational purposes
Word OF this sort OF thing gets around,
and does our side no good, especially if
our shipments and distribution have been
held up in the midst OF the tremendous
military campaign going on.
But that military effort can be lust
SO much easier II Mohammed Ali and
his tribes are kept contented and sup
piled with the necessities which the
Nazis have taken from them.
Until and unless we do this, we are
just so many more Christian unbelievers
-invaders-foreign occupational troops
who commander buildings for our Of
fees and clutter the cities with our un-
familiar presence.
Yusef has had enough of this with the
Nazis. He has always heard we were rich,
SO he easily got the idea that we would
bring him many things With his mind
on his own problems, he cannot be. ex-
pected to figure out excuses for us If we
don't get the things he needs to him as
soon as possible.
The relief of North Africa Is a rush
job. Millions of people in Nazi- occupied
Europe will take new heart when we do
1t.
Evening star., 1943-01-31

water-borne invasion in history in COM
plete secrecy and take care of all the
details right then and there
Meanwhile the North Africans, like
the people subjected to the Nazi policy
of semi-starvation as an instrument of
political control, have reached the point
where they think with their stomachs."
When you are hungry and cold, your
political ideas can be greatly affected by
relief or the prospect of it. And if you
have been led to expect relief by some
one and it doesn't materialize right of
the bat, you can be pretty mad about it.
Part of the civilian unrest reported
from North Africa may be attributable
to delay in getting adequate relief to
these people. When it does get to them
in satisfactory quantity, as it soon
should, many OF the political squabbles
should fade out
Unfortunately the veil of censorship
which has been held across the North
African scene makes it difficult to deter
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-07

On none of those nine occasions did Mrs.
Houdini use any trick gadgets in her attempts
TO persuade the magician to fit back to earth.
She had no use for trumpets or horns or
other objects employed by spiritualists when
they go ghost-hunting.
II thought it rather silly to expect him to
come to me and shake a tambourne before
me; so, for the same reason. / had no use
for horns or trumpets. l relied solely upon
pleading and prayer" she recalled.
There were, to be sure, the two lighted
candles atop the shrine But these were not
TO light the way for any ghost that might
decide to come fluttering in Their sole pur-
pose was to give the effect Of glimmering
beauty to the cool, still room.
However, in her last attempt to entice the
magician's phantom from the other side, she
did use several incongruous articles
The final attempt was conducted in Holly
woodland, perhaps that explains the the
atrical touch.
At the same time and in other parts of
the word-in New York. in England, in New
Zealand mediums gathered to try their luck
at communicating with Houdini. But the
Hollywood seance, heralded in advance by
those with considerable knowledge OF press
agentry was the most spectacular.
The scene was the roof of swank hotel
The night was crisp and stars twinkled above
the strange assembly gathered there. A
sprinkling of cinema celebrities rubbed Shout
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even though the appearance might offer her
only fleeing glimpse of him once again.
Each attempt was made on the years
eerie night-Hallowe'e for it was on Hal
lowe'en that Harry Houdini stepped from
this into another world.
With one exception, her attempts to con-
tact him were simple almost reverent, With
no else on hand she tried to reach into
that other world from the seclusion Of her
New York City home
There she kept a shrine. dedicated TO the
memory of the man whom she first saw in
Beloit, Wisconsin, and married a week later.
Symbolic Of one of his famous tricks, escap-
ing from locked chambers, the shrine was in
the shape of huge key hole. Two burning
candles were kept on top of 1t. AS soon as
they burned down, they were Immediately
replaced For a decade. those candles cast
Pickering glow over the shrine and the photo
graph of Houdini il contained.
1t was before this shrine that Mrs Houdini
tried nine times TO recapture at least a mo-
nlent with her husband. Nine times the ex-
pertinent failed Like worshipper before
gded altar, she knelt before this shrine,
alternating between staring at the likeness
Of Houdini and closing her eyes in prayer.
Each seance lasted one hour
Il held those trysts alone with the shrine
and photograph, pleading and praying for
Harry to come TO me-" she said adding it
always was solemn hour she spent.
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the time"
Mrs. Houdini smiled as she told of that;
then, in seriousness, she said:
"All my life I was taught that 1 would
meet loved ones on that other side Of death.
If 1t were so, If there were something to
that belief, surely Harry would have reached
me from that other side.
Harry did not came back-and 1 will not
come back, not even if the power to come back
were given to me.
Those who claim or have claimed to have
made contact with Harry, who have asserted
they possessed messages for Agnes or any
other names but my own are liars-fraudulent
liars; and will be frauds and liars if, upon my
passing, they claim contact with me in the
darkness of death"
Finally, after many years of keeping an
open mind she had admitted she was what
her husband always had been-a great skeptic
Of psychic phenomena.
Il always" she said, kept an open mind
during the years 1 sought to contact Harry.
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arrived later by train,
it was to learn her
nephew had died, the
words of his call for her
still on his lips.
There / was" she re-
called, attending a seance
while my nephew was
dying and calling for me.
/ heard a lot Of nonsense
about gray-bearded men
on the other side, but
there was no mention of
that boy in New York, nor
Of his accident. N
IF thore is anything at
all TO this seance business,
why didn't someone there
in that darkened room tell
me that my nephew was
dying. al that moment,
and calling for me-"
Mrs. Houdini was well
convinced as 10 the alb
scence of ghosts in general
even more convinced
that no ghost Of hers
would ever so sailing
about.
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Houdini's eyes shifted
from the paraphernalia of
the mediums TO the shrine
and the half size portrait
of her husband, propped
up nearby.
At the conclusion of
the seance, she rose
slowly; studiously she
surveyed her guests for
a moment in silence.
Then, her voice barely
trembling, she said;
"He hasn't come. ] am
now convinced he never
will be able to come
through. 1 shall extin-
guish the lights on his
shrine. My last hope is
gone"
Later she received a
letter from a woman in
England. The writer gave
the reason for Houdini's
non-appearance. She wrote
to Mrs. Houdini:
II am sorry he couldn't
go TO you, but he was
having tea with me at
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ders with dozen representatives Of
spiritualisms elmer circle" and other
invited guests. For the first time, Mrs.
Houdini had permitted others to be on
hand when she set out to find ghost.
In front of large table, two throne
like chairs had been placed, Mrs. Hou-
DIM sat in one Of them in the other sat
DR. Edward Saint, her business manager.
The table held a trumpet, a bell, a
slate microphone and pair Of hand
cuffs. But none lured Houdini-not even
the handouts.
Some of the spiritualists in attendance
must have found it something Of blow
when the handouts failed TO do the job.
Houdinrs fondness for handouts long
before had become legend. He liked
handouts because he could laugh at
None could be locked so tightly that
,,tId vyyiopla bic hands free Of them
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But now, as far as am concerned, don't
believe there is anything to spiritualism."
If she had ever encountered ghost, how
would she have known it was the phantom
of the great magician2 She and her hus-
band had thought of that and prepared for
it. They decided upon ten code words.
If the ghost spoke those words then
she was to know the ghost was the real
thing.
Those key words have been given limited
circulation. They are:
pray Answer Say Now Tell Please Speak
Quickly Look Bequick."
Maybe someone one day will rise up to
say that phantom swung in from the
other world and used those code words in
mystic speech.
But Mrs. Houdini warns against believing
they will have been uttered by any ghost
much less by the ghost of her husband-be-
cause 'the words already have been given
bit of publication"
It was in Tampa Fla, nine years ago that
Mrs Houdini seriously doubted the power of
anyone at a seance to reach out into space
and pull in message of truth.
She had driven to that city from Miami,
and upon arriving went directly to a seance.
Leaving the seance, she was driven by her
chauffeur to the post office where he wanted
to inquire for his mail.
IT expected no mail but I went in the
office, too. When 1 gave my name to the
clerk, he said:
"'Mrs. Harry Houdini? Why the police
have been looking for you this afternoon.
heard there was broadcast put on the police
radio for you. They apparently tried to reach
you on the highway"
Mrs Houdini then was driven to the police
station where she was informed her nephew
Harry Houdini Hinson, had been injured in
an accident.
The shock of the news brought on her first
heart attack-"the thing that put me here
with this oxygen tank'-and the doctors for
babe her to fly to New York. But when she
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after my death. not Of them will be
y mine" So explained Mrs. Beatrice Houdini,
in Hollywood just the other day, when doctors told
her she had not much longer to Ave..
And anyone who says he has her spirit
floating about witt be vocfng fraudulent lie, she
added.
These statements by the widow of Harry Houdni,
one Of the worlds masters of magic, made up her last
interview, which given out just few days before
she died railroad train, route to New York.
She was making that last earthly journey in the hope
OF spending her last days in her New York home.
Her words-and they may upset some Of the
spiritualists with whom she often brIshed-took on
added weight because Mrs. Houdini novice
in the matter of ghosts She even went looking for
one The search extended over decade.
For ten years, ten long years after Harry Hou-
DIM died Detroit in 1926 she exerted every possible
effort TO establish contact visual verbal with her
departed mate. But all her efforts were futile.
That wasn't because something went wrong at any
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OF the StdIlCtS. soiAt AOA~
lowed all the rules In the
book, yet there was no
communication forthcom-
ing.
Il did everything I could
in trying TO contact Harry
absolutely everything"
But the ghost didn't do
his part.
This she explained by
saying, simply:
Because there was no
ghost TO do his part"
There are thousands who
have written Mrs. Hondini
TO tell of communing with
the phantom of the sor-
cerer.
Many Of those people"
said Mrs. Houdini, were
sincere in their expressions;
/ am sure they ealIy
thought they had seen or
heard Harry. However,
nothing will ever convince
me they did"
When told she could live
only brief while longer
at the best, and that she
might die at any moment
OF the heart ailment which
struck her nine years ago,
the hazel-eyed, white-haired
widow Of the famous pres
tidigitator wanted 10 talk
about her failure to con-
tact his spirit.
She also wanted to de-
nounce spiritualism once
more and sound q warning
10 all who believe in those
shadowy figures that are
said 10 Turk just overhead.
Propped up in a sani-
tarium bed in Hollywood
and with an oxygen mask
clamped over her face to
make breathing easier. she
looked from her window
onto a world Of reality
but her words C arrie d
thoughts of things super
natural.
Ten times -- once each
year during the first decade
after Houdini's death-she
tried to reach him; she
begged him 10 come TO her,
prayed for his appearance
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-07

them. None could be locked so tightIy that
he could not wrggle his hands free of them.
They couldn't hold him-nor, it was proved,
could they attract his ghost
Throughout the solemn ceremony, Mrs.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-07

IEUF ANY ghosts go trooping around anywhere
after my DEATH not one of them will be
y mine" So explained Mrs. Beatrice Houdni,
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l9 by American weekly Inc Rights Reserved
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THE AMERICAN WEEKLY "
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Mrs. fl0udj
Futile lrV
With Her
Husbands [,
Ghosts wandering here and there, troop
home churchyards."
Shakespeare

- Ghosts, wandering here and there, troop
home to churchyards."
Shakespeare
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She Tried For
Y drs 10 Con-
tact The D G a d
Mogicion's Spirit
But Was Finally
Convinced That
His gre ufesf
Feat Of All" Was
Impossible
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-03-05
Roosevelt Appoints
Houston, Defeated
TO NLRB
Democratic Ex-Member
Of House Chosen to
Succeed Leiserson

John M. Houston, 52-year-old
Kansas Democrat who was defeated
for reelection to the House last
year, was nominated by President
Roosevelt today to be a member of
the National Labor Relations Board.
He would take the place on the
NLRB of William M. Leiserson, who
recently was made a member of the
National Railway Mediation Board.
Mr.. Houston will receive the same
salary-$10000 a year-in the NLRB
post as he did while member of the
House. After four terms in the
House, he was defeated last fall by
Representative Rees, Republican,
following the consolidation of their
districts.
Mr.. Houston, whose home is at
Wichita, engaged in the retail lum-
Der business in Newton, Kans., Is
years, and served as president of the
Kansas Lumbermens Association
before being elected to Congress. He
was in the Marine Corps in the
World War.
Mr.. Roosevelt also nominated three
former assistant surgeons in the
United States Public Health Service
to be surgeons. They are Mason V.
Hargett, Cassius j. Van Slyke and
Erwin w. Batter.