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the force of the explosions. Though
we felt the conclusion, it was not
strong enough to cause casualties"
He climbed on a raft which soon
became overcrowded, Chaplain Harp
said, and the men padded with their
hands for about As minutes to reach
a destroyer. They were all covered
with fuel oil
Soon after they reached the de-
stroyer, another wave of bombers
came over and I'VE were ordered to
take cover the chaplain said "The
group from my raft went to the laun-
dry. We were so tired we crawled
under washing machine and relaxed
for the first time since that morning"
The destroyer escaped damage.
The rescue ship and several others
stood by the carrier until she went
down late that night, he said. Enemy
planes continued to chase the destroy
er all that night, but lost contact
early the next day.
Chaplain Harp, the son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Edward B. Harp, Sr.. of Hagers-
own, was born in that city 80 years
ago. He was graduated from the
Smithsburg high school in 1921 and
from Franklin and Marshall college
at Lancaster, Pa, in 1925. Three
years later he was graduated from
Eastern Theological Seminary.
Chaplain Harp was commissioned a
lieutenant, junior grade, shortly after
graduation from the seminary Dur
ing his college days he was saxo-
phonist and played in a number of
prominent bands.
He is married and is the father of
a son and a daughter.
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SEE BY The DAILIES THAT

Tho Western N1arvIonL paeoon,,o,.
.oryico on tho branch limo From, paI+i
marc to Cotty.I,,,r,, u.y discontinued
president rincoIn usod this tra;n in
1899 Fro;ub+ .orvico ,,i,1 continue
Flood wators washed ont COO foot
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Ia,,,,arv
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paIt;n,oro Citr E,,roII,,,nr. IN conn
tios incroasod
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Price Adm. Leon Henderson ac-
cuscd Governor of Louisiana of direct
encouragement to violation" of gaso-
line rationing regulations.
A butcher in New Jersey opened
shop selling exclusively horse meat.
He sold 500 pounds the first day.
Secretary Wickard directed cream
cry butter manufacturers to set aside
thirty percent of their monthly pro-
ducton for direct war requirements.
Elimination of "a" gas coupons and
reduction of B and c coupons will be
recommended for the eastern area by
an oil industry committee.
The Argentine government has been
informed that Chile would break re-
| he Axis on Friday.
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over Ihe telePIoHeS 70 SJdhu by LOT
d olFe-oomoihg attack. IN the dress
ing StaIioh' as elsewhere everyone
was at ms post OF duty Ihere were
Il or 10 dlVe oomoerS N the inst
wave
Some OF the enemy planes got
through ne SAID and scored two or
three hltS on the carrier. The flrst
oomo disrupted the power supply and
Ieft the snip without radio commune
cations. Emergency lights and flash
IIghtS were used IN the dressing sta
ton.
Many casualties were brought to
the dressing station IN which Chap
IAN Harp was, ne continued because
most other stations were knocked out
IN the first attack
Bombs Cause Much Damage
"One demolition bomb exploded ON
inc port sac "lO Oh lne iSI"ho SIroe-
'"'e '''''S'i Col'S'''e''' ''I' u"''''s'
'''" many e"Su"!'leS among the gun
:, e"H' ~ 'o,'''i,0eu' O'e enemy
Pl"''e whose pinot mao nee" S"ol maze
" cr"Sh landing oouoC 'h',O II was
d SU'e''e o'Ve-"no S'fu'N inc 'Sl"i'o
err '',' e ~, ','N - Nh
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Haiti in the Caribbean is planting
100000 acres of plant that yields
lateX, plant juice that solidifics into
rubber. The yield will not be avail
able until 1914.
Senator Byrd assailed the war de-
partment's buying of hotels on large
scale, six already being purchased in
addition to one school and a private
hospital. A number of oth9rs are
leased and condemna+ feedings
are III progress szw.wyvsz..w~uh.wxva
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To The Edit0T OF HE Kcpu0Ilcan.
In his l2-12:15 noon broadcast on
Wednesday,, December Both, Boake
Carter, news commentator, made Sow
eral statements that | believe worthy
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only 10 percent of girls reaching
age of IS face prospect of spinster-
hood, and only II percent of men who
attain their majority are likely to stay
single, insurance statistics show
Americans have contributed 1,126,-
600 pints of blood TO Red Cross since
last December z.
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miral Mimitz declared the recent at
tack ON Jap-hcld Wake Island was
only a sample. JapS apparently have
strengthened their hold on kiska
island IN AIeutian area. In an air
battle there two American fighters
and bomber were shot down, U. S.
bomberS levcIed z Jap base in China.
Five Axis ships were sunk in Medi-
terranean area.
SONDAl-Amcrican subs sank 7
more Jap ships, navy reported. Bomb
ers returned to AIcutian area for an
other blow at Japs on kiska. Planes
from Guadalcanal also were bent on
preventing use of Munda air base on
New Georgia island. Planes bombed
AXis-held docks and rail yards at
runs with loss OF SIN planes. British
army IN LlbYa rolled on westward to-
ward Tripoli as Rommel abandoned
another area. Red armies still were
beating forward but Germans denied
Nellkle Luki had fallen. They ad-
united loss OF EllSta 40 miles south
OF StaIngrad. French fusion plan
was offered by DcGaulle. Raj in
l942 bagged 1873 Nazi planes against
loss OF 1913 on European front.
MUNICIPALITIES destroyed Japs
at Buna mission in New Guinea and
Macarthur declared enemy situation
there is now hopeless; $50 Japs were
killed in Sunday fighting. Kabaul was
again bombed by Allies with good re-
suits. The Jap base at Lac on north
New Guinea coast was bombed. Two
Jap destroyers were damaged in a
raid on Munda. 1t was announced
L. S. battleShip had destroyed 80 Jap
planes which came against it, in an
Octooef sea battle around SoIomons,
seven - D. pomoefS were missing IN
r"Io on 81 Nazalfe' Nazl Sub-baSe
III france RommeI was believed
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THURSDAY. JANUARY I, 1913
Letters to The Editor

The editor and publisher of The
Republican assumes no responsibility
for statements contained in articles
contributed to it's columns.
Evening star., 1943-06-13
AUSTRALIAN PICNIC
What do our men eat
Down Under? Let's
take a look-in ..

Australian landscape these days is the
~ US Army chuck wagon. This gallop-
ing kitchen serves soldiers who are on duty
away from the main camp, and it offers the
same menu that the men in mess hall get -
hot, too. A hungry soldier who's been swinging
shovel all morning can detect the chuck
wagons rumble seven hills off.
The chuck wagon is the perfect answer to
that anxious mother who asked, DO you
suppose Tommy will have to eat kangaroos in
Australia" 1t might surprise you, ma am,
to learn that Australians eat twice as much
beef per capita as we do - so beef is one of the
wagons chief staples. One drawback must be
admitted - Australians eat ttoelue times as
much lamb and mutton as we do. The boys
get little fed up on that line and sometimes
ba-a-a at the cook
Evening star., 1943-06-13
Tasty

INCIDENTALLY. Australians do eat kangaroo
steaks and kangaroo-tail soup, but not often.
kangaroo meat corresponds roughly to venson
in this country, and is considered tasty Down
Under A couple of American correspondents
tell about trying wallaby Ia small kangaroo)
after having too much beefsteak at Army
camp They pronounced wallaby very good,
but promptly went back to beefsteak.
All in all, US. soldiers get pretty much
what they're used to at home - except that
Ausse restaurants wrap their hamburgers in
cabbage leaves and call them dim SINS" But
they can't be as bad as they sound; during
test month a while ago, Army authorities
recorded two per cent of illness among our
troops in Australia - less than the War De-
partment's S estimate for posts in the US.
Please pass the kangaroo!
CHARLES D. RICE, JR.
Evening star., 1943-06-13

the GIRL: Bless me Three times | sald
STOP and teo tunes he kissed me Does
Cashmere Bouquet guarantee he IL luds be SO ardent
US: Your own loneliness guarantees that, dear girl
Cashmere Bouquet Just the perfection OF tender
moments like this by guarding your da,n,,ness
THE GIRL: But look at my ring He wants me tor l't'
US: And you II stay you tonight, tor e
if you remember the secret OF Cashmere Bouquet Soap
Evening star., 1943-11-15
wo Pictures
From the London Daily Mail.

TioM the bOndon DAILY Mail.
TWO pictures of this Russian situation
are presented to us-one that we would
naturally like to see ourselves and one
that the Germans would like us to see.
The first picture shows us the Russian
Army battering down great defenses
against furious resistance by the en-
emy, and driving the German Army into
full and disorderly retreat. The second
shows us the German Army going back
in perfectly orderly manner, Withdraw
ing to new. shorter, and powerful de-
tense line, the tenure of which would
enable them to release many divisions
for their impending western front in
Europe while retaining suf1icient
strength in the east to hold the Rus
slams in check. Whether the first pic
ture be true or not, we had better act
as II we believed the second to be correct
The danger of accepting the first one
is that it tends to promote the idea
that the war is already practically over.
Some of our trade unionists, and others.
who ought to know a great deal better.
are looking at it through very rose
tinted spectacles indeed. If we look at
1T this way the outcome of the situation
will not be to hasten the end of the war
but rather, by the slowing down of our
war effort, to postpone it.
Evening star., 1943-11-15
A Pill Against the Sea

Inc OLD cures never worked. A
man could take the prescribed
champagne or the quick shot of
brandy neat, or he could MUNICH
desperately on soda crackers and eat
nothlng else but celery and consum-
me, and he could smile wanly at the
stale jokes Of all those insufferable
people who kept walking around, in
mailing and exhaling and making fun
OF his misery. being themselves i'm
mune to it. And he could sit in his
deck chair and close his eyes and
let the fine clean air caress him and
try to imagine himself solidly earth
bound, but still the heaving sea was
too much with him. And the ship
kept rolling, and when it did not
roll, it pitched-up and down, up
and down, and forever up and down,
and was life really worth living?
No matter what people said the
old cures never worked. There was
no cure for it. in fact. but the good
land. that beautiful faraway terra
f1rma. And when would the ship get
there? When would this corklike
bouncing come to a merciful stop?
When would there be freedom from
this immense and ceaselessly churn-
ing liquidity? And the man with
NAL de mer could only brood over
his questions and wonder why it was
that oceans were necessary or why
the great human race. with all its
genius and despite all its tanning Of
the raw and primitive forces of ma
ture, had yet failed to find remedy
Tor the simple but awful ailment
that left him physically limp and
spiritually torn and distracted.
This man today, if he has read
the latest news from Ottawa, must
be an excited individual. How mar
velots is the Royal Canadian Navy,
he must be saying to himself be-
cause, thanks to it, there is now a
little pink pill that will Danish NAL
de mer in at least three out of every
four cases. Imagine! Why, there
has been nothing like this before
Evening star., 1943-11-15
Vice Presidents Speech
Stirred Readers Questions,

To the Editor Of The Star:
The truism that the people should
be prepared and ready at all times
in the art of looking well to their chosen
representatives was vividly illustrated
Sunday last in the speech of Vice
President Wallace at the dedication
exercises in the new memorial chapel
of Foundry Methodist Church.
That speech, like so many we seem
doomed to listen to in these dangerous
days, should be of service in helping
to shake us out of our somnolent atti-
tude in relation to our several interests
out of which the Government of these
United States is compounded.
That the Vice President is a certain
type OF Christian gentleman and scholar
we are happy to admit; but, loose talk
does not make the type very impressive.
Was the Vice President speaking for
you when he said: "In our relations
with China we must act in such a way
as to enhance the spiritual well-being
OF her people?" Who are we to talk
down to any class or state, much less
to = potentially great nation such As
China? If we have any extra spiritual
equipment to offer to China, this OBJ
server Is forced to acknowledge that
he Is not aware Of it.
HUGH BARCLAY RICH.
Evening star., 1943-11-15
st. Vitus Returns

If Mars is the god of a shooting
war, then surely St. Vitus Is at least
the patron saint of war of nerves.
At any rate, he is holding forth today
In Germany. the nation that in
vented the war of nerves, and is
going strong. Jitters have gripped
the country, and st. Vitus has come
home to rocst.
The phrase come home" is used
advisedly, for be it known that he
was born and bred in medieval Ger
many, where, according to the exact
words of the encyclopedia, "epidemic
outbursts of mental and physical
excitement" prevailed. In those
days, it was almost a sure bet that
any one seen tearing his hair, moan
ing and acting as if he had ants in
his pants was German, for, still
according to the encyclopedia, it was
mainly members of the master race
that we're so distinguished. Some
thing had to be done, and was.
Shrines were erected to st. Vitus,
who. it seems. had an answer for
the malady. Pilgrimages were made
to these shrines for relief. while the
rest of the world went about its
business and looked on in sardonic
amusement. BY working on a 168-
hour week, it appears that st. Vitus
somehow performed the dubious task
OF preventing the disintegration Of
Germany, saving it for its great con-
tribution to peace and culture in the
twentieth century. II he can do it
again, 1t will be a miracle to top
al miracles
Evening star., 1943-11-15
THIS AND THAT
BY Charles E. Tracewell.

This animal is = dark gray with q
chestnut tinge.
1t is wonderful example Of camou-
mage, beacuse Its coloration makes 1t
blend In with any background.
1t is about feet long, with an alb
surdly short tail and tufted ears.
1t seems to have little side whiskers
and the appearance Of smiling.
Males weigh from rs to 40 pounds
making an animal which must be re-
spected.
1t is said that it can crouch on a limb
IN such q manner as to be practically
concealed, owing to the way its fur
blends with the natural scene.
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This is the famous "loup" of the
French-Canadians.
1t lives on rabbits, mice and small
birds, and about the largest thing it
tackles is small deer, but it seems to
be good at finding prey which the large
cougars have hidden away.
The lynx is not q very brave one. It
prefers the mountains and will not come
into inhabited places even when it is
hungry.
Despite its strong muscles and general
vigor, hunters claim that a blow on the
back, and not necessarily a strong one.
will kill the lynx.
The real wild cat, the bobcat. is about
as long as the lynx, but it seems much
more thickset, more like a domestic cat
1t differs from the latter in that it is
taller and has much larger and wild
animal-like head, with prominent ears,
out without such large tufts.
The tail Is short, about 6 inches hut
not as short as that Of the lynx, which
totals only inches
The general color is pale brown, spotted
on the sides with dark brown.
This is splendid looking animal, ap-
pealing especially to all persons who are
fond of the domestic cat.
Such person invariably desires to
stroke bobcat, but experience or COM
mon sense would prevent him from do
ing SO, even If he could get close enough,
and the animal itself would prevent him.
II he did, because it is fierce and bold, a
magnificent fighter and marauder.
Bobcats are found all over the United
States. They eat squirrels, mice, rabbits
and birds, and come into farm yards to
catch pigs. lambs, chickens, ducks and
geese.
Rats and mice are caught by bobcats
In large numbers, and naturalists be-
heve that in this way they pay the
farmers back. But you can't get farmer
to believe that.
Bobcats hunt at night, or in the dawn.
They nest in caves, hollow trees or in
the summer nests of squirrels, or even
IN large bird nests. Kittens number
from two to four.
Like the domestic cat, the bobcat
spends most Of the day in sleep.
1t is beautiful animal, and should
be protected
Evening star., 1943-11-15
Postwar Aviution
From the London Daily Herald.

rIoHl the LONDON Daily Herald.
There is at last some positive news
about the future of civil aviation. A
conference on the subject is shortly to
be held in London, attended by repre-
sentatives of this country and the do
minions. The conference, of course, will
be but step towards the worldwide
agreement that must be secured II civil
aviation is to become a boon to man.
kind and not the nursery of another
Armageddon. When the British COM
monwealth has decided upon its policy,
the United States, Russia and the other
United Nations will have to be ap-
preached. If all goes well, these several
powers will draw up set of rules for
the development Of air transport based,
not on international competition, but on
international cooperation. That is
looking far and optimistically ahead.
But the difficulties in the way must not
deter our government from using all
It's influence to speed up the process Of
negotiation.
Evening star., 1943-11-15
Guetu

Gaeta, bombarded by the Amerl-
can fleet, has been familiar with
war for a long, long time. The
modern naval station there is IA
nous, but it represents only the
latter-day development of a marine
establishment which traces back to
remote antiquity. Some indication
OF its age may be guessed from the
TACT that on the summit of the
promontory are the remains of the
tomb OF Munatius Plancus, who
founded the city of Lyons in 43
BIC. Other ancient ruins, including
many Of still earlier date, abound
in the neighborhood.
During the Roman empire, the
port was busy with the traffic of a
thriving trade with distant parts of
the Mediterranean basin. It con-
tinued to prosper even when the
imperial rule disintegrated. The
governors Of Gaeta were hereditary
consuls known as hypati. Arabs
took the town in 844, but were
driven out In 848 with the help of
Pope Leo Nv. The Holy See claimed
jurisdiction until 875, when Pope
John VIII gave control to a count
Of Capua. Subsequently, the hypatus
John II established his lordship
under the suzerainty OF the East
Roman emperors. The Norman
counts Of Aversa obtained the duchy
in the eleventh century, but Roger
Of Sicily dislodged them in 1135.
Gaeta's citadel was strengthened
about 1400 and repeatedly was REIN
forced throughout the next two or
three hundred years. It was invested
many times, but rarely capitulated
save on account Of treachery or
starvation" The Austrians besieged
the town in 1707 and French, Span
ish and Sandman troops captured
It after four months of effort in
1874. A French Army under Massena
Evening star., 1943-11-15
NOTTINGHAM DRIVE.

Dear Sir:
What is the approximate size and
color OF our native wild cats?
"One Of my earliest recollections is of
a picture In the First Reader of man
tapping maple tree, apparently at
night, unaware that in the tree above
him crouched a wild cat ready to spring
This picture terrified me and colored
my childish dreams for years.
This summer, in far less dramatic
manner than pictured by the artist,
saw q wild cat in his native surround
ings. My companion and we're on top
OF mountain in an uninhabited section
of the Adirondacks Mountain Park on q
day which was overcast, making the
forest look rather dark and foreboding,
when about 100 feet ahead Of us saw
wild cat cross the path.
HE crossed and recrossed several times
and finally disappeared In the woods,
apparently Indifferent or unaware of our
existence.
Strange to say, my strongest emotion
was more one of excitement and pleasure
at seeing him than the actual fear Of
the childs imagination.
THE first question asked back at camp
when we told Of our experience was al
ways How big was itT We couldn't
agree on this as there seems to be no
familiar animal Of the same size and
shape to use as a comparison
I'VE both thought It's color black but
everything in the woods was wet from
recent rain and even logs looked inky
black.
THAT section is wonderful vacation
country for any one interested in nature
study.
THE same day as we neared camp we
heard noise in the brush along the
road which was not just like any other
noise ever heard, so we waited quietly
until a large porcupine emerged and
crossed the road
"A strange creature, indeed.
The birds which seemed to be most
numerous in the trees around the camp
were the myrtle warbler. the cedar wax
wing. song sparrow and nuthatch, and
there were others which could not
identify.
One day in the small village near
camp We saw hundred or more birds
on the telephone wires and were told
that they were barn swallows and CHM
ney swifts congregating to begin their
migration.
Every year about the time Of the first
feel OF fall in the air they are seen at
that spot over a period of days.
Many are believed to go Is far as
South America on this flight.
Very truly yours, NJ d. A."
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The Canada lynx is found as far South
as the Adirondack Mountains.