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The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-23
Baby Carriers

The sinking of the Liscone Bay, fifteen
miles off Maxim on November "a, when an
enemy torpedo found its target has attracted
wide attention to the part 'paby carriers
have been and are playing in the United
States war program.
1t was the escort, or baby carrier, that
broke up Germanys U-boat packs in the At
shipping losses they caused. it is the baby
carrier that is proving a potent weapon in
the Pacific, not only in prote citing Allied troop
and supply movements but ir overcoming
Japanese power in far-flung outposts.
AS a high naval officer at Pearl Harbor
puts it: 1.-The advantage cf the carrier over
the airfield is that you car put your platform
anywhere you want it. Escort carriers, though
smaller than other carriers, have given us
additional platforms from which to launch
Because these little ships nave done so good
a job another Pearl Hartor official forecasts
they will perform more and mere service in
the Pacific.
John Beaufort, writing in the Christian Sci
ence Monitor, defines the baby carrier and
its task thus:
Their present task involves new respon-
sibilities as well as added dangers AS
antlsubmarine craft escort carriers work.
ed IN teams with destroyers tracking u
boat packs-launching planes to scatter,
and whenever possible sink, unGersea raid
erS.
Today in the Pacific, however, escort
carriers are tackling a bigger job. Part
of it is to protect queen carriers and sister
fleet units and to continue antjsubmarine
operations. Escorts also carry fighters
torpedo bombers and dive-bombers into
the heart of aggressive operations. Fur
Their functions have been the terrying of
planes from the West Coast.
Naturally escort carriers haven't the
fire power nor the plane capacity of even
converted cruiser carriers. Although pre-
senting smaller targets the escorts are
slower and more vulnerable. Which makes
their job bigger by comparison. By sim?
liar comparison their cost is insignificant
beside the investment IN bigger jobs.
The presence of escort carriers in the
Pacific demonstrates, first, the consider
able success that has been registered in
stabilizing the submarine menace in the
Atlantic; second, the progress Of the ship
building program, and third, the versa
tlity and power of our Pacific naval and
air operations.
Accepted with some skeptcism when
first thrown into the anti-suornarine cam
paign as stop-gap, the baby carriers
have proved themselves first in the At
lantic and now in the Pacific At no time
have they been considered as a substitute
for big carriers. But today they are ac-
cepted at least as ladies in-waiting in the
aristocracy of the Pacific carrier fleet,
where their presence contributes numbers,
if not weight, to the greatest carrier force
ever assembled by any nation.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-23
Cur Chief Aim
To aid in every way the prosecu-
ton of the war to complete VIC
tory.
TOP OF THE MORNING

God took the Ioveliest OF His eternal
things, and matched them to the crying
out of human need.
He took the dignity of the wise, and
the simplicity of the shepherd; He took
star, mother, baby and song. Ana
these He set not apart in their glory,
but gently among us. He put them
beside the shuttle Of tired feet coming to
full inn. beside the darkness of black
night. The utter defenceiessness Of
newborn child! and so He made Christ
mas LILLIAN E. COX.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-23
MONOPOLY.

On the subject of complaints
that President Roosevelt has a
monopoly on the White House, did
you know that there hasn't been
a general election in Great Britain
in eight years; that the present
parliament is going into its ninth
year; that not person in the
United Kingdom under % years
of age has ever voted in the
general election?-Lou Schneider,
in the Philadelphia Evening Bull
letin.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-23
THE DEMOCRATIC SPLIT

Factionalism and sectionalism
may widen the split among Demo
Gratis in and out of Congress, but
the axis propagandists should not
kid themselves CT their audiences
into believing these enthusiastic
family rows over here will weaken
our morale or dull our fighting
edge. - Charleston, IS. c. News
and Courier.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-23
Bv RAYMOND CLAPPER

WASHINGTON. - It is not mere
Monday-morning quarter-bac king
Tor the Truman Committee to be
scrutinizing the Arny's expensive
oil project in western Canada. In
wartime the Army and Navy are
given almost unlimited funds and
discretion. A post-mortem is the
only way we have of holding Army
and Navy officers to accountable
ty. Therefore 1t is good demo-
cratic practice that Lieut.. Gen.
Brehon B. Somervell be required
10 explain about this $134,000, 900
Canol project inro which the Army
rushed with scanty inquiry during
the dark days of April, 1882.
At the same time Investigations
should make allowance for the ur-
gency at the time hastv eXpendi-
tilres were undertaken War ex-
penditures made in Our frantic
mood after Pearl Harbor cannot
be judged on the same basis that
we would judge enterprises under
taken in calmer days.
The Truman Committee was set
&c cruelty Somervell on this oil
project, but aztec hearing his Sc
cret testimony the committee re-
rort which was ready for publ
cation has been delayed until af-
Ter New Year.
Not only in this much disputed
Canol project bat in many other
expenditures, such as the over
building of small-arms ammunition
capacity and ALUMINIUM capacity,
we must REMEMBER that we have
been in a race with time.
In the spring OF 1912 the Japs
were driving everywhere. They
had taken most of the western
Pacific. This Canol project, for in
stance, was decided upon just af-
ter Bataan fell. Dutch East Indies
oil was gone. Our tanker situa-
ton was desperate. That very
week the German submarine cam
paign forced us to suspend tanker
traffic along the Atlantic Coast. 1t
was a question how soon the Japs
might interfere with Our traffic
along the West Coast.
Not until we won the battle of
Midway a few weeks later did we
feel safe about holding the Hawai-
IAN Islands. There was little time.
Regardless of cost, regardless of
POSSIBLE mistakes, we had to move
with haste In all directions.
In that period many things were
cone that at any other time would
re without excuse. The Canol oil
project may have been one of
those.
On the other hand we may have
tucked into something there. Gen
eral Somervell says an enormous
oil field has been discovered
through that operation, the biggest
strike in Is years and second only
to the East. Texas field. There has
been some hesitation about dis
closing this during current negotia-
lions with Canada over postwar
rights in the project.
Some possible uses for that oil
in the event of certain military
developments are in the minds
Of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Secret
considerations make it impossible
to discuss publicly the potential
military value of an oil develop
:nent in the western Canadian
area.
That bears the specific oues-
ton up at the moment, which is
whether to finish the nroiec+
Some $20,ooo,00o remains to- be
speat. But most of that is for ex.
ploration purposes and need moi he
pursued at present. To complete
the work so tina, operations could
a seg gin y would require spending only
so'ooo'ooo' IN addition to the $1o5.-
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-23
You're
Telling Me

Hitler Boasts Of his own WIZ ~
jngness to make "every sacll--'s
to win the war but we no'e ns
hasn't tried to learn the Japa 5l,,,'
language so he could tax 'N'"''
over with his pal Hirchlto'
If after the war jeeps become
popular for civilian use. DAD may 9,
be able to hang She family 5 ~"
car on the Christmas tree.
He who laughs last - ceft am.
won't be Berlin's' Lord HaW h0"'
Spanish newspapers now pm.
news from the United States, Ine;,
editors having discovered there J.
an America-just 451 years j 9l.S.
Christopher Columbus beat 'HS"
to it.
Japan may De tuning .r
material but its radio propagal.
dist have more than an ample sup
Div of wishful thinking on hano'
A movie stars golden io oao
have been insured for Sl0J'oyo
Grandpappy jenkins says ne "-i -,
es he had though of that before ~
went as bald as a door KNOB
The Nipponese empire IS IN ~ ~
such a trimming by the AlleS 10 q,
wars end that the Jap Will De -. ~
little man who almost Wa'D
there.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-23
UNLIMITED GUESTS.

Radio commentator reports that
Petain sent word to the Allies
that an Anglo-American invasion
OF France will be welcomed by
the French government and
people. Yes, but as in Italy, we
may have a little trouble with Ma
ri unlimited guests. - Winston
Salem journal,
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-23
Fair Enough

Editors Note.-The Star and tho News accepts
responsibility for the personal views Of MI PegIer.
ind sften disagree with them mach many Of
ais rsadera His articles the good purpose Of
making people think.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-23
"socIAJ, SMALL TALK"

The art of social smaL, .o,n
consists in using words that S esr.
to make sense but don't say az o..
thing.--Jacksonvi1le, (Fla') Ii''+''
Union.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-23
CALAMITY

Speaking of the gallant:re:y AZ +
American soldiers, hero II . ..
ron, Ohio, % years old, IS c .sr,
tied with marrying nine Wo.''
-Staunton (Va.) NeWs-Leaae''
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-23
TRUE ENOUGH.

Teen-agers say their elders
morals are confusing. Sometimes
body wonders what the older
generation is coming to.-Kansas
City Times.
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1943-10-30
"CARMEN JONES"
Real GRAND OPERA by
aII-coIored cast

Carmen JONES'" which
opens at the Boston Opera
House on Tuesday, November
2, is a sincere tribute to colored
talent.
The play is a modern adapt
CONTINUED on Page Four
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1943-10-30
Hear Candidates
Rowena Taylor.
]. 5. Robinson

CAMBRIDGE-Hear our Col
ored candidates, Atty. Rowena
E Taylor, for school committee,
and j. S. Robinson for City
Council this Sunday afternoon,
october 81, 1943, at Community
Church, III Walden street,
Cambridge, Mass, two-thirty
o'clock. Local politics and some
national issues will be discus
sed. A prominent speaker will
talk on Anti-Poll Tax Bill. The
public is cordially invited to at
tend.
Meeting under auspices
League Of Colored Voters.
LUWAUGH j. HOLMES, Sec'y.
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1943-10-30

Something Of a political pre-
cedent was set here in the
Boston Beige section, Ward 8,
when the peoples choice for
city councillor, Joseph Fitzger-
aid, met with a group of citi-
pens of the ward to discuss
and find out what the voters
of lower Ward 9 wanted, re-
CARELESS of party, race or other
affiliations.
The meeting was sponsored
by the politically strong Ballot
Club with membership of a
thousand or more and was
held at the popular Estelle's
banquet room and attended by
many of the civic minded vot-
ers of the ward. The people
and Joseph Fitzgerald thor
oughly talked over just what
was to be expected of him if
he were elected.
The condition of the filth Of
the streets in Ward 9 was dis
cussed as was the problem Of
help of some kind for main
tanning nurseries for defense
working mothers. With teen
age delinquency becoming such
a problem the country and city
over, a solution to this problem
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1943-10-30
Member OF
"POrgy and Bess"
Cast interviewed
by staff Reporter

Sitting in the pleasant mu-
sic room Of Mrs Nellie Critch-
low at % Claremont Park one
morning last week, I listened
with the greatest delight to
the beautiful singing of petite
and charming Frances Brock,
understudy to Eta Moten in
the role of Bess in George
GerShwin and Du Bose Hey
wards superb opera, "Porgy
and Bess," which closed its two
weeks run at the Shubert last
Saturday night.
A few nights before when I
attended the performance 1
was disappointed to read on
the slip enclosed in the pro-
gram that Frances Brock, in
stead of Eta Moten, would be
the "BesS". Soon, however, I
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1943-10-30
Sullivan Winner
In Ward Nine

Endorsements of the candi-
dacy of Daniel F Sullivan for
reelection to the City Council
from Ward 8 piled in on the
popular Office holder this week.
Councillor SuIlivan'S efforts
in behalf Of the poor and I'M
derprivileged received a pat on
the back from the Boston Sun
day Advertiser which asserted,
Sullivan is best known at City
Hall for his work in behalf of
Roxbury's needy citizens" The
Boston newspaper, thereby,
took its stand with prominent
Continued on Page Four
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1943-10-30
800 JamaiCans
Stranded In
Connecticut
Can't Find Ships
To Get Home

STAFFORD, Conn - Shipped
here from Jamaica to work
last May through Sept. 81,
more than 300 natives of ia
maica were reported on the
verge of desperation here last
week after being notified that
no facilities were available for
them to be shipped back home.
Lucien Vermont, jamaican
supervisor reported that the
natives, unused to tempera-
Continued on Page Four
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1943-10-30
Candidate RiCeman
Ward Twelve Hits
Racial Prejudice

Joseph Riceman, a practic-
ing attorney for over twenty
one years, a candidate for
City Councillor in Ward II at
the coming election on Novem-
Der 2Dd
He received his education i'll
the Boston Public Schools ard
Is a graduate Of the Northeast
ern University Law School with
high honors. Riceman, a dis
abIcd World War veteran,
served with the American EX-
pcditionary Forces in France
n the St. Mheil and the Meuse-
Continued on Page Four
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1943-10-30

Among citizens endorsing
Fitzgerald is David D Kenney;
also the following professional
and political leaders: Mrs Har-
riet C Hall; Attorney irwin T
Dorch; Mrs ThomaSina w
Continued on Page Four
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1943-10-30
CoIOred
Citizens League
Endorses Lewis

To the Editor Of Guardian:
The Everett Colored Citi-
zens' League answers Mr. Rob
ert T. Smith in regard to its
endorsement of Frank E Lewis
for Mayor:
We, as a group, feel that Mr..
Lewis has given the City OF
Everett one of the best, clean
CONTINUED on Page Four
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1943-10-30
ELECTION TUESDAY, NOV. 2-BE SURE TO VOTE
Grand Master :. Cooke Lauded At Big Reception
Atty {. D. Cooke
HonOred AT
Great Banquet

Atty. Ernest D. Cooks, Ma
tional Grand Master of America
and Jurisdiction, G. U. o. o. F.,
was feted at a reception and
banquet given in his honor
Thursday evening, Oct. %, in
Odd Fellows Hall, 1861 Wash
ington st.
Several hundred members
and friends filled the large hall
and scores of others failed to
Continued on Page Four
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forgot my disappointment in
the sweet singing and superb
Continued on Page Tt0o)
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constable, The voters, were told.
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political ADVERTISEMENT
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SETS POLITICAL PRECEDENT
IN BOSTON'S WARD 2

in Ward 9 was discussed at
length. The matter of a con-
stable was also discussed. A
Councillor can appoint one
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1943-10-30

Political ADVERTISEMENT
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1943-10-30
Legion Dept. Adj.
Lashes Legion

Adiutant Coleman Curran,
Department of Massachusetts,
American Legion and Monroe
Mason, chairman of William E.
Carter Post installation COM
Continued ON Page Four
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-01-02
FLAMING FINISH
CHAPTER XVIII

Midday grew into the short
afternoon, and by half past two
into dusk. Stensgard went with
Gerd back up to the hotel. The
long shadows from roof and
Spire heightened, and it was
night. Not even Gunnar had
thought they could hold out SO
long.
Hours before Osterholm had
taken a party into the hills to
try to silence the gun. But he
had not come back, and it had
kept firing long after he should
have reached it.
Then, at twilight, man came
staggering in from the bridge
to tell how that small group had
been overwhelmed, and Trygve,
his shells all spent, had died,
charging the Germans with the
butt end of his gun. HE went at
them, crying, Long live Nor
way" the man said. "He must
have got three or four before
they brought him down"
The doctor came back from
the hotel alone and went to
work, his eyes looking darker
and more tired, his cheeks sag
ging, his once vol bic lips
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be alone. Others will join US.
All Norway will rise >"
The first of the boats had al
ready sho owed off when they
reached the dock. They tumbled
in, some with rifles, some carry
ing machine guns, helmets, gre
nsdes, bayonets. Some turned at
thDsvery end to fire back to
useif pursuers. Here and there,
when boat was full. it would
be pushed away.
Gunnar and Malken came last
of all, the fisherman with an
immense box of cartridges, the
old man carrying a machine gun
far too heavy for him, for he
staggered under its weight.
There were only two boats
still to 60. They could hear the
doctor firing behind them. But
that last, feeble guard could new
er hold. The troops drove for
ward like storm, into the guns
and over the prone bodies. Those
in the boats could see KONG
brandishing pistol over his
head, and behind him the whole
dock bright in the glare of i'm
mense waving tongues of yellow
flame.
And then, with Gunnar in the
last boat, straining at the tan
gled ropes that held it, and the
first soldiers not so meters off,
Malken did the one thing no one
expected or thought possible
But having misjudged Stems
CARDS ab lily to hold, they
would never have got clear
without him. Still carrying the
machine gun, he lifted himself
back up onto the dock and set
ting it down, started firing des-
perately for Gunnar to gain
time.
Lars" they cried from the
boat. Lars"
They thought that any mo-
ment he must fall. For what
seemed an eternity he stemmed
the rush. Then il surged toward
him again, and just as the first
troops reached him, he went
down.
But the boat was off, follow
ing the others out.
After the first feverish rush
to get clear of the fire and
away, the grim and tired men
settled themselves, sat cross
wise on the thwarts and gaZed
at each other, dismal and yet
never looking backward.
The night was very cold. The
sounds of the village receded
the firing stopped. The sea rose
high about them, black and loud.
THE END
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drawn taut. He shook his head
to their questions. Only to the
pastor would he tell what had
happened. Johann was there, T"
he said, $50 -. SO badly hurt
he asked me to end it for him,
me. his own father"
In the general store. Sverre
frog sat by the wireless and
called over and over again.
"Namsos Mo ! de I.
Trondheim we are fighting
in Helgeland. The people of
Trollness have risen against the
Germans" And from all over
Norway, from little senders in
the hills, from small villages,
from groups in the cities in cell
lars, from hidden stations on the
farms, the excited word came
back, "Hold fast"
The butcher ran after Gun
mar, who was on his way out to
the road. There is only one
thing to do" he cried. "Shove
off the boats while we have
time, and make for England"
On every corner, men sat in
the snow at their machine guns
and kept firing, holding, when
often they did not know wheth-
err those on the next street were
still alive, whether the Germans
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-01-02
. MIND YOUR
MANNERS

Test your knowledge of
correct social usage by an
swering the following ques-
tiOns, then checking against
the authoritative answers
below:
/. Should you hang up your
own clothes when you are a
guest in hotel, or strew them
all over the room and expect
the maid to hang them up?
2. If you stop at a small no.
tel and find the service is not
as good as in the large hotels,
should you complain about it?
3. If you are stopping in a no
tel, should you use a typewriter
late at night?
a. When you leave hotel,
should you take all the writing
paper from the desk?
5. If a clerk in a store offers
to wait on you and you do not
want anything should you say,
mo. thank you?
What would you do if
You are going to do a quick
errand in your car
(a) Take a neighbours child
along with you without
as king his mothers per-
mission?
OBJ Dont>take the child un-
less you are sure his
mother doesn't object to
his riding with anyone
and then be sure TO ask
her permission?
Answers
/. You should hang up your
own clothes.
2 No.
3. Not unless it is really noise
less.
4. No. Use it while you are
there-but don't carry il away.
5. Yes.
Better What Would You Do"
solution-(b).
Normal jaw pressure of a
man in biting is so to IS pounds,
but the normal bite of a wo-
man is only 25 TO 30 pounds.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-01-02

Normal jaw pressure of a
man in biting is so to IS pounds,
but the normal bite of a wo-
man is only Is TO 80 pounds.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1943-09-09
Americans
And Germans
In Combat

Washington. Sept 9-(AP)-
American troops which landed
in considerable force under the
command of Lt.-Gcncral Mark
w. Clark in the vicinity of Ma
pies are i'm contact with German
forces and making satisfactory
progress. Secretary Of War Slim
son reported today.
The capitulation of Italian
armed forces is hard blow To
the enemy. StimSon told his press
conference. but cannot be inter-
preted rs meaning that the Ital-
ian peninsula can be- occupied
without considerable hard fight
ing.
AS many rs Is To 20 German di.
visions may be in Italy. he aid
and this is Il larger force than IN,
met by the Allies in Tunisia or s,
ely.
Furthermore. he added. the Ger,
mans can increase their strength :,
Italy if they choose.
While the Italian surrender eli
NAKED week uf good news from
all war fronts. said the secretary
the two chief enemicS-C;crr1anv M,
Henderson daily dispatch., 1943-09-09
SMALL FORTUNE is
GONE WITH WIND
IN BALTIMORE, MD.

Baltimore, Sept. 9-(AP)-Money
in the streets of downtown Baltimore
great gobs of it-literally rained
today.
Carried OH sudden gust of wind,
more than $4,000 in bills. was swept
on! of the window of ell eighth-floor
office and went swirling downward.
From his eighth-story perch, the
owner of that airborne fortune, Abb
raham Watner, general manager of
Mcadowbridge Memorial park, in
corporated. watched aghast as I'M
identified pedestrians collected and
made off with much of the heaven
sent wealth.
Watner explained it this way:
He had $4,000 altogether in bills
Henderson daily dispatch., 1943-09-09
Peace Stocks
Are Inactive

New York. Sept. 9-(APD-Peacc
stocks stall were void by the Italian
surrender IN today'S market
Prominent on the upside were In
,elnational Telephone. Pepsi-Cola.
Radio Corporation. L. S. Steel, Beth
lchcm. General Motors. ChrySler. U.
$. Rubber. and Westinghouse
Douglas Aircraft wavered. along
with United Aircraft. American
Telephone. General Electric. Sears
RoebJck and Phelps Dodge.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1943-09-09
Nazis Form Fascist
Unit for Italy
Continued from Page Onc)

agreed that the Allies most likely
nest step J.. an offensive across the
Balkans. They pointed ont that the
20" passa"" across the Adriatic Sc
IS snort. incrr are u great many
available landing places and that Z
nr"a' part TO! ':!r country Is in the
hands Ul friendly aur!rIlIas. They
also reasoned that the expected with
drawal from he Balkans of 30 IIal-
IAN divisions. which had been az
tempting - keep the southeastern
h.ur"p",T countries segregated. vii!
make Hitler position there cor
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