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The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-13
CHAPTER FORTY


1t was impossible to keep he1
plans or her news from Andrea
who had learned from Mrs. Eiche
all that Beth had planned to keep
secret. Beth was relieved, in way
to be able to take her troubles tc
Andrea for change.
$50 you can't get a job manag.
ling house.
! That was Sunday. On Saturday
Beth had asked for the morning
eft and spent the whole oay inter.
viewing real estate companies.
No. she said dolefully. l was
right about the IDEA, but it seems
that all the jobs like that are filled
ard there's lorg list of more ex.
perienced women waiting for any
that may come up. l got a nice
brush-off everywhere l went. They
seem to think that because you're
Under SO, husbanGless and childless
tfat you don't know anything
about running a home ~
II don't think we'd like it any.
way Andrea was busy removing
nail polish from ner rose-tinted fin.
gertips. Running UP and d w +
stairs, getting complaints, worry
ing about menus
Beth favored her with a short
glance. Il could get to like it, if
had the chance =
IF you had $4,000, do you really
think you could swing it?'
Il know I could. It'll tie a Iona
time before We shington has any
ICONS on it's hands"
If l got my insurance money!
andrea began.
Beth laughed dtyly. up to now
you've made plans for spending
about forty thousand of that my
thlcal ten that you may get by
text year. Darling, l appreciate
the spirit, but your suggestions are
limited. Next thing you'll be say
D:g that if you could get five thou.
sand from Denms-"
Andrea put down the nail polish
remover. folded her hands in her
-ap, and began 10 whistle softly.
But I'll keep trying. I'm not 60
ing to abandon a plan as good as
that one Beth said grimly.
What was the name of the
woman on Dornlee drive Andrea
asked. pausing only to ask if be.
tore going On with her whistling.
Mrs. Robert Pride. IT'S a won.
derful house. Not like this one al
All It's light and I wouldn't have
had to repaint the walls They're
al cream color and in good con-
Girjon. Her furniture isn't bad, eli.
tier. All studio beds and painted
blessing tables and wicker chairs
IN the bedrooms All they'd need
would be ruffly curtains and some
new lamp-shades from the dime
store"
Don't cry over spilled milk,
Andrea advised her. Something
will turn up. L think I'll run up and
set dressed s-..-. .. 49,. D..
Going out?''
I'm hmm
Something, Be1h thought desper.
ately, had better turn up very soon
In three months EnGrears baby
would be born. If made Beth dizzy
to think how fast the days were
speeding by. .fe
1t was Wednesday. half of an.
other precious week gone when
Beth got the telephone call from
Mrs. Pride.
She's called three times this
afternoon Mrs. Eichel said, put
ting her hand ever the m h
piece.
Beth's heart was beating madly
as she took the receiver and said
Hello, this is Beth kinnan."
''Oh, Miss Kinnan, Marysou
Pride. Did you get a job YETI"
Well, no, not what l was talk
ing about, but l told you I couldn''
afford -
I know, my dear, but something
has happened. I've sold the house
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BONBARDIER SHOT DOWN

47CEORY, Dec. y. -(P)- End
Ii .H9ries S. Lail, Jr., 21-year-
FL t1abardier from Hickory. was
h down in the European theatre
i Wer November %, according to
message received from the War
j. "a ment today by his parents,
VI. md Mrs. c, S. Lail, ST., of
hickory.
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Tide Water Praised
Fer Its Work In War
Chest Campaign Here

The Community Chest and
war Fund campaign directors at
tribute much of the drives
Su"cess not only to N. E. Drex-
'eF president of the Tide Wa
ter Power Company, who was
general chairman, but to the
company itself, which contri-
buted half its display floor
SPACE for headquarters and Of
lie staff.
Among organizational gifts
not previously mentioned are
lhose from the United Brother
sood Of Carpenters and join
tIs' Local 1l65, the Internation-
al Brotherhood of Electrical
workers, Local 495. the United
y. of Journeymen
Plumbers and Steamfitters,
Local 529, and the Brotherhood
Of Painters, Decorators and
rsfefnansers, which totaled
''O' This is in addition to all
contributions from individual
members.
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RADIO
m WMFD Wilmington
T. 400 KC
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-ninsical Clock
~ INV naiiy War Journal with Martin
MnRnsical Clock.
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'''' Mcneil
N ,oo-."Singo' ,.
,o'N~ andrini Continentales.
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liao-FR5 ejigion ana the New Works.
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eredi+ation Period Rev ]. A.
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q. The Mystery Chef.
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s ~ Song by Morton Downey.
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., Time' Views the News.
1 I'M Blue Frolics.
~ 1.-The Sea Hound.
s@a-Hop HaGrigah.
s5- -Te-rv and the Pirates
ia - Ter Ten Two Four Ranch Party.
t:t W Tsws - Wilmington Star-News.
M pob Hamilton - ryan.
,os Jimmy Morgal- Show.
,5a Watch the World Go BY Earl
o,, GTacie Lee and Her Men of Note.
s,5O- Blind Date.
a. Victory Parade of Spotlight Bands.
W. Hsr-y Wismer, Sports.
m AN Gram Swing.
m m4;-Out of the Shadows.
% io.sS National Radio Forum.
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Pfolen feeds are exceptionally
SNORT Feed them wisely.
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SENTENCING SET

Ito Be Continued)
Evening star., 1943-05-14

highest scholastic honors from
Fishburne Military Academy at
Waynesboro, Va, in 1886. He later
took an engineering course at the
University of Maryland.
After serving as a junior engineer
with the Public Roads Administra-
ton at Roanoke, Va. and later
transferring to the Justice Depart
ment, he resigned in the spring of
1912 to enter the infantry school
of service command at Fort Ben
ming, Ga.
He landed in the North African
zone early in January.
In his student days he was prom
inent in athletics, having won sew
eral letters and medals. While at
Maryland, he was secretary of the
junior chapter of the American So
ciety of Civil Engineers, member
OF the Scabbard and Blade honorary
military organization, and member
OF Sigma Nu, social fraternity.
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be permitted to testify on the
measure.

be permitted to testify on the
measure.
Committee attaches refused re-
lease of the letter in advance of the
hearing, but 1t was reported to have
expressed disfavor of the Kilday
bill and previously published COM
munication from Secretary of War
Stimson expressed unequivocal op-
position to the Wheeler proposal.
Both Selective Service and War
Department officials will testify at
Mondays hearings Maj. Gen. Lewis
B. Hershey, Selective Service direc-
tor, recently told a House committee
that his bureau would have to begin
drafting fathers by August l "or
sooner" to meet the need for $780,
600 more men in the armed forces
this year
Would Set Up State Quotas.
Under the House bill. sponsored
by Representative Kilday, Demo-
crat, of Texas, State draft quotas
would be substituted for local
board quotas and married men with
children would be deferred until
after the induction (first) of single
men with no dependents (second)
single men with collateral depend
ents, and (third) married men
without children, in the l8 to 81
bracket.
The Kilday bill does not 60 far
enough, in my opinion" Senator
Wheeler told reporters, adding,
There's no reason why fathers
should be called this year at all.
THE substitute I intend to offer
would provide for their exemption
until January l, 1914, and for the
induction of other registrants on
a Nation wide. rather than a State
quota basis. There is no reason
why married men should be taken
in one State while bachelors 60
free in others.
Seeks Exams for All.
II also intend to propose Army
physical examinations for all regis
trants, so that every man can be re-
lieved of uncertainty as to his physi-
cal fitness
Selective Service officials said full
scale pre-induction examinations
would be unavoidable" for three
reasons.
l. There are not enough doctors.
2 Many men have disqualified
tions that subsequently correct
themselves or are eliminated by
surgery or treatment.
3. Physician standards sometimes
are lowered, and deficiencies that
disqualify man at one time might
not do so at another.
Evening star., 1943-05-14

Sweden, during the war, is busy
building families for the future.
Bicycles and baby buggies are the
most common vehicles on Stockholm
streets. After many years of dis
turbingly low birth rate, Sweden is
picking up. The Swedes are in
terested in advancing their popula-
ton far beyond the present 6,0O0,0 900.
The social welfare scheme includes
subsidizing rentals for the parents of
large families.
Sweden has had its war casualties
men lost on Swedish ships serving
the Allies. Since the wars start,
Sweden has lost 167 ships, many of
them beyond the Allied blockade
guarding the Skagerack entrance
into the Baltic from the North Sea.
Others have been lost inside the
Skagerack blockade line. The gross
tonnage lost is 01,918. Seven hun
dred and lightweight Swedes have
lost their lives in these ships.
Shipbuilders here plan to COM
plete 100000 tons of new vessels by
the end of 1943. They are building
them with ship plates from Germany
which promises to send Sweden
100000 tons Of plates in exchange for
Sweden building Germany 100000
tons of shipping. Germany has sent
IN the plates for the Swedish ships
but not for the ships to be built for
the notwithstanding footnote on
German efficiency. Sweden has de-
llvered no ships to the Germans.
Negotiating for Trade.
The Swedish delegation now In
London is negotiating to increase
trade with the western world, though
the Allied and Axis blockade now
limits her to five ships a month
Gothenburg safe conduct traffic.
SWeden's existence depends on for
elgn trade because of the heavy in
naturalization of the country that
cannot consume all her own goods
and which needs coal from abroad.
The possibility of a coming attack
on the continent may force Sweden
into the war but the surface attitude
is gay. Stockholm restaurants along
the waterways are crowded by 3
o'clock in the afternoon. Thou
sands spill into the countryside on
sundays for walking. Liquor is
strictly rationed but it is possible to
buy champagne and dance on Sum
days, as well as other days. in
1ashlonable places like the Opera
Kalleren.
But, preparing for the worst, cura-
TORS OF the Nordic Museum and
Grlpsholm castle have moved their
priceless art treasures into under
ground hiding places for the dura-
ton.
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Education Foundation
Honors Bishop Leonard
BY the Associated Pres.

BY the Associated Press.
WILMINGTON, Del, May 14.-A
Christian Education Founda ton"
In memory of Bishop Adna Wright
Leonard, killed in a plane crash in
Iceland, was approved yesterday at
the Annual Peninsula Conference of
the United Methodist Church.
The conference is a part of the
Washington area, which Bishop
Leonard headed T. Blair Ely of
Wilmington proposed fund of at
least s500,000 to promote scholar
ships and Christian projects in
which the bishop was interested
Appointed to a committee for the
formation and incorporation of the
foundation are Mr.. Ely, J. Millard
Tawes of Crisfield, Md, State con-
troller; the Rev. J. j. Bunting of
Elkton, Md. and the Rev. o. A..
Barcley, president of Wesley Junior
College, Dover, Del.
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saved many who braved stormy seas
In small boats in an attempt to
reach Pantelleria OR Sicily.
The fugitives, lashed by high
waves, even flashed their lights in
many instances so that the British
ships could pick them up, Mr.
Tucker said.
Ship Blown Up.
Paul Kern Lee, an Associated
Press correspondent who sped from
a British naval base to Cap Bon
on British destroyer as the battle
neared its climax, told in a delayed
dispatch dated May 10 how he had
watched the Royal Navy seal up the
seaway escape path, bombing Cap
Bon harbors and blowing up fugi-
tive Axis ships.
The Allies, balancing their books
OF three years fighting in Africa,
tailed three italian and two Ger
man armies obliterated, with Hitler
spending his military reserves in
the desert much as Napoleon frit-
tered his strength in the Spanish
Wars.
Col. Gen. Jurgen Won Arnim, who
commanded the Axis armies in Tu-
nlsia after Marshal Erwin Rommel
quit the battlefield was accorded
the treatment befitting captive of
his rank, while arrangements were
made to herd his imprisoned men
into permanent camps.
Many, it was indicated, may be
given the opportunity to work, as
paid prisoners of war, in Africa's
rehabilitation. For others, prison
camps in Canada and the United
States-With work in wheat fields if
they want it-were probable.
36 Divisions Knocked Out.
Every Italian armored division
that ever existed and Germany's
best and oldest armored divisions
were among the 36 knocked out in
the African campaign.
despite this, the German
radio broadcast a special COM
munique which sought to min
lmlze the Tunisian defeat by
asserting that the Axis troops
had scored by tying up strong
Allied forces in North Africa and
then had bowed only to hunger,
thirst and lack of ammunition.
"They had to concede to the
lack OF supplies and not to the
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Early Draft Of Fathers
Hinted in Army Move;
Senate Fight Nears
Pre-lnduetion FurIoughs
heightened; Ki|doy Bill
Hearings Start Monday
BY the Associated Press.

--SHo~-~>N~~
The Nations fathers we're
caught in a tug-of-war between
the executive and legislative
branches of the Government to-
day, with the former apparently
seeking to pull them into mill
tary service soon and the latter
starting a move to hold them
out-at least until next year.
With impending new Allied Of
fensives limiting that a call for
thousands of more fighting men
might soon be in order, the Army
extended the furlough period given
new inductees from seven to IA
days and directed that it be in
creased to three weeks by Septem-
ber l.
Although no reason was given for
the move, oSler than that one week
caused hardships in some cases, :"
it was understood that the War
Department felt fathers would need
more time than single Or childless
married men to settle their per-
sonal and business affairs when
inducted Thus, the announce
ment was interpreted as heralding
the drafting of fathers on a large
scale in the near future.
Al the same time. however, Chair
man Reynolds of the Senate Mill
tary Affairs Committee paved the
way today for a new Congressional
fight to exempt fathers for the rest
of l943 by calling for hearings to
start Monday on the House.
approved Kildav bill.
While the bill would only delay
the induction of fathers, Senator
Wheeler, Democrat, of Montana, a
member of the committee, said he
would seek to substitute a fiat
exemption proposal for the House
measure.
Senator Reynolds action was
prompted by a communication from
the War Department yesterday re-
questing that high-ranking officials
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Final War Workers
Canteen 10 Be Held
Al 3 pm. Tomorrow
The Star Sponsors Show;
Navy Department
To Act as Host

An ll-Washington cast will sup
ply the entertainment for the final
War Workers Canteen of the season
at 8 pm. tomorrow in the South
Interior Building.
Tomorrow nights show. sponsored
by The Star, is expected to lure one
OF the largest turnouts since the
Canteen was inaugurated in early
spring. Government workers from
all States are invited, departure
from the former rule setting aside
nights for certain States. Another
novelty will be having the Navy
Department in the role of host. It
is planned to have various depart
ments act as hosts next autumn
when the Canteen is resumed.
Miss Izetta Jewel, stage star, will
direct the show, with Bill Herson
acting as master Of ceremonies. Au-
ditions for the program were con-
Quoted by the District Welfare and
Recreation Association and officials
In charge are satisfied the cast will
present lively and balanced
performance with an abundance Of
laughs.
Mr.. Herson will award War bonds
and introduce personalities from the
professional show world and heroes
from the battle zones, in addition
to the hometown talent, much of
which has been recruited from the
Navy Department. The cost of
bonds and refreshments, as well as
all incidental expenses connected
with the evening, will be borne by
The Star.
The quick, spontaneous success OF
the Washington canteen has in
splred other communities to seize
the idea as means of bolstering
morale and providing wholesome en-
tertainment for war workers in
other communities. Denver, st.
Louis and Evanston, Ill, are among
the cities that have made inquiries
about the project and which are
believed planning to start similar
ventures.
Admission tomorrow night is free.
but those attending will be required
to present tickets which may be OBJ
tanned from their employe coun-
selors.
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Speedy Senate Action
On Trade Pacts Bill
Promised by Leaders
House Passes Measure,
342 to S.; George Will
Seek Full 3-Yeur Limit
BY the Associated Press.

A House-approved bill renew
ing President Roosevelt's author
ity to make reciprocal trade
agreements was promised speedy
Senate consideration today with
administration leaders express
ing determination to block any
move to give Congress the right
to pass on each pact.
Further than that, Chairman
George of the Senate Finance Com
mittee said he would do his utmost
to give the executive branch the
full three-year extension it asked,
rather than the two years voted
yesterday by the House.
Senator George said he would call
the bill before the committee at
the earliest possible moment after
the Senate disposes of the pay-as-
you-go income tax collection bill,
now entering its third day of de-
bate.
Connally Weighs Moves.
Discussing reports that group
of Republican Senators would in
sist that Congress be given veto
power over the agreements, Senator
Connally, Democrat, of Texas, a
member of the Finance Committee.
said he believed the failure of
similar move in the House would
scare 'em off"
The House voted down the veto
proviso ITO to 149 and passed the
bill by a vote of 342 to 65 though
Republican-Democratic coalition
trimmed the extension time from
three to two years, by a count of
1876 to 1853.
An Associated Press poll last
month showed that 40 of SO senators
who were willing to commit them
selves at that time were prepared
to vote for an extension of the trade
program without change. The 10
others reached were either fatty
opposed to extension or demanded
substantial amendments.
In addition to the veto power, some
Republican Senators were known to
be discussing the advigability of an
amendment which would cause in
divldual treaties to lapse one year
after the expiration of the act itself.
Stands Taken In House.
House Democrats. declaring the
issue was the willingness of the
United States to trade and collab-
crate with other nations in the post
war era, contended the reciprocal
program was needed not only to
build Americas trade but as a means
OF obtaining world peace and pre-
venting another global war.
Republican opponents countered
that the act in its present form
violated the Constitution by trans
ferring tariff and treaty powers
from the legislative to the execu-
tive branch and urged that Con-
gress "recapture" its powers. The
opponents described the history of
the reciprocal policy as a story Of
dismal failures"
AS the bill came before the
House it called for the usual three
year extension Of the act originally
passed in 1884, but the Republicans,
Joined by segment of Democrats
headed by Representative West of
Texas, drove through the amend
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onslaught of the enemy" the
Germans said. However, quanti-
ties Of food along with arms
were reported taken by the Allies.
In Cairo a conference of the
Allied Middle East council of
military and civil leaders was
concluded. An Official state
ment said, 1T so happened that
the conference conceded with
the final defeat of the Axis in
North Africa, but that was only
fortuitous."
(The conference was under
stood to have discussed problems
of the Middle East as a theater
of active war;
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760 Mexican Workers
Leave for U. S. Jobs

BNthe Associated Press.
MEXICO CITY, May IA group
OF 760 Mexican agricultural
unskilled workers was on its way
today to work on railroads in the
United States under a new inter-
national agreement.
Labor Minister Francisco Tur-
jillo Gurria, speaking to the group
before it left here, told them they
were soldiers of democracy, SOL
diers of Mexico who are going to
fight with the patriotic spirit that
throbs in every Mexican"
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ment making the extension only
two years
During the four-day debate, Dem
ocrats charged Republicans with
"isolationism,' and heard themselves
accused of trying to shape the post
war world by New Deal blue
print.
After winning the fight for limit
OF two years on the extension, many
Republicans then voted with the
Democrats to defeat all efforts to
amend the original act. Several
Republicans, previously opposed to
the act, explained they were voting
against amendments and for the
two-year extension because of the
world situation. Some said they
were not in disagreement with the
general policy of reciprocity, but on
inherent defects in the administra-
tion's program"
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Six Judges Borrowed
To Hear Divorce Cases
By the Associated Press

0y VIIe ASSOClHleu PreSS.
KANSAS CITY, May l4.-It was
matrimonial emancipation day."
explained one hurried, harried law
yer; women are earning their own
living nowadays. you know.
Circuit Judge Ray G. Cpwan bor-
rowed services of six other judges
yesterday to help him hear a rush
OF divorce suits unprecedented in
courthouse memories.
Marriage ties were severed on
three floors of the building at the
rate of one every minutes until
AZ cases had been heard. An all
time peak of 615 are on the docket
for the current court term.