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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-10-14
BY CAROL herman


NEW YORK. - You gals who
spend those lonely nights writing
letters to Johnny Doughboy sta
toned somewhere far from home,
may as we'll know h awful
truth
From Brooklyn to Scotland, the
love bug has bitten the boys in
service-at least those recently in
terviewed at the USO club run by
the National Catholic Community
Service here. In an entirely unof-
fetal poll in which the point blank
question, what kind of letters do
you like to get from the CIR !
friend?" was asked, Dan Cupid
was the hands-doWn winner.
Passion, tons of love and pas
sion, that's what I like my girls
to write" Forrest Cheyne of Sci
kirk, Scotland, now in the Royal
Navy, confided in his Harry Lau-
der burr. L have girls in Edin-
borough. Glasgow and Canada and
I want them all to write love let
tiers whether they mean what they
say or not. 1t makes you forget
the war for a while" he explained
a little alphabetically.
More moderate, Ulysses Vando
of San Juan, Puerto Rico who is
now at engineering college, after
having completed his Army basic,
says he wants his girl friend to
write, "a mixture of two parts
love to one part of what's going
on among my friends"
A Brooklyn boy, Eugene Childs,
summed it up for all the fellows,
when he said, Everyone gets
mail, and you're awfully low
when you don't. If you know that
there is someone who cares, you
get to feeling good inside"
Merchant seaman James Quinn,
of Manchester, England, who
thinks that there are more good
looking girls here than I've seen
in all my life" has a girl Madeline
in Jersey who writes sloppy let
tiers, but Il like 'em full of love, -
he said.
Charles LAGOS of Boston, who
has been in the Navy for three
years, sounded the only dissenting
note in this brigade of "hearts
and flowers warriors. When
first joined up, l used to write
love letters and those were the
kind l liked to get. But then,
after while, a girl took me seri.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-10-14

good and what isn't.
Mrs. Jones fills up basket with
canned goods, pays for it - and
then finds she can't take it all
out of the store. She is shy 10
points.
LINE GROWS LONGER
So she giggles and apologies
while she tries to figure out which
items she can do without, and
while the clerk tries to give her
back the right change in both
points and money. And the line
behind Mrs. Jones lengthens.
Mrs. Brown pays for her groc-
cries, after digging down deep in
large, well-filled handbag. Their
shuts it up and says "Oh" when
the clerk asks for points. She
says she never can remember that
you have to have points fol-
cheese. But she finally finds a
ration book with some disable
points in it, after showing the
clerk four books with the disable
points all gene.
Mrs. johnson expects her groc-
err to keep track of the points she
owes him when she runs in with
out her ration book and explains
that she simply has to have can
of peas.
1t is evident that the feminine
mind never was meant to have
to cope with rationing.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-10-14
Mildred Snead,
1t. Cohen Wed

Miss Mildred Snead, of Piggott,
Ark, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Arthur Snead of Piggott, and Lieut..
Leonard Cohen formerly Of N e W
York now stationed at Post Head
quarters, Wilmington Air Region,
were married Tuesday evening,
Oct. IL, at the home of Capt.
Ralph H. Bluementhal Of 300 Co.
lonial Drive, Forest Hills, W h
Capt. Blumenthal performing the
ceremony.
Lieut.. Cohen had as his best
man, Lieut.. Samuel Schwartz.
Miss Snead wore for her we'd
ding a light blue outfit with black
accessories and a corsage of yellow
roses and lilies of the valley.
Guests at the wedding were:
Lieut.. Col. and Mrs. Oscar c. Tig-
ner, Maj. James Thomson, Jr.,
Capt. John WEIGH, Capt. E. T.
Maben. Lieut.. and Mrs. M. c.
Nichols, Lieut.. Joseph S. Matjas-
ko, Mr.. and Mrs. I. w. Solomon
and I. w. Solomon, Jr.
A reception was given immedi-
ately following the wedding at the
officers club in Wilmington and
was attended by Lieut.. Col. ]. T.
Knight, Jr., Maj. Jack M. Radin-
sky, Capt. A. F. Fourier, Jr.,
Lieut.. and Mrs. Carl Marshall,
Lieut.. Ernest R. Burgess, Lieut..
Charles w. Edwards and Lieut..
Robert H. Casati.
The couple will reside at 403 Colo
NAL Drive, Forest Hills.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-10-14
Brenda Will
You Step Out
With Me Tonight?

know I've been an awful crouch not tax.
Ing you any place lately. But after standing
All day at my new job. my feet darn near
killed me with callouses and burning. Now
I've reformed - or rather my feet have -
thanks to the 1ce-Mint you advised. Never
tried anything that seemed to draw the
pain and fire right out SO fast - and the
way it helps soften callouses is nobody's
business! Been able to get some extra over.
time money = SO what do you say, let's 70
aanclng tonight. You can step on my Ice
Mint feet all you want
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-10-14
Stamp Defiance
Chapter Meetinu
Slated Fridav

Stamp Defiance chapter, Daagb.
tiers of the American Revolution
will meet this Friday afternoon =,
$3.50 O'Clock at the sorosis club.
rooms on North Third street,
Presiding at the meeting Will b.
Mrs. L. c. Grant, regent. w,o
will bring a brief message in IN,
chapter on our War Activities y
Mrs. N. l.. Foy and Mrs. XVI.
Bannerman will give reports q,
the district meeting held October
8 in Fayetteville.
Visiting Daughters are cordiaIlv
invited to attend all chapter ropot
ingS.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-10-14
FATALLY BURNED

CHARLOTTE, Oct. 13.-4-lrs,
Susanna Brice, 26. teacher in >
school at Pineville, died last niab'
in a hospital of burns suffered
when her automobile overturned
near here and ignited. She wss
the daughter of Mr.. and Nrrs
George W. Brice of Charlotte
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-10-14
Women Don't
Get The Point
Of Rationinq
BY RUTH MILLETT

American women have handled
ration books long enough so that
they should pay out ration points
as quickly and easily as they use
money.
But do we? No. Most of us are
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-10-14

still Oracle AL
lens when we get
to the grocery
counter and the
clerk says "seven
blue points and
eight reds" -,
M r S. S m i t h
blithely tears out
u blue p o i n t S
marked "X"-
ly to find they
a r e n t disable.
While a line waits
behind her she
explains how she
never can keep
| track of what is
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-10-14
Officers Wives
To Entertain At
Cards This Morning

The Army Wives bridge lunch
con will be given this Thursday
morning beginning at 9:45 o'clock
and will be held in ST. Johns Tav-
ern on Orange street.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-10-14

Human beings seldom die from
snake bites because the injection
of venom is not usually large
enough to prove fatal.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-10-14

The U. S. now has 1902 war
nurseries and child care centers
which have facilities for 214,865
children.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-10-14

USO entertainers within six
months of 1943 made 21,346 ap-
pearances before armed forces IL
the United States and Hawaii.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-10-14
CLUB CLOCK

Goldenrod chapter 142, Or
der of Eastern Star will hold
the regular meeting Thursday
evening at 8:l5 o'clock at the
Masonic temple, at which time
the degrees Of the order will
be conferred. All members and
visiting Eastern Stars are IN
vited to attend.
The Crepe Myrtle Garden
club meets Friday afternoon at
$3.50 O. clock at the home of Mis-.
Brinkley in Winter Park.
The regular meeting of Re-
bekah Degree will be held
Thursday evening at 8 o'clock
in the Odd Fellows hall. Mem
bers of the degree from out
of the city are cordially jn-
Vited,
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-10-14
TOMORROW'S MENU
Cat the Bsic Z Every Day.

TOMORROW'S MENU
Cat the Bsic Every Day.
BREAKFAST: Grapes, oat-
meal, cracked wheat t o a S t,
applesauce, coffee, milk.
LUNCH: Split pea soup, and
toast squares, raw and left
over vegetable salad, enriched
bread, butter or fortified mar
garine, fruit bowl, tea, milk.
DINNER: Tomato juice, old
fashioned roast of pork, bread
stuffing, brown gravy, cram
berry sauce, roasted potatoes,
spinach, enriched bread, but
ter or fortified margarine, GIN
ger pears, coffee, milk.
Poultry is one of the Basic Sever
Foods.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-10-14

filling the centers of baked apples
with it, also on hot oatmeal, with
a little butter or fortified marga-
1.iraa
Evening star., 1943-05-21
Army Sends 3 PHvotes to G. H.,
Finds They're Ex-Professors
Heidelberg Graduate Also Discovered
In Group 'QuoIified' for Academic Course

Army classification officers at
Georgetown University have turned
up three former university pro-
fessors and distinguished German
scholar among the miscellaneous
buck privates" sent there for as
signment under the Army's special
ized training program, 1t was
learned today.
Col. Denham B. Grafton, COM
mandant of the Army STAR unit
was no less astounded by the dis
covery than was the Rev. Stephen
F. McNamee, S. j., Georgetown
dean, who is chairman of the
faculty committee cooperating in
testing the soldiers.
The four privates were identified
as George J. Siefert, 80. who taught
Latin and Greek for six years at the
Catholic University; P. M. Sweezy
33, Harvard professor of economics
since 1884; j. Thomas Dale, D.
teacher of German at the Univers-
ity of Minnesota for three years,
and Leopold Basnizki, 30, native
German and graduate of Heidelberg
University. Each of the men is a
fluent linguist.
One Prefers Soldier Life.
Col. Grafton said the disposition
of the four soldiers has imposed a
problem which has been put up to
the War Department. 1t was quite
evident that it was unnecessary to
send them to college for study. One
of them, whom he did not identify
doesn't want to study or teach
having enlisted in the Army to get
a real taste Of soldering. Their
cases we're referred to the depart
ment in the belief that their special
talents can be utilized as Army in
structors in foreign languages and
studies involving occupational areas
Meanwhile, the four distinguished
scholars are going the rounds OF
Army life and disciplining at George
town until the War Department
decides what to do about them
Col. Grafton said that some of
them had made as high as 80 per
cent in the academic tests, record
Evening star., 1943-05-21
Mrs. Rand|e Faces
.2-to-10-Year Term
In Youths Staying
MonsIouehter Verdict
Returned; Sentence
Scheduled Tuesday

BY the Associated Press.
ANNAPOLIS, May 21.-Mrs. Helen
Aileen Randle. 31-year- old wife of
Ulmo S. Randle, Washington and
Annapolis sportsman, faced a max
imum sentence of 10 years in prison
today for the fatal shooting of Allen
Wiley, II, in a case which her at
torney said was "redolent with pas
sion."
Mrs. Randle was found guilty OF
manslaughter by jury of IL men
which last night deliberated for two
hours and a quarter after hearing
the attractive defendant tearfully
deny she had Intentionally fired the
shot which resulted in the death of
the high school student.
Sentencing Due Tuesday.
Chief Judge Ridgely P. Melvin of
Anne Arundel County Circuit Court
said he would pronounce sentence
at $50 Am. Tuesday.
The Maryland criminal code pro-
vides that conviction of manslaugh-
ter shall carry a prison term of 2
to 10 years, or a fine not to exceed
IS 900, or both.
Mrs. Randle, who showed virtually
no emotion during her two-day trial
except for the period she spent on
the witness stand, was calm as the
jury's verdict was read.
The jury, in finding Mrs. Randle
innocent of murder. refused to heed
the pleadings of States Attorney
Marvin I. Anderson who had asked
for a murder verdict without spe-
cifically mentioning the death
nenalty.
Evening star., 1943-05-21
Marine Private Shot
FLEEING Shore Patrol

Pvt. Joseph Witcufsky. 10. ma :
rine, was shot in the back early
today in the 800 block of F street
NV. as he attempted to escape the
custody of Navy shore patrol.
Pvt. Witcufsky, whose home is in
Shenandoah. Pa, is attached to the
Navy Guard Battalion, Twenty
third street and Constitution ave-
nue. NV. He was taken to Emer-
gency Hospital. where his condition
today was termed satisfactory"
Frank Bodner, shore patrol, third
class, said to have fired the shot
that felled Witcufsky, is in custody
of naval authorities pending in
vestigation. He told them that his
patrol had arrested Witcufsky in
the 500 block of Ninth street NV
and that shots had been fired when
he attempted to escape by running
up Ninth street and east on F street.
He stated that Witcufsky ignored
commands to halt and ignored a
warning shot fired over his head.
Evening star., 1943-05-21
Nearby Grocer Faces
Price Case Heorinq

Sam Shanker, operator OF Coun-
try Garden MarketS-three in Ar
lington County and one in Alexan-
dria-today faced suspension order
hearing on alleged price ceiling vio-
lations, scheduled yesterday by
Herbert T. Williams, district OPA
enforcement official for Virginia.
Mr.. Williams said the hearing was
recommended by the Richmond
OPA Office and approved by the At
lanta regional office He said it will
be an open meeting" at the Airing
ton Courthouse. to be held the last
of this month or the first of June.
Officials of the Arlington Ration
Board said the hearing will be the
first of its kind held in the county.
Board officials said the scheduled
hearing followed accumulated COM
plants" against Mr.. Shanker for
ceiling price violations in his Ar
lington stores.
These complaints were forwarded
to Richmond, it was said, and an
immediate investigation was ordered
by Brig. Gen. j. Fulmer Bright, OPA
director for Virginia.
II the charges against Mr.. Shanker
are sustained, it was stated, he faces
suspension of his license to do busi-
ness In the county.
Evening star., 1943-05-21

charge with T. s. BetteridEe.
breaking into the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. John Buckley, 1868 Van Hazen
street NV, on May l.
Assistant United States Attorney
John B. Diamond said eight charges
of joyriding involving Betteridge
would be presented directly to the
grand jury.
According to Detective r. M Kirby
Of the eighth precinct. the youth re-
moved Mrs. Buckey's purse from
her car parked in Meadowbrook
while she was attending tennis
match. The detective said that the
youth found Mrs. Buckey's address
in the purse. as we'll as the house
keys and later that day entered her
home. The car was not touched
the detective said. The defendant
is charged with removing clothing
and a radio from the Buckley resi-
dence.
The camera eye Of 16-year-old
Donald Schulze of Silver Spring,
Md. was credited by police with
leadlng TO Better1dgeS capture Mon
day. Police had sought Betteridge
for more than month.
Detective Kirby said that the boy
recognized Betteridge in Silver
Spring Md 5-and-l0-cent store
from a photograph of the suspect
which police had distributed. The
boy called Montgomery County
police, who arrested Betteridge.
Police have been questioning Bet
teridge in connection with the hit
run traffic death on May II of Miss
Cora Frank, SO, of 1916 Warren
street NV. The woman was killed
instantly by a wildly driven car as
she crossed the street in the 5000
block of Western avenue NV.
Evening star., 1943-05-21
1ydings Sees Job Chaos
Within Week After War
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, May Ex-senator
Tydings, Democrat, of Maryland
predicted last night that within a
week after the war ends industry
would lay off 2O,OO0,OOO employees
and that the Government would
cancel approximately s75,0O0,00 900
in war contracts.
Senator Tydings, addressing the
Baltimore Association of Credit Men
and the Credit Fraternity of Balti-
more, said that in addition 5000 900
men in the armed forces would want
to return to civilian life and jobs.
He warned that it would require
much business skill to dispose of
vast quantities of supplies on hand
for the armed forces. Value of these
supplies expected to be on hand at
the close of the war was placed at
about $4,000 100000, the Senator
said.
Evening star., 1943-05-21
Alexandria Boy Scouts
To Hold Annual Camporee

Alexandria Boy Scouts will hold
their annual camporee tomorrow
and Sunday in a six-acre woodland
near Glendale avenue and Russell
road.
The csmporee, a city-wide scout
encampment designed to demon
strate Scout camping abilities, usu-
ally is held in the country. Due
to gasoline restrictions, however, it
will be held within the city limits.
The camporee will begin with a
council fire at 7:3O pm. tomorrow,
and will continue through Sunday
with scouts giving demonstrations
OF scouting learned during the year.
Alexandria residents have been in
vited to attend the event.
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Evening star., 1943-05-21
Officials 10 Confer
On Fighting Menace
OF Vice Conditions
La Roe Criticizes Policy
Of Soft PedoIine'
VenereuI Disease

Criticizing what he termed soft
pedaling" of the venereal disease
problem here, Wilbur La Roe, jr.,
member of the District Parole Board,
said today plans are in progress for
general meeting of city officials to
combat the vice menace.
"An unfortunate feature of our
whole attitude toward venereal dis
ease is our tendency to soft-pedal
our treatment of it," the attorney
said.
He said that no time or place for
the meeting has been set yet but sew
eral District officials have already
expressed their willingness to confer
on the subject
Military Effort Injured.
I'VE have pursued hush-hush
policy" he said, apparently on the
theory that the subject is not a nice
one to talk about. Now we see the
military effort injured by our own
hesitation"
Mr.. LaRoe, who is chairman OF
the Washington Federation of
Churches Civic Affairs Committee,
declared that "it is time for the
church people and other people to
wake up and fight this evil with the
same frankness and the same cour-
age which we show in fighting tu-
berculoSis and smallpox"
He said one of the chief problems
which the proposed meeting would
discuss is the need for systematic
examinations of persons afflicted
with yenereal diseases.
Judges Will Attend.
zone of the chief difficulties we
run into" he said, "is this lack of
systematic examinations. If the laws
need changing-we must see that
the necessary changes are made"
He said that Municipal Court
judges would be invited to the con-
ference, in addition to police and
other officials.
He said that the House District
Subcommittee on Public Health,
which recently concluded hearings
on the subject, had done q good
job. in bringing the subject out
into the light of day where We can
take real crack at It,"
Evening star., 1943-05-21
) Hampton Roads Cities
Urqed 10 Consolidate
BY the Associated Press

BY Inc Associated Press.
NORFOLK, Va. May 21.-The
consolidation of Norfolk. Portsmouth
and Newport News into one great
city was advocated in a Maritime
day address last night by Capt. R. B.
Hall, U. S. c. G.. captain of the
Port of Hampton Roads.
Before Hampton Roads can be-
come the great world port it should
be. there must be wholehearted CO.
operation of all of its people living
on its shores to make it great, Capt.
Hall said in a speech before the
Norfolk Portsmouth Traffic Club
"As the first step toward this
greater port the speaker said, II
think municipal consolidatio is
necessary. Consolidate Norfolk
Portsmouth and Newport News and
the several smaller communities in
one great municipal unit, with one
mayor, one council and one aim and
ambition.
Such nsolidation would
strengthen your standing as a city
nationally and in world commerce
and - all the functions of city
government would be strengthened" )"
Evening star., 1943-05-21
Final Action Slated
Next Week on Two
District Measures
Senate Change Requires
House to Act on
JobIess Tox Bill

Congress probably VIII take final
unemployment compensation plan
for Washington and on the bill to
permit women in essential industries
here to work more than 48 hours a
week during the war, both of which
passed the senate yesterday.
The bills had passed the House
previously, but must go back there
for action on Senate amendments.
Chairman Randolph of the House
District Committee said he would
call them up Monday. The House
may accept the changes directly, or
send them to conference commit
tee for adjustment. Ultimate ap-
| proval is expected.
Meanwhile, the bill to repeal the
law assessing half the cost of high
way improvements against abutting
property owners. which also passed
the Senate yesterday, goes to the
President for signature. No changes
were made in the House text
Experience Rating Provided.
The unemployment compensation
bill gives Washington the expert
/ ence rating system of taxation, al
ready in effect in 81 States. In
place of the present 81 per cent fiat
rate on all employers. which has
built up an unnecessarily large re-
serve, the tax would scale down.
ward from 81 per cent to one-tenth
of per cent. according to each en-
ployer's record in stabilizing en-
ploymment. ss
Under the fat rate. the reserve
has mounted to s36,0O0,000, which
House and Senate committees found
was in excess of the needs.
The bill also increases benefit
payments to the unemployed from
| S18 a week for 18 weeks, to $40 a
week for 20 weeks, and safeguards
the status of employees who leave to
| join the armed forces.
The only material Senate change
awaiting House action eliminates
provision that would have applied
the tax to any non profit religious,
charitable or educational organiza-
ton If it engages in activity to in
f1uence legislation.
Not Blanket Exemption.
Existing law prohibits women in
industry here from working more
than eight hours day or more than
six days week The House bill
authorized the lifting of both re-
strictions. The Senate bill requires
one day off in seven, but permits
women to work up to 81 hours in a
week. It is not a blanket exemption,
but allows the Minimum Wage and
Industrial Safety Board to grant
exemptions in essential industries.
The Senate also fixed June 30, 1945,
as the expiration date, instead of six
months after the war.
Repeal of the assessment on
abutting property owners for high
way paving is in line with a trend
to place this burden on a city wide
basis. The cost would be borne en-
tirely by the gasoline tax motor
vehicle fund. Assessments would
still be levied for curb and gutter
work.
Senator Burton. Republican. of
Ohio presented the assessment bill,
while Senator Bushfield, Republi- :
can. of South Dakota handled the
other two bills.