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The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-03
Coal Mine Seizure

With strikes in coal mines amounting almost
TO a general shutdown and production VIZ
tually halted, President Roosevelt has taken
the only means possible to force resumption
of work by ordering Secretary 1ckes to take
oyer the mines with authority to call upon the
Army for any assistance needed.
If the attitude of the men has been clearly
stated, this arrangement will be entirely salts
factory to them They have been reported fire.
quently as saying they will not work for private
operators without a contract, but are willing
to work for the government as they did when
Secretary Ickes was last the big boss We will
know how they feel when the Presidents time
limit for return to the pits expires tomorrow
A fair guess is that the great majority OF the
strikers will be on hand when the whistle
blows.
But, however this seizure OF the mines dis
poses of the present trouble, it is at best
only an expedent, and does not clear the at
mosphere with any degree of permanency.
Should the government return the mines to
their owners and operators the same cond-
ton that has caused such a heavy loss of
production this year is only too liable to re-
turn, and the whole problem pe presented
again.
The solution of the labor problem, whether
IN mines or any other industry, has not been
found The sore has merely been covered, not
cauterized
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-03
British Look. Ahead

While the United States wonders how it will
retain a hold upon the many airfields it has
built abroad and gain commanding position
in postwar aviation, Great Britain is build
ing planes to carry fifty passengers. Obvious
ly John Bull has no intention of allowing
Uncle Sam to get the jump on him i'll air travel.
It may be asked how it is possible for the
British, knowing the part air power must take
in the final defeat of the Axis and the neces-
sity for producing more and more war planes
can be reconciled to divert even part of
their production to commercial planes in the
present crisis The answer is that the British
are forward looking people with an eve to
the main chance.
Sure of ultimate victory, and canny to the
core, they are already drafting plans to adj
vantage themselves when peace comes. It is
not certain that Americans are justified in
condemning them for this. Rather, it would
SEEM they are to be envied-and outplayed at
their own game.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-03
Daily Praye,
FOR THE DESIRE TO PRAY

In the assurance that the issues
Of this war are in Thy hand, o
Lord God Omnipotent, we direct
our hearts to Thee in dumb sup
plication. Teach us to pray; for
we know not how to pray Alright.
Quicken in our breasts the in
stinct to turn to Thee, in childlike
dependence. Morning, noon and
night, and in the hours between,
may the impulse to pray be with
lis, sending our supplications wing
ing to Thy throne. Make us con-
scious of the myriads who are
pray for victory, for the safety
of loved ones, and for a peace ami
mated by justice and good will.
May Thy mysterious Spirit stir all
the people to pray, so that our
Nation may follow the course that
is in accordance with Thy will.
Break the proud purposes and de-
vices Of our cruel foes; and an
swer the prayer Of faith with vic
tory. Hear and answer our prayer
@ Lord. offered in the name of that
best Lover of mankind. Jesus
Christ. Amen.-W.T E.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-03
The Literary Guidepost

that certain of our slick maya
zines exact from certain of their
correspondents. This is a blessing
for his readers.
The story of Desert Conquest"
begins with Rommel blasting
through the British in the direc-
ton of Cairo. 1t records the end
OF that swing; and the stalemate
that followed, and the turn of the
tide toward the west once more.
All the familiar place-names of
the campaign pass in review: Al
Alamein, Mersa Matruh, Tobruk,
Bengasi, Ell Agheila. The realign-
ment that followed the landings
is included and SO is Rommels
burst through the Kasserine Gap
and his retreat therefrom.
The Mareth Line. the Akarit
Line Sfax and Kairouan and
sousse and Mateur follow. And
then on May 7 of this year Tunis
Tails to the LIST and 9th Armies,
and Bizerte to our own End Corps,
with the end of the beginning just
SIX days later. These things are
commonly spoken of as the ma
terlals OF history, and it is a good
tnlng to find them presented so
soon and with such happy balance
MIR: Hill has an eye for big events.
and a feeling for the human side
OF war as well. This is enough for
one young man to have.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-03
Crimean Success

The Russians success in cutting off large
body OF German troops in the Crinea is one
more step toward the defeat of Hitler But
1t must not be counted as the beginning of
the end on the Eastern front. The Germans
lost larger force at Stalingrad and have
been putting up good fight ever since.
1t is not definitely known how many have
been trapped in the Crimea, but conservative
estimates place the number at 100000 or less.
There were more when the Russians gained the
upper hand at the bend of the Dnleper but
many have escaped. Now, 100000 men is but a
small part of the German total IN Russia. The
seven divisions they represent hardly dents the
200 divisions understood to be distributed
along the Eastern front.
This is emphasized, not to detract one iota
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-03
Punish Careless Drivers

The number of collisions sideswipes and
stop street intersections, instead of falling
off, as they should in these days when it is so
difficult to have repairs, even of the simplest
nature, made And as far as can be gathered
accidents are chiefly due to carelessness Two
cases in which the offending drivers admitted
they did not see the cars they hit until the
second of impact have come to light in con-
firnation of this statement.
In part the fault in traceable to the location
and lowness of the stop signs They might do
q better job if their height were doubled or
they were placed at the exact corner of inter-
be hidden by parked vehicles Blu. when driv-
ers entering stop streets do not Sc much as
pause long enough for look up and down the
street to see if the coast is clear, the real
blame for such accidents as those cited rests
upon them and them alone.
How they are to be broken Of their danger
Gus habit, in the practice of which their own
lives as we'll as the lives Of others are placed
in jeopardy, is not SO easy to point out as their
fault But it might help if such offenders as
can be taken in the act were brought into court
and the severest punishment permitted by law
melted out to them A mere fine is not to be
counted on for relief, certainly not so much
as n period Of meditation behind bars
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-03
TIRES FOR S0LES

CHICAGO. Nov. 2.-tR-lhe 10.
of old tire carcases for s4oe , s07 NJ
was W. e'T nredicted today by Henry N, M.
spelman, Jr.. chief OF the le ef the
products and shoe sec!loh ~
office Of Civilian Requirements =,
snelman said that shortages 81 81
leather and manpower lnol'@, Avn,
that fewer shoes would be p,,
duced for civilians in 1914 o'ilo ~,
the supply situation changes -''
terially.' ,,r5,
number of potential shoe SOit ~
that can be cut from properly ~
lected worn tire carcasseS ST Oh.
similar products that shoulo l esot
serviceable sole materials Sps[
man told the National Snoe hevon
ers Associations war time CUR
ference. a..
"Perhaps they won't be as az
tractive in appearance as rnoe-u
ed rubber soles and perhaps "nsJ
they are properly selected al,
repaired they won't be as cheap %
some may anticipate. n.4
"But past use has indicated ue.
they give better service and "s ,Pr
than most any of the presen@
available sole feathers. S"'
pect that we will see some y,
these materials used before long
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-03
BY JOHN SELBY
dessert CONQUEST" by Rus
sell Hill (Knopf: S3).

The personal experience history
of the North African campaign
which Russell Hill began in "Des.
ert War" is now complete. That
is to say, his Desert Conquest
brings down the record to the
capitulation of the German forces
on May Is after the African land
ings and the junction of the Brit
ish 9th Army with Eisenhower
forces from the west.
Hill is one of the youngest cor
respondents in the field, and he
writes with almost deceptive
quiet 1t is nonsense to say that
his two books have the historical
perspective, because that is i'm
possible when the last Of them is
published only six months after
the events of its story. But they
read as II they had that perspec-
tive, and there is a striking and
very welcome absence of nonsen.
steal Sadding such as has disfig-
ured good many works of the
sort. Nor does Mr.. Hill yield to
the glory complex, and pretend to
have lived in the vest pocket Of
the great. Finally, his style is de-
liberately unheroic - he avoids
that super-lusty, goddamit, I'm a
herman among he-heroes style
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-03
Raymond Clapper Says:
Older Senators Worried
Bv Youthful Lawmakers

cndly, that the nations back it up
with their military force.
That is all. That is no more
than Secretary Hull advocated in
his last radio address, and in his
previous one a year ago last sum-
mer. That is not going into detail,
nor drawing blueprints. That is
simply backing up what Secretary
Hull said should be our policy.
The reason that the Connally
resolution does not frankly say
what it pretends to say is that the
Administration was afraid of STIR
ring Up an unholy row from the
isolatlonists. That was a good and
sufficient reason for delaying any
action.
But public sentiment, and large
number of newspaper editorials
showed the country was far ahead
of the Administration and the Sen
ate. The decision to take no &C
ton at all proved unpopular. Pres
ident Roosevelt decided that some
thing had better be done and he
limited that Senate Leader Barley
should put burr under Connally's
tail and get action on a resolution
to back up the Moscow foreign
conference.
The purpose of any Senate ac-
ton at this time is to indicate to
other governments whether tn
Senate favors such a policy as
Secretary Hull already Hull al
ready has recommended. namely
an international organization back
ed with force. or whether it is not.
Other nations recall that the Sen
ate refused to permit Americas
participation in the League OF Ma
tons or even in the World Court
If the Senate is going to give tn s.n
any indication now of what 1t is
thinking. they are entitled IN all
fairness to have a frank statement.
end not one so loaded with double
talk that it means all things 20
all senator's.
There is no reason why the young
senators should be frowned down
by their elders in this effort. On
the contrary, there is every reason
why the public should support
them in behalf of frank, straight
forward language from the Senate.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-03

WASHINGTON. - 1t is under.
standable that the older senators
who have undertaken to lead the
Senate are irritated at the effort
of younger senators to take some
of the double-talk out of the Con-
rally resolution.
They are upset because every
thing apparently had been fixed
to roll through line of words
that pretends to tell something to
other nations, yet is so meaning
less that 100 Fer cent isolationist
like Senator llye supports it on
the ground that il is totally harm
less.
The whole performance is far
below the dignity that the historic
place of the Senate in American
affairs demands
Fur thermore, tire purpose of the
younger senators is being widely
misrcrresented. They are trying
to lake some Of the double-talk
out of the Connally resolution.
They are not haggling over details.
They are not demanding that the
Connally resolution be converted
into a detailed blueprint. They do
not ask for an international police
force in the Pepper amendment.
They are asking that the Con-
nally resolution say clearly what
it purports to say on its face. but
actually does not say, because of
the double talk which was used
to give isolationist senators like
Nye an escape door.
The young senators are asking
that the Connally resolution say
definitely that the Senate favors
the United States joining an in
ternational organization and, Sec
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-03

of credit from the Russians but 10 discourage
any belief that the war IN Russia is about to
end as result of the Crimean success There
is vast difference between 900 and 3,OOO,-
600 soldiers If the 100000 go on fighting
through the winter or hole up for another
campaign in the spring, the Battle of Russia
is far from finished The time for cheering
has not yet come But the time for hearty
Sian on the composite Russian back is here.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-03
You're
Telling Me

If those plastic enthusiasts are
correct in all their predictions
the postwar world won't be shap.
ed like an orange but will be just
one gigantic soybean.
A tank battle, says Grand
pappy jenkins, is really mass
exhibition of reckless driving
with purpose.
A bowling alley naturally ell
joys great prosperity when its
pin "boys" are really pin-up
girls.
! !
Mussolini, reports say, now
wants to resign as puppet Duce.
We suspect he'd most of all pre-.
fer to give up being Mussolini
These evenings it's Junior
who helps Dad-enmeshed in
the latest war bulletins-with
MS geography lesson.
Captured by American motor
izef. infantry. it was only ma
tural for that Nazi general to
wall: II haff been jeeped!'
A new electric motor can lift
a destroyer to the height of Is
stories. But can it open a rail-
road coach window?
!
Mussolini, no doubt, can see
things much more clearly now that
ne no longer tries to view them
from around 60-degree anoled
chin.
Though this may be the har.
vest season, the chief topic Of
the Moscow chats is not about
crops but krauts.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-03
QUOTATIONS

The entire war in the air is race as to
whether We or the Germans can keep 60 days
ahead IN scientific and chronological develop
mehts-Slr Arthur Harris, British bomber
command chief
II mad to pass a law, every labor organ-
za1loh would be required to make a public
accounting of its funds and would be required
70 eject officers by secret ballot at stated in
.erVals not exceeding two years.-WLB Chair
man Williaa H. Davis.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-03
THE COMMA SITUATION

The comma, as everyone Know
is a small, curlicuish, dot and 'a., "a,
frequently employed, altogel''
helpful, but, we begin to lso.
somewhat overused, although III"
as one might think, imDo5Si0'
abused, mark of punctuation
The comma, after all, IS con
mon, but that, in itself. is not Pa
Sc, anything against it. ManE " "
the common, everyday, freQoe'n
helps are sturdy, funndamel,,oo..
weight-bearing stones of consuu'
i've, helpful, forward-looking iFi IIE
One, however, is, perloolc"N!ot
reminded that some writers Nv
all. but some, use the comma WI"
out restraint. A little CONN., in
sense (pardonDin writing Is ' ,;ils
full. Too many commas are INV Nv,
too much salt in chowder-tac Y.
cess camouflages the true tla'ON
Science Monitor
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-03
AS Others Say 1t
All. THERE. GOLDBERG

Advices from London say that
British bombers are now equipped
with short plugs placed at inter-
walls along the forward wing edge.
Barrage balloon cables catch on
these plugs and with great impact
en- account of the planes speed.
The impact works trigger. The
trigger explodes a cartridge. The
explosion drives out small
chrome chisel which pins the cable
against a small anvil in the plug
and sewers it. We had been Won
dering what had become of RUDE
Goldberg. All there. Goldberg.
Nice work! Memphis (Tenn.)
Commercial-Apneal
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-03
Wartime
Washington
BY JACK STINNFTr

~ II L
WAsHINGTON.-The Wasbiou.
picture changes faster than WI. W.
can say F.D.R. 'ou
Two weeks ago it seenooa ,
most a certainty that some for "a
G. sales tax would be raiIroadl1i
through Congress, The figbt iSn'l
over yet and the picture NOV
change tomorrow, but right no@,
the chances for sales a., wv
at just as low an ebb as +5a
were at high tide few ws says
back. NeNS
The re sons for this rand
| change of scene are not. con,pl;
Gated. When it looks as if son,n
thing is cinch, the onnoeinr
clans gather and the av3i,ncsss
descends. That is Just what ngn
pened in the case of the sales +sr
Sales tax proponents said tbot
a 10 per cent levy on all retail
sales would net neat six b11;om
a year. They spoke glibly of tbs
simplicity of collection; the tan
ping OF our untaxed millions rbo
lower twothirds of wage earn
ers, under $1,000 year, who Nov
a comparatively small amount of
our tax totaD; the levy of tav
that would hit the spenders and
thus lower the danger of infIs.
ton.
Here is what happened. Pro.
ponents settled down 10 Tho
business of trying to write law
II, they said, they were going 10
hit the small taxpayers that hard
they would have to give them
relief from some other taxes. All
right, repeal the Victory tax. In.
mediately, about one-third to one
half of that prospective $4,000.
100000 disappeared. All right
Raise n C ON exemptions. To
make that relief real, ii appeared
about two billion would have to
be sacrificed,
How about exempting food
seed, feed, fertilizer, farm ma,
chinery and a few other things.
At the 10 per cent rate that
would just about cut the six bill,
lion in half.
In addition, along came the re-
tailers and tax collectors 10 en-
plain all the complications and
collection costs. They had the fig.
ures from 81 states, where sales
taxes have been tried or are now
in force.
The retailers, already groanng
under ration points, price cell
ings, OPA and WPB question
mares, wage d du tt ons, and
what-not, explained that any adj
ditional bookkeeping burdens
would just about put them out OF
business. They asked that if such
law is enacted the government
compensate them for COLLECTION OF
the tax las has been done IN elght
of the states where sales taxes
are in force.
Then came labor to say pretty
flatly that if a sales tax is LEVIED
compromising wage increases IN
the lower brackets would have 10
be allowed. They argued that III
Ger cent sales tax on the wage
earners who put their entire m
come into the necessities Oh lie
would mean a 10 per cent reduc'
ton in their standard Oh nVlhe'
while it would mean no chanse
at all to those in the upper III
come brackets.
To compensate for this Wo0q a
roe.n revision of the Little Steel
wage formula and perhaps an
opening wedge to wage increase
all up the line, resulting IN Se
almost certain break-through "
the initiation line,
There, briefly. is the afgulHea,
against the sales tax as IL lias
been presented here IN Ie'sn ~
weeks and for the moment a'
least it has the sales takers s~'P
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-03
REINFORCEMENTS

Soon after General Macarthur
made an urgent plea for reinforce
ments in the Pacific. Mr.. Roose-
welt and Mr.. Churchill, meeting in
Quebec. promised achievements:
and -'ery soon thereafter Mrs.
Roosevelt showed up in Australia.
Greensboro Record.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-03
Fair Enough

Editors Note.-The Star and the News accepts no
responsibility for the personal views Mr.. PerIer
ma often disagree with them - much many Of
his readers. His articles serve the good purpose oil
making people think.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-03
Our Chief Aim
To aid in every way the prosecu-
ton of the war to complete Vic
tory.
THOUGHT FOR TODAY

THOUGHT FOR TODAY
Men idle but sorrow never dies;
The crowding years divide in vain,
And the wide world is knit with ties
If common brotherhood in pain.
Quoted by L. T. Wilde.
Evening star., 1943-05-03
Ii. Comdr. Myhre Awarded
NAVY Silver Star Medal

1t. Comdr. Floyd B. T. Myhre. 36
Chevy Chase, Md. who headed
group of men seeking to salvage the
destroyer Duncan, lost as a result
of an engagement with the japanese
in the Solomon Islands October IL
IL, has been given the Silver Star
Medal by Secretary of the Navy
Knox on behalf of President Roose-
welt.
Comdr. Myhre and his party
boarded the blazing Duncan after it
had been abandoned. After check
ing depth charge settings to make
certain the charges would not 60 of,
the men left the Duncan and stood
by until dawn when a second in
vestigation showed the vessel could
not be saved.
Also decorated was Comdr. Will
liam G. Cooper, 80, of Savannah, Ca,
who was commanding officer of
warship which had the principal
role in the attempted salvage opera
tions. He was awarded the Navy
Cross.
Comdr. Myhre is a native of st.
Paul; Mimi. and was graduated
from the Naval Academy in 1881.
His wife, Mrs. Anne Jewell Myhre,
lives at l20 East Bradley lane, Chevy
Chase, Md,
Evening star., 1943-05-03
New Hampshire Avenue
Rent Hearing Continued

A dispute between Everett S.
Beall. owner of an apartment house
at 1851 New Hampshire avenue
NV. in which he resides, and six
tenants was continued today until
May IA by Examiner j. Warren
Wilson of the Office of the Rent
Control Administrator.
The tenants, Mrs. Della Everson
Of the Veterans Administration,
Mrs. B. F. Anderson, r. B. Hudson
of the Government Printing Office,
Gibson Hollingsworth, employed
here by British mission, and Miss
Agnes O'Brien, were served with
notices that the landlord was petit
tioning the rent administrator to
increase his rents IS and $40 an
apartment per month because they
were depression rates" and because
Of the expense of converting the
furnace.
Mrs. Everson had filed a COM
plant with the administrator that
her rent of SOS month was IS
above the ceiling established by
previous lease. The hearing was
continued due to the absence of a
witness.