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The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-24
Scion Fights
70 Keep Call.
from Fathers
Wheeler Says Many War
Plant Heads Gave Sons
Deferred Jobs
FEDERAL MEN EYED
government Employment
Said To Embrace $780,
900 Single Men

WASHINGTON, Sept. %.
-P)-Charges that some
var plant officials made fore
men of their sons to keep
Them out of the Army were
nIace1 before the Senate Mill
rary committee today by Sen
s+or Wheeler (D-Mont.) as he
fought against increasing
adds to head off the drafting
Of fathers.
Wheeler interrupted his
cross-examination of Bernard
n. Baruch, war mobilization
adviser. to introduce several
critical letters from labor or
ganizations shortly after the
counsel for a House sub-com-
mir+ee declared 100000 non
fs-bers of draft age are
rorking for the government.
Investigation Wanted
rb4 statement brought Congress
sona, demands for a broad investi-
cation Of manpower, but Speaker
sam Kayburn % Tex told re-
n,rlers he did not believe Congress
vonId block the father draft, set
tvl october.
,heeler produced a letter he at
n.,outed TO a United Automobile
Aircraft and Agricultural lmple-
n,ant Workers Union in Flint,
1icb which declared the sons OF
spoer.ntendents and other officials
Of one automobile plant now con-
verified TO war contracts had been
made foremen for the sole purpose
OF enabling them to evade being
indicted into the armed service
Appearing before the Senate COM
mlttee for the second day, Baruch
reiterated his plea that the Army
get all the manpower it request,
wulte spectators applauded his re-
marks.
nder cross-examination by SEN
a,yt Wheeler, Baruch told the
committee newspaper reports indi-
cate General George c. Marshall is
going to lead some new offensive"
al he's "entitled 10 our trust"
Tat spectators applauded the re-
mark.
. nen Wheeler asked whether he
NYdit feel the same way should
Marsnal request Is million men
Baruch replied:
that's absurd. + he was that
kim Of man l wouldn't follow
HIM.
demands for a manpower inves-
ugatlon in Congress developed be.
Alnd statement by Ralph Burton,
clunsel for d House Military sub
committee that an estimated 300,-
VV0 dratt-age non-fathers are on
federal payrolls now, although less
man half of them have been de-
ferred.
The time has come for us to
take look at this federal payroll
and see if We can't find a substan-
'al part of our manpower from
'nat source,' declared Representa-
I've Dirksen R-ILD. THE chances
are there are literally hundreds of
thousands available"
lie said a Congressional inves-
'lsalon should look not only at
s'ernment payrolls but should
,"erK possible labor boarding by
Industry,
with manpower developments
N0Ialhg center stage, there were
continued on Pare Nine: Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-24
Foe Appears Ready To Evacuate Naples;
Smo]%>sk Within Red Artillery Range,
Nc X1western Europe Heavily Pounded
Nazi Demolition Crew
Blasting Harbor Works;
Allies In Wen of City
Battle For Corsica In Final Stage, French
And American Troops Close In On
Bastia; Navy Clamps Blockade

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, Sept
23-0-Gernan torch and dynamite demolished the
Naples waterfront scuted 80 ships to block the harbor
wrecked industrial and rail ceners the great Italian
metropolis in apparent preparation for evacuation Allied
armies lunged tonight within sight and sound of the whole
sale destruction.
The battle for Corsica was in its final stage. French
roops and American Rangers closed in Bata northeast
mort of the Napoleonc island and Allied navies and air
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-24

eastern Standard Time)
(By U. S. Weather Burearl
Meteorological data for the "a hours
ending 1880 p. M, yesterday.
Temperature
1 80 a. M, 66; 1880 a. M, 81. 1:30
n. M. 81: ESQ p. M. 70. Maximum 81;
Minimum 81; Mean 70: Normal u.
Humidity
1 80 a. M, 81; 7:3o a. m. sc; 80
D. M, 50; 1880 p. M, IS.
Precipitation
Total for the "a hours ending 7 :3O
Total since the first Of the month
Sunrise, 5:o2 a. M; Sunset, 6:o6 p. m 3;
Moonrise. 81 a.; Moonset, 1923 p.
Cape Fear River satge at =, FayetteVllle
rides For Today
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-24
BIG TASK FACING
WAR BOND HEADS
$4,000 More Must Be
Raised In City If Quota
Is Realized

| War Bond investments here mex
week must total $2,200,000 if Viii
mington is to Back the Attack
by meeting it's $6,053,OOO Thire
War Loan drive quota, War FL
nance committeeman said Thurs
day.
Tagging far behind the pace Sc
in previous War bond drives here
the Third War Loan drive re
turns are now only 1884, 900 o.
81 per cent below the goal of thu
campaign.
Painting dreary picture of thu
campaign, which has been unde1
way. for three weeks with a movie
benefit to launch it and hundred:
of volunteers working daily, off
Gals asserted that this is the frs
time Wilmington has fallen dow
on any war bond quota assigned
to us. Failure t. meet the goal thi!
time would be the first blacf
mark against u.s."
With only one week remaining II
the campaign for Wilmingtonian:
ito come across" officials pointed
out that investments must amour
to $4,000, 900 in this period.
"Unless the citizens of Whining
ton rally to the cause, it appears
now that we will not meet ou1
goal" it was said.
Bond leaders urged citizens "tt
do the job in the war assigned Us
in this bond campaign"
The only bright side to the pic
ture is that there are seven more
days of the campaign. If every
Wilmingtonian, during this period
will place his or her order for al
the bonds that can be afforded
1.-The goal will be met" they added
Volunteers have been faithful ane
plentiful in the campaign thusfar
Between 400 and 500 women have
been on the job daily, with approx
mately 100 assigned to the mousse
toulouse canvass.
Despite the fact that the outlook
for the successful conclusion Of
the Third War Loan drive in Will
mington is Exceedingly blue" now
War bond officials expressed the
opinion that in the next seven days
order for bonds will be excessive
if all realize the importance Of
meeting the quota.
DRIVE DEDICATED
NEW YORK, Sept. 23.-RNDed
icating the remaining nine day:
of the Third War Loan to Genera
Mark Clark's gallant Fifth Ar
my" battling Italy, Secretary
Morgenthau said tonight the 3d.,
600, OO0, 900 that still must be
raised might seem impossible bu'
declared:
"To some, not very long ago
beating Germany seemed impos
sible. The invasion Of North AT
RIGA, of Sicily, Of Italy, seemed
impossible. It seemed impossible
for the Russians to drive the Naz
forces out of their land. But al
these things were DONE"
He added, in a CHS radio adj
dress, that he was just as conf
dent "our home front army OF s.
600. 900 volunteer statesmen" would
be able to sell $25, $50 and $1oo
CONTINUED ON Page Three; Col. -
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-24
WEATHER

FORECAST:
NORTH CAROLINA: Cooler today.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-24

Continued on Page Twelve; Col.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-05-10
Choice of Evils

The administration evident de-
cision to undertake food subsidies on
large scale in the fight against in
fation will be accepted by the people
only if they understand it as the
lesser of two evils. For almost every
thing that has been and will be said
in Congress in condemnation of the
subsidy method is more or less true.
Once established it will be difficult
to suspend. 1t is form of robbing
Peter, the taxpayer, to pay Paul, the
professor. 1t will require. if at
tempted on a wide front, tremend-
Gus sum of money and a huge force
of Government administrators The
farm spokesman are against it, and
there are those who believe that
heavy subsidies in this country would
encourage, instead of prevent, inf1a-
tionary trends.
The alternative, however, seems to
be continuation of the cycle of
rising prices and rising wages to
meet rising prices. Labor is more
FESTIVE than ever now under a sys-
tenn which, at least designed to hold
the line" on wages, has been losing
ground on prices. And to roll back
prices without rescuing the proc
essor from the squeeze between the
producer, on the one hand, and the
OPA ceilings on the other, is to put
him out of business when he is
greatly needed and to stimulate such
Illicit channels of trade as the black
market.
Subsidies, however require money.
Congress, in the recent past, has re-
fused to make it available for that
purpose. In addition, Price Admin
istrator Prentiss Brown faces the
disadvantage now of seeming to by
pass Congress by going to the RFC
to get substituting funds. His pred
ecessor, Leon Henderson, advocated
subsidies as the only method of put
ting an effective brake on prices.
Mr.. Henderson's own plans, although
widely discussed in Congress, were
never embodied in a concrete legis-
lative proposal. Subsequently, his
subsidy ideas became involved in his
losing fight for 100000 900 appro-
priation for OPA, and when Congress
finally cut that sum by $4,000, 900,
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it included specific provision that
none of the appropriation could be
used to subsidize. Similarly, the
House Banking and Currency Com
mittee, while not denying the RFC
the authority to finance subsidies,
refused to grant it specifically.
Nevertheless, we now are subsidiz-
ing large list of commodities, at a
cost of about half a billion dollars,
and by that method controlling
prices on coal, oil, certain minerals,
vegetable oils and fats, tobacco, some
canned goods and cheddar cheese.
Those who advocate subsidies believe
it is a far cheaper method than let
ting prices rise to dangerous and
perhaps uncomfortable levels. 1t
seems to offer the only practical way
of accomplishing Mr.. Browns OBJ
jective of established maximum
prices on all retail foods And he
has the successful experience of
Great Britain and Canada with the
subsidy system to guide him.
Mr.. Brown is depending on Jesse
Jones to finance his new subsidy plan
in the beginning. He and Mr. Jones
will have to run the gantlet of Con-
gress, however, to make it stick.
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passed back to them in the name of
their children in America--a torch which
might scorch from the escutcheon the
Sign of the lictor and set up again on
high the idealism and the spiritual vi
tally which is the heritage of Italians
from the epochs of Dante and Mazzini!
All who know most of existing condi-
lions in Italy fully agree that the first
move must come from without The
United Nations are preparing with this
procedure in view; in due course the
military will move in. But in Italy
where the bonds with America are so
strong, let us not wait for bloodshed
and military government. Let us fix for
the Italian prisoners of Nazi Europe a
line of policy: liberation, protection,
and above all the restoration Of the dig
nifty of man-the right of man to work
out his destiny under law The instruc-
tons of President Lincoln to Col.
Shipley, the Military Governor of Louisi-
ana, in 1862, are relevant: Il wish elec-
lions to take place. but I wish it to
be movement Of the people of the dis
trict and not movement of our military
and quasi-milttary authorities there.
merely wish our authorities to give the
people chance-to protect them against
interference. The main object being
to get m expression Of the people"
7. W. HUNTINGTON.
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Gustronomic Shrine
Historical societies search the =

Historical societies search the past
to discover the origins of good old
American institutions, publish the
facts and erect shrines to the honor
Of the pioneers who builded so wisely.
1t is largely due to their efforts that
we have memorials ranging from the
Betsy Ross Home in Philadelphia to
the heroic statue in Camden, Maine,
of the inventor of the doughnut.
Perhaps inspired by their success in
Camden, they now propose to take
over the old Jean Baptiste Roy
home, a relic of medieval St. Louis.
According to musty old records, it
was in the Roy home, somewhere be-
tween 1870 and 1900, that the hot
dog was born.
The blessed event created no great
sensation at the time. Like other in
fants, the hot dog was born naked,
and it was only through the course of
long years of patient experimental
ton that it gradually became clothed
with mustard, onions, chilli sauce,
pickles and other dressings that
make it what it is today, a mighty
symbol of American digestive power.
So claims Francis Kennedy, who
offers to buy the house and dedicate
it to the Nation as the shrine where
indigestion was born" Other anti
quarians are not so sure that st.
Louis deserves the honor and insist
that true indigestion was born on
the early railroads, where, due to the
habit of running about twenty-four
hours behind schedule, that deadly
device, the railroad sandwich, was
created.
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THIS AND THAT
By Charles E. TrdceUell.

novelty no longer, or because the birds
are not doing it, it is difficult to say.
Usually when the reflection is cut oil,
the birds stops its pecking.
We have had a report from Somerset,
Md, OF song sparrow which has pecked
away so vigorously that he had, at last
report. pecked small hole in the pane.
Song sparrows, as a rule, have more
sense than to do anything of this sort
1t must be remembered that the bird.
in looking into window from the out
side, sees itself and the outdoors re-
hected
1t is the common belief that window
pecker Of this type feels that the bird
1t sees In the pane is rival
Sometimes kind-hearted people believe
that such pecking birds are trying to get
In. One family we know refused robin
entrance, on the ground that bird in
the house meant death in the house.
This is an old superstition.
Some robins seem to be sensible and
stop OF their own accord.
The only robin of this type we have
ever had pecked for two DAYS at a
kitchen window, which is about eight
feet from the ground.
He could not stand, of course. owing to
the fact that the window was of the
easement type, flush with the house
wall from outside.
Therefore the bird had to flap its
wings to stay aloft.
The noise from the inside sounded
very loud. making such racket that it
seemed that the glass would come
through any minute.
But after two days of this, the bird
flew away and did not come back to
the house. He was around, from time to
time, but did not try his bill on any
window tapping.
1t might possibly be that some birds
Whet their bills in this way.
We printed report here several years
ago of scarlet tanager in Takoma
Park which pecked at its reflection in
the shiny chromium of an automobile
1t is rather remarkable that such
pecking birds seem to do no real dam
strong, after all, and their bills hard
enough to cut, especially as the result
Of keeping at it for several days.
Window pecking robins sometimes be-
gin at daybreak, and thus alarm house.
holders, who. upon occasion. have been
known to call the police. Officers can
do nothing about such matters except
make suggestions, since songbirds are
protected by the law.
There can be no question that all the
various wrens like green houses, in
preference to those of any other color.
While they will take to brown and gray
houses, at times, they are much more
likely to choose a green one So If YOU
BUY or make wren house of a diff
ferent color. it is good idea to paint
1t green before you put it up.
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CHEVY CHASE VIEW.

Yesterday morning very early we were
awakened by tapping noise Upon in
vestigating, we found a robin female
think, tapping at basement window.
This went on good part of the day.
"A friend suggested that the robin was
most likely fighting her reflection in the
glass newly polished with houseclean-
ing). so we covered the outside of the
window with cardboard
Nothing daunted, she went to an
other, and another, and is now, the next
day, on her sixth different window, peck
ing vigorously.
All the while male quietly eats our
grass seed never more than few yards
from that pecking female.
so far, we have done nothing to
discourage her except block the one
window. Shall we leave her to peck
away the best years of her life?'
"Of further interest is our nest of
wrens, up inside our tiny kitchen stoop.
1t is so close that the kitchen door all
but touches the nest when opened
1T is opened many times a day, what
with tradesmen, children and others. Is
it too early for the young to have
Matched?
1T seemed for long time just one,
the male, I presume, carried great guam
titles of food, bugs. etc, to the nest.
yesterday I saw both off the nest,
and food being taken into it, plus the
soft little noises. 1t seemed last year
the young Matched much later.
I'VE have enjoyed these birds no end
especially so, I think, because we've
learned to understand the birds better
by reading your column
with appreciation, G.. F. G."
Our correspondents wren is probably
not house wren, but a Carolina wren.
The Carolina wren has been found
building a nest in this vicinity, where
it lives the year around, as early as
April H.
Fully f1edged young have been found
as early as May 2.
The house wren, commonly called the
Jenny Wren, is common summer resi-
dent here.
1t normally does not arrive until the
last days Of March.
1t raises two broods. Eggs have been
found as early as May l. The nesting
period usually lasts through the first two
weeks Of July.
Some years the birds indulge in win
dow pecking more than In other seasons.
About six years ago was banner
year. Reports of robins, especially, peck
ing at their reflections were common
from all parts of the country.
Newspaper publicity called the atten-
ton OF millions OF people to this rather
silly habit.
Since then fewer reports have come
in, whether because people find it a
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Letters to the Editor
Italian Publicist Named
As Proponent of International Police.

As PrOponent of International Police.
To the Editor of The Star:
A United States Senator during the
radio program Town Hall of the Air"
on May g. made the remark that the
idea of policing the world was born here
in the United States He said it is a
typical American idea and was spon-
sored by the late President Taft.
This ambiguous honor should be de-
clined for our great United States. Long
before Mr.. Taft started to play with this
idea, the Italian jurist Gaetano Meale
Umano). wrote his "Essai de Constitu-
ton Internationale," in which he advo-
Gated a supra national organization for
the maintenance of peace, commanding
a strong police internationale" destined
to impose peace par la force" The book
was printed in 1907 and was distributed
at the second Hague Conference in the
same year.
The idea of policing the world was
born in Italy. not in the United States.
1t was conceived not by President Taft
but by the Italian Umano, from whom
Mussolini has learned so much.
BLA1SE HOsPODAR.
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Too Much Detail

In these days of broad and sweep
ing delegations of administrative
power, when new agencies of Gov
eminent accomplish under executive
order vital changes in the custom
and habits Of all the people, the
vast amount of trivial detail with
which Congress is burdened in con-
nection with routine municipal
affairs in Washington is all the more
impressive.
If an oil company wants to run
pipe line under an alley, or along a
street, to connect two of its storage
tanks permission can only be OBJ
tanned by act of Congress. If a
doctor enters the service and is sent
to Africa or Australia, the Commits
sioners are powerless, without con-
sent of Congress, to suspend his pay
ment of the annual license fee and
license. The name of any new street,
bridge, building or other public place
in the District can only be fixed by
act of Congress-. II a District owned
building becomes vacant, and the
Commissioners wish to rent it, per-
mission to do so must be obtained
from Congress and, while awaiting
that permission, the building will
stand idle. The District cannot enter
into contract with any agent unless
the contract is approved unanimously
by the Commissioners sitting as
board, and the hundreds of such
contracts impose a burden on the
Commissioners which, without per-
mission of Congress. cannot be
assigned elsewhere. The District has
been short of inspectors, but under
the law the nature of specific duties
assigned to plumbing inspectors,
electrical inspectors, building inspec-
tors, etc, in effect prevents the Com
nissioners from utilizing these in
spectors efficiently and economically.
The list of such oddities could be
recited ad inf1nitum. Those men,
toned are suggested by the provisions
of bill just introduced in the House
by Representative Hebert of Louis
lana, the purpose of which is, by one
omnibus enabling act, to delegate
to the Commissioners powers which
only Congress now may exercise or
powers which have not been spe-
officially assigned by Congress to the
Commissioners.
There is nothing in this bill which
In any manner affects the exclusive
legislative control of the District by
Congress, and it does not enter the
controversial fields which the Grit
fenhagen report futilely advocated.
But its enactment would relieve Con-
gress of unnecessary detail and assign
powers to the Commissioners which
would result in a smoother function
Ing Of the municipal machinery.
The bill should encounter no OBJ
lection in Congress and Mr. Hebert
is to be commended for his interest
In sponsoring its common sense
proposals.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-05-10
The Show Grows Dull

Suspense is an important part of
any mystery drama. The skilled
dramatist, however, knows when and
where to end it. How long does the
House Military Affairs Committee in
tend to keep us hanging to the edges
of our seats, awaiting the denoue-
ment in The Mystery of the House
on r Street? Who is the villain of
the piece, and what did he do?
The most exciting part of this mys-
terry thriller so far has been the
short lived refusal of the star witness
to talk His silence was more captivat-
ing than his testimony. When, after
thinking it over, he changed char
acter and became a willing, even a
garrulouS witness, his revelations
were curiousIy dull. The only beans
he spilled were those of the commit
tee investiga tor, who, to mix meta
phors, was left holding a cold potato,
The plot threatened to thicken,
however in the form of conjecture
as to the Identity of the guests. But
when these began to rush forward
and, with all the disarming candor of
a defendant at Russian purge trial,
issued their confessions to the press,
they merely exposed themselves as
having been about the most CONVEX
sationally colorless a collection of
celebrities ever gathered around a
Washington dinner table
There has been some talk of hold
ing the star witness in contempt for
not having divulged the name of the
gentleman who predicted that the
committee would smear" him. While
the ultimate decision on this matter
Is being left to the lawyers of the
committee, the name of this in
formant would seem to be important
only in fixing the identity of an ex-
traordinarily accurate prophet, who
knows his Washington.
Perhaps the Nations newspaper
readers should forgive the House
Military Affairs Committee for its
failure, up to this time, to produce