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Evening star., 1943-06-28
They Call Ii Pacific
.bv CLARK LEE

shot down IA Of the Japs, and We
lost nine fighters. Only two of our
ships were damaged.
Next morning I flew in to Tulagi
with 1t. Harold Larsen in his torpe-
do plane. The Marines were meet
ing bitter. last-ditch resistance on
Tulagi and on the nearby island of
Tanambogo 1t was the same kind
of fighting we had faced on Bataan
and later faced in New Guinea.
The Marine shock troops-the
raiders more than a match
for the Japs. Armed with Tommy
guns, grenades, bayonets, knives,
and bravery, the Marines calmly
and cody fought their way across
the mile long, Quarter-m mile wide
island of Tulagi. Supported by she'll
ing from our ships, the Marines
wiped out the last Jap after two
days of fighting and firmly con-
solidated their hold on Tulagi and
the nearby islands.
On Quadalcanal they reached the
airport and seized it within two
days. One day later it was ready
for our planes.
Everything went we'll those first
two days Of the landing. The Japs
came back on the afternoon of Au-
gust with torpedo planes, but 81
out of "a of them were blasted out
Of the air by our fighters and the
anti-aircraft guns of ships in the
channsl. The Japs never located our
carriers.
The afternoon of August 8, aboard
the carrier, I heard that a small
Jap warship force was coming down
toward Quadalcanal. Army and
Navy reconnaissance planes reported
that it consisted of two or three
cruisers and a couple of destroyers
One of the torpedo plane pilots
came to me. Get your life jacket
and helmet" he said. Maybe we'll
be taking off soon to hit those
babies"
But the planes never took off
When all the planes were back
aboard that evening our carriers
and their screening ships turned
around and headed south. The fol-
lowing morning they were still head
ing south. The planes were launch
ed and flew as far as the south
shore of Guadalcanal Island, but
by that time the Jajanese had at
tackled and their ships were safely
speeding back to Rabaul, unchanged,
after striking one of the most
devastating blows in the Pacific war.
(copyrisht 1a4S by Clark Lee.
The Viking PressD
(Contin,Ie6 tomorrOU
Evening star., 1943-06-28
By FRANK COLBY.
NAMES IN THE NEWS.

CAGL1AR1, main seaport OF the
island of Sardinia. Two mispro-
nunciations are heard on the air
"KAHG lee -AHree' and "KAH-
lee-AH'ree." But the name has but
three syllables, and the first re-
ceives the accent. Say: KAHL-yah-
rec.
Correction. Recently I gave the
meaning of the Russian place name
Velikie Luki as the large meadow "
My reference was the monumental
Lippincott's Pronouncing Gazetteer
of the World. Several readers have
pointed out that the correct mean
ing is great bends" referring to
the convolutions of river. I apollo
gize for both Lippincott and Colby
SA1NT-OMER, town and fortress
of Northern France Not saint
OH-mer." In Saint, the vowel sound
is approximately the "a of sand,
followed by the French nasal sound
The 1T" is carried over to the first
syllable Of Omer. Say: sa a(n) toe
Mair.
ABBEYVILLE, French town on
the Somme. Towns of this name in
South Carolina, Alabama and Lou
isiana are called AB-ee-vill. But
the French name has but two
syllables, and the second. which is
accented, rhymes with feel, heel.
Say: ab-VEEL.
PIETRO BADOGLIO, Italian
statesman and soldier, known as
Mussolini's official opponent" In
Bagolio the g" is silent. Say:
PLAY-troe bah-DOLE-yoe.
CIVITAVECCHIA, seaport north
west Of Rome. This name has dis
located more tonsils among news
casters than almost any other
name in the news, chiefly because
in Italian "ci-" has the sound of
"chee" and 'ch-' before "e" has the
sound of *" The correct pro-
nunciation Is: CHEE-vee-ta -tahVEK'
yah. Simple, isn't it?
Offered today only, my pamphlet,
100 Words Most Frequently Mis-
pronounced. For a free copy, send
stamped (3c), self-addressed en-
velope to Frank Colby. in care of
The Evening Star, naming pamph-
let desired
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Third Daughter Born
To Joan Bennett
BY the Associated Press

BS T1rt HsSUCIdItu freSS.
HOLLYWOOD. June 28-Screen
Actress Joan Bennett now has three
daughters.
Her third, Stephanie. born Satur-
day night, is Miss Bennett's first
child by Film Producer Walter
Wanger. to whom she was wed in
January, 1910.
Diana, Is. and Melinda, 8, are her
daughters by previous marriages to
John Fox and Film Writer Gene
Markey, respectively.
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PORTRAIT PRINTER: must be expert
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Apply superintendent OF service, Carlton
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| TIMEKEEPER. war PROJECT 20 miles from
Washington. Salary. bed and board. Mr.
Bill Garter, MI. Dish
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Must have natural art ability and two
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The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-02
BY WALTER LIPPMAN

Inc appointment of Mr.. Stettini-
Vs. 10 d beginning, but only the
~ pe8Hhlh8, towards making the
0'dle Department equal to its re-
SPohSlblllties. IT is good appoint
1lVnt because it is a promise that
'Ile department is to be strength
elleo by recruiting men of expert
cue rom the outside and by pro-
IAoun8 men VINO have been held
N@Ch by the routine of seniority.
Inc need to strengthen the de-
pa tlhent is denied by few who
are informed about it. But the i'm
PoItahce and the urgency IF
strengthening the department is
perhaps not generally a oereciated
ME- Mark Sullivan, for example,
cohcedeS that some criticism of
'Ile department has come from sin.
Cefe and disinterested sources. ,
but he Is SO concerned about the
loeoIoglcal' criticism, much of il,
untrue, unfair and irresponsible.
ulat ne does not stop 70 examine
lhe sincere and disinterested crit
lcism. WV ~ ~
Yet the fact is that if the de-
p"r1nent were strong enough to
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-02
Walter Lippmann Says:
Stettinius Appointment
Helps State Department

cope with the real issues of our
foreign policy, it would not be
nearly so vulnerable to the other
sort of criticism.
If the State Department were so
organized and SO manned that it
formed clear and adequate policy,
there would not have beer half a
dozen, conflicting lines of action
improvised here, there and every
where. Nor is there any use say
ing that the President makes our
foreign policy. If the State De-
partment were as strong as the
War Department, the President
would make our foreign policy
with the firm and continual guild
ance and advice of his diplomat
advisers. He makes our strategy
with the guidance and advice OF
our best military minds.
We have a critical example OF
the trouble in the delicate, indeed
explosive, affair of the Tydings
resolution to give immediate in
dependence to the Philippine Is
lands though they are occupied by
the Japanese enemy. Senator Ty-
Continued on Page Five; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-02
Kirke L. Simpson Says:
Tripartite Conferences
May Highlight The War

three-power diplomatic meeting"
has been reached.
Opportunity is Rocking for the
United Nations in Europe. Grim
as the task and heavy as the cost
must be before Nazidom can be
brought to its knees, the chance
to mold all attacks to single
pattern and strike for a quicker
victory than seemed possible only
weeks ago is obviously there.
The London press is specializing
on the probability that General
George c. Marshall, prospective
Allied supreme commander, will
precede or accompany Secretary
of State Hull when he heads east
to meet with his British and Rus
sian colleagues and pave the way
for the long sought face-to-face
conference of the big three. Chur.
chill, Roosevelt and Stain. What.
ever his ultimate title or the final
scope of his authority, field direc.
ton of the Allied march on Berlin
is unquestionably the first task NJ
Marshalps new assignment.
1t will be many-fronted no.ro.
CONTINUED on Page Five; Col. 2,
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-02
By KIRK L. SIMPSON

Word from London that intimate
talks are coming DON between
Russian. British and American
staff officers to coordinate STRAIT
egy does more to highlight the
prospect of throttling Nazism than
even the fall of Naples or the tot
tering of the Germans Dnieper
defense line.
1t means that events on the Eu-
ropean fronts have already out
paced the most sanguine recent
~ectations. The implication is
that in the timing at least of plan
ned new Allied blows at Germany
the Quebec schedule must be step
ped up-and that Russian as we'll
as Anglo-American highest COM
manders recognize the necessity
of a closely coordinated effort to
make the most of what has hap
pened at the fronts.
There could be no other explana-
ton of the London disclosure that
"a definite decision for early and
intimate American British So
Wet military staff discussions even
in advance of tn forthcoming
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-02
NEW ENVOY NAMED
TO SOVIET LANDS
AverilL Hartman To Sue
coed Admiral STANDBY
At Kremlin

WASHINGTON. Oct. 1.-tR-W
Averell Hartman, wealthy 81
year-old industrialist and l e n d.
lease "expediter" in London. was
nominated today to be ambassa-
dor to Moscow, thus completing
United States preparations for the
momentous conferences impending
with Britain and Russia.
Hartman, who inherited great
railroad fortune and became a
successful business man in h i S
own right. will take with him to
Russia years of experience in deal
ing with big men and friendship
already established with Premier
Joseph Stain.
He succeeds the retiring 71-year-
old Admiral William H. Standley
who recently arrived here to as
sist in laying the foundation for
the coming tripartite conference
either in Moscow or London.
Harriman's appointment follows
the selection of another y GU n g
business man, Edward R. Stettini-
US, Jr., former U. S. Steel board
chairman and Lend-Lease admin
istrator to be undersecretary of
state. Stettinius, who will be 43
on October %, was confirmed by
the Senate yesterday. There has
been talk that he, too, will ac-
company Secretary Of State Hull
to the conferences with Foreign
Secretary Anthony Eden and For
eign Commissar Molotov.
Friends say that Hull. who will
be 70 years old tomorrow, is 60
ing to Europe ready to lay all
cards on the table in frank dis
Continued on Page Two; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-02
REDS BATTER THROUGH NAZI
DEFENSE IN WHITE RUSSIA: Z
PUSH TO THE PROYNA RVS
Local Fathers May
90 Day Draft r. Ste

Depending on reserves in other
classifications, Wilmington and
New Hanover fathers may not be
called up by the two selective
service boards here until the time
Tor filling the December quota of
selectees, the chairmen of Boards
One and Two said Friday night.
A shortage of men in the other
categories, they warned, means
that fathers will have to be used
20 fill up the November quotas for
the Two board. The October
quotas have already been filled
and are scheduled to leave next
week.
At any rate, it seemed certain
Friday night that the first fathers
from here would be at Fort Bragg
by the first of the year.
Chairman John Alexius of Board
Two, the county board, said Fri
day night that the boards next
quota, in November, might be
filled with newly-registered 49,
year-old youths and married men
without children.
"The county draft board will
not take bona fide fathers until
It has to-" he said.
He added that he felt that the
boards reserves of married men
without children and 18-year-olds
might postpone the drafting OF
fathers until possibly December.
Chairman w. M. Hewlett OF
Board One, likewise expressed the
opinion that it might be possible
to fill the boards November
quota without calling fathers,
pointing out that the program Of
reclassifying ATS Totally unfit
for service) quite possibly may
yield some la men.
Both men emphasized that II
was impossible to promise any
further delay for fathers here anc
that the final determination Of
who would and who would not be
called would come only when the
boards began to fill their Novem
| Der quotas.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-02
GAS RATI0NINC
PENALTIES SET
Policies And Procedures
Used By ODT Are Ex-
planned To Public

The policies and procedures to
be used by the Office of Defense
Transportation in suspending or re-
voking gasoline rations for COM
mercial motor vehicles in the Will
mington area, if necessary, were
revealed Friday by N. E. DreXler,
chairman of the Wilmington War
Transportation committee.
Under the new policy, effective
October l, Mr.. Drexler said, ODT
certificates of War Necessity may
be recalled, cancelled or revoked
for good cause"
In each case, action will be in
itiated by the ODT district office
here and the truck, bus or taxi
cab operator whose certificate is
under consideration for suspension
or recall will be notified by reg
istered mail, setting forth in de-
tail the reasons for the action.
Each operator will be given an
opportunity to present evidence in
his behalf at an oral hearing and
may appeal an adverse decision
on up to the director of the Office
of Defense Transportation.
Good cause" for revocation or
suspension of certificates includes,
Mr.. Drexler said:
q. Wilful or negligent failure tc
comply with applicable ODT or
ders and regulations.
so. Fraud or wilful misrepre'
sentation in obtaining certificate
"3. Wilful Justification of records
or reports required by the ODT.
81. Abandonment of the oper'
atoms for which the certificate was
issued.
IS. Prohibition by the ODT Of
the operations certified.
IS. Erroneous issuance OF a GER
tificate."
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-02
Jap Shippers Bothered
Marines In Solomons
Local Man, Back From 10 Months on Guadal-
canal, Relates Experience With
Nipponese Sharpshooters

Marine Sergeant L. B. Harper.
19-year-old Guadalcanal veteran
who has earned six campaign and
service bars since August 1912 and
whose company has been cited for
outstanding achievement at Quad
alcanal by President Roosevelt, de-
clared Friday that his IN a n
worry on the island was Jap snip
ers."
Zone nearly blew my head off
when I lighted cigarette on the
island one night" he said, adding
that the incident was his closest
shave" with the exception of the
time he got hit in the stomach
with shrapnel during the Coral Sea
battle.
Sergeant Harper, who is now
stationed at the Naval Hospital at
San Diego. Calf, is spending 40
day sick leave here with his par
ents. Mr.. and Mrs. R. L. Kennedy
of Sound View cottage. Wrights-
vile Beach.
In discussing the Jap snipers
the Marine calmly remarked 81
picked off six myself-four of them
were in trees and two were on
the ground
The sergeant's six campaign
bars represent the Order of the
Purple Heart for injuries, the pres
idential citation for outstanding
achievement, the bar for Veterans
of Foreign Wars, and service in
the American Theater of War, the
South Pacific and the pre-Pearl
Harbor defense campaign.
In addition to these, the Marine
wears on his left sleeve the South.
ern Cross patch awarded to vet
Grams of Guadalcanal by Australia
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-02

lllGlllS VI d u uSdOS III uI1N1llS Out
the Nazis.
In another report on the Italian
situation today an official who is
in close touch with it said that
the Allies probably will recognize
the government of Marshal Ba-
doglio and King Victor Emmanuel
and start a campaign to rally Ital
ians against the Nazi-born Fascist
republic of Mussolini.
While American soldiers are re-
ported to dislike the idea of en-
bracing Italians as allies, this Of
fetal said the Badoglio government
has played BALI to an amazing
extent and that with American
British and Russian approval, Cen
eral Dwight D. Eisenhower already
is conducting negotiations to make
it a co-belligerent.
Two members of the Senate Mil
itary committee endorsed the idea,
Senator Hill DALAI saying I'VE
want every man, gun and plane
on our side that we can get" SEN
ator Quincy R-SD) commented.
I'm in favor of taking anybody
we can get TO help U.s.
Continued on Page Five; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-02

The Insignia bears a red snake
on which the word "Guadalcanal"
is inscribed in yellow letters, sig
nificant of 1.-The first to strike, :"
Sergeant Harper pointed out.
Placed around the snake are
five white stars on blue patch.
According to the sergeant, t h e
stars represent the five islands:
Tul a g'i, Guadalcanal, Gavutu,
Florida and Tamaboga.
In charge of a machine gun COM
pany. Sergeant Harper landed at
Guadalcanal on August Z, 1912,
prior to which the First Battalion,
Second Marines, which is his 'out-
fit" landed on Florida Island and
got the Japs off in about a week. !"
When asked about the fighting
at Guadalcanal, the Marine re-
piled: "It was continuous fighting
for about six weeks, including air
and sea battles and bomblngs ev-
cry night"
Many of the men IN his outfit
were killed when the Japs heavily
shelled the shore one October night
in an attempt to hit Henderson
field air base, he said.
Il didn't even have a fox hole
that night" he said. Il was lying
around a cocoanut tree during the
heavy fire and saw a lot OF my
buddies go doWn."
When he is released from the
Naval Hospital, Sergeant Harper
expects to return to active over
seas duty.
I'VE hope it will all be over
soon," he said eve all sit around
and talk about the things we are
going to do when we get home"
Continued on Page Five; Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-02
City's Planning Board
To Meet This Morning

The city planning board, Great
ed by action of the council last
June, is scheduled to meet in city
hall at II a. m. Saturday..
The meeting is for the purpose OF
organizing the planning board and
developing plans for the board.
A chairman is also scheduled to
be named at the meeting.
Members of the board are DR..
W. Houston Moore, W. A. Fon-
vielle, Henry R. Emory, Mayor
Bruce B. Cameron and City Man
ager A. C. Nichols. Fred Rlppy Is
secretary to the board.