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Evening star., 1943-12-08
Old Rip at c.. u.

Second In Catholic Univer-
sity's Season Americana" will
be presented starting tonight at
$50 and continuing for the fol-
lowing nine days. RIP Van
Winkle" is the production, fea-
turing again in the leading roles
Dick Sykes and Sally Norman.
Charles Steinmetz heads the
supporting cast In the comedy,
which also incorporates Walter
Kerr's well known Dwarf
Scene"
Evening star., 1943-12-08

Trans-Lux - News and shorts:
Continuous from 10 am.
Detroit evening times., 1943-08-31

These brightly coored housecoats will add gay touch
Ito your home acvities Fine quality SeerSuckers and
Percales in floral prints and many other attractive pat
terms. Wraparound styles with smmed waistlnes and
sweeping hoor-length skirts. Your favorte coors are
waiting for you!
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-10-25
Sabotaged

Credible rumors come from several sources
that the Nazi battleships Scharnhorst and Luet-
zow have been sabotaged by their own crews
in a Norwegian ford. The personnel, accord
ing to one man who claims to have been an
eyewitness, was disheartened and rebellious,
From other sources come reports that the
Nazi sailors fear being forced into a suicide
venture against the British fleet.
Whether or not these stories are true, there
seems little doubt that the Germans. both in
the armed forces and at home, realize now
that the war is lost. How long they can be
held to hopeless fight, there is no way Of
telling. Germany probably will crack before
she is dramatically beaten in battle We have
the right to hope that the breakup of Nazisn
will come next year.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-10-25
Always Busy

Save for occasional Japanese attempts TO
reestablish their lost power in the southern
solomons. little is heard of Guadalcanal and
its trategic air base, Henderson field. But
lack of news does not indicate lack of activi-
ty.
In one of the later dispatches from the
south Pacific reference is made to the al
most unbelievable" operations stemming from
Henderson field 1t is noted that traffic in
bombers, fighters, observation and cargo
planes there ''probably is greater than that
handled by any commercial field in the Unit
ed States''
This calls for comparisons, with the prelim-
mary explanation that airport traffic is meas
ured in landings takeoffs and other move
ments within the range of the airport control
tower On this basis, the busiest commercial
airport under control of the Civil Aeronautics
Administration is at Louisville, Ky, where
g. 173 operations we're recorded during Aug
ust, 1943-one for every al seconds, day and
night. Discountng this traffic along CAA routes
Louisvlles August military operations are
seen to have been approximately 52,0O0-one
every So seconds. Therefore, Henderson field
must average an operation every 81 seconds or
oftener to exceed the military volume of Amer
ica's busiest commercial field
Other very busy United States airports are
the ones at st. Louis, with As, 266 August oper.
ations, or one every SIS seconds; Cleveland with
42,782, or one every SO seconds; Minneapolis,
with 81, COG, or one every II seconds. New York
Washington and Chicago airports, leaders in
commercial traffic, are well down on the list
in terms of control tower operations being
relieved of much wartime traffic by neighbor
ing military airfields. Chicago averages an o.
GRAFTON every four minutes, Washington every
Sd minutes, New York every IA minutes
With these figures representing a point oil
beginning for comparative estimates of air o.
erations in the Pacific theater of war. it is OBJ
vous that Henderson field represents vital
and important victory in the march on Tokyo
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-10-25

tion is calling upon the people to crusade 1or
r,,hher to save their fats, to bring in scrap
iron to provide blood for transfusions. AL
...o .re futile if there isn't enough oil to
carry on the war. supply barely sutflclent
for military needs is Of no value il essential
civilian needs are taken care Of and there is
serious question whether we are not already
,,++;ro too far into essential civilian needs. 1t
isn,t q question of how much it costs to pro-
duce oil. it is question of how to get maxi
MIN number of wildcatters to risk the great
est amount of money in even the most fool
places in the country to find OIL
And that is horse sense for the regulators
to consider What good are regulators ana
price.fixers if their policies leave us with
nothing to regulate or nothing to buy!
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-10-25
The Literary Guidepost

book is named was the man who
silently slipped into the Butler
house in Salem, Mass, to do min
or repairs. He was a hunchback
too.
In the beginning, Mrs. Hatha-
way made a miniature life for
nerself, one in which the pleas
ure OF fondling a toy rabbit or
OF making tiny boxes of paper.
were major satisfactions. Halter
ca TO a hard board for ten years
she stln was not unhappy-actu-
aAy, she felt little conternnt for
the children who were unable to
appreciate the life she had made
Tor herself. When she walked
again 1t was her brother Warren
she chose as intimate. And final
" there was Dan Hathaway. who
became her husband.
The Little Locksmith'' is a
perfectly frank record of a fear
tully sensitive mind passing
through an experience which by
normal standards should have
done her in. 1t is plucky book,
and a deeply felt book as well.
There are no adventures" out
side the writer's mind, and there
were many there, all of which
seem preternaturally keen and
clear in the writer's perfect prose.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-10-25
Eastman's Proposal

1t has remained for Joseph B. Eastman.
director of the Office of Defense TRANSPORTS
ton, to recognize officially that a lot of our
manpower shortage is the result of regula.
tons devised for the specific purpose of max
ing two jobs where one was sufficient.
Unless vigorous remedies are undertaken AT
once, the country is headed for a crisis in
railroad manpower, says MIR. Eastman. To
forestall such crisis. he recommends as an
important essential the suspension for the du.
ration in certain circumstances of full crew
laws and engine mileage limitations.
MIR. Eastman recognizes that the railroads
have gone the limit in expanding service under
many restrictions, and that the time has come
to remove artificial barriers which block the
fullest use Of available manpower and eouip.
ment in this critical period.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-10-25
Postwar Shipping

While exact figures cannot be obtained-nor
could they be used if they were available
there seems to be no doubt that the United
otates will end this war as the Colossus of
the Seven Seas, the greatest maritime power
this world ever has seen.
Dlgestlng information made public by the
OWL, it appears that when the war began our
Allies were able to scrape together fortv-tbree
mllllon tons of shipping and we had some
Twelve millions. Qn every instance we are
using lightweight figures.)
III the first twenty-five months of war the
BRUSH lost third of their twenty-five mil
non TONS, leaving them somewhat under
-seeh ililillons. They have not been able to
balance losses with new construction, for the
war as whole. So the British merchant ma
rlne probably will wind up under twenty mil
iion tons-how much under. of course, is for
Mr.. Hitler TO try to find out.
we went to war with close to twelve million
'oiiS ana we have had more than twenty mil
lion TONS delivered since Pearl Harbor. Bv New
tears morning the gross pool of American
shipplng is expected to approximate forty mil
non tons-almost twice as much as Great Brit
am mistress of the seas, possessed before
the war began.
IL goes "lthout saying that we shall not ac-
'ualy nave forty million tons of Shipping on
''''''ary next. We have lost heavily to the
AAis aiready, and shall lose more. But we,
'iohe Oh the great maritime powers, have
more cargo ships today than we had before the
war; and 1t is safe guess that we shall end
VIC war with perhaps twice the shipping Great
Britain will have, and infinitely more than
any other power.
iiiiS situation is not outlined in spirit Of
1''''is' we are proud of the skill, ingenuity
10 success with which our shipbuilding in
a''Ny' much OF it improvised for the purpose,
""S oeaten the C-boats. We should be even
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-10-25
New Oil Reserve Needed

Washington officials continually tell the peo-
pie of the United States that they must get
along with less and less gasoline and fuel oil
For months oil experts have shown official
Washington that our known oil reserves are
being used UP much faster than new reserves
are being discovered.
This situation exists because official Wash
ington, in the face of rising costs of produc-
ton, refuses to grant crude oil price
increases sufficient to encourage validating
for new Oil supplies to replace dwindling re-
serves.
Commenting on the seriousness of the sit
uation, the National Petroleum News says:
The need for oil is so critical that there
should be crusading campaign tc discover
and produce fresh supplies. The Administra'
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-10-25
The Crinea

With the Russians victorious in bloody street
FIGHTING at Melitopol, it would appear that
German forces in the Crimea, estimated at
from half to three-fourths million men, nave
either to force their way through enclrchng
Red Armies or surrender, unless, forsootn,
they decide to swim or be annlhllated.
terrible retribution for the destruction OF
Sevastopol is in store for them Inc slaughter'
rapine and tortures practiced by Nazl troops
during the Crimean campaign, when Hitler
was driving for Caucasian oil, are to be aveng-
ed.
Hitler failed to seize the oil prize that might
have carried him into the middle East and
even to India because the Russian armed
forces were too strong for him, and now the
remaining Axis partner in Europe seems des-
tined to lose tremendous fighting force and
his grip on all previously invaded territory
in southern Russia, including the Ukraine.
When the war is over there will be job
ahead in the redevelopment and restoration
of the Crimea. 1t is one of the truly romantic
and important regions of all Europe.
Big as Vermont, it barely escaped being an
island It bangles from the mainland, sort
of watch fob connected by a narrow isthmus.
On the east the Crmea fronts the Sea of Azov,
points a pudgy finger toward the Caucasus
across the Kerch straits. To the west, 40
miles, is the Black sea coast of Romania.
Northern Crimea is land of plains. To the
south, the ground tits upward 4,5Oo feet to the
l.;~.
and eastern coasts. The strip between the
mountains and the shore is a ribbon of gar
dens, the Riviera OF Russia that lured princess
and grand dukes when Tsarhooe was in flower.
Screened by its mountain windbreak this
Crimean Eden with southern exposure, bright
sun, warm sea and mud baths, was dollhouse
and wine cellar for the pleasure-loving rich.
Figs, olives, pomegranates, cherries, apples
and pears were shipped from mountain valleys
to mainland markets. Crimean wine was pop
ular. In the new Russia, Crimean palaces that
set the fashion of the political past became
convalescent centess and rest homes for
workers.
central situation in the Black Sea assured
commercial importance. 1t also made certain
the role of the Peninsula as battle-ground
Scythians conquered the ancient Cimmerans
the first settlers-then Greek colonists NOV
ed in. Next, Huns and Goths had their day.
Venice and Genoa fought for the harbor cit
les. The Grim Tatars came to stay, provided
lasting name for the land.
Seventy-five years after Russia won the
Crimea from Turkey, she was forced to defend
it against the allied might of England France
and Turkey-the Crmean war; 1853 to 1885,
Sevastopol, naval base for the Russian Black
Sea Fleet, was defended in the present war
for 245 days
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-10-25
N. Y. Political Drama
Entering Final Scene

NEW YORK, Oct. 24.-(P)-Fi-
anil act of a political drama that
has agitated New York will begin
as a repudiated candidate for
State Supreme Court justice fights
disbarment proceedings against
him.
The candidate is Thomas A. Au-
relic, who is expected to testify
in his own defense. The proceed
ings were ordered by the appellate
Lewiston on petition of the Asso-
citation of the Bar of the City of
New York.
UnWanted by the Republican and
Democratic parties who nominal
ed him, Aurelio still is an eligible
candidate for the post. District
Attorney Frank S. Hogan charged
him with having been aided in Sc
curing his Democratic nomination
by Frank Costello, whom Hogan
characterized as GEAR of the Slot
machine racket" Hogan further
charged that on the morning after
the nomination Aurelio pledged
'undying loyalty to Costello.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-10-25
QUOTATIONS

We must find new jobs, new markets. new
outlets for the vital energies OF our people.
Our postwar planning must take lnto account
other countries, with particular consideration
for those which have been overrun by the
enemv.-secretary of Commerce Jesse Jones.
No thinking man would be foolish enough
n nredict when the war will end but We can
he sure the blows struck in 1914 will deter
mine the outcome Undersecretary OF War
Robert P. Patterson.
Monev talks most when man marries it.
Tho russians are not only going to town.
hit to towns-1320 taken in one day.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-10-25
BY JOHN SELBY
1.-THE LITTLE LOCKSMITH, by
Katharine Butler Hathaway

\COWdI- 9H.OUJ.
Katharine Butler Hathaway S
''The Little Locksmith'' is quite
likely to become a minor classic
in spite of the fact that its appeal
is restricted It is not a book for
males of any age-on the other
hand, more women than men read
books. And more women than men
are Book-of-the- Month members,
and that important organization
has chosen the late Mrs. Hatha-
ways book. 1t is one of the very
few 1943 choices which has moth
ing at all to do with this war.
Mrs. Hathaway has put down
her inner life from the time
when as a small child she felt i'll
to the moment when her sensitive
mind felt the approach of the end
When she was about five wears
old tubercular infection caused
her to be strapped to a board for
ten years; she does not say so d..
rectly, but the operation was an.
parently futile, because it was to
have kept her from being y
hi!un1chback, and it did not The
little locksmith for whom the
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-10-25

WASHINGTON, - Strengthening
changes should be made in the
Connally resolution on foreign po-
Icy.
AS reported out by the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee 1t is
a double-talk resolution. Proof OF
that is simple The Connally text
was approved by senators of such
diverse views as Pepper, Green,
lVandenberg, Bennett Clark and
Nye. Any statement about COLA
boration upon which Claude Pep
per and Gerald Nye agree is too
Vague to have any practical mean
ing as a guide to the Senate's
views on American foreign policy.
And if this statement is not to
be an ineligible guide to the Sc
mates attitude, then it has no
purpose.
We are not deceiving anyone by
adopting such vague generous
statement as the Connally draft.
British newspaper correspondents
here know what is going on. They
| i'll not hesitate to arm their read
ers that the Connally resolution di-
luted by the isolationists, means
nothing regarding the future. Is
any foreign dipomat here going
to be fooled by it?
Our Allies, who are uncertain
what the Senate will approve IN
the way of postwar arrangements.
will have not a single one of their
doubts removed by the Connally
resolution. Instead of revealing
twhere Senators stand, the resolu-
| ton gives them perfect cover.
Both extreme internationalists and
extreme isolationists are nestled
under the umbrella of the Con-
nally text. 1t is too coy.
The Connally resolution is bet
te. than nothing. So was the Full
bright resolution. So was the
Mackinac declaration of the Re-
publicans. All contribute to the
current of public opinion. The
more streams however small that
lead into that main current, the
better.
There is danger that those of
us who are fundamentally on the
same side will fall to quarreling
with each other over details. We
want no tragic division over de-
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-10-25
Daily Prayer
FOR DEEPER REVERENCE

Thy works, o Infinite and Eter-
nal Creator of the Universe, are
in the heavens and upon the earth.
No word of mortal can encompass
Thy greatness: Thy ways are past
finding out. Awed as we reverent-
ly bow before Thy might and
majesty, we pray that our little
ness may give way to fresh
sense Of Thy Godhood. We con-
fess to the sin of arrogance. We
have followed the proud devices
and desires of our own naughty
hearts, and have forgotten to give
Thee Thy rightful due. Now, in
the midst of this Christening war,
We humbly turn to Thee for grace
to accord Thee Thy crown rights.
We would let Thee be God over
all, blessed forever. In lowly SUBJ
lection and reverence. we would
cry from our hearts, 'Thy will be
done" Amen.-W. T. E.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-10-25
Raymond Clapper Says:
Help Should Be Giuen
To Connally Proposal

tails among those who believe
that American security will be
greater through collaboration than
by trying to separate from our
allies.
It is not question Of opposing
the Connaly resolution but of try.
ing to make it more specific.
A number of senators, includ.
ing the Ball group and some mem
bers Of the Senate Foreign Rela.
tons Committee itself such as Pep.
per and Green, are ready to vote
for the Connally resolution and
seek only to make more clear
it's ostensible meaning.
They would urge specifically an
international organization, with
power, including military force
to suppress aggression and pre-
serve peace.
That language would permit l.
Their an actual international mill.
tary force such as Senator Ball
faTNs, or the more commonly
favored use of military sanctions
but with national armies, navies
and air forces remaining as at
present. The language there is
=. and frankly so. Sentiment in
this country and presumably in
others, and all thinking inside the
government is in the direction of
continuing the kind of combined
chiefs of staff cooperation that
we now have, rather than for an
inIernationalized force.
If anyone sincerely believes in
what the Connally resolution pro-
fesses to favor, and approves it
without mental reservations, then
he can have no logical objection
to using more specific words.
We can't fix on details now. 1t
is matter of voicing hope and
good faith now, leaving many ques-
tons open.
The Senate once vote,' down the
League of Nations and twice ig-
nored the plea of Republican pre-
sidents to join even the world
court. Therefore, we can natural
ly expect our allies to wonder
whether there really has been a
change of view in the Senate about
collaboration.
But no foreigner will be en-
by resolution that
means all things to all senators.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-10-25

more pleased II circumstances had made it
possible for our Allies, the British to do as
we'll There is nothing big-hearted in this. We
want this war won, and fast, and it could be
won faster if our Allies had more ships.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-10-25
CHOLERA Epidemic

NEW DELHI, Oct. 24.-R-
Cholera, spreading rapidly through
parts of famine-ridden India
claimed 37s lives during Septem.
Der in the Jessoje district alone
northeast of Calcutta and has kill
ed 456 others during the first Il
days OF October, reports reaching
here today disclosed.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-10-25
EARTH SHOCK NOTED

BOMBAY, India, Oct. 24-.R t,a
earth shock of great intensity W. W.
it's epicenter about 1920 miles w. =,
tant, possibly along the boIaeL .r+,
northern India, was recorded s'iO ~
ly before midnight at Colaoa ~
servatory.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-10-25
SECRET WEAPON

LONDON. Oct. 24.-LP) - The
British Army has disclosed the ex.
lstence OF new Allied "secre,
weapon in anti-aircraft fire. and
IN the London area at least "aniy
German adventures in the night
SKY will be very unprofitable,' p
SAID Brig. Gen. Basil J. schon-
land chief of the Arny's scienti-
nc branch, during recent inspec-
ton by newsmen of London's vast
and intricate anti-aircraft set-up.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-10-25
Our Chief Aim
To aid in every way the prosecu-
ton of the war to complete Vic
tory.

THOUGHT FOR TODAY
A Sabbath we'll spent brings week OF con-
tent,
And health for the tolls of the morrow;
But a Sabbath profaned, what SO 'er may
be gained,
Is certain forerunner of sorrow.
Quoted by Mrs. Dorothy Millikan.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-10-25
RED CROSS IN ITALY
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS.

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS.
Algiers, Oct. 24-tR-William
r. Stevenson, Red Cross dele
gate for North Africa, announc-
ed today more than 100 Ameri-
can Red Cross workers now
are operating in Italy.
Six clubs now are serving
doughnuts at the front and in
rest areas, and one club is OPP
Grating in Naples.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-10-25

Total supplies of food for CT
Villains in 1914 are not likely to
exceed those OF 1943 and may even
be somewhat smaller, say econo-
mlsts with the USDA.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-10-25

A1aska's coast line IS -0'.'
miles, longer than the equa 'oL
self.
Evening star., 1943-08-15
INDIAN MOTORCYCLE.
TRAiLERS FOR SALE.

1871 heavy-duty commercial "A IN eX
eellent condition. complete with SIDE cal
and tow bar, $3.50. Call Mr.. Kahn
Evening star., 1943-08-15
AUTOMOBILES FOR SALE.

BANTAM 1910 sport roadster: privately
owned, recently reconditioned with new
body. top. upholstery and battery: excel
lent mechanical condition and tires Phone
Eensington l6s5-W.
BUICK 1910 super 4-door sedan; radio
heater, beautiful green finish; S9a5
guaranteed; liberal trade. easiest terms.
KEAREEY,
New YORK Ave. at n. Cap. RE s443.
BUICK 1897 coupe, air conditioned, 5000
cash. Phone RA. 1858.
BUICK 1899 special 4-door sedan sood
condition. Hobart s067.
Evening star., 1943-08-15
FARMS WANTED.

IN VIRGINIA.
Over 20 acres not less than one-thrd
woods: not over %5 miles from Ellipse:
year-round roads; spring; phone; electrlcity
available: livable house Write J. A. Roy.
326 N. Piedmont. Arlington, Va. Phone
Chestnut 6346 after pm.
10 TO 30 A. IN MONT, CO, NOT OVER
10 mi from District line; state location,
price and down payment in your letter;
no phone calls GALS 10th st. nv
Evening star., 1943-08-15

~ HARLEY-DAVIDsoN "a" with side
car Al mechanical condition. excellent
tires. 5000 cash Laurel $50.
MOTOR BIKE-Gives IS miles to the gal
lon; S65. SiiZo S2S4 after II noon
INDIAN CHIEF 1886 with buddy seat. re-
Gently overhauled; going INTO Navy; must
sell Immediately. WA. '2693.
HEAVY-DUTY Schwlnn cycle r L k.
equipped with brakes and Stratton gaso-
line engine. generator driven head lamp,
tail lamp. heavy duty stand. good tires,
carrier horn, new paint. go miles per ga.
25 mi. per hour, easy TO operate, strongly
l.,l
Evening star., 1943-08-15

3 CHEVROLET 1888 2-door master; a clean
car inside and out, Al mechanical condi-
: tion, low mlleeae; economical car for dura-
/ tlon. Call Sunday, Bendall, Pontiac. TIE.
Evening star., 1943-08-15
AUTOMOBILES For SALE.

WILLYS 1871 sedan; most economical
transp.. low mileage. good condition
throughout See at 594a Ga. ave. NV.
Call Carl. Inc.
CONVERTIBLE 1897 coupe; beautiful new
paint and top, excellent tires, good me-
chsnical condition. See at 5a4a Ga. ave.