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Detroit evening times., 1943-05-21
Oriental
Poppies esGrow
Quite Readily
BY ISABEL FUCKER
Garden Editor. The Detroit Times

ORIENTAL colo r from
oriental poppies! Sounds like
movie title but its true. Four
or five years ago made the trip
across the state 70 Battle Creek
10 see Roy Ashley's poppies in
bloom--and what a sight they
were,
II is impossible to describe
the multitude Of shadings in the
red and pink tones, all the way
from the d deepest maroon
through the most glowing reds
and scarlets, salmon pinks and
watermelon pinks 10 pale
shrimp and shell tones.
Markings Vary
Some Of the poppies are
marked with black Splotches
near the base some have metallic
blue markings Others have no
marks al all One variety called
Mandarins. Fan is spread out
and fan shaped rather than cup
shaped Sizes vary all up and
down the line.
People hesitate 10 grow oricn-
tai poppies believing they are
hard TO handle. Nothing could
be further from the truth-if
only they moved at the
proper time. If plants are to be
moved now, only pot-grown ones
should be purchased. These may
he slipped from pot 10 ground
without disturbing the roots Al
all and will continue 10 grow
with no setback.
Combine With rises
The poppies bloom At more or
less the same time as the tall
bearded irlses the two lend
themselves 70 the most mar
velous color schemes.
Once / planted for a client a
great bed Of a deep purple iris
and a flaming red poppy and
that bit OF garden was the talk
of the town. BY division from
these plants, the owner now has
bordered her driveway with
these two plants.
After blooming, the leaves
gradually die down and the roots
go into their rest period. This
is the time when they may be
lifted and divided and when new
plants may be bought and placed
in the garden. Early in August
the first of the poppies send up
new leaves, preparing for bloom
the following June.
Detroit evening times., 1943-05-21
Speehettibureer

Chop leftover spaghetti into
small bits and mix with ham
burger. Form into a large flat
patty and fry brown. This is
delicious in a buttcred sand
Wich bun.
Detroit evening times., 1943-05-21
Can Cole ction

HAVE YOU been saving all
your tin cans for Uncle Sam?
OF course you have This
is Just TO remind you that the
Wayne County Salvage Com
mittee Terry Bannan,
chairman is sending a
truck down your street TO
pick them up.
BE sure 20 set your carton
out Friday night because
the Tin Can Man is apt 10 be
there early Saturday before
you are up.
Remember the date ...
Saturday May p
Evening star., 1943-11-24

try's initial outlay for participation
would amount to approximately
1857, ,y000, 900. Of which not more than
$lss. .ooo, 900 would be in gold.
Mr.. White, explaining the proposal
at q press conference, declared hs
would be surprised" II member
countries Of the proposed bank were
called on for more than the original
20 per cent subscription, and said
United States participation in both
proposals could be achieved by an
appropriation of Something over"
So 3,0OO, ,000, 600. This county's con-
tribution to the sterilization fund
has been estimated at $2,500 900 900,
Russia's Share Smaller.
Britain's share in the fund would
be approximately 1880, ,000, 900 and
in the total bank capital about ST.
600 000. 900, Mr.. White said, adding
that Russia's share would be Sub
stantially smaller" than Britains in
each case.
The bank would guarantee, par
ticipate in or make loans" only to
member countries, but could, through
the governments of those countries,
extend financial aid to political SUBJ
divisions or to private business or in
dustrial enterprises.
The bank and its officers would
"scrupulously avoid interference in
the political affairs of any member
country" and would not be Influenced
"by the political character" Of any
government requesting loan.
Evening star., 1943-11-24
Pilot Survives Crash
Into BuIIdozer Due
To Forced Landinq

fThe following story ,uritten by
Tech. Sergt. Harry S. Bolser,
Louisville, Ky., marine combat
correspondent, tDas distributed by
the Associated Press.)
GUADALCANAL Delayed First
1t. George w. Cutler, Los Angeles
marine dive bomb pilot, landed the
nrst plane on Vella Lavella, North
ern Solomons, after that island base
was wrested from the Japs.
But he almost didn't live to tell
about 1t.
1t was forced landing two weeks
before the airfleld was completed.
Workers, members Of Navy Sea-
bee battalion, with heavy equip
ment, were smoothing of the land
ing strip when 1t. Cutler came in
with his Dauntless bomber. Steam
rollers were moved off, but the Sea-
bees didn't have time to drive off
. bulldozer near the end of the field.
Crashes Into Bulldozer.
1t. Culler's plane crashed head
on into the bulldozer, glanced off
and tipped over on its back. A Sea-
bee crew righted the bomber.
With a sheepish grin on his face,
1t. Cutler crawled out of the cock
pit. His face was scratched and his
back was wrenched. His radio gun
ner, Marine Sergt. Charles Kyle,
Sherman, Tex, was pulled out of
fhA cnot un vrtoc I,xx.k
Two days later the pair were back in
action blasting Japs.
Both the plane and the bulldozer
were wrecked. Workers on the field
said it was something short of a
miracle that husky 1t. Cutler, CEN
ter on the University of Southern
CALIFORNIA; 1899 football team, and
his gunner were not killed in the
crash.
Engine trouble developed after the
plane had been hit by antiaircraft
shell shrapnel during a raid on the
Japs' Kahili air base, Northern
Solomons, and he headed for Vella
Lavella, about rs miles south.
Failed to See Machine.
He said he failed to see the bull
dozer until his plane was halfway
down the landing strip.
That thing looked as big as
mountain" 1t Cutler said. II knew
I eouldnt miss 1t, so 1 braced myself
for the crash. Guess I was lucky
to get out"
1t. Cutler recently completed his
second combat duty tour in the Sol
onions. He helped blast the Japs
of on Munda and participated in
bombing and strafing attacks on
other enemy airflelds and ground
installations in the Solomons.
Son of Mr.. and Mrs. George
Cutler, Los Angeles, he left the Uni
versity of Southern California in
December. 1941, to become an avia-
ton cadet. He won his wings In
September, 1912.
Evening star., 1943-11-24

not quite dared to take-like Man.
omea, northernmost of the Ellices
and the nearest to the Gilberts
where the writer flew recently with
the first flying boat ever landed
there. 1t is true that we are still
fighting for British territory, for the
Gilberts. like the Ellices, are British
possessions. That way lies Japan
and that way we must go.
Contrasts Noted.
Thus, in this unknown form of
atoll warfare on the Pacific's un-
known front, Americas abilities are
still fundamentally untested. We
were at the first, Guadalcanal, stage
where we had to conjecture what
1t would cost to make beachhead
but they are untried in experience.
When strategists talk of island to
island hopping, it sounds as though
the islands were all alike. But
Tarawa and Maxim are as different
from Kolonbanga and Goodenough
as is the desert from the arctic.
To an atoll you must bring every
thing, even drinking water. Water
is measured out as jealousy as
aboard transport, only on an atoll
it Is not just for a voyage, but for
good. Water distillation equipment,
with its long hose in the sea, pumps
all day, and God help you If the
motor breaks down or the fuel runs
out.
The atoll itself only looks like a
continuous ring from above. Actu-
ally, 1t is oftener a chain OF islets
across which bridges or ferries must
be placed If your guns are to be
dispersed properly. You must fight
against the tendency to congest
everything at the windward side
OF the atoll, away from the lagoon's
mouth. Yet because that is the
only wide place, your airfield must
almost unavoidably be there.
Try Men and Machines.
Where can you get the coral filled
to smooth surface for your deli
cate undercarriages? Only by dig
ging up the very coral which is
already supporting you in this vast
ocean. For that you need every
thing NQm dynamite to steam
shovels--al vulnerable targets them
selves.
And wherever they dig seawater
comes in. More holes to fill and
nothing obtainable to fill them ex-
cept by digging more holes.
Atolls seem too valueless to be
worth having to our diplomats of the
World War period. We shall see
what taking them by storm-the
technique for which the writer can
not discuss here because the Gilbert
operations are still unfinished
costs us. 1t will be more than pen
f1ourishes on the green table Of
European chancellery, as any officer
from handsome Admiral Nimitz and
gentle-mannered 1t. Gen. Richard
son down to the lowest marine and
dogface could tell you today il
they could talk across the Pacific.
Atolls are easy to lose, tough to
retake and invaluable counters in
the permanent pattern of the Pa
cific.
tcopyrisht. 1e43. by Chicaso Daily
News. Inc)
Evening star., 1943-11-24

the caliber repudiated in their en-
tirety during the Northern Solo
mons invasion-Admiral Nimitz re-
Joined late yesterday:
II can state categorically they
are not true up to the present mo-
ment."
(Over the Solomons sector of
Admiral William F. Halsey and
the New Guinea New Britain
area of Gen. Douglas Macarthur
these form with the Gilbert op-
erations a long outpost front line
of attack against the japanese
bombers rained explosives at II
enemy points.
(The greatest weight fell on
enemy air bases on the western
tip of New Britain, open to pos
sible invasion by Gen. MacAr-
thurs troops standing on the
shores of New Guinea's Huon
Gulf as near as 10 miles away.)
Hesitant on Predictions.
Admiral Nimitz was asked if, "at
the present rate, do you believe
Japan can hold out until 1892"
Il doubt it," he replied.
Gould you make the same reply II
the date was advanced to 1882"
Il hesitate to make predictions
but I can assure you our forces in
the Pacific will not rest on past per-
formances, but will work harder and
harder and, as training becomes
more effective, we may expect better
results"
Evening star., 1943-11-24
World RFC' Plan
To Aid Rebuilding
Offered by Treasury
Hy the Associated Press.

Ey the AsSociated PreeS.
The Treasury placed before the
world today the second of two sug-
gested blueprints for postwar finan-
cial cooperation designed to provide
. foundation for peace and pros
perity.
Previously outlined in broad prin-
ciples, the preliminary draft for
$l0, 600, ,00O, 900 United N2ions bank
for reconstruction and development
was submitted to seven congressional
committees and finance ministers OF
nearly 40 nations. Similar in some
respects to this country's 12-year-old
Reconstruction Finance Corp, it
would encourage and supplement the
flow Of private capital into foreign
investments.
The Treasury previously had pub
lished similar draft for an $8,O00,-
100000 international sterilization
fund aimed at curbing fluctuating
money rates and thereby promoting
world trade.
Differs From British Plan.
The British also have put forward
a stabilization plan based, however,
on clearing union rather than a
specific fund pegged to gold, and the
two countries still are at variance
after months of discussions.
While emphasizing that neither
the American bank or stabilization
proposal has official status nor ap-
proval of any Government agency,
the department in each instance in
vited discussion and suggestions.
Secretary Morgenthau said the tech
nical staffS of the Treasury and
other departments believed the two
projects could help provide sound
financial foundation on which pri-
vate enterprise can build a prosper
Gus world economy"
He made no request for funds,
however, and Harry D. White, Treas
ury monetary expert and author OF
both proposals. said no appropria-
ton would be asked pending a pro-
jected international conference this
winter to discuss the plans.
Would Aid Private Capital.
The World RFC"-for which the
United States would put up one
third of the money-would supple
ment private capital loans not only
to rebuild war-damaged areas but
to maintain permanently "a high
level of business activity through
out the world"
Funds would be subscribed by
member nations under formula
based on national income and VOL
ume of foreign trade. This coun-
Evening star., 1943-11-24
D. c. Pilot, Flyer Wife
Stationed at Same Bose

A Washington Army Air Forces
pilot and his wife, a member of the
WASPS, are stationed at the same
airfield In Fort Worth, Tex.
1t. H. c. Hopkins, jr., son Of DR..
and Mrs. Herbert C. Hopkins, 5912
Cedar parkway, Chevy Chase, Md,
and his wife, the former Jane
Becker, soon may be flying the same
kind Of aircraft, B-24 Liberators.
1t. and Mrs. Hopkins were mar
ried in May, 1910. Mrs. Hopkins was
sent by the Treasury Department
In February to Puerto Rico, where
she won her pilots license. 1t. Hop
kins formerly was employed by
Woodward e. Lothrop.
Evening star., 1943-11-24
AtoN Warfare Described
As Most Sinister in World
P. Wirephoto,

sun glasses against the raging bright
blindness that leaps from the coral
surface. So bitter bright is the coral
that they turn away and look oc-
casionally at the greenish blue OF
the lagoon which, though sparkling
too, IN the sun, seems to make their
headaches and dizziness less.
From a military standpoint. the
essential thing about the atoll is
that 1t Is possibly the only COM
plete land form where concealment
is not partly. but totally impos-
slble. On one side are smashing
breakers, swept by trade winds; on
the other, sharks home in the Ia
COON. And between is what you live
on: A curving strip of coral, pene-
trable only to pickaxes and dyna-
mite-and from 800 yards to three
feet in width.
For the enemy bombardier peer
ing down through his sights, there
is no doubt whether your camps are
back in the hills or tucked along
rivers almost overhung with branch
es. On the atoll, there is only one
place you can be, for there are no
hills or rivers.
Strategist Dream.
Under the immutable laws of the
sea and the atoll, your ships can
be only in the lagoon, and there is
no chain of lagoons like the pearly
bays along New Georgia or the
Papuan coast, but just one single
naked anchorage with just one mar
row entrance.
AS military form, the atoll is to
the strategist what the sonnet is to
the poet. What you can do is fe-
rociously limited. What you dare
to try is sternly circumscribed by
the fact that If you are defending
the enemy knows exactly where
you are and if you are attacking, he
knows with equal precision where
that coral ring binds you to 90 if
you want to dislodge him.
This form of warfare, new even
to the Pacific, is doubly new in
that nobody has ever previously
forced the holders of these is
lands before on the power of pat
tern of mechanical warfare with
its aircraft carriers and shore
listening posts, its long heavy
guns and dive-bombers. Never did
tanks tread and bite atoll surfaces
before the Americans brought them
there.
Pattern Changes.
The reason for this is that until
today the political pattern of the
Pacific has been determined by
peaceful means from the days of
Britain's Cook, Frances Bougain-
vile and countless American whalers
who preceded the voyages of United
States Navy man Wilkes. Americans
were unique in claiming virtually
nothing of what they found, being
then too preoccupied in opening up
domestic frontiers. Then came an
other period of peaceful interchange
and the calm when the diplomats
at Europe's council tables deter
mined the Pacific pattern-inciden-
tally giving Japan the four great
atoll groups which still separate us
from our own Philippines.
These atoll groups in Japanese
hands means that atoll warfare,
with all its hazards and pecularities
has now entered American fighting
mems tactical books. It means that
exploration of the possibilities q
classical land forms will be paid
for not in treaties but in blood.
Until now it has always been the
occupation of atolls which the Japs
Evening star., 1943-11-24
the political and fighting fronts
and dAclarAd.

the political and fighting fronts
and declared:
"On the frontier In India and
In the Pacific, Japanese aggression
has been halted and the forces Of
the United Nations are now moving
on the offensive.
"At sea, my navies and those Of
our Allies continue to maintain
their mastery over the enemy, and
important successes have been won
In the struggle against the enemy's
U-boats.
THE air forces Of thhe United
Nations have maintained their as
cendancy in all theaters of the war
and have increased the weight Of
their blows at the enemy's heart.
MY government, taking counsel
with my Allies, and building upon
the foundations laid at the recent
conference in Moscow, will devote
their continuous attention to the
study Of plans for the future settle
ment Of Europe"
Aid Against Japan Emphasized.
King George emphasized that
Britain was preparing to play her
part in the war against Japan, de-
claring the government has under
taken special review of the prob
lens which are likely to arise as
hostilities in Europe come to an end
and of the adjustments which will
have to be made when I'VE turn to
prosecute with fresh vigor the war
against Japan"
The last part Of the address was
devoted to postwar problems on
Britain's home front, with the King
declaring that 1T will be the
primary aim Of my government to
insure that in this period food,
homes and employment will be
furnished for my people, that good
progress is made in rebuilding our
damaged cities and that In industry,
mining and agriculture a smooth
transition is made from war to
peace"
The King prorogued the old ses-
sion yesterday in speech read by
Lord Chancellor Simon in which the
sovereign cited the sweeping Allied
successes in every theater of the
war and declared the United Nations
were wrestling the initiative from
the enemy and taking the offensive
in all parts of the world.
The prorogation address hailed
closer cooperation between Britain,
the United States and Russia
toward the final defeat of the ag-
gressors and said that the King was
gratified, too, that China was asso-
ciated with one of the more i'm
portant instruments of the Moscow
tripartite conference.
Evening star., 1943-11-24
BY GEORGE WELLER,
Foreign Correspondent OF The Star and
Chicago Daily News.

SOMEWHERE IN AUSTRALIA
Nov. 24.-Those lovely, ring shaped
atolls, with their lapis lazul lagoons
and feather-boa palms continually
bent before the trade winds, and
thin outer beaches swept with ter
r1flc surf for which Americans are
now fighting and dying in the Gil
bert Islands, are among the most
sinister battlef1elds the world has
ever known.
Americans have fought this war
on the bare stones of Alaska S snowy,
ancient mountains, on the open
sweeps Of the African desert, in the
New Guinea and Solomon jungles
and on the cliffs of Italy's rainy and
wintry hills, but never before have
they staked their lives against an
atoll. For an atoil is the most COM
plicated form of land structure
which the earth knows. Its insect
built, wave-shaped ring is like MOTH
Ing known anywhere else.
How little understood are the
difficulties of our unknown front in
the Central Pacific-where your
correspondent, during his stay at
Funafuti, was the first newspaper
man to live among forces preparing
Tor the blow now in progress-may
better be explained by the fact that
war on this unknown front" is
war that outdoes all others in de-
mandS on pioneering ingenuity.
Islands Bare to Attack.
These British-owned Gilbert and
Ellice groups where American forces
alone have been struggling for. 18
months to get the upper hand on
what was lost after Pearl Harbor
are totally unlike the Solomons or
New Guinea. In the latter, Army
and Marine landing parties have
been able to 60 in sizable ships
directly into small, well-protected
bays, SO difficult for Jap night bomb
ers to pick out that they are vir-
tually secure, once taken. And if
our reinvading forces find strong
gunflre from the beaches at one
bay, there is always another farther
on up the coast.
Far different is the situation in
the atoll, which lies in naked beauty
blindingly white and unmistakable
by day and giving back moonlight
and starlight almost as plainly by
night. Nobody can black out or
conceal that staring white ringlet
of coral.
Here on the atoll, antiaircraft
gunners find no thick green hills
rising from the sea to whose tops
Bofors may be tugged with which
to erect a ceiling of fire over the
beaches where men are toiling to
haul ashore shells, food, tanks and
guns, and ever more guns.
Sweating engineers and seabees,
infantry and artillerymen all wear
Evening star., 1943-11-24
Pacific
Continued From First Page }

unity to Japan is one Of the steps
along the road to Toxic" he said
yesterday in an interview.
The admiral indicated the Japa-
nese fleet which has made no ap-
parent attempt to contact the
United States Fleet, may yet accept
an en1apement.
Evening star., 1943-11-24
King George Opens
Parliament Session;
Halls Successes.
By the Associated Press.


LONDON, Nov. King
George vi, opening a new session
Of Parliament, confidently told
the House of Commons today
that "in the fourth year Of the
war the forces of the United
Nations assumed the Often
sive in all theaters = : and in
the coming year we shall, with
Gods help, be able to bear upon
the enemy a still greater weight
Of attack"
The new session is the ninth since
the present Commons was elected in
November, 1885. The current ParH-
ament Is the longest-lived In Brit
aims history.
With the growing help of our
great American ally and together
with the other United Nations we
shall 60 forward with confidence in
our cause until we have delivered
the peoples Of the world from the
fear Of the aggressor," the king said.
Allies Strides Reviewed.
Reviewing the Allies forward
strides during the past year he re-
called:
The enemy has been cast out of
Africa; freedom has been brought
to Sicily, Sardinia and Corsica, and
In Italy our forces and those of our
American ally now are engaging the
enemy on the mainland of Europe
"On his eastern front the enemy
has given ground before the massive
and unrelenting advance of the Rus
sian armies, whose magnificent
achievements we have watched with
ever-deepening admiration"
Turning to the conquered ma
tions OF Europe, the sovereign de-
clared they "are everywhere pre-
pairing to throw of the yoke Of the
oppressor, and we shall continue to
afford them such help and encour.
agement as lies within our power -
King Georges speech opening the
new session of Parliament was
similar in optimistic content to his
prorogation address closing the old
session yesterday, and which was
withheld from publication until to-
day.
Ceremony In Robinx Room.
The King, accompanied by Queen
Elizabeth, personally opened the
new Parliament. The ceremony
took place in the Kings robine
room, where the House OF Lords has
met since the House of Commons
chamber was demolished by Ger
man bombs in 194l. The peers. in
somber morning dress, relieved by a
sprinkling Of service uniforms,
crowded the floor, while members of
the lower house with their wives
and relatives filled the public GAL
leries.
Just before the ceremonies in the
robing room, detachment of home
guards carried out the age-old duty
of "the beefeaters" and searched
the vaults Of the building-a custom
dating back to the days of Guy
Fawkes' gunpowder plot.
King George wore the uniform
of an admiral OF the fleet. Queen
Elizabeth was garbed in a simple
black dress with a long, black coat
anw wore triple-tier necklace OF
pearls with a diamond ornament
on her wide ofI-face hat and an
other diamond on the left lapel of
her coat.
Prime Minister Churchill was not
present at the opening ceremony.
Clement r. Atlee. Deputy Prime
Minister, represented the govern
ment.
In his speech. which lasted II
the King reviewed both
Evening star., 1943-11-24
Movie Director Divorced

LOS ANGELES, Nov. "a (P.-Mrs.
Virginia Thunderstorm was granted
an uncontested divorce yesterday
from H. Bruce Thunderstorm, motion
picture director. She was given Gus
tody of their daughter, Ardath, r..
Evening star., 1943-11-24

Rubber may be synthetic, but the
will to victory must be genuine.
Have you bought any War savings
stamps today?
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1943-07-22
More Accurate, Too

Burglar-Let's figure up and see
how much we made on this haul.
Second-I'm tired. Let's wait and
look in the morning paper.