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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-05-23
Visitors To Smokes
Reported On Increase

RALEIGH, May %. -(Pl- The
number of visitors to the Great
Smokes Mountains National Park,
1881 during April, was a % per
cent Increase over the number in
April 1913, a park report showed
today. It was estimated that. 80 per
cent Of all visitors were from this
state or Tennessee.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-05-23
years.

High school in 1889 and attended
Wake Forest college for three
years.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-05-23

1912, and was stationed at Shaw
Field S. c., until his recent trans
fer.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-05-23

The United States Navy was the
first to employ the catapult to
launch planes from a chip.
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RAINBOW GIRLS TO MEET

Wilmington Assembly No. Il,
Order of Rainbow for Girls, will
meet Thursday at p. m. in the
Masonic Temple.
VI
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BUY WAR BONDS AND STAMPS
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Allied Invasion Craft Awaiting D-Day

at Fort Oglethorpe, G;
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-06-18

diamonds, such as the world has probably never
seen on one woman
Otero lost millions at Monte Carlo. Foohardi
ness characterized her playing. She haZarded all
on the dancing ball, believing Fortune favors the
bold Otero who had bewitched crowned heads
and dwelt in luxury lost almost everything
In her Memories, Otero -confesses that she is
powerless to master this passion of play, and says
that If she were dispossessed of everything she
would probably initiate the hair-brained Due de
Courson-Launay, who once bet and lost every hair
his body and in consequence unable to
move step for fortnight.
Because she drove so many admirers to despair
and death, Otero was known the courtesan
ringed round with catastrophes.
IN enumerating some of the picturesque person
ages seen at Monte Carlo in the past, mention
must be made of the Aga Khan, a man-god
worshped by about $4,000 900 Moslems and worth
$8000O0,000. This demigod, who claims to be the
43rd descendant of the Prophet was prone to
veal himself in temples of play. At Deauville.
Mice or Monte Carlo one might see him most of
the year with bevy of pretty "mascottes"
''The Aga was such reckless gamester," de-
clared Jane Carron, his divorced wife, that am
sure he would have staked me and all my jewels
at play, like the Mahabharata hero King Yud-
hishthir, who gambled away his wife and posses
Sions a throw of the dice"
Although the Koran prohibits gambling, the
Aga considers that he is law unto himself, and
spends much time and gold on games of hazard.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-06-18

The "Cercle
Prive," Or
Private
ClubroOm i'm
the Monte
Carlo Casino.
Where in
Those Golden
Days of the
Gamblers the
Stakes Were
High, Has
Been Shut
tered for the
Duration,
Perhaps
Forever.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-06-18

dancer, who had conquered Europe and America
with her wild dances and her remarkable private
life. which spotted with affairs from reigning
kings to bootblacks.
Oteros black eyes flashed when she the
stir Diane bad made
The next day she appeared in the Casino with
out jewel and in frock which showed she, had
little or nothing underneath. But she followed
by her maid who was hung with collection of
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-06-18

shop for non-payment of interest.
Her chateau near Fontainebleau was
sold, her gorgeous house In Paris
uwas lost. In 1871. she was found
head In her Hollywood apartment
hanging from nooses
Lady Mccarthy and Lady Nichol
son, both over 60, were habitues of Monte Carlo
Lady Mccarthy always wanted her own way.
Call the Inspector" she demanded at the Sport.
ing Club. and the employees produced him. This
croupier" said Lady Mccarthy waving her hand
But II was undoubtedly Lady Nicholson who
made the strangest demands. Whenever she went
10 dine at either the Hotel de Paris at the Beach
Casino, she always used to telephone ahead:
please, maitre d'hotel. make certain that the
tablecloth and the napkins at my table are blue
today. I'm wearing blue gown"
Madame FANNY Bey, small, elegant woman
with fair hair, spent her nights wandering like
ghost in the salons of the Sporting Club, usually
preferrtng the baccarat room. Once CANINE"
OF the streets in the sun1s Of Paris she later
known as Maggie Meller and met rich Egyptian,
FANNY Bey, whom she married.
In of London's smartest hotels one night
shots were heard in the suite of the FANNY Beys.
Servants found the Egyptian shot, his wife stand
ing over him. She arrested and brought TO
trial. Few there were who doubted that she would
be hanged, but special plea was made to the
jury and she acquitted.
Sir Basil Zaharoff, the armament king backed
the Monte Carlo Casino with his money. This
merchant of death" also spent money many
demimondaineS, including Albany Debreige, the
actress and model. whose matchleSS figure is pre-
served in two statues in the Luxembourg Gallery;
Mile Cotillon who started life the streets, later
assumed the title of Princess, and ran a much
talked about gaming house in the Etoile district;
and Donna Maria LuZZati.
THE last mentioned was Venetian courtesan who
in 1900 We'd with La Belle Otero in vamping
Partisan boulevardiers. Then she was lovely and
richer than La Barucci another Italian noted in
- pc annals of Paris. But with the lapse of years
s-he relinqushed her sceptre, and today she is as
faded the painted beauties by Giorgione in the
DuraZZo Palace at Genoa.
Donna Marias mania for games of hazard so
impoverished her during the last few years that
she lived on the charity of Sir Basil Zaharoff but
she is better off today. When Europe's mystery
and munitionmaker died. he bequeathed a
fortune 10 his aged sweetheart, and Donna Luzzati
is constantly beseged by multitude of suitors.
THE AMERICAN WEEKLY
Evening star., 1944-06-05
Mississippi Cadet
Wins II Of II Award!
Al West Point
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
WEST POINT, N. Y, June S.
Eleven of II academic awards pre-
sented at the third DAY of COM
mencement week activities of the
United States Military Academy
yesterday went to Cadet James F.
Scoggin, jr., State College, Miss,
honor man of the graduating class.
Cadet John ]. Hennessey, Chi
cago, received the Army Athletic
Association award for best all
around athlete.
The cadet chapel was filled to
capacity for baccalaureate services,
conducted by Chaplain John B. Wal
thour and attended by relatives and
friends of the 474 graduates. Msgr.
George Murdock gave the bacca-
laureate sermon at a military mass
in the Catholic chapel and Jewish
services were held in the old chapel.
The academic and athletic awards,
donated annually by patriotic soci-
ties and prominent persons, were
presented at retreat parade on the
historic plain. During the after
noon, Maj. Gen. Francis B. Wilby,
superintendent of the academy,
gave a reception for the class mem
bers and for alumni who have gath
cred for graduation exercises to-
morrow.
Cadet Scoggin received 10 War
Bond awards for standing first in
general order of merit for four
years; for having the highest rat
ings In economics, mechanics, Eng
lish, mathematics, chemistry and
electricity, physics, law and mill
tary hygiene and for standing first
In graduation merit. His 18th award
was set of books for the highest
rating in military engineering and
military history.
The name of Cadet John H. Cush-
man of Columbia, S. c., as the cadet
having the highest rating of mill
tary efficiency, will be inscribed on
the cup presented by the Sons of
the Revolution in the State of New
York. He also received the Pershing
Sword as graduating cadet captain
and brigade commander and the
Ffckes Athletic Trophy as outgoing
lacrosse captain.
Cadet Ernest Graves, jr., Wash
tngton, was given a War Bond for
the highest rating in ordnance.
Cadet Casimir Myslinski of Steu-
benville, Ohio, received the Edger-
ton Trophy as outgoing football
captain and Hughes Trophy as most
valuable football player cadet.
Evening star., 1944-06-05
Normal Service Resumed
As GREYHOUND Strike Ends

Operations were normal today on
the, Pennsylvania Greyhound Lines
running north from washington,
tied up for a week py strike.
Service was resumed yesterday as
the men returned to work after q
War Labor Board hearing Saturday
at which it was agreed that disciple
nary action for the strikers would
be through a grievance committee
on which the union, Division 1908
of the Amalgamated Association Of
Street Electric Railroad and Motor
Coach Employees of America, is rep
resented.
Evening star., 1944-06-05
|'We're Army Brots,' Says Wife
OF I unk Leader in Rome's s Fall
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
DECATUR, Ga, June 5.-The
pretty wife of 1t. Col. Bogardus
Cairns, leader of q tank force In the
entry into Rome. observed today,
1--WE both are Army brats."
While her husband was entering
the Eternal City yesterday, Mrs.
Cairns was helping her son, Douglas,
celebrate his 9Th birthday. The
lad, who was when his dad went
away to war, wants to be a marine.
A sister, Patricia, and some neigh
Dor kids ate ice cream and cake
with Douglas and attentively lis
tened to a newspaper reporter re-
count Col. Cairns achievement.
He was born in New York." said
Evening star., 1944-06-05

Mrs. Cairns of her husband, II was
born in Panama. We met at Camp
Perry at the rife matches and got
married some time later. The rest of
the story Is him"
On the mantle of the home rested
the Leech Cup, coveted rife compe-
tition trophy won by Col Cairns in
1910. The young ofiicer was in
training for the pentathlon events
in the Olympics for 1910 when the
war came.
Evening star., 1944-06-05

One pound Of waste cooking fats
makes enough glycerin to manu-
facture one-third pound gun
powder.
Evening star., 1944-02-25
Constantine BrO4Vn

tance to Marshal Tito, who has an
nounced that King Peter of Yugoslavia
had been deposed by the Tito Partisans.
In the case Of Yugoslavia, President
Roosevelt is pledged even more than In
the case Of Poland to support the gov
ernment which sided with the Allies
after he intervened at Belgrade. The
Yugoslav government, which has been
under fire from Moscow, cannot quite
understand his attitude.
President Roosevelt has made q mum.
Der Of commitments to our Allies. These
appear to conflict now with the particu.
lar interests Of some Of the members of
the United Nations. In the past, the
President always was friendly and en-.
couraging to most of the foreign diplo-
mats. He seemed to understand the
particular problems of the countries
they represent, and on the few occa.
sions when they now visit the White
House they always leave fully convinced
that their governments need not worry.
Yet. the attitude of Mr.. Roosevelt
frequently appears directly opposite in
the light Of developments in Moscow
and London, and they get little comfort
when they read statements attributed
to high officials which indicate that
America has neutral attitude toward
the present political problems Of
Europe.
In the Barley incident they hope
their governments may see the explana-
ton Of number OF apparent contradic.
tlons IN Americas foreign policy
Evening star., 1944-02-25

future attitude Of Mr. Roosevelt in re-
gard to their own countries.
Some incidents which they cannot
understand have occurred lately and
their curiosity has never been satisfied.
For instance, there is no indication
whether another Ambassador will be
appointed to the governments in exile
in London to replace Anthony Biddle,
who resigned to join the staff Of Gen.
Dwight D. Eisenhower.
The Belgian and Norwegian govern
ments have made discreet inquiries at
the State Department about when an
other envoy will be appointed to sue
coed Mr.. Biddle. They received nothing
but vague answers, and there are no
indications that another Ambassador
will be named. 1t happens that Mr..
Biddle also was Ambassador to the
Polish government in exile. That gov
ernment is frowned on by Moscow and
no longer is recognized as such by our
Soviet Allies.
On the other hand, we are giving full
recognition to all the governments in
exile. The Interpretation given to the
apparent reluctance Of the President to
send another representative to all these
governments is that he does not wish
to do anything which even by implica-
ton might be regarded as an unsym-
pathetic gesture toward the Kremlin.
There is an equal uneasiness on the
part Of the Yugoslav government in
exile in Cairo since Secretary of State
Hull said, in effect, that this country
henceforth would send lease-lend assis-
Evening star., 1944-02-25

Such incidents as the Battle of
Hastings. the capture Of Jerusalem
by the Crusaders, the campaigns
of Genghis Khan, the granting of
the Magma Charta, the revival OF the
1nquisition In Spain, the epidemic
of the BLACK Death" Wat Tyler's
rebellion, the martyrdom of Joan OF
Arc, the fall Of Constantinople to
the Turks, the institution of the
slave trade and the reinvention of
printing from movable types may
seem unconnected with each other
and still more isolated from the
happenings of the prevailing tumul-
tuous era, but in fact they all are
related.
1t is this principle Of association
that DR.. Dreyfus is reasserting for
Brazil and for the United States.
Because of its pragmatic social
utility it deserves the support of
everybody who shares the dream of
the earth prosperous and humane.
Evening star., 1944-02-25
On the Record

Western civiliZatio The industrial
revolution had created new instruments
OF production and new opportunities
for life. Then, with the Goth century,
opportunity and confidence began to
wane-and also population.
America was populated by the attrac-
ton, first, of free land; later, of plenti-
full opportunities for labor. But in the
ties, not assets. Even in underpopulated
countries such as Brazil or Australia,
immigration has been restricted.
Certainly the decline of population is
not due to decline of wealth or pro-
ductive forces. The machine and the
dawning chemical age promise not ex-
haustion but acceleration of the one,
and substitutions for the other. If cer-
tain raw materials like oil are being
used up in our country, physicists and
chemists foresee new energies with
which to turn wheels.
Modern agriculture has made land
more, not less, productive. The rapid
growth of Western population has oc-
CURED, furthermore, in the Industrial
lied areas. Now 1t halts, not because
there is not enough for more people,
but because more can be produced by
fewer people. Production is not allowed
its fullest expansion; scarcities are arti-
f1cially produced, and mankind, instead
OF expanding to meet the possibilities,
commits race suicide.
X y
The State of Alaska has been ad-
judged capable Of supporting Is 1000 ,OCO
people. Actually, it has 72,000. Texas,
which is larger than greater Germany,
has 6,500,000 people, while greater Ger
many has 10000 900. California, which
is considerably larger than Italy, has
100000 to 1taly's 100000. To say
that this country can only support 1885,
000,0 at high standard of living is
only to admit that we do not yet know
how fully to employ men and materials.
To predict an almost unlimited expan-
sion of the Soviet Union is to presume
that 1t does. But the Soviet economy
presumes production for total use and
Evening star., 1944-02-25

island base, or over any number of air.
craft that can be operated from island
bases In any given area Of the seas in
which operations are now taking place.
Remember, that the capacity of these
island bases Is limited indeed. If you
Will look at some of the photographs
that have been taken of Japanese atolls,
you will note how the landing strips
take up about all the available land
space on the little scraps of coral. The
number of aircraft that can be operated
from such position is not large.
~ y
1t will be different matter when we
come within reach of the Japanese
home defenses, or even Formosa, but
that time Is not yet, and in the mean
time, unless the Japanese can find some
way Of overcoming our tremendous
floating air-base capacity, they cannot
hope to hold any Of their outlying
islands-not even Truk or Guam or
Saipan.
Such positions must inevitably be re-
duced by successive concentrations Of
irresistible power. When all those of
strategic Importance are reduced, then
the way to the China Coast and the
Japanese life line lies open before Ad-
= miral Nimitz's conquering armada, ard
those of real strategic Importance are
not numerous. The rest can be LETT
behind.
The only way the Japanese can stop
Admiral Ninitz is to sink the ships that
are the basis Of his power. The only
way they can do that Is In feet action,
as long as he is still operating out Of
reach Of their home based aircraft. But
they show no desire to bring about Q
feet action.
tcopyrisht 1914. New York Tribuns. Ins)
Evening star., 1944-02-25
Dorothy Thompson

employment; our economy is devoted to
only such production as will return
cost plus profit. 1t has returned such
profits that the savings from them have
periodically been too vast to be again
profltably re-employed.
The fact affects the growth Of FAM
lilies and contributes to degeneration
and decline. In the United States the
greatest increase in the birth rate comes
from the most impoverished and back
ward areas. Here, as in India, it is not
opportunity that breeds big families
but lethargy. Big families are produced
by responsible parents only in communi.
ties where there is freedom from fear
the chief fear being Of unemployment
and destitution.
The lack of confidence In an expand.
ing future stimulates love of luxury.
Let us eat and be merry, for tomorrow
we die"-as a race. American girls
scorn domestic service. AS a result the
mother with four children on a modest
income belongs to the most overworked
and exploited class in the United States.
The trained servant is too costly, the
old-fashioned hired girl" the mothers
helper" has disappeared, and no body
OF august legislators has given thought
to how she can be substituted or re-
vived.
Our civilization is not consciously de-
voted to creating a society. 1t is devoted
10 making money. The result is sterile
wealth, which has not abolished DOW.
erty. Wealth." In Goldsmith's words.
"accumulates, and men decay" The
decay Of men into idleness is the decay
OF populations. The decline and decay
OF populations is the degeneration Of
nations Does anybody bother about itp
The Republican party, for instance? Or
the Democratic party?
Not at all. The Republicans are con-
cerned with how to make more money
and the Democrats with how to spend
more. Where is the party that will
concern itself with the building of men
and women?
Released by the Bell Syndicate, lnc)
Evening star., 1944-02-25
Frank K. Kent

uon and continued British and Ameri.
can alliance. The only difference is
that he was for these things first and
more courageously
X 4 X
AS for echoing Mr.. Roosevelt on this
subject, last week Mr.. Willkie made a
speech vigorously assailing the feeble
ness with which the President is apply
ing his foreign policy and pointing out
various defects as he sees them. None
OF this. however, will deter those who
are against him from continuing to
make the aforementioned charges.
or this program Mr.. Willkie Is well
aware and his friends feel he will pretty
thoroughly Vaccinate against it before
the convention meets. A lot of things
nave been said about Senator Pepper,
but no one ever accused him of being
subtle. Yet, there are some who hold
that 1t would be very like White House
subtlety, indeed, to attempt, through
him. to give Mr.. Willkie the kiss of
death by promoting the idea that the
New Dealers hold him in high esteem"
and regard him as more or less in tune
with the Roosevelt political philosophy.
This, they would do, it is said, not
because they think Mr.. Willkie the
weakest candidate against Mr.. Roose-
welt but the strongest. Whatever lia-
bilities Mr.. Willkie has land he has
Iabilities) he also has two definite
assets as candidate against MIR. Roose-
velt that no other Republican has. One
is that he would have really very great
support from the larger Democratic
newspapers of the country; the other
is that he would attract greater pro-
portion of the important Negro vote in
the pivotal States-a vote, normally Re-
publican, but which has been cast for
Mr.. Roosevelt with almost complete
solidity in the last two elections-and
which some credit with electing him
last time
Evening star., 1944-02-25
Unsung But Important

One of the unsung phases of the
American war effort is the port
security program of the United
States Coast Guard. Two years old
today. it began with a Presidential
executive order directing the Secre-
tary of the Navy to take all steps
necessary to regulate and protect the
water front facilities of the Nation,
including Alaska, Hawaii. Puerto
Rico and the Virgin Islands. Since
then, with some $4,000 officers and
men on the job and with volun-
teer temporary reserve whose faith
full work has been equivalent to that
of a regular personnel of several
thousand men, the Coast Guard has
kept watch night and day against
harbor accidents and sabotage, pa
trolling off shore and on shore to
safeguard "the front behind the
front the vital outlets for our vast
movements of troops, weapons and
supplies to every part of the world.
In addition, carried out in CO.
operation with numerous Federal,
municipal, state and private agen-
cies, the program has included an
chorage and traffic control to ex-
pedite shipping, boarding and ex-
amining vessels, enforcement of laws
governing navigable waters and SUI
pervision of the loading and unload
ing of explosives and other danger
Gus cargoes. The record speaks for
itself. In the two years the Coast
Guard has thus been in charge of
the security of our coastal, inland
and island ports, there has been an
almost unbelievable increase in the
total tonnage of shipments handled.
Yet deliveries have been swift and
smooth. there has been no impor-
tant act Of sabotage, and losses
through damage to ships have been
kept under those OF an average pre-
war year.
Though their work is unspectacu-
lar on the whole, though many OF
Evening star., 1944-02-25
Slow But Steady

In April OF 1912 the Commission
ers submitted to the Federal Works
Agency program for the develop
ment, with Lanham Act funds, Of
recreational areas in the District
needed to replace in part the war
time loss of about 331a per cent of
recreational facilities near down.
town Washington.
The program was approved and
work began in the fall. only to be
stopped in December by the War
Production Board. in spite of the
fact that no critical materials were
involved. In February of 1943. the
WPB relented to the extent of per-
mitting about half the jobs to be
resumed. BY. last September that
work was completed and within the
past few days the WPB has lifted
the ban on the remainder of the
projects.
The program recommended in
April of 1912 will be finished by the
fall OF 1914. But the program might,
never have been approved had it
not been for the persistent efforts
OF the District Recreation Board,
with the vigorous help of Commits
sioner Mason. to persuade the va
rious Federal agencies involved
and there were no less than seven
of them-to give their blessings or
their authorizations for the work.
What has been done is encouraging,
but a great deal remains to give
Washington a well-planned and
equipped system of recreational IA
cilities in keeping with existing de-
mand. The Recreation Department
of the District and its board fill a
distinct need in continually press
ing for these facilities. allowing no
one to forget their Importance in
city planning and consistently en-
phasizing inadequacies which must
be overcome.