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Vain Appeal

The Jacketless Mems Society Of America
has issued it's annual appeal to reason, sum-
n1oning the humid homo sapiens to 60 forth in
his shirt sleeves. But alas, the JMSA is a
voice crying in the Wilderness It's efforts are
brave and persistent as those of Norman
Ihomas to be elected president, or the Phila-
delphis Phillies to win pennant As brave and
persistent, and as futile
sweltesing man will read the annual appeal.
nod his approval, then look up into the cool
gaze of the cooly- attired little woman, dutiful-
ly slip on MS coat, and take her out to dinner
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With Ernie Pyle

necticut, is the oracle of the group
He tells long and fascinating sto,
ries and thinks about the world
situation and has a great sense OF
fun. He is the oldest man in the
crew, although he isn't so old.
He's politically minded and says
he is going to become an alder
man in Shelton after the war. He
calls himself Honest Bill Nal.
lea. He is one of the ammunition
carriers, and during lulls in the
firing at night he curls up in an
ammo dugout about 20 feet from
the gun pit and sleeps on top of
the shells. He sleeps so well you
can hear him snoring clear over
in The gun pit.
l didn't pick up much about the
rest of the boys, but they are all
pleasant lads who work hard and
get along together. These others
are Corp. Henry Omen, of Depew
N. Y, Pts. Harold Dunlap of Pip
lar Bluffs, Mo-, Pvt. Norman Kim.
mey, of Hanover, Pa, Corp. Clyde
Libbey, of Lincoln, Me, Pfc. Jer-
ry Fullington of Fremont, Neb.,
and Corp. Bill Nelson, SCOTS Bluff
Neb.
Corporal Libbey is from the pc.
tato-growing country in Maine, and
1 told him THAT Girl' and l stay.
ed all night in Lincoln about sew
en- years ago. But unfortunately all
l could remember about Lincoln
was that we stayed there, so our
attempts to dig up some mutual
acquaintance or even building we
both remembered fell kind of flat
On my second day with the bat.
terry the boys asked their officers
if it was all right for them tt
write in their letters home that
was staying with them. Officers
said yes, so the boys all got out
paper, and since it had turned
warm for a change we sat and lay
around on the grass while they
wrote short letters home, using
ammunition and ration boxes for
writing boards. When they got
through all of them had me sign
their letters.
The boys say they didn't choose
ack-ack but were just autom atical-
~ put into it. They do like it, how
ever, as long as they have to be
in the Army. They are all over be-
ing gun shy, and now that they
have been through their opening
weeks of war they aren't even es-
pecially afraid.
Their battery commander is
Capt. Julius Reiver, of Whining
ton, Del. He stays up all night too,
directing their firing from his dug
out, where information is flown to
him.
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More About Circus Fire

While the investigation Of the fire in the cir
Gus big top at Hartford Conn, is hardly under
way and grieving families bury Their dead,
two rumors are heard which turn the flesh
cold.
One is that adequate fire protection was lack
ing. The management of the Ringing Brothers
and Barnum & Bailey circus in the past has
given exceptional attention to fire protection
both in the training of its employees and in dis
tributing water buckets and extinguishers in
abundance in all it's tents. 1t may be that be-
cause the show was delayed in transit and got
its great tent up just in time for the tragic
matinee, customary provisions to fight fire
were neglected. Or it could even be that in
these war times, when so many standards
nave been lowered fire protection has been
sighted. In either case, failure to have fire
fighting materials on hand, if indeed they we-e
absent is inexcusable and objectionable.
The other rumor is that the big top had been
treated with a preparation of paraffin and
gasoline, both highly inflamable If the nvesti-
gators find this to be true, the deaths that re-
suited from the fire will be the more inexcus-
able and the management more culpable
Following the catastrophe an army officer
announces that if the tent had been treated with
preparation of his discovery there would have
been no fire. His claim certainly calls for tests
and if substantiated the use of his concoction
or something similar should be compulsory.
No audience should again be exposed to the
danger of fire in a tent, such as levied the
heavy toll OF lives at Hartford
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The Literary Guidepost

the average man. Although he
touched at various times on all
phases of American life, his prin.
cipal beat was Washington, and
his serious, often painful, effort
to report what really happened in
that great city of legislative ge-
muses. and hog caller proved an
island of sanity in what some
times seemed sea of birthstone
Clapper was by no means always
right; he was an isolationist up to
Munich, and later said he was at
fault. But 70 nearly twelve years
his record for honesty and indus
try was outstanding.
The proof of this tasty pudding
is now published in book made
from his writing by his wife. 1t is
collection of columns, bits of
columns, broadcasts and whatnot.
1t has been arranged with some
care under various headings, and
therefore is not at all a chrome
logical record of Clapper as he
searched out his way; this is prob
ably better for public use although
as a neWspaperman l should
have preferred chronological ar
rangement. But from Mrs. Clap
per's Introductory biogra phv
through to the last line he wrote,
the book seems to me the nearly
perfect record Of an intelligent
man who never lost his love OF
humanity-or his humility.
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| Stain. As such, and if properly confirmed
its implications are noteworthy 1t shows Sta
! lin saying:
I'VE will help you to organize the Polish
army and we will not hesitate to supply you
with the best equipment Our army will lib
crate the Polish people from Hitlerism and
fascism
1--WE will not do this for the sake of appear
ance or because we are brother Slavs, but
because sound political judgment shows that
as neighbors we are necessary, one to an
other.
''You cannot destroy the Germans so that
they will not rise again. A few years after
this war there will again be danger of inva-
sion by them. For this reason it is to our
mutual interest to have strong Poland a
Poland that could check Germany. All mill
tsry inroads into Poland must be Iquidated
"All territories once Polish and taken by
the Germans must return to Poland.
eve do not want a communistic or soviet
Poland We have no intention of medding
with the internal affairs or form of govern
ment OF Poland. Let the people decide and
we will help rebuild strong, independent,
democratic Poland which will be friendly to-
ward US"
In view Of the fact that Russia abides strict
ly by its pledges the significance of this is
obvious And Warsaw is liable to be the
scene Of another great battle it is equally
obvious that Poles will give the advancing
Russians all aid within their power
For outsiders who cling to the belief that
peoples should enjoy selt-determinaton to tae
highest degree, Stains assurance that he will
aid the Poles in attaining it is especially
heartenrg.
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| IN NORMANDY-(by Wlreless)
The commander of my ack-ack
crew is Sergt. Joseph Samuelson,
a farm boy from Odebolt, Ia.
Sam" is a quiet fellow with a
mellow voice. His mouth is very
wide, and right now his lips are
chapped and cracked from the
cold climate. He is conscientious
and the others like him.
Two of the crew are from the
same home town, Manchester, N.
H. They are Pvts. Armand Pro-
vencher and Jim Bresnahan. In
fact there are six Manchester boys
in this battery, and Is in the bat
talon. They all went into the Ar
my on the same day at the same
place. and now they are firing
within few miles of each other
m France.
Private Provencher is of French
Canadian extraction and is the only
one of our crew who speaks
French, so he does all the fora.
ging. His family speak French in
their home back in New Hamp-
shire. I had always heard that the
French-Canadian brand of French
was unintelligible to real French
men, but Provencher says he does
not have any trouble.
Three of the boys are from Mas.
sachusetts - Corp. Charles Malas-
ia, of Maiden; Pfc. George Slaven
of Southbridge, and Pvt. Walter
Covel, of Robury.
Covel has heavy black whiskers
and it takes two razor blades to
shave him. With tWo-day growth
| he looks like a hobo, and then
when he cleans up you hardly rec
ognize him. He asked if I'd say
hello for him in the column to his
MON and Bernie. l din't ask who
Bernie was but it probably would
not be hard to guess.
George Slavin is the entrepre-
neur of the battery. Back home he
owns a drugstore, which his wife
! 10 IulllllllS WILT IIC 10 away llSlll'
| ing. His wife keeps sending him
stuff from the store until he has
built up a miniature drugstore ov-
er here. He has such things as as
pirin, lip pomade. shampoo and so
on. He used TO have a stock of CT
gars but they're all gone now, The
boys say he gets more packages
from home than any Is other men
in the battery.
Slaven and Malatesta are the on
ly married men in the crew. Mala-
tesla wanted me to tell his wife
in the column that he loves her
So. since it is springtime and
there's no law I know of against a
man being fond of his wife, here
! goes.
Pvt. Bill Mallea of Shelton, Con-
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Sources Of Complacency

The solemn warning which the top military
leaders, Generals Marshall and Arnold and
Admiral King, issued to the home front on their
return from the French front was obviously
heartfelt. They had seen the theater of bitter
fighting and heavy casualties. They had seen
tremendous expenditure of war materials
which American workers must replace. They
struggle to what seemed to them an attitude
of complete optimism.
The war is not won, they declared, though
recent successes seem to have persuaded
some people, that they can now throw up
their war jobs and 60 back to civilian life.
DISCRETION on the home front has the same
effect as desertion on the battle front.
Such statements from such high authority
demand serious consideration and will re-
ceive it, But at the same time it might be sug-
gested that if we are complacent, there are
ether reasons for it than laziness or selfish
ness, if that is what the military leaders sus-
pect.
Much of such complacency as exists surely
arises from an understandable confusion For
example, the Marshall King Arnold report
came on the eve of the War Manpower Com
missions new control Of hiring and job chang
Ing. It might bewilder many war workers to
read the reports stern exhortation not to walk
out on war job when regulation to prevent
that very thing was about to 60 into effect
Other inconsistencies come to mind which
stirred together, produce a brew that can set
the ordinary head to spinning. A few months
ago General Eisenhower predicted that the war
In Europe would be won in 1914. Prime Min
lister Churchill implied as much in recent op-
tirnistic statement. But the chief of the Phila.
delphia ordnance divisions said last week that
General Eisenhower and the high command
do not think the war will end as soon as the
Vashful-thnkns public believes and that the
next six months will be the most critica1
production period this country has ever faced
Then, too, the involved WPB plans for re-
conversion have been presented with such COM
plexity and vita such confusion Of metal
surplus here and falling steel production there
that only Philadelphia lawyer can tell
whether washing machines or trench mortars
are under discussion.
Civilians have been accused Of wisf1ful think
ing before. And each time it has been pos 81
BILE to see that the attitude was partly reflec-
ton Of confusing or misleading statements in
higher circles.
Unity Of policy at the top would still seem
best able to cure the false optimism for which
tae ordinary public is regularly blamed
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WEST POINTERS
DUE AT DAVIS

CAMP DAVIS, July 9.-Twenty-
five newly commissioned officers,
graduates of the Class of 1914 at
the United States Military Acade-
my, will arrive at the Antiarcraft
Artillery School tomorrow to be-
gin an intensive 13-week course in
all phases of anti-aircraft artillery.
The West Pointers, all of whom
selected anti-aircraft artillery as
their choice of military specializa-
ton, are members of the Regular
Army and will continue in military
service after the war.
While at the Anti-aircraft Artil-
lery School the lieutenants will re-
ceive training in all types of anti
aircraft, including instruction on
the new 100 nm. 'stratosphere'
gun. largest weapon in anti air-
ciaft artillery.
Following completion of their
course, the officers will be assign.
ed to various anti-aircraft artil.
lery units throughout the country.
Inc officers taking the Anti-air-
craft Artillery Schools courses in
Guide Lieutenants Leslie C. Gala.
han, Jr., John F. Mangan, Leon
ard H. Sims. Jr.. George S. Papas,
Robert G. Pickens, Robert K.
Routh, James w. Weatners, Jr.,
William T. Miller, Leslie E. Bah.
cock, Jr., John F. x. McArdIe
Fruton B. Schardt. Grady O.
White, Mark J. Klein. Henry c.
Lindsey, John W. Gaffney. Robin
S Kendall. John M. Simmone
George H. Farne, Robert F. Shan.
non, Grey Fitzpatrick, John T. Pc.
terson. Edward B. Di Napoli, Jr.,
and Robert D Rudelio.
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BY JOHN SELBY
THE WORLD: 1884
1914" edited by Mrs. Raymond
Clapper (Whittlesey; $3).


Clapper (Whittlesey; $50.
Raymond Clapper said himself
that he wondered how his column
could succeed, because it rarely
made him sound infallible. Mr..
Pegler, for example. was always
angry ahd never expressed a
doubt. Gen. Hugh johnson, who al
SO used to appear on the first page
second section of the World-Tele-
gram with Clapper, was a great
fulminator who sometimes Stayed
an entire governmental depart
ment in three sticks Of type. And at
the bottom of the same column.
Mrs. Roosevelt was fairly sure of
herself even when she wrote about
the weather at Hyde Park.
But Clapper was forever weigh
ing evidence. That meant that
some days he felt President Roos-
evelt was quite right, that some
other days he disagreed with the
President. Therefore the section of
the public that wants to pick up
its alleged thought from deputy
Jehovah could not he was afraid.
be much interested in just another
guy puzzling through.
1t happened that Clapper was
wrong. He, like others before him.
underestimate the intelligence Of
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DURHAM FIRE LOSS
MAY HIT S250,000

DURHAM, July 3. - Up - Fire
Chief Frank Bennett said today that
the loss last night in the burning of
a midtown block of warehouses
would be at least $25O,O00, and that
the loss might be much larger de-
pending upon the contents of the
destroyed structures.
Chief Bennett said the huge con-
flaeration began in the basement
OF the big four tobacco warehouse,
where furniture was stored, about
9 p. M, and in less than three hours
had consumed all but one building
in the block. Other establishments
burned to earth included the CEN
trail leaf tobacco redrying plant
and the billiard Livery stables,
where IL cows and four horses
burned to death.
The block is bounded by Semi
nary, Riggsbee and Foster streets
and Morgan avenue.
Firemen today continued to play
streams of water on the smokin &
debris, but firemen said danger
had passed to the blocks lone re-
naming structure, the two-story
holland building housing. plumb
ing and heating firm.
The flames spread rapidly
through the old. wooden warehous-
es and created heat SO intense
that firemen approached with diff
ficulty.
Power wires along adjacent
streets were burned out, throw
ing part of the business district into
darkness and putting various forms
Of electrical equipment out of com
mission Elevators in the 14-floor
Washington Duke hotel were unable
to operate for a while.
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Gangster's Ending

Reports from the German frontier say that
loads Of supplies are arriving at Hitler's mac
cessible Bezchtesgaden, where he and his
near.
1t all sounds like an echo OF our lawless pro-
hibition days-tne lonely hideout, the arsenal
r. cache of food. It's the gangster's typical
6tnered-rat reaction when the game is up.
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Interpreting
The War
BY ELTON C. FAY

A basic part of Germanys over.
all European strategical plan an.
pears to have gone up in the smok.
OF battle at Caen and La HAY On
Puts.
Her ambition in Normandy in re-.
cent days had been trimmed to on.
ly the hope of throwing the Allie,
into a condition of static warfare
and encasing them in the area I'm.
on which they stood up until last
night. To have pinned the British
and American forces to a fixed
position might have left the Nazis
something in the way of strength to
divert against the onrushing Red
forces in the east.
1t didn't work that way. Amer.
can doughboys on the western flank
crashed through the blasted and
burned ruins Of La Hay Du Puts
Saturday night. That gave to the
Allies control Of the western an
c;lor OF the Nazi's defense line
and broke a transportation bottle.
neck vital to fu1 Their advances down
the western and central portions
OF the peninsula.
To the east, the long existing sal.
lent around Caen was wiped out
with the entrance of British for.
ces into that important port town.
The mishtiest battle of the cam.
paign in France was fought over
that salient with masses of amor
and infantry thrown in by each
side. Although there is no evidence
the Nazis had built permanent for.
tifications in the Caen area PRIOR
to the invasion, it is evident that
their TODT organization subseq-
uently did intense and extensive
defense construction there.
Unless the enemy can muster
lover battered transportatio lines
and from already strained resou.
ces behind his three fronts suffl.
cient strength for strong counter
attack. he cannot restore the static
condition.
The beachhead that he once an
nounce1 would be wiped out now
is about to become an invasion
front in western Europe.
While that potential is developing
into reality, there is an immediate
tactical advantage. The British now
are in a position to strengthen and
broaden the eastern flank. long a
dangerous and bothersome point.
An extension Of the flank, parti-
cularly to the eastward along the
coastal region, is necessary before
Caen can become of much more
than negative value to the Allies.
Before the docks at Caen and the
canalzed river leading up to it
from the sea can be used, the en-
envy must be pushed back. He now
is close enough to drop artillery
fire into traffic and make frequent
night airplane missions to mine
| the sea approaches and the river
itself.
Once Caen is open t. traffic, how
ever, it can become an important
supplement to the Allied supply
system, although freight traffic
must be transshipped to barges to
move up to the docks. The deep
water port CT Cherbourg, with ire
mendous potentials for handling
freight tonnage, already is in use
Every port area added to the
Allied supply system will augment
the strength of the Americans and
British to beat the German lines
back, roll outward into France and
end the Nazi hope Of saying longer
that 1.-The situation on the western
front is unchanged"
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NEW UNC SYSTEM

CHAPEL HILL, July 9-(P-Ci-
william students at the University
of North Carolina will change from
the quarter to the trimester sys-
tenn, beginning November l. in
order to unity the civilian and
Navy VIZ schedules here. The an
nouncement was made today by
President Frank P. Graham and
Administrative Dean R. B. House
following extended consideration by
faculty committee and sub-com-
mittee.
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RATION
ROUNDUP
BY The Associated Press

AS 'hSSOCAdtSu lNoo
Meats, fats, etc.-Bcok -Four red
stamps A8 through rs now aid
indefinitely.
Processed toods-Book -Four blue
stamps A8 through Z8, and AS now
valid indefinitely.
Sugar-Book Four stamps 30, 81
ard 81 valid indefinitely for five
poundc each. Stamp 40 good TOR
1ive pounds for h m canning
through Feb. 20, 1915.
Gasoline In northeast n d
southeast lO-A coupons good for
three gallons through Aug. 8. Else
where. 12-A coupons good for three
gallons through Sept. q. B-3, B4'
60 CA coupons good everywhere
fer five gallons.
Fuel oil-Period Four and Five
coupons valid in all areas through
sept. 3d.. new Period coupons
from rationing boards.
Shoes - Book Three airplane
stamps and good indefinitely
The actual throne OF Great Braa
ain is an oaken chair Of Gothic
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rs Years Ago
Today
(FROM THE FILES
OF THE STAR-NEWSI
July 10. 1919


The last o; the troop ships sche-
duled for debarkation Of overseas
soldiers in Charleston arrived to-
day when the transport MadaWas'
ka, anchored with approximately
1000 officers and men. Five spe'
cial trains will take the soldiers
to Camp Jackson.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hector Mel. Green
have as their guests at their sum-
mer cottage at Wrightsvllle Beach,
Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin M. Wilson
and son, Hugh Mclean Wilson, OF
Havenford, Pa.
The Chamber of Commerce IS
holding it's annual meeting this
afternoon following the election OF
the executive committee held ear
ller in the day. The new comml'
tee: Roger Moore, c. VanLeuVen'
J. l. Bear, E. T. Taylor, J. c. WI
hams, George P. Calvin, J, B.
Rice. j. F. Roache, Joseph W.
Little, E. L. White and L. Lipen-
sky.
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Hymns were sung by the ancient
Greeks to heroes and famous men.
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Fair Enough

Editors Note.-The Star and the News accent mn
responsibility for the personal views of Mr. PesIer
snd often disagree with them much Is many of
his readers His articles serve the good purno.s NJ
making people think.
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Our Chief Aim
To ssS in every way the prosecution I
thu var n ccnansefc VICTORY.

the war 10 complete Victory.
THOUGHT FOR TODAY
Refuse r. look fcr Sights. Those wis LOOK
Cor them uuually find them. Have 4 great
purpose thai ahsorbs your attention 20
that you will sctuaIly know when you are
sighted. Someone has said Having q
share in shaping the world Is much more
important than our private happenings"
Stanley Jones
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The actual throne OF Great Bria
ain Is an oaken chair Of Gothic
design in the House Of Lords.
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1944-08-12

for these Christmas parcels be-
gin September IS and end on
October Is.
Stores are now displaying a
wide variety of articles particu-
larly sought by these boys on
foreign shores and due to-
the critical shortage of paper it
is we'll for parents to start i'm
mediately in giving consideration
to a proper container. According
to Postmaster Patrick J. Con-
nelly, it is essential that the
container be of sufficient
strength to stand a number of
landings, storage in the hold
of a ship for long periods and
such other storage as the ext
gencieS of war demand. Post
office clerks have been caution
ed not to accept any parcel
VIII Oh does not appear to have
sufficient strength to withstand
these obstacles. It is a waste
of valuable shipping space and
a tremendous disappointment to
a boy overseas to be advised by
letter that he will receive a par
eel and then not have it arrive
due to the fact that it has been
so damaged in transit that it
had to be discarded. Last year