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The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-21
Greater Safety At Sea

Toward the end of the former World war
German commanders had to shackle subn1a-
If the Allied convoy service continues at it's
present high efficiency and U-boat losses in
crease it is probable that something of the
sort will be necessary it the Germans want
to keep on with their underestimate cam
paign.
The sinking of $50, or possibly more, of
their U-boats in the second and third quarters
of 1943 is not calculated to help the morale
of men in this service.
The announcement that shipping losses due
to enemy submarine activities in 1943 were
only 40 per cent as great as in 1912 is
heartening in many ways, and particularly
signific ant in that many more vessels were
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-21
TIE Literary Guidepost

one needs to know to understand
the poems and the poet. 1t by no
means embraces all there is to
know about Poe, nor does it ex-
plore many of the complicated by
paths that determined research
has opened over the years. The
poets obsession with death and
of sadness is inseperably connect
ed with the higher manifestations
his insistence that "a certain faint
of beauty are remarked, and it
is Mr.. Untermeyer's opinion that
the mans chief contribution to
American poetry is 'the necessary
note of suggestion" the note of
pure trance" that is struck again
and again in his verse.
And the editor also includes an
appraisal by Walt Whitman which
is so wonderful in its blindness
that it should be quoted in full,
for which there is no room. It
begins with complaint that Poe
was almost without the first sign
Of moral principle" which seems
tc me one Of the most astounding
sentences I ever read, coming
from a man with Whitman's quaint
propensities.
The Longfellow introduction is
equally useful. Mr.. Unternaewer
thinks Longfellow was much over
praised in his own day, and much
underpraised in ours, and does
good job of showing how.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-21
Members Of Brigade
Boys Club Collect
Over 5000 Garments

w. A. Stewart, director Of Bri-
gade Boys club, principal par
ticipant in local scrap drives, pre-
scented a clear picture Thursday
of the overall salvage collections
being currently made in Whining
ton.
Approximately 5000 garments
have been collected by the club
and will soon be shipped to war
refugees in Europe. This cam
paign is nearing an end here and
persons having discarded clothing
are asked to Immediately call the
Brigade Boys club.
Stewart estimated h t $4,000
pounds of tin cans have been gath
cred by the Army since that pro-
gram was launched last fall. An
average of 800 to 1000 pounds OF
flattened cans are being collected
each week by Camp Davis trucks
from various repositories located
throughout the county. The Bri.
gade club is also taking an active
part in this drive.
Although the scrap paper drive
ended in Wilmington in December,
Stewart said the Brigade club con,
tinues to gather an average ,o1
1000 pounds a week. Collections
are made on the basis of tele.
phone calls,
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-21
Goes Out On A Limb

Representative johnson of illinois has gone
long way out on the limb to charge that a
letter from President Roosevelt recommend
ing the reading of the Bible, which has been
reprinted on the flyleaf Of Testaments dis
trlbuted to the armed forces, is a part Of a
propaganda campaign for fourth term.
Secretary Stimson explains that on March
l, 1941, he wrote Mr.. Roosevelt that the War
department planned to give all enlisted men
a pocket Testament and in his belief it would
be especially cherished if leach Testament
includes foreword by you in your capacity
as commander in chief This was some time
before the United States entered the war and
long before any talk of a fourth term was
heard
1t there is any just complaint, it must be
that a foreword should be considered as in
creasing the value of the Testament, or that
any person should need encoura cement to
read it.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-21
Raymond. Clapper Says:
Marines Believe FDR
Doing Good Job OF War

roads which our bulldozers have
been building through the deep
swamps. The scene is one of tor
tured desolation, as my travelling
companion, Frank Mason, special
assistant to Secretary Knox, put
it.
These are the same Marines
who fought on Guadalcanal. For
instance, Corp. Harvey Payne,
whose wife works on The Phila-
delphia Inquirer, and who will eel
citrate his third wedding anniver-
sary Jan. "a. We gave him a bottle
of gin for the occasion. This is his
second anniversary away from
home. He went in with the first of
the Marines at Guadalcanal.
"Guadalcanal was a rest camp
compared to this" Payne said.
1 tramped up the trail toward
Hill $50. A little way along I met
one of the Marine combat CORES
pondents, Sam Stavisky, who was
the first to step ashore here on
Dec. 26. He has been out in the
Pacific with the Marines for IA
months, and is living a life far
different from when he was as
sistant city editor of The Wash
lngton Post before enlisting. Like
all the others in this fighting Ma
rine outfit, Sam is thin and has a
yellow tan, from a mixtur of sun
and atabrine. He was muddy and
wet from a dozen rains since
morning. He has written IS news
stories since landing.
1.-The worst of it is" he said,
I go up to the front and write
about some youngster and then the
next day he is brought in dead.
I have to try to call the story
back to change it
Stavisky knows a story when he
ses it, for he also worked on The
Washington Times-Herald, The
Rochester Journal and The Boston
American. He said the most in
spring story he had covered was
that of a hospital unit set up in a
bomb crater on Hill $50, which is
a small knoll between Target Hill
and Hill $50. Surgeons worked on
the wounded with machine-gun
! bullets singing around tteir heads.
Some of the most heavily con-
centrated Smelling and bombing of
the war occurred on Target Hill.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-21

travelling the sea lanes, bearing war cargoes,
in the latter than in the former year. There
is also significance in the fact that nearly
half of the years losses came in the first
quarter of 1943. The lessening percentage of
losses thereafter testifies to the greater eff
small plane carriers accompanying conveys
have had an important place.
The battle of Atlantic shipping is not wholly
won, but so much improvement in the Allies
position has been made that it seems i'm
probable the delivery of war tools will be
greatly impeded by German U-boats from this
time forward.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-21
QUOTATIONS

An intelligent servicenan can carry on a
creditable conversation in Chinese or Japa-
nese after IL hours study. Experience has
proved that japanese is one of the easiest
languages to learn to speak, although diff
cult to read and write.-OWI report.
If survive to leave the front alive, at least
I shall have seen through the tawdry facade
of Nazi politics.-Diary of Hitler Youth leader
captured in ITALY,
The holy bonds of matrimony become fet-
tiers when either party attempts enslavement
Get me glass of water or, Run UP and
get my Shoes Judge Arthur H. Day OF
Cleveland
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-21
Wiped Off The Map

The man of President Roosevelts postwar
highway program which appeared IN "eones-
davis newspapers is quite as interesting Tor
what it lacks as what it contains.
For example it does not show the coastal
highwy, No. II as we designate 1t, nor IS
there any direct cross-country highway In the
South north of Jacksonville, Florida, the east
ern terminus of the Old Spanish Trail
Wilmington is completely ignored. Highway
No. / the main road on the map In the
coastal area, is too far inland to benefit COM
rnunities along the South Atlantic shoreIne
north of Savannah. 1t is to be reached from
Wilmington only by indirect detour. Concedlng
that Highway No. l is vital artery OF trail
fic. traversing important territory, it is still
impossible to understand why coastal cities
should have been ditched and Highway No II
wiped off the map In recent years IL mas
been the favorte route of tourist throngs head
ing south in the fall and north in the spring
and has provided an outlet tor increasing
business and industrial transport. 1t well de-
serves place in the Presidents program
By failing to provide transcontinental high
way within easy access of Wilmington, motor
ISIS, truckers, all motor vehicle transport must
travel far out of the way, consume many
gallons of gasoline needlessly, to reach the
Mississippi valley and intervening industrial
regions. Why there has been no provision for
DEVELOPMENT and improvement of roads from
Wilmington through Charlotte, Knoxville and
Memphis is incomprehensible, unless it is in
deed true that Washington still considers the
South the nations No. l economic problem,
as President Roosevelt once called it.
The Chamber of Commerce is a busy Or
ganization with many tasks to be done, but
it would appear that revision of the highway
map could well be made one of its major
projects.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-21
Byrd Asks Congress
To Strip U.S.. Agencies
OF Free Mail Right:

WASHINGTON, Jan. 2o;- ~.
The Byrd Committee asked C Co~
gress today to strip Fedora q 3ro.
eminent departments Of tnelf tet
mailing privilege-an acton Wv r
would boost the post oill o eoo N MN
enue by an estimated S3o'OOO'''
this year. !, ,
The recommendation MADE e., q.
wartime exception for the 1. wa.
and Navy Departments t'!e - Nh.
ury and selective Service. eo ~.
joint committee, headed by o osire
tor Byrd D.-Va.) is inyesll W ' nv.
non-essential spending IN dA ~
eminent agecies. ..s
In a special report o Pos .o,,,
free government mail, the CJ I.i
mittee said the volume had tIlp'I 4.
in 10 years and now amounts "
100000, 1000 pieces a year.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-21

Trees were stripped away and
large sections of the steep noun
tainside knocked loose, so that in
stead of the distant view being
green, like the other jungle hills
nearby, it is brown and bare. The
whole swamp growth for about
eight or ten miles was chewed up
by the merciless Smelling and
bombing before the landing, which
was completed without one shot
being fired at our Marines.
But they are slogging On in a
wet hell now, and my last sight
Of the men who fought the battle
of Hill $50 was of Lieut.. Col. E. j.
Buckley, Bethlehem, Pa, calling
out Good Luck as we left, and
Of men waving. It makes you want
to weep,
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-21
Germany Has Little Choice

Goebbels is probably correct in predicting
Allied invasion of western Europe within nine
ty days. That would fix limit past the mid
die of April. Winter will be over, days will be
longer. So far as the elements are concerned
the approaching spring would be the propitious
time for it. But we may be sure Goebbles
knows no more about the actual time than
anybody not in the confidence of the Allied
command The invasion will start when Gen
eral Eisenhower believes the best time for it
has arrived-neither day before Or an hour
later.
1t is not so much when it will come as
what will happen after the start that chiefly
concerns the Allied world at this time. And
this applies not only to the attack but the re-
sstance OF the Germans. Has Germany the
military strength claimed for it? Has Ger
many great fleet of fighter planes to rise
against the Allied air armada, as some OBJ
servers declare it has? Are the Germans so
strongly fortified along the North sea, the
Channel coast and the approaches to the
Rhone valley as they, themselves, say they
are? And will the Germans being driven SO
hard in the east by the Russians, have, in
addition to their reputed strength in the west,
also the spirit to go on fighting a battle in
which they cannot be victorious? Or will they,
rather than be overwhelmed from the east,
prefer to surrender to the Americans and the
British in the west before the Russians have
beaten them to their knees? These are ques-
tons in many minds, the answer to which
rests exclusively with the German leaders
There is one school of thought that contends
the Germans, both army and party, believe
render to the Americans and British than to
the Russians and will make a great show of
resistance at the start of the invasion but
quickly give up in the hope that America and
Britain, as result will dominate the peace
conference and save them from Russian re-
tribution.
It is a fine theory and may be correct.
But there is no reason to assume that Ger
many will not be required to pay the full
price of its war-making in any event. The
British and American governments have made
it clear that Germany must be purged of the
Nazs and the Prussians, the party and the
army, as the only way it can have a place
in a peaceful world. This may not involve the
ruthlessness of Russian vengeance, which the
war-makers fear, but otherwise offers Ger
many little choice in defeat Washington and
London are quite as firm in their determine
ton to free Europe and the world from the
curse of war-mongering as Moscow can be.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-21
By RAYMOND CLAPPER

l.
WITH THE MARINES AT CAPE
GLOUCESTER, New Britain, Jan.
2O.-(by wireless)-We drove in a
jep through deep mud that was
like axle grease, over so-called
road through swamp, for three
miles until we reached the end of
the track leading up to Hill $50,
just east of Cape Gloucester.
The morning I arrived the Ma
rines drove the Japs over the top
of the hill. I met some of the Ma
rnies coming down - regimental
scouts who had been out ahead of
the front line.
There was frequent firing. Just
an hour before we got there, the
m m nd post had shelled
A couple of hundred yards for
ward the road petered out into a
foot trail. A dozen of the regi-
mental scouts were resting in their
dirty, watersoaked uniforms. They
have not been out of them since
they landed here Dec. 26. Their
faces were drawn and weary, and
yellow from taking atabrine tab
lets. They were soon to be reliev-
ed for a rest.
First Lieut.. H. R. Taylor, Cleve-
LAND, O., who was wearing three
day beard, said all of them had
Keen in the line since the start
OF this action, and much of the
time out ahead of the line patrol
ing. They have had little sleep.
because the Japs usually attack
ed at night.
After we had talked about the
fighting said to the men that
I wanted to ask them question
that probably would sound ridicu-
lous to them: whats the talk in
your outfit about the Presidential
election
"You mean the election back
homer" one Marine asked.
Let Roosevelt run the war;"
said Allen Armstrong, Beloit, Wis.
He's not old enough to vote"
another Marine said.
Armstrong then confessed to be-
ing only 20.
do the rest of the. gang agree
with your" 1 asked.
Hell ves," shouted a couple of
Marines in the rear.
He's been doing all right so
far" said one.
"But Roosevelt better get us
some beer" said Frank Knoll,
Chicago, of bomb-disposal squad.
There has been fairly heavy
fighting, and shooting is still going
on around here, but the old Ameri-
can wisecracking is irrepressible
even within the Japs' range. One
boy who had been shot through
the backside said as they brought
him into a dressing station:
IT guess I get trip to Mel
bourne out of this
Coming down the road alone
was a thin young fellow, wet and
muddy, MILFORD Sanderson, of
4tlOSC41OlQ3 w dS1ls dohC4 HILL IL
he had been here long. He said he
fired the first shot on the beach
when we landed Dec. 26 and has
been in the line ever since. He
was coming back to get sur
geon. Sanderson is only IS. ~
A few days ago these boys had
foxholes within II feet of Jap fox
holes on a small hill which the
Japs had been ordered to hold at
all costs. The Japs had so pill
boxes pointing outward all around
the small hilltop. The Marines
took it about 4 pm. Then at dark
the Japs charged in mass coun-
ter-attack, chanting in English:
Marines, prepare to die! Ma
rines, prepare to die
But it was the Japs who died.
We lost Is killed and so wounded,
the Japs 280.
drove about Is miles over the
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-21
Soldiers And The Vote

In the last analysis it doesn't make much
difference by what process the armed forces
are permitted to vote in the forthcoming ma
tional election, whether under state or federal
sponsorship.
What matters is that the men who are
fighting to preserve the nation should have a
voice in selecting the nations Chief Executive
To deny them this right would be to rob
them of the greatest gift of democracy-their
franchise
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-21
Daily Prayer
FOR PERSONAL GREATNESS

AS we daily confess our sins ne'
fore Thee, o Holy One that nj
of our own snallness and mean
ness. We fill our days with trivial
magnify the little things that con-
Germ ourselves. We pursue pleas
habitest eternity, we are conscious
interests. In pettiness Of splrlt we
ure as if we were not II Ine
midst of an all-changing wal we
are carnal, when every conSloeld-
ton cries out to US to oecolie
spiritual. Thou, o God, ar' une
great Wondeir-worker, and INV
canst change these mean spTl!s. VI
ours into greatness and nooll's y;
Help us to live lives worthy W
this hour and worthy OF Inee w. ~.
Father and our God, Lift up INC
level of our thinking. Let the pun pun.
flying, exalting Spirit Of Christ , luz
in our hearts, to Thine own gl0i"
Amen.-W. T. E.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-21
With
The AEF
BY KENNETH L. DIXON

THE ISLE OF CAPRI, Ian :.
-Delayed)-RHIt is true y,b ~
they say about Capri. '''
It is the isle of peace, this j..
tastically beautiful dot ia the MN 1ai'
iterranean just beyond the Bar d y,
Naples. 1t is the isle of the sira, "
the Tritons and the Caesars
1t is the isle of song and legers
of villas on the hills, of poets Se a
artists and authors-the isle ~ a AN
Blue Grotto. - Vie
But more than anytime a.
right now it is the isle Of cIs use
cool sheets, soft mattroeg- br eaa
fast in bed and the o.sr= a. r ,'
passed by. WI
And now I can't sles-
It's silly, but that S ,s ar,u
In the past few monras PIE ,I",
on steel decks of sh9s an e ~
ground, stretched OF r. Flr; ne
F'ortresses, in the baes o. tr,Io Ing
I've slept in the mud d ths rar
in stables, tents and ven 1o a..'
aged to catch a few uinks il ' .l.
trenches.
But the mattress and the sbo...
here at the Morgano Hotel 5ias
on Capri's hillside, must he u ga
much. I climbed into them w.t., W.
hours ago but now I'm bach ' T.
tired and sleepy, but unable ~ -
sleep. I've been pacing the balcon,
overlooking the Mediterranean try
ing to figure out what's wrons
Mickey Mcclure Gt. Charles W
Mcclure of Londonville, ohio) !,
| probably right. He said this after,
noon that sometimes the soldiers
who take a brief holiday from way
and come over here can't relay
for the first night because tha
transition is too terrific.
Or maybe It's the quiet. I nm.
| ticed it first on the little funicuIar
railway which pulls you up from
the harbor to the village square
Looking down over the hillside
thick with flowers and orange
groves, over the bay and across
to Vesuvius in the distance, it wa,
so quiet I could hear the donkev's
hooves clapping over the cobble.
stones a block down the narrow
streets.
1t is so quiet now that ! can
hear the chimes in the clock tower
in the square far below this bal.
cony. It chimes every quarter
hour, which is a laugh here Oh
Capri, where time doesn't mean
a thing.
But in the stiffness 1t sounds
louder than an artillery barrage.
Hank Turner and Pat Oliver were
telling at supper how the sound
bothered some of the visiting sol.
diers so much the other night that
they organized a "clapper com.
mando' outfit to steal the bells
clappers.
Hank is 1t. Henry W. Turner,
P-40 pilot from Douglas, Wyom,
ing. Pat is Eleanor Oliver, Red
Cross girl from Hastings-on-Hud'
son, N. Y.
They got one clapper,' Hat
grinned, emphasizing the VIC.
they"
But it wasn't the right one, The
chimes kept going all night.
Maybe it's the chimes that's
keeping me awake.
But more than likely its just
fear that when I do go to sleep
won't wake up until noon tomor'
row.
And even though time doesn't
mean a thing on the Isle of Capri,
!, I'm not going to miss my only
chance for the duration of having
breakfast in bed, if / have to stay
up all night.
| "
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-21
RUBBING 1T IN

WITH SECOND ARMY In II
NESSEE- (PETired men tIool
in from maneuvers, soaked II
the rain and coated with Il.
Some of them settled down i
mobile U. S. o. field unit 20 TX
and see a movie. Name Of
movie: STORMY Weather, Nd
of the projectionist: Mr., wa
man.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-21
Fair Enough

Editors Note.-The Star and tho News accepts NO
responsibility for tho personal views Of Mr. Pexier
md often disagree with them - much - many Of
Ills rsaders His articles serve tho good purpose Of
making people think
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-21
DUTCHMAN EXECUTED

LONDON, Jan. 20 Up Eight
more Dutcnmen have been execut-
ed in Holland under summary
sentenced by a German court, &C.
cording to- advices received by
Aneta, Netherlands news agency
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-21

Let the New Year be year of freedom
from sin, year of service, year OF
trust in God, and it will be a happy year
from start to finish. 1t may be the hardest
wear we have known, but it will be the
happiest. j. M. noCAA' ~ -
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-21
Our Chief Aim
TOP OF THE MORNING

To aid in every way the prosecution OF
the war to complete Victory.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-20
Beauties Hints
 Part Your POSieS TODOuble Charm Of Easter COrSage
BY ALICIA HART NEA Staff Writer

There are sophisticated knacks of wearing that nosegay or corsage that you expect to get on Easter morning.
 If you know what's what, for in- stance, you will wear your posies with their heads up-not down. If you're asked what kind of flowers you want, you'll be guided in your choice by the kind of clothes you intend to wear. A tweed or flannel outfit calls for flowers that belle the hothouse look; marigolds, acacias, heather or thistle. among others, do that. Dressy clothes can take proud hothouse beauties, such as Easter or calla lilies, roses, narcisSi, gardenias, iris, dahlias or orchids.
 Remember, though, that orchids especially the showy lavender type demand your finest outfit and properly should be worn with after five clothes.
 Mix little of your own imagina- ton in with that of the florist who arranged the flowers for you. A nosegay of violets, broken down to make twinS-one for each lapel of your suit-lookS smarter, for ex- ample, than single cluster. You can tie tabs of velvet ribbon, matched in color to your suit or daytime dress, to the stems oi flowers and make them more of a costume piece. You can make yourself a pretty important look ing lapel ornament by anchoring one or two blossoms with jeweled clip.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-20
HOME FRONT FORECAST Consumer Education Will Reach Teen-Agers, Who Do Much Buying

chores for the school lunch pro- gram, local safety campaigns, as- sisting with care of children for working mothers.
 The War Food Administration also has an idea or two up its sleeve for this program. WFA would like to see consumer education programs for teen-agers. Surveys show they do a lot of the family purchasing. WFA would like to see @ healthy interest in sanitation and weights and measures.
 TIMBER!
 You won't have to get an author ization for lumber to build shelves or a kitchen table when the new tighter controls go in on lumber. However, you might do better to get an old one and paint it, because the retail lumber yard where you trade may not get enough to go around for all demands, although severe cuts on small users are not expected.
 All lumber users are estimating their needs for the second quarter of this year. The War Production Board will measure these, plus mili- tary needs, against the available supply. Furniture makers, now per-