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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-02-28
Daily Prayer
FOR LARGER LOYALTY

We believe, o Eternal Lord OF
righteousness and love, that we
are waging this war in Thy name,
and for the fulfillment of Kingdom
UNFOLDING that we may continue
detectives. So we pray for Thine
UNFOLDING that we may continue
to perceive clearly and pursue
fearlessly the purposes we have
learned from Thy word. Give us
an ever-increasing loyalty to the
great truths OF justice and liberty
and peace, and to the sacredness
of human personality. Open our
eyes to the sufferings and needs
of the millions for whom we wage
redemptive war. Teach us how
to be true comrades of our far
scattered allies. Defend us from
the spirit of criticism. Stir up our
hearts to greater loyalty to our
leaders. And enable us, we espe,
cially pray, to maintain an ever,
growing sense of our oneness with
our service men and women; that
they may know that all that we
are and have, is theirs to the death
with no withholding. Thus may our
loyalty an dove demonstrate uni.
ty with Thee, our God, our Guard,
our Guide. Amen.-W.T.E
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body makes a remark like "Grind
'em out, boy; keep on turning!"
or "Boy, Jerry's gettin' mad
again!"
The screaming meanies'' are
frightful in sound when they're
coming at you, and even when
they're going off at an angle far
from you they make long-drawn-
out moaning sound that is blood
curdling.
The soldiers talk about the Ital-
ian people, and On the whole the
average soldier doesn't dislike the
Italians too much. Nine out of ten
prefer Italy to Africa. And the
sight of the poor children always
gets them.
At an Army chow line near a
village or close to farms, you see
a few solemn and patient children
with tin buckets waiting to get
what is left over.
One soldier said to me: II just
can't bear to eat when they stand
and look at me like they do. Lots
of times I've filled my mess kit
and just walked over and dumped
it in their buckets and gone back
to my foxhole. I wasn't hungry"
Bad as this war is, the average
soldier hopes he'll never be sent
to the Pacific. He hates the Japs
more than the Germans, but he
has heard about the horrible jun
gle fighting and the Jap beastli-
ness, and he prefers to fight some
body Of his own kind.
One night a colonel was talking
offhandedly about the war, and
how people felt and everything,
and he said: "The whole trouble
with everything is vitamins. We
got along all right before every
body had to have so many vita
minis day"
Very often the rotation system
OF sending one half of one per cent
of the men back to the States
each month comes up in the con-
versation. The boys in my COM
pany were all upset because ser
geant in another company had
Just been taken who had. had
much less time overseas than they
And a soldier said:
"You know. I've never yet seen
a battlefield after we passed over
it. We always just keep going
ahead. Sometime I'd like to walk
over the country we fought over.
I said walk. not rum"
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operate with minimum of political compli-
catlons' as most foreign countries readily adj.
init foreign capital, but few countries. if any,
would look with favor upon operation by alien
governments. Operations of the United States
OIL companies are at present well nigh world
wide in scope. This is major factor in ef-
receive national defense and will be a major
factor In facilitating peaceful commerce.
The greatest immediate need on the part
OF private enterprise is. the assurance of our
government that it will seek to reduce the
political risks involved in the use of private
capital abroad, and that it will take no steps
to discourage the efforts of the nationals of
the United States to maintain an effective and
serviceable oil industry in foreign countries !"
There are indications that the war is to
be used as an excuse for socializing the natu-
raj resource industries Of the United States.
If that should happen, it would be the eouiva
lent of military disaster, because it would
restrict the liberties and opportunities of
every American
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-02-28
BY JOHN SELBY
1.-THE Long Balkan Night" b

Leigh White (Scribners: $3.50
For some time, book statesmen
have been begging their publish
ing houses to let up on the war
book craze; war books have be-
come, with certain conspicuous
exceptions. drug on the market.
Leigh Whites 1.-THE Long Balkan
Night" will be no drug on any
body's market, but quite likely
one of the most discussed and most
valuable books OF the season.
It is the only rounded picture OF
the whole situation in the Balkans
so far published. 1t begins in Hun
gary and Rumania before war it.
self began, and runs through to
the authors escape from Greece
just before Pearl Harbor. It COW
ers, therefore, the most exciting
and the most heartbreaking 10
months in Balkan history and how
very well!
Mr.. White has mind Of his own.
He went to the Balkans as the
ostensible correspondent of the
New York Post, but actually for
the newly constituted Overseas
News Agency, which was another
name for the Jewish Telegraphic
Agency. This organization needed
a non-Jewis correspondent, for OBJ
vious reasons. and White tried
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interpreting
The War
BY Elton C. FAY
Associated Press War Analyst

AASS~SA"SC0 ASSO U~A <AMSAySs
The virtual humiliation of the
nrufening aircraft factories ait
Regensburg points up the claim BY :
a high Allied air leader that Ger.
many's last hope for combating
the British-Amerlcan air often >.
sive is gone.
The prufening works, shattered
by double blow launched on Fri.
day by American air forces from
both England and Italy, was =
final assembly plant for Messer-
schmitt fighters. Its product went
directly into battle.
General H. H. Arnold, chief of
the United States Army Air Forces
in describing the broad program
for destroying the enemy's air.
strength, says that for quick re-
suits, we take out the assembly
plants
The AAF has given exhaustive
study to the time lag between the
bombing of an industrial plant
and its effect on front-line
strength. One result is chart
showing that the bombing of pro-
duction units for raw materials
used in the aircraft industry will
be felt at the front in from ten
to rs weeks; seml-finished parts
in from three to five weeks.
The time and lag for final as
sembly plants is only two weeks.
The pattern Of scientifically cal
culated attrition is now complete.
It is exemplified in operations
within the week 49, the Allied
bombings of chemical factories at
Frankfurt, of a ball bearing fact
ory at Stuttgart, Of aviation en-
CINE plants at Augsburg and of the
finished product plant at Regens-
burg.
Nazi assembling fighter planes
may not miss a compound pro-
duct in chemical plants for plane
instruments until late spring, but
the Luftwaffe fighter force that
takes off two weeks from now to
intercept Allied bombers will be
minus the planes that might have
come from the prufening factories.
And this lack is being multiplied
rapidly as the Allied air attack
swell to ever greater proportions.
Meanwhile, there is by-pro-
duct (but a very important one) Of
this bombardment of the enemy's
plane production. The fighters the
Nazis send up to defend the plants.
themselves fall victim to the bomb
ers. In the operation against
Regensburg alone SO German
planes went down, in addition to
% others destroyed on the ground.
There are, however, losses for
the attackers.
In the big scale operations OF
the last week, somewhat more.
than 200 heavy bombers failed to
return. This certainly is no incon-
sequential figure, but when view
ed in the light of the thousands
of planes participating and the
results obtained, it is not intol-
cradle. .e
The overall loss figure for the
AAF bombers since the summer
of 1912 appears to be little over
three per cent, with downward
tendency noted in recent weeks.
AS the weight Of the attacking
force increases, the percentage of
loss is expected to drop still lower.
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Underground Opportunity

Dr. William Mather Lewis, president of
Lafayette college, recently told members Of
Inc American Institute of Mining and Metal
iNgcal Engineers, in convention at New
loTS, that the search now is not so much
LOT territory as vital raw materials He cited
Vie great manganese center near Kiev-an
operaton he appraised as out of proportion
10 all territorial results.
lsolatlonists do well to consider that we
nave no tin nor nicked deposits in the United
"s'eS and that our petroleum supply is rap
l0iS oelng depleted" DR. Lewis added Thus
We nave an impressive demonstration of the
laV' mat economic interdependence among
"duohS is imperative if industry and COM
iefce are to develop satisfactorily and abid-
As peace is to be established
ING situation, he said, offers a challenge
" '"e engineer to use his knowledge to the
'40 mat the great world supplies (of raw
"'Ieflals) may be utilized in the most useful
aSS' he gave it as his opinion that there
''D De great flux of mining students in
F nauon's schools after the war;
Many young men, through their war ex-
pE'iehce, will realize for the first time that
aie world and not their home town is their
,S.Ure Held of activity he continued. 'They
VIII return to the United States to secure the
.,eeessary training in mining engineering and
'eii Will go out into far places to open up
eouICeS of raw ,,, +or;,1e
1ilose Who despair of the future of higher
Oeduon in the United States, particularly
a. privately endowed institutions, cannot read
'e signs Of the times, he said, averring that
a. any college which offers courses that meet
' M need of the times will prosper.
Doclor Lewis said this is the time to study
latIicola and readapt courses to the new con.
-''0nS OF the postwar world. Outmoded SUBJ
'sN's ought to be abandoned and additions
0e which promise most in social and eco
Nofnlc rehabilitation.
- is gratifying to find one college president
CONCENTRATING his mental force upon postwar
N0'a'l0nal needs and opportunities in this
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The Literary Guidepost

very hard to satisfy the demand.
Only. he was always more interest
ed in the general picture than in:
the problem Of any one minority,
and therefore welcomed a connec-
ton with the Columbia Broadcast
ing System which gave him more
scope.
He found Hungary and Rumania
sickening mess of decadent,
graft-ridden political corruption,
and Bulgaria not much better. He
watched alleged leaders sell out,
each other and themselves until
he was dizzy. Things were just as
complicated but not so odoriferous
in Yugoslavia, where one could at
least respect the Serbs and re-.
greet the civil conflict that basica1.:
" was the Kingdoms undoing, in
his opinion.
This is all told as seen, strung
on a wire which is the day to day
life of Leigh White. He may be
wrong; many will think the bal.
ance he strikes between Partisans
and Chetniks in Yugoslavia mac
curate. But no such vivid writing
has yet been spent on the Bal
kans in this war.
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provision deprives the government
of more than $1,000, 000,0 900 new
revenue But social security
funds are not revenue and should
never be regarded as government
revenue. They are a trust. In an
other paragraph the message ar
CUES that the increased social
security taxes are needed ''to
meet the claims that are being
built up against the social Sc
curity fund" Now when you give
two quite different reasons fo-
what you want, your contradictory
reasons do not convince any one.
And nowhere in the message
does the President give the sound
argument which is that by in
creasing social security taxes now,
funds, which are inflationary if
spent now, would be frozen until
after the war.
The cardinal fault of the mes
sage is that the intellectual con-
fusion, of which the case above is
an example, has caused the Presi-
dent to object to the tax bill, not
because it is a grossly inadequate
tax bill in war time, but because
it is alleged to give special privi-
leges to favored groups" Let us
suppose that it does. Nevertheless,
this is not the main point, and
this is not the broad and solid
ground upon which to make sucn
an explosive issue in war time
and on the eve of wartime
election. The solid and broad
ground for the President to stand
upon is that We need much neav-
Ter taxation to control initiation
ary private spending in war time.
That is what matters. That is the
purpose of any war tax bill. That
should have been his theme. There
is involved the safety and welfare
of the nation: whether Income
from the cutting of timber, in
GLIDING selective logging" is to be
treated as a capital gain or an
nual income, is utterly picayune.
And it is piceyune because his
Treasury experts are not fiscal
statesmen, but men of very small
caliber trying to score debating
points.
The center of the whole trouble
is the Treasury. The department
is charged with the financing OF
the war. Yet it cannot get hear
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ing from the Congress which alone
can supply the revenues; it can
not even provide the President
with a sound policy and adequate
arguments if he must have dis
putes with Congress. In such a
situation the remedy is not an
apology to Senator Barley but
some designations and some new
faces in the Treasury.
This is the one remedy which
the President most consistently
rates to apply. But without it his
third term will become increas-
ingly impossible, and a fourth
term .unthinkable.
Our system Of government, in
which the President remains for
a fixed term, is subject to these
recurrent crises of confidence be-
tween the Congress and the Exec
utive. They are always exception
ally severe toward the close of
war, when the executive power
has necessarily been magnified.
These crises were the great OBJ
stacle to a proper settlement of
the Civil War and of the first
world war. They are the main
reason why, when we have won
our wars, we have done so badly
with peace and reconstruction.
We cannot change our form of
government. But we can change
men appointed to office. The
simple and obvious change, and it
is one which would revolutionize
the whole atmosphere for the bet
ter, is to have Cabinet officers re-
sign when they no longer have the
confidence of Congress. The Pres
ident cannot resign as a parlia-
mentary prime minister would re-
sign when his legislature votes
him down on vital issues. But
there is nothing in the theory of
our Constitution opposed to the
resignation of Cabinet officers
when they can no longer discharge
their responsibilities.
If the President wants a new
tax bill, he will get a new Sec
rotary of the Treasury. And if he
wants his other great measures
enacted, and does not want a Sc
ries of brawls that disgrace the
country and lower its prestige
throughout the world, he will not
stop with a change in the Treas
ury
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-02-28
With Ernie Pyle

I believe he'd rather stay here
the rest of his life than make that
ocean crossing again.
One night in group OF some
soldiers and officers the question
came up whether you should yell
or not when making a close-in at
tack. ~
An officer thought it was good
psychology because the Germans
are afraid Of night attacks, and a
good barrage of Indian yells would
further demoralize them.
But the soldiers disagreed. They
said Jerry didn't scare 50 easily
as all that. and when you yell you
just give your position away.
Speaking of noise, you've prob
ably heard the term screaming
meemies." for certain noisy type
of German shell. The boys at the
front call them Screaming mean
ies'' instead, and. brother, they are
bad indeed to listen to.
The Germans call the gun me
belwerfer." 1t is six-barreled
gun which fires one barrel right
after another, electrically. The
gun doesn't 60 off with a roar, but
the shells swish forward with a
sound Of unparalleled viciousness
and power, as though gigantic
gears were grindingI Actually, it
sounds as though some mammoth
man were grinding them out Of
a machine with huge crank.
Whenever a Smelling starts we al
ways stop and listen. and some
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-02-28

Regular religious services are
conducted on small U. S. naval
vessels by the commanding Off
ce~.
Evening star., 1944-08-07
7.PIECE LUNCHEON SET

So ooy they make your meals seem
twice os delicious! Fine corded
cotton, riotously o-bloon with
flowers. Cloth size 52x52 and
six 5-lnch notchne hopkins, pre-
loundered and aift-boxed.
Evening star., 1944-08-07

Hove breokfost in q bed-of
flowers. Chorrnino sprios Of posies
printed on fine ouoIity cotton
cloths, pre-loundered, oil reody for
use. Choice Of five potterns-op-
proxirnote size 52x52.
Metehins Napkins s-----3se
LixsSs, Fifth Fise,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-18
Burglar Loots
Homes Of $500

Police today are hunting a bur
elar who looted six east side
homes within the past week and
obtained $500, including $3.50 in
war bonds and $40 in Confederate
money.
The burglar victims are Mrs
Rose panlcer, 920l Helen. $40 in
Confederate money and 81 IN L. :.
currency: Frank Lucido, 39i2
Helen. $1,000 in cash; Mrs. Edna
Draper. 350S Concord. $50 in cash
and Jewels; Domenic Lenava. $3.50
Belvidere. $40 in cash and $500
in war bonds; and Mrs S, II. Buck,
2564 Cadillac. S7l0 and jewels.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-18
Big 3 Farley
Relieved Near

WASHINGTON, Nov. II ms
President Roosevelt today gave
indication that new interna-
tional meeting with Prime Min
iSter Churchill of Great Britain
and Marshal Stain of Russia may
not be far off.
Mr.. Roosevelt said he felt that
il is important that the three
United Nations leaders come To-
gether again al the earliest con-
Venient moment.
He said, however, that no new
progress has been made on set
ting an exact time or place for
the meeting.
The President said that he
hoped 90 see Congress take some
action on universal military train
ING for the nations youth some
time this winter.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-18
BidsChurChes
Regain Lead

"The Protestant churches are
In danger of losing much Of
their traditional leadership I'm
the service To human welfare
II they fail 60 act aggressiveIy
to rediscOver their place In the
changing pattern Of American
community life." the Rev. Sc
ward Hiltner declared last night
at the annual meeting OF the
department of social welfare OF
the Detroit Council of Churches
in the YWCA.
The Rev. Mr.. Hiltner is execu-
tive secretary of the Federal
Council Of Churches commission
on religion and health.
CITES EARLIER ROLE
Pointing out that in Americas
earlier days the churches had
been the outstanding leaders in
most movements. and organiZa-
tions for human welfare. the Rev.
MIR. Hiltner said that the church
could not recapture that position
because life in the modern COM
munity has become too complex
II has been necessary, he. added,
TO have a great increase in social
services of many kinds, and TO
have those services increasingly
supported by the government.
The danger, he continued, is
that the churches may fail TO
recognize the extent OF these
changes may feel so over
whelmed by them that hope OF
having the churches re-establish a
new place of leadership is lost.
CHURCH HOSPITALS
To-day there are more Prot
estant hospitals serving more
patients than ever before i'm the
history Of the nation" declared
the minister, yet the American
public, and the church public,
IL somehow inclined to believe
that the churches have given
up their ancient function of car
ing for the sick"
He pointed out there is strong
tendency in the American COM
munity TO regard the churches AS
organizations which do nothing
but meet once week for an hour
of worship.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-18
; Ohio Cities Hit
By Phone Strike

COLUMBUS. O.. Nov. Il (UP)
Telephone service was restricted
sharply in three Ohio cities today
as the wildcat strike of 500 oper-
ators at Dayton spread TO Co
lumbus and London and threat
ened TO extend TO other Ohio
cities.
Paul w. Denning. District COM
mercial manager Of the Ohio Bell
Telephone Co. said he had been
informed the operators at Toledo
also had been called OUT in
sympathy with the Dayton oper-
atorS.
The Dayton operators estab-
lishe a picket line around the
telephone company building at
$50 a. m. today.
Less than two hours later, all
but three of 400 operators at the
Columbus exchange stopped work
in sympathy with the Dayton
operators. London operators
stopped work shortly afterward.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-18
Consumers Council
Urges Egg Release

Charles c. Lockwood. attorney
for the Greater Detroit Consum-
ers Council, today filed letter of
complaint TO Marvin Jones, chair
man of the War Food Administra-
ton, protesting conditions in the
egg industry.
In his letter, Lockwood hit at
the WA for not making available
TO the consumer. at a fair price,
the present abundant egg produc-
ton i'm this country.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-18
Gen. Wheeler Aide
To Lord Mountbdtten

WASHINGTON, Nov. II (INS)
The war department announced
today that 1t. Gen. Raymond A.
Wheeler has been named by the
combined chiefs of staff as deputy
supreme Allied commander, south
east Asia command.
Wheeler succeeds Mai. Gen.
Wedemyer as assistant 10 Lord
Mountbatten. Wedemyer has been
assigned to command of the China
theater as successor to Gen. Still
well.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-18
I2I. Dies
Former Slave VIII Be
Buried in Flint

FLINT, Nov. 17--David Frank
lin Fl a former slave who as
serted he was III years old, VIII
he buried here tomorrow. lie was
a native OF Montgomery, Ala.
RI came 10 Flint two years AGO
after living for 50 years m Pom
iiac. lie worked in a steel mill,
also for a railroad. lie retired
al 90.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-18

Order the United States War
Savings Stamps from your De-
troit Times carrier. He'll de-
liver them 10 your home.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-18
Beware Coughs
Following Flu

After the flu is over and gone, the
cough that follows may develop
into chronic bronchitis II neglected.
Creomulsion relieves promptly be-
cause 1t goes right to the seat OF the
trouble TO help loosen and expel germ
laden phlegm, and aid nature TO
soothe and heal raw, tender, infiamed
bronchial mucous membranes. No
matter how many medicines you
have tried, tell your druggist to sell
you a bottle of Creomulsion with the
understanding you must like the way
1t quickly allays the cough or you are
TO have your money back.
CIRCUMCISION
for Coughs. Chest Colds Bronchitis
Evening star., 1944-04-02
Guest Entertained

Mrs. J. L. Nimmo of Dunn Loring
has as her guest her sister, Mrs.
Charles Kellogg, former Falls
Church resident, who Is now making
her home in Chicago. A number of
small parties are being planned for
Mrs. Kellogg. During the week she
was the honoree at small luncheon
given by Mrs. E. D. Vosbury.
Evening star., 1944-04-02
Miss Cooper
Wed in Home

The home of Judge Faye l.. Bent
ley was the scene of the wedding of
Mrs. Grace Keller Cooper, daughter
of Mrs. Harry Bradley Keller and
the late Mr.. Keller of Carbondale,
ILL.,, and Mr.. Russell william Stiles
Evening star., 1944-04-02
Home From COHeee

Mr.. and Mrs. Bergman Green Of
Alexandria will have with them for
the Easter holiday their daughter,
Miss Evelyn Green, who will be
home from Mary Washington Col
lege, in Fredericksburg.
Evening star., 1944-04-02
Easter Vacation

Mr.. and Mrs. Hunter de Butts of
Alexandria have with them for their
Easter vacation from school their
sons, Hunter, jr., and Robert J. de
Butts.
Evening star., 1944-04-02

An ordinary stock Of blouses would be,
say, q thousand. So let US tell you Of our
superb collection Of fifteen THOUSAND
This very instant we have
over eight thousand waiting for you in our
stockroon and seven thousand more on
the way.