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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-02-18
With Ernie Pyle

about a quarter mile from our
olive orchard down into a broad,
protected gully
Then with seasoned eyes they
looked around for place to dc
some target shooting. They'd look
at one slope and say, mo, that's
too rocky. The bullets will rico
Chef, and they might hit some Of
our artillery batteries ove. the
hill"
They looked at another slope
and turned it down because we'd
seen some Italian children running
across 1t a little while before. Fl.
nally they picked a gravelly bank
that seemed to have nothing be.
hind it, and we started shooting.
There weren't any tin cans Or any.
thing, SO we'd pick out tiny white
rocks in the bank. The distance
was about rs yards.
I'd been jokingly Dragging or
the way down about what a crack
rifle shot was, so now I had
to make good or else. And l did!
Nothing could make me any
prouder than that 1 picked off lit.
tie white rocks right along with
these veterans.
We must have shot for half an
hour. We traded guns all around
so l could try them all. Buck
Eversole showed me how they
hold a tommy gun and spray a
slope full of krauts.
Finally the Lieutenant said:
I'VE better stop or the Colonel
might raise hell about wasting am.
munition'
Toward the end the boys made
it comical. holding the guns ou1
at arms length and shutting their
eyes like girls, and holding down
the trigger and just letting her
jump.
1t was really an incongruous in.
terlude-war is full of them. Eight
! OF the finest and most hardened
soldiers in the American Army out
in picnic fashion shooting at cocks
and having fun two miles behind
TIE line where tomorrow they
would again be shooting to kill.
| "
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-02-18
Suspension Orderb
Issued Against Cos
Station In Wilmington

RALEIGH, Feb. ia suSps y.
sion order has been Slgheu w W
Chief Hearing Commissioner Da a.,
iel L. Bell, of Atlanta olG ssa.',
John H. Graham, OF Grall'.n ~; ;
Amoco Service station, lhlfo 'a :,
Walnut streets, of Wilmington. H., "
suspend gasoline sales Tor Vi Wv
ton of OPA gasoline ratlonlnS i''
ulations. III
OPA said here today that s ss
suspension order is effective Y. ~. w
ginning February 20. Graham u. J%+
not sell, buy, or deliver gaSG dst
for 10 days beginning on tflS' o Vi,
and for the next 20 days the 0i Wv
is suspended providing that Nv ~
Their violations occur. !.
The 30-day suspension D.
was issued by Commissioner ~ y
after the Raleigh OPA dlStIl'' ,t T.
flee charged that GrahaH ) In
ton showed shortages OF gdsV .;n,
inventory and violations Oh i""'
ing regulations.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-02-18
Bv ERNIE PYLE

IN ITALY,-by wireless)-The
little handful of oldtimers left in
my company have been together
so long they form little family
of their own. They sort of stand
apart from the newer bulk of the
company.
Out of their wisdom they seek
out the best place to settle down
in a new bivouac. They are the
first to find an abandoned Ger
man dugout, or a coy pigshed,
or case of brandy in the cellar
of bombed building. And by right
of seniority they take it.
Most of them are sergeants and
platoon leaders by now. Such men
as Tag Allumbaugh and Knobby
Knobs and Jack Person, whom
I've mentioned before, and Sergt.
Ed Kattelman, of 735 Epworth
Ave., Cincinnati, and Buck Ever.
sole, of Twin Falls, Idaho, and
First Sergt. Bill Wood, of Council
Bluffs, Ia, and Sergt. Pete Con
ners. Ct Imogene, Ia. and Pfc.
Eddie Young, of Pontiac, Mich.
So much depends on this little
group of noncoms, and war is such
familiarizing force that they are
almost on the same basis as the
officers. In this company the OF.
ficers eat separately when they're
in bivouac, but that's about the
only class distinction. r.
There is little military formal.
ty. 1 had to laugh one afternoon
when Lieut.. Tony Libertoce, .o1
Charleston. S. c., was lying on
the ground with several of these
sergeants sitting around him, just
Cabling about this and that.
Lieutenant Libertore made some
remark, I forget what it was, and
Jack Pierson rocked back and
forth with his hands tucked around
his knees, and said: Why, you
horses behind, it amt that way
at all"
Even in fun you don't talk that
way with an officer until you've
been through that famous valley
OF death and out again together
Then Lieutenant Libertoce start
ed telling me all that he had to
put up with. He said:
Nov take Tag and Khobby
Thew treat me like dirt. They
browbeat me all the time. But
word came around this afternoon
that six men were to be picked
for rest camp, and boy they've
been Stirring me to death ever
since, and bringing me gifts ano
asking if l needed anything"
Tag and Knobby sat there lis
tening with appreciative grins or
their faces.
These old-timers in the company
sort of took me in and made me
feel a part of them. One after
noon Lieutenant Sheehy asked il
I'd ever shot a carbine and ]
said no, but that I'd always want
ed to. So he said:
We'll, let's go out and shoe.
at something"
At the time we were a couple
of miles back OF the fighting. Oul
company was to march that night
and start it's own attack next day
That afternoon they had nothing
to do, and were just like a mar
who takes a day off from the Of
flee to lie around home. There
was distant artillery and the day
was warm and sunny and lazy
The lieutenant went to get his
gun, and just by reclamation the
little circle of veterans went after
theirs, too. When they came back
they had carbines, tommy guns,
Garands, Ass and the German all.
tomato known, as the P-88. sim.
liar to the Lueger. We walked
Court Stanley Reed and Robert
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-02-18
Normand Lockwood,
Noted u. S. Comoosef,
To Be At W.C.U.M'

GREENSBORO, Feb. II; I ~,
Normand Lockwood, noted A 1aaj,
can composer, will be music t ~ 4,
in the creative arts forum d, r,i-
Woman's College of the UnlV os ~
OF North Carolina here teO' ~
26. .-r,
Lockwood, whose orcH q AM
works have won the Prix DE NJ =,
and the Swift Prize, Will w II
companist for a group Oh -. at AZ
cal solo works on Friday h4g ., 4
will lecture Saturday morning s,
is presently on leave froi Groset
I'm college to work on 0"9'
neim fellowship. ,orcir
Leaders in the arts OF ua ort j
and writing also will take p'
the two-day program. mn
Professional and stllden. ,ss i
posers in a number OF colI ,s. re
the state will contribute to wv
citals.
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interpreting
The War
By KIRKE L. sJ,rpso


.oo Prime Mir Minister churchiIEpov S to..
coming war review in pariis forth.
promises for a variety poff'nameAt
to rate among r. the most jro reasons
and significant of the m Important
speeches he has mada ''any such
took over the British leod silice h.
so dark an hour. "eISAlp in
Even then he promised ~.
victory but to be bougb+ ultimate
heavy p price in blood. swe only al
tears. The victory is certain dT' al, and
Yet its eliminating stroke !, now 20
rope is still to be struck SS AMI ~ Er
Wall' fortification. ATLANTIC
Massed Anglo-Americso ,.,
power is deploying for thai oattls
est military adventure in 'i great
the fording of the North ST. a.S,org,
glish Channel moat to 'Tba rsag7
those massive German dot eEeaca
BY every sign the heavis asleAses
in Allied battle casualtios Price
to be paid to clinch the d,, Is ya
victory. Ud"nlng
The imminence of ,b..
awaited Allied second.fron,' ion. long
is the dominant factor anoa auaSk
many grave but lesser wsr me N
cumstances calling Cburcbiu' VII
new accounting to parGsme , 70 :.
his stewardship. |''' 10Y
Three months ago in nj, J.,
war review Churchill pictured , ,SM
as the victory year in E,1ro ors'
proclaimed the impending r,;,,,,
of Germany, but added sri iTlr
Unless some happy event ~.
ours on which We have no roSt
to count, 1914 will see the grea lsa.
sacrifices of the British and I'M,
ed States armies
That came in the prime mini,
ter's speech to the lord mavor,,
banquet in London, Nov. 9 Ia,t
It was then Churchill said hst
the back on Nazi U-boat warfsrs
in the Atlantic had been broksr
to insure Germany's complete d..
| feat.
Unless we make some grsv.
| strategical mistake" he added
1.-The year 1914 will see the climax
of the European war"
There is nothing now to suggest
any such Allied mistake. On Ap
contrary, since that Churchill fore.
cast the net has been drawn tigbt.
er around Germany by the Rus.
sian-Allied military compactS at
Teheran.
The only authoritative glimpse
yet afforded of the Russian.Aliej
strategy pattern framed there
came in the Roosevelt Churchill
Stain joint announcement that The
scope and timing of coordnaa
assaults against Germany hid
been agreed upon. Russian fell
victories from the Baltic 10 The
Black Sea have more than fiji,
filled Soviet pledges. Nor has The
Russian winter offensive yet run
its course.
Its climax is only now approach
ing at Pskhov in the north an.
below Lutsk and Rovno in south
! eastern Poland. 1t is reasonable
to assume that the Teheran tim.
ing schedule calls for an Allied
west front assault before spring
thaWs mire the Russian attack anc
relieve pressure on the bulk Of tht
German army deployed on tnt
east front.
In that case, it seems certain
that the scheduled Churchill wal
statement to parliament will be
his last such utterance before the
: cross-sea jump off And it will be
for and reference he may MAKE
direct or inferential, to that Gil
matte Allied operation that h'
words will be scanned around the
| s1,Lo h. frio,,d ,pd fon alike
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Fair Enough

(Ediotr's Note.-The Star and the News accept no
responsibility for the personal views of Mr. Peger,
and often disagree with them much many of
his readers His articles the good purpose of
making people think.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-02-18

Court Stanley Reed and Robert
Jackson, and their ladies'.
And the cost of the drinking
was somewhere between $1,000 and
$4,000.
Buy War Bonds!
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The Marshalls' bigges' .arte
Kwajalein, is 2,4o0 miles ' Vi;
west of Pearl EIarbor ana
r1ailaa frnr, Tnlrw~
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-02-18

The first battle fought by Amer
leans under the Stars and Stripes
was the battle of Oriskany, August
6. 1777.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-01

others at the breakfast table will be songstress Marion Mann, cruiS- ing crooner Jack Owens, Sam 'The Almanac Man" Cowling, and the Three RomeoS.
 Tallulah Bankhead will be Frank Sinatra's first guest star when his Wednesday night program moves back to Hollywood next Monday night December 4, at 8:30 p. m. over the Columbia network. Eileen Bar ton and Axel Stordahl's orchestra are program regulars on the half hour show. A
 'The Voice" will be given chance to thrill at being called darling" by the green-eyed enchantress. With Tallulah as his leading lady, Sin- atra will feature in a short drama atic sketch.
 With Archibald MacLeish as speaker, and Mrs. August Belmont as chairman, the first Opera Vic- tory Rally" will be presented to- morrow, when the Metropolitan Opera returns to WATR and the Blue Network for another series of Saturday matinee broadcasts direct from the stage of the opera house. MacLeish will set the keynote for the series, the general thesis of which is ''The Fight for the Peace. He will be introduced by Mrs. Bel- mont at 800 p. m. The Metropo- Titan Committee for the day com- prises Charles Kullman and Jar- mtla Novotna.
 Ed Archie" Gardner will be en- tertaining real virtuoso when harmonica wizard Larry Adler vis- its "Duffy's Tavern" tonight, Dec. l (NBC, S:30 p. m) On hand to re- quest such popular favorites as Mother Machree" and "Who Put the Overalls in Mrs. Murphy's Chowder?" will be Charles Cantor as Clifton Finnegan, Miss Duffy (Sandra Gould) and Eddie (The Waiter) Green. Bob Graham sings.
 A elmultAneouS tWo-WAy Vox Top broadcast from Chicago and Los Angeles will describe the gigantic battle of transportation, with Parks Johnson and Warren Hull inter- viewing employees of the Santa Fe system Lines on Monday, ct Q ?. m. over OBS.
 Hundreds of railroad men and women will assemble with Parks in the santa 70 chicago yards. and another large group of santa Fe West Coast workers wli he with Walzcn hnll at the kos Ansllaa
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-01

$o.UO). A CremendouS WOrK, tracing the history of mans conflict.
 We Build, We Fight" by Hugh B. Case (Harper: $2.50). Pictures and running story of Uncle Sam's SeabeeS.
 Dogs at War" by Clayton Co., ing Macmillan: $2.50). Pictures and story of the K-9 Corps in training and action.
 BIOGRAPHY: Here are some of the outstanding stories of great men whose lives make engrossing reading:
 Samuel Johnson" by Joseph Wood Krutch (Halt: $3.75j. Lengthy but live account by @ man who proves Sam Johnson territory is not sacred to Boswell alone. "'Anatole France" by Jacob Ak elrad (Harper. $3.75). A scholarly and profound treatment of the great French critic, novelist, and satirist.
 John c. Calhoun, Nationalist" by Charles M. Wiltise (Bobbs- -Mer- Till: $4.00). An important phase in the life of great statesman. POETRY AND THE ARTS: "Nev- ertheless," by Marianne Moore CMacmillon: $1.25). Verse by writer who has been called the greatest of living American women poets.
 Take Them, Stranger" by Ba- bette Deutsch (Holt: $2O0). Poems which are inspiring without being of the "inspirationaT' type.
 "Winslow Homer" by Lloyd Good rich (MacMillan: $650). The life of one of Americas best painters, with 96 reproduction of his art.
 Masterpieces of Painting edited by Huntington Cairns and John Walker (Random House: $6.5O. Masterpieces of color printing as well as painting-large plates of treasures on exhibit at the National Gallery of Art.
 Space Limitations present listing in this issue many other important and highly readable books, all ideal for Christmas gifts, and next weeks column will serve as a continuation of this shopping-list. Mystery fans will find special selection, and there will be additional titles in all other fields.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-01
WAVELETS s
By ED LEAMY

A dramatized story of radios de- velopment covering the period from 1919 to 1914, vii be presented to- morrow December 2 (NBC, 7:00- 7:30 p. m0
 The program, Twenty-Five Years of Broadcasting" will tell among other features, the story of the part the Radio Corporation of America has played in developing one of the the greatest mediums of entertain ment and education ever known to the world.
 The story will trace the growth of independent stations, of the four great networks, F.M and television. Many famous "firsts" in radio will be heard again, including war stories great political events and other broadcasting landmarks which have made radio an integral part of every American home.
 U. S. Coast Guard Commander Jack Dempsey, the Mighty Manassa Mauler of Fistic Fame, will be 8 very special guest when the Break fast Club originates at the Nays Sixth War Loan Exhibit on Chi cago's Navy Pier, (tomorrow at 800 a. m) over WATR and the Blue network.
 Commander Dempsey will be in- terviewed by Don Dynamite" Mo- Neill, the Breakfast Club emcee, who has pummeled many a power full pun into insensibility. Among
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-01

fer mystery, here's MT. M@uenam | 8 shopping list of some of the re- cent standoutS in the book world grouped in general categories. VAUGHAN LEADS LIST
 Fiction: 'The Razor's Edge" by w. Somerset Vaughan Doubleday: $2.75). A longtime best-seller still high on the lists.
 'The Green Years" by A. J. Cronin Oittle Brown, $2.50). Heart-warming story of an Irish lad in a Scottish town.
 Forever Amber" by Kathleen Winsor Macmillan: $3OO). Novel of the Restoration which has caused 8 rumpus and may be 8 sen-out.
 Strange Fruit" by Lillian Smith Reynal, Hitchcock: $2.75). Power ful tale of the Deep South.
 'Pastorale," by Nevil Shute (Mor- row: $2.50. Love in wartime Eng land, with memorable air battle thrown in.
 Tragic Ground" by Erskine Caldwell (Duell, Sloan and Pearce: s2.S0). Humor as well as tragedy, in . Tobacco Road" setting.
 Behold Trouble,' by Granville Hicks (Macmillon: $2.75). Dramatic fight of conscientious objector, against the world and himself.
 'The History of Rome Hanks" by Joseph Stanley Pennell (Sribner's: $275). Civil War experiences in un- usual form and electrifying style.
 ''The Building of Jalna," by Mazo De La Roche Gittle, Brown: $2.5O). Lateset Jalna book covers, earliest phase of the Whiteoak family.
 Borrowed Night" by Oscar Ray Doubleday Doran: $2.50). An AL satian soldier freigns mental ail- ment to escape from the German Army.
 'Lusty Wind for Cardino," by 1ngIs Fletcher (Bobbs Merrill: t3.oO. Pirates and romance in an historical novel.
 SONGS, RABBITS, PUPS
 Juvenile: The selection of books for children of all ages, superbly illustrated and many of them fascinating even to grownups, is so large that future colume will be devoted to them exclusively. Here are few suggestion:
 Sing for America" by Opal Wheeler, illustrated by Gustaf Teng- gron (Dutton: $3.00). Music and anedoteS of our best-known songs.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-01

terminus.
 Instantaoneous longtime tele- phone facilities will enable Parks, Warren and their interviewees to talk back and forth between the two points, and the audiences in Los Angeles and Chicago will hear each others side of the program.
 A repeat airing of the hit tunes of Broadway'S newest musical comedy smash, "Bloomer Girl" will be heard on "The Pause That RefreShes on the Air" program when 1t is broadcast on Sunday afternoon, December 3 at 4:30 over CBS.
 Soprano Mona Paulee and Tenor Frank Parker, who have been fre- quent guests on the Kostelanetz show, will sing solo numbers and duet from the "Bloomer Girl"' score, the music for which was written by American composer, Harold Arlen.
 Fridays "Gag-of- -the-Day": Nor ton Downey's fondness for corn gets the better of him now and then, because during a rehearsal of his Songs by Morton Downey" show, he came up with this one. About ten years ago." related the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-01

Harriet" over CBS, began her act ing career when she was carried on the stage at the age of six weeks in a part with little dialogue. but with lots of changes of costume.
 Frances Gayer, lyric soprano ot San Francisco, who will be guest so- loist or Steel Horizons on Sunday December 3, at g D. m, over MES, is probably the only singer on rec ord who ever had menagerie on her welcoming committee. When Frances, who has been on a long USO tour outside of the United States, arrived in the Galapago Is- lands the boys met her at the plane with a complete tropical menagerie -goopy birds, pink f1amingoes, the monstrous turtles the Islands are famous for, iguana lizards and prac- tically every other form of local ani- nal life
 "The Life Of Riley recently air. ed a script depicting the efforts of Riley to get Junior" and his foot ball teammates out of the clutches of the math teacher and into the big game Conrad Binyon, who plays Junior, thinks the script writers must have been following him around. Conrad is on his schools football team, but ever since the season started Conrad has been called for Saturday afternoon radio
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-01

I Irish tenor, T stuck a dollar bill in Q bottle, corked 1t and threw the bottle into the Pacific Ocean at San Diego. The other day I was strolling along the beach at At- lantic City with my oldest boy, and he found a bottle with dol- lar bill in it."
 "Was it the same one?" asked announcer David Ross.
 "Yes, it was," Downey said. And along with the bill I found twenty cents interest"
 Joyce Van Patten, who'll be featured on Grand Central Sta- tion," Saturday, Dec. g, at 1 p. m., over CBS, is not yet in her teens, but she is one of the most famous child actresses of her generation. '-rhe Perfect Marriage" her most recent Broadway appearance, is the tenth play in which she has ap- peared. Tomorrow the World" and "The Philadelphia Story" are two of her other successes.
 We must be getting a smoother following! marvels Phil Baker. At his most recent CBS Take It Or Leave It broadcast there was ac- tually man in the audience who called out You'll be penitent!" when a wavering contestant de- bated whether to try for the $64 question. That" says the quiz master, lis You'll be sorry in top hat and tails.''
 Wen Niles, one of the most popu- lar SpielerS on the west coast, will announce the new Al Pearce show, Here Comes Elmer" debuting on CBS Dec g.
 Souvenir hunters will envy this one: As reward for her efforts on behalf of the Sixth War Loan Drive, Rear Admiral Dewitt Clin- ton Ramsey presented Kate Smith with section of the propeller of Jap plane shot down over Saipan. The presentation was made during the recent "Kate Smith Hour" broadcast from the Nays huge Pacific Theater" Exhibit in Chi cago.
 Harriet Hilliard, heard Sundays on 'The Adventures of Ozzie and
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-01

Connie Moran (Winston: 41.50) Gay story, gay pictures.
 Rabbit Hill," story and pictures by Robert Lawson (viking: $2.00). Humanified bunnieS face and meet a crisis.
 The Great Outflow" by James Thurber, illustrated by Doris Lee Harcourt Brace: $2.5O. Imagina- tive and magical.
 Wings for Per-" by Ingri and Edgar Parin PAnddaire Double day Doran: $2.5OD. A little Morse boy comes to know invasion.
 Logging Chance" by M. H. LaSher, illustrated by Hamilton Greene (Winston: $20O. Adven- ture in the northwest. for teen agerS,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-01

rehearsals on saThe Life or Riley. or one of the other programs o1 which he appears, and he has niss~ ed most of his games!
 George Burns and Oracle Allen 1e suIne broadcasting from Hollywood on Tuesday, December 5, after q successful bond-seIling tour during which they aired from key cities
 Veteran sportswriter and Broad- way character -immortaiizer Damon Runyon has selected his delightful story Princess OHara for drama- tization by CBS' This Is My Bests airshow on Tuesday, December ,.
 It will be happy reunion for Parker Fennelly. and Arthur Allen when they are featured on Grand Central Station" Saturday. DeceIn- Der g. at D. m. over CBS. They had made radio history a few years ago when they co-starred in Snow Village Sketches" Allen, now fully recuperated from a long illness which took him from the networks last year, was last seen on Broad way in the comedy Don't, George
 Some day girl named Mary Will revolutionize the glamor worldl
 A simple moniker may in time stand out among the exotic names. real or assumed, of models and movie queens. At present, and ar resting name is an important part of a beauty's success: it attracts attention, and producers and other show business bigwigs remember such a monicker more easily when there's a contract in the offil1g. Radios Blind Date" where glamor holds sway every Monday night over the Blue chain, has provided an interesting array of uniquely duo- bed beauties. Blind Date dall- ings have included Sylvie St. Clair. night club songstress; Candy Jones. the popular cover girl; Robin Chandler lovely radio actress, and Lane Warren, New York model. Soon to be heard from on a coming Blind Date show is Barbe Ber- nett. popular stage starlet. The glamor world may very well be reyo- lutionized one of these days by that daring girl named Mary. But until that day comes along. your favorite movie queens will be called Lana. Carole, Ingrid and Hedy!
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-01

Prayer for Child" by Rachel Field, illustrated by Elizabeth Orton Jones (Macmillan: $1.50). Touching and beautiful.
 The Hundred Dresses" by Eleanor Estes, illustrated by Louis Slobodkin (Harcourt Brace $2.5O). A secret told in beautiful pictures, but not revealed in print until the end of the book.
 "Pugo's Train Ride" by Joe and Ernest Norling (Holt: $1.25). An other adventure of Pogo the pup.
 Chips, the Story of a Cocker Spaniel" by Diane Thorne and