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Evening star., 1944-07-19
IN Men Under 80
Lose Deferments
Obtained Elsewhere

Fourteen men under 80 years who
are working in Washington but were
deferred by draft boards In other
areas lost their Job deferments as a
result OF District Appeal Board de-
cisions during the week ending June
"a, District draft headquarters an
nounced today.
Most OF the men were In the 26-29
age group, although few of them
were under 26. In most cases their
deferments had months to run.
Some of the men had just been
granted the deferments by their
home draft boards.
Many Fields Included.
Among those whose deferments
were Cancelled by the appeal board
on review were bus driver, street.
car operator, refrigerator service
man, George Washington Univer-
sity administrative assistant, several
Federal Bureau of Investigation
employees, an Agriculture Depart
ment fiscal inspector, Washington
Terminal Co. baggage and mail por-
ter, Railway Express Agency We
hicleman, a Post once Department
clerk, a Navy Yard toolmaker, a
Naval Research Laboratory en-
ploye, a carpenter and a business
machine serviceman.
OF the 1876 cases of men over 80
considered by the board, continued
deferment was approved for all OF
them. In addition, the appeal board
approved deferment for SO men
under 30, including five men de-
clared unfit for military service.
The board also acted favorably
on % appeals for occupational de-
ferment. This group included five
men over 3O-a butcher, storage
company assistant superintendent,
auto painter, ice cream company
deliveryman and an insurance COM
pany claims examiner.
Objector Deferred.
A 36-year-old dishwasher en-
ployed at the Labor Department.
the father Of five children, had
appealed for classification as q con-
scientious objector, but wound up
with an occupational deferment.
Deferment as a farmer was denied
the 25-year-old head farmer of
the Industrial Home School for
Children. Among the 16 men denied
occupational deferment was the ad-
ministrator in charge of the Wash
ington office of Moral Rearmament
Also denied occupational defer
ment were a streetcar operator. a
bus driver and an auto mechanic,
all in the 26-29 age group, and 10
men under 26, most OF them en-
ployed at the Washington Navy
Yard and the Naval Research
Laboratory. The board also denied
one mans request for deferment
as q hardship case.
Evening star., 1944-07-19
Bus Driver Indicted
In Jim Crow SIuyino

BY the Associated Press.
DURHAM, N. C. July l9--An In
dictment charging murder was re-
turned by the Durham County
grand jury yesterday in 4 case in
volving the States Jim Grow" bus
law.
The indictment was returned
against Herman Lee Council, 36. city
bus driver, who Is free under $2,500
bond pending trial in Superior
Court.
The indictment charges him with
the pistol Staying of Pvt Boxer T.
Specify. Camp Butler colored SOL
dier. on July 8 after an argument
between them over the bus segrega-
ton law.
Evening star., 1944-07-19
the United states Government viii

the United States Government Will
be controlled BY . conservation or
der issued by the Budget Bureau.
A rev limitation order issued by
WPB yesterday cuts the paper us
age OF all other governmental units
using more than q ton Of paper q
year or purchasing more than 81 900
worth Of printing . year.
The planned effect of the WPB
action is to reduce the consumption
Of paper by governmental units to
Evening star., 1944-07-19
All Government Units
Restricted in Use Of Paper

By the Associated Press.
Federal, State, county, municipal
and local governments are restricted
In their use Of paper to the same
extent as private printers and pub
fishers, effective as of July /, the
War Production Board announced
yesterday.
All departments and agencies Of
Evening star., 1944-07-19
Man Killed, 81 Injured
In Bus-Cob Collision
3y the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BRISTOL, Tenn, July ls.-One
man was killed. IL were admitted to
the hospital and approximately Is
other persons were hurt in an acci-
dent yesterday on the Blountville
highway, about 5 miles from here
A bus loaded with workers from
Holston Ordnance Area B at Kings
port and Yellow Cab bus serving
the Tri-City Airport sideswiped on
a bridge near sharp curve.
George Rush, Bristol. employe of
Holston Ordnance, died shortly after
being admitted to the hospital.
Buy bonds buy more .
buy NOW!
Evening star., 1944-07-19
II Fairgrounds, ; Schools
Collect Paper Tomorrow

Seventeen Fairgrounds and three
schools tomorrow will participate in
the summer salvage program under
the sponsorship of the Recreation
Department. and The Evening Star.
Collections will be made in the
afternoon as follows.
Piaysrounds
Palisades Chevy Chase
Murch Hearst
MontroSe Stoddert
Janney GEORGETOWN
Western Stadium Hardy
Fillmore GRllinger
Mitchell Park Francis
Stevens Rose Park
SHOWS Court
Montsomery lafayette
Eaton
Less than half of the American
people own War Bonds. Supposing
only half Of our Army decided to
fight? Let's all back the attack
with extra War Bonds.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-02-12
Change Without a Difference

Restoration of administrative authority in
southern Italy, Sicily and SARDINIA to the Ba-
doglio regime seems to be a change without
a difference That is to say, Allied admins
traitors in the affected area will not now rep
resent the supreme civil authority. They will,
instead, occupy an advisory position in the
civil government On the surface this indi-
Gates . change. but the difference is strictly
in name We may be sure that Italians in
office will be very careful to heed their Allied
advisors.
The danger in this arrangement. If any
actually exists lies in the possibility OF Ger
man sympathiers getting government jobs
and working with the Nazis under cover. This
has been stipulated against, Of course, but
with the cunning Of the Hitlerites well estab-
ished, the stipulation might be thwarted by
Italian double aling long enough to cause
considerable trouble.
The plan, as announced at Naples. is tenn
porary II Badoglio is sincere, he Will CO.
operate in the Allied proposal to give the
Italian people opportunity to choose their own
form of government when the Germans are
finally driven from their land, as ne mas
promised to do. 1t remains to be seen wnether
the new arrangement is wise OF foolish. ABOUT
all that can be said for it is that While II
seems to shift the burden of governing the
German-free portion of Italy to Badoglio and
Victor Emmanuel the little king, it does not
actually free the Allies from any response
bility.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-02-12
Foolish Protest

General Marshall says he has received I'VE.
Aement protests" from the American public
because the Army is using flame throwers
against the Japs Why?
Even before the story Of the mass torture
Of Bataan's defenders, there had been stories
what sbout the eyewitness accounts OF Amer
lean wounded bayoneted, of American soldiers
teheade .? What about the execution of the
captured flyers who bombed Tokyo?
Don't the vehement professors" read the
papers? Or do they think that rats should bs
exterminated according to Marquis of Queens
u,ry rules?
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-02-12
Inland Waterway Program

When maps appeared in newspapers show
ing that the southern coastal area has no
place in the governments master plan for
postwar highway development this newspaper
urged civil groups in the region to unite
in demanding that the Coastal highway, No.
II as it is designated be included in the
program. Exception was taken to the fact
that the government had ignored the areas
lust claim to recognition
A similar situation, be it gratefully acknowl-
edged does not exist with respect Of inland
waterway development in the postwar period.
The area sdestepped in the highway pro-
gram, cannot be overlooked in these plans.
And Wilmington IS already served by the
inland waterway, there will be general thanks
giving here over the fact that the govern
ment's postwar public works program includes
extensive development projects for the inland
waterway system.
These plans are discussed by George w.
Codrington, president of the National Associa-
ton of Engine and Boat Manufacturers, in an
interview in New York. While considerable
work is contemplated for links in the Intra-
coastal waterway IN ElOTlQd, Lne program III
cludes work on all stretches of the system.
With an eye to the interests of the association
he heads, Mr.. Codrington naturally devotes
his chief attention to private boating. Says he:
Proposals relating to the Intracoastal Wa
terway are especially comprehensive They
cover virtually the entire intracoastal route
from Portland, Maine, to the Gulf coast Of
Texas and call for a host of developments
"Betterment of the existing waterway, con-
struction of new auxiliary channels, straight
ening operations that will shorten distances
and improvement of many harbors along the
route including provision for additional facil-
ties, are among the measure contemplated.
while it is realized that all Of these prof.
ects are still we'll into the future and some
OF them not yet beyond the proposal state
nevertheless there is sound encouragement to
those concerned with postwar boating pros
poets in the fact that governmental thinking
is taking cognizance of the welfare Of this
important waterway"
If the program is carried through, Whining
ton may look forward to better times, not
only because its boat owners may travel fay
ther and easier than in past times but also
because the northern boating fraternity will
be coming this way in larger numbers.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-02-12
The Literary Guidepost

Marian Anderon, who has sur
vived the glamorizing of the
modern concert stage, is included,
and so is Paul Robson, who may
have drifted ints greatness, but
who got there just the same. Mary
Mcleod Bethune, a kind of batter
ing ram in the service Of Negro
education, is one Of the best SUBJ
jects, and the late George Wash.
4gton carver one of the most
familiar. Walter White, the bril-
liant head of the National Assoc
citation for the Advancement of
Colored People is the most con-
tardictory personality in the
book, and Richard Wright, author
of Native Som is by far the most
bitter.
The list includes also William
Grant Still, the composer; WEB.
Du Bots, PROFESSIONAL elder states
man; Mordecai ". johnson, presi-
dent of Howard University; Lang
ston Hughes, whose poetry and
prose are among the best the
United States has produced; the
urbane director of the Institute
OF Social Studies at Fisk, DR..
Charles S. johnson, and A. Philip
Randolph, whose service as head
OF the Pullman porters' organiza-
ton has had astonishing ramifica-
tons. It is list Of men and wona-
en- who could not have been
spared from American life.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-02-12
Away With Him

The case against Charlie Chaplin, and 9TH
ers named in indictments with him, can be
safely left to the courts. If proof Of guilt
is produced and the jurys verdict is against
him, the trial Judge will impose sentence upon
him and such Of his associates as are also
found guilty. The case itself, therefore, is not
the public's concern.
But there is growing evidence that the
American public is fed up On Chaplin, his
marital and extra-marital adventures. What
ever merit he may have once possessed as a
slapstick film entertainer has for years beer
offset by his extra-curricular activities.
The people are tired of hearing about him
and his immoral life. They are tired of hi,
presence in the United States If censu,
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-02-12
What Is In A Name

Everyone knows that the ways of the FIJI
are deep, devious and deviishly clever. But
it car have been nothing less than clairvoy-
ance that prompted one of ]. Edgar Hoover S
operatives to stop certain man on the street
of western city and ask him for his draft
card. ...
The man didn't have his card with him.
But he volunteered his name, which-and it's
in the FBI files-is as follows
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Willinininizzissezzil
Hurrizzissteizii
It seems that Mr.. H. is native OF Thalland'
and is classified 4-F with New York City
draft board
He goes by the name Of Leo Ward.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-02-12
BY JOHN SELBY
Thirteen Against the Odds"
Y Edwin r. Embree Viking;

Thirteen Against t h Odds"
by Edwin r. Embree Viking;
S .75).
Lincolns birthday has been
chosen as publication date of
Thirteen Against The Odds for
reasons so obvious that they need
not be mentioned. It is book of
short biographies of important
Negroes. The 10 so honored were
chosen by one of those polls and
like most other polls, its results
are vulnerable. There is no ques-
ton that the list is m-de up oe IS
prominent men and women, but
whether they are most important
is another matter.
All the Is are from the arts,
from the educ ational and welfare
fields - except one. He is Joe
Louis, and it seems little ride
ulous to include him in the list
and omit Roland Hayes, Fora
Neale Hurston, Alain Locke and
Arna Bontemps. But presumably
Edwin R. Embree has abided by
the decision of his voters, and
certainly he has done a first rate
Job of writing. He has done more
than that. He has presented his
people truthfully, pointing out
their weakness as well as their
strength, which gives authority
and balance to what might have
been merely propaganda.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-02-12
Another War

Admiral Chester w. Nirnitz, under whose
direction the Battle of the Marshalls is being
fought, and who has arrived at Kwajalein by
plane to observe what is going on in this
vital area, told correspondents with the at.
lacking American forces that the fighting in
Europe no longer affects the war in the Pa.
cific. Nothing could be said more clearly to
indicate the changed situation of this nation
so far as naval fire power is concerned.
When the Allied command reached its de-
cision to have an accounting with Hitler in
Europe before turning its attention to the Pa
cific, a contributing factor was Americas linn
tied naval strength for service in the Orient
Pearl Harbor and defeat in the Philippines
had seriously crippled United States sea
strength. We were not ready for grand at
tack on the Japanese. Nor could Great Britain
make a substantial contribution to the war
in the Pacific, not only because London had
already set up the naval blockade OF Europe's
Atlantic shores and was fighting to keep the
Mediterranean lifeline open, but also because
of Japanese successes at Singapore and other
vital points in the southwest Pacific. The show
down would have to await more propitious
occasion. All that the Allied highcommand
could do at the time was to wage holding
war, and for this purpose General Macarthur
was moved to Australia to prevent further
Japanese conquests and the capture Of Aus
tralia. New Zealand and other prizes coveted
by Tokyo.
Since then, and with the retaking Of the
Solomons, with New Guinea and New Britain
virtually wrested from japanese control and
occupation, United States navy yards and pri-
vately operated ship yards have been launch
ing naval and cargo vessels at such rapid
rate. and Japan has been losing SO many
ships of all types Admiral Ninnitz is now in
position to launch the first great attack on
japanese outer bastion and put the enemy to
flight in a decisive manner, with what is
generally credited with being the heaviest ma
val fire power ever assembled for single
action One of Japan's principal strongholds
is crumbling The Navy is strong enough now
20 clear the way for American Marine and
Army task forces, whose performance is mag
nificent The advantage Japan enjoyed at the
start of the war in the Pacific has been
neutralized The off, sive has been taken from
her in no uncertain manner.
And while the United States fleet has been
so splendidly increased and Japan's has been
steadily whitfield down. United States air pow
er has undergone equivalent Improvement.
Clearly Admiral Nimitz is well justified in
saying during his Kwajalein press conference,
that 1.-The war in Europe is another war"
The Marshalls battle, with equal clarity, in
dicates that the Pacific war is at last under
way in earnest, not as a holding war but
war of American initiative
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-02-12
Interpreting The War
By KIRKE'L. SIMPSON

Although official uneasiness over
the plight of British and American
troops holding the Anzio beach
head below Rome is reflected in
London and Washington, it falls
short of any real apprehension
that another Allied Dunkerque. is
impending.
Bad weather seriously limits the
effectiveness of Allied air power,
the weapon chiefly relied upon to
expand the surprise landing oper-
atoms. 1t does not similarly multi
fy Allied sea power. Rain or no
rain, the guns of the British Med
iterranean fleet hold a veto power
over Nazi attempts to drive the
beachhead garrison into the sea
again.
That is meagre comfort to draw
from a situation in the Italian cam
paign so recently bright with pos
possibilities that German retreat
up the peninsula to abandone
Rome might result from the sea
borne thanking attack.
There is no authoritative version
yet of just what happened other
than an iH-omened change in the
weather to turn a promising Al
lied offensive drive from the sea
into a defensive siege.
The mighty Russian offensive
that is assembling German armies
in the east gained new momentum,
however. Moscow announced cap
ture of Shepetovka junction by
troops of the First Ukranian
Army. Its fall opened new routes
for Russian attacks southwestward
to cut the Odessa-Warsaw railway
and leave the whole Nazi suothern
flank in Russia trapped against the
Rumanian border.
Russian mopping-up campaigns
in the Dnieper Bend are far to
the north between the Luga and
Volkhov rivers are carving unfill-
able gaps in Nazi ranks. 1t is the
center of the long Eastern battle
line, not on it's Baltic or Black
Sea hanks, however, that the pos
sibilities of supreme military dis
aster are stalking the German
forces.
With fall of Sheptekovka, new
Russian major offensive to. smash
across that railroad on a wide
front, take Tarnopol and surge on
into northeastern Rumania to out
flank every possible Nazi river
bank defense front in the south
may be in progress.
Capture of Shepetovka puts in
Russian hands long stretch of
the Berdichev-Warsaw railroad. 1t
furnishes means of quick lateral
communications between Berdich-
ev in the southeast and Lutsk and
Rovno in the northwest close be-
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-02-12
keisler And Radio

Music lovers the; land over are overjoyed
that Fritz Kreisler has finally consented to
play five programs by radio, their only re-
greet being that the series is not to start
until next summer.
Like Paderewsk up to the time of his death,
Kreisler has for many years been favorite
with American audiences. When he was struck
down by truck in a New York street in
April of 1941 and it appeared that he might
not recover from his injuries or if he did,
never play again. the grief of his unnumbered
friends was as deep and genuine as their
thankfulness when it was announced that his
skill was little if any less after his recupera-
ton than before his accident.
He long resisted persistent urgings to ap-
pear on radio programs, because, as he ex-
plains, he had no time to learn the technique
of the microphone and because of his heavy
concert scher"les But because the public has
been deluging him with mail appeals, and
because the transportation problem of these
war times restricts his opportunity to appear
in many concerts, he has found time to be-
-~ne acquainted with the mike and decided
to play before unseen audiences.
With becoming modesty, Kreisler hopes he
is ready for the radio AS time and fortune
have dealt gently with him we can well be-
ieve he is.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-02-12

hind that wide stretch Of the Rus
sian front threatening the Odessa
Warsaw railroad.
Connecting lines fan out from
Shepetovka to Tarnopol and Pros
kuriv, both important points of the
Odessa-Warsaw line. There is no
point on the 200 mile span of that
last direct communication link
with Germany for the whole Nazi
right wing in the east between
Lwow Zmerinka.
Just where the final Russian
mass blow will come to close the
vast trap on the foe in the center
can only be conjectured.
Shepetovka is less than 60 miles
from the Odessa w RS a W
railroad. With the Berdichev-Lutsk
railroad available for quick cross
transportation Of troops and equip
ment, Soviet leaders are in posi-
ton to mass overwhelming supe-
rior forces at any selected point
on a 200 mile front for a break
through attack in the center that
would climax the winter offensive
and crack the German eastern
front apart 1t would set the stage
for Russian invasion of Rumania
from the northeast down the main
road to Bucharest and Ploesti.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-02-12
|SOLOIST HEARD
| BY EXCHANCITES

Exchange Club members we,.
entertained Friday at the regr,,-
weekly luncheon with several ".
cal solos by Mrs. Marion RunLa,.
accompanied at the piano w.
William Robertson.
Plans for the ladies niohy
event to be held at The Fan,o',
Club Grill next Thursday nigbt =.
8 pm. were outlined by DR.. Ro ~
ner, chairman of the entertajn
ment committee. '''
E. T. Jones made an anro,,
to the club members to consider
the merits and community advss
tages in aiding the Negro NEW ,'
bers of St. Luke's Zion Church !,
their drive for funds to restora
their church which was burned 70
Gently.
Exchange Club members ~
ported Fourth War Bonds Sala,
Ut various denominations and Ga,
les had been made in the ammn.
Of SCI, 300.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-02-12
TEXT: MARK 1928, 17-27
nv WILLIAM f. GILROY D. d

01 WILLIAM Gs oAAASA -
Jesus was on the mountain with
three of His disciples, Peter,
James, and John. And on tn e
mountain occurred that remark
able event that we call the Trans
figuration.
Instead Of the Master, whom
they saw from day to day in dust
stained garments and with feet
and sandals inevitably covered
with dust, they saw Christ, all
clothed in glistening white gar
ments; and with Him appeared
other figures whom they identi-
fled with Moses and Eli talk
ing with their Master.
They were overcome by the
vision, but. Peter, even in his fear,
was ready with his suggestion. It
was naturally suggestion OF wor'
ship, Let us make three taber-
nacles, he said, one for the
Master, one for Moses, and one
for Elijah. He knew not what he
said, but his suggestion was In
line with the error Of those who
often mistake some form oil
emotion, or of emotional worship,
for Christian communion ano
Christian service.
Better was the suggestion thai
came from a voice out Of the over
shadowing cloud. This is my be-
loved Son; hear ye Him"
That is the essence of true wor'
ship-to listen to the voice oil
Jesus; and Christian service is te
do what He commands us to do
The mountain was not place
for tabernacles or service. Down
in the valley were sin-sick and
stricken souls who needed help.
Here were the sick and the needy,
and the weak and fallen, who
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-02-12
Sunday School Lesson

needed helping hand. The vision
disappeared, and the three were
left with the Master whom they
knew, and as they knee Him, who
led them back down the mountain.
But the three disciples who
came down the mountain were not
the same as those who went up.
They had had an unforgettable ex-
perience which was to keep them
strong and steady in the dark days
ahead There would be times when
they would have reason to re-
member that the earthly Jesus
whom they knew, over whom the
shadow of the Cross was falling,
was the same Christ whom they
had seen TRANSPORTED on the
mountain top.
Don't imagine that the noun
tain top experiences, even when
one is away from ones felloWmen
and awav from the paths of SER
vice. are unimportant. There are
times when faith needs quickenlng
and Strengthening; there re
times when hearts grow faint
when one needs to come near te
God, or when one needs to see
ones fellowmen in some trans
figured way. 1t is so easy to lose
faith.
The vision from the mountain
top gives new horizons.
The valley, too, is not S1e same
when it is seen from the noun
tain top. It is new valley tt
which one descends. -,
So, then, we need in life botf
the mountain and the valley. 1
is possible for us all to have ex
periences of transfigui alton. LIE
US cherish such moments, ever
when we descend to the valley
The memory Of them will sus
tain and uphold.