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Evening star., 1944-01-15

The Sunday School lesson for
January 16 is, "Jesus Answers His
Critics."-Mark, ills; iii.35.
Evening star., 1944-01-15
Bible Institute

Glenn Wagner, president of the
Washington Bible Institute, an
nounces II new classes will be
opened for the second semester be-
ginning January "a. The enrolment
period will be January 1921 at 3O7
D street NV. from 7 to 10 pm.
All classes are held on Monday
and Tuesday from tbs to 9:4Op.m.
The courses are open to the public
and no tuition is charged.
Evening star., 1944-01-15
TRINITY

bth d Seward SQUARE Sc.
Rev. Daniel w. Justice, Minister
IL a.m.-"Religion Is Powerful When
Practical"
7:30 p.m.-"On Being . Real Per-
son.
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UNION

10th 81. Near Penn. Ave. NV.
SELWYN X. COCKRELL. d. D..
Minister.
Sunday, January 16. 1914.
IL a.m.-"Warninxs and Assurances"
3 p.m.-"Experiences Of an Exile"
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Rational
Baptt8t mfmoriaI

10Th and CoIumbio Rood NV.
Cove 6. Johnson. Postor.
A.. Lincoln Smith. Assistont Postor.
II am.-"YOUTH AND SAFETY" 1"
High School Department in at
tendance.
g p.m.-"F Il E E 90 M FOR
WHAT"
Midweek Service, Thursday eve
ming at 8-The Glad Hour.
Evening star., 1944-01-15

Columbia Pike and Edxewcod st,
Joseph S. Johnston. Minister.
9:30 Church School
s:45 and IL a.m.-"Silks and
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-13


Dunn, a rancher, sitting by the fire
place with a rifle across his knees.
On each side of the room were tiers
Of hunks with hanging canvas cover
ings
"Yuh're Bill Tilghman, amt yuh?'
the rancher asked in a surly tone. II
yuh're lookin' for information yul
won't get any here"
"Well, / was, sort Of" said Bill
heading TO the fire, but right now
I'd like TO get warmed and maybe
bunk up. Looks like you got room"
mot for your kind" the rancher
muttered.
Bill was standing with his hands
spread out behind him toward the fire
when he heard a Slight stir and sud
denly spotted something he'd missed.
Sticking out of the curtained hunks
were the muZZles Of a dozen rifles and
siX-shooters.
We'll" he said in matter of fact
tone, IF we can't bunk up here
reckon we'd better be Jogging along
before night catches us"
Bill walked slowly toward the door,
between the two rows of pointed guns.
He told me later he expected a blast
10 rip him at every step
companions.
Lay on tn whip an get out O. here
at Bearclaw. THAT place is bulgin' w
It'll take more than we've got 10 smo
I'm sure Bill Doolin was there"
He was right. Bill Doolin was Their
happened after the door closed on
marshal is tale the old.timers still
We heard about il later.
AS soon as Bill stepped out into
that afternoon Red Buck Weightman i
from his bunk and headed for the d
Il m gonna kill that -" he swol
drop that riflel" Deelin shouted,
Red Buck. hand on his siX.shooter.
swung the rifle TO his shoulder and just
Bill. another desperate. pulled him ba
"Yuhll never git better chance to p
outa tn way" yelled Red Buck.
Eyes, an yuh shoot Tilghman an eV,
in tn Territory will be on our trail"
Doolin, Little Bill, Charlie Pierce an
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-13

with his sweetheart, The Rose of The Cimauon.
Later he met Charlie Pierce and the two refined
up ranch corral along The Cimarron. They
had just swung out of the saddle when a voice
shouted: Throw up your hands"
The voice was Bill Tilghman's- He and Heck
Thomas had been in the ranch house three days.
Pierce and Bitter Creek tried TO shoot their way
out, but il their last fight
THE word reached The Rose of The Cimarron by
the prairie underground. She pretty badly
busted up but 10 stick by the rest OF the Wild
Bunch until the last dead
Soon after the killing of Pierce and Bitter Creek,
Bill Tlghman shot il out with Little Bill. the.
smallest member OF the Doolin gang. The outlaw
crippled for life and died soon afterHard.
Red Buck, the desperate who wanted to shoot
Bill Tilghman in the back, tracked 10 a dug,
He out shooting and died in his tracks, .
If the bad men OF that wild bOrderand had RtLt
women out of their lives most OF them would have
lived a lot longer.
Bill Dalton, the last of the Daltons, was killed
when marshals trailcd his wife to his hiding place
Bill Doolins devotion to his wife Edith, led 10
his undoing.
with Bill Tilghman in Guthrie one day
when the manhunt the hottest. "Hows IN
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-13

Dick hauled Red Buck rms one Got
away from the door DOOlin GdSped.
Waller backs all o FOiiOU My Trdi
i I1rl, ~. a, Tm lido de' b inLe DeciSiO
down, singlehanded."
You'll quit my bunch If you do" said Doolin.
bill Tlghman's too square hombre TO git
shot in tn back by anybody that rides with me.
won't stand for it,"
Bill Dooln, kingpin of the badmen, sure saved
Bill Tilghman's life that day.
The Wild Bunch didn't lose any time quitting
Rock Fort Ranch and striking out They were
hidden by the time Nix and Tilghman got back
10 the dugout with posse.
Knowing the manhunt was getting hot, the
Wild Bunch scattered again. Doolin made secret
visit TO his wife, Edith, to their new baby
Bitter Creek Newcomb took time out TO ride up
to Jim Davis squatter cabin to spend little time
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-13
BY COL. II. EDWIN MOoTZ

Oklahoma u.
IiE odtme gunghs had outlaws lived
\ it, They wouldn't a the back.
sixshooer Marshal
Bill TlghmanS life
have told ghman
Doolin's Wild Bunch Battle of Ingalls,
Bill
The nahals travelling prairie with saddle horses
for
the Rock Fort Ranch.
O.
through gale brought the shvng dugout
Bearcaw tn outfit" Tigman
while little scoutn."
stepped he dugout.
log blazing fireplace in the far
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-24
Coal Outlook

For some months, the people have been
harassed with predictions of coal shortages by
government officials. Experienced coal pro-
ducers have made statements that there need
be no shortages But the opinion of private
citizen who operates an industry, is always
discounted when compared with statement
of public official who regulates an industry,
although he may have had no knowledge Of
such industry before his appointment, and know
nothing about practical production methods
It is therefore encouraging when the Deputy
Solid Fuels Administrator lets the cat out of
the bag by stating that coal production is ex-
pected to reach 10000, 900 tons in 1914, COM
pared with previous predictions of the Admins
traitor of 500, 900, 900 tons. But it is now 'of-
ficaly estimated that the nations needs
have jumped to 626, 900, 900 tons.
Says Business Week: Goal men aren't sur
prised to hear the revision. They have noted
the Solid Fuels Administrator tends to make
the blacklist possible estimate at the start of
the year. then sWeeten it as time goes on. In
this way, he gets credit either for improving the
situation Or for being good prophet
But in the meantime, the coal industry pro-
duces coal and supplies the public.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-24
Rail Safety

In view of erroneous and misleading state
ments appearing in recent magazine articles
and on the radio about railroad safety, it is
well to record facts brought to light by the
American Museum of Safety in presenting the
E. H. Hartman Memorial Award, and Certl-
ficate of Special Commentator to American
railroads for 1943, in recognition of their out
standing contribution to the war effort.
They met their obligations to the public and
established notable safety record in the face
of unprecedented conditions.
It is most fortunate that this award
should come just now to focus attention on
the fact that the railroads are doing twice as
big a job as they did in the first world war,
with only quarter the accident fatality rate
to passengers and employees.
In accepting the Special Award from the
American Museum of Safety, J. J. Pelley,
President of the Association of American Rail-
roads, pointed out that on the railroads to
which this award was made, there travelled
every day in 1913 nearly two and half million
passengers for an average journey of 100 miles
each. More than four million tons Of freight
were hauled an average of nearly 500 miles.
This required over $4,000 trains day. In
conjunction with such an achievement, they
cut their accident fatality rate, to both pas
sengers and employees, virtually three-fourths
below the war year 1918.
Commenting the way railroads have met
the problems of World War II, Brigadier Gen.
eral Carl R. Gray, Jr., now serving in the
Mediterranean war zone says: 1T is our be-
lief that only in America could freight trains
run Sc per cent faster and carry 40 per cent
more tons than they lid in 1920. Only in
America could SIS per cent more freight be
handled than in World War I, with a half
million fewer freight cars and with % 900
fewer locomotives. Only in America could
rail transportation system absorb the ire
mendous amount of additional passenger bust
ness occasioned by gasoline and rubber short
ages, and then satisfactorily handle, in add-
ton two million soldiers and sailors month
1--WE railroad men in North Africa and Italy
recognize and are proud of the achievement
of our fellow rail workers back home, and
express our admiration of, and sincerest con-
gratulations to you all for the remarkable job
of rail transportation you are performing"
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-24
More Help Asked

When the recent heavy blow felled so many
trees in Wilmington it also did damage to
what was left of the walls of St. Luke's AM.E.
Zion church - so much damage that city
authorities declare they must come down.
The church which recently went before the
public of the city for voluntary gifts to its
rebuilding fund had expected to utilize the
walls still standing and based its financial ap-
peal on the amount needed in excess of the
salvagable walls Architects had placed value
of $40, 900 on the standing walls
Now that they must come down the church
is before the public with a second appeal for
aid. The plea is for $4,000 additional gifts
Wilmingtonians who know the history of St.
Luke's and the position it has occupied in the
community as a religious center for Negroes
may be relied upon to do what they can in
helping the church reach its new goal.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-24
By JOHN lSELBY

"a Century of Latin American
Thought" by W. Rex Crawford
Harvard; $3.50; THE Green Con-
tinent," edited by German Arcinie-
gas (Knopf; $3.50.
It seems to me that two recent
books do great deal to explain
the reasons we misunderstood Lat
in Americans. and vice versa.
These are W. Rex Crawford's "A
C fury of Latin American
Thought, and an anthology of Lat
in-American writing compiled by
German Arciniegas under the title
1.-THE Green Continent
There are many wonderful d
terrible points of difference, b u t
at least two come out of the books
as comparative strangers to t III e
man in the North American street.
The first is the false molds the peo-
pie of the two sections have been
crammed into-the citizen of the
United States has been misrepre-
scented to his neighbor as exclu-
sively man of action, whereas
the Latin-American, with equal
falsity, has been touted as man
roofing in an ancient, transplanted
culture, a man of thought a n d
rather exclusive thought at that.
Or an Indian.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-24
Rehabilitation

Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, national director of
Selective Service, has almost as big a job
ahead of him in demoblizing our armed forces
as he has had in conducting the draft. Some
thing of it's magnitude is to be gained from
the Generals statement that IF we let out
1000 an hour, it will still take ten months to
get rid of 100000 to 100000 men,"
General Hershey favors gradual demobiliza
ton because 1--WE know that when the satura-
ton point is reached, we will not gain very
much by putting men out where they can't
be reabsorbed. I'VE can keep people (by which
he obviously means women as well as mem
in the Army as cheaply as we could create an
agency for them when they are out, he ex-
plains.
He adds in an interview given in Denver
where he stopped on a tour embracin the
countrys chief Seectve Service branches for
conferences with officials, that Selective Ser.
vice is now taking from 10000 to 100, 900 men
month, q rate which will be continued after
Germany signs an armistice. Nevertheless ne
says, the Service will release between one and
two million men after Germany falls.
Presumably they will be men who have done
their share Of the fighting and are most eligi-
BILE for return to civilian life. Newspaper edi-
tors throughout the country will fervently hope
that large percentage of them are expert
enced reporter.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-24
SGT. NORMAN HUDSON
INJURED In FRANCE

The War Department has mott
fled the wife of Sgt. Norman E.
Hudson, Jr., formerly of Whining
ton, that he was seriously wound
ed in France on August 6.
Sergeant Hudson was called to
active duty September Is. 1940,and
was stationed at Fort Jackson. S.
c. with Co. I, 12Oth In + mt y,
Thi-tieth Division, until September
1, 1912, when he was transferred
by request to the Paratroop Train.
ing station at Fort Benning, Ga. On
October /, 1912, he was assigned to
the 5o2nd Parachute regiment and
was stationed at Fort Bragg until
April l, 1943, when he was trans.
ferred to the 10th Infantry by re.
quest, on account of injuries re.
ceived from parachute jumping.
The soldier has been overseas
since February, 1914, and in France
since June. He is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Norman E. Hudson, Sr.
of Sill South Front street. He was
married May 20, 1943 to Hazel Lee
Brown.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-24
interpreting
The War
BY KIRKE L. SIMPSON
Associated Press War 49,,

Total disaster is STALKING c.
heels in France at the verv r,o ',,.dn
that crushing new Russia '5 bi0
are caving in the Nazj east D fs
from the Baltic to the Plscl, -solH
On all sides in the topnljng S Sea'
fortress Europe events are S,o "aA
at swift pace. They lesvo ns
doubt that the end is drawing ro III
by leaps and bounds. '0''
Overnight Paris fell before IT,
resistless upsurge of Frenrb Nv
triots, even before Allied coI,,5~
leaping the Seine river shoyo '' aS
below the city could envel,p i ' IN.
seizure by its own citizens is bo;n w.
duplicated everywhere througbn,,s,
southern and southwestern FTanoo
to doom unknown thousands of Cor
man garrison troops.
Leaping up French Alpine val
leys from Mediterranean beach
heads American forces nave Storm,
ed into Grenoble less than 60 mil0.
from Lyon at the head Of tbs
Rhone valley. Their pace rivanad
that of the surging Third army eIe
ments that wheeled through ths
Avranches gap in Normandy 10 NV
errun Brittany and swing up ths
Loire, paving the way fer the lii.
GRAFTON of Paris.
At stroke that drive cut in
half the 4O0-mile gap between tbe
two Allied invasion armies Tho
exact whereabouts of most advanc.
ed Third army elements in the IN.
per Loire valley above Orleans is
still military secret; but contact
between these fast moving armor.
ed forces from the north and South
may come soon. 1t would seal off
all France south of the Seine and
west of the Rhone against ESCAPE
of German garrisons, perhaps open
the way at once for a JOINT drive
eastward through the Metz-Stras.
bourg gap to the upper Rhine in
Germany.
One Third army column already
is heading that way from the Am.
erican bridgehead west of Sens ov.
er the Yonne tributary of the up.
per Seine. Front line reports say
it is plunging eastward up the
Vanne valley on the road that leads
direct to Nancy in the Metz-Stras-
bourg gap via Troyes and Toul
There is no word from any Al.
lied source, however, to give the
foe glimpse of when, where and
how the stunning victories of the
last two weeks in France are to be
exploited.
With Paris in French hands all
roads leading into it and spanning
out like wheelspokes north and east
will be available to American for
ces to shorten their way and quick
en- their speed.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-24
The Literary Guidepost

The second difference is that in
most Latin-American countries, the
gulf between the so called "cul.
tured" classes and the rest of the
people is enormously greater than
In the United States. This gulf ex-
lists in the United States, but is
constantly bridged. Many of h e
stories collected by Arciniegas
show (mostly without intending it,
how rarely the gulf is bridged
south of the Rio Grande, and with
what great difficulty.
Mr.. Crawford's book is an ex-
animation rather than a distilla-
ton, so that conclusions are large
ly left to the reader. Mine was a
little odd. 1t seems to me that
very often Latin American think
ers have been betrayed by the Lat
In other words, by the fact that
many of them have been content
to accept rhetoric as substitute
for originality or even research. By
no means all, of course, but a size
able segment of the whole.
This tendency retreats as t h e
amount OF imagination increases,
Arciniegas' book indicates. The
more imaginative the writing, t h e
freer OF useless rhetoric it is. and
the more attractive it is.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-24
With Ernie Pyle

something about his being lucky
that the plane hadn't caught fire
when he crashed. And he said:
"I'n tell you about that. Do you
see that woods a little way north
of us?"
There were several small woods
but / said, eyes"
Well" be said, that first night
they set fire to that woods. I could
tell it by the glow in the cockpit.
And here the plane was soaked
with hundred octane gasoline.
thought the fire would spread right
across the field. But it didn't
Actually what he had thought
was the woods afire was the little
town of La Detinais, which had
been set afire by Smelling. I didn't
bother>to tell him, for he was alive,
and after all what could the tech
nlcalities matter?
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-24
Petain

Petain is reported prisoner of the Nazis.
In one way there is nothing new in this. Petain
has been a Nazi prisoner in effect it not in
actual fact from the day he became chief of
man masters compelled him to restore Pierre
Laval to the Vichy cabinet with greater power
and authority than he had enjoyed before
Petan kicked him out. But, whereas Petain's
former state may have been in the nature of
what the Germans have designated as pro
tective custody with the privilege of making
their announcements to France for them, we
must assume that the report is intended
to convey the information that he is now in
the hands of the gestapo without privilege of
any kind prisoner in truth. Thus the
Germans reward their faithful but unsuccessful
servants.
Just what they propose to do with this old
man who SO far as his age permitted collaborat-
ed with them in their vicious undertakings is
not quite clear. Certainly it can do them no
good to execute him. Maybe they have some
idea of saving him for trading purposes, as
bandits hold hostages. If this is the fact they
must consider that the probable agents with
whom they would have to negotiate deal for
Petain would be Frenchmen, and as a whole
Frenchmen are not likely to have a dainty
regard for anyone in view of the suffering they
have been subjected to by the Nazis. In view
of the fact that Petain was used by the Ger.
mans in much of their ruthlessness in France
it is believable that even his age and the
former respect in which he was held by his
country1nen would not weigh heavily in hin
favor in any negotiations between the French
and the Germans.
Petain is in a pitiable situation. One car
think of no kinder fate for him than that hi
should die from natural causes
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-24
French Liberate Paris

| General Patton might have sent his tanks
ago with guns talking in their loudest and
most destructive tones. Instead, the job of
liberating Paris was left to the French Forces
of the Interior and tens of thousands of volun-
teers, and so the American armies at the gates
and all Allied forces in France have gained
a tremendous tactical advantage. 1t is not
difficult to understand what this splendid vic
tory has done to French morale nor the better
understanding that will follow between the
people of France and the Allied forces which
laid the foundation for this triumphal re-entry
of their capital. The relationship between
man occupation and terro.ization. and the ma
tons which made their liberation of the capital
possible, should be materially better henceforth
than during the time when General Charles
de Gaulle was making so much trouble for the
Allies.
Furthermore, it appears probable that de-
Gaule may have had leading part in or
ganizing the forces that won the final victory
in the Paris streets and in arnQing and train
ing them for the battle, and so his stock may
rise in other Allied capitals.
One by-product of the French attack which
ought not to be overlooked is that by re-
ducing the battle to street fighting with small
arms the destruction of property has been
much less than would have resulted from
major tank attack, and so the recovery of
the city will be less costly and difficult
altogether, it is not easy to figure how
Paris could have been freed from the Nazi yoke
to better advantage to the French and Frances
Allies.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-24
CHARLTON CONCERN
GRANTED CHARTER

RALEIGH, Aug. 23-lREThree
certificates of incorporation were
filed today with the secretary of
state:
johnson Cotton company of
Clarkton, principal offices Dunn,
to engage in a general retail and
wholesale merchantile business;
authorized capital stock 100000
subscribed stock $4,000 by w. J..
Thompson, W. G.. Smith, j. o. War
rem and N. M. Johnson, Jr., all
of Dunn.
Henley Paper company of Char
lotte, to operate a business for
the purpose of selling and dis
tributing paper and any and all
products incident thereto; Autho-
rized capital stock 100000, sub
scribed stock $500 by A. B. Henley,
Nancy T. Henley and Owen Reese,
all of High Point.
Southeastern Bonding company
OF Raleigh, to engage in the bust
ness of general insurance agents:
authorized capital stock $1O0, 900,
subscribed stock $500 by S. L.
Lewis, T. B. Matthews, both of
Cambridge, Md, and Calvin C.
Bishop of Raleigh.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-24
Daily Prayer
FOR WISDOM IN VICTORY

We have borne defeats nlaLIui'
ly, sustained by Three, G LORD oui
leader and Helper. Now we prey
that, as the tide OF victory ma.
we may have grace to be grea'
and compassionate as well as JuS'.
May we not withhold punlsnGen.
from the guilty, nor pause sno.'
turned to the side OF our CaUSe'
of our goals of complete yLc'ol!,
but may we also be meIclloi sor
conquered foes. We thank Ihee t iJI
the organized impulses N he-pIS ~.
ness that have already marked u.
course of the United Nal0aS. 4a" ~.
us as strong in ministry a. .;4s
have been in war FLOOD ou' SPIT -,
we entreat Thee, with the Sp5- .v
of brotherliness, so thai there ma, nay
spread amongst all meh me St ~
will which Jesus brought into o.a as
world. Sanctify the sorrows u ~.
whose dear ones have paid IT,, ~
price OF victory, and enao ss,,o W.
by our own griefs, to have lei| .,,t
ship with all others Who nave
fered. Amen. WIFE
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-24
so THEY SAY

It's true that many women have jobs that
will end almost as soon as the war does, but
there are hundreds of thousands in factories,
like automobile and aircraft plants, who are
going to fight to keep their jobs.
Rep William M. Colmer Of Mississippi
Postwar Policy chairman.
A large percentage of women workers are
onlv waiting for their sweethearts or hus
bands to return from military service and
they will retire to their homes.
Rep Everett M. Dirksen of Illinois