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The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-15
uo1JSE APPROVES
HUGE NAVAL BILL
,c.u.;r,ed from Page One)

Continued from rage onel
-, IN expectations, the war outlay
u :nce Julv l, 1910, will mount close
s,'lt tbe half-trillion mark.
The new funds carried in the
,arT hin are for use during the
. Na5I months starting next July
y neriod during which, top naval
. !. told the Appropriations
Gommittee, the war will be car
ried with telling effect to the door
steps of the enemy.
While the Navy's big part in
+be war lies ahead" Chairman
c s -Calif.l of the Naval
appropriations Subcommittee told
the House the outlook for the tu-
,rrp is for "a marked dechn
IN naval expenditures.
However, he warned that the
war is far from over ana CON
ceiyably we may be turned back
IN some assaults before achieving
The final victory which Admiral
Ernest ]. King said would be de-
,rrction of the japanese empire.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-15
WEATHER
eastern Standard Time)

by U. S Weather Bureau) .
Meteorological data for the "a hours
ending 1880 pm, yesterday.
Temperatures
1:30 am, so, 1880 am, 81, 1870 pm, 66
1880 pm 81.
Maximum 60 Minimum 48, Mean So,
Normal e..
Humidity
1870 am, 81, 1880 am, II. 1870 pm, 81,
1880 pm 50.
Precipitation
Total for the "a hours ending 1880 nm.
600 inches.
Total since the first of the month,
1.50 inches.
Tides For Today
From the Tide. Tables published by
U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey,
High Low
Wilmington ---------- gaia 1o:14r
3:06p 10:29p
Masonboro Inlet -------- 12:13a 6:5la
1882 6:54p
Sunrise, SAL am, Sunset, SAB p,m..
Moonrise, 1885 am. I1oonset 1886 am.
WASHINGTON, April IA -R-Wea.
ther bureau report of temperature and
rainfall for the "a hours ending 8 pm.
in the principal cotton growing areas
and elsewhere:
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-15
ACE IS FINISHED
AS AIR FIGHTER
Continued from Page One)

fighters who got on his own tail
The word that Gentle is a
charmed man. spread around the
field when he walked away from
the recent crash landing. A crash
crew found him sitting on the wing
of his torn plane "Shangri-La" in
a plowed field.
Unerring coordination saved his
life and probably the lives of 20
others gathered in front of the op-
erations hut when Gentile's plane,
coming in low from seven-hour
flight, suddenly lost power over the
field.
His ship had touched the turf
when he gunned it with a thunder
Gus roar that brought men tumb-
ling from qugouts and quarters, to
the group standing in front OF
where his prop cut deep burrows
in the ground it seemed his Mus
tang almost stood on its tail when
he pulled its nose up.
Gentle pulled it over the flag
pole atop the operations hut at
what seemed an 80-degree angle,
cleared the tree tops and put it
down again.
In the some so seconds from the
time he gunned the motor until he
hit the field, Gentle performed a
score of operations with the in
stinctive reaction Of fighter pi-
lots long training and experience.
He leveled the ship, tried his
'chute-he found one buckle loose
and in any case was too low to
use it-nursed the engine, gagged
the propeller revolutions, picked
his landing spot, cut the engine
to avert fire and then brought
"Shangri-La" down.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-15
MAINE FAVORING
GOVERNOR DEWEY
Continued from Page One)

(OUutl4luCu 11Oul dSO OASJ
Macarthur which was widely &C
copied as meaning the general
would take a Republican draft
nomination, disclosed he has asked
Macarthur to state formally his
availability.
Rep. A. L. Miller said he made
this suggestion to Macarthur IN a
letter mailed several days ago. A
reply could hardly reach Washing
ton before three weeks at the ear
Hest. '~nt
A Connecticut Republican con-
vention selected 16 unpledged DEL
egates to the national convention
at Chicago, but at the same time
unanimously proposed 52-year-olo
Gov. Baldwin for consideration
as nominee for president because
of his qualities Of craftsmanship
and leadership"
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-15
REALTY TRANSFERS

Local realty transfers listed Fri
day by Recorder of Deeds Adrian
B. Rhodes were: Leroy Evans to
Collie Parker, PIT. and 6-67, City.
J. E. Canady to H. c. Stolter, 1913
acres, PIT. Burns prop, Har. Twp.
Cornelius Thomas to Haywood De-
vane, $3.50 Crescent Hts. Estelle
M. Arnold to Samuel ]. Gray, PIT.
block 518, City. S. E. Wheatley to
R. T. Berman, 17-16, Princess
Place. H. H. Caison to G. D. Hum
phrey, Pt. 5 and 6-56, City. c. H.
Caison to j. S. Caison, PIT. 5 and
6-56, IA int. City.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-15
ANNOUNCEMENT POSTPONED

NEW YORK, April Il. = R =
George " Denny, Jr.. supervisor
of the awards committee for the
P b t Postwar Employment
Awards, said today that announce
ment of winners in a $4,000 ma
tional essay competition had been
postponed from April IL until some
time in May because $1,000 entries
-15,00 more than expeeted-bad
been received. 49,.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-15
CENERA AL GIRAUD
GIVEN THE GATE
Continued from Page One)

Continued from Page One)
lid Intervention in his behalf, Gl-
rand had told friends he would
leave the commandership If the
committee pushed him OUTPUT
insisted, for the sake of the rec
ord, on being ousted.
Giraud's headquarters made no
comment following the committee
meeting but promised to issue a
statement of the Commander S
final order of the day. tomorrow,
Such an order of the day is ex-
pectad who escaped from a Ger
man prison and then from France
10 take over leadership of French
forces on the Allied side in North
Africa in 1912. In the political
arena Giraud fought a steadily
dosing struggle against DE-
Gaulle.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-15
EXTRA GRANTS

WASHINGTON, April 14-(RH
The Social Security Board today
announced supplemental, grants to
Florida of $310,275 for old age as
sistance and $16,650 for aid to the
blind for the quarter ending in
TI1ne 80. -.,.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-15
MAYOR H. FRANK HENDRIX

LEESVILLE, S. c., April IA
R-Mayor H. Frank Hendrix, IS,
died at his home here late yes
terday after a short illness.
Survivors include the widow,
Mrs. Mamie Lee Mitchell Hen
dirk; five daughters, Mrs. Lucille
Sage. Mrs. Dallas Baker and Mrs.
Robert Davis of Leesville, Mrs.
L. L. Jones, Jr., of Canton, Ca,
annd Miss Frances Hendrix OF
Bennettsville, and one sister, Mrs.
]. L. Matthews of Orangeburg.
The funeral will be held at II
a. m. tomorrow.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-15
Maximum Egg Prices

Maximum egg prices announced Friday by the local
ration board are:
Grade A-Large SO cents, medium 46 cents small Al
cents.
Grade - Large 48 cents medium 43 cents small
80 cents.
Grade or Ungraded-Large "a cents, medium 40
cents, small IS cents
Cartons - 2 cents extra.
Evening star., 1944-06-25
Peace
Continued From Page C-1D

also because of Germany's financial
and industrial setup. The great Ger
man industrialists and bankers, say
the Bismarckians from Moscow.
have been reaping large personal
profits to the detriment of the
fatherland by a close collaboration
with their opposite numbers in Brit
ain. America and France. FIRE.
quently this has led to political
subservience of Germany to the in
dustrial and financial interests of
the big industrial and banking fra
ternities in the large capitalistic
nations. All this must cease now.
say Gen. Won Seydlitz and his
associates
The dawn of a new era is at hand
and Germany has learned her les
son. She must look to Russia for
her salvation.
The idea of repentent but uni
fed Germany is being received with
mixed feeling in Washington polit-
lcal quarters. To some 1t appears
as an ideal solution for the organ
ization of peaceful Europe. 1t has
the main advantage. these quarters
say, Of removing the fear expressed
by many in this country that we
would follow policy of revenge,
which would keep Europe and the
rest of the world in a continuous
turmoil after Hitler has been
defeated.
To others who say that the Ger
mans have war in their blood and
that their history since the days of
the Romans has been one of aggres-
sion, this solution Is distasteful.
Evening star., 1944-06-25
Public Library
| Book Pointers
BY Mona Hill,
Circulation Department, washington
Public Library.
Vacation in Washington.

NdCdtlOn III washington.
Have you ever seen your voice?
You can in the National Academy of
Science by speaking into a machine.
You will see how sound waves be-
come light waves, how they race and
change. Press a button-a picture
OF the crusty moon will appear for
you. In Your Washington" by
Mary E. Parton, you may learn
more about the magic of science and
the interesting exhibits in public
buildings
For relaxing, take a stroll in the
city. GRACE D. Eckers Portrait
of Old Georgetown" will tell you
about the houses and the people
who lived in them. You will love
the old streets paved with red
bricks, the trees that smell of warm
dampness; white houses with pas
tel-colored shutters, doorways light
ed on the side by the yellow CLEAN
of the lamp posts forming shadows,
and inside-Georgian mantel pieces
and rows of books. The stiffness of
Georgetown's atmosphere will rest
you.
But if you wish to 60 farther, walk
along the canal in the Upper Po-
tomac Valley and watch the lonely
fisherman who listens to the flowing
water. "Twenty-five Hikes in and
Near Washington" published by
the Capital Transit Co., and similar
books-which are available at the
Public Library-will give you Won
derful ideas.
Evening star., 1944-06-25

Allied commander in chief. The
committee has given public assur-
ance that it does not propose to per-
petuate its authority. On the con-
tray, it has given assurance that it
wishes at the earliest possible date
to have the French people exercise
their own sovreign will in accord
ance with French constitutional
processes.
THE committee is, of course, not
the government of France, and we
cannot recognize it as such.
I'm accordance with this under
standing of mutual purposes the
committee will have every oppor-
tunity to undertake civil admins
tration and our cooperation and
help in every practicable way in
making it successful =
1T has been symbol Of the
spirit of France and of French re-
sistance. We have fully co-operated
with it in all the military phases
OF the war effort, including the fur
n1shing Of arms and equipment to
the French armed forces. Our CEN
trail and abiding purpose is to aid
the French people, our oldest
friends, in providing a democratic,
competent and French administra-
ton of liberated French territory"
Policy Statement Stands.
This statement of policy, it was
said at the State Department, still
stands as the basis of Americas s
relations with the French Commit
tee of National Liberation.
AS interpreted in simple terms it
means that the cooperation of the
De GaulistS is wanted in setting up
local administrations in France, but
which during the period of military
operations must remain under the
ultimate control of Gen. Eisen-
hover
The United States is not prepared
to see Gen. de Gaulle installed in
position of national power until
the French people have had the
chance for national ballot. AS one
authority put it this Government
does not intend to put the French
leader in Office behind a bulwark of
American bayonets.
Just when the military situation
in France will reach stage where
national elections are considered
feasible is question which officials
say they cannot answer now. But
they emphasize this Government
determination that the French peo-
pie will go to the ballot box at the
earliest moment compatible with
military conditions and the assur-
ance of French order and security.
1t seems evident from Gen. de
Gaulle's actions and statements over
the last two weeks that he is not
satisfied with the Presidents policy
The situation Is viewed here as
potentially dangerous until some
agreement with the French Com
mittee of National Liberation can
be worked out.
Evening star., 1944-06-25
Brief Reviews
THE WAR.

Four Years, by Adrian van SIM
dern Coward McCann)-A MONTH
by month history of the war. USE
full.
Federation: The Coming Struc-
ture Of World Government, by 10
contributors, including the Vice
President of the United States and
Wendell Willkie university of Ok
lahoma)-An examination of the
world federation idea.
Pacific Partner. by George H.
Johnston tDuell, Sloan g. Pearce)-
An excellently written introduction
to Australia for Americans. The
author is distinguished Australian
correspondent.
Intervention at Archangel, by Leo
mid I. Strakhovsky princeton Uni
versity)-The story of the Allied in.
tervention, in Russia in 1918-l920.
Medicine and the War, edited by
William H. Taliaferro university Of
Chicago)-Eleven authorities, most
ly doctors, write of the Importance
played by medical science in the war.
90 SOCIAL PROBLEM.
Street Corner Society, by william
Foote Whyte university of Chica-
go)-The author moved into an
Italian slum and lived there two
years, getting material for this book.
A slum study.
PHILOSOPHY.
Christianity and Democracy, by
jacques Maritain (Scribner)-Coi-
lection of related papers devoted to
defining democracy and demonstrat-
ing that the democratic ideal Of
government is the current manifes-
tation of Christianity which must,
therefore. be fulfilled in relation to
religious principles.
PLAYS.
The Best One-Act Plays of 1943,
edited by Margaret Mayorga (Dodd,
Mead annual edition.
The Motherly and Auspicious, by
Maurice Coils Putnam) play
on the life of the Empress Dowager
of China, Tzu Hsi.
Evening star., 1944-06-25

enemy ships sunk by American sub
marines
In China, the Japs, fresh from
their victory at Changsha, are re-
ported driving rapidly southwark
toward Canton. Offsetting this in
the Burma India campaign con-
siderable progress has been made
by the Allies. The Imphal- -Kohima
road has been cleared of Japs, while
IN Northern Burma the monscons
have failed to halt the Chinese and
American forces which are now in
almost complete control of Myitky-
ina.
During the week an Allied task
force including carriers raided the
Andaman Islands westernmost jap
anese base in the Indian Ocean.
Great encouragement for the AL
lied cause was found in a Navy an
nouncement that nearly 100 aircraft
carriers are now in operation in the
Pacific.
Evening star., 1944-06-25
COP
Continued From Page C-1)

-
and appraise the Californian. 1t is
well within the possibilities that
Gov. Warren will strengthen an
already insistant demand that he
be the vice presidential nominee,
| if Dewey wins first place on the
ticket.
Minority Leader "Joe" Martin of
the House will be elected perma-
nent chairman of the convention
and take over the job of actually
running the big meeting, as soon as
the keynote speech is out of the
way. Mr.. Martin was permanent
chairman of the convention In 1910.
If the Republicans carry the House
in the coming election he is in line
for the speakership.
The Committee on ARRANGEMENTS
has invited former President Herb
ert Hoover and Mrs. Glare Booth
Luce, Representative from Con-
necticut and delegate to the Ma
tional Convention, to deliver ad-
dresses. In both 1896 and 1910 Mr..
Hoover accepted similar invita- tions
to, address the national conventions
of those years.
The invitation to Mrs. Luce, how
ever. Is something new. 1t lends
emphasis to the important part
which women are expected to play
in the elections this year. For the
first time in history the potential
women voters in this country ex-
ceed the potential men voters-in-
Guiding all men in the armed forces
and abroad-by nearly 100000. Mrs.
Luce, successful playwright and
politician, is famous for her use of
words, sometimes both biting and
epigramatic.
For the first time, too, women have
been accorded places-in equal num-
Der with men-on the Resolutions
Committee which is to draft a plat
form to be submitted to the conven-
ton for it's approval.
The platform-making this year is
regarded as one of the most i'm
portant jobs which the convention
must tackle, both on account of the
war, the postwar and the So-called
domestic problems. The platforms
adoption will precede the nomina-
ton OF presidential and vice presi-
dental candidates. The Resolutions
Committee has had the advice of
the Republican Postwar Advisory
Council, appointed last year by
Chairman Harrison E. Spangler of
the Republican National Committee
1t has also had the recommenda-
tions of Mr.. Willkie, a liberal and
a strong advocate of international
collaboration after the war. 1t
/ began its hearings in Chicago last
Wednesday and is expected to have
the platform ready to present to the
convention by next Tuesday.
1t may be expected that the liberal
and conservative forces in the COP
and\ the nationalistic and interna
tionaliStic forces, will clash over
some parts of the platform. How
ever strenuous efforts will be made
to bring them together. The plat
form will certainly not be isolationist
in tone. All the important party
leaders have declared themselves in
favor of collaboration with other ma
tions after the war, to maintain
peace, even if 1t means the use OF
force, On the other hand, it will
u, not support a super government
or an international police force.
The labor plank will be one of the
most important draWn-and this is
not expected 70 be reactionary. A
square deal for labor will be de-
manded by the Republicans.
Evening star., 1944-06-25
Best Sellers
FICTION.

Strange Fruit, by Lillian
Smith.
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, by
Betty Smith.
A Bell for Adano, by John
Hersey.
The Razor's Edge, by w.
Somerset Vaughan.
Bedford Village, by Hervey
Allen.
NONFICTION.
Yankee From Olympus, by
Catherine Drinker Bowen.
Here Is Your War, by Ernie
Pyle.
Ten Years in Japan, by Jo-
seph c. Grew.
A Treasury of American Folk
lore, edited by B. A. Botkin.
The Curtain Rises, by Quentin
Reynolds.
Evening star., 1944-06-25
Headquarters Budapest

By Robert Parker. (Farrdr &
Rinehart.)
Robert Parker was head of the
Associated Press Bureau for Eastern
Europe from 1889 until after Pearl
Harbor. His book is the typical
correspondents performance -gos-
sip, sketches of the local great, now
it-can- be- told, and so forth. 1t gets
a review, however, because of the
positiveness with which Mr.. Parker,
who does have background of first
hand experience, states his opinions
Evening star., 1944-06-25
They Were Sisters

By Dorothy Whipple. MAC.
milldn.)
This book is a sort of "Forsyte
Saga version of present-day mid
dle-class English family. The story
centers around the lives Of three
sisters, from girlhood through mid
die age, and shows how their char
acter traits ultimately affect their
marriages, successfully or ruinously.
One sister marries seemingly
pleasant businessman, but finds,
much to her sorrow, that he Is sell
ish, philandering husband, and a
domineering sadistic father to three
unfortunate children. She is too
weak to resist this dominance, and
in following the lines of least re-
sistance, loses the readers respect,
as well as her own.
The other sister the "glamor girl"
of the family, marries a wealthy,
kindly soul who becomes her life's
bore.
The oldest sister is the only nor
NAL one of the three, and finds
contentment and peace in marriage
that the others, in spite OF wealth
and position, have never found. She
is pillar of strength to whom they
turn, but whose advice they seldom
take Even her sisters children find
q refuge in her from the abnormal
circumstances of their own neurotic
households.
A tendency to exaggerate charac-
ter and situation is the crowning
fault of Miss Whipple's book. Her
characters are all either brutes and
coquettes or weakling "goody-
goodies"
Aside from this, her description Of
fthe third generation is charming.
She shows love and deep UNDER
standing of children.
RUTH C.. DEAN.
Evening star., 1944-06-25
"FREoUENTLY MEN ASKED:
What do you think Christ
would do in this suar?'"

II als0ays ~nstOered fbsm Iy Sskise
saotber question: What do ros tAis1
Christ s1oxid b~ps done II He bed come
spon the robbers beating xt tbs srspslsr
on tbe Jericho road before tie s,risSi af
TIE Good Samsritxn , Do yes tbsal
He noala bare stood idly b., ss<se&.
ing tbe beating ,"
Thus spoke the calm, courageous Navy,
Chaplain to the eager American boys oa'
the U. S. Bartleship South DskotS who
were helping clean up the Jericho road"
Here is his personal story of naval action
on rwo oceans-a faith-inspiring answer
to all who have wondered about The
spiritual life of our men in blue.
Evening star., 1944-06-25
Prelude to Silence
By Arnold Brecht. {,
UniUerSity.)

In this earnest and scholarly
study former German civil servant
undertakes to tell us why the Wei
mar Republic did not save itself
from the Nazis. 1t was not, walls
Dr. Brecht, as many unkind people
imagine, because the Germans
naturally incline to Fascism; it was
not because the Weimar Republic
wanted to hand power over to Hitler
not at all. 1t was simply because
it would have been unconstitutional
for the republic to resist. Hitler got
his power by constitutional means
and, though everybody knew he
meant to use it to end constitution
alism, the constitutionalists could
not move to thwart him unless they
were willing to disregard the con-
stitution So there you are.
DR. Brecht proves all this with
passionate thoroughness and evi-
IDENTIFY thinks it very important
One can sincerely hope that it
makes him feel better to do so.
Evening star., 1944-06-25
Forward Observer

By Ed,Uin V. Westrate. (Dut-
ton.J
From Fort Sill, Okla, where the
Field Artillery School of the United
States Army for years has been
molding the weSld's finest artillery
men, comes this true story based
on the most dangerous job in that
highly technical military arm.
Forward Observer Is down. to-
earth narrative of the men who
act as the eyes and ,Isrs of the
field artillery-the men Wfru go far
into No Mans Land. select enemy
targets, relay the information back
to the gunners and remain in their
exposed positions to direct the sub
sequent fire.
1t is the story of First 1t. James
Kennard, ex-Yale football star: his
three-man observer detail, his West
Pointer pal, Rick Hallon, and the
pretty WAC, Betty Ware, who be-
comes Mrs. Kennard Other artil-
lerymen may not have to sentence
their closest pals to death to stop
a Nazi tank drive. as did Kennard,
and not all will find brides in the
Army, but otherwise the story of
Kennard and his men will be and
is being duplicated by artillerymen
on many fronts.
This book is written in a prose
that will become common before
this war iS ovar II ic II, tho lon
guage of the new soldier and
crackles with Army terms that mil
lions Of young Americans are learn
ing every day. 1t is easy, exciting
reading, especially fer the soldier.
The author should know. In 1918
Edwin v, Westrate served on
forward observer duty himself in
France. Mustered out. he became
a reporter, editor and author. When
Evening star., 1944-06-25

as to what must be done in the
Balkans, come peace.
He is very flat-footed about that.
There must be sweeping away of
all the existing governments in ex-
lie, he says and an establishment
of some sort of method-he does not
say what-by which tine people can
freely say what sort of new govern
n1ents they want. Lacking that,
thereswill be rush toward commu-
nism, in his view, for communism
has been presented 80 the poverty
stricken Balkan peasants as a be-
neficent system and, while they
would prefer national independence
to Incorporation in Russia, they
would also prefer incorporation to
the return of their old hated mon
archs. The United States will have
to see to it, in Mr.. Parker's view.
If we leave it to Great Britain, we
shall just get another dish of the
old balance of power.