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The Wilmington morning star., 1944-03-24

mental shade trees. Lett IN their Wild STATE
thew become gnarled giants. Their bases are
frequently used by the settlers as shelters LOT
their animals. Almost all these trees, especial
" those Of the scrub lands, begin their lives
as parasites.
tiny seed dropped into sheltered arm
of another tree by bird may germlna1e ana
send down long rope.like roots to the grouna.
Wrapping its aerial roots firmly around the
trunk of the tree, this unlimited 'geust' grows
into tree by snuffIng out the life OF its host.
Rubber from trees Of the fig family IS not
an altogether new development One OF the
first sources of natural rubber was the India
rubber tree-Ficus elastica. Even the cult
waited fig, grown chiefly for its fruit, drips
lstex containing natural rubber, but the pre-
sence of resnous materials has made 1t COM
mercially improbable.
Perhaps. in view OF the worldwide rubber
emergency. ways will be found to utilize both
India's discarded rubber trees and Australia S
fig trees
The day of invention is not post. The trouble
has been that of late it has been chiefly di-
rected into war channels. With the return OF
peace it ought to be concentrated upon different
and better discoveries.
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the A. F. Of L. go up Capitol Hill
hand in hand buddies again.
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TOP OF THE NORM,

TOP OF THE MORNING
However full the world,
There is room for an earnest man,
1t had need. of me, or would not be,
am here to strengthen the plan.
WILCOX.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-03-24
With Ernie Pyle

kitchen, and out on deck several
half-tracks broke their moorings
and charged back and forth across
the deck with frightening sound
of steel scraping on steel. We land
lubbers aboard slept rather fitful-
ly.
The officer Of the deck sent a
sailor to awaken me just at dawn.
I got up sleepiiy and went back
to the deck above the bridge. An
zio and Nettuno were in sight off
to our right. We could see an &C.
casional golden flash of artillery
fire on shore.
The day was gray. Heavy clouds
covered the sky, and rain occa-
sionally drenched out the land
scape. That meant another day
Cur troops on the beachhead would
have to go without air support,
but it also meant the Germans
would be grounded too and our
ships could land without being
bombed. And for that we were
selfishly glad.
Our convoy eased along until we
Were just off Anzio harbor. Every
thing was as peaceful as could be.
I was walking along the deck just
looking at the shore, when sud-
denly a shell smacked the water
about hundred yards away. It
was so close We heard the whine
after the blast
At that the captain moved us
farther out. The shells continued
to come at abou. 10-minute inter.
walls, none quite so close as the
first. We all wore our steel he'll
NETS now.
Finally the signal came to en-.
ter the harbor. Captain Kahrs
stood on a little platform on the
open deck, steering the ship to it's
moorings. I stood just behind him
tc watch.
The morning was raw and chill
ly. Yet Captain Kahrs wore only
summer khaki trousers, a light
Army field Jacket and, of all
things, tennis shoes. He was shiv-
ering.
Shells continued to sing through
the air, some hitting ahead of us,
some behind. One hit the end of
the stone mole Just before we got
to it. Another one screamed right
over our heads and hit behind the
mole.
At each sound we'd all duck in
stinctively. Anc the Capt n
laughed and said, 1--WE sure get a
lot of knee-bending exercise on
these trips"
We were all pretty silent and
tense during these last few min
utes of entering the harbor. The
Captain had to maneuver the ship
into a tiny space just barely the
width of the ship. Yet he put it
in there as though he we're using
pointer, ana he put it in fast,
TOO, and no monkeying around.
AS you remember, the Captain
is a Newark lawyer in peacetime.
I couldn't help but admire this
new skill of a man whose profess
SION was SO alien to the sea.
Here he stood in tennis shoes,
far from home, worming his ship
into a half-w-e cked harbor with
shells passing few feet over his
head. And he did it with complete
absorption and confidence. Men
can do strange and great things
when they have to do them.
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they are In Thy strong ,anc NJ
keeping. Without this simple tr''o.
that our times-theirs and onr ~''
are in Thy hand we could no,
endure this loneliness and anxiatu
All we know about love we bsT.
learned from Thee; and we "
woke that love-that all-wise navn ,'
falling love-in behalf of our doo.
ones; who are dearer to Thee eyo-
than to us. May our affection ~
main unclouded during this bi4tan
tlme OF separation; and may our
hearts be united daily about Tbv
throne of grace. In Thy good tinos
may we be reunited our love
made stronger and purer bv tbis
testing. Amen.-W.T.E. ''S
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Nv ERNIE PYLE

WITH THE ALLIED BEACH
HEAD FORCES IN ITALY,-(by
wireless)-It was after dark when
we finally backed away from the
dock. We nosed out to sea for a
mile or so, then dropped anchor
for a couple of hours waiting on
other ships to finish loading and
join us.
There is an ever-present danger
of submarines. and once off the
beachhead the ships are frequent
targts for aerial bombing and
Smelling from the land. Quite a
few have been hit by all three
methods, yet the supplies keep 60
ing through, and are often piled
on the beachhead a day ahead Of
what was planned.
One night recently the Germans
hit one of our gasoline dumps ano
burned up some 5000 gallons oil
gasoline. One office: said, "At
nome, where gas if rationed, thai
would seem like an awful lot, but
up here it's just a drop in the
bucket and makes no difference al
ALL"
Our fleet OF supply ships is
manned by Americans, British anc
Greeks. AS we lay at the dock
before sailing, British LIST was
on one side of us and a Greek
on the other.
When we finally got under way
for good, l went up to the open
air deck just above the bridge tt
see how a convoy forms up al
night.
On these LISTS the bridge is
completely enclosed with heavy
armor plating, which has little
Sits of thick bulJet-proof glass tt
look through. Since visibility is
thus limited, the officer in charge
stays on the open-air deck above
and calls his instructions down tt
the bridge through a tube.
The moon was swathed in clouds
but it gave faint light. You coulc
see landmarks silhouetted agains
the horizon, but not much more
Have you ever looked through
night binoculars?" the captain
asked. TRY these
The view was astonishing. Those
binoculars seemed to take Is pei
cent of the darkness out OF the
night. With them you could see
several ships in line, where you
could see none before.
Far ahead OF us, directly Out
to sea, we could see occasiona.
flashes of gunflre. 1 asked wha;
that could be, but no one knew
1t seemed unlikely that na0a
battle could be going on out there
and yet there were the flashes.
That's one of the things I've
found out about the sea-" Capt
Joseph Kahrs said. You're al
ways seeing and hearing things
which are completely mysterious
and unexplainable. You go on youl
way, and never do find out the
answer"
The wind began to come up and
the night to grow chill. 1t was
straight sailing for the rest of the
night, so I wen: to bed.
The night passed with nothing
more exciting than the ship doing
some violent rolling. could hear
some sliding ana breaking in the
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TheLiterary
Guidepost
BY JOHN SELBY
THE Bowl Of Brass" by Paul


1. Wellman (Lippincott; S2.75).
After the great blizzard of 1886
the high plain of Kansas was bare
of cattle, open to farmers and to
TOWNSHIP men. The plain was not
farming land, certainly not in those
days when scientific cultivation
was very little advanced. But
farmers went to western Kansas
Just the same, and so did the high
binders.
Paul l. Wellman's The Bowl of
Brass" is a douhle-barreled novel
about the farmers, and about a
Jerry built town called Jericho
which was the idea of Kansas
City capitalist, and the domain
of one Henry Archelaus. Archelaus
was the boss-he sold land to the
victims, he laid out and mostly
built his town, and he ran his
neighborhood wi, greater subtle
ty than one might expect in a
bowl of brass" not much given
to subleties. But he could be ruth
less. as he was when the question
of seat for newly formed Blair
county came up.
Archelaus had built courthouse
and he intended to fill it.
Against this story of Archelaus
and his crew, Mr.. Wellman de-
yelops as a kind of free counter.
point the story of Simeon Trudge
and his very young wife, whose
lonely, comparatively prosperous
life was lived in the shadow of a
peculiarly narrow and bitter reli.
zion. Gary Trudge's existence was
possible first because she was a
| believer, and second because she
had a son. 1t might have continued
indefinitely in its ruF, but for the
fact that Simeon acquired a farm
hand. Til Rector was young and
strong, and barring certain
underlying bitterness because Ar.
chelaus had cheated him. he was
a warm and sympathetic fellow
who first felt sorry for Gary. and
later came to love her.
So there was dynamite in the
Trudge house. and dynamite in
Jericho over the county seat war.
With complete logic, Mr.. Wellman
connects the two explosions in
train, and allows them to come
one after the other, and to bring
in their wake one of those TRACE
dies out of Greek drama-inevi-
table, prepared long in advance
and right. THE Bowl of Brass is
far and away the best of Mr.. Well
mans four novels. It is not
period piece, but well organized
honest chunk out Of a life that can
never be lived again, in America.
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Picture Overdrawn

We read in the papers that new dis
covery is to leave dirt roads nludless when
it rains. As the day of wonders is not past
Gle that announces it. Imagine an automo
bile racing down a dirt road says the squit
in the paper. We can't do that, friends, not
in these times of gasoline rationing and the
growing roughness of dirt roads.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-03-24
Our Chief Aim

70 aid in every way tie prosecution d
ne war to complete Victory.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-03-24
Daily Prayer
FOR ABSENT ONES

Millions of prayers are rising to
Thee daily. our Heavenly Father,
in behalf of the loved ones from
whom we have been separated
by war. Our sure faith is that
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MRS. w. {. MARTIN.
WIFE OF METHODIST
MINISTER, is DEAD

ROXBORO, Nov. 26.-Mrs. Viii
liam Christian Martin, wife Of the
Rev. W. C. Martin, died at her
home here at p. m. today.
The Rev. Martin has been pas
ter of the Edgar Long Memorial
Methodist church for five years,
coming from Fayetteville. He was
pastor of the Fifth Avenue Meth
odist church in Wilmington from
1924 until 1923, and presiding eld-
er of the Wilmington district in
1908.
Funeral services will be held
Tuesday at 2 p. m. Burial will be
in the Moss plot in the Corinth
Baptist church cemetery in Gran
vile county.
Besides her husband, Mrs. Mar
tin is survived by three sons, 1t.
GG) William Southgate Martin,
Camp Bradford, Norfolk, Va; Cap
tani Ben F. Martin. of the Medi-
cal corps, Camp Butner, Dur
ham, and Captain w. C. Martin,
Jr., U. S. Army in France, five
grandchildren, six sisters and one
brother.
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MINISTER'S WIFE DIES

ROXBORO, Nov. 26-tR-Mrs.
William Christian Martin, wife of
the pastor Of Edgar Long Memo
rial Methodist church, died here
this afternoon at her home. Fun
eral arrangements are incompleta
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-11-27
Hull Reported Resigned
As Secretary OF State

mittee said that if Secretary Hull's
resignation has been submitted 81
think it is one of the great losses,
not merely to the United States,
but to all the peace-loving nations
of the world
Saying that if Hull steps out of
the cabinet, the action will be
universally regretted all over
the world" George said he thought
Byrnes would be able to do more
to hold the situation in shape than
anybody else" He referred George
said, to current preparations for
the international security organi-
cation conference.
There were indications that
President Roosevelt might act
quickly, but some observers ex-
pressed the opinion that nomina-
ton of successor might await the
organization of the new Congress
January 3. The Democrats will
have little firmer hold in the
new Senate.
Senator Vandenberg (R-Mich)
said that if it is true that Hull has
resigned, it is very bad news"
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NO LACK OF YULE
TREES, owl SAYS

WASHINGTON, Nov. 26.-R-
A whole fistful of Government ag-
encies say so Those citizens
VINO grab the first Christmas tree
they see this year and pay an out
1andish price are just foolish.
Owl scratched around in the
War Production Board, the Agri-
culture Department and the Office
of Defense Transportation and
came up today with a pleasant
forecast.
There will be an adequate sup
ply of trees. They'll hit the market
in good time and there's no need
to dash around madly outbidding
your neighbor.
It was a sad combination, Owl
says, that brought about that
ridiculous situation last Christ
mas. John Public got the tree
mee1nies. He made mis- purchase
hastily and offered all kinds of
prices. Come actual Christmas
time, tree sellers fidgeted around
with huge supplies, no one to buy
them and scarcely to give them
to. Thousands were burned.
By an "adequate' supply. owl
means the normal 100000 to
100000 used annually.
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l22 NAZI PLANES
D0WNED BY YANKS
Continued from Page One)


of ground guns, American pilots
engaged the Germans in tempera-
lures ranging from 40 to so de-
grees below zero. Today's attack
was the ninth of the Misburg REIN
cry, which lies IS miles east OF
Hanover and has yearly pro-
duction of 1900 tons.
It followed }up yesterdays raid
by 1000 American planes on the
Leuna works at Merseburg, one OF
Germany's largest synthetic oil
plants. Only a dozen enemy fight
ers were encountered on the Mer-
seburI mission.
The Saturday attacks cost IL
bombers and five fighters, a de-
layed connunique disclosed.
Other targets hammered today
:, ere a four-lane rail viaduct at
Bielfeld and railyards at Hamm 10
miles farther northeast. The via
duct, a link between the Ruhr and
central Germany, was attacked on
November 2, but reconnaissance
had shown traffic still moving
over it.
Nearly 4,3oo Allied planes ripped
at Nazi supply lines over the week
end. and the toll included at least
Sc locomotives, 248 oil cars, and
40 motor vehicles destroyed or Sc
verely damaged.
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ALLIES THROW .s
GERMANS BACK
Continued from Page One)

of the American First Army took
WeisWeiler, the first important
point on the Eschweiler-Duren leg
of the highway to Cologne, after
fighting in the streets for more
than "a hours.
They also cut the highway farth-
err east and advanced 500 yards
in the Hurtgen forest, almost
touching its eastern edge and
fighting foot by foot to within
four and a half miles of Duren.
Just north of the First Army,
the Ninth Army, which almost is
in sight of the Roer river at
bomb-blackened Julich, fought into
Koslar, two miles west of Julich,
and teamed with Ninth Air Force
fighterbombers to beat off Navy
counterattack which was support
ed by armor. This counterthr11st
by the Germans, launched from
Kirchberg and aimed at Bourheim
was broken when the Yankee fliers
destroyed II tanks and Damaged
eight others.
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BRITISH AIR HEAD
OPPOSES AMERICAN
WORLD AIR POLICY

CHICAGO, Nov. 26.-tP)- Lord
Swinton, Great Britain's air min.
lister, today pictured the United
States version of the Fifth Free.
dom" Of the air as a business in
vasion Of smaller countries and
emphasized his determination to
hold out against it at the Interna.
tional Civil Aviation Conference.
Swinton, leader of Britain's dele
cation to the conference, told
press conference he would insist on
the British application Of the pri-
vilege.
This issue has deadlocked the
26-day old meeting to formulate a
master plan for regulating world
air transport.
The 10 Latin American repu.
blics were reported to have made
a joint decision to support the
United States view. The Scandin-
avian nations also were UNDER
stood to have taken similar action.
The big problem will come up
for debate tomorrow morning.
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Continued from Page One)

&
of machinery for enforcement i
world peace and difficulties Gre
ated- by Argentine detection from
the united war front of the Ameri-
cas-.
So intent has the aging secre-
tary been on these matters that
one close friend expressed it this
way:
IF he could get to the office on
clutches to attend to them, he'd be
there"
Hull last was at work on his
birthday, October 2.
He left the offic first for a rest
at his home, then went to the Beth
esda hospital for what was an
nounced as check-up. He has
been in the hospital five weeks.
Told that the Associated Press
had learned authoritatively that
Hulls resignation had been sub
mitted to the President, Chairman
Connally (T-Tex of the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee,
said: ...-. --
sit is tragic that Secretary Hull
is retiring. He has made great
secretary. His outstanding ach-
ievements toward world peace re-
main a monument to his service.
The Nation and the world have
suffered a tremendous loss in his
resignation.
The Texas senator declined to
make a public choice for Hull S
successor, but there were strong
indications that if President Roos-
evelt asked Connally's advice in
filling the post, the Senate commit
tee chairman's preference would
be Byrnes.
Senator George O-Ga), mem
Der of the Foreign Relations Com
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-11-27
G. ''stian Scientists Hears
Necromancy Denounced

Subject of the sermon in all
Christian Science churches and So
cieties yesterday was Ancient and
Modern Necromancy, Alias Mes
merism and Hypnotism Denounc-
ed"
The text was from Ecclesiastes
ST. IN the null itude of dreams
and many words there are also
divers vanities, but fear thou God"
among the citations which COM
prised the Lessor Sermon were the
following from the Bible: Enter
not into the pa h Of the wicked, and
90 not in the way of evil men. The
way of the wicked is as darkness:
they know not at what they STUN
BE. Let thine eyes look right on,
and lie thine eyeids look straight
before thee" proverbs 4: IA, $3.50.
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GERMANS BAFFIED
AS YANKS ATTACK
WITHOUT RARRAGE
Continued from Page One)

the night shift that had been dig
ging trenches. The willy doughboys
who arrived shortly after noon had
to wake them to capture them. The
perfect coordination of the daring
attack was achieved through sew
eral weeks of careful planning and
briefing and study of the terrain.
The doughboys tore across the
fields and the German artillery
fell behind them. If they had walk
ed instead of taking off on the dou-
BILE they would have been hit. AS it
was, casualties from shells and
small arms fire were few.
One unit hit a minefield but kept
moving and took its objective. He
roes cropped up by the dozen. One
Yank whose foot was blown off by
a mine had the courage to wise
crack flor seven years I had q
corn on that foot-noW it won't
bother me anymore.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-11-27
RAIL STRIKE ENDS

CHICAGO, Nov. 26-RAThe
strike of train service enpoyes
of the Chicago and North Shore
Railroad and the Chicago, Au-
rora and Elgin railroads which
began November 10 ended at 5
p. m. today when officials of two
brotherhoods accepted the five
cent wage increase recommended
by a Presidential board.
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Allied patrols had clashed with
Japanese forces a mile east of
Nanbon.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-11-27
II S.-PALESTINE
POLICY SOUGHT

r,cH1NGTON, Nov. 26.-'CB -
lowing acuteness Of the Jew
lls aSrobIem in Europe is one rea-
isl r. 1.by his country should adopt
soa OLIVE we definite policy toward Pal
l.ta the American Council on
e e'.hiic Affairs said today.
Pg gna suggestion was advanced by
I'M nrivate organization in a study
ins a ~ for it by Dr.. Carl J.
9 p edrich, professor of government
= Harvard University.
l. came upon the heels of a re-
=. nv the War Refugee Board,
p0sooced of three cabinet officers,
eol,, Which eye witnesses detailed
u ,,o Of the horrors Jews, as well
soi', Cbristians, have undergone in
a. a., nrison camps, with death re-
s .,I4jng in most cases.
sV nDe Of the specific points upon
o DR.. Friedrich thought this
N anstrv should take definite
' '.ard is the removal Of present
ssos+rictions on the movement of
l.1 into and out Of Palestine.
p' The United States, he added, had
4silb. antial interest in Palestine
sor the following reasons:
~ oFirst the growing acuteness of
Ae Jewish problem in Europe; Sec
[ ondv the pressure which is bound
" he exerted on America to ad-
vii large numbers of refugees, un-
l, +hey can be settled elsewhere;
.b;rdIv The fac that conditions in
.bo Near East are bound to re-
main unsettled and a source of
frre International rlvali'ies and
tronbes unless there are clear-cut
decisions and a firm policy with
Tpspect 10 each of the near eastern
countries, backed by strong inter-
rational action
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-11-27

Extra care in washing acticles
like cups and glasses that touch
the mouth will cut the transfer
Of colds within the family.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-11-27
S. S. Turner, 81, Veteran
Linotype Operator, Dies

FAYETTEVILLE, Nov. 26.-iR-
Samuel S. Turner, 81, linotype op-
erator-machinist, and oldest en-
ploye of the Fayetteville Observer
in point of service, died Saturday
night.
He was employed by the Obser-
yer for more than 81 years. He
was a native of Charlotte, where
two brothers and one sister reside.
His widow, three sons all in the
service, and a brother in Jack
sonville, Fla, also survive.
Funeral services will be held
here Tuesday at 5 p. m.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-11-27

Liberals government is pattern.
80 after that of the United States.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-11-27
NANBON CAPTURED
BY BRITISH ARMY
IN NORTH BURMA

SOUTHEAST ASIA COMMAND
HEADQUARTERS, HANDY, Cey-
Ion, Nov. 26.-(R-British 18th Ar
my troops, operating east of the
Chindwin river in northwestern
Burma have entered Nanbon, II
miles from the river and southeast
Of Sittaung, an Allied conmunique
announced today. r.. .-
Sittaung is 178 miles northwest
OF Mandalay. Headquarters said
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-11-27
YANK HANGED IN AUSTRALIA

BRISBANE, Australia, Nov. 26.
-R-Avelino Fernandez, Ameri-
can paratrooper. was hanged at
Orc Bay, New Guinea, last Mon
d after his court martial convic-
ton of the strangle murder OF
Doris May Roberts, "a, here in
July.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-19
Holiday Motif
DecoratesT able

MRS. RALPH CHURCHILL
(Jean RlCkard) was guest Of
honor at a dinner at TasSie Tav-
ern Thursday evening, Nj :,
Churchill. was the guest Of %
of her fellow employees of the
Detroit Edison Co. She be-
came the bride of PharmiclSt
mate &C Ralph Churchill,
C.SN., al the Naval Air base
Chapel in Jacksonville, Fla, in
November. Mrs. Churchill is the
daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. stephen
Richard, South Broadway, and
Mr.. Churchil's parents are Mr.,
and Mrs. LaVerne Van Ness, Of
Detroit.
The dinner table was centered
with large white wedding cake,
banked by evergreen sprays and
tall candles. The places were
marked by tiny red candles set
in rings Of evergreen.
Games were played after the
dinner and prizes were award
ed 10 Dorothy Ballard, Charlotte
Baker, Lorraine Bentley, Viola
Heidi and Mary Dowding.