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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-08
Drury Corp. Buys
P. n. Russell Co.

The Drury Realty Corp, success
sors to Arms & Drury, Inc, this
week announced it has acquired the
business of the real estate Office OF
Percy H. Russell Co., Inc.
Business of the Russell Co. will be
conducted at the Drury offices, 1871
K street NV, it was announced.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-08
Engineer to Speak

The vital part played by the
American electrical industry under
wartime conditions will be described
by c. M. Ripley, General Electric Co
engineer, at the luncheon meeting
of the Washington Building Con-
gress at 1915 pm. Monday in the
Mayhower Hotel. His talk will be
illustrated by an exhibit of many
new electrical products.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-09
Opportunity For Service

The ITALIAN Association and the Gray Ladies'
are both great institutions. When they COM
bine forces in a single undertaking there is
no reason to doubt the outcome
/. An example Of their united power for good
was offered at Camp Davis last week when
the Thalians, under sponsorship of the Grav
Ladies, presented the play, accent on
Youth" in the Red Cross recreation hall of
the post hospital.
Anyone fortunate enough to witness the per-
Torrance and watch the spectators as well
as the actors could not fail to rejoice at the
pleasure Of the conualescent soldiers or rec
oenize the benefit they gained. 1t was more
than a diversion. 1t was, in actual fact, a
morale-builder
So obvious was the gratitude Of these hos
pitalized men, the Italians are planning to
give workshop as well as full-length plays
again and again in the post hospitals recre-
alton room.
It is in sponsoring such activities as this,
and the attendance at the bedside OF hospi
talized soldiers-reading to patients, writing
letters for them, playing games with them
doing the hundred and-one kindly things ir
which women are intuitively expert-that the
Gray Ladies prove their right to serve. Nc
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-09

branch of the Red Cross typifies the mercy
factor in the organizations creed more fully
than the Gray Ladies.
Their chief handicap in Wilmington is in
sufficient recruits. They need volunteers
Wilmington's women would have to search
diligently for a service opportunity offering
equal soul satisfying compensation as they
can find in the Gray Ladies.
Bow Scouts and Girl Scouts have learned
something about this by working long hours,
under the groups leadership, in its Christ
mas arrangements for ill soldiers. The city S
florists and merchants know about it by CIV
ing freely of their stocks in trade to be dis
tributed by the Gray Ladies.
You may learn about it, too, Mrs and Miss
Wilmington, by enlisting now.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-09
A Newspaper Service

Because American newspapers contributed
freely of their space the countrywide cam
paign for food conservation, Food Fights for
Freedom" required an expenditure of $31, $50,
instead of $817,2 which would have been
required at regular rates
In gratefully acknowledging the newspapers
service in this publicity drive, Harry T. Mad
den, newspaper consultant of the War Food
Administration gives this information: 16 It's
insertions appeared in 1913 daily and Sunday
papers in 1888 cities. Of the total linarge
obtained 1876, 1897 lines were in complete gov
eminent mats and 4,527, 1857 lines in adapta-
tons, variations and converting of regular
advertising space.
In listing the cost items of the campaign,
MIR. Madden's figures include no compensa-
ton to the newspapers. The money went for
composition, art work, engraving and electros
$14,471 printing and mailing So, 874 mats and
packaging 1925; checking dailies 81 300 and
salaries $1,000. For the total 1885, O4 lines
devoted to the campaign, the newspapers col
lected no single penny from the War Food
Administration.
We voice the sentiment of all newspaper
publishers, we are sure, in saying that every
one Of them is willing and anxious to 60 ia
war in any helpful project, as they did in
this one. But if they suffer further reductions
in neWsprint their effort will necessarily be
less effective
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-09
Helicopter Angel OF Mercy

1t is more or less customary for run-of-the-
mill folk to look askance at the prospect of
helicopters ever meeting practical need in
transportation, just az they did for so many
years before the automobile came into gen.
eral use. But they might as well open their
eyes to its possibilities.
The helicopter is no longer toy. 1t was
the means OF saving the lives of some of
the men injured and burned when that de-
stroyer blew up off Sandy Hook.
The morning of the tragedy airplanes in
the New York area were grounded because
of low visibility, fog arc snow flurres. It
was important to deliver blood plasma to
Sandy Hook if the death toll was to be held
at minimum. A boat would have required
an hour to make the tr,i,. car could not
have made the run in less thai. an hour and
halt. A helicopter had two cases Of plasma
there in fourteen minutes.
From Floyd Bennett field one Of these curl
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-09
BY JAMES ID. WHITE

WASHINGTON, Jan. 8.-P0-
The wartime prohibition bill up
for a hearing before the House
Judiciary committee next week
recalls that a similar bill was a
forerunner to national prohibition
through constitutional amendment
after the last war.
The present bill, H. R. 2O82,
was introduced into the house last
March 4 by Rep. Joseph R. Bry-
son (D-SC).
If enacted, it would prohibit
for the duration of the war, and
for rehabilitation period to be
determined by the President, the
sale, transportation, manufacture,
import and export of alcoholic
beverages containing more than
one-half of one per cent of alcohol
by volume.
Its stated purpose is to ''reduce
absenteeism in war industry and
speed production and to save rub
Der and shipping space for essen
tial industry, and for the purpose
of increasing efficiency in the
production of arms, munitions,
ships, planes, food, and clothing
for the Army and Navy"
Thus the emphasis of prohibition
proponents at present seems to be
on reducing hangovers and other
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-09
Prohibition Issue Bobs
Up Again In Congress

alcoholic influences on America s
war effort.
There was some emphasis or
this in 1918, but principal con-
Germ then appears to have been
over the grains which the manu-
facture of beer and liquors con-
sumed. The supply of grains was
shorter then.
In May, 1918, Rep. Charles H.
Randall, California prohibitionist,
offered "rider"-an amendment
Ito an agricultural appropriations
Dill, to prohibit manufacture of
alcoholic beverages in order to
save grain.
This was enacted on Nov. 81,
ten days after the armistice was
signed, and provided that after
June 80, 1919, it would be unlawful
to sell liquor from bond except
Tor export, and that after Nav
l, 1919, no grain, cereal or fruit
could be used to make beer. wines
or spirits for beverage purposes.
This continued in force until the
18th amendment became effective
After earlier attempts, congress
had passed on Dec. IS. 1917 a
resolution submitting to the states
national prohibition amendment
This was ratified by the neces-
sary SO states by Jan. 16, 1919.
and became operative as the 18th
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-09
IndOctrinatiOn

After dropping one active Communist prop
agandist Cornell University has engaged an
other to teach Russian history to Army men
being trained for special confidential work.
DR.. Joshua Kunitz, present instructor, is
not merely one who thinks that Communism
worked better than Czarism in Russia. He has
been an active laborer in the party vineyard
in this country, to the extent of having been
an editor of the official party monthly in the
United States, the New Masses.
Young Americans ought not to be forced
to study under such man in order to serve
their country in uniform in time of war.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-09

War reduced 1943 probings into
the hidden history Of ancient man,
but many unique finds were re-
ported, as shown by the Nation
al Geographic Society's review OF
the years explorations and geo.
graphic expeditions.
Excavations at La Venta. in Ia.
base, Mexico, uncovered hun.
dreds of pieces of jade. Objects
If Olmeca culture included 70
jadite axes, necklace of 81
pieces, five statuettes, engraved
earrings and styluses. Jewelry Of
amber and obsidian volcanic
glass;, and ring of quartz crys-
tai also were found by the joint
expedition of the National Geogra-
phic Society and Smithsonian In
stitution, headed by DR.. Matthew
w. Stirling.
/, An important discovery was
made by an expedition of the U.
rs. Forestry Service, surveying the
timber wealth of Central and South
America-a lost forest" of the
biggest oak trees in the world,
extending for miles along the in
terocean divide. within fifty miles
of San Jose, Costa Rica. Some
Of the trees are eight feet in dia-
meter.
The survey revealed a greater
variety of trees than anywhere in
tn United States, with as many
as 100 species to the acre. A hith-
erto unknown species of vantanea
will be useful in building the In
ter-American Highway. Timber
surveyed may go far to meet Eu-
ropes postwar demand, estimat-
ed at Z to 10 billion board feet a
year.
Stone idols, grinding stones and
ceramic work were unearthed near
Rivas, Nicaragua. From South
America a University of California
expedition brought back 1900
dried plant specimens
Lie Dl dLl!ldl jungle is DGlIlS s
explored to discover rubber trees.
to map the area, to plan settle
ments, and to build airfields. The
150O-mile journey includes explo-
rations in Mato Crosse and in the
valleys of the Xingu and Tapajoz.
California's central San Joaquin
Valley yielded bones of the ex-
tinct American camel, bison and
horse, with four human skeletons
believed to be thousands of years
old. Excavations for a various
ing project at Millbrae, Califor-
mia, brought to light fossilized
bones Of mammoths measuring
from ten to thirteen feet. The huge
animals are SUPPOSED to have
parished when mired in a bog.
In cave on an old Indian camp
site. near Bear Mountain, New
York, were dug up 200 pieces of
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-09
international Relations

An irnportant factor in the postwar life OF
the United States is it's relations with other
nations.
The old belief that country can live to
itself alone has been wiped out by this global
conflict. The radio and airplane have so short
ened distance that there are no more far
horizons, no isolated regions.
This country despite the mileage that sep
arates it from countries across the Atlantic
and the Pacific, may never again expect to
maintain itself in security without affiaton
with them.
Obviously then, it is essential that we as
people and a government learn all that
we can Of the peoples and governments OF
other lands for mutual advantage. Only
through close international relations, built up
over period Of years, can we hope for
actual, effectual peace.
With the hope Of improving Americas re.
lations with the countries with which it must
live in amity when the war has been ended
and the struggle for peace starts, there has
been set up a Southern Council OF 1nterna-
tional Relations, with headquarters at Chapel
Hill and with chapters in many of the South S
leading cities.
It's purpose is to spread information about
other regions, the customs Of the people, trade
opportunities and barriers, culture and eco
Monies and particularly the chances to cul-
tivate friendship.
The Council has corps Of speakers and
a host of films which are at the call Of local
nh, eyd ~ nfor7oo tive
literature available for free distribution. It
feels that this nation and specifically this Sec
ton can take its proper place in world az
fairs in the years to come only when the
people, through their clubs, schools, churches
and administrations, know what goes on
abroad.
The Council is not new institution. 1t has
been in operation for some eight years. Many
Of North Cardinals leading communities have
chapters. Only within week has one been
organized in Wilmington
There is still much preliminary work to be
done before it can start to function. But it
is time to consider that Wilmington will bene-
fit only in proportion to its participation in
the Councils activities and avails itself Of
the Councils facilities and resources.
Because Wilmington is a seaboard commu-
nifty and because, with the coming of peace,
the port will have an important place in sea
commerce, it is reasonable to expect every
organized group, whether governmental, So
cial, civic, religious or educational, to help
the movement for closer and better informed
international relations.
When the chapters program is drafted there
should be no question Of the peoples hearty
cooperation.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-09
World Still Digs tt Fill
Gaps In Hun1anity's Past

Iroquoian pottery, believed to be
cook pots. Also found were Al
gonquin slate knives, an axe head,
and a polished deer-bone awl. They
are possibly of 18th century work.
manship according to the Amer
lean Museum of Natural History
The tomb of Wang Chen, Chin
csc emperor of the tenth century,
was discovered in Chengtu, by
Chinese workmen digging an air
raid shelter. The tomb is eighty
feet long, twenty feet wide, and
twenty feet high. A statue of
Wang Chen was reported, but 9TH
er findings have not been disclos-
ed
A lost empire was reported I'M
earthed by Russian scientists in
central Asia, where it had been
buried under desert sands over
two thousand years. Remains OF
towns and settlements of about
500 B. c., and traces of irriga-
ton canals, indicate that this des-
ert region of Kara Kun and KY
zyI Kun was once agricultural
land.
Search for coal in the mountains
near Stalingrad. capital of the
Soviet Republic of Tadzhik, re-
vealed subterranean city in a
series of great corridors extend
ing miles into the mountain. The
corridors were decorated with ami
NAL pictures, and contained many
stone implements.
Russian construction of hydro
electric plant in the neighboring
Republic Uzbek brought to light
scores of tombs yielding Syrian
and Iranian ornaments, and Chin
csc copper coins of the third cen
fury.
New light has been thrown on
the Kassites, the Elamite tribe
that overran Babylonia about 178O
B. C. and founded a dynasty that
ruled for five centuries. On the
site of the capital of King Kuri-
galzu, five inscribed pivot stones
and several inscribed tablets bear
ing on a controversial period OF
Mesopotamian history were found.
They were found in the rooms OF
buried temple.
In Egypt, scientists of the Alex
andria Greco-Roman Museum dis
covered the site of one of the two
temples dedicated to Scraps, and
beneath the foundations of Pom
pegs Pillar, gold, silver, bronze,
glass, and clay plaques. A gold
plaque bears the hieroglyphic in
scription: king of South and
North: Ptolemy: built the house
as well as the temple of Scraps. :"
Another inscription in Greek rec
ords, From King Ptolemy: son
of Ptolemy and Arisnoe: the di-
vine brother and sister: to Scraps
the temple and sacred enclosures.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-09
Mrs. Groves To Open
Lectures Here Monday

Mrs. Gladys Hoagland Grove
outstanding sociologist of the oH i,
versity of North Carolina, Wn
open series of lectures Mohu" =,
at Isaac Bear school, which WIN
be concerned with full range ..
suggestions for improvement u
marriage and family relations
The sessions opening tomorfo"
afternoon at $3.50 o'clock will run
through January IA, and Will con-
mence again January "a and III"
through the 18th. The hours are
$3.50 p. m. to $50 p. m. For Ne
groes, the hours will be 7:5o 10
$50 p. m. A fee of fifty cents WIZ
be charged for the course. Creo.I
will be given on teachers certH-
Gates where desired.
All persons who work with. or
are interested in, problems on
family life and maladjustment OF
children, are invited to partlcl-
pate,
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-09

GUS devices which can dc everything but lily
backward, attribute Of the hurnming bird
alone descended in small space at the
Battery, took nits life-preservirg cargo, rose
straight up in the air, and fiuttered down at
the Coast Guard station at Sandy Hook.
Patience, ladies and gentlemen. In time
you probably will be able to park one of your
own in your back yard, as the funny papers
show.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-09
BOX
THE LOVE THAT KNOWEIH
NOT ITSELF"

10 the Editor.
During the last few days col,
Adam E. Potts, commandant d'
Camp Davis, realized the suffer-
ing and sickness that would cause
much sorrow in the city. His acV
of sending to the city several cars
Of coal came when much neeo'
ed. He can rest assured that same
was appreciated by needy 1oihS'
This fine spirit of friendship
looms high on the shores OF east
ern Carolina. May joy and peace
be realized in his friendship anu
may the great God be with MIN
always, is the wish of his nlanJ
friends in this area.
Subscriber.
Wilmington, N. c.
Jan. 8. 1914.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-09
Special Court Term
Will Open Tomorrow

Judge Jeff D. johnson, Jr., will
preside over the special term of
civil Superior court which opens
here Monday. when % divorce cas-
es, among others, are to be heard.
All uncontested divorce cases
appearing on the calendar are set
for Monday.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-09
Interpreting
The War
BY KIRK L. SIMPSON


Dramatic developments on tho
Russian front implicit with die.
aster possibilities for GERMANY
dominated the war news over ths
first week Of 1914: But CLOSELY
linked events in the Pacific !,
India and in China held hardly
less ominous portents for Japan
Coupled with synchronizing -
lied achievements in the Atlantio
and Mediterranean theaters. Rms.
sian successes furnished in illumi.
mating background for Russian-Al
lied year end predictions that 1914
would be the victory year for the
United Nations in Europe. No SIM.
lar time forecast by Alled-Cbi.
nese authorities dealt with Japan
although day by day it grew striE
ingly clearer that 1914 events in
the making would See a crisis
reached on the other side of the
world as we'll Preparations wera
well advanced to effect critical
breaches in Japan's China sea con-
quest zone from the east, sopth
and west within the months ahead
Definite Beginning
American storming of the Gil.
berts, and the northern Solomons
and advances on New Britain must
be appraised in connection with
the American Australian opera.
tons on New Guinea for a clue IN
the strategy involved. Together
they represent definite begin.
ming Of the grim business of rip.
ping open a thousand-mile wide
gap in the Nipponese protective
screen covering southern approach.
es to the Philippines and the
China sea.
The Biarchipelago has been firm.
ly gripped by seizure of bases on
New Britain and westward along
tn north coast of New Guinea
which dominate Dampier strait be.
tween the two big islands. That
narrow waterway is a northern
gate to the Bismark sea from the
South Pacific, side door to the
west-central Pacific. It gives ex.
banding American naval power ac-
cess from the southeast under
shelter of land-bases aircraft 10 the
direct approa ches to the southern
Philippines and to the Sulu Arch.
pelago entrance to the China sea.
Japan's central anchor for safe.
guarding those waters, Rabaul on
northeastern New Britain, is out.
thanked from the south as well as
from the east. Its reduction and
the clearing of New Ireland and
the admiralty islands that form
the northern boundary Of the Bis
mark Archipelago seem inmi-
nent. That is the indicated pur.
pose of the squeeze being
brought to bear from southeast
ern New Britain and from Bou-
granville in the northern SolomonS.
With it's elimination, the SOUTH
ern pillar of the japanese south
Pacific insular defense sceen will
have been uprooted. The front
door to Mindano and Sulu Arch.
pelago will open wide for the 300
miles from Rabaul to Truk. The
American Pacific Armada, now
firmly based in the Gilberts and
threatening momentarily the Mar
shalls, already is knocking at that
front door from the east.
The week also saw the first Of
fetal revelation as to develop
ment of the Himalayan hump
skyway from India to China. 1t is
reported now exceeding in tonnage
peak the deliveries over the Bur-
ma land route broken by japanese
conquest of Burma. There is dead
" menace to Japanese China sea
traffic and to Japan itself in that.
1t means ultimate mass bombing
from Chinese bases to match
carrier-based air attack from the
east.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-09
ALLIES SAVED BY WIND

IN world War I, after the IIIsV
gas attack of the Germans, when
caught the Allies wholly unpre-
pared, the wind joined the Allied
cause. 1t blew toward the German
lines for months and gave the Bri-
fish time to make gas masks.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-09
Fair Enough

Editors Note-The and the News accepts no
responsibility for the personal views OF Mr. PegIer
md often disagree with them much many Of
Ills rsaders His articles the good purpose Of
making people think
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-09
Our Chief Aim
TOP OF THE MORNING

To aid in every way the prosecution OF
the war to complete Victory.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-09

Christ is still weeping over our cities, ana
Christians that really love the LORD Will
weep over them also.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-09-26
William KaarIos
 Are Parents of
 Son in Honolulu

Announcements have been re- ceived in Juneau of the birth of a son, William Kaarlo, to MT and Mrs. Kaarlo Nasi at Honolulu, T. H. William Kaarlo is the second son born to Mir and Mrs. Nasi and weighed eight and two thirds pounds at the time of his birth.
 MT. Nasi was formerly director of the Division of Public Health Engineering with the Territorial Department of Health in Juneau and Mrs. Nasi was the former Cynthia Batson, teacher in the Ju- neau Public School kindergarten. MT. Nasi is now P. s. Sanitary En- gineer with the Public Health Ser vice, assigned to rodent control work in Honolulu The Nasi's pres ent address is 1848 Pablo Avenue, Honolulu 31, T. H.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-09-26
WHITE PASS E STILL IN NEED OF
 NEW WORKERS

Jack Carvel, manager of the local United States Employment Service, returned this morning from trip to Skagway in connection with hiring workers for the White Pass and Yukon Route.
 He said more workers were still needed and the employment Ser vice, 124 Marine Way, is acting as the hiring agent for the com pany. Needed now are 25 section men, four locomotive machinists and four coach carpenters. Carvel said he had transferred several men to jobs on the rail- road from construction projects after these men had expressed a desire to work on the railroad. The Employment Service repre- sentative said that transferring men from one essential job to another, if it better aided the war effort, was entirely within the policy of the USES.
 He said the White Pass and Yukon Route had notices for em- ployment of men at every employ ment office in the States Now is the time to get into work that will still be there after the war is over"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-09-26
ALASKA COASTAL
 CARRIES MANY
 FARES MONDAY

Alaska Coastal Airlines covered Southeast Alaska yesterday witt flights to Ketchikan, Wrangell Petersburg, Annex Creek, Haines Skagway and Sitka. Those flying to Haines were Norma Anderson Amy Knudsen, s. Sheldon, Jasper Tyler
 Juneau to Skagway-Max Try mucha.
 Haines to Juneau Russell D Lapham.
 Juneau to Ketchikan - Virginia Merrill.
 Juneau to Wrangell Sharon Bakke.
 Juneau to Petersburg = Torri. Matterstad.
 Ketchikan to Juneau-Carl D Huer, J. H. Fletcher, Harold An derSon.
 Petersburg to Ketchikan-Vernor Burns, E. J. McElroy.
 Wrangell to Ketchikan-Joe Her. nandez, Mrs. Hernandez.
 Petersburg to Juneau Torris Matterstad, Joe Romeros.
 Juneau to Sitka-Charles Gar land, Norman Demo, Frank Krusl Sonia Marten, Theodore Heyder.
 Sitka to Juneau-Richard Short ridge, George M. Morgan, Andy Bertels.
 Juneau to Port Althorp-Erline Helde.
 Juneau to Hoonah-Thomas An drew, Max Lindoff, William Sneak ley.
 Hoonah to Juneau-Minnie John- son, Frank Johnson, Caryl Martin Florence Johnson.
 Port Althorp to Juneau Irving Hildre.
 Juneau to Annex Creek-Mrs. c E. Walters.
 Annex Creek to Juneau-A. F Seraphim.