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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-22

Japan is fighting her last stand on New
Guinea-sprinebosrd TO the Philippines
on the stage graphically mapped above.
This area is shaded in red on g Iobal map
at upper right. showing its relationship TO
the Philippines and eeneralPac warfare.
White areas on New Guinea are those
just taken by General Macarthur
feat that put General Kenney's A. A. F.
500 miles closer TO PaIau and the Philip
pines. Maximum bomb loads now fly off
HolIanda and Aitope aerodromes to sat-
urate the closest Jap air-navaI instaIa-
tions at Wakde Island rs miles,, Biak
and Numfor, in the Schoutens 100000
miles, and Msnokwari (46o miles,. We
wax, last big base for the 10000 Japs
trapped between Aitape and the Alexis
hsfen zone, 26o miles southeast, is blocked
off from rescue by our bombers while
Allied troops advance overland upon The
isolated Japs from both sides.
Strong Jap air-nava lairs in the Aru,
Kei and Tanimbar groups, south Of New
Guinea. now face double fire from both
HolIandia and Australia. Japan's remain
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-19

quickly pushed them into a semblance of ma
turity, brought new importance to them, new
temptations. In many places youngsters have
been offered adult work at adult wages and
have left school to earn more than their faith
e1s were making before the war.
Such youngsters are going to balk at ex-
changing their new personal and financial in
dependence for the old humdrum and discipline
of school For in numerous communities their
work, which has been of real value, is still
going to be needed.
So a lot of school boards and city fathers are
going to have to learn, if they haven't already,
that the problem is going to require practical
ty rather than pious preachments. 1t may
be necessary to combine war work and school
work for the duration.
But in the meantime intelligent job will
have to be done in reselling the youngsters on
the value of schooling. They will have to be
taught how the problems of readjustment and
unemployment affect them. 1t may be hard to
convince them that the time will come when
jobs can't be picked like plurns, when wages
will be lower, and some job opportunities will
carry educational requirements But it must be
done.
Money talks. School teachers and other civic
leaders will just have to talk little louder.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-19
Cadet Nurse Corps

OF all the professions none offers as great
an opportunity in the postwar period as nurs-
ing.
The American nurse is the woman Of the
hour today. Following the war, she will be
just as important In addition to the greatest
number of hospital cases, both civilian and
military, in our history, thousands of the older
nurses now serving will retire Many came out
of retirement because Of the present emer-
gency and deserve to return to well-earned
rest
Any young woman, with her thoughts on the
future, who desires to adopt nursing as her
profession, is making a doubly- wise decision
First, there is the assured future of service
Next, she can, through the U. s. Cadet Nurse
corps, obtain her education free. Acceptance
into the corps is an unusual privilege The
young woman entering is not only strengthen
ing her country in time of this emergency but
is preparing herself for a place in woman s
highest calling when peace comes
After an accelerated course in the school of
her choice, she is eligible to become grad
uate registered nurse and work as one of the
following: Army or Navy nurse, civilian nurse
nurse in Veterans or Marine hospital, public
health nurse, Industrial health nurse, hospital
superintendent or director, nurse in health re.
lief and rehabilitation at home or abroad
instructor or director of school Of nursing
Superintendent or executive in hospital nursing
service, physioterapist, visiting nurse, airline
stewardess, nurse specializing In child health
and guidance, anethetist, private duty nurse
and doctors office assistant
The Corp offers complete nursing educa'
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-19
Nader Than Ever

President Roosevelt's statement that Japan
Is IN he occupied surrender or not, is going
to make that country madder than anything
that has happened since we started the ROAD
back from Pearl Harbor
When Japans proud overlords hear this they
are going to be fit to be tied, says MOTHS j..
Harris. chief of the former Associated Press
bureau at Shanghai and longtime resident OF
japan. The reason, he adds, is that they have
always thought Of themselves as masters
Heretofore they have bowed to no one. Japan
has not even been so much as invaded, much
less occupied by foe
Strange things await that deluded empire
and it's going to take some time for the Sons
of Heaven to become reconciled to them
From the dawn of history their folklore and
books have been filled with glowing accounts
of laundering successes against "barbarians"
who sought to invade the sacred isle.
1--WE are nvincble and the gods stand with
us when a foe dares cast hostile eyes at our
land of the Kissing Sum- is japanese battle
cry centuries old.
This White House pronouncement that our
F. I. Joes are going to work over Tokyo will
cause greater upheaval in the Japanese mind
than did the great earthquake of 1923, and
that was something
Defeat in battle is bad enough to japanese,
something that is not admitted regardless of
facts to the contrary. But to have Americans
patrolling Tokyo's Gina Gapan's Michigan
boulevard, Fifth avenue or Market street,,
well, the presidents statement will shake the
sacred shrines at Ise in west Japan where lie
the remains of all Japan's emperors since the
time of the Sun goddess and the beginning of
the empire.
To make matters worse for the Japanese
peace of mind, it is talked around more and
more that the Chinese are going to have a
hand in this occupation of Dai Nippon, Mr.. Har-
ris says.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-19
Scholars And Dollars

'How you goin to keep 'em down on the
farm" World War l ditty wanted to know
latter they've seen Paree?" Today the less
metrical but more serious question is: How
are you going to get them back to the little
red school house after they've had a taste of
work at war wages?
It's question that has American educators
worried. High school enrollments have been
dropping for three years. This spring they
were off million, or about IA per cent, from
the peak year of 1940-41. So, in an attempt
to check the downward curve of enrolment,
the United States Office of Education has
announced "Go-to-SchooI' campaign for this
fall
The Office Of Education. realizes, however,
that national drive can do little more than
call attention and point the way. The real work
must be done in every community, according
to local needs. These needs are varied and
complex. Probably they are worst in 'boom
towns where educational facilities have beer
unable to keep up with mushroom growth o.
population The problems are grave in any in
dustrial cities with labor shortages But they
exist in almost every community. For the
problems are emotional as well as material
The war has forced responsibility and op
portunity on older high school students. 1t hal
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-19

newspapermen one day. Murph saio
his grandfather was newspaper
man. He retired in old age and
lived in Murph's house.
my grandfather went nuts read
ing newspapers, Murph said. 1T
was a phobia with him. Every day
he'd buy $1.50 worth OF Scent news
papers and then read them all
night.
''He wouldn't read the ads. He
would just read the stories, looking
for something to criticize. He'd get
tuning mad.
Lots Of times when I was a kid
he'd get me out of bed at 2 or
in the morning and point to some
story in the paper and rave about
reporters who didn't have sense
enough to put a period at the end
of a sentence.
Murph and I agreed that it was
fortunate his grandfather passed
on before he got reading my stuff
or he would doubtless have run
amuck.
Murph never smoked cigarets I'M
til he landed in France on D-Day,
but now he smokes one after an
other. He is about the tenth soldier
who has told me that same thing.
A guy in war has to have some out
let for his nerves, and I guess
smoking is as good as anything.
All kinds of homogeneous things
happen during battle. For
instance, during one hull I got my
portrait painted in water color. The
artist sat cross legged on the grass
and it took about an hour.
The painter was Pfc. Leon Wall,
from Wyoming, Pa. He went to the
National Academy of Design in
New York for six years, did re-
search for the Metropolitan Mu-
scum and lectured on art at the
New York Worlds Fair.
Artist Wall is now, of all things,
"a cook and KIP in an infantry regi-
ment mess. He hasn't done any
war paintings at all since the in
vasion. asked him why not. He
said:
well, at first I was too scared,
and since then I've been too busy"
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-19
The Literary Guidepost

is nothing mysterious about naval
strategy, the principles of which
are to be had by IAN intelligent
reading of military history"
But somehow 1t. Brodie's book
caught on in the services. It is now
completely rewritten; this is its
eighth printing, and it's sale has
reached $4,000 - which is almost
fabulous for book of its sort in
two years. Nor is the interest it
has aroused due to the fact that
people read it as a naval history
OF the current war. AS edition after
edition was printed, 1t. Brodie did
include more and more illustra-
lions from the war, until now the
book is actually a sketchy naval
history of World War II.
And finally 1t. Brodie's book
written by a civilian reached the
orass hats and gold braid in Wash
lngton. They thought it was
wonderful, and said so. Thev al
lowed its use in Navy trainine
courses, and some of them took
issue with its title, successfully,
The word "layman'' was eliminate
ed at the suggestion of the late
Vice admiral William Ledyard
Rodgers = it would not be quite
cricket to have naval officers
studying their job in a book called
a "laymans guide"
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-19
BY JOHN SELBY

IA Guide to Naval Strategy"
by Bernard Brodie princeton;
$2.75).
1.-THE doctrine that only the air
plane can achieve victory" writes
Bernard Brodis, cor that the air.
plane can do everything the war;
ship can do and do it better is a
pure form of monomania.' This
was intended by Mr.. Brodie as an
answer to the Seversky clique, and
oddly enough, has been accepted
as just that in high naval quarters.
Mr.. Brodie is in the naval reserve
now, but when he wrote the first
edition of "a Layman's Guide to
Naval Strategy he was a civilian.
Yet he and his book became one
of the major influences which,
eventually, caused the services and
the public to see that all the arms
of all the services are interlocked,
and that the battleship is no more
obsolete than is the superfortress.
The story of 1t. Brodie's book
is amusing. 1t was first published
in 1912, when man who doubted
the all-sufficiency of the plane was
considered in some quarters to be
dodo out of the sailing ship days.
The book was intended for civilians,
and one of its tenets was that there
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-19
Resourceful

The American army is winning throughout
the best products of the Prussian military ma
chine In the Pacific, it is crushing the frantic
japanese, men taught it is an honor to die for
their emperor.
The warriors it is beating are professionals,
not with 10 months or two years training but
years devoted to study OF the art of killing
According to their military standards, we are
semi-pros.
Is there secret for our military power? We
don't believe there is but many overlook the
natural resourcefulness of the American in ex.
planning how we have built a great fighting
force, equipped it and set it on foreign shores
to iberate Europe and end Japan's grasping
ambitions in the Pacific. This resourcefulness
is evident every day as top generals and youth
full G.Is size up situation, adopt themselves
and their weapons to it and solve it. This trait
is a universal one pops up at home as well
as on the battlefield
Let's take the recent storm here as an ex-
ample. Acting on their own, the Army evacuat-
ed thousands from the nearby beaches. No one
stood around, waiting for a command. The
men, after calming the excited, started up their
| trucks and hauled the resort residents to safe
ty. Soldiers from Camp Davis and Fort Fisher
led in this good work. In addition, the Coast
Guard seized any opportunities offered to as
sist in evacuation and general safety precau-
tons. The Army's part in the follow-up job of
feeding and housing evacuees was also well
done.
Recently it was called to our attention that
the Wilmington Air base, while not in a posi-
ton to do as much as Davis and Fort Fisher
also made substantial contribution by max
ing the services of its weather station avail
able during the height of the storm. Communi
cations with the Wilmington weather bureau
had been disrupted late in the afternoon and
at other times its wires were too crowded to
handle all the traffic. BY stepping in, the air.
port Weathermen were able to keep in close
touch with the storm and this information was
made available to officials of the utilities.
emergency relief leaders and others. In addi-
tion the airport provided $50 Army blankets
to the Red Cross and offered dozens of it's
trucks for use.
The orderly performance of the men in uni
form, their eagerness to assist and their ability
to give real aid during the storm, showed the
same resourcefulnes that their comrade in
arms overseas are demonstrating today.
A grateful Wilmington appreciates their
work and the occasion further improved the
fine relationships that have existed between the
community and its nearby military posts since
their establishment
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-19
Daily Prayer
For. CONSTANCY

We are in a long, hard wal NV Nv
restrictions of which implnse ".
every life. We raise our p'"! ,.t
to Thee, o God, that we may ND ~"
grow weary in our 1ioel,y ' r
that the ardor of our 1lrS' O tJo
zeal and devotion may nol l~ It, "
We crave constancy Oh sp-4 n
that will sustain and inspire 10 u. q.
the end. May we share the uit.a ao
ging fortitude of our service =. "'I h.
Enable us, we beseech Thee ~ ~, w
partakers of Thy divine P@' ao +,
in pursuing Thy purposes NeqF nj,
loyal to the great obJecJl|eS u ond
war, and increase our unoei sao NJ
ing of the spiritual slaoil'edH,.5' rs
the present ordeal. Thus "o"-0 a.
be fitted. after victory, TO oe W.
zens of a world patterned OIL ~ u
dom of Heaven lines. A'lle''
TIE
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ton free to meet the requirements for gradu-
alton from an accredited school of nursing ap-
proved under the Bolton act This includes full
tuition Groom, board fees), indoor school uni
forms and their laundering, the handsome Of
fetal Cadet uniform in grey and red for option
al outdoor wear-both summer and winter out
fits, and a monthly spending allowance.
The Corps requires the young women to
in essential nursing, civilian or military, for
the duration of the war. The Corps assures the
applicant of her eligibility as a registered
nurse upon graduation. AS such she may count
on employment in an essential nursing service
of her preference.
To qualify for entrance, the applicant must
be graduate in good scholastic standing of
an accredited High school. She must be be-
tween the ages of II or 10 depending on state
and school regulations) and IS. She must have
good health and be able to meet the entrance
requirements OF the school she chooses.
Nursing is rewarding profession and to be
able to help the SICK the suffering and the in
jured in war and peace brings supreme salts
faction. To all young women thinking OF a
career, it should come high in their considera-
ton. The advantages Of education provided
through the Corps are unprecedented and no
women who has decided on nursing can afford
to pass them by.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-19

The War
By KIRKE L. sIN1peor
Associated Press W. Wv

Within five days Of Genera, ~
enhower's dramatic call 70 Els 1S
troops in France to seize ~ %. Ms
ing but definite opportinit,. meet
achieve a major victory oyer NJ. 70
foes, they have responded g q: Nazl
ly. e''''n('
They were able to tran on.
ment of a powerful Nazi ARM, seq
the Allied slaughter pen in NY y IN
mandy, enfold escaping eIer. "O''
in bigger and better trans LENS h
Paris within sight Of their forU ling
patrols and cast doubt upon en maso
ability to reach or hold the ss;ns
line. sent
Front line dispatches pair4
gruesome picture of besjeged "a
chaotic German forces in @ AN
shrunken pocket WRITING in do ae
agonies under the converging Fa
of Allied cannon. A slgnifjcan4 AZ
4
lied black-out covers news 90
the whereabouts of armornd d.
ments in the Paris vicinity Or eli.
ing in anew between the harri..
foe and the Seine; but German w
ports are revealing. Taev tell =.
triple Third Army spear.ba.S,
driving northeastward on the fIarI
of the Nazi retreat to the Seine
after they had already cut the ero
my off from Paris, forced him in,.
flight toward Rouen on the wi6o
lower river.
Eisenhower's massive power N
air and on the ground has vjrtualIv
decimated the main German army
ir France in five days. If b.,
definitely been torn to pieces h.
yond effective counteractions and
a major victory is already Won
although its full fruits cannot vet
be calculated. They well may in.
clude not only the immediate lii.
Grafton of Paris, but early collapss
of the Seine barrier to permit a
fast advance into the Channpl
coastal area beyond from which
German robot bombs are launched
on England.
There has been no information
from any source as to German
dispositions east of the Seine Re.
Inducements intended for the Nor.
mandy front may have been halt.
ed along the upper reaches Of the
stream below Paris. II not, III.
s]anting of the German retreat TO-
ward Rouen down stream would
mean that wide stretch Of the
river close to Paris is already
open to Allied crossing to ourflank
that front all the way to the sea
or even outflank other river lines
east of it.
Another angle on the reported
DETECTION of the German retreat
route to the northeast is the added
implication it gives on Nazi eyac,
uation of the city. There would be
no conceivable military ground for
holding it if the Seine line below
was not also strongly held 1t could
be too easily surrounded an cut
eff to warrant cooping up some
thousands of German troops there
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-19
LETTER BOX
DIR. LOWDERMILK'S BOOK

To The Editor:
I read "Ironic Paradoxes," your
leading editorial in the August 18th
edition of the Wilmington Morning
Star, with a great deal of interest
and satisfaction. Especially signi-
ficant and noteworthy is the forth
right manner in which you express
an intelligent and heart-warming
understanding of the millennial
tragedy of a hapless people.
1t may interest your readers to
know that DR.. Walter C. Lowder-
milk states categorically in his
Palestine. Land of Promise" (the
book to which you referreO that
Palestine can absorb 1000, 900 i'm
migrants in addition to the 1,800,
900 people living there now.
The author, Assistant Chief Of the
Soil Conservation service of the
United States Department of Agri.
culture, presents an authoritative
analysis of the economic and agri-
cultural potentialities of Palestine.
His book is the result of a survey
made on-the-spot, and was under
taken at the REQUEST of the Depart
ment of Agriculture in the interests
of land conservation in the United
States.
During the course of his study,
the soil expert motored extensively
through Palestine and flew over
much of it. This afforded him the
opportunity to study the topo-
graphy of the entire land from
the snow-capped Mt Hermon to the
rift in which lies the Dead Sea
1900 feet below sea level. DR.. Low
dermilk found that the Valley OF
the Jordan possesses a combina-
ton of natural features and a con-
centration of resources. In h S
book he proposes the creation of a
Jordan Valley Authority which
would be the largest reclamation
project in history.
Some of the foremost consulting
engineers of America, who have
seen the plans of the project, have
pronounced it as workable.
Rabbie Mordecai M. Thurman
Wilmington, N. C.
Aug. 10, 1914
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-19
rs Years Ago
Today
(FROM THE FILES
OF THE STAR-NEWs)
AUGUST 10. 1919

Announcement has been made o.
the engagement of Miss Ellzaoen
Westbrook, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Giles Westbrook, of Virgins
vile, Sound, to Mr.. Donald PaTS
ley, son of Mr.. and Mrs, "aNef
Parsley. The wedding is to take
place at Mount Lebanon chapel Oh
Wrightsville Sound.
Miss Sue Northrop and C. v
Green both of Wilmington, cap'uE,
ed first honors in an exhibition o.
modern dance on the floor al
Lumina last night. Both were
awarded beautiful jeWelry prizes
Next couples on the exhibition lIS'
were Miss Virginia Farmer dan''
ing with w. L. Morrison and AS
M. Holloway with W. H. Volles
"A family reunion was seld d.
the cottage of S. Solomon a.
Wrightsville Beach last night j"
honor of Lieut.. Harry SoloH'o.'
who has just returned from 0's''
seas duty.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-19
Former German Consul i,
Condemned To Death

STOCKHOLM, Aug 18-RTo Ssn.
Kiet, former German coIls.a , = con.
eral in New York, has peeH br
demned to death for dele' ss-...,,a1t
a Nazi court. a reliable lhloI'"
from Germany said today oo;t
Kiet, who retired from -'5 cate,
in 1888, lived in the United '" ~its
until the outbreak Of the Wal
Germany.