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these facilities in the present EN-.
Urgency and in the postwar era.
80 To formulate a program for
reservoir of meritorious, worth
while and justifiable projects to
cushion the shock of unemploy.
raent when the war ends.
CD To take concerted action to
secure the inclusion In the budget
and the appropriation by Congress
Of adequate funds for maintenance
and construction of those projects
deemed essential to the safety and
welfare of the nation.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-07-13
Crack Southern Train
Derailed In Virginia

MAX MEADOWS, Va, July H.
P)-Four cars on the Tennessean'
Crack Southern railway streamlin-
err, were derailed here today, tear
ing up several hundred yards of
track. The cars did not overturn
and no injuries to passengers were
reported.
The train, at lifetime of the &C
cident, was travelling on the main
line of the Norfolk and Western
railway, which it uses between
Lynchburg and Bristol, Va.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-07-13
Whiteville Rotariuns
Install New Officers

WHITEVILLE, July I'D. L..
Love has been installed as presi-
dent of the Whiteville Rotary club
to succeed retiring president
LLOYD Collier. Other new officers
installed are F. B. Foster, vice
president; Felix Smith, secretary
treasurer; Knox Proctor, sergeant
alarms, and Lawrence Sellars,
editor.
The board of directors of the
club for the new Rotary years
are D. L. Love, F. B. Foster, Ru-
fus Marks, DR.. T. Formy Duval,
Felix Smith ard j. S. Mann.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-07-13

before entering the Army. He o,
listed August /, 1912, and va W.
commissioned a second lieutenan.
in May, 1943.
Lieut.. Kennick, having completes
the requi, ed number Of missions
is now attached to the Eighth A;'
force headquarters. Mrs. Kennict
is now living in San Francjscn
Calf.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-07-13
COLLECTS PENCILS

WHITEVILLE, July 12-H It's
pencils you want, Empy Hall is
the man. Manager of Whiteville's
FCX store, Hall five years ago be-
gan collecting pencils as a hobby
and now has more than 500 of
them, no two of them being alike.
In geographical range, they come
from every state in the union plus
Cuba. In style, they range from
the humble lead pencil known to
every school boy to the more or
less complicated mechanisms built
TO. looks and souvenirs. In length,
they are from two inches to two
feet.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-07-13
CIGARS FOR TROOPS

NEW YORK, July 12-R-Jorge
J. Posse, press relations chief Of
the Cuban Tobacco commission,
told group Of New York tobac-
conists today four fifths of Cuban
cigars imported into the United
States in 1914 would 60 to the
armed forces. He estimated i'm
ports from Cuba would amount to
between 70 and 80 million cigars
or more.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-07-13
WISH WE'D SEEN HIM

DURHAM, July 12-lR-A mys-
ferrous stranger walked into a
local barber shop this morning and
began handing out money to all
concerned. He gave everyone in
the shop 81 bill, handed the pro.
prietor a $40 bill and walked out
again without giving his name or
the reason for his act.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-07-13
Junior Order To Hear
Address By Judge Burney

The officers and members Of
George Washington Council, Jr
O. U. A. M. are expecting a larg.
attendance for their meeting to.
morrow night. Besides the installa.
ton of officers for the next term
Judge j. J. Burney is scheduled
for an address.
Evening star., 1944-01-26
NCHA SIum Program
Hit as 'SociaIisfic'
|By Citizen Leader

The slum reclamation activities
Of the National Capital Housing
Authority were termed "socialistic'
last night by Clifford H. Newell, who
urged members on the Arkansas
Avenue Citizens Association to pro-
test further fund allotments to the
agency.
Mr.. Newell, delegate to the Fed
Grafton, said it was socialistic to
construct low-cost housing for Gov
ernment employees and expect others
to pay for it.
Bear in mind, my friends, that
every 100 houses built by the Gov
ernment increases the taxes" he
said," and If we've got to-let's help
those people in areas where they
are now living and not move them
to other entirely uninhabited Sec
tions.
Mrs. John Bittner, president of
the Powell Junior High School PTA,
asked the unit for support in the
immediate installation of trafflc
lights at Fourteenth and Upshur
streets and Fourteenth and Arkan-
sas avenue NV. She reminded that
1926 children use these intersections
twice daily.
Criticism of the Federation's pro-
posal of fiat pay raise to- $4,000 for
public school teachers was voiced
by Mrs. Mary Resh, acting secretary
of the Arkansas group, who asked
cooperation for an amended pro-
posal to be drafted by a committee
OF teachers, board members and
citizens.
At the suggestion of Mrs. Mae
Telford, Ted Lewis, president, ap-
pointed a flve-member committee
to take steps toward postwar plans
for branch postofiice In the area
The association reiterated its sup
port of dispensary liquor system
for the District.
Evening star., 1944-01-26
John |. vertrees, So,
Hull CIossmute, Dies
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
WAURIKA, Okla, Jan. 26-John
L. Vertrees, 50, Oklahoma attorney
and friend and once q c1assmate
Of Secretary Of State Hull, died
yesterday after a weeks illness.
Mr.. Vertrees, born in Galatin,
Tenn, attended the University Of
Tennessee with Secretary Hull.
Recently he was named director
OF the Cordell Hull Memorial
Library to be established at Cum
berland, Tenn. Mr.. Vertrees is sur
vived by his widow and a sister,
Mrs. w. S. Smith of Nashville,
Tenn.
Evening star., 1944-01-26
Father, Son Killed in Two
Wars, 10 Share Grave Site
Ey the Associated Press.

Ey the Associated Press
GREENEVILLE, Tenn, Jan. &c.
A father who died from wounds in
the World War and his son, victim
OF an air crash in this war, will be
buried together in Andrew johnson
Memorial Cemetery here tomorrow.
The body of Senter Haney, who
died at LIE Mans, France, shortly
after the close of the World War,
will be brought from a nearby coun-
ty cemetery and buried beside his
son, Sergt. Charles B. Haney, who
was killed in an air accident at
Cherry Point, N. c., recently.
Almost killed in a crash shortly
before his fatal accident, Sergt.
Haney had written his mother re-
questing that he be buried beside his
father if anything should happen
to him.
Evening star., 1944-01-26
Girl, Is, Sponsors Ship

BAY CITY, Mich, Jan. 26 (P.-
Thirteen-year -old Carol Jean Fry
barger OF Toledo sponsored a de-
stroyer escort named for her hero
brother as it slid from the ways. OF
the Defoe Shipbuiding Co. here
yesterday.
Evening star., 1944-01-26
Pupils Sell 81, 5o3 in Bonds

Bladensburg Grammar School pu-
pills sold q total OF $2.593.50 worth Of
War Bonds and Stamps at a rally
last week, 1t was announced today.
During the rally new flag was
presented the school.
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trips to roadhouses or junkets to TAR Places
None Of this is nav. The rules have been PLAIN
ly stated many times. Taxidrivers are not
in ignorance OF them. But it is obvious that
some have been careless. Else the OWL
would have no reason to issue it's warning.
Because many people, particularly railway
and bus arrivals must use taxicabs, or walk,
it is to hoped that the reminder will be o.
Served by all drivers. And while they are
needing the OWT warning, it is also to be
hoped they will pay more attention to the
common sense requirement of careful driv-
ing. More courtesy in traffic, closer obser-
vance of safety regulations and consideration
for other drivers would improve their standing
in the community.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-03-18
We Obey The Rules

Anyone who has seen the interior Of refrig-
Grafton plants in war prisoner camps in this
country, and some have looked upon the food
supplies stored at the Wilmington camp, finds
it hard to reconcile the favor shown inmates
with the treatment Germany accords her pris-
oners of war.
We feed war prisoners well, give them nor
NAL work and pay them for their services.
This is in sharp contrast with the abuses prac-
ticed by the Nazis upon their internees, to say
nothing of poor and insufficient food allow
ances.
The testimony of repatriates just arrived at
Jersey City on the exchange ship Gripsholm
mades ones blood boil at the inhuman treat
ment they were subjected to while in German
confinement.
It might be asked, and probably is in some
quarters, why do we not treat German pris-
oners as the Germans treat thars; why give
them three good and substantial meals day,
including butter; why give them easy work;
why pay them-why, in short, cuddle them like
prime favorites?
The answer is that he United States chooses
to abide by the rules of the Geneva Conven:
ton, to function within the law, even if our
enemy disobeys the Convention rules as he
does all the rules Of decency and fairness
The Convention requires that prisoners Of
war for example be given food in every way
as good as members Of its own armed serv
vices, according to the prisoners rank. This
is whatsthe United States is doing.
1t is not that we are soft, as Hitler declared
We merely prefer to live up to our commit
ments. That our enemy violates his, provides
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Salute To Junior SOrOsis

A few months ago the Office Of Price Ad-
ministration sent spoilers into Wilmington who
brought grocers before a commissioner for
violating price regulations, and the commits
sioner forthwith refused to allow some to sell
meat and required others to close up entirely
for varying periods of time for offenses COM
1nitted in ignorance rather than by intent.
It was a reversion to the Leon Henderson
gestapo methods, which aroused deep public
resentment and did the OPA more harm than
good, which was unfortunate because the OPA
was trying to live down the bad name Hender-
son had given it and get itself back into the
good graces and confidence of the people.
Since that time the OPA has recognized that
the American people, as a whole willing to be
led in any worthwhile undertaking, resent pun
ishment for infractions of extra-curricula rules
and now seeks to gain through education what
It never could accomplish through chastise-
ment. Wilnaington's Junior Sorosis members
are the agency by which this educational ef-
fort is being conducted. 1t is fine project.
And it is getting results
These young women are going from grocery
to grocery comforting with proprietors on cell
ing prices, explaining the whole complicated
system, and helping to make adjustments
where needed. The survey is proving OF great
help and has the advantage of involving no
threat of punishment. There is no shopping.
1t is all open and above board.
How much better it would have been for
everybody, if the OPA had tried some such
method in the first place, instead Of setting
spies loose in the community.
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Limited Bus Service
To Summer Camps Is
Given ODT Approval

Despite the tightening of gas and
fire rationing, limited bus trans
portation to summer camps will
be possible again this year under
recent arrangement developed
between the Office of Defense
Transportation and the Recrea-
tion Division, Office of Co1nmunii-
ty War Service, according to a
statement issued Friday by Har-
nv Wellott, field recreation repre-
sentative of the Office of Com
munity War Service.
Camp directors of eastern North
Carolina who will need chartered
bus service to take boys and girls
under 10 years to camps in the
mountains, at the. seashore, or lin
the country may now request
certification for bus service from
Recreation Division of the Office
of Community War Service. The
former prohibition against the use
of chartered buses for excursions,
picnics, athletic events, religious
and other conferences remains in
force, even though they be called
camps.
Mr.. Wellott emphasized that
charter bus service should not be
requested where railroad, boat, or
regular scheduled bus service can
be utilized.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-03-18
Tragic Mistake

The loss of 40 American lives and the de-
struction of % CAT transport planes last July
in action over Sicily has been announced ir
statement from the War department, II
which the Navy concurs
The statement issued by the Army said thai
such needless loss Of lives was caused by the
arrival of the planes, carrying alrporne IN
fantrymen (paratroopers) ''in the battle area
Immediately following an enemy bombing at
tack and while their enemy flares were Still
in the air.
Such loss, while not as great as the loss
of lives as came with the sinking OF an Ameri
can troopship last year in European waters,
when 1000 Americans died, still can not be
taken lightly.
Eyewitness reports from Associated Press
Correspondents near the scene, say that the
men aboard ships in convoy near Sicily
had been informed that friendly planes were
approaching, then instead came enemy bomb
ers, so the men naturally opened fire. While
they were still firing, American planes came
over and caught some OF the fire.
Some who were there at the time say it was
Nazi trick Others blame it on air force Of
fcers for having their planes fly over ship!
that were unloading at anchor.
John A. Moroso, III, who was aboard one O.
the vessels which fired upon the American
transport planes reports in a delayed dispatch
that it was naval authorities who did thu
criticizing.
'"They said the planes should have beer
directed on a course that would have taker
them out of range of our guns. Surviving avi
ators said they were puzzled by the order tt
fly over the convoy. The Army and Navy
operated under joint command in the Stellar
campaign, while the Air Forces operated sep
arately and some men blamed lack of coor
dination for the affair."
Army and Navy authorities kept the Incl
dent dark, for eight months, and If ser
geantahadn't spoken up in California, the pub
lie might never have been told. Word OF it ha'
slipped out though and some antiaircraft OF
ficers, at Camp Davis when told about it
said they had known it all along, and were
wondering why the public hadn't been inform
ed,
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-03-18
Good Homes, Cheap

Because there are some hundreds OF pre-
fabricated houses in Wilmington which will mo-
be needed at their present sites after thu
war there has been some speculation as tt
the cost of moving them to farms in southeast
ern North Carolina to replace homes Whlcf
have few comforts.
For this reason an experiment recently con
Quoted in California is interesting. four
room prefabricated demountable type house
was moved from Richmond to Marin City, te
get information from actual experience on the
cost and feasibility of such operations.
General contractors in Richmond moved the
dernountable house, and the company prefab
ricating this type of housing furnished con
su1tant on handling the dismantling. Material
was carried in one truck over the Richmond
ferry to Marin City, distance OF Is miles,
reassenabled on new foundations and connect
ed with utilities.
Detailed costs were as follows: house demo
lition. 46 man hours, $6965; loading truck,
70 man hours, 1888; unloading truck, man
hours, 1912; erection, ITO man hours, $2e5s5;
material costs, overhead and profit, $2l0.47
Total cost was $569.97.
Figures reflect charges considered ICON
tant'. They exclude foundation and site costs
at the new location, but include labor and
material costs for repainting, reroofing, re-
placement of linoleum and renewing damaged
parts.
Possibly the cost might mount to $1,000. 1t is
not conceivable that any purchaser could dupll'
cate four-roorn home with all modern con-
veniences for anything like this prices
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Daily Prayer
FOR NATIONS IN COMM0T1ou

Thou art the King of kings n
everything and sovereign God.
and Thou takest account of n,
tons, as well as OF individuals "
these Gays of decision, when manv
peoples are torn by contendin,
purposes, n d selfishness and
greed and pride are again liftir,
their heads, We beseech Thee ~
stretch forth Thine almighty arm
to show Thyself the ruler of n,
tons. Deliver them from all mean
ambitions and inspire them to hoI,,
standards Of brotherhood. ,Te+
justice roll down as waters, and
righteousness as an ever-flowino
stream" Raise up leaders in
every land who shall know them
selves to be servants and prophets
of the eternal King of kings 81
may the coming of peace be has
tened by the doing of Thy will
Amen.-W.T.E.
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seizure and consolidation Of tbs
Foggia region for use of Allied
planes.
Nevertheless, that diversion val.
lie and the political potentials in
the Balkans are important and in.
creasing. The Allied Rome cam.
paign is definitely taking weight
off the Russian front at deci.
sive point in the great Russian Of.
fensive and on the critical sector
Forced withdrawal months ago
of German divisions east of Kew
to meet critical situation in Itav
and the Balkans after Italy's coi,
lapse under Allied pressure fatally
weakened the Nszi Dnieper defense
front. The Kiev bulge west of the
river resulted. Out of that has come
the grave plight of the whole Nazi
right flank in Russia, topplins
back into Rumania and in serious
danger Of being Russian trapped
against the Black Sea.
The German high command drew
on reserves in the Ukraine for
transfer to Italy and the Balkans
because they were closest If the
Nazi situation in the Bug-Dniester
sector is as grove as Moscow ad.
vices now paint it, only in the Bal.
kans and Italy can the Germans
find troops near enough to prop
their lettering southern flank in
the east, reversing the previous
movement.
That would inevitably lead to
loss of Rome and touch off new
anti-Nazi revolt fires throughout
the Balkans. And that obviously is
Just what Allied strategists are
hoping and working for in pressing
the drive on Rome. Allied bomb.
ing OF Vienna has the same signi.
ficance.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-03-18
Interpreting
The w ar
BY KIRKE L. SIMPSON
Associated Press War Analyst

The unprecedented bomb and
shell pasting of Casino to open
the Liri Valley road to Rome for
Allied troops fell definitely short
Of it's hoped fol- results. Dogged
German defense of the rubble heap
that once was an Italian city and
of the hills beyond which command
it still retards a Fifth Army ad-
vance, compelling tedious mopping
up operations by tank, grenade
and bayonet.
The concentrated bombardment
of so small a target was worth
while, however, if it shortened the
time it would otherwise have taken
to clear the Casino hurdle, or If il
reduced Allied casualties. That il
did both cannot be questioned in
the light of information now al
hand on observation-disclosures devel'
opments at Casino.
To have takep Casino by front
al attack, or to have worked
around the fortress city through
mountains bristling with cave
housed Nazi machineguns and NOR
tars, would have entailed losses
probably disproportionate to the
| Importance of the Italian campaign
at this stage so far as its place
in Russian Allied offensive plans
! can be discerned.
There can be no question thai
both Allied and German high com
mands regard Rome as key tt
the situation on the southern Bal
kan front. It is more of a politica
than strictly military objective
for both sides. however.
Secretary Stinnson, in his recon
review, did moi leave very many
observable additional and impor
tant military results to be gained
by pushing on to Rome except thu
diversionary effect the campaign
could have upon other battle thea
tiers in Europe.
The Italian mainland adventure
from its inception has been def
nitely limited operation. Only il
air power has il been given i1igf
rate priorities to insure two-way
air attack on German home-fron
or other industrial war nerve cen
tiers.
The Allies gambled on air SUI
periority and absolute sea contro
to offset probable German man
power preponderance, short-line in
terror communica tons and the ter.
rain favoring the Nazis in Italy
The Stimson summary outlines the
success achieved even without cap
ture of Rome in such fashion that
it leaves only the diversion values
and the political by-product hoped
for in the Balkan theater to explain
Allied activities in Italy since tn
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nv ERNIE PYLE

IN ITALY,-(by wireless)-One
If the most fabulous characters in
this war theater is Lieut.. Rudolf
Charles Won Ripper. He is so fab.
ulous you might be justified in
thinking him phony until you
got to know him.
I've known him since last sum-
mer in Algeria. Most of the other
correspondents know him. One
whole fighting infantry division
knows him. He's no phony.
Won Ripper is the kind they
write books about. He was born
in Austria. His father was gen
eral in the Imperial Austrian Hr'
my, his mother a baroness. They
had money. He could have had a
rich, formal, royal type of exist
ence.
Instead he ran away from home
at Is, worked in the sawmills, col
lected garbage. was coal miner
for a while, and then clown ir
small travelling circus.
At 10 he went into the French
Foreign Legion, served two years
and was wounded in action. After
that he went back to Europe anc
studied art. He is fundamentally
an artist.
He travelled continuously. He
lived in London and Paris. He
lived in Shanghai during 1928
Then he returned to Berlin, joined
liberal groups, and did occasional
cartoons. B cause he helped
friends hiding from the Nazis, hi
was arrested in 1888, accused o:
high treason, and sent to a con
centration camp.
Dollfuss of Austria got him ou
after seven months. Then he wen
to the Balearic Islands off thu
coast of Spain and hibernated fol
year, doing political, satirica
drawing.
All his life has been a fluctua
ton between these violent ex
tremes of salon intellectualism ane
the hard, steady reality of per
sonal participation in war. You
don't think of an artist as being
tough or worldly, yet Won Ripper
has been shot in battle more thar
20 times.
In 1886 he went to Spain as az
aerial gunner in the Loyalist ali
force. He got 16 slugs in his lee
during that adventure, and barrel,
came out alive.
Rack in Austria in 1898 he say