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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-01-29
MARIAN, MARTIN

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Negro Man Released
To FBI Agents Here

Felix Grafton, 3s-year-old Negro
man arrested on vagrancy
charge here Wednesday night. was
released by Recorder Winfield H.
Smith to the FBI Friday morning
for handling in connection with
Selective Service evasion.
An FBI representative said that
Grafton would be turned over to
his draft board for induction.
Until his release to the Federal
authorities. Grafton was retained
under $1,000 bond. The vagrancy
case against him was mol pressed
with leave.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-01-29
Chapter THIRTY-FOUR


If Richard Blythe were still il
the Smith apartment he was SOM
place other than in the living room
And he would have to look out TO
himself, decided Mallory. She wa
listening for the rather nois.
sound of the automatic elevator as
her signal to get out of the apart
ment. She was not listening fol
footsteps on the stairway. She
couldn't have heard them anyway;
they were slleaced by the thick
carpeting.
When she swung about to escape
she found ne self facing both Johr
and William Smith. Hello" she
said in a distral1ght tone.
''Miss Baker, acknowledged Will
liam CURLY. What surprise" He
was in advance of the older man.
Mallory had panic-stricken mo-
ment wondering why she ever had
considered tlfm the less harmful OF
the two. Please come in, the
man added.
mo think I'd better get back
upstairs. She made a quick sid
ling move.
Come in," repeated William
Smith. He walked past her into the
apartment, sending at the same
time a backward glance to his
brother.
John, without words, clamped his
fingers about her arm and pushed
her ahead of him. He gave her a
shove toward a chair. ''Sit down. :"
She perched on the arm of the
chair where she had sat few
minutes earlier, watching Richard
Blythe work at the desk. William
Smith was at the desk now, shut
fling through the stack of papers.
John paced about the room, look
ing thoroughly into corners and at
the map of the heavy rug. The car
tons, observed Mallory with salts
faction, were piled neatly on the
floor beside the desk, just as they
had been when Blythe began lift
ing them one at time.
"You know" Mallory quavered
into the ominous quiet, II think
someone has been in you apart
ment."
'Who?'' queried John with icy
humor. "You?"
"Oh, stop being so unfriendly,"
begged Mallory with a flash Of the
coquetry previously used toward
the two men. II don't understand
your being so rude. came down,
knocked at your door, discovered
it was open, stuck my head inside
and called. l expected you to be in
here, not outside sneaking up be-
hind me in the hall" She got up
and moved SO that the chair was
between her and her two domineer-
ing hosts. However, she leaned on
her arms on the chair back in a
lazy, perfectly at ease pose, as il
she intended to remain there for
quite some time. cts only nat
ural I'd think someone had been
here when I found the door open.
Unless you are in the habit OF leav'
ing it open yourself"
THAT would be a fool trick, "
stated John. He stopped beside the
heavy draperies, pulled open the
doors to the balcony. ''You are
right, Miss Baker, There has been
someone in here. We always leave
these d-aperies OPEN He moved
to the desk. 'How goes it,
William glanced up. The mean
ness on his face had given way to
his habitual stupidity, assumed,
Mallory now knew. ~"Our papers
do not seem to have been disturb
ed
= John said, You'd better check
the safe.'' The younger man nod
ded and left the room.
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July 3 Star Received
By Wilmington Library

The search by the Wilmington
Public Library for copy of the
July 3 issue of the Morning Star
brought to light two things-the
desired copy of the paper and the
fact that many housewives save
their periodicals for salvage.
Miss Emma Woodward, librari-
an, said that there were numbers
of answers to he, appeal for the
issue, sounded through these col
umns. Mrs. Depha Baldwin, OF
Whiteville furnished one copy that
went into the library files. In
variably came the disclosure that
the July paper was extracted from
the salvage pile.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-01-29

An average of nearly t hr e
pounds of gasoline is required to
deliver one pound of bombs to any
enemy objective.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-01-29
Over The Networks
SATURDAY, JANUARY 20

SATURDAY, JANUARY 70
Eastern War Time p. M.-Subtract One
Hour for CWT., 2 Hrs. for MWT.
Changes in programs as listed due to
corrections by networks made too
late to incorporate;
Q. -Rnu Shiald and CnropanY nhc
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-01-29

Every American soldier over
seas requires an average of more
than so gallons of petroleum
products per week, exclusive of
the oil used by Navy and supply
ships.
Laurel outlook., 1944-07-05
Boy Scouts Leave For
Annual Encampment
In Red Lodge Area

A number of Laurel Boy Scouts
left Sunday for summer camp at
Camp Beartooth near Red Lodge
to join the 100 Scouts from neigh
boring Yellowstone county COM
munities. The week-long camping
program will include scout advance
ment activities, first aid instruction
and training in fire prevention by
forest service personnel and field
work in many other branches of
Special events will be over
hikes, extended trips into the
mountains including the Hell-Roar-
ing area, and a board of review on
night. The second period
and program will begin July g..
C. Hayden, Yellowstone Val
ley council executive will be pres
ent at both camp periods.
Laurel outlook., 1944-07-05
Bernhardt Brothers
Meet BY Chance On
Street In Old Rome

An accidental meeting OF her two
brothers serving on the Italian bat
tlefield was reported this week by
Mrs. Oris Hatcher. The older
brother, Sgt. Adolph Bernhard,
wrote that he was walking along
the streets of Rome when he met
his brother Loveen, whom he had
not seen for months. Loveen is
also a sergeant and the two men
are in the tank division of the
army.
They spent the afternoon sight
seeing and wrote that they little
thought when they were studying
history in the Laurel schools that
they would actually see the places
pictured in their books.
The meeting was their third on
foreign soil. They had met twice
by accident while in Africa.
Laurel outlook., 1944-07-05

| pointment when l was a kid. If 1T
ever breaks it ~spatters like blood
into the outer reaches of your soul
and you run screaming. You have
to stop it and when you do you feel
good inside-damn good.
The time drew on. Dunn Slapped
me lightly on the shoulder. "S'e
vou." he said and walked pack to
his glider. Chaplain Marlin F. Ker-
stetter came by and we talked for a
minute. 1t was Sunday night. Gas
soon as you take off," he said, "Pm
going back to hold my service but
I'll be in the second wave"
All the rank-Slim Stratemeyer,
Baldwin, old Wingate. Cochran and
Alison-were in a huddle. 1t was
coming up on time. Our troops
were lined up to go aboard. Doc
Tullock, co-piloting with John Ali
son., looked over his medical equip
ment and suddenly Cochran called
a quick emergency briefing.
"We've got late afternoon recon-
n~aissance photos. 1t looks as II the
Japs have DISTRACTED Bond street as
if they were wise-so we're all go
ing to pile into Fifth m Al
right-get going and just remember
the dope on Fifth avenue-Forget
all the rest"
John Alison came over on the
run-John is a fighter pilot but he
had checked out on gliders a few
days before just to make this flight
for he is Cochran's second-in-com-
mand with the job of making an
airport in IL hours out of a jungle
clearing. He got in and Doc Tul-
loch crawled in beside him. Magof-
fin and l climbed in and the de-
tachment from the regiment under
Wilson filed in behind us.
Every one of us vas in full field
kit and armed to the teeth with
carbines, tommy guns, pistols,
knives and ~grenades. Uminski, with
admirable enthusiasm. had fitted a
tommy gun stock to an ~air.cooled
80 caliber machine gun for hip and
shoulder firing. A pirate crew,
Wingate's army and Cochran's air
commands in mottled camouflage
suits with broad brimmed rakish
paint dabbed Jungle hats-most of
them with agrowth of rank beard
which seemed to be one of the few
local conceits.
There was no excitement, no
babbling to quiet screaming
no bravado-for this was no
quickly cooked up raid. This was
army filling the great gliders
row on row behind us-a force in
heavy strength with hundreds of
miles of night flying ahead of US
over trackless Jungle and Jagged
mountains-night flying completely
over a formidable Jap force, to let
down far behind it and to operate
on an extensive scale in its rear. 1t
was history in the making.
The gliders are towed in pairs on
Iong ropes. Seese was flying the
eft glider in our tow. He carried
Brigadier Mike Calvert with most
Laurel outlook., 1944-07-05
The Password Was Manda|ay

cramped, smokeless hours with God
knew-what at the end of them.
All of that vast activity that had
been around us for days was gone
now and we were alone in the set
ting Assam sun. It flooded the
glider and tinted the inside of it's
fabric with rose gold. 1t picked
out the red in the stubby boards of
on rifle barrels and knife hits. 1t
was quite glorious for a few min
utes as we climbed for the noun
tains; then it faded into the quick
Jungle purple below, and all of our
faces were gone in the shadows of
the evening.
Ahead then-all we could see
was the blue blob of exhaust from
the tow ships starboard motor
the ship itself was shrouded in haze.
All we could feel was the breathing
of tightly packed men on either side
and the animal shudder of the glider
as it swung into the prop wash and
swung out again, weaving at many
miles per hour on it's long shaking
tow rope. All we could hear was
the laundering noise of our thrust
through the air-gliders are as
noisy as power planes.
Doc Tulloch touched me. -Four
thousand feet" And | looked at my
watch. We had been off for some
time with still a very long way to
go. The zoe was high over the
clouds nova great three-quarter
moon and presently it broke
through its own silver wash into
magnificent light above us and the
bearded faces came out of the
shadows into pale life again.
"Seventy-one hundred feet" Doc
grinned e~xultantly. "That clears
the mountains" Then in a moment
we hit turbulence and began to kick
around and bounce like hell. The
tow rope looped back toward us and
eased over our port wing. We
bumped up and swayed out to the
and the rope snaked off
straight ahead again toward the
flame of the two ships exhaust.
We were alone as far as we could
see, but we knew that the rest of
the wave was behind our spear-point
the succeeding waves would
take off on schedule as their time
came up-that the show was on and
it would go through.
We were at eighty-five hundred
feet now and in a few moments we
across the Burma frontier,
the mountains behind US. There
had been village lights dotting the
way as we crossed Assam, but once
in enemy-held Burma the ground
was completely BACKED out. The
flashed through my mind
hat if the Japs had even one night
pilot half as good as Cats
Eyes Cunningham we could all be
lone-in like sitting birds, for we
we're sneaking the invasion in with
out fighter cover and in unarmed
;hiDs-counting entirely on audacity
and surprise.
The moon was bright and high
)ver Burma with its almost for
Continued on Page Six !
Laurel outlook., 1944-07-05
Convention Nomination or Dewey
Confirmed Widespread Republican
Choice, Corwin Says After Return

On his return from Chicago
where he attended the national con-
vention of the Republican party as
a delegate from Montana, John W.
Corwin of Park City said that "In
nominating Governor Dewey of New
York as the party's presidential
candidate the convention simply
satisfied and confirmed what the
public had already done in their
own minds. This vas shown by
polls and all indications before the
convention"
The 1914 convention was unique
in that only two votes were taken
one to nominate Dewey for pres
ident and the second to name Gov
ernor John w. Bricker of Ohio as
the candidate for vice president. 1t
was a marked contrast to many of
the previous conventions in which
scores of attempts were often neces-
sary in as much as 10 days before
reaching a decision.
Despite IHe DIlelIleoS VI VIC SSo
sion there were all the tradition
ally accompanying trappings, color
and commotion of $4,000 people.
Although the convention was com-
posed of some LOO delegates from
the 48 states and the territories,
thousands more made up the huge
gallery. Bands played, delegations
marched and there were protracted
demonstrations. 1t was an unfor-
gettable scene.
Pathetically significant in the roll
,all of votes was the absence of the
delegation.
Corwin said he enjoyed the Mon
ANA delegation. He described them
as "high class men and women,
kindly and %congenial."
Laurel outlook., 1944-07-05

of one of the brigade staffs aboard.
Ground crews rugged the ropes as
our tow ship TAXED out like a great
waddling duck. We were being
hooked in when the Doc touched me
and pointed ahead. "First tow, air
borne."-That it was clear of the
tree tops in the late afternoon sun
with its two numbering gliders
weaving behind it. The second
tow was roaring down the strip,
raising an enormous dust cloud,
struggling and bowling for flying
speed; bouncing slightly, straining,
straining and then tearing free of
the earth and its wv cloud of vel
low dust and coming into clear
silhouette above the tree tops.
Our glider jerked and shuddered
as our tow ship took up the slack
on the ropes-then we began to
move down the strip into the dust.
On both sides of the field the long
line of troops were still filing in
endlessly to fill the other gliders
behind us. Suddenly as our tow
ship came to full throttle everything
blotted out in the dust-everything
but John Alison at the controls and
the faces of the men in the glider
little bit drawn at the mouth,
little bit frightened around the
eyes. We were racing to take off,
bouncing slightly, straining on the
end of the long tow rope, should
ering heavily for flying speed.
Ahead of US the great tow ship was
up a few feet to the left and slight
ly ahead. Seese's glider was air
borne. So were we, with Alison
bearing down heavily on his right
rudder, sweating over it and shout
ing directions to Doc Tullock to trip
ship. We came up over the trees
fighting for altitude and presently
we settled into the long slow grind
Of wide circling to get our height
for the mountains ahead.
The soldier beside me handed
his maps. "Will you circle
Fifth avenue with your pencil
we're the Bond street party"
Everyone unclipped his safety belt
and eased pack. The Doc and
went into a huddle over the map
and got Fifth avenue lined up for
everybody. Then we settled to the
ong flying hours ahead - long
Laurel outlook., 1944-07-05

Among social activities was 8
luncheon Sunday, June 20, given
for the Montana party by Dan
MILESTONE of Cutbank, national
committeeman, and Mrs. Gladys
Knowles of Missoula, national corr
mittee woman The luncheon was
followed by the delegations caucus
and organization.
On Wednesday, June 2S, there
was a dinner and theatre party
given the Montana delegation by
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Robinson of
Malta.
OF. course the closing event of
Importance was unofficial. That
the reception for Governor and
Mrs. Dewey and Governor and Mrs.
Bricker at the Stevens hotel, with
more than 1000 delegates attend
ing, following the acceptance
speeches earlier in the evening
Governor Dewey had come by plane
from New York to tell the delegates
that he would follow their wishes
by heading the party ticket at the
November election.
Corwin, as well as many others,
was impressed by Governor Bricker
of Ohio. He came to the convention
receptive to the the presidential
nomination for himself, and after
persuasion following Dewey's viz
tually unanimous nomination ne
consented to being nominated for
vice president. Corwin said the
Ohio governor, now serving a third
term in his state, is a magnetic
person, alert, fine looking and an
inspirer of confidence Corwin in
Dictated that had Dewey declined the
nomination, the convention would
have been completely satisfied with
Laurel outlook., 1944-07-05
Final Shove Needed
To Put Laurel Over
Hump In Fifth Loan
Within SO Per Cent OF Goal At Close Of Business
Wednesday, Committee Learns Special Eff
fort May Come At Last Minute If Needed

With only three days left in
which to complete its fifth war
loan quota, Laurel was within
slightly less than II per cent of
the goal at the close of business
Wednesday. Members of the cen
trail committee sat in conference
late in the afternoon and decided to
keep careful watch of the progress
in the short time remaining, and
exert a last minute effort if the
total indicated falling below the
mark set at $12S,S2O.
Figures compiled within the hour
were released at the Wednesday 3
o'clock conference. Sales to that
time were $115,O46.25, representing
money actually paid in since be
ginning of the fifth loan on June
y. The balance required was $751;
to make the necessary $685.
$50, with only Thursday, Friday
and Saturday remaining for com
pletion of the job. Saturday is the
official closing date of the drive.
The gain in the week was S22,590,
going from ~S92,456.25 on June Is
to $115,046.25 on July 5. In per-
centages the total was II per cent
a week ago, compared to 1913 this
week, n a gain of about Is per
cent for the week. A complication
was the fact that the Fourth took
two business days, Monday and
Tuesday, out of the week and that
undoubtedly the sale was temper
arily affected.
tee were interested to learn that
sales for that day totaled $6,240, a
pace that would take Laurel over
the hump in the remaining three
days if maintained. The question
was whether that days sales were
normal or represented an accumu-
lation of Sunday, Monday and Tues
day intentions. The committee de-
to keep a close watch in the
remaining hours of the campaign,
and make a last minute selling eff
fort if needed.
Rural Laurel stood within $5,-
533.75 of its goal, so far as known
here, at the close of business We'd
lesday. There was no knowledge
At the instant of money paid in
elsewhere to the rural districts
The total was $33,275 or
about IS per cent of the $38,908.75
Laurel outlook., 1944-07-05
LAUREL GROUP To
ATTEND INSTITUTE
Twenty-Six MethOdistS Going
To LuccOck Park For SEES
siOns Starting July 10

According to Rev. M. j. Wilcox
26 Methodist youths and adults
from Laurel plan to attend the Vel
lowstone Institute, which will open
July 10 and continue through July
Is at Luccock park, Is miles south
of Livingston.
Besides many Montana men and
women on the faculty this year,
DIR. Alfred p. Conan Of New York,
Mrs. ]. Edgar Rurdy of Salem,
Ore, and DIR. Carl +. Zietlow OF
Minneapolis, regional director of
the National Conference of Chris
tians and Jews, Inc. (including
Catholics and PrOtestants), will
teach classes.
Mos. of the Laurel group viii
here Monday, July 10, and
will return the following Sunday
Laurel outlook., 1944-07-05
NO INCREASE Of
RAT|ONED GAS FOR
CARS, SAYS 0PA
Allied Planes Used Over Two
Million Gallons First Few
Hours OF ID Day

State OPA Director A. T. Peter
son has received word that the
quotas allotted to OPA by Petro-
leum Administrator Harold Ickes
are so short that there is no rea-
sonable possibility of increasing
gasoline rations during the third
quarter. The OPA has been de-
sirous of increasing the value of
"a" and "B" rations and PAWS
third quarter quotas apparently
eliminate any such possibility.
Thus, the gasoline shortage is
still very acute-even though Mon
tana is II of the principal gaso-
line producing states. One drain on
this and other gasoline production
was the 1000 allied planes that
Numbered across the English Chan
mel on I'D" Day. These planes
used 100000 gallons of high
octane gasoline during the first few
hours of this greatest undertaking
in history. II takes 80 gallons or
more of high octane gasoline to
merely warm up the engines of a
1929. They generally use about
500 gallons an hour while in the
air. That is one of the reasons why
civilians are asked to conserve gas
oline.
Laurel outlook., 1944-07-05
WASHING MACHINES
FIGURE IN ACCIDENTS

Mrs. Frank Platz is recovering
at her home from a severe scald
burn sustained over a week ago.
While filling the washing machine
the hose slipped from its place and
the hot water a over her leg, and
before the surface had healed in
lection set in. She is now able
to be up a part of the time.
Another washing machine acct
dent which occurred during the
week was when Janet Mathern, five
year-old daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Anton Mathern, had her hand
caught in the wringer while her
mother was washing and her arm
was badly bruised up to the elbow.
An X-ray revealed that no bones
were broken.
Laurel outlook., 1944-07-05
1T. COL. JAMES w. BELLAH,
Infantry.

This is how Phil Cochran and his
gang flew the vanguard of General
Wingate's forces over the mountains
in bright moonlight and put it
down deep in the heart of Jap-held
Burma. This is how some men died
but hOrdes of men lived to strike
a vital master stroke to "a China
and to help Stilwell and Wingate
conquer Northern Burma.
Seven months of back-breaking,
mind-searing work ended abruptly
that last morning. Only hours were
left-slow hours-until take off.
Jerry Dunn kept talking about death
and 1 kept shutting him up. He'd
say, eff you talk about it, it won't
happen"
There were two open spaces on
the map-open spaces ringed with
Jungle and mountain. Let's call
them Fifth avenue and Bond street.
Nobody had even been on the
ground at either place-but there
we're photographs. The troop car
rying planes would start down into
those places shortly. Fifth avenue
and Bond street had to be taken and
held at all costs because the gliders
couldn't go back. The two ships
stripped bare to haul the heavy
loads had barely gas enough after
release to get themselves back
through the hostile night miles.
You would hit the ground and go
into action and behind you in wave
after wave would come the Ameri-
can combat engineers and more
British troops and bulldozers and
graders and jeeps. and mules to
build an airport between dawn and
dusk so that the next night huge
t~roop-carrying power, planes could
fly in and start landing the army.
In the vast glider part there
were voices from Brooklyn and
Carolina, London and North Coun-
try, Liverpool, Texas, and Nepal.
But nobody seemed to have any
nationality. Suddenly Phil Cochran
must have felt that complete loss of
all the no~n-essentials of life. He
closed the briefing with, "Tonight
you're going to find out you've got
a soul. Nothing you've ever done
or nothing you are ever going to do
counts now-only the next few
hours. Good luck"
Dunn and l lay down on the
ground in the shade of a glider
wing while l loaded his tommy gun
clips with tracers. We were first
wave. Dunn talked about his wife
in London. Every once in a while
as he talked the whole thing would
surge up inside me like a dental ap-