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The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-28
Waiting For The Score

At various times, the Bureau of Labor Sta
tistics, the C. I. O. and the OPA have made
exhaustive studies of the cost of living. All
have come up with different answers. Yet the
findings of ea,h have been presented with
such authority with such an absence OF ifs,
ands, or butts. that suspicion arose that tn ~
decided first what they wanted to find and
then made the findings conform.
To settle the cost-of-lving question once and
for all, the President appointed committee,
headed by Chairman William H. Davis OF the
War Labor Board, to make a definitive report
on the subject. Now Mr. Davis has appointed
an advisory committee to sift the conflicting
information brought in by the Presidents COM
mittee.
It is to be hoped that from this final report
may come a reasonable and agreeable an
sWer. The country will find it easier to join in
a hearty exhortation to Hold that line" if
everyone knows what the score is
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-28
Is Baseball Doomed?

| Fervid fans tremble for the future OF base.
bail. It is not that the armed forces have
made great inroads upon III professional
ranks that gives them the fantods so much
as that kids generally are deserving the sand
lots
Where, they ask, are recruits to come from
if the youngsters quit the game cold? And
echo answers-where?
The situation is indeed disturbing. A few
years ago, as spring broke, boys were ac-
customed to gather in force on any handy
vacant lot, however small, as soon as school
dismissed in the afternoon, and battle as vail
antly as any championship club in the ma
jors, whatever the consequence upon neighbor-
hood windows. And all day Saturday parents
had time of it getting their offspring home
for lunch and even for evening meals as the
days heightened.
Today, with spring in bloom, the heartening
sound of bat on ball is seldom heard, even
on full-fledged diamonds, to say nothing of
corner lots and school fairgrounds
If this goes on the grand old game faces
extinction. It is useless to count on college
Cd1IpuSeS 70 Keep Tile professional ranks re-
cruited For baseball is a game of love, of
instinct, with skill matter of natural inclina-
ton not to be created by training alone. Skill
may be bettered with instruction. It cannot
be acquired by any person lacking aptitude.
College men who move up into the big leagues
learned the games rudiments, not on cam
puses under paid coaches. They got their
start along with their first rompers, in the
back yard first and later the sand lots.
Fans hope the apparent disinterest is but
passing phase, that when the war is over
and sanity returns baseball will come again
into it's own. Maybe it is but wishful thinking,
but they cling to it as drowning man clings
to straw.
They cannot contemplate the possible loss
of their favorite pastime without shuddering.
Life would never be the same if they could
not yell themselves voiceless over the feats
or failures of their favorites or boo the UNI
pires and, for that matter, hurl cushions from
the stands, get cholic from peanuts and pop
in overdoses and replay every game, inning
by inning, at drug store or lodge, when supper
was eaten and the wife was Flooding her way
alone through the dish washing and putting
the children to bed.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-28
Daily Prayer
FOR FATHER CARE OF SONS

Day and night our thoughts turn
IN OUR sons in service, with loves
great yearning, desiring for them
safety and success. We VOL d
channel all petitions through Thy
throne. O God, our King and our
Father. Thou carest for them, and
Thou also hast the power to full
fill our prayers. May there surge
through our spirits a new conf
dence in Thy purposes. There is
none other beside Thee who car
fulfill our desires for our dear
ones. In drawing near to Thee we
draw near to them. Grant that
their spirits and ours may mel
at Thy mercy seat. May neither
they nor we do aught that woulc
bring the blush of shame to the
others cheek. Let all of oul
thoughts of one another be pride.
full, confident thoughts; and wheth
er our reunion is to be here in oul
homes, or in the Fathers house
of many mansions, may our love
be satisfied, o tender and patien
Eater, from whom we have learn
ed all that we know of love. Amen
W. IT. f.,
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-28
You're Telling Me

The North African jumping Jerboa is a ro
dent with large ears-item "Jerboa'' mus
be North African for 'jackrabbit.''
Unhappily for the Nazis our Thunderbolts
do not follow the custom of Natures of strik
ing the same place but once.
Certain snails, according to Photographs, cal
but once every five years. At that, we'll bel
some of 'em are late to the dinner table.
Some Japanese army units, We read, use
bees instead of carrier pigeons to transport
messages. Now, if we could only get them
to mutiny
Wild animals, according to an item, are
deathly afraid of chairs, opened umbrellas
and folded newspapers. This makes the av-
erage suburbanite, thinks the man at the next
desk, armed to the teeth
The book-devouring terrnite, it would appear
is the only creature extant which enjoys eat
ing other folks words.
Factographs struck a sour note in reveal
ing the fact that the ponderous lemon is as
big as a grapefruit.
France may have her chevaliers de this OF
that but Zadok Dumpkopf points out, many an
American home frontier these days is quail
fled tor the title of shoveler de snow.
March. we've noticed, can always be de-
pended upon to come IN ike lion but never
guarantees that lamblike exit.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-28
Another Draft Question

Something new has been added to the varied
policies and announcements of Selective Serv-
ice. Maj.-Gen Lewis B. Hershey now says
that after the 1926 and 27-3O age groups have
been combed over, Army and Navy needs will
be met by men over 80 not engaged in &C.
tivities materially contributing to winning the
war, or-and here's the new additior4-'those
who although engaged in such activities, dc
so in half-hearted manner
What system of fractions will be used tc
compute II degree of hearty effort? Who will
make the decisions? Will every over-30 strike,
and frequent absentee be autom atically draft
ed? Is military service patriotic and honor
able obligation, or threat held over wal
workers head?
The generals new warning needs some clari
ficatien.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-28
With Ernie Pyle

off there. Each cast has written
on it the type of wound beneath
it.
We stopped beside one man
whose right leg was in cast. The
writing on it revealed that he was
a British commando. The doctor
asked him if he were in pain, and
he smiled and said with some eff
fort, "Quite a bit, sir, but not toe
much"
When you ask a wounded man
how he got hit, the majority OF
them are eager to tell you in great
detail just how it happened. Bu1
those in the most pain are listless
and uninterested in what goes or
around them.
When the ship is overcroWdec
there aren't hunks enough fol
everybody. So those who aren't II
bad shape - merely sick or Witt
slight Wounds-sleep on mattresse'
on the floor of what used to b'
the salon. Everybody does have
mattress, which is just so muci
velvet to any soldier.
Down below in smaller word
the shock cases. Actually most 0
them were what doctors call lex
haustion"' cases and would be al
right after a few days rest. Thei
wards had heavy screen doors tina
could be locked, but not singl
door was closed, which showe
that the boys weren't in too ba
In In addition the ship has fou
padded cells for extreme shoe
cases. The steel door to each on
has little sliding panel peephole
Only one cell was occupied. Thi
was a boy who refused to kee
his clothes on. We peeked in an
he was lying on his mattress O
the floor, stark naked and ASLEEP
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-28
It's DeflatiOn Now

We have been carefully and intensively
schooled to believe that price control is nee
essary to prevent initiation. 1t has been the
preachment of the administration, proclaimed
upon any and all occasions. It has been de-
clared in cidactic phrases that without strict
controls prices would skyrocket and that we
would 90 through such a collapse in conse-
quence thereof as would make the 1929 de-
preston seem like good times.
Having established this theory and placed
1t in practice at tremendous cost to the tax
payers, we are how told that price controls
are an essential means Of preventing della
ton. The news comes direct from Chester
Bowles, chief of the Office of Price Admins
tration. He issued it in an address before
the Economic Club of Detroit.
AS initiation and deflation are poles apart,
what is the public, already befuddled, to be-
lieve? To the untutored mind it sounds a
good deal like claiming for a nostrum that
it is both hair restorer and depilatory.
Mr. Bowles uttered another contradiction al
Detroit which is no less confusing He de.
clared he would yield to no one Gin my con.
fidence that free enterprise will continue tc
provide higher standard of living under a
free government and with full opportunity fol
the individual than any other system" AND
almost in the next breath he declares: 1--WE
must eliminate the business cycle. By SO do
ing we can sustain business activity at all
time at levels in line with our ability tt
produce
In the enc case he gives free enterprise
his full blessing and in the other says thu
medium by which free enterprise has per
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-28
Red Cross Accomplishments

Statistics are pretty dry, but no one who
attended the annual meeting Of the Wilmington
Chapter. American BED Cross, could listen to
the reports Of activities without a sense of
pride in the chapters accomplishments.
AS chairman after chairman told of the
share his or her special branch of the organi-
cation had perfnrulad IN the task of service
and mercy for WHICH the Red Cross exists,
it was apparent TIA, he Wilmington chapter
has functioned with extraordinary efficiency.
This is emphasized for The benefit Of the
persons who contributed SO literally during
the recent War Fund campaign. Their gifts,
they may be sure, were in fact investments in
humanity
The Wilmington Red Cross is what business
men know as a going concern. 1t is not nee
essary to give figures to support this state
ment 1t appears better to show few of them
which reflect the national organizations ac-
complishments, as the Wilmington chapter has
taken part in all.
The record is of exceptional merit. 1t
shows 100000 service men given personal
aid by camp and hospital workers and $780,
coo by chapter home service personnel
1t shows 100000 pnts of blood collected,
$50 overseas clubs established for the armed
services, $4,000 nurses recruited for the Army,
and Navy, $4,000 volunteer nurses aides train
ed. 10000 persons aided in disasters, $4,000
marine disaster survivors aided, 925, 000, 900
surgical dressings produced 100000 gar
ments made.
1t shows 100000 first aid certificates issued
100000 home nursing certificates awarded.
1t shows 100000 prisoner of war packages
prepared and s7,7oo,Ooo in foreign war relief
distributed
The Wilmington chapter helped make all
this possible The gifts of Wlmington's people
enabled the chapter to do so much.
Both chapter and people have just right
to take bow Both are justified in assuming
that each will help the other as new demands
come
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-28

formed its rniracles-the business cycle-must
prise is all right for the future if brought
under a bureaucratic cycle? And if this is
his idea, is it not fair to ask how free enter
prise and bureaucracy can exist simultane-
ously?
Mr.. Bowles has accomplished much in over
coming the chaos created by his predecessors
in the Office of Price Administration. 1t is
disappointing to find him tying new knots In
the tangled skein of government
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-28
rs Years Aoo
Today
(From the files
of the Star-Newsl
APRIL %. 1918

APRIL 2S, 1918
Paris, April 2a-Here's a
Pershing story: A New \ WV "
vaudeville manager made the Lux ro.
eral by cable a five figure S gu
TO appear in short war lectY -,V'
No answer. Two weeks later ~ ~ !,
manager called. Have Won ar. a+'
tanned my offer?' And the asr
eral replied, No, but your 6 9fo-
has entertained me-" '''''
Lieut.. Harmon Chadbourn Bo,:
son, of the American Aviation w. a.
partment, has arrived from oy ~
seas landing in New York Fr;5I,
night. 'N''
Lieut.. Robert Williams and Mr..
Williams are on a short wise =
Mrs. William A. Williams on Sort.
Fourth street. Lieutenant WI
liams, who is on furlougA vii,
shortly return to Camp jackson.
Mrs. w. G. Whitehead. presider,
of the Cape Fear chapter United
Daughters of the Confederacv with
leave Tuesday for Wilson 10 ,t
tend the North Carolina CONVEX
ton of the Daughters of the Con-
federacy.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-28
TheLiterary
Guidepost
BY JOHN SELBY
"FROSSIA," by E. M. Almedin-
uon (uar oourt Rruco. 60 S0)

NOo0ATA, ny AsAs [AAAAANNAAA
gen (Harcourt, Bruce; $3.50.
Somebody, l presume the pub
Usher, writes that E. M. Almedin-
gems "Frossia" is a novel in the
great Russian tradition. This is
all right, a far as it goes, but
many will get from it picture
of vastly long absurdly intro
spective, very vague book imitat-
ing at distance '"The Brothers
Karamazov'' or War and Peace"
The book is not too long, and it is
written in the aforesaid tradition
only because it is a novel about
Russia by a Russian. "Frossia" is
just a good new novel.
Miss Almedingen sets the book
in the madhoue which was Pet
rograd after the Revolution. Those
were the days when the forceps
were used to bring a new govern
ment into the world, and as every
body knows, the birth was diff
cult. Up to now I can think of no
novel about these events w h c h
confines itself to the movement of
characters within the actual scenes
they have all been "proletarian'
novels, or the reverse. "Frossia'
makes its effect because it is flat
ly honest. People were murdered
and went hungry, aristocrats and
merchant princes were sometimes
stupid, as was the proletariat
sometimes.
But they lived, somehow, even
when the bread was baked of a
little rye and a lot of straw. Eros
STA was the product of marriage
by a wealthy merchant into the
nobility. When the crash came,
Frossia's family took poison one
Jump ahead of the firing squad,
but Frossia wanted to live and was
willing to try to understand the
revolution and it's people. She es-
capped from Kiev to Petrograd. She
found that most of the survivors
from her old life were living on
salvaged jewels in a mental acu-
UNI, and she got job.
Frossia's job was not much, and
not all the people she worked with
and for were fright" But she did
come to kind Of understanding.
and this was that her place Law
with Russia. She not only was
willing to merge herself and her
talents with the Russian future. It
was right and a privilege she
claimed.
Miss Almedingen has surround
ed her Frossia with wonderfully
real people, and surrounded these
with Russia itself. It is a book
to read slowly, with care.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-28
RY ERNIE PYLE


NAPLES. By Wireless)-On the
hospital ship which I rode pack
from Anzio, part of two decks re-
NAMED Just about as they were
when the vessel was a luxury
cruise ship in the Caribbean. In
this part the permanent staff OF
doctors and nurses live, and also
the officers of the ship.
But the rest has been altered
lust as liners are altered when
made into troopships. Cabin walls
have been cut out to form big
wards. Duble-deck steel beds
have been installed. The whole
thing is fitted like hospital oper-
ating room and wards.
The wounded men get beautiful
treatment. They lie On mattresses
and have clean white sheets-the
first time since coming overseas
for most of them.
There is nurse to each ward,
and the bigger wards have more
than one. Enlisted men serve the
meals and help the nurses.
The doctors have little to do. On
this run the wounded are on
the ship less than "a hours. Their
wounds have been thoroughly at
tended before being brought
aboard, and it's seldom that any
thing drastic develops on the short
voyage.
One of the doctors took me in
tow and showed me the entire ship
after supper. He was Capt. Ben
jamin Halporn, of 1900 State ST.,
Harrisburg, Pa, Captain Halporn'
wife is also a doctor back in Har'
risburg, practicing under her oWr
name, DR.. Miriam R. Polk.
1--WE really have so little to dc
we almost forget how" Captain
Halporn said. my wife back home
does more work in one day thar
I do in a month" But that's no.
body's fault. The doctors must be
on the ship for advice and emer.
gency.
AS We went around the ship oul
trip turned into kind of personal.
appearance tour. When we left one
ward, the nurse came running
after us and said to me, "Do yol
mind coming back? The boys wan
to talk to you."
And while I stood beside the
bunk Cabling with a couple o.
wounded men, another one across
the ward yelled, Hey, Ernie,
come over here. We want to see
what you look like" If this keeps
up I'll have to have my face lifted
Nobody with a mug like mine has
a right to go around soaring
wounded men.
The boys had read about the
proposal in Congress to give flight
pay to combat troops and they
were for it. Editors note: the pro,
posal resulted from suggestion
by Ernie Pyle.) Most of them said
it wasn't so much the money as
to give them some recognition and
distinction, and money seemed the
only way to do it.
would call to the doctor and he
AS we went around, some of the
wounded would have nurse at
tend them. One boy with an arm
wound was bleeding too much, anc
needed a new bandage. Another
one in shoulder cast said good
naturally that he couldn't tell by
the feel whether he was bleeding
or just sweating under his cast.
A colored boy with a shattered
leg said his cast was too tigh
and hurt his instep. So the doctor
drew a curved line on it with hi.
pencil and ordered the cast saWet
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-28
S. c. Governor Has Not
Decided Whether To
Support FDR Or Not

COLUMBIA, S. c., April 27.-R
Governor DIN D. Johnston, NOM
inal head of the Democratic party
in South Carolina and almost GER
tain to oppose incumbent Ellison
D. Cotton Ed Smith in the U. S.
Senate race this summer, said to-
day he had reached no decision
whether he would announce sup
port of fourth term for President
Roosevelt.
The question of Johnston's stand
apparently became important as
Lieut.. Governor Ransome Williams
of Mullins who would succeed to
the governor job announced he
was strongly in favor Of fourth
term for the President and added
'this is no time to fire the COM
mander in chief"
A healthy 100-foot whale will
weigh $50 tons, and yield 81 tons
IF oil
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-28
Fair Enough

(Ediotr's Note.-Ths Star and the News accept no
responsibility for the personal views of MT Peger:
and often disagree with them much many Of
his readers His articles the good purpose Of
making people think.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-28

Your capacity to say mo" determines
your capacity to say Yes" You have to
say NO" to lesser things in order to say
Yes" to greater things. JONES.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-28
Our Chief Aim
TOP OF THE MORNING

TO aid In every way tie prosecution Of
the war to complete Victory.
Kodiak mirror., 1944-10-21

face of mud and stiff German resistance.
 Rome = British & Indian troops entered Cesena, former German administration center on the main Bologna-Rimini highway in the Adriatic sector, while Sth Army troops made ad- dltional progress Tn the moun- tainous areas southwest Of Cesena & the 5th Army made local gains in the central sector south of Bologna.
 Rome . British troops oc- cupied Thebes, 32 miles north west of Athens, as German troops speeded their withdrawal toward Yugoslavia.
 London = Pierre Laval was sentenced to death in absentla
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O'Brien Plays he Iron Major"

I,dncing and realistic is
 Iron Major," Pat o.
 new starring film, which
 ltO the Orpheum theatre
 lg and Monday. It is a
 lGngly entertaining film Es well-deserved tribute to lat American-the late | Cavanaugh.
 line benefit of those who hot know of Cavanaugh, h Il Massachusetts boy l,t Dartmouth, Holy Cross, To College and Fordham, ke one of the greatest foot losches of all time, and who F tattle6elds of France in became one of the nations k.
 10th capacities, as 8 coach s a soldier, Cavanaugh | full and an exciting life Irtraying the part of the Ia, two.fsted discipllnarian
 sn glves undoubtedly his performance to date anc
 heally depicts his brilliant ling years and his overseas its to make the picture an
 ping piece of screen fare.
 ih Warrick is splendid as sympathetic wife; Robert ss bis team-mate and Leon ss his lifelong friend turn ably supporting parts.
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Stable Locked

Frank Kempton, of the Club Montmartre reported this week that bars have been placed on windows at the Club Mont martre and the safe has been repaired.
 The club was robbed Oct. 5 when S251 was taken from the office safe after someone climbed in an upstairs window.
Kodiak mirror., 1944-10-21

Wednesday, are not samples of the usual customs of this com munity. It was just part of the iniation of the Freshman class of the local school.
 The final initiation party was held last night at the school house.
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CeOntlnued from page l Ee to Leyte gulf on Sultan .%ySmess accounts from the lreported that the American laNd Airforce were on hand
 mammoth strength that lpanese Navy was nowhere |ht. The Nipponese airforce, led out at all air6elds in the pines, offered scarcely a
 resistance. One cores nt said up to now no las been lost"
 Daration for the invasion led destruction of more BOO planes, the sinking of gs and the damaging of lips in widespread devasta-
 airfelds and reinforce
 bases since Oct. 9 in task Basts at Ryukyus, Form
 l the Philippines.
 b Seheduler, Associated War Correspondent report |5m the scene of the inva.
 said the convoy stretched as the eye could see
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Couple Married At Commissions

Miss Loveis Griffin and MT, Thurston Turner Jackson, both of this city, were united in mar riage Wednesday, Oct. Is, by U s. Commissioner c. c. Naughton.
 Witnesses for the couples were MT. and Mrs. John W. Chase.
Kodiak mirror., 1944-10-21

dOn-Canadian infantry lmor struck a new offensive Ih the mud marshland l0f Antwerp to bolster the
 uowerhouse salient being n Holland against Hltler's defenses. Simultaneously D infantry along the ridges
 ges at the southern end of Elied line outflanked the kof Yentron at the entrance l5-mile long Bussang pass .g onto the Rhine floor z |rom Mulhouse.
 on the laLJef lIoIlI hlIlol
 ! the Eth Amy captured |Eu, 13 miles east of Epinal sb at two more passes to |line flatlands.
 British 2nd Army, fight
 clear the Germans from Mouse along the Reich fronting the Holland sal aade slow progress in the
Kodiak mirror., 1944-10-21
Initiation Held

The boys with makeup and no shoes and the girls without makeup and also with no shoes, seen walking down Alaska Way
Kodiak mirror., 1944-10-21

Mrs. Irene Peterson, from the Simeonoff islands, was admitted to the GM hospital Wednesday for treatment.
Kodiak mirror., 1944-10-21

Mrs. John Chya and infant daughter were dismissed from the GM hospital yesterday.
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by Mafseilles tribunal, Paris radio announced.
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Alaska AirIineS
INCOMING

INCOMING
 Mrs. V. Olsen, Jack McCord, Ted Nelson, MT. & Mrs. R. L. Sellers. W. c. Wallstead. R. w. Crowell, Bud Brahnan.
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ys HighIighfs

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