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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-09-28
Eyewitness Describes
Retreat From Pocket
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off at 10 pm. our group was
to leave at 1904 pm. They
went round distributing little
packets of sulfanilamide and
morphia.
We tore up blankets and
wrapped them round our
boots to muffle the sound of
our feet in the trees. We were
told the password - John
Bull" If we became separat-
ed each man was to make his
way by compass due south I'M
til he reached the river.
Our major is an old hand.
He led the way and linked
our party together by getting
everyone to hold tine tail Of the
paracnutist's smock OF the
man in front of him, so our
infiltrating column had an
absourd resemblance to some
cfildren's game.
1t was half-ight, with the
glow Of fires from burning
house around, wnen we set
out. We were lucky. We went
through a reputed enemy
pocket without hea ring a shot
except for stray sniper's
bullet.
Another group met a ma
chinegun with a fixed line Of
fire across their path.
Another had to silence
bunch of Germans with a burst
of stem fire and hand gre
nades.
Another had to pause while
a German finished mis- evening
stroll across their pathway.
But we all got through with
out the enemy realizing that
we were doing anything more
than normal night patrolling.
The worst part was waiting
two hours by the river side till
our turn came for assault
boats to ferry us across. The
German, if not yet definitely
suspicious, were inquisitive-
they kept sending up flares and
it was vital to lie flat and
motioniess. In our boat queue
we lay flat and shivering or
soaking field with cold rain
drilling down.
Occasionally ma chinegums
spattered out and bullets
tweaked through the grass.
We were lucky again: Our
actual crossing was quiet. But
soon after it seemed that the
Germans had guessed what
was going on because they
mortared and shelled heavily
along the shallow river banks.
One soldier in the next field
was hit and called out for
nelp.
Men whose turn for a place
in the boats had come after
hours of waiting insisted on
staying under fire a little
longer so that the wounded
could 60 first.
ANY wounded left behind, of
course, became automatica Ily
prisoner of war, SO many sick
and limping left their beds to
take a chance with the escape
parties making their way to
the river. -
And so this epic stand of the
British airborne soldiers end
ed as it had been fought-witn
honor, with nigh courage, with
selfless sacrifice.
What OF the spirit of these
men as they trudged back
through the wet night to the
olllets where they are now
sunk In sodden sleep?
You can best Judge it by the
name they chose for last
nights break out. It had tae
same objective as they have
always had, and they still
mean to get in there. Taey
called it Operation Berlin" ~
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-09-28
FOOD COMMITTEE
TO HOLD MEETING

The Wilmington Area Food
Vlsory committees will mest ,' az
Hllman Moody, district ren,. "..a
tatlve OF the War Food Adrn; ,'''
'rau0n' at 3 O'Clock Monday at 49,
ernoon, October 9, at the cb. a''
Of Commerce. N-'''e'
The group is made 10 If
food and produce WHOLESALER, '''al
some of the larger chain =. 'N'
representatives, with KvIs S''.
herman as acting chairman Dan
Al the meeting, blanks will |,
filled out as to supplies On b %.,i ,.
various foods mostly canned ~, s,'! =
Moody will report directlv - sun
meeting. '"s M
From this report the govero,,
will be able to see 1ust WIN. nlaeit
demands and supply are in ~ ~. ne
area. This information will each
used in determining the r ~; "
value on foods. PUN!
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Obituaries
MRS. ELLA LEE SURLES

MRS. ELLA LEE SDRLEs
Mrs. Ella Lee Surles, 81, OF 20lO
Greasy Avenue, died at her home
at 1:3O o'clock yesterday afternoon
after a long illness.
She is survived by one daugh'
ter. Mrs. Ada Beaton of whining
ton, ten grandchildren a d two
great grandchildren.
Funeral arrangements will be
announced later by Yopp funerA
home.
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Women Being Organized
For War Chest Campaign
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Selgfred Goodman, and Harris
Haskell, captains.
Division 81. p. Herring. Jr.,
major = T. A. Lawthep, Jr., Haci
Wilson, and T. r.. Sellers
Division 81. H. Ferguson -
Harold W. Wells, Jr.,' &c. Pas.
S SnnA T., a; 7, Withrow, and Wad.
- Many solicitors will work under
these officers Of the Campaign
through the homes OF the city, ar,d
through the small places Of bust,
ness. - W"
---V
The salary Of representative.
and senators In the U. S. Congress.
Is $40, 1000 a year.
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Some scholars believe less ~.
~ per cent of American Nep ~sa
are OF pure African descent e'
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-10-16
Precautions

| News of the end Of the war in Earope will
| affect people in many different ways. To most
it will be day of thanksgiving, but with
the reservation that many long months of
| fighting are still before our armed forces in
the Pacific.
Whether fires and other damage to prop
erty will result from observance of victory
in Europe will be largely in the hands of in
dividual citizens. Municipal officials therefore
are urged to stress measures which will mini
rnize the likelihood of such damage. Follow
ing are suggestions to consider in connection
with such prevention efforts:
l. Urge that conditions in offices, stores,
factories and homes which might cause fire
be properly cared for before leaving. Fire
guards in office and mercantile buildings
should be charged with the duty of maintain
ing fire watch after other employees have left.
2. Try to prevent false fire alarms. Some
cities plan to assign otf-duty firemen or aux
iliary firemen, or other civilian defense work
ers as watchers at fire alarm boxes.
3. Try to prevent bonfires. This duty could
be assigned to local civilian defense fire war
dens and fire watchers.
4. Auxiliary police can be used to point out
to drivers that cars parked to watch parades
could obstruct fire department apparatus
which might be responding to an alarm.
Urge that children be kept out of crowds
Panic may easily occur under the condition
OF excitement which probably will exist.
VE-Day will be a time for universal thanks
giving, but the observance of European VIC
tory should not carry with it any element
that may endanger life and property.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-10-16
The Coed Die Young

Somehow it was rather frightening to read
OF the death of Mitsuru Toyama- frightening
because so few of us had ever heard of him
He died in his 90th year, carrying to his grave
the unchallenged distinction of having been
one of the most evil men in recorded human
history.
1t is impossible to catalog all his crimes
here. Toyama was professional assassin, a
man who combined the bloody ruthlessness OF
Black Hand leader and a gangster chief.
He founded the Black Dragon Society He
planned and engineered every Japanese war
for the past so years, He controlled the courts
terrified the press, dominated the emperor
He arranged the alliance with Germany He
wiped out the peace-loving officials in the
cabinet assassnations of 1882 and 1896. He
was author Of the Greater East Asia Co
Prosperity Sphere. TOTO was his protege, hi
hand-picked choice for war premier.
Toyama was the man who decreed Pear
Harbor. His murders, direct and indirect
must surpass those OF Hitler or a Hirnnaler
The evil that he did lives after him, and the
last war he started will cost yet more limo
cent lives before 1t grinds his country to de
feat. But at least the prime source OF tn,
Japanese poison seems to have been re-
moved.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-10-16
The Same Idea

1t is always interesting to note the evolu-
ton or Transformation of an idea There is
nothing new under the sum- says the Bible,
and the Bible is right.
Sometimes the transformation is in a d.
rec. line, sometimes in reverse case in
point is Haydn's Farewell Symphony and one
Of the trick pieces Sousa played regularly
when his band was en- tour called The Band
Comes Back"
Haydn, who was a kindly jokester in pri-
vate life, composed his Farewell Symphony
as hint to his patron, Prince Esterhazy, to
shorten his stay at his country home, Ester
haz. so that the musicians might return to
their families earlier than usual. In the last
movement the players, one by one, stopped
playing. Each snuffed out the candles at his
music rack and quietly left, until only two
violins were playing softly in the half light.
The Prince caught on. If everybody is leav-
ing" he laughed, 1--WE may as well go to-
In the Sousa piece, as we recall it, two
players came in from wing. They were per-
formers either on the baritone or alto horns
They started softly and with the effect OF
Delns lar away, Ike LoWeHS organfst VINO
Guilds bridge from dreamland for his lay
Then two more arrived, then others and still
more and in larger numbers until whole
'choirs were coming in from both wings and
finally the entire band was jarring the roof
AS the piece always was first after the
intermission it may be that Sousa used it as
a device to reassemble the audience in the
same way that Haydn played his Farewell
Symphony to dispense it
The same idea with reverse English
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-10-16
Rv John SELBY

"The World of Washington Irv-
ing" by Van Wyck Brooks (Dut-
ton; s3.75).
If a book is important it is
all the more useful to understand
what its author is about. Van
Wyck Brooks 1.-THE World of
Washington Irving" lis the third
volume of his literary history; it
is the current choice of the Book
cf-the-Month club, and it is an
almost incredibly rich book. But
it is not intended to be biog-
raphy of Irving in the usual sense,
nor is it history Of his world
in the usual sense.
Mr.. Brooks has strung his cru
dition on the long cord of Irv-
ing's life, and even that has been
loosely done. A great many 9TH
er figures out of the first 40 years
of the last century emerge quite
as clearly from Mr.. Brooks
pages-Poe is particularly good
example. Cooper (the novelist,
not Peter is another, and certain.
" Audubon must be mentioned.
There also are dozens of minor
people who stand out suddenly.
as If door had opened abrupt-
" for an unexpected guest. One
OF these is Lorenzo da Ponte, one
OF Mozart's librettists. Another is
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-10-16
CHURCHILL WORKS
HARD IN MOSCOW

MOSCOW, Oct. 15.-lRHPrime
Minister Winston Churchill, his
health probably more robust than
at any other time this year, is
putting in some hard ticks Of
work on his mission to Moscow.
When he is not in conference
with Premier Stain, his time is
occupied with reading diplomatic
dispatches from Whitehall and
with reports from all over the
world which pour into his quar-
tiers here. The flow of interna-
tional and empire matters re-
curing his attention never
ceases.
After the dinner for Stain at
the British embassy the other
night, Churchill and Stain con-
tinued their conversations until
4 a. m. Usually they break of
their nightly meetings at 1 a. M.
His aides say the prime minis
ter manages to get an average
of six hours sleep every night,
however, and tries to squeeze
in short nap after dinner.
An American limousine with
bullet-proof glass has been put
at Churchill's disposal by the gov
eminent. One of the city's best
chefs is demonstrating his vir.
tuosity with Russian and English
dishes at the Soviet guest house
where Churchill is staying.
1t is reported reliably that the
prime minister is not an ardent
convert to Vodka, but likes il
well enough with certain hors
d'aeuvres. He has not indicated
any dismay at the quantities Of
vodka in evidence at Moscow
banquets.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-10-16
The Literary Guidepost

There is also mention of an ex.
tremely important person who
has been almost wholly ignored
in Americana of this sort, to wit,
Maria Felicia Malibran, the
very great singer, whose second
name Mr.. Brooks insists on spell.
ing with final "e'.
And the reason 1.-The World OF
Washington Irving is not history
in the accepted sense is because
Mr.. Brooks has explored the
minds of his people rather than
their actions, and has chosen his
principals from the literati rather
than from the field at large. Ac-
tually the division is deeper. He
has explored the writing of writ
ers, which does not necessarily
reflect their compulsions and
their minds accurately, and more
than their written opinion Of the
world is necessarily accurate.
But within the chosen frame,
what a performance this is! The
book is like a prewar fruit cake.
There is more information in the
footnotes than many a book has
in the text proper, and the sug-
gestions for individual explora-
ton opened up are so numerous
as to seem confusing at first
glance. Mr.. Brooks diligence is
as remarkable as his aesthetic
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-10-16
BY KENNETH l.. DIXON

IN FRANCE, Oct. 9.-Oelayed)
-0R)-Four more rookie rifle
men have reached the Western
front from faraway American
farms and factories, but like
thousands of other requirements
and the famed backward-flying
Dodo bird, they never knew where
they were going bat only where
they had been.
The putting French freight
train halted On rolling farmland.
The rockies jumped out
stretched and swore feelingly.
They had been five days and
nights in the cold cars.
They didn't know it then, but
they had reached the last re-
placement depot. Soon they
would cease being orphaned wan
derers of war without outfits and
without shoulder patches and
would be adopted by some conf
bat line company to replace its
casualties.
Easing their packs. barracks
bags and rifles down along the
right-of-way, they cooked their
ears toward the sound of distant
firing. 1t had strange, new
undertone, different from any.
thing they had heard before.
Suddenly they realized why
Western front artillery lanyards
are mot yanked for practice. For
the first time they were hearing
guns being fired in concerted an
ger.
Pvt. Kenneth F. Baxter, Chi,
cago, stretched his six-foot-two
frame again. His 37-year-old
bones were cranky from the wet,
cold weather despite year Of
army life. Towering above the
other soldiers, he served as a
beacon for his three sidekicks,
Who promptly joined him.
The Chicago rifleman, former
bartender, grocery store manager
and defense plant supervisor, was
the oldest in both age and army
experience. The others had been
in less than nine months.
the youngest was 19-year-old
Pvt. Paul Bernhart, Burlington,
Ia, farm boy But Pfc. Billy
Boren, 20, five-foot-five, blue
eyed, brown-haired Evansville
Ind, steel worker, looked ever
younger.
The fourth, Pvt. Hardin Benton
Is, North Wilkesboro, N. c., had
been a farmer and lumberjack.
They met at Fort Meade, Md.
came overseas together in July
and bivouacked together at re
placement depot in Italy.
Wonder now much longer WI
stay together" Baxter was think
ing as the others came up.
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With The AEF
Four Rockies Go To War

'Wonder if we go up tonight, "
Billy said, chewing a blade OF
grass.
"I don't reckon So" drawled
Benton. Seems like they'd let
us wait until tomorrow anyhow. -
For a moment they were sill
ent. The artillery dominated the
atmosphere.
Guess we'll be pretty scared, "
said a nearby soldier.
"Of course we're gonna be, "
said Billy. THAT wounded SER
geant on the train said everybody
is scared. I'm no different from
everybody"
wonder where the front really
is" said Billy. "Cripes, they
never tell you anything. You
never know anything
''Well. I reckon you can bet one
tning-we all are going right into
the line,' said Benton, rolling
over and pulling his billfold from
his pocket. He looked at his pic
lures moment.
st sure wish I could see my
wife and kid again first"
Then a soldier walked past
swinging mess gear.
Come on" he called. First
hot CHOW in five days"
They still didn't know where
they were going or when, but for
while the sound of rafting mess
gear along the chow line drowned
out the noise from the battle line.
(Tomorrow-Sidekicks Separately.
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The Proper Answer

young woman customer in a Cambridge,
Mass, restaurant fired a volley of crockery
the other day. which, if it wasn't heard
throughout the land. certainly should have
been.
Whether the volley was accidental or de-
1berate is moot question which the court
has yet to settle. But it came as the direct
result of a question put to the customer by a
waitress.
Don't you know there's war on?" the
waitress had asked.
Those have become fighting words. And we
think that anyone who has been asked them
Is devoutly hoping that the Cambridge Gus.
TONER'S reaction was deliberate and that
when the time comes the judge will give her
q fine.
Don't you know there's a war on?"
Those words are the only valid excuse for
the suppression of free speech in wartime
that we can think of. They form one of the
most stupid rhetorical questions ever phrased
They are maddeningly unanswerable. IKE the
Use of What do you say?" as greeting.
They are inane, inept, inexcusable.
In the case of the young lady from Cam.
bridge, they are also insulting. She knows
there's war She has three brothers and
q fiance in the service cousin was killed
on Guadalcanal. She herself is a seven.time
blood donor. And her subversive act which
called forth the waitress haunting question
was a request for squash instead of potatoes
on the blue plate lunch.
But back to those words. In lesser
measure they are. an insult to anyone to whom,
they are addressed. They proclaim that the
questionsr thinks SO Little Of your intelligence
rs to believe that you can be struck speech
less and demolished by such thrsadbare
eliche. They express the doubt that your feeble
understanding could comprehend any more
pertinent or persuasive appeal for self.sacri.
flee and forbearance.
And Of course they imply that the cues,
tioner is paragon Of patriotism That is
probably the least endurable thing about
them. For usually this question is offered Al
m unassailable excuse for the absence Of
courtesy, good manners or good temper, none
OF which qualities has yet been frozen.
50 something like that opening volley Of
rs-}----e~a f-~~, d. ~ ,.-...,
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-10-16
TEMPLE CHURCH
OPENS CAMPAIGN

A campaign to raise an addi-
tional $4,000 for the new church
building fund of Temple Baptist
church was formally launched
yesterday afternoon as more than
so workers met at the church,
began active solicitations which
will continue through Emphasis
day on November S.
Earlier in the week, plans
and inspiration meeting was held
in the church annex: A delicious
supper, given by C. W. Boyette
and Louis O. Fonvielle, was serv-
ed to the workers, who pledged
their loyalty to make the cam
paign an outstanding success.
Early response indicates that the
drive will not only attain it's goal
but surpass it by a considerable
amount, it was said.
Songs written for the occasion
were sung by the group with Mrs.
G. c. Gilbert at the piano. Two
numbers were well presented by
Miss Orna Jean Willis with Mrs.
Ira D. Terrell as accompanist.
Reports We're given by G. C..
Gilbert, chairman of the Commit
tee for Church-at-Large; C. w.
Boyette, captain, for the deacons;
l. I. Hamilton, chairman for the
Sunday school, and Mrs. C. H.
Hayes Of the Women's division.
Louis 0. Fonvielle, chairman of
the Initial Gifts committee, made
an encouraging report on the ac-
tlvities of his group.
An inspiring talk was given by
Ira D. Terrell. general chairman
Of the New Building Fund EN-
phasis Day committee, who call
ed for continued loyalty and in
terest in the constructive under
taking.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-10-16
Tax System Commission
Endorsed By Bankers

RALEIGH, Oct. Is. - R-The
North Carolina bankers association
has endorsed the appointment of a
special commission to study ano
suggest changes in the states tax
system.
A resolution, adopted by the as
sociation at a recent meeting here
states that the states tax structure
must be related to changed bust
ness, trade and industrial conci
tons and to the tax structures oil
other states, if North Carolina is
to benefit by changed conditions.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-10-16

oorhood was bound to happen. The only won
der is that it hasn't happened sooner, oftener
and more violently. Or maybe it has, and we
Just didn't hear about it.
Anyway, we're all for it. And we think the
practice might be adopted more generally.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-10-16
ARRIVES IN ROME

ROME, Oct. Is. -(P)- Ignazio
Silone, Italian politician and au-
thor of the anti-F'ascist novels
bread and wine' and ''fonta-
mara" has arrived in Rome from
Switzerland, where he lived in ex-
lie after the fall of France. Eman-
uele Modigliani, one of the lead
ers of the Italian socialist party,
has returned also from exile in
Switzerland.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-10-16

Shortage of labor in West Coast
aircraft plants has resulted. in
plant supervisors and foremen
pitching in as man1al laborers to
break bottlenecks, and the part
time hiring Of servicemen based
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-10-16

Tests on airrnen show thd' w
ceiling can be raised a n'll '..o 4.
taking about an ounce ana 'lI N.
fourths of sugar just before 4lpl
flight. The sugar acts as BRAN :. a.
and counteracts lack Of Oxygen
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-10-16
WILL RECEIVE AWARD

NEW YORK. Oct. Is m - .ce,
Institute of Aeronautical Sc nsN
announced today that Col, poa c.,
K. KERN Of the Army Air I w NE
has been selected to receive N.
1914 Thurman H. Bane aWaI0 ard
his work in the development a,,,.
utilization Of the new Jet pi0P
sion engine.
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rs Years Ago
Today
(FROM THE FILES
OF THE STAR-NEWS)
OCTIBER 16, 1919

Miss Elizabeth Jennings "eP
brook and Donald MacRae PS''
ley were married at noon yes'e'
day in Lebanon I'll pei ~
Wrightsville Sound. Miss ha'D.
arine Elliott was maid OF NUN"
and junior attendants were AsA'.
MacRae Pescnau and Ie0is.
Davis MacRae. Best man wa
Charles J. Cowan and groornSH',
were James D. Sprunt. ho"''
J. Bowden, Maurice Fl. No'iy y,
John Rutland, Jr., and AicH'''
Westbrook.
Friends will regret TO I'a ~
that the condition of Office, . y.
H. Kermon of the police io, w.,
is such that it will be neceSs' =,
for him to have an opera W." No,
his throat at the James ""i
Memorial hospital.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-10-16

fore heard the name of Mitsuru Toyama can
breathe sigh Of relief that the earth is at
last rid Of him.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-10-16
Our Chief Aim

To aid In every way the prosecution Of the
war to complete Victory.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-10-16

TOP % THE MORNING
The Church has many critics but
no riyals.-Everitt w. Palmer.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-10-16
What Is Bureaucracy?

headline in the Christian Science Mont
tor asks:
What Is Bureaucracy'-
Beside Election Enothauo
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-02-17

As a result of petition signed
by every student in the High School
and the unanimous sentiment of the
board of education against accepting
his resignation, P. II. Conser,
principal of the High School has
declined the offer of a position In
the Centerville, Pa. schools at
substantial increase in salary.
David Risser of Pandora won a
trip to Washington in the pig raising
contest at the county fair last week.
His largest pig aged 2O2 days weigh
ed 279 pounds.
Mrs. Roy Hoffer was the lucky one
to receive a nice set of silverware at
the Ottawa fair last week.
John Reichenbach in the northwest
corner of the township is in quite a
predicament. Both of the bridges
are out, one to the north and one
to the south, and the only way he
can get out with a wagon is across