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The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-26
One Source Of Waste

There's grave paper shortage. So the War
Food Administration sends out Cd six page
circular on letter size paper called Food
Page Review; CD an eight page folder on
dried beans and peas in low cost meals; (3)
an eight page folder on egg dishes at low
cost; a. an eight page folder on potatoes
in popular ways fwo copies enclosed); and
% an eight page folder designated national
wartime nutrition guide
The natural surrnise is that all this matter
has been sent to all newspapers, daily and
weekly, in the country
The mails are crowded with essential postal
matter. So the VIA adds this container-full
of propaganda to the load
The newspapers are leaving out advertising
in order to give their readers a fair coverage
of primary news. So the VIA sends them
this expecting it will be given space in their
columns.
The VIA is only one of many bureaus set
up to harass the people and those among the
people who publish newspapers. Similar con-
tainers as heavy and often heavier arrive at
newspaper offices daily. Is it any wonder
that newspaper publishers kick Ii k e gored
steers when they can't get enough paper to
fill their circulation orders and the bureau
Gratis waste paper like drunken sailors waste
their pay?
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-26
With Ernie Pyle

it as an ironic souvenir. He wrote
her that as an Army quartermas-
ter he handles millions of cans of
it, and east it in various forms
a dozen times week, but thanks
anyway.
You've never seen a shell hit the
water? Well, a dud makes a little
white splash only a few feet high.
A medium sized shell makes a wa
terspout about hundred feet high
And one of the big shells makes
a white geyser couple of hundred
feet in the air. A tall, thin, beauti-
full thing, like a real geyser, and
out from it a quarter of a mile go
little corollary white splashes as
shrapnel gouges the surface.
Sometimes you hear the shell
whine, see the geyser, hear the ex-
plosion and feel the conclusion, all
at once. That's when they're land
ing only so yards or so from you.
And you'd just as soon they
wouldn't.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-26

support OF the public to a much larger extent
than it has thus far been given. The sum
still needed to fit the home for the boys who
are now fighting our battles is small enough,
in all reason, and should be forthcoming with
out further solicitation.
Nothing that we can do for homecoming
soldiers will be more appreciated by them.
Why not get in touch with the home COM
mite, of which Dave Rhodes is chairman,
and make your contribution today?
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-26
BY JOHN SELRY

FIRE BELL IN THE NIGHT"
by Constance Robertson Holt
S2.75.)
"But this momentous question,
like fire bell in the night, awak-
ened and filled me with terror -
Thomas jefferson wrote t at to
John Holmes in 1920, and he was
writing about the slavery question.
One OF the innocent by-products of
his letter was the title for Con-
stance Robertson's novel, which is
one of the better spring examples
1t also bears the signs of others
to follow.
Miss Robertson has set her novel
in Syracuse, N. Y, which town
happened to be one of the eastern
centers of the slave-running group
and also one of the places where
the Abolitionists ran into serious
competition. Her four chief char
acters are remarkably we'll done
-Mahala North and her father
who buy Syracuse tavern for
use as depot on the Underground
Railroad; John Palfrey, who is a
polite ally-minded young Syracuse
politician fighting the Abolitionists.
and Dallas Ord, Southerner and
a gentleman who is one of the
slave runners, nevertheless.
Their differences are just as we'll
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-26
The Literary Guidepost

drawn, too. Mahala's bitterness a.
the loss of her twin brother in the
fight for the slaves has tied her
to the movement, and to Ord as
well. Her father is just as whole
heartedly in the fight, but his
weapon is his shreWd good-hunoor
rather than passion. And Palfrev
is quite simply mad about Mahala
sincerely defender of the Fugi.
tive Slave Act, and strong eno1g h
to force Mahala into marriage in
the face of local disapproval and
the inner knowledge that she be-
longs irretrievably to Dallas Ord
Obviously there is disaster in
this set of relationships, and Miss
Robertson prepares it and PLAYS f
out as high melodrama against =
swift and sometimes lurid back
drop. The background and often
the foreground, too, moves with tho
dark figures Of Negroes strea nino
secretly north into Canada: with
tnelr pursuers, some decent and
some otherwise, and with the track
force OF the Underground itself
pussy night after night with their
freight. 'eii
MISS Robertson's method is d.
rect rather than deft, and she is
Mandy with literary condolences
ana me like. But she is also sin
cere.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-26
interpreting
The War
BY KIRKE L. SIMPSON
Associated Press War Anal,

With the abortive Japsneso !.
vasion of India checknated Az
miral Lord Louis Mountba,+oaaul'
Southeastern Asia Command W., r1
be preparing for a quick co,,n. wy
stroke into Northern Burma bo t'.e'
the monsoon rains.
That deduction can be sv.r
least, from current reports fro Nv
the Ceylon headquarters If I g,H
command. They tell of Allied os IiS
mates of 10000 or more Drobsbi,
japanese casualties in the stal1a1
drive at Imphal and Kohina Tb .a
also describe strong columns Of ~
18th Army, equipped with tanLa
and guns, mving into the Assam,
Burma action theater on assam,
missions
Linked together these REPORTS ~,
ply that an Allied Shift from w.
defensive to the offensive in tbo
Assam-Burma sector NAV - ~,
pending. There is every reason =,
expect japanese retreat from, n
dia before the monsoon rains stort
A fast and powerful Allied follow,
up to join, beyond the Chindv;,
River, with 18th Army elements
threatening enemy rear commmni
cations and air borne troops hold.
ing the Bhamo block" on the nm
per Irrawaddy could conceivahIy
alter the whole situation in north
ern Burma.
An Allied counter offensive r,r
to trap and annihilate Nipponese
forces in upper Burma Certainly
would go far to bolster Chinese
morale. Success would finally safe.
guard the Ledo Road over which
the Allies hope to pour into China
supplies and equipment to balk
japanese efforts to knock China
out of the war before converging
Allied drives in the Pacific and
in the Bay of Bengal reach full Ell.
fectiveness.
Only a few weeks remain be.
fore the seasonal change in north.
ern Burma will tend to throttle
extensive military action, but if
might be long enough to establish
a trap for all enemy forces north
of an Imphal-Bhamo line.
There is an obvious weather risk
in any attempted offensive opera
ton of major size at this stage in
either Southeastern Asia Command
zone. There is a no less obvious
urge upon Allied commanders to
move by every possible means 10
China's aid as the japanese often.
sive in Honan develops.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-26
Prayer
FOR CHAsTENED THOUGHTS

More real to our fighting men
than the enemies they face are
their thoughts of home and dear
ones and Country. Their inner life
is their real life. So we pray to
Thee, our Father, in their behalf,
that they, and we, may think upon
whatsoever things are true, what
'soever things are honest, whatso-
ever things are just, whatsoever
things are pure, whatsoever things
are lovely, whatsoever things are
of good report. Cleanse our minds,
and give us victory over all car
nality. Help us, whether on the
battlefield or amidst the monoto-
nous tasks of the home front, to
grow in grace and in knowledge of
Thee. Thus would we be made
men and women fit or the great
work that awaits us after victory.
Lift us up, we entreat Thee, to the
level of Thine own holy purposes;
that we may not only win the war
but also our own souls. Amen
w. T. E.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-26
Farmers Are Defended
By Senate Candidate

STONY POINT, April PIP
Clyde R. Hoey, candidate for Ink
Senate, told an Alexander cooh!
farmers meeting here tonigh; tia.
1.-The farmer is not trying 10 ge'
rich out of the war, and adoeo'
1.-THE farmer has not yet r.
ceived full and fair consid9rauog
in comparison with those en2az..
in other occupations and seEF-cy'
during wartime. and "5.le u
farmer has achieved parity H.. Oh
some of his products for the IA =
two years. yet over peE-o9 u.
years he is very nue. oe-'"o
the parity basis"
Pointing to agriculture pro-, .s,.
in North Carolina, HoeF salo ~.
state now ranks fourth IN b.
value of her cash crops, =,
1--WE have progressed ais? :"5
a dairying and stock Fals. L.
state, but we will need to nIa@.
vast improvement in dalfylDs'
cattle raising and poultry
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-26
PENSION ACTION
READY FOR court

Ready for the review and the
decision of the Supreme Court Of
North Carolina is the case Of the
Consolidated Board of Health AS
ISOLATED Charities. Public Library,
and Alcoholic Beverage Control
Board versus the Board Of Trus-
tees of the Retirement System Of
the City of Wilmington.
The case is expected to come
up next Tuesday Or "Wednesday
for consideration before the high
est state tribunal.
The decision rendered by the
Supreme court will determine
whether or not employees Of the
organizations are eligible for pen
sions under the city's retirement
system.
The case was taken to the high
est court after Judge j. ]. Bur-
ney, resident judge of this Eighth
judicial district, declared that. III
his opinion, the Board of Health
and the Library employees are
entitled to coverage. Burney ruled
that Associated Charities and ABC
workers were not eligible. Thus
both the City of Wilmington and
the Associated Charities and ABC
are taking appeals to Bumey'l
decision.
Mimeographed copies Of the rec
ord on the ease, from the very
beginning, and including all evil
dences. all judgments, and The
appeals. have already been pre-
pared in Raleigh. The case is
mo. 594."
No oral arguments are expect
ed to be heard in the matter
City Attorney William B. Camp
bell, R. NJ Kermon, attorney for
the Board of Health, and F. C.
Paschall, attorney for the Library
the Associated Charities, and The
ABC board, have already FLED
their detailed briefs.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-26
You're Telling Me

Grandpappy Jenkins says it was the good
old days when the only time we thought OF
tin was in connection with Tin Pan Alley, tin
horn sports and tin lizzies.
Young Holsters are fed regularly "a times
day-news item. What? No in-between meal
snacks?
Ski jumpers reverse the usual procedure.
ups.
Noted architect says most kitchen sinks are
set too low. That's no news to DISTINGUISHING
husbands. We've griped about that fact long
time ago.
Another good result of our island hopping
is that it has made the Japs hopping mad
but they can't do much about it.
The roadrunners according to Photographs
is far from being the fastest-runnlng olrd.
Just another case apparently of instructed
publicity.
Hirohitos navy, says writer, is doomed
to be completely annihilated. And on that
day. Hi will have reached a new low
A Russian communicate speaks OF fluid
drive launched by the Red army OBJECT be-
ing, of course, to liquidate the enemy.
In Dutch Guiana roads are built OF ma
hogany and aluminium. What's thls-the Dun
day drivers dream of Utopia?
Zadok Dumkopf thinks those old-tashloned
politicians of his fathers day must have been
pretty hot to get elected without first develop
ing a good microphone technique.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-26
BY ERNIE PYLE

WITH FIFTH ARMY BEACH
HEAD FORCES IN ITALY,-by
wireless)-Taking over wrecked
port and making it work is like
everything else in war, first of all
a matter of thorough organization.
At Anzio the British Navy and
the American Army have the thing
organized down to a st." Soldier
executives and clerks, sitting at
regular desks in regular offices,
do paper work and make telephone
calls and keep charts and make
decisions just as they would in a
shipping office in New York.
Seldom do three hours pass with
out shells or bombs shaking the
town around them, and everywhere
there is wreckage. Yet they have
fixed up their offices and quarters
in fairly business-as-usual way.
When 1 walked into the Port
Commander office, who should it
be but the same man l rode into
Licata with on the morning of D
day on the invasion of Sicily last
July. He was major then, but is
now Lieut. Col. Charles Monnier,
of Dixon and fremont, Ill. AS an
engineer he has been helping cap
ture ports and then turning them
from chaos into usefulness ever
since he hit Africa a year and a
half ago.
In their wisdom built up through
actual practice, such men as Colo
mel Monnier know exactly what to
look for, what to do and how to do
it when they come in to work on
the wreckage of a, place like Anzio.
There is no guesswork about
their progress. On the walls of the
shipping room are big blackboards
and charts and graphs. Hour by
hour the total of the days supplies
brought ashore is chalked up on
the blackboard.
The big graph is brought up to
date every evening. You can look
back over it. and translate the ac-
tivities of the past three months
day by day, and see what hap
pened and why.
Up here the Quartermaster Corps
which handles supplies after they
are put ashore, has had to impro-
wise and innovate. One of their
main problems is how to keep gas
oline fires from spreading when
shells hit the dumps, which they
do constantly.
So Lieut.. Col. Cornelius Holcomb
of Seattle had a brain throb. He
had the gasoline dumps broken up
into small caches, each bunch
about as big as a room and about
two cans high All our gasoline
comes in five-gallon American or
British cans.
Then he had bulldozers dig up a
thick walled ditch around every
cache. This shuts off the air that
seeps in from the bottom and
makes gasoline fires so bad. Since
then they've had dozens of hits,
but seldom a fire. It isn't unusual
to lose several thousand gallons in
one night without even a little
flame starting
I was riding through the wreck
age of Anzio and saw a big bull
dozer in a vacant lot. On it was
the name Ernie" spelled out in
big blue metal letters wired to the
radiator. So I stopped to look into
this phenomenon. The displayer of
this proud name was Pvt. Ernie
Dygert of Red Lodge, Mont. His
father owns big ranch there.
Young Dygert has driven trucks.
ducks, and bulldozers in the ARMY
shell crates; He doesn't seem to
mind living in Anzio. (The same
can't be said for his namesake)
Maj. John C. Strickland of Okla
homa City is the area ouartermas-
ter: On his desk is unique paper-
welght-a small can of Vienna sa,,.
sage. -" seo-
His wife sent it to him. He keens
-
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-26
CONFERENCE

CHAPEL HILL, April 2oI7r
At the request of the national ~ NE
mittee on regional conferences "a" n
Hospital Saving AsSoclauON MP
Chapel Hill will sponsor Wal ,,ine
regional conference of the u+j
cross plans of the lower A'l a.he.
States at Grove Park Ilin' -
vile, May 1920
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-26
PRICE CEILINGS
SET FOR BERRIES

RALEIGH, April 25-LR-The
State Department of Agriculture
said today they had been notified
by the Office of Price Administra-
ton (OPA) that effective after
noon Thursday there would be a
1888 ceiling on 24-quart crates of
fresh strawberries.
The department said these aver
aged approximately SO per crate
in the state today and that the
ceiling would be lowered to $3.50
per crate May 2.
--V-
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-26
Fair Enough

tEdiotrs Note.-The Star and the News accent M
responsibility for the personal views of Mr.. Peger
ana enc oIleh o1sagree with them much as many OF
making people think. e USe ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-26

The first oil we'll in the United
States was sunk in 1859 on Oil
Creek, Pa.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-26
Is Years Ago
Today
(From the files
of the Star-News)
APRIL rs, 1919

Flags were flying over England
yesterday in honor of Princess
Mary, daughter of the King and
Queen, who celebrated her 22nd
birthday.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-26

Three more stories are to be
added to the seven of the Whining
ton hotel according to an announce
ment made by C. E. Hooper, man.
ager. Inability to accommodate the
hundreds of visitors here with the
limited space necessitated the ad-
dition.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-26

James H. Cowan, secretary of
the chamber of commerce, return
ed from Washington yesterday
where he has been to press the
claim of Wilmington and south At
lantic ports before tn shipping
board. CoWan and his delegation
attended the conference between
the shipping board and CONNER
cial interests of the south looking
to the development of south Allan
tic ports.
Activity was apparent to GER
tain extent in registration circles
today and many new names were
being added to the lists of quail
fled voters at the various polling
places for the May Collections.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-26

Sea moss is used as a base for
hand lotion.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-26
Our Chief Aim
TOP OF THE MORNING

To aid In every way the prosecution Of
the war to complete Victory
The echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1942-1960, 1944-06-09
Camp News
rContinued from page L

man with a Quartermaste Service
Company of the South Pacific General
Depot.
The echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1942-1960, 1944-06-09

WATERFORD Army Air Field, S. c.
Second Lieut. Everett A. Bratcher,
Negro, arrived for duty at this field
where he is an assistant armament
officer in an all-colored pilot training
section. His wife. the former Helen
Olivia Wilson resides on Avenue G.
Greenwood, Miss a brother, Theo-
dore Eugene Bratcher. is a resident
of Cherry Valley. Ark.
Lieut. Bratcher attended Lincoln
University. Jefferson City, Mo-, two
years prior to entering the service as
an aviation cadet in. August, ls42.
The echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1942-1960, 1944-06-09

9. For by grace have We been saw
ed through faith; and that not of
yourselves, it is the gift Of God:
The echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1942-1960, 1944-06-09
NiENDENHALL

Dear Editor: This is to let the
many readers know that Lodge No.
sos has lost one of its faithful men,
bers in the person Of Brother Thomas
Landing. He departed this life May
29th. We hope our loss is Heavens
gain.
S. L. Walker, President.
The echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1942-1960, 1944-06-09

MEcRAWcALLY OpEP4TA
PROPELLER
The echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1942-1960, 1944-06-09

New Hebrides, South Pacific While
on special duty with the Service Com
mand headquarters at this island base,
Claudio L. Barnes, son of Mrs. Ella
Barnes SOP East Front ST., Hatties-
burg, Mississippi, has been promoted
from Private First Glass to Technician
Fifth Grade.
The echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1942-1960, 1944-06-09

5. Even when we were dead thru
our trespasses, made US alive together
with Christ (the grace have We been
saved
The echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1942-1960, 1944-06-09
school
essen
PAUL M EPHESUS
Acts 19:1-20:1; Ephesians
Printed Text. Acts 1880; Eph, "a
10, 3:14-19.

Golden Text-We are his workman
ship, created in Christ Jesus for good
works, which God afore prepared that
we should walk in them. Ephesians
I2:1O.
Acts 1913. And he entered into the
synagogue, and spake boldly for the
space Of three months, reasoning and
. persuading as to the things concern
ing the kingdom Of God.
8. But when some were hardened
and disobedient, speaking evil of the
Way before the multitude, he depart
ed from them, and separated the dis
ciples, reasoning daily in the school
of URANUS.
TO- And this continued or the
space of two years; so that all they
that dwelt in Asia heard the word of
the Lord, both Jews and Greeks.
Ephesians 2:4. But God, being rich
in Mercy, for his great love where
with he loved US,
5. Even when we were dead thru
our trespasses, made US alive together
with Christ (the grace have We been
saved
6. And raised US up with him, and
made US to sit with him in the heav-
emily places. in Christ Jesus;
T. That in the ages to come he
might show the exceeding riches Of
Christ Jesus:
8. For by grace have We been saw
ed through faith; and that not of
yourselves. it is the gift Of God;
The echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1942-1960, 1944-06-09

The conventional airplane illus
trated above is the type most com.
mon in the sky today. 1t differ,
from the other two types in that y
is a fixed wing aircraft, 1t obtain.
its forward motion by a mechanic.
ally driven rotating propeller
known as the air screw. In flight
it is supported by the air flowing
over its fixed wings, which be.
cause of their shape are referred
to as the airfoil.
The echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1942-1960, 1944-06-09
PLANE
TALK
BY
Rowland Burnstan

Since successful controlled fligh
can now be maintained by the hell
copter, there are three types d
heavier than air craft with whict
the public is becoming familiar
These are the airplane, autogiN
and helicopter.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-09
Parent eucher Activities

pleas to their readers to support
the plasma program, and while the
response has been good, there Is
still much room for improvement.
Giving ones blood becomes a
personal contribution to the human
itarian program Of the Red Cross
and service medical departments,
whereby suffering of wounded serv-
icemen may be eased, periods of
convalescence shortened, but what
is really of greatest Importance,
the life Of many of our fine young
people may be saved.
1t merely involves telephoning the
Blood Donor Center at District
$500, going down there at the APP
pointed time, and while comfort
ably resting on a bed, allow a pint of
blood to be taken.
The Board Of Managers of the
D. G. Congress of Parents and
Teachers will meet at 1890 am
Tuesday in the NEA Building.
Taft.
The Executive Committee will
meet tomorrow at 7:30 pm. The
schaal has a school door canteen'
for teen-agers, chaperoned by teach
ers and parents.
Orr.
The association meets tomorrow
at 1880 to hear 4 representative OF
the Red Cross describe the work OF
that organization overseas.
Mckinley High.
Miss Collins, school nurse, will
discuss the health program at the
association meeting tomorrow eve
ming. The Boys Glee Club, under
the direction of Mrs. Thompson, will
provide music.
Janney.
The association will meet Tuesday
at lis to discuss school problems
Mothers are urged to bring CUES
tons.
Adelaide Davis.
The association will meet Tuesday
at pm.
Barnard.
fAo q lCSult Va Cl1C survey uldQe
of the health status of Barnard
students under the direction OF
Miss Lillian Bishof1. assistant di-
rector of public health nursing, the
association meeting on Tuesday at
1870 pm. will take the form of q
panel discussion of Health Facii-
ties Available to School Children"
Bowen Greenleaf.
The children of the Greenlea1
fifth grade will present an afghan
for a soldier at Walter Reed to q
representative Of the Red Cross al
the association meeting Tuesday al
2:30 pm. In the Bowen School.
Park View.
DR.. Eaves will be guest speaker a.
the association meeting on Tuesday
Randle Highlands-Anne Beers.
The association meets tomorrow
at 2 pm. at Randle Highlands.
John Burroughs.
Social Studies" will be presented
in the classrooms on Thursday from
l to 2 pm. preceding the association
meeting at which Miss Turner will
be in charge of a question box. Fol-
lowing the business meeting mem
bers Of the kindergarten, who have
met the health requirements, will
be presented with summer roundup
health certificates.