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prove its passenger train service, and do many
other things in order to meet competition, pro-
vide satisfactory service to the public, and
keep as many people employed as possible
While it has no complaint to make of the
s6s 600, 900 it must pay in taxes for the year
1943, because that comes out of earnings di
rectly attributable to the war, yet it has had
no opportunity to lay aside sufficient reserves
for the postwar period in which to meet the
requirements just mentioned.
'In addition to the $78,000,000 paid employees
in 1913, this railroad contributed to the re-
fund, $2,478,731 and to Unemployment Insur-
ance Fund.- $2,286968, or a total of $4,76569s
for 1943 alone'
There is the story of a single railroad. The
producing for victory, paying taxes, and main,
tanning the highest wage level in history. When
demagogu advocate measures detrimental tc
productive industry, they directly attack the
welfare of all the people, and particularly
industrial workers.
1t is because industry works for the com.
mon good of all either directly or by devious
routes, that industry Snould De permltted tC
work out it's own salvation in the postwar
years, without bureaucratic domination. The
present trend toward governmental dictation
must be overcome if the United States is tc
escape the totalitarianism we r fighting
abroad.
When European dictator drives private
citizens out of business, we hold up our hands
in horror, and call it state socialism. Blu
here, we have been blissfully swallowing the
same poison under the disarming label, pub
|lic ownership of natural resources"
Practically all business in the United States
lis based on natural agriculture, wa.
terpower, mining, oil, timber, etc. If there is
government ownership of natural resources
there is state socialism, because everyone be-
comes subservient to government.
Under state socialism, the individual sim
ply works for the state; man does not in.
vest his money in private industry and carr
a dividend; he gets tax bill in lieu of profit
and the greater the political control, the great
err the tax bill
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TheLiterary
GuidepOst
BK JOHN SELBY

BY JOHN SELbY
Frontiers of American Gull
ture," by James Truslow Adams
scribners; $3.50.
Although James TrusloW adams
Frontiers of American Culture"
is not one of his major works,
being very popular in tone, it GER
tainly is a book that needed to be
written. And of course its lighter
approach to what sounds like a
serious subject (and isl was de-
liberately chosen. Mr.. Adams
would like many thousands of
Americans to reassay the cultural
scene through his book, and it is
pity that the title makes it sound
bit stuffy.. ......
There is hardly a subject that
hits American culture (hateful
world from more angles and more
shrewdly than does adult educa-
ton. which is actually the theme
of Mr.. adams book. To assay
these matters would need man
like Mr.. Adams, whose conserva-
tism is above reproach but does
not interfere with his humor or
fairness. And the matters run
from the Junto, which was club
of IL members organized in 1929
by Benjamin Franklin, to the Full
Ter Brush man.
Mr.. Adams points out that the
h e f object, presumably, of
Franklin's Junto was to drink
punch, but that out of the fumes
of the punch rose the American
Philosophical Society, the Frank
lin Institute, the University of
Pennsylvania, the first public Ii
brary in America, and Philadel-
phia's first mutual fire insurance
company, and he rightly concludes
that this is not a bad product even
though based on the Demon Rum.
The w. c. T. U. is included in
Mr.. Adams book, and the incredi-
Bile spate of Women's clubs as well.
Men have founded and attended
few discussion clubs and such, but
Mr.. Adams points out that in spite
of this fact most of the worlds
greatest artists have been men
poets, musicians, dramatists, writ
tiers, and even cooks. Men have
been, and are, pretty busy main
tanning ''the American way of
life" and Mr.. Adams feels that
this is an important cultural con
tribution.
The old Chautauqua, the mod
ern radio, h e Sears, Roebuck
catalogue, Rotary, the Grange,
visiting British literary brass hats,
correspondence schools all contri-
butte. Mr.. Adams thinks the future
may depend on how adequate adult
education proves.
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Grande. Mr.. Dies had much wild.
er knowledge of this and other
subjects which occurred during his
investigation of alienism in our
midst than his opponents gave him
credit for.
If this committee shuts up shop
without provision for the safe
keeping of the files, the guilty
and the doubtful cases surely will
loot the record to destroy the evid-
enca =.
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Berlin Makes Formal
Announcement OF Nazii
Invasion Commando,

LONDON, May 10 -lR- Fiels
Marshal Karl Rudolf Won Rund'
stedt was formally identified Nv
the Berlin radio today as the 81.
preme commander of the Nszis'
antl-lnvasion command in IN a
enemy's first public announcemert
OF Gern1any's staff lineup for the
western front.
Field Marshal Erwin RommeII
and Field Marshal Johannes Blast
owitz were listed as subordinate
in the direction of ground forcfs
and Field Marshal Hugo SperrIe
was named as supreme com.
mander of the Luftwaffe in the
west"
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RITCH SPEAKS SATURDAY

CHAPEL HILL, May 1S- R -
Marvin Ritch, Charlotte lawyer
who is candidate for the U. S.
Senate, will speak here Saturday
night under the auspecies of Nae
Carolina Political Union, non-par-
tisaa student organization at the
University of North Carolina. His
subject will be, What Isolation
Has Done for U.s."
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PULLMAN INCOME

CHICAGO May 19-(R-PulIma,
Inc. reported today a CONSOLIDATED
net income of $2,251, 209, equal ia
70 cents a share, for the first
quarter of 1914. This compares
with net income of $2.03385l o.,
81 cents a share, for the March
quarter of last year.
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Fair Enough

(Ediotr's Note.-Ths Star and the News accept no
responsibility for the personal views of Mr. Peger.
and often disagree with them much many OF
his readers His articles serve the good purpose Of
making people think.
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fled to oke like that who hasn't
been scores of times across the
Channel coast, in that other world
of fighters and flax. And these
boys all had. You felt good to be
with them,
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rs Years Ago
Today
(From the files
Of the Star-News)
MAY 10, 1919

Sgt. D. A. Lockfaw and his bride
have arrived in the city from Del
mar, Del, where he was recently
discharged from service. His host
of friends ara cordially greeting
him back and congratulating him
on his recent marriage.
Mrs. c. W. Spencer left Sunday
to join her husband at Raleigh.
She will be absent from the city
for soma time expecting to accom-
pany her husband on a subiness
trip through eastern Carolina.
Mrs. D. L. Struthers and small
son, David L. Jr., and daughter,
Elizabeth, are on a visit to Me-.
and Mrc. William Struthers at
Crisis.
Funeral services fo- James A.
Springer, prominent business man,
whose death occurred at his home
102 North Fifth street yesterday
following long illness. will be
held from the late home tomor-
row,
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-05-19

Our Chief Ain, .
Two Good Projects

It will prove pleasant news to thoughtful
persons in this city. as revealed in yesterdays
newspapers, that while the administration is
engaging in needed projects of destruction ii
has simultaneously started -construesiea work
greatly needed. - s'---~-~--T
Wilmington has long permitted dwellings that
have been fire traps and menaces to the pub
lie health and morals to stand and be occu
pied. These are being condemned and will
be torn down. In proportion to The total houses
that should be destroyed, the~Ilnndhe now to
be lquidated is small, but at least a start
is made and there is the encouraging hope
that the campaign will continue until the last
one is gone.
On the other hand Wilmington has too long
put up with broken sidewalks and in many
neighborhoods no sidewalks at all. Now the
administration has started out to repair the
bad ones and, hopefully, will expand its oper-
atoms to include sidewalks where none exist.
Only by the interposition of a kindly provi-
dence have many persons traversed broken
sidewalk without serious injury and escaped
alive wheif -conapelfsdesto walk ins-fhe street
where Sidewalks have b iafd often
against heavy motor traffic.
Here, too, the projects undertaken are few
in comparison to the city-wide need, but we
nay believe the work thus started will not
be abandoned until the whole job is COM
1.z go. -.
pleteo' -s-~-+--.-~s-@a = -
AaA un1=the-;r1rasdis yge1 beaaals to be
nAaae<, by these undertakings it is easily seen
that with them under way, or even possibly
finished during the war period, there will be
less work for the postwar planners when peace
returns.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-06-08

Tanning out above the city the
Allies advanced so far along the
vital coastal Highway No. 1 thai
one official announced this eve.
ming that they continued rapid
advance in the direction of Civil
tavecchia," the closest port te
Rome, 40 miles to the Northwest
by road.
This mornings communique
placed the Allied armies more
than 10 miles above Rome on a
wide front, and today's advances
apparently were well beyond these
lines. Gen. Sir Harold Alexander
commander-in-chief in Italy, pro-
claimed that 'fthe strength OF the
German armies has been broken.
The German high command sala
that the Allies had succeeded II
breaking into our positions" ives
+ of the capital.
The Allied command described
German resistance as "only light.
II had dwindled to disorganized &C
tivity by delaying infantry unit:
and self-propelled guns.
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McArthur'S Men Seize
Biak Island AirdrOme
U. S. GETS BASE
AFTER Is DAYS

ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD;
QUARTERS, New Guinea, Thurs
day, June 8.-tR-The Mokmer air
drome on Biak island, giving Gen
Douglas Macarthur a base within
bombing range of the Philippines
has been stormed and captured
headquarters announced today or
the 18th day of the invasion Of
the Schoutens.
Stalled and bloodi1y repulseo
earlier in a frontal stab from the
initial beachhead, established My
Il, Macarthur got in behind t h {
enemy positions and swept on t.
the, airfield from the rear.
The airfield is within $50 miles
of the Philippines to the northwes
and is within good fighter range
of Palau, western Carolines nava
base of the Japanese, guarding the
approaches to the Philippines.
Headquarters said the japanese
were routed Wednesday and tina
American losses in the victorious
move were light
After the May 81 landing, two
batallions of Yanks were caught il
murderous fire of Japanese or
ridges and in caves while attempt
ing to move west along a shore
road to Mokmer.
Biak, which is in group of is
lands in Gelvink bay, Dutch New
Guinea, also has two other air
fields desired by the Sixth army
invaders.
Mokmer's captors are pushing to
ward the Borokoe airdrome few
hundred yards to the west.
The hard won Mokmer cora
strip fell at II am. Wednesday Il
Yanks who had made their way
slowly over the same line of ridge.
from which the Japanese earlier
had poured down machinegun ane
mortar fire. Warships and plane.
supported the attack.
The japanese apparently hac
counted on Yanks resumin&
their coastal road drive and hae
massed their strength there.
"By wide encircling move
ment through difficult terrain, ou1
troops were enabled to attack thu
enemy's prepared positions from
| the rear" today's communiqu'
said.
Surprise was thereby attained
and the enemy's forces were rout
ed with light losses to ourselves.
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SOVIETS POISED
FOR new DRIVE

LONDON. June 7. -P)- The
German drive in Romania north OF
Iasi appeared to have ended to-
day, and the Soviety army news
paper Red Star in Moscow said
that Russia now was ready to
launch her own promised often
sive against the Germans from the
east.
The abortive German attacks IN
the province of Moldavia cost the
Nazis. more than 10000 dead and
tremendous losses in equipment
during the savage fighting from
May 80 to June 6, Moscow an
nounced tonight. A Berlin foreign
broadcast claimed at least 10 So
Wet rifle divisions had been "wlp-
ed out or decisive1y mauled."
The Berlin broadcast said the
hattie north of Iasi ended yester-
dav and added that only mopping
I'D, operations were in progress.
This conceded with tonight's broad
cast Russian communique, which
said that action today involved
only small forces and that all Ger
man attacks were repulsed.
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Eisenhower Cruises Off Beaches

sational conclave in the midst
Of an armada of thousands of
ships as the supreme COM
mander obtained an up-to-the-
minute picture of the progress
Of, the invasion.
A meeting was held within
five miles of the enemy at one
point because Eisenhower felt
that he could thereby get better
cOmmunicatieIs
Upon his return the general
showed satisfaction at The re-
suits Of the conferences.
As Montgomery, in corduroy
trousers and fleece-lined jac-
ket, clambered down from the
warship into his launch at the
end of the session Eisenhower
grinned, stuck up his thumb
and called:
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AIRB0RNE TROOPS
FIGHT SAVACEDLY
Parachutists, Infantry
Range Swiftly Behind
Nazi Front Lines

SUPREME HEADQUAR-
TERS, ALLIED EXPEDI-
TIONARY FORCE, June T.
fighting for key
points behind the Normandy
beachheads was developing
tonight as the Germans began
moving troops by air in eff
forts to cope with the con-
stantly-reinforced Allied air
borne divisions whose success
ses hightlighted the invasion.
The Allied airborne operation,
largest ever undertaken anywhere,
was a complete success, at least
as far as its shock phases were
concerned, and parachutists and
airborne infantry were ranging
swiftly behind the German front
lines, it was said at supreme head
quarters.
authorities were tight-lipped
about the progress of troops that
landed from the sea but stated the
sirborne soldiers had carried out
every assignment given them, and
in some cases had seized bridges
which the command had been al
most certain the Germans would
have time to demolish.
It was confirmed tonight, for ex-
ample, that the British Sixth air.
borne division had captured Sc
ries of bridges north of Caen.
Front dispatches said airborne
troops had joined those from the
sea in some places after capturing
towns, roads and various bridges,
and that reinforcements poured in
today aboard 50-mile-long train
of Ninth Air Force elders.
The German radio yesterday list
ed four to six Allied airborne di.
visions as having landed behind
the Atlantic wall defenses, and said
tonight that another British divi.
sion had landed during today.
1t was learned at supreme head
quarters that both American ane
British reinforcements had beer
sent in.
The continual mass attacks left
the entire Cherbourg peninsula dot.
ted with white and colored para
chutes as the fighting flared ur
over a constantly widening area.
During last night and today hun.
dreds of transport planes flew in
reinforcements in men, artillery,
jeeps, ammunition, gasoline and
other materials inside the PENN.
sula. Many tons of vital supplies
were thus delivered by parachute.
A highly-placed officer declared
the success of the airborne forces
was one Of the most satisfactory
points of the whole invasion.
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Doughboys' General
Leading Land Attacks

of the flagship u. S. S. Angus
ia = birthplace of the Atlantic
charter-off. the French coast,
but before the western Europe
front opened he indicated he
would move right in with the
troops at the earliest possible
moment.
1t is a tribute to Bradley's
proud record as teacher AS
well as fighting leader that he
picked to direct this mOmen-
tOus engagement many men he
personally trained as officers
as head of. the infantry Off
GERS school, Fort Benning, Ga.
He also. has trained more
"shave tails than any other
U. S. general officer, for Fort
Benning graduated second lieu
tenants at the rate OF 40, 0OO
year under the methods which
he supervised.
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SU p r E M E HEADQUAR-
TIERS ALLIED EXPEDITION
AIRY FORCE, Thursday, June
8-(R-For four and one-half
hours yesterday General Eisen-
hover and Admiral Sir Ber-
tram Ramsay. commander of
Allied naval forces, cruised off
the invasion beaches of north
ern France ad held confer
ences with operational COM
manders, it was announced to-
day.
Gen. Sir Bernard l.. Mont
gomery, commander Of the in
vasion ground forces, and
Rear Admiral Alan Goodrich
Kirk, commander Of the U.
S. naval task force in the oper-
atoms, were among The high
officers who attended the SEN
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HOSPITAL STAFF
Wins APPROVAL
OF CITY, COUNTY

Members of the city and county
governing boards made i clear at
their joint meeting here yesterday
with members of the James Walk
er Memorial Hospital BOARD OF
managers that their only concern
with the affairs of the institution
in in the type of care the hospital
is Attending INDECENT patients and
that it has no concern in any con-
troversy between doctors and nur-
ses except insofar as it affects
the welfare of such patients.
Mayor Bruce Cameron, presiding
at the joint meeting asked specifi-
cally, What is the city and county
receiving, in terms of the proper
treatment and care of its INDECENT,
for the $4,000 jointly appropri-
ated?"
c. B. Parmele of the board OF
managers outlined financial details
Of the use of the funds, explaining
that while charity cares have been
reduced from IS per cent in recent
years to an estimated nine PEI cent
at the present time because OF i'm
proved economic conditions, the
institution is still spending far
more for charity cases than is be-
ing appropriated by both govern
mentS for their care.
He pointed out that it is difficult
10 establish a true picture of the
care being afforded the INDECENT
since many receive clinic and out
patient treatments and a yearly
resume has not been complied for
he present fical year. Pa~nele
sad that part of the deficit is
Beng absorbed in the over ali
eAasge Of pay patients at the iati
tuGion.
When there is time before ad
Continued ON Page Seven; Col. a
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Price Control Law
Relaxed By Senate

WASHINGTON, June T. up -
Dealing the administration a set
back in its drive to re-enact the
price control law without substan.
tial change, the Senate voted At
to q today to free merchants of
damage liability for price ceiling
overcharges which they can prove
are unintentional.
At present consumers can sue
retailers for ceiling violations and
collect three times the amount Of
any proven overcharge or $50,
whichever is greater.
Approved over strong admins
tration protests, the amendment
provides that in such civil suits
it will be an adequate defense il
the defendant proves that the vi.
olation was neither willful nor the
result OF failure to take practicable
precautions against a violation.
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Aircraft Strikers
Ordered To Work


CINCINNATI, June 7.-P)-The
War Labor Board today ordered
10000 idle employees Of the Wright
Aeronautical Corp. to resume pro-
auction of airplane engines, dc.
Caring that no group "can be per
united to place their grievance
above the immediate needs of the
armed forces.
The action, taken soon after tht
U. 5. Cancellation Service certified
me dispute to the WLB, found Cle
organizations of greater Cinclnnat
Ahed up with the Wright Manage
ment ad the Army Air Force IN al
appeal that workers return $50 tina
,poys dying this very minute Hllgn
Know we tried to merit their sacrl
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BIG ARMY BILL
WINS APPROVAL
WASHINGTON.

WASHINGTON, June 7.-tR-
Backing up the War department
with virtually every dollar it re-
quested,, the House appropriations
committee recommended today q
$49, LOG, 002, 1875 fund to finance the
nations far-flung fighting armies
during the fiscal year starting July
i. -
The unanimity Of the committee
is expected to be duplicated by the
House when the near-record bill
reaches the floor. late this week.
The committee pointed out that
some of the funds might not be
used, should Germany collapse
within the next six months, but adj
ded that "there is no warrant,
however, for such an assumption. !"
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suPREM E HEADQUAR-
rEps ALLIED EXPEDITION

r
sUPRE M e HEADQUAK-
TERS,sALLIE EXPEDITION
AIRY FORCE, June 7.-(R-.
lLanky Omar n. Bradley = the
ssdoughboys' general who
has killed more Germans than
any other u. S. general officer
is commanding all U. 5.
ground forces in the attack In
france, it was announced to-
day.
kindly lieutenant-general
as a master tactician who out
smarted them in the climatic
hattie Of North Africa and who
ushered them uncermOnlOuSly
out of the mountains in the epic
38-day conquest Of Sicily.
In the initial stages of the
landings in France, General
bradley was tied by the need
for communications to the deck
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Pearl Harbor Trials
Continued Six Months

WASHINGTON. June ? R =
Compromising Senate and House
differences, Congress settled to.
day on a six months extension
from midnight tonight of the time
in which martials may be held
on any charges arising from the
Pearl Harbor disaster.
A bill approved by both legis-
1ative branches and sent to the
White House directs that, mean
time, the secretaries of war and
navy are to make Investigations
and take such action as appears
Justified -.
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Major General Broken
For Indiscreet Remark

WASHINGTON, June Z K Up -
The Army reported today that Ma
jor General Henry ]. F. Miller
was "broken" to lieutenant colonel
and sent home from England for
an indiscreet remark at cock
tail party limiting at the time set
for the invasion of Europe.
The rank to which he was reduc-
ed is his permanent grade, held
since 1885, The rank Of major gen
eral was temporary.
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"Good luck to you."

GOOD luck to yOu.
Eisenhower also had a his
toric conference Sunday night
with Prime Minister Churchill,
Gen. Charles de Gaulle,
Foreign Secretary Anthony
Eden and Prime Mirister
Jan Christian SHUTS Of South
Africa.
The meeting lasted two
hours and the supreme COM
mander subsequently reported
complete agreement was
reached on military matters
with the French.
It was not detailed how much
of the touchy zone of transit
ti0nal administration of liber-
ated territories was included in
military matters