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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-02
Daily Prayer
FOR PATIENCE WITH NEWS

= OAS "A A41ANOG NEWS
Now we are up and now we are
down; now we are exultant over
victories; now we are depressed
by disturbing news. O eternal and
steadfast Father, with whom is no
variance or shadow cast by turn
ing, deliver us from this lot Of
changeableness Why should each
change in the days news so affect
our tranquility? Have we not a
great God, whose promises are
sure? Is not our Cause at one
with His holy purposes? Are not
our forces brave and loyal and
unconquerable? Then why, O Lord
are we no more stabel minded
Grant unto us, O mercif,1l Lord
hearts that are constant in trust
Let us not be driven to and fro nv
every passing wave of events
May something of Thine own AZ.
slred patience control our lives
SO that we may share Thy neace
ana 'pe sharers of it with others
my word assures us that I'm
quletaess and confidence shall he
thy strength" Fulfill this nronois a
unto us, we pray. Amen-WTE
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-02
BY JOHN SELBY

1.-THE Nazis Go Underground, !"
by Curt Riess doubleday, Doran;
$3.50.
Curt Riess writes too ,nany
books. He would be several times
as effective propaganda against
Naziism if he did one book a year.
and took pains with it. Neverthe-
less, when he provides (not single
handed, but with the help of DEM
ocratic organizations the country
over careful Recommendation f r
his statements, including tn e
names and records of allegedlv
subversive Americans" and their
purposes, it is impossible to ignore
Mr.. Riess.
1.-THE Nazis Go Underground is
written to show that with their
usual thick-headed efficiency. the
Germans have long since put into
operation carefully thought-out
plan to protect them in their de.
feat. Mr.. Riess thinks no German
however dull, questions GERMANY, q
defeat in this war.
For many years Germans who
stayed at home brushed off Ger.
mans who emigrated. The Nazis
were more intelligent; long before
Hitler said in 1884 that ali Gen
! mans abroad were s1ie+o-;., :
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-02

how paratroopers used to come in
and just beg for another rifle. And
he expressed the sincere feeling Of
the men throughout Ordnance, the
balance weighing of their own fair
ly safe job, when he said
Them old boys at the front have
sure got my sympathy. Least we
can do is work our fingers off to
give them the stuff.
The original t k of muddy,
rusted rifles is a touching pile. AS
gun after gun comes off the stack
you look to see what is the matter
with it
Rifle butt split by fragments;
barrel dented by bullet; trigger
knocked off; whole barrel splatter-
ed with shrapnel marks; guns gray
from the slime of weeks in swamp
mud; faint dark splotches of blood
still showing.
You wonder what became of each
owner; you pretty we'll know,
Infantrymen, like soldiers every
where, like to put names on their
equipment. Just as a driver paints
name on his truck so does a
doughboy carve his name or mi.
tia1s on his rifle butt.
You get crude WRITINGS of mi.
tials in the hard walnut stocks and
unbelievably craftsmanlike cary.
ings of soldiers names, and many,
many names of girls.
The boys said the most heart.
breaking rifle they'd found was one
Of a soldier who had carved a hole
about silver dollar size and put his
wife's or girls picture in it, and
sealed it over with crystal OF
flexiglass.
They don't, of course, know who
! he was Or what happened to him
They only know the rifle was re.
paired and somebody else is carry.
ing it now, picture and all.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-02
so THEY SAY

The pernicious doctrines OF German and
Japanese aggressiveness have 100 deep roots
to disannear with their chief opponents OF the
moment. ,r.-4 MI. Mt .,.
Netherlands Foreign Minister Elco ~ van
Kleffens.
Let us not delude ourselves that when Hitler
and his Asiatic counterpart have been finally
overthrown world peace is thereby insured
against their successors. Hitler i, IS TOO sympto-
matte of the German herrenvolk.
British Foreign Minister Anthony Eden.
Of course the whole thing may be fake to
whip up sympathy of the German people for
Hitler Many of our people are sick to death
rowIy escaped death they say. What ter
rible thing to attack our poor dear Fuehrer !"
-19-year-old Nazi Elite Corpsman captured
in France.
believe in private industry, but there must
be full employment. If private enterprise
doesn't furnish it there will have to be great
program Of public works. Don't let that hap
pen.
r;sti
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-02
HOUSE CANDIDATES
END CONFERENCES

RALEIGH, Aug. l. IN Two
candidates for speakership of the
l945 house of representatives. tn.
day completed conferences here
looking toward the January ses.
Oscar Richardson Of Union coin.
ty, who said he was regularly re-
celvlng vote pledges, talked with
number of state officials and
house speakers, as did George W
eel OF Rowan. Both are veteran
legislators.
While there has been some sug-
gestlon that Uzzell might withdraw
from the race in the face of a
Iexas Indictment in connection
with the small loan business, he
sad that he now intended to stay
IN the light. He said his friends
- - L~---~ g
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-02
Fearful OF Future

After bestially numbering $50 hostages, who
were publicly shot in the Warsaw streets. the
Nazi Chief of Police and of the SIS attachments
issued new document, shameless product
of German brazenness. In this document, he
publicly proclaims that the German police
courts have condemned to death IS persons
found guilty Of "sabotaging and obstructina
the economic reconstruction of the Genera
Government" He further states that two O.
these sentences have already been executed
but. that the remaining SO condemned person!
-
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-02

| few days of our invasion men al
the front needed these rifles with
desperation. Repairmen tell y ou
how our paratroopers and infantry
men would struggle back, dirty ano
hazy eyed with fatigue, and plead
like a child for new rifle imme.
diately so they could get back to
the front and ''get at them sonsa.
bitches"
One paratrooper brought in a
German horse he had captured and
offered to trade it for a new rifle,
he needed it so badly. During those
days the men in our little repair
shop worked all hours trying to fill
the need.
sat around on the grass and
talked to these rifle repairmen
most of one forenoon. They weren't
working so frenziedly then for the
urgency was not so dire, but they
kept steadily at it as we talked.
The head of the section is Sgt.
Edward WEIGH of Watts, Okla, who
used to work in the oil fields. Just
since the invasion he's invented a
gadget that cleans rust out of a
rifle barrel in few seconds where
as it used to take a man about
20 minutes.
Sergeant Watts did it merely by
rigging up swivel shaft on the
end of an electric drill and at
taching a cylindrical wire brush
to the end. So now you just stick
the brush in the gun barrel anc
press the button on the drill. 1t
whirls and in a few seconds all
rust is ground out. The idea has
been turned over to other ord.
nance companies.
The soldiers do a lot of kidding
as they sit around taking rusted
guns apart. Like soldiers every.
where they razz each other con.
stantly about their home states. A
couple were from Arkansas. and
OF course they took a lot of hill
billy razzing about not wearing
shoes till they got in the Army and
so on.
One OF them was Corp. Herschel
Grlmsley Of Springdale, Ark. He
jokingly asked if I'd put his name
in the paper. So I took a chance
and joked back, Sure" 1 said,
except I didn't know anybody in
Arkansas could read?"
Everybody laughed loudly at this
scintillating wit, most of all Cor.
poral Grimsley who can stand
anything.
Later Grimsley was telling mo
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-02
TAYLOR'S DEATH =,
TERMED ACClDENl

The death of james .treet
Taylor, III, of $40 IL Ann N. Coast
in. a fall from an Aaah'iI 1,1y i
Line passenger train on 'N vas
nexr Rosehill yeStefo'yc oronet
termed "accidentar' by w oonnty
Ralph L. Jones. of Dupllli; ,ce the
During the 10 days 'l not been
accident an inquest has INV o.
held into the death oee@' corc
lack of information 'D'
ner said. .,;ove i
"In my own mind, l oen I,. The
was an accident, and 'n"' ddpd.
report I have filed ne =; s wife,
Taylor, accompanied by nts h.
was On vacation trip w,,.' err
fell from the train. he wa a.. de-
ployed in the Freight Tram
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-02
With Ernie Pyle

SOMEWHERE IN NORMANDY
by Wireless) AT the edge of a
pasture, sitting cross legged on
the grass or on low boxes as though
they were at a picnic, are Is men
in greasy soldiers coveralls.
| Near them on one side is shop
truck with a canvas canopy stretch
ed out from it, making a sort Of
patio alongside the truck. And I'm
der this canopy and all over the
ground are rifles-rusty and mud
dy and broken rifles.
This is the small arms section
of our medium ordnance company.
To this company comes daily in
trucks the picked up, rusting rifles
of men killed or wounded, and
rifles broken in ordinary service.
There are dozens Of such com.
panies.
This company turns back around
hundred rifles a day to its divi-
sion, all shiny and oily and ready
to shoot again.
They work on the simple sal
wage system of taking good parts
off one gun and placing them on
another. To do this they work like
a small assembly plant.
The first few hours of the NOR
ming are given to taking broken
rifles apart. They don't try to keep
the parts of each gun together. All
parts are alike and transferable,
hence they throw each type into
a big steel pan full of similar parts.
At the end of the job they have a
dozen or so pans, each filled with
the same kind Of part
Then the whole gang shifts over
and scrubs the parts. They scrub
in gasoline, using sandpaper for
guns in bad condition after lying
out in the rain and mud.
When everything is clean they
take the good parts and start put
ting them back together and max
ing guns out of them again.
When all the pans are empty they
have a stack Of rifles-good rifles,
all ready to be taken back to the
front.
OF the parts left over some are
thrown away, quite beyond repair.
But others are repairable and go
into the sections shop truck for
working on with lathes and weld
ing torches. Thus the division gets
100 reclaimed rifles a day, in addi-
ton to the brand new ones issued
to it.
And believe me, during the first
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rs Years Ago
Today
tFROM THE FILES
OF THE STAR-NE"o'

Rev J. A. Sullivan, pa'.r no,d
Calvary Baptist church l ~ ~ hi,
ing a period Of time VlSl''D'
relatives in Norfolk.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. G. Ko0'i have
and their small son, who .l ns;s
been visiting Mrs. hoDe- have
parents in Newport News t5ejt
returned to Wilmington
home.
Mrs. Mabel Norris Itt 1s.. 5 Ne,
last night at James "dHs shor.
mortal hospital following "a snlti
illness. Her home was at 10 ''
18th street.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-02
TOP % THE MORNING

It was only written word,
And little it cost in giving;
But it scattered the night to morning light.
And made the day worth living.
r. T. HENDRICKS.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-02
Fair Enough

Editors Note.-Ths Star and the News accept no
responsibility for the personal views Of Mr.. Pegler
and often disagree with them much A. many Of
his readers HIS articles serve the good purpose Of
making people think.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-02
Our Chief Aim

To aid in every way the prosecution o
the war to complete Victory.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-23
TIMES DAILY CROSSWORD

ACROSS
i-vehlcieE.
S-CTazes
"A tower Aero J
1o-Mtne entrances.
12-CenuS Of lizard.
iS-LiEht boat.
l4-lnset
Is-MetAllic rock.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-23

5000 war stamps and won many Times
awards for sales achievements, including
a wagon, bathrobe and raineoat. His
profits average $40 week. lie has $3.50
in savings and owns four war bonds.
Buhargilr, B student at Naples
School, where science is his favorite sub
jeet, wants to become doctor. He plans
to attend college at Northwestern Uni
versity.
Charles is member Of The Detroit
Times carrier softbill league and a mem
Der of has school see club and swimming
team. he plays clarinet and collects
stamp, and maps as hobbies. lie il a
second class Boy Scout in Troop FS-I2.
Young Buhirgiir is ~, lives at 249
Payne and attends church at ST. Al
phonsus.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-23

Barbaric Rituals of Our Earli-
est Americans. G. A. Weslager.
President of the Archaeological
Society OF Delaware, Tells of the
Unusual Burial Rites Of the In
habitants Of the Americas Be-
fore and Since the Days of
Columbus. Read It I'm The
American Weekly, Great Maya
zine Distributed With Next
Sundays Issue of The Detroit
Sunday Times.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-23

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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-23
Your Carrier
A YOUNG BUSINESSMAN
Introducing Another Busy, Better
Boy Detroit Times Carrier
BY I'm SLOWER
Today We
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CHARLES
BUHARGIAR

In less than two
years a. a carrier
m Iernes avenue,
Charles has in
creased his num-
Der OF customers
from SO TO so,
sold m ore than
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-23
q WISHING WELL a.
Registered u. S. Patent Office.
By Bob Kane
BY Zane Grey
BY Jimmy Halo

II ERE pleasant little that will message
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The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-07-25
HERMANN IN TOWN

John Hermann, of the Seattle
Hardware Company, is in town and
has registered at the Gastineau
Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-07-25
DOUGLAS
NEWS
RETURNS TO sITKA

Miss Pearl johnson, who visited
this week with her sister, Mrs. FL
roy Fleek, returned yesterday via
plane to Sitka to resume her nursing
duties.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-07-25
AP Features

Florence holds a strategic position
in the war in italy The nations
eighth largest city and one OF the
worlds great art and cultural CEN
tiers, it is a zone of reported civil
ian uprising against Nazi DONNA
ton and an oft-bombed rail-com-
munications- industrial hub on the
road to Germany.
Some $50 miles south of Bremen
Pass, less than 100 miles from the
Pc River defense line where Ger
man stand is expected, Florence is
within easy bombing distance Of all
chief industrial cities in southern
Europe
The city is one of the chief monu-
ments to medieval and renaissance
culture. Michelangelo, Giotto, Ban
dinelli, Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael,
Correggio, Botticelh, Benvenuto Gel
lini and other great artists were
born there. Florence is dotted with
beautiful art galleries, libraries,
museums and public buildings and
the city's churches are most impos-
ing. The Duomo Church, designed
by Arnlfo di Gambia, with its great
pillarless roof, is the most famous.
Voicing respect of these treasures,
the Germans repeatedly declared
Florence an open city" But Allied
filters who repeatedly bombed its
freight yards said the Germans used
this city like Rome, as great stag
ing and supply base, believing the
proximity of historic art would with
hold heavy bombing.
Through its 1,500 year history,
Florence has been under military
siege by many European princes.
Rising to an international pinnacle
in art and culture in the 14th CEN
tury, the city ranks high in finance,
industry, commerce and literature.
/ Florence lies in a broad valley, on
both sides OF the wide and shallow
Arno River, and it's 100000 citizens
reside in handsome buildings of his
toric architecture. Today Florence
is the center Of Italys silk industry
the largest in Europe, and has
foundries, machine shops, automo-
bile and glass works. Artists there
still produce fine wrought iron,
gold and silver and embossed leath-
er work.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-07-25

the vessel construction program at
the level approved by the War Pro-
duction Board.
Since materials were made avail
able by the War Production Board
4 a year ago, OCT has recommended
priorities for the construction of
1929 vessels.
when vessels now under con-
struction or approval have been
/ completed DR.. Gabrielson said,
land with the addition of requisi-
toned vessels which are now being
returned by the Navy in increasing
numbers, the U. S. fishing fleet will
be substantially at its prewar size,
although there will be deficit in
certain categories of vessels.
The Office of the Coordination Of
Fisheries will not apply to WPB for
authorization of additional mater
ials beyond that already program
med for the rest of the year, the
Deputy Coordinator said, for the
reason that manpower shortages,
lack of shore facilities, and made
quate refrigeration are already act
! ing as brakes upon the production of
the fisheries in many areas.
In four categories applications
will still be considered. They are:
. Cd Applications that have already
been submitted to the Office of the
Coordinator of Fisheries, but have
not yet been acted on;
/ CO Requests for increase in prev
ious allotments;
4 90 Bona fide emergency or hard
ship cases, such as the loss mot
sale) of a boat which is the owners
means of livelihood
"a Applications that are intend
ed to authorize a production sched-
ule and preference rating only,
without allotment of materials, or
small projects of the backyard"
type where the owner does his own
building, and little or no material
allotment is required.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-07-25
POSTWAR PEACE
PROPOSALS GIVEN
OUT, ChUNGkING

CHUNGKING, July 25. The
proposal by Chinese Peoples For
eign Relations Association for the
postwar world peace has been pub
lished in a pamphlet prepared by
80 well-known experts and profess
sors. The pamphlet is being divid-
ed into five chapters, touching al
most all aspects of establishing Q
postwar world peace.
/ A peace conference is urged to
be convoked within six months OF
one year after the conclusion of
war. The United States is sug-
gested as most suitable place for
the conference.
Regarding the disposition of ag-
gressor nations, the main emphasis
is placed on disarmament, investi-
cation and punishment of war
crimes, reorganization of political
authority in the aggressor nation,
restoration of territorial sover-
eighty and Preparations paid to
certain United Nations. Long peri
cd of education for conversion of
enemies minds to peace after the
Axis defeat is also urged.
Regarding reparation, all public
property and public enterprises
taken by the Japanese from China
should be returned and japanese
public property and enterprises in
China to be held as guarantee. If
mot sufficient, japanese machinery
from industries in Japan should
make up the Chinese losses.
Losses suffered by Chinese civil
! ians in private property should be
compensated with japanese pri-
vate property and enterprises in
China. If not sufficient, machin-
cry from privately owned industries
IN Japan should be taken as guar
antee.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-07-25
newS,n the W0RLD
EAE;a CT RELIGION
VIDbBSs u.w.Rs'O

The upheavals OF war within
Germany have made for greater
unity of the Protestant churches
there and for their greater CO.
operation with the Roman Catholic
churches, according to the World
Council Of Churches Protestant
churches of Germany are bound
together by a twelve-point pro-
sram to resist anti-religious pres
ure. Leaders OF the united
churches have on many occasions
protested directly and indirectly
against government measures con-
trary to Christian conceptions.
They have spoken against so-called
mercy killings" and other viola
lions of basic human rights. They
have Denounced the persecution OF
Jews, in sermons as we'll as in let
tiers to the government, and they
have often, at great risk, given ac-
tive aid to Jews and non-Aryan
Christians.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-07-25
CONSTRUCTION OF
FISHING VESSELS IS
NOW CALLED OFF

WASHINGTON, July IS. = The
Office of the Coordinator of Fish
cries announces that, with few ex-
ceptions, it will not approve APP
plications for priorities for the con-
struction of any additional fishing
vessels during the remainder of the
year.
Construction of fishing vessels
during the first half of the year has
been so accelerated, Dr. Ira N. Cab
rielson, Deputy Coordinator, said,
that the materials originally esti-
mated for the entire year of 1914
have been greatly depleted. Action
now is necessary, he said, to keep
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-07-25
APP PHOTOGRAPHER
IS KILLED TODAY IN
NORMANDY ACTION

LONDON, July 25.-Bede Irwin,
Associated Press War Photographer,
was killed in action in Normandy
today, the Ninth Air Force Head
quarters announces. Two Red Cross
representative verified the fact that
he was killed near Pont Hebert,
four miles north of st. Lo.
Irwin was native of Des Moines,
Iowa, and would have been "a on
Thursday. He joined the Associated
Press at Kansas City in August, 1886.
His widow resides in Los Angeles.
He is the 18th American news
paperman to be killed in this war.
OFF TO KETCHIKAN
Miss Madge Hildinger has left for
= ,,;c;+ II, Kotchikap NJ
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-07-25
minds and souls are the result!
of the shadows which we cast!"

minds ana souls are the results
of the shadows which we cast!"
Recently we attended service
cecumenique interallie' at the Re-
formed Church in Algiers, North
Africa" writes Miss Martha White
ley, Methodist missionary in thai
North African metropolis. THE
church was decorated with plants
and ais with the flags of all the
Allies. Pastor Boegner gave the
message for the French church;
the next was a chaplain represent
ing the English churches; then our
own Methodist missionary, Mr. Han
sen from Norway, and after him
an American chaplain. Last of all
was a young Kabyle Christian who
has done preliminary medical
studies and who is now helping
in the ROLAND mission"
No new church can be erected
until after the war, but, mean
while, the young people of St
S tie phen's Protestant Episcopal
Church, Beckley, West Virginia,
are buying war savings stamps
and war bonds for the new build
ing they envision for their own
needs and the needs of returning
service men. Each has pledged to
give at least two 25-cent stamps
each week for the fund. f