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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-10-13
By ROsETTE HARGROVE
NEA Staff Correspondent

PARIS. Sept. IL - Partisan
women never looked so attract
i've and chic as they do today.
Their smartness has a vital,
bouyant quality which strikes
one Immediately. The trained
observer also notes extreme re-
finement in detail which is the.
hallmark of real elegance. Fur
thermore, Parisiennes have
adapted their clothes to their
changed mode of living-even
for the wealthy the bicycle is
the current means Of transpor-
tation-and they have managed
to combine practical considers-
tions with allure.
Newcomers soon learn this
was their way of waging war
of resistance against the hated
enemy. just as wearing bright
colors became question OF
morale. The predominance OF
color was unexpected to any
one knowing Paris in prewar
days, when sophisticated black
was synonymous with chic.
Women further defied the
Germans by wearing the red,
white and blue of the tri-color-
verboten during the years of oc-
cupation-as we'll as the Victory
v in their dress and accessories.
Green, on the other hand, was
strictly tabu as too evocative OF
the hateful uniforms of the Ar
NV of OCCUPATION.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-10-13

Fullness is the liet motif Of
current Paris styles. While
creators necessarily were re-
stricted TO a certain yardage,
they invariably managed to
cheat the Germans in this as in
so many other ways. The typi-
cal 1914 Parisienne wears
short swinging skirt, full, al
belt with clinging bodices, full
sleeves of either elbow or wrist
length and eXaggeratedly high
platform soled sandals, often Of
bright colors.
She wears voluminous hats
with deliberately draped high
sloping crown and three-inch
deep solid brim, usually off the
face style. Some hats are bur-
led underneath masses of flowers
and yards of yelling. There are
lots of intricately undraped tur-
bans in colorful prints. Right
now many women go hatleSs as
we'll as stockingless, in which
case they are impeccably Golf
fed.
Current styles all underline
natural curves with pinched-in
waistlines rounded high. Slop-
ing rounded shoulders have
completely superseded the pre-
war squared line. A leading Gre
ator explained this trend was
made possible and becoming
because food shortage plus extra
exercise achieved universal
streamlined silhouette.
Suits follow the same trend,
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-10-13

United Press staff Correspondent
CLEVELAND W.H A mir
acle of medical science has
brought back the lights and
sights of changed world" to a
5O-year-old Clevelander who
had walked In darkness for Is
years.
when my sight faded" Ced-
rio Matlock said, "the world was
an ugly place. The dictators
were rushing toward war. Am
erica wasn't united. Fear and
dismay walked hand In hand.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-10-13

ance but will remain nutritious
and acceptable to the taste.
"Megatherm heating differs
from other heating because il
penetrates uniformly and stimuli
taneously all parts of food sub
jected to it."
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-10-13
So Vernon w. Sherman, man

So Vernon w. Sherman, man
ager of the Industrial Electron-
les Division of the Federal Tele-
phone and Radio Corp, New
ark, told a recent meeting of as
ISOLATED chain druggists. The
process. he explained,
probably will cut the time Of
cooking by 25 per cent.
Because we have been educat-
ed to like food that is burned,
scared or caramelized, we will
have to get used to the new
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-10-13

The device, Sherman added,l
operates on ordinary lighting
current and requires no more
skill or training than rooster or
a waffle iron. It's cooking oven
contains two metallic plates, be-
tween which food is placed.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-10-13

cooking and probably will de.
velop new tastes, he said.
II believe the palate will wei
come crustless bread, crustless
cookies and certain other foods
which, electronically cooked,
will take on a changed appear
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-10-13
EIecironic COOKING
Seen for Postwar

NEW YORK - W.H Mega
therm, war-born electronic
process described as "megacycle
heating" may do much of your
cooking in the postwar era, but
you'd have TO get used to the
results, for they are different
from cooking by ordinary flame.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-24
Vichy..

The battle Of French patriots seems to be
focused chiefly upon the overthrow Of the
Vichy regime in its furthest ramifications.
They are working for the dissolution of its
police and administrative powers.
It is not difficult to understand. Vichy has
been a vicious enemy of France. 1t has fol-
lowed Nazi dictation to the letter, rounding
up tens of thousands Of Frenchnen to work
in Nazi war industries far from home. It has
ordered the Staying of innumerable French
men who would not bow to Nazism. It has
raised no hand to stop German atrocities.
Naturally loyal Frenchmen want no more
of it. If they fail to kill Pierre Laval it will
not be their fault-though death would be too
gentle fate for this traitor. Nor can Marshal
Petain be exonerated from blame for what
France has suffered under Nazi domination.
His great age may soften the anger of his
fellow-countrymen, but they are not likely to
forgive his grievous transgressions.
There is only one fault with the French
patriots plans. The Germans beat them to it.
So far as its power to act is concerned, the
Vichy regime is extinct. The gestapo is in
sole control. As potent weapon of evil, Vichy
is no more.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-24
Major Victory, Anyway

That engagement off the Marianas did moi
turn out to be the major naval victory we
had hoped for. Because the japanese were
discovered too late in the day for our Fifth
fleet to finish the job it was impatient to do
darkness came in time to enable the enemy
to run for home with only small part of
its force knocked out or damaged. Perhaps
two hours of combat instead of the twenty
minutes available, would have seen the elini-
nation of all Japanese craft engaged, from
battleships and carriers to the smallest vessel
in the unit.
Whatever our disappointment at home, we
may be sure the men under Admiral Spraunce
all but tore their hair when they realized the
japanese for the most part, had escaped.
But the fight, however iaconclusive it may
have been, does actually represent a major
victory in that the Japanese land forces on
Saipan cannot now be relieved or reinforced
or supplied and must be wiped out, either by
our fire or by attrition, and that strategic
island become an important base for the main
attack on Japan. Some twenty thousand Jap.
anese are said still to be on the island, but
their fate is sealed.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-24
buy WAR BONDS AND STAMPS
The Literary Guidepost

prisingly little interest for the
modern di1ettante; he really be.
gins with Bach, and most of his
book is devoted to men and music
from Beethoven to the present
with excellent studies of Haydn
and Mozart as prelude. Oddly
enough, the author is not a pro.
fesslonal musicologist, but a pro.
Queer at NBC one of his respon.
slbilities has been staging the Tos.
eaniai broadcast. It must h ave
been fun for him to be able. for
once, to write something with some
meat in it. Doubleday, Doran:
$3.50.
Less meaty, but useful, is The
Music Lovers Almanac" by viii
liam Henderson and Paul Fucker
There is page for each day in
the year including February 20
and on each page there is a short
list of important facts connected
with the day. and a longer discus.
sion Of one Of these, or OF some.
thlng else important. The device
gets in its own way once in a
while it is sometimes rather odd
to find subject like notation scat.
tered over halt dozen non-co.,.
sscutive pages. There is an index
and glossary. Doubleday. Dor
an; $3.50.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-24
The 18th Army

Ever since General Patton was relieved of
command Of the 7th. Army following his un-
fortunate attack on hospitalized soldiers in
Sicily, the public has been deeply interested
in its subsequent military activities. Only now
is the news Of its dispersal and reassignmeat
by divisions released.
Parts of the famous 7th. are carrying the
fight in Normandy. Other units have again
distinguished themselves in Italy. Most of the
Army was shifted from Pattons command
weeks before announcement was made that
General Patton had been relieved
The First and Ninth Infantry Divisions and
the Eighty-second Airborne Division, all parts
Of Patton's command now are in Normandy
| with General Bradley. The Third, Thirty
fourth and Thirty fifth divisions are with Gen
eral Clark in Italy.
As separate military unit, the TIN, Arm,
!, has disappeared. all because its commanding
officer. brilliant and hard-fighting leade
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-24
Slaughter

Rejecting the Allied ultimatum, $4,000 Ger
man troops in Cherbourg face humiliation or
capture. They were offered a chance to sur
render with honor. They choose to be slaugh-
tered.
This has been the record Of Hitler's forces
ever since the tide Of this war set against
him. The same thing happened at Stalingrad,
at Sevastopol, at every front where Russian
fire power was greater than the Germans
It was true in Africa, is true in Italy and
in Normandy.
o., Hitler's personal order German forces,
however hopeless their position 60 on fight
ing, and dying in droves. Obviously the Fueh-
rer has a low opinion of human life And
this is the harder to understand in as much
as he has designated the German people as
supermen. One would suppose he'd wish to
save their lives that they might become rulers
Of the world Instead he orders them to their
death with no more compunction than anyone
else feels when swatting a fly.
In this he is strangely like the Japanese
whose leaders are on record as saying the,
would sacrifice 100000 japanese lives, with
out turning stiff hair on their heads, If tn,
loss coald give them victory in the Pacific
It seems to be typical of megalomaniac
geneNally to disregard human life - excep
their own
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-24
BY JOHN sELBY
me books about music


Abraham Venus is in the Army
now, but he used to write most Of
the little booklets included in RCA.
Victor's better albums. Before he
was indicted, he had prepared a
book called 1.-The Concerto" a
timely book considering the enor.
NOUS interest in that form Of sym.
phonic music brought about by ra.
do in the last few years. More
than half the Philharmonic broad.
casts present soloists, and most
others offer stars" frequently.
The Concerto" is both a his.
tory of the concerto form and a
reference work. It might be just
as well to read it, too, for the lay
listener is often confused to find
an out and out exploitation of the
soloist. such as LISTS E flat con-
certo. in the same class as for
example) a Handel concerto gros-
so. Mr.. Venus is not too abstruse
for the average man. Doubleday,
Doran; $3.50.
Richard Leonard''s THE Stream
of Music" is another excellent ex-
ample of historical writing. 1t is a
history of music. with differ
ence. Mr.. Leonard does not labor
the distant past, which has sur
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-24

it became the tent with the fat
man and the bearded lady just
ouside the entrance to the big
top itself.
Soldiers shouted their glee
that the long awaited hour
had come when they could
pass t h e baton to the boys
striking from Britain. They al
most forgot Kesselring's flee
ing forces in front Of them, to
ask 'How is the invasion 60
ing?"
Correspondents sat down to
cable stories on the chase
north of Rome with some such
cracks as We'll, who is writ
ing for the classified ad page
today?"
They started asking one an
other Where do we go from
here?" and Who is going up
to the second front?' and
VINO is going to the Pacific?"
And m e among the sol
diers and newsmen looked at
one another and began to say
speculatively DO you suppose
maybe a few weeks home
leave first-well. it's possible. f"
In t h streets, in the ho-
telc, in the dining rooms, in
the Hobbies, in the bars-in the
Roman atmosphere reminis-
cent Of home-they began talk
ing in the past tense of Saler-
no, Altavilla,f tn e Volturna
crossing, Venafro, San Pietro,
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-24
With Ernie Pyle

saw a German at a latrine not
80 feet away.
So they started crawling. They
crawled for hours. Finally they got
out of the danger zone, and they
started walking. They met a
French farmer along the road, and
took him in tow.
I'VE sure captured that French
man." they said. He was so scar
ed he could hardly talk. We used
high-school French and diction-
airy and finally got it through his
head that all we wanted was some
thing to eat. So he took us to his
house. He fried eggs and pork and
made coffee for us.
Our morale sure was low this
morning. But that Frenchman we
captured fixed it up"
The boys pulled out couple Of
snapshots of the Frenchman and
they were so grateful that
imagine they will carry those pic
lures the rest of their lives.
At this time the French in tina,
vicinity had been liberated less
than II hours, and they could
hardly encompass it in tn e +
minds. They were relieved, but
they handy knew what to do.
AS we left the prison enclosure
and got into our jeep we noticed
four or five French country people
| young farmers in their Dos
would take them to be - leaning
against a nearby house.
AS we sat in the jeep getting
ouc gear adjusted one of the farm
ers walked toward us, rather hest
family and timidly. But finally he
came up and smilingly handed me
rose. I couldn't go around carry
ing rose in my hand all after
neon, so I threw it away around
the next bend. But little things
like that do sort of moke you feel
good about the human race.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-24
Two Wilmington Fliers
Placed On Missing List

Two Wilmington men, First
Lieut.. Ernest Peschau and Staff
Sergeant Preston Beuamy, have
been reported missing in action
since May 20 by the War depart
ment, it disclosed here yesterday.
Both were members of a bomb
e. crew serving in the Central
Pacific war zone. Lieut.. Peschau
was a bombardier and Sgt. Bel
lamy gunner.
Lieut.. Peschau, whose parents
have just left to visit his wife
and small daughter in Texas, was
to have received a furlough soon,
having completed the requisite
number Of missions. He is the son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest F. Pes.
chau of Raleigh and nephew Of
George Peschau, of Wilmington.
His father-in-law is COL Gilbert
OF the Army Air Corps.
Preston is the son of DR.. and
Mrs, R. Harlee Bellamy, of Will
mington.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-24
90 MN
lG1:Q{32l37

within three months, were
credited with destroying 349
aircraft in addition to 242
"probables."
Moved by a towing tractor,
the gun has a range of 10000
to 80, 900 feet and a rate of fire
of about rs rounds per minute.
1t is capable of traversing in a
complete circle, and of elevat-
ing to an almost vertical angle.
Fired by a 10-man crew, the
gun fires both high explosive
and armor piercing shells. The
gun also is effective for use
with the field artillery.
Tomorrow: MA Medium Tank
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-24
The War Stops--Begins Anew

the Rapido crossings, Casino
and all the other spots along
the road to Rome which are
halloWed by white crosses
which now mark the way,
The awakening came slow
and hard.
KeEselring's crew still kept
retreating but this army new
er stopped its chase. The war
moved on, but the war still
continue. Men still were being
manned and killed up in the
line.
The Marathon runners h a d
broken the tape just in time
to hear the gun sound for a
new race nd, tired or not,
they couldn't stop.
This might be only a side
show but still il was an essen
tial one and still it must 60
on.
The soldiers plodded on,
hopping up tn e delaying
forces and the fairsized rear
guard gangs left behind by
the Germans. One by one the
neWsmen began to shake THAR
heads and start on up, travel
ing light again, leaving their
extra gear and excess baggage
in some hotel room, following
the front again.
The farewell to arms was a
false interlude. The roads
which led into Rome from the
South also led out again to
the north.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-24

~ KENNETH L. DIXON

WITH THE AEF, June H.
Delayed) - Up - There's a
strange, anti climactic sense
Of farewell to arms around the
city Of Rome today-a feeling
born out Of the military timing
which ended on long cam
paign on the eve OF a bigger
one elsewhere.
During the long miserable
months Of mud and cold and
winter, during the spring
months Of constant attack and
counter attack, during a cam
paign that often seemed likely
never to end, the eyes OF
thousands of men have been
on distant Rome.
It became the goal. Some
how, bit by bit, the feeling was
born that Rome was the end
of the road. No one ever ac-
tually said it, but the feeling
was there and at long last the
survivors OF those forces whoch
stormed ashore at Salerno
reached Rome.
Eyes strainiag, faces beard
ed and dirty, they burst into
Rome like runners bursting the
tape at the end of the mara
thon.
Then came the let-down, and
on it's heels came the news
at last of the Channel invasion.
That settled it. Somehow this
show seemed irrevocably over
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-24
Would "Buy OFF, Strikers

! No one can read the letter Of crew mem
bers OF the Coos Bay, an aircraft tender, con-
corning strike at Wright Aircraft corpora
ton plant and containing $412 in currency
which was offered to cover part of the pay
increase the donors assumed was the cause
Of the walk-out, without gaining new under
standing of the feeling in the fighting forces
against workers in war industries who slow
down production by walking off the job.
Even though the Wright strike was not over
wages, there have been so many strikes that
stemmed from wage disputes, while the fight
ing forces were being killed and wounded and
enduring disease and jungle torture, the posi-
ton OF the Coos Bay crew may be accepted
as typical of the vast majority of our men at
arms.
They have heavy score to settle with ia.
Dor when the war is over.
Press articles citing the incident have not
done full credit to the letters text, which
ana hot anger these men, and tens of thou.
sands more, feel when their fellow country
men leave them in the lurch in the crisis of
war, though they are receiving more than
they ever had before and are living in Sc
curity and comfort at home
We feel justified, therefore, in quoting the
Coos Bay crew letter here. With one brief
elision, which names the Associated Press as
the go-between ito represent u.s. in submit.
ting the money gift to the strikers, it reads:
sWa the NJ the TT fms po.y
which consists mainly of survivors of other
naval ships veterans of major naval en-
gagements, and all who have seen action not
once but many times and who, while on this
cruise, have not had a liberty for one full
year, feel that we can do more than fight
and even give our lives, if necessary, for
our country. We are willing to help pay the
wage increase from our meager pay that mon
ey-hungry strikers are demanding if they will
just continue to produce the implements neces-
sary so that we can end this war. We have
seen war-and we hate it. .
please implore them to end their strike
and accept our offer to help pay their wage
increase. which they feel is more important
than our lives.
ASK them not to strike in the future but,
instead, to let the men in the war zone know
Of their dissatisfaction and they will gladly
chip in each month 10 save them from star
walton so that they may continue to produce
aims for us to defeat their enemy, as well
as ours, and so that we may come home soon
to see the ones we love, our sons ane daugh-
tiers whom we have never seen and our wives
and mothers who haunt us with memories
day and night; also to see our country for
which we are willing to die-yes, and to see
you strikers; do you want to see us?
'Out here wea are close to our foreign
enemies and can properly deal with them;
our enemies at home we cannot reach. There
fore, in desperation, we can think of nothing
but to offer our money to buy them back
to work; this money having been earned hon.
estly and in the belief that our efforts were
the salvation and protection of those who are
striking against u.s.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-24
Two Nurses Respond
To Epidemic Plea

Two nurses, in respoase to the
urgent appeal fromthe Charlotte
chapter of the American Red Cross
t. Wilmington nurses to help tlgn'
intantile paralysis cases IN tn'
Charlotte area, will leave mere
Monday, Mrs. Lillian M. George
Of the Wilmington Nurses Reglsl-
cry said yesterday.
Cases in the Charlotte area nave
reached cerious proportions ana
any nurse willing and able to help
is urged by the Red Cross to help'
Transportation end expenses to'
gether with regular pay will DC
arranged for by the Red Cross
Mrs. Speiden, executive secretary
OF the local chapter, said.
Nurses are asked to contact MRS.
H. E Bollinger, secretary for this
district, by phoning 1890, or by
calling the local Red Cross heau'
quarters at 22683.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-24
Home Club Federation
To Hold Meeting Monday

The County Federation Of Home
Demonstration clubs will meet
Monday. June 26, at 10 am. in the
office of Miss Ann Mason, home
demonstration agent. AL club Of
ficers, project chairman and COM
|mitteemen are expected to be pres
ent for their summer roundup
meeting.
Club women in the county are
asked by Miss Mason to send in
any suggestions for 1945 programs
OF work to the council. All sug-
gestions submitted throughout the
state are to be considered at the
State council meeting in July.
War Service chairmen are ask
ed to make reports of stamps
and bonds and bought by clubs
and club women during the Fifth
War Loan drive.
A pot luncheon will be served
at 1880 o'clock. Women attending
the council are to contribute one
dish each to the luncheon