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Evening star., 1944-02-07

whom I stood on the director plat
form above the destroyer's bridge.
Star shells made the white
shore bright and seemingly close
enough to hit with a rock Then
the bombardment got under way in
earnest. 1t was centered on build
ings or other shore objects and one
small merchant ship.
This vessel, clearly silhouetted
against the white shore light, had
a high plume of black smoke pour
Ing from its stack. 1t apparently
was trying desperately to move out
of danger. The bombarding ships
took turns banging away at it with
a gun or two as they fell into
position. 1t apparently was hit a
number of times and left beached
or badly crippled in the water. No
other shipping was seen in the har-
Dor area though constant lookout
was kept for torpedo boats and op-
posing warships.
Like Fourth of July.
Guns of the ships roared with dull
angry spurts of flame. The wind
blew choking smoke into our faces.
Red and yellow tracer shells, some
in salvos of three or four or more,
seemed to drift gently shoreward,
streaking the night with color. The
flash of enemy guns, and tracer
streams added to the fireworks. Star
shells floating above the sea and
shore shed a glow against the back
ground of white mountains. 1t was
like an old-fashioned "Hell-bust-
in" Fourth of July.
Part of the task force I was with
continued up the shore for some
distance searching for other targets
before turning out to sea. Behind
us several fires were blazing. One
in particular continued to burn with
what appeared to be periodic explo-
sions as If of gasoline or ammuni-
ton until finally it faded below the
horizon.
This fire was still in sight when
heavier flashes broke the night be-
hind us. Again we could see tracer
streams OF japanese antiaircraft
fire. 1t was the second section of
Commodore Genres express" raid
ers coming over. The first, I was
told, had hit the area about Is
minutes after the bombardment.
Every move of the task force had
been exactly on schedule and after
the attack was over it had seemed
almost too eaSy. None disa oreed
with the sailor who said, why we
ought to go ahead and take that
place"
Evening star., 1944-02-07
Benjamin N. Miller Dies;
Ex-Governor Of Alabama
~ the Associated Press.

|
SELMA, Ala, Feb. 7.-Benjamin
Meek Miller, go who gained the
appelation Of "the sturdy oak" of
Wilcox County during his 193l-1935
Governorship of Alabama, died here
last night at the home of daughter
Mr.. Miller, native of Oak Hill,
Wilcox County, and a graduate of
Erskine College, S. c., and the Uni
versity of Alabama law school, be-
came Governor after teaching in a
country school, practicing lag and
serving as a circuit Judge and as a
justice of the State Supreme Court.
After his retirement as Governor
he returned to his home at Camden
and resumed law practice. He
moved to the residence of his
daughter, Mrs. Roy Childers, last
September.
Evening star., 1944-02-07
Building Declines

Building construction has been
rapidly decreasing in South Africa
because Of wartime controls.
Evening star., 1944-02-07
Arthur Suuve Dies

MONTREAL, Feb. 7 (P.-Arthur
Sauve, 50, former postmaster general
of Canada, died yesterday after q
long illness. AS postmaster general
from 1880 to 1885, Mr.. Sauve in
troduced bilingual postage stamps
in Canada and in 1882 represented
Canada at the World Postal Con-
gress in Egypt. For % years he
was a Conservative memeber of the
Quebec Legislature.
Evening star., 1944-02-07
Wisconsin Leader Dies

MILWAUKEE,, Feb. 7 (R.-Frank
c. Klode, former president of the
Wisconsin Board of Control and
director of the State Department
OF Public Welfare until his resigna-
ton last October, died Saturday
The T-year-old furniture rnagnate,
active in State politics under three
Republican Governors, underwent
amputation of his left leg several
weeks ago.
Evening star., 1944-02-07
Paper Collection
In Schools Tomorrow

Following is the schedule for
the collection of newspapers,
magazines and cardboard in
The Evening Star-PTA Salvage
for Victory program in the
second district tomorrow, to-
gether with the five leaders in
the district and their poundage
tn doto.
Evening star., 1944-02-07
U. S. Flyers Sink 6 Ships
In Convoy OFF China
By the Associated Press,

0y tlS ASbOClHtS0 Pfe6k.
CHUNGK1NG, Feb. 7.-Liberator
and Mitchell bombers Of the 18th
United States Air Force attacked a
nine-ship convoy in q sea sweep of
the southeast China coast Saturday
and sank at least six of them total
ing $4,000 tons, a communique from
1t. Gen. Joseph w. Stilwell's head
quarters said last night.
Another ship Of 1,700 tons prob
ably was sunk, the communique
added. All the aircraft returned.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-10-13

too have banded together along group lines in
order to pool resources and equipment, thus
making high quality medical care available at
minimum cost to patients.
In commenting upon this evolution in the
practice Of medicine, DR.. Morris Fishbein, ed
itor of the Journal of the American Medical
Association, notes that: "All these develop
ments ought to be borne in mind because
charges are constantly made against the med
ical profession that it has been hostile to these
very changes: that it has opposed every
change that has been proposed. The answer of
the medical profession to this charge is simply
this: not one Of these plans prevails today in
the form in which it was first proposed. The
medical profession has studied them and ex-
perimented with them, and has brought about
the necessary improvements and controls to
assure their efficiency and to guarantee the
interests Of the public Thus gradually they
have come to be tested plans which could be
offered for adoption on large scale.
e.. Eventually the American people are
going to have to determine whether as part
of their social security system, they wish to
have all their medical care administered under
a Federal bureaucracy or continue gradual
evolution in the distribution of high quality of
medical service under the present system"
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-10-13
The Literary Guidepost

foreground. Behind the Allie s.
backs, in America, a female COM
mentator demands that Germans
be educated" which is another
word for coddled, with her. Then
Friedolin, a shepherd, appears out
of the mountains and in him Ger
many (and the female comnenta-
tor in America) finds the Messiah
of the fourth German reich.
This he really is, in sense. He
calls the people to expiate their
sins and sets penance. Penance
groups appear, of youths as well
as their olders. There are penance
policemen and wardens, and these
shepherds found and nurture
another of those great mass move
ments which Germans love. The
penitents feed on hope, and by
the middle 1950's Germany is
ready, the female radio common
tator declares, to return to her
rightful place among the great ma
tons of the world.
She is more, Of course. In Mr..
Lessner's text she is again ready
to stea 1.-The world, and with cells
in Chicago and .Yorkville, ready
even for us, who are the last out
posts. Mr.. Lessner at last brings
dear Adolf back for a lusty he'll!
The book is clumsy, but brighten.
ing.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-10-13
BY JOHN SELBY
"Phantom Victory" by Erwin
Lessner putnam: $3.50.

'
Erwin Lessner's Phantom Vic
tory is another hail from a voice
that has been crying in a world
wilderness for many years. Less.
ner is an Austrian whose service in
World War I earned him all the
medals his government could be-
stow. But these were hardly enough
to blind him to the things that
followed the German defeat of 1918
and when at last the German ad-
vertising agency Auslandsanzeigen
began bribing newspapers, radio
stations and every other agency
possible to disseminate German
propaganda, Lessner revolted. For
years he fought Auslandsanzeigen,
until in 1888 the Gestapo declared
war on him. He escaped, fought
i'll Finland, was captured and tor
tured in Norway. and eventually
reached America in 1941. He was
broke, barely alive But he at once
began writing.
Phantom Victory is a HUI z e
allegory, and shocking. At the be-
ginning we find the Allies enter
ing headless Germany, unable
to find any responsible persons
with whem to deal. ALI are un-
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-10-13
With The AEF =
Nothing Like Artists Version

Most Of them got a little sleep
last night between wondering whe-
tier the next mortar was going to
nit the building directly as one did
day before yesterday. Also, they
probably know what day of the
week it is, what day of the month
it is and approximately what time
of day it is-wiich shows their
mental condition.
But the men back in the fox
holes have just finished a costly
four-day battle. They thought they
were going to be kicked out Of this
town several times before they
finally drove the Germans out at.
ter losing more than half the com.
pany. They didn't get chance to
relax even a few hours. They still
are fighting down the road a little
way.
They have been living, eating,
sleeping and fighting in freezing
mud. When they get little break,
they curl up in a miserable ditch
and try to get little warmth and
protection from a wet blanket.
Even if they had the time, they
couldn't sleep more than an hour
or so because of the discomfort.
bitches and foxholes do not give
protection from bursting shells that
shower fragments downward. SIEVE
raj Of this company's causalties
were caused that way and every
move brings more casualties from
mines. ....
The Germans are strewing mines
here as they did at Casino.
Livinf thus like animals, with
fear, cold, hunger, sickness anc
misery dominating their lives, com
bat line soldiers soon lose all char
scteristics of human beings. Give
them a couple of days relief anc
they will snap back to something
resembling normally. But as fol
the magazine Illustrations h {
boys are laughing at this batch
and their laughter has a bitter
harsh and ugly sound.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-10-13
Evolution Or Revolution

During the last thirty years, the administra-
ton of medical service in the United States
has undergone marked changes represented by
a shift from a system of medical care COM
posed of an interchange between patient and
physician on fee-for-service basis, to wide
group medical practice.
At the present time there are about thirty
million Americans covered by hospital pre-
payment plans. Other millions are members
Of prepayment health insurance plans devised
and put into effect by industries, insurance
companies, medical groups and others. Doctors
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-10-13
Libel Action Filed
Against Schoone,

Libel acti on was instituted
against the Canadian auxiliary
schooner Stewart T. Salter, now
tied up in the port of Wilmington,
by the U. S. government Wednes-
day in connection with a claim
lodged against the craft by the
Broadfoot Iron Works for the
amount of $21, es3.os for repairs,
supplies and wharfage for four
months.
The schooner sailed from New
York in ballast early in March and
was en- route to Mexico when she
met boisterous weather off Cape
Hatteras. Her hull was laid down,
and her seams ripped open by the
storm. She was reported in bad
condition when the government
owned tug Cypress towed her from
Cape Hatteras to Wilmington.
The Salter was put on the Marine
railway by the Broadfoot concern
in order to repair her engines,
tackle, apparel and furniture.
Later the Coast Guard was sum.
moned to pump her out.
The British-registered schooner
was allegedly sold to Mexican, but
the ibellants have been unable to
determine or locate the owner.
A default decree will be sought
on October q. In the event the
owner is not located in the interim,
80 days later, or around Nov. %,
the schooner will be sold at public
auction.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-10-13
BY.KENNETH DIXON

WITH THE AEF IN FRANCE,
Oct. -(Delayed)-tR-A battered
three-months old magazine just
showed up in this rifle company
command post and the doughboys
now are gazing at illustrations sup
posed to represent frontline fight
ing men.
1t is scene I have watched
many times in Africa, Italy and
France. BY now most combat line
soldiers long since have given Up
hope that the folks at HON ever will
understand.
But still they make bitter re-
marks. And a few still hope that
some day maybe the folks will
know what it's like. So here is one
more attempt:
Right now the commander of this
company looks worse than any
drunk who has slept three nights
in the gutter. He is dirty, beard
ed and bleary-eyed, coughing bad
ly and probably running a high
temperature. His tangled an
twisted hair sticks up from his
head at crazy angles. He doesn't
look like the officer in the maya.
zine.
There is nothing handsome or
romantic about the sergeant who
just came back from patrol. He
literally stumbled down the steps
to this basement under a she'll
shattered house because he is
punchdrunk with sleeplessness. His
four-day-old beard is flecked with
mud and food and hairs from a
wet and dirty blanket in which he
wrapped himself for two hours OF
rest between patrols. His shaking
hands spilled the coffee he tried
tc drink a few moments ago, drool.
ing muddy rivers down his chin.
He's good colder, but ne looks
more like a scared, cold and dirty
invalid.
The private who came with him
looks even worse. His body, whip
ped into stringy flesh, is crum.
bled slackly into wet and shape
less clothes. One pant leg is tuck.
ed into a combat boot. The other
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-10-13
Facing The Tax Problem

An organization of business men known as
the Committee for Economic Development has
been credited with formulating the basis for
that traditional critic of business, the New Re-
public, terms the work of the committee "a
big step in the right direction in spite Of
the fact that the committee, while attempting
of outline a fair, adequate, and reasonably
simple tan structure, proposes adjustment of
the corporation tax, thereby relieving corpo-
rate stockholders from the evil of double tax
alton. And Life, after observing that the COM
mittee wants tax system that will result in
the maximum creation of new jobs, terms
such a proposal revolutionary because mo
peace-time U. S. tax law has ever been based
on an acceptance Of these fiscal facts of life I"
However, the only thing basically new or
revolutionary about the present proposal is
that it has been accepted in the spirit that
it was put FORTH sincere effort to stimulate
thought on the proposition that capital and
labor will sink or swim together. The well
fare Of one depends on the welfare of the
other. If taxes undermine industry, the people
will pay in lost jobs. Farsighted leaders in
both public and private life have sought to
get this idea across for many years.
OF course it will be revolutionary indeed if
the tax laws are actually revised to encourage
expansion and promotion Of jobs in private in
dustry as advocated by the committee. Divid-
ing the American people against themselves
in tax matters has been sure-fire vote getter
for 50 many years that it may be hard for
some politicians to realize that at last an in
formed public is demanding greater states
manship in public office.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-10-13
LETTER BOX
BE SURE TO VOTE

To the Editor:
I am writing this appeal not "
the supporters of the Dem0cfs'
Party, but to every citizen Of N''
Hanover county who is entitled T."
vote in the election on NovemOei t.
At this time we, when the WOl"
is going through it's most trying pr
Rod and our young manhood u ~. y
valiantly fighting (some ll'' "a,
ing the supreme sacriflcel III 7
de- that democracy may 1--we as "
grow and that a lasting peace | .,
come once again, are holoins IN IN
election, a thing not attemp'eua
any other country in the "olt s,il,
Those of us who are galhim%
occupied in war industries or.
there are many in New Han lo;r,
county, have done and are e. aV o,,,
a wonderful job of supportlhs W. w,
armed forces in the field, ou' VI
duty Of supporting these men men % IN.
women is not fully comple'eqt .sr.
til we exercise the right Oh .ios
chise, by registering and VO'"'
in the coming election a,.|
1t may properly be sala a., M
the rest of the world is Wa'ci. .ir
with interest, to see if we i' M,
are sincere in our asserloH ,s~.
we believe in and adhere to a 0 Nh,
ocratic form of government lnl
only way that we can 1uIlS - A.
onstrate to all the peoples W Of
earth that we are sincere IS -" nj
ercise the right of franci1S'
vote. III h
open, for registration, IN eaGn ar r
cinct of the county on oc'oDs- n
81 and %. It will only take b
minutes of each citizens ua, as.t
check and see if they are pIOg !,
qualified to vote and II h.'
get their names on the pooh, ,,sn
Then be sure to vote on N0''
Der Z. . ,.N
We in New Hanover county p ar,
been derelict in our duty /, nt
selves, our fellowmen anu d
country in the past, so lei /.
unite this time, of all tlllis' ii.
performing our full duty a. ,ort,
zens of New Hanover county I'd
Carolina and the United oI@'
America. o,n,
NATHAN S. HASKETT, LINN r.rr
Democratic Executive n
mittee Of New Hanover
Wilmington, N. c.
October IL, 1914
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-10-13

trails on the ground, frayed and
raudcaked.
Waiting, huddled against tn e
wall, he trembles constantly and
almost uncontrollably. You can't
tell whether it's from the cold or
from the sound of the mortar shells
that have been falling near t h e
command post all morning.
He and the sergeant both are
sick with fright and long since
wrung out by fear. But in a few
more minutes, they will leave the
comparative safety of the COM
mand post to return to foxholes
and perhaps 60 out on another
patrol.
Despite their appearance, the
guys here at the command post
are pretty lucky-by comparison,
that is.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-10-13
City Suddenly Famous

city known to few Americans has taken
a prominent place in the news recently in
connection with the Russian steam roller cam
paign in southern Europe. The city is Szeged
don't ask us to pronounce it, and it is the
nearest town in Hungary to the spearhead Of
Russian forces advancing through Romania.
1t ranks second among cities in that country.
The city is of prehistoric origin, and relics
OF early Hungarian tribal life have been ex-
cavated. It developed at a ford across the
Tisza river on an early route south to the
Adriatic. In its long history it has been de-
stroyed and sacked, burned and flooded. The
flood of 1879 damaged or destroyed more than
nine-tenths Of the houses, and the city was
rebuilt along modern lines, largely by contribu-
lions from European cities commemorated in
street names.
Damned and diked to prevent recurrence
OF flood, the Tisza river, in pescetime, carried
passenger steamers. which also served subur-
banites, as did an extensive system of street
cars and motor buses. They also reached out
to rich farming area with its many low farm
houses surrounding courtyards.
The outstanding farm product was paprika.
In single year, before the war, the United
States was importing over three million pounds
Of paprika from Hungary, more than from
all other countries combined. The river and
many lakes to the north and northwest yielded
quantities Of fish. Szeged restaurants were
famous for their fish soups, and the city
also produced a popular sausage. The fac
tories made hemp, flax, tobacco and leather
products; matches, textiles, embroidered Slip
pers, and penknives.
Szeged had broad streets and beautiful build
angs; many open squares, public parks. and
Towering gardens; university, library, end
museums; many monuments and statues. Its
many suburbs include the town Of Ujszeged
just across the Tisza river, reached by a
1000 foot bridge built by Eifel Of Eiffel
tower fame.
What is probably At more interest just now
j that Szeged lies but six miles from the
Yugoslav frontier.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-10-13
interpreting
The War
BY KIRKE L. SIMPSON
Associated Press War An.,

nseooiA'eu 1ress war Analyst
American carrier-based plans wv
along the west coast of Forrs.aaa
within a scant 100 miles NJ O "
Chinese mainland coast tou, ~
off Tokyo predictions of folloNs'
landing operations althouub wv
went unconfirmed from anv as lucy
can source. '''
There seemed no reason IN do,.
that Formosa, a capstone ~ s' y.
Nipponese China sea conouest ~. "a.
had been brought under firs ' y.
the first time By American boms.
fleets, whether the enemy estm,.s
of 1000 planes involved is accrr,.'
or not. The figure used sufficie,,s'
shows Japanese recognition Of IN.
tremendous American air-sea non
er concentrated in the far Pac*.
now.
Unwillingness of the Americ,
task force commander to rsvoa
the position of his fleet by bress
ing radio silence could account IA,
delay in an official report on III,
action to Pearl Harbor headouas
tiers. The striking fact about fl,
incident, however, is that it "a
presents an American advance mn
only across the Pacific but ala
virtually within sight of the Chin.
csc coast months ahead Of sch.
dule.
In clear weather pilots Of Am
erican bombers closing on Forna
san targets probably would have
seen the loom of islands off ii.
China coast from their bombin,
altitude. They were that close 10
the reputed ultimate goal Of IA.
American drive through the central
Pacific, apparently without Tor
menting the elusive Nippones.
home fleet to action
It is a fair deduction that what
ever e,,se the bombing of the whcl.
sweep of the Ryuku island chain
stretching from the southern tip
Of Japan proper to Formosa and
then Fornosa itself was designed
to accomplish, hope of locating tn.
main Japanese fleet and bringing
it to decisive action went far to
inspire the move. Planes of the
cooperating commands of Admiral
Ninitz and General Macarthur
obviously have been probing all the
way from the Sulu archipelago and
the waters of Borneo in the SOUTH
through inland waters in the cen
trail Philippines and now among
the Ryukus and over Formosa haG'
bors. for that purpose. If any sub
stantial part Of enemy naval
strength has been distantly sight
ed or its hide-outs located, how
ever, there has been no word Of It
in American official reports o.
press advices from Pacific areas
In view Of authoritative discOS
ure that the Pacific offensive has
outpaced most optimistic allied
hopes by many weeks or months
it is doubtful that the far ranging
operations in the east China SEA
imply any immediate move to fol-
low through with landings. Dlstaas
es are still too great for that. They
seem more like diversions in fore
designed to pull japanese air am
sea power away from probate
landing sites in the Philippians
Among other detectives at whlea
the rowing sea-air attack in lh
East China theater might be ann
ed is the boost it could give Ch
nese civilian and Army morale
stiffening of Chinese resistance
the japanese effort to slice Chna
apart would warrant bold Amer
can ventures even if larger tacr
cal or strategic conceptions aH
involved.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-10-13
One Way Or The Other

The Little Steel formula has been broken
The punch drunk experts are muttering,
Here we 60 AGAR" while the OPA has an
nounced an all-embracing price control pro-
gram to 60 into effect after Germany falls,
when reconversion commences.
Out OF this comic opera Of men against ma
ture, the ordinary citizen, whose activities
are already slowed to crawl In q tangle
o. regulation, is faced with the appalling pros
peet OF having to make the readiustment to
lation. Instead Of getting simpler as the war
crisis subsidies, the rules are getting increas-
ingly complicated. The OPA admits that price
ceilings in regard to products which reappear
conversion, will have to vary from industry
to industry, in some cases from company to
company. There may be 100 different ceiling
prices for the same item produced by 100
different firms. According to OPA, the night
mare Of regulation Is to be continued until
'there is no longer any danger Of inhationary
price increases
With wages on the verge Of another upward
spiral, thus again putting the squeeze on farm
producers, manufacturers and retail distribu-
tors, it will probably be long time before
the danger of initiation is over Eventually
the people may have to choose between the
danger Of initiation and the danger Of too
much government control.