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The Wilmington morning star., 1944-10-15
Business Professional
Woman's Club Convenes

The Business and Professional
Woman's club held the regular
dinner meeting on Friday. evening
with Mrs. S. Davis Polvogt, presi-
dent. presiding.
Song. were rendered by Mrs.
Dorothy w. Holden accompanied
by Miss Helen Dobson, the num-
berg were: 'Smilin' Through" and
"False Prophet" During tn e
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The Education department Of
North Carolina Sorosis will pre-
sent a program Thursday after
moo at 4 o'clock in the clubhouse
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BIRTH ANNOUNCED

Cpl and Mrs. livery P. Batten
Of Raleigh, announce the birth OF
a daughter, Eta Cornelia. October
6, at Rex hospital. Mrs. Batten
is the former Miss Fannie MAZE
Coates of Wilmington and Smith
| field.
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Capt Fear chaPter, W.
will meet on Wednesday after.
noon It $3.50 o'clock in the "a
dies ,arlor Of the First Pres
byteran church. New officers
will lie elected and members
mustbe present.
A meeting of the Wrights-
boro Home Demonstration club
will be held Tuesday afternoon
at go o'clock at the club
houe.
Tie New Hanover High
schol PIT. A. will meet at
the school Monday at $3.50
o'c1ck. A meeting of the exc
cutYe committee will be held
at ; o'clock.
Tie Bradley's Creek Home
Demonstration club will meet
witt Mrs. E. w. Clemmons
Wednesday at 2::30 O'Clock.
Members are asked to bring
ther reports and dues for the
new books.
he Bradley's Creek PIT. A.
will meet at the school Thurs
da, at 2::30 o'clock preceded by
the executive committee meet
inh at 1880 o'clock. A special
imitation is extended to all
nev mothers who have chill
drm in the school for the first
tine. A tea will be given in
hosor of the new teachers fol-
loving the meeting.
The Catholic Daughters Of
America will sponsor a bingo
party Wednesday evening, Oc-
tuer 10, at 8:15 o'clock in St.
Nary's school, Fifth and Ann
streets. The public is invited.
Tickets are on sale and may
he obtained by calling 5917;
1113O or 6166.
The East Wilmington Home
Demonstration club will meet
Thursday at 8 o'clock with
Mrs. Paul Jordan on Kerr ave-
nue.. Christmas cards will be
delivered at this time.
The Woman's auxiliary Of st.
Andrews Covenant church will
meet Monday at $3.50 o'clock
in the Kenan building. DR.. Ca
rey Blaine will speak.
The Kings Daughters Sew
ing circle will meet Thursday
for an all-day meeting with
Mrs. L. w. Davis in Sunset
Park.
The Ladies Aid Society OF
St. Matthew's Lutheran church
will meet Wednesday evening
at 8 o'clock at the church.
The Crepe Myrtle Garden
club of Winter Park will meet
Friday afternoon at $3.50
o'clock at the home Of Mrs.
w. c. Mebane, Jr. Mrs. j. B.
Cranmer will be the speaker Of
the afternoon.
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CLUB CLOCK

Cap, Fear chapter, UDC,
will meet on Wednesday after
noon It $3.50 o'clock in the "a
dies Iarlor Of the First Pres
byterbn church. New officers
will lie elected and members
mustbe present.
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Tie Bradley's Creek Home
Demonstration club will meet
witt Mrs. E. w. Clemmons
Wednesday at 2:30 O'Clock.
Members are asked to bring
ther reports and dues for the
nev books.
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Tie New Hanover High
schol PIT. A. will meet at
the school Monday at $3.50
o'c1ck. A meeting of the exc
cutYe committee will be held
at /: o'clock.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-10-15

A meeting of the Wrights-
boro Home Demonstration club
will be held Tuesday afternoon
at go o'clock at the club
houe.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-10-15

The Woman auxiliary Of st.
Andrews Covenant church will
meet Monday at $3.50 o'clock
in the Kenan building. DR.. Ca
rey Blaine will speak.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-10-15

BIRTH ANNOUNCED
Cpl. and Mrs. Thomas B. White
announce the birth of a son, David
Hill, October Z, at Marion Sprunt
annex.
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The East Wilmington Home
Demonstration club will meet
Thursday at 8 o'clock with
Mrs. Paul Jordan on Kerr ave-
nue.. Christmas cards will be
delivered at this time.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-10-15

The Ladies Aid Society OF
st. Matthew'S Lutheran church
will meet Wednesday evening
at 8 o'clock at the church.
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The Crepe Myrtle Garden
club of Winter Park will meet
Friday afternoon at $3.50
o'clock at the home Of Mrs.
w. c. Mebane, Jr. Mrs. j. B.
Cranmer will be the speaker Of
the afternoon.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-04-27
OPA Digests

The Office of Price Administration has lost
itself in such a maze of orders. directives,
contradictions complications and what have
you. that is has been happy to learn a re-
search firm has compiled digests of its activ-
ties and placed an order for 5000 copies there
Of, presumably for the convenience and enlight-
cnnaent of its operatives.
If these digests and analyses are as thorough
as the OPP obviously believes them to be, it
would help the waste paper campaign if the
original volumes, with the exception of one
master set to be deposited with the Depart
ment Of Archives and History, were turned in
Tor salvage.
The value of the master set would be to give
historians at later time opportunity to see
What mess OUT bureaucrats made of things.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-04-27
Another Patton Mistake

General Patton is deservedly the subject OF
censure again. In addressing an audience as
serabled for the dedication of United King
dom Service club in London to welcome Amer
lean soldiers, the General declared Americans
and British "destined to rule the world
1t is doubly unfortunate that in his first
public appearance after the hospital incident
which all but drove him into permanent oo-
security. he should in effect slap the face OF our
other allies as he literally slapped the soldier
on his cot. Clearly the man has as little con-
tro, over his tongue as he has over his hand.
Obviously it would be to his own and the
Allies adv antage henceforth to restrict his
activities to the battlefield and keep him OFT
the rostrum and out of the hospitals. 1t is
well to recognize even generals limitations.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-04-27
Sweden's Decision

In rejecting the demand of the Allies that
it stop trading with the enemy Sweden
replies compliance would injure its status as
a neutral. that it cannot break agreements
covering its trade with Germany, and that it
depends on Germany for SO per cent of its
imports as against II per cent from the Allied
nations.
1t is the third of these items that has chief
place in Sweden's decision. Sweden's gov
ernment is but following the universal prac-
tice of looking out for its own interests first
But that does not make the nations posi-
ton in the postwar world particularly envi-
able. The Allies will not be liable to forget
that SWeeden's industrial production, parti-
cularly of roller bearings, is helping Germany
to continue fighting.
When the time comes for readjusting trade
relations, Sweden may have occasion to rue
the day it made strictly realistic decision.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-04-27
BY JOHN SELRY


"The Way Our People Liver" by
W. E. Woodward (Duttor; $685.;
"Pills, Pettiecoats and Plows," by
Thomas d. Clark Bobbs-Me-rill;
$3.50.
A couple of what 1 call root
books have come along. They are
not root-books in the sense of be-
ing primary sources, but because
they deal with the atoms of Ameri-
can life, thousands of details that
combine to make life as we live it.
W. E. Woodward has for a long
time written history as if it were
a contemporary performance
sometimes a theatrical perform
ance, to be honest. But he is a
digger, and '"The Way Our People
Lived is the result of good dig
ging. 1t is a collection of sketches
about the daily life of America.
1t runs over with oddities that
even John Kieran wouldn't know.
For example, up to 1847 the re-
clplent paid postage on letters,
and as late as 1910 letter from
New York to Cincinnati would
cost rs cents in postage. And
Cyrus McCormick's reaper was,
he says, really a patent infringe
ment; he froze out a man named
Hussey. And Professor William
H. McGuffey's famous readers,
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-04-27
Macarthur, The Soldier

While the Allied world waits with bated
breath for D-day, General MacArthurs inva-
sion forces make their position on Dutch New
Guinea more secure and intensity their attack
on japanese air bases in the Holanda theater
of war.
It is not only that this latest operation has
cut off many thousands Of Japanese troops
from their supply sources as a part of the
war of attrition in the Pacific that makes this
latest exploit Of General Macarthur an out
standing achievement. It also carries him
Aome hundreds Of miles nearer the Philip
pines, to which he is pledged to return. And
while the Fifth Air Force concentrates its
heavy fire upon air fields 4 in New Guinea.
south Pacific air forces continue to rain bombs
upon Rabau] in New Britain and Kavieng in
New Ireland so effectively that both are of
little value to the enemy not only as supply
bases but as defense bastions on Japans outer
rim of tottering security.
It is obvious that in conjunction with the
naval task forces of Admiral Ninitz, which
have had miraculous success in the central
Pacific, MacArthur's land and air forces are
squeezing the Japanese So tightly that their
grip on the vast island empire they seized il.
the early days of their conquest is 1apldly
loosening. With inadequate equipment and
men General Macarthur has prosecuted his
offensive with able strategy and consummate
skill So effective has his campaign been that
there is growing up in enlightened circles a
strong belief that with an aggressive cam
paign in the Burma arena, the Pacific wa,
might be ended very nearly as quickly as the
war in Europe, instead OF dragging on fol
some years longer.
Even if it should prove necessary to post
none victory in the Orient until Hitler is dis
posed of and the British naval and militar,
strength now in Europe can be thrown int
the war against the Japanese. It is still ap
parent that General Macarthur has accom-
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to provide full working forces in industry at
this stage of the war is necessary is not
reasonably to be doubted. The battle is rap
idly turning against the enemy. 10 finish the
fight. it Is essential that all tools used in
warfare should flow in uninterrupted volume
to the battlefields This cannot be done unless
the plants engaged in producing them are
continuously at work at capacity output.
The National War Service act is proposed
to accomplish this end. To defeat it now
would irnperil the lives of tens OF thousands
OF fighting men and protract the conflict. In
the int, est of speedy victory and restoration
of peace it is necessary that Congress enact
this law.
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War Service Act

Jnasmuch as Congress had the courage to
pass the Selective Service act in another cleo
ton wear, the New York Times believes it
is not too much to expect that august body
10 approve the National War Service act in
the present election year. The statements by
Secretary of War Simpson and Secretary of
the Navy Knox, together with the implied en-
dorsement of General Marshall, the chief of
staff. the Times believes, justify the hope that
the Congress will have the wisdom to make
this measure the law of the land.
The Times points out that the greatest mis-
conception of the measure is that everybody
would at once be drafted, that families would
be torn asunder and the present procedure OF
employment would be disrupted Nothing like
this is contemplated, it adds, by the Austin
Wadsworth bill, which is the measure en-
dorsed by the Army and Navy heads. The
Austin Wadsworth bill, the paper explains
q. is limited solely to those indus
tries which are Essential to the effective
prosecution of the war" And here it as
sumes, and so asserts, that when a critical
shortage of manpower develops in such
an industry the President shall first tissue
a call for volunteers to fill the empty
Jobs. Only if sufficient volunteers are not
forthcoming to meet particular shortage
is a draft of civilian personnel to be IN
voked. And for this purpose the bill pro-
poses to create no new centralized bureau
cratic direction, but instead to make avail
able the present machinery OF the same
local boards which have administered the
Selective Service Act. The bill further
provides that when any men or women
are drafted to meet a critical shortage
due regard shall be had to assigning
them to service in or near their home
communities" 1t also provides that mo
person shall be assigned to work at
location where reasonably suitable hous-
ing accommodations for such person and
his or her immediate family are not avail
able" And 1t provides finally that any
person drafted shall receive the wages and
work hours generally applicable to the
lob which he or she is called upon to fill.
This clears up any misunderstanding Of tn
measures provisions and should aid doubt,
members Of Congress in making up thel
minds to support it. That some lesislatlo
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-04-27
Interpreting
The War
BY RIRKE L. SIMPSON
Associated Press War Ann1-

Two aspects of the current No.
news from Europe stand ONT =.
indicate that the synchronized vim
tory campaign planned at Tobc
ran to smash Germany is now -
full swing. They heavily unde~scora
the opinion of Admiral Ernest
King, American naval commareo~
that Germany's defeat can han
PEN in 1914 and release Anolo
American power for total att9oI.
on Japan.
Kings statement, made 10 .
New York audience, is a notablo
contribution from Allied miIitar-
spokesman. The American ra,or
commander is not given 10 ovsr
optimistic utterances He has f1Il
knowledge of the realisties in all
war theaters. That includes nm
questionably the timing schedule
drawn up at Teheran for brine.
ing final pressure to bear on tho
foe in Europe from east. west and
south simultaneously. He also
knows the state readiness attain.
ed on all three fronts since tho
Teheran conference.
Against that background can he
set official Axis reports that tbe
short-lived hull of the Black Sea-
front has ended with resumption
of the Russian dive at the Galsti
gateway to the Balkans.
1t is obvious, that the Allied air.
battecing of the Bucharest, Ploes.
ii, Budapest and other Balkan
centers is coordinated operation
In effect, it represents the first
phase of closely-linkad Russ an
ard Allied military moves in r.
1943 campaign although it is doay.-
full that the Balkan theater is rated
as a critical front in either Rus
sian or Anglo-American eyes.
At best, a Russian smash through
the Galati gateway could knock
Romania and Bulgaia out of the
war and perhaps ultimately, jar
loose the Nazi hold on the whole
Balkan peninsula. 1t could DIVE
the foe back into his inner citadel
and intensity the economic stran-
gulation to which it is being sub.
jected. But neither the Balkans nor
Italy offer prospects for quick
drive into Germany itself.
} The road to Berlin from the east
lies north, not south, of the Carpa.
THAN mountains, across the rolling
plains of Poland. 1t is there that
the eliminating Russian attacks
to break through into Germany
will come to match the Anglo
/ American invasion from the west
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With Ernie Pyle

staff is all Army - 10 doctors, 33
nurses and about 80 enlisted men.
Maj. Theodore PAUL., of Pontiac,
Mich, commands.
These ships ferry back and forth
on trips like this for a few months,
then make a trip pack to America
with wounded. My ship mas been
back to the States three times
since it first came over less than
year ago.
In a sense hospital ship is the
nearest thing to peacetime that
I've seen in war zone. The ship
runs with lights on all over it, the
staff has good beds and good
cabins, there is hot water "a
hours a day, the food is wonderful.
I was given a top bunk in a
cabin with one of the doctors. After
nosing around into all the nice con-
veniences of the place, I discover
ed we also had toilet and a
shower.
I asked unbelievingly if the bath
worked They said sure it worked.
So I took a bath for half an hour
and felt very weak and civilized
and wonderful afterwards.
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The Literary Guidepost

which seem SO stuffy to us today.
were actually educational icono-
clasm; they were protest against
the readers filled with stories
about Bad girls who said they
were going to prayer meeting,
and actually went to dances.
These stories often ended with
detailed descriptions of the bad
girl frying on ha Goals in very
literal hell, and frequently sent
youthful readers into Mysteries.
These are only random exam
pies of Mr.. Woodlands method. He
has co-laborer in Thomas D.
Clark, who is publishing a most
good-humored book called pills.
Petticoats and Plows." This is a
lelsurely study of the southern
country store, and therefore OF
country life generally. He goes
much beyond the obvious boun-
DIARIES of his subject, too. One Of
the best chapters is about drum
mers and their technique, one OF
the most amusing about the coun-
try stores influence as a social
correspondent. These stores
were often everything from the
local bank to the local relief
agency. Sometimes they were even
fronts for city slickers selling
counterfeit money. And their led
gers become social history of the
rural South.
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The average weekly wages paid
by the shipbuilding industry here
are more than double the average
for all North Carolina manufac-
turing concerns, according to sta
tistics released in the April issue
of Labor and Industry" publ
cation of the North Carolina De-
partment of Labor, and by Off
Gals of the North Carolina Ship
building company.
The average weekly earnings of
employees Of 1,082 firms reporting
during February-the latest avail
able-were S24.95; the weekly av-
erage of employees of the shipyard
in March was S6104, according to
the reports.
Figures from the Department OF
Labor showed that average week
ly earnings in the cotton goods
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-04-27
Start Thinking Now

If the frontiers of all countries were as free
from barriers as that between t h e United
States and Canada the world would in
fact have achieved the Utopian state. But it
would be too much to think that this could
be brought about at the peace table following
the pqresent conflict. The peoples of the world
are not yet ready for the millennium
This being So and the need for a peaceful
world obvious, the question is how far the
Allied nations will be willing to go to main
tain peace. 1t must be recognized that the
powers which will overthrow the war-makers
the present conflict. The people of the world
arms when the last gun is fired and live in
perpetual security. 1t is not even to be hoped
that no cause of trouble will spring up among
themselves. Mankind is not constituted that
way. There must be safeguards against other
wars, in which the victorious nations will have
2 hand in proportion to their ability to main
tain them.
1t is proper. then, that we in the United
States think seriously now of the problem
we must face when the war is over. We must
determine to what extent we are willing to
emplov cur national wealth and our young
manhood to make the world safe for the gen
erations still to come. We must appraise our
RESPONSIBILITIES in the vital task of paying for
peace.
We know that our offspring for many years
will be paying for this war. We know that
three hundred billion dollar war debt cannot
| poccih1v n century, We must
begin to figure now, even before the wars bill
is totaled how much additional debt we should
impose upon the future generations for pre-
venting future wars. We must determine now
how large peace force we are willing to
raise and keep in service, for it would be
foolish, probably tragic, to assume that peace
can be maintained without an Enforcement
army and navy and air force.
The defeat of Hitler will not bring end to
Prussansm. The German militarists will plot
another war even while they are bargaining
for peace The stock from which they sprung
has disturbed the peace of Europe for two
thousand years. Their progeny will be schem-
ing new wars long after we and our children
and our childrens children are in the grave.
They can BE- suppressed only by world police
force Our problem is to know what part we
are ready to take in that suppressive enter
prise.
1t would be silly to say we will let the flu
ture take care of itself. We said that, in eff
feet, after the last war and scrapped our arma
ment We dare not do that again. If we hao
been ready for war; Hitler never would have
started upon his conquests
The American public ought to be thinking
seriously now of what it will do to see that nc
future Hitler has opportunity to lead the world
into another holocaust.
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Shipyard Wages Double
Manufacturing Average

industry were S2349 Others in
Guided in the report were tobacco
products workers, S28.11; Hosiery,
full fashioned, employees, S30.38;
Hosiery. seamless, $40. 40; Furni-
ture, S22.18; Iron and Steel, S31.91,
and Rayon goods, $2597.
1t was also reported that en-
ploynent in the state decreased
slightly during February while
payrolls, average weekly earnings
and average hourly earnings
showed slight increases.
The February survey covered
1904 manufacturing and non
manufa curing concerns employ
ing total of 276,581 workers. The
average weekly payroll amounted
to 81, 1924, 904 average weekly earn
ings. including all companies re-
porting. $26,48.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-04-27
LULL IS BROKEN
ON ANZIO Front

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS Na .
pies, April 20 R Allied t,oo ,3o
have broken the lull on the A.Lo
bridgehead, improved Their pos@
tons and have taken prisoners III
several limited attacks launcDeJJ
after combined artillery a-u
propaganda barrage, Allleo li'''
quarters announced today It.
The Allies dashed out to stren5na
en- their lines as American llls s..
reported heavy movements Of enc s
mby motor transport on me lI' ~.
ways near Rome and as ot1lc,a-
ports told of enemy replacemen.ss
from the Russian front fea'-'-'''
the beachhead front Mp
The gains we're scored ID s W.
past three days, headquaE'el5,. r Oh
nounced, a mile and a han ''g car.
east of Carano. where me VI #.
mans launched their latest BIZ ID
fensive against the bIld5e 5.5
forces. The Allies first d'rec'ta
propaganda talk at the GeE5Ao a
lines through amplifiers' anu
prisoners were taken ori,.
The most recent batch OIL . PIE.
oners, numbering nine, was .t .s, 4
yesterday, four coming IN a-'''
persuasive loudspeaket tam bor,
Pilots of American light ooHI arsa
attacking roads in the Rome s, ct
reported the enemy troop co .oaod
trations around Rome. the s sssrg
time in two weeks StcH Go.
moves have been noted IL iss;1ed
nificance remained uneHpi' we're
but it was clear the ALlieS , T
taking no chances on BENG ''''
unprepared.
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pnsneo rar more than could reasonably have
been expected of him with the conditions under
which he has had to fight what they were
and still are.
This fact alone ought to be sufficient to in
duce his misguided political boomers to stop
their efforts to secure the Republican presi-
Dental nomination for him. When man is
doing an exceptional job where he is, it is
good judgment to leave him in it.