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The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-10

MRS. WAYNE S. ARNOLD, the
former Mary Blake of Watha,
who has been spending two weeks
with her mother, Mrs. Jamss G.
Blake in Watha. Mrs. Arnold re-
eeived her Masters degree in Sci
ence and Home Economics from
Syracuse University on August Is.
She is a graduate of the Woman's
college OF the University of North
Carolina and has been teaching a.
the Burnt Hills and Ballston Lake
Central school near Schenectady,
N. Y, for the past seven years.
Her husband, an American Red
Cross regional director of supplies
of the Naples area in Italy, has
been serving overseas for the
past year and half.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-10
Mildred Leggette,
Pvt. Crosse Married

LUMBERTON. Sept. 9. - Mrs
Hybert Leggette OF Fairmont, an
neunees the marriage of her step
daughter, Mildred, to Pvt. Joseph
Frank Crosse, August II in Ashe.
vile. The Rev. P. S. Kermit Of.
ficiated.
The bride wore a powder blue
jersey dress with white accesso-
ries and corsage of pink rose.
buds.
Mrs. Crosse is the daughter Of
the late Hybert and Prude Inmar
Leggette of Fairmont. She is a
graduate of Highland Hospital
school of nursing in Asheville. For
the past year she has been doing
supervisory work in psychiatric
nursing there.
The bridegroom is the son Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Antonio Crosse of
returned from Is months duty with
combat engineers group in Afri-
ca, Sicily and Italy and is station
ed now at Camp Butner.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Drew Of Lum-
berton, announce the marriage of
their daughter, Edna Earle, to
Melvin M. Holmes, son Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Louis Holmes of Lumberton,
on September 2, in Dillon, S. c.
Miss Virginia Best was hostess
to IL friends at an informal party
at the home OF her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. W. M. Best, in honor Of
her cousin and houseguest, Miss
Frances Best of Franklinton. A
gift was presented the honoree.
Mrs. E. J. Willis and Mrs. Err.
nest Fleishman entertained at q
weiner roast and dance at Nc
Millan's Beach honoring Miss Sy.
bill Willis, who left this week to
enter nurses training at Charlotte
Memorial hospital.
Mrs. George T. Deans was host
ess to IA friends at luncheon at
Hotel Lorraine honoring her two
houseguests, Mrs. Simeon Tolar OF
Washington, D. c., and Miss Ra.
chel Rice of Portland, Maine. Cor.
sages marked the places Of hon.
orees and hostess.
St. Andrews Covenant
Circles Will Convene
The circles of st. Andrews-C Cove.
nant Presbyterian church will
meet as follows:
Mrs. o. v. Thompson, chair.
man, with Mrs. ]. G. Carroll, 1877
Market street on Monday at 4 pm.
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2-Mrs. John E. Evans. chair
man, at the church on Monday at
4 pm.
3-Mrs. o. H. Shoemaker, chair.
man, with Mrs. r. C. Plat, ITO
Chestnut street on Monday at 4
pm.
Mrs. J. r. Benson, chairman,
at the church on Monday at pm.
5-Mrs. c. F. SETTER, Jr., chair
man, with the chairman, Castle
Haynes road, on Monday at pm.
6-Mrs. I. H. Stampley, chair
man, with Mrs. j. M. Gregg, is
Fayetteville street, Wrightsville
Beach on Monday at 4 pm.
8-Mrs. W. M. Cameron, chair.
man, with Mrs. r. L. Pearsall,
1908 Chestnut street on Monday at
4 pm.
Mrs. r. B. Slocum, chairman,
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n1ington. Ushers were John Smith
of Trenton, N. j., brother OF the
bride, and Byron Harrison OF High
Point, cousin of the bridegroom.
MS. Smith, mother of the bride,
wore a dress of black crepe and
chiffon with bouquet of lavender
orchids. Mrs. Belois, mother of the
bridegroom, wore a dress OF IN
vineible blue with hat to match
and a lavender orchid.
Following the wedding DR.. and
Mrs. C. P. Fisher entertained at
a lovely reception. The dining room
table was eentered with three
tered cake topped with minia-
ture bridal couple, candles, white
flowers and white wedding bells
decorated the brides table.
For the brides going-away
suit she wore a black wool and
velvet combination suit with acces-
series of black and wearing the
orchids from her prayer book.
The bride is a graduate of Len
DIR Rhyme college, Hickory, and
for two years has been director OF
Band and Choir music at Lands
High school, Lands.
Lieut.. Bellois received his pre-
dental course at Wake Forest col
lege and is a graduate of Atlanta
Southern Dental college, Atlanta,
Ga. He is a member of Pi Kappa
Alpha and Psi Omega fraternltles.
After a wedding trip the couple
will make their home in Great
Lakes, H., where Lieut.. Bellols
will be stationed for the present.
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with Mrs. E. A. Millican, 101 Hy-
drangea place on Monday at $3.50
pm.
1O-Miss Barbara Allen, chair
man, at the church on Monday at
$3.50 pm.
11-Mrs. c. B. Case, chairman,
with Mrs. E. Won H. Peschau at
the church on Monday at 8 pm.
12-Mrs. w. A. Number ger,
chairman, with Mrs. j. L. Full
bright, Jr., lit South Sixth street
on Tuesday at $3.50 pm.
BIRTH ANNOUNCED
Mr.. and Mrs. Tom Williamson Of
Portsmouth, Va, announce the
birth of a son, James Harold,
September 5. Mrs. Williamson is
the former Bee Bowden Of this
city.
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They wore floor length dresses Of
white net over white taffeta and
white flowers in their hair.
Phillip Bostian and Sonnie Beav-
err of Lands, lighted the candles
on the altar. The church was beau
tifully decorated with palms d
white flowers.
Best man for the bridegroom was
his father, G.. w. Bellois Of Will
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BINGO PARTY

A bingo party will b. ,,
Fear Council, No. "a, Jnn;. 0sp'
der, on September /, >. =. VI
n nifsd order ena hall. The public s' !, ~ ~
charged. e VIII b,
BIRTH ANNOUNCED
MI Mr.: and nd Mrs. o. T. Levi, -.
nounce the birth Of ' ~
a natricla Jean, SEPTEMBER 4,
Marion ! r sprunt annex. Mr. ,, At
veil. 'eeAla Ha,.
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street, Friday, September IS, at
1880 pm.
12-Mrs. E. G. Tillet, chairman,
will not meet until October.
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MODERN MANDARIN
Though it looks as luxurious and
fragile as the more precious pelts
this modern Mandarin-styled las
kin mouton coat is as durable as it
is inexpensive. Gilt embroidered
wool banding transforms the for.
mer sports fur into an important
lfotmal wrap ,
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-03-22
Civilian Goods Needed

According to responsible authorities, at
tempts have been made to hold up produc-
ton of civilian goods in the belief that a
policy of scarcity is an effective morale build.
er. If this is true, a despicable trick is being
played on consumers and the battle against
initiation may be made UNNECESSARILY more
difficult.
Most observers agree that the immense pro-
ductive capacity Of industry now stands as
ton. Unless industry turns out things people
need in sufficient quantity to offset the bill
lions of new dollars which the war has put
into the hands of the public, the natural laws
of supply and demand will wreck price cell
ings. Industry should be encouraged to pro-
duce the goods and retail distributors should
be encouraged to make those goods avail
able to consumers on as large scale as pos
sible without actually impairing war produc-
ton.
Complicated regulations have been to blame
for removing from retail shelves many crit
ically needed consumer items. When mer-
chants and manufacturers point to the effect
Of specific regulations on dwindling supplies.
they are assured that everything possible is
being done to correct the situation-but the
regulations continue in force and supplies
windle. Low priced clothing is case in
point. Certain lines of wo1nen's and children's
apparel have literally been ruled off the mar
ket.
If these regulations that restrict production
and distribution Of consumer goods are part
Of a misguided attempt to bolster civilian
morale, it is about time the country learned
the truth. nation whose people have sent
ten million men to war, will not appreciate
public servants playing with the home front
like children play with a toy
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STATE TEACHERS
TO GATHER TODAY

RALEIGH, March p
Hundreds of teachers and @ scbo-,
officials from every county in T'D NO
state are expected here w ., ne
day for the opening of the 6o ta'i s
nual convention of the North ''i = an
DINA Education Association Naf'
The three-day meeting will !,
gin at 8 pm. in the Hush ME- We
son High School auditorium p r'ros'
ident Horace sisk, superinten5 3es.
OF the Fayetteville CITY schooI
will preside. '00lS'
Speakers scheduled to appear IN
the opening program are Dr. + VI
HaskeW. coordinator of tearban
education at Emory UniverSi+e.F
whose topic will be The Age 'o y;
Pioneers; and DR.. Harry A. H. VI
ers, of the U. S. Office of Edncs
ton, Washington, who will sneal,
on 1.-THE Guidance Program IN
essential in postwar educate
planning" ''''
DR.. John Temple Graves edith,
OF the Age-Herald. Birninghan1
Ala, and DR.. Clyde A, Frwin
state superintendent of public in
struction, will be the speakers ~
the second general session ThrrS'
day night at 8 o'clock. DR.. Graves.
topic will be wonders Yet II
Be-"
New officers for the 1944-45 veor
will be introduced at the third
session, Friday morning. DR., RAIN
Mcdonald is the unopposed can.
didate for president. Candidates
for vice president are C. c. Lin.
nemann Of Durham, and Mrs An.
ME Laurie Mcdonald of Hickory.
Two new directors will be install.
ed. They are Margery Alexander
Of Charlotte and Virginia Kirk.
patrick of Raleigh.
Departmental and divisional
meetings will be held throughout
the convention.
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Ickes And Fuel Rati0ninq

1t is not often that the great coordinator, ~
Harold Ickes, earns public gratitude and praise
But his stand against fuel rationing deserves
the peoples highest commentator.
Mr.. Ickes contends that without rationing
special deliveries of fuels can be made to
meet emergency conditions by which at least
some actual suffering may be avoided. This
is the soundest pronouncement the gentleman
has yet made.
Whatever may be claimed for the principle
of rationing, and there are many who declare
it has prevented runaway initiation. there
seems no good reason to extend it to the ma
tons fuel supply, whether coal or OIL
There has been too much inconvenience in
the past two winters from limiting fuel allot-
ments In certain regions without sufficient re-
gard to existing climatic conditions. We have
seen many households in this immediate vici-
nifty shiver through cold spells in dire discom-
fort, because the available allotment Of oil
and coal has been inadequate.
Too much flu and pneumonia has been d.
rectly traceable to insufficient fuel to permit
anyone reasonably to believe that fuel ration
ing could help solve the heating problem. On
the contrary, local conditions unquestionably
prove that rationing would but add new
difficulties
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The Literary Guidepost

make the mouths of the few re-
manning natives water.
It is these people Mr.. Lawson
satirizes. His product is alphabet
ically arranged, beginning with
airplanes.
"Airplanes,' Mr.. Lawson writes
beneath a picture Of one knock
ing a few bricks from a chimney,
usually function most noisily on
Sundays, in early morning or late
afternoon. Their playful pilots can
unerringly pick whichever Of these
times you have selected for your
nap as the moment to practice
dive bombing on your chimney. To
country jewellers the only asset of
airplanes is that, when low
enough, the roa. of their motors
browns out the radio"
Mr.. Lawson mas forgotten the
New york-Boston planes which
pass overhead at short intervals
all day and apparently all night.
Also the local grandmother who
began flying At 70-odd and boasts
that she can do everything but
get a plane off the ground and
Land it. He has forgotten little else,
though. The cut-worms are in the
book, the cocktail guests who slice
off mailboxes, the morons who put
aslnlne names on their station
wagons. The book is a neat bundle
OF belly-laughs and smokers. I un-
derstand it, for my house is only
a mile from Lawson's,
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The PetrillO Case

Here is hypothetical case to consider in
connection with Petrillos ban on the Inter-
lcchen, Mich, school music competitor broad
casts on the ground that the children partici-
pating are not union members. Suppose the
major baseball leagues were unionized and
forbidden by their union bosses to invade sand
lots and college diamonds for recruits because
the players there did not carry. union cards.
Where would clubs in the major go for replace
placements and as soon as the players in the
majors were no longer capable of playing the
majors would 60 out Of existence.
Petrino's purpose is to unionize all musicians
and to prevent any outsiders from earning a
livelihood by musical performance If he were
permitted to do this, to the extent of dis.
couraging school pupils from joining school
musical organizations by refushing them the
privilege Of being heard by radio or other
means, he would ultimately exhaust his supplv
OF professionals and have no recruits from
the principal source-school bands and
orchestras. Musical organizations would 20 the
way OF the major baseball leagues, and he
have nobody left to pay triubte to him He
would kill the goose that is now laying the
golden eggs for him. There'd be nobody left
to pay union dues. Like all dictators, Petrillc
can't see further than his present advantage
It is time that Congress took hand in the
Petrillo case, as Chairman Clark Of the In
terstate Commerce Subcommittee suggested
at a hearing on Monday. Dr. Joseph E. Mad
dy, the Interlochen president, who has done SC
much to promote music in the country's
schools, would do well to present legislation
to do.
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department and the Office OF War information
have agreed to share in a pool Of available
womanpower.
BY this method, the four-agency leaders be-
lieve, better advantage may be taken OF wo-
mems services in the continuing emergency
with no one branch having the edge on
another. An agreement has been drawn up
under which plain rules are set forth for secur-
ing women workers and recruits for the armed
services.
This pool will succeed in proportion to the
strictness of the rules observance by the
four participating agencies
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| ever saw, which came clear below
his knees.
His legs were bare. He had on
gay Army socks rolled down to
his shoetops. And on his feet were
a pair of brand-new American CT
shoes, which must have been at
least size 8. To top it all off, he
had beguiling grin with a tooth
out in the middle of it.
This youngster was adept at
walking on his hands. He spent
hours walking around the muddy
street on his hands, with his feet
sticking straight up in the air.
The soldiers and sailors were
crazy about him, and every time
he finished his little performance
he'd get flood of crackers. l
finally figured out that he was
walking on his hands so much be-
cause it was easier than walking
ir those gigantic shoes.
Pretty teen-aae Italian girls in
red sweaters would come and stand
at the edge of the throng watching
the fun. But the sailors and SOL
diers at the rail would soon spot
them. and the play for them would
start. Reluctant and timid at first,
they would finally obey the sail
or's demand that they try to catch
something too, and pretty soon
would be in there battling for brok-
en- crackers.
Most Americans are touched by
the raggedness and apparent hun
ger of the children over here. But
it was hard to feel sorry for these
kids, for although maybe some of
them really were hungry. the rest
Of them were Just having a Won
derful mob-scene sort Of good time
1t was the old women in the
crowd that l could hardly bear to
look at Throughout the day there
must have been a couple Of dozen
who came, tried for half an hour
to catch something, and finally
went dejectedls away.
They were horrible specimens of
poverty and insanitation. They
were old and rltiful, and repul-
sive. But their hunger most surely
was genuine
One elderly woman, dressed in
tattered black and carrying thin
old shopping bag on her arm. stood
at the far edge of the crowd. vainly
beseeching a toss in her direction
Finally one sailor, who had Just
started on a large box of nabiscos
piece by piece changed his mind
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-03-22
Womanpower Pool

Despite difficulties in securing women for
essential service, either in the armed forces
or in industry, there is no scarcity OF woman.
power in the nation Recent surveys show
there are still more than five million women
between % and IS years of age who have no
children and could be at work either full or
part time. The trouble is laid to competition.
Recruiting campaigns, often overlapping are
thought to have defeated their own purpose.
To overcome this handicap, the War Manpower
Commission. the Navy department. the War
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-03-22
AS Doctors View 1t

Socialized medicine would mean greater Sc
fession, in opposing specialization, is not grind
ing the ak OF personal gain. This is hard
for medical critics who think comfort is the
millennium, to understand.
Doctors oppose government domination OF
medicine for two reasons: First, because it
about inferior medical service to the people.
Second, because, as American citizens with
a background Of freedom and individualism,
they have no alternative but to oppose any
measure which they feel is a threat to Amer
lean institutions and Constitutional govern
ment. Socalized medicine, like specialization
Of industry, would hasten the end of freedom
in this nation.
The doctors have been accused OF selfish.
ness and blind conservatism in their battle
against government medicine. If they were
selfish they would not be killing themselves
trying to maintain the health OF the nation
during the present crisis. They are far from
blind conservatives, because more than any
one else, they come into contact with mis-.
fortune and death. They are working constant.
ly to broaden and improve medical care.
Some measure Of their success is indicated
by the fact that the span of life in the
last century and-a-hah has been increased
from IS to g. years-almost doubled.
The attitude of physicians on the issue OF
socialized medicine has been well described
by Rear Admiral Ross T. McIntire, the Presi-
dents personal physician. 1T is my hope"
he said, that we shall never see medicine
the time never comes when the practice OF
medicine or anything that has to do with it
comes under government control. 1t would be
d disaster to this country -
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and threw the entire box towar.j
the old woman.
1t was good throw and A good
catch. She got i: like an outfielder
But no sooner did she have it in
her arms than the crowd was upon
her. Kids and adults both tore At
the box, scratched and yelled and
grabbed, and III five seconds tho
box was empty and torn.
The poor old woman never lot
go. She chung to it as though if
were something human. And when
the last cracker was gone she walk
ed sort of blindly away, her head
back and he: eyes toward the skv
weeping with a hideous face lust
like that of heartbroken child
still gripping the empty box.
1t was lot Of fun watching this
foreign riot of childish emotions
and adult greed that day. But some
OF 1t was too real-greed born Of
too great a necessity-and was
glad when word came that we
would sail that night.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-03-22
BY JOHN SELBY
COUNTRY collie: THE WEED
Frs DIGEST" by Robert Law
son Little, Brown; $1.75.)

son Little, Brown; $1.75.)
Robert Lawson is probably sick
to d.ath of being known as the
man who illustrated THE Story
of Ferdinand, and probably
equally sick OF being asked for
autographed copies of same to be
sold at various bazaars in and
near his home, which is Westport,
Conn Now he can donate some
thing likely to be as popular as
Ferdinand, albeit in different
field.
Mr., Lawson has produced book
called Country Collie" and SUBJ
titled THE Weeder's Digest" This
he has written as well as illustrat-
ed, each with entire success. 1t is
a take-off on country life as prac-
ticed in Fairfield County, Conn,
which IS to say that it is not
take-M on country life at all.
Fairfield County is the rendezvous
Of many thousands of people who
make their living in New York,
or on; of such pursuits as writing
and Illustrating books. These peo,
pie live rather too close to each
other IN houses constructed on the
rocky ribs of New England. both
the ribs and the houses b.,,;nr
been purchased at prices that
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outflank both :be Upper Dnester
and the Polish Bug line danger
ously. A Russian break through
the Bug defense front for war
of maneuve.. or Poland's fertile
plains, nowhere blocked by noun
tain masses or any slzeaoie
streams. would bring the war VII-
tually to the frontiers of the RelcN
proper on terrain where Russian
manpower superiority would nave
maximum and possibly decisive
effect.
The Berlin Warsaw BudapesI
communication triangle is the 3D.
vious key to the German inner
defense ring, the means by when
Nazi commanders still hope 10
shuttle inferior forces to preVehI
collapse of the European fortress
under weight Of Russian-Allled ST.
multaneous attack by superior
numbers.
Absolute control of the BudapeS,,
transportation hub and its rail anu
road feeders was essential once
the Russians had broken all routes
southwark east of the Carpath'ahS'
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-03-22
BY ERNIE PYLE

WITH THE ALLIED BEACH.
HEAD FORCES IN ITALY,-by
wireless)-We were due to sail for
the Anzio beachhead a few hours
after I got aboard our LIST.
But at the last minute came a
warning of a storm of gale force
brewing in the Mediterranean, so
we laid over for "a hours.
Some of the sailors took the op-
portunity next day to go ashore,
and asked if l didn't want to go
along. But I said, What for?
I've been ashore for three months
already" So 1 stayed aboard, and
just killed a full day with doing
nothing.
We were tied up along the wa
terfront street of small port city
near Naples. AL. day long the dock
was riot of Italians grouped down
below to catch cookies and choco-
lates and knick-knacks the sailors
and soldiers would throw down to
them.
There must have been 200 people
on the dock, either participating in
the long-shot chance of actually
catching something, or there just
to look on.
Most of them were children, boys
and girls both Mostly they were
ragged and dirty. Yet they were
ooOd natI1red
Every time package of crack
ers went down from above, hu.
manity fought and stamped up
owe, it like a bunch OF football
players. Now and then some
youngsters would get hurt, and
MAKE a terrible face and cry.
But mostly they'd laugh and look
little sheepish, and dash back
in again after the next one.
All italian children call all
American soldiers Hey, Joe," and
all along the the dock was a chic
ken-yard bedlam of Hey, Joe,
bis-ueet," Each one crying at the
top of his lungs to call attention
to himself and holding up his
hands.
The soldiers favorite was
stocky little fellow of about 8, with
coalblack hair and constant good
hunor. He was about the only one
of them VINO wasn't ragged. the
reason being thai he was entirely
clad in military garb.
He had on a blue Navy sweater.
Then for pants be had the biggest
pair of British tropical shorts you