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Evening star., 1944-08-14

let him have a look at the record
1t shows that David o. Selznick has
signed Christofa Simms as an &C.
tress. Miss Simms Is 10 and q
prodigy, but not in the sense OF
cinema. She is the Christofa Simms
who was studying archaeology (this
typewriter is reluctant even to spell
the wor0 at the University of Wis
consin at the age Of II.
Further by way of proving that
brain and beauty are not as mutual
ly exclusive as you may have
thought, Miss Simms has recently
been working as a Powers model.
You should be hearing from her
a girl that smart and beautiful.
Manpower department: Laird
Cregar, who has lost prodigious
pounds and still remains just about
the most mountainous actor in
Hollywood, remains a sort of man.
power problem to himself. He has
just been taken off the suspension
list by Goth Century Fox, and as
signed to the lead in Patrick Hamil-
tons "Hangman's House"
The assignment represents a vic
tory for the studio, maybe double
one since Billy Rose thinks Cregar
would be the perfect actor to take
the lead in his fall production Of
Henry VIII"
Both roles are nicely murderous,
which should f1atter Cregar no end.
Mail department: Miss Betty Nc
Donnell. from away out in Sioux
Falls, S. D., deserves a prize for
the neatest suggestion of the week
for disposing of the problem Of
Academy awards for the acting in
Going My Way" Writes she:
II suggest that the term sup
porting be eliminated from Fitz-
gerald's award. I also suggest that
Crosby receive prize. Bing should
have received an Oscar years ago
simply for being the human being
he is, If for no other reason"
Then she would revise the whole
Academy system OF prizes, giving
two in each classification, with nei-
ther called supporting.
4xx
Ditto department: Speaking OF
prizes, note from the Nationals
Mr.. Plohn (who seems to be our
subject almost insists that he shall
be first to nominate Cliff Berry
mans cartoon last Friday for this
years Pulitzer prize.
You did it for Barry Fitzgerald
as the best actor of 1914. for Berry
man as the top cartoonist," he says.
The cartoon is that in which the
Commander in Chief was shown in
conference with his Pacific COM
manders. in the aloof presence Of a
dapper Democratic nominee who
just came along to get away from
politics"
Business department: John j.
Payette, general zone manager for
Warner Bros, is Hollywound bound
to attend the annual meeting of
the corporations home office exec
utives He will return knowing
just what the studio has in mind
for the coming season.
X y
Miscellany department: Bride by
Mistake" will have its world pre-
miere showing in Washington, but
the date is indefinite 4. 1t will be
held in allegiance until Mr.. Skef-
fington" concludes its run at the
Earle. The picture, a comedy,
stars Alan Marshall and Laraine
Day. Fortress Japan" next in
the World in Action series. will bow
into the Trans-Lux on Thursday.
. :. 1t deals with the preparations
Of the japanese homeland to de-
fend itself literally to the last ditch.
Dunninger. the mentalist, and Joe
E. Howard's Gay 90s Revue" are
fall attractions listed for Consti-
tuition Hall under the sponsorship
of Fred A. Kirsch.
Evening star., 1944-08-14

Brooklyn" that shS had Just teen
him the night before In the Phil
Baker movie, Take It or Leave It."
It was q cutback Of Jimmy doing
q song and dance number with
Shirley Temple In . 10-year -old
movie.
Looking him over in the battered
tuxedo he wears for the role Of
Johnny Nolan, the nice writing
lady said, "And I think you look
better now than you did then"
The smiling Irishman had a
quick answer. What he said was:
"Will you marry me?"
*&
Close-ups: Hal Wallis will have
Joan Fontaine as star of his first
independent movie for a Para
mount. Joan's feud with Boss
David O. Silznick has been made
up In q nice way-with a raise in
pay. i. Billy Wilder and Charlie
Bracket are still busy adapting
The Lost Week End" and hope
to have it completely Hays-proof.
They sent carbon Of their work
to date to Jean Arthur, hoping
she'll consent to play the feminine
lead. A new Brazilian game,
peteca, Is being introduced to the
film colony by Arturo de Cordova
and has gone over big in some
back yards. It's like badminton
without rackets. Sonny Tufts
once a night-club warbler by pro-
fession, sings for the first time on
the screen in Here Come the
Waves"
Released BY the North American
Newspaper Alliance, Inc.)
Evening star., 1944-08-14

HISER. BETHESDA fsaS s:sS..s.: Ma.. AZ. A.
Eddie Cantor, George Murphy
and Joan Davis in /.
SHOW BUSINESS" also
March Of Time "Sweden's
Middle Road"
Evening star., 1944-08-14
Writer TO Learn
OF Peru First Hand

HOLLYWOOD.
Some family In Peru Is going to
have q Hollywood guest but doesn't
know 1t yet.
Writer Jack Wagner is leaving
shortly to sojourn with a Peruvian
household to be selected by the
Office of the Co-ordinator Of Inter-
American Affairs.
Purpose: To gather material and
atmosphere for a Peruvian-ba
ground film story.
Evening star., 1944-08-14
Nationals First 52-Week Season
Offers Opening Date Dilemma
BY JAY CARMODY,

department OF confusion Edmund Plohn
called
question that might difncut. ' ~ ~ y
not joel uppeman the quiz kid aged and prodgous
hedged but
We'll" said closes when does the
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-03
Over The Top

Once more Wilmington and New Hanover
county residents have proved their faith If
the Red Cross With quota of $4,000 In
the national fund campaign they had con
triotted SOB, 7O5 93 when the drive officially
closed on Saturday at noon, with more to
co+?e in the next few days as some firms
and individuals are still to be heard from
It S not at all improbable that the quota
wi. be topped by at least $4,000
It is source of pride to everybody that
the greater community has done so well, and
Of deep qualification that the organization
which ministers so ably to the fighting forces
vii not lack for funds to carry on its great
work. so far as the Wilmington area is con-
cerned, in this crucial period of the war.
We have so many sons and brothers ano
husbands on the battlefronts Of the world
We could not be niggardly with our earn
ms when we know that by supporting the
Cross we can assure them not only
creature comforts but needed assistance and
attendance if they become casualties.
The Red Cross will always find us ready
Whenever it appeals for our financial ald'
It is to be hoped that it will not lind us
wanting when it asks for our time and SER
vices in its many activities on the nome
front
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-03
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SERVICE

"Unreality'' was the subject Oh
the lesson-sermon in all Christian
Science churches and societies or
Sunday, April 2.
The Golden Text was from
jeremiah 1928. Truly in vain is
salvation hoped for from the hills
and from the multitude Of noun
tains: truly the Lord our God Is
the salvation of Israel"
Among the citations which com.
prised the lesson-sermon were the
following from the Bible: 1.-The
Lord is my light and my saliva.
ton; whom shall fear? the Lord
is the strength of my life; OF
whom shall l be afraid? Though
an host should encamp against me,
my heart shall not fear: though
war should rise against me, in
this will l be confident. For in the
time of trouble he shall hide me
in his pavilion: in the secret of his
tabernacle shall he hide me; he
shall set me upon a rock psalm
27.1, 3, 81.
The lesson-sermon also included
the following passages from the
Christian Science textbook, "Sci-
ence and Health with Key to the
Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy:
1.-The understanding, even in
degree of the divine All-poWer de-
stroys fear, and plants the feet in
the true path the path which
leads to the house built without
hands eternal in the heavens
That evil or matter has neither
intelligence nor power, is the doc
trine of absolute Christian Sci
ence, and this is the great truth
which strips all disguise from err
ror" page 454D
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-03
Assistant Needed

When the work of the county farm agent
office became too heavy, due to federal OIL
rertjves and the increase in reports requii GU
Of professors and growers, R. W. Galpnlh'
the county farm agent, appealed Tor an as
slstant The county board OF commission
err responded by agreeing to pay hall tne
salary of an assistant if the state would
pay the other half. The expenslon service
Of the State College undertook to tlnd an
efficient man and to guarantee half his pay
Tbs TRANSFERRED some months ago.
To date no assistant has been assigned W
the county office The understanding IS ula'
satisfactory man has not been 1ouiio'
Meanwhile the work continues to pile up III
Mr.. Galphin's office, to his own enoar-
faSsment and the discoura cement OF tne
'ountrys agricultural interests.
Perhaps if the search for a competeh'
assistant were conducted over WIDER area
IN has thus far been made, the need mlgn'
De filled Naturally preference should pc
f'Ve;' TO someone within the state. But II
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-03

will require the continuing and coordinated
efforts of everyone concerned with rail
transportation including shippers. The fol-
lowing are some of the recommendations
frorl the ODT to help keep the cars rolling
O Don't order more cars than are actually
needed and can be loaded promptly. Don't
order cars for the same shipment from more
than one railroad. (2) Load and bill cars
on day placed or within "a hours after place.
ment. CD Cooperate with other shippers, if
necessary, to insure maximum loading Of
cars. "a Utilize equipment of lowest class
suitable for your shipments. Don't load high
class cars with communicating commodities.
(5) Don't insist on certain types of cars when
the shipment can be handled satisfactorily in
alternative types. co. Load and unload six
full days weekly, including holidays-seven
days where necessary to avoid delay. CO
Furnish shipping instruction promptly e.
Try to schedule shipments to avoid all pos
sible movement during peak periods 90
Avoid punching at destination. Q0) Make
advance arrangements for labor to unload
cars. CID Unload all cars within "a hours
sooner if practicable.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-03
The Literary Guidepost

for infiltration of Mindanao and
Celebes. The subsidized ship lines
forced to include stops at Davao
and at Menado on Celebes as well,
and fares to these points were con-
veniently cut in half.
Blandly, Mr.. Price Unanswered
the Japs into allowing him to cir
Gle their possessions ON Japanese
ships. He and his wife were sup
posed to be naturalists, as ac-
tually they were. At each stop the
Japs conveniently tipped them off
to the places where air fields and
Notifications were being built by
insisting that nothing important
was in those places, but that they
could not be seen just the same.
The Prices did not always succeed
in seeing them, either, but by care
full, casual questioning of natives,
they found out surprising num-
Der of things. 'Japan's Islands
Of Mystery describes many actual
installations, indicates where the
terrain makes fertilization, air or
sea bases likely, and perhaps even
more important, it describes the
approaches to such islands as Pal
au, Truk, Ponape and the Mari
anas, including reefs and harbors,
and tells what the invader is like
ly to encounter in the way of pests
and helpful conditions ashore.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-03
Coal Production

Coal producers nave urgently requested the
Sold Fuels Administration to ston its ma.
hon-vide 'there-is-no-coar' CALAMITY nrona.
ganGa 1t IS breeding senseless boarding.
Since conclusion of the last coal strike in
November, production has been more than
100000 tons week in excess of the output
in the comparable period of 1942-'43
These latter two years broke all records
tor coal production for any country in any
year, in spite of strikes The output in
1912 war 10000, 900 tons, and in 1943 was $780,
O0O,oO tons. The 1914 goal is $40, 900 900 tons.
1t been estimated that the capacity of
actve mines for year of 308 days is 1885,
900 coo tons
The gain in coal production has been
&C .iaved in the face of declining labor forces.
Whst the coal industry needs most right now
is cooperation from Washington, instead of
SCARF headlines about coal shortages And
it 4eeds machinery. Harry M. Vawter, di-
rector of the Biturninous Coal Institute, re-
certify declared that: Someone in authority
will soon have to realize that 80 per cent of
the nations bituninous coal is cut by ma
CHIMES and 40 per cent Is loaded by machines
ur orground.' These machines are wearing
Out and coal mine operators have not been
able to get requirements because produc-
ton of such equipment has been curtailed
VIII some has been sent overseas.
There is plenty of coal in this country. The
coo industry knows how to get it out of the
ground. If there is coal shortage it will
be lie to political bungling and interference
with the industry.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-03
BY ERNIE PYLE

WITH FIFTH ARMY BEACH.
HEAD FORCES IN ITALY.-(by
wireless)-This is a little series Of
vignettes about four frontline ser.
geants. They're just little scenes
that came along in conversation
as We lay on an Italian hillside
chatting one day. The four men
are platoon sergeants of the 45th
Division of the Allied Fifth Army
on the Anzio beachhead.
Sgt. Samuel Day of Covington,
KY, is big guy. He weighed
Est pounds when he came into
combat in January, and he still
weighs 240 despite all the K-ra-
tons he's eaten.
Sergeant Day would be hard on
his feet in any circumstances, but
when you get into a trench-foot
would, 24O pounds is lot of ag-
gravation for sore dogs.
We got to discussing trench-foot
and Sergeant Day told about an
incident that happened to him. 1t
seems his feet got in pretty bad
shape during their last recent tour
in the foXholes, SO he went to the
frontline nedics for ointment or
something.
The medics' solution for his
troubles was simple. With a
straight face, they told him, Keep
your feet dry and stay off of them
for two weeks!"
Sgt. Day went back to his wa
terry foxhole, still sore-footed but
unable to keep from chuckling
over the irony of hi IS advice.
Their prescription for trench-foot
takes its place in history along
side W. C. Fields sure cure for
insomnia-get lots of sleep!
Sgt. Eugene Bender of Strouds-
burg, Pa, is the company first
sergeant. He is short and curly
headed, and has thin black
raoustache. When I saw him, he
was sitting on a Grafton box, get
ting between-battles h a &c IL t
from a soldier barber.
"You don't write news stories.
do you?' the sergeant asked.
l told him no, that l Just sort
Of tried to write what it was like
over here, and didn't even espe-
clally look for hero stories, since
there were SO many guys who
were heroes without there being
any stories to il.
That's good" the sergeant
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-03
Daily Prayer
FOR UNITY WITH PRAYING
SONS

Our sons abroad are turning to
Thee in new reverence and de-
pendence, o Father in Heaven,
Thou hast extended Thy helping
hand to them in many wonderful
providences, and they have been
quick to give Thee the praise.
Grant that we may be in fellow
ship with them in new understand
ing of Thy care. May our pray
ers blend daily with their prayers,
and may we share their trust in
Thee. Forbid that we should do
them the wrong of ceasing to pray
for them. They are dearer to Thee
than to us; so keep them in safety
if it be Thy will; and sustain by
clear faith all who fall. May we
meet with them now at the throne
of grace: and later be united with
them in Thy presence, the realm
Of perfect love. Amen.-W.T.E'
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-03
"JAPAN'S ISLANDS OF MYS-
Terry" by Willard Price John

Terry" by Willard Price John
Day; $3).
Willard Price has, quite likely,
as few illusions about the Japan
csc as any practicing writer, al
though he is more understanding
than most. He really knows the
enemy, and his usefulness to the
United Nations at present is found
ed on the fact that he is one of
very few white men to have visit
ed Micronesia in the last few years,
without suffering a "mysterious"
death.
Through a combination of JAP
anese trickery, naivete on our part,
and cynicism on the part of the
victorious powers at Versailles,
Japan was handed Micronesia.
Japan promised not to fortify
them, and did so. She thus cur
tanned off a great share of Asia
from the United States, placed
herself athWart the route north
from Australia, and will cost US
many thousands of lives and many
billions of dollars. She not only
secured a defensive system with
out which she could not, Mr.. Price
points out, dream of Pacific con-
quest; she at once and successful
ly began commercial exploitation,
and used Micronesia as base
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-03
Postwar Military Needs

The House committee named by Senator
Rayburn to study our postwar military policy
haS for chairman Rep. Clifton A. Woodruff
of Virginia. who appears to nave the rlsh
slant not only on his job but on the military
needs of the future Says he: There car
be mn secure peace unless we maintain, at
tor the shooting stops, an adequate military
establishment.
And he adds in an interview following MS
commitment: 'We customarily speak OF win
n;no the war and winning the peace.
would add to that-let us see to 1t that nav
inc won the war and the peace we MAKE
the peace secure
AFTER the last war, we lost no time II
mo ing in to dismantle our Army and 1unf
our Navy. We are paying now for that oluh
der. Let us not repeat it,
Tn mart his committee will consider theSs
matters:
Procurement and training Of person
reI officers and men, for the mllltdiy
services.
. ORGANIZATION. military status and dis
+,;h,,+ion of reserve components OF the
Ar,,ov and Navy, including the Natlola1
G,ards If the United States and the Naval
militia.
3. A study of the development of unity
~ command as practiced during the pres
ent war. with view to determining to
what extent that unity of command may
be developed and applied as part OF
future military policy.
d. The problem of supply, research,
development continuing modernization.
5. Probable postwar missions OF the
armed forces, Army, Navy and air bases.
If legislation embodies the principles con
tain ID in these propositions it is safe to think
thst we will not again be caught with our
Guard down as we were when Hitler entered
the ring.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-03

think they're sick and report in
to the medics as exhaustion cases.
personally have great syrnpa-
thy for battle neurosis cases, but
some of the soldiers themselves
don't have For example, Sergeant
Adams was telling how some OF
the requirements. after only a few
hours under fise, will go to the
company commander and say:
Captain, l can't take it. 1 just
can't take it.
That makes Sergeant Adams
blood boil. He said to me, They
can't take it. Well, what the nell
do they think the rest OF us stay
here for, because we like it?''
And it's that spirit. l guess, that
wins wars.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-03
With Ernie PYLE

said. Hero stories are all right,
but they don't give people at home
the whole picture. You read a
story in America OF something ter.
rifle a guy does over here, and
his folks think that happens to
him every day.
Nov take me. Once l was on
patrol and was behind the Ger
man lines for Sc hours. We lay
all day covered up with weeds in
ditch so close to Germans we
could have reached out and touch.
ed them. When we finally got
back, they had given us up for
| lost.
Nov if you just wrote that
story and nothing else, people
would think that's what I did all
the time' -- ... .
Sgt. Vincent Mainente is from
Astoria, Long Island, and of Ital-
ian extraction. He isn't valuble
like most Italian-Americans, but
friendly in Quiet and reserved
way.
Sergeant Mainente used to be a
steam-heat inspector for the Penn
syivania Railroad, and he says,
I sure could use some of that
steam heat in my foxhoie these
days"
We were just lying around on
the ground talking, when one of
the other boys said:
Vince, tell him about your
raft"
What do you mean, raft?" I
asked. So Sergeant Mainente told
me.
It seems the bottom of his fox
hole was covered with water, like
everybody else's. So the Sergeant
saved up empty wooden Grafton
boxes, and one night he nailed
them together and made a raft
to float on top of the water in his
foxhole.
From all I could gather, it was
mt 100 per cent successful in keep
ing him dry but at least there
wasn't any harm in trying.
Sergeant Michael Adams is from
Akron, Ohio. He used to work for
a trucking company. He has been
with the regiment ever since it
came overseas last spring.
Adams seems little older than
the others; his hair is beginning
to slip back in front, and you can
tell by his manner of speech that
he thinks deeply about things.
We got to talking about soldiers
who crack up in battle o. before;
the ones who hang back or who
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-03
The Housing Problem

Postwar housing is among the most i'm
portant problems facing this nation at pres
ent How it shall be solved and who shall dc
the solving call for the soundest thinking With
the federal government strongly inclined te
dominate business and industry, private en-
terprise views the future in the construction
field with justifiable alarm. If private cap
ltal and private ingenuity and business sense
should be sidetracked, as they have been dur
ing the war, with government giving itself the
green light, they see nothing but disaster
ahead.
1t Is gratifying, therefore, to hear com
NIL sloner of the Federal Public Housing Auth.
orlty say that peacetime housing require
ments "are too large and too complex to be
programmed in Washington" and that private
enterprise twill and should have the largest
part of the postwar construction job
This bold declaration was made by Herbert
Emmerich, the aforesaid commissioner OF
FPHA during the Memphis conference of the
Southeastern Regional Council of the National
Association of Housing Officials. Mr.. En-
merich sees three elements combining to make
goou homes 1.-THE center of hopes and aspira-
tionl of millions of Americans
'First,' he said, 'there are an estimated
10000, 600 to 3O,OOO,O00 Americans, fighters
an, war workers, who have left their homes
to serve their country in its time of peril All
of them thinking of a home to go to
when the war is over; better home, they
hope, in many cases, than the one they left.
Second, millions of American homes are
obsolete, blighted and substandard. They
lack even such elementary conveniences as
light and air and running water and modern
lun1bing-huge sections of our urban and
rural areas are slums unfit for halbitation.
Third, we will need full employment af-
ter the war when the munition production
lines shut down The production of homes
appear to be one of the greatest possibili-
ties for peacetime employment. 1t will not
only employ millions of men on construction
jobs, but will give employment in the many
industries that depend on home construc-
ton for their outlets
He voices a warning, however, against
another uncontrolled housing boom such as
followed the former World war when ap-
prozimately 100000 dwelling units were
produced in seven years with little thought
to the needs of low-income groups, mem
bers of which are most in need OF better
homes He does not eliminate government
fro the housing picture, but also he does
not give it first place. Private capital, he
Declares must be associated with public
funds if thorough job is to be done
Aid from public funds can be very nelp-
full. to be sure, but it is to be remembered
that all public funds come from private tax
na--ers and so are an actual part of private
capital
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-03
QUOTATIONS

To me the real essence OF reconverson
is continuous employment. If we will figure
out a way in which idleness will not occur
in our labor force, we will have properly
|reconverted.
Fred Lazarus, Jr., chairman American
Retail Federation.
If we let loose in production now, I don't
know what we will have to offer when people
come back into civilian industry from war
production.
-Arthus D. Whiteside, former WPB vice
chairman