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Evening star., 1944-02-06

/. FOLDING MONEY
What are ''br0scy, -seoI'' bills?
Money issued to troops in the
Pacific. Like the yellow-sealb bills
issued in the Mediterranean
area, they arc invalid elsewhere.
(. NEAT TRICK =. Why are
tiny aerial photographs being
dropped Oper the Reich from
British and american planes?
To show the German people
the bitter truth after the Nazis
describe an air raid as causing
mo military damage.
:. 20 SORRY -. The battle
ship Wisconsin soas launched
Dec. Z, I945, at PhiladelpIia.
When do the Japs claim to
hope sunk her?
In the Battle of BOugain-
vile, in carly November.
4. PAPER WEAPONS To
,cl,st scGr products is our sal
raged scaste paper converted?
Bomb bands, practice bombs,
wing tips, airplane signals,
parachute flares, ammunition
Evening star., 1944-02-06
"a u1z EN-
"A news question-and-answer game

chests, shell protectors, and
shell containers.
- Mrs. r. p, Milwaukee, Wis.
8. SPEE0-UP .<At our en-
try into the spor, the Army Air
Forces had only 1000 planes.
At the present time hOsc many
are ,Oe producing a month?
Between 5000 and 5000
planes of all types.
6. RATION P0uGT3 -. Why
,CiN Ration Book Four be SIM
pier to use than previous books?
ALI rcd and blue stamps will
have a value of 10 points
beginning Feb. n.
I. PLANE TALK .. What is
a "refvesher raid?
A small-scale raid made on a
target which has been heavily
bombed in the past. The pur-
pose of the raid is to prevent
the enemy from restoring the
damaged tarset.-TISe. B. r.
S., Somewhere in africa.
Conducted b, VI. M~.,
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-03
The Volunteer Way

The Wagner Murray Dingen bill for socializ-
ed medicine in the United States is doing
one good thing - it is bringing to light the
fact that millions of people in this nation,
through voluntary group action, are already
protected by prepayment plans for medical
and hospital attention. The American medical
profession in encouraging such group action as
the surest way to retain incentive in the medi-
cal profession and assure our people of the fin,
est medical and hospital service in the world
free from the blighting effect OF compulsory
Federal control over the highly personal re-
lationship between doctor and patient
Of the thousands of group health plans how
in operation, the inaugurated by the Alb
bolt Laboratories ten years ago is typical. I'm
der it, an employee paying SO cents month is
covered with e $10-a-week accident and sick
benefit, a $500 accidental death and dismem-
berment policy, disqualification benefits amount
ing to S. day for hospital room and board,
with $25 additional for special hospital fees
and up to $3.50 for surgical fees. Each mar
ried employe who becomes father is given
a production bonus of $50 Dependents can be
included under the plan for a nomial contri-
button.
The cost runs from SO cents month for a
person earning less than SOL, to 50 month for
person earning $251 and over The COM
pany's contributions average from 81 per cent
in the lower brackets, to As per cent in the
higher brackets.
The way to forestall socialized medicine is
Tor progressive American industry to adopt
without delay, voluntary industrial health in
surance plans, Of which there are manv
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-03
TOmOrrOw's Farmers

As farming becomes daily more intricate
from the standpoint of production and market
ing, which includes the knowledge of what to
plant. how to plant when to plant and where
and how to sell the crop, it is important that
young people who will be future food pro-
ducers, have wider knowledge Of these sub
jects than ever before.
With these thoughts in mind the "Young
Cooperators' OF the Dairymens League Co.
operative Association, was started in 1910 in
Cattaragus County, New York. Part of their
pledge is to help preserve the freedom of
agriculture, to help produce clean, wholesome
milk with greater efficiency, to take pride in
their occupation, and to be ever conscious of
its importance to our nations cause.
In training these young people in the fuda-
mentals of their future business, the Dairy
mems League has set an example which more
industries might follow with profit.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-03

would seem that air transportation has taken
its place among the leaders in safe means
of travel If one compares the average rate
for the past five years of % for the airline
as against the consistent 40 of automobile
travel generally, it might be said that air.
line travel is almost twice as safe as travel
on the highways. Three weeks ago the Ma.
tional Safety Council awarded honor certifi
Gates to is airlines for having carried passeng.
ers one billion and a quarter miles in 194s
without fatal accident.
It is hard to understand why the life insur.
ance companies still persist in including these
Scare clauses in their application blanks
Since in the future, business men will travel
by air to increasing exterent, insurance COM
panies would certainly find it advanta geous
to themselves to eliminate scheduled air travel
considerations from their applications AS il
is they are rendering distinct disservice to
themselves, prospective policy holders and,
in particular, the commercial air transport
business which has rolled up an impressive
record for efficiency and safety.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-03
BY JOHN SELBY

We Live in Alaska by Con.
stance Helmericks Little, Brown;
So.
Two young Americans named
HENDRICKS once boosted. more or
less Casually, that when they finish
ed iDe University of Arizona they
would marry and go to live in
Alaska. At first there was no par
ticular reason for choosing Alaska;
later they remembered Bud Hell
mericks' Sourdough Uncle Fred.
actually going to Alaska in 1910.
They lived first in Anchorage,
and later moved to Seward, where
Bud went to work on a defense
project. But they had really gone
to Alaska to see the place, and
when vacation came, they decided
to make long canoe trip on the
Yukon - having first made their
own canoe. There seems to have
been no such thing as a canoe in
all of Alaska. So Bud and his wife
Constance shipped their home :
made job to Fairbanks, took the
train themselves, and began a verv
long trip that used up nearly six
months.
Mrs. Helmericks makes It seem
very attractive, at times. But after
you finish the book, the impress
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-03
Banishing A Bromide

Coincident with the War Manpower Com
missions curtailment of hotel services comes
proposal from Glenwood J. Sherrard, presi-
dent Of the American Hotel Association, that
all employees of businesses dealing directly with
the public forthwith stop using that irritating
phrase: Don't you know there's war on?"
The phrase Mr.. Sherrard points out, is no
excuse for poor service. 1t also might be said
that poor service is no excuse for this ILL
hammered retort by employees.
One possible solution might be for the Gus
toner to be actively conscious of the fact that
there is war going on, and that he can't
expect peacetime service. A little more under
standing and fewer complaints about things
that can't be helped might 60 long way to.
ward banishing Don't you know there's war
on?'' to the limbo it deserves.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-03
Free Men Or Servants

Electric power development has been made
such political issue by the Federal gov
erh1hents great hydro-electric dams, that the
people lose sight OF the real principle in
volved. It is common practice for administers
tors OF tax-exempt Federal projects to argue
that they furnish power cheaper than can
hlghly-taxed private enterprise.
II it is important for the government to 90
INTO the gensration of electricity in order to
save the private householder few cent. :,
month on his electric bill, why should it not On
the rest OF the way and furnish food clothino
And rent Eat COST which items constitute the
bulk of his financial worries?
The people should get this issue straight and
decide whether they want to change our com.
try from nation Of private enterprise IN ono
OF state socialism. Public ownership of power
is socialism, any way you look at 1t. When
you eliminate profit, you eliminate private m.
portunity
we favor putting the government into tho
power business to save dime. we should =.
. hundred times more anxious to put f. into
farm production, clothes production and hons.
ing production Already these ideas are peine
advanced as the next logical step from social.
lied power to other socialized industry.
II the average American wants 10 work fo,
the government instead of for himself. then
vote for socialized industry. But don't be fool.
ed with the idea that half the business q,
the nation can run without profit while the
ether halt is allowed to operate as private
enterprise, with profit.
As government takes profit out Of business
II must secure its taxes to operate by heavier
and heavier assessments against the wages
e individuals.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-03
The Literary Guidepost

sions that float up in your mind
are not so attractive. The mos
quitoes, for example, are desc-ib-
ed as ten times as numerous in
Alaska as elsewhere; they literally
eat one up. The peculiar cycle Of
Alaskan life makes it practically
speaking) impossible to have a
balanced diet and now that the ma
tives are a little withdrawn from
their old diets, even they feel the
deficiencies.
The climate, the author says.
makes tuberculosis the normal,
rather than the abnormal, state
Of health in many districts, and
there is very little one can do
about it. The rivers carry no lime,
and calcium is almost wholly mis-.
sing from native foodstuffs, so ev-
erybody has bad teenth. According
to Mrs, Helmericks, the towns are
not too delightful, but also the life
of lone man, or lone couple, in
the wilderness is not quite ideal
either. The people she describes
have curious, pathetic, hopeless
quality like the shadows in a frus-
tration dream.
For the Helmericks, the other
side Of the coin is their passion
for wildlife, for hunting, fishing,
and recording the wilds in prose
and on film. They make you be-
lieve they really IKE it all.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-03
.SERVICEMEN SENT
ABSENTEE BALLOTS

RALEIGH, Aug. 2.-(P)-County
boards of election chairman today
began the mailing of absentee bal
lots to 1896 members of the arm
ed forces who applied for ballots
in the Democratic primary in
May, Secretary Raymond Maxwell
of the state board of elections said
today.
Maxwell said the list Of appli-
cants used in the May primary was
being used "as a starting point
in the mailing of general election
ballots, but that 10000 absentee
ballots had been sent to county
boards for use should they be need
ed. About 1000 new applications
were received after the May pri-
mary, he said.
Maxwell revealed that 6,775 SER
vicemen and women returned bal
lots in the May primary. The ad-
dition of a federal war ballot to
those to be used in the November
Z election. however, may create
more interest and result in more
votes being cast among service
personnel. he said.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-03
EMPLOYMENT
TAKES DROP

RALEIGH, Aug. 2.-(P)-Employ
ment in North Carolina industry
continued to decline during June
the state department of labor sale
today, with 1858 establishments
reporting a total employment Of
PIP, 1894 wage earners, compared
with 274,000 in May.
Labor Commissioner Forrest H
Shuford said the number of report
ing firms was the largest ever
listed in a single month.
Payrolls in the reporting firms
totaled 81, 694, 280 during the month
compared with 1891 1895 in May,
an increase of is per cent. Man
hours worked during the month to-
tailed II, 1853, 1856, compared with H.,
200, 1914 in May, an increase of IA
Shuford said the average EN-
ploye Of the reporting firms work
ed Alt hours per week in June
compared with 40.9 in May, ane
earned $28.25 a week, compared
with $27.66 in May. The Longer
work week, together with slight
ly higher hourly wage, resulted
in the increased weekly earnings
he said.
Significant employment change:
took place in the seasonal fertiliz
er and cotton seed oil industries
Shuford said, with a 20 per cen
decrease noted in these divisions
while increases were noted in the
paper box and tobacco industries
amounting to IT. and 3.9 per cent
respectively.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-03
interpreting
The War
By K1RKE L. SIMPSON
Associated Press War ap.,,

Political events on the far sna
of the Russian shattered Nszi 90,
front go far to sustain sutbor;.
tive hints in London that +o+.,
German collapse in Eurona ru'al
be closer than a war-weary wor rt
yet even dares hope.
In the north a Russian bre,,
through to the Baltic below Bia aA
cutting whole German armies a.
Latvia and Estonia off from ,,,;
last land escape routes, virtus Is
eliminated doubt that the noIi+;
cal overturn in Finland means bo.
impending exit from the war
In the south Turkey abruntl,,
broke relations with Berlin ~
verge toward full participation IN
the anti-Nazi war fellowship, Tn
move left Bulgaria dangerously av
posed, and the probable next s+o WA
to give way in the fast crumbIins
Nazi European Axis arch as tbs
war rolls into the Balkans nosJ
ly from east and west simultan.
ously.
There is ample evidence that tr.
Their implimentation of the Rms
sian-Allied military commitment,
reached at Teheran and closely
keyed to Turkish and Bulgarian
political developments may be
close at hand.
Italian and Russian based A.
lied heavy bombers have been
blasting again at Ploesti in RI.
mania, just behind the Galati pate.
way to the Danube valley. Pow.
erful and well rested Russian ar.
mics have stood idle for msnv
weeks on that Black Sea flank
of the east front, awaiting Stain,
signal to go for a kill as com.
rades northward from the Carps.
thians to the Baltic have stormed
forward to tear the CUTS out al
the German army in Prime Min.
lister Churchills characteristic
phrase for it.
That the Teheran strategic con.
ception now sealed by integrated
action on far separated fronts east
south and west is still incomplete
is automatic. 1t is already strain.
ing German ability to find men
and equipment to avert crushing
and decisive defeats On all three
far separated fronts. The addition
of a Balkan campaign and even
a new incursion from the south
would stretch Nazi lines anew, thin
them to the breaking point under
the mounting weight of multiple
Russian-Allied assaults.
A full scale Russian assault
against the Galati gap in Romania,
with or without a simultaneous Al.
lied power drives across the Adria.
tic from Italy into the Balkan
peninsula, would put the German
southeastern front under the same
breaking strain as in northwestern
France, in Poland and the now
isolated Baltic states. 1t would be
logical companion piece for in
dictated Russian efforts to force
the passes of the Carpathians far.
Their north and roll down into the
Hungarian plain to threaten Buda.
pest.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-03
Insurance And Air Travel

Many of the life insurance companies of
this country have Disseminated against those
travelling on the regularly scheduled CONNER
cial arlines. Some Of the leaders have amend
ed their application blanks, but the majority
still ask the prospective purchaser of life in
surance if he intends to take ascensions in
the future or if he has 'taken an aerial
flight as fare paying passenger on COM
mercial airline during the past year.
In view of the figures given in the annual
report of the Civil Aeronautics Board for 1943
in which they state that there were is fatali-
US per hundred million passenger miles; 1t
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-03
Business Failures

| In the two years Immediately following Pearl
Harbor ,073, 600 American business enterprises
closed their DOORS while only 572, 900 new bust
| nesses were organized the Department of Com.
| merce reported today through its publication
Survey of Current Business
The net decline of about 100000 business
concerns provides startling figures the ar
ticle states specifically, they suggest that the
ranks of business have been decimated
by the war. It does not necessarily follow from
them, however, that the effects of the war
upon business have been adverse
It was pointed out that comparison Of
the figures for the war period with those
for earlier years indicate not so much that
war has had a devastating effect on bust
ness as that business turnover is always and
normally of startling proportions
For example, in the two years just prior
to Pearl Harbor business discontinuances to-
tailed $4,000. or five sixths the number dur
ing the two years following our entry into the
war;
Indeed the authors continue, during the
war period it was only in 1912 and the first
quarter of 1943 that the rate OF business dis
continuances exceeded that of pre-war years
During the last three quarters of 1943 the rate
of discontinuances was strikingly lower than
before the war;
THE decline in number of firms has not,
on the whole been accompanied by a similar
decline in the probability or volume of bust.
pnc 1h L,,,. l11x
tions. production, sales and profits in most
lines-for small as well as large enterprises
have been maintained at high level during
the war.
"a large number of recent business deaths
have been due, not to the fact that the econom-
lc forces OF the war have driven entrepreneurs
out of business, but that the owners have
found attractive alternative opportunities in
war industries or have been called into the
armed service The existence of lucrative en-
selective service have been more powerful as
deterrent to entry into business
They add that the wartime drop in number
of operating concerns has been due as much
to the decline in the rate of entry of new
enterprises as to the increase in the rate of
dlscontlnuances AS a result of the near equali-
ty between business births and deaths in re-
cent months, the business population is said
to have again become relatively stable.
very large part of the business turnover
during the war has involved the smallest en-.
terprises. This was said not to be surprising,
for the rates of entry, exit and transfer nor.
mally vary inversely with the size of the con-
Germ. During the years 1942-43, concerns with
fewer than four employes-comprising about
90 per cent of all enterprises-provided IS per
cent OF all discontinuances, 81 per cent of all
new businesses and 80 per cent of all transfers.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-03

get hit again in the same place.
Yet they can't afford to take that
chance, so the weakened armor
had to be made strong again.
They took acetylene torches and
cut out a plug around the weaken
ed part with slanting sides t h e
same as you'd plug watermelon.
Then they fashioned a steel plate
the same size and shape as the
hole, and welded it in.
The result is that the plug fits
into the hole like a wedge and
it would be impossible for a shell
to drive it in. It's really stronger
now than it used to be.
One of the most surprising things
I ran onto touring around scores
of outdoor ordnance shops in Nor
mandy was a mobile tire repair
unit.
There already are half a dozen
of these units here and more COM
ing in. They fix anything from a
motorcycle to truck tires. T h y
don't bother with ordinary h o e S
such as nail holes. Practically all
their work is on tires damaged by
shrapael or bullets.
Each repair outfit consists of
one officer and IS men. They've
been especially trained and their
leaders usually were tiremen back
in civil life.
They move in three trucks. When
they set up, the three are backed
to each other to form T, thus
making a shop with three wings.
you get up to it On a partable
staircase.
Outside on the ground tires are
stacked all around. One set of SOL
diers works all day with knives
carving out the rubber around the
damaged places. Then they take
the tire inside, and machine
roughens the edges of the holes
so the filling will stick.
Then they mould in fresh rub
Der and put the tire in one of
three baking machines. It's hot
ter than blazes in there. It takes
an hour and As minutes to bake
each patch so you see they can't
turn them out very fast.
They'll repair tire that has up
to six holes, but if it has more
than that they send it back to
England. A six hole tire takes
10 IL hours of baking. One unit
can run off a maximum of about
IS tires daily. The unit I saw was
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-03
Daily Prayer
FOR COMMON PLACE
COURAGE

In this testing time of the hulllaH
race we would not fail our 1eAoN'
or Thee, King of kings and Leaoei
Of all the forces of RIGHTEOUSNESS,
In small ways and great - dia
especially in the small things u
every day - we would be O'@.
to our best possibilities: loyal 10 W.
Country and to our comraoes =!
arms; loyal to the dear ones .s ".
our own families; loyal 10 w ~
ideals which have been lmpdi 'ea
to us by Thy word. Often W..
spirits falter, and We slump l-i..
pettiness and fear. Save US IN SUN
hours. Grant us, we beseech lHe''
courage in common placeness q.
well as courage in crises give W
new understanding of the Vo- y.
of Jesus, as He walked th[o" ,.a
life's everydayness, unruffled an
unfearing. So would we be, al "iie
ever our post, good soldiers "
Jesus Christ, of our Country DIV
of our Cause. Amen. -W.l'E'
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-03
With Ernie Pyle
SOMEWHERE IN NORMANDY

SOMEWHERE IN NORMANDY
by Wireless)-A ordnance tank
repair company gets some freakish
jobs indeed.
The other day the company I
was with had a tank destroyer roll
in. There was nothing wrong what
ever with it except - the end
of the gun barrel was corked tight
with IL feet of wood.
What happened was they h d
been running along hedgerow and
as the turret operator swung his
gun in a forward arc, they ran the
end of the barrel smack into a
big tree.
You would think the vehicle had
to be going 100 miles an hour to
plug the end of the barrel for 2 IL
feet simply by running into a tree.
But it doesn't. This one was going
20 miles an hour.
1t took the ordnance boys four
hours to dig the wood out with
chiseis and reamers. The inside of
! the barrel wasn't hurt a bit and it
went right back into action.
4 3-inch anti tank gun was
brought in with hole in the bar
rel about six inches back from the
muzzle. The hole came from the
inside! What happened was this:
A German bazooka gunner fired a
rocket at the anti tank gun. It
made one of those freakish hole
in-one hits-went right smack into
the muzzle of the big gun.
About six inches inside it went
off and burned its way clear
through the barrel. Nobody 6 t
hurt but the barrel was unrepair-
able, and was sent back to Eng
land for salvage.
A tank was brought in that had
been hit twice on the same side
within few seconds. The entrance
holes were about two feet apart.
But on opposite side of the tank
where the shells came out, there
was only one hole. The angle of fire
had been such that the second shell
went right through the hole made
by the first one.
! In another case an 88 shell struck
| the thick steel apron that shields
the hreech Of one of a tanks guns
The shell didn't 60 through. It hit
at an angle and just scooped out a
big chunk of steel about foot long
and six inches wide.
It's very improbable that in the
whole war this same shield woul,
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-03

set up in a former orchard and
wa SO thoroughly camouflaged
with nets you could hardly see it..
T h officer in charge was 1t.
George Schuchardt, who has THE
Hawkinson Tread Service" in Nash
vile, Tenn. His partner is running
it while he's away.
His first sergeant is Stephen HUI
dak OF Akron, of all places. He
used to work for Firestone. I've
been finding more damned square
pegs in square holes in this army
lately. Something must be wrong.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-03
CRAVEN TAX RATE SAME

NEW BERN, Aug. 2.-Wltn t tad
county budget tentatively ao0p, s,.
for the next year, Craven cu, W..
missioners plan to make no cil a. 3;
in the present tax rate OF ~ TSs
per 500 property valuation t ~.
estimated expenditures are 6oo ~ ex.
pected to- take care of Slz'oOO ~,
pense for a revaluation OF i''
estate next January.