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The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-29
Ready For Emergencies

The people of the United States are for
tunate in the fact that private enterprise whose
life depends on tireless initiative and con-
slant progress, was the foundation of our war
production effort On moments notice our
basic industries were ready to take up the
war load without a CULVER. Nowhere was this
better illustrated than in aviation
The Air Transport Command, only three
years old, last year flew more than 2, 100, 900
hours 1t moved the, equivalent of 100000
men from Los Angeles to Seattle On one day
it transported 100000 pounds Of material, rnu-
nitions and supplies by air to one theater of
operations. In addition, the men and women
Of the Command last year delivered safely
99.7 per cent Of all the planes they accepted
for service In all parts of the world The
Naval Air Transport Service conducted paral.
lei operations.
While such a record by the armed services
is deserving Of the highest credit it would
have been impossible OF accomplishment with
out the contributions of the Commercial air
lines Of the country. They were ready to
meet the emergency by giving freely Of their
aircraft their operational skills, their trained
men, their ground facilities and their overall
knowledge. They made possible an outstand-
ing air transport record which was an indis-
pensable contribution to the war effort.
1t is well for our people to remember these
things in order to appreciate the superiority
of our private enterprise system when COM
pared with the government dominated peoples
and industries of the Axis countries.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-29
Buy More "E" Bonds

Wilmington is leading the state in the per
centage of "E'' bonds purchased, which is
something to stir the pride OF its residents
But Wilmington has not quite reached its
quota, and so our pride is tinged with regret
There is so small an amount still to be sold
to keep the record clear, that it would seem
the close of July ought, in all reason, to see
the full amount subscribed. It will be neces-
sary only for everybody to buy one more
bond to have the campaign close with sur.
plus, instead of a deficit.
Today and Monday remain. Why not dig up
the little money needed and 60 over the top
with the same indomitable will that is carrying
our troops to victory in the three main wa,
theaters of the world?
Wilmington has not yet failed to reach the
bond goal, in all issues. It would be black
mark on the page of its achievements to dc
10 now.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-29
BY JOHN SELBY
Books on places the war touche


One of the really, remote regions
of the world is sinkiang, although
It seems little less distant when
called by it's usual name of Chin
csc Turkestan. In Gateway to
Asia Martin 3. Norins has done
What can be done in short book
to make this remote dependency
to China seem real. Chinese Turke-
stan is kind of meeting ground;
1t Is very rich il minerals, there
is more land suitable for cultiva-
ton than most of use think. and of
course the nomads of Turkestan
are known to everybody. But more
important than these things is what
MIR. Norias has tc say about rus
STA Up to IL years ago, Russian
influence in SinFiang was para
Mount, and things went very well.
AT that time Russia became con.
v1nced, the book shows, that her
presence was no longer needed to
brighten Japan out of Sinkiang, and
a. once returned the province to
China and withdrew. John Day;
81 75)
l am incapable of forming any
sort OF judgement on Ernest jack a
The Rising Crescent" because I
know nothing ~bout Turkey and
have no interest in her beyond
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The Literary Guidep0st

III itation that she has played so
cagey a game in this war.
DR.. Jackh spent a great deal of
tine in Turkey before the first
world war, working then for Ger
man interests. And to me the most
amusing thing in his book is the
German mind at work. One ex-
poets to consider the former
Kaiser a wonderful old windbag
but not to discover Won Tirpitz de-
clarlng in a formal report to the
All Highest that British toroedoed
boats tailed the Imperial yacht
In peace time, trying to sink it and
rcor Wilhelm! Yet Jackh says Won
Tirpitz did just that. Farrar-
E]inehart; $3.50
Nina Verhovskoy Hyde and Fill
more Hyde support thesis that
IS frequently stated nowadays in
their Russia Then and Always
1t is that Stalin's Russia is actually
the blend of Lenin's and Nicholas
Russia; that Russia's physical
resources and historical b a k
ground have tempered the Ger
man economists theories-K arI
Marks theories of course - to
make them something essentially
Russlan. Sir Bernard Pares pub
llshed the same idea, in eject only
few days ago (CoWard-McCaan.
So.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-29
Shortage Or Plenty

Government agencies have conducted con.
sumner surveys which bear out the general be-
lief that at the end Of the war American con-
sumers will be in the market for every lux.
ury and necessity in the book Alarm clocks
and garbage cans, carpet sweepers and tea
kettles lawn mowers and frying pans are
but few Of the common articles needed
And it is predicted that demand for refrieer-
ators, automobiles new homes and even
yachts will be Unsuitable
II these surveys prove correct, the next lob
will be to fill the demand Whether that can
be done will depend upon the ability of Amer
lean manufacturers and retailers to produce
the goods and distribute them at prices the
people can pay. War wages and material
costs must be met and overcome, il possible.
by unprecedented operating efficiency.
Before the war free competitive markets
pushed efficiency up and prices down-and
industry and labor prospered on a sound basis.
The simple truth Is that after the war the
country must return to that system or suffer
chronic sAAxtasas and regulated existence.
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and navigation had been replaced by short
term agreements. The result was that national
governments obtained discretionary powers
over the status Of alien traders, and dicta-
torial governments made the administration
of law a matter of arbitrary Interpretation.
The alien trader in practice found that he
had lost whatever rights he may have thought
remained to him under international as well
as national law. What is needed now is
single international Convention which shall in
corporate the general principle that alien trad
ers shall be entitled to receive the same treat
ment as is secured to citizens by their own
country
Every American must take an interest in
these matters from now on
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RIPPY DISCUSSES
CITY'S PROJEC1S

The Exchange club, holding ~ n
weekly luncheon yesterday NM ;.;r,I
a discussion of planned munic.p .s.
projects by J. Fred Rippy SEM sem,
tary of the Wilmington PiaiA"''
board. ., ),
Eight plans were submitted .r II
the form of a questionable G si,
given to each member, aSKlns ,.s
opinion as to their nnpoI 'a no,l.
with space left as to the s pa,.
ton of Importance of each pt uar,,
in the planning board S pto5 5 rec.
Questions involved park anu M
reation facilities, slum cle'tt .-,,.
improved facilities for motor -o Win,
fic, city limits extension, a n.
of street lines one mile beyonu n
city limits. and the construe. au,,e.
a city auditorium, library ssS :sr,
disposal plant and various pr t,s,It
improving Wilmington's poi'
tiles. .,onee
Rev. C. D. Barclift, EScN'''
club president. presided
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-29
Power Politics

The Political Action Committee Of the Go
has launched something new on the American
scene-power policies. We have always had
political parties, but they have represented
al gco1ps u, peoDe Now we zee nr,f group.
numbering its members in millions and highly
financed by initiation fees and monthly dues
deliberately planning to dominate elections.
1t has been allowed to make campaign con.
tributions Of any size, whereas industry has
been stringently limited on political expendi.
lures.
man cannot get job in the United States
in most of the basic industries, particularly
IT they are producing war materials, without
paying dues to union. The implications be-
hind the Political Action Committee of the
CLIO are therefore terrific
II politics can be organized on the same
compulsory basis as labor has been, so that
no man can get into public office without
''conforming." what kind of a government
are we going to have? 1t will take real states.
men in congress to meet such powerful pres.
sure, backed by millions of dollars.
American citizens must watch with Jealous
eye the growth of organization power poll.
ties which, if uncontrolled, will DESTROY II.
berry itself. Fortunately, our voting ballot.
are still secret, and man can let his ron,
science be his guide at the polls.
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They put him over because they
believed in totalitarian govern
ment.
Meanwhile, mainly in the great
exodus Immediately preceding the
war, this country received large
but unknown number of refugees,
including many women, as tenn
porary visitors with a tacit under
standing that we were winking at
our own law. The understanding
was that once they were in they
could stay; and although we can't
know their particular, individual
political activities back home we
do know that they didn't pass our
tests All of them presently will
be admitted to settle permanently
by taking little trip to Canada
and re entering as immigrants.
This is the plain now
Similarly, the present group OF
100 might be admitted permanently
and not returned to their home
lands, as Mr.. Roosevelt promised
they would be, and further thou
sands might be likewise favored.
1t is well known, of cocrse, that
many communists and fascists are
women no less undesirable under
our laws than males of the same
belief. and it is equally certain that
no communist or fascist of either
sex would hesitate to hide behind
the scared and emagiated figure of
a prosecuted child to enter the Uni
ted States
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Eight States Cooperate

Eight states have entered into an agree
of workers to meet labor needs Of food pro-
ducing and processing industries along the At
lantic seaboard. Cooperating with the states
are the War Manpower commission and the
extension service of the U. S. Department of
Agriculture.
Delaware, Florida, Maryland, New Jersey,
North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia and
Pennsylvania were the states taking the ac-
ton, made necessary by scarcity of ap-
proximately $4,000 agricultural workers and
workers for processing perishable agricultural
products, the Council OF State Governments
reports.
The program already has been put into eff
feet, as the harvesting and processing season
is at its peak in New Jersey, Delaware and
Maryland and, throughout the eight-state re-
gion, will run through October. Crops to be
picked and processed include beans, cher
ries, peaches tomatoes, citrus fruits, etc. -
80 per cent of which are assigned to the
armed forces and lend-lease.
The agreement was worked out at con-
ference in Raleigh in May attended by repre-
sentatives of the states, the VINO and the ex-
tension service. Since then, administrative and
other procedures have been worked out and
the plan put into operation. New Jersey, the
eighth state. entered into the agreement re-
Gently.
An important feature of the agreement is
that the employer pays the workers trans
portation costs; the labor is recruited by the
U. S. Employment Service and the extension
service through state and local officials and
departments
AL interstate recruitment will be done by or
under direction of either the u. S. employ
ment service for processing labor or the
extension service 6or field labor after proper
clearance through the governors office. No
worker will be transferred from an area where
he is engaged, or about to be engaged, in
essential work.
The agreement safeguards individual state
or local labor needs; employers who custo-
marily utilize labor from their own areas
may protect themselves by filing with the
U. S. employment or extension services for
workers within their area, and Requirement
campaigns in the various areas will seek
workers first for jobs within the state and
second for out-of-state jobs
AL reasonable measures will be taken to
assure the return of workers to their homes
when the jobs for which they were recruited
are completed, or when the period for which
they were sent out of the state has expired.
In commenting upon the agreement, the
Council pointed out that movement of labor
from southern Atlantic seaboard states to Vir-
ginia, Maryland, New Jersey and Delaware is
one Of long standing, and made in orderly
manner in normal times with little or no direc-
ton necessary from the states or the federal
government. Labor dislocations brought on by
the war, however, have upset the normal pat
tern.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-29
Columbus Men Held
On Liquor Charges

Two Columbus county white
men were arraigned before U. S.
Commissioner James B. Swails
yesterday on charges of viola
tons of Federal liquor laws fol-
lowing their arrest by ATU agents.
Elmo Ellis and Alfred Creech
waived hearings and were held
In county Jail in default of $500
bond each. They will appear for
trial at the October term of U. S.
District court, Wilmington divi-
sion.
They were arrested in Boone
township of Columbus county at
the scene of a still raided by ATU
investigators and the sheriff. de-
partnent .of Whiteville, it was re-
ported.
A 200gallon submarine still. 500
gallons OF mash and eight gallons
OF non taNpaid whiskey were
seized.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-29
Daily Prayer
FOR A SPIRIT OF ACTION

FOR A SPIRIT OF ACTION
AS the fateful days come and 60
o Great Overruler of events, wv
would not sit idle in the crlllc'
seat; but we would bear gone az
tive part in this, the greatest sIfus,
gle of the ages. We would be founu
busy in some helpful ways toWslu
our common victory. Give US Ter
tile minds to devise practical SET
vice. Whether We knit or sew ..
write or give or entertain, may
81 be from the same holy pasS'On
that inspires our heroes. Make ~
active in the ministry OF prayei'
Help us to be morale-buildefS "
our neighbors, and examples :"
lGvalty to the Nation. In the cd..
confidence of nose who are SUI
OF their Cause and their Leaael,
may we go through these 'eS'H.s
days in a spirit of service lAss.
We ask in the name of Him Hun
whom all our holiest impulses u'
Eve. Amen. VIE.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-29
Interpreting
The War
by KlRKE L. SIMPSON

Associated Press War AnaIv,,
The roaring American ground,',.
attack in Normandy has rescb as
out to do more than slap Shin. =,
coutaHces pocket on remnsrt. ~
cracking open fhe avrancbes ' a.. Of
way to Brittany, a Logical sa's
step in General Eisenbowor next
veloping invasion offensive ue'
The fall of Coutances, alro.,
the scene of street fightiny n''H
Nazi rear guards seeking 70 WIN WIN
open the six-mile wide escana n0Ia
ridor down the coast west ia. wi,
TIE town, was assured. Air ;. u
servers reported confusion w,
chaos incident to German r; a!.a
f. ON the deadl7 moose So v,, tnSas
and skillfully fashioned about 4a
Other Yankee armored Sne. I'
heads well to Tile south and ' ear,
ct Coutances, poised to dri ns'
against Wire ano Avranches c Cm,s
turn the German left flank ro ssala
ii France into a rout and s,no sa'
the whole Orne-Gulf of St Msls
sector. clear of The foe. ''0
That may prove to be what ..
Allied Field Commander. Cens,S,
Montgomery, is waiting for on fl.
Caen-Orne end Of the line CauuI.
between two fires, the Nazi cn Sn'
mander would nave small cboio,
but to run for 1t, leaving the rosJ
to Paris or to the Seine Delta Omen
whenever Montgomery signals hi,
left flank on agoias.
1t remains to be sen, howevs,
whether Montgomery's immediat,
purpose is to reach and force tbs
gateway to Brittany or whether ey
pansion of his front on the left a,
lis line below Caen will be hi,
next move. His prime OBJECTIVE
which ever way he turns. is IA
OBTAIN new harpor and supply linz
facilities to serve his expanding
army group.
Montgomery himself has descrih
ed the Normandy position as 4
stood up to the developing Amer.
can break-through as merely an
Allied Judgement area. The
chance to expand it into large
enough zone for offensive opera.
tons vastly greater in scope than
e:ay yet possible may now be at
hand.
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bomb crater and started shoot
ing capture German guns at the
opposite bank Just for fun, which
IS against the rules, SO the pro-
Iosal was torn up. They u |
laugh about it--which is about all
fellow can do.
Corp. Grover Andersen of Annis-
ten, Ala, is one of the drivers.
He sWears by his colossal ma
crime but cusses at, too. You see
The French roads are narrow for
heavy two way military traffic
and an M-19 is big and awkward
and slow.
You get so damn mad at it, -
Ar derson says because conveys
pile up behind you and can't get
around and you know everybody
hating you and that makes you
n:adder. They're aggravating, but
il you let me leave the trailer off
I caa pull anything out of any
where with it.
Anderson has grown REQ gohtee
which he is not going to shave
eff till the war is won. He used
to be a taxi driver; that's anotn-
er reason he finds an M-19 so Gag
gravating."
Because it hasn't got a meter
On it?" I asked.
cor maybe because you don't
lave any female passengers, an
other driver said.
To which Brother Anderson had
d wholly satisfactory CT reply.
He said," remainder of col
INN unll1nt rilu nnpcnradN
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With Ernie Pyle

I O. He used to be furnace opera
ter for the Owen Corning Fiber
glas Co. there. He and all the 9TH
er former employees still get let
lel every two weeks from the COM
pany, assuring them their jobs
will still be there when they return.
And Radcliff, for one, is going to
take his when he gets back.
Segt. Vann Jones, of 1712
Princeton Ave-, Birmingham, Ala.
crawled out of his tent and sat
indian fashion on the ground with
us. On the other side of our pas
ture lay the silver remains of a
tt ansport plane that had come to
mangled despair on the morning
of D-Day.
1t was a peaceful and sunny eve
ring, quite in contrast to most of
our days, and we sat on the grass
and watched the sun go down in
teh east, which we all agreed was
a hell of place for the sun to
be going down. Either we were
turned around or France is a fun
ny country.
The other boys told me later
that Sergeant Jones used to be
the company cook, but he wanted
to see more action so he trans
ierred to the big wreckers and is
now in command of one.
His driver is a smaling, tall
young fellow, with clipped hair,
named Dallas Hudgens from Stone
wall, Ga. He was feeling stuffed
as pig, for he'd just got a big
ham sent him from home and had
been having at it with ven
geance.
There are long lulls when the
retriever boys don't have anything
to do besides work on their We
hicles. They hate these periods and
get restless. Some of them spend
their time fixing up their tents
romelike, even though they may
have to move the next day.
One driver even had a feather
bed he had picked up from a
french family. The average SOL
Gier can't carry a feather b d
around with him, but the driver Of
an Mis- could carry ten thousand
feather beds and never know the
difference.
The boys are all pretty proud of
their company. They said they. did
such good work in the early days
of the invasion that they were
about to be put for Presidential
citation. But one day they got in
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SOMEWHERE IN NORMANDY.
(by wireless)-The.l l moved over
to an ordnance evacuation COM
pany.
These men handle the gigantic
trucks, the long, low trailers and
the heavy wreckers that go out to
haul back crippled tanks an d
wrecked anti tank guns from the
battlefield.
The Ordnance Branch's policy on
those wrecking companies is that
if they don't have a casualty. now
and then, or collect a few shrap-
nei marks on their vehicles, then
they're not dong their job eff
GENTLY.
Tanks must be retrieved just as
quickly as possible after they have
been shot up. In the first place,
we don't want the Germans to get
them; secondly, we want to get
them repaired and back in action
fol ourselves right away.
The job of an ordnance evacua-
ton company is often frightening,
although this cornpany's casualties
have been amazingly low. In fact
they've had only four and it's still
mystery what happened to them.
The four left one day in a jeep.
just on a normal trip. They didn't
come back. No trace could be
found. Three weeks later two of
them came in - just discharged
from a hospital. On the same day
letter came from the third-from
a hospital in England. Nothing yet
las been heard from the fourth.
And the strange part is that nei-
Their the two who returned nor the
one who wrote from England can
remember a thing about it. They
were just riding along in their
jeep and the next thing they woke
up in a hospital All three were
wounded, but how they don't know.
Friends suppose it was a shell hit.
At any rate, a sergeant il charge
of one section of the mammoth
mover, known as Miss, took me
around to see some of hi screw
men. They all 10 by the name of
1.-The Diesel Boys"
Their vehicle is simply a gigan-
tic truck with long, skeleto.lized
trailer behind.
Like all our army over here they
were strung out around the hedge
rows of the field under camouflage
rets, with the middle grassy fields
completely empty.
My friend was Sergt. Milton Rad
Cliff of II N. 18th ST., Neward,
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rs Years Ago
Today
(FROM THE FILES
OF THE STAR-NEWS)
LETTER BOX
THANKS, MIR. FARLEY


To the Editor:
Early in June, when l announc.
cd would resign as chairman Of
the New York Democratic State
committee, I Immediately left
New York on a business trip to
Mexico. Since [ returned home |
have been trying to clear up the
many matters which accumulated
during that absence: These reasons
account for my failure to write and
thank you before this date for your
very friendly editorial which was
brought to my attention upon my
return.
I deeply appreciate your gen.
crosby to me, and 1 want you to
know that I sincerely hope | shall
always conduct myself in way
which will merit your confidence
and good will.
JAMES A. FARLEX
New York, N. Y.
July 26, 1914
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Our Chief Ain,
To aid In every way the prosecution Of
the war to complete victery.
THOUGHT FOR TODAY

Above the voices of Presidents, Kings
Apostles and Disciples, let the word Of the
Lord Himself be heard saying: "Men ought
always to pray and not to faint, duke
1870
From "Now''
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Fair Enough

Editors Note.-Ths Star and the News accept no
responsibility for the personal views Of Mr. Perler
ind often disagree with them = much ~ many Of
bis readers His articles the good purpose of
making people think.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-03-17
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