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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-03-21
Creating Jobs

AS the government goes forward with plans
to increase draft of fathers and as American
battle casualties in every part of the world
mount, a late issue of the Oregon Voter
tells of some of the make-Work rules still being
enforced by the unions in the country's largest
shipyards: IF plank has to be laid across a
couple of saw-horses, for crew of pipe filters
to make an adjustment high up on partition,
crew of shipwrights has to be routed to the
place, as work with wood is shipwrght work.
The management has to plan this routine in
order to avoid too much delay. When the time
comes for the plank to be lifted off the pair
of saw-horses, to be moved a few feet to put
in another length Of pipe, the crew of ship
wrights has to be routed to the spot again
to move the wood. Any delay in this routine
means suspension of work by the crew of
pipe filters while they wait for the shipwrights.
IS. If a gadget one man can carry is
needed from the warehouses, the pipe filter,
or machinist, or shipwright must not go for it,
the teamsters union must fetch it,
And labor leaders wonder why public wrath
Is rising against union management.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-03-21
Time To Give Freely

All preliminaries are past. 1t remains now
but to raise the New Hanover county quota of
the 5000, O00, 900 Red Cross fund, which is only
$4,000 From now until the close of the cam
paign large and fully consecrated staff of
workers will be abroad in offices and plants
soliciting gifts
The solicitation should not be made hard
foe them. Considering the inestimable good
the Red Cross is accomplishing at home and
overseas every person ought to feel it dis
tinct privilege to help it financially.
It is to be remembered that New Hanover
county has many men and boys in the armed
services, many abroad, some still in training
are receiving benefits in great variety daily
from Red Cross workers. Can we be reconciled
to the thought that because we fail to give
freely one of our own kin may have to 60 with
out the service which could better his condi-
ton? And if we cannot entertain that thought
equal responsibility for Red Cross support for
the benefit of kin to others?
1t is said that our quota is "only' STE, 900
advsedly. That amount is little enough for
this extraordinarily prosperous county to give
in this emergency. It would not actually tax
the community to double this goal. Money
has never been SO easy as now, despite war
bond purchases and income taxes. With rare
exceptions, every wage Garner and salaried
person in the county could double last years
gifts without having to sacrifice a single COM
fort or luxury.
Why not do that very thing? Why not give
twice as much now as when the Red Cross
last asked for gifts? Everybody who does will
be the happier for the doing
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-03-21
Why Only Philadelphia?

It has been reported that share Of surplus
bus and truck parts including motors and mo-
tor-blocks, are to be released to operators in
the Philadelphia area
We know nothing by personal experience OF
the situation in Philadelphia, but if it is worse
per bus than in Wilmington it is source of
wonder that service is possible, 1t is only with
the greatest difficulty that buses, operate
here. No driver can be sure when he starts
a trip that he will arrive at his destination
This is not the fault of the operating COM
pany, which has had to put up with equipment
that ought to be on the junk pile ever since
the city's population increase made it neces.
sary to use more buses It is the fault Of
bureaucratic agencies which with the custo
ed to recognize an obvious need and provide
the means for meeting it.
Nor have the operators been handicapped by
tunnble-doWn buses alone. They have been
blocked at every turn in the purchase of re-
pair and replacement parts so that when
they had workers they had nothing for them tc
work with. 1t has been impossible to maintain
regular schedules keep rolling stock in mo-
ton much of the time, once it has started
Perhaps Philadelphia is in as bad way as
Wilmington. If 1t is its bus operators have
reason to be grateful for the release of nee
essary parts and accessories for the repair Of
is equipment. 1t is reasonable for Whining
toms operating company and bus-using public
to demand equal consideration by the authori
ties having jurisdiction over the distribution
OF excess repair stock
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-03-21
Make 1t Reciprocal

Conversations are under way in Washington
between State Department and Foreign Econ
nomic Administration officials and the British
Supply Council with the aim of revising Lend
Lease
The principal objective of the British repre-
sentatves, it is reported, is to permit British
manufacturers to use American materials OBJ
tanned under Lend-Lease for producing goods
for export Their contention is that British
trade has suffered great damage during the
war and the British need for resuming export
trade is essential to the nations trade securi-
ty.
1t is pointed out the British exports and
non-Empire markets have declined so per cent
in the war period, while American exports,
even excluding Lend-Lease, have increased
over pre-war values. The British are said to
believe that reasonable way to strike a
balance is for the United States to consent
to British use of Lend-Lease deliveries from
this country for export purposes through. the
nations manufac turers.
In any broad sense, the proposed arrange
ment would be exceedingly one sided unless
at the same time United States industries
were permitted to use British materials for
manufacture of export goods, on equal terms
with the British.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-03-21

the United States can meet military and civil
liam needs, although some table favorites may
run short. There will be enough wholesome,
nutritious food for all, but there cannot be
enough excess to feed the United Nations too
1t is gratifying to find the official mind
getting away from the idea that this country
can support all peoples in one way and another
and particularly in food. We have been so
willing, since the war started, to meet every
call upon us, that the bulk of our resources
are already gone If this generosity were to
continue generally we should soon become de-
pendent upon imports for many things which
we have never before lacked.
We should, of course, do what we reasonably
can to help tide our Allies over the period
of reconstruction that will follow the war and
in the meantime to weather the strain the
war has imposed upon them, but not at the
sacrifice of our own actual needs.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-03-21
Teachers Convention

The public school system of this, as well as
all other states faces more complexities and
difficulties in the future than since public edu-
cation became prime factor in American
life. The war is creating grave school as well
as economic and financial problems, and the
nations future progress and security will de-
pend in large measure upon the success with
which educators meet and solve these prob
lens.
For this reason, no less than for the oppor-
tunity it will afford teachers to foregather
and exchange views, the convention OF the
North Carolina Education Association at Ra-
leigh this week will be truly constructive. The
address by DR.. Harry A. Jagers ofWashing-
ton on 'The Guidance Program; an Essen
tial in Postwar Educational Planning should
prove Of especial interest and value. Certainly
it is topic of great importance.
Student guidance has become one Of the
most vital and helpful projects in the New
Hanover county public school program Par
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-03-21
Daily Prayer
FOR PATIENCE AND PURPOSE

With shame and contrition. we
confess, O. Lord, our sins of petit
ness and complaining and criticism
and selfishness. In a great hour,
we have shown a small spirit. The
little restrictions that war has
brought upon us have dwarfed our
sense of the majesty of the strug-
gle in which our nation is engaged.
Forgive us yet again o patient
Father; and amend us. Set us
aflame, we beseech Thee, with a
passion for the goals of God. Stir
our hearts with compassion for the
peoples suffering under tyranny.
Make us proud of the efficiency
of our service men, and of the
workers on the home front. Impart
unto us, we plead, a sustaining pur-
pose to see this war through to
the end, at whatever cost, that we
may win a new world for all man.
kind, patterned after the Kingdom
established by Thy Son. Amen
w. T. E.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-03-21
Bedtime Story

The newspaper account Of the man dis
charged from the Army because of his loud
snoring opens up fascinating field of specu-
lation. What, for instance, would have hap
pened if he had remained in the service and
gone into action? Would he have put Tojo's
jungle troops to flight with sound like sew
eral lions on the loose? Or terrorized the
Wehrmacht with the conviction that here was
new secret weapon?
What effect will his discharge have on fu-
ture inductions and the manpower situation in
general? Will it mean that las must take
sleep test as part of their physical?
Will it turn loose upon the country a horde
of nocturnally raucous 4-F's who someday
must answer their grandchildren, What did
do in the great war? I snored.'
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-03-21
Future Tax Plans

House Minority Leader Joseph Martins
appointment of a tax-study group of Is Re
publican congressman merits a couple of
cheers for as many reasons.
First, there is a decided possibility that
Republicans may control the House after the
next election If that comes to pass it is
well to start preparing now to tackle the
important problem of postwar taxation, re-
visng our whole complex top-heavy tax
structure.
Also, it is good to see the strengthened
House minority taking 4 constructive step
after considerable time spent in finding fault
with administration programs without offering
anything in their place.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-03-21

rnerion IN sp1e OF ne lac virginia
Woof, and if it were, the author
would need to be exceptional to
make reading tn product worth
while.
There is another requirement for
fiction. Something must happen. In
1.-THE Steep Ascent a plane is lost,
temporarily. All the rest of the
book is what goes through the pref
ty head of the back-seat passen-
ger. In day when a hundred epics
are written each "a hours this is by
no means enough. 1t amounts tc
120 pages of curiously undirected
and often precious back-seat think
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-03-21
TheLiterary
Guidep0st
BY JOHN SELBY

The Steep Ascent" by Anne
Morrow Lindbergh (Harcourt,
Brace; $2).
Anne Morrow Lindbergh's last
book was 1.-The Wave of the Fu-
ture," and it was considered Fas.
cist propaganda by some review
ers. Now comes the publication of
1.-THE Steep Ascent" but unless the
curious cross currents of Ameri-
can passions take hold and the for
mer effectiveness of the Lind
bergh name asserts itself, as it
may, nothing much will happen.
1.-The Steep Ascent is fiction,
the sort of fiction in which nothing
happens but talk. An Englishman
and his American wife leave their
home in England for flight to
Egypt. Their child is left behind,
and the mother is two months
away from a second childbirth.
Why the man should insist on 60
ing over the Alps although warned
against bad weather is not made
clear; he does, however, and for
a time the plane is lost in the over
cast, tn ewoman is frightened, and
cast, the woman is frightened, and
safely in Italy and everything is
all right.
This pattern is presumably re-
Elected in the pattern of the cou-
pies life, although 1 was unable
to see that the reflection was &C.
curate. The difficulty with Mrs.
Lindbergh and fiction is that she
is a very literary person, able to
quote at length from many authors
and afflicted with the itch for mi
nutely accurate expression. I sus-
pect that she expresses herself per-
fectly, but that is not the aim of
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-03-21

ticularIy has it been helpful to the high school
student body Through its operations hundreds
of pupils have been enabled to take courses
for which they were best fitted by nature
and inclination, instead Of being restricted to
studies in which they had no interest or adap-
liability
In fitting high school boys and girls for their
adult activities teacher guidance has proved
powerful agency. Obviously this phase OF
school planning for the years ahead will have
prominent part in discussions at Raleigh
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-03-21
nv ERNIE PYLE

IN ITALY,-(by wireless)-You
know Lieut.. Rudolf c. Won Ripper,
the soldier-artist about whom we
were writing yesterday. Well, We'll
finish him up today.
Won Ripper is a soldier Of for
tune, in way, yet he doesn't look
or act like one. He is intelligent,
and his approach is simple rattle.
than adventurous. He is SO, but
seems younger.
He is medium tall, slightly stoop-
ed, and one eye has cast that
makes it appear to be looking be-
yond you. His face is long and
thin, and his teeth are prominent.
His knowledge Of the English Ian
guage is profound and his gram
mar perfect, but he still pronounc.
ed his words with a kissing imper-
lection. He swears Justify in Eng
lish.
Won Ripper is as much at home
discussing philosophy or political
idealism as he is in describing the
best -7ay to take cover from a
machine gun.
He is meticulous in his personal
appearance, yet doesn't seem to
care whether he sleeps between
satin sheets or in the freezing mud
of the battlefield.
1t is hard to reconcile the artist
with the soldier in Won Ripper,
yet he is obviously professional al
both. 1t may be that being a fine
soldier makes him a better artist
His long experience at warfare
has made him as cunning as q
fox. You can't conceive of his be-
ing ratified in tight spot, and he
seems to have been born without
the normal sense of fear that in
habits most of mankind.
Won Ripper is so calm and SC
bold in battle that he has become
legend at the front. High officers
ask his advice in planning attack
He will volunteer for anything.
Being wounded four times hasn't
touched his nerve in the slightest
In fact. he became so notorious
as an audacious patrol leader that
his division finally forbade his 60
ing on patrol unless by specific
permission.
One night Won Ripper was re-
turning from patrol and was stop
ped by an itcty-fingered sentry
who called, who goes there?" The
answer came back in a heavily
German accent, Lieutenant Vor
Ripper He was wearing lieuten
ant bars, but his dog tag showed
him to be sergeant. 1t took ar
hour to get it Strengthened out
Some sentries would have shot
first and then investigated.
Out Of this background as a
proven fighting man, Won Ripper
is painting the war. He has pro.
duced more than hundred pic.
lures already. His work goes te
the War Department in Washing.
ton, but he hopes an arrangement
might be made whereby book 81
his war drawings could be publish.
ed.
I believe that Won Ripper. like
most of us over here. has finally
become more interested in the per.
sonal, human side of war than ir
the abstract ideals for which wars
are fought
He says that in his paintings he
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-03-21
VICTORY CLAIMED

NAPLES, March 2O-R-Tbo
cialist newspaper Avanti decIar"s
today that a strike Of thousands -,
industrial workers in German.boIs
northern Italy week ago was - -
victory in the first truly oron,
mass movement in Europe againSt
Naziism." ''''
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-03-21
Can't Feed The World

Inc United States cannot be the food basket
Of the world.
90 says Marvin Jones, food administrator.
And so say all of us.
Mf' Jones, reporting to War Mobilization Di.
.e''0r James F. Byrnes, voices the opinion
'na' With reasonable care and fair distribution.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-03-21

Los Angeles salvages about 1ooo
tons of tin cans and other metals
from its scray heaps month";,
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-03-21
TOP OF THE NORM

TOP OF THE MORNING
AS long as we work on Gods line He
will aid us. When We attempt to work
on our own line, He rebukes US with
failure. T, CUYLER.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-03-21
Our Chief Aim

To aid In every way the prosecution Of
the war 70 complete Victory.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-03-21

Ing en-Dou1ed IN pleasantly con,r.-
ed prose.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-27
Flying Evangelist

Maj. S. b. (Buck) Steere, who
returned from the CAP to take
over his old job as chairman Of
the State Board of AeronauticS,
was in town yesterday TO help
set up plans for a tri-county
airport p lanni ng committee.
Steere. who calls himself a fly
ing evangelist" is still preaching
the doctrine of air-mindedness.
While refraining from point
ing at Detroit's failure TO agree
on its postwar airport program.
he emphasized that every county
in the Upper Peninsula has ap-
piled for its share of the state s
$250,000 fund set up for plan
ming purposes.
"And they are using it,"
Steere added. Don't get the
idea there Is no air traffic up
there, either. As far back as
1884, we counted 81 planes
bringing hunters across the
straits. Think of what IL will be
after the war"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-27
Prices Mixed
At Opening

NEW YORK. July u (INS)-
Stock market prices were mixed
at the opening today.
Oil shares still were under the
influence of the forthcoming
secondary offering of Rockefeller
oil stock after the close today.
Standard Oil of California lost 4
and others were unchanged 10
lower. On the upside were such
leaders as American Telephone,
North American. Woolworth. Ra-
dio Corp. Y. S. Steel and West
ern Union.
Y. S. Rubber was an early
casualty, falling :. point on the
first sale.
Other opening prices: Ameri-
can Telephone, 1853. up u; Cen
eral Electric, 377s, up u; Inter
national Nickel. 29ia. off II; U. S.
Steel, 58'4, up "a; Delaware &
Hudson. 1878, up Il; North Am
erican Co., 17s.. up II; Great
Northern preferred, 3Sa., up n;
United Aircraft, 2Sh, off Il; Ra-
dio Corp. 1914, up II; Ohio Oil,
17B. off Is; Southern Railway,
26&; up Il; American Tobacco B,
70, off "a; Sears Roebuck; 95T
up 50; Woolworth. Ala. up Il;
Atchison (ex-dividend), 677s, of
Il; General Motors, 62ls, un-
changed Canadian Pacific. i'm
unchanged; Anaconda. 25h, off y
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-27
Work VS.. Money

Stcere emphasized that hard
work can make up for lack OF
money in setting up airport Ia
clllties.
'In Lansing, we've always
used the air field as guinea
pig" he stated. Because we had
no money to put in subdrainage,
we worked out a surface drain
age system of our own, and IT
still works. The army has now
adopted il for its own use.
"Nhen we wanted TO put in
lighting equipment, we didn't
have the money for the tip-over
type that was required every
200 feet. So we pulled our wires
through flve-cent piece Of
drainage tile, filled II with
cement and stuck up our lights
through that. 1t worked and
saved us S18 on each light.
Maybe Maj. Steere has some
thing there. It's been too easy
TO make money work instead.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-27
Edison
Rises

Estimated excess profits tax for
the Detroit Edison Co. during the
year ending June 80 was S12, 33l.-
900, approximately 100000 over
the preceding year. it was revealed
today in the annual report of the
company.
Net income was reported as
SS.320.474, compared to S8,651, 7S4
for the previous year. Excess
profits tax for the year ending
June, 1913, was S10,325 900.
A question of whether the ex-
cess profits tax may be included
legally among the company ex-
penses is an issue in Supreme
Court hearing at Lansing.
At the hearing. the company is
opposing a City of Detroit demand
for rate reductions on the ground
that the tax should not be included
in expenses upon which the COM
pany rates are based.
Gross earnings from utility OPP
erationS we're listed as electric
department, S90,605, 50210; steam
heating department. S2,317,220.21;
gas. S496 9006 and water Sl9,-
1891 for a total of 1913, 439, 442. rs.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-27
ARMY DEAD

ARMY DEAD
tAsiatic Area
ANDREWS, PFC ROBERT R-Mr.
Dorothy MeInsr, sister Muskeson.
! BERKEBILE, PFC. ROBERT Airs
Sue Woods. aunt. Niles
nadett. T. cleary. wife. 434 Newport
CLEVER, PVT. PAUL s.-Mrs. Hell
ena b Clever. mother. Flint
COLLINS. SGT WILLIE Mrs GUS
sic Collins mother. 1923 Csrdonis, De
DELsANTo. PVT. STANLEY w
Thoma. D.lsanto, father, 1927 Virgins
ERIscH' SGT. ROBERT D.-Mr,. FL
HEFFELBowER, PFC MELVIN C.
JR.-Mrs. Luella Heffelbower, mother
JONES. PFC CLARENCE o-Mrs
KELLEPoURIs. PFC. GREGORY D -
Mrs. Stella Kelcpours, wife. 1904 Gar.
KING. SGT. ALFRED Mrs Jose.
ph!ne King. mother. Iron River.
LANTRY PFC. CHARLES T Mrs
vivian Lantry. mother. Benton Harbor
LAURENT. PFC. oRvILLE Mrs.
Ann z Laqsen,' VIE n,,o G,aSei,IIlac., 49,
Ann. Lltak. wife. 550s Tarnow. Detroit.
MANGIARAcINA. 2D 1T. PHILIP j.
VITO Manglsrseina, father Flint.
MARITIME, PVT LOUIS c.-Mrs 81
.McklNNoN. PFC. STUART AIRS l.
D. MARI, mother. 2l47 Sheridan Detroit
McWILLIAMs, siSGT EDWARD V
Mrs Anna N. Mcwnliams, wife, 1851 Car
MILLER r/i MoRRIs-Mr. Reoecc,
Miller, mother. 32t7 collingwood Detroit
MORSE. PFC. MATTHEW E.-Mrs
clsty Mae Morse, srandmother. Lan,lng
F1or. lie r. place. mother, Saginaw
Rl%GLER. PFC ROBERT G.-Mrs
Ida VI Ringler. wife. Greenville.
scHAEFFER, PFC. DAVID - Mrs
80 s &c PVT. WALTER E.-Mr.
Blanche secosky. mother, 22st Wyando,te
HamtramCk.
sLAsINsKI. PVT WALTER MFRS
Agnes sasinski, mother 4si9 Seminole
sTElvrN. PFC ROBERT c.-M,
Lillian Steinen mother Painesdale.
TIGHE. % 1T. THOMAS J. Mrs
Geueyieve Tighe, mother, 1871 Oakfeld
VAUGHN. It's WILLIAM D-M-
Florence NJ Vaughn, wife. S27 Gratot
WAGNER. 2D. 1T. ELLIOTT w
Charles NJ. Wagner father $50 Glad
WATSON. SGT. JULIAN A-Glen "
watson father. Flat Rock.
wEEsE. I'D. 1T. JOHN A.-DouGlas X
Wssse father Ann Arbor.
VELKER. PFC EZRA Mrs. Grace
Welker mother. Pontiac
WooDBURY. PVT JOSEPH W Mrs
Rosa Woodbury.. mother. NJ Pheasant
YONKIN rs PAUL W.-Mrs. Mary Z
Yonktn. wife. Tsis Coleman. Dearborn.
tNediterranrsn Area
AMoRE PVT, GEORGE Mrs susar
Amor. mother. Mareniseo,
BALL PVT. ROBERT r Mrs. Bea
,rice VI Bal, mother. fols Harding
DETROIT
PFRNirR. PFC HoNoRIUs q Albert
Rernier. father, qi2 23rd, Detroit.
ROt'CVARD SGT GEORGE Mrs
Marion f Pouchart VIE, Rail- Creek.
PPFNNFHAS. PVT Edwin u
charles Harrington han brother, Fn'
Ave-
Buffa mother $3.50 French. Detroit
DUTs. PVT. CtETUs R.-Mrs. Pearl
Dcesie mis-. mother NuskeEon
ELLIOTT, PVT. JOHN Mrs. Mar.
Thursday, J
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-27
Tobacco CeiIinQ
Raise Denied

WASHINGTON, July y (UP)
Georgia farm bureau president
H. l.. Wlngate, chairman Of "A
special committee Of tobacco
farmers. had announced today that
economic StabAlzer NinSon rad
denied the request OF tobacco
farmers for an increase in tobacco
ceilings
The OPA recently set nue-cured
tobacco ceilings al SO cents a
pound with 4ia-cent a pound
premium for graded and tied
leaf
Growers and farm organization
representatives from the tobacco
growing states protested ANNOUNCE
ing that their markets would not
open unless OPA granted their
demands for a minimum ceiling Of
II cents a pound for ungraded and
united leaf and As cents a pound
for graded and tied tobacco.
Wingatc'S committee earlier this
week told the OPA that the new
ceilings would not allow a fair
margin OF profit for tobacco fs|s6A
ers and we will stick by
gune.' Wingate said -