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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-12-15
Poor Polly Wants To See
The u. s. Side of Things

Into this country, it must be ex-
amined to see if it is free OF
psittaeosis, a bird disease winch
is communica to man
Polly's been living in the Cana
dian Side kitchen for years and
years without getting look at the
rest of the scenery in her inter-
national diggings the consclen-
tious housewife told the doctors
it a letter.
And now, she wants to let the
bird Go a little living in the Unit
ed States. even though its travels
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-12-15

fl0n ,, were being sent bv :.
7, Blytne -, RepresentsttiIves, '9 n 's
City H:s Msns s9e ' a " 3 vssiia;' !
The letters ask ~ lack : !ack'
this purpose. " used 70,
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-12-15
HIGHWAY PROPOSAL
Mecklenburg See ks State
Work Inside City Limits

CHARLOTTE, Dec. IA. - up -
Mecklenburg's delegation to the
1915 General Assembly is being
asked to present before the Legis-
ature a request that part of the
six-cent gallon State gasoline tax
,~a diverted for maintenance and
Improvement Of State highways
within CT y limits.
Letters to the flve-man delega-
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-12-15
1r15r WIT M1NGrON MORNING STAR. WILMINGTON, N. c.

will be no more than few feet
south.
The Public Health officers de-
c1ined to release the name OF the
woman or her home town in Yer
mont. They were too busy look
ing up the regulations to see If
they could bend them a wee bit
| for Polly.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-12-15
ing Of the familiar Christmas ca

ing Of the familiar Christmas ca
rolls.
For the morning worship serv-
ice at II o'clock the choir will
present "Gesu Bambino', by Yon;
The Birthday of a King, by
Neidlinger; and Break Forth o
Beautious, Heavenly Light, by
Bach. The subject of the Christmas
message by the minister will be
&c h r ist m $: The Everlasting
Light"
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-12-15
HARTMAN AT 6REMLIN

LONDON, Dec. IA Up The
Moscow radio said tonight that
Premier Stain received u. S. Am
bassador Averell Hartman at the
Kremlin today. The broadcast said
that Gadimir Dekenozov, vice
commissar for foreign affairs, was
present but gave no f''rther details.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-12-15
GOLF CLUB CAPTAIN DIES

LONDON, Dec. 14.-tR-Lt. Col
Philip George Moncreiff Skene, "a,
captain Of the Royal and Ancient
Colt Club of st. Andrews, 1929-30,
has died at Peth, it was announced
today
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-11
Innovation

The Democratic party in Connecticut has
just chosen its candidate to oppose the glamo-
rous Mrs. Clare Boothe Luce in this falls
election. And her fellow Democrats describe
her dark haired, blue eyed, five-foot.five
Margaret E. Connors''
This, plainly, is an innovation in American
politics. There was time-not so long ago
when candidate for office was hailed as
the man OF the people, or as 'the people S
FRIEND or as an eternal defender of consti.
tutional government But Connecticut's Dem.
ocrats, apparently taking a cue from the Re.
pubhcans who elected Mrs. Luce, have chosen
to bill their candidate as tdark-haired blue
eyed,'' and so on
Anyone, whether practised in politics or not
can see the implications. Is Washington to
enter open competition with Hollywood for the
title Glamour Capitol of the United States?'
Is the Senate cloak room to be converted into
a pink upholstered powder room? Is the ira
dltlonal silver snuff box on the speakers stand
to be replaced by make UP kit? Are the
age old brass cuspidors to be replaced by
knitting baskets? We hope not.
AS to Miss Connors' qualifications, we know
very little. We're told she is a practicing law
yer and once was known as Connecticut's
G-Woman." Mrs. Luce, her Republican op-
ponent, is best known for her trick phrase
making her play writing, and her acting Her
output includes the play THE Women and
the term, "globaloney,'' and she also cuts
quite pretty picture at Washington cocktail
parties But her legislative record has, to say
the least, left something to be desired.
So far, there's no indicat that Connecticut
political penchant for glamour will spread ov-
er the nation. But let the voters take heed
and cast their ballots accordingly-lest the
sewing bee replace the committee hearing.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-11
Hopeful Signs

If Mr. Dewey should be elected president
the White House would have pre-teenage resi-
dents for the first time since the Taft admins
tration, if we expect the early visits of state
and Buizzie Dahl to Grandfather and Grand
mother Roosevelt.
It is inevitable that if Thomas Jr. and John
Dewey, age II and 9, should take up residence
at 1900 Pennsylvania Avenue, their doings ano
bright sayings would be chronicled. If the first
sample of young Tonmy's style is typical, the
public has nothing to fear.
Mrs Dewey relates that she was in arrears
of her payments to him for Victory Garden
vegetables, for which she pays the prevailing
market price. Tommy presented her with a
bill in which the unpaid balance was noted
thus: Hangover, $685.
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tator's awful RECOMMENDATION for total war, and
the despair of defeats and retreats.
t'Thus both military and civilians are about
to be put through fierce test of morale
Der Fuehrer will be lucky if they don't crack
up" Mr.. Mackenzie said.
The defeats the Germans are suffering now
are far worse than anything they encountered
in the last war. Their casualties in the previous
conflict were, 7142, 558 and already the present
conflagration has claimed an estimated g.
100000. Countless thousands may die in the
next few weeks.
Talk about annihilating the Germans: The
young men who would sire the future genera
lions are, being sacrificed by Hitler at fearful
rate in a mad effort to delay the surrender
which must come This is particularly true on
the Russian front where he is using every
reserve ne can muster. The Muscovites re-
mark grim1y that the Nazis are being ''bled
white
The Fuehrer has drained the last drop from
his reservoir OF reserves. At the outset of
the war he maintained in central Germany
a pool of maybe 1,5OO 900 first line electives,
ready to be flung in any direction The latest
log of Nazi divisions on the Normandy front
show that not a single unit has been drawn
recently from Germany. They come from Den
mark, Holland, Galicia, Poland and many
parts of France-but nary one from the Reich
The pool is gone.
Germany is learning in big way that ag-
gression doesn't pay. Every hour from now on
will be working for the Allies, driving home
the lesson. Will that be enough? The consensus
is that it won't fill the bill Germany must
pay heavy fines, suffer imprisonments and
perhaps in extreme cases she must endure
executions for war crimes Beyond that she
must be rendered wholly impotent to prepare
for another war.
You can sterilize her against the whelping
of further aggression-but the idea of total
extermnation' is just a rhetorical term to roll
under the tongue, Mr.. Mackenzie asserted.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-11
AUTOMOBILE OWNERS
AID in CAR-POOLS

Ninety-five per cent of New Han.
over motorists either participate
IN car-pools or carry full load
OF riders to work, Dan J. Herrin,
OF the gasoline division of the War
Price and Rationing board, assert
ed yesterday.
Herrin said that in car-pooling
a group used automobiles alter.
nately. Other automobile owners,
ne said, carry full load of work.
ers who have no vehicles.
Since the Office of Price Ad-
mlnlstration announced stricter
car-poollng requirements. Herrin
SAID only six motorists had been
issued gasoline rations for 3O-day
periods so they could obtain riders
and have their allotments issued
On three-months basis.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-11
502 POLIOCASES
LISTED IN STATE

RALEIGH, Aug. 1o-R- The
states toll of infantile paralysis in
the current epidemic which started
in May passed the 500 mark today
with report of eight additiona.
cases by DR.. Carl V. Reynolds,
state health officer.
The eight new cases, two oil
which were in counties which had
not been affected, brought the total
since June l to SOP and increased
to 81 the number of counties af-
fected. Twenty-three deaths have
been reported.
Onslow and Yancey counties
were the new counties added to
the list today, reporting one each.
Other counties reporting new cases
were Avery, Catawba, Guilford,
New Hanover, Polk and Yadkin.
with one each.
In reaching the 500-mark. the
current epidemic now ranks second
to the epidemic of 1885 in the mum.
Der of cases reported in single
year in the period since 1916. A
total of 675 cases were recorded in
the 1885 epidemic, which started
one month earlier and reached its
peak in July.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-11
Americas Air Future

At the close of World War I commercial
postwar problems. Today it is vital branch
of transportation, and its place in domestic
and international trade can only be assured
by wise and careful planning.
The Federal government recognized it's re.
sponsibilities to aviation when it enacted the
Civil Aeronautics Act of 1888. The wisdom Of
its action has been well attested by the praises
OF the air transport industry from high mill
tary and naval officials for its great contribu
tons to the prosecution of the war; But plans
ana policies adopted six years ago. are be-
coming as obsolete as the airplanes of the
pre-war days.
In domestic commerce many questions mus
be solved involving trunk routes, feeder lines
additional airports, zoning regulations, con
tract carriers and duplicating state and loca
laws. In the International picture, there mus
be established new trade routes and interna
tional rights and treaties. Still other problems
are involved in the aircraft manufacturing in
dustry, and the development of future pilots
technicians and mechanics.
AS nation, we must solve these problem
through legislation designed to promote AM
coordinate the national and international tran.
portation system. The Committee on Interstat
and Foreign Commerce of the House of Rer
resentatives has been working to prepare prat
teal legislation along t h e e lines. Congress
must act on well considered findings in orde
that Americas system of airways may b
: kept the finest in the world.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-11
BY JOHN SELBY

ESCAPE The Thunder" by 1t.
Lonnie Coleman Dutton; So.
Lonnie Coleman's Escape the
Thunder" is one of the youngest
novels I ever read, and one of the
most promising. 1t is difficult to
be detailed about the first of those
statements-the book has the glow
that sometimes surrounds talented
youth, it rides blindly over
obstacles that would throw an old
er writer into a fit of the shakes.
it is little Wide-eyed, very charm
ing, and as Lieutenant Coleman's
buddies would doubtless saw.
Damn SWELL
It's about negroes. It's not. how
ever, about negroes and whites
but about the life negroes live
with themselves. This brings up
the question of Lieutenant Cole
mans right to do this scrt of book
and one can only judge that m at.
ter by remembering that he was
born % years ago in Barlow Ca.
grew up in Georgia, attended
The University of Alabama and
studied there with Hudson Strobe.
believe. 1t is very likely thai
some OF the super-sensitive people
(both white and black who are
exercising themselves about mi
norlty" problems will find some
thing to disapprove in Lieutenant
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American troops. But want to say
this to them. The chaos and the
bitterness there in the orchards
and between the hedgeroWs that
afternoon have passed. After h e
bitterness came the sober remem-
brance that the Air Corps is the
strong right arm in front of us.
Not only at the beginning, but
ceaselessly and everlastingly, ev-
cry moment of the faintest daylight,
the Air Corps is up there banging
away ahead of us.
Anybody makes mistakes. The
enemy makes them just the same
as we do. The smoke and confusion
of battle beWilder us all on the
ground as well as in the air. And
in this case the percentage of err
ror was really very small COM
pared with the colossal storm of
bombs that fell upon the enemy.
The Air Corps has been wonder
full throughout this invasion, and
the men on the ground appreciate
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-11
The Literary Guidepost

Coleman's book. I can only saw
that I think it sympathetic and
more-it seems very friendly and
sincere. If anybody is stupid
enough to go ideology-hunting in
this charming novel l can only
hope they turn up something as
frlghtful as a literary seaworm.
The book is set in Montgomery.
Ala. Its chief male character is a
BOY named Luther, who turns up
on Day street a few hours after he
is released from prison. He had
been convicted of killing man.
while drunk. He was convicted, it
might be added, on the testimony
OF his buddy, a tough named Josh
who manages to become the black
boss of Montgomery in the six
years Luther is away. All of Dav
street is glad to see Luther. bar
ring only Josh. Josh is not the
same, which is understandable to
Luther, who is not a fool.
Lieutenant Coleman's story is
so simple that it would be unfair
to summarize it. The crux Of the
matter is that when Josh losses
out his woman, Luther takes her
IN. And from this far from spec
tacular event depends a web OF
emotional reaction that might
have confused both the author and
the reader. They don't, but they
do fascinate the latter, :
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-11
Defeat and The German

WHAT are the victorious allies to do with
The conquered German people?
That question came up yesterday in the daily
comment Of Dewitt Mackenzie, Associated
Press war analyst He was, in way answer
ing letter from a reader holly advocating
the 'total determinations of Germany's popu.
1ation as the only way to insure peace.
The correspondents viewpoint, it was point.
ed out, was an extreme one However. Mr.. Mar.
Kenzie said he had yet to encounter ANYBODY
who ventured an opinion at all who didn't saw
he hoped the Allied armies would fight their
way through the Reich so the Germans would
get overwhelming punishment.
'Well, that's an argument we needn't trv
to settle here. Probably all agree that lust
but heavy retribution is necessary to prevent
repetition of aggression, and in this connec
ton call attention to the fact that the father
land just now is entering period of chasten
ing which will be hell.
''Our column yesterday pointed out that The
next few weeks are going to be among the
most crucial of the war for Germany. This il
the period Of the great retreat of Hitler
broken armies to his inner defenses-a catas
trophie reversal Of the victorious blitzkrie,
with which he opened the war. It's the perio
which will give the Germans the worst punish
.yoent they've endured in modern history. The
viii be undergoing both the strain of their di,
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-11
School For Parents

We have heard too many diagnoses of the
cause of juvenile delinquency, and too few
wise, agree that the fault lies with the parents.
But the city of San Francisco is doing some
thing about it.
Parents of delinquents, or those charged
with neglect and bad family behavior, are
''sentenced' by juvenile court to eight lee
lures on how to rear children. Perfect attend
ance may bring them a suspended sentence,
other things being equal. But the case is not
disposed of till school is finished.
Sounds like good idea. ga=sr
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-11
With Ernie Pyle

any German could come out of that
bombardment with his sanity
When it was over even I was
grateful in chastened way 1 had
never experienced before, for JUS
being alive.
I thought an attack by our troops
was impossible now, for it was an
unnerving thing to be bombed by
your own planes.
During the bad part a colonel
had known a long time was walk
ing up and down behind the farm.
house, swapping his fingers d
saying over and over to himself,
"-damit, -damit!'
AS he passed me once he stop
ed and started and said, dam
! i'll"
And I said, sthere can't be any
attack now, can there?" And he
said Mo- and began walking
walking again, swapping his fin
gers and tossing his arm as
though he was throwing rocks at
the ground.
The leading company of our bat
talon was to spearhead the attack
40 minutes after our heavy bomb
ing ceased. The company had been
hit directly by our bombs. Their
casualties, including casualties in
shock, were heavy. Men went to
pieces and had to be sent back.
The company was shattered a n d
shaken
And yet Company B. attacked
and on time, to the minute! They
attacked, and within an hour they
sent word back that they had ad-
vanced 800 yards through German
territory and were still going.
Around gu r farmyard men with
stars on their shoulders almost
Wept when the word came over the
portable radio. The American SOL
der can be majestic when he
needs to be.
There is one more thing 1 want
to say before we follow the ground
troops on deeper into France in
the great push you've been read
ing about now for days.
I'm sure that back in England
that night other men - bomber
crews - almost wept, and maybe
they did really, in the awful know
ledge that thew had killed orr ou,r
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-11
Meet The Test

The railroads are probably the only major
industrial activity of our nation that has less
government interference today than in World
War l. They have hauled twice as much as
ever before for industry and the armed serv-
ices with fewer cars. fewer engines and fewer
men.
:. Commenting on this remarkable record the
New York Times says: Transportation per-
: Torrance has been far more satisfactory under
a regime of private operation and voluntary col
laboration-among railroads and between rail-
roads on the one hand and users of transpor-
.tation on the her,-during this war than I'M
der authoritarian Capitalization with Federal
ly operated railroads during the previous con.
rflct
i There is profound lesson in the experience
of the railroads, applicable in the relationship
of government with other industry. The rail-
roads experience has shown that, given the
incentive and opportunity to organize its own
voluntary collaboration, industry does not nee
essarily need to be regimented to insure maxi
mum output even in times of war. The familiar
localized voluntarism have to be superseded
by authoritarianism and GENERALIZATION turns
out to be not true''
The collaboration of the railroads with ship
pers, the travelling public and the armed serv-
ices during this war, on voluntary basis,
has so far exceeded the results obtained under
government dictation and control in the pre-
.vious war, that there is no comparison. No i'm
provisation was necessary when the present
conflict arose. The railroads simply intensi-
fled the operation of their existing machinery.
The Interstate Commerce Commission and the
Office OF Defense Transportation provided the
authority of governmental power where, in a
lew instances, it was needed.
The handling Of the railroads provides pat
tern for the cooperation that can and should
be maintained between private enterprise and
government.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-11
Daily Prayer
FOR UNITY IN PRAYER

Wars events have driven 10 -. u
to our knees before Thee, y Lu W..
and Father of us all. Proles ,'r,
Catholic and Jew share the 5l
supplications; and other s. sD' ",
which are not of these 1olu', co,i
aloud for the succor of the ~, o'i !,
Shepherd. We thank lhee NV. md
seeking Thee we are tlnoln 5;+ine.
another. All our weary "'l ians..
worn spirits speak the same IL - cT,
uage. We look to Thee ii.
the one Lord and Ruler over FL. d. d
for deliverance from the pow, n,,,
a cruel foe; for grace to s $ STA ri
through wars ordeals;; ana ~ KIM
and early victory Thou an r Tho
of kings and Lord OF loIus, ,,,ickpi
makest the devices of me Vito,
of no avail. Help us now We " Lrneel
" pray. as side by side we T 4,,
in faith-filled supplicatlon. ~ d
US tolerance and tenderness sssrcs
heart as we wait in Thy ptsa5ros
ter the answer to our c0l-''
prayers. Amen.-W.Th r.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-11

IN NORMANDY-(By Wireless)
With our own personal danger pas
our historic air bombardment OF
the German lines holding us in the
Normandy beachhead again be-
came a captivatig spectacle to
watch.
By now it was definite that thu
great waves of four motorec
planes were dropping their deadly
loads exactly in the right place
And by now two Mustang fighters
flying like pair of doves PATROL
ed back and forth, back and forth
just in front of each -oncomng
wave of bombers, as if to shout
to them by their mere presence thai
here was not the place to drop
wait a few seconds, wait few
more seconds.
And then we could see a flare
come out of the belly of one plane
in each flight, just after they had
passed over our heads.
The flare shot forward, leaving
smoke behind it in a vivid line
and then began a graceful, down
ward curve that was one of the
most beautiful things I've ever
1t was like an invisible crayon
drawing a rapid line across the
canvas of the sky, saying in GEES
ture for all to see: Here! Here
is where to drop. Follow me-"
And each succeeding flight of on
coming bombers obeyed, and in
turn dropped its ewn hurting
marker across the illimitable hea-
ven to guide those behind.
Long before now the herman
ack-ack guns had gone out of exis-
tence. We had counted three of our
big planes down in spectacular
flames, and I believe that was all.
The German ack-ack gunners eth
err took to their holes or were an
initiated
How many waves of heavy
bombers we put over I have no
idea. had counted well beyond
400 planes when my personal dis
traction obliterated any capacity
or desire to count.
I only know that 400 was just
the beginning. There were sup
posed to be 1900 planes that day,
and I believe it was announced lat
err that there were more than 5000.
1t seemed incredible to me that