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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-02-01
CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX

Mallory's sudden inward VOW t.
marry Carlos and give up he
work did not fit from her mine
as soon as she had said it. Quit
the opposite. 1t gathered strength
with each new obstacle that con
f1onted her. And there were sew
eral.
Where are you steering me?'
she demanded now of Sandy.
She had expected to go into the
dim auditorium, walk down side
aisle, from there go back of the
boxes and find her way to the
stage.
Her accompanist said, Pm try
ing to find the theatrical director S
office to find out where we're get
ting put"
81 shall show you to the di-ec-
tors office" spoke up Armando.
81 know exactly where it is,
though the path leading there is
intricate. But I know everything
about this tremendous building
And about everything else, his de-
meanor implied.
We're not having a stage re-
hearsal today Sandy was ex-
planning to the singer, as they
trailed the Mexican boy. "a cou-
pie of other Americans are having
their stage rehearsal today. Set
) ting lights and curtain cues"
Other Americans. That informa-
ton shot through the naughty
blond girl like a stab of pain. She
realized she never once had
though of sharing even the Palace
Of Fine Arts with others. While fol-
lowing Acmando. she found time
to glance at the stage. A lean
young man with a prominent nose
was exercising. A small girl
moved toward him with rolling
walk.
Ballet dancersI' shifted NAL
lory. I'D recognize that silly wad-.
ding duck walk anywhere. Who
wants to look at ballet dancers"
Her indignation was touched with
Jealousy.
Sandy grinned, knowing the girl
had formed an absurd ownership
of Mexico and its gorgeous theater
that would make her interest
flame. The ballet dancers had as
sured him Of that.
They were in the backstage area
now, Armando still in advance.
The director is situated right be-
meath the huge center DOME" he
told his two followers.
Gone now was the front elegance
of marble, Of velvet and gold, of
native woods, of thick carpets I'M
derfoot, and of demonstrating
ceilings overhead. T h icy wound
through narrow Railways, went
through dull looking doors and up
steps. Always steps.
I should think they'd have an
elevator in this building"
'They do, senorita," said Ar
mando, still climbing. But, it has
been condemned
Then they should have anoth-
err she pouted.
Now, now corrected Sandy,
"such fussing over a bit of climb
ing doesn't sound like Mallory Bak-
er of the famous lung power"
THE building sinks" said Ar
mando, and throws the elevator
out of shape. The senorita,'
amended Sandy, is feeling her
temperament. -
"Ah. smiled A-mando, striding
on. Perhaps she needs the ears
bopped,' he said seriously.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-02-01

Safety authorities say 80 per
cent of occupational accidents in
volve human failure.
Evening star., 1944-05-21

The mere fact that such an opera
ton was carried out by forces sail
ing long distances from their re-
spective bases and operating as a
unit in face of possible japanese
counterstrokes to engage them pre-
maturely in detail is highly signifi-
cant. 1t indicates that the Japa-
nese high command no longer dares
to concentrate large proportion of
its battle fleet on the southern
fringe of the empire, but feels
obliged to hold the bulk of Japan's
sea power nearer home That, in
turn, shows the degree to which the
strategic initiative has passed to the
Allies everywhere at sea. Allied
naval strength is now so preponder-
ant that Japan may expect to be hit
anywhere from the Kuriles in the
North Pacific to the Dutch Indies,
Malaga and Burma. This largely
negatives Japan's former advan-
tage of operating on interior lines.
Threatened by a possible stroke at
its very heart, Japan must guard
against that even at the price of
leaving distant outposts exposed.
The Japanese dilemma will become
more acute as Allied preponderance
becomes still more decisive.
Evening star., 1944-05-21
Soerobuiu as Portent

The bombing of Soerabaja is note
worthy both in itself and as an in
dication of even bigger things to
come. Soerabaja, situated on the
northern coast of the Island of Java
was the main naval base in the
Netherlands Indies, with a spacious
harbor and modern shore installa-
tlonS, including a good sized dry
dock, machine shops and other re-
pair facilities. Much of this equip
ment was destroyed by the Dutch
before the japanese conquest of
Java, but in the subsequent two
years the japanese have presumably
restored Soerabaja to something
like its former efficiency, so that it
can be reckoned the most important
naval base in the southern part of
Japan's colonial empire between
Truk and Singapore.
This is the target which has just
been blasted by big Allied fleet of
carrier-based bombing planes. The
carriers were part of a task force
roaming the Indian Ocean, made up
of units from the respective COM
mands OF our main Pacific Battle
Fleet, the fleet under command of
Lord Mountbatten based on Ceylon
and ships connected with the head
quarters of General Douglas Mac
Arthur. Rendezvousing somewhere
in the Indian Ocean south of the
Netherlands Indies, that task force
approached the southern coast of
Java and loosed its planes TO fly
across the narrow island and assail
Soerabaja with devastating effect.
This was the first time that a
combined maneuver of those three
commands had been attempted.
Evening star., 1944-05-21
Telegraph Places

The approaching celebration of
the centenary of Samuel F. B.
Morse's invention has prompted the
National Geographic Society to
check the place names related to
telegraphy. 1t finds, however, that
Telegraph Hill at Winchester in
England was so named long before
May "a, 1874. The story of how the
British elevation got its designation
is to the effect that before the days
of electricity" it supported one of a
series of semaphore towers. Built by
the Admiralty Office in London, it
was employed "to maintain rapid
communication with Royal Navy
ships seventy miles away off Ports
mouth and Southampton"
San Francisco's Telegraph Hill, on
the other hand, actually was related
to MorSe'S device. From 1853 on,
it received information about ships
approaching by electric wire
telegraph from Point Lobos.
1t then conveyed the information
to all settlers by ancient nonelectric
telegraph-semaphore arms set to
indicate the type of ship"
Other Telegraph Hills have been
discovered in Alaska, in Massachu-
setts and on the island of Brac in
the Adriatic Sea. There is a Tele-
graph Creek in the Yukon Territory
and the Telegraph Mountains, Tele-
graph Cove, Telegraph Bay, Tele-
graph Harbor, Telegraph Passage
and Telegraph Point along the coast
of British Columbia. Between New
foundland and Ireland is Telegraph
Plateau, submerged in the Atlantic,
crossed by score of cable lines.
Town names listed in the Postal
Guide include: Telegraph, Texas,
which the Geographic Society learns
has no telegraph station, and Tele-
graph Creek, Montana, which pre-
sumably is so equipped. The inventor
personally is immortalized in the
communities of Morse, Iowa, Kansas,
Louisiana, Texas and Wisconsin;
1se Bluff, Nebraska, and ><Morse
Missouri.
Evening star., 1944-05-21
Coal Pact Approved

Approval by the War Labor Board
of the new contract between the
United Mine Workers and represent
atives of 70 per cent of the Nations
bituminous coal mines presumably
ends controversy that produced
four general coal strikes in the
course of year and dealt heavy
blow to the conduct of the war.
The dispute between the miners
and the Southern operators, repre-
Senting the balance of the industry,
remains to be settled. No contract
has been negotiated, and the oper-
ators say that they will not accept
the travel time compromise which
has been approved by the WLB,
preferring to seek conclusive court
test of this issue. The operators
won the first round in the courts,
but it remains to be seen whether
the miners will await a final judicial
determination on this point or
whether they will again strike in an
attempt to force the Southern group
into line.
The contract which the board has
approved authorizes the payment of
$40 to each miner in settlement of
the unions claim for retroactive
portal-to-portal pay, and assumes
for future purposes that the daily
average travel time is As minutes
per man. This is not an accurate
assumption. In the first place, travel
time in the mines varies from less
than five minutes to more than
three hours. Hence, the contract
applies unevenly among the various
mines, but it has been approved by
the operators, with the understand
ing that the added cost is to be
passed on to consumers.
= OF more Importance is the fact
that the actual average travel time
is about twelve minutes in excess of
the assumed travel time, according
to the findings of a presidential
commission. This means that each
miner will be paid for an additional
twelve minutes, during which he is
not producing coal. Applying this
to the whole industry, somebody
will have to foot the wage bill for
about $4,000 hours per day of un-
productive time.
In approving the contract despite
this discrepancy, the board seems
to take the view that it is up to the
operators to reduce the actual travel
time to the level of the assumed
travel time, and that if this cannot
be done the operators will simply
have to make the best of the posi-
ton in which they find themselves.
The board does not say so, but the
fair inference is that it would rather
give the miners a little more than
they are entitled to under the con-
tract than risk another clash with
John L. Lewis and his United Mine
Workers.
Evening star., 1944-05-21
Cherokee Composer

An audience assembled in the Ma
tional Gallery this evening will have
an opportunity to experience the
whole evolution of the art of "com-
oining tones in rhythmic, melodic
and harmonic order, so as to pro-
duce effects that shall be intelli-
gible and agreeable to the ear" It
will learn,sif it wishes, how right in
his judgment Thomas Fuller of "The
Worthless" was when, so long ago as
1862, he said: Music is nothing else
but wild sounds civilized"
The occasion is the first perform
ance of Invocation and Ritual"
by the National Gallery SIN
fonietta. It is a composition which
comes straight down the ages from
the unknown past of those Amer
ican peoples who commonly are
oracketed under the single title
Indians" The author of the work
Is Jack Frederick Fitzpatrick, mu
sician, third class, United States
Navy, a Cherokee from Oklahoma
now an instructor of counterpoint
In the Navy School of Music here.
Within the span of a career which
started in poverty and obscurity on
reservation near Stilwell less than
tWenty-nine years ago, he has run
the entire gamut from few drum
taps put together to the full flower
OF orchestral majesty. His produc-
tons have been performed by the
leading symphonic organizations of
San Francisco and Detroit, not to
mention those of many smaller
cities. He writes against an educa-
tlonal background which includes
graduation from Bacone College and
the University of Redlands, study
under Paul Pisk, Arthur Poister,
Rowland Leach, Joseph Wagner, Ed
win Stringham and w. B. Olds and
much practical labor with the piano
and the French horn. He was a
MacDoWell fellow and has had many
other honors, richly earned.
But Mr.. Fitzpatrick is not ex-
planned by his thirty original COM
positions nor by the factual record
OF his life to date. In order to COM
prehend what he has done and what
he is doing it is necessary to realize
that he began as a child with the
marvellous advantage of his folk
lnheritance-the instinct of I'M
counted generations of ancestors
who were musicians by nature. He
saw his Invocation and Ritual" en-
acted by priest of his tribe in the
forested hills of Oklahoma when he
was a boy. The blood in his veins
pulses in a rhythm which traces to
the time when the Cherokees held
the red earth of Georgia and even
beyond that, illimitably further
back. He is ss modern as his little
son. oehsghhl at eighteen months,
Evening star., 1944-05-21

cult to contain themselves. AS one of
their editors puts it, in kind of mean
lngful double-talk, Man untiringly tries
to hide his inner thoughts and feelings.
What would happen in our densely pop
ulated districts if everybody immedi-
ately and openly showed and told others
what he actually thought about them!
There would be murder and manslauph-
ter and numerous cases of slander. Fear
OF tomorrow and lack of faith in to-
day are able to loosen even the best
fitting masks"
Germany today is a dreary land, a
land Of drudgery, a land where q wild
and evil dream has fallen in blackened
wreckage upon the heads Of the dream
ers And strong as this land may still
be, its true face, behind the mask. is a
face contorted with lost hope and not a.
little desperate weariness. In the cir
cumstances, despite the Gestapo, an
eventual breakdowrt here seems not at
all inconoeivabls.
Evening star., 1944-05-21

as we stood before its glistening
whiteness and read the starkly SIMPLE
epitaph: Here Lies In Honored Glory
an American Soldier Known But to
God"
Memorial Day also is day to re-
member the principles Gas well as
the persons) that have made our
Nation great. 1t is a time to re-
fresh our minds concerning those
aims and objectives for which our
forebears were willing to answer
the call of duty and make the su-
preme sacrifice.
1t is a time to dedicate and re-
dedicate ourselves to the democratic
ideals not only of equal opportunity
and equal privilege for the citizenry
but also of individual and mutual
obligation and responsibility. Rights
are to be celebrated-true! Duties
are to be accepted and discharged
which is just as fundamental and
important
As we read the names above many
graves, their obvious foreign ex-
traction dramatically reminds us of
the most glorious and sacred por-
tions of our heritage, namely, that
America was conceived in liberty
"the land of the free"-and always
has been regarded by the earth's OPP
pressed millions as an open door to
life, liberty and the pursuit of hap
piness. America has had a great
ministry as the worlds melting pot,
and we must continue to work to
make her an unselfish Nation.
Finally, Memorial Day is an oc-
casion upon which to remember the
dynamic of religious faith which
= brought our forefathers here. After
rejecting all the economic motives
leveled against them, Mrs. Hemans
declared they sought a faiths pure
shrine" Abraham Lincoln felt this
In an overpowering sense on that
day when he stood in a cemetery to
dedicate final resting place for all
who had fallen at Gettysburg, and
he inserted two words-such i'm
portant words-that had not been
in his original manuscript; they
were under God" He pied that
this nation under God, shall have
a new birth of freedom" That is a
good prayer for us all to offer on the
coming Memorial Day.
Evening star., 1944-05-21
Beyond His Reach

The President has proclaimed this
Sunday as Il Am an American Day."
In Washington and in other COM
munities throughout the land cere-
monies will mark attainment of
American citizenship last year by
some 100000 aliens who completed
their naturalization and by about
two million young men and women
who became of age This year that
total is expected to increase.
The idea behind the ceremonies
is to contribute something to good
citizenship by mass meetings and
other gatherings where speakers can
put proper emphasis on apprecia-
tion of American ideals, love of
country, desire for freedom, the duty
to vote and kindred topics. AS such
things go, the idea is doubtless a
good one and contains an emotional
appeal which may find response.
But here in Washington it is
difficult to escape an impression of
artif1ciality in these ceremonies,
created by background of things
as they are. For these things con-
tradict what we preach by what we
practice. It is well to give some sort
OF welcome to the 100000 Britons,
Poles, Italians, Russians, Danes, Nor
wegians, Swedes, Germans, Czechs,
Slavs, Greeks, Mexicans and others
who, by fulfilling certain require
ments, have become voting Ameri-
cans. But it is hard for Washing
tonians, who can never vote as long
as they live In the American Capital,
to put much warmth into the well
come.
The Americans who live in Wash
ington, shut out from councils of
Government and denied any voice
in the choice of their rulers, lack
even the opportunity of citizenship
offered the alien, the convict or the
lunatic. The alien can be natural
lied and win his rights as an Ameri-
can. The convict can be pardoned,
his voting rights restored. The
lunatic can. be cured Of the mental
illness which made him irresponsible.
But until there is a willingness to
bring representative government to
Washington, every grafton today on
the glories of American democracy
will produce a family mocking echo.
Evening star., 1944-05-21

yet he draws upon a cultural re-
serve Of vast antiquity. The result
is manuscript penned with me-
ticulous exactness and care, but re-
Elective of the dawn of human his
tory before the great dispersion.
OF course, every American is born
into much the same tradition. That
is why Mr.. Kilpatrick-Tsegi Kanuno
among the Cherokees-shares Walt
Whitman's glorious vision of Amer
lea singing.
Evening star., 1944-05-21

Religious men and women in
Washington ought to find especial
value in observing Memorial Day.
AS religious people we by nature are
predisposed to appreciate its purpose,
since the conservation of history's
lessons and fond remembrance of
history's heroes always are concerns
of the person of faith. And resi-
dence in this area, with its myriad
reminders Of patriotic devotion and
sacrifice, expressed in every war from
the Revolutionary to the present
conflict, daily confronts us with elo-
quent witnesses that we were bought
with price"
1t is appropriate to remember our
dear and holy dead. and the decora-
ton Of their final resting places sat
isf1es some spiritual hunger within
us. We are all practical people
we want to do something-and the
simple act of visiting loved ones
grave and leaving there a wreath or
plant or spray of flowers releases and
relaxes the tenseness of our feelings.
Memorial Day is an opportunity to
demonstrate the unity of all peoples.
For, perchance, we are far from the
graves of those related to us-but are
close to graves Of those who belong
to others, even to those who once
were called our enemies. To deco
rate the grave of such one does,
indeed, serve to exercise us of self
ishness and hate, driving out those
unlovely vices.
A grave is mute but eloquent
symbol of the cost of our heritage.
1t is proper for us to reflect on this
from time to time. To dwell on it
unduly would be morbid, but never to
think of the price paid for us in
blood and lives would be, unfeeling.
To appreciate and honor our de-
parted fathers, brothers and sons is
an appropriate sentiment. A few ex-
aggerate this feeling into maudlin
sentimentalism,. but more of us err
on the side of neglect and omission.
At best, our memories are all too
short. Perhaps they would serve
sufficiently if they should remind us
of our indebtedness to countless hosts
of fallen heroes whose identity we do
not know. This is best symbolized
for us in the Tomb of the Unknown
Soldier. Some of us can remember
our first feelings of humility and awe
Evening star., 1944-05-21
Fifty Years Ago
Fifty years ago Gen. Coxey's pilgrimag

Fifty years ago Gen. Coxey's pilgrimage
to Washington eliminated in a prison
sentence of 20 days.
Coxey Is According to The Star
Sentenced of May 81, 1894: There
was large crowd
around the Police Court this morning,
with the expectation that the three
Coxeyites would be sentenced.
Judge Miller touched rather severely
upon Coxey's action in bringing to the
Capital band of idle and unemployed
men in an effort to realize q financial
dream of his own. There was nothing to
show that Coxey had ever identified
himself with the laboring classes of this
land and the workingmen had not
expressed the slightest sympathy with
the movement. !" No man could tell
what might have happened if 100000
men had come to Washington" The 20
days sentence was given for the mis-
demeanor Of carrying banner into the
Capitol Grounds and walking on the
grass. ~
The Star of the same date warned of
danger to the Aqueduct Bridge DAN
ger flags are flying On
Aqueduct Bridge the Aqueduct Bridge.
Dangerous Another crack has
been discovered in
pier No. 4, and the authorities are quite
anxious as to the safety of the bridge"
A picture was printed, showing the
cracked pier. The story went on to tell
of precautions ordered by the police,
who directed traffic in such a manner
that no more than one heavily loaded
wagon at a time was allowed near the
defective portion of the bridge. Speed
limits on the structure were set at s
miles per hour maximum and miles
per hour in the affected area.
Johnstown, recovered from the dis
astrous flood of five years before, again
faced ordeal by
Johnstown Again water, as reported in
Flooded The Star of May 81,
1894, from that city:
about o'clock this morning Johns
town was visited by the most disastrous
flood since the big flood of May 81, 1899.
At present it is hard matter to estimate
the loss but it is an assured fact that
the damage done in the city within five
miles of it will amount to from 80 to
80 thousand dollars. The Pennsyl-
vania Railroad is the heaviest loser"
All traffic east of Greensburg, near
Pittsburgh, was stopped, with tracks
under feet of water. In other places,
whole embankments were washed out
and bridges torn away. The eventual
loss was far in excess of the hasty pre-
liminary estimates
A bit of comedy was injected into the
depressing situation of Washington in
the pennant race, last in
I'VE Was 12-team league The
Robbed" Star of May 10, 1894, quoted
Gus Schmelz as remark
ing that 18 games were lost through bad
umpiring-a remarkable charge If true.
as Washington had lost 81 games in all
while winning 3. However, no loyal
grand jury indicted any umpire for rob-
berry that year perhaps because of the
words of President N E. Young of the
National League: The umpiring so far
this year is the best 1 have ever seen.
and under no circumstances will there
be any change of men unless accident
makes that necessary"
Evening star., 1944-05-21
Bond Retreats Harmful
From the Topeka Canita,

110''f Vfre topeka Capital.
oecause SO many Americans cash in
tnelr war Bonds within a few months
al'er tney are purchased, it is difficult
70 set at the truth as to just how much
tne people are investing in this feature
ta y. .i'e war effort. But it is crystal clear
t,sC 100 many are cashing in bonds in
osder to buy more-which does nobqdy
any GOOD. N =
Evening star., 1944-05-21
Let Us Remember!

By the Req. Ho,0ard Stone Anderson, D. D.,
Minister OF the First Congregational Church