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The Wilmington morning star., 1944-11-16
RADAR RECRUITS

The Navy vii laccept 17-year
old boys and men who nave
had their pre-induction but not
induction notices, for training
in radar, the local Navy re-
cruiting station announced yes
terday. No technical experience
is necessary. Further informa-
ton may be secured at the To-
cal station.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-11-16
DONNELL LEADS

JEFFERSON CITY, Nov. 15.-
R-Gov. Forrest Donnell today
gained an insurmountable lead ov-
er State Attorney General Roy Nc
Kittrick for the Senate seat now
held by Bennett Champ Clark.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-11-16
Build Sturdy Health
a.d HoIp America Win

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bFoueht to them and scientific research
many say "SSS Tonic builds sturdy health
mikes you feel like yourself again" At
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The Wilmington morning star., 1944-11-16
SNOW IN BLACK HILLS

RAPID CITY, S. D., Nov. 49,
R,-Snow that ranged up to SO
inches was reported today from
the Black Hills area of South Da-
kota after a two-day period Of
showing and blowing.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-11-16

In the Fiji Islands, the hum an
mead Is held to be sacred. and It
Is an insult to reach above the head
OF another person.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-11-16

The loud speaker is 4 device for
converting electric energy into
sound energy.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-11-16
City Briefs
THANKSGIVING PARTY

The ladies of Southside Bap-
tist church will hold their an
nuaI Thanksgiving party for
the Thomasville Orphanage on
Friday evening, at O'Clock in
the church annex. All ladies
OF the church and friends are
invited. A free vii lettering will
be taken.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-11-16
THURSDAY, NovEM

a span Of 1879 racing ,,,,
d d3l aV sttass Of s2,l7o,5 81 y nat.
DO noth 5.t subject to an Official YII'.s'ss,
0,2e4.56. '''0O' 10 and 81.
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BUY WAP po>rp.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-11-16

DIRECTORS TO MEET
The board of directors of the
Chamber of Commerce Will
hold its monthly meeting to-
day at 4 pm. at the chamber
office.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-11-16

BUY WAR BONDS AND v,.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1944-02-25
BARCLAY ON BRHnCE

diamonds if he STATED with
spades.
That is how South happened to
be- the spade dcclarer instead ot
North. which WAS just as we'll.
since lie did good Job Of playing.
Yves, led hiS club X. South saw
ahead a sure loser in trumps. two
IN hearts. one il clubs and possi-
bly, even another in diamonds. But
he figured out his one best chance,
finding the diamond X right.
Taking the club A. he immcdi-
ately iineSScd the diamond 10,
next the J and then lay down the
\. diScarding a club. The diamond
= then WAS led for discard of his
last club. West rui.ing and re-
turning the club Q. South ruttci
tins ANA led tie spade s. AS lie
hoped. thc X had TO play. SO the
\ killed II. After that II was easy
10 avoid any. losers except two III
hearts 50 lie made his contract.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1944-02-25
HAND IN POCKET is {

HAND IN POCKET is Wayand Brooks Senator from Illinois
and Republican He left school 1918 went overseas nc
corporal OF Marines, back second lieutenant with
Distinguished Service Crosses from Army and Navv
and was law instructor before going 10 the Senate
Henderson daily dispatch., 1944-02-25
BARCLAY ON BRIDGE,

thTe" iricHs, giving Moth ard
South so points
H. thc middle camn The various
10 Trump icglar5rs. who reached
their contract either the way it
was don" at Table / or the way
the Table 4 people got there.
Nearly ell of those made either
one or t"o extra tricks. Counting
the vulnerable came bonus Of 5Oa
points. Trey scored from G3O 10
GGO points.
The worst North-South score
came where East knew enough to
pull himself out OF the hole in
which lie found himself whcn dou-
blcd at 1-Diamond. by bidding
l-Spade. but North didn't realize
the difference between sitting
under" the dcciarcr with four
trumps and sitting over" h;r,
With five. as South did when the
diamonds rot doubled. North's
double of l-Spadc resulted in
two-trick set for score Of only
500 points. giving his pair bottom
and EaSt-Wcst tCp.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1944-02-25
c.oE Stir STARTS IL

C-HTAlNrI OF hear certainty
of having jn lose 4 trick IN the
trump Sl:', Shugl! always make II
!"clnrcr stop. lrri; Iri listen He
Sh puli consider whether or not II
- advisable u Gr something else
pcGorr rlny'uG i-ImIHs. Or. III
other wur,iS. before l"ttinS the de-
Tenders gain thn lead Frequently
III such 4 situation he viii lind 1t
we'll t. uSc a.,lr suit TO start his
plan ui play
Henderson daily dispatch., 1944-02-25
TJmorrow'S Problem

Dealer: = South. North-South
vrlueriblcD :
Ii West had made diamond
ovcrctll during the bidding. led
the c!uh 10 the X and y snd
East returned the club J. how
should South seek 6-Spairs on
this deal?
atwr"s Syudi, ate. Inc.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1944-02-25

hEWsPAPERMAN once himself Joseph Hurst Ball Sem
aoi from Minnesota Hes still under forty and started life
as reporter for the Minneapolis Journal going across tho
river later to the ST Paul Pioneer Press He was appointed
to the Senate in 940 10 replace the late Senator Lndeen
Henderson daily dispatch., 1944-02-25

REPRESENTING the counys most distinguished political con-
Sucn' president Roosevelt in Congress- Hamilton
OF New YORK who is known at times disagree with the
adfninlStration on small matters. He major in the
world War is reserve colonel has been in the House
since 1919 " " '-
Evening star., 1944-01-31

Dno (where cross line connects with
PskoO almost to Novosokolniki, where
1t crosses the main Moscow-Riga line.
But Novosokolniki itself has been taken
by the Russians; hence this part of the
line, too, is "in the air. save for the con-
nection via Ono; and If the isolated
fortress of Staraya Russa falls, Dno will
not long hold out. 1t looks as though
this north-south railway, once the spinal
cord of German lateral communications
along their whole former front in Rus
sia, was hopelessly lost to the Germans
and will have to be abandoned.
That means, at the very least, that
the German line in North Russia be-
comes dependent on the Narva-Pskov-
Polotsk railway. But If this is so, then
either the Germans must restore the
situation around Vitebsk and clear the
rail connection between Vitebsk and
Polotsk (now cut), or they must like
wise have in mind abandoning Vitebsk
and the string Of fortresses to the south
Of it (Orsha, Mogilev, Zhlobin)-a line
already menaced from the south by the
fall Of Mozyr. 1t begins to look as
though this might be the ultimate Ger
man intention, though the translation
of intention into fact will come in slow
installments, If the Germans can avoid
being hustled into disaster by Russian
pressure.
(copyrisht. 1914, New York Tribune Inc)
Evening star., 1944-01-31

not mean that at all: it means
merely that the mass production
phase-the phase in which millions
OF civilians had to be converted into
trained troops as swiftly as possible
is now becoming the giant battle
phase. even though the Army has
still to be brought up to full strength
and though there must be steady
and heavy flow of replacements.
Other than this, the announcement
means that a prodigious task-the
greatest of its kind in our history
has been completed with equally
prodigious success. For which Mr..
Stimson, General Marshall, General
McNair and all those directly re-
sponsible merit the deepest thanks
of the Nation.
Evening star., 1944-01-31
This Changing World

both English-speaking countries that
there might be popular outcry for
immediate retaliation. Since there are
fewer than 400 Jap prisoners in the
hands Of the Allies and the Japanese
government cares little about them,
there is no practical way of aveng-
ing the Americans and British except
by undertaking Immediately large scale
operations to stamp out the Japanese
race. This would have been contrary
to the existing strategic plans which
call for full action in the Pacific only
after Hitler has been defeated.
But 1t Is realized in quarters which
are responsible for the conduct of the
war that the most carefully laid plans
can be changed when there is an over
whelming popular outcry for such a
change. Political men, diplomats and
high-ranking officers are the trustees in
whose hands the Nation has placed the
conduct Of the war. But when nation
becomes aroused 1t can instruct its trus-
tees to change their plans and go after
an enemy who might be considered far
more dangerous than another. Some
time ago, before the country was fully
aware of the definite commitments re-
garding the United Nations strategy,
such change In bur war plans might
have been demanded. Today, however,
1t Is unlikely that there will be such a
demand. This is more true since the
people Of the United States rely on the
promises given them that the campaign
against Germany will be swift even
Evening star., 1944-01-31
Constantine BrO1Un

though 1t might be expensive.
The official disclosures Of the Ameri-
can and the British governments place
the Japanese in their true light. All
the veneer of civilization has been re-
moved in one clean sweep Response
bility for the atrocities cannot be placed
on just few leaders. The entire Japa-
nese nation is guilty. The disclosures
were not propaganda there were even
understatements in the endeavor to tell
simple and horrible story.
There cannot even be the excuse that
Japanese soldiers-poushed diplomats in
Washington called them stupid peasants
when their cruelties against the Chinese
were brought to their attention a few
years ago-killed some OF their prisoners
in the heat Of battle. The bayonetting
of prisoners. the beheading of officers,
the systematic starvation of tens of
thousands Of Americans. Britons, Fill
pinos, Australians and Indians is q
studied and well defined policy Of the
Japanese government. The rank and
file of the armed forces, from generals
down to privates, participated enthusi-
astically in the acts Of barbarism which
have been disclosed and in many others
which have not yet been given official
publicity. The Washington and the
London governments have been plan
ming to acquaint the public with
the Japanese method Of warfare for
some time. But it was not Nuntil all
hope Of saving more victims from the
Japanese horror camps was gone, that
the report was released.
Evening star., 1944-01-31
Story Of Jap Abuse
Prompts Questions for Civilians.


TO the Editor Of The Star:
And we complain about petty incon-
veniences!
II there is spark of human SYM
pathy left in the hearts of those listen
ing. it must be rekindled ablaze today
after hearing of the treatment our Ba-
taan men received and are still receiv-
ing at the hands of the Japs. Those
are our sons our husbands, our friends
that are being treated like that-perse-
cution unbelievable They were at Ba-
taan to defend for us our American way
Of life. What are we've who make
up the home front-going to do about it?
1t Is hard to give up the ease to which
we have been so accustomed, to subor-
climate ourselves to task whether it
Is to our liking or not. One need only
work in busy Government war agency
and listen to the complaints and watch
the ineHciencies, the Office politics. the
petty jealousies that run rampant, to
realize that we are selfish people. The
war is far from being over. We know
now what constitutes a Jap-and there
still is plenty of time to witness another
Bataan
Our fighting men are not complaining.
AllCy w OllC Odoh db lldllo WIlcUIlcT III
is to their liking or not. They march
in mud, fight on empty stomachs. con-
tend with rats, vermin, tropical heat,
homesickness-andin in the end, give their
very lives-and for what? That we at
home may 60 on living in the manner
to which we have been accustomed
Will we one day have cause to hang
our heads in shame? When the table
t. fN %laN ipan
empty place is there-or the manned
give mute testimony of their sacrifices,
will there be an inescapable grief at
the thought that perhaps we could have
done better and that, by so doing, short
ened the weary fighting months to
minimum with resultant lessening in
men lost or crippled? Will our strikes,
our fat bank accounts, fur coats, men,
ories of gay parties be salve for
grief such as that? Perish the thought!
T. NJ r
Evening star., 1944-01-31
Dead and Live Horses

After all, the Guffey letters to the
Commissioners are a dead horse
They are more than a year old and
the exhumation, while producing
Enthusiastically unpleasant odor,
receives a strained Interpretation
when represented as a live threat
to the Commissioners or to DR.. Ruh-
land, the health officer. The i'm
piled pressure behind the letters no
longer exists, for it was successfully
resisted at the time.
The current threat is in the form
OF recommendations of the subcom-
mittee which investigated Gallinger
Hospital, and which called for the
removal of Commissioner Mason,
Health Officer Rutland and two of
the supervising physicians at the
hospital. The superintendent has
resigned. One of the doctors has
resigned in indignation and at the
request of the Commissioners is
standing by his patients until some
substitute can be found-a difficult
business these days. Another doctor
is reported to be about to resign, and
there has been a general demorali-
cation throughout the municipal
service.
In place of assurance of support to
the Commissioners if they stand firm
against threat from Senator Guffey
which no longer exists - there
should be support of the Commits
sioners in standing firm against car
rying out the recommendation of
the subcommittee which went
through a so-called investigation of
Gallinger Hospital. For enough
damage has been done by this inves-
tigation already. 1t should not be
permitted to take the form of con-
tinued pressure to force the Com
missioners to do things which are
manifestly unfair and against their
better judgment.
Senator Guffey's letter contained
the tactfully worded suggestion: 81
guess the only hope I can have to
get anything done in the Health De-
partment is to turn the matter over
to Senator McCarran or have a spe-
cial Senate committee appointed to
investigate the Health Department
OF the District" 1t has been denied
that there was any connection be-
tween that letter and the ensuing
investigation of Gallinger. But the
fact remains that the Investigation
was a rather shoddy proceeding,
adding nothing to the prestige of
those who did the investigating.
There is not much danger of the
Commissioners being forced now to
hire Senator Guffey's doctor friend.
But there is danger that they will
be forced to discharge competent
doctors, unless they have the sup
port of the public and the Senators
who are asking them now to stand
firm in the face of the old Guffey
letters.
Evening star., 1944-01-31

platform. Early IN his HrSt term ne
gave convincing evidence of how lightly
he holds the written party pledges and
his own prediction utterances. So that
it is the literal truth to say that NJ the
only major matters still uncertain are
the two listed above. One thing is sure
the convention action on the presidential
nomination will not be as harmonious
as the committee action on the fourth
term resolution. Though there we're
antifourth- members present, there
was no roll call, and no protesting voice
was raised at the recent meeting here.
1t will be different in the convention.
Not that any one thinks the Roose-
welt nomination can be prevented. But,
there will be protest. The question
is how strong will it be. Perhaps the
power Of the administration will be so
great and the futility of the opposition
so apparent that 1910 will be repeated
In that convention, Virginia was the
one State which stuck to the last
against third nomination and de-
clined to join the victorious Roosevelt
Evening star., 1944-01-31

behave in victory. Were they victorious,
the war would not end. It would simply
turn toward the systematic extermina-
tion OF the white man as far as Japa-
nese power could reach.
What causes men to behave like this?
All of us have known individual Japa-
nese. They are not a race of savages.
Japanese courtesy is proverbial, and to
1t every American official who has ever
lived in Japan will testify. Uncreative
in the great arts, they are masters of
the aesthetic crafts; meticulous gar
deners, exquisite arrangers Of flowers,
exceptionally skilled in all the decora-
tive arts. These activities are civilizing
to the mind and taste. Imagine an
American who is beauty-loving, a fine
gardener, a writer Of lyric poetry and a
painter OF screens, torturing helpless
prisoners!
Nor can any one deny an immense
sense OF honor developed in Japan. In
fringement OF its codes means self
imposed death. In fact, few civilizations
have so highly developed a sense of
code as Japan. What conceivable code
permits men to torture to death those
who cannot possibly render him harm?
This behavior is the result of the most
terrible discovery of modern times: the
science of mass indoctrination through
the state, whereby a man, otherwise
civilized can be turned, as part of
mass, into raving beast of prey. We
have seen the same phenomenon in
Germany. 1t is the phenomenon of the
split personality The very same Ger
man who would nurse sick puppy and
cherish his own children and those Of
his friends, could be found in gangs,
first setting fire to synagogues, beating
helpless Jews and otherwise torturing
them, devising the most sadistic punish
ments for already defeated Socialists
and Communists, and later shooting in
nocent hostages from one end Of West.
Evening star., 1944-01-31

cannot do the whole job, and when it
is concentrated for a big effort on one
sector it cannot be present elsewhere.
The old reliable railway is the one sure
bet in Russian transport, and therefore
in Russian strategy
The Russian campaign in the north
has been battle for the railways. The
Russians first cleared the east line into
Leningrad Geningrad-Vologda) and the
secondary line to Moscow via Kirishi.
Now they have, by the storming of Chu-
dovo, cleared the great trunk line to
Moscow, Russias original railway and
still the most important stretch of track
in the country. 1t is not clear whether
the Germans still hold any posts on
the Leningrad-Novgorod line, but If
they do, they will hardly remain there
long, since both ends of the line are
in Russian hands. BY these advances,
the communications of Leningrad have
been definitely and finally reopened,
which means that the northern end Of
the Russian line becomes mobile, Rus
sian effort becoming offensive to the
westward instead Of being devoted to
keeping open by precarious means the
supply and reinforcement Of Leningrad.
Evening star., 1944-01-31

BILE story in modern civilization was
withheld so long from the public.
The United States and Britain were
endeavoring to get out Of Japan as many
civilian captives as possible and felt that
disclosure of the atrocities might affect
their release. There seems to be no hope
for the return of the rest of the Ameri-
cans and British who are dying a slow
death in the so-called prison camps
across the Pacific. Thus, there was no
good reason why the story should be
withheld any longer
In many circles is also was felt that
the disclosure of the Japs' barbarism
might stir up such strong feeling in
Evening star., 1944-01-31
Dorothy Thompson

ern Europe to the other, and in the East
in Poland and Russia-coldly exter-
minating whole populations, to clear
room" for German colonists.
What procedure makes this possible?
The state, having made itself all-power-
full over every phase of life, issues
total claim on the rights and souls Of
it's subjects. 1t then re-apportions to
them part Of their rights and part Of
their souls. Within the herd, 1t does not
destroy conscience; it actually cultivates
it, Thus, the Nazis have trained thou
sands of social workers: fostered and
extended the spirit of comradeship; and
disciplined aggressive instincts, as be-
tween the members of the herd. So
have the Japanese. But ouside the herd,
the state takes the human conscience,
organizes and mobilizes all the other
wise suppressed aggressive instincts, and
by conscious indoctrination directs them
against the enemy" creating enemies,
where there are none. 1t therefore
create areas of "order" outside of which
is jungle, and the very same men who
live In the order, fight in the jungle
and are even indoctrinated to believe
that by turning themselves into beasts
on tll6 OuIStQc, IIicy WILL CAUCllo l4lC
area of order-whether they call it the
New Order" or the "Co-prosperity
Sphere of Influence"
hope we know that this is what we
are fighting. Unless we can win back
for men the sovereignty of the lndivid-
ual conscience we shall lose this war.
The power of the state must be limited.
It must stop at the frontier of the
human conscience and the human mind.
Let us direct the fury that we feel at
the right objective. That objective is the
superstate, the all-embracing Leviathan
eternal enemy of the human race on
this earth.
released by the Bell Syndicate. Inc)
Evening star., 1944-01-31
Maj. George Fielding Eliot

Moreover, the very considerable indus
trial resources of Leningrad become
once more fully available to the Rus
sian war effort. and it becomes possible
to send supplies into Leningrad, which
will enable the shipbuilding facilities
OF that city to take in hand the repair
and refitting of the Baltic fleet.
All these gains come from the re-
opening of the main railway lines. They
also demand of the Germans complete
re-examination of their position in this
part Of Russia. 1t is one thing to hold
an advanced, even an exposed position
on a far flank. while you are in full
possession of a network of railways, and
so can move troops and supplies quickly
to any threatened point. retaining with
In the area affected the most complete
fredom OF movement It is quite another
thing to try to hold even part of such
an exposed area when all the cross lines
and functions are in the hands of the
enemy, and all you retain is a few
unconnected lines sticking out like the
fingers OF manned hand with no con-
nection at all between the outer ends.
In that case. the forces which are de-
pendent on those outer ends are likely
to be destroyed in detail, one after the
other.
The German situation is particularly
precarious along the stretch of the
Leningrad-Dno- no-Novosokolniki railway,
which they still hold. They have lost
the terminal junction, Vladmirskaya,
where this line connected with the
Leningrad outer belt line. The line has
been cut south Of Betetskaya, where it
connects by cross line with Luga on
the Leningrad-Pskov railway. Betet-
skaya itself is menaced. Hence on this
section Of the line the Germans would
be wholly isolated If Betetskaya fell.
South Of Betetskaya the Germans hold
another section Of this line through
Evening star., 1944-01-31

But in the PHILIPPINES the Japanese
were victorious. The prisoners they had
taken had fought long and heroicaly
but were utterly defeated. At that time
Japan was celebrating victory, and
every japanese was convinced Japan
would win the war. In the days in
which they were slowly torturing to
death, by the most excruciating means,
American and Filipino soldiers, the
japanese Empire was extending itself
daily, with only the most Intellectual
resistance from an unprepared America.
So these were not hysterical actions,
born Of fear. Not yet had a single
japanese official warned the troops it
would be dangerous war, which they
might lose.
Nor could there be any normal feeling
of revenge. We had not yet attacked
even japanese outpost. We had been
attacked, and the war had been fought
exclusively on American territory.
Therefore this hideous story gives us
a picture of how the japanese would