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The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1944-03-16

ed the beautifully decorated table. On
either side crystal bowls held spring
flowers carrying out the chosen color
scheme.
Mrs. Brown was assisted by Mrs. Tom
Ashley and Mrs. William Strub in enter
tanning.
Friends Of William Strub, USN, who
is stationed at Great Lakes, ILL.,, will be
glad to learn he is recovering from
pneumonia and hopes to get a leave
nome soon.
A/C Dayle Alsbury has been transfer
red to keesler Field, his many friends
will be interested to learn.
Miss Frances Coca is able to be home
from the hospital in Kosciusko where
she was taken after being seriously
Mrs. Ed Brown, Jackson, visited in
the home Of her brother-in-law, j. r.
Brown, this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Theo Lewis have moved
into the McNair apartment in the Leach
home on Jackson Street.
Mrs. Sally Hudson, Ripley, is visit
ing her brother, j. r. Brown.
"
Mrs. R. E. Rosson, Jr., and Bobby
are spending this weekend in Memphis
with Mr.. Rosson.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Beachman are
spending some time in New Orleans this
week.
Mrs. A. S. Tatum, Mrs. Madge Lipsey,
and Miss Mary Brown Wilburn were
Jackson visitors last week.
Mrs. F. C. Calender and Miss Kath-
day.
Mrs. Guy Taylor is improving from
an operation at the Jackson Infirmary.
H. H. Johnson, Lexington, was a bust
ness visitor in Durant today.
The Wesleyan Guild will meet Mon
day night with Miss Nell Beall insthe
home of Mrs. Walter Odom. All mem
bers are ~jfsqpested to be present.
Mrs. 10 May visited her daughter, Mrs.
Georgia Lee Williams, in Yazoo City
last week.
Mrs. J. II. Branch and Miss Louise
Logan will spend Friday in Jackson.
Mrs. J. d. Alsbury went to Vicksburg
today to visit her daughter, Mrs. Leland
Ferguson. She was accompanied IS far
as Jackson by Mrs. William Blanken-
ship.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1944-03-16

Mrs. r. E. Rosson, Jr., and Bobby
are spending this weekend in Memphis
with Mr.. Rosson.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1944-03-16

Miss Pearl Mcgee visited Mrs. William
Mcmillan in kosciusko this week.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1944-03-16

Mr.. and Mrs. A. l.. Parker, of Hatties-
burg, accompanied by Emmett Drane, OF
Pennsylvania. were guests Sunday OF
Mr.. and Mrs. G. w. Drane.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1944-03-16

Mrs. J. II. Branch and Miss Louise
Logan will spend Friday in Jackson.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1944-03-16

Mrs. J. D. Alsbury went to Vicksburg
today to visit her daughter, Mrs. Leland
Ferguson. She was accompanied as far
as Jackson by Mrs. William Blanken-
ship.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1944-03-16

Mrs. Paul NORM of %Plainview, Texa
5 expected this week for q visit with
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. A. A. Porter,
Sr.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-07-12

would assure him of denomination. And we
have said that with the huge federal payrolls
at his beck and call and tae CLOS political
fund dedicated to his election coupled with
the fact that the war is still in progress and
the peoples reluctance to change administra.
lions in war emergency, nothing less than a
miracle could defeat him. There is nothing in
the present political situation to justify
change in that position
Because he is so likely to remain in the
White House after next January, and because
SO many things could happen in the next four
years, including his death, it is incumbent
upon the party convention to exercise sound
Judgment in selecting running mate for him
At no former time has it been so necessary
to choose vice presidential nominee of presi
dental calibre
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-07-12
Sasebo

It was in 1882 that Japan embarked upon
ing sixty-two years Japan's sea strength has
been developed SO greatly that Tokyo con.
ceived the idea that its Navy could rule the
Pacific-an idea it is being forced to revise
by the American fleet commanded by Ad-
miral Ninitz.
When Japan started to build it's Navy, Sare-
DO was selected as a principal arsenal and
base News dispatches recently have COM
pared it to own Norfolk. The comparison
must have been meant to include Newport
News where so many United States fighting
craft have been built. 1t was a small fishing
village in Admiral Perry's day but was soon
converted into base of little less importance
to Yokosuka, in Tokyo bay
Thus it is clear why Americas BIOS chose
it as a prime target for their recent bombing
Japan's southwestern corner, on the island
of Kyushu It has an excellent, sheltered 20
sition on one of the many small bays on the
northwestern arm of Kyushu. The bay opens
to the south and is protected by wooded is
lands and hills on the other three sides.
Together with the industrial city of Maya
saki, IS miles south, Sasebo is most accessi-
BILE of Hirohito's strongholds to the reported
position of B-29 take-off fields in China's hin
terland. Chungking is less than 1,400 miles
west-perhaps three to four-hour super
bomber flight.
Because of its importance We may expect
to hear of other Superfo1tress attacks upon
Sasebo.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-07-12
Overworking A Word

News reporters, authors of fictions and even
some writers in the highbrow bracket have
been harping on a single word so steadily
for such long time that it has lost all
meaning and significance. The word is hell.
Scarcely correspondent at any war front
. 10 get to hell out there in a hurry or some
body else was shot to hell. Seldom can you
read a magazine story without having some
character exclaim, Amt it just hell?' or
eve had a hell of time
It's hell for breakfast, and hell for dinner
and supper and in between and especially in
the evening when an hour is available for
escape reading. Biography, history, philoso-
ply all TEEN with the word, not in its literal
meaning but it's vulgar application. It ap-
pears that our vocabularies-to be in style
have been shot to hell.
This. we all realize, is an era of realism
We are done with sentimental expression and
consideration for dainty and sensitive souls.
We want herman words And maybe, to a
this particular case we certainly are not be-
ing realistic. We demonstrate our paucity of
words and instead of realism resort to vul-
.garity.
It would be better, we think to leave hell
to the preachers. We may depend on them
not to overwork it either in the pulpit, in
private conversation or their varied writings
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-07-12
Wallace On His Own

1t really seems that if Vice President Henry
Wallace wants second nomination he will
have to get it for himself. So far as Wash
:ington can earn, President Roosevelt at this
time has no intention of crowding him down
the throat of the convention next week as he
did four years ago.
Following a tWo-hour conference with the
President, Mr.. Wallace told reporters politics
was not mentioned The whole conference,
he said, was devoted to China's situation,
eve had a very lengthy and important con-
ference about China. We discussed nothing
else" When asked later if he was candi-
date for denomination, Well talk about that
at some future time he replied.
Well, there is not much time left The con-
vention will open week from today. In that
period it is obvious that Democrats who .lave
had enough of him will be as busy to defeat
him as he possibly be in mastering
strength for denomination, if indeed he hopes
to win.
Tae situation remains confused but it an
pears safe to think that Mr. Wallace cannot
put himself across. Lacking Roosevelts back
Ing it would seem that he is destined to be
retired to private life, perhaps to his old iot
of editing farm journal.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-07-12
Barkis Is Willing

President Roosevelts announcement in a
letter to Democratic National Chairman Hanne-
gan that he will accept another nomination
and serve a fourth term if elected comes,
really, anti-clmax. It has been foregone
conclusion fo- some time, probably for four
years, that he would do just that.
But the announcement at least quiets much
speculation on the Democratic Convention pro-
gram next week. Save for the matter of choos-
ing vice-presidential nominee the program
already seems 10 be cut-anddried.
Mr.. Roosevelt has more than enough pledges
to be nominated on the first ballot. At that,
however, he may not come as near unanimous
selection did Mr.. Dewey, his Republican
rival against whom only one vote was record
ed.
We have been among those who foresaw
MIR. Roosevelts denomination long before state
conventions began to pile up the votes that
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-07-12
BY JOHN SELBY

East OF Malta, West of Suez,'
by Bartimeus Little, Brown; $3.50
1t is only fair to say here that
this writer entertains respect for
the navies of the United States and
Britain that at times approaches
idolary. This attitude may, there
fore, color my opinion of Barti-
meus' East of Malta, West of
Suez." l don't think so.
l do think the book is one of the
most exciting records of naval
achievement ever have read. 1t
happens that it covers part of this
war that has strangely been nege-
lected and that it explains a great
many things which up to now the
general reader has only been able
10 speculate about. This is all very
well, but Capt. Lewis Richie OF
the British Navy, who writes as
'Bartimeus, does more than
caulk up section Of history. He
makes it so vivid and so heart
breaking and SO wholly delightful
to read and 1 (for one) spent twice
as much time with the book as I
should have done.
1t is the story of British sea pow-
er in the eastern Mediterranean
from the beginning of the war to
the landing in north Africa. Most
of us have forgotten that up to the
German invasion of Greece. Britain
had things her own way in the
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-07-12
The Literary Guidepost

Mediterranean, and why. The why
is the nub Of the story, for
Italy's fleet incredibly out-number-
ed the fleet Britain was able to
muster in Mussolini' S own sea. The
way was the fabulous seamanship
If British sailors, and their wonder
tul audacity Time after time they
scared the daylights out of the
Italian fleet. Sometimes they took
eight or ten for one. Almost at
will, they popped into Italian wa
tiers and clouted shore installations,
or caught conveys unawares and
shot them down with Italy's es-
corting war ships running like rab-
TITS, leaving the merchant vessels
cefenselecs.
This field day ended when, at
tel the laramie sortie, Mussolini
called In the Luftwaffe. The au-
daclty, the bravery and the dry
Eumor OF the British Navy did
not end, but the odds quickly
changed, the naval forces were
rapidly whitfield down. and final
~ the Royal Navy was left to hold
out with a few toothpicks. Barti-
meus tells the whole story of the
way Britain deliberately looted her
own north African army in order
TO honor her word to Greece, even
though she knew the Grecian VEN
ture was hopeless. This is hig
tragedy, written simply. Tere are
dozens of scarcely less affecting
stories in Bartimeus' book.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-07-12
Fort Fisher Park

The County Commissions recommendation
that Fort Fisher be made state-developed
park, when the war is over and the Army
reservation is turned back to private owners
is but a step toward having the project adopt
ed. Public support will carry it another step
forward That support saould be forthcoming
without hesitancy on anybody's part. A great
park at Fort Fisher would make consider
able contribution to this areas tourist and
vacationist appeal.
There is this selfish motive, as well the
6sSstorical importance OF the Fort, to recon-
mend the project. The county could well af-
ford to share the cost of its development. a
definite return on such an investment in the
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-07-12
Invasion-Old Style

We submit that Time has brought no more
following, concerning another invasion 1t is
from Thackeray's Vanity Fair The time, 1915.
The regiment with it's officers was to
be transported in ships provided by His
Majesty's government for the occasion:
and in two days after the festive assem-
bly, at Mrs. O'DoWd's apartments, in the
midst of cheering from all the East India
ships in the river, and the military on
shore, the band playing God Save the
King the officers waving their hats and
the crews iaurrahng CALAMITY, the trans
: ports went down the river and proceeded
under convoy to Ostend.
On June 6, 1914, there was no festive as
sembly, no hullabaloo of any sort as other
transports put off. Only silence, SO far as
silence can be enforced in an operation of
such size Tens of thousands of soldiers, other
thousands of motorized equipment, of landing
craft, four thousand SHIPS without shout on
any deck. No waving of hats, no shouting of
crews. Just a magnificent group of fighters
going forth to meet an enemy entrenched
across a whipped-uq channel
Whereas in the earlier embarkation the
scene was brilliant with the red uniforms of
British men at arms now the prevailing color
was olive drab and the large bulk of the
men themselves were from country which
shortly before the former invasion had pro-
ken its ties with England but now had sent
the flower of its youth to fight side by side
with the descendants of its old foe.
Englishmen were not making merry at Mrs
ODowd's apartments on the night before June
g. 1914 nor anywhere else. With their Ameri-
can allies they were porting over maps, they
were checking guns and ammunition and
touching of a button that should set off the
greatest expeditionary force of all history to
fight CALAMITY and brilliantly to die herocal-
ly as needs be, because mad paper hanger
had convinced himself he could rule the world
We may smile now at Thackeray's account
Of the expedition to Ostend in 1915, but we
must not forget that despite the merry-mak-
ing at Mrs. O'Dowds and the shouting and
the tumult at the take-off, it was that inva-
sion that paved the way for Napoleons down.
fall. The men who left England on June s.,
1914, in silence and on choppy channel,
have a bigger job than defeating Napoleon
But they will bring Hitler, the little paper
hanger and sign painter, to an even costlier
Waterloo.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-07-12
Decrease In Arrests
Reported By Police

There were 203 fewer arrests
last month than in June, l943, a
continuation of the drop in arrests
noted within recent months, &C.
cording to the report of Chief of
Police c. H. Casteen.
There were 478 arrests last
month as against 681 TO. the cor
responding period in 1943.
Offenses responsible for the
highest number of apprehensions
included: drunk, 109; assault with
deadly weapon, 80; disorderly con-
duct, 80; assault on female, SO;
speeding, "a.
For traffic violations, S769. IS
was turned over to the clerk of
Recorders court.
The value set On goods reported
stolen during the month was $22,-
101; on goods recovered, $17,469.
Taxi drivers procured ia per-
mits from the department.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-07-12
2nd- Brigade Camp Unit
To "Move In" Sunday

The first group of campers at
the Brigade Boys club camp at
Porter's Neck will be coming home
on Saturday morning.
Before they get in the second
group will be assembling at the
Brigade Armory to be Transported
to the camp for their two-Week
outing. 1t is expected that THIS
group will tax the camps accom-
modations. They are to start
promptly at 10 o'clock. Parents are
urged to have their sons at the
starting place on time.
In the meantime the KiWanls
club and the Brigade directorate
are to have dinner at the camp
on Wednesday evening. The motor.
cade is scheduled to leave Third
and Chestnut at 4 o'clock. This will
get the party to its destination IN
time for a swim before the meal
is served.
1t is also promised that the fes-
tivities will end in time for the
men to keep any engagements
they may have for the evening.
Everybody should be back in the
city shortly after o'clock.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-07-12
CIVILIAN DEFENSE
STILL IN ACTION

Civilian defense along the coast
al areas, contrary to popular be-
lief, is still a live-Wire organiza-
ton ready to cprlng into action
the moment an emergency should
alise, Sheriff C. David Jones, COM
mander of civilian defense for New
Hanover county, stated yesterday.
Since civilian volunteers were
discharged from the filter and con-
troll centers a S t month, public
opinion has been that there was no
organized operation on full time
basis, that the period for alert had
passed. This, Sheriff Jones declar-
ed, is definitely not the case.
Volunteers were dismissed from
the control center on the condition
that in event of emergency they
would report Immediately to h e
office and man the phones act
ing as nucleus around which re-
wolves the entire system of civilian
oefense activities. At the filter CEN
vel. civilian workers were replaced
by army personel. Both centers
are on 24-hour alert.
Sheriff JOINS stressed the point
that the state of taut vigil is not
as necessary as it used to be due
to the fact that new and more
powerful equipment has been de-
veloped by the military forces dur
Ing the recent months, but that
this was no hint of laxness a n
should not be so interpreted. The
units do not need as many work
e-s as formerly, as these perfected
instruments replace them and are
operated through official channels.
Other civilian defense organiza-
items such as the air raid war
dens, demolition squads, ambu-
lance corps, and sundry branches
connected with protecting the stra-
tegic. areas and aiding the people
are also we'll organized and ready
to ruch into action should they be
needed.
R. H. Hubbard, director of local
activities, may be reached at any
time through the control center
end a telephone number for the
center has been released for public
use. The number is 21453 and is
disable 24-hours day for the pur-
pose of information about civilian
defense activities.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-07-12
Meeting
Speeds Its Work

BRETON WOODS, N. H., July
11-lR-The United Nations none
tary conference speeded its work
today on the world currency stabi-
lization fund with the expressed
hope of reaching agreement on all
undecided issues by Thursday.
The delegates and their advisors
were divided into at least 20 com.
mittees to iron out remaining diff
ferences on the major problems
related to the fund.
The fixing of quotas for the par
ticipating nations still is the major
question not completely worked
out, but conference spokesman
said he was confident the quotas
would be in shape to be present
ed Thursday.
Another question still to be
cleared up is the amount of gold
each nation will pay into the fund.
Most nations were said to favor
smaller gold payment than pro-
vided in the original working plan.
The United States is understood to
be still in favor of the original
formula which provided for pay
ment of Is per cent of a nation S
quota in gold or 10 PEI cent of
its total gold holdings, whatever
is smaller
The degree of flexibility under
which the fund may alter ex-
change rates of its members is
another undecided issue. The
working pan provides that ma
ton may devaluate or cheaper it's
currency by 10 per cent once, and
that any further changes would
be up to the fund. The discussions
now are concerned with whether
fixed restrictions shall be set UP
to guide the fund in altering cur
rencies or whether the fund shall
be given freedom to decide on
Individual changes itself.
In connection with the discus
sions on quotas, it was understood
there had been an attempt to in
crease the aggregate subscriptions
to the fund considerably above
the eight billions originally out
lined but the United States took
firm stand against an increase.
Although the exact total has not
been announced, it will not be fa.'
above the So billion figure.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-07-12
Roosevelt Expected
10 Back Wallace But
Not To Demand Him

WASHINGTON, July IL. up
President Roosevelt held an
other long conference with Vice
President Wallace today as
authoritative reports circulated
that he would issue state
ment within 4S hours expressing
preference for Wallace as
his 1914 running mate.
At the same time democra-
tic leaders indicated the Pres
ldent would allow the conven-
ton to make free choice with
out any dictation from the
White House.
Four years ago the Roose-
welt convention managers told
delegates he would not accent
a third nomination unless Wal
lace was given second place
on the ticket.
But. Mr.. Roosevelt's pre-
convention announcement today
that he would accept renomina-
ton if rendered removed that
as weapon for forcing the
former agriculture secretary's
nomination again.
The Roosevelt-Wallace talk
was over the luncheon table-to-
day following the Presidents
news conference fourth term
announcement. 1t was not pub
lcly scheduled at the White
House and Wallace apparently
came and went by side doors.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-07-12
Interpreting
The War
BY KIRKE L. SIMPSON
Associated Press War Anal,.

There is a ringing confidenca !
General Montgomery's salute :.
his invasion troops in France -, ="
surfing them at the Norn,an5s
Judgment area" they have ca,,
ed out is very firm and secure y
Greater elbow room for f1r,b,.
expansion of his 2lst Army gron.
in France is Montgomery immad
late need. 1t will take far mo~.
powerful forces than have Va.
crossed to the continent to fuiT
his expressed "desire of everv A.
lied soldier in Normandy to finis,
this business off as quickly as nae,
sible' 1t requires more deep.wa.
ter ports like Cherbourg to feed
the battle lines as well as an ey.
panding maneuver front from which
to execute in greater scope tbe
cat-and mouse tactical game Mont.
gomery is playing with the foe.
His message to his troops is So.
nificant because it marks the sur.
cesfsul conclusion of the first phas.
Of the invasion. There have bean
intimations that the weight of the
Allied attack might be shifting
eastward already in the Normandy
area with the line of the Seine be.
- o"~;s its long range objective
Certainly MONTGOMERY would give
no real intim alton Of his broad
strategic mission until his invasion
lodgment zone was secure. IFS
communication lines with Britain
in all weather assured and its area
enonoh and deep enough for heavy
additional forces in men and eouip.
ment to be bought in. The first two
conditions have been fulfilled. The
third is in process Of tulfjllment
in the American RIGHT flank drive
TO clear the whole Cherbourg nen.
insula and the BritishCanadan
canture of the Caen bastion on the
left.
At some earlv time Montgomery
will signal his troops forward in a
shift from tactical expansion on his
continental bridgehead into
move that may more clearly reveal
the strategic pattern of the opera.
ton, whether eastward to the
Seine. southeast toward Paris or
southwestward toward the Loire 10
lop off the Brittany foreland as
the Cherbourg peninsula was taken,
1t appears doubtful that the mo-
ment for that has yet arrived. how.
ever, or will come until the line
has been Strengthened from the
Seine Bay coast on the East to the
depths of the Gulf of st. Malo on
the west
It is clear, nevertheless. that now
the front in Normandy is moving
inshore beyond range of help from
naval big guns, it is upon massed
field artillery. big and little as
well as overwhelmingly superior
air power that Allied Leadership
i is counting heavily not only to In
sure victory but to reduce battle
casualties as the advance proceeds
Artillery fire power, was the Rus
sian technique that ultimately broke
the back of the German Blltzkrelg
tank offensive in the East. No front
line eyewitness report from Nor
mandy fails to note the stunning
gun barrages now preceding every
Allied forward steep