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The Wilmington morning star., 1944-03-08
OPA On The Carpet

The Office Of Price Administration has bung
led its job so grievously in many particulars
that any good thing it may have done is, ir
the public mind, smothered by its errors.
For this reason when the question Of its
perpetuation comes up, as it soon will, Con
gress is altogether liable to engage in heated
debate. The present act authorizing price Con
troll will expire on June 80. We may expec
many democrats and practically all republi
cans to shout their protest against its continu
ance with fervid eloquence.
No bureaucratic agency which the admin
stration has set up by decree has created sc
much public antagonism. No agency has done
so much to turn the people against it. It.
gestapo methods, its internal strife and con
Trajectory orders have combined to breed
public hatred. None Of its existing rules is obey
ed willingly Whatever merit might have lorg
ed in the principles it sought to make the
practice of the country has been offset by it,
dictatorial methods of enforcement
It is not possible to believe that members O.
Congress are ignorant Of the public attitude
toward the OPA or indifferent to it. And now
that Congress, following Senator BarAey's
courageous revolt over the Presidents tax bill
veto message. has got its feet squarely or
the ground, it is not only possible but probably
that it will refuse to sanction its continued
existence.
It is not for US to say whether discontinuance
of the Office of Price Administration would
be harmful or helpful We know that the law
of supply and demand has carried the nation
over many a hump But we are certain that
if the OPA is killed no factor will have SO
great an influence on its abandonment as its
own actions.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-03-08
Boost In Teachers
Salaries Is Asked
By Maj. Gregg Cherry

CARTHAGE, March T. w -
North Carolina must preserve ~
most important asset-'the calla'
rem who will be the future clr
zens and leaders" of the state
through a school program Whlc1
will offer to every child the grea.
est opportunity possible for 'As
state to give, Major Gregg Chef!s
Of Gastonia, gubernatorial cano'
date, said here tonight. =.
Cherry spoke at a meeting Z"
Moore county teachers. =,
Asserting the school pro0aoag
exerts a greater influence Oh 'I'
growing child than any other III, III,
stitution except the home, CheLt!
said it is obvious that "'among '! '
paramount duties of the state N u.
operation of its school system -
that of providing competent teaVT
ers.''
He said he believed an increSs.
in salaries of teachers must W
the beginning factor in impTo.s vi
ment of North Carolina 5 scAO"
system"
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-03-08
New York Symphony

Mayor F. H. LaGuardia's brainchild, to Of
Ter to New York's millions good music at a
reasonable cost, has at last proven success
full, with the appearance in the City Center
Of Music and Drama Of Leopold StokoNski,
and his New York City Symphony orchestra
The orchestra, although Of course not SO
good or as well rehearsed as the doctors
former love- the Philadelphia, was composed
Of 80 players, about one-fourth Of whom are
women. The house, which has 26s2 seats
with top price Of dollar, was sell-out,
proving conclusively that people, if given the
opportunity, will take advantage OF good
music. 4
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-03-08
Simplified Taxation

It has been this newspapers opinion Tor
some time that the best way Of distributing
tax. It still holds this view. But in lieu of
a sales tax the next best plan is that Of Rep
resentative Doughton, chairman Of the House
Ways and Means Committee, which would
apply the withholding tax principal for some
thirty million persons whose income does not
exceed $1,000 year.
This would do away with the complicated
returns now in vogue. Instead the tax payer
would sign simple statement of income and
exemptions and be done with it.
Its very simplicity may be an obstacle to
its adoption, although there has been Of late
a sterner attitude on the part Of Congress to
exercise its Constitutional rights and stand up
to the administration, from the President to
the bureaucrats by way Of the Treasury and
all cabinet offices.
Mr.. Doushton's declaration that Congress.
eonal and Treasury tax experts are at last
working in harmony on new taxing procedure
stirs the hope that by the time another tax
year rolls around the countrys wage earners
and salaried people In the $1,000 or lower
brackets will be relieved Of the confusion
that heretofore has characterized their efforts
to make their tax returns.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-03-08
With Ernie Pyle

train or bus and goes out by him.
self seeing the country. Invariably
he gets into conversations with the
people.
Half the time he winds up going
to somebody's home for meal.
He says, 1--WE been in rich homes
and poor homes over there. These
are pretty good people, but they'r
so damned emotional. They get in
to the widest arguments with each
other over the most trivial things.
But they're good-hearted."
Steve isn't obsessed like che aver
age soldier about getting home. He
takes the war as it comes, and
doesn't fuss. He'd like to see home
again, but he doesn't want to stay
even when he gets there.
His big worry is that he'll meet
some woman who'll have him mar
ried to her before he knows what S
happened. He doesn't want to be
tied down. He wants to travel and
be free and roam around the world,
talking to people, as soon as this
little bombing job of his is finished.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-03-08
UNRRA FARM PLAN
HIT BY REYNOLDS

WASHINGTON, March 7. -(P-
Senator Reynolds D-NC) protest
ed today against plans of the Uni
ted Nations Relief and Rehabili
tation Administrator UNRRA tt
send large quantities Of farm ma
chinery and equipment to foreign
nations as part of its program fol
aiding war-stricken areas.
He laid before the Senate a re
port stating UNRRRA plans cal
for shipment overseas by Aug. l,
1945, approximately $4,000 plows,
II 300 binders, 10000 tractors, 80,
Oo0 separators, 1880 rakes ane
3,77O thrashers, along with mum
erous other items of equipment
and said.
IT protest against our sending
thousands upon thousands of piec
es of farm machinery to foreign
lands, when our farmers here in
America are in dire need of them
to produce the stuff needed to feed
ourselves and the rest OF the
world
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-03-08
BY JOHN SELBY

"There's No Front Like Home"
by Robert M. Yoder (Houghton
Mifflin; $2).
Having made a fool Of myself
by laughing all the way from New
York to Westport, Conn.,, on the
New Haven railroad, and again
this morning by laughing until my
Severest Critic threatened to steal
the book that was the cause of it
all, it is time to share. The book
is a thin little affair of lis pages
which at first l thought was out
rageously over-priced at two bucks
and which isn't.
Its author, Robert M. Yoder Of
the Chicago News, calls it There's
No Front Like Home" It appar-
emily is a collection of his columns
In that lucky paper, some of them
expanded bit and everyone of
them as funny as any column has
a right to be. Funny, and more.
Mr.. Yoder is expert, and knows
that to be really funny a short
piece Of this kind must have a ker.
nal Gnfinitesimal at times) Of what
we hopefully call truth. He has
hung each Of them on an adequate
peg, and often the result has what
the boys with thick glasses call
significance" But dant let that
discourage you.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-03-08
name
JUNIOR MEMBERS

Paul Baschon, Jr. and AlOnzo
Crimson, Of New Hanover High
School were indicted into member
ship as junior Rotarians, for the
month of March, by Rotarian Da
Wis H. Howes at the clubs weekly
luncheon meeting Tuesday.
Announcement was made of til
United civic clubs meeting here On
March %, when community lead
ers will gather to hear nationally
known speaker on the subject Of
postwar planning.
Contributions to financing the
trip Of District Governor Bill
Chambers of Salisbury to the Ma
tional Rotary convention in Chlca'
90 next May were voted.
Visitors included W. B. Bryan
Fred Troy of Raleigh, and War
rem o. Chace, Everett, Mass.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-03-08
Daily Prayer
FOR FELLOWSHIP WITH
FIGHTERS

To Thee, the everywhere pres
ent Reality, we pray foz: a spirit
Of fellowship with our fighting
men. In Thee, may we draw near
to them. We would share their
sufferings. and. mayhap, their
heroism. Deliver us from our
trivial ENDORSEMENTS by making us
aware. Of their wounds, their
WEAKNESS, their death. Quicken
our imaginations that the reality
of heat and mud and jungle and
snow and hunger and exhaustion
may be real to us. Let the dread
battle-sounds echo in our hearts.
Grant us grace to be daily par
takers of the sufferings of our SOL
diers; SO that this war may be-
come part of the very fibre Of our
being. Thus would we be delivered
from the blight OF carelessness and
smallness and selfishness and be-
come fellow endu-ers with our
dear ones abroad. So may our eyes
be opened to the greatness of wars
issues, and to new knowledge of
the unity Of this struggle with Thy
purposes for a redeemed world.
Amen.-W.TE.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-03-08
By ERNIE PYLE

IN ITALY.-(by wireless)-Sergt.
Steve Major is 6 IL feet and
weighs 222 ppaunds stripped. De-
spite that weight he looks slim,
because he is so tall.
Steve is an armorer in the 47th
Bombardment Group. He is %,
and comes from Monessen,> Pa. He
is good-looking and good-natured,
and always has something to say.
As he rides along in a truck he'll
shake his fist at some tough-look-
ing crew chief and yell at him,
''You ugly BASTARD" Nobody could
possibly get mad at him.
Steve has been in the Army
nearly six years, and is an excel
lent soldier. He quit high school
and enlisted when he was II, and
served one shift in Panama. When
his first three years were up, he
stayed out just six days and then
re-enlisted on the condition they
send him to california. They did,
Steve likes to see the world.
I asked him if he would stay
in the Army after the war. He
said, mo, the Army's all right,
but I've had enough of it. I've got
5000 coconuts in the bank, and I'm
going to get some education after
the war and be salesman"
"Yeah, I'll bet," said another
soldier. "You look like 30-year
man to me-"
Steve has a good, calm philoso-
ply about everything. He is even
philosophical about his part in the
war. He says, II tried to be pilot
too big. Tried to be a gunner
too big. So I'm an armorer. Okay,
I'm happy. What the hell"
He says further, ''This job is
easy. We work hard for a little
while every day, and then the rest
of the day we don't do much. Any
civilian could do this work after
a little training. It's just like a
regular job, only we're away from
home.
cts not like last winter in Tuni-
STA when we lived on British ra-
tons and damned near froze to
death and got raided every day.
Everything's different now. We're
living good here. Why, this is bet
ter than it was back home in
camp
Steve doesn't go on missions.
He's so big he'd be in the way.
The plane of which he was armor-
er was lost several weeks ago, so
now he helps out the other boys.
He sleeps in tent right out on
the line, in order to be near his
job.
Steve is cool in the pinches. They
tell about one thing he did over
here. His plane came back one
day with it's full load of bombs.
When they dropped the unexploded
bombs down to the ground, he dis.
covered one Of the fuses was on.
A few of the fuses that day had
been set for As seconds delay, but
he didn't know how much of the
As seconds had been used up be.
fore he made his discovery. The
natural impulse would have been
to run as fast and as far as he
could before the bomb went off.
But Steve just sat there on the
ground and unscrewed the fuse
with his hands and then tossed it
aside just as it went off-harm-
lessly.
Sergeant Major loves to travel.
And I believe he gets more out Of
it than any soldier I've met. You
can drop him down at new field
in any old country, and within
week he'll know half the natives
in the adjoining village.
Steve's parents were Austrian
and Yugoslavian, and he speaks
Tour Slav dialects. In Panama he
learned Spanish, and over here he
writes down 20 new Italian words
every night and memories them.
He gets along fine in Italian,
On his afternoons off he gets a
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-03-08
interpreting
The War
BY K1RKE L. SIMPSON
Associated Press War An,,,.,

wax Analyst
Allied strategic bombing ot
man targets reached its cE in uef'
stage over Berlin at the mnroa
that the Russian ground jup 'elo.nent
in the east began rollins 5do o'
ward the Cernauti gateway WIN w 10 TO-
mania in what even Nazi ~ Hro Hg y
casters styled culminatinuuF oad,
possibly decisive" attack ana
That the Red army bro,,.
through to slash a wide gan -
the Odessa-Warsaw railrosss gap in
tween Tarnopol and proa1., be-
functions is aimed at isoIati rSut 70
whole Nazi right flank in ps The
for humiliation, German obs aussa
do not doubt. ''e'Vers
Nor can they fail to rso,.
the mass American daylight Ssn1e
ing of Berlin as a no less s' s Gum0'
cant event in the west. It rsisas
the curtain on the final pIa aaNea
Allied strategic softening.1Se Of
Germany by air for invasi tr Of
The full fruits of that bjgges,
battle ever fought can anos' az
gagged until the actual invsa os
comes. That it helped both to wb;.
tie down German air, strength " .nd
to undermine the morale Of a ma
German people and the GermaO r
army is beyond question. anal
And the crisis in Russia &c D.,
forces choked off all direct Ns rd
communications with hundreds N ~
thousands of troops still 400 noiles
or more east Of the Tarnopol ,
Proskurov break through is in
part due to the Allied air attacks
from the west. To meet that al.
tack German air strength in the
east obviously has been CRITICALLY
curtailed.
The smashing drive of the Rcd
army which forged across tha
warsaw Odessa rail life line NJ
the Nazi southern front was mr.
ganlzed and set rolling almost IN.
detected by the foe. Not even thaw.
ing weather conditions which Mos.
COW press reports describe as all
but impossible" Nazi deployments
on the 200 mile wide critical
front against which the Russians
are moving are thin, too thin.
AS was to be expected, Russian
thanking stabs are developing along
the northern face of the Dnieper
Bend salient to supplement The
main and crucial drive between
Tarnopol and Proskurov. Moscow
makes no mention of these VET,
but the German official war buup.
tin told of another Russian "bre8i.
through attack in progress 700
miles east of the main front in
the "Zvenigo,odka sector"
I It was in the Zvenigorodka sec.
tor that the Second and Third
Ukrainian Armies Joined to turn
northward and wipe out ten Naz
divisions in the Cherkasy pocket
recently. That they have now turn.
ed southwark in an effort to break
through to Nikolaev at the mouth
of the Russian Bug River and seal
off another Dnieper Bend pocket
trap on the foe is indicated. IT is
a Russian trap within trap tech
nique and a deadly menace for
the foe, faced with urgent necessi.
ty of a swift cross-country retreat
into Rumania before it is too late.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-03-08
What The Red Cross Does

The nations press and sae gaaie are SO
liberal with their space and tins sAst aeeeay
can be ignorant Of the faet taat tas American
Red Cross is making its annHaA sapsai ses
financial support MareA Is tas FaaasA eaasea
for this yearly appeal aisaoAsa MARY eesas
mumisies, iaetpsdslag New Hanover 99ssasN are
concentrating their eSsosS IA saas&sg psssess,
Locally, the campaign will ssasS gaseassyeu
on March ls.
Although everybody kaews rail- we'll that
the campaign is approaching ana IN = vague
way what the money 70 De raised viii 60 for,
few persons here or anywhere else realizes
the beneticent work the Red Cross is aeiag
in this war period. or the extent al its apey>
atoms in behalf Of the armed forces We all
know that the Red Cross has set up eenters
In the British Isles, for example. where so
many American boys are mohilized Tor the
forthcoming push against Germany But
mighty few know the extent Of Red Cross
operations in England. How many OF us knew
that during an average week American Off
GERS and enlisted men are served $500 900
meals and snacks by the Red Cross? Or that
many thousands spend their leaves sleeping
in clubs maintained by the organization?
One young American half through his tour
of duty as air gunner, wrote friend in
London: Get this straight there are three
things the Red Cross does for us that we
couldn't get along without, and it's fact
1t gives us something to eat when everything
else in sight is closed 1t gives us bed
when there's not one to be found in town
And we get pretty fair idea of what's going
on-that is if you're interested in doing any
thing
These Red Cross clubs, or huts, or how
ever they are designated are crowded, says
every chair occupied by soldiers or sailors
just sitting there in their coats and hats with
out reading or writing or talking-thankful
for a haven where they will not be bothered
for soft chair and chance to relax.
More often than not there will be juke
box whose dance tunes are as essentially
American as is the warmth of the roon-10 to
~ OeSIeeS higher uld1 1S 4OQllQ LII
these islands. The men appreciate these s.
pie things, but nothing can beat the Red
Cross miracles of bed and board in this over
crowded country
The same dispatch says that Sc clubmobiles
were besieged in one week by troops who
walked off with 633, 765 doughnuts an 249, 495
cups Of coffee. This kind of thing has been
spreading. In Rainbow Corner, off Piccadilly,
$4,000 doughnuts are consumed daily. Dough
nut dug-outs, a recent innovation where troops
are on temporary assignment, have b
handing out 100000 q day. Doughnuts and
coffee will be the main ammunition carried
by Red Cross clubmobiles into Zone 8 when
the continent is invaded.
It is for work like this, as well as the
dozens of other activities conducted by the
Red Cross, that New Hanover county resi-
dents are given the privilege Of contributing
SIS, 1000. Is there any better enterprise into
which this community could pour its money?
Remember, they are our boys-our brothers
and sons and husbands and cousins and neph-
ews-who reap the benefits from our gifts to
the Red Cross.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-03-08
GRADUATES

CAMP LEE, Va, March 7,-x'
Lewis Giles, Jr., of spartan0ulssS'
S. g.. has just been graduasss
from the quartermaster non-com
missioned officers adminiStra wv
and supply course at Camp Ls ~
the public relation office dlscl0s''
today,
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-03-08
BARBS

Probably the best New Year resolution
made was to buy more War Bonds-and it. $
one that should not be broken.
It's a wise teacher who knows how to use
something besides a ruler to make pupil
smart
The new gear dropped in on Berlin with
a bang-thei Tooth Allied air raid
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-03-08
EVACUATION ASKED

LONDON, March 7. -tP,- it s
puppet government of SloVn an.
has appealed to residents OF Or Or.
tislava to evacuate the town, D Nv,
lin broadcasts said. Bratlsis
(Pressbur9) is 40 miles OF VleiA'''
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-03-08

TOP OF THE MORNING
Hope is brightest when 1t draws from
fears.
SIR WALTER SCOTT.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-03-08
Our Chief Aim

To aid In every way the prosecution Of
the war to complete Victory.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-31
Air Show BareS
Might of Army

The Army Air Show at the City Airport June
to Is will have wider scope than any similar show
put Not only will it emphasize the air might
of the Army Air Forces but through the cooperation
of the Detroit Ordnance District it will display other
weapons which have made the United States the
strongest fighting nation on earth.
With war department approval Detroiters will
get their first glimpse of Fisher Bodys new "strato-
sphere gun which shoots II miles into the air.
The company will show other guns tanks, air.
aft instruments and bomber parts and assemblies.
The theme of the Fisher exhibit will be armament
by Fisher" instead of the peacetime Body by Fisher
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-31
Reich Hit
by Yanks

LONDON. May 81 ms
U. S. bombers and fighters went
out in strength today to batter
the coastal area of France from
Boulogne to Cap Girls Nez after
squadrons of Raj heavy bombers
rocked the same area shortly
after midnight and Mosquitoes
raided Leverkusen, chemical cen
ter six miles above Cologne.
All the British night bombers
returned to base.
At 11:25 a. m. today the Ger
man radio said:
parts Of an enemy bomber
formation reported over north
west Germany are approaching
the Kassel area and parts are
flying away toward the west.
A second bomber formation Ii
still approaching over southwest
Germany. Fighter formations
reported over Brandenburg
Province have flown away to
the west"
CUP to 500 Fortresses and
Liberators and 200 fighters
attacked rail yards at Hamm,
Osnabruck, Schwerte and Soest
today, along with Nazi air
dromes in France, UP re-
ported.)
Bombardment of the French
coastal region came after a Sc
ries of daylight sweeps yesterday
directed particularly against
Field Marshal Won Rundstedt's
warning system. Sorties were
flown against radar installations
and listening posts.
a
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-31
Detroit Ace
Of FB| Quits

Milton J. BOYD. ace FBI in
Vestigator and supervisor Of the
war frauds sections of the local
office. has resigned 10 enter
private industry. il was learned
by the Times today
Boyd father Of five children.
has been with the F'BI for 10
years. After concluding his
training in Washington he worked
in the Cincinnati. Buffalo and
New York City bureaus before
coming to Detroit His home is
a. 313 Mount Vernon, Crosse
Pointe Farms.
He has been considered one Of
the ace Investigators of the De.
troit bureau and during the
tenure of John s Bugas as agent
in charge OF the Detroit office,
he was Bugas' righthand man.
He was largely responsible for
the preparation OF the first major
war fraud case here IN which the
operators of the Spalek Engineer
Ing Co received long prison
terms.
Boyd was active IN most Of
the big cases handled by the FBI,
including the spectacular kidnap-
pings. He is an accountant.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-31
MucIl-Wed Red Head
Tells Amazing Tale

The incredible story of how she
has been married Is times in the
last Is years and divorced but
three. was unfolded to amazed
FBI agents today by red-headed
Mrs. Korene Marie Agnes Will
helm, facing federal charges in
connection with four marriages to
soldiers.
Sitting quietly in county jail.
where she is held under $4,000
bond pendino examination on a
charge of violating the Soldiers
Dependency Act. Mrs. Wilhelm
said she was somewhat hazy as
to the exact number of matri-
monial ventures but guessed IL
was Is.
She told FBI Detroit Chief
Robert Guerin that her sdven-
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-31
Nimitz Praises Subs
For Work in Pacific

PEARL HARBOR, May 81
(UP)-U. S. submarines deserve a
large share of credit for the
American success in the Pacific
war, Adm. Nimitz said in present.
ing medals to 10 submarine Off
GERS and men.
Nimitz said submarines had
turned the western Pacific into a
mo mans land" and that they
have sunk more than two and a
half million tons of Japanes
shipping.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-31
Peiping Rdided
ByU.S., Say laps

NEW YORK. May 81 CUP)-A
long-distance American air raid
on Peiping. former capital of
China, was reported by Tokyo
radio today, which claimed one Of
two Psi raiders was forced down
and captured near Hotsin in
Shansi Province.
The Tokyo broadcast said the
attack took place Tuesday morn
ing.
Peiping. in Hopeh Province, is
north of Tokyo and the furtherest
point reported reached by Aneri-
can planes based in southern and
southwest China.