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The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-08
The Literary Guidepost

fapheTs, and an amused and rath-
er grateful public. 1t is something
to be shown new world at anv
age.
Mr.. Harrison believes we are
victims of convention and a tacit
conspiracy. The latter was per-
haps better described as a lack Of
candor; all technically competent
persons knew that old-style maps
were badly distorted, but until the
plane came along nobody thought
1t worth while to tell the public.
The conventions were numerous
but Mr.. Harrison believes the basic
and therefore most pernicious one
is our curious idea that the TOP of
map must be north. 1t is a nee
essary convention often, desirable
sometimes, but in his opinion the
chief obstacle to flexible sense
of geography. When one is ac-
customed to seeing Italy in, rough
ly, north south position, it looks
queer any other way. And it looks
wrong shown canting off to the
southeast-waich it actually does.
So today's photographer figures
out what he wants to show then
in effect gets into a balloon and
ascends very high into the STRAIT
os5here and photographs the
world from that point
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-08
Price Of Alliance

The report of the AMG public health chief
in Rome brings us yet another picture of the
enormity of Nazi greed, rapacity and hea1tless-
ness. One of every five persons in the Italian
capital is suffering from tuberculosis, direct
result of 1taly's friendly alliance with Hitler
First came the Italian contribution to Hitlers
promised victory. Not only did the Italians
pay with men and goods and raw material
but also with cold and hunger. Then the Nazis
arrived in person. living as they always live.
on the countrys best, while the natives en-
dured new, acute privation.
The toll is only now becoming apparent to
us. Deficiency diseases of adults and children
are piled upon the alarming spread of tuber
culosis Thus did Hitler treat his friends and
allies. What the liberating Allied armies will
find in the countries that opposed Hitler is an
palling to contemplate.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-08
Astounding News

No more astounding news has come from
war-infested Pacific zones than that Chinese
forces, reinforced from the SOUTH have turned
the tide of the Japanese conquest in Hunang
province and actually forced the enemy into
retreat from his most advanced position.
Chungking has announced the lifting of the
Hengyang siege and the driving back of the
main japanese forces some twenty-five miles
in the area to the south waere they threatened
to complete the seizure of the Hankow- Canton
railway and cut eastern China off from ulti-
mate Allied occupation. The victory, says a
Chinese army spokesman, has removed fo-
sometime to come the Japanese threat to &C.
cupy the whole of that rail line and split
China in two.
At the time this is written there is no def
mite information on what has actually taken
place, beyond the broad statement that the
Japanese have been turned back. 1t is not
said where reinforcements came from spe-
officially or from what armed forces they were
drawn. But It seems probable that General
StilWell has found the means of diverting some
OF his carefully trained Chinese forces from
the Burma area and that General Chennault S
air force has had hand in their transport
and in the battle as well.
Details of the engagement will be forthcom.
ing as soon as they are made available to
Fine news agencies and our military command
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-08
Interpreting
The War
BY KIRKE L. SIMPSON
Associated Press War ANALYST

Events across the Pacific hav.
taken a sharp turn for tre better
to match developments in the roar.
ing Russian-Allied three-front war
against the Nazi-Nipponese axis
il Europe.
The second flight of BIG Super.
fortress bombe1s from China In
tlact at the ,aeir Nipponese west
coast naval base of Sasebo puts
Tokyo on notice of the aerial cross
fire beng prepared against it. The
Japanese main fleet soon can feel
secure nowhere, at home bases or
at sea, against the rising tide Of
sea and air power being brought
10 bear againct it, both from China
and Americar-captured bases in
the Pacific.
Whether any portion of that fleet
lay at Sasebo when the B-29s came
over to repay in kind for Pearl
Harbor is yet &c be disclosed. II
Cannot be doubted that the attack
s,epped-up sharply the heavy at.
triton toll being taken of the Jan.
anese navy and cargo fleet, how
ever. There was already ample ev.
idence that enemy shipping in the
Pacific theater is going down fast
err than it can be replaced.
The second Superfortresc raid on
Japan upon the seventh anniver.
sary of her unprovoked attack
on China lent immediate support to
the Chang Ka -Shek anniversary
statement to his war weary and
i'll equipped people that help was
coming. And to cap it came Chung
king disclosure that the enemy Of
fersive in Human province had been
definitely bluntad at Hengyang,
Chinese spokesman said the
Danger of Japanece break
through to join now also stalled
tt rces in the south and cut China
apart from Peiping to Canton had
been averted for some time to
come. They gave full credit to the
American air force in China for
crucial aid in checking the foe.
The Japanese drive along the
Peiping Hankow Canton railway
was primarily aimed at preventing
American use of southeastern
China air bases. The Chinese vic
tory at Hengyang foreshadoSs new
Super bomber raids againct the
heart of the Nipponses war effort
in Japan itself.
Details of both the second Super
fortress raid on Japan and the bat
tie at Hengyang are still to come
and their full significance it yet to
be Indicated It appears certain,
however, that the enemy again
badly under-rated Chinese ability
and will to fight and Allied ability
to get important stocks Of fighting
equipment to Chinese troops deg
pite all communication difficulties.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-08
e Bonds Lag

Although total sales of all bonds in the pres
emf drive have amounted to some half million
dollars more than allotted to the Wilmington
area only about 80 per cent of the "E oono
quota has been reached.
This means that workers particularly In the
HIGHER paid brackets are not doing their full
share.
AS it was for wage earners and salarled
folk that this particular issue was put out
and the goal is still afar, the natural conclu-
sion is that the delinquents are not taking this
war, or their obligation to promote victory
as seriously as they should.
Maybe some OF them have fallen victim to
the fallacy that the war is just about ove-.
They need to consider the evidence of our
military leaders which is directly to the con-
trary.
With the Germans still able to send their
rocket bombs over England and kill London
residents at the average of one per bomb for
a total above two thousand, it is obvious that
Hitler is far from licked. Nor is this the only
evidence that the Battle of Europe is not
near its end The stubborn resistance of Nazi
forces in Italy with the consequent slow prog
ress of Allied armies, the repeated counter
thrusts of German forces in Normandy and
Prime Minister Churchills announcement in
Commons that the enemy is preparing to use
larger and more destructive rocket bombs
than any thus far loosed over England show
that any thought that the fighting is nearing
an end is not justified.
AS long as the fighting forces of this nation
must have the material needed to finish the
job they are SO valiantly and efficiently doing
there can be no excuse for any Garner at home
to withhold full cooperation in this bond cam
paing And that means the purchase of E
bonds with every dollar not actually needed
fer the subsistence of the household.
The bond committee has announced that the
drive for E bond sales will continue through
out July. All bonds purchased before August
/ will count in reducing tae deficit. It is to
be hoped that with this additional time al
lowance the quota will be passed as splen.
didly as the total allotment.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-08
The Circus Holocaust

AS in most cases when there is sudden
cry of fire where many persons are as
se1nbled, the frightful death toll at Hartford
when h e Barnum Bailey and Ringing
Brothers big top burned was due to panic
Had the six thousand spectators marched out
in order the probability is that few would
have been injured and fewer killed. Because
the audience stampeded the known toll was
we'll above hundred dead.
1t was happy circumstance that animal
acts had been concluded before the wisp of
flame was discovered. Otherwise the casualties
animals had been returned to their cages, the
steel runway through which they travel to
and from the rings was still in position and
proved barrier to the escape Of many with
bodies piled up at its side, as snow drifts
against fence, crushed under the heels of
frenzied people.
Dispatches telling of the holocaust empha-
size that circus employees went about their
work in the emergency with cool heads and
efficient hands and did what they could to
StOp Ine panic. line DdnQ even started playing
in the vain hope of establishing some sort
of order. But the fact remains that a bucket
of water thrown on the single finger of flame
when it was first discovered probably would
have extinguished it and the men and wom-
en- and children who went down in the crush,
were overtaken by the flames because
exits were crowded, would have been saved.
Why water was not applied has not been
told. 1t is the practice of the circus manage
ment to keep filled buckets and extinguishers
at many places under the big top fo- just
such an emergency, and crews are carefully
trained in their use Fire is among the grav-
est perils circus must face For years the
Barnurn & Bailey and Ringing Brothers cir
Gus has taken every precaution within its
means to prevent fire during a performance.
The cause of it's failure to prevent this one
will be sedulousy sought.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-08
With Ernie Pyle

silent, grotesque shape, floating
slowly through the air. 1t is a
ghostly sight.
Then we recognize it, and all of
lis feel sense of relief. 1t is one
If our barrage balloons which has
broken loose and is drifting to
earth. Something snags it in the
next field, and il hangs there pois-
ed above the apple trees until
somebody comes and gets it long
after daylight.
AS fuller light comes we start
lighting cigarets in the open. The
Battery commander asks over the
phone how many shells were fired,
and tella us our tentative score
fer the night is seven planes shot
down. The crew is proud and pleas
ed.
Dawn brings an imagined
warmth and we throw off our blan-
kets. Our eyes feel gravelly and
ur heads groggy. The blast of the
sun has kicked up so much dirt
that our faces are as grimy as
though we had driven all night in
a duet storm. The green Norman
countryside is wet and glistening
with dew
Then we hear our own planes
drumming in the distance. Sudden
" they pop cut of a cloud bank
and are over us. Security for an
other day has come, and we sur
render willingly the burden of pro-
tecting the beaches. The last
"Rest!' is given and we put the
gun away until another darkness
comes.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-08
BY JOHN SELBY
LOOK AT THE WORLD" by
Richard Edes Harrison (Knopf;
81 50l

$3.50.
Richard Edes Harrison's Look
at the World" is certainly tn e
handsomest book of maps l have
seen. Most of the ones drawn in
Photographic perspective look as if
they should be taken out of the
book and framed; very likely the
jacket map, which was drawn too
late to be included in the book,
will be framed by a good many
astute people. 1t proves that what
ever the unfortunate cha-acteris-
tics of the Japs may be, their
country makes a beautiful map if
Mr.. Harrison draws it.
Like a good many things of COM
parable interest, Mr.. Harrison S
atlas is a joint enterprise. When,
a few years out of Yale, he de-
cided to draw the world as ne
saw it, he needed a hacker with
money and imagination. This he
found in the magazine Fortune. {"
He needed lot of research, and
the Time and Life building swarms
with researchers. Lastly. he need
ed appreciation, and t:ais was fur
nlshed jointly by explorers, geog.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-08
LEGION SEATS
new OFFICERS

American Legion Post No. 10
vas in operation yesterday with
new set of officers for 1944-l945
installed at their meeting the night
before at the new Legion home,
10C South Third st.
In addition to installing officers
at the meeting, the Post approved
the plan to donate room in the
Leg on home for the use of a state
service officer who would assist
World War II veterans.
Approval of this plan is now final
as far as Post No. 10 is concerned
and awaits approval from Wash
ington. If the plan ic accepted by
Washington, Wilmington will have
state service officer who will
help veterans adjust themselves to
civilian life and aid them financial
ly.
N. S. Westbrook, post com
mander, read report of all activi-
ties of the post for the past year
and also made suggestions for flu
ture activitiec. One suggestion was
fol- the purchasing of an ambul.
ance to be used by the American
Legion for the people of Whining
ton, especially veterans. Final ap-
pr oval on the suggestion has not
been given.
The officers installed by Judge
j j. Burney, who acted as instala-
ton officer, were as follows: Com
mander, N. S. Westbrook; first
vice commander, M. B. Register;
Gecond vice commander, W, x.
Rhodes; third vice commander, 0.
o. Allsbrook; finance officer, D.
M. Darden; judge advocate, W ].
Canady; historian, Stella PETIT
way; chaplin, w. L. Farmer; exc
cut:ve committe, w. D. Jones and
Il. j. Benson: trustees, F. G. De-
bose, j. C. Thornton, and Walker
Taylor.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-08
BRIGADE GETS
SALVAGE PAPER

Collections of nearly 10000
pounds of waste paper have been
made by the Senior fraternity Of
the Boys Brigade during the pre-
sent scrap drive for salvage paper,
it was announced yesterday.
The majority of the paper has
been collected in answers to calls
made to the fraternity by the gen.
e, al public In an effort to collect
d maximum amount of paper in
a minimum amount of time, calls
to the groups headquarters are
segregated into districts SC that a
truck with it's crew may work a
specific area designated by tie
fraternity's scrap committee and
thereby eliminate OVERLAPPING and
the necessity of extra trips.
All requests for collection which
may be placed by calling either
2-374l or 6937, will be answered
promptly, as the volunteer crews
work every day from 6 pm. to
IL pm. The public is urged, how
ever, to wait and call collectors
only when all paper or magazines
available have been gathered and
are ready to be picked up.
Since the Brigade will be closed
during the summer months. the
Senior Fraternity will hold it's
meetings at the Emmanuel Pres
byter.an church at 5th and Meares
Stc., where the wives of the men,
bers will prepare the suppers.
The next meeting will be held
on Monday at $50 pm, at which
time members will discuss me-
thods of promoting public partici-
patton in the drive and plans will
be made to render the public better
and more prOrnpt service
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-08
THREE FROM STATE
NAVY CASUALTIES

WASHINGTON, July 7-(R-The
Navy department today released a
casualty list which included the
names Of the following North Caro-
linians:
Chief Boatswain's Mate Charles
Earl Camper. U. S. Coast Guard,
wounded. Father, William M
Camper, Hartford.
Machinist's Mate 1st Glass Will
liam Roswell Smith, U. S. Mn. r
dead. previously reported missing
on report of naval casualties for
June 2, 1944) Parents Mr.. and
Mrs. Louis Albert Smith, Shelby.
Signalman End Glass John Primm
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-08

IN NORMANDY-(by wireless)-
The six hours of nighttime 60 swift
ly for our ack.ack battery which
is a blessing Time races when
you are firing. And in the long
,lulls between the waves of enemy
planes you doze and catnap and
the time gets away.
Once. during a lull long after
midnight, half dozen of the boys
i'll our gunpit start singing softly
Their voices are excellent. Very
low and sweetly they sing in per-
feet harmony such songs as I've
Been Workin' on the Railroad" and
"Tipperary."
There isn't anything forced, or
dramatic, about it. It's just half
Il dozen young fellows singing be-
cause they like to sing-and the
fact that they are in a gunpit in
France shooting at people trying
to kill them, is just circum-
stance.
The night grows bitterly chill.
Between firings every man Grapes
an army blanket around his shout.
cers, and sometimes up over his
head, capelike. In the darkness
they are just silhouettes. looking
strange and foreign like Arabs.
After o'clock there is a long
lull Gradually the boys wrap up
in their blankets and lie down on
the floor of the pit and fall asleep.
Pretty soon you hear them snoring.
l talk with the gun commander
for few minutes, in low tones.
Then my eyes get heavy too.
l wrap a blanket around me and
sit down on the floor of the pit,
leaning against the wall. The night
is now as silent as a grave. Not
shot, not movement anywhere.
My head Stacks over to one side
But I can't relax enough to sleep
in that position. And it is so cold.
I am sleepy 1 hurt, and I berate
myself because I can't go to sleep
like the others.
But I'm asleep all the time. For
suddenly a voice shouts Stand
by!"-and it is as shocking as a
bucket of cold water in your face.
You look quickly at your watch
and realize that an hour has pass
ed. All the silent forms come fran
tically to life, Blankets fly. Men
bump into each other.
Commence firing!" rings out
above the confusion. and immedi-
ately the great gun is blasting
away, and smoke again fills the
gunpit.
Sleep and rouse up. Catnap and
fire. The night wears on. Some
times passing truck sounds exact
ly like faraway plane Frightened
french dogs bark in distant barn
yards.
Things are always confusing and
mysterious in war. Just before
dawn an airplane draws nearer
and nearer, lower and lower. vet
we get no order to shoot and we
wonder why. But machine guns
and Bofors guns for miles around
&C after it.
The plane comes booming on in
III long dive. He seems to be
heading right at us. We feel like
ducking low in the pit. He actually
crosses the end of our field less
than hundred yards from us.
and only two or three hundred feet
up. Our hearts are pounding.
We don't know who he is or what
Re is doing. Our own planes are
not supposed to be in the air. Yet
if this is German why doesn't
he bomb or strafe us? We never
fir4d out.
The first hint of dawn comes
Most of us are asleep again. Sud-
denly one of the boys calls out
Look! What's that?"
We etare into the faint light. and
there just above us goes a great.
-.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-08
rs Years Ago
Today
(FROM THE FILES
OF THE STAR-NEWS)
JULY 8, 1919


NEW YORK, -Four d-eadnaughts
and So destroyers from the Atlantic
fleet formed the excort that met
the United States naval transport,
George Washington, with President
Wilson aboard, 80 miles east Of
Sandy Hook early today. In the
aarbor were As wa~ships headed
by the flagship. Pennsylvania, with
Admiral Henry B. Wilson, assigned
to join the out harbor escort.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. T. Farriss ard
young son, Eugene, and Mrs, f.
M. Cheek, have returned to thei-
homes in Wilmington from a mo-
tor trip to Baltimore and other
points of interest
Mr.. and Mrs. Sig Wallace
family of Statesville, are visiting
Mrs. Wallace's sister, Mrs. Rebec-
ca Sternbe-ger at Wrightsvills
Beach. They came in their auto via
Fayetteville and reported tn q
roads in good condition.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-08
HOSPITAL HEAD NAMED

HICKORY, July 7-VR-Dr. #.
c. Whims of Newton, physician
for the CataWba-Lincoln health de-
partment, has been made official
director of the emergency hos
pital for infantile paralysis pa
tlents at the fresh air camp near
Hickory. Previously DR.. Whims
had Jointly directed the hospital
with DR.. Gather Hahn of Hickory
who will be assistant director.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-08

in that area. In the meantime it is heartenine
to know that as the eighth year of the Sino-
Japanese war opens the prospect of Allied
victory over Japan is improved by this turn
in the fighting in Hunang province.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-08

Editors Note-The Star and the News accent no
responsibility for the personal views of Mr. Pesler
his readers. His articles serve the rood nurnox. ~
making people think.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-08

Thomas, U.S.N.R. wounded. Par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Cyrus Berkele,
Thomas Weldon.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-08

TOP O. THE MORNING
Let us be faithful men and women
let lis entertain Truth as our guest
And make Honor our friend
Let us hold to the Right desperately
As wrecked mariner to rock.
One way is narrow, and the other Droao
One echoes to the tread of millions,
One whispers to the feet OF tie"
Let us be of the few.
Let us be faithful,
For our pilgrimage is brief.
EDWIN CARLILE L1TSEY.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-08
Our Chief Aim

To aid in every way the prosecutor o'
the war to complete Victory
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-08

The first hint of dawn comes.
Most of us are asleep again. Sud-
denly one of the boys calls out.
Look! What's that?"
We stare into the faint light, and
there just above us goes a great
Evening star., 1944-05-24
BY THE HAsKIN SERVICE.

BY THE HASk1N SERVICE.
@. What produces the rainbow
colors in the hot springs at Yellow
stone National Park?-K. H.
A. The colors are due to growths
Of bacteria and algae that thrive
at temperatures not much below
boiling point. They actually die
when the water cools.
@. Do officers of the Royal Ca
madam Air Force receive approxi-
mately the same pay as those of the
United States Army Air Force?-
I. N. P.
A. The Canadian Embassy says
that the pay of officers Of the Royal
Canadian Air Force is slightly less.
Q. What does Ell Paso mean7-
c. H.
A. 1t is Spanish for "the pass"
The city stands near one of the two
lowest passes through the Rocky
mountains in the Southwest.
@. How many Eskimos are there
in the WORLDS. w. Z.
A. Though they are scattered
through a large expanse Of terri
tory, the Eskimos number only
about 10000.
Q. Did Charles Meryon, the
French etcher, also paint pictures?
M. e. r.
A. Meryon was color blind and
therefore could not paint in oils or
water colors.
@. What Is the number Of sep
arate photographs one sees in an
average movie programme. L. H.
A. A person who has spent two
hours in the movies has been look
ing at about 175,ooO photographs.
q. Is Alaska included in the Con-
tinental United States?-O. d. M.
A. The term Continental United
States is merely one Of convenience
and does not include the non
contiguous Territory of Alaska.
Q. Did any other peoples, aside
from the Indians in this country,
ever scalp their enemies?-K. NICE.
A. Scalping was not unknown to
the Old World, as it was mentioned
by Herodotus >as practiced by the
Scythians.
@. Do bombing planes fly at an
altitude of 10000 feet?-S. 7. B.
A. The War Department says that
the approximate maximum altitude
Of the Flying Fortress Is 10000 feet.
Q. How large is the vocabulary Of
pidgin English, the language of the
Pacific islands?--G. A. n.
A. The vocabulary consists Of only
few hundred words used In q
peculiar manner and varies q good
deal. Some French and German
words have been added.
Evening star., 1944-05-24
No Ceiling on Courtesy
AT THE CAPITOL CADILLAC COMPANY

Frankly, we are amazed at the ''take it or
leave it" attitude encountered so often
these days. Here at Capitol Cadillac we
refuse to adopt that policy toward our
customers.
Wartime handicaps have in no way af-
fected our quality standards. While the
inevitable manpower shortage may, on
occasion, slightly increase the time re.
quired to service your car, our interest in
the job will continue to insure only the
highest standards of material and work.
Evening star., 1944-05-24
Washington Yale Club
Plans Annual Dinner

The annual dinner of the Yale
Club Of Washington will be held at
8 pm. tomorrow in the Mayflower
Hotel.
Guests of honor will be Sir Ron
aid Campbell, British Minister to
the United States; Rear Admiral
Emory S. Land, chairman of the
Maritime Commission; DR.. Charles
Seymour, president of Yale Univer-
sity, and Field Marshal Sir John
Dill OF the British Joint Staff Mis-
sion. Wimarth S. Lewis will act as
toastmaster.