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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-03-04
With Ernie PYLE

when you wander around the area
at night you use a flashlight.
Some of the ,tents have wooden
floors made by knocking apart the
long boxes that frag bombs come
in, and mailing them into sections.
Others have only dirt floors.
Many tents have radios. The
boys listen to all kinds OF stations
our own Naples broadcast, the
BIC, the distorted Rome radio,
the cynical Advertisements of
Axis Sally that We'll go home Gf
we are lucky only to find our
jobs gone and our girls married
to other guys. But most of all
they listen to the sweet music
from German stations and to the
American swing music Of our own.
The day begins early on an air.
field. Just before dawn the port
able generators on wheels which
are scattered among the grape
vines begin to put-put and lights
~ VII everywhere.
Nobody ever turns a light on OF
off. The generators stop at 10 each
night, and the lights simply 60
out. Thus when the generators
start again at 6 in the morning
your light automatically goes on
and your radio starts.
One man in each tent will leap
out Of his sleeping bag and get
the stove going, and then leap
back. for a few minutes. Little
strings of oily gray smoke soon
begin to sprout upward out of the
vineyard.
In few minutes you hear en-
gines barking on the other side
OF the runway. and then with a
deep voice that seems to shake
the whole silent countryside the
planes thunder down the runway
and take to the air. These are
out on early test hops. A few I'M
fortunates have had to get out of
their sacks at 4 am. to get them
going.
Everybody is up by $3.50 at the
latest. Guys clad only in long gray
underwear dash comically out IN
der the nearest olive tree and
dash shivering back into the tent.
A little cold water out OF a five
gallon can is dashed onto their
faces. They Jump into their
clothes in nothing flat. They are
on the way to breakfast as full
daylight comes.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-03-04
Farmers Are Urged
To Sign Up For War
Food Program Now

sit is necessary for all New Han
over county farm planters to sign
up their War Food Program Farm
Plan as early as possible, an
nounced Farm Demonstrator H.
W. Galphin Friday.
A total of 418 farmers are sched'
uled to sign the program plans
however, only 143 have signed up
to date.
At the same time these War
Food Program Farm Plans are
being signed, applicants should al
SO bring papers setting forth agfll,
cultural deferments, including all
labor on the farm, sex, ages, eA,
perience, precise draft status, anu
dependents.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-03-04
By ERNIE PYLE

IN ITALY,-(by Wireless)-The
47th group of A-2O light bonbers
is based on magnificent field
that was bulldozed out of a gi-
gantic vineyard by British engi-
neers in three days time.
Its dark eartnen runway is more
than a mile long, and off it scores
of crooked taxi paths lead out to
where each plane is individually
parked among the grapevines. The
field never gets really muddy, for
the soil is volcanic and water
drains through it.
Every morning the ground is
lightly frozen and the grass and
the shoulder-high g-apevines are
covered with white frost. In sunny
weather it is warm in midday,
but by in the afternoon the eve
ming chill has set in and your
breath shows as you talk.
Guards theoretically keep Ital-
ians out of the airfield area, but
you'll always see little knot of
them standing behind some plane
watching the mechanics work.
And all through the vast vine
yards which engulf the tents OF
the Americans are Italians tying
up Their grapeviaes and digging
in the earth.
1t is an odd sensation to walk
along a narrow path and hear a
dirty and ragged Italian girl sing.
ing grand opera as she works on
the vines. Or to go to an outdoor
toilet and suddenly discover a
bunch of Italian peasant women
looking over the low canvas wall
at you as they walk past. They
don't seem to care, and you don't
either.
Everybody lives in square, by.
ramidal tents, officers and men
exactly alike, at this airfield. The
tents are scattered throughout the
vineyard, so yards or so apart,
and they are hard to see at a
distance.
There are from four to six men
in a tent. They all sleep on fold.
ing cots, and most of them have
the big warm air-force sleeping
bags. They live comfortably.
The inside of each tent depends
on the personality of its occupants.
Some are neat and bright and fur.
nished with countless little home
comforts of the boys own car.
,pentering. Others are shoddy and
cavelike, surprising only a little
the bare requirements of life.
All the tents have stoves in the
middle. They are home-mad from
2o-gallon oil drums. Back of each
tent is a can of 1OO-octane gaso.
line sitting on a waisthigh stool.
A metal pipe leads under the tent
wall and across the floor to the
stove.
1t is the old siphon system. pure
and simple. You have to suck on
the pipe and get mouthful Of
gasoline to get the flow started
After that you control it with q
petcock at the stove end. Stoves
blow up frequently, but seldom dc
any damage.
An electric light hangs down
from the middle of each tent. The
olackout is not terribly strict, and
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-03-04
Rev. Baker To Speak
AT Java Club Meeting

The Rev. c. E. Baker, OF Taoe'
nacle Baptist church, Will D.
guest speaker at the Java eiuo
meeting at Second and Orahs'
streets USO club at 9 am. gun,
day. All service men are lnVl'e"
for free coffee and doughnuts.
At 8 pm. Saturday, the 1no ,1,
picture, How Green Was My va!
ley, starring Walter Pidgeon ana
Maureen O'Hara, will be snow"
This picture will be repeated !"
request at 5 pm. Sunday. .,
The Saturday evening fofil i.h
dance will start at 8 O'Clock, WIN VII.
music furnished by the 14Srd A''N'
band from Camp Davis.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-03-04

nounced at recent meeting that
ne and the other officials hence.
forth would not bother with the
formality of trials of sailors charg-
Cd with "racketeering," which
means anything displeasing to the
ru!lng group. They would simply
clean them OUT
moreover, as the first open an
nouncement of the communist rev.
olutlon after the war, he promised
mat with the backing Of every
soldier back from the trenches,
she union intended to mail the
ship owners to the wall"
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-03-04
Fair Enough

(Ediotr's Note.-The Star and the News accept no
responsibility for the personal views of Mr. Pegler
and often disagree with them much many OF
his readers His articles serve the good purpose
making people think.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-03-04
TOP OF THE MORNING

little fellow was saying his evening
prayers. Toward the end, he broke off
from his usual petitions, and said, "And
dear God, please take care of Yourself,
If anything should happen to You, don't
know how We could get on without YOU"
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-03-04

Africa's population is estimated
at 100000.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-03-04
Our Chief Aim

To aid in every way the prosecution q
the war to complete Victory.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-03-04

ing.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-26
Milk inspection
Needs Stressed

CHICAGO,Dec 26. (UP)-Eighty-
three per cent of all milk-bOrnc
disease occurs in cities of less than
10000 population and 95 per cent of
all milk k-borne disease occur in cities
of less than $4,000, according to the
Journal of the American Medical
association.
THE cause is incomplete super
vision of the milk supply which is
due to the fact that smaller COM
munities feel they cannot afford
to pay more than 5000 a year for
the duties of health officer" the
Journal states.
Most of Americas smaller COM
munitieS need better milk inSpec-
tion to safeguard the public health
and the Journal suggests that these
cities group themselves together to
form sanitary communities" with
one veterinarian doing the inspec-
tion work for all of them including
checking dairy herds, inspecting
dairy barns and equipment. and
supervising sanitation in pasteuriz-
ing plants and distribution systems.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-26
Auto Breakdown
Leads TO Arrest
OF Killer Wife

HIGHLAND PARK, Mich, Dec. 26
Wayne county authorities
said today a first-degree murder
charge would be filed against Mrs.
Nina Housden, 49, who confessed she
strangled her husband across the
street from the police station and
started to ST. Louis with his dis
membered body in the trunk OF her
automobile.
Mrs. Housden, who accused her
husband, cross country bus driver,
of Dragging of his affairs with other
women, was arrested at Toledo
Ohio, when her automobile broke
down and a garage attendant be-
came suspicious of her
Mrs. Housden, slender brunette
who had a wartime job as a driver
for the American Railway Express
Co., said her husband returned
home from his run Thursday. They
went to a motion picture theater
then had several drinks. She had
planned to kill him, she said, for
more than a year.
She succeeded in getting hin
drunk, she told authorities, then
took him to her apartment facing
the Highland Park police station.
She ctrangled him with clothes
line, she said, then went to bed
She kept the body in her apartment
for two days, waiting for deliver,
of an automobile she had bought.
Mrs. Housden was unable to carr
the 200-pound body down the stairs
She dismembered it with razor
stuffed it into a canvas bag, put
in the trunk of her automobile an,
started to st. Louis where sh
planned to dispose of 1t.
IF I were free, I would 60 t.
Kentucky and kill a couple Q
women he had affairs with sh
said.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-26
Senator Would
Set Up Unit
On Meat Study

WASHINGTON, Dec. 26. tUP)-
Senator Kenneth S. Wherry, R),
Nebraska, said Tuesday that he
planned to introduce resolution III
the new congress to establish per
manent Senate committee to m
vestigate the meat situation.
A similar resolution was intro
duced months ago by Republican
senators but was blocked by Chair
man Scott w. Lucas, CD, Illinois,
of the Senate audit and control
committee. That group passes on all
resolutions for Investigations requlr-
ing funds.
Wherrv said Lucas obviously re-
sponded to administration pressure
to kill the resolution because they
were afraid the investigation would
create too much antagonism In the
middle western states
His new resolution, he predicted,
might have easier sailing because
of the recent controversy over imJ
posing price ceilings on live beef.
Wherry said he had not decided
upon the number of committee
members he would ask for nor the
full extent of the authority he would
seek to give them, but advocated a
Thorough, permanent study OF all
factors bearing upon meat ratlonlng,
including feeding. marketing and
distribution of cattle and hogs.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-26
NJ AR K S
n. 4. STGCKS

New York. Dec. %. UPl-Anticipated
ycar-end evening up operations Tuesday
brought an irregular decline into the stock
market on contracted volume.
Railroad shares stood out as the lead
ing strong spot and their average rose to
new high since August 81 1887. This
demand was attributed 10 the belief that
tho roads face a good earnings Period as
bong as the war is going on and a prospect
of higher rates when peace comes.
A few rails, notably the Santa Fe group.
had losses ranging to more than a point.
New highs were made by Baltimore &
Ohio. Delaware & Hudson. Missouri Ran
sas-Texas issues. Lehigh Valley, Illinois
Central. Norfolk & Western and Northern
Pacific These rose fractions to more than
a point.
American Airlines made a new high.
Several special stocks made highs, in
Guiding Robert Refs preferred. Youngstown
Steel Door. Silver King Coalition Mines.
and Thermoid company.
Preliminary closing Dow-JoneS averages:
Industrial 149 Sc off 0.97; rail 4S.04. off
O12: utility 25.90. off O.Os, and 65 stocks
SSH. off OBS.
Sales dropped to $50, 700 shares from
]. .2sO. $40 last Friday Curb turnover was
2o9. 729 shares against 25s.s50 last Friday.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-26
Byrnes Order
Makes Inroad
On All Sports

WASHINGTON, Dec. 26. CUP)-
Sports officials the nation over to-
day awaited word on the status of
professional athletes for 1945 and
there was grave concern by most
that the New Year faced more than
possibility of being virtually
SportsleSS.
Racing, already a casualty by vir-
tue of War Mobilization Director
James F. ByrneS' order on Saturday
that all horse and dog tracks cease
operation on January 3, readily
agreed to back the directive 100 per
cent. Santa Anita at Arcadia, Cali
fornia, cancelled its 55-day meeting
which was to have been one of the
richest in the history of the sport.
Tropical Park opened Monday
and planned to continue operation
through January 2. The Florida
racing commission, which governs
the Miami track, granted permits
sion for nine instead of eight race
cares and track officials said that
purses from the extra race would
be used to assist horSemen in re-
turning to their homes.
Concern for other sports was
raised when Byrnes issued a direc-
tive to Selective Service Director
General Lewis B. Hershey to re-
examine all professional athletes
who have been deferred or dis
charged from military service for
physical reasons. Hershey acvised
Byrnes that pursuant to the de-
mands, he was ordering all local
boards to review the cases immed-
lately.
Byrnes' letter to the Selective Ser
vice director said that it was diff
cult for The public to understand
how large number of men be-
tween the ages Of Is and 26 could
be unfit for military service and
yet be able to compete with the
greatest athletes Of the nation in
games demanding physical fitness"
The reviews will apply to profess
sional athletes who have been de-
ferred because they failed to meet
physical requirements for service
as we'll as those discharged from
the army or navy.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-26
Horse Race Ban
Stirs Talk of
National Lottery
By JACK CUDDY

NEW YORK, Dec. 26. CUP)-With
racing banned Indefinitely, we sug-
gest that it would be timely now fer
the government to give serious con-
sideration to establishment of ma
tional lottery-if only as duration
measure.
The public, which bet an estimat-
ed slips, ,308,645 at race tracks alone
during the first IL months CT this
wear. will turn to substitute outlets
for their wagering diyersions-prob-
ably to rackets like numbers" and
pools This would be unfortunate
because it would enrich mobsters
and stimulate racketeering in this
country.
However, if the government estab-
fishes a national lottery, an income
estimated at s3,000,000 or more
annually could be obtained to help
the war effort and relieve taxpayers,
meanwhile preventing the rise OF a
new mobster dynasty that hight
approach the power enjoyed by tie
gang lords of prohibition days.
It must be remembered that, al
though more than a billion dollars
was bet during II months at the ma
tons tracks. this sum is probably
less than half the amount wagered
away from the tracks by fans who
bet with neighborhood bookleS.
These bcokies, with a certain Glen
tele ready at hand, can be valuable
agents for the numbers" operators
the policy proprietors-if the
bookies decide to turn their idle
hours to the profitable business OF
selling numbers.
Neither the government nor the
states derive any revenue from the
rackets. because they are illegal. But
from racing, the various states net
ted s55. C971 .232 during 1914. In ad-
dition the sport has contributed ap-
proximately s16,0Oo,o0o to war relief
since Pearl Harbor. The states Will
miss their revenue from the tracks.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-26
Trojans Would
Annex Hoop
Title in South
By GENE FRIEDMAN

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 26. (UP)-
Not. at all disturbed by the fact that
they boast the Pacific Coast confer
ence football champions, Southern
California's Trojans are busily occu-
pied seeing what they can do about
mailing down the basketball crown,
too, at least for the southern divi-
sion.
AS last year, there will be no play
off with the northern division.
The Trojans are anxious to erase
the past seasons blot, when for the
only time in their history, they fin
ished squarely on the bottom. 1t was
a three team circuit, to be sure, with
Stanford abiding vigorously to its
policy of no sports without all sports,
but it was still the ignominious
bottom.
But this year Coach Bob Muth
feels he has something to work with,
particularly goodly portion of
height, his chief handicap last year.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-26
LOCAL. DUTIERFAT
L. A. PRODUCE

Los Angeles Dec. % tUP)-
Artichokes: Steady. Per box: Castroville
ass, 4.50-4.75; SOS, 4. 75-4. IS: Arroyo Grande
4ss-60s, 4. so; IDS. 400; S4s. $50; 96s. 800.
Avocados: Per pound: Fuertes. 32-35c,
fair, 3Oc; No. 2s, 1920; Pueblas 20-25c
flats Fuertes. 4.25-4.50; fair, 400; Pueb-
las. 2.75-3.00.
punched vegetables: Stronger on beets,
green onions. parsley. radishes, spinach
and turnips steady on others. Per crate !:
beets. 2-2h dozen, 2.25-250; chard, 3
dozen. $50; green onions. dozen, 800
400; oyster plant, 2l5-3 dozen, 1901. IS;
parsley. dozen 2oQ-2 so; radlshes'
d dozen. 225-25O; turnips, 2-21= dozen.
2.oo-225
Carrots: dozen. 125-1.5o; Santa Maria,
dozen. 350-375.
Cabbage: Stronger; Cannonball crates,
best, 4.25-4.5o; fair. 375-4,Oo; sacks,
2 25-2 50: red cabbage, 6.oO-6.50 per crate;
sacks. 35o-4.oo.
Cauliflower: Stronger: Snowfall Lettuce.
crates. 2.Oo-2. 25; fair, lis; Arroyo Grande
crates. 2.50-2.75
Celery: Stronger; Pascal. 2o-22 in;
crates. 1852 25: Sturdee crates, Howard
crates. small. 2.00-2. 25; San Diego Sturdee
crates. 3.25-3.50; small. 2.25-2.5 50; Santa
Maria Sturdee crates, 4.0O-4.25.
Cucumbers: Steady; Imperial lugs, 600
$50.
Grapes: Steady: Malagas, DOC POUND
per crate: local dozen, Csc pound.
Peas: Steady. Per pound: Imperial and
Orange. 149c; Imperial. bushe tubs,
showing slight frost damage, 225-2.50.
Peppers: Steady; per pound: Bells, Santa
Barbara, fair, 10-12c; poor and No. 2s.
21k -31kc: San Diego county Bells. 12-15c;
red Bells, $50.
Potatoes Steady; street sales. 10O-pound
sacks long whites. Guyana L. S. No. Ia,
1903 so; No 2s. 2.75-3O0; bakers. L s.
No. /, 415-425; Perris. u s No la, $50
3.65: No. 2s, 800
Squash Stronger on Italian. steady on
others: white summer. all districts lugs.
4O0-s.5o; Imperial crates. 3.50-4.00 Ital-
ian. all districts. lugs. 3.O0-3 50; Imperial
crates. 2.75-3CD; crDokncrk, Imperial
lugs, 3O0-3.5O
Sweet potatoes: Steady. Per pound /:
Vests. 6-7.7c; fair, 4-5c.
Tangerines: Steady: Imperial fancys,
lidded orange boxes. 5.75-5.95.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-26

holiday living.
Trojan Coach Jeff Cravath wasn't
saying whether his ace halfback,
George Callahan, would be on deck
for the game but other members of
his staff were shaking their heads.
Callanans leg is fresh out of a
cast after knee injury, and Trojan
followers figured only sentiment
could put him into his second Rose
Bowl game.
Mindful of the two touchdown
passes Callahan hauled down against
Washington last year, Tennessee
was taking no chances, sharpening
aerial defense in all workouts to
date.
Despite off-and-on weather, Crav-
ath was reported to have the word
from his favorite forecaster that the
sun would be shining at game time,
and was figuring on dry field.
The same prophet gave Cravath
the same forecast last year when
Washington was the opponent and
all four use touchdowns came on
fast passes under burning sun.
Jim Hardy, the chunky quarter
back who threw three of them to tie
an all-time Rose Bowl record, was
lobbing them down the field again
Monday as practice resumed.
Cravath, who bubbled with con-
fidence and talked about the Tro-
jans making it eight straight for no
losses in the Rose Bowl, was going
gloomy, hanging most of it on the
shape Callahan was in.
Coach John Barnhill shrugged off
queries on the Vols. He was standing
by his announced starting lineup,
boasting a backfield weight edge on
the Trojans, but heavily cutweighed
at the tackles, where Cravath loves
to slam his backfield beef trusts.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-26
L. A. SJM ~,

Los Angeles Dec. 26. CUPD-Solar led
with a gain Of 19s in undecided trading
of $50 shares on the Los Angeles stock
exchange Tuesday. Eight issues were up,
six down and seven unchanged.
The list Central Investment 10 at a,
up .; Broadway 100 at 10. unchanged;
Foster and Kleiser 100 at By. ur u;
Southern California Edison 100 at 26lz,
unchanged: Southern California Edison 8
per cent preferred 100 at 32as. up "a;
Southern Pacific 100 al as, down y
Union Oil 100 at 20. down y Cessna 100
at as. down u Consolidated Steel com
mon 100 at 207, up h Consolidated Steel
preferred 100 at 275s. unchanged: MenaAan
40 at 2.45, down .O5; Ryan 100 at 81. up
u : Solar 100 at 1874. up Is.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-26
ODDS CLIMB ON EAST
FOR NEW YEAR TILT

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 26. CUP)
Odds continued to climb Tuesday
IN favor Of the East TO beat the
West in the annual Shrine game at
Kezar Stadium New Years Day.
Addition of Les Horvath, ALL
American from Ohio State, boosted
the eastern stock and Coaches An
dy Kerr, George Hausman and Ber-
ME Bierman were believed TO nave
g vast edge in quality over the west
opposition.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-26
+, A. LTyHSTUCK

Los Angeles. Dec. 26. (UP)-
Catle-Salable, 300 head; slow opening
sales all classes fully steady; two loads
good fed steers, S75.25; some held above
$3.50: few medium to good heifers
S11. .50-l2. so; few sales of medium to good
cows, S1l O0-12 25: cutters down TO IS. 90 4;
Gamers, S6.50-7.50; load good fed bulls,
S12.oo
Calves-Salable, 1900 head; active
steady. good 10 choice calves, S14.o0-
1900.
cents higher; good and choice $50 POUNDS
up. 15.50-15.75; top heavies, $500; sows.
S13.5O-1400.
Sheep-Saleable. 100 head; no early
sales, undertone steady.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-26
CHICAGO GRAIN

Chicago. Dec. Is. tUPl-A strong up
turn in rye futures led general ad-
vance in grain futures on the board OF
trade Tuesday Gains stemmed from TO
tential rye demand by diStillers during the
whiSkey holiday next month, feed pros
poets due 10 the cold wave. and reverScS
in the war news.
Rye finished the day up : TO . cents;
wheat up "a Ia l cent; corn up IA TO
L oats up l To = and barley up "a 10
bid up 2ss cents.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-26
NEWHOUSER AND TROUT
PAIR FOR HONORS

NEW YORK, Dec. 26. (UP)-Ihe
right and left wings of the Detroit
Tigers, Paul Dizzy Trout and Hal
Newhouser respectively, took the
lions share of pitching honors dur
ing the 1914 American league sea-
son, official figures disclosed Tues
day. Together, and practically dou-
ble-handedly, they won 56 games
for the Bengals and pitched the
Detroit club to within one game
OF the junior circuit pennant. New
houser's 29 triumphs and Trout's
27 came the colsest to the an-time
record for a QUO set in 1904 by John
Chesbro and John Powell OF New
York who had a total of GA wins.
Chesbro won Al and Powell 43.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-26
FRIENDS SEEK ECONOMIST
MYSTERIOUSLY MISSING

SANTA BARBARA, Cal, Dec. 26.
UP)-Friends of Carl Snyder, rs
year-old nationally known econo-
mist. Tuesday sought the aid of
Sheriff James Ross in locating the
New Yorker, who disappeared in the
midst of a winter visit to Santa Bar
bara. Snyder was reported to have
checked out of a hotel here last
week and gene to Ojai, California,
where he left by bus. Since then no
trace of him has been found. Sny-
der, the author of Capitalism the
Creator" formerly was director of
the statistical department of the
New York district Federal Reserve
bank.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-26
Butchers Back
Down ON Strike

NEW YORK, Dec. 26. CUP)--The
meat holiday threatened by 10000
butchers in the metropolitan area
in protest against OPA meat ceiling
prices failed to materialize Tuesday.
Mayor F.. H. LaGuardia, health Of
ficials and department of market
representatives made a two-hour
tour of the city and found general
meat shortage but most retail stores
open. LaGuardia took steps to re-
distribute available meat from points
where it was plentiful to areas where
there was a shortage.