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The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-18
StOkes-MeadOws
Wedding Vows Said

NEW BERN, June 17.-Miss o.
lie Cummings Meadows and Rich
ard Carter Stokes. II, of Green
vile, were married Wednesday eve
ming in a candlelight ceremony per.
formed at the home of the bride S
father, E. H. Meadows, at Tenawa
Farm on the Morehead City high
way. The Rev. ]. A. Russell, Meth.
odict district superintendent. offici-
ated.
The home was beautifully dec
Grated with a profusion of flowers
southern smilax and white candles
The bride was given in marriage
by her father. She wore white
crepe dress, with white accessories
and shoulder corsage of lids
Immediately after the ceremony
the wedding guests were entertain
ed an informal reception.
i Daughter of Mr.. Meadows ano
the late Mrs. Ollie Cummings Mea
dows, of New Bern, Mrs. Stokes
attended Queens college in Char
iotte.
Mr.. Stokes, son of Mr.. and Mrs
R. c. Stokes, II, of Greenville, is
a radio announcer at the Green.
vile radio station.
The couple will reside at Green
vile
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-18

BUY MORE WAR BONDS
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-18
Training Films To Be
Shown To Home Guard

A representative of the Fourth
Service Command will be here
Friday to instruct members of the
First Company, N. c. State Guard
preparatory to scheduled camp.
Capt. Leo Sykes, commanding of.
ficer, revealed today.
The headquarters representa-
tive will give instructions in ce-.
tain military tactics and will show
training films.
Sykes also announced that the
company is seeking two recruits.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-18

During World War I, one British
soldier was affected by disturbed
action of the heart for every four
actually wounded.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-18
USO Clubs Will Stage
Fathers Day Celebration

The Fourth and Ann streets USO,
mems division, and the Fifth and
Orange streets, USO, woman's di-
vision, will jointly have a Father S
Day celebration on Sunday, June
18. at the Fourth and Ann USO
club.
Short talks will be given by post.
master Wilbur Dosher and few
others. Solos and group singing viii
! also be rendered during the after.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-18

noon. The celebration which starts
at SIS o'clock will be followed oy
a supper at 6:15 o'clock. Civilians
as well as servicemen and women
are invited to attend.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-18
PERSONALS

Miss Ann Phillips of Memphis
Tenn, is the guest of her grand
mother, Mrs. j. V. Granger or
Market street.
Mrs. Frank v. Reid has return.
ed to her home in Buffalo, N. Y.
after visit with her son and
daughter in-law, Lieut.. and Mrs.
Henry v. Reid at their home on
Masonboro Sound.
Mrs. R. L. Peel of Chicago, is
spending a month in the city as
the guest of her brother and sis
ter-in-law, Mr.. and Mrs. c. E. Will
son, Jr.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Donald of
Charleston, S. c., are visiting Mr..
and Mrs. Otto Schmidt, 1888
Church street.
Miss Isabel Stellinge, who is a
student at Stephens college, visit
ed her classmate, Miss Carolyn
Walk in Vincennes, Ind, and was
accompanied home by Miss Walk,
who is her guest at her home in
Forest Hills.
Mrs. Marsden Gore is patient
at James Walker Memorial hos
pital following an operation.
Pvt. Leon Andrews, medical stu
dent, is spending two weeks with
his family at their cottage at
Wrightsville Beach.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jesse r. Tarbor-
ough of Market street road have
had as their guests for the past
two weeks their daughter, Mrs.
Joseph Pecora and her sister-in-
law, Miss Amelia Pecora of Water
town, N. Y. While here they Wis
tied friends in Charleston, S. C.
Miss Phylona Roberts of Charles
ton will accompany them to New
York on Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Donald OF
Charleston, S. c., are visiting Mr..
andMrs. Otto Schmidt, 1888 Church
street.
Miss Isabel Stellings, who is g
student at Stephens College, visited
her classmate, Miss Carolyn Walk
in Vincennes, Ind, and was &C
companied home by Miss Walk
who is her guest at her home il
Forest Hills.
Mrs. Marsden Cores is a patien
at James Walker Memorial hospi
tai following an operation.
Pvt. Leon Andrews, medical stu
dent, is spending two weeks will
his family at their cottage a
Wrightsville Beach.
Miss Mary Elizabeth Toms
student at Duke university, will
arrive Monday to spend the sum
mez- with her parents, DR.. an,
Mrs. E. R. Toms at their hom
on Wrightsville Beach. She will
be accompanied home by Mis-
Jane Macdonald and Miss Bets,
Smith of Charlotte, students a
Duke.
Miss 1nez Fulbright of Char
lotte arrived today to spend som,
time with her parents in the city
Miss Emily Setter of Washing
ton, D. c., arrived today to spen'
some time with her parents.
Mrs. Ethel A. Brown and daugh
ter, Joe Allen Brown, are visitia
Mrs. Browns sister, Mrs. A, L
Murrell, at her home in Cumber
land, Md.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-18
CARENTAN

CARENTAN
Carentan, in the thick of tie in
vasion fighting, is in a key posi-
ton on the Normandy peninsula.
Although close to the peninsula S
eastern coast it is only Is air miles
from the western coast. It sits
astride the Cherbourg-Paris rail
way and one of the two important
highways leading southwark out
of the peninsula. 1t is IS miles by
highway from Cherbourg and Is
miles west of liberated Bayeux.
1t is port town of $500 people
nine channeled miles inland on the
River Taute from the river S
mouth in the Grand Vey, pocket at
the southwest corner of the broad
Bay of the Seine.
Flowing into the Taute at Caren.
tan is the Douve, the central river
of the peninsula with it's sources
on the plateau directly behind
Cherbourg. With its tributaries il
drains meadow land which is ideal
pasture for cattle. 1t is the
marshy, meadow land around Car
entan that the Nazis have flooded
as a defense move.
The Cherbourg Paris railroad
with yards close to the port, ia
cilitates communication w h all
French points.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-18
Cherbourg Would Give
Allies Ample Harbor
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known from the department in
which most of the invasion troops
have landed, one of the ninety de-
partments into which France is di-
vided. Calvados department is
roughly rectangular with its north
e1n corners touching the southern
Corners of the bay. The most pop
u'ar beverage in the department
as in nearly all of Normandy is
cider, from which a heady brandy
called "Calvados," is distilled
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-14
Blood for Blood Donors

The Journal of the American Medical Association has announced series of ex4 periments which tend toward perfecting the nerciful, miraculous, and life-saving business of blood donation. Physicians Public Health laboratories in New York City have suspended donors red blood cells (which are usually waSted) in dex- trose, and reinjected the solution into the donors veins. Thus donors have been able to give blood every week for 12 weeks.
 But the experiments are not so hope full as they sound. For the new method would require separating the plasma at New York University and the U. S. from the blood cells at the blood donor center. And this can't be done now, for there are only 12 laboratories in the coun- try capable of processing blood for the armed forces demands.
 Still, the present lack of facilities and personnel do not detract from the new experiments promise. If great need arose, facilities would probably be provided. Meanwhile, it Is good to know that any uncomfortable after-effects of blood dona- ton are step nearer to elimination.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-14
The Germ Of Imitation

There has never been any argument about the fairness of rationing supplies so that all persons might get share of scarce commodities. But no one has yet figured out how price ceilings, which dis courage production, will increase supplies of scarce commodities. Some day our economic wizards may learn the wisdom of planning for plenty, instead of merely rationing for scarcity, which is the germ of imitation.
 Months ago, in fact two years ago. the disparity between the cost of producing milk and the. selling price allowed, was pointed out and correction urged. But the matter was disregarded and the charge made that farm prices were responsible for inflation, regardless of in- creased labor and supply costs.
 Well, butter is disappearing, cream is thing of the past, cheese is luxury, and milk is daily growing scarcer. Farmers are going out of milk production in all parts of the country. The national atti- tude toward milk daily grows more myS- terious as supplies dwindle.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-14

such a man. |. In this war, Providence has retrieved the muddles Of democracy. : That should be a warning, both to Amer lea and ourselves, not tn tempt Provi- denee again.YR /
 Whatever is meant by "muddles cf de- mocracy," there is one thing that both our political parties are in agreement on: We are going to tempt Providence this year to the extent of making fresh ap- praiSal of our high national officers and deciding accordingly, right in the midst of a war.
 That is something that no other war ring nation has attempted. And what ever the citizens of other nations may think, Americans believe that 1t is demo cratic, and worth the muddle. They will abide by the democratic decision. And whatever the decision may be, they will not halt in the business of' winning the war.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-14
Views Of The Press
F1NLAND's POLICY
(New Haven Journal Courier.

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 Comment by Swedish newspapers on the plight of Finland emphasizes two points: namely, that Finland's wait-and- policy is uIireahStic: and the risk Finland Is taking by this policy is not generally known by the people of that country.
 The wait-and-see policy of the Finnish leaders is more fatalistic than realistic, say the Swedish edi- torialiSts. We in the United States can readily see that one basis for the Finnish attitude lies in the hope of those people that the Americans will arrive at the last minute to pull them out of their plight. Our friendship for the Films between Wars and II was genuine, but 1t is possible that they have presumed on this friendship beyond reasonable limits. If they have, the recent warning of Secre- tary Hull will help them to re.focus their judgment.
 The second comment of the Swedish papers, if true, may ex- plain the persistence of Finland in following a course that promises little but disaster. If the people generally do not know the risk they
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-14

parties to the crime are my friends and relatives.
 :, Also. I have escaped the clutches of my greatest enemy--the clock.
 I have Q friend who is paid very highly for his work and who there- fore works on such e close schedule he can tell you the time of day to the minute any time you ask him. As 1 think back over the past few years, I remember that l, too, was the willing slave of the clock twelve minutes for this, six to catch the train, nine and a half for an errand with the other half for a phone call. And SO 1t went.
 Now my enemy is dead; or per- hapS he's only sleeping. I recall hearing few years ago of "a phony war" which later blossomed into considerable of a scrap. And 90 suppose that my enemy will have me by the nape of the neck pretty soon. But ct least until that time I can call myself free man.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-14

lexe education, his book, Pro posed New International Order" contains some ideas decidedly worth thinking about.
 He has spent a small fortune stimulating people to think about ways and means of preserving permanent peace. AS far as this observer can ascertain, however, they don't need too much stimu- lating. R. M. Davis is typical of the worried searching of the American people for the answer for permanent peace. They will listen to any leader who helps them find the answer. But woe unto any Administration which loafs on the job in this re- Spect.
 SOLUTION FOR
 JUVENILE DELINQUENCY
 Most enterprising and success full solution for juvenile de- linQuency this columnist has ob- served is that initiated by enter prising Paul D. Carmichael, at- torney, in Washington, Pa.
 This town, in the heart of the Western Pennsylvania coal, iron and industrial region, has the usual delinquency problem. Young sters from 13 to IS are crowd ing the beer halls and the streets, spending their new-found money earned in the war plants,
 To get them off the streets,
 Carmichael took over am old night club, raised enough money from local merchants to clean and paint it. Then he went to the schools and got the of-
 ficeFs of each class together. He had them elect their own committees and take over the organization themselves. They arc now running their own night club.
 Actually, night club" is the wrong word. There are ping pong tables and other games in the basement, with dancing on the first floor. The youngsters themselves sell hot dogs and soft drinks, they charge dues of 50 cents 8 year and take in about $25 a night from food. Four to five hundred club membres crowd the place every evening instead of thronging the beer halls and teh streets.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-14
PROPHECY HAZARDS LIVES
.(Hartford. Courant)

Freedom of speech still being an unabridged right in this country, we suppose nothing can be done about the prophets in high and low places who are nowadays rushing into print telling us when the war is going to end. Lieutenant Franklin D. Roosevelt, IT,, this week opined that the European war will be over in October. Nearer home, Joseph A. Smith, regional director of the War Manpower Commission, recently looked into his crystal ball and told the Manufacturers Council of Stam- ford that the war with Germany may end in November of this year. He did not give the precise date.
 MT. Smiths role of minor prophet is particularly unsuitable for one in his official position. For weeks we have heard manpower authorities bemoaning the fact that workers were growing too optimistic about the war. that many were going into nonessential work in anticipa- ton of the early termination of hos tilities. Now we have Mfr. Smith adding fuel to this unwise and pre- mature bonfire of optimism, despite the fact that he is charged with the complete mobilization of naanpower for the whole New England region.
 Without wishing to deprive ahy- one of the pleasure that comes from playing soothsayer, we suggest that those in official roles, at least, but ton up their lips when it comes to foretelling the probable date of the wars end. Even on the very day when an armistice is declared American soldiers will go on being killed. Until then, there should be no relaxation whatever by those who are, safe at home. The plain fact of the matter is that every ir- responsible guess or unfouuded prog nostication simply introduces the hazard of further American lives lost. iet57- ga
 ! Meanwhile, we suggest that those minor prophets who feel that ifTest- ible urge. ccrfine themselves to tilt | weather. e .it
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-14
The Hard Way

Congress can find an excellent example of how not to write soldier-vote law in a set of instructions issued by the Army this week. The instructions cover the ways and means for qualified service men and women to vote in the April primar- ies in Pennsylvania, Illinois and Nebraska, and the April general election In Louis jana. There is nothing really wrong with these ways and means except that they were designed for peacetime use, and the changes have been few and inadequate. The present absentee system will prob ably work all right for soldiers in this country. But for those overseas the whole rigmarole will likely prove to be a pain in the neck, and the result may be just won't take the trouble. The Army has instructed commanding officers to call the attention of soldiers from these four states to the coming primaries and election, and has provided postage-free application postcards for ballots All this is to the good. But lot of the Soldier-voters will find that their troubles have started even before the postcard stage.
 Many youngsters in uniform will be vot- ing for the first time. Others may be un- certain of their states voting regulations. And if they have any doubts, they must write to their secretary of state and find out if they have to register, pay a tax, or fulfill some other requirements. NebraSkanS will have an added chore. They must write to their secretary of state or on appropriate local official for & Spe- cial application form. This is sent to them and must be filled out and returned before the ballot can even start on its way. This procedure must also be fol- lowed in Pennsylvania if the hopeful voter prefers 8 regular absentee ballot to an official war form Of the four states in question, Nebraska, Louisiana and Illinois allow less than 30 days from the time the state mails the absentee ballot until the voter is required to mail 1t back. In this connection, the Army suggests that "it IS not desirable to burden overseas air mall with applications for ballots in cases where the time interval is nanifeStly too short to accomplish receipt, execution and return of the ballot"
 In other words, 1t is likely that in some instances there will not be time to vote at all. How to avoid this delay and red tape is Congress job. Whether federal or a "states right" voting system, or a modification of either, is finally decided upon, the lawmakers have an obligation to map out a plan in which the exercise of franchise won't be such exhausing exercise that the soldier has no strength left to mark the ballot.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-14
nfANUFACTU1sR or BLOOD


 throughout life there is constant destruction of red blood cotpuscleS
 and constant replacement of tho
 worn out, destroyed or lost cells i'm the blood by new red coTpuscles. These new red corpuscles are gen.
 erated or manufactured in the rcd bone marrow, being derived from endotheliaI cells In the marrow.
 To keep the rate of formation of new red. corpusc1es at even pace
 with their destruction Q stimulus or
 controlling factor of blood 3otma-
 tion is necessary, and this factor Q substance, not yet clearly isolated,
 called intrinsic factor" which is furnished by the liver where 1t Is stored after its production in the
 lining of the stomach. The latest physiological investigations seem to show that an ''extrirSic factor" Is essential for or at least promotes production of the intrinsic factor by the lining of the stomach, and this "extrinsic factory is present in
 certain foods Among which are TO-
 MATOES, EGGS. DRIED YEAST (not live yeast), LEAN BEEF. WHEAT GERM, RICE POLISH INGS.
 Psychologists estimate that the average life of blood corpusc1es is
 three weeks. Sooner CT later every red blood corpuscles disintegrates,
 IS ingested ply 8 phagocyte (wain- dering white corpuscle. phagocyte,
 scavenger cell) and carried to
 lymph node, liver or spleen. Part
 of the hemoglobin or red coloring
 matter of the red corpuscle is5 ex.
 creted as biltrubin (cOloring mat
 ter in the bile) and some of the
 iron of the hemoglobin Is stored in the cells of hvere,e spleen, lymph
 nodese and some of 1t utilized in
 the formation of new hemoglobin in the red bone marrow.
 Formation of the white corpus.
 cles 0eucocyteS is not relevant to the discussion of anemia.
 When considerieng anemia it is
 important to keep in mind the fact that the chief function of the red corpuscle is to transport hemog-
 lobin, and the chief function of
 hemoglobin Is to carry oxygen from lungs to the cells of every
 organ and tissue and to exchange
 its load of oxygen for a load of carbon dioxide to carry back to the lungs for excretion. How the hemog-
 lobin can have an affinity for oxy. gen sufficient to form a chemical
 combination with 1t to transport it
 through the blood stream, and then do the same trick with carbon diox- ide back to the lungs Is a mystery
 that has been going on for ages and need not concern us now. An adult weighing 15O pounds has approximately 75 ptnts of blood in his body, and the corpus cles make up more than one-thtrd
 of its weight. The fluid part of the blod, the plasma or serum, is it. self . pale straw color the sticky fluid present in ( clean blister. The
 red color is imparted to the blood
 by the myriads of red corpuscles swimming in it.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-14

It took a whale of a lot of work to put the thing across, and you don't find too many Paul Carr michaels lying around loose, but it's one of the most worthwhile attempts I have seen to solve the pressing problem of juvenile de- lniquency.
 U. g. A..GO-ROUND
 nAmbthey g ngihtslf6$
 Most efficient system for giving soldiers a lift is that devised by Linton Estes of Wichita Falls. Texas, who has series of sema- phores bearing the name of the town to which he wants to go. As @ result, folks drive by the Estes corner to see If they can pick any one going their way, and they can see where the soldiers want to go without stopping to ask The President will have hard time carrying Oklahoma this year if he runs again. The farmers, who swung the balance in previous elections, have largely turned against him RepreSentative Wesley Disney Cousin of Walt's) is waiting to see how the political tides are running to decide wheth- CT to run against popular Senator Elmer Thomas in the Oklahoma primaries. If 1t looks like a COP landslide next November, Disney won't risk race for the Senate.
 Most intriguing gentleman around the tomb of Abraham Linz coin in Springfield, H., is the gra- .cious custodian Herbert Wells Fay. He probably knows more about Lincoln than any other living per- son except Carl Sandburg. He also remembers most of the scores of visitors who have come to visit the Lincoln Tomb Texas is dotted with oil wells lined with German castings. What happened was that, before the war, the Na1iS wanted to trade oii-weli castings for oil - and a lot of people sHap- ped Biggest economic question troubling America: Whats going to happen to the now-crowded war towns, and what's going to happen to the ghost towns left denuded by the exodus of war workers and drafted men? Will they ever return?
 Copyright, 1914. by United rNea-
 ture Syndicate, Incl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-14
Overseas Editorial

Whether justified or not, someone will inevitably make the charge that the Church of England is trying to influence the Democratic convention in June, and the national election in November, in the wake of an editorial in the Church of England Newspaper expressing a hope that President Roosevelt would be elected 1Cr a fourth term. Such an editorial seems to indicate an ignorance of Amer leans and American politics, rather than an attempt to apply transatlantic political pressure. And that ignorance Is not peculiar to any one person or country. In spite of all the inter-depend- ent aims and efforts that unite the Allied nations in the war, few citizens of one nation know very much about the domestic pullings and haulings in an- other. Fewer still would feel capable of didactic editorial comment upon them. Of course, the result of the November vote is going to have worldwide signifi- canoe, whoever is elected. But the vote itself is 8 purely domestic function, based on domestic as well as internationl issues. Most of us, pro-ard anti-fourth- -termerS alike, feel that a presidential election, eTen in wartime, is strictly our own btlsiness.
 The Church of England Newspaper has every editorial right, to hope that the President Is reelected, and to call his third term Ian untold blessing and bene- fif to humanity" But it takes bolder step thar any American paper to date, when. in clairvoyant session on the end of ( limb, 1t picks both presidential candi- dates, and then weighs the issue accord ingiy.
 History has not killed the desire and iii fo (Ainerican) isolation, /" the editorial slates. (which in the postwar situation Nill take the form of marrow, u1iimagina- i've reluctant concession to new oe. nziins. Governor Dewey, who is tipped |6 the Republican nomination, is just