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Evening star., 1944-04-07
MuIIigon Will Head
Boy Scout Committee

Walter F. Mulligan has been elect
ed chairman Of the Prince Georges
County Boy Scout Administrative
Committee, it was announced TODAY.
Other officers and committee
chairmen include Louis B. Arnold,
vice chairman, and Earl j. Cannon
Organization and Extension Com
mittee; DR.. William A. Turner,
camping; DR.. r. c. Wiley, advance
ment; Harry Marx, health and safe
ty; F. L. O'Rourke, finance; F. S.
Taylor, activities and program, and
Sam Ormes, publicity.
The county now has 20 active
troops, consisting of approximately
300 members. In addition there are
six Cub Packs with a membership Of
approximately 200.
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Third Service Command
Names 7 Staff Officers
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, April 7.-Col. How
ard S. Paddock, 81 Walton lane.
Annandale, Va, has been named
signal officer for the Sd Service
Command, and Maj. Frank B. Cri-
der of Bethesda has been made
deputy director of supply, command
headquarters reported yesterday.
Col. Paddock, a native of Glovers-
vile, N. Y, has served in the Army
since 1917. In the World War he
was stationed at Camp Devens,
Mass, and in this war he has served
as signal officer for an Air Forces
organization during an attack on
Midway In 1943, he was with Al
lied headquarters in Algiers.
Maj. Crider, native OF Paducah
KY, received his degree from Johns
Hopkins University in 1925. and was
formerly with the General Electric
Co. IN Washington.
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Mason Elected to Head
@tory in Alexandria

Charles Henry Mason. president
OF the Mount Vernon Motors Co, of
Alexandria, has been elected presi-
dent OF the Alexandria Rotary Club
He will succeed United States Com
missioner Stanley King.
George N. Matthews, manager of
the Washington Virginia Office of
the Cunard Steamship Line. was
elected vice president and Joseph S.
Everley and Joseph Smith were re-
elected secretary and treasurer, re-
spectively. The new officers will be
installed July /.
w. Selden Washington, delegate
to the State Legislature, and Robert
G. Whitton, administrator of the
Alexandria Hospital, were elected to
the Board of Directors.
Evening star., 1944-04-07

WAA SAoSS a Vi oOso
of lilies on the
Tomb of the Un-
known Soldier.
Representativ e S
from the Grand
Communicates of
Knights Tenn
plar from most
of the States will
be headed by the
grand comman-
der OF the Or
der, Sir Knight
Charles N GA h
Orr of st. Paul
MINI. Mr.. Orr
will act as mas
Evening star., 1944-04-07
CountyGroup
Asks Isolation
Care Hospital
Prince Georges
Federation Backs 1t
AS Postwar Project

The Prince Georges County Fed
Grafton of Citizens Associations
today was on record as favoring
establishment of additional hospital
facilities in the county to care for
communicable diseases.
The federation, which met last
night in the County Service Build
ing. Hyattsville, presented The Star
Trophy for outstanding civic work
to Charles r Luebner, 430o Sheri-
dan street. University Park.
While adopting resolution pre-
sented by Prank Fierstein urging
erection OF communicable disease
hospital as a postwar project. the
federation declared that such a hos
pital should not be constructed n
the vicinity Of any incorporated
town or unincorported community
In the county.
This provision was inserted in the
resolution after Fred Cast. Cheyer-
", said his community is opposed to
having such hospital on the site
pital. A-
Mr., Fierstein then pointed out
tnat the country has plenty of land
now lying idle which could be used
for the erection of a hospital for
communicable diseases" s.
After members expressed doubt az
TO the ability of the county to
nnance such project, Walter p
Muiligan, Federation president, said
the State would be asked to con.
struct and maintain 1t.
Luebner Praised.
Mr.. Luebner, IS, is chairman NJ
the Federation's Zoning Committee
and a member Of the Parks and
Flood Control and Laws and Leeis.
iation Committees. A native of De-
troit, he came to the county in 1902
and retired in 1886 after 50 years OF
service In the Government Printing
Once, 80
He has been particularly active in
attempting to alleviate flood condi-
tions at the Bladensburg Peace
Cross, and for ~ years kept records
OF flood conditions there which he
turned over to the Army engineers.
lie also was instrumental in hay-
ing the town of Edmonston incor-
porated in 1924. and served on a
committee to eliminate the grade
crossing in Hyattsville and to re-
place 1t with the present overpass
about II years ago.
In presenting the trophy, Mr.. Null
l1gan told Mr.. Luebner that "for
more than 40 years you have worked
for the betterment of Prince Georges
County and have contributed your
services unselfshIy."
Indorses Baltimore Parkway.
The federation also irdorsed the
proposed construction of a motor
parkway between Washington and
Baltimore, via the Anacostia Valley.
las . postwar project. It was pointed
|out that the Government now owns
virtually all the rights-of-way on
such a route.
Endorsement also was given q bill
now pending in the House providing
for the granting Of commissions to
members OF the armed forces who
have had training under the Civil
Aeronautics Administration war
training service program.
After Daniel M. Greene, chairman
OF the Laws and Legislation Com
mittee, said that the county COM
missioners have indicated their in
tention to dissolve" all special
improvement districts which have
been inactive for two years, the
federation said it would investigate
and oppose such move.
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Save This Newspaper

Many paper mills are shut
. ting down for lack of waste
paper to convert into cartons
for Army and Navy supplies
shipped overseas. Every pound
OF old newspapers and maga-
zines is needed. Telephone your
nearest school or notify some
school child in your block to
have your paper picked up.
Evening star., 1944-04-07

Flying ForJreSS IhomAs H. nehfs
pilot who was a recent patient. Or
a mission over Germany the heae
of his co-pilot, sitting beside him
was cut off clean by piece Of flax
The man brought his ship home
safely and then blew"
He was an exceptionally difficult
case, failing to respond well to the
commorler methods of treatment. II
was not so much the shock of the
co-pilot's death and his own mar
row escape which bothered him. But
he had developed an overwhelming
guilt complex. He blamed himself
for having killed his comrade be-
cause he had not lodged that fax
Finally, in the twilight state which
proceeds the deep slumber induced
by amytal, he revealed the real
basis of his illogical attitude. For
some years he had been an only
child. Then a little brother had
come into the family of whom he
was excessively jealous, He was
about years old at the time One
day he had picked up the baby
and started to drop him out of a
three-story window. The mother
had arrived on the scene in the
nick of time.
Then the horror of what he had
been about to do had overwhelmed
him. Ever since he had been ex-
cessiyely attentive to that brother to
salve his own conscience. When
they were parted by the war there
was gap in his whole scheme of
things. He had compensated for it
by subconsciously substituting the
co-pilot for the brother.
When the man was killed he
had felt, still subconsciously, that
he had at last, by an adverse fate,
carried out the impulse of his long
past childhood. He had murdered
his little brother and must 20
through all eternity with the curse
Of Cain On his brow. This only
had to be explained to him, to
be brought into the open out of
his subconscious, to clear UP his
neurotic symptoms.
Boy Thought He Died.
One day they brought in a boy
who was almost completely para
lyzed. He could only move his eyes
and mouth. Yet his muscles and
their nerve connections were found
intact. He also proved hard case.
Please bury me- would come his
wierd whisper I'm dead. I've
been deadhae ks1 III u 60 "a
the son dyerscrupulous
mother Wild HID 6ff1sd sxces-
sively over his health Every since
he was small child she had told
aim that If he got his feet wet
he would catch pneumonia and
die"
She had always emphasized the
"die." THIS boy had been brave
soldier, He had not feared Ger
man bullets. But deep in his sub
conscious mind had remained the
childhood terror of getting his feet
wet. One night he had been
pinned down by enemy shellfire
in heavy rain from which there
was no shelter. 1t was cold. He
was soaked to the skin. The next
day he had a bad cold and a pain
in his chest. But he was hardy
youth and suffered no serious ply
sical aftereffects.
But If getting his feet wet meant
Evening star., 1944-04-07

man and some
times, under the
influence of the
truth dr. u g.
amytal. a pa =
tient will reveal
something out of
the distant past
which has con-
tributed to his
present C o n d j.
ton, and the
airing of which
goes far to cure
the complex OF
symptoms.
They tell OF a
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.:..... ....!: s:.:..,. { STATE
ASSEMBLY LINE REPAIRS
MENTALLY BROKEN YANKS
(Sirth OF a Series.)
BY THOMAS r. HENRY,

UNITED STATES MILITARY HOSPITAL IN ENGLAND
anPsychoanass has little following this hospital
assembly line
medical
cured neurosis in less than month
philosophy die, how getting
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sophy is to leave no
which will help a
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-05-25
Merrill's Raiders

So little factual information has been re-
leased concerning the fighting in north Burma
the public naturally has believed the cam
paign involved little more than skirmishing
or an exchange Of fire by pickets. The truth
is, the battle has been ON large scale and
the performance of Allied forces Of vital i'm
portance.
The record of Merrills Raiders is an out
standing example of what has been going on.
Their attack on Myitkyina eliminated four
months of marching and jungle combat, dur
ing which they engaged in four major battles,
all with signal success, and killed 1000 Japa-
nese soldiers.
Behind them lay 800 miles of ground COW
cred since their exploit started. No other
American force save the Marines who took
and held Guadalcanal for four months has
seen so much uninterrupted jungle fighting.
Since early March they had been in almost
daily battle with japanese forces.
A correspondent writing from the Burma
front, says this of their physical condition:
Lean, gaunt bodies, bearded faces and hollow
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Pattern For Peace

Americans in general will heartily agree
with COL Carlos P. Ronnulo who told Fordham
,,,i,,ors+v alunnae and alumni associations
that this country has shown the way toward
nermanent world peace by the spirit behind
its work in the Philippines.
ro7one1 Ronulo is secretary of the Depart
ment of Information and Public Relations Oh
the Philippine government. Finding her-
self at the turn of the century IN the
Philippines at the crossroads OF ldeansm anu
exnloitation." he told his hearers, America
chose to respect the dignity of the human
soul. AS result of this spirit Filiplnos IN the
foxholes of Bataan paid dividends which had
been earned by American idealisn. No nation
could desire greater profit than tie pre-
eminent place America has in the hearts OF
Il, 900, 900 Filipinos.''
The United States chose wisely indeed when
it concentrated it's efforts in the Philippines
upon the development and progress OF the
islands population, instead of exploitation of
the people as the custom of western powers
was in the Orient. At tremendous public ex
nense, the United States proceeded to train the
Filpinos in agriculture in government, in
education in sanitation, in high spiritual stand
ards with the sole purpose of qualifying them
for home rule The resources of the islands
were developed for the benefit of the people,
not for the profit of individuals or companies.
Before the Japanese came time had been
set for turning over the government to
the Flipinos, with all the advantages and in
vestments created by the government OF the
United States AS a result when war was
thrust upon them the Filipinos fought side by
side with the American forces with herols1n
born of loyalty to a common cause. Nowhere
else in the Pacific theater of war did native
populations give such valiant service to the
Allied forces in combat with the Japanese.
Surely history offers no more conclusive
proof of the benefits of self-determination than
in the conduct of the Filipinos under the ter
rible impact of war.
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.Kuriles Thrice


U. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD
QUARTERS, Pearl Harbor, May
24-(RNNavy search planes renew
ed the assault on Japan's northern
flank in three raids on the Kurlles,
announced today by Adm. Chester
W. Nimits.
Ventures from Aleutian bases on
Sunday gave the Paramush 70
naval base and nearby Shun7usnu
island the fifth bombing Of he
month. The attackers returned
without loss.
A single search plane raided Shu-
mushu again two days later. 1t was
not opposed.
Keeping the enemy on the alert
IN the central Pacific. the Seventh
army air force sent Liberators and
Mltchells to bomb air fields gun
positions and buildings at Ponape
at the eastern end Of the Carolines.
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The Literary Guidepost

cially those at Plymouth and
Jamestown. The Virginia colo
nists were Adventures, he says,
but they found no gold. The
Massachusetts colonists were
family men who expected, some
of them, to find farms for them
selves, but who chiefly were con-
cerned with the opportunity to
worship according to rites that
pleased them. BY an accident of
navigation, they landed outside
the Virginia colony where their
right to settle was secure; they
therefore produced a compact for
their own government. 1t was not
perfect but it was beginning.
Benet traces the DEVELOPMENT
OF the American spirit through
the centuries to the war. we are
fighting today. There are only 1922
pages in the book. so that it must
move swiftly, yet it is ASTONISHING
how much of the American legend
1t expresses-the undefeatoh1e
Washington, the plying Lincoln
crusaders like Bryan and Wilson
freedom which first was largely
passed on space to move about in
becomes, IN our time, freedom
based on a spiritual concept and
world cooperation. An instinct
has formed a natisSs,
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-05-25
BY JOHN SELBY

"AMERICA," by Stephen VIM
cent Benet (Farrar & Rinehart;
$1.50).
In the winter Of 1912 the Office
of War Information suggested to
Stephen Vincent Benet that he
write short history of the United
States for translation into a num-
Der of languages. It was not to be
a brief outline, based on dates,
battles, and the successive inaug-
uration of presidents, but the spir-
itual assay of the people.
Benet agreed, as he had habit
of doing when a request had any
thing to do with the war effort.
The book was finished before his
death in 1913, and because it was
written to a specific prescription
it emerged quite different from the
usual history. 1t reads, often, like
Walt Whitman's poetry translated
into prose-something strange, for
Benet was, as everybody knows,
a poet in his own right.
There is hardly a date in the
book. Benet begins with a kind
of apostrophe to America which
states what other people think
we are, and what the author be-
LEVIED we are. Then he goes on to
a recreation of the spirit which
moved the early colonisrs, espe-
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Closing In For The Kill

With the segments of the American 5th.
tie of Italy, with the purpose of uniting with
the rest of that Army now engaging the Ger
mans to the south, and powerful units of the
British 9th. Army continuing their thrusts at
the Hitler line, which they cracked at Pico. it
is obvious that the showdown is not far ahead
The fighting is said to be the heaviest in the
Battle of Europe save for the tremendous bat
ties in Russia.
The outcome would seem to be no longer in
doubt The Axis commander, Field Marshal
General Albert Kesselring. has brought his
entire force into action and has no reserves to
call up, while the Allies are pouring additional
troops, equipment and supplies into the battle
as its tempo increases.
The chief question: taking it for granted that
Rome will fall, concerns the further activities
of the Nazi forces, whether they will make
stand at the Pc river or be cut to pieces be-
fore they can be regrouped there. The decision
will rest with General Kesselring, who has In
structions from Hitler to fight as long as
man is afoot with a gun to fire. He knows
what happened at Sevastopol when Hitler lssu-
ed similar orders to Axis forces in that area.
It is conceivable that he will choose to act
on his own initiative when he sees the futllity
of further fighting.
But even more effective in determining the
future course OF the Italian campaign is the
matter of supply If the Bremen pass is in
actual fact closed to German transport, and
Italian railroads and highways have been shat
tered as reported by the Allied Air Forces, it
would do little good for Kesselring to make a
stand at the Pc if he has only dwindling
store of supplies, munitions, ammunition, and
men discouraged by previous defeats. Whether
he does or does not, the Allies are at last in
position to win the Battle of Italy, which in
all but name is a sector of the second front
With Italy in possession the Allies will be
better situated for great thrust through Yu-
goslavia, where Tito's forces have done an
outstanding job in immobilizing other Nazi
divisions and in whiting them down.
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Japanese Peace Terms

Japanese magazine, Meiho, has published
an article in which it is said the terms of peace
acceptable to Tokyo include transfer to the
japanese Of the entire United States Navy
and large merchant ships.
The startling announcement is attributed to
the Berlin radio, which adds that the United
States would be kept under strict surveillance
for ten years.
Other conditions cited in the Berlin broad
east are:
1.-THE entire naval air force to be put at
the disposal Of the Japanese
"Al naval air bases and air installations to
be destroyed, except those needed by japan.
"steel and oil production to be permitted
on a reduced scale only.
"An expenses Of taking over American shns
by Japan to be paid by the United States.
CAL naval installations, naval stations dock.
yards, arsenals, colleges and other centers
of naval education to be destroyed.
, "In the case Of scuttling of single shin
10 times it's value to be paid to the japanese
government"
. Some of the economic terms as drawn I'm
by financial expert - 'Yasei Nishiya:
Private banking to be eliminated; mono.
poles, trusts, cartels and capitalist methods in
agriculture to be lquidated.
"Stock exchange to be abrogated.
"All trade unions to be abolished"
1t is to laugh, of course. But there is some
. thing SOLDERING in the thought that this. ane
!. worse would have been our lot if the Japanes,
4 had been able to carry out their plans +,
I conquer the United States and dictate term,
I ct peace in the White House
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Cherry A Safe Candidate

n R. Gregg Cherry made if very plain IN his
address at the Court house, as he has since
he announced his candidacy. that if the people
Of North Carolina are wise enough to elect
aim governor he will jealousy and competent
ly safeguard their fiscal, economic educa-
y tional and cultural well-being and devote his
: administration to the further development OF
+ all the states great assets.
j, He emphasized the Importance to the entire
Il state of creating a great port at Wilmington
as an outlet for North Cardinals industrial
( production to new high levels.
7 Mr. Cherry attained his high position in
North Carolina affairs by his own effort-pulled
himself up, as the saying is, by his own boot
straps The son of a Confederate veteran and
dependent upon his own determination to play
well his part in life, he entered Trinity college
| as a real worker. Throughout his course he
paid his own way by jobs on the campus.
There is something peculiarly commendable
in the boy so set on obtaining an education
2 and fitting himself for profession that he is
! willing TO work his way through college. 1t
shows fine stamina and ambition.
d The same will to win which carried him
! through Trinity was manifest in his First
World war service and his civilian career
following that holocaust When war was de-
clared, Mr. Cherry organized a company and
served as captain of the 225th machine gun
{ battalion, 30th division in France. The 225th.
was among the American units that saw
desperate action in the closing campaigns of
that war. Returning to his own home town.
ne elected mayor Of Gastonia in 1919 and
reelected in 1921. From its organization he
has been active in the American Legion and
IN 1929 served as commander of the North
Carolina department. His participation in fra
.ernal and religious organizations has been
40 less notable. Mr.. Cherry was elected to
the General Assembly in 1881 and has been
IN continuous attendance at legislative sessions
ever since, serving with distinction as speaker
Of the House in the 1887 session.
This brief reference to his record is made
Tor the purpose of directing attention to his
training in the states affairs and, because of
his intimacy with them his qualification to
serve the state as chief executive.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-05-25
BARBS

The Nazis have ordered Hitler's picture
prominently displayed in ry Germ IN
school-room That's enough to scare any KID
into doing his home work.
Hailstones, said to be as big as baseballs,
fell on a Tennessee city. What's this-a bit
of preseason publicity?
February according to Grandpappy Jen-
kins. was the longest month he ever expert.
enced. He had used up all his ration coupons
by the 18th.
Zadok Dumkopf says he has Hollywood
friend who, at last has joined the ''private
storm which flooded his basement.
The man at the next desk says Berlin will
90 down in history as the town that went
up in smoke.
The Germans have discovered that Crimea
does not pay.
It's the hot weather that makes some men
like slipping a high collar better than wearing
one.
ssMy great excitement was finding the Pres
ident home,'' said Mrs. Roosevelt on her re-
t,nn from Pittsburgh. Gosh, imagine his ex-
element at finding her hor
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With Ernie Pyle

using rouge and Gpstick and was
it all right if she did too.
Well, it wasn't all right. Sergeant
Hackett says maybe he's old-fash-
Toned but he sent word back to
Theda that if she started using
lipstick now he'd skin her alive
when he got back, or words to that
effect. And he didn't take time to
write it in a letter. He sent it by
full-rate cablegram.
Sergeant Howard Hanson is act
ing first sergeant of this squadron.
He's the guy that runs the show
and routs people out of bed and
hands out dement's and bawls
people out. In addition to that he
is an engineer-gunner. He has long
ago flown past his allotted number
of combat missions, and he is still
flying.
Sergeant Hanson is 81 and there
fore is automatically known in the
Army as Pappy. Any soldier over
80 lS almost always called Pop or
Pappy. Sergeant Hanson doesn't
care. He likes his work and has a
job to do and wants to get it done.
Il know what I'm fighting for"
ne says. Here's what" And he
hands you snapshot of his family
wife, girl and boy. The girl is
almost grown and the boy is in the
uniform of prep school. Hanson S
home is at Topeka, Kas.
Pappy used to be in the motor
freight business before the war.
suppose in a way you could say
he's still in the motor freight busi-
ness. Kind of ticklish freight,
though.