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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-05-13
Our Chief Aim
New Draft Ruling

Gen. Lewis B. Hershey's latest order indef-
nitely deferring induction of men over 80 if
they are in essential industrial work and civil
ian status for men in the 26-29 age group for
the time being may be counted on to have
a steadying effect upon tens of thousands of
employees throughout the country and bring
mere peace into their households than since
the draft was inaugurated
Men from 25 to 36 have been long unsettled
and largely untitled for their best work by
the prevailing uncertainty as to their selective
service status. They have feared to plan for
the future lest they be called to arms before
their plans could be carried out.
General Hershey's order will remove much
of this fear, even though it is obvious that
the 16-to-25-year manpower pool be exhausted
he would be compelled to call up men over
Is and in extremity, over 3d. But he gives
it as his belief that there entirely ade-
Quate resources of manpower in the 1925
group and among older men not in essential
lines of work. to maintain the armed forces
at the figure considered necessary for victory
What will prove of especial interest to the
older draft eligibles in this area is General
Hersheys additional declaration that if one
draft board should have reached the bottom
of its list of younger men ''the board should
let the call ride One of the local boards is
near that condition now and has experienced
some perturbation over what it should do when
the last name is called. Now they are told
that some other board some place else will fill
in for it,
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-05-13
Difference In Attitude

A part of the just complaint against Chinese
earliest arrival they set up their own towns
within our cities and lived to and for them
selves. Seattle, San Francisco and Los Angeles
have had the largest Chinatowns on the Pa
cific coast since they were themselves hardly
more than villages. But there is hardly a city
or town in the far West that is, was, with
out its Chinatown.
There the Chinese maintained the customs
and habits of their homeland, celebrated their
own holidays in their own ways, fought their
tong wars, escaped their taxes chiefly because
American tax collectors could not penetrate
their shrewd ignorance Many accumulated
large fortunes in trade in opium and innmi-
grant smuggling, and sent all surplus cash to
China.
To a large extent in the last generation,
because Western education has invaded China
town everywhere and American-born Chinese
have adopted the customs of the Western
world, this situation has changed for the bet
ter but run-of- the-nil Chinese in this country
have not been. and cannot be- assinilated
On the other hand, they have not sought to
spread their manner of life beyond their own
race.
Their attitude, for all it's drawbacks, is very
different from that of japanese immigrants
who, from their first have assumed an AFRO
gance and practiced trckery as if they were
in fact, as they considered themselves, the
chosen people destined to overthrow Western
civilization. Whatever employment they have
sought, whether as house servants university
students or fishermen, they have had but one
high objective-to serve the Emperor as spies
against the day when their armies and naves
might be strong enough to conquer the nation.
Il is not necessary to review the record at
1uls Lake internment camp to understand the
Japanese attitude This is bad enough, heaven
knows. But it does not tell the whole story
A single other example points the case against
the Japanese It concerns three American
born sisters of japanese ancestry who aided
two German soldiers to escape from prison
sr-of-war camp near Trinidad, Colorado. They
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-05-13
Bong Record Equaled

Major Richard Bong's record of twenty
seven enemy planes destroyed in combat
which topped Captain Edward Rickenbacker' S
record in the former World war by one plane
is equalled by Captain Robert S. johnson, a
tyenty-four-year old Oklahoman who complet.
ed his tour of active duty by bringing down
two German warp1anes on single mission.
He too has twenty-seven to his credit. It was
ten years ago, at the age of fourteen, that
Captain johnson made his first solo flight.
On the final day of his active service, Cap.
tain Johnson was escorting heavy bombers
over a target area in Germany. He tells Of
his first kill by noting that he was on his way
Tin a Thunderbolt) to aid bomber already
blazing from an attack by German fighters
"Oh the way to help him. says the Captain
IT noticed Messerschnitt 100 making pass
at DUR bornbers. went down and followed
him few minutes and then shot him down. -
! This done. and looking about to see what he
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-05-13
BY JOHN SELBY

The Bells of Saim VANS, by
Robert Spencer Carr Appleton
Century; 81.
AT last we have a novel about
Russia with a considerable spice
OF humor. The spice happens to
be American, since the author is
an American by name. Robert
Spencer Carr. But it is there. and
it is good.
Mr.. Carr may be remembered
by some as the high school boy
who shocked the eyeballs out of
lot OF people with a novel called
The Rampant Age" The author
had been writing and mis-spelling,
adventure stories since the age of
Is. He also had been selling these
efforts. At Is he was bought up by
Hollywood, and for two years he
wrote scenarios for major studios
with vast financial success. Then
he bummed this country three
years, and in 1882 turned UP in
where he lived through
1887 very colorfully.
His novel is short. In it he ap-
pears as the narrator, theoretical
ly bridge builder from Boston
Of impeccable bourgeois back
ground returning to Volea citv
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put to shame people in this country who
Claim that American-born japanese have moth
sisters are under indictment, presented by
Attorney General Francis Biddle.
East is still East, and West is West as
Kiplng said, and never the twain shall meet.
But there can be no doubt in the mind of any
nerson who has observed the course of life of
the Chinese and the japanese in this country
that the former are not here for mischief and
the latter are.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-05-13
Pattern Of Invasion

Steadily the invasion pattern takes form ana
substance With the Anglo-American air blitz
at its height the Russians recapture Sevasto-
pol and besides slaughtering thousands upon
thousands of German and Romanan troops,
release whole armies for service in a great
thrust toward Berlin. Now, Allied activity is
increasing on the Italian front, with the Ameri-
can and British commanders moving forward
in the Casino area so forcefully that the
enemy is moving back under pressure.
The chief objective obviously is to take
Rome. But it would seem that the purpose is
also to keep the divisions Hitler has sent to
Italy SO constantly and heavily engaged where
they are that they cannot be moved to another
area for Strengthening German resistance
when the invasion actually starts.
The terrific bombing to which Hitler S
Europe has been subjected has largely dis
organized the Nazi transportation and COM
1muncation systems. The movement of troops
from one front to another within Nazi-occupied
war zones can be made only with delay and
difficulty. But they can still be moved. One
element of invasion success, therefore, is to
force Hitler to keep his forces scattered as
widely as possible. Hence, we assume, the
attack is being quickened in Italy to immo-
blize the twenty and more Axis divisions sent
there to hold Rome. Their battle strength
would be something to reckon with if they
were suddenly to appear at the point of in
vasion.
But there is also another reason for press
ing the campaign in Italy. With Rome captured
and the Italian shores of the Adriatic cleared
of the enemy, the Allies would be in position
to supplement the invasion with a lunge to-
ward Germany through Yugoslavia and Bull
garia. This too probably is contemplated as
another means of immobilizing additional Axis
divisions and keeping them from western
Europe, where it would appear General Eisen-
hover is just about ready to strike
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-05-13
Resort To Education

Life in German prison camps is hard enough
ers in one such camp have found way not
only to better their lot but to improve their
outlook when peace has been restored and they
are released to take their place in the civilian
world
In letter. written by Lieut. R. r. Brunn
published in the Christian Science Monitor the
method they employ is wildly told. They have
resorted, of all things, to education. The ex-
cerpt from the Brunn letter shows how they
do it.
Five hundred of our relatively small
group of men are now supporting 40
classes, most of them meeting three times
a week in one of three small classrooms.
Few of the 80 instructors are professional,
but six months of teaching has brought
confidence and an air of authority and most
important of all, the students are learning.
Glasses include algebra, trigonometry, cal
culus, geometry, speech, grammar and
composition, literature French Spanish,
German, geology, chemistry, aerofynam-
les, zoology meteorology, photography, So
eiology, accounting and journalism.
A course has started for men desiring
first and second year college work, and 200
men are attending two weekly lectures on
United States history and one on English
and American literature. In smaller
classes the same group is studying mathe-
mates through trigonometry, and gram
mar and composition. Certificates of com.
pletion will be given, and it is hoped, that
American colleges will give them credit
by examination after the war.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-05-13
They Deserve Relief

Sem Ebert D. Thomas of Utah, chairman of
the Senate Committee on Education and Labor
which recently completed survey of the
injustice done them through the freezing OF
their salaries in the face of increasing costs
of living and mounting taxes.
The New Orleans States, taking up the cry
of Senator Thomas says:
The white-c collar men and women have
20 per cent of their wages taken for in
come taxes The United States Bureau OF
Labor Statistics says that the advance in
the cost of living is % 40 per cent. Phillip
Murray, president of the CIO says that it's
so per cent. This means that millions upon
millions of American citizens have had
their incomes cut hard with no increase
in their wages what ever.
The need, obviously, is to unfreeze the salar-
les and wages of these millions OF workers
The whole economy of the nation, says Senator
Thomas is endangered as long as this is not
done In an article in the American Magazine,
he points out the peril to the nation in keeping
some 2O.OOOOOO workers on inadequate COM
pensation.
future growth of American education and cul-
ture When you drive these workers into a
bare existance living you retard the develop
ment of music, of literature, of all the arts,
you stop the progress of education, you block
the development of better homes, of the at
tributes of decent living of which the United
States has been proud
While we are devoting much time and
thought to planning for education in foreign
lands after this war, the preservation of their
culture, the development of their music and
literature, all of which is commendable to a
limited degree, we ought, in all conscience,
to be giving attention to the situation of our
own white-collar workers and find the right
way to afford them relief. They ought to be
able to earn living wage and that means a
wage which is sufficient to meet their tax
bills and pay their way and still have few
pennies to jingle in their pockets when the
reckoning is past.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-05-13
Fifth And Orange USO
Club To Present Music
Week Program Tonight

The 5th and Orange USO Club
will celebrate music week Satur-
day evening 8:15 pm. with mu-
sic program of rare beauty.
The program will be given by
three artists who with their mill
tary husbands are sojouring in
Wilmington, helping with the wal
effort. Mrs. A L. Boley, graduate
of music from the University Of
Washington. will be the pianist.
Mrs. W. D. Young, graduate Of
music Carnegie Institute, will be
the cello soloist and Mrs. w. D.
Diller, also a graduate of Music
Of Carnegie Institute, will be the
soprano soolist.
All service men and women, their
relatives and friends, and all mem
bers of the community, are invited
to enjoy this musicale which is be-
ing given at the 5th and Orange
club.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-05-13
Daily Prayer
For THOSE AT SEA

On the wide expanee OF the
worlds waters sail myriads OF our
loved ones, ready to do battle for
righteousness and peace. We com.
mend them to Thy protection, y
Sovereign Of the seas. Though BE-
You'd our ken, they are not BE-
yond our care. Preserve them
from the dangers of the deep;
and in battle endow them Wild
valor and with victory, and WIN
a quickened consciousness OF Ihee'
Eternal Father, strong to save
Whose arm doth bind the rest
less wave,
Who bidd'st the mighty ocean
deep,
It's own appointed limits keep;
Oh. hear us when we cry 10
Thee
For those in peril on the sea
o Trinity of Love and power
Our brethren shield in dagger
hour:
From rock and tempest, fire and
foe,
Protect them wheresoe'er they
And ever let there rise to !hee
Glad hymns of praise from laho
and sea-"
Amen.-W T E.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-05-13
With Ernie Pyle

in London make. At least I'd heard
about it before coming up here.
Well, we've had a few minor
raids since I arrived. On the first
one / found I was so scared after
our Arzio escape that all could
do was just lie there trying to get
my breath. A fellow has a kind
of cumulative fright after he has
had a real close one.
1 think also that I was so afraid
to hear the awful noise of these
rocket guns that I was practically
paralyzed. Finally they did go off.
I guess I had expected too much,
for they didn't horrify me half as
much as I had thought they would
The noise itself isn't so bad-it' S
what it sounds like that terrifies
you. For a rocket going up sounds
like bomb coming down. After
you've learned that and adjusted
yourself to it, rocket guns aren't
bad.
P. S.-A few nights later we had
the noisiest raid of my stay here
and I slept through the whole
thing. When the waiter came to
the room next morning he started
talking about the raid and I said,
What raid?" He said, "Quit jok-
ing. Why, every gun in London
was going last night" But I didn't
wake up. I wish I could arrange
it that way for all raids.
We Americans in London fare
very well on post exchange ra-
tons. We are allowed seven packs
of cigarets a week, two bars of
chocolate, two razor blades and a
can of fruit juice. In addition we
can buy such needs as soap, tooth
paste, shaving cream, handker-
chiefs, fountain pens and dozens
of other little things. We aren't
suffering, I assure you.
And along that line, many read
ers at home are good enough to
send me boxes. I appreciate them,
but right now I would like to urge
you not to send me any more.
First, it needlessly takes up ship
ping space, and second, there isn't
a thing l need.
My family has begged me to ask
them for something, but truthfully
there's nothing I want Nothing.
that is, except dog and a sport
roadster and a fireplace and my
own easy chair and a dozen new
books and lots of spare time. But
OF course they all weigh over eight
ounces, so never mind.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-05-13
BY ERNIE PYLE

LONDON, -(By WlreleSS)-You
pick up lot of funny stories as
you wander around London. May
be these little yanrs have been
printed before. If so you'll just
have to excuse me on the grounds
that I've been in another world for
long time.
One story has to do with Lieut.
Gen. Carl Spaatz, head of the
American Army Air Forces here.
One night he was standing on a
balcony, watching a German raid
on London. Their aim was very bad
that night and they were dropping
bombs miles from any target. Cen
eral Spaatz was furious. He turned
to one OF his fellow watchers and
blurted out, 1.-The damn fools
They're setting bombing back 20
years
Another one has to do with the
way Americans have flooded this
island and nearly crowded the
English off. Actually the Ameri-
cans aren't bad and the English
reception is good. Little stories
like this help to keep us from get
ting on each others nerves. Amer
leans tell it themselves, so it's ali
right. The story is simply that one
American said to another:
'"These English are beginning to
act as if this country belonged to
them
A year ago I was with an in
fantry company of the First Di-
vision in those bitter mountain bat
ties west of Mateur, in Tunisia.
For three days I had been living
in tent with British captain
attached to lis as A liaison officer.
The night before an attack he and
marched up to the lines with
separate battalions Of the same
regiment.
Some of you may remember my
writing about him at the time. Just
after dawn the next day l saw a
British officer being carried on a
stretcher. When l ran over, sure
enough it was my friend, Capt
Jack Morris Enfield. He was bad
ly wounded in the back and arm.
Our stretcher bearers carried him
to the rear and I never saw him
again.
Yesterday I was having lunch in
an officers club when an Ameri-
can Colonel I had known in Tuni-
STA came over He said he had a
British girl at his table he'd like
me to meet. And when he intro
duced us, it was Captain Enfield's
sister.
She said her brother had recov-
cred. He still had some pain in
his back, but she guessed he was
all right as he was now in the para
troops. 1 had missed him in IL
don only "a hours.
I suppose to give this story the
proper ending Miss Enfield and I
should get married and live hap
PLY ever after. That occurred to
me too, but when asked her she
said no. Oh well, lackaday.
You've probably heard what a
frightful noise the new rocket guns
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sters' constitution was adopted
providing that he and his wife may
travel continuously at the mem
hers' expense, here and abroad,
with "full and complete mainten-
ance" and without limit on the ex-
pense account. He also may take
all the time off that he desires, on
the same terms, accompanied by
his wife. He doesn't have to work
at all.
A couple of years ago, Uncle Dan
was one of President Roosevelt
selfless assistants, a post listed
at $40, 900 year, but in the March
issue of the teamster he admonish-
ed his subordinates, IF you want
TO be remembered gratefully by
.1e men you serve, devote all Of
your energies to the job. Take your
nnger out Of all other employ
-AASAALo-
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-05-13
ROBERTS ELECTED

NEW YORK. May II IT.
Issac w. Roberts, presldehL Q,
the Philadelphia Saving Fula
Society. was elected presldehs .,
the National Association OF Mutual
Savings Bank today, succeeding
George J. Bassett. president u
the Connecticut Savings BANS
New Haven.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-05-13

(Edio:r's Note.-Ths Star and the News accept no
responsibility Tor the personal views Of Mr.. Peger.
and often VIII them as TN much as many q
making people think
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-05-13

To get the most miles per gal
Ion from rationed gasoline these
days, motorists are advised to use
low and second gears sparingly,
and to shift into high gear when
the speed of the automobile is I'D
to Is or 10 miles an hour.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-05-13

Jet propulsion was first naas
practical for airplane use in 1850
by Eichelberg Of Switzerland anu
uyk;441~ ~ E-~1--7
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-05-13
rs Years Ago
Today
(From the files
of the Star-News)
MAY 10, 1919

Officers elected at the bi-mon+h-
ly meeting of the Rotary club to-
day were: Milton Calder, presi-
dent; J. B. Rice, vice-president
L. D. Latta, treasurer; Louis T.
Moore secretary F. D. Dean, Lacy
Hunt and Davis Howes members
of the executive board.
Sgt. Andrew Harriss is at home
from overseas service. He was a
member of the second trench NOR
tar battalion.
Those going to Washington, N.
c., to attend the session of the
Council of Eastern Carolina which
convenes at st. Peters Episcopal
church were: DR.. William H. Mil
ton. Bishop Thomas c. Darst, Mr..
and Mrs w. D. Macmillan, DR..
J. M. Carson and Mr.. and Mrs.
Swift Boatwright.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-11-10

The Navy disbursed $4,000
mastering out checks in the first
month after the Mastering Out
Payment Division was set up
Feb. z, 1914.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-11-10

From this date on, families
of men reported prisoners of
war in Germany may write to
them Immediately they are
notified the man is a prison
er rather than wait
month TO three months before
the prisoner himself writes
and gives his number and ad-
dress. The new plan. an
nOunced by the Macomb COun-
ty Chapter, American Red
Cross Mrs. George DeLaRue,
chairman of the POW unit
has been arranged through the
office OF the Army Provost
Marshal General. Let
tiers to the captured man may
be sent Immediately to the
International Red Cross Di-
rectOry Service, Geneva
as long as they contain his
full name, number, etc, and
identify him as a POW. g.
No packages can be sent, how
ever, until the POW's complete
camp address is known.
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shock, but with only their West
coast stronghold at Ormoc still
remaining to them. But they re-
covered in time to make at least
a determined stand for the re-
mainder of ,eVte
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pose the Texas Panhandle nat
ural gas field make IL the
worlds largest. The pools re-
serves are estimated at l9,000,-
100000 Urillionl cubic feet,
which is about one-fourth of the
nations estimated reserves
From the Panhandle field sew
ersl pipe lines furnish tremen-
dous quantities Of natural gas to
Eastern industries and domestic
users.
NEW GAS AREA
Along the Texas Coast of the
Gulf of Mexico much new gas
production is being found, and
that area bids to be one Of the
greatest in the world. Not far
from the City of Houston is the
worlds largest gas cycling plant.
From the gas the plant segra-
gates butanes, aviation gasoline
coSC SNoNh anu llllNNu IGdNH
naptha, kerosene and gas-oil.
The residue is returned under
pressure through injection wells
into the sands from which the
gas originally came, thereby re-
charging the pressure.
Texas produces approximate
ly one-half of the natural gas
and distillateS in the nation.
These products are used for
making h & h-octane aviation
gasoline and explosives.
Had it not been for the tre-
mendous storehouSe of petro-
leum liquids in Texas, Allied ma
tions would have been at a dis
tlnct disadvantage in fighting
the AXIS countries.