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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-07-01
More Rationing

AS long as it is the policy of the United
States bureaucracy to maintain the rationing
of foodstuffs it is not surprising to learn that
certain canned vegetables are to be restored
to the ration lists along with "choice cuts
of lamb. Asparagus, tomatoes, peas may be
had hereafter only at price in points The
Office of Price Administration explains that
shelves has been made for the 1914 pack
and as it was to gain this that rationing of
certain vegetables was abandoned there is no
longer any reason to keep them on the open
list. The excuse offered is that only by ra-
tioning can distribution be equitable among all
civilian groups.
Retail buyers, therefore, must again get out
their ration books every time they 60 to the
store, waste precious time in line while mer-
chants and their clerks compute points On a
grander scale than recently was necessary
and often be compelled to 60 home without
too many points today lest they have none
for tomorrow.
So far as domestic consumption is concern
| 3D. it has not materially increased since the
war started. There are just about as many
mouths to feed as before, including the arm
ed forces. Why, then, should there be all these
scarcities the Office of Price Administration
| claims exist? There was enough for every
body before the war, and some surplus WHY
not now? If the truth were known, scarcities
have been created chiefly by the bungling of
bureaucrats. This holds, even in face of the
fact that we have had to send large food
shipments abroad to sustain our Allies.
The American people have been forbidden
to hoard food, but not the bureaucrats. The
American people have gone without while the
bureaucrats overfilled warehouses, as a pack
rat fills his hiding place. Millions of pounds
OF butter were kept off the market until it
spoiled and had to be reprocessed. There are
more eggs in storage than the nations entire
population can consume; so many, in fact,
that the OPA is urging housewives to buy an
extra dozen whether they need them or not.
Not SO long ago there was more beef and
veal ana lamb and mutton on the hoof than
could be slaughtered or stored, and buyers
could get little from butchers, and that little
only at prohibitive point values. Sugar ware
houses were bullying so dangerously that re-
flnerles could take no more raw sugar. Whole
ship cargoes were rejected because there was
no place to store the sugar once it was refined.
Yet there was no relief for the consumer
The whole program of food rationing has
been typical of the waste that has character
lied the bureaucrats dictation from the time
they came into power The artificial controls
set up by the OPA and all other bureaucratic
agencies are directly and lamentably respon-
slole Tor every scarcity that must be borne
by the public 1t is time, indeed, for the public
to employ the only remedy within their grasp
for abuses.
November is not so far away.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-07-01
Community War Chest
Presents Radio Show

The story of a boys exciting
adventures at summer camp
were depicted in Little Dictator, ="
last nights radio show in the Com
munity War Chest "War Town"
series, heard over station WMFD
at 9 o'clock.
Summer camp services Of the
Community Chest are now in full
swing with the Girl Scouts Just
closing their camp program at
Porter's Neck, to be followed i'm
medlately by the Brigade Boys
club at the same camp site and
the Boy Scouts at Singletary and
Jones lakes
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-07-01
With Ernie Pyle

, deal of bombing. Most Of them turr
away at the first near burst from
one of our Comm guns. Our ack
ack men say they think the Ger
man pilots are yellow, but having
seen the quality of German fight.
ing for nearly two years now that
is hard for me to believe.
Often they will drop flares that
will light up the whole beach area.
And then fail to follow through and
bomb by the light of their flares.
The ack ack men say that not
more than two out of 10 planes
that approach the beachhead ever
make their bomb runs over our
shipping. You are liable to get a
bomb anywhere along the coastal
area, for many of the Germans
apparently just salvo their bombs
and hightail home.
1t is indeed spectacle to watch
the antiaircraft fire when the Ger.
mans actually get over the beach
area. All the machine guns on the
ships lying off the beaches cut
loose with their red tracer bullets,
and those on shore do too. Their
bullets arch in all directions and
fuse into sky filling pattern.
The lines of tracers bend and wave
and seem like streams of red water
from hoses. The whole thing be-
comes a gigantic, animated foun-
tain of red in the black sky. And
above all this are the split second
golden flashes of big gun shells
as they explode high up toward the
stars.
The noise is terrific. Sometimes
low clouds catch the crack of these
many guns and scramble them all
into one gigantic roar which rolls
and thunders like the blood-curd-
ling approach of a hurricane.
Your tent walls puff from the
conclusion of the guns and bombs,
and the earth trembles and shakes
If you're sleeping in foxhole,
little clouds OF dirt come rolling
down upon you.
When the planes are really close
and the guns are pounding out a
mania of sound, you put on your
steel helmet in bed and sometimes
you drop off to sleep with it on
and wake up with it on in the NOR.
ming and feel very foolish.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-07-01
Fair Enough

Editors Note.-The Star and the News accept NO
responsibility for the personal views Of Mr.. Peger
and often disagree with them much many of
his His articles serve the good purpose Of
making people think.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-07-01
TOP o. THE MORNING

Are we worth dying for? ''The Ameri-
can way" is just your way and mine.
Is 1t good enough to justify a man laying
Aown his life to defend it? How will
eur men feel coming back from the hell
some of them have suffered, to find us
IS selfish and materialistic as ever?
70 find citizenry who has never. even
thought of the challenge to a different
kind of living which this war lays before
every American. From Forward"
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-07-01

Miss Annie Herring has return
ed to her home in Burgaw after
spending several days with her
sister, Mrs. I. F. Gates, at her
cottage on the Northern Extension,
Wrightsville Beach.
Delightful hospitality was ac-
corded visitors attending the Bap-
fist Seaside Assembly in session
here this week by Mre. John Han.
by at her cottage at Wrightsville
Beach. Many guests from out OF
the city attended.
NEW YORK.-Open bars where
beverages of 2.75 per cent alco-
holic content could be purchased
offered the only consolation in New
York today to the friends of hard
liquor on the first day of wartime
prohibition.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-07-01
rs Years Ago
Today
(FROM THE FILES
OF THE STAR-NEWS)
JULY /, 1919

JULY /, 1919
Alfred B. Sternberger has been
stationed at Camp Mills after serv-
ing several months overseas.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-07-01

Atrica's Victoria Falls are more
than twice as high as Niagara
Falls.
Evening star., 1944-08-16

7th Army had been broken into
scattered guerrilla units.
The Americans captured Tinche-
bray and pushed on eastward The
British captured Montsecret, 3 miles
northeast of Tinchebray.
Americans captured huge stores OF
ammunition and equipment as they
pressed forward Hundreds of pris-
oners streamed back to the cages
with thousands more certain to be
taken within the next few days, a
front dispatch said.
Part of Argentan Held.
North of Argentan the Germans
still were reported battling desper-
ately. Part of Argentan was in
American hands.
Field dispatches said the Ger
mans were withdrawing by daylight
yesterday for the second time in
three days and were taking an
aerial battering. The largest-scale
Nazi pullout, particularly through
the Falaise gap, undoubtedly was
taking place by night
A sudden heavy thundershower
last evening gave the Germans one
OF their last chances for flight by
hampering Allied planes.
Evening star., 1944-08-16
Severe Drought Grips
Ohio Valley States
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
One OF the severest summer
droughts Of record has developed in
the Ohio Valley, including prin-
cipally Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio
Indiana and Illinois, the Weather
Bureau said today.
With only half month of the
June-August summer season re-
naming, Tennessee has bad only
about As per cent normal rainfall
Illinois so per cent, Indiana So per
cent, Kentucky A per cent and
Ohio 81 per cent.
The greatest shortage in moisture
was reported in Southern Illinois,
where the total rainfall since the
first OF June has averaged slightly
more than 2 inches, compared with
a normal of nearly inches.
In addition to the Ohio Valley
States, where most crops have been
damaged by the lack of moisture
and extremely high temperatures,
drought conditions have become
more or less serious in a good many
other sections. the bureau said.
Regions affected include an At
lantic Coast area from New Eng
land to Pennsylvania and North
ern New Jersey: West Virginia
Western Maryland, most of Wiscon-
sin. parts of Missouri and gen.
orally in Oklahoma and Texas. The
bureau said general rains would be
helpful in much of the Rocky Noun
tain. Great Basin and Northern
Pacific areas.
Evening star., 1944-08-16
Soldier Loses Leqs,
But Not Sweetheart

BY the Associated Press.
There was nothing definite when
Pvt. Aubrey Holland. Conshohocken
Pa. went off to war. Merely q
"sort-of" understanding with hi,
girl, Doris Jane Ruth. He was q
and she not quite l8.
Pvt. Holland was in on the land.
ings at Salerno and later in The
hot hell of no mans land" before
Casino. was lost for four DAYS
seriously wounded and suffering
from frostbite and pneumonia. They
had to take his legs off before
bringing him to Walter Reed Hos
pital here.
Il guess you'd better not wait for
me, honey Pvt. Holland had mes
saged Doris, I'm pretty badly
banked up"
Doris thought differently. though
mo matter what's happened, or
what's left of you, still love you
and I want you"
So now they're waiting until Aub-
rey can walk out of here" at WAL
ter Reed "and into a church where
We can have a real. right wedding. ;
His former employer has a job for
Aubrey, and his parents are keep
ing his medals safe, the Silver Star
and Purple Heart with Oak Leaf
Cluster.
Evening star., 1944-08-16
Stringham Leads in Utah
Runoff for House Seat

SALT LAKE CITY, Aug. 16.-B
H. Stringham, Mayor of Vernal, as
sumed a commanding lead for the
Republican nomination as Utah.
lst district representative in yester-
days runoff primary.
Unofficial reports from 354 of the
4S2 voting districts gave Mr.. String.
ham 4,876 votes to 3,016 for William
Peterson of Logan, retired director
OF the Utah State Agricultural Col
lege Extension Service.
The two were high in q field oi
four in the first primary July IL
The victor will face Democratic In.
cumbent Walter X. Granger OF
Cedar City in the November gen.
eral election.
There were no Statewide con.
tests.
Evening star., 1944-08-16
Women Press for Action
On Equal Rights Measure
py the hsSariatAd prax,

BY the Associated Press.
Leaders of several national WON
ems organizations gathered at. the
Capitol today to push their cam
paign for an equal rights consti-
tutional amendment.
They met first with Representa-
tive Cannon, Democrat, of Florida
sponsor of their legislation, and then
started calling on other members
Of Congress to urge passage of the
measure, which they say would re-
move discriminatory barriers against
women in many States.
The Senate has the bill on its
calendar, but in the House the Ju-
dietary Committee has voted against
1t, so the women must get 218 men,
bers to sign petition asking that
1t be brought to the floor for con-
sideration.
Leaders Of the delegation included
Mrs. Robert Walker, retired actress
and playwright from Baltimore, who
Is National Womans party lobby
chairman, and Mrs. Ethel Ernest
Murrell. Miami, Fla, chairman for
the party and legislative chairman
Of the National Association of
Woman Lawyers.
Evening star., 1944-08-16
Plane, Minus Electricity,
Gets 'Chutists 10 Mission

BY the Associated Press.
ROME, Aug. 16.-Col. John Cerny,
Harrison, Idaho. commander of one
OF the troop carrier groups which
landed parachutists in Southern
France yesterday, led his formation
to its destination though the entire
electrical system was out.
Twenty minutes before reaching
the goal the electricity failed.
Il yelled to my co-pilot. Capt.
Richard Lawrence of Washington.
to grab f1ashlight." Col. Cerny
said. Il read the compass and by
dead reckoning of group navigator.
Capt. William H. Mitchell, Stuyves-
ant Fails. N Y. I managed to lead
the group directly over the drop
zone"
Once the paratroopers had bailed
out Col. Cerny, realizing his plane.
without lights. was a menace to the
others in the formation, broke away
and ran into heavy fax as he
crossed over a large city well de-
tended with antiaircraft guns. But
n egot the plane home safely.
It's funny, as all that fax start
ed probing us, 1 got to thinking Of
my wedding exactly eight years
ago." Col. Cerny said.
Evening star., 1944-08-16
By GEORGE TUCKER.

HHsosihNco ttNsS war SoIltNpOlucuJ' Hep-
resentins the Combined American Press.
ABOARD ADMIRAL LYAL DA-
VISIONS FLAGSHIP. Aug. Is de-
layed The Navy got EN- here, but
it was the Commands who un-
locked the door.
Under protection Of booming
naval guns, tens of thousands of
American and French troops poured
across the beaches of Southern
France along 40 miles Of front to-
day, but only after desperate bands
of troops had slipped ashore six
hours before, scaled almost unScal-
able cliffs and overwhelmed the
crews of formidable coastal batter
les so that troop transports could
approach the jumping-of point
with minimum danger.
The plan was SO imaginative In
conception and daring in execution
it originally was ruled out by the
Navy as being impossible, but the
Army insisted it could be done and
tough Ranger-Commando type boys
made good by capturing the islands
OF Levant and Port Cros just off the
mainland and silencing all guns be-
fore daybreak.
Small Boats Used.
While this heavy cruiser and
scores of other cruisers, battleships
and destroyers of the Allied navies,
including one tiny Greek destroyer,
maneuvered four giant conveys into
position, the troops slipped into
small boats and were escorted into
maze of rocky inlets by a torpedo
boat fiotilla led by 1t. Gilbert Reid.
Kalamazoo. Mich.
Well get anybody ashore that
wants to go ashore" the big blond
skipper said. The first wave hit the
beach at exactly 1890 am. and
marked the landing area with sig
nal lights. BY 1:30 succeeding waves
were clamboring up the cliffs and
from that moment on it was a mat
ter of waiting until they signalled
the guns were silenced.
Admiral Davidson was anxious
yet confident as the hours wore on
and he paced the signal bridge
waiting for reports. Like dark blurs
ON an inky sea we could see the
outlines of warships as they pa
trolled lanes. Suddenly gunfire broke
out off our port beam and twin
tongues of fame leaped across the
water. 1t was destroyer.
Unidentified Ship Chased.
Somebody yelled: My God, two
of our destroyers are shooting at
each other" But the rasping clatter
of the communications speaker put
a stop to that nonsense. 1t was a
message from the destroyer. She
had been chasing a ship which re-
fused to identify herself. The de-
stroyer brought her guns to bear on
the fleeing target and scored a
direct hit with the first salvo. The
enemy tanker leapedinto flame and
became an inferno which quickly
lit up the summer sea. She burned
until she was a charred skeleton,
then sank.
Later three American torpedo
boats rescued the crew, who prompt
ly advised us that a German sub
marine was prowling the assault
area.
The same destroyer soon brought
her guns to bear on another enemy
target and after a brief interval
laconically signaled: Target dead
in water. Crew abandoning ship"
Survivors were picked up and a
Evening star., 1944-08-16
Commands Scaled High Cliffs
To Unlock Doors for Lundinqs

prize crew sent aboard to man the
captured ship.
No Opposition.
From time to time flares or star
shells burst in the sky but no enemy
craft came near us and no shells
from land-based batteries fell in
our vicinity. In fact. it was too easy,
We simply couldn't believe it.
We got yellow signals, then red
signals indicating unidentified air
craft in the area, but they always
turned out to be our night fighters
and finally Navigator Joe Costello of
Boston, Mass, shook his head,
turned to me and said: "We are 60
ing to have to pay for this, mark ply
word"
AS day broke the first bombers
rOared overhead and dumped their
loads on the beaches. Until they
appeared, the deputy commander of
the 18th Tactical Air Force, who
rode the bridge of this ship, had
been an anxious man. But as the
bridge trembled under the impact of
bombs on the target he relaxed,
removed binoculars from his eyes
and smiled
The first boats scraped the
beaches at exactly 8, am. for the
main landings, and for the next
hour and As minutes nothing but
reports of continued success came
in. The admiral began to loosen up
and laugh and talk. He roared at
simple jokes one of his staff men,
bers told. He'd been pacing the
bridge all night, pahsing only now
and then to dictate or receive q
message or sip coffee
Now for the first time he sat down
and relaxed. He looked at his staff
crowding the bridge, and one asked !:
Admiral, how do you feel?" The
admiral laughed. My feet hurt"
he replied.
Evening star., 1944-08-16
Mediterranean
Continued From First Page.)

munications leading to the battle
area were battered virtually without
letup.
Three enemy aircraft were de-
stroyed in operations in the last "a
hours and 20 Allied planes were lost
The weather still held good.
although there is little in the way
of definite naval news from the as
Sault area on the southern coast o1
France" said a naval communique
steady building up of the army by
the Allied navies is proceeding
smoothly. - The work continues
by night as we'll as by day"
Some High Ground Taken.
Unless the Germans are able tc
mobilize a much greater defensive
force than so far encountered, it ap-
peared that the Allied landing force
would quickly extend it's hold Al
lied headquarters said in special
announcement last night that some
of the high ground back of the
beaches Is in our hands"
Cap Negre and the heavily forti-
fed Sentinel Islands Of Port Cros
and Levant were captured before
dawn yesterday by picked American
and French troops. Seizure of the
islands cleared both sea and air ap-
proaches to the mainland.
German broadcasts at first re-
ported landings at three points, but
last night the TranSocean News
Agency said in a Berlin broadcast
that landings had been made at va
rious points from Cannes west to
the Toulon region.
On the first day of operations on
this fourth major front against Hit
Ter substantial numbers" of troops
were put ashore. Gen. Sir Henry
Maitland Wilson's headquarters an
nounced last night.
$4,000 Airmen Participate.
Allied (irmen themselves had a
big day, more than $4,000 participant
ing in the operations. This was ex-
elusive of air-borne and parachute
troops who landed behind the Ger
mans in great strength.
One correspondent in report
from the front said that by sun
down the Allied invaders were we'll
into France and had taken the first
big step in the avowed goal of this
invasion-to link up with Gen.
Eisenhower forces in Normandy
and Brittany
The ferries were caught COM
pletely by surprise. and what few
there were waiting for us have beer
scattered or captured" wrote Her
bert l.. Matthews of the New York
Times, representing the combined
American press.
Turkish advices Immediately be-
gan round of conjecture that other
Allied landings might come soon
elsewhere.
The Ankara radio reported "an-
other Allied landing is expected
this time on the Adriatic coast of
Italy, aiming for Trieste" Istanbul
dispatches said there were reports
the Germans were preparing for
Allied attacks on Western Greece
and Albania.
Evening star., 1944-08-16
Continued From First Page.)

Sf
by the Americans after organized
resistance ceased there. This was
the site OF the heaviest fighting on
the Breton Peninsula.
A front dispatch said there
seemed to be little likelihood that
Falaise would be in German hands
much longer.
The advance in this area took
Canadian units west across the
Caen-Falaise highway through Ussy
and directly south down the road
through st. Pierre-Canivet and
Aubigny, all OF which were captured.
Pressing down the northern lid
OF the coffin salient British troops
by-passed the former German rally
ing point of Conde- sur -Noireau and
pushed across the Noireau River.
British troops coming down from
the north and the Americans COM
ing up from the south sliced off a
large section of the western end of
the pocket. These advances came
as the bulk of the trapped German
Evening star., 1944-08-16

against the Jews and the Commu-
nlsts AS we'll, and their fronts and
agents"
The defendant predicted that be
fore the battle is over we will have
cleaned up and cleaned out this
thing we call government, having
driven all enemies into the Pacific
and Atlantic Oceans-or else bury
them here, as we cannot deport
them, as we have finally found out
In the 20 years struggle for immi-
grant legislation"
Clark wrote: The writer admires
your Maj. Henry Allen. and saws
you ought to have $4,000 like him
in California at the present time.
The writer has been given to under
stand that 5000 Jews have recently
sneaked into the United States
through Mexico and that MANY
more are on the way, all the better
to destroy them in the battle of
Aramageddon.
Make no mistake about it, the
writer is for their complete de-
stroyal, and knows just how to get
1t, when enough militant Ameri-
cans are under the banner of the
National Liberty party, based upon
the principle and spirit of 1776, but,
of course, he cannot include any
details of this upon paper"
Mrs. Washburn Quoted.
Clark and the other Is defendants
are charged with conspiring to in
cite the armed forces to disloyalty
and mutiny.
In another letter placed in the
record, Mrs. Lois de Lafayette
.Washburn, defendant, appearing
ps national secretary of the Ma
tional Liberty party, wrote the Ay-
ran Bookstore in Los Angeles, of
which another defendant, Hans
Dlebel, was proprietor:
Your name and address have
been noted from the bulletin World
Service. which comes to us regularly
from Germany and by which We
Evening star., 1944-08-16
Strike al Cumberland
Ce|anese Plant Ends
BY the Associated Press,

By the ASSOCIATED Press.
CUMBERLAND, Md. Aug. l6.-
A two-day work stoppage which
affected an estimated 800 employees
of the big Amcelle plant of the
Celanese Corp. of America endee
today when the day shift returned
to the factory, company and unior
officials announced.
The walkout began Monday ovel
an undisclosed small grievance,
the plant management said, origi
mating in the coming department
and later spreading to the down.
twist and textile engineering sec.
tions.
Plant Manager Fred T. Small said
however, that there still was not 9
full force on duty.
Richard E. Boyden. president o,
Local 1874, Textile Workers Unior
OF America, said the walkout wa.
unauthorized. After all the EN-.
ployes have returned to work, Mr.
Boyden continued, the union viii
negotiate with the company about
the grievance.
Evening star., 1944-08-16
Primary
Continued From First Page.)

opponents. Daniel w. Hoan, former
Socialist Mayor of Milwaukee, won
the Democratic nomination. John
zimmerman and Leo E. Vaudreuil
of Kenosha and Alexander o. Benz
Of Appleton were running a close
race for the Progressive nomination.
All incumbent members of Con-
gress who sought nomination were
victorious. Representative McMur-
ray of the 5th district ran unop-
posed for the Democratic nomina-
ton for United States Senator.
Representative Sauthoff was unop-
posed for the Progressive senatorial
nomination.
Evening star., 1944-08-16
Sedition

Continued From First Page.)