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The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-20
Lend-Lease To Asia

Lend-Lease deliveries to the value of 81,
400, 900, 900 had been made to h China
Burma India theater of war up to May this
year. The figure is named by Leo T. Crow
ley, foreign economic administrator, who adds
that three -fourths of the total was planes,
tanks, guns and other war materials for the
Chinese, British and Indian armed forces.
Additional deliveries Of more than $217 900,
600 worth of war tools have gone to General
Stilwell for transfer to Chinese.
Mr.. Crowley reports that reverse Lend
Lease has amounted to a considerable sum
without putting it in round numbers. He cites
tens of thousands of Indians working with
American engineers building bases for B-2s's
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-20
The Literary Guidepost

technology the possibilities of ou1
lives expand at a terrifying rate.
The most casual trip through any
SIX of the 48 states will show YOU
that the country has been barely
settled yet. Our people are still
frontiersmen. :"
Ninety out of 100 people
might disagree with Mr.. Dos
Fassos, who appears to confuse
population density with the from.
tier. 1t is fairly obvious, it an.
pears to me, that it is the state of
life that delimits the nation and
is frontiers not the number of
people.
But as a job of astute reporting
State of the Nation is quite
another matter. Mr.. Dos Passos
has a wonderful warmth inside
AIM, and appears to be able to
talk with people about almost
any subject except himself He
can manipulate the material he
gathers with great skill, too. par.
tlcularly when it comes to casual
contacts such as those in Pullman
smoking rooms, in restaurants. in
airport waiting rooms, in hotel
lobbles. in the plants between
shifts. State of the Nation is
set of vignetts not unlike those
which some years back used to
make up Mr.. Dos Passos' novels
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-20
KIWANIANS HEAR
OF CAMP NEEDS

Wilbur R. Dosher, KiWanis club
program chairman and chairman
of the Brigade Boys club direc,
torate, discussed before his fellow
Kiwanians Wednesday the need for
six cottages at the Brigade's camp,
and had no more than ended his
brief remarks when DR.. John T.
Hoggard announced that he would
pay for one if the other five were
provided by club members.
Mr.Dosher told of the dinner
meeting at the camp last week and
the opportunity the visit afforded
Kiwanians to see what had heen
accomplished, largely without cost
to the club through voluntary gifts
of labor, materials and transports
ton.
The gifts have been generous, he
said, but as yet it has been impos'
sible to build the cottages needed
for housing the youngsters at the
camp. It was his hope that before
another camping season arrives
they may be erected. The present
plan is to have them large enough
to accommodate nine boys each
Following Doctor Hoggards
offer, Harry Solomon proposed that
at next weeks KiWanis meeting
members note On their attendance
slips the amount of money they
will contribute or be responsible
for by next January l. His proposal
was adopted, with the proviso that
absentees may note their intention
to help the following week.
Mr.. Solomon added that it would
be helpful if a surplus could ne
created to pay for clearing under
brush and weeds from site. Inc
estimated cost of each cottage Is
$500.
Before the invocation rnomem
was spent in silent prayer IT,
tribute to Mayor Bruce Cameron,
long Kiwanis member. Preslden'
Donald King named I. W Solomon
DR.. J. T. Hoggard and John H.
Hope on a committee to prepare
resolutions in honor of MI Gamer
on to be presented at next week
meeting.
Mr.. King also announced the cruz
had been responsible for the saw
of $156,000 worth of war bonds III
the recent campaign
Ensign James c. Maxwell "aS
introduced as guest.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-20
Guam Invasion

Guam is being subjected to such heavy fire
from the air and the sea that its capture is
obviously scheduled for the near future. 1t is
even possible that landing will have been
subscribers doorsteps
While there will be feeling of deep gratifi-
cation among the Pacific forces and the home
civilian population when it is taken back
there are deeper reasons for the intensive
campaign conducted in advance of invasion
and its ultimate seizure. One is the destruc-
ton of enemy defenses, so far as bombing
and bombardnent can accomplish it, to pre-
vent heavy losses among forces sent ashore.
Another is possession of Guam's harbor and
air strips needed in the approaching cam.
paign against the Philippines and Japan. Its
strategic value is less than Saipan's
Toxic cannot well be unaware of what lies
ahead. With the Mariannas in American pos.
session shuttle bombing of Japan will be pos
sible on the grand scale. Also, direct attack
the south Macarthur is steadily approaching
fulfillnnent of his pledge to the Filpinos tt
return and kick the Japanese out. From the
west the American Pacific fleet is clearing
away one obstacle after another AS surely
as Guam is to be retaken, so will the Philip
pines, and perhaps before many had supposed
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-20
Interpreting
The War
BY KIRKE l.. SIMPSON
Associated Press War Anair..

The Bug river sector :,
tine Nazis' East Wall' in po,.ns
from which the disastrous st,.a,
on Russia was launched, is t.,t
disintegrating between the iaw.
the vast Red army wise clamnog5
llupon it from north of Brest Ti4ersI1
/ to south of Lwow.
i That north-south water b.7,.,
| cutting through central POLAND ~,
nearly 200 miles from the CO. rU'
THAN foothills to the western az
tremity of the Pinsk marshes IL
in deadly danger by Berlin's SOM
Der admission. Behind it lies ~,
strong river barrier along wb;cS
lettering German armies can rail-,
until the Vistula is reached Az
it. too, is vulnel able.
| Ukrainlan armies already have
turned the Bug line to the Soutb
and closed in on the Lwow bastioN
matching the swift sweep of Wbita
Russian forces around the lines
northern anchorage at Brest liz
ovsk In between, on that l8-m;ls
front, the Russians had crossed ths
Bug above and below Sokal and
ere menacing it east of CHEN,
along the direct lead and rail route
to Warsaw via Lublin.
The power and speed of the al.
vance of Ukrainian forces south a,
Biest Litovsk surpassed even the
rapidity with which the Russians in
the north had lunged beyond Brev
Litovsk to cut the rail connection
with Bialystok. The first break
through drove into the high ground
gap between the headwate-s Of
the Lwow bastion. Fall of Lwow
would invaljdate the who'e Bug linz
and compel a fast Nazi flight ia
the Vistula.
Meanwhile in Italy there are in.
dications of German lack
of strength to hold off Allied in.
vestment of the Gothic line itself
keyed to the hills north Of the
.Arno. With the big, deep water
ports. Liverno and Ancona, now in
Allied hands at both ends of the
lie, supply problems for Allied
commanders will be simplified
while for the foe, particularly on
the Adriatic flank, communications
are becoming desperate matter
The fall of Ancona to Polish
elements CT the Allied Eighth army
almost certainly foreshadows
general German retreat on that
| flank.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-20
With Ernie Pyle

entirely different story from the
people.
Normandy is certainly land of
children. 1t seems to me there are
more children here even than in
Italy. And I'll have to break down
and admit one thing-they are the
most beautiful children l have ever
seen.
1t is an exception when you see
a child who isn't exceptionally
good-looking. Apparently they grow
out of this, however, for on the
whole the Norman adults look like
peple anywhere-both good and
bad.
One thing about the Normans is
in contrast with the temperament
we have known SO long in the
Mediterranean. The people here
are hard workers. Some of the
American camps and city offices
hire teen-age French boys for kit
chen and office work, and I've
noticed that they go at their work
eagerly and like the wind.
The story of the French under
ground was made up of cells, five
people to a cell. Those five knew
each other, but none of them knew
any other members Of the under
ground anywhere.
It was fun to see the Frenchmen
on the day the underground began
coming out into the open. They
identified themselves by special
arm bands that they had kept in
hiding. One underground man
would look at a neighbor wearing
an arm band and exclaim in
amazement:
what! You too?"
In one village we asked some
people who we're not in the move
ment if they had ever known who
the underground members in their
town were. They said they could
pretty well guess, just from the
character of the people. but never
actually knew for sure.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-20

and 100000 Chinese laborers, working with
crude tools and often with bare hands to
create the surface from which the giant
planes take off against Japan.
Despite all that has been done to lmple-
ment China for its part in the increasing
drive on Japanese power, it is obvious that
the total has been far from sufficient. There
must be a great increase in the near future
if China is to be liberated and Allied victory
on Asia's mainland speeded.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-20
Daily Prayer
FOR DAYS OF DRuDGERY

Upon our days of drudgery and
earkened spirits, send forth Thy
light and Thy truth, let them lead
us. In the common ways of life,
in the routine toll that Wearies us,
and in all the ittlenesses that en-
CLAIM us, grant us, we beseech
Thee, O God, the burning
flame of Thy presence and of Thy
will Teach us how to express our
roblest selves in humblest ways.
Keep constant and bright in our
hearts the conviction that we are
true shares in all the greatness
Of this present struggle. By our
prayers, by our letters, by our
gifts, and by our loyalty to all of
wars restrictions and opportun-
tiles may we be true comrades of
our sons in service; and loyal pa
t. lots in fellowship with them. Thus
make us helpers of the victory for
which we pray. in the name Of
the Captain of our salvation. Amen.
WIFE.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-20
RETURN TO JOBS

NASHVILLE, Tenn, July "
RESouthern coach lines empIo5e'i,
who tied up Nashvilles IoIa,
transportation system yestefuo,
morning by remaining away l'o,l
their jobs in protest agalns' ~
fusal of the Regional War La0o,
Board to allow drivers s. lns.eau
OF 80-cents an hour wages oec1
ed toay to return to work.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-20
Baptist Women Hold
Institute Meeting

A one-day interracial ins'l,os
meeting was held at the Sholh pay
fist church yesterday. The H.F a.4
ing was sponsored by the Bap, ,,o
Women's Missionary Union ana - ~
Negro Baptist Women's Home '''
Foreign convention. .,.
A meeting was held in ha-e-5,d,
at Shaw University on Tuesday @ .ss
the next and last meeting tcf ~. ~
season will be held at st. Jal"e'
Church in Rocky Mount on ffIo''
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-20
PARATROOPER TREATED

WHTTEVILLE. July 19.-Thomas
F. Mayors, paratrooper, who was
wounded in Italy and has been in
hospital in north Africa recently
arrived in Charleston. S. c., from
where he was transferred to the
Moore General hospital at Swan
anoa for treatment. He is the son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Max Mayors and
brother of Mrs. M. o. Nelson of
Whiteville. His brother. w. H. May
ers, was reported killed in Italy
June |,
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-20
IN NORMANDY-(by wireless)

| IN NORMANDY-(by WlreleSS)
Everything seems odd in Nor
mandy.
The hedgeroWs are thick and
ancient. The stone walls are some
time so mounded over with earth
that you don't know there's wall
beneath. The trees in the apple
orchards are mellow with moss SO
thick that it seems like coat OF
green velvet.
The towns and cities are just as
old and worn-looking. l have yet
to see building in Normandy that
appeared to have been built within
the last three generations.
The tone is not one of decadence,
but just of great and content age.
Even Cherbourg was a surprise.
All of it's buildings were old and
worn.
1t was a contrast to other war
cities we have passed through
Algiers and Palermo and even Ma
ples-where much building and re-
modelling have been done in this
century, and the new homes are
shiny and modernistic, and the
street fronts look almost American.
A street scene in Cherbourg
looks so much like the Hollywood
sets of old European cities that
you get your prospective reversed
and feel that Cherbourg has just
been copied from a movie set.
It's the same way with the Nor
man architecture. The houses are
not so smooth and regular and
nice as California homes of Nor
man design. When you look at
them you feel, before catching
yourself, that they have copied our
California Norman homes and not
done too good job.
Everything is of stone. Even the
barns and chowsheds are stone
and is exactly the same design
and usually the same size as the
houses. They are grouped closely
together around a square, so that
farmers home makes a compact
little settlement of buildings that
resembles country estate at
distance.
Normandy is dairy country.
Right now the people have more
butter on their hands than they
know what to do with. It is
stupid soldier indeed who can't get
himself all the butter he wants.
But even though it is glut on
the market, the French still ask
go cents a pound for it.
When the Germans were here
they bought all the Norman butter
and at fancy prices too. German
soldiers would ship it home to their
families.
And although their New Order
is strict and full of promises of an
ordered world, the Germans them
selves created and fostered the
Paris black market, according to
the local people
Much of the butter bought in
Normandy by German officers
went to Paris for resale at un-
heard-of prices.
To be honest about it, we can't
sense that Normandy suffered too
much under the German occuoa-
ton. That is no doubt less because
of German beneficence than be-
cause of the nature of the country.
For in any throttled country the
farm people always come out best.
Normandy is rich agriculturally.
The people can sustain themselves.
1t is in the cities that occupation
hurts worst. I suspect that when
we get to Paris we will hear an
Around here it's all Frank Walker
and st. Luke's Place and Harry
Creb and Tunnev and hie 1o,,1
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-20
OPA HANDLES 1876 CASES

RALEIGH, July 1s-lR-A total
OF 1876 cases were handled by the
enforcement division of the Ra-
leigh District OPA office in April,
May and June, T. S. Johnson, dis
trict director, said TODAY.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-20

Around here it's all Frank Walker
and St. Luke's Place and Harry
Greb and Tunney and his long
words. I wasn't going to say any
thing at all. 1t is no use trying to
say anything intelligent around
here"
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-20

Editors Note.-The Star and the News accent mo
responsibility for the personal views MI. Pugler
ana often disagree with them much many Of
MS readers. His articles serve the good purpose of
making people think.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-20

A one-step dancing contest, for
juveniles only al Lunina pavilion,
proved one of the rarest treats of
the season Friday night with little
Miss Anna Gray johnson of Tar
boro dancing with John Boatwright
Gwathney of Short Hills, N. J..
capturing first prize. Consolation
prizes were awarded to Beverly
Northrop dancing with Pete
Browne Ruffin of Tarboro, and
Elizabeth Nets dancing wit h
jimmy Nets, her brother.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-20
rs Years Ago
Today
(FROM THE FILES
OF THE STAR-NEWS)
JULY 20. 1919

JULY ~, 1919
Russell Clark of Tarboro, is the
guest of j. Douglas Taylor at
Wrightsville Beach.
Miss Katherine Taylor has as her
guest Miss Katherine Carfew of
Norfolk.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-02-17
30 Priests Arrested
As Critics Of Reich

LONDON. Feb II GNS)-A
Reuters dispatch from Zurich re-
ported today that the geStapo
has arrested 40 priests in France
and charged them with diSuib-
uting pastoral letters "inciting
violence and criticizing the Reich. "
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-02-17
EXAMPLE or UNITY

Religion must point the WAY
rs setting an example 81 unity
and preaching the gospel of love
.HEtFFd 0f SpTTadtHT me Seeds
az discord,' De- concluded.
Other speakers at the dinner
were Goorce lIanrshau past dep
putty ~ the Ontario knights az
Columbus. representing catholics
the Kcv. William r.. HARRISON OF
the Flint Court Street Methodist
Church, representing Protestantsi
Louis III. SchoStak. chairman
president. Greater Detroit Bnai
Birth Council, and NJ T.. COyle,
vice president Of General Motors
Corp.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-02-17
N1ISr LOIN HANns

Never before in the history
~ religion has there been "A
hetter opportunity than now for
religions Ia join hands for The
common good
Although al TUtIEIUUv are
hasicallN the same, Protcstduts,
Jews and Catholics have failed
IN roach thr ideal goal because
~ the existing hstredS and big
otrV prevailing among religious
leaders
In the face Of war and chaos,
men are turning 81 religion for
a sOlnti0n OF The MorId-s lIIs.
Kodiak mirror., 1944-05-20

The sailor, eating in the res taurant, struck up a converse tion with the elderly lady wait ing on him. It went something like this.
 Sailor: Do you like it here in Kodiak?
 Lady: Of course I do.
 Sailor: How long have you been here?
 Lady: All my life.
 Sailor: Haven't you even been to Seattle?
 Lady: No.
 Sailor: Haven't you ever wanted to go any place else?
 Lady: No, I like it too well here.
 Sailor: Were you born here?
 Lady: No, I was born in Ou- zinkie.
 Sailor: Whats that?
 Lady: That's a little village north of here on another island. Sailor: And you've never been any place but Ouzinkie or Kodiak?
 Lady: Of course I have. I've visited in Afognak!
 The sailors mouth was open, and not because food was on the way to it, as she explained how big Afognak isn't.
 Sailor: You ought to go to the United States and look a. round-you'd never want to
 (continued on next page)
Kodiak mirror., 1944-05-20

 500 of them that have been ordered arrive in time. Poppy Day is the Saturday before Memorial Day, or next satur- day.
 We abruptly asked someone who entered our office one day this week the question, "When is Poppy Day?" and got the reply: "Why, the third Sunday in June".
 So don't confuse Poppy Day with Fathers Day.
Kodiak mirror., 1944-05-20

an ''impertinent" note telling him thing or two.
 We aren't sure what the lady meant by ''impertinent" but we are willing to wager that some ones credit. in at least one quarter, is no more.
Kodiak mirror., 1944-05-20

A colored gentleman, brought before the city magistrate on a charge of being drunk and dis orderly, pied guilty to this first ofense and was fined SIS.
 That is, the city magistrate tired to fine him SIS, but he would have nothing to do with that unlucky total. Would the honorable dispenser of justice please make 1t some sum other than an unlucky 13?
 So the city magistrate oblig- ingly upped the amount.
 The record now reads: Name of one colored gentleman; charge-D. and D ine-$13.10.
 We suggest in the future that fines in similar instances be S7 come $l), or multiples thereof,
Kodiak mirror., 1944-05-20
Kodiak Diary Continued from page 9

The next day one of the lad ies, going down the street, met Jack and greeted him politely.
 Hello, vag", he returned.
 So she went home, addressed an envelope to Jack Altman, Fire Chief, Police Chief, and Real Estate Operator, enclosed payment for the debt and wrote
Kodiak mirror., 1944-05-20

We're going to have a sale of peoples on the traditional Poppy Day, this year, if a supply of
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-03

Sagely observes Michael O'Day,
of the Parker Family" "A girl who
doesn't use a bit of cosmetics Is like
broken-down car trying to 60 up
hill-she has trouble making the
grade!"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-03

Since q was announced that IA
&. Fllppen was going 10 broadcast
Ms Correction, PIease" program
'Fem feuE different eastern elite
'hiie touring With his aeW sDuslcei
Slap Happy" The en- eee has bees
sIugsa With requests fFeEB camp
n these eitiea. The seFvlce neet
wFiiing b him wanl 70 appear u
contestants on Cha program. yllp'
pen II swing them consideration
now.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-03

Andre KOStelanetz will be absent
from the Pause That Rcfreshes on
the Air" for three months afteI
the May 6 program. Percy Faith
will conduct during the summer
while MIR. KOstelanetz dev0tes his
time entirely to war work; he will
return to the program on the last
Sunday in August.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-03
WAVELETS
By ED LEAMY

lima, but they had to come to Chi
cago, 300 miles away, to meet. When
they did, Scotty was programmed
to sing I've Come To Marry You"
to Lulu Belle. And sure enough he
did.
1t was in 1888 that they met.
They teamed up as a welded duo
in 1885 and shortly before had be-
come a professional duo as well.
They "snuck out" between shows
one night and were married and
back at their next broadcast be-
fore their co-workers knew what
had happened.
Lulu Belle was born in Boone, N.
c., December "a, 1918. Her mother
taught her to sing the old noun
tain songs. The folks moved to
Evanston, Ill, when Lulu Belle was
16 and three years later her dad de-
cided his daughter should be on the
radio. So he got her an addition
and she was. The hazel-eyed red
head still cheriSheS the artificial
pigtail she wore for her first broad
cast; she considers it a lucky tails
men.
Scotty was born November 8
1909, in ingalls,, N. c., where his
father farmed and taught country
school. Scotty's mother, too, taught
him the old songs and during his
student years at Fairmont Teach
ers' College wv. Va.) he sang them
over a local radio station. After
graduation he became program di-
rector of the station.
One day Chicago program man.
ager heard him sing and wrote the
young musician to head cityward
for an addition. Scotty did and has
been here ever since. He plays
guitar, banjo, and harmonica.
Wiseman is just under six feet
has brown hair and blue eyes and
weighs 100 pounds.
The WiSemanS own large farm
with a Seven-roon1 cabin, in North
Cardinals hills where they hope to
retire some day. They have two
children, Linda Lou, 8 and Steven
Scott, 8.
Andre KOStelanetz will be absent
from the Pause That Rcfreshes or
the Air" for three months aftel
the May program. Percy Faith
will conduct during the summer
while MIR. K0stelanetz devOtes his
time entirely to war work; he will
return to the program on the last
Sunday in August.
Phil Baker, quiznaster Of radios
''Take 1t Or Leave It" airshOw, has
completed bit Of research on his
own hook and announces that the
easiest categories of questions to
answer are: "'Sports' for men,
Movies for women, and Music,
for everybody"
Parker Fennelly, who plays Dad"
in the Mother and Dad program
each Saturday, has invited the en-
tire radio cast. go people, to be
his guests when the new stage show,
"St0ve Pipe Hat" in which he will
appear, opens in New York in the
late summer. It's a play all about
the life and time Of Abraham Lin
coin, says Parker, who will con-
tinue to play dad" on the CHS
Saturday airshow.
Newest thing in the local bis
trOs is Dunninger Cocktail, named
for the Master Mentalist, who bares
even the most intimate secrets Of
his audiences mind at 8 p. m. We'd
nesdays over the Blue network. Rea-
son for the name: one drink and
you know darned well what your
wife will say when you get home.
Twin duffle bags filled with Gig
arettes are scheduled for shipment
TO lads In two Army hospitals, fol-
lowing the Bob Hawk CHS Thanks