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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-09-23
CATHOLIC

St. Mary's - Corner Fifth and
Ann streets. Monsignor c. E..
Murphy, pastor; Rev. E. A. Rig
ney and Rev. J. H. Tevlin, assis-
tants. Confessions Saturday 4 to
6; Z to 8 pm. Masses on Sunday
at 7, 9, 10, II am. and 1915
pm.
Wrightsbille Beach - St. Their
ese's - 209 So. Lumina; Rev.
Thos. E. Curran, pastor. Masses
on Sunday at and II am. Con-
LESSONS before Mass.
Carolina Beach - Immaculate
Conception - St. Joseph's Street;
Rev. Thos. E. Curran, pastor.
Mass on Sunday at 9 am. Con-
LESSONS before Mass.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-09-23
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pm. Worship = 8 pm. Evange-
listic Service.
Wesleyan, 18th and Castle SITS.
Rev. S. T.. Bayse,, pastor. Sunday
school GAS am. Service II am.
and 8 pm. YMWB meets Z pm.
Wesley Memorial E. W. Down
UNI, pastor. Worship 10 am. Sub
ject: Bundles of Benefits" Sun
day school II am. Youth Fellow
ship 7:15. Worship 8 pm. "
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-09-23
LUTHERAN

St. Paul's-Sixth and Market SITS.
The Rev. Walter B. Freed, pastor.
Sunday school 9:45 am. Service
II am. Sermon, You Have a Lot
to Do with Yourself
Lutheran missouri Synod. Rev.
W. A. Kimberley, pastor. BIT South
Second street. Sunday school 2 p.
m. Service 1880 pm.
St. Matthew's, Seventeenth and
Ann SITS. The Rev. Carl H. Fisher,
pastor. Sunday school 9:45 am.
Worship II am. 'Stars In A Dark
World"
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-09-23

Seaman John C. Crabb, Jr., re-
portedly died as the heavy cruiser
on which he was serving was sunk
off Guadalcanal. The Purple Heart,
awarded posthumously to young
Crabb, was received by his father,
J. c. Crabb, ST., of Riverside
apartments, who served ~ years
as an officer in the Army of the
United States, retiring in Septem-
Der, 1913. Young Crabb enlisted
in the Navy here in August, 1941.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-09-23

has been serving overseas since
October, 1943. ,., ~.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-09-23

BUY WAR BONDS AND STAMPS
Evening star., 1944-09-25
Tomorrow's Weapons

Though few in number and prob
ably launched from planes instead
Of ground sites, flying bombs are
still hitting England. They come
now only sporadically. after hours
and days of lull, as if Hitler we're
trying to give venomous expression
as often as possible to the sense of
raging Illustration that must fill
his breast. They come, too, as a
grim reminder of the terrible evil
they might have wrought If counter
measures had not been taken
against them in time, and of what
their improved counterparts may be
able to do in the world of tomorrow.
Our armies in Western Europe are
continuing to find evidence that
the Nazis were preparing to use this
weapon on scale far more fright
ful than most of us had once i'm
agined, the latest discovery being
huge underground factory de-
signed to turn it out on a mass-pro-
duction basis.
The story of this weapon reads
like a report from another world, or
like a Wellsian prediction of the
shape of things to come, but it rep
resents reality that is already here
in our own world-and 20 years
from now there may be a perfected
model which in size, range and
deadliness may make the present
Evening star., 1944-09-25
Qualifications for Diplomacy


To the Editor of The Star:
Half way through any letter signed by
Philip Lightfoot Wormeley ", I am
already saying "Righto!" and making
a mental note to look for him next
time.
For second or third secretary of
legation or embassy it is very much a
question whether the intellectual de-
mands exceed those of bilingual stenog-
rapher. Certainly, the demands of di-
plomacy would be far less than those
OF an amanuensis serving the editorial
staff Of metropolitan newspaper. In
times of peace it would seem that such
duties would be only a trif1e more ex-
acting than those on ones hometown
Board OF Trade or Chamber of Com
merce. Americans in their charming,
traditional way, despite statements to
the contrary, making no pretense to be
anything different than what a kind
and gracious Providence has fashioned
them, are, except perhaps in their cups,
the finest on Gods green earth. 1t is
downright silly to say that one who is
the product Of our best universities
could not pass foreign service examina-
ton for which two years of intensive
college-grad study or reading, or less,
would be more than ample preparation.
The Star should congratulate itself on
the high standard of its readers.
AMERIGO VESPUCCI,
Evening star., 1944-09-25
Test of Intentions

Unless we propose merely to de-
Jude ourselves, there are two aspects
1f the current postwar security dis
ussions which must be faced
x1uarely.
sa+o One has to do with the identity
M future aggressors. There seems
TO be disposition in some quarters
10 assume that we need plan only to
prevent future aggression by Ger
many or Japan. This is unrealistic
In the extreme. In all human prob
liability, Japan and Germany, when
they have been finally beaten, will
be rendered incapable of launching
another major war. If the world
Should be engulfed in a third World
War In the foreseeable future the
sInitiative will have to come from
home other Source-from C4le of the
major powers other than Germany
-m Japan-and we might just as we'll
.9ace that fact now.
=. The other question has to do with
The functioning of the council which
is to be the executive head of the
sproposed world assembly. This
srouncil presumably is to be COM
ssposed of representatives from Rus
s.sia, Britain, China and the United
States, plus a suitable number of
representatives from smaller coun-
tries. And there are reports that
sthe Russians have been insisting
.that the council, or at least the ma
.1of powers represented on the coun-
ell, must vote unanimously before
~force can be used against an ag-
gressor.
In practical effect this means that
If one of the major powers repre-
sented on the council should resort
to aggression in the future it could
bar the use of force by the other
powers merely by having its repre-
sentative on the council cast mega
tive vote. And since there is small
danger OF future aggression capable
OF starting major war except as it
may come from one of the big pow
ers, this proposal for a unanimous
vote, If it should be adopted, would
simply mean that the new interna-
tional organization would be incapa-
bic of preventing war.
II we are to preserve peace, it is
essential that the world council, or
whatever it is called, be empowered
to act quickly and decisively to in
woke the use of force against any
nation which seeks to resort to war
II there is to be anothe.. powerful
aggressor, he will strike hard and
suddenly. Such an aggressor should
not be permitted to veto concerted
action against him. And he should
not be permitted to profit by time
consuming procedures before the
other nations can unite against him.
Evening star., 1944-09-25

The reports coming from Quebec re-
garding Allied plans for a defeated Ger
many are alarming. For if they are cor
rect, we are embarking upon policy
which is not only certain to confound
the chaos bound to follow German de-
feat, but which will also bring riffs
among the three major Allies: Britain,
the United States. and the Soviet Union.
According to the reports, Germany,
for occupation purposes Is to be divided
into three zones. Everything east of the
Lubeck-Elbe line, with Berlin still
doubtful. will be occupied by the Soviets
West of the Elbe, Northern Germany
including the seaports Of Bremen and
Hamburg. will be under British occu-
patton. Southern Germany will be oc-
cupied and administered by Americans
There is the possibility that the French
may participate in occupying the Rhine
lands. Austria is apparently, to be joint
ly occupied by the three major Allies.
X
II this were merely an arrangement
for the military distribution Of forces,
it might be reasonable But each of
these territories is to be put under a
high commissioner, responsible eXclu-
sively to his own government What is
involved Is not merely occupation for
strictly military purposes, such as dis
armament and maintaining order for
fulfilling an armistice. These three
commissioners. responsible to three diff
ferent governments, are to govern Ger
many in every respect. This means that
Germany Is not to become ward Of
the United Nations, but ward of three
separate powers.
Now. II this will lead to any good end,
it will be a miracle
I am tired of reading that We cannot
tell what is going on in Germany, nor
imagine what will happen there. given
this or that Allied procedure States
manship is not rule OF thumb; it is
foresight and logic.
If these three high commissioners are
to be responsible only to their own gov
ernments, there must be reason for
it. 1t is obvious that it would be bet
ter to govern Germany by commonly
agreed on policy. But it seems that
even the British and Americans can
not wholly agree. Proposals that were
in the air for some months past, that
the British and Americans should gov
ern together, have also, apparently,
been scrapped.
Now, if We cannot agree in advance,
the disagreements are bound, in the
nature of things, to become more and
more acute when the occupation be-
Evening star., 1944-09-25

one. fearsome as that is, seem rela-
lively crude and harmless by COM
parison.
The tank and the plane of 1918
look like mere toys compared to the
tank and the plane today. In 1860
or 1910. the explosive air missile
pilotless, radio directed, perhaps
rocket-propelled or driven by some
new atomic energy-may be a
giant more terrible than anything
dreamed of now. The prospect is
so possible that it is as telling an
argument as there could be for the
f1rmest kind Of international CO.
operation against future aggressors
and a Third World War.
Evening star., 1944-09-25
On the Record
By Dorothy Thompson

gins. For there will be three separate
Germanies, each governed by differ
ent foreign power, and each with regu-
lations forbidding or allowing some
thing that is not allowed or forbidden
in the other section.
AS it will be impossible to prevent
any sort Of intercourse between the
three "Germanies,' this program will
result in the organiZation-as an inev-
liable development of Allied policy-of
a new German underground. Its pur-
pose will be to join up with that one
Of the Allies that gives Germany the
best deal. Its propaganda will be to
play out one ally against the other one
program against the other. and even
one high commissioner against the
other.
and possibly also the British-intend TO
encourage separatist movements In the
provinces that We occupy. Decentrali-
zation and federalism are one thing, and
separatism, the process OF disintegrat-
ing Germany into several sovereign
states, is another
Decentralization, or federalism. pre-
supposes a basic common national
policy: separatism requires antago-
nisms between the various German sue
cessor states. If. therefore. We foster
separation we will also be encouraging
the antagonism of one part of Ger
many, under our rule, to other parts
under Russian or British rule In
other words, we will foster antagonism
between the Big Three. right in the
middle OF Europe, where all three
armies will be cheek-by- jowl.
But suppose one Of the Big Three does
not foster separatism, but lifts the BAN
ner of German unity under. to be sure
a radically different social. economic.
and political system? Then what will
happen?
What will happen is that the country
that does that. will own Germany body
and soul. For although we are con-
stantly told that We know nothing of
the forces in Germany would like
to be included out" of that company
There are no popular and democratic
forces in Germany. nor have there
been for over hundred years, working
for the disintegration of the Reich. And
there is only one excuse for our general
incompetence in handling German af-
fairs-a lack of study. 1t is not a
mystery country.
(Released by The Bell Syndicate IrcN
Evening star., 1944-09-25
Trust Fulfilled
From the St Louis Post-Dispatch.

FROM the ST. Louis Post-Dispstch.
AS Byron Price. director Of censo
ship, said in an address earlier thi
year, any judgment on the voluntary
censorship of the Second World War
must be ad interim. for it is IAN un-
finished experiment" and ito say that
it has succeeded or failed would be
to render a verdict without hearing
the evidence But Mr.. Price notes
that the percentage of violations of the
voluntary code has been exceedingly
small"
AS whole, the newspapers and radio
OF the United States have kept the
faith. Is it or Is it not remarkable, and
an occasion for national pride, that
with 70 many newspaper and press and
radio, services informed of the facts,
every major trust has been kept. there
has been no single explosive blunder?
That the President of the United States
has been able to travel to the far places
OF the world, to Cairo and Teheran
and Honolulu. secure in the protection
OF this most farflung and most success
full voluntary censorship of all time?
That the B-29, and other precious
secrets of democracys arsenal, have
been shown to journalists long in ad-
vance OF the time when the news could
safely be released-and that the Sc
curity OF the Nation has been served?
Evening star., 1944-09-25
Muustricht

IT GI Joe writes home to ask if
DArtagan was a real person, it will
be obvious that he has been in the
neighborhood of Maastricht. The
connection between Alexander Du-
mas hero and the ancient capital of
Lln1burg is explained without diff
Guilty. 1t was at the siege of the old
city on the Meuse in 1878 that the
authentic prototype of the leader of
The Three Muske.eers'' s''-published
Just century ago-was killed. The
original character was the central
figure in book by Courtilz de
Sandras issued at Cologne in 17Ol
or 1902. Now war again sweeps over
the historic Netherlands, and Amer
lean equivalents of Aramis, Porthos
and Athos are fighting a greater
battle than any of the times of
Richelieu
Maastricht is accustomed to strife,
Standing in the very heart of
network of roads and canals con-
Meeting Aachen and other German
towns with Brussels, Liege, Malines
and all Southern and Eastern Hol-
land, its strategic Importance dates
back to the days of the building of
the Roman highways. Frankish
kings, dukes of Brabant and a series
of prince bishops successfully con-
rtrihuted to its growing prosperity
during seven hundred years. The
community joined in the resistance
to the Spaniards in 1876 and with
stood four months siege, final
occupation and ruthless sacking by
the cruel Parma in 1879. Frederick
Henry of Orange was its next con-
queror. He liberated the city in 1882,
but it fell to the French on three
occasions subsequently, The re-
bellious Belgians, however, failed in
their effort against it in 1880.
Relics of all the crises through
which the city has passed were pre-
served in the Cathedral of Saint
Servatius, said to be the oldest
church in the Netherlands,
Romanesque basilica often recon-
tructed but never altogether spoiled,
and in the Stadhuis, a massive
ediflce raised by Pieter Post between
1856 and 1864, with a tower COM
pleted in 1884 to accommodate a
carillon. Other notable landmarks
of MaaStricht are: The Dude Mas
Mug. 4 flne thirteenth century bridge
Evening star., 1944-09-25
Sentimental Memories

II BreSt comes to mean to the SOL
diers Of this war what it meant to
their fathers in that other war.
memories OF that famous port will
remain green in America for an
other generation at least. Going to
Brest, in that other war, meant 60
ing home. 1t also meant getting
ready to 60 home, and getting ready
meant journey through what at
that time was undoubtedly the most
elegant establishment of its kind in
the world, inelegantly known to the
Army as the delousing center.
The coolies of this war, according
to what one reads in the papers, are
quickly routed by an insecticide of
potent powder. Coolies in the last
war were made of sterner stuff.
They laughed at powder. But they
did not laugh at the delousing CEN
ter. That got them. Nor did the SOL
diers laugh. Delousing, run or~an
assembly line, mass reduction basis,
is no laughing matter. BY regiments,
divisions and army corps the SOL
diers would enter one door, separate
themselves from all clothing, and
scrub. Later on-much later on-the
soldiers and their clothing were re-
united. Both had undergone drastic
treatment, from which the soldier
eventually recovered, but which left
indelible impressions on raiment,
never afterward to look or feel the
same.
There was quality of spiritual
cleansing in this process, followed
by an exhilarating feeling of recti-
tude and independence, a cutting
loose from old associations which
gave men the courage OF a newly
found freedom. Perhaps the modern
powders are effective against the
slovenly cooties of this day and age.
But veterans of the last war will feel
better about it il their sons, on that
glad day when finally they embark
at Brest for home, could experience
the regenerating influences of an old
fashioned delousing plant. Perhaps
the Allies can find the remains of
the 1918 structure and open it up
again.
Evening star., 1944-09-25
Policy Toward Germany
By Mai. Georqe Fieldinp Eliot

to the happy pursuits of peace.
The Germans, for their part, know
very well how to put on what Gen.
Stuelpnagel brazenly calls "a campaign
OF pity" Whatever the next system
might be. it would presently be sub
jected to series of strains-little strains
at first, an inch here and half an
inch there gained by some particular
German interest and surrounded with
plausible argument. AS the years passed,
the system might slowly relax-sup-
ported, no doubt, by Humanitarian"
idiots in this country and even after a
while in Britain as the memories of the
blitz and the buzz bomb faded into the
shadows Of an evil past.
Those who tried to argue against each
encroachment might, after bit, come
to be called "alarmists.' And then, in
the fullness of time, German science
backed by German industry. might hurl
the bolts OF new war suddenly upon
an unready world.
Perhaps this sounds a little on the
fantastic side, just now. But remember
the brave words that we're spoken when
Germany went down in blood ana fire
last time, after four years of struggle:
and remember what happened AFTER
ward. Can it be cause for wonder. if
there are those who are unwilling to run
such risk again?
There is great difference between
taking the tools of war away or say
ing to the Germans, keep the tools
but use them only under guard for pur-
poses which We approve. The latter
method depends on the continued vigi-
lance, throughout the coming years, of
the guard we keep over Germany, SUBJ
ject as that will be to all sorts of political
and psychological stress.
The former method Is definitive and
we can do it now, while our purpose is
still firm. Once the Germans are de-
prived of their industrial plant, they
cannot rebuild it unless we deliberately
present them with the means to do so.
And without their plant, their research
laboratories. their system of technical
education, they cannot make war. The
foundation of their power will have been
swept away.
If the minds Of peoples normally of
liberal and generous character, whose
first impulse toward q fallen foe is to
extend the hand of fellowship and re-
cOnciliation, now turn to such a course
as this against defeated Germany, it
will be because the Germans themselves
have convinced us all that there Is no
other way to deal with them.
(cepyrisht. 1914: New York Tribune. Ine)
Evening star., 1944-09-25

ment, supported by about 20 Jap divi-
sions, never extended outside the cities
and limited area around them. Oc-
casionally indications came from Tokyo
Of fights between the Japanese troops
and agents" of the American Govern
ment. The truth was whenever small
Japanese units moved outside the perrin
eter Of their actual power, they were
fallen upon by the Filipino American
guerrillas and destroyed.
The new Filipino scouts, organized by
the Japanese with the assistance of
Laurel, were a feeble police force which
had nothing in common with the old
scouts. They were used as a local gen.
darmerie and the loyalty of few of them
could be counted on. Soon after his
appointment as president, Laurel sent
them to fight the guerrillas. But when
they, too, began to disappear in the
mountains and jungles, without regard
to what would happen to their families
which served as hostages, the scouts
were kept in the cities. The japanese
could not afford to lose modern equip
ment to the underground.
In spite Of the strict surveillance OF
the coasts. it has been possible to pro-
vide the underground with arms, am
munition and medical supplies, par
ticularly from the time the Japanese
navy began to be harassed by American
submarines and later large American
naval forces in the Southwestern Pacific.
Many Of the patrol boats which were
watching the coves and the many inlets
on Luzon and Mindanao had to be with
drawn to protect the Japanese mer-
chantmen and transports between the
South Pacific and Japan proper.
Larger ships such as destroyers and
light cruisers of the older type had to
be placed in the combat fleet because
of severe losses suffered by the fleet in
Its engagements with the American ships
Of Admirals Chester w. Nimitz and Will
liam F. Halsey.
The underground needs no food sup
plies. 1t receives everything 1t needs
from the country itself where the civilian
population particularly in the rural dis
tricts is fully cooperative and takes care
of its fighting men.
Evening star., 1944-09-25
This Changing World
By Constantine Brown

When the American armies come in
sight Of Mindanao and later Luzon they
will be assisted in exterminating the
japanese by an underground force much
more eficient than anything we have
yet seen in Europe.
For reasons Of military security. 1t is
not possible to disclose figures on the
number Of Filipino scouts and other ele-
ments Of the Philippine Army who have
escaped the Bataan disaster and have
been hiding In the jungles and the
mountains Of the archipelago. Nor is It
possible to reveal how many Americans
in much smaller number of course,
than the Filipinos-are still free in
sections OF the islands which the Jap
anese have not been able to penetrate.
But it can be said that an under
ground force full Of fight and well
equipped with tommy guns, rifles and
plenty of ammunition is ready to assist
the American liberation forces under
command Of Gen. Douglas Macarthur.
This force of trained soldiers-not anna
teurs, as are the majority Of the forces
OF resistance in Europe-will cause the
Japanese defenders many serious head
aches.
X X
With the exception of the servants OF
the puppet government of President
Laurel who, on the surface at least,
have accepted the Japanese domination,
the people of the Philippines have
been overwhelmingly neutrality-suspicious.
They have hated the Japanese rulers
from the first day they landed and
throughout the hard years of occupa-
tion have kept an unf1inching faith in
the United States and its ability to re-
turn and restore their freedom.
According to available reports, and
there have been continuous contacts
between the Filipinos and Americans OH
the outside-their feelings have become
much more pro-American since Bataan
and Corregidor. When military security
Is no longer necessary. some remarkable
stories will come out about how the
natives have co-operated with us from
the early days of the Japanese occupa-
ton when our prestige in the Far East
was on the wane.
The authority Of the puppet govern