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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-12
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German Cities Into Shreds

frontier towns in the last foul
days. -. ~.
Every house, shop and. building
in Wyler, Kranenburg and Butter
den. along the route to Kleve bore
gaping holes r.. ~.
= Slate tile. roofs which actually
had not. been blown off by the
massed artillery .barrage that was
the prelude to this offensive
showed 8 skeleton ribs to the sky.
Window, shutters, and doors mad
been torn from their hinges. i.
: Al Nuetterden, a British colonel
showed me through a Zig green
camouflaged bunker, I part of the
Siegfried Line, buried under sod.
ded earth. 1t had a roof of con
crete nine feet thick.
This could have made trouble
for us ifathe Boche had tried to
defend it, the colonel said, "but
he didn't e'.t .-.l...
For IS miles before reaching
the front We lodged in and out
OF endless Columns OF tanks,
trucks and troop carriers moving
forward.
North of the main Nijmegen-
'Kleve road, series of smoke
pots lifted while billoWing
screen for many miles along the
Rhine to hide Allied movements
from enemy gunners5 a few. thous-
and yards away.
, North of the road, daredevil
Canadian troops in armored am
pribious carriers called Buffalos
went from island to island rising
above the flood waters, storning
and capturing enemy strong
points imperiling the line of ad-
vance.
On land, British troops in deep
mud, and picking their way
through dense minefields under
the eerie glow of artificial moon
light, fought their way through
the first belt of the Siegfried Line
in less than five hours.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-12

They were suffering from schisto-
somiasis, a tropical disease. The
Army wanted to experiment on
them quickly. The disease dimini-
shes in temperate climates so they
had to be rushed to Washington.
Barnett, who is in the sanitary
corps, resigned himself to the
treatment of his fellow-passengers,
hoping only that the plane would
arrive here as soon as possible.
Once here he would deliver the
CANNES to the Army Medical Cen
ter, Walter Reed Hospital (where
another Roosevelt pooch, Fala, re-
Gently was hospitalized for wounds
inflicted by his would-be bride)
and rid himself of the stigma they
seemed to create.
Barnett got off the plane and was
muttering how Americans no long
er loved mans best friend" when
he, learned the story behind the
story-the saga of "a" priority
Blaze,
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-12
Tiny Azalea-Couered Isle
Built In Greenfield Lake

An island without an airstrip and
where no Seabee has ever trod a
comparative rarity these DAYS,
now is available for inspection by
Wilmingtonians who visit Green
field Park.
The island, in the Park lake op-
posite the 18th Street entrance,
was built up during the month by
City Park Department employees
and planted with azaleas.
A departmental report for JAN
uary, recently issued by R. w.
Smell, superintendent of parks, was
source for this information and
for the fact that three coniferous
evergreens were planted in the
area between Front and Third
streets near the Greenfield spill
way, scene Of four recent automo-
bile accidents.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-12
Dutch Refugee Children
Sent To British Homes

COVENTRY. England, Feb. IL
CPl-The first contingent of refu-
gee children from Holland arriv-
ed here today waving flags and
cheering as their train rolled into
the station.
The youngsters, ranging in age
from eight to Is, were selected on
the basis of their need for rest
and relaxation and their physical
capacity for making the trip. The
young refugees will be billeted at
hotel until they learn enough
about the English to get along in
private homes where they will re-
main for the duration.
The British expect to care for
10000 Dutch children by the time
all Of Holland is liberated.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-12
ARMY NEWSPAPER
.ERRS IN PHOTO

o,noN Feb. 11.-tR-Stars
j., L0 stripes here finds itself with
ana Nv In'lep9.of-the-year as result
two ,nixup in identifying pho
tographs' ,,eusnaner publish.
NV ~ nicture of an anonymous
ca la; ;'r January l. and explained
s 1D4 1GI Joe" was its nomination
,Ia' +be ,nan-of- the-year-as a
foI sn+e to American soldiers ev-
ei!" o+er, in response to queries,
,.a w. and Stripes identified the
9 osfdier as Sgt. Hobert Drew of
psTloomingdale, N. J.
0l T5en the error was discovered.
r,a nicture really was that of
JIG fobn H. Parks of Mill Creek,
l' The managing editor, Sgt. Peter
,;saoor of Chicago, said today
I .as error arose from Stars and
s sr original intention of keep
mo "GI Joe anonymous.
'D5 Eve searched thousands of
;o.'res for one which would
.y,oir the real man of the year,
" (sf 1oe." Lisagor said. 1T was
.5e face we we're looking for, and
!. was Parks. His picture ex-
nrossed all the miserable condi-
Inns and yet the tenacious hope
nj the Doughboy.
1.-The actual photograph Show
Oh our Joe in tank helmet. We
tel+ the face was the thing, but
+6at tanker helmet would suggest
NE armored forces only-so the
srt department retouched to make
tbe anonymous man-of-the-year
an infantryman.
after the CT Joe picture was
nlblished we got dozens of let
ters asking his identity. An as
sistant picture editor made mis-
take in pulling the caption.
Naturally. we were extremely
distressed to learn of the error.
But at the same time, l think it
nonts up the fact that CT Joe
really is an anonymous person.
In the picture was mirrowed the
outs and misery of thousands of
ether frontline soldiers whose
names it would be as impossible
10 chronicle as it would be to
pay adequate tribute to their
bravery.
After we discovered the error
we followed up and learned that
the real Hobert Drew was as de-
serving as any CT we could have
chosen, He now is in a United
Kingdom base hospital recovering
from the third time of being
wounded in combat. We are trying
now to get pictures and his own
story
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-12
SPONSOR WANTED
Blind Boy Pianist In England
Seeks To Study In U. s.

A U. S. EIGHTH AIR FORCE
BiASE In Britain, Feb. II. -(P)-
Nine-year-old Jimmy Osborne, a
blind boy pianist, is all set for a
trip to the United States and a
musical education promised him by
the airnen of this base.
There is only one obstacle to be
cleared, says Capt. John O'Con-
nell of Holyoke, Mass. The govern
ment will not permit the trip un-
til someone in the United States
assumes responsibility for his vel
fare there.
Officers and men of the base
raised more than 5000 to finance
the trip and instruction for the
youngster who plays everything
from boogie-woogie to Bach. flu
CUES. He never has had a lesson.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-12
Pravda Halls Big Three
Conference As Loss For
Nazi Political Schemes

MOSCOW. Feb. 11.-(R1-Today's
Pravda hailed the initial com
nunique of the Big Three con-
ference as 1.-THE loss of the last
trump by the Hitlerites from a
political point of view.
From a military point of view
this declaration means that op-
erations for the final defeat of
Hitherto Germany will develop
with growing speed on an even
larger SCALE" the official Com
munist organ declared.
The newspaper said that Ger
man leaders, knowing the war is
lost, have tried to break the
unity of the Allies and their
military coordination and added
that the Berlin bankrupts have
reached a complete fiasco."
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-12
0PA WILL ASSIST
VETS IN BUSINESS

WASHINGTON, Feb. 11.-P)-
Price Administrator Chs t e r
BoWles tonight announced a pro-
gram intended to give returning
veterans special aid in starting
new businesses.
He said that OPA was well
along in the process of amending
price and rationing regulation"
which affect veterans as business
men Or potentional businessmen.
The revisions, BoWles said, are
of price regulations restricting the
field to those who were in it
before a certain date"
The changes also include "sev-
eral of our rationing regulations,
especially in the case of sugar,
fats and oils" Bowles said.
In formulating these revisions
of our regulations we are keeping
in close touch with other Federal
agencies exercising ALLEGATION
powers SO that all the business
needs of veteran entering a
new business may be considered
under uniform Government
policy" the OPA chief said.
Bowles' announcement follows
a few days request by the Amer
lean Legion that OPA remove
obstacles in the way of service
men entering business. The Lee
gion contended that in a number
of instances veterans mad been
unable to obtain rationed food sup
plies and other allocated COM
to stock stores they pro-
pose to open.
BoWles also announced that OPA
will provide "a special advisory
service to veterans in OUR nation
al. REGIONAL and district officeS -
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-12
Single U. S. Sub Destroys
IA Vessels On One Patrol

WASHINGTON, Feb. 11.-(UP)-
The dead-eye Dick of the U. S.
submarine fleet is an unidentified
raider which made every torpedo
count and sank IA Jap ships on a
single patrol.
The remarkable feat, probably a
record bag for any submarine on
a single hunting trip. was revealed
tonight by the Navy which pres
umably has accounted for the sink
ings in official communicates
Meagre details were buried in
three identical citations among a
list of 40 medal awards.
Before the war, the average
person in the United States ate
II pounds of butter a year.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-12
TABLES ARE TURNED
Downed Filler Rescues Res,
cuers In Burmese Jungle

CALCUTTA, Feb. II. = (P =
An American rescue party which
became lost in the Burma jungle
while searching for a missing flier
recently was rescued by the very
man they were looking for.
Pilot 1t. James P. Mcclure, 81
of Fitzgerald. Ga, had bailed out
over territory where Japanese pa
trolls were active.
Hours later while walking along
the road toward American posi-
tons, Mcclure found a tired and
ragged group of Americans, in
Guiding medical officers, who had
been searching for him. He guided
them back to the road and to
American positions.
-V-
BUY WAR BONDS AND STAMPS
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-12
NAZI VESSELS SEIZED
By the Associated Press

Norwegian patriots seized II
tugboats and salvage ship from
the Germans in Frederikstad
halbor in Oslofjord Thursday and
reached a Swedish port Saturday,
the British radio said last night
IN a broadcast recorded by the
owl.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-12

No one should attempt to go out
from town or office to do heavy
fam work who has not first had
thorough physical check-up to
be sure he is fit for the lob.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-12
GUILFoRD RECEIVES GIFT

GUILFORD COLLEGE, Feb. II.
-(P)-Featured by the recepation
of a gift of $4,000 from Robert
r. Ragan, of High Point, total SUBJ
scription to the Guilford college
campus development program for
$3.50, 600 yesterday had reached the
figure of $235,127, passing the two
thirds mark, it was announced by
President Clyde A. Miner.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-04-14

bestially they had been treated starved, beaten,
tortured
What about the Germans OF course they had
killed thousands ot Jews, and while VIC were
Mortified al the slaughter. felt TO ourselves
that tho Germans would not do that 10 real
Americans, real white Americans But IN tho
New York Times FOR April and for April are
stories Of horror and brutality that rival any
thing the Japs ever did American war prisoners
in hospital in Germany living Ike animals,
starved, uncarcd for, with vernn crawling all
over them. their cots. their food Richard J. NJ
johnson. the Times correspondent, says:
For the last four months, $500 Allied soldiers,
including 5000 Americans, have been slowly
starving TO death there amid scenes Of tho foul
est degradation, which a.c virtually impossible
to describe"
Johnson tells of forced march through the
ArdcnneS forest in dead winter without, food or
water OF men packed INTO box cars OF ten men
dividing loaf of bread on Christmas Of filth
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-04-14
UNFINISHED BUSINESS
BY CLARENCE ANDERSON

the greater the incidence of infectious diseases.
Today man going into the factory has
seven-year less expectancy of life than a man
going into the Office has. And delinquency seems
correlated with numbers of persons packed-in
close together. Give men jobs, pleasant inter-
esting, fulfilling jobs, and houses where they
can breathe and live, and sanitation and health
60 up on the scale of values
Under such circumstances physicians and dem
lists and nurses would find themselves with
lot less work to do, and medical care would be
spread out where it is needed most and where
today it is given least Will you see change
IN this situation hundred years from now? AS
Milt Gross used to write some years ago, "Dunt
esk!"
You know all about discrimination in trans
portation today. Picture the future there And
that in the armed forces? Let's hope that
VIII be as an anachronstc area of life as slav-
cry is today. There won't be much need for
policemen hundred years hence. but let's hope
II there are policemen that they have the same
race attitudes" that London Boobies have today
So, too, with politicians. Nobody will be able
TO gain votes by passing anti-mnority measures
because, you see, in this world to come, ethnic
minorties as such just won't exist. Education
VIII be education for life. There won't be any
Jim Crow schools. or Ph.Ds. working as Red
Caps That is, unless they want to be Red Caps
AS matter of fact there will be more Red Cap
Ph DIS, for schooling will not end at a certain
age, or at competence in one area, but will 20
on, as 1t has for the civilized farmers of Den
mark, as long as the person wants it. That is
just beginning of the world dream Of You
can add your own items if you like.
Could such world be achieved without strug-
gle? Has any improvement been achieved with
out struggle? Did the world get better" in
the dark, middle ages when little struggle for
change occurred? You know the answer as well
as do. If you want better world you have to
struggle to build one in the areas of education
politics, economics-in all areas-even though
change for the better seems to occur as slowly
as glaciers move.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-04-14

Richard Wright, Negro. author
Of Native Son. is one Of the i'm
portant living American noveiists
His autobiography. Black Boy, re-
Gently published by Harper and
Brothers. has been widely praised
as an outstanding work Wright
was born in Natchcz Miss. and
there seems little doubt tina; ne is
BY far the most distir Suished l!E-
ing individual 10 come from that
community Yet when Harpe- Snd
Brothers sought 10 advertise Black
Boy in the hatcher Democrat. as
they had dore ir many other
Southern cities. Including Atlanta
Nashville, Chattanooga Dallas. ana
Memphis. they received cur note
Of refusal from Mr. J / Lanoo..
OF the Democrat. We regret said
Mr.. Lambert. we arc unable -
use this copy as j; IS asa.nS' o&r
policy" 4 Telegram from nc New
Republic 10 the Democrat ssNI0g
an explanation had not been an
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-04-14
THE WEEKLY DIGEST
Prejudice Among The unprejudiced

parently "a liberal Catholic" is one
who never argues against miscon-
ceptions OF what constitutes Catho-
llcism. The moment Catholic de-
tends his faith from injustice. he
becomes bigoted Catholic. | dare
say the same fate overtakes a Jew
or a Christian Scientist or a Pres
byterian or Negro or anyone else
who makes the error OF presumlng
that the misinformed might appre-
ciate being informed of the facts
concerning his people. Perhaps that
Is why most Jews and most Catho-
lies and most Negroes have learned,
through long and bitter expert
ence. 10 defend the mysterious
stigma of what they are by silently
conducting themselves, insofar as
it Is humanity possible. in a manner
above censure. The phenomenon 10
me Is that | had personally never
been challenged either TO affirm or
defend my faith until | exposed
myself TO the culture consciousness
of the liberal movement against
prejudice.
= Inc klnu OF unconscious pre1u-
dice ! have recorded seems 10 me
as durable as the habit OF cursing.
for both are the fruit Of mental
Incidence. Many a person who
would cringe from revealing him
self so impoverished both OF Lam
guage and OF good taste as to en-
ploy swear words instead OF think
ing up others. unblushingly ex-
poses the naked parsimony Of his
spirit when he builds himself I'D
by tearing other beings down. In
every prejudice spoken. there is
an unspoken preamble; u haven't
much human dignity in my own
eyes, but you'll see that kind of
noble principles mean TO have
when you hear what | think about
this other low fellow"
The purpose OF Dr.. .Alieort's little
book on how 20 detect PROPAGANDA
was. as one member Of the Good
Neighbor Association expressed it.
To make Il Questionable TO
spread prejudice" ! know now
what that means and i, can be
done.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-04-14
By ROY WILKINS

and more filth, of men having 10 stand while
others slept because there was not enough room
in the barracks for everyone 10 sleep at once, of
men being shot for not being strong enough to
do hard labor. of toilet for l60 men consisting
OF hole in the floor, of no towels and no soap
In another liberated prison camp containing
mostly Russians, a correspondent related the
forced. march OF 500 miles with no food for the
prisoners except that they could pick up from
the countryside. These men on being freed,
broke open warehouse and fought like street
dogs over food, voting down raw cabbages
Scooping up dry four snarling over dry maca-
Ioni and scraps OF bread
The perpetrators of these horrors were not
Admiral Halscys yellow monkeys but the
cultured Aryans OF Central Europe, the Ger
mans who are white and skilled and mechanical.
They staged their "Bstaan death marches" in
Europe, with white guards doing the beating and
killing. the withholding of food and sanitation
War is war. The enemy is the enemy, il mat
tiers not the color OF course. America with its
white thinking holds it 10 be a triple crime
for a non-white nation TO do white nation
does, bootheel in the stomach is the same to
. prisoner whether the boot is on Nsz or a
Jap foot. Starvation is starvation. One hundred
stolen Red Cross packages in Germany is just as
bad as 100 stolen packages in the Pacific
Meanwhile other stories tell of the fat, we'll
fed appearance Of Germans in the towns beyond
the Rhine Of their pink checked children, of the
stores being full of things that an American SOL
der cannot buy even in his home town, And on
this side, German war prisoners are living better
than many Americans, and being treated better
than American Negro soldiers.
For my part they can save all that talk about
The Jsps being special beasts For my part they
can save all that talk, sure 10 come. about the
poor Germans" We fighting two devilish
enemies and they both must be beaten TO their
knees, but this talk about yellow devil being
worse than a white one leaves me ice cold
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-04-14
Editors Note; This weeks article Il by .
guest eolumnist. friend of yours and mine
Norman Humphrey.

Norman Humphrey.
ONE WONDERS sometimes as to whether u is
" worth the candle to continue TO work for
better world. The goals seem so far distant
the changes achieved by education, the political
process, by economic manipulation, so glaciallv
slow. Yet if one looks at what has been accom-
plished in the last hundred years in the social
scene viewed generally he sees, despite war.
more humane relations between men,
What one wants. of course is the type of world
one can project into the future-here and now.
One often hears that, since we have the intelli-
gence to achieve such world, why don't we
move to achieve it. The answer is, of course
that intelligence is just one factor that there are
thousand and one factors all of which are also
operatives and many of which prevent fulfill
ment of the dream,
The dream, of course, is that Of a secure peace
ful world IN which men can work and live with
out fear, and in which man is not penalized
for things over which he has no control Let's
just look at some of the facets of this msny sided
world and see what we would want added and
subtracted.
For one thing we would no longer have dis
elimination in employment But more than that
a man would have the kind of lob that he
wanted to do. Instead of looking for feetine
satlsfactons outside of his working day, man
would get the kind of satisfactions sometimes
get as pound this Observation-Disclosures in
creative NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. in the lob itself
Is such hope incapable of fruiton? Ask YOUR
great great, grandchildren and they won't laugh
at you for asking One won't have TO kill him
self working on job he never wanted, or won.
der for long periods when job will show I'D.
Work could be sure, and healhful, and salts.
flying.
Housing, health welfare? A hundred wears
from now men of all ethnc groups will have
facilities in which to live which will breed
health. BY and large the greater the overcrowd-
Ing in housing, or the lesser the light and air,
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-04-14

Then came a war. 1917, il was
and with il tremendous shift in
our population 10 widely scattered
industrial areas. Overnight the
Negro. the Chinese, the Mexican
became a national problem.
The Georgian understood this.
The Californian. too. Thus. the day
came in Congress when the Cali
fornian spoke his little piece about
the MexicanS-and the man from
Georgia was on his feet shouting,
Yes. sir agree with you :"
They knew il was a national prob
lem. BY sticking together. they
figured out how il could be settled
nationally-in their favor.
Now comes another war. This
time \ peoples war for q peoples
world. Suddenly our minority
problem jumps across another
border. This time. the interna-
tionaI border. Just rs abruptly.
We discover that our international
eyes are bigger than our national
stomach. You can get awful sick
on q slobal lollypop when you
lick of the sugar coating and find
some very bitter truths UNDER
neath-some very acid facts.
DOMESTIC RACIAL
PROBLEMS
InternationaEsm, we're learning,
can't be preached on new gov
eminent level-and practiced on
the old states rights basis. The In
consistencies are just too slaring.
II the rest of the populated earth
is 10 be convinced that we're truly