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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-04-12
Simons Points The Way

That was an inspiring address George W..
simons. Jr, delivered before the Rotary club.
It deserves to be pondered by Wilmington city
builders and the program he suggested started
early, (now is none too soon), that returning
peace may find us ready to share the nation
patronage of the port, the beaches and the
beauty of Greenfield Park.
Make Wilmington a shrine for the nation.
It could be DONE We have only to consider
the development Of Gulfport and Biloxi, on
the Mississippi sound shore, whose progress
sive people set cut to make one an important
to discover that. Gulfport was enjoying splen-
did port business before the war interrupted
all commerce. Every summer Biloxi drew
thousands of vacationists from the Middle West
and the Great Lakes region.
Neither city had natural advantages in
equal proportion with Wilmington. They put
their programs across because their people
went to work with the zeal Of neophites.
Mr.. Si1nons' suggestion that with the start
already made in beauifying Greenfield Park,
and especially with its great azalea planting
with many thousands of Azalea plants avail
able for further use, Wilmington could hold
an Azalea Week and draw hordes OF h e
tourists who will be filling the highways when
gasoline and tires and new cars are to be
had This is an expansion Of the proposal
made in these columns recently for an Azalea
Trail on Third and Fifth streets, with a side
stretch out Market street, and including the
five mile Hoover highway loop around the
lake 1t carries our proposal to a logical con-
clusion.
outstanding symphony orchestra imported for
the PERIOD Azalea Week, properly advertised,
inevitably would bring tourists in great num-
bers.
In addition to an aesthetic reward, Whining
tons business community would reap rec
ord harvest. Hotels, stores, restaurants, would
find the means of continuing the prosperity
the war brought them through many year
when the war is over And, as Mr. Simons
pointed out, Azalea Week assuredly would
sell the beaches to visitors who previously
A dream-all this? Visionary Tommy rot!
Wilmington can do it all if it really wants
to make the best of its opportunity The need
is for concerted effort, plus willingness to
spend the necessary money in order to reap
unprecedented profits
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-04-12
Be Sure To Register

The day for closing the city registration
books is very near. After April IA no unreg
istered person otherwise eligible to cast q
ballot in the forthcoming council election car
be enrolled.
The election of City Council is always
an important event. The business of the city
is. in the last analysis, the biggest within
Wilningtons boundaries. The city is our larg
est corporation. It's operation calls for the
best thought and planning available. With the
war nearing an end and postwar programs
to be framed, this election takes on greater
importance than any In the past.
To have a part in it, eligible citizens mus
be listed on the registration books. 1t is i'm
perative, therefore, that all persons not reg
istered 60 to their respective precincts or
next Saturday and be enrolled That will be
the last chance for everybody. In the mean
time registrations may be made at the regis
trars' homes.
Be sure to- register. And if you moved tc
another precinct more than four months age
be sure to secure your transfer to the new
one Otherwise you'll be unable to vote.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-04-12
Y. NJ. C. A. Campaign

The YM.CA. has proved its value to men
and boys Of Wilmington for generation.
With the war bringing thousands in the armed
services and other thousands of workers in
war activities and plants here, and particu-
larly since the organizations building was
improved and remodeled at heavy expense,
It's value has become greater than ever.
Now it is conducting the annual campaign
IN which the goal has been set at two hum
bred additional members. Reasonably, there
should be no thought of failure. On the con-
trary, the increase in membership ought to
be signed up practically overnight. The small
cost to the individual Is amply offset by the
advantages offered.
II any men doubt this they would do well
TO visit the YM..A., inspect its facilities
and learn its varied and important program.
It's ten TO one they'll sign on the dotted
line before they leave the building.
n physical training, spiritual guidance, re-
Taxation is sought, the Y.M.C.A. provides it.
ANY men who fail to accept the invitation
10 Join will be the losers.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-04-12
The Mine Seizure

Regrettable as the step is, the national
government had no alternative to taking over
soft coal mines where strikes interrupted pro.
duction. The war is in too critical a stage
and coal too essential to the manufacture of
STEEL 80 necessary in waging successful COM
bat, TO permit the continuation of strikes in
the ptee. Coal must be forthcoming at ca
pacity output if victory is to be speeded
Only by government control, with the Stars
and Stripes flying at the pit mouths, can
this be achieved
Whether he admits it or not John L. Lewis,
president Of the mine union is responsible
for the strikes. He claims they were unau-
thorized, but 1t cannot be doubted that with
his tremendous influence he could have pre-
vented them Apparently he did not raise
his hand to stop them, once they were started.
For the fourth time since the war sucked
the United States in, soft coal mining be-
comes a federal enterprise with consequent
reeirnentation. It does not solve the problem
IT production satisfactorily to either labor or
mana cement But it cannot be avoided in the
.-nersency. The only hope is that with most
miners ut work, for only small percentage
n the total mines are struck, the period OF
SHdeesl eost1pl will be short.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-04-12
Japan's Lifeline Cut

With the invasion Of Jolo island, which lies
east of the northern coast Of Borneo, General
Macarthur has struck another vital blow at
Japans lie line to its southern sources Of
supply 1t has been from the Sulu archipelago
and conquered areas to the south that Tokyo
got it's oil and copra and rubber for war.
Now these sources are either completely cut
off or dominated by Allied forces.
The Japanese lifeline, starting at Nagasaki
extended southwark. inside the Ryukyus and
Formosa, through the South China sea around
Borneo. with an alternate route swinging to
the east below Formosa, outside the Philip
pines and down to the Dutch East Indies
through the Celebes sea. Until Macarthur
retook the Philippines all these routes were
open.
Now the alternate route east of the Philip
pines is closed save for the japanese base
on Ambonia in the Celebes sea, the middle
route is closing with the invasion OF Jolo, the
great oil fields Of Samarinda and Balikpapano
on the Macassar strait shore of Borneo iso-
lated. and the assault on the Ryukyus has cut
the upper lifeline's stretch between Formosa
and Nagasaki.
The advantages gained by the Allied forces
by these operations in the far Pacific cannot
be overestimated. Japan is eff t practically
without the war essentials this rich region has
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-04-12
Copyright 1945 by United
Feature Syndicate, Incl
BY w. G. ROGERS
''The Cradle Will FALL" by
Stephen Seley (Harcourt, Brace

N~-s~~
$2).
A boy almost II years old is the
subject OF this first novel. Junior.
as he's called, won't mind, runs
away, has begun to discover that
boys ana girls are different.
He is 'incorrigible,' his mother
declares. She warns him he'll be
the death of her. Yet though at
times he acts as if he'd be the
death of everyone, he loves his
mother dearly. He wants to tell
her so, but can't. Once he comes
raging to har defense at Thanks
giving dinner, but even then it S
hard to give him the credit he de-
serves. Loyalty and devotion are
admirable traits, but when a boy
shrieks them out at the top of his
lungs, he's interfering with his ell
ders, and being heard when he
should Only be seen.
Then che Dough breaks" After
the sickness, the hospital and h e
funeral, his father, over-wrought,
trembling, accuses him: ''You. :.
You killed your mother!"9
Seley taxes us where it's usually
impossible to go: inside a boy S
mind and heart. It's a very NOV
ing, tragic story
"The Wide House." by Tay-
Tor Caldwell (Scribner's; S3).
This author paints in the pri-
mary eolors, the most garish ones,
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-04-12
Interpreting
The War
BY KIRKE L. SIMPSON
Associated Press War Anal,.s.

WV
Hard charging American Mini,
Army tanks are on the Elbe rjv.
err, last water barrier on the rosd
to Berlin scant 81 miles avav
At Madgeburg, Elbe metroncI
General Simpsons leading es.
ments also are within 80 miles .,
less of the nearest Russian armie.
poised in mighty strength on III.
Oder-Neisse line. The moment far
combined Allied-Russian action -
split Germany apart appears At
hand.
That impending United Nationc'
junction of forces in the heart a,
Nazi Germany is the beginning n,
the end. Coupled with the British
drive in the northwest ALREADY
knocking at the gates of Bremen
and Hamburg, it will turn all nortb
central Germany into an heroi.
scale repetition of the Ruhr tran
and shatter last Nazi hopes of any
orderly retreat into the preparod
Alpine last stand redoubt in IN.
south. And it well may be III.
signal for three power proclama,
on outlaWing continued resistance
Germany.
Yet American arrival on The
Elbe is only part of the fast de.
veloping pattern of an Allied as.
sault that is slashing inner Ger.
many into mopping-up areas. That
Oder-Neisse Russian front east Of
Berlin is the only inactive sector
Of the whole vast front encircling
the dying Nazi Reich Even in
Italy, the long forgotten front has
famed to life at both ends. There
is small chance that any of the
score or more German divisions IN
Italy can escape except in frae.
ments to Alpine passes or through
them.
Exact forward positions of Tie
American First Army south of the
Ninth in the wide central corridor
between the Herr mountains and
the Thuringer Valid that leads di.
rect to Leipzig were not clear as
this was written. 1t was plain,
however, that tank columns on
that best maneuver ground for ov-
errunning swiftly all the main cen.
trail plain of Germany were virtu-
ally abreast of Ninth Army advance
echelons to the north and meet.
ing no more substantial resistance,
There is some indication that
the Russians on the Oder-Neisse
line have been withholding their
final effort to reach Berlin or out.
flank it to north and south either
until spring thaws diminish or I'm.
til Allied forces reach soma pre-.
determined position to the west
where close tactical as we'll as
strategic indignation Of operations
would be possible.
The Elbe in the Madgeburg
area would seem to fill that geo.
graphical requirement and if that
is true it will be only hours until
the we'll rested and powerful Rus.
sian armies strike out to effect a
junction.
Front line advisers report Amer.
lean engineers with river bridging
equipment moving up already on
the heels of tank spearheads.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-04-12
The Literary Guidepost

without tinting or shading. Stua"
Coleman is the diamond IN me
rough. Civil War era, His afcn
foe is OLD Joshua Allstairs' h0'
merely a fiend but foul fleno
who has tainted money but an UT
tainted daughter, dumb but 0eauS
full. Here's how beautiful:
Her shoulders are 'ivory' hs
arms have the luminous qua o.
ivory; ner breast is Of 'Fo*
sweetness: her flesh is like e.
quisite pearls; her mouth.
dark sweet plum; her eyes IlA.
golden fire; her regard ~
electric fire.; when attacked ~,
cries out like kitten n,
rises from a chair as "gracel..t-.,
as a dove. quite a stunt if you
compounded of pearl, ivory so'1'
electricity, plum and kitten l..
Everybody, hates everybody CIV
with furious, raging, frantic p@
sionate and denoniac hatred o.-
arts father hates JAMES 1a'he
Robin hates his wife jamie. Siua'
hates jamie. Allstairs, Mrs. scaiA,
eel, Angus. Laurie hates MAJ!
Rose, jamie hates Mrs. Cumn'iH.s.a'
Sam, Stuart, Marvina, Laurie n.
gus; and Know-Nothings hate Js"
and Catholics. II
1t is 533 pages long, Il j ~,
completely incredible. AppsF,p,gI
it was written with csle eye o'
movies. Movies, take 1t away
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-04-12
WASHINGTON CALLING
by.
MARQUIS CHILDS

with as they take over the task
of restoring some sort of order
in shattered Germany. They are
already encountering a breakdown
of morals that will complicate
their job. Reports out of Germany
indicate that Germans will go to
almost any length of deception or
even crime in order to obtain al
cohol or tobacco.
I heard the other day of a letter
sent by German wife to her
prisoner-of-war husband in Cana.
da. In her letter she reminded
him that it was important for the
greater Reich to have babies.
Since he had been away for two
years, she had been wondering
what she could do.
Her decision was to ''rent' the
husband of the woman next door
when he came home on leave. As
she related the story, a certain
amount of bargaining went on be-
tween the two women. The price
agreed to, finally, was a pound
of butter.
That is sample of German
morality today The complete cor
ruption Of the Nazi regime, with
most Germans knowing about
Goering's theft of art treasures
and Goebbels' immoralities, has
had disastrous effect. This has
documented the direct ganda
attack by the Nazis on Christiani-
ty. The German people have a
long road ahead in re-education
and rehabilitation.
Copyright 1945 by United
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-04-12

WASHlNGION-lt is rare that
any huror creeps into the grim
accounts of this war that has laid
Europe waste, but there was a
little scens Of pure comedy in the
news ous of Germany the other
day.
The setting was one of those
great German castles in Westpha-
liza, and the principal actress was
Princess Valerie Maria Arenberg,
daughter of the Duke and Duchess
of Schleswig- Holstein and great
granddaughter of Queen Victoria.
The Princess had been told to
leave her castle and its 300 rooms
to live in a 14-room annex, and
she was in pet.
! 1t was an American officer who
had told her to leave. A mere
ieutenantc COLONEL You can see
the lady in her indignant majes-
|ty, outraged by this affront.
On the lawn outside were starv-
ing Polish, French and Russian
refugees, part Of the tragic horde
of slave laborers who must some
how be restored to something like
decent life. So far as the Prin-
cess was concerned, they might
not have existed or, rather, they
might have been creatures from
another planet. The august lady
was wrapped in her own woe over
having the rude, wicked war
break into her splendid isolation
"You Americans have bombed
Germany so that 1 have been COM
PEELED to live in a cellar" the
Princess told the A m C n
colonel, according to a news dis
patch. "And now, this!" the great
lady dissolved from anger to tears
of self-7lty.
While she represents an extreme
case, I have feeling that Prin-
cess Valerie Malla Arenberg is
fairly typical of mentality wide
spread in Germany today. What
We who have lived in the outside
world find hard to comprehend is
the degree to which the Germans
have beer cut off from everything
that has happened for the past Il
years behind the wall of Nazi GEN.
sorship and propaganda.
They have only begun to get
dim idea of the cruelties and bar
barisms practiced Systematically
by the German invaders through
out Europe. They can have no
idea how bitterly they are hated
everywhere.
The story Of Princess Valerie
makes me think of an incident
witnessed in Cologne. A respect
ably dressed German hausfrau
came to military government
headquarters to ask if It would
not be possible to get the use OF
a jeep and driver for a little while
so that she could 60 out to see
one Of her friends who lived on
the edge of the city.
An 81 o $ h e d interrogation
asked her why she thought the
Americans would provide her with
a jesp. The German military
wouldn't have done it. would they?
Well, no, she admitted, but she
had heard the Americans were 20
kind o
These are the attitudes our mil
itaYy government stats must cope
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-04-12
Daily Prayer
FOR DILIGENCE

Thy providence. o Father in
Heaven, calls us in these critical
days, to bear full share in meet
ing the Nation S needs. Yet we
confess to slothfulness, and 10 self
ease, ana to idle pleasure seek
ing. We are not living as those
engaged in a life and death strug-
gle with enemies of our life, and
of our very souls. Forgive US tina
we thus ignore the hour Of oG
visitation. May something Of the
spirital Intensity of Jesus fill Cur
spirits. Let every thought be
tinged with a sense OF our ms
sion. Teach us to pray Wlthou.
ceasing for our service men ana
for our allies and for our eneml2''
Fill our hands with helptulnesS
and our hearts with love. Grant
that no day of our lives may pass
without some service to our Coun-
try and to our Cause. Thus "oIIG
we link ourselves to Thy revealed
purposes for a world like la1o t9e
Kingdom Of Heaven, which Jesus
died to establish. Amen.-Wlb.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-04-12
Your War; With Ernie Pyle

had a small dirty sack with some
money in it. When the marines
found her she cried and tried to
give them the money-hoping l
suppose that she could buy her
self off from being executed.
After all the propaganda they've
been fed about our tortures, it's
going to DE a befuddled bunch of
Okinawans when they discover we
brought right along with us, as
part of the intricate invasion plan,
enough SUPPLIES to feed them. tool
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-04-12

provided since the initial conquests OF Japan
at the outbreak of the Pacific war. They are
the equivalent of what Hitler tried to do when
his effort was directed to breaking 5rltaln's
lifeline through the Mediterranean Japan must
fiaht henceforth without the tremendous output
OF war material it had enjoyed so long.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-04-12

of what it was all about. AS one
marine officer said, THE poor
devils. I'll bet they think this is the
end of the world
They were obviously scared to
death. On Love-Day the marines
found many of them hiding from us
in caves. They found two old Wo-.
men, rs or more, in cave, caring
for a paralyzed girl. She wasn't
wounded, just paralyzed from nat
ural causes. One of the old ladies
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-04-12
so THEY SAY

The United States Navy today can go any
where in the world and take its supply base
right along The striking power is unlimited
The necessary fuel supply and repair facil-
ties constantly will be within ready range
Commodore Worran R. Carter of Norfolk
Va. Service Squadron 10 commander
What we have done to Germany we are 60
ing to do to Japan. The payoff will be the
same. We are going to use the same over
whelming air power.-AAF Gen. Henry H. Ar
mold.
Mos. of the books of Importance in the last
20 years have been written in Italy by Italian
and Spanish writer's There have only been
few of them, but nothing of like QUARRY has
been produced In France or Germany or even
in England - Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler,
president Columbia U.
II is matter of short time before the
rise or fall of our nation will be decided.-Tok-
70 BROADCAST.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-04-12
THOUGHT FOR TODAY

"A Jewish soldier had been attending SER
vice where he heard much of the character
and teaching of the Lord Jesus Christ. He
went to his Rabbi and said, "Rabbi, the
Christians say that the Christ has already
come, while we claim he is yet to come"
eyes," assented the Rabbi "Well," asked
the young soldier, When our Christ comes,
what will he have on Jesus Christi"
SELECTED.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-04-12

In less than 20 years from blfth
air transportation in the Unllea
States and by United States COM
panies in foreign fields, attalne3
a stature dwarfing the comomea
commercial air transport activities
of the rest of the world.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-22
BOND AVERAGES
Compiled by The Associated Press
CHICAGO LIVESTOCK

CHICAGO, Dec. q. -(P)-Cattle
prices held steady today and a
broad clearance was reported for
all fresh arrivals. The general price
level stood fully so cents lower for
the week on steers and as muchtas
Is cents to $1.25 below last weeks
high time.
Two loads Of strictly choice steers
scaling 1850 pounds brought the $18
a hundredweight OPA ceiling with
the bulk selling from $14 to $16.25.
Only highly finished grades passed
SIT. Choice heifers were absent and
most kinds brought $13 to $14.50.
Vealers were active at $3.50 down.
Hog prices remained at ceiling
levels as supply failed to meet de-
mand. Almost all grades of the
$500 hogs brought the SLABS cell
ing and most sows sold for the
S14.10 limit. Packers bought $500
by direct shipment.
The sheep market was active and
fully steady with slaughter ewes
up a quarter. Good and choice ma
tives and fed wooded western lambs
brought $14.6O to SLABS with most
well-finished grades at the $14.85
top. The bulk of common to choice
slaughter ewes sold for S. to $7.25,
topping at $3.50.
Salable receipts included 1900
cattle, $500 sheep.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-22
FOREIGN EXCHANGE

NEW YORK, Dec. 21.-P)-Clos-
ing Foreign exchange rate follow
Great Britain in dollars, others in
cents:
Canadian dollar in New York
open market 9 sis percent discount
or 9O.68s4 u. S. cents, down .06 is
of a cent
Europe: Great Britain $4.03h;
unchanged.
Latin America: Argentina Free
24.71, unchanged; Brazil Free 5:25;
Mexico 20.65.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-22
Selected Rails, Utilities
Back On Recovery Side
877 issues registering, 1884 were
down, 316 up and 1T all even.

QOWIl, C1O up dIlO ~ oil CNCA'
American Water Works enjoyed
last-minute bulge and finished
up / 3-8 at "a IA, a peak for the
move. Highs also were posted for
Cerro De Pasco. Shamrock Oil and
Panhandle Producing. Ahead were
U. S. Steel, Chrysler. Autocar, Boe-
ing, Electric Power & Light, West
ern Union CAP, N. Y. Central,
Great Northern, Northern Pacific,
Sunshine Mining, Silver King, Du
Pont and Roam Antelope
Los ers included Bethlehem,
Youngstown Sheet, General Motors,
U. S. Rubber, American Telephone,
Anaconda, Woolworth, Internation-
al Harvester, Santa Fe,. Southern
Pacific. Eastman Kodak, Johns
Manville, Deere, Standard Oil On.
j., Goodyear and Phelps Dodge.
"Thinness" of the market was
shown by 10-share sale of Joliet
& Chicago railroad, up 80 points at
40, on the first transaction since
April.
Bonds were mixed. At Chics 60
wheat was unchanged to up IL
cent a bushel, oats up 7-8 to l SO
and rye ga to the days limit Of 5
cents. Cotton was unchanged to
Is cents bale higher. Among curb
stumblers were Aluminium Ltd,
Bell Telephone of Canada, Cities
Service and Singer Mfg. Turnover
here was AGO. shares, the same
as yesterday.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-22
NEW YORK COTTON

NEW YORK, Dec. 21.-(P)-Cot.
ton future moved through a routine
session today rejecting pre-holiday
influence and cloed unchanged to rs
cent bale higher. Value declined
as much as 40 cents a bale in early
dealings on scattered hedge selling
and liquidation. Toward the close
mill buying increased and the mar
ket turned upward. New Orleans
was fair buyer of the later posi-
tons. There was considerable
switching by trade interests of a
year-end character. Spot markets
were firm.
France was reported still in the
market to complete its recent in
quiry for 100000 bales of cotton.
Some quarters estimated the
French purchases to date at 1OO,-
1000 bales or better.
Futures closed unchanged to Is
centc halo hi o]or
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-22
RICHMOND LIVESTOCK

RICHMOND, Va, Dec. 21-tR-
USDA)-Hogs-23. Market at cell
ing 1870 (flat) on good and choice
barrows and gifts 120-33O lbs. up;
100-120 lbs, 1910; good sows under
$50 lbs, 1855; 35O-5OO lbs, 13.40;
weights over 500 lbs, 1890. Good
stays, 1910.
Cattle-Choice steers 16.00-16.25;
good 15.50-l6.00; medium HOO
1880; common 8.00-1O.0 90. Good beef
type cows 100000; good dairy
type 8.00-S.50; medium 7.0O-7.5O;
common 100000; shelly kinds
lower; good beef type heifers 1900
1880; medium S00-9.5O; light com
mon grades 6.50-750. Choice calves
1900; 9 good 14.OO-14.5O; medium
11.O0-12.00; common 800 1000.
Good to choice lambs 14.O0-14.5O
Good sheep 5.0G-7.OO.
(There will be no Ric-ond
market report Dec. "a & 25.)