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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-03-27
Daily Prayer
FOR LONELY HEARTS
AT HOME

Daily we fervently pray to Thee
our Father in Heaven, for our sons
and brothers and husbands and
kindred and sweethearts and
friends who wear our country's
uniform. May their bodies and
souls be precious in Thy sight.
We pray also for those who wait
in loneliness and in yearning for
the return of these dear ones, after
victory. Give them great faith and
courage. Out of Thy Father heart,
pour comfort into their souls. Thou
hadst Son whom thou gavest to
the service Of mankind: Thou I'M
derstandest the yearning and love
of all these lonely hearts. May hteir
separation and sacrifice purify and
exalt their own lives, making them
wholly worthy OF the beloved ones
whom they have given to their
Country's Cause. Suffer no cloud
of misunderstanding or dimness Of
love to arise between them. And
speed the day, o Infinite Ruler of
thei Universe, when wars hottest
detectives may be achieved, and
peace returns to better world
than we have ever heretofore
known. This we pray in the Name
Of Jesus. Amen.-W.T.E.
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interpreting
The War
BY KIRKE l., srNpso,.
Associated Press W. sun

War Anal.
More significant than thu na. ss.',
10 which Allied armies have I N,pa
ed beyond the Rhine are r,sV -. lung
ports drifting back from III J,e re-
TO SOL OF confusion and uncertaj Sss.
They do not yet apnro.o,
point of morale disintegrstfinln me ;e
German armies although tSat IN IN
broadly limited at in sons no. 49,, IS
line accounts. There is no ev;d L,ollE
up to now, however, that tho e. ~.
has any concerted plan coveri Eoe
the whole Western Front or =.
lected and prepared defense T ,
east of the river into which ~
Withdraw. He seems utterly ~
balance everywhere although tha NJ.
real test of that is still to come
ominous for the Germans as !.
the rapid encirclement Of ths
Ruhr developing from British
Canadian and American break'
throughs, it is southwark on I'll.
front of the unstoppable American
Third Army that the most criticai
situation is taking shape. patton's
tanks by conservative estimate
are nearly so miles east of tho
Rhine. With the Aschaftenburs
bridge over the main river South.
east of by-passed Frankfurt seized
intact, there seems little chance
that Patton can be barred out q,
the western edge of the great cen.
trail plain of Germany itself ex.
cept by a sweeping re-deployment
that would amount to general
German retreat in the north all
the way from the main to the
North Sea coast.
The enemy's chance to contain
and smother the multiple and fast
expanding Allied bridgeheads east
Of the Rhine is already lost. That
calling Third Army prong is on
the verge of breakout into ideal
tank warfare terrain that leads
directly to Nurnberg, Regensberg
and even Munchen Munich,
While the width Of the Third
Army breakthrough is not entirely
clear, there are Berlin intimations
that the American Seventh Army
on its south flank already is NOV.
ing across the Rhine in the Karls.
ruhe area while to the north
Third Army junction with the
First Army's explosive Remagen
bridgehead is close if not already
effected.
That means that the whole cen.
ter sector of the Germany west.
ern defensive front from Hanau
on the Main east of Frankfurt
to the Enz valley east Of Karls,
ruhe is exposed to attack and
maneuver warfare. With the Main
crossed, there is no north-south
stream of consequence behind
which the enemy can rally for
many miles. Only by throwing
in troops and armor in masses
could he hope to halt an imned-
late march on Nurnberg and Nun.
| chen,
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-03-27
The Breton Woods
Agreement

| The Southern Council on international he
lations asks support of bills now before Con-
gress to implement the Breton Woods Agree
nent for an international Monetary Fund ana
Bank of Reconstruction and Development
bulletin, from Eugene E. Pfaff, director Of
the Council at Chapel Hill, declares the pur-
poses to be served are fundamental IN tne
promotion of orderly international financial
arrangements for the postwar period, and
serve a greater volume of international traoe
I. and contribute to the amelioratlon OF
potential conflicts"
In brief Mr. Pfaff adds the international
Monetary Fund provides for pool OF short
term international credits to which each mem
Der nation contributes and from which it can
obtain funds in proportion and with due re-
gard to its contribution Its managemnt
be a very useful agency in the promotion OF
mutual accord among member nations .
Specifically, it is designed to eliminate arbi-
trary changes in exchange rates which in
the past have been a frequent source of in
ternational irritation. -
The Bank of Reconstruction and Develop
ment, he adds, lis a complementary institu-
ton designed to meet the worlds need for
long term capital. Like the fund.- it provides a
! ,ol of long term funds which can be used
to finance the rehabilitation OF devastated
countries and the development Of other areas
which have the natural and human resources
for a higher standard of production and liv-
ing
That the South would benefit from the pro-
per administration of both these projects is
not to be doubted. In fact, Mr.. Pfaff notes
that cotton and tobacco exports have both
been large, and many other products Of the
South find their outlets in foreign markets"
Naturally a prosperous South in the postwar
era must depend to some extent upon the vol
ume of its exports. There is no sound rea-
son, then, on which the people Of Dixie can
base a complaint of the Breton Woods bills.
They may represent an adventure in ideaism
nevr before undertaken. There will be blum
dering for a time in the administration, if the
two projects are set up. This is inevitable
with all new enterprises. But the world, hav-
ing failed in the past to reach accord on
matters, is due to make an ex-
pertinent in new methods of international fl
nance, and it is also reasonable that any
for change should be an admixture
Of idealism and stern realism. II this COM
bination can be achieved under the Breton
Woods Agreement, it should have the support
Of Congress
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BY w. G.. ROGERS
THE Argentine Republic" by
ISABEL F. Rennie Mac


Argentina, problem child of the
western hemisphere, is taken apart
to find GU: what makes it tick IN
this very welcome history. North
American mistrust of the ''repub-
lie" has been matched only by
North American ignorance. Mrs.
Rennie sets out to end the ignor-
ance.
In the last century the most i'm
portant single events in Argen-
tina were the introduction of
blooded cattle and sheep, meat re-
frigeration, wire fences, railroads
and British capital.
At the start of the Goth century.
the various forces which have
PERSISTED to today were appear
ing. They formed groups for apart
from LETT to right, politically, and
from nearly lirnitless wealth to
nearly intolerable poverty, eco
nomically. They were influenced,
also, by the conflict between
Buenos Aires and the provinces,
and by two world wars.
The democratic groups, work.
ing under odds at home, were
handicapped still more, Mrs. Rem
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The Literary Guidepost

ME says, by their experience w." Wv
foreign democracies. Citing ns.
ures. she charges that the lnroau'
of both British and U. S, capl'a-
sometimes greedy and caAoo' =,
acquisitive, prejudiced secuon .son.
these people against United N''40''
leaders.
The present nationalist regime,
only American government ,1 NV
represented at the recent MeAi
can conference, has five oOlea.
tives: First, and essential 10 ~.
rest, was to cut the tie with H ~.
land once for all by ending III.
exchange Of Argentine raw plUu,,
ucts for British manufaclules,
take over utilities owned aDro az.
or by Jews; develop mlnerai ~ ~
posts; create industries; diIll'llli h
poverty. An arms industry is 'aA'
ing form; the coverall aim may "
war which Juan D. Peron cans "
inevitable social phenomen0lHs.
1t was about at this point thaI Az A..
U. S. recalled Ambassador ~
mour. ,n,
If in these days we can't lesia
too much about Argentine ~
must now be added that W.
doubtless can't learn it from a .nL
more exciting and pertinent VI"
urne than this.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-03-27
New Battle Forming

On map of moderate size the Ryukyu
islands look like line of stepping stones be-
tween Japan and Formosa. They form the
eastern limits of the East China sea- The
American task force which defeated part
of the japanese Navy in Japan's inland sea,
is reported by japanese sources now to be
active in waters adjacent to the islands, with
particular attention devoted to Okinawa, the
principal island.
1t may be that the fleet is still searching
for other remnants of the Japanese Navy or
that it is preparing the way for an amphib-
Gus landing by American ground forces with
the intent to steal this much nearer to japan
proper and break all communication between
Japan and Formosa. The public has little
knowledge of the extent of japanese defenses
in the Ryukyus but it is not to be supposed
that the enemy has failed to establish bas-
ton on Okinawa, which is the pivotal base
guarding Japan's own southern flank. 1t seems
to be little more than fyspeck in the map
But so did Two lima before the attack
Obviously the chain of islands, with Oki.
wana only 325 miles southwark from Kyuskhu,
in the main Japanese group, and 1856 north.
ward from Formosa, must be taken before
American forces can land in central eastern
China. We may therefore expect to hear Of
new and violent operations in the waters there
abouts and on the islands, or such Of them as
present the greatest barriers to assault or
Japanese forces in China.
Already Admiral Nimitz has reported thu
destruction of an eight-ship convoy off Am
ami lima, in the northern Ryukyus. The mex
information concerning the situation on ant
near the islands probably will come direct from
Admiral Ninitz, not by way of the .Japanes
News Agency Dornei
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-03-27
MdTCI 70, IS4c.
Junior Red Cross Council
Visits Lejeune Hospital

Twenty members Of New Han
over High schools Junior Red
Cross council were conducted
through the 33-million dollar Naval
hospital Camp Lejeune recently.
They also visited the quarters
OF the Marine war dogs, many of
which are returned from the
Pacific, and saw them working un-
der the direction Of their handlers.
As the guests Of Captain White,
medical officer in charge Of the
hospital, the group was accom-
panied through the hospital by
Misses Marshall and Ruark, Red
Cross directors.
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Your War; With Ernie Pyle

And he replied well, think of
me. I've had to watch 1000 OF them.
It'll drive you nuts
The previous skipper of this ship
finally got so he refused to watch
when the planes were coming in.
He just stood on the bridge and
kept looking forward.
And friend of mine in the crew
is almost as bad. He is Chief
Bos'n's Mate George Rowe, from
(33O1 Chenault-st.) Fl. Worth. His
nickname is Catfish"
II was on this ship for year be-
fore l ever saw an entire flight
land," ne said.' Il just couldn't
bear to look at them
But as the trip wore on the boys
improved and my own nerves
hardened, and between us we man.
aged to get all our planes down for
the rest of the trip without single
casualty either to them or to me.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-03-27
LETTER BOX
BEAUTIFUL GREENFIELD
Editor. Star-NeWs:

If one has not visited Greenfield
lake during the past few days, it
would be impossible to have the
right idea OF how beautiful it is.
In the midst of most unusual
settings, azaleas and other flow
ers give display Of bright
colors that is most attractive. This
is particularly the case along the
northeastern section Of the lake
with its islets and shelving shore
lines. AS one passes along the road
there he is tempted to stop and
feast his eyes on the varied points
Of beauty.
In the arrangement of Towering
plants some one has had a delicate
and artistic sense to guide him. l
have an idea that, under the di-
rection of our honored DR.. w.
Houston Moore, to whom we are
greatly indebted, and others, the
effective touches have been given
by Emmett Highsmith, the horti-
culturist whose skillful hands start
the flowers on their way TO love-
Illness. Faithful and modest, he has
done his work well.
We should be grateful for the
persons OF vision who have given
our city such an attractive park,
which, I am sure, is destined to
become not only an OBJECT of local
pride, but also a source of in
terest throughout the state. We
should not also forget j. E. L.
Wade, former Councilman, and 9TH
ers before him Gncluding Carl B.
Render, who seems to have first
advanced the ideal who have had
visions of the lake which have been
fulfilled.
Visit the lake along its varied
areas and see what it really is.
Andrew j. Howell.
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BY ERNIE PYLE

IN THE WESTERN PACIFIC
(delayed)-The first time you see
a plane land on carrier you al
most die. At the end of the first
day my muscles were sore just
from being all tensed up while
watching the planes come in.
It is all SO fast, timing is so
split-second, space is so small
well, somebody said that carrier
pilot were the best in the world,
and they must be or there wouldn't
be any Of them left alive.
Planes don't approach a carrier
as they would on land-from way
back and in a long glide. Instead,
they almost seem to be sneaking
up as if to surprise it. They're in
such an awkward position and fly
ing at such a crazy angle you
don't see how they can ever land
on anything.
But it's been worked out by years
Of experience, and it's the best
way. Everything is Strengthened out
in the last few seconds Of flying.
That is-if it works.
Anything can happen in those
last few seconds. Once in great
while the plane loses its speed and
spins into the water just behind the
ship. And planes have been known
to ram right into the stern Of the
ship.
The air currents are always bad.
The ships island" diStorts the
currents, and makes the air rough.
Even the wake of the ship-tne
waters churned up by the propel-
|lers-have an effect on the air
through which the planes must
pass.
If half a dozen planes come in
successfully without one getting a
wave off, from the signalman,
you're doing pretty we'll For land
ing on the deck of small carrier
in rough sea is just about like
landing on half block of Main
street while a combined hurricane
and earthquake is going on.
You would call 1t a perfect land
ing II q plane came in and hit on
both wheels at the same time, IN
the center of the deck headed
straight forward. and caught about
the third one OF the cables stretch
ed across the deck.
But very few of them are per-
feet. They come In thousand diff
ferent ways. II their approach IS
too bad. the signalman waves them
around again.
They'll sometimes come in too
fast and hit the deck SO hard a
tire blows. They'll come in half
sideways, and the cable will jerk
them around in tire-screeching
circle.
They'll come in too close to the
edge of the deck, and sometimes 90
right over into the catwalk. They'll
come in so high they'll miss all
the arresting gear and slam into
the high cables stretched across
mid-decks, called "the barrier"
Sometimes they do a sommer-
sault over the barrier, and land on
their backs. Sometimes they
bounce all around and hit the is
land" Sometimes they bounce 50
feet in the air and still get down
all right. Sometimes they catch
fire.
During the Tokyo strike, one OF
the big carriers running near US
lost three planes in. 10 minutes. One
was shot up and had to ditch IN
the water alongside the ship.
The next one slammed into the
island" and was so wrecked they
just heaved the wreckage over the
side. The next one to come crashed
the barrier and burned up.
And on the other hand you'll
land planes for weeks without
bad crackup. We wrecked three
planes our first three days out in
crashes-and not a single one after
that.
The first time I watched our
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-03-27
Weak Resistance

One of the most surprising things about
this great push by Allied armies east of the
Rhine is the weakness of German resistance
Save for sevral small pockets where enemy
forces have fought back with logged if in
effectual determination, there has been very
little opposition to the forward surge of the
American and British armies, even though
the war center of the Reich-the Ruhr val
ley with its thousand plants-is a stake in
the battle.
This could mean that the German High Com
mand is outstanding its military might for
a showdown at Berlin, which is scarcely more
than rubble heap, or that the disruption
OF emmy communications has been so com.
plete that the High Command cannot shift
it,. strong forces in large numbers to most
exposed points. 1t could also mean that with
some two hundred miles of the Rhine's east
bank in Allied hands, as General Eisenhower
is said to have declared, the enemy is unequal
to combat on so large a battlefield, especially
as the Russians are going all out again on
the east and there are still some vitality need
ed divisions immobilized in Italv
But, most of all, it could mean that the
German military machine, after taking ire
mendous punishment from the day the Rus.
SLAMS started their great counter offensive
which has brought them within thirty miles
OF Berlin, and in the retreat through France
before Eisenhower's forces, is much weaker
than generally believed, and may be on the
point Of actual dissolution Certainly it has
shown nothing since the Rhine barrier was
crossed in these recent days of Allied
advance, to indicate it has even remnant
OF its old power
When Hitler sent his soldiers into the Rhine
land some years ago he made much of the
fact that no nation came up with protest.
If he is still alive, he may well be wishing
they had-then, instead of now
-V-
| If the conflict is prolonged and all Ger.
manys resources are destroyed it will be OF
no avail for the German people to say that
because we have conquered them it is our
| responsibility to feed them.-Rev Albert
Gore Cd of Tennessee
How people protested when we were about
to enter their cellars where they had stored
all their property and food We were looked
upon as thieves and plunderers and unfor
tunately they were not wrong.-Unmailed let
ter on German captured on Western Front
| There's a fundamental difference between
the apparently psychology of our men and the
Nazis The Germans clearly have sadistie
streak in their national character. Theil
cruelty s deliberate, and it continues, ever
increases after the end of battle.-A Rec
Army officer.
Ii there ever was a group deserving a ser
vicebans sympathy it's these poor suffering
l characters whose lives have been suddenl.
uprooted, who have been forced to make ON
OF the most dramatic readjustrnents Of tn
decade.-Sgt. Charles Avedon, editor Arm.
newspaper Midpacifican, on the edrfew.
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Total U. S. consumption Of cot.
fee during 1914 (including the
armed forces) amounted to 10
pounds per capita.
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THIEF PROMISES REPAYMENT

ST. PAUL, Mimi, March o. o.
U.D-The West Seventh St. ooo
Center involuntarily became
lending agency when night Prov 70 "
Ter entered the place ana rilleu
various money boxes to acquire
total of $3.50. He left note now
ever, to Mrs. Margaret Wood' o. u,
rector, saying: Il am very SoiIs
| did this. There is day coming
when I will pay.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-03-27

In the 18th century The Hague
was merely hunting lodge for
the counts of Holland.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-03-27

Responsibility for al lphase sol
ship protection from tne Iiiie ~
vessel enters an American w.
until i leaves rests with the Coa'
tGuard.
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Wilmington, N. {
Micah 90 fnAE
Detroit evening times., 1945-06-03
Acquitted bya Baboon

A hairy arm shot out and grab
bed the bottle. Before IS keeper
could interfere, the last of the SHIN
ayana gurgled down Bozos throat
Bozo gasped, howled, went into a
series Of spins and collapsed.
"Now you've done it," yelled the
keeper.
Worse embarrassment followed
when the story was told In court.
The magistrate sympathetically con-
ceded that the officer had been the
victim of monkey business. But for
lack of evidence, he added, the pris-
oners would have to go free.
Detroit evening times., 1945-06-03
International J'hV'''-

in a crimson sleeve and glove, turns
out to be the arm that gave the illu-
sion that she was involved with a
dashing and dangerous partner.
The business of dancing with
yourself and seeming TO be couple
of people is not nearly as easy as
Miss Page makes it look. She re-
hearsed for weeks before a mirror
when she was perfecting her Terp-
sichorean tussle with the devil.
Detroit evening times., 1945-06-03

villagers don't know what
they like.
Just now, they want
new rector-and they've
drawn up a list of qualifi-
cations which only a para
gon among pastors might
possess.
The list has set thou
sands of Britishers won
dering w h ere-and if
such a perfect clergyman
can be found. II he meets
the specifications set forth
Detroit evening times., 1945-06-03

An INSPIRATION 10 MS
flock, intelligent. sympa-
thetic, untiring in visiting
the sick-and lust a bit
hick.skinned," the easier
10 meet the less polished
parishioners.
Canon Blakeney, the re-
tiring rector, was some
what dismayed by the for
midable list of require
ments drawn up for his
successor. Obviously, hf
didn't realize his serVicesl
Detroit evening times., 1945-06-03

THE good people of Wombwell, a
mining town in Yorkshire, Eng
land, are a long way from the
theatres, museums and lecture halls
which sharpen the critical judgment
Of John Bulls city dwellers. But
don't think that these quiet-living
Detroit evening times., 1945-06-03

A POLICEMAN in Umzinto,
"A South Africa, had a perfect
case spoiled recently-when
baboon made a monkey out of him.
The South African had arrested
two women for drinking shimayana
in a circus crowd and had seized a
pint Of the liquor as evidence. Shin
ayana is a potent native brew COM
bining the explosive features Of Rus
sian vodka and Mexican tequila.
The policeman was leading his
prisoners away when, unfortunately,
he happened to pass close TO the
Gaze of BoZo a baboon.