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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-06-09
OPA And Black Market

The City Council is attempting to persuade
the Office OF Price Administration to permit
the slaughter of additional cattle ready to
kill in this vicinity.
One wonders why it should be necessary
to obtain the permission of this or any other
federal bureau The cattle is here The need
for beef is here Professors are here. All
sanitary regulations would be observed.
But one man has been told that he must
not slaughter up to thirty or forty head be-
cause his arbitrarily fixed quota has been
exceeded If this is not dictation of the Hit
lcrian type we would like to know what is.
1t is this kind of regulation that has caused
food shortages. The United States has more
cattle on the hoof than ever. There is even
enough hereabouts to meet the local demand
in large measure. Yet butcher shops are
empty, the people are going without meat
because the bureaucrats are incompetent to
understand the situation, to say nothing of
dealing with it logically.
Vicious as the black market is. its exist
ence is easily accounted for The unreason-
able regulations created by the Office of
Price Administration are as incapable of en-
forcement as was prohibition. When you take
away from the people something they want,
or in the case of beef something they need
they will resort to illegal traffic in it, pay
any price for it, and glory in their offense.
Theoretically, the Office of Price Admins
tration regulations are the means of staving
off initiation and of creating air distribution.
Actually they are doing neither. Trade in the
black market, where artificial high prices pre-
vail, prove that initiation exists. Not even the
higher ups in OPA can reasonably claim a
leather medal for their distribution program.
There is a growing school of thought that
holds the OPA directly to blame for the black
market. This view cannot be wholly wrong.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-06-09
Fewer Suicide Hits


Admiral Mitscher, back in Washington from
Okinawa where he commanded Task Force So
and survived two suicide attacks by Japanese
bombers, had something to say at joint
press conference with Secretary of the Navy
James Forrestal that enlisted deep interest
OF naval and Army men in the capital. In
stead of the many successful suicide strikes
the public has believed made at Okinawa, Ad-
miral Mtscher declared that not more than
per cent of the enemy planes launched at
American naval units ever hit the target
Over Okinawa, he revealed, 1000 japanese
suicide planes have been shot down. This form
OF attack, he said, can be eliminated so far
as the Japanese are concerned. There must
be some redesigning of equipment aboard
ships he added, and declared: We're not
particularly concerned aboIt it because daily
it rs being reduced and indications that
it will be further reduced
Because it was believed the Japanese were
making higher percentage of strikes than
the Admiral revealed, his information is heart
fning. He explained the situation this way
/. OF all Of Japanese suicide attacks on Ma
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-06-09
Stains Green Light

The deadlock at the San Francisco confer
ence over the veto issue has ended with the
Russian representative, A n d r ei Gromyko,
calling at the American Secretary of State s
penthouse and giving Mr.. Stettinius the green
light with smile
Presumably the British, French and Chi
nese representatives were also present, but
as it was Harry Hopkins who delivered the
secret message to Premier Stain in Moscow
which turned the trick, the reply from Stain
came to him, as the conference representa-
tive Of the government which engineered the
negotiations.
RCssias approval thus given to the propo-
sition that any of the Big Five powers may
SION before the league to be commissioned
to maintain world peace appears to clear the
way for a satisfactory and harmonious con-
eAusion of the San Francisco conference, the
delegates being in approximate accord on all
other issues thus far raised at San Fran.
cisco.
To be sure, the smaller nations have still
- accept the veto solution but there is no
season to doubt they will.
The happy thought is that an end for the
confusion and cross-our-noses that have char
acterized the security conference on the West
Coast from the day the delegates assembled
y in sight And that alone is considerable
achievement.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-06-09
Truman's Wiser Course

President Truman has chosen the wiser
course by rejecting Frances proposal for a
Ave-power session on the Near East crisis.
The Big Three is to meet shortly, the Presi-
dent says within forty days, Gt may be sooner
and is quite capable of dealing with that STU
alton.
Furthermore, he adds, he would not con.
sent to any discussion Of Levant affairs from
which Syria and Lebanon were excluded
That rings the bell.
In all arguments advanced by the Paris
government no mention has been made of
these Near East countries, where France
insists concessions she claims should wait
the return Of peace to enforce, are by rights
hers at present.
Obviously France wants one-sided discus
SION q the whole situation with deGaulle or
his scent, alone doing the arguing. Syria and
Isba!son would have no voice. II the Paris pro.
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BY w. G. ROGERS
The Brick FOxhOle," by
Richard Brooks (Harper: ~. 80

If you can get over one hurdle,
you'll find this an unusually good
novel, grim, realistic, exciting.
written in clipped, staccato
style. &
The hurdle comes in the first
few pages, when jeff Mitchell,
stuck in an Army camp at home,
lets himself believe an utterly un-
believable rumor that his young
wife Mary has been unfaithful
Clear that high one, and it's swift
sailing to the climax Jeff sets out
on leave for Washington to even
things up, and girl named Ginny
gives him all the help he needs.
Then a man has his head Dashed
there's police and M. P. hunt.
tere's police and M. P. hunt.
and scene in movie, and an
other in a museum. 1t gets YOU
to tingling all over, for one reason
or another, and you Jingle 10 page
238, where it ends.
But this is more than thriller
Who killed Cock Robin is cart of
1t, but after you've finished. tn G
question is less who, rather why.
Brooks has something to say, as
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-06-09
Biggest Plane

Howard Hughes is building at his Culver
City, California, airplane plane an atwood
seaplane which will carry $50 soldiers and
feet long Its eight ,000-horsepower motors,
in addition to passengers and freight, will sup
port forty tons of gasoline-14, 900 gallons. The
hull is 22C feet in length.
The plane is designed for intercontinental
freight 1t is worth bordering that if such a
their equipment It's wings are more than 300
suit of international trade, it certainly could
be duplicated for war purposes. 1t is even
conceivable that in addition to using steel
instead of wood other improvements could
be made and overall dimensions increased,
and the nation employing it in battle could
the great B-29's would appear insignificant.
This, in combination with rocket-propelled
planes and buzzbombs, for which science in
evitably would discover reliable steering de-
ices clearly indicate that the slaughter and
demolition of this war would compare with
another world conflict as, say, Spanish-Amer-
With such examples before them, world
leaders in all nations ought to devote time
and planning to setting up machinery effec-
lively to outlaw war, and not waste much
of either on German occupation zones,
tional trade advantages and what have you
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-06-09
BY Lee G. Miller

WITH THE 25th DIVISION AT
BALETE PASS, Luzon-(by wire
less)-I chinned while longer
with some of the men of Company
u, 35th Infantry, and then decided
I'd better take a look at the crest
of Balete Pass, which was just
around a bend in the highway.
There wasn't much there. One
very dead Jap in the road. A ruined
resthouse on the left Clouds obs
cured the view, but on a clear
day you could look northward and
downward toward the Villa Verde
Trail and Santa Fe. From here on
it would be doWnhill for these tired
troops, who hoped there was truth
in the rumor that they would be
relieved when Santa Fee was taken.
Jim Hutchinson came along and
we returned TO our jeep, which
wasn't quite where we had left it.
One of those Jap mortar shells had
struck hillside just above, shower
ing dirt and rocks on it, and our
driver explained that I took off. y
As we left they were bringing
two bodies down the hillside on
litters- soldiers killed the day be-
fore
On the way home we noticed a
medical installation and stopped
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The Literary Guidepost

well as story to tell. It's a grand
treat to find worthwhile thinking
fixed securely as the basis for a
tale so tense and gripping.
"Short Stories," by James
Street dial; $3.50.
These IA stories are each accom-.
panied by a foreword telling how
1t happened to be written. This
idea seems to be coming more and
more into fashion, and confess
l lind it an added reason for want
ing to go on and read now it all
turned out. Most Of these stories.
which have a sentimental popular
appeal, have appeared the Sat-
urday Evening Post or Golfers
an some have been made into ra-
dio scripts or movies.
"Half-a-hundred. Tales by
Great American Writer'S"
edited, with introduction, nv
Charles Grayson (B,akiston; So
lhls is an anthology that makes
more sense than most: tits COM
posed OF stories not included in
most other anthologies. The selec-
tons are good. Among the authors
are Bromfield, Faulkner. Hammest
dergesheimer, McFee, Tully. Wild
er, Richard Wright.
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panel which could be adjusted
to tilt the head and shoulders.
The major invited us to mess.
So we dined with him and his
staff-Captains Sam Munger, ot
Greenwood, Miss, and Bill Robins,
of Houston, Tex. surgeons and
Capt. Lester M. Sandman, OF, Kings.
ton, Pa, anesthetist.
They told us about one case
where it took so men eight hours
to bring in a wounded man from
ledge.
Pfc. Hershell A. Smethwick, Of
Flint, Mich, one of the 80 enlisted
men in the unit, told about bridge
named after his son.
1t seems Smethwick was the frs,
man to drive over a bridge just
finished south of Puncan. A captain
and lieutenant of the Engineers
at the bridge stopped him and ask.
ed for a drink of water. He pro-
duced two canteens. The water
must have tasted fine, for they
agreed to name it Dale Bridge,
after young Glenn Dale Smethwick.
And Corp. Avis T. Leminds, II
Kennett, Mo-. who had driven in
with the patient mentioned above,
told of having just seen three Jaos
come down a hillside, waving white
flags, up the road a piece, and
surrender.
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Lee Miller Covers Tie Pacific

off. This turned out to be a port
able surgical hospital attached to
the 35th Regiment. The command.
ing officer, Maj. Francis H. Burke,
of Rockville, Conn, showed up
through his neat tent unit, and said
this was about it's fifteenth location
since the Lingayen landing in Jan,.
airy.
Once his unit had handled 2e
major surgical cases between dusk
and 10 the next morning. This was
in a churchyard at Puncan near
here.
Only one patient was there when
I went through, but another was
brought in presently a California
boy from the 9th Regiment. A
machine gun bullet had creas ed
his head and ankle was hurting.
The major shipped off the band
ages, talked to the boy in a friend
ly way, and called for this and
that to be done.
Before this he had showed me a
captured Jap operating table, an
adjustable and collapsible job OF
stainless steel which he priced
highly Before getting that, all they
had for a table was litter sup
ported by two wooden horses. When
it was necessary to elevate pa'i-
ent's head they had to do it with
piled blankets. The Jap table had
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WITH THE AEF:
Nv KENNETH L. DIXON

IN OCCUPlED GEhMAN 1-lH)-
This is the kind of story that
should be written by a Broadway
columnist who still can shed tear
over dramatic tales behind the old
"show must go on tradition.
For the show finally went on the
other night-the world premiere Of
the 333rd Infantry Regiment S
stage show, "A Private's Lament
CTS who attended weren't bored
nighters' and they thought it was
with seeing too many IF i r
a pretty good production.
The plot was comparatively
cimple but was one they all under
stood. 1t was built around a pri-
Yates thoughts and actions during
his combat service, and generally
it satirized all command posts, a
popular theme with dogfaces who
do their fighting from foxholes.
The show was lightly done and
was topped by such features as
the 'sheik Of Araby," which pre-
scented Pfc. Frank Salanik, East
St. Louis, ILL.,, aided by four dane
ing girls.
The fact that some of the girls
showed distince -four o'clock
shadow was accepted as an in
evitable wartime substitute.
The boys also got big kick out
of Pfc. Melvin Seligson, Pittsburgh
Pa. and Pfc. Daniel L. Harper,
Chicago, ILL.,. who appeared in the
roles of two discharged soldiers in
a skit entitled Back To Civilian
Life
The audience bhssfully was una
ware that this was approximately
the sixth attempt to stage the pro-
duction and that many of is orig
inal cast were casualties long since
The show had had SO many dress
rehearsals that even it's under
studies were practically veterans.
Seligson, in addition to his home
ward bound soldier routine, doubled
ward bound soldier routine. doubl-
ed with some dialect and short
skits to fill in absentee numbers.
bers.
Other outstanding members of
the cast included five first class
privates-Richard S. Lowe, Glen
side, Pa; Charles A. Flint, Mil
maukee. Wis; Lyman P. Davis.
La Grange, Ca; Dermott McNar~
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-06-09
Daily Prayer
FOR OUR ARMED FORCES

Far flung, over many lanoS sQo
seas, our boys have gone to %
battle for righteousness, luS'iVF
freedom and brotherhood. be INV
their Leader and Defender, U L0i.
God of Hosts. The heather nav
risen up against US, detefAlil.'Iri
by mighty forde, to destroy -
those things that make Us
Christian nation. Now the ISSUE -
in Thy hands. Protect ana ma. g. n
full victory to cur forces A~ 4'.,.l
who fight see clearly the spllir r-sy
issues that are at stake. May t ~.
name ever be plain on 'ne No. ~.
ners that fly in their hears Wv W.
spite hardship and pain, may ,, n.r.
carry on as those who upholt p Arl
ciples dearer than life ltsen N bs
for those who fall, may hs ,ioris;
a place. not only in the menu 1sa a
of a grateful Country DuI a nsscs.
the heavenly habitatlons u
Amen.--W. T. E.
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Newsprint Problems =.
Talked At Meeting

MONTREAL, June 8- ,fn.e, 10
port of United States deles3 napet
a two-day conference OF p pspsr
publishers publishers here he will be maze d s
the full committee OF liiT Tivisiot
Publishing and Printing 1 J it
in Washington next Mo tH71oyin:
was announced today IL folV'
wind-up of the dlscuSSlg 9,,-ine III,
Main point taken up uu. td Il
closed meeting was lIHoei ;,yolva
be the technical problems lH rsss
in the production OF 3V'po.. .rt sas
print instead of the prsS'"
dard 32.pound paper
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WITH THE AEF:
Some We're Missing

mara, Scranton, Pa; and James
B. Rives, Santa Monica, Calf.
All of them had been ready for
the opening night again and again.
The original script and idea was
suggested last fall by the men in
the anti-tank company while the
Saith Division, of which the 333rd
is part, was battling near Sug-
gerath.
Regular rehearsals got under
way and the stage was built and
props gathered while the regiment
was in reserve. Then it was or
dered into action and the whole
idea was abandoned.
All through the Ardennes break
through, however, a few incurable
actors hung grimly onto the script
and after the battle of the Bulge
they dragged it out and began re-
i1earsals again.
They almost were ready to post
notices when the division was Or
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Wv targets around Okinawa, only 10 per cent
of the total are getting through the picket
Ines of destroyers and other smaller ships,
which, together with air cover, provide pro-
lection for the carriers, battleships, transports
and other large vessels at considerable dis
lance from the main targets
2 Of this 10 per cent that passes the picket
limos only one-tenth of the suicide attackers
ever hit target Admiral Mitscher said that
by target he included everything, large ships
and small.
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dered to cross the Roer river The
show was shelved aain-until the
regiment reached the Rhine river.
Rehearsals this time found old
timers missing but their under
studies took over and at last 1t
seemed the show would 60 on. Pfc
Glen N. D. Beitel, of Michigan,
stage manager, got his props to-
gether as did Cpl. (First name not
givenD Meyer, of Tucson, Ariz..
sound effects man.
CPL, Joe O'Connor, Philadelphia,
Pa, announced April l would be
the opening night. The cast got
another case of dress rehearsal
filters.
Opening night" found the divi-
sion already across the Rhine and
driving swiftly toward the Elbe.
That is the way things went as
long as the war lasted. Finally We
Day rolled around the the cast
again resumed rehearsals.
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SO TIL Ely S AY

Nations which act as enemies in the market
place cannot long be friends at the council
table.
Assistant Secretary of State William L. Clay
ton.
1 should be very greatly surprised if, before
the San Francisco Conference is called, the war
in Europe will not have been officially de-
clared to have been brought to a victorious
close.
Prime Minister W. L. Mackenzie King OF
Canada.
There is an overwhelming opinion throughout
the world to settle differences by means other
than war. We are going to insist on some form
of organization The exact form is not impor-
tant But we have got to make start.
-Comdr. Harold E. Stassen, United Nations
Conference delegate.
We're on our way. Tax evaders look out!
We're conning-ten thousand strong.-Secre-
tary of the Treasury Morgenthau.
Please God that those who have fallen may
continue to live as spark lives on in the
flame it kindles. May spark OF their pa
triotism kindle our oWn.-Chaplaln Joseph T..
O'Callahan Of the damaged carrier USS Frank
lin.
Depressons, like wars, are not acts OF God.
Man makes them. If we make them, we can
unmake them.-Fred NJ Vinson, Director OF
War Mobilization and Reconversion.
So far as we have influence in all these
Balkan) lands it will be to do all we can to
allow the people of country to choose the
government and administration they want
British Fooreign Secretary Anthony Eden
Our colored troops were among oIr most
assets-Gen. Mark Clark.
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posal for five-power conference were adopt
ed.
Any such arrangement would be contrary
to the principle Of fair trial. Mr.. Truman Is
right to taking his stand.
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Our colored troops were among OR most
,aluable assets-Gen. Mark Clark.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1945-11-24

of the unfortunate economic
social conditions existing bero "Nc
Henderson daily dispatch., 1945-11-24
Christians Working Together

HiGHlIGurs ON HE SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON
Henderson daily dispatch., 1945-11-24

Victory Bonds are your hos,
Henderson daily dispatch., 1945-11-24

MRS. r. +. POWELL.
Evening star., 1945-04-29

commander in the Navy, witnessed
the landings in Normandy and in
Southeastern France and took a
turn in war-wrecked Naples be-
tween. 1t is not a long tour of
duty which he describes, but it con-
tanned the essence of war in our
time. Its special significance lies in
reflections which 1t. Comdr. Miller
makes on wars effects on our own
soldiery.
A million American boys know
today how the world has shrunken,
know what it is to be over Ireland
in the morning and over Africa in
the afternoon. Their traditional awe
for foreign lands has also shrunk
accordingly. They have been in cities
hoary with history-for the sake of
bringing order out of native chaos.
Their reverence at Europes age has
gone. Our youngsters as whole
would much rather visit Hutchin-
son or Mill Valley again than go to
Agadir," 1t. Comdr. Miller says. The
war has disillusioned them with
foreign standards and confirmed
them in respect for their own.
For nearly timeless view of an
anguishedly crucial event, the book
Is recommended.
Evening star., 1945-04-29
The Best From Yonk
Selected by the Editors OF
LnAffn.a. % En

selected by the Ed1tOTS OF
Yank. (Dutton; $780,
With war the biggest trade now
being practiced in the world, it is
fitting that it should have trade
paper. That would appear to be
Yank, the Army weekly. 1t speaks
of itself as "a pioneer in global
publishing" has fifteen editions
printed in IL plants scattered all
over the world, and carries war
news written not by professional
reporters, but by soldiers in the
ranks, enlisted men on active duty
and is edited, moreover, by those
same, for no one on its staff is a
commissioned officer. 1t is trade
sheet all right and the civilian will
even have some difficulty in under
standing its trade terms. But if you
want to hear soldiers talking for
soldiers, look inside its pages.
The present volume is collection
Of stories, cartoons, poetry and let
tiers taken from this unique paper
as representing its best. The car
toons are very good, the poetry runs
the gamut from doggerel to accom-
plished verse and the letters are
pretty much like letters to any edi-
tor, only. of course, on Army subjects
The stories, however, are not like
any other stories which I have ever
seen.
They are accounts of fighting
running to several thousand words
length, detailed and full of techni-
calities. They are obviously intended
to convey the fighting mans sense
of a battle-its objectives and the
technical difficulties encountered
rather than to give the visual or
emotional sensations involved. 1t
is as if the writer's were saying, See,
fellows. this was what we were up
against" So, much of that ingre-
dent which is known as color" and
which is rich in the writing of the
professional reporter, is lacking
from these accounts They are not
dramatic" To read them is to
gauge the great difference between
the military and the civilian mind
any other stories which I have ever
as the two now stand. NC. r.