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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-29
Kennedy Home Fund

The movement for new building for the
Katherine Kennedy Home, launched by the
directors and a group of Wilmington business
men who prefer to remain in the background,
r SO wise we wonder it was not done long ago.
If the total fund of $4,000 is forthcoming,
rs it should be, the new home will have
accommodations for seventy-five, whereas the
present building is housing but thirty, and
nursing waiting list. 1t will be modern in
AN conveniences and fireproof, in contrast with
the antiuuated construction and inflammibility
q the present plant.
The Community War Chest assists the home
with it's maintenance costs, but cannot help
any of it's member institutions as far as capital
investment is concerned. 1t will be necessary,
therefore, to secure the building fund by popu.
lar subscription.
The cause is worthy. The need is great. The
money is here. Wilmingtonians can well afford
10 give the full amount.
Il would be feather in the community car
to have the cash in bank earmarked for the
home by the time the end of the war removes
priorities and materials are available for its
construction.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-29
Contradictory Peace Reports

The official Japanese news agency, Domei,
confirms its earlier declaration that Japan will
not heed the Allied ultimatum. Instead it will
go on fighing
Despite this twice-told tale evidence accum-
ulates that the japanese are preparing to sur
render. ChCngking, for example says a Japa.
nese general had broadcast to his own people
that their troops in China are discussing peace
overtures and that japanese field marshal,
commanding enemy forces in south China has
ntimated the possibility Of Japanese with
drawal from China
More convincing than these reports because
of its origin is the announcement at Manila
by a surrendered Japanese war correspondent
that japan will surrender in few weeks. The
correspondent is Ken Murayama, born in the
United States who was once Domei's chief
Of the English section in Manila He sErr en-
dered recently during the final Luzon battle.
His idea is that high naval officers will
dominate the final answer to the ultimatum
There is no reason to doubt that Japan s
naval officers are well fitted TO Judge the
effect upon the home islands if the answer is
negative The Japanese Navy is all but wiped
out and impotent to resist the Allied attack
Admiral Halsey's Third Fleet, with its carrie,
borne planes, has been to that
Japan's naval officers may be expected te
realize that what has happened to their flee
and Japan's shipping will happen to all Of
Japan. In fact 1t has been happening, in tae
centers.
They know full well what will be the conse
quence Of refusal to lay down japanese arms
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-29
In Cleanup Position

If the prevailing current belief that Japan
is getting ready to quit should prove erl oneous
and it becomes necessary to invade the home
that Lord Louis Mountbatten will be given
the job of cleaning up by-passed japanese
forces in the southwest Pacific so that General
Macarthur may devote his entire time and
attention to organizing the invasion.
There are presumabl30o, 900 to 350, 900 Jap
till HILL HILL shrd tao hr tao shr hrd hrd
anese in Burma French Indo-China, Thialand
Malaga and the Dutch East Indies. These
would become the special wards of Lord Louis
plies, materials and troops in India, has met
with success in his adventures in Burma. He
would probably have sections of the British
Fleet and Air Forces together with additional
troops from the European area. Such an ar
rangement would not change the present set
up materially, as Mountbatten's command has
been restricted to southeast AS from the
time of his arrival in India.
AS he was recently 4 guest of General Mac
Arthur it is reasonable to assume that this
proposal has the approval of the ommander
of all American ground forces in the Pacific
area. They must have discussed the spheres
OF operations each would control in the final
drive to knock Japan out.
Lord Louis is now in London. He will be in
touch with Potsdam, from which the final
word will come. A. the new British Prime
Minister, Clement Attlee, has announced that
the first task of his government will be to
defeat the Japanese, it is right to think that
he will fall in with plans drafted there, and
that MoUntbatten will take his orders from
Potsdam.
If the Washington military observers are
correct and if Japan wants more of the de
struction it has been getting so literally from
New Guinea to Tokyo Louis is destined fol
an important command that promises ne gooe
to the Japanese 50 far from home in the
southwest Pacific.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-29
Sir Stafford Grips

One name in the new British Cabinet will
stand out plainly among American readers.
It is that of Sir Stafford Grips. And the reason
is that he went to India when this old war
was young to look into the troublesome situa
ton there and returned to London with 3
frank declaration that the governments policy
was responsible for much of India's unrest
and there could never be peace until London
corrected its own errors.
He got the cold shoulder at No. 10 Downing
Street, but it appeared to most Americans
that he had come very close to the source Of
disturbance.
Now he enters the Attlee Cabinet as Presi
dent of the Board Of Trade, which is thu
British equivalent Of our Secretary of Com
merce, and it is altogether likely that Indis
will get a fresh deal when the war is ended
OR soon thereafter
Whether the program to be drafted will bring
internal peace in India Is not clear, for the
simple reason that India is divided within it
self 1t will all depend on whether the Hindus
and the Moslems are at last ready to STOP
ouarreling, in which they have INDUCED fol-
centuries
At any rate, it is obvious that Sir Stafford
an ut-and-out leftist will not be idle now that
he has government job which carries con-
siderable authority.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-29
Air Force Anniversary

In combination with all Army air bases over
the country, Bluethenthal will hold open house
on Wednesday afternoon in celebration of the
Nhirty-eighth anniversary of the Army Air
Force The filters will put on an aerial show,
and pilots aground will tell visitors all about
the planes and equipment.
AS this is the first time the base will be
spen to the public since it was completed.
residents of the area may be expected te
flock through the entrance gates and spend q
n1easant and Informative afternoon as guests
of the force.
An even greater incentive for attending is
the fact that Bluethenthal is finishing schoo
Cor fiers. When their training ends here they
are transferred direct to compat zones VII
minetonians will want to bid them God-speed
Tn addition to the program at the airport
Wilmington is to have downtown program
At which a prominent Air Force o1ncer WI
speak
AltoRether Army Air Force day promise
" he one to remember for many mont
of Sundays
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-29
Wise Selection

Although Fort Fisher hospital facilities had
been considered, the State Hospitals Board of
Control appears to have made a good decision
When it leased from the Army the Camp
Sutton hospital for three years as haven
for costodial and mental patients to relieve
the Morganton and Raleigh hospital units.
The Camp Sutton hospital can accommodate
five hundred patients. 1t will be God-send
to the population at the Raleigh and Morgan
ton institutions, and enable the state to provide
more satisfactorily for mental cases than in
past years.
On the other hand Camp Fisher is not well
adapted for this purpose. Since the Army has
closed it out, save for a maintenance staff, it
would seem the proper time for organizations,
such as the Daughters of the Confederacy, to
urge the government to set aside the entire
property as a national park as was done a
Moore's Creek and develop it into shrine for
tourists.
Fort Fisher played too important part in
the closing phases of the War Between the
States to be memorialized by monument
alone and small enclosure. 1t deserves the
best protection and the widest development
that can be secured.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-29
WITH THE AEF
By PRESTON GROVER
Substituting For Kenneth l..
DixOn)

NEW DELHI-lR-Th radio won
the contest with messenger pigeons
in the Assam-Burma jungles, but
the aftermath of the battle still tor
ments the U. S. Army Procurement
Division in Asia. 1t has tons and
tons of pigeon food on its hands
and no pigeons.
The thing began two years or
more ago when Americans began
filtering into North Burma with
radio listening posts and scouting
parties. They intended to keep in
touch with fancy new radio gad-
gets and the Army had rugged up
for just such purposes.
Radio isn't dependable in As
sam," British officers told them.
You must have pigeons. The radio
blacks out. Get pigeons.
"Poo, poo," said the Americans,
and set up their radio system. 1t
worked beautifully for couple of
weeks, then it BACKED out, just as
the British said it would. Franti-
cally the Signal Corps worked On
the radios, and they began to work
again. Then they BACKED out again
In war, you can't take chances
with your communication. So the
humbled Americans went to thhe
British, admitted their defeat, and
sent to America for pigeons. That,
said 1t. Col. G.. w. Power of Chat
tanooga, Tenn, is where he and
the procurement division came in.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-29
BAILEY EXPLAINS
ABSENCE ON VOTE

RALEIGH. July 28.-(P)-Sena-
tor Josiah w. Bailey said here to-
night that he did not return to
Washington for the vote on the
United Nations charter because
there was no question that the vote
in favor would be Overwhelming.
The senator early this month is
sued a statement in which he went
on record as being in full favor
of the charter and ready to work
for it's adoption.
II would have gone back to
Washington if there had been any
possibility of a close VOTE he
said, but decided that since ii
was certain to be so one-sided, I
would go on record in favor of it
and not return
He said he commune ated with
Senators Barley, Hill, Conally and
Hoey asking that he be kept in
touch with developments and as
surfing them that, since he thor
oughly sustained the treaty, he
would be on hand for the vote if
there were any need to do so.
The senior North Carolina sena-
tor is at home here for reunion
with his son, Capt. James H. Pou
Bailey, who returned last week
after year and one-half in the
European theater of operations.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-29
AXIS TOUCH NOTED
IN SOUTH AMERICA

WASHINGTON, July 2S.-'R-
Evidence that Axis influences are
still at work in South America,
particularly Argentina, came today
from the State Department With
public cation of a revised blacklist.
At the same time, department
official directly responsible for the
administration of the government
Argentine policy declared " sus'
tanned effort should be made after
this war to eliminate governments
of the Totalitarian types, expeclal
" the Fascist military dictator
ships"
This assertion appeared in the
official state department bulletin
in an article.
Still third development on this
postwar political front was specu
Iaion here that the Big Three
Meeting at Potsdam may be seek
ING to develop a joint policy with
respect primarily to the govern
ment of Spain under Generahssl
mo Francisco Franco.
The names of 208 concerns were
stricken from the blacklist for Chile
and the names of IS were cut ou'
for Peur. The list names business
concerns or persons accused O.
serving enemy purposes.
The government struck ~
names from the Argentine blacklls
but at the same time it addet
as and officials described all those
eliminated in Argentina as of very
minor commercial Importance
many of them already out OF bust
ness,
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-29
CAROLINA
FROM THE
CAPITAL
Rv DAVID BRINKLEY
Star-News Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON, July 28.-He hasn't decided
definitely vet, but Comptroller General Lind
saw warren is seriously thinking about 1e-
signing three years from now to run for Gov
ernor of his native North Carolina. A War
ren-for- Governor boom has already begun to
make itself felt, and smaller boom is aimed
at Warren-for- Senator, to replace Josiah Bal
ley. A.
Warren, however, feels better about the
race for governor, since by North Carolina
tradition the next governor is to come from
his section of the state (hes a native OF
Washington, N c. and no other outstanding
candidates are in sight as yet.
Warren is well known and liked IN North
Carolina as well as in Washington, where ne
is famous. for his continuing refusal to let
single government agency spend a single
unnecessary dime if he can prevent It, And'
as comptroller general and head of the gen.
eral accounting office, he frequently can pre-
vent it.
He almost resigned earlier this year wher
there was a vacancy on the Federal bench
but the late President Roosevelt persuadec
him to stay on. His 15-year term runs Until
1855 if he wants to stay that long
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-29
WANT NORTH CAROLINA MAN

When President Truman dominates a sue
cessor to Justice Owen j. Roberts, who re-
signed from the Supreme court OF the United
States, Senators Josiah Bailey and Clyde r.
Hoey are planning an active campaign in be-
half of two North Carolina judges
If the President dominates Republican,
as is generally expected here, they will speak
out for John J. Parker, of Charlotte, Hoover
appointed Republican judge of U. S. Circuit
court. If he appoints Democrat. they Will
recommend Walter P. Stacey, chief justice OF
the North Carolina supreme court.
What chance either of the two would nave
is purely matter of speculation, since the
President has said nothing OF his plans Tor
filling the Supreme court vacancy ana IL is
understood he will do nothing until he returns
from the Potsdam conference.
Senate Republicans say they're certain ne
will replace Republican Justice Roberts with
another COP member. And they believe, too'
that Vermont's Senator Warren Austln-a
widely respected legal scholar-now has the
inside track.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-29
1000 laps Killed
On Burma Rail Line

CALCUTTA, July 28.-UH-Tank-
led British infantrymen, clearing
the strategic Rangoon Mandalay
rail line in southern Burma, have
killed more than 1000 japanese and
opened powerful assaults against
scattered groups, a communicate
said today.
An enemy force estimated at S.
900 recently attempted to break
through an Allied trap and flee to-
ward Thailand. The communicate
said more than 1000 dead had been
counted, and 525 prisoners taken.
About $50 Japanese, who crossed
the rail line nine miles south OF
Penwegon, were scattered by ar
tillery fire. They took refuge in
two villages east of the railway
and British troops have opened a
powerful attack, it was reported.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-29
Super Defense Road
Advocated By u. {. 7.

The United Commercial Travel
ers of America went on record II
their regular session last night ir
favor of a super defense highway
sering the entire Atlantic seaboarc
from Maine to the tip of Florida.
The proposed route would give q
high speed connection between
such ports as New York, Philadel
phia, Baltimore, Norfolk, Whining
ton, Charleston, Savannah, Jack
sonville and Miami.
Various interest along the coas
will be asked to support actively
this movement for fast and AIDE
uuate traffic artery for buses
trucks and other commercial We
hicles.
The organization appointed w. A
McGirt, w. M. Cameron, j. L.
Baldwin and w. j. Riley as com.
mittee to work on the project.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-29
WITH THE AEF
PIGEON Food.But No Pigeons

would have made their work in
India and Burma much easier.
They couldn't be shipped back to
the states, because it would have
taken an enormous number of
crates and acres of shipping space,
and hundreds of men to care for
them.
Finally the gift pigeons with fine
pedigrees were boxed up and sent
home. Soldiers returning to Ameri-
ca on leave were appointed pig on
chauffeurs' to care for the birds.
The others-well, that is something
of a mystery. You can't dispose OF
War Department property just with
the flip of a finger, but somehow
the pigeons disappeared. They are
good to eat and probably that S
what happened to them.
But that wasn't the end of the
story. In the India theatre, t h e
Army must order supplies for eight
months ahead. You have to keep a
string of things coming in many
ships. Long after the pigeons were
dead, the pigeon food continued tt
pour into India ports, tons and tons
of it. 1t is still here and there
aren't any pigeons. And pigeon
food isn't food for soldiers. 1t Wont
even make soup. Power doesn'1
know what is to become of it. Tt
be sure he has other problems
There are bales of black neckties
which nobody wears-and packet
of furlined parkas for the nurses
The temperature here today is us
But he'd really like to find an out
let for pigeon food.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-29

They sent for the pigeons. Owners
of messenger pigeons in America
contributed hundreds, yea, thous-
ands, of fine pigeons with names
and records and long pedigrees.
Automatically, pigeon food began
coming along for them. Tons of 1t
was shipped in many different
ships.
do you know about pigeons?"
asked Colonel Power. '"They pro-
pagate.
1--WE have to keep inventories on
such things as pigeons so we can
tell how much food to order, and
how many cages. But when we
took inventory, $4,000 pigeons: had
become $4,000 pigeons, then 10000.
They loved India. Also, they were
kept under ideal conditions. Doc
tors looked after their health, and
soldiers cleaned out their cages.
And how they ate. We kept en-
ordering more and more pigeon
food.
Then the Signal Corps beat the
radio problem. Their radios didn't
black out any more. The pigeons
were not needed. But there they
were, thousands of them. They had
no idea of birth control. I used
to lie awake nights wondering what
the pigeon inventory would be by
next morning, and wondering what
to do with them
It would have been easy to sell
them in India, but they couldn't
be sold for security reasons. If enc
my agents had got hold of a tine
flock of messenger pigeons, it
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-29
Two Killed In Auto
Wreck Near Pineuille

P1NEVILLE, July 28.-P)-An
Air Force sergeant just discharged
after three years in the Pacific
and woman died in wreck near
here tonight in which three other
persons were badly injured.
The accident occurred on the
Rock Hill road when a car collided
with Greyhound bus on a bridge
over Sugar creek.
No one on the bus was injured
according to Y. c. Farris, driver.
The dead were listed as T-Sgt.
Murray Pate of Jackson, Tenn.
and Mrs. George w. Sharpe of
Columbia, South Carolina.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-29
RETURNS

BUENOs AIRES. July 28.-R-
Frederick (Fritz) Mandl, former
Austrian munitions magnate, re-
turned to Buenos Aires today after
Uruguayan police had denied him
nermission to stay in Montevldeo
Argentine officials who had per
mitted him to leave for Uruguay
several days ago after he had beer
detained here for several months
under a presidential order, were
undecided about their next move.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-29
CR0SLEY FACTORY
employees STRIKE
Rv THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

A strike of approximately ''VO
e,np1oves of the Crosley Corpora
ton in Cincinnati brought 'he
TONS idle to a total OF alfho'' "
900 over the weekend r..
A spokesman for the lnte["a WI W..
al Brotherhood Of Electrical %q N.
ers said the strike had CLOSED us y,
entir" croslev plant a c'n n any
spokesman said plants No. Z CIV .,,
9 WERE out. The company Is en-
gagged in war production. .,,s,
However, settlement Of ! SEVEN
other labor disputes iny ,.i
some $4,000 workers 6rish.e"'y ~.
the strike picture. The dispute. 0as+ Al
c1uded two which crippled st SEWN,
large airplane manufactures
plants. ,.,o,t III
the employees of five virgin n. " rSs
were able to be notified Oh ", o,,;to-
mination of week-long un s bsrs
lied walkout were reported '',,Eot
on the lob SATURDAY. The o Tnl4
h a d affected 10000 pr0'''"'
workers. ,ro,ko,t
by 10000 CIO-United A .ao IN
workers at the Dodge-Cnlcossrr ..ion
plant of the Chrysler CofP0- a-e..
in Chicago, was ended by 4 ! 1-non
tive order of the Union anu .,o,,ld :.
officials said the worker "0'l0
"A Although Il sa a majority Of .t tss T. en-.
Rubber Company's De'l0' a,d
ployes recently voted 10 .rtss
two-week strike. less tFlan ..rro,fei
normal dav shift Of 2Soo isP
for work Saturday.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-29
LAW URGED

LONDON, July 28.-W.H-An in
ternational criminal law to protect
the world against a rebirth of Hit
lerism is urged by Soviet Russia S
outstanding war crimes authority
Professor A. N. Trainin, in his lat
est book which will appear next
week in London.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-29

Witness again the tragedy of the Cross.
How could q world be 50 hard and blind
and dsviI-possessed as to mistake "Theh
Crystal Christ for an enemy Of God and
man? It rs SO unbelievable that We find
ourselves In tune with the thought of q
mountain boy, who, having heard for the
first time the story of Calvary, sobbed, II
hope it amt so, hope 1t amt so!" But it
Is so, and 1t happened in our world.-Rev.
Armand L. Currie d. D.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-29
Democracy in the Circus

Any skeptic who doubts that international
cooperation will work is referred to the cir
cus-which is league of nations in which
men and women of all races and creeds and
classes pull together to single purpose with
no more friction than there is in an AVERAGE
American family group ashington Even;no
Star. -e
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-29
Reminder

during the past Is years we have kent !,
snali Shell on our type case as sooth;ne -.
hinder that life need not be so hurr;ed y
lrwlnton (Ga.) Bulletin.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-29

The Moors introduced the art OF
paper making into Europe In the
18TH century viz Snain
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-29

Coffee and eggs were co. asr, N
the trains stove by pasSenti orn'
the earliest California '0o''
mans
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-29

Because its flowers close at noon.
the old-fashioned name for satisfy
MAS NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS."
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-29
PASSAGE DELAYED

Passage Of the National Airport Dill, ca1l11g
for half-dozen new air helds ana lnprove.
rnents to several existing ones in southeastern
North Carolina, will be delayed until this fall
When first reported out to the Senate on June
30. it was delayed because of one controversies
feature: the direct ALLEGATION OF federal-al
funds to individual airport projects, by-passng
the states When the showdown comes, there
be fight between the big city interests and
the states rights advocates, who still throw
lot Of weight around the Senate even though
they've been showed around rather roughly
since the first Of the New Deal days.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-29

An orange contains about 81 per
cent water
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-29
Editorial Comment

North Carolina is justly amazed at the news
that the little town of Valdese d940 popu-
lation: 2,615) has donated the sum of $500 to
the North Carolina Symphony Orchestra. The
generously of the Waldesians may be ex-
planned in part in this respect by their must
cal background. These folk are bred in a
tradition of music.
Regardless of the reason behind their gift
TO the orchestra which is seeking $780,
900, the tiny community has set a cultural
standard which the rest of the state might do
well to follow If we are to maintain the ma
tional leadership in all fields which we desire
and for which we have the resources, we
must no more overlook the arts than indus
try or Unsatisfactory Mount Telegram.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-29
p1ug For The Earthworm

Without the earthworn, fertile soils would
be less fertile, marginal soils would be barren
Charles Darwin explained the earthworms es-
sentia1 part in the biotic balance nearly a
century ago. But we have never had any
Friends Of the Earthwornn'' societies.
Instead, we have societies clarifying his NOR
tai enemies, the predatory wren, the ravenous
robin and the raucous turtle dove. What low
opinion the gentle earthworm must have Of
the so-called human race!-Chicago Daily
News