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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-01-11
The Erwin Strike

If Harnett county draft boards are looking
for men. we recommend the thirteen dof-
fers'' termed the bottleneck in efforts to settle
the Today old strike at the Erwin Cotton
mills.
According to a representative of the work
ers' committee meeting with the War Labor
Board in Washington approximately 1,500 en-
ployes are idle. Sixty-fve per cent Of them
reported for work earlier this week but there
were no doffers. Meantime, according to the
latest advices, the walkout cripples the mills
output Of cotton duck 50 vitality needed by
the armed forces.
Recently, the Army revealed plans to use
soldiers in cotton mills, especially those en-
gagged on duck cloth contracts. That's how
important this material is; shows the services
must have it.
Instead OF taking men out of the camps,
men being trained in some cases for combat,
why not put these apparently very special
thirteen doffers'' in uniform and then switch
them back to their mill jobs? Let them work
as G. is at the Arrny's rate of pay They Il
learn, and fast too, that there's a lot OF
difference between civilian, with the right
to strike and tie up the jobs Of 1900 fellow
workers, and a private in the Army, taking
orders from a tough sergeant.
If the Army can take over Montgomery-Ward
lock, stock and barrel, why can't it take
over thirteen doffers?
If they are the crux OF the Erwin problem
as the workers spokesman indicated, it ap-
pears that solution Of the strike should not
be difficult matter. The issue, according 10
the press reports, is over change in oroce-
dure employees described as a "stretchout, -
while the management claims that the change
was routine in handling the type of yarn used
in the present operations.
And speaking of "stretchouts'', what about
those systems used by Patton in Europe and
Macarthur in the Pacific where men, in order
to defeat the enemy, fight for hours on end?
We haven't heard any complaints from them.
Why?
Because they're in this war The quicker
the Erwin employees get into the fight with
the same spirit and determination, the sooner
it will be over.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-01-11
By KENNETH L. DIXON

ON THE BELGIAN FRONT,
Jan. 8.-Delaye6- R Count
less comic strip artists will holler
I'VE told you So upon being told
that the first jet-propelled German
soldier finally has flashed across
this front.
Unfortunately-from the strictly
scientific vieWpoint-he came to a
sizzling and unsuccessful end,
amid a shower of slugs, sparks
and rainboW-colored rocked bursts.
Also. it must be reported, he
was purely a product OF accident,
rather than a secret Hitler wea-
pom.
I'VE called him VS." said Pfc.
] a mes Mcnamara, Clinton,
Mass, sadly. 1--WE thought we
really had something
James was one of two paratroop-
ers who brought this futuristic
fighting man down to earth. The
other was Pfc. Elmer Pankow OF
Willo Springs. Ill.
They were chopping wood along
this Belgian front the other day
when things began to happen.
James and Elmer are members
of the 82nd Airborne Division and
their 504th Regiment has been a
next-door neighbor Of the Ger
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MERCHANTS TO GET
BACKSTAGE VIEW
OF LEGISLATURE

A newsletter containing behind
the-scenes information on doin9s
of the State Legislature in Raj
eigh will be sent each week to
members on a select mailing list
OF the Wilmington Chamber OF
Commerce.
The service will be extended
on request to other members IN
terested, Walter J. Cartier, ex'
ecutive secretary, said in an
nouncing its inception.
The newsletter, dealing largely
with forecasts of coming action,
is prepared by a trained observer
employed by the North Carolina
Association Of Commercial Or
ganizaion Secretaries.
Another innovation in Chamber
OF Commerce services announced
by Mr., Cartier concerned the an
sWering of letters, forwarded 10
Wilmington by the State Conser
Walton Department, of prospective
movers to the City and vicinity
Formerly such communicating
had been given for response d.
rectly to realtors, VINO are no"
listed for reference by buyers or
renters in the Chamber Of Com
merce'S replv
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mans off and on for nearly two
months now.
As a matter Of fact, Elmer was
Illuminating about this being h S
285th day of combat, when he felt
familiar burning sensation in the
back of his neck. Two hundred
and eighty-five days of combat will
make anybody's neck allergic to
rude stares from strangers.
Carefully he raised his head and
saw three men sitting on a little
rise of ground several hundred
yards away.
CTS" he muttered, and re-
turned to woodchopping.
James also saw the strangers,
and he, too, returned to work. But
just as he lifted his axe, some
thing clicked in his mind.
"Grs hell" he snorted, drop
ping the axe and reaching for his
rifle. Those guys are ferries. !"
simultaneously, the three watch
ing members OF the Waffen S S
realized that these woodcutters
were not Wehrmacht men. They
leaped to their feet and headed for
tall timber. Hot behind them were
James and Elmer, shooting on the
run.
The first jerry crumpled in mid
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A Change In Neutrality

In the United States governments present
attitude toward Switzerland certain London
editors may find some of the "realism' that
they have been anxiously requesting. For
Washington seems to be leading the way in
the Allied demand that Switzerland change the
shape that her neutrality has taken
For long time neither the Allies nor the
Swiss could do much about that shape, which
was imposed by Hitler. When the war began
the Swiss armed themselves against invasion
and prepared for an unequal struggle. But it
was neither necessary nor desirable for Hitler
full as an island in an Axis sea-
SWitzerland's problem became one of trad
ing with the Axis or not trading at ALL Brit
ain didn't like it. Neither did Russia and the
United States, when they got into the war.
But there was nothing to do about it until
France was liberated.
Now the Allies are in position and mood
to enforce change The Swiss haven't SEEM
ed to welcome this mood, and they have been
tardy about making the change They repeat
the credible claim that their ancient de-
mocracys sympathies are with the United Ma
tons. They say our threatened economic
blockade endangers their national existence.
But German coal and other supplies are
still going through Switzerland to the Fac
tories of Nazi-occupied Italy There these sup
plies are made into materials of war that
are killing Allied soldiers and prolonging the
Italian stalemante. In the face of this, protocol
doesn't cut much ice.
Though the Swiss supply line to Italy is
the dominant factor behind our present at
ttude there are other considerations. One is
the allegation that Swiss banks are being used
as repositories or clearing houses TO- the
funds of Nazi leaders which would serve to
finance their escape and future operations.
The sum Of all these considerations re-em-
phasizes the fact that there hasn't been and
can't be such thing as a neutral European
power in this war. Most of the neutrals OF
early 1910 were swallowed up by the Ger
mans. Five escaped, but their neutrality was
of sort that, willy nilly, helped one side
or the other.
Last summer Mr.. Churchill bluntly told Tur-
key that she could have expected more con-
sideration at the peace table if she had come
in on the side of the Allies. Now we are tell
While We are not asking active military help
o. the Swiss, we are demanding end to
their aid Of the enemy.
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The Literary Guidepost

the bare situation. not romanticize'
not dramatized; we learn the 3D.
scure but undeniably effect"
sources of malignant infection as
the Dobrudja, Macedonia, Essar'
abba, the Banat, TransylVanla;
here we learn in short what afs
the Balkans in terms of economies
politics, religion, education.
When the American gets oook
en- foreign affairs, it is too apt 10
be gossipy, chatty, meant IN NJ
small part to entertain. Newman
quite relevantly points out, for m
stance, with respect to Gunthefs
Inside Europe" definitely one o.
our better volumes and one Whlcn
Newman praises as "entertalnlng
that of 10 pages, devoted to 10,
mania, IL had to do with hLhs
Carol alone and of those Il, 1N'
were concerned with Nine. Lupes'
Gu, while the peasants, who al'
70 per cent of Romania's popula,,
ton, got just three lines. Royai
bedrooms are always interestlhs'
but not always h 'storical,
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WITH THE AEF:
CTS Create A New Nazi Weapon

stride. The second collapsed. But
number three kept running. Care
fully the two Americans aimed
and fired again.
There was a burst of fire, sparks
and smoke. The fleeing figure I'M
corked a super-spurt Of speed.
Leaping and careening crafty
he bounced in great, impossible
leaps across the countryside, trail
ing a long wake OF multicolored
flame and smoke and spewing
rockets in a dozen directions.
Il thought he'd turned into a
jet-propelled plane" said Elmer
later.
HE looked like a VS. to me-"
insisted Mcnamara.
They fired again, and the rock
et-propelled SIS trooper made one
final frantic flight, collapsing in
flames at the bottom of a small
draw.
Cautiously the two paratroopers
advanced, They found only h e
body Of very ordinary Waffen
SIS soldier. Around his waist was
strapped bundle of equally ordi-
nary-signal flares such as often
are used along the front.
One of the bullets had fired a
flare, and one explosion had touch
ed off another.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-01-11
John A. McNOrtOn

Devotion to duty, even at times when it
was the harder course, marked the legthy
public career of John A. McNorton, solicitor
Of Recorders court who died Tuesday.
During the eighteen years he served in that
position, an important one in the never-ending
war against crime, he never forgot his place
as servant Of the people In the administra-
ton Of even-handed and mature judgement
Active in the community's civic, fraternal
and political life, he will be missed by many
in various walks Of life who will remember
him as an honest, considerate friend n
counselor
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Washington Calling
BY Marquis Childs

had to talk to ministers and am
bassadors in crowded room.
This may sound like trivia. It
seems to me to be important. You
sometimes got the impression the
department was back in the days
when the ambassador signed his
name with a flourish and then
busted sand over the signature be-
cause no one had got around to
thinking up plotting paper.
Consider the burden that will fall
on the Department of Peace this
year. The task in hand now is to
prepare the data to support the
position which President Roosevelt
takes when he sits down with
Churchill and Stain at their forth
coming meeting.
That in itself is a big job. 1t
means covering the whole field of
foreign and economic relations.
When the president turns to an
assistant to ask what the oil pro-
duction in the Middle East is. or
the number of Rumanians living
in Bessarabia, the information Civ
en- him must be exact and current.
Then the expectation is for
full-fedged meeting of the United
Nations to consider action OF a
world security plan. That will re-
quire endless planning and effort.
In addition, other conferences
are in progress or shortly coming
up. Most of us have little under
standing Of the preparation that
precedes these international meet.
ings. We see the news reels of
and read about the official ban
quet, and assume too often that
that is the whole story.
You get some interesting con.
!rs.sts in the fat volume on the
bucget. Whereas the State Depart
men takes e-wer than 20 pages
to list its requests, Seer etary CT
the Interior Ickes runs to 40 ages
to itemize demans for more than
S10c, O0o, 900. The Depar tment Of
Agriculture ADDS up to total of
$378, 1891, 1000.
Economizers in Congress may be
able to pare some no7-war expendl-
lures, although in comparison to
the grand total for ws1 they will
be only candle ends. But there
should be no hesitation in granting
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-01-11

WASHINGTON, Jan. 10.-"The
budget of the United States gov
ernment for the fiscal year ending
June 30, 1946' is a book that
weighs more than the latest tele-
phone directory, which is not sur
prising, since it p-escribes the
spending, for war and peace, Of
some SO billions of dollars.
On pages SOL to 900, the Depart
ment of State puts in its request
for $75,213,4O0, including an in
crease of $28, 462,812 over the fiscal
year 1915. The increase is to pro-
vide for Secretary of State Stet-
tinius' program of expansion and
modernization of department
that has limped along about a hun
dred years behind the times.
That has been one of the strange
contrasts of our era. The Depart
ment of State is, in effect, the
Department of Peace. Its first OBJ
jective is to maintain good rela-
tons with the other nations of the
world.
Yet year after year. Congress
has treated it like a stepchild. In
the light of this record of miserli-
ness, l imagine Stettinius hesitated
about asking for even as much as
that $4,000, 900 increase.
The increase will go mainly TO
expand the foreign service in the
field and to build up the depart
ment's information service both at
home and abroad. Only small
amount will be available to add to
the permanent force at work in
Washington.
There is a zeal question, if a
thorough job of modernization is
to be done, whether the additional
amount requested will be ade-
quate. Recently 1 have been given
a worms eye view of the depart
ment by those who have been
working under great handicaps in
horse and buggy atmosphere.
Officials have been handicapped
by lack of stenographic help 10
do routine work. The filing system
is so Anticipated as to seem radl.
crous to anyone familiar with mod.
ern business techniques. As the
White House moved assistants into
the Department of State building,
less and less space has been avail
able, so that division chiefs have
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so THEY SAY

A German column shot it up before they
found it was hospital Then German Of
ficer came in and gave them 80 minutes to
get ready to leave-took the whole bunch as
prisoners of war; Some of the soldiers got
away remember one of them went back
to the hospital and recaptured quart of
bourbon.-Erig. Gen. Anthony C. McAuliffe of
Washington, commander at Bastogne.
The German forces are utilizing every de.
vice or diversion to cling to the offensive to
prevent General Eisenhower from recovering
the initiative The weather continues to be
a critical factor.-Secretary of War Henry L..
Stimsor D.
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BY w. G. ROGERS
Balkan Background" by Bernard
Newman Macmillan: S2.5O.)


This is history written by a man
on a bicycle. Bernard Newman
travelled through the Balkans to
see for himself what they were
like. He got behind the stories ema-
mating from the propaganda bu-
reaus OF governments within that
area, or of interested governments
elsewhere.
Newman is an Englishman and
continental. He's practical man.
he looks fact in the eye. He APP
proaches the international scene
without prejudice for either con-
servvative Or progressive ideals
Even If you don't agree with all
his conclusions, you are certain to
be impressed by the amount and
the particular kind of information
he possesses. In the end, you wish
more writer's had bicycles.
When the Frenchman or tn e
Englishman in prewar days bought
a book on foreign affairs, it was
a book like this. Here we have
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-01-11
Interpreting
The War
BY KIRKE L. SIMPSON
Associated Press War Anaivst

ASSOCldtCu 1CSo Wal Analyst
/ The startling and all but unbe.
llievable fact about General Mac.
Arthur's return to Luzon is that
landings in the blight of Lingayen
Gulf within less than 100 miles Of
Manila Bay were made virtually
unopposed ashore and afloat as
well as ineffectively combatted in
air.
Many hours after the first trooo
waves hit the Luzon beaches and
had probed inland, there was no
report of contact with enemy
ground forces in any substantial
number. At sea, only isolated sui.
eide sallies by single destroyers
and a midget S u b m + ne fell
against the 8OO-ship armada en-.
route, except for the futile Ntp.
ponese air attacks.
Just what that might mean as
an indication of Japanese defen.
sive strategy none yet can say.
Minimum estimates credit the en-.
envy commander on Luzon with
|150, 900 troops. The japanese fleet
still is powerful striking force
in all but plane carrier categor.
les.
It is possible that the very bold.
ness Of the anphibious operation
was its greatest assurance Of sue.
cess. It may have seemed so i'm.
possible to japanese leaders that
the assault there came as the
complete surprise its feeble recep.
ton indicates.
1t does not sufficiently explain,
however, the failure of the Jap.
anese commander on Luzon to
rush substantial mobile forces to
meet the American on Lingayen
beaches once he was certain that
they were the destination of the
American armadas sighted and at
tackled by air at sea.
Berlin-relayed Tokyo reports
quote Japanese high commanders
as saying that now the fleet will
intervene to convert the Lingayen
Operations into a death trap for
the American landing forces The
implication is that MacArthur's
forces have be6 lured into Jap.
anese trap; but it does not sound
convincing.
| If the Japanese fleet or what is
left of it is 70 figure at all in the
| Luzon campaign, the time for it
to strike would have been while
/ the American troop conveys were
at sea. American naval forces in
that case must have been hamper.
ed and denied full high speed abil-
ity for battle maneuvers by the
prime necessity Of protecting the
relatively slow moving troop and
supply ships.
That opportunity was lost, eth
er because the battered Nipponese
, fleet had been recalled virtually
, to home waters to reduce losses,
or to guard more closely the sea
corridors from Japan to northern
, China. If the fleet moves now
against the Americans beachheads
on Luzon, it would risk total an
. Inhalation.
There is one other remote pos
sibility. 1t might be that Tokyo
has in effect written off the Phil
ippines as lost and abandoned its
. garrisons to their fate, conserving
sea and air power for home de-
tense. Even so, however, and there
is nothing but speculation to sup
port that theory, it would not &C.
count for failure of the garrison
to be waiting near the Lingayen
:, beaches for a hari kiri reception
of MacArthur's troops. japanese
garrisons of Pacific islands have
done just that heretofore.
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IS Youths From Area
Enlisted Here By Navy

Thirteen 17.vear-old boys were
enlisted in the Navy yesterday by
the local Navy recruiting station,
Chief ]. w. Brown, petty officer
in charge, said,
The boys were: Douglas Anth-
ony Daughtry of 1919 Orange St.,
Wilmington, Clyde James DUNCAN
of Burgaw, Willie Walton Dow
less of Whiteville, Carl Douglas
Andrew Of Chadbourn, Roy Vane
Brown OF Laurinburg, Edward
Marshall Arlington Of Rowland,
William Parker Inman Of Rowland,
E. P. Foley Of Orrum, Malcolm
Robert Mcclellan Of Mcdonald,
Gene Hardin o. Fairmont, Robert
Thomas Barnhill of Rocky Point,
Robert Clinton Woodward of Row.
land, and Willie Robert Mcclellan
Of Orrum
--V-
Put pinch Of powdered mar
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Fair Enough

Editors note.-The Star and the News
accept no responsibility for the personal
views of Mr.. Pegler, and often disagree
with them as much as many of his read
ers His articles serve the good purpose
of making people Think
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the State Department this reason
able increase.
Copyright 1912 by United
Feature Syndicate, Inc.)
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Put pinch of powdered mar
joram in tomato Juice.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-08-02
Ap SPORTS
 ROUNDUP

NEW YORK, Aug. 2 Freddie Steele, former middleweight boxing champion, is back on Broadway to- day-and of all things is being hailed as a movie find.
 The Tacoma, Wash, scrapper, who won the l60-pound title by beating Babe Risko at Seattle in 1886 and lost it two years later to Al Hostak, has been acclaimed by critics for his portrayal of Ser geant in Ernie Pyle's "The Story of CT Joe"
 Taking his ease at a midtown play spot, Steele told how he made good on the screen at 32, after selling his Tacoma retail cigar store in 1940 for $12,000.
 I've been lucky, that's all,' he explained. T got my chance through Preston Sturges. He's a fight fan, you know. He recognized me on the set of the Miracle of Morgan's Creek and gave me a small part as a test. He liked it and gave me a better role in Hail the Conquering Hero That got me this part"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-08-02
ANNETTE 5pELL5
 BLUE JAY FINS
 WITH NO HITTER
Old Awks Set for PIdy-off Finals After Nudging
 Out Finance Club

Jack Annetti's no-hitter - the first of the season-last night shut the Blue Jays out of further. con- sideration for the 1945 Juneau soft ball league title.
 Three Finance swingers reached first base in last evenings con- test, only because of fielding mis- cues behind the Old Awkward beaver; otherwise Annetti put on practically the whole show. Pitcher
 Butch" Blum, for the losers, didn't do badly, either, allowing only four safe connections which were pro cessed into the final 40 score.
 The Blue Jays had things fairly well their own way during the regular league schedule, finishing the 4o-game round-robin with a clear edge. The Awks, however, held no respect for that showing, punching the Financiers out of the play-off in two straight games.
 The Coast Guard and Freshmen are to stage their second play-off heat this evening at o'clock at Firemens Field. The Frosh are one-up.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-08-02
VETERANS' GUIDE
By MAJOR THOMAS M. NAL

ular case-and the particular case'' would have to be one where a veter- an would get back his old job at the cost of causing non-veteran with greater seniority to be displaced.
 hope I'm not clouding the issue too. I'm trying, in my own way, to explain this because it is very inn portant to us veterans, and will be- come more so as the unemployment problem grows.
 If Selective Service has its way, ex-service people would find a smooth path leading back to the old job. But Selective Service is find ing the going little rough. The veteran often finds he has to stumble over the second thoughts of some notable forces.
 And I hope this mild clash of for ces doesn't incresae. Perhaps some government, labor, and industry of ficials will soon be able to embalm the Seniority For Veterans" subject and let us view the remains.
 Every Selective Service Board has a veterans employment agent, call- ed a Unemployment Committee man. He's got an important job to do and from all reports, is do- ing it. I'll give you more dope on this guy next article.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-08-02

1 WASHINGTON = This bushes. of unemployment rights for veterans is taking on the jumbled appearance of a newly secured beachhead-tur moi everywhere.
 Selective Service, the agency re- sponsible for placing veterans in their old jobs, claims that the ex-service man is entitled to his old, or an equivalent, job-regardless of who must be displaced to make room for taking on the veteran.
 That, according to Selective Ser vice, is the way the law should be interpreted Certain labor organiza- tions, on the other hand, take the stand that it's not fair for veteran to get his old job back, if it in- wolves the firing of non-veteran or possibly a World War I veter- an-with greater seniority.
 And recently the Attorney General complicated the issue further when he put out a circular to all U. s. Attorneys (the men responsible for enforcing the unemployment rights of veteranS) The circular says that Selective Services interpretation of Section Chats the unemployment section) of the Selective Service Act is not free from doubt"
 In connection with this re-employ- ment confusion, a new word-"super- seniority being thrown around like hot lump of coal. You've read about it and maybe have been just as confused as I was. The way I figure it-a claim which asserts "superseniority" is one which abol- ishes the old accepted seniority sys- tenn in American industry, when the employment of a veteran is af- fected.
 Super" seniority means that "seniority" doesn't govern a partic-