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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-10-24
THE WI, NlINGTON MORNING STAR W.T. Nn1NcroN NJ r.

The moral and spiritual welfare
Of our young people should be a
consideration Of prime Importance,
and, Of course, facilities for wor-
ship in every faith would be avail
able.
/, But the basic reason for univer.
sal training is very simple one
= to guarantee the safety and
freedom of the United States
against any potential aggressor
The. other benefits are all by-pro'
ducts - useful indeed, but still
by-products. The fundamental
need is, and always will be, the
national security of the United
States. and the safety OF our homes
and our loved ones.
Since training alone is involved,
and not actual military service, nc
exemptions should be allowed fol
occupation, dependency, or for any
other reason except total physical
disqualification.
All men should be included in
the training, whether physically
qualified for actual combat serv
ice or not. There should be place
into which every young American
can tit in the service of our coun.
try. Some would be trained for
combat, others would be trained
for whatever war service they are
physically and mentally qualified
to perform.
I recommend that the training
should be for one year. Each
young man should enter training
either at the age Of eighteen or
upon his graduation from high
school - whichever is later; but
in any event before his twentieth
birthday. A trainee who completes
his high school education in his
seventeenth year should be eligf.
BILE, with parental consent. to enter
the course of training.
After the first few months Of
training, selected trainees who are
not physically qualified for mill
tary service could be trained in
certain skills so that if war came,
they could take their places in
shipyards, munitions factories ano
similar industrial plants.
Upon completion Of the full
years training, the trainee woulc
become a member of the Genera
Reserve for a period Of six years
After that he should be placed ir
a secondary reserve status.
Present personnel in the Army
and Navy Reserves would, o.
course, be retained, and the new
trainees would provide the source
from which the reserves of the flu
ture would draw their personnel.
COMMISSIONS
Commissions would be granted t
qualified men who complete the
course of training and who ther
take additional instruction in Off
Ger candidate schools, in the re
serve Officers Training Corps OF
Naval Reserve Officers Training
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-10-24

For the serious-minded child.
Set consists of microscope,
chemicals, slides, test tubes,
specimens, disectors, every
thing needed to work out ex-
perinents. Completely arrang-
ed in strong leatherette box.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-10-24

Attractively decorated wood
storage chest holds children's
clothes or toys. Artificial leath-
erette padded top.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-10-24

She'll jump with Joy when she
sees a doll bassinet under the
tree. Sturdy all wood. Stained
maple finish. Composition board
mattress bottom. 251zx131ax15
inches,
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-09-23
Save Paper, Tin, Rags

Two weeks remain before the Senior Fra
ternity members will be driving trucks
through Wilmington and suburban streets to
collect waste paper, rags and tin cans.
There is some probability that this will be
the final waste paper drive. The hope is that
mills will be in position to meet all reason
able requirements for all essential varieties
of paper within short time without resorting
to more than average quantities Of waste pa
per which has been such an important item
in the nations war program.
The future of rags and tin is not so clear,
but as glass is rapidly replacing tin as con-
tainer for fruit and vegetables, tin for this
purpose may be reduced demand when bust
ness gets back on it's feet. Our guess is that
rags will always be needed. They always
have.
Residents are urged to neglect none Of the
three in boarding for the coming collection.
Have your contribution at the curb by 10
o'clock Sunday morning, October Z. Mean
while, save every scrap of paper, newspaper
or magazine, every rag you can recover from
attic, cellar and garage and every tin can
with both ends removed and flattened for
packing.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-09-23
Destroyer Base

While Wilmington is building its hope of
greater prosperity upon port development and
small industries, suggestion has been made
that the city leadership make an effort to
have the port designated as a destroyer base.
The thought is that the United States will
maintain two-ocean Navy and never again
be caught in the situation that threatened the
nations existence as World War II gathered
momentum. If this is true, the Atlantic fleet
will not be moored exclusively in one harbor,
but divided among a number along the sea-
board.
Wilmington offers an excellent base for sew
eral of the smaller craft of the fleet, notably
destroyers. The chances of having them prob
ably would be better if the sport had a dry
dock which is antoher valid reason to include
a drydock in the city's development pro-
gram.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-09-23
Wanted, One Hotel

The State Port Pilot, Southport's progress
sive weekly newspaper, makes strong editorial
appeal for a hotel as among the greatest
needs of the community.
The article notes that in prewar days visit
ors streamed into town for the fine fishing
off Frying Pan Shoals and the hunting in the
hinterland as result of advertising through
a firm which has been forced to stop sending
publicity to newspapers.
The Pilot believes that hotel would lead
to further advertising, and inevitably to larger
visitations and increased prosperity for the
town. In part it says:
ITO illustrate the hotel business potential.
ties here, it can be said that things are total.
ly different from what they are at the usual
resort. At such places hotels are built with
the idea of operating only two or three months
of the year and during those two or three
months they must make enough money to
show a profit for twelve.
There is no period of the year that will
not bring good hotel business here, if good
hotel is available. There is the small but
steady local and semi-local year-round trade.
On top of that there is a big potential tourist
business for twelve months of the year, hunt
ing and fishing parties the year round and
for five or six months of each year much
can be expected from yachtsmen passing in
eastern states.'
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-09-23
Interference In Air
Costs Lives Of Two
Navy Pilots At Miami

MIAMI, Fla, Sept. %. --CP.
Navy board of inquiry sought tooa5
to identify a night flight tha' ~. le
portedly ''interfered with ~ =,
nation Of Navy fighters, TWO "
whose planes tangled in fligh, aa ,,i
crashed into a downtown Mia. n.
" .rehouse and garage last hisN'
setting off a $4,000 fire.
he two planes which crasne ro
carrying both pilots to death WEI y
part of a five-ship formation OIL
routine flight from the Melpoui".. ~
Fla, Navay Training Station
Miami.
The three remaining pill wiz
returned Immediately to their noil-'
base, we're quoted by Capt. ~ -
Day, commandant of that sta'lon,
as saying that their flight had oe sr
'interfered with" over Mann =!
another flight, which, they Sai0'
t " were unable to identity
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-09-23
Tell The Whole Story

Since Life magazine has published some of
the facts concerning Governors Dewey's know.
ledge of the facts preceding the Pearl Harbor
attack but refused to divulge them during his
campaign for president for patriotic reasons,
and the newspapers have told what they have
learned of the circumstances, it would be in
the public interest for the whole story to be
told
1t is not enough to know that the japanese
code had been solved and presumably the in
tended assault was known in Washington. Who
knew about it and who was responsible for
the failure to be prepared to repulse it ought
also to be made known.
AS it now stands General Marshall is placed
under cloud as Chief of Staff, position he
may not deserve, as the final responsibility
did not rest his shoulders but upon the
Commander-in-Chief, President Roosevelt.
Previous news dispatches dealing with the
expurgated Army and Navy reports on Pearl
Harbor, which were finally released to the
public, cited that President Roosevelt several
days prior to the attack told his chief military
and naval advisors the Japanese were liable
to strike on Monday "a day after the attack,
adding that it would be in the customary Jap.
anese pattern to do so. II Mr.. Roosevelt actu-
ally knew the enemy was on its way to at.
tack and failed to ,uote chapter and verse
for the benefit of his advirors, he cannot be
cleared of responsibility, even though the
forces in Hawaii were not alerted after the
tip he passed on.
Only by telling the whole truth about Pearl
Earbor can the matter be cleared up. 1t
SHOULD be told without more ado.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-09-23
Editorial Comment
BEAUTIFY THE ROADs1DES

The Garden club of North Carolina is 10 De
congratulated on its constructive step in call
ing twenty odd Statewide organizations :4a TO-
gether for the purpose Of joining with it in
forming roadside development council. The
show that the years Of patient and maybe
sometimes impatient emphasis put on the
Identification Of the country,s roao sloes
the elimination of of unsightiy advertise
ments and grassing of the shouloers nave at
educated Hosts women throughout our
state are to be- congratulated upon this pro-
gressive step, and there should be large
number here Thursday for the organization
meeting r,o+e,+;,,:4
No other state has more po'1 ly Tor
Ieas Mortb raroiina with its evergreen pines
NTH in the east and its westRsegh
in the east and its mountainous "es'.-Haleleh
News and Observer
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-09-23
WILL RENTER INC.

CHAPEL HILL. Sept. %, Capt.
Charles P. Murray, Jr., the one.
man army who won the nation s
highest military decoration by rout-
ing 200 Germans single-handed,
came back to his alma mater this
weekend and made arrangements
to return to North Carolina U
next term.
The much-decorated Tar Heel
a1umnus, who had completed three
years OF study here before erter.
ing the service, had just received
his discharge at Fort Bragg, and
he made the side-trip to the Uni-
versity before returning to mis-
home in Wilmington.
He. IS one of two University of
North Carolina alumni to receive
the nations highest military
award. The other was the late Ma
jor Raymond H. Wilkins, of Col
umbia, who lost his life In diving
his plane into an enemy vessel to
divert its first from other planes.
Lieutenant Murray was also
awarded the Silver Star for gall
lantry in action on January % and
on February received the Oak
Leaf Clister to the Silver Star. Lat
er he was promoted to captain.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-09-23
Blind Girl Finds Vital War Role

ran her fingers swiftly over each
page. the censor would tell her
what to eliminate.
Most correspondence was sent
by defense workers or by Army
and Navy men to their blind
wives, sisters or girl friends" she
recalled.
News of the work she was do
ing spread rapidly, and elsewhere
throughout this part of the Pacific
military censors- lacking trained
braille readers-routed their mail
to Honolulu for reading" by Mrs.
NaWaa.
And for the first time since the
war started many service men
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-09-23
WILMINGTON READY
TO WELCOME MURRAY
Continued from Page One)

Continued from Page One)
render a Prayer of Thanks" at
ter which the audience will stand
at attention for the retiring of the
colors.
The official welcome will be clos
ed by an informal reception to be
held for Captain Murray at h e
Cape Fear Club at Z o'clock Mon.
day night.
In commenting upon Capt. Muir
rays heroism that won him the
Congressional Medal OF Honor, his
commanding officer writes: Back
of him are mere 70 years, less
than three years in the Army but
$50 days of gruelling combat from
the vosges to the Alpine redoubt.
Better yet, in front Of him is a
return to civilian life, which means
finishing work for a degree in &C
counting at the University Of North
Carolina and settling down with
his wife"
Capt. Murray's citation from his
commanding officers reads as fol-
lows:
In mid-December, just before
the Germans took the initiative
over the Western Front, the 30th
Infantry was assigned a task OF
cracking the northern defense wall
Of remaining German mountain de-
tense in the Colmar pocket. SIS
troops and officer candidates con-
stituted the major part OF their
perimeter defense.
Against stiff resistance elements
of the 30th took the German strong
hold of Kaysersberg on December
10th and swept beyond at heavy
cost. The 1st Battalion, of which
Capt. Murray's "C'' Company is
a part, seized and occupied high
ground near the city when the enc
my counterattacked. Capt. Murray
engage the 200 enemy alone.
Motioning to two platoons to de-
etaoin shrdlu cmwyp vbgkqj TX
ploy and wait, Capt. Murray grab
bed radio and crawled forward,
masked by a small knob. From a
forward position he called for artil-
lery fire, but his radio broke. down
after bracketing.
For a second time he went for
ward, this time with an MI rifle
and grenade launcher. He fired
two grenades and drew volley
reply that sent earth splattering all
over him. Quickly he lobbed ten
more grenades down and crawled
back for an automatic rifle.
He instructed all in the patrol
to load magazines for him. Two
men kept him supplied by tossing
full magazines up and crawling
hack with his empties.
Capt. Murray followed the Ger
mans in their retreat and sent
smoke swirling from q truck load
ed with three 120-mm mortals. He
wounded the driver and five others
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-09-23

who tried to get away with the
vehicle.
Then having nearly burnt out
the BAR, Capt. Murray crawled
back and personally fired go nm
motar fire on the enemy, and fore
ed them away from a valuable
bridge they had planned to destroy.
Leading his patrol in hot pur-
suit. Capt. Murray went from fox
hole to foxhole at the base of the
hill and got 10 prisoners, but num-
Der II, feigning surrender, pitched
grenade at him and wounded
him in eight places.
Capt. Murray then stumbled to
his feet, took the prisoner, and re-
fused to go to the medics until
the whole patrol had dug in around
the bridge site.
Two days later % bodies were
found with his 80 caliber slugs in
them. This did not include those
he killed with his mortar and gre
made fire or those he wounded or
those the enemy was able to drag
off and bury. In addition the 100
mortars were captured with $50
rounds Of ammo.
AS his mind turned back to that
day in December, Capt. Murray
guessed he would do the same
thing again. It was the best plan.
One or two could get away with
It best
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-09-23

were able to write directly to
loved ones. No longer did they
have to be careful to write only
things that could be read aloud
by a third person when letters
were received back home.
knowledge of how much that
meant to both people involved in
each let ter was satisfaction
enough to repay her for all loss
Of sleep and rest, Helen said.
But when her fingers caress the
certificate of merit she smiles a
little. It is plain that she also will
always find quiet satisfaction in
touching that testimonial to how
much a blind girl helped her coun-
try at war.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-09-23
WITH THE AEF
BY KENNETH DIXON

HONOLULU -R- Now that al
censorship has ceased here in Ha
wall, Mrs. Helen Gray Nawaa car
get little Of that rest she's beer
needing the past year and half
While she's resting, she occa'
sionally can slide her sensitive
fingertips over certificate Of
merit and smile softly with inner
pride at its proof that she, too, die
her share in the war.
It was awarded her by Byron
Price, former director of censor.
ship at Washington, in recognition
Of her excellent service" as a
censor in this vital Pacific terri
tory. Its a mighty nice looking
document, that merit award-and
its too bad she can't see it.
But Helen Nawaa is blind.
Ironically, it was that very
blindness that made her invalu-
able to her country during the
war, because since April, 1914, she
has helped censor a thousand let
tiers which passed through the
Honolulu postoffice- letters writ
ten in braille to the blind.
Helen learned to read braille
long ago. but when the war broke
out it didn't occur to her that such
an ability might be needed.
II was afraid at first that
wouldn't be much help to the war
effort she said. And you knew
by the gentle way she said it that
it hurt a lot not to be able to
help.
But she practiced her tipping and
got herself civilian job-as typist
and proofreader in braille for the
Territorial Bureau of Sight Con-
servation. The one day year and
a half ago she learned that the
censors were looking for someone
to read braille correspondence.
II volunteered gladly" she said.
Although she didn't mention it,
W. Alan Graves, Honolulu postal
censor, pointed out that it was a
non-paying job which meant she
had to keep her other job, too.
Then started a system strange
in the annals of censorship. 1t was
surprising how m any soldiers,
sailors, marines and defense work
ers at Pearl Harbor, Hickam
Field and elsewhere in the islands
had blind relatives back home,
Often they'd had to write regular
letters, which meant a third per-
son must read them to their rela-
tive.
Postal censors were not being
picayunish about watching the
braille letters. During the last war
there were several instances when
enemy agents sought to smuggle
information through regular mail
channels by that method and
needless to say the Oriental melt
ing pot quality of Hawaii's popu-
lation made such a precaution
doubly important here.
So the letters in braille began
to pour in. Helen went on with
her work of transcribing letters
from dictaphone at the Sight Con-
servation bureau, and it was hard
work for help was scarce here,
too.
I'm afraid l overworked Helen
at times, especially when she had
to transcribe 20 or more of my
letters a day. was the apologize
comment of Mrs. Grace c. Ham
man, bureau director.
But as soon as her days work
was done Helen would walk care
fully over the familiar route to the
federal building - or if censorship
need was imperative, she simply
postponed her own work and hur-
rled to the postal censor's office.
II would read the braille letters
aloud to a sighted person who was
the real censor" she explained.
Sitting there beside her as she
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-09-23
TOP O, THE MORNING

A young Christian sailor went up to a
high ranking officer on board ship one
day and abruptly asked the question, Sir,
how is it with your soul?" He was abrup-
tely dismissed by the officer.
That night the ship was torpedoed. As the
lift boats were picking up the survivors the
officer was pulled into one of the boats.
The first person hee saw was the sailor
hoy who had asked him the blunt questino
earlier in the day.
Recognizing him Immediately, he said,
My boy, you're just the person want to see
Tell me what it is that you were going to
speak to me about this morning."
Reveille.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-09-23
BANS UNIFORMS

FRANKFURT, Germany, Sept.
22.-P)-Gen. Eisenhower has for
hidden the wearing of clothing re-
sembllng German or Nazi uni
forms after December l in the
American zone of occupation, the
government of U. S. head
quarters said today.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-09-23

Norman Thomas says that universal mil
itary training will not be pssi pt unless
are determined to fight hassia Sut 1wlce IN
generation we have nee4 toh+;ra p,,s., ~ an
army Russia RS was fighting on our side in both
t those wars, wars. Daily oklahoman.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-09-23

The origin of how ship caip cam,
to be called "she" can propaOi,
be traced back to the Greek ma
liners who gave their ships fenN
nine names.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-09-23

Ninety per cent Of the people who come
into Magistrates Court are not criminals.
They merely are victims OF our social-eco-
nonic setup and only need our help.-Magis-
trate Maurice Simmons, New York City.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-03-01

Justice of the Peace, Morton Harris
Associate Justice, Harold Sheets
Resolved further, that the con-
gratulations OF this Council are
hereby extended to the following
Scout Masters for having sponsored
the election of junior officials:
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Herbert MINIS
Gaylord Kaufman
Louis Hackbarth
Wendell Tate
Donald Frostic
Continued on Page 49,
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-03-01

I Councilman, William Reeves
Councilman, Gerald Wick,
| Councilman, Robert MeekS
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-03-01

Councilman, Edward Harrison
Councilman. william Mitchell
Councilman, Leslie Reed
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-03-01

City Clerk, David Church
City Treasurer, Morley Hierlihy
City Assessor, John Price
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-03-01

called attention to the fact that DR..
Harris. X-ray technician at the wy
andotte General Hospital. has been
receiving what appears to be ex-
orbitant fees, considering the time
engaged In the work and the service
rendered. I do not have any In
formation In the matter but if the
facts are as stated in the paper /
feel that the editor, Mr.. Gantz. has
done a real service In exposing them.
1t is my recommendation to the
Honorable Mayor and Council that
joint meeting of the Public We'll
fare Commission and the Council he
called by the Mayor in order that We
may be fully informed of the details
Of this matter, including the form
Of contract or other arrangement
under which DR.. Harris Is employed,
the date the arrangement was en-
tered into; the amount he has been
paid during the past year or since
his employment began If less than
year; the amount of time he de-
votes to the Wyandotte General
Hospital, and any other details that
would be of information to this body.
1t is my further recommendation
that this meeting be open to the
public and the press
Respectfully yours.
James H. Mason,
Councilman
Referred to Council
Report Of the Court Clerk of fines,
fees and costs collected by the Wy
andotte Justice Court, in amount of
5000. together with list of pending
cases disposed Of as Of January 81,
l945.
Received and placed on file.
Communication from the State
Highway Department at Lansing,
reporting that the City Of Wyan-
dotte's proportion of 1913 Weight
and Gas Tax refund is $62.583.S0.
Received and placed on file.
Communication from the Mich
igan Liquor Control Commission re-
porting expiration on April 80, 1916
Of 1914 licenses for sale of alcoholic
beverages. and that beginning March
IS, 1915 the commission will start
releasing applications for renewal of
licenses.
Received and placed on file.
Copy of Order to Show Cause and
Notice of Hearing before the Mich
igan Public Service Commission. in
the matter Of the rates and charges
Of Detroit City Gas Company (now
Michigan Consolidated Gas Com
pany).
Referred to City Attorney.
Bills and Accounts
Wyandotte. Mich, Feb. 81. l945
To the Honorable
Mayor and Councilmen
Gentlemen:
The following claims have been
examined. audited and found to be
correct. I therefore recommend that
they be approved and payment
made.
Respectfully.
Ford Wagar, City Clerk
Cities Service Oil Co. IS 3035l