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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-04-04
Interpreting
The War
Nv KIRKE L. SIMPSON

Japanese failure to offer bitter
end resistance to American land
ings on Okinawa is startling.
That key island of the Ryukyu
chain has been so obviously a strx.
tegic pivot of the American am.
phibious advance that Tokyos war
lords can not have doubted that
its seizure was impending. Yet
they failed to meet the invaders at
the beaches. Whatever resistance
still may be encountered, the
battle of Okinawa was lost almost
before it began.
Intercepted radio and press corr.
ment leaves no doubt that in Jap.
anese public opinion loss of Okin-
ava will be construed as fatal
blow, the beginning of the end for
Japan.
With the big central island OF
the Rykyu chain available for
American sea and air bases, as it
certainly will be soon, the close
blockade of the Japanese home
land will be an accomplished fact
Even commune atoms with Japa.
nese armies in China are in easy
range of medium bombers and
submarines.
The war against Japan is turning
corner on Okinawa. Its seizure
finally will seal off the whole
South China Sea against japanese
use, leaving by-passed Nipponese
garrisons in the Philippines, the
Dutch Indies and Malaga hope
lessly isolated. 1t will lay open
all the East China Sea, the Yellow
Sea and even the Sea of Japan it.
self to air and sea attack.
Japanese failure to have massed
forces adequate at least long
enough to delay its invasion can
be explained only by sheer lack
of the means to achieve such
concentration. From the moment
Admiral Nimitz signalled his
mighty carrier-borne air armadas
into action against the remnants
of the Japanese fleet in inland
sea hideouts there can have been
no question in the japanese high
command but that Okinawa was
his objective.
If the foe is to make last des-
perate delaying stand anywhere
short of the japanese islands
themselves it would have seemed
certain to be at Okinawa, yet it
did not come. If the reason were
known, it might afford clue to
how long Japan can stand against
the gathering Allied storm in her
home waters and skies.
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New Water Supply

Water from Kings Bluff is flowing through
Wilmington mains
The mere announcement doesn't tell half
the story. Back of it is the fact that water
from Toomer's Creek is out of the mains
And that is something to shout about
The abandonment of TONERS Creek as a
principal source of water supply means that
Wilmington users should not again be requlr-
ed to drink brackish or salty water. 1t means
that plumbing, boilers, automobile radiators
need not again be corroded and subsequently
repaired at heavy expense.
And also it should mean that, with the
greatly increased supply from Kings Bluff
house jewellers may sprinkle lawns and flow
ers without fear of causing a water famine.
The Kings Bluff project represents several
years of careful study, surveys and tests, III
an effort to give the city the best water avail
able in sufficient quantities to meet the needs
of the growing population The site OF the
present intake was selected after federal
state and private business experts had exam
ined all sources and found others lacking jr
some essential quality
A 1000, 0OO- gallon storage reservoir, newly
completed receives the flow Of water from
the 2O-mile pipeline at Hilton Park.
The new service represents one of the great
est forward strides Wilmington has taken in
many years.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-04-04
A Sacrificial Lamb

When the amenities are disposed of the
fact remains that James F. Byrnes is
sacrificial lamb on the altar Of politics.
Favored by his state with seat in the
United States Senate, where he served with
exceptional credit for years, and elevated to
the Supreme Court bench, he resigned this
high position to undertake the tremendous
task of chief mobilizer, to which was SUBJ
sequently added the even greater job OF re-
conversion. Then came the last national po-
litical campaign in which candidates for pres
ident and vice president were to be exploited
and later nominated in national conventions.
Mr. Byrnes was a potential candidate TOR the
vice presidency on the ticket with President
Roosevelt and was widely favored fo- that
position.
An able man in all that he undertook, he
would have done credit to the party which
should have nominated him and been in posi-
ton to occupy the presidential post should
something happen to interrupt Mr.. Rooseveltc
fourth term. But almost at the last moment
President Roosevelt let it be known that he
did not want Mr.. Byrnes to consider a nonina
ton, and with his customary graciousnesS.
Mr.. Byrnes dropped out of the race and re-
turned to his gruelling task in Washington.
If there was deep disappointment in this
turn of events he endured it in silence and
continued to give to the task in hand the
best services he was capable Of rendering
That he would have preferred to retire then
cannot be doubted, but he consented to re-
main in Washington at the behest Of the chief
who had thwarted him earlier, at least until
November, and later on another appeal from
the President, until the European war was
over
From the day he was asked to step aside
in the national campaign, Mr.. Byrnes has
been the Presidents sacrificial lamb. It would
not be far amiss to say "sacrificial goat"
Now he is going home. The only thing about
his resignation that offers a mede Of cheer is
that, in view of his pledge to remain until
Germany was licked, we may take it for
granted that defeat of the Germans is prac-
tically completed.
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Condemned Without Trial

Mrs. Glenn Frank, widow Of the former
president of Wisconsin university, had the
courage to write about college fraternities and
sororities in nationally distributed monthly
magazine, and what she said was not COM
plimentary of these organizations.
Pi Beta Phi ousted her. It does not appear
that Pi Beta Phi took the trouble to learn if
she had properly stated the truth or wilfully
abused it. On the contrary it appears the
sorority condemned her out Of hand and BAN
ished her from its membership, which does
not speak well for Pi Beta Phi.
Replying the sorority's action, Mrs. Frank
declares:
The article / wrote was sincere and true
saw what sororities and fraternities can
do to over-sensitive young persons at the Uni
versity of Missouri, and later when came to
Wisconsin saw these things repeated. There
is too much sorrow, tragedy and heartbreak
when student outside of the exclusive club
cannot enjoy its membership
In the circumstances, and in all fairness
Pi Beta Phi could have served its own in
terest better, it would seem, if it had looked
a little deeper into her charges.
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The Literary Guidepost

Johnny Appleseed among others
and also the Eleazar Williams "ro
was popularity supposed to be ne
lost Dauphin though he
doesn't connect Eleazar with Par
son Williams of Old Deerfield.
He talks about his neighbors,
particular Walter Cakes OF my
30 Acres" who makes touching
short story. And if you're an ami
NAL lover. you'll be fascinated by
the animals that practically took
over his house: goats in the porch
swing, turkey, duck, karakul
lambs, ana of course the boxers.
1t was one of the Bromfield's brutal
boxers thai drew blood on Ger
trude STEMS coffured Basket
once at Senlis.
But every so often Bromfe
pauses in his idyllic account to b.
sorry for us city fellows. This
countrys salvation, he says, is the
land. He thinks practically no.
body, except Bromfield, does right
by agriculture. He even gets lit
tie dogmatic. He's as pessimistlc
as he was couple OF years ago
when he declared that in six
months the people of the country
would be starving. Carthage de-
lenda est, he shouts. I much pre-
ter the bucolic to the Philippe.
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Girl Scout Advisor
To Arrive In City
For Training Course

Miss Elizabeth 1jams, field ad-
wiser for the national Girl Scout
organization, is scheduled to ar.
rive today to conduct Council
Training course and to review
work done by the local organization
during the past year. She intends
to remain here until April 10.
Meetings scheduled t or Miss
Ijams visit in Wilmington INCLUDE:
Wednesday. April 4, Council Execu,
tive committee meeting; Council
Meeting, Thursday, April S, office
an staff committee training;
Program Committee training;
Luncheon at Governor Dudley by
the Leaders association honorlns
Miss Ijams; Friday, April 6, Camp
Committee training; Finance Com
mittee training; luncheon at Ma.
sons on the Sound by the Council
honoring Miss Ijams; Saturday
April 7, Community Cooperation
Committee training; Conference
with local professional staff; Mon
day April 9, Training Committee
conference Troop organization and
Development committee training.
ing
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BY w. G. ROGERS
"Pdeasant Valley" by Louis
Bromfield (Harper; S3).

Some of the best writing Louis
Bremfield has ever done. but it
has to be added, about his only
good writing in a longer time than
l like to think is found in
this new book about his .64-acr,s
Ohio farm and his home "Mala-
bar"
He brought his family from
France, where he'd lived Is years.
mostly in Senlis among his flower
gardens, when war looked Ger
tain. Though he loved the French
people, so close to the land, and
despised 'quacks like the Lavals
and Daladiers," he came home to
the land on which he had played as
a boy.
Aided in part by returns from
fiction sold to the movies, he set
out on large scale to rehabili-
tate the soil. He succeeded, and
now keeps big house and enter
tains in immortal style. He de-
scribes the plan" underlying his
farming venture, though he gives
no account to prove that it. has
paid.
He talks about old timers,
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o support thought Of the parley's postpone

to support thought Of the parley's postpone
ment.
Should Germany quit before April Is it would
be impractical for the leaders Of delegations
tn attend. Their time and thought would be
too greatly in demand at home.
Also, and Importantly, there is psychologl-
cal reason to be considered. Members, and
particularly leaders, of delegations cannot be
expected to give their best to the tasks that
will confront the conference, with Europe so
disturbed and the enemy on the verge Of de-
feat. Even if the conference should be opened
there would be too many distractions to permit
the members to put their minds exclusively
on the program before them.
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that there are only dim lights. The
food is good. We get news every
morning in a mimeographed paper
and once or twice day the ships
officers broadcast the latest nsWs
over the loudspeaker.
They've kept us informed daily
of the progress of the Okinawa
bombardment that preceded our
landing. Every little bit of good
news cheers us. The ship, of course
is full of rumors, good and pad,
but nobody believes any of them.
Meetings are held daily among
the officers to iron out last minute
details of the landing. Day by day,
the marine troops are fully briefed
on what they are to do.
Everything we read about Oki-
nawa stresses that the place is
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-04-04
Daily Prayer
FOR UNION IN PRAYER

Our hearts whisper Thy holy
Name, o Lord Most High, and the
names Of those we love who have
gone forth to fight for freedom.
May they and we meet today at
thy Mercy Seat; and wilt thou
there fulfill for us all the deep de-
sires of our souls, for ourselves,
for our Country, for our Allies and
for Humanity. Bestow upon us, as
a sustaining spirit boon, a con-
seriousness of the great fellowship
of prayer of which we are a part.
May we realize that men and wom'
en- and little children, of all creeds
and classes and conditions, are
every day lifting UP hearts OF sup
plication to Thee, the one God
over all, blessed forever. In this
vast unity may our faith be
strengthened and our prayers pre-
vail. Amen. - w. T. E.
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Your War; With Ernie Pyle

lousy with snakes. It's amazing the
number of people who are afraid
Of snakes. Okinawa snake talk
crops into every conversation.
On the last day we changed our
money into newly manufactured
invasion yen," drew two days K
rations, took a last bath, and pack
ed our kits before supper. We had
a huge turkey dinner and, say, we
have steak and eggs for breakfast.
"Fattening US up for the kill, -
the boys laughingly say.
At 3 O. clock on the last afternoon
there was a celebration of the
Lords Supper. 1t was the after
noon before Easter Sunday. A lot
of us could not help but feel the
tragic irony of it, knowing about
tomorroW's battle.
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WITH THE AEF:
Mules And Mountains

could have a dancing partner, but
it's difficult in small French
towns to get that many girls out
at night.
So company commanders 1t.
Eugene Bacon of Memphis, Tenn,
and 1t. Clarence Grant of Mime
apolis, Mimi, had the town crier
announce the big event in the
courthouse and invite everyone.
SITS. Leonard Sc DINA of
Springfield, Ohio, and Henry Him.
merck of Rogers, N. D., rustled
up plenty of chow and Sgts. Mike
Kusiak of Upper Middletown, Pa,
and Clel, Clark of Litchfield, KY,
baked 1000 doughnuts. Word of
these preparations spread around.
On the big night, the infantry
men found plenty of girls there
plus most of the towns mamas
and papas, grandmothers and
grandfath baby sisters and
brothers, and a few dogs and cats.
It wasn't just the way the boys
had figured it but a good time
was had by all.
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Ply LEW HAWKINS
Substituting For
Konnofh 7. nivonl

AAsAlACGA LIZ DkAVAJ
WITH THE U. S. SEVENTH
ARMY. -lR-After weeks of fight
ing in the rugged, wooded Hardt
mountains, the And Tank Divi-
sion's nickname should be chang
ed from Rainbow Division to
Rainbow Mountain Division" or
perhaps Rainbow Mule Divi-
sion"
About $50 battlewise mules help
ed fight the war up and down the
roller-coaster slopes and these
four footed veterans of Italian
campaigns sold themselves to
their new chauffeurs.
Pvt. Charlie Averz from Rus
sellville, Ark, where mules are
mules, said, "Jocko is a fine mule
-gentlest animal I ever ran
across"
Pfc. Raymond Luhman handled
horses and mules back on his
farm home near Natoma, Kans..
but he never had to maneuver the
critters on the perpendicular be-
fore and lamented, cts just
about impossible to keep their
packs on going up some of these
straight-up slopes. If I don't figure
out a way right quick this mule S
going 20 lose confidence in me-"
Pvt. Richard Rainier of Ludlow
KY, reported, IT find this Joe
as easy to handle as jeep ex-
cept for one thing-he don't mind
mortars, he don't mind artillery,
and he likes rifle fire but he's got
a terrible complex about bridges.
Otherwise this mountain work is
his dish.''
Staff Sergeant Robert feathers
of Cisne, ILL.,, is going to be very
unpopular with Army humorists.
The 45th Division non com had
been acting as platoon guide, pla-
toon sergeant, and platoon leader
for several days with Pfc. Allan
Conoway of Calf, as his only
helper.
One night Conoway didn't wake
Leathers for the night shift, let
ting him sleep through. So the
next morning the sergeant prepar-
ed breakfast for the private and
served it to him in bed.
Members of the kitchen crew of
'I'' company in the 18th Infan-
try surprised Sgt. Zeke Jones of
Tatum, N. M, with a birthday
cake and a party the other day.
"And I really was surprised"
said Zeke, because my birthday
isn't until late next fall.''
&c" and 'H' companies of the
Third Divisions Seventh Regi-
ment wanted to have a party with
plenty of girls 50 that each man
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he demands a special service, it is required
of them only because it cannot be abandoned.
This must be true, else he would not be
leading his Army triumphantly straight across
the waist of Germany, to cut the country
squarely in two.
The melefactor of yesterday is today's hero.
Strange indeed are mortal emotlons.
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BY ERNIE PYLE

OFF THE OK1NAWA BEACH
HEAD-(by Navy radio)-This is
the last column before the invasion.
1t is written aboard a troop
transport the evening before we
storm onto Okinawa.
We are nervous Anybody with
any sense is nervous on the night
before D-Day. You feel weak and
you try to think of things, but your
mind stubbornly drifts back to the
awful image of tomorrow. 1t drags
on your soul and you have night
mares.
But those fears do not mean any
lack of confidence. We will take
Okinawa. Nobody has any doubt
about that. But we know we will
have to pay for it. Some on this
ship will not be alive "a hours from
now.
We are in convoy. Many, many
big ships are lined up in columns
with our warships escort on the
outsides. We are an impressive
sight-yet we are only one of many
similar conveys.
We left from many different pla
ces. We have been on our way
many days. We are the biggest,
strongest force ever to sail in the
Pacific. We are going into what we
expect to be the biggest battle so
| far in the Pacific.
Our ship is an APA, or assault
transport. The ship itself is war
veteran. She wears five stars on
her service ribbon-Africa, Sicily,
Italy, Normandy and Southern
France. She wears the Purple
Heart, Bronze Star and Legion OF
Merit Silver Star. She has Jared
well on the other side. We hope her
luck holds out in the Pacific.
We are carrying Marines. Some
of them are going into combat for
the first time. Others are veterans
from as far back as Guadalcanal.
They are a rough, unshaven, COM
petent bunch of Americans. I am
landing with them. I feel I am in
good hands.
I've shared a cabin with Marine
Maj. Reed Taylor of Kensington,
Md. He is Guadal vet and he
jokingly belittles newcomers who
weren't through Green He'll" The
major and I are sort of two of a
stripe and we get along fine.
We have the incest cabin either
of us ever had at sea. And we've
taken advantage of it by sleeping
away almost the whole trip. We've
slept day and night So have many
others.
There is a daily argument on
ship whether or not you can store
up sleep and energy for the ordeal
ahead. The doctor says it's nom
since that you can't store up
sleep.
Between maps I've read two
books. They are Bob Hopes IT
Never Left Home chow I wish ]
never hadD and Bob Casey's
''Such Interesting People" Only 1
wish I could hear Bob Casey tell
all those stories in person, lying on
his cot in France and roaring and
shaking with his own laughter.
Bob's laughter would be good for
us now. A marine officer said, II
haven't laughed for three days"
Our trip has been fairly smooth
and not many of the tro3rs were
seasick. Down in the holds the ma
rines s:cep on racks four tiers high.
1t isn't nice way to travel. But
I've never heard anybody COM
plain. They come up on the deck
on nice days to sun and to rest and
to wash clothes, or lie and read or
play cards.
We don't have movies. The ship
is darkened at sunset and after
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MEETING CANCELLED

CHARLOTTE, April 3.-R)-The
annual meeting Of the N. C. State
Optometric society has been can
celled in accordance with ODT,
DR.. E. A. Alexander of Charlotte,
president. said today.
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&c" and III" companies of the
Third Divisions Seventh Regi-
nent wanted to have a party with
plenty of girls so that each man
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W
The Wyoming moose which is reported to
have attacked snowplow and three auto
mobiles is probably just undergoing spring
practice for a bout with a bulldozer
Beef Situation Liquid headline. We pre-
ter ours bit more dehydrated
Premier Kioso of Japan says our forces are
making RECKLESS advances in the Pacific.
That's right, boy, we don't give boot how
many Japs we rundown as we speed toward
Tokyo.
The words gas and ghost according
to our dictionary, are closely related. That S
right-step on the gas too much and you're
liable to become a ghost
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-15

Speaking before round table
discussion conducted by the Ameri.
can Federation of Labor on the need
for "lifting governmental controls"
after the war, Senator Arthur Van
denberg of Michigan said:
"Our traditional idea of indi-
vidual liberty is memory-in moth
balls.
$50 is our traditional concept of
government by law.
"We are far closer now to gov
ernment by executive decree.
But if we are to win the war at
home as we'll as abroad, we must pay
just as much attention to DEMO
BILIZING THE BUREAUCRATS
as we do to demobilizing the army
and the navy"
THE nonessential expenditures of
Il the federal government would be
unwise and inexcusable, if the Ameri-
can people could afford them, which
they cannot.
They are criminally RUINOUS
when they bar the way to full produc-
tion after the war and full employ
ment and the full prosperity and full
happiness of the American people
asthey do.
The American nation is going to
have a tremendous federal tax
burden after the war-entirely and
inevitable and unavoidably due to
the war.
But waste and inefficiency are not
inevitable or unavoidable.
Political padding of federal pay
rolls in wartime or at any time is not
necessary or justifiable.
That is why Congress set up the
joint committee on nonessential ex-
penditures.
That is why the committee recon-
mended the elimination of the vast
federal expenditures it found non
essential.
Plainly, the "demobilization of
the bureaucrats" is not going to be
easy.
But as Senators Byrd and Van
denberg admonish the Congress and
the country, it MUST be done if the
American people are to have the
kind of government that gives them
the opportunity to flourish and be
free.
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-15
Sincerely,
MRS. c. +. YOUNG.
knowledge Test
BY DIR. SABINA CONNOLLY

1-Sweetbreads are from a calf.
What part? (a) liver, CD
tongue, Cc) pancreas.
2-The first secretary of the
treasury was: (a) Alexander
Hamilton, (b) Louis McLane,
(c) Andrew Mellon.
3-If you are nicknamed a Blue
Hen, you probably live in:
(aD Kansas, (b) Tennessee,
(c) Delaware.
4-The oldest son of Abraham
Lincoln graduated from (a)
Yale. tb) Harv (c)
Princeton.
5-Fill the blank: THE time Of
the singing of birds is come
and the voice of the
is heard in our land" (a)
turtle, (b) sheep, (c) camel.
6-Make a choice: (a) Is the
Spirit of '76" painted by
Millet or Willard? (b) Is
The Horse Fair" painted by
Bonheur or Murillo? (c) Is
Washington Crossing the
Delaware painted by Leutze
or Walker? Cd Is Christ
With the Doctors" painted
by Rembrandt or Hofmann7
(e) Is Pilgrims Going TO
Church painted by Bough-
ton or Whistler?
ANSWERS on Opposite Psgeb