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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-08-25
Air Service

At last, after years of effort and disappoint.
ment, Wilmington is to have commercial all
service beginning on Monday, when South East
Airlines will set it's first plane down on the
Carolina Beach runway. The line will operate
within the state only, but will touch points
served by far-reaching lines, so that air travel
from this city to all sections of the country
will be possible.
Stops will be made at Asheville, Gastonia,
Charlotte, Greensboro High Point, Winston
Salem Raleigh, Goldsboro and Fayetteville,
as well as Wilmington
Besides passengers the planes will carry
cargo with packages restricted to twenty-five
pounds, save when special arrangements are
made for heavier shipments.
While the service thus to be started is on
small scale, its potential value is beyond
reckoning. We join the community in welcom-
ing the South East Airlines
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-08-25
UNDERWEAR MAKERS
SEEKING IMMEDIATE
PRICE INCREASES

WASHINGTON, Aug. A.-NR-
Manufacturersof light weight un'
Gerwear demanded lmmeolaN
price relief today, and said SOME
mills will have to close down I'LL
less they get it. 49,.
Roy Cheney, President OF lls
Underwear institute, said in an Il.
terview that OPA had advised III.
manufacturers that higher pfices
could not be granted unless 'ne'
areapproved by economic staoiliA''
William H. Davis. .,
Unless increased ceiling pflces
are granted Immediately, Cheh..
said quite number OF piano
making lightweight underwear,
mems shorts and shirts, women
Danties. etc.-will have to closs
thus further decreasing aValla IN
supplies to civilians. He eStlma.et
that The closing of plants nllsn
throw as many as 10000 persons
our of work. -,
Cheney said he had just rect ;ns
ed reports from 50 mills lnaA ,hai
athletic shir and shorts ana lna.
they were producing 80 per ce.+
Of their items below actual co oon
He added the situation had pe III
aggravated by cancellation OF n..l
tary contracts which hao diio"
the manufacturersto MAXI N
profit and thus offset loSSe' "
civilian production.
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Censorship

Censorship is alphabetically. 1t is doubt
full, however, if fill accounts of what goes
on in Japan will be- available for some time.
The surrender proceedings and incidents at
cized, but the Army, no less than the Navy,
has been so thoroughly inoculated with Sc
crecy that neither is liable to tell ALL or
permit correspondents to do SO if untoward
incidents happen during occupation.
1t will be very easy for public relations
officers to consider that freedom of the press
might effect service policies adversely or pro-
vide opportunity recalcitrant Japanese to
plot further disorders. They have been in this
frame of mind everywhere so long they are
not likely to reverse their viewpoints over
night.
But it is something to have the veil lifted
on order of President Truman and the office
of Byron Price closed out. Editors the country
over have voluntarily observed strict censor
ship rules throughout the entire war period
often when national security was not affected.
This cooperation has been willingly given if.
at times, unnecessarily. Because of this COOP
GRAFTON they will be in a favored position to
make effective complaint in the future if thew
have reason to believe they are being denied
information which in their opinion should be
passed on to their readers.
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A m erican Army Hospital In China
Never Had Enough Of Anything"

the end of the retreat of French
troops from French Indo-China.
Between 1000 and 5000 started
out, but only 1000 of them reached
China, starved, sick and suffer
ing group. One hundred were in
critical condition from fostering
wounds, but only three of the 100
died -.,
French Indo-China officials gave
Leonidoff and his staff citations for
their work, which, with most of
the other citations and banners
in his trophy box, will 60 to the
Army Medical Museum in Wash
ington. A banner presented by the
people of Er-Chung, to whom he
brought medical and public health
service, halls him III Chinese as
''the peoples benefactor."
By arrangement between the
Chinese and U. S. governments, the
station hosp tai gave inferno train
ing to 10 Chinese medical school
graduates and the American staff
found time to supervise and direct
organization and operation of Chi
nese civilian and military dispen-
saries.
Leonidof believes these dispen-
saries and his old hospital will be-
come permanent institutions in a
strong public health program. 1t
already has gwen Chinese women
the area their first prenatal and
post-natal care. Credit for that, he
says, goes to his staff.
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Dangerous Intersection

The fact that three automobile wrecks hap.
day conclusively proves that some action
should be taken oy city authorities to make
the intersection safer for traffic.
When Orange street was through street,
all crossings and for the most part the stop
order was obeyed. Since it has been an open
street the stop signs have been replaced with
slow signs at some intersections including
route for taxicabs bound to and from the
southeastern section of the city and general
traffic is heavy on it because it is paved
further southwark than most streets in the
vicinity, the slow sign at Orange, which also
has heavy traffic load is proving inadequate
If it were sufficient, there would not be these,
three accidents on the police record nor many
another collision and sideswipe to which public
attention has not been called.
If it is not considered advisable to make
Orange a through street again, with all cross
traffic required to stop at intersections along
its length, it would seem to be in the public
interest to place stop signs at Sew
enth and station an officer there to halt Of
tenders until motorists accustomed to travel
ing Seventh, and especially those who ignore
the slow sign, are trained to come to full
stop at Orange and proceed only when they
see that crossing is safe.
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to keep the patient load from out.
growing the facilities of the mud
brick buildings.
I'VE were short of enlisted men
at the hospital" he said. I'VE
never had sufficient nurses. We
needed doctors They worked Until
they could work no longer, then
Topped into bed and were at it
the next day. They had one Sum
day off in two weeks and one week
in our rest camp in four months.
They ran the rest camp while rest
ing there.
But we were better Situated
than most hospitals on China. We
had a river flowing through the
camp, so we had water. 1t was
dirty and polluted, but disable after
beng treated Sometimes the river
flooded and sometimes it was too
low. But many hospitals had no
water for drinking, bathing, cook
ing or other purposes except what
was transported in buckets
Leonidoff had a reputation in the
Army for accomplished scroung-
ing and he had an inventive staff.
His successor, 1t. Col. Charles
Driscoll, former assistant chief of
medicine at Walter Reed in Wash
ington and one of the fine bunch, :"
took over a Well-equipped hospi-
tai.
One of the most pitiful spectacles
he witnessed, Leonidoff said, was
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-08-25
DailyPrayer
FOR WISDOM IN PRAYER

Lord, we know not what WE
should pray for as we ought. e
we come to Thee with the petition
of Thy disciples of old, Lord,
teach us to pray" Teach us to
pray confidingly, sure that Thou
hast an answer of love. Teach us
to pray in reverence, not magni-
flying our own desires above Thy
will. Teach us to pray without
ceasing, so that every impulse of
our hearts, every act of our lives,
is desire directed toward Thee.
Teach us to pray submissively,
ever crying Thy will be done. "
Teach us to pray interestingly, in
behalf of all the needy who are
outside of our personal interests.
Teach us to pray for spiritual gifts,
for others as we'll as for ourselves;
and so to pray for the universal
Church. that she may be equal
to this hour of her visitation. Teach
us to pray for our Nation, and
for all the other nations on earth,
that il this supreme crisis they
may turn their hearts to God
above, seeking His will, and the
peace promised from above. And
In all our prayers, may Thy glory
and Thy vindication be our deepest
desire. Amen.-W. E.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-08-25
By G. M. KELLY

Substituting for Kenneth L. Dixon)
CALCUTTA-(P)-Col. Aleksei A
Leonidoff, U. S. Army doctor, is
on his way home to Poughkeepsie
N. Y, with a trunkful of citations
and the medals OF two governments
Hailed as the peoples benefac.
tor by the Chinese among whom
he worked, Col Leonidoff, in CT
william life medical director of the
St. Francis Hospital in Poughkeep
sic, was commanding officer of q
station hospital near Running anc
laison officer and medical adviser
of the Chinese Army.
The station hospital. he said
never had enough of anything ex
cept hard work. But he's willing
to match it's death rate of 1.3 pei
!, 1000 cases against that of any
other Army hospital.
"Our death rate was low frs
of all, l suppose, because we were
mighty lucky" he said, but sec
ondly because it was run by a won
derful team. That whole overWork.
ed staff is a fine bunch"
Leonidoff says nothing of his own
role in finding spare time to SCI
UP the foundations of a public
health program in China. All the
credit goes to 1.-The BUNCH and
he talks for hours of how the staff
labored to exhaustion, forgetting
the clock in the constant struggle
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-08-25

across the heavens. II in addition some states
choose to perpetuate daylight saving time and
others decide to abide by the SUMS course,
the confIson that prevailed in that other era,
which seems SO long ago now, will be revived.
The world got along so well and so long on
sun time, and daylight saving never actually
effected the reforms and economies it was
supposed to create, it is not unreasonable to
think that Congress will decide Old Sol the
best arbitor of the days flight.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-08-25
LETTER BOX
JAPANS RISE AND FALL


Commodore Perry penetrated ia.
pan in 1858, with a Naval force,
which, today, would not flush
flock of ducks. He opened the door
without firing a shot, but many
corks were pulled, the results of
which were heard around the world
and noted the rise of an Empire.
Perry negotiated with a bewild-
cred and hesitant group, who spoke
no English or knew foreign eti-
qutette. AS hermits, they had not
been permitted to inquire, imi-
tate or even invent, but like bees
ouzzed for centuries in an intri.
cat and Interchangeable ritual, a de.
parture from which might mean
death. Their first break with their
ancestors was in adopting or imi-
tating the corkscrew as an instu.
ment OF international intercourse,
always observing due regard for
the Intervals between drinks pre-.
crlbed by the governors of North
and South Carolina.
Until the adoption of a consti-
tuition in 1889, the head of each
family governed and banded its
members. Villages and cities had
no ordinances, states or provinces
had no statutes. The nation was
ruled by custom or common law,
as immutable and unchangible as
the laws of the Modes and Per-
SLAMS.
Their foreign Office and embas-
sizes were not stated with natives
able to deal with Western nations,
until after 1900, and for years after
letters and speeches were edited
and usually written by advisors.4
An able Amer: can served in the
foreign office for twenty years and
later a British lawyer was en-
gagged.
Military madmen dropped an pi-
lots ten years ago, ignored the ad-
vice OF friends, and gave the sig
nal for full steam ahead to de-
and now the fierciest light
that ever beat upon a throne will
be turned on the obsequies over
misguided Empire, whose future
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so THEY SAY

FUTURE international peace can only travel
on a road paved with streamlined international
trade.-H J. Wolner, United Nations
Standards Co-ordinating Committee, New
York
There was steady bureaucratic growth be-.
fore the war, and there is evidence now that
the bureaucrats will hold onto the government
like leeches unless extraordinary efforts are
made to pry them 1oose.-Olympia, WASH
Olympian.
Now we hope that after the cessation OF
monstrous killing and massacre that hatred
will cease together with ambition for domina-
ton and oppression of the weak.-Pope Plus
XII
GERMANY has always been able to make
war on its neighbors because its big business
was in close partnership with its INSCRIPTIONS
Governments That partnership will not happen
again.-Jackson, Mich Citizen Patriot
IF we can get them (war veterans) home
and Give them jobs, that's all most of them
want-Gen. Omar N. Bradley, Veterans Ad:
ministrator
Whatever others may do, let's keep the
11n;ted states of America democratic and make
II work.-Lynchburg, Va, News.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-08-25
BY w. G.. ROGERS
Florestan: The Life and Work of
Robert Schumann by Robert

Haven Schauffler holt. $3.75b
Some of the stars in the bright
crown OF Clara Week, pianist-wife
of Robert Schumann, are torn out
in this moving biography OF the
great German composer.
Clara owes her immaculate re.
noWn to romanticists who glorified
the deep love of the crotchety
music teachers daughter and the
"nine fingered Schumann In
jlred by unwise practicing, Schu
mann gave up the concert stage
fer composition.
During his lifetime his reputa
ton never quite caught up witt,
hers nor for that matter did her
erudition and sensitivity ever eaten
llp with his. Royalty invited her
more than once without including
MIN.
It is true that she defied her
father for the sake Of Robert, it
is also true, Schauffler believes,
that she was unaithful to him at
the end, when he was in an asylum
and she and the youthful and ar.
dent Johannes Brahms went on a
five day hiking trip along the
Rhine. 1t was into that river that
the tortured husband had thrown
his wedding ring.
Schumann in his prime was one
of the most perceptive of critics;
he conducted badly his music,
this biographer charges rightly,
lis not so widely appreciated as it
deserves to be-" A considerable
part of the volume is given over
to an analysis of the Germans
compositions.
He was born in 1910 his first
published work appeared when he
was 20. For a decade he did al
most wholly piano pieces: then
songs for year and for the rest
Of his life, symphonies, chamber
music and choral works.
Schauffler credits the composer
with great originality, a classic re-
straint upon his romantic nature.
a passion both virile and chaste.
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The Literary Guidepost

He did much to help his contem-
poraries Chopin, Berlioz and
Brahms, and revived the appre-
citation of Bach and Beethoven.
The biographer closes his de-
tailed study with a quotation from
Robert de Launay: No music, mot
even that of Beethoven, is more
winged with love, more human,
more rare"
This valuable contribution tc
music literature has Illustrations
list of Schumann's compositions
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-08-25
Japanese Losses

No person with normal human instincts can
gloat over the death of 100000 and the wound
ing of 412,000 Japanese by our air attack on
mortal can fail to know that Japan brought
the terrific toll upon herself nor fail to realize
that if Japan had been successful in her war
of conquest and the peace treaty were to be
signed in the White House instead of aboard
the battleship Missouri, the Japanese being
barbarians would nave slain as many and
probably more Americans in cold blood and
wasted our cities with a ruthlessness that not
even the destruction caused by those atomic
bombs could compare.
The Tokyo radio which broadcast the figures
here cited obviously is making a belated bid
for sympathy and considering her economic
breakdown, for aid as we'll While it is prob
able that the Allied forces of occupation will
do something to relieve the suffering of non
combatant Japanese, it is only fair that they
be shown they deserve no sympathy and any
relief is outright charity.
Nor should they be permitted to overlook the
fact that it cost America and her Allies the
lives of thousands among their armed forces to
defeat her, that the victory can be paid Tor
only through many. years of heavy taxatlor
and that the war which she preclpltated In
the Pacific had a serious effect upon our ma
tional economy. The fact is, Japan should be
giving thought to the reparations she must
pay, instead of sentimental appeals for sym
pathy over her losses, which stem solely from
her lust for conquest.
I don't think any university in this cou1-
try can be neutral as far as religion is con-
cerned.-Dr Sidney Lovett, chaplain, Yale
University.
It is indeed a heartening sign for the future
of worldwide aviation when thousands OF
transatlantic flights can be made almost as
uneventfully as going to work in the morn
ing-and, on the average, probably a good
bit more safey.-Bisbee, Ariz., Review.
Waste paper has played big part in our
success.-Adml. William F. Halsey.
The food shortage is like the panic OF
20. We have everything to make us prosper
GUS except the. sense to use it-Grand Rap
ids Mich, Press.
Man is at last well on the way to mastery
OF means of destroying himself utterly
with the atomic bomb .-Manchester Eng
land. Guardian.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-08-25
MAJOR HARRIS NAMED

CHERRY POINT, Aug. 24-MaE
Dwight L. Harris has been appoil,
ed regular duty special selV! .;on
officer at the Marine AIT o'a'v w.
here, with Capt. Kenneth IT, w. .s.t
caster, who formerly acted III w.. W.,
position, named as assistant 'p'
cial service officer.
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course will be through the p'"sl
of peace and under brave 49,
wise American pilot. ali
Lindsay RusssD
Wilmington, N. c. j,
Aug. "a. 1915
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-08-25
MEN
MOSTLY PREFER
MYSTERY YARN,
BY, BY RICHARD o'MAr1pu

- A i! oRD ADMIRAL Mor,
Notes SonsS aho9rS OFF JAPAN~-N4s5Ss
Making quick surra,.
G thet the reading ding at sea, It s ON ts1
Gus in their choice, Iss. omnivon
ever ever, t; toward whodunn nitins' "a aoH'
laole in one room, tho e., On
reading material w,s s'e 1ollowiu,
Bullock's Report to 'D i|a
holders--evidently the r IT'S Stock.
a.d 1arseeing pilot with D an a Of
pro1l'; a volume on gin Nr r,,e eye TO
book on--of all thing s'' - lon my
5 1nls particular place = " WIN. IND in
Nv Two copies of Gene 'SSentng:
tive mystery yarns. i''e' and
IN the pilots ready room.
magazines vie with m,,rd 's comic
terles for honor. l0ef mys.
ad Something n ought to be don. =.
get new movies for the bows o o4 10
Most of the pictures are So at al sea-
clothlng worn by tAe actors i jS he
out of style and when oo ~ way
new new as six months out Of Hen as
Wooa comes along, the bows 'l Oss-
SNOW It over and over again, s S1'ea
subjects are really hoary, such 1lV 1T
comedies of the old Mack s soa as
variety but this sometimes se t,,uss
out to be amusing as the sn ,nus
tors join in the dialogue. # m;a ID
be explained at this point that atils gu
moves are shown for aviators VIC
small ready rooms on non.con,h. III
oays ana are not an everyday o..
"hen this ship is not BUSY il,
1orecastle, after Chow, looks ELa
lhe front porch of fraterni,r
house in peacetime as mon oa H
gregate to smoke and talk. There.,
one big difference, though uo,s
the boys look at flying fish instead
of co-eds.
When the lonesomest jobs Of tb;,
war are written up, six enlisted
men on this ship will stand 2 vorr
good chance of being in the van.
guard.
It's the job of these six men
to go down to the nethermost por.
ton of this ship in shaft alIey'
where the big propeller shafts
whirl. They are called upon 70
hurry there during battle action
and to stay for hours on end all
alone in the pit of the ship.
"Shaft Alley is definitely not a
place 1or comfort. There are &C.
tually two SHAFT alleys" where
shafts or two big propellers run.
The place is about 60 feet long
with the overhead so low an Or.
binary man has to walk stopped.
Once inside, the hatch is battened
down. In the gloomy light the only
noise is the whine of the shaft as
it turns the big screws. The men
feel completely shut off from the
rest of the ship and from the rest
of the world.
Between these six men and the
ocean is the "skin'' of the snip and
above them a whole floating city
goes on about its business of max.
ing war. In charge of these men
is Ensign William T. Higgs, Cleve
land Heights, O., who started out
to be a flier and ended up in en-.
CINE room service. These are this
carriers six shaft alley men;
J. G. Cuperus, fireman &c,
Grandville, Mich; J. c. Michaels,
fireman &c, Portsmouth, Va, j.
lC. Paddock, &c, San Francesca
H M. Spencer, machinest mate
SC, Richmond, Kas.; E. c. Dav'
is. machinist's mate SC, Burbank
is. D.: and V. J. Merlin, mac1T'
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TOP o, THE MORNING

Above all do not resent temptation
That is your practice. That is the practice
which God appoints you; and it is having
its work in making you patient, and
humble, and generous, and unselfish,
and kind, and courteous.
Henry Drumm0nd
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-08-25

Before Commodore Perry visited
Japan, Yokohama was fishing
village of 100 families.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-08-25

Editors no!e.-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
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-08-25

When this ship is not busy il,
1orecastle, after Chow, looks HEs 10
the front porch of a fraternitr
mouse In peacetime as men con
gregate to smoke and talk Tbero.,
one big difference, though. He,s
the boys look at flying fish instead
of co-eds. '"'
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1945-09-15

broadcast planting, although
broadcasting followed by light
discing and cultipacking gives good
results; all small grains should be
cultipacked Immediately after
seeding.
For grain production seeding
should be during the month of Oc-
tober( at the rate Of two bushels
per acre for oats; IA bushels per
acre for wheat; 11a bushels per
acre for rye or barley. Seedlings
later than October will be more
subject to winter killing If these
crops are to be winter grazed, they
should be seeded in early Septem-
Der at the rate of 100 pounds per
acre.
In planning an oat-production
program, at least two varieties of
different maturity dates should be
planted. The Fulgrain strains are
early but make low yields. Victor
grain natures at mid-season yields
well, has stiff straw, and combines
well. Baylis, Nortex 107 and Delta
Red 88 are all from Red Rustproof
strains. They are late maturing and
produce heavy straw. Any of these
varieties lodge considerably, but
the break occurs several inches
above the ground and it is possible
I to get the combine header low
enough to get most of the grain.
For grain production, oats will
outyield the other small grains
with wheat second, barley third,
and rye last.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1945-09-15
Good Seed Bed,
Good Seed Are
Small Grain Must :

Good seed bed preparation, pure
seed, moderately early seeding, and
nitrogen fertilization are essentials
to small grain production listed by
P. w. Gull, agronomist for the Del
ia Branch Experiment Station, at
.Stoneville.
Although good seed bed prepara-
ton and adequate surface drain
age are necessary for satisfactory
stands, deep blowing is not neces-
sary, thinks Mr.. Gull and may even
be harmful.
Two or three inches of finely
pulverized soil on the surface, with
the soil below firm or undisturbed
makes an ideal seed bed. Seeding
with a grain drill is preferable to
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1945-09-15

trio by Misses Matte Rec Smith,
Earline and Beatrice Martin. Title
of the son kas Sometimes"
Inspiring words were spoken by
Madam Gray of New Orleans and
Mother Lefferide of this city.
Miss Ophelia D. Smith was pi-
anist for the occasion, accompanied
by Mrs. Clara Gibson Jones.
Mrs. Lille More and Celia Nor
ris, Directors.