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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-01-09
BY w. G.. ROGERS
"Cannery Row." by John
Steinbeck Viking: 81.

The Steinbeck of "Tortilla Flats, :"
not of THE Grapes of Wrath, f."
comes back to us in this odd, abb
sorbing book. "Cannery Row. is
neither novel nor short story, but
perhaps principally a painting.
In the authors words, the Row
itself, in Monterey, Calf, is both
"a stink" and "a dream" these
are not the only monosyllables
spoken by >Steinbeck's colorful
characters. The book centers on
Doc, who runs Western Biological
Laboratory; the personages who
surround him are as peculiar and
unaceountable as the frogs, octopi
and rattlesnakes kept as speci-
mems in jars and cages. It is Doc,
Tor whom everyone wants to do
something mice" who unites the
community and who indeed serves
to make unit of the book.
There are some very ENJOYABLE
passages: The way Doc finally
works himself up to the point OF
buying 4 beer milk shake: the
mechanic who went off to hunt for
a spare part for a broken-down
auto and was gone just 10 days;
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-01-09
THOUGHT FOR TODAY

The following notice was posted in an
American mess hall: "American soldiers
are requested please to be little more
careful in their choice of language, especi-
ally when natives are assisting them in I'M
loading ships, trucks, and in erecting
abodes. American missionaries spent
many years among us and fought us the
use of clean speech. Every day, however,
American soldiers use bad words, and the
good work your missionaries did in our
midst is being undermined by your care
less profanity" This notice was signed by
a talking chief Of the Polynesian tribe
on Guadalcanal.
DAN T. CALDWELL.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-01-09
The Literary Guidepost

the way to get even with youf
bank if it doesn't keep YOU ac'
counts straight.
There are some absorbing pal"
sages, too, particularly the incl
dent of the Waterman William
who bumped himself off with an
ice pick because of the look in the
Greek cooks eyes-though if
suicide can be something less
than grisly, this one is. You will
be interested to learn what must
be regarded as the true account
OF the disposal of Josh Billings
remains; and it will be long time
before you forget the little boy
whose father was dead and whose
many "uncles" kept coming to see
his mother and giving him a nickel
to clear out.
1t is really as painting, seen
all at once, that "Cannery Rev
can best be described. It all begins
in Lee Chong's grocery. 1t ends at
the party staged for Doc-ths
party which might have been the
end OF Doc, too. But it is as pat
tern that you think of it after
ward isn't a climax, but a focus
OF interest. You don't much care
what will happen on the next page
because you are too absorbed by
the page you are reading.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-01-09
By KENNETH L. DIXON

IN BELGIUM, Jan. 6-Delay-
ed -tR- That part of pink and
blue pajamas has done it again
for Capt. Albert E. Milloy of Hat
tiesburg, Miss, a paratrooper. So
it's about time to tell their story
of charm.
1t should be explained that tae
pajamas are charmed-not charm
ing-although, on the other hand,
l certainly have no intention of
making any snide remarks about
any paratrooper' wearing apparel.
They may be charming to MIN,
but that's strictly a personal mat
ter.
Anyhow, Albert has fought this
war for a couple of years in some
half dozen different lands which
is enough to make the ordinary
guy slightly superstititious, if not
more SO. And paratroopers gen.
orally are considered somewhat
extraordinary in the matter of liv-
ing on luck.
A member of the 82nd Airborne
Division, Captain Milloy now is
helping buck back the German
bulge into Belgium, which is
where the most recent incident oc-
curred-but that's getting ahead
of the story.
Back in FIT. Benning, Ga, in
what now is known to members of
the 82nd as 1.-The old country" Al
bert received this pair of paja-
mas from Miss Frances Barron,
a Hattiesburg girl who, according
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-01-09
DISC Orders Expenditure
OF 10 Billions For War

WASHINGTON, Jan. 8.-(P)-The
Defense Supplies Corp, an RFC
subsidiary, has authorized war pro-
gram expenditures of $40, $50, O0O,'
900, it announced today.
Of that sum, Jesse Jones, secre-
tary of Commerce said in state
ment, $500, 100000 has been cam
celled or assumed by private in
dustry.
The DISC operations cover the
purchase of strategic and critical
materials, the payment of subsidies
on meat, butter, flour, oil from
stripper wells, aluminium rod and
bar, woodpulp and extraordinary
transportation costs; loans and
advances to contractors in con-
nection with the purchase of ma
terials; and other war necessary
activities.
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War Bond Buying Record

New Hanover county has established another
War bond buying record, thanks to the thor
ough efforts Of its leaders in this field of pa
trlotlc endeavor and the many thousands of
extra bond purchasers who dug down deeper
than ever before
During the Sixth War Loan drive residents
OF the county invested 1926, 522 in all bond
issues. This figure set an all time mark for
War Loan campaigns here and represented 18O
per cent of the 1866, 900 goal and ia per cent
of the Series E quota.
The educational features of the Sixth cam
paign were carried out exceptionally well with
the thought impressed on everyone, time and
time again, that the War bond is America $
best investment today. While special events
were not as numerous in previous drives,
we believe general emphasis on the great
the past.
We agree with E. A. Laney co-chairman
in that first commentator for the excellent
showing goes to the individual buyer, to the
hard working group leaders and personnel in
war plants and other business enterprises. Out
standing among the latter was the North Caro-
Ina Shipbuilding company, winner of h e
Treasury departments Minute Man Flag and
IT. in the early days of bond sales efforts.
The comment of J. G. Thornton the other
co-cl airman, that New Hanover county has
come through with effort in keeping with
it's tradition of measuring up to calls made
upon it, deserve inclusion in summarizing the
recent campaign.
Meantime don't let up in your War bond
buying because the campaign is over Money
to finance the wa~ effort is needed as badly
today as at the very start of the great conflict
and the best source is through the War Bond
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-01-09

to Albert, has brown hair and
makes the average pinup girl
look puny''
Came the morning when he was
scheduled to make his first jump
there. He oversight. Rudely aWak-
ened at the last minute, he pulled
pair of coveralls over his paja-
mas and, thus attired a short time
later, he yelled, Geronimo" and
hit the silk.
The jump was successful. Not
being one to crack such an obvi-
Gus omen of good fortune in the
teeth, Milloy promptly made the
pajamas permanent part OF his
jumping apparel.
Since then, he has donned the
pajamas before jumping into at
least six countries including Sicily,
Italy and Holland. He has spent
275 odd days in combat and has
had more close calls than any
six men could be expected to sur
vive He gives the pajamas all
the credit.
Shortly after the Salerno jump,
1855 nm shell struck squarely
in the roof of his dugout. 1T was
nice life while it lasted" groan-
ed Albert to a sergeant lying
alongside him in that split second
as they awaited the blast. But it
was dud.
At the Anzio beachhead, the pa
jamas were frayed and worn, but
still their magic worked. Three
times there, Albert had houses
collapse on top of him from she'll
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-01-09
so THEY SAY

Love of home is not necessarily connected
WITH the house. Americans move often and
may attach their home feeling almost di-
rectly to their furniture or car.-"Brides Guide
To the u. S. A. booklet distributed to Ameri-
can soldiers wives in England.
Although it is important that the returning
veteran fit into the economic sysem and be
able to support himself, it is far more i'm
portant that he be able as citizen to contri
butte to the solution of the great problems which
the country VIII face in the next generation,
This is the object of liberal education.-D~
Robert Maynard Hutchins. president of U. of
Chicago.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-01-09
Washington Calling
By Marquis Childs

break-through. He said it mad been
stopped, while headlines the same
day reported another Nazi often
sive which threatened some of the
hardest won gains around Stras-
bourg.
If the message had a thin sound,
leaning heavily on congratulations
it may well have been because of
the uncertainties of the moment,
Before very long, the President is
going to meet with the other two
partners of the grand alliance
fighting the European war. They
are going to have to try to end
some of the tnorny controversies
that have recently been aired in
public.
Obviously, the President feels
that no good is served by discus
sion in advance of these contro-
versies. He said as much when he
urged patience and forbearance in
the face of inevitable differences.
But senators critical of the alb
sence of any definition of Ameri-
can policy are not likely to ac-
cept the Presidents advice. Sena-
tor Vandenburg of Michigan, a for
mer isolationist who has gone
peace, has become increasingly I'M
easy and correspondingly critical
of the drift toward what seems on
the surface, at least, to be a re-
vival of the old jealousies and RI
valries.
Criticism at this moment is, of
course, cheap luxury. 1t is one
thing to talk, and another thing to
have to try to find the answers to
the problems that face a bewilder-
ed and tragically muddled world.
The President said ne would send
to Congress separate message
dealing with the need for ''univer-
sal military training" in this coun-
try after the war. In the light of
the urgent tasks ahead of Congress,
it would seem that this could
wait.
When he returned to Washington
for the start of the new Congress,
Minority Leader Joe Martin OF
Massachusetts, made the point that
the ten or eleven million men now
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-01-09
BY MARQUIS CHILDS

WASHINGTON, Jan. - While
Congress may not vote National
Service legislation as IS
by President Roosevelt in his mes.
sage on the State of the Union, the
probability is for some form OF
work or fight" law that would
grant powers to compel men to
work in war plants.
Many Republicans appear to be
skeptical of National Service legls-
lation as such. They are reluctant
to hand over any such sweeping
authority to the Roosevelt admins
tration. They feel that adequate
use has not been made of the pow.
ers already exising.
But if, in the course of hearings,
a strong case is made that Ameri;
can soldiers will be handicapped
by scarcity of the weapons of
war, then a large majority of both
Republicans and Democrats are
likely to go along with a compul-
sorry labor bill.
OIlG QdllSSI Is tlldI II may lloV E
a strong anti-labor animus; a car
'y-over of the bitterness stirred
during the election campaign. If
the legislation takes that form, I'M
der the spur of the coalition OF
Southern Democrats and Northern
Republicans. it could conceivably
do more harm than good. For it
would chiefly serve to fan the
quarrel over labor, strikes and
mass unionism, and that is a quar-
rel which we can scarcely take
time off to resolve in the midst Of
war.
In asking for National Service leg
islation the President took a mod
crate line, relying, as he did in a
similar plea last year, on the ap-
peal of the secretaries of War and
Navy. The request for a National
service act followed review of
the course of the war which SEEM
ed to squeeze out more optimism
than the present situation would
justify.
Or, to put it another way, the
President seemed to gloss over
the significance of the German
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-01-09
Plain Talk

Some people have complained, not without
justice, that War Mobiizer Byrnes did not
90 far enough toward urging an about war
effort in his first report to the President Con-
g~ess and the American people. But at least
he delivered up some plain and candid talk
q commodity which at times has seemed to
be rationed in the District of Columbia
Mr.. Byrnes brought the current picture of
our national economy into proper focus, avoid
ing the rosy light Of our August optimism and
the deep shadows of panicky December de-
spair. In that focus first things came first.
Reconversion, long overemphasized, was not
condemned or BACKED out, but scaled in pro-
per proportion to the paramount need of war
production
Mobilization and manpoWer, sterilization
and initiation, taxes, labor relations agricul-
ture. contract termination, surplus property
these and other war-born or War-aggravated
problems received a generally fortnight treat
ment In fact, Mr.. Byrnes touched on almost
eve~y vexing subject except foreign relations
And that subject was taken up by President
Roosevelt at his press conference that day
after the Byrnes report was made public.
general sort of way He was arch and banter
ing with the assembled press as is his fre-
quent custom.
He told the reporters that differences among
the great powers, important or unimportant
we're necessary. He said there was no way
To bring Russia, Britain and the United States
anv closer except to install their governments
in a common capital.
He suggested that one should avoid loud
talk on differing Interpretation OF common
principles of policy, just as one should avoid
loud talk about a persons individual lnterpre-
+s+on Of III. Ten Comm andments. But he did
,.ot reveal anv specific reactions to recent
crises in Europe
Premier Stain has been specl1lc on occa-
sion, notably in regard to YugoslaVla ana 70
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-01-09
WITH THE AEF
A Saga OF Pink And Blue Pajanas

ings and various things. His hair
got mussed.
Another time, he was sitting at
a command post when an armor-
piercing shell came in one Win
dow and went out another without
hurting him. Some say it even
whisked cigaret out of his mouth.
but others say he dropped it.
Holland put another patch on
the pajamas, but none on Albert.
Most of the time overseas, Cap
tain Milloy commanded C Com
pany of the 504th which had the
lowest casualty rate in the regi-
ment. When he was transferred to
another company, they begged him
to leave his miraculous pajamas
hanging in Company C's orderly
room.
Gently, but firmly, Albert ex-
planned that Frances had given
those pajamas to him - and nat
he would as soon leave his right
arm nailed to the wall as those
threadbare pajamas.
In Belgium, the charmed pajamas
continued to pull Captain Milloy
through although he commanded
another company. During one in
tense barrage, he dived under an
enemy ammunition truck. 1t
caught direct hit from an Amer
lean tank destroyer just as he
LANDED under it.
The ammunition and truck went
sky-high. Albert? He got a scratch
on the hand.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-01-09
Interpreting
The War
BY KIRKE L. SIMPSON
Associated Press War Analvs


For the first time since the batn.
of the Belgian bulge was started
in mid-December by Nazis, event,
elsewhere in the global war lend.
ed to displace that conflict j,
American observer interest.
Japanese broadcasts filled %bs
air with graphic tales of the onse,
of the battle of Luzon in the PhjHn.
pines. They told without other CON,
firmation Of massive American air
and sea fleets battering at the
Lingayen Gulf approaches TO the
broad plains that lead southwark
to Manila Bay.
Huge American troop and sun.
ply conveys also were reported by
the japanese to be converging ia.
ward the gulf for landing assaults
Pending American confirmation,
these Nipponese accounts cannot be-
accepted at face value. They cover
significant sequence of develoo.
ments leading up to American rein.
vasion of Luzon, even if they prov.
premature so far as actual LANDING
operations or the sites picked for
them are concerned.
Every American move by Ad.
miral Nimitz or General MacArtb.
ur was pointed toward a far earlier
opening OF the campaign to re.
occupy that pivotal advance base
for pushing the war against Japan
than was deemed possible only
weeks ago. If it actually has begun
now as Tokyo insists, it is tacit
Japanese admission that once
boosted Nipponese sea power al.
ready has been reduced to virtual
impotency.
Lingayen Gulf lies all but in the
shadow of the japanese sea and
air staging base, Formosa, To ap.
proach it with fleets and conveys
of the size the japanese reported
would, in the face of substantial
enemy sea or air power based at
Formosa, invite disaster. 1t could
not be risked unless American
leadership was fully aware both
of the strength and disposition Of
what remains of the japanese fleet
and utterly confident from previous
experience of plotting out Formosa
as an effective stationary plane
carrier.
Previous American air forays
over Lingayen Gulf have disclosed
the presence there of too much
enemy merchant tonnage to doubt
that Tokyo has been making every
effort to strengthen the Luzon gar
rison. A Japanese intimation that
der to strike at relatively weakly
Of no less than ten divisions TO et-
feet substantial Judgement there
implies massed enemy land forces
in the Lingayen area. But it is
safe to say that General Mac.
Arthur, from Philippine sources,
has far better information as to
enemy dispositions on Luzon than
he has chosen to reveal.
In his sweep up from New
Guinea, General Macarthur has
every time succeeded in achieving
substantial degree of tactical
surprise both in selection of the
sites for his amphibious ap-
proaches and in timing. 1t is part
of his strategy to catch the foe off
guard, bypassing substantial en-.
envy forces for later action in Or.
der to strike at relatively weakly
held sectors.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-01-09
Bureaucracy

According to the Bureau of the Census, it
takes 1856, 900 separate agencies to perform all
the complicated governmental functions in the
United States today. At which point some &C
uuaintance is bound to yell bureaucracy"
But you can counter that, if you want to
argue, by showing him the next figure, which
states that federal and state government &C
counts for only about 20, 1000 of the total The
other 1885, 1000 agencies are country, district, CT
ty, town and township organizations including
school boards and personnel.
And by little figuring you can show this
sufferer from bureauphobia that $4,000 agen-
cies averaged out to only one for every 800
Inhabitants of this country, and that obviously
no community of that size could maintain
health, law, order and comfort with only a
single governmental body.
If your bureauphobe friend sets up another
howl at this point, you can be sure that he
has ss~n the next Census Bureau figure. This
shows that the 135, 900 local agencies plus all
state governments employ only 31680O0 per-
sons, while the comparative handful of federal
agencies have 3,335000 on the payroll
You have to remind your worthy opponent
that all the latter are not swivel-chair bureau
Gratis Mid 1943 Civil Service figures show
that of 3168O00 in civil service jobs, only
about 279, 900 worked in the District of Colum-
bia. Government work includes building ships
and making munitions, as well drafting
OPA directives or tipping things in triplicate.
Meanwhile the bureauphobe has figured out
that there is one groWnup federal employe for
every Al Americans, including infants, Adde'S
cents, and the aged and infirm. This seems
like lot to him when he thinks of the many
governmental concerns of daily living in which
government plays part.
Your opponent, pencil in hand, may also
remind you that if every one of those govern
ment workers voted in so million vote cleo
ton. They would account for one vote in every
IA and maybe swing an election, especially
WITH the votes in their families that they might
control.
Then you could remind him that almost all
these workers civil service appontes; that
som, are voteless residents of Washington, and
that others are under 81.
Whereupon the bure auphobe might insist that
even civil service would not save lot of them
if some postwar administration should cut
the government payroll to the bone. He might
even voice the cynical suspicion that no par
ty, in or out of office would promise to do
that cutting job and thereby ALLEVIATE lot OF
votes, and that accordingly bigger and more
expensive bureaucracy is here to stay.
And the argument might 60 on and on from
there. We're sorry we ever started i-even
though e5o3OOO government employees still
! seem like lot.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-01-09

in service should have an oppor.
tunity to pass on the form this
legislation ultimately takes. That
will seem like sound advice to
many Americans who remember
the indignation of veterans in the
last war, when they came back to
discover prohibition had been put
over in their absence.
All together, it would seem that
the President message must be
taken as an interim report. He will
soon go to meet with Stain and
Churchill. When he returns, he
should have something more posi-
tive to say.
Copyright 1945 by United Feature
Syndicate, Inc.)
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-01-09
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
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-01-09

The situation in Greece is tragic because
the dark figures of internationalists and an
archlsts inspired from abroad have interviewed
IN our public lfe.-Greek Premier Nicholas
Plastiras
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-01-09
NELSON IN HOSPITAL

WASHINGTON Jan. 8. - ~ e.
Donald M. Nelson, persona o"
sentative Of President R iii
is undergoing checkup & 70
ment at Doctors Hospital in ~.
York City
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-01-09

Lettuce requires 1000 pounds Of
water to produce one pound Of dry
material.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-01-09

Springfield, Mass. has more
trees in proportion to population
than any other American city.
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1945-04-02

WAC FLIGHT ENGINEER
Pfc. Jane B. Windham, the Army's
first WAC crew chief and flight
engineer, is now in the European
Theater of Operations where her
wings are matter of such Curl
Ssity that MPs stop her on the
streets and ask her authority for
wearing the air crew members
insignia. Her authority for wings
came while she was stationed at
Gore Field, Mont. She qualified
there for the dual rating of crew
chief and fight engineer and earned
her crew members wings on many
flights from Montana to Fair
banks, Alaska, and cross-country
from Montana to Florida. She re-
Gently arrived in England for as
signment to the Air Inspectors
Office of the Air Transport Com
mand's European Division. Before
entering the service she was direc-
tor of flying training for the New
Mexico Wing of Women Flyers.
She is the daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. A. c. Burrows of San Antonio.
Her husband is a Lieutenant Colo
mel in the Army, Arlis L. Wind
ham. also of San Antonio.
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1945-04-02
:: :: Courts

in Jackson township, 81.
j. j. and Dorothy George. to
Union County Federal Savings &
Loan association, lots in Milford
Center, S.
Bertha B. Field to Elba H
Creviston, lots in Marysville, 81
Elias and Helen Erb to Leroy
and Lucille Wood, lot in Milforc
Center, 81.
Service Discharges
The following discharges have
been filed in the county Recorders
office.
Louis Henry Baker, from the
Navy, and Ahnett Harraman, from
the Army.
Ask Foreclosure
Action for foreclosure or a mort
gage on 73 acres ir Union anc
Logan counties has been filed il
Common Pleas Court by the Di
vision of Aid for the Aged agains1
Agnes Middlesworth and others
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