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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-01-07
New Traffic Theories

Traffic originates in urban centers; it goes
to or through urban centers.
This is the reason behind the recent switch
from emphasis that major traffic problems
revolve around rural highways to the prin-
ciple that our traffic problems are in and
adjacent to urban centers, the American So
cety of Planning Officials says.
Fitting into the switch in emphasis" pic
ture is recent and current federal legislation
including the federal roads bill which appro-
PIRATES substantial sums Of money for high
way purposes within cities.
Four major street-hghway projects, two In
volving federal-state-local cooperation and two
involving interstate cooperation nd all
launched recently, point up the change in
principle.
The projects include the Cincinnati master
plan the Platte river freeWay in Denver, the
Nebraska highway commission traffic
flow study for the Omaha-Council Bluff, Ia
metropolitan area, and the cooperative pro-
gram participated in by Minneapolis and st
Paul and the Minnesota state highway depart
ment.
calls for fitting highway travel and transpor-
tation needs as outlined in the program into
the highway programs of Ohio and KENTUCKY.
Nearing the signing stage is an agreement
under which the states, the communities at.
fected and the public roads administration will
share the cost-to total 100000 and work
Of an ''origin-destinaton' traffic study of
greater Cincinnati Results will be used for
determining the highway pattern for the mas
ter plan.
The Nebraska and Iowa state highway COM
missions already have underway origin
destination study OF the metropolitan areas
of Council Bluffs and Omaha to collect traffic
facts needed for blueprinting postwar streets
and highways. IntervieWers have visited or
are visiting one home out of every 10 in their
survey, which seeks such information as how
many persons at each home made trips the
preceding day, where each trip started and
the method of transportation (see News Bull
letn for Mon, Oct. 30).
Cooperating on t h Platte river freeWay
project, backbone of the highway system in
minstration, the Colorado state highway de-
partment and the Denver planning commits
sion The project was set up after study and
negotiations by representatives of the three
agencies; the engineers making the survey
have just submitted preliminary report con-
tanning designs for the freeWay, which parallels
the Platte river through Denver.
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Unfortunate Blunder

The American Legion has admirable an6
ambitious postwar plans for assisting returned
veterans and for intensifying and increasing
its Americanism activities. And it is unfor-
tunate that one Of the Legion posts appears
to have taken a step, presumably in the
name Of Americanism, that has aroused the
resentment Of some Of fighting men,
The Army newspaper Stars and Stripes car
ried a story stating that the Legion post in
Hood River, Ore, had advised Japanese-Amer-
leans there to sell their property and get out
Of town The story came to the attention of
First Army veterans who had fought side by
side with Japanese-Amercan troops-one bat
talon of whom had been rescued from a
German trap by these Nisie soldiers-and the
result was considerable indignation.
The Japanese-American situation has been
botched up sufficiently in its official handling
without misguided private individuals or
groups adding to 1t. The splendid record of
the Nisei fighters who have gone from our
concentration camps into the Army might well
serve to remind overzealous Americans that
skin fermentation in itself is not a badge of
dlsloyalty.
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CAROLINA
FROM THE
CAPITAL
By ALLEN ]. GREEN
: Star-NewS WASHINGTON Bureau

WASHINGTON, Jan. 6-The Federal Govern
ment would put up half the cost of the ST.
700, 600 airport program, recommended by Civil
Aeronautics Administration for southeastern
North Carolina, under the terms of bill in
troduced in the House this week by Chairman
Clarence F. Lea 3D., CalifD of the House
Interstate Commerce Commission.
In addition to authorizing $625 900 900 ap-
preparation for the Governments share of the
postwar program, the bill sets up CAA as a
stronger, independent agency to regulate air
safety and commerce. The airport improve
ment program when complete, will provide
continuous employment for 5OO,O 900 men, Rep
Lea estimates
Under the bill, for example, if Wilmington
or New Hanover County wanted to make the
$50 900 improvements recommended for Blue
thenthal Field. the Class V airport now under
lease to the Army, the local government would
put up 100000 and the Federal government
would match the appropria alton. Improvements
listed by the CAA for Bluethenthal included
$50, 900 for lighting system, $4,000 for a ra-
do communications and SIC, 900 for miscella-
neous innovations.
The CAA program, planned at the request
of Congress, recommends $4,000 Class (pri-
vate and light plane) fields at Carolina Beach,
Southport, Whiteville, ElizabethtoWn, Mount
Olive and Laurinburg. Improvements are urged
for existing fields at Observation-Disclosures City,
Clinton, Kinston and New Bern.
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The Literary Guidepost

large share of the men left home
as boys, Some of these will still
be adolescent when they return
with adolescent behavior patterns
The majority will have grown
mentally and emotionally, but in
a different physical sphere win
differing requirements. 1t will be
as If they had been living of IN
the ether, while the world turned
under them.
The return will be difficult for
many because of attitude changes
due to separation. Wives will have
outgroWn husbands, mentally and
emotlonally or the other way
round. Hasty marriages will *
plode IN the puzzled faces Of thol.
sands Of young people, parents will
have difficulty realizing their BE-
by" has become a man, young or
flcers who never commanded any
tnlng in civilian life will have &C
CURED the habit of command IN
service, financial adjustment must
be made.
DR.. Pratt has something to Of
fer in each Of these cases and IN
many others. 1t seems to me ms
ideas are practical, and expressed
simply enough that the average
civilian can be reached by thehl'
and benefited as well
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-01-07
By JOHN SELBY

SOLDIER TO CIVILIAN by
George K. Pratt, M. D. (Whittle.
sey; $3.50.
DR.. George K. Pratt's Soldier
TO Civilian is not a long book
put 1t scenes to me to contain the
matter from which workable
plan for rehabilitation of service
men can be made. DR.. Pratt is
a psychiatrist, a physician, and a
man OF considerable practical ex-
perlence in dealing directly with
soldiers. But also he is constantly
IN touch with the home public,
and it is largely with the home
public and its attitudes that the
book deals.
There is not space to abstract
DR.. Pratts book. 1t seems to me
that its plans divide two ways:
th0t SO far as men returning from
war are concerned, the chief men,
tai need is to remove as soon as
possible whatever feeling of diff
ferentness the men may have:
that so far as the country at large
is concerned, the problem is most
ly one of returning millions of
changed men to what will have
become an unfamiliar life with the
least friction and the least waste.
AS Dr.. Pratt points out, a very
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Inevitable

Some form Of the Broughton Hospital and
Medical Care plan will be adopted by the
General Assembly. 1t is not sociaIized medi-
cine. Mr.. Broughton explained, but something
10 prevent completely socialized medicine. It
Is not the Federal plan proposed but a move
10 see that nobody dies without q doctor
The plan would require pages to outline but
that il the basis-a doctor for every sick
person. nobody going to death because Of the
lack of one.
Whether one likes the plan or not hasn't
ANYTHING to do with 1t. 1t is sure to come
~ come form-mcre hospitals and more doc
+ors for more people. Unless the state takes
.ten. In that direction the Federal govern
mont will do So That is not debatable - it is
. n,ain fact. Our physicians and surgeons
have done great work, with shortage of doc
+ors pressed all the time; needing nurses
better and more facilities. The wonder is how
+b.v have done it, They have also maintained
III. necessary intimate contact between pa
tent and physician, kept and increased the
confidence of the public and their patients
No one would try to contradict that
But there will come some plan OF care TO-
.,,.rv nerson. not necessarily charity plan
II n inevitable.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-01-07
BY VIRGIL PINKLEY
United Press War Correspondent


PARIS, Jan. 6.-UP)-The Ger
man offensive now appears to in
dictate another about, last-line at
tempt on the part of Hitler to pre-
pare the ground anew for peace
by organizing desperate bids to
create temporary situation
whereby the Reich might hope to
obtain some measure of negotiated
peace.
T h plans correspondent to
those of the High Command and
Junkers who want to 60 down fight
ing when the last shot is fired and
try to maintain the illusion that
the German fighting forces were
never defeated in the field but
that the homefront OF political eli
que let down the fatherland again.
Careful United Press checks show
that Hitlers overall plan is cal
culated on the basis that, if the
Allies could be driven from Ger
man soil in the west and the Ger
mans assume the offensive, even
temporarily and on limited scale,
it might appear as though at least
parts of Belgium-especially Ant
Werp-France and liberated parts
of Holland were threatened.
Meanwhile, under the plan, the
Germans could keep up maximum
efforts at hamnering Britain with
Wis, V-2's and possibly other wea-
pons during the cold and sixth win
ter season of the war. 1t is re-
ported that Hitler still clings to
the belief that the British could be
forced to crack if submitted to suf-
ficient horror attacks.
The current drive of Field Mar
shall Won Rundstedt was calculated
to drive the Americans out of part
Of Germany and at the same time
grasp, momentarily at least. tao
teal offensive. If the push went
well the plan apparently was to
reach Liege across the Mouse and
then drive flat out for Antwerp,
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WMteuiNe Merchants
Appeal For Physicians

WHITEVILLE, Jan. 6.-An ap-
peal TO the members of the pro-
curement and assignment commit
tee Of the Columbus County Medi-
cal Association has been made by
the board of directors of the White,
vile Merchants association, asking
that they use their influence to
secure additional doctors for
Whitevjile. The members Of the
committee ale DR.. R. B. Whitak'r
of WhiteVille, DR.. G. S. Cox Of Ia
Dor City, and Dr.. L. D Floyd Of
Fair Bluff.
Decision 10 approach the COM
mittee CT doctors grew out of the
fact that four Of Whiteville ply
slcians have entered the armed
forces, leaving the remainder here
greatly overtaxed with work II
was pointed out that many needing
medical assistance have not been
able TO secure it promptly be-
cause of scarcity of doctors.
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Hitler Believed Seeking
Stalen1ate To Gain Peace

This was all calculated by Hitler
to cause near-panic in Belgium as
we'll as cut across Allied lines of
supply and communication, split
the Anglo-American front and
isolate the armies.
The drive presumably appeared
more feasible in German eyes when
it was discovered that Volks-
grenadier and other second-class
troops, heavily dug into well-pre-
pared terrain and the Siegfried
Line, could hold the line and thus
free the finest Nazi fighting out
fits, such as Panzers, the SIS and
paratroopers, for an offensive
The push westward also carried
the threat of wheeling southwest
ward across the France-Belgium
border. simultaneously, limited
offensives around or in the direc-
ton Of Strasbourg were calculated
to upset the French and cause
great confusion in the Allied rear
areas.
But Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower
move to blunt Won Rundstedt's
drive, followed by successful Al
lied measures of counterattack. ap-
pears to have smashed these Ger
man aims.
For Hitler, this was another des-
perate gamble which he evidently
thought might have paid off as
many did in the past. Now, with a
fair amount of luck-coupled with
skillful, courageous fighting - the
Allies may turn what looked like
a black page into glorious one,
recording the destruction of much
German first-class personnel and
the best equipment the Reich pos
sesses.
This would be especially true if
the Nazis tried to hold the Rund-
stedt bulge on which pressure is
being applied from the north, west
and south. Due to fine bombing
achievements by the U. S. Ninth
and the British Second Tactical
Air Forces, all but one of the 10
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Interpreting
The War
BY kiRKE L. SIMPSON
Associated Press War Analys

The battle in Belgium, going into
its third week as major Allied
offensive instead of a stalled p1t
still dangerous Nazi counter at.
tack, conferred attention at III,
week end because of the tremen.
dous effect it could have upon III,
duration of the war in Europe.
British aid American troon,
were disclosed belatedly as fight.
ling shoulder to shoulder On IN.
north rim of the bulge under over.
all British field command to mate,
the hard-driving American Third
Army thrust from the south.
The bulge battle nevertheless d;3
not obscure events on other front,
both in Europe and across the pa.
cific in the course of the last sew.
EN- days. There were German inr.
nations, unconfirmed from Mos.
COW, that the long expected main
Red Army Writer offensive stroke
was about to be launched in Pc.
land
While tie nature Of Russian.
Allied intercharges of military N.
forma; ion since the Teheran con.
ference are unreVealed there has
been much to indicate that London
and Washington have been lar2c]v
in the dark as to Russian plans
1t is doubtful that Allied com.
manders in shaping their own Yves.
tern winter offensive plans had
any knowledge of what cooperation
they could expect in the east. Thev
could only hope the Polish front
would flame into action while their
own operations were in full swing.
There has been some specula.
ton that the Russian attack in
Poland was waiting on Russian
capture of Budapest and inves;
ment Of the Danube gap approach
to central Germany. To some mil.
like a further diversion effort 10
campaign IN Hungary has looked
like a further diversion effort 10
draw off Nazi forces from the Po.
fish front just as the Allied inva.
sion Of France aided the Russian
drive to the Vistula. If SO, the Ger.
man counter attack down the Dan.
ube corridor for the relief of Buda.
pest, now besieged by the Rus,
slams, is serving Russian purpos.
es.
Beyond the Pacific, japanese
evacuation of northern Burma was
further advanced With close Br-
fish approach to Mandalay and
capture of Akyab, the northern
Bay Of Bengal anchorage of the
Nipponese depioyment in Burma.
That ended the last japanese
threat 10 India
The most Immediate and gravest
threat confronting Japanese war
lords was in the Philippines. The
big northern island of the group
on which Manila stands, Luzon. is
the conceded strategic key to the
Western Pacific and East China
Sea. That General Macarthur and
Admiral Nimitz were concertno
their action for a descent upon
Luzon the foe could not DOUBT.
Tokyo even broadcast that lard
ing had been made on Luzon by
American troops but there was no
immediate cCnfirma ton.
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bridges feeding the bulge in its
immediate rear areas has been
destroyed.
Certainly the Germans can and
will extract men and material if
they decide or are forced to pull
out, but the extent is questionable.
BY attacking westward, the Ger
mans for the first time in months
climbed from cellars, heavily con-
structed pillboxes, fortified lines,
countless interlocking tier-trenches
and from behind heavily mined
areas into areas where Allies could
have at them"
Hitler's biggest bid OF the past
five months has utilized the care
fully conserved Luftwaffe, tanks,
self-propelled guns, motor trans
port and artillery shells. With its
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Too Impatient

Admission that there are differences over
questions of policy among tie Big Three Allies
is made by President Roosevelt, and he is
realistic enough to admit further that he
doesn't hope to settle them all when he meets
Stain and Churchill.
1t would be extremely difficult for three
men to sit down in conversation and formulate
a plan for sweetness and light for the who'd
world, bringing it overnight. There is too much
sourness and darkness over most of the globe
for it to be dissipated in one conference Or
in many.
Most of us are too impatient for a settle
ment. Millions have gone through war, misery,
starvation death and destruction, and all can't
be righted as one would turn a light
switch Britain wants certain things; SO does
Russia. America doesn't ask anything much
except to be rid forever of having to 60
tc war in Europe about every Is years 1t
will take years before the world will ever get
back into the ways of peace, riding trouble
free course
What would the impatient do about it? Would
they have war with Russia, abandon Britain
as an ally because some things that Stain
and Churchill peeve us? That would be a
colossal mistake For better or for worse, the
Big Three nations must stick together, COM
pose as best they can their differences. II
| they fall apart the world will fall apart
nothing could hold it together.
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WITH THE AEF
Yank Filters Proue Mirac les Do Happen

cut the rudder cables. 1t. Paul
P. Mcdowell of Red Cloud, Neb.,
craWled back to the maze of
twisted wire and found the cables
necessary to level out the Wob-
bling plane and guide it on its
bombing run over Cologne"
Caught in a dangerous thunder
head cloud formation, 1t. Wood
row w. Williams of Houston, Tex,
was wrenched from his cockpit
and blown straight up when MS
storm-tossed Mustang exploded.
Badly stunned, the pilot recov-
cred In time to open his parachute.
He landed safely with part of his
shattered cockpit seat still strap
ped to him.
LIT. Daniel F. Gilmore of Lul-
ing, Tex, was blown out of the
nose of a Fortress just as he was
picking up his parachute. He said
he fell unconscious for nearly TO-
coo feet, then came to in time to
put on his chute and open it. All
the time he'd been falling. I'm
conscious. the chute had been
gripped in his hand"
His ball turret shot out from
under him. Sgt. Terry L. Jones of
Rigby, Ida. chung to the jagged
edges on the underbelly of his Fort
ress in 40-below-zero temperature
with nothing between him and
Germany but four miles of clouds.
His oxygen system was cut, and
just as he was passing out, he was
pulled to Safety
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-01-07
Bv CHARLES CHAMBERLAIN
Substituting for Kenneth L. Dixon

LONDON-Delayed) -tR- Yes,
your boy got back. His bomber
looked like a sieve, for the flax
was moderate to intense over
Germany.
Death was as close to him as
his next breath. Like most other
fellows who got back, he prob
ably has a story. 1t may be an
incredible story. 1t may read like
these bits of drama recorded since
D-Day:
Seconds after Flying Fort
ress completed its bomb run over
Berlin, flax ripped through the
planes nose, demolishing the by
draulic system and spraying the
pilot with flaming fluid.
"Sgt. Clarence N. Rolla of South
Fork, Pa, pulled the pilot to the
floor. rolled on him and smother
ed the blaze. The pilot recovered
in time to discover the plane had
no brakes for a landing and to or
der parachutes released from the
windows. The Fort rolled in on
the landing strip with the 'chutes
DilloWing out behind
1.-THE Flying Fortress was caught
in the prop-Wash of a bomber for
nation. The shock tore four bombs
from their shackles and slammed
them into the bomb bay doors.
Sgt. Clyde c. Crane, Jr., of
Long Beach, Cal, began putting
safety wires on six other bombs,
hanging precariously from their
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shackles. They would have explod-
ed at the slightest impact.
"A swinging bomb knocked
Crane into the bay, among the four
live bombs. The doors miraculous
Iy remained closed. Crane, who
mad no parachute, climbed back
and made the bombs secure-then
cranked open the bay by hand and
dumped the loose ones"
Capt. Kearie L. Berry of East
Orange, N. j., bailed out of his
blazing Fortress just before it ex-
ploded. He landed on a practice
bombing range. Lying flat on his
face in the sand, he waited until
several Allied planes finished dive
bombing the hull of a wrecked
ship only 300 yards away"
LIT. Frank A. Prete of Shen-
andoah, Pa, grabbed a telephone
after mis- Liberator had been hit
by flax and used the wire to make
an emergency tourniquet for the
badly wounded pilot, who brought
the ship home on two engines"
sgt. Lawrence P. Meyers of
Silver Creek, Miss. stood in the
open bomb bay of Liberator
$4,000 feet above Germany, and
used a so cal. shell to plug a
gasoline leak. He worked in %.
below-zero weather. with flax pop
ping all around him.
After a flax burst had wrecked
the ball turret of a Fortress and
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-01-07
THOUGHT FOR TODAY

The challenge Of these critical days is
that we begin to be truly christian in all
our relationships or stop pretending. We
are fighting for total victory, but we shall
never achieve total victory unless we fight
for total christianity.
CHOOSE We this day whom We will serve.'
For 1t is animperishable verify: "No man
can serve two masters, Ye cannot serve
God and man. That is the choice America
must make, we must choose Color go to
hell!
Rev. Peter Marshall D. d. in Readers
Digest"
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failure, his chance of obtaining
some type of negotiated peace
wanes and he is expected to fall
back on two stock lines-namelN
first. to try TO drive wedge be-
tween the Allies and, second, 10
hang on making Allied gains as
slow and costly as possible, slmu'
taneously accelerating production
and exp an ion of V-weapoas
coupled with propaganda regard
ing the weapons.
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welcome to Hoey

The North Carolina Democratic Club of
Washington, organized for the purpose of aid
ing Tar Heels in Washington to participate in
politics back home through absentee voting and
contributions to the State Democratic war chest
is welcoming Sen. Clyde R. Hoey to Washing
ton at a reception in the Willard Hotel next
Saturday. Among the prominent Tar Heels
present will be Comptroller General Lindsay
Warren, Brig. Gen. Kenneth Royal of Colds.
boro, Jonathan Daniels, administrative assis-
tant to the President; former-Gov. o. Max
Gardner, now chairman of the Office of War
Mobilization and Reconversion Advisory board
and Dudley W. Bagley, of the General Account.
ing Office s-
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Aid For Widows

Under law passed by Congress last month,
widows of Southeastern North Carolina veter-
ans of World War l now are eligible for Gov
eminent pensions regardless OF whether their
deceased husbands had disabilities for not
In order to receive the PENSIONS the widows
must not have remarried must not have had
an income large enough to pay Federal income
tax last year. The deceased veteran must
have served at least go days, terminated by
an honorable discharge.
Pensions pay S35 monthly to widow with
no dependents; $45 month for a widow with
one dependent and S. month each for addi-
tional dependents up to a monthly maximum
of STA.
North Carolina Congrssmen are searching
their files for letters from World War l veter-
ans widows, who formerly were not eligible
to inform them that they now can receive pen
sions. Widows who would like further infoz-
nation should write the Congressman from
their District.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-01-07

Some mushrooms are so delicate
that they are to be found Only
between dawn and sunrise.