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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-03-04
A Share In Kindness

| Nothing in life is more difficult for peace.
loving people to bear than war with all its
grim horror, its unending trail OF sorrow,
Of life and property. Yet the people of this
nation are in the third year Of the world S
most horrible war
Each day in Wilmington and throughout
the nation more blue stars in service flags
turn to gold as this son. that brother or
that father falls on a distant and unknown
battlefield. Each day hundreds, or thou
sands, of men are carried back to hospitals
with grevious wounds. Each is member
of some American family. Thousands, yes
millions, of American men in uniform are
tired beyond belief of battle, and homesick
for home and family. Yet they know they
must keep on.
There is no one Of us but would give ev-
erything to tighten the burden OF sorrow
ing families who have lost their men, or
calm the fears Of those whose men have
been wounded We wound give all we could
to ease the pain of the injured, or still the
inconsistencies in those who must fight on.
Today as the American Red Cross conducts
its campaign for funds we can do our share
in Tightening the burden Of sorrow, in calm
ing the fears, and in easing the paid of the
wounded.
The American Red Cross was created just
for that purpose and through its channels
of mercy we can do most for those who
lis war.
The Red Cross is at the front keeping
alive the atmosphere Of home for the men
who are fighting; the Red Cross is in the
hospitals cheering the wounded and sending
messages home to anxious and fearful rela-
tives; the Red Cross is sending blood plasma
and surgical dressings to save the lives OF
American youth; the Red Cross is here at
home to aid and assist families in distress.
Wilmington, this is your Red Cross and
through it you can do your share in human
kindness and blunt somewhat the horror that
in war.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-03-04
"Human, Natural Way"

Many persons have worried and wondered
over the fate Of those men who come back
from war lacking 4 hand or 4 foot. It will
not be easy for them. Money will not grow
on bushes after the war and there will not
De the hysterica1 demand for labor that now
Is the rule. They will get something from the
government, but 4 man needs more He needs
work, which is the greatest morale builder
In the world A pension may supply bodily
needs but that isn't sufficient. 49,
Eddie Rickenbacker, head Of Eastern Air
Lines, is doing something about it. He told
patients in a government hospital that the
Lines can employ Immediately 1000 veterans
who have suffered ampytations. There are
Jobs open for them, places for reservation
clerks, ticket sellers, weather experts. me-
chanics, instrument men, accountants ane
bookkeepers and "even flight engineers:
He said that the Lines are greatly inter
ested in getting wounded men back into the
groove of civilian life in the .most human
-..i,n.1 -ay''. This is something fine to do
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-03-04
so THEY SAY

This is. the toughest beach have ever
seen, and I have made Is landings. Tarawa
was hell Of lot easier.-Cap. c. E. Ander.
son., USNR, at Two.
We want a world that is free from DULLES
going around and beating people up and TAX.
ing things away from them, or making them
do what they want them to do. Our foreign
policy Is to make that kind Of world-Assis-
tant Secretary Of State Dean Acheson.
There was systematic retrenchment in
food distribution after the first bombing raid
last september. There was a slash Of almost
So per cent IN quality and neutrality-suspicious.
Schecter, Manila business man he,d ~ re-
Banos. a. AoS
Whatever the views of others NAV he 7
ieei S CERTAIN there will be much harder fight
down their arm ae Germans e1a are forced to lay
| rt Patterson aiy VI war NOD
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more than mere sympathy and a pat on
the back 1t is indeed the human' naFurai
way. These men do not look TOR charity
most of them would scorn it. A job, regu-
lar paw check, a place in the community
this is what they need and what they would
welcome.
There are others who could employ these
men and find them diligent, energetic, lntelll-
gent. loyal workers. Here is something for
every employer to ponder, way to help
them and to help the employer
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-03-04
tation of this school in Wilmingto

tation of this school in Wllmlngt01
is unexcelled."
''That was written in 1916, an1
now Miss Hart too has been ssth1
cred with those who wrought wig
her when she taught with MA]
Kennedy. For almost eighty yea.1
she lived and worked with haNa1
cap of physical weakness and N
trinity. gallantly borne, and, 0]
would suppose from her cnee']
manner and kindly interest in u1
woes of others, entirely torgoNsl|
1t was not so. 1t was thorn IN nt|
side until her death, but she u
umphed over it and lived apO1
in a world Of praise. Her soul va
it in an atmosphere OF service, q.
attuned to high melodies and
suffering OF flesh made hef :,
sensitive to the heavenly nleloas2
"she was a rare teacher tor
trained her pupils for eternity :.
was more intent on directing VII
spirits in honor's ways than nS-
fling their minds with uheSS'D'
facts.
She understood the purpose
education to be helping nlA4
grow straight, and those VINO
the good fortune to be tausa'
her received instructions In
ways of righteousness, pI Ut NJ
that have served them all "
lives. u.
t1re and refinement today
have grandchildren in the =. p, N
schools, recall Miss Harris ). " n
plicity and have no reason " M
It deprived them Of any g :; =, d b
in the educational world al ",
Pupil.-Wilmington Morning
September, 1881. n, i
"Just a word of gratitude. Nv Nv j.
Miss Annie Hart has mean
lives of her hosts of pupils ..;p O.
II remember that as a , sars h
poem Still Sits the sch0oiaoa \, d
the t Road, always brought t.' II
mind the low, one stored =. XII
where we went and were H!lll....l,Jf
morning with the bright HUGE
face of our principal, ,..,, vsni
1--WE sat at the dear htt .,i. " II.
desks where the ink wen ..-.b
made to bob up for the e''''
ment of every ne" pupl;, ,e;@
ne sBef0 %s re sad the he' l' n' cns2t4
St. Sts JOINS ms Cos Gospel ell and new !, "
r resd'i it today to- ~ thinking Of Miss 5, :,
and why she considered "
portant. lam ts@
Never was a schooIloO.s .t@"
ordered, never children i iiiio.+r,c;;
and faithfully i an+ IN y
Not only in the school W. i've
church life also, she WIN ,sitn
the hearts and minds OF INC W.
whom she taught and VIM ~, "
third generations, sing 's ssrct's
position at their Easter ="
to carol that begins; ,.,d-sa "
"Waken, children ,Tibnsss'
the King" -Memorlal III ,,be, 49,
ton Morning Star, septell'''
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SUNDAY, MARCH 4, ,o,,
Interpreting
The War
BY KlRkE L. SIMPSON

Impending spring waa.L
f Tes1e m, Europe Night r'1 aefav /,
iin "a German military collsn ,ss
. 1t is hardly more than O4 dlHs
lore spring thaws must b bs's 5. Y
oned with by both the Bn, reg
ana the Allies. Marvels " Of a.
famed communication service W. W.
oeen wrought behind both ~ ana na'
aesplte winter handicaps to aching ,t
the positions on both FROM. .'s'
the final effort to stab thron ,s
tne heart OF Germany, S Sa
Hoods, particularly in pa,,
across which run for HUNDREDS \
miles vital Russian supply In.
o11er even greater Transported
problems to be overcome Il
two front victory drive is fl
through without pause.
There are intimations for N.
co" mat the pause in the M,
Russian drive on Berlin a, :
oder-Neisse line has been dus
part to bringing up supplies =.
equipment across Poland M
scale to heet that spring dan,s
There has been practicauv >,
change noted ON the Oder m,
faced by White Russian armie, T.
a month or more. Other mj]f.,,
considerations no doubt led ;,
that pause; but the question n
massing stores, equipment and i,
serves well forward while 4,
roads in Poland were still t,;s
hardened sufficiently to bear 4,
traffic was Of firt Importance,
Thaws Man Trouble
Spring thaws at the end 0, ,
unusually hard winter will tros
General Eisenhowers supply /,
ces but not to the same extern \
it will the Russians. Allied CON-
munication lines whether leadr|
back to Cherbourg and NormarS|
beachheads or to Antwerp feed N
the front line dumps over h;r|
surfaced French, Belgian, DUEL
and German highways. The deep|
into Germany the troops get I'd
better the road systems.
In addition to bringing up adj
tional forces and massing supphe|
near the front OF the final drya
on Berlin and Dresden or boil
however, the Russians have ve7
obviously withheld that attatl
on the Oder to accomplish o.hsI
essential purposes. That was d
widen the Warthe corridor to Ii.
! Oder, and to secure its flank
against any possibility Of Naz
counter attack Of major scope.
That was partially accomplish
ed when Ukrainian troops on III!
south of the White Russian army
along the middle Oder pushed VI
the Neisse and bolstered thei4
own left flank against the sudete1
mountains. This week end saw i.
similarly accomplished on h4
north with a Russian break-thrOugI
in Pomerania that has closely apI
preached the Baltic shore LIND
east of Stettin if it has not actual
ly reached the sea.
The break-through has dond
something more than wall Of subj
stantial Nazi forces in eastern
Pomerania, the Danzig corridor
and East Prussia. 1t has ended
any possibility OF desperate Ger
man effort to cave in the rish1
flank of the Russian corridor q
the Oder from Pomerania.
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TOP q, THE MORNING

Shortly before the death Of the oecle11y
Of the Navy, Frank Knox, he ATTENDED
and addressed the inaugural dinner OF
the Sixth Victory Loan drive in Toronto
Canada. At that time he said: sMen, we
can't win this war without Gods help.
The greatest test Of all lies ahead. In that
we'll need Gods help. We may IS Wen
realize that and start praying now" And
to encourage prayer, he cited this Incl
dent. "The night before the landing IN
Sicily, big storm came up. The ships
were already on their way; they couldn't
turn back, and If q landing was attempted
1t would have been disastrous" said Mr..
Knox. "But God brought a calm and
the men were able to land
FROM "GOD DID TT"
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ANNIE JONES HART


Waken children, children of the
King,
To the glorious Easter Day,
Whose radiant spring doth prom
Use bring
OF life that is ever and aye.
The Lord of Light, by His grea'
might
Hath opened for US the way,
And to you and me, His children
free
The Lord of Life doth say:
Because I live, We also shall.
live"
Ills the promise Of the Resur.
rectiop Day!
Look, we children, children of the
King,
To the Fathers home above;
And praises give that we shall
live
In the light of the Fathers love.
The cares and tears of the few
short years
Shall vanish as a cloud away
Fen while we sing. comes the
voice of the King
Thro' the realms of an endless
day:
Because I live, we also shall
live
IT'S the promise of the Resur-
rection Day!
Come, we children, children of
the King,
To the Fathers's house today,
And voices raise in the strain of
praise
For the life that is ours always,
And Natures heart shall voice
her part
With the birds and flowers
today,
Till circling bound of earth re-
sound
With the message of the life
for aye:
Because I live, We also shall
live"
IT'S the promise of the Resur-
rection Day!
Every Easter afternoon, as the
words of this carol resound through
historic St. James Episcopal
church, Wilmington, North Caro-
lima, when sung by the children
at their special service, there is
brought to the minds and hearts
of those present, the composer of
both this message of hope and
the inspiring music. 1t is very
fitting that the memory Of Miss
Annie Hart, who is affectionately
remembered for her noble work
among the youth of the city and
the church, should be honored this
way.
One hundred and one years ago,
1874, there was born in upper
South Carolina Annie Jones Hart,
an only child Of her parents, Der
rill A. Hart and Margaret Ken
nedy, who was destined to become
one of the early distinguished edu-
Gators Of North Caroina. -
When very young her family
moved to Columbia, South Caro-
lima, where she was educated and
fitted for her life work as teach
er. Immediately after the War
Between the States she began her
career as a teacher in Wilmington,
North Carolina, being associated
with q relative, Miss Kate Ken
nedy, who was conducting
school for girls. Their school was
a lone story building situated on
the west side of Third street be-
tween Market and Princess streets.
After Miss Kennedy's marriage
in 1877, the school was conducted
BY Miss Hart and Miss Mary
Brown until 1920. In later years
they moved across the street next
to the Courthouse. Finally the
Brown home on Orange street,
erected by St. Johns Lod1c in
1901 for Masonic purposes, was
Detroit evening times., 1945-12-22
Tire Curb
Ends Jan. 1

WASHINGTON. Dec. q GAP
Tire rauoninr ends Jan ] after
four long years Of thin trcads but
It VIII hc months before pcnt-up
demand IS mct in fun.
Tho decision Of OPA and Civil
lam Production Administration 10
irtft eenir,fe- t1a~ed ona-their
considered option that there no
longer is any danger Of a trans
poria'ion breakdown
Toth agencies emphasized how
ever that despite a big increase
IN tire production. AN motorists
Wlll not be able 10 walk in and
buy new casings for some time.
~ plentiful supply Of tires is
not in sight for several months,
perhaps all OF 1886" said CPA
Administrator John D. Small.
OPA Chief Chester Bowlos eau
toned that many motorists will
have 10 wait for tires" He urged
dealers not 10 sell complete sets
90 those who can get along with
one or two tires during the next
several months.
Termination oil tire rationing
New Years Day will leave only
rCar on tho ration list.
Detroit evening times., 1945-12-22
Early Recovery Had Been Rapid

The expert at armored warfare who campaigned bril-
anty in Africa Sicily, France Belgium, Germany, Austria
and Czecho Slovaka in Allied drives that staggered Ger
many to her knees last spring had been making an aaz-
ing recovery until yesterday.
1t then that the respiratory condition developed.
BY this morning dictors gravey worried about the
deterioration in his condition AS Patons life ebbed away,
his heart became affected.
Shortly before Pattons death, Maj A. w. Kenner.
chief of army surgeons in Europe left Europeon headquar
ters in Frankfurt for Pattons bedside.
Only two minutes before the general died. the both
Station Hospital issued this bulletin his condition:
"Gen. PattOn's condition is considered serious"
Detroit evening times., 1945-12-22
AAF Veteran, Woman
Killed by Gunmdn

ALLENTOWN, Pa, Dec. 21
tAP)-A mysterious gunman shot
and killed a discharged army air
corps lieutenant and his woman
companion. the mother Of two
children, as he was apparently
escorting her home, shortly before
midnight, on a dimly lighted
street. Chief Of Police Wayne
Elliot reported today.
The dead were Benjamin Cliff
ford Bowman Jr., 25, of Williams
port. pa. and Mrs Madeline Bar
max. q. Of Allentown.
Detroit evening times., 1945-12-22
Jobs in State
Drop25P(f
Detroit Time, Lan,inf Bureau

LANSING. Dec. Zl-Employ-
ment in Michigan manufacturing
industries averaged 2l5 per cert
lower last month than t Was o.
year ago, the tatraePar,meELc. q.
labor reported today.
The durable good, ndusfric, re-
ported that 35S per cent fewer
workers were employed in NoNcw-
Der. 1915, than n November. 1911
The automobile industry Cr-
ployed 347 per cent less worker
Manufacturer Of agricultural NICE
chinery employed 217 per cent
fewer persons.
Average weekly earnin g s.
dropped Sc 96 during the year and
average weekly hours decreased
Sd.
Detroit evening times., 1945-12-22
Send Your Contribution At ONCE!
Assure "a Hero u Merry Christmas

THIS blank, accompanied by your contribution,
l. may mark the difference between cherries,
giftess Christmas and merry, happy. 4uletlde
for some heroic wounded man in Michigan mill
tary hospital
1t is only through thousands of such contribu-
tions that each serviceman patient may be assured
an honest-to-goodness Christmas present and all
the frightened spirit such gift means. ~
TT IS not too late for you to become Santa to a
serviceman Hard working and tirelesS men,
bers of the Santa" civic committee will be work
ing r.ght and day until Christmas Eve to see that
all gifts are perfectly wrapped.
You can do your part today however by send
ing in your contribution NOW.
GIVE TO THOSE WHO GAVE!
Detroit evening times., 1945-12-22
Raise Illegal.
.DeffrieS Says

Common council asked corpora
ton counsel today for an opinion
on whether Mayor Jeffries' salary
can be raised from $4,000 TO
$4,000 annually.
Questioned on Eugene I. Van
Antwerps motion, the mayor
said
It's 3 splendid idea, but as
lawyer. I can assure you II Is
not possible legally. Elective
public officials cannot have
their salaries raised during
their term of office"
Nothing was said about any
move TO raise the salaries Of
councilmen which is $1,000.
Detroit evening times., 1945-12-22
Heart Strain
Proves Fatal
After In juries
(See Full Page of Pictures in Pictorial Review.

(See Full Page of Pictures in Pictorial Review.
HEIDELBERG, Germany, Dec. Fl (AP(.
Gen. George S. Patton Jr, who led the VIC
torous U. S. Third Army from the beaches
of Normandy into Czechoslovakia, died at
$50 D. m. Q1;50 a. M Detroit time) today,
dozen days after his neck was broken in
Raffic accident
The generals stout old fighting heart weakened
during the day from effects of pulmonary comph-
cations which had beset his apparent recovery from
the broken neck and partial paralysis.
Mrs. Patton was with him.
The announcement of the generals death was
made by Brig Gen. Willen of the U. S. Seventh
Army.
The general 60 last Nov. H.
He commander of the U. S. 18th Army at the
time of his death He had served briefly acting
mander of all American forces in the European theaer
few days before his automobile and army truck coded
near Mannheim Sunday Dec 9.
The official announcement said:
Gen. Patton died at $50 tonight it announced
by Brig Gen. John Nj. Willen, chief of staff of the
Seventh Army. The general died peacefully"
Detroit evening times., 1945-12-22
Vet Rail .VaFRl
Being EaScd

WASHINGTON. Dec. 81 tINS)
-ODT Director j. Monroe john
son estimated today that the
backlog of returning troops on
the West Coast awaiting trans
portation TO the East VIII be cut
10 1000 by Jan ]
Johnson told special Senate
defense committee headed by
Senator Mead % Of New York.
that railroads are moving 1900
veterans from the West Coast to
the East daily
lie estimated that there are
now 10000 troops on The Pacific
Coast aWdTtIHE TOTt1t1n 10
their homes.
Detroit evening times., 1945-12-22

Gen. Patton was one oil the
L. S. arrhy's most picturesque
generals.
FATHER OF TANKS
This two-fsted, California-born
cavalryman, whose fellow Off
GERS swear he cut his first teeth
on a horses bit, achieved fame
in the last World War when he
organized and commanded the
First American Tank Brigade on
the battlefields Of France.
He had been a leading ex-
ponent of tank warfare ever
since and as commander of the
u. S. Army's First Armored
Corps, he trained American
troops at Indio, Cal, in the art
of modernized desert fighting.
He was born in San Gabriel.
Cal, Nov. II, 1885.
q dashing military figure, who
liked 10 do the unorthodox in
mapping any campaign, Patton
had a strong penchant for pro-
family. Patton'S fellow officers in
the last war recall vividly how
he led his tank brigade on foot
into the MeuSe-Argonne offensive.
AWARDED MEDAL
In Septe Der. 1918. near
Cheppy. France. Patton directed
his brigade down the valley OF
the Aire. rallied a force of dis
organized infantry behind his
tanks and proceeded in the face
of heavy machine gun fire until he
was wounded, Tor this action he
was awarded the Distinguished
Service Cross.
After graduating from Vir-
ginia Military Institute. Patton
went 10 West Point. A husky,
athletic youth, who was an expert
swimmer and won every event he
entered at the 1912 Olynpics in
Stockholm, Patton brought TO
West Point an intense interest in
military tactics.
But he had one failing-he
could not spell. and under the
orthodox rules in force at West
Detroit evening times., 1945-12-22
Send EN- Home!

BERLIN Dec. Il GNS)-The
Allied control council for Ger
many has asked the United Ma
tons for their cooperation in re-
turning 10 Germany all Nazl
agents and obnoxious Germans
$50 they may be appropriately
loait WITH
Detroit evening times., 1945-12-22
.NLRB Defied
By packard

The Packard Motor Co. today
notified the ForemenS AsSocia-
tion of America that IL "lll not
comply with s;IKB order 10
enter intc collective bargaining
negotig ions with the association,
In a letter 10 Robert II. Keys.
union president. Packard Presi-
dent George 7 ChrlStopher
charged that the NLRB has no
jurisdiction and that its order is
unconstitutional
Christopher said the company
is entitled 10 a court review OF
the dispute and that he IS ready
TO cooperate in bringing about a
quick review.
Detroit evening times., 1945-12-22
LIST FIOundering
After ReScuing 2

SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. q
CAP) - Coastguard headquarters
reported early today that the
.LST-224 nearly foundered 33 =
miles west of the Golden Gate
while reScuing two Of its crew
men who had been washed over
board
Detroit evening times., 1945-12-22
Deny Japs Starving

TOKYO. Dec. 21 QNS)-Gen.
MacArthur'S headquarters today
accused the japanese government
TO crying wolf and said the
japanese were not in danger Of
starvation.
Detroit evening times., 1945-12-22
$4,000 Vets Living
On Federal Benefits
Detroit Time, wl,hinrien BuT,.s

WASHINGTON. Dec. 21-More
than one-third Of a million job
less veterans must now subsist
on the federal governments $50
weekly readjustment allowances.
the Veterans Administration re-
vcaicd today.
Total number Of veterans on
the nations unemployment com
penSation rolls reached 337, ,9O9 for
the week ending Dec S. Pay
mentS during the week totaled
SS.121 060.
Detroit evening times., 1945-12-22

Point this made his progress
through the military academy
slower than it might otherwise
have been.
When he finally graduated.
he went out as a real soldiers
soldier.
AIDE TO PERSHING
After a round of service with
cavalry units at Ft. Sheridan,
ILL.,; Ft. Myer. Va; Ft. Bliss and
Sierra Blanca, Tex. Patton
served as aide to Gen. Pershing
in the American expedition into
Mexico against Pancho Villa.
During that campaign, Patton
showed some of the fighting quail
ties that were TO mark him for
future promotions. He always
wore two As caliber revolvers.
The late Gen. Hugh Johnson,
who served with Patton under
Pershing in Mexico, used 10 de-
light in telling the story of Pat
toms battle with one of Villas
bandit gangs led by San Delario
Cervantes.
With a handful Of men. Patton
set forth one bright day in a
rattletrap of car TO corner Ger
vdntes.
BRINGS EN- HOME
In a violent free-for-all encoun-
ter, Patton's little commando-like
band killed off most Of CervanteS'
men. Cervantes himself tried 10
flee the scene. Patton went after
him, ducking a hail of lead from
the bandits group.
Patton finally grounded Ger
vantes with a blast from one OF
his ASS. When Patton returned
10 camp he had several dead ban
dts strapped to the radiator Of
his car.
When Pershing went 10 France
IN command Of the AEF, he took
Patton along and in the infancy
Of tank warfare in that war com
missioned his aide TO organize the
first American brigade OF iron
cavalry"
Detroit evening times., 1945-12-22

Ability 10 pay is always one
OF the facts relevant 10 the issue
Of an increase in wages.
This does not mean that
the government or its fact
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