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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-09-17
"Cloak And Dagger" Work

The columnist, Marquis Childs, from time
to time has had something to say about the
Office of Strategic Services, better known in
the fighting forces as Maj. Gen. William A.
Donovan's Cloak and Dagger Outfit" Now
that the OSS has told it's own story it is easy
to see why Mr.. Childs' references to it have
all been commendatory. It's record is out
standing.
Operating behind enemy lines in sixteen
countries, its members delivered upward of o.
600 tons Of American supplies and weapons
to the underground, supplied military intelli
gence and rescued some thousands of Ameri
can airmen.
For the first time in our military history
an American Army fought On untried fronts
with novel facts. It's theatre of operations was
behind the enemy lines 1t worked and fought
in France, Belgium, Holland Denmark, Nor.
way, North Africa Italy, Greece, Yugoslavia,
Albania, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Burma, ST.
am ThailanO China and French Indo-China. -
And the report continues:
1.-The secret army operated not as a large
unit but in small groups of from two to thirty
with larger underground forces, which they
trained and helped to lead il. harassinq at.
tacks against the japanese and German rear.
They attacked enemy troops, destroyed bridg.
es, roads, trains, vehicles, communications
power lines. vital factories and military in.
stallations.
1.-The members of the army penetrated enc.
my territory by dangerous night and day para.
chute drops by submarines and small boats
and overland through the lines Some even
landed in small planes at hidden airfjelds
Each unit carried radio for communication
with OSS headquarters in the theatre"
Statistically, the OSS shows that during 1914
supplies parachrted into Europe totaled $500
tons, of which 3,O55 hit France; $685. tons
Poland; ninetyfive tons, Belgium; nine tons
Denmark; 551 tons, Norway; fifteen tons, the
Netherlands and 1,745 tons, Yugoslavia.
food, arms and clothing were packed ir
containers nearly six feet long, each of which
could hold over 300 pounds the OSS said
''From OsS packing stations, the container.
were transported to nearby airfields, ane
flown over enemy territory by the United
States Army Air Forces and the Royal All
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-09-17
The Literary Guidepost

but making his first published
venture into fiction, practically
tied his hands behind his back be-
fore ne began his story. He tells
it. in the first person, limits the
intellectual caliber of his narrator,
sets it all at the end of the last
century and on Cape Cod, popu-
larly associated only with light
fiction plus of course clans and
summer hotels.
But in spite of these handicaps,
or perhaps because of the tremen.
dous pressure they exert, Wolfson
brings to life a remarkable per-
sonage and an equally remarkable
situation. Addie stays in charac.
ter from first page to last, but
the depths of her strange, thwart.
ed nature are revealed fully.
The jacket suggests a yardstick:
the Sophoclean tragedy. The sur
prising thing is not that the book
misses that, but that it misses by
so little. If 1t lacks the clean,
sweeping line of great tragedy, if
the emphasis is on situation and
plot however superb, so that on
occasion you suspect you can
identify the craftsman's hand,
this is still certain to be one of
the best novels you'll read in a
long, long time.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-09-17
Nazi Protests Right
OF Government Trial

VIENNA, Sept. Is. Up The
authorlty of the Renner Provision.
al government to set up courts
was challenged today in the appeal
OF a Vienna chemistry professor
from a recommendation Of death
by hanging.
The professor, DR.. Joern LANCE,
H. a Nazi party member, was con-
vlcted yesterday of destroying an
3o,ooO-mark microscope just before
the Russians entered Vienna, l
OF numbering two assistants who
tried to stop him. He admitted the
destruction but denied killing one
man and said he shot the other in
self-defense.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-09-17
DailyPrayer
FOR ONENESS WITH GOD
AND MAN

In Thee, o infinite and over-rul
ing God, all nations and peoples
meet to find their full destiny
Thou art God over all, blessed for.
ever. Thou art the home of hu.
man hearts: we pray today that we
may abide in Thee, as the
branches from the vine. Even war
with all of its horrors, has but in.
creased the = worlds sense of de-
pendence upon Thee. Our eyes are
being opened to the realization
that only in Thee is full and final
peace to be found. In unity with
Thee, we would find fellowship
with all men, regardless of class
or color or creed. We cry to Thee
% prayer-answering God, for q
sense of oneness with all mankind
that will make their sorrows ou1
sorrows, and that will lift us out
of all our self-centeredness. Hear
US. o Lord, in Heaven Thy dwell
ing place; and when Thou nearest,
forgive. Amen. -W.T
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-09-17
Soft Ride

The Texas implement dealer who drove a
new tractor home from Detroit has won quite
bit of attention as a hardy pioneer of the
highways. But we are reserving or cheers
until we find how he travelled from Wemar.
Tex, to Detroit
If he came those 1874 miles in a day coach
and under present travelling conditions, he
may have chosen his home-going conveyance
from 4 purely selfish desire for comfort. We'd
take tractor ourselves any day.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-09-17
Hay Crop Hit Hard
By Rains, Wake Advises

RALEIGH, Sept. is. - Wake
County farmers have lost thou.
sands OF acres Of good hay this sea-
son because of rainy weather and,
as result, they are seeding many
acres in supplemental grazing
crops and in permanent pastures,
which furnish the cheapest source
OF feed. County Agent L. T. Weeks
OF the State College Extension
Service says that the quality of
most of the hay saved in recent
weeks is rather poor because the
growers delayed the cutting IF the
hay due to bad weather.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-09-17
New Zealand became self-gov'
erning dominion Sept. 26, 1907.

Literally scores of servicemer
and women here asked for his all.
tograph on anything from short
shorter bills to scraps of white,
colored or even black paper. And
Wainwright spent literally hours at
a desk, tired as he was, painstak-
ingly signing his name.
Even when he couldn't hear
what autograph hunters asked
him, because of artillery-induced
deafness, he just smiled and kept
on signing.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-09-17
BY w. G. ROGERS
The Lonely Steeple, by Victor
Wolfson (Simon and Cluster;

Wolfson (Simon and Cluster;
$3.50.
The Eldredges, whose daughter
Addie is the principal character
in this absorbing novel, live on
Cape Cod, there are many chill.
dren, the mother is a hunchback
and the father ends his days by
drowning, fate which, Addie
thinks, after the time he took her
alone at IA to Billingsgate island,
is the least that could have hap
pened to him.
Blaming herself for that island
experience, Addie fears she is
really bad. She wants to tell her
story to the head man" and the
matron where she is confined,
and since they won't listen, she
writes it OF.
Married for time to Ed Purdy,
divorced by him and befriended
by Halsey Fowler, she still can
not forget Ed. He married her to
spite his father. Halsey wants to
marry her for her own sake. 1t is
Halsey who takes her to the Station
Hill church, scene of some of the
most moving passages in this
haunting novel.
V'olfson. successful dramatist
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-09-17
Editorial Comment
As SHE is SPOKEN

D :, Now orleans a patriotic CIVILIAN
,o Go~ ~ s,d looking soldier standing outside
the peleans, bail park and EVIDENT. deter
mi, to cheer him up by talking in the hnak''
kiae Tau uw. he greeted ''what time does
- Say cofp ptar a. this afternoon-14oo hours or
143O?" ,oao;a doffed his hat
scratched his head Far as MAKE Or BrooHl-
e es A 1T carnmences at tree toity!
Magazine.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-09-17
ELECTION DATE SET

LONDON, Sept. 16.-(R- The
Moscow radio, quoting Sofia dis
patch, said tonight the Bulgarian
elections would be held Nov. 10.
The broadcast said the elections,
previously postponed after protests
of the United States and Great
Britain, had been approved by the
regents with cabinet concurrence.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-09-17
Russian Leader Orders
Confiscation OF Books

BERLIN, Sept. 16.-tP)- Field
Marshal Georgi Zhukov today or
dered the confiscation of all Nazi
and German militaristic literature
in Soviet-occupied sections of Ger
many by Oct. IS. All former state
or public libraries and other in
situations having libraries also ust
deliver their card indexes to the
Russian military commander.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-09-17
Strikes, Busy Picketers Indicate
Reconuersion In Suing At Honolulu
BY KENNETH L. DIXON


HONOLULU, Sept. TO- Up Re
conversion is hitting full swing in
the land Of sweet Leilani:
Already there have been three
or four strikes, and it's nothing
to find pickets in front OF some
downtown business establishment
Local newspapers are spotted
with advertisements by manage
ment saying that union men are
not trying to get along, ETC.. ETC.,
and advertisements by unions say
ing that management is such
and-such, etc., etc.
The Hololulu Chamber of Com
merce and steamship line people
already are hard at work on new
international advertising cam
paigns designed to entice main
land tourists to this isle where
palm fronds wiggle Economically
and coconuts 60 clack clack in the
gentle Pacific breezes. The photo
graphs being printed daily are
hard to resist-you know, luscious
bathing beauties and handsome
gents riding surfboards in on the
crest of waves at Waikiki.
Also there's a new move under
way to publicize and exploit all
of the islands in the territory, rath-
er than just Oahu. Part OF this is
probably due to business interests
of the other islands, but part
doubtless is inspired by the. ter
ritorial realization that at least
some servicemen are going to be
making derogatory remarks about
Oahu when they get back home
again.
Like so many other places where
American boys had expected to be
thrilled and delighted - due to
travel talks and steamship adver-
tising-Oahu has been found to be
lust another joint packed with uni
forms and much too far from
home.
AS a matter of fact, the Stars
and Stripes, servicemen's neWspa'
per here, spells out Oahu in print
like it sounds-Wahoo. It's Just
that no place can live up to a
mans imagination and hopes.
He's always disappointed when he
has to stay-whether he wants to
or not-in long-dreamed-of spot
like Hawaii.
People who plug the Hawaiian
Islands as the pearl of the Pacific
and an ideal vacation spot already
are realizing that they may have
to look to some of the other is
lands-besides Oahu-to really do
a job of selling them to Americans
back on the mainland.
Reporters who were out at Pearl
Harbor recently when the late
Vice Adm. John S. Mccain passed
through and gave his unchanged,
firm opinion on the Japanese peo-
pie, still are talking quietly about
one statement the peppery little
flying admiral made:
The Japanese, he said, "are 60
ing to take a lot of killing at
some future date Everyone has
read that; but what the Admiral
added and what few have read
was the comment: Thank God,
/ will be dead by them
The boys have thought about
that lot, because he died within
48 hours.
One of the things that impressed
Honolulu people most about Cen
eral Wainwright, hero of Bataa an
and Corregidor, was not what he
said or didn't say about his suf-
ferlng at the hands of the Japanese
II was what he did for local people. |
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-09-17
Fair Enough

editor 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. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-09-17
FORE OF HABIT

1t is difficult to get over war plant ways.
The other day whistle blew while I was doing
the dishes. dropped two cups and went into
the parlor to -"Rivetena," in the Chicago
Tribune.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-09-17

Maine is the only state IN 4S n
union that touches only oie
state.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-09-17

One OF the things that impressed
aonoiulu people most about Gen
eral Wainwright, hero of Bataan
ana Corregidor, was not what he
said or didn't say about his sui
Ierlng at the hands Of the japanese
II was what he did for local people.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-02-01

t axes Life

Kansas City. Feb. l-AP Dr.. Lo-
gan Clendening, 60, who gave Dai-
ly health hints to an estimated
50,000,000 readers in a syndicated
newspaper column, became so des-
pendent over his own failing health
yesterday that he took his life.
Benton Tibbs, detective in the
homicide bureau, said Dr. Clenden-
ing had slashed his left wrist and
cut his juglar vein. The body of
the wealthy physician, clad in pa
jamas, was found in his bedroom.
There was no note. but he had told
friends recently that he feared he
was suffering from leukemla, a dis
ease for which there is no known
cure.
In the closing chapter of his
book. THE Human Body. DR.. Glen
dening saw death as mot unpleas-
ant.
ITO a few death comes as a
friend as a relief from pain, from
intolerable loneliness or loss, or
from disappointment"
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-02-01

where 513 prisoners of war
were rescued by American
rangers and Filipino guerril-
las.
A convoy of ambulances
and trucks transported the
rescued captives back to
absolute safety and freedom
except for two of the 513 who
died en- route. No men ever re-
.ceived more sincere homage than
these lean. ragged captives who
had come back from death.
lmpromptu Parade
For four miles they followed
lane outside the American lines.
riding in vehicles and grass lined
Filipino carts. Thousands OF SOL
diers from the reinvasion army
formed an impromptu parade in
their honor. flanking~ both sides of
the return route.
No men ever tried more val
iently TO regain the pride
which the Japanese had smash
ed and to control their emo
tons as these eaptives whose
first glimpse Of the almost for
gotten outside world came this
evening.
Behind them was the awful hope
lessness OF Bataan and C0rregidor.
and nearly three years of unbe-
liCyably brutal imprisonment. Fl
rally. stunningly swift rescue and
an all night forced march OF 25
miles. the last of several marches
for them. The first meeting of
these soldiers and the trim officers
OF the present campaign was a
tense. brave effort to span the dead
years.
Several Of the prisoner Off
GERS had retained their tarnish-
ed badges Of rank, worn proud
ly on ragged shirts above
shorts which had been patch
ed and repatehed.. Some wore
old campaign hats, some over
seas caps with company in
sisne, and one had retained his
old prewar type helmet.
Old Men Now
There we're old men with grey
hair, dazed. sunken eyes. Several
We're surprisingly young looking
men. still keen and freshly shaver.
Some were back to almost normal
weight because the Japanese parrf-
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-02-01
Legion For


Ypsilanti Post 2S2 OF the Ameri-
can Legion went on record at their
monthly meeting at the Legion
home on s. Huron St, Wednesday
night, in favor OF permanent rec
reation commission as part of the
city government.
1t was decided that the High
School Orstorical contests spon-
sored by the Legion will be held in
Lincoln and Ypsilanti High Schools
in March. These oratorical cou-
tests are part of nation wide pro-
gram sponsored under the Ameri-
canism program OF the Legion.
Paul Hayward reported to the
membership that he already has
20 Legionnaires signed for blood
donation at the Methodist Church
February E.
The Legionnaires were told by
Laurence Kisor. who has been In
touch with the War Department,
that that department would accept
any instructor for the proposed
military training in YpsHanti High
School that the local schools should
see fit to select. However the Lee
gion has decided TO table the pro
iect until such time as equipment
is not so difficult TO obtain.
Delegates TO the second district
convention held at Manchester Sun
day submitted reports. Report
was also given on the progress OF
the new Huron Legion Post in Up
SLANT by Carl Johnson.
Commander Thomas O'Dea pre-.
sided at the meeting.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-02-01
War In Brief

by ASSOCIATED iTeeHl
The Western Front-Nazi with
drawal from Siegfried outposts
limited as Americans advance with
artillery support; Americans cap
ture Gambsheim; French close in
on Colmar.
The Russian Front--Berlln re-
ports Russians in vicinity OF Kus'
trim in Oder Valley 80 miles east
OF Berlin: Russians captured Bey
ersdorf, SO miles northeast OF Ber'
lin; Germans say Oder In Silesia
crossed at several places.
The Italian Front-Fifth Army
patrols stab deep into Nazi lines
east OF Serchio River in Bitter five
hour fight.
The Pacific Front Americans
hold Olongapo. hawai- repair base
controlling Subic Bay; other Ameri-
cans spear to within rs road miles
OF Manila: Seventh Fleet steams
into Subic Bay.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-02-01
Rlngworrn In
Schools Here

The Washtenaw health depart
mcnt announced today that at lin
coin Consolidated. Npsilanti. Willow
Run and Saline schools, but 81 cas-
cs Of ringworm were found.
Npsilauti schools revealed 2G OF
these, II were found at Willow
Run. and the other IL at Lincoln.
The health department stresses
the fact that this is by no means
serious condition, but that the
department will conduct county
wide check Of school children. First
the consolidated and village schools
will be checked. then the rural
schools
No child who has the disease will
be allowed 10 attend school unless
the family doctor certifies that he
has treated the child. The only
effective treatment reported by the
health department is X-ray. A
Salyc and skull cap must be worn
during the period when the hair
il falling, since falling hair IL one
Of the more common means Of
spreading the disease Adults are
usually immune 10 the infection
aud only in rare instances do II OF
H. year Odds contract the disease.
The infection soon heals itself.
The major discomfort is the tenn.
porary badness it causes. How
ever health officials state that a
child could contract the dis
ease and have It all his early years.
but when he reached the age OF
puberty. The infection would 20
away. and hair would again grow.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-02-01
Two New Nurses
on Health Staff

Ypsilsnti health Office today had
on its stan new nurse, Miss Mary
Ellen O'Loughlin. a graduate of
st. Mary's Hospital in Rochester.
MINI. She attended St. Theresa
College in Winona. Mimi. and the
University Of Michigan. She will
do public health work in the Ypsi.
lanti area.
Washtenaw County Health De
partment also has another addition
to its stan. Miss Shirley Hanson.
Sioux Falls. s. Dakota. She Is a
graduate OF Butterworth Hospital.
Grand Rapids and attended An
gustana College in Sioux Falls and
Central Michigan College at Mt.
Pleasant.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-02-01

IN A MOVE designed to block a
Jap retreat into Bataan. elements
of 1t. Gen. Robert L. Eichelberg-
er's new Eighth Army have made
landings on Luzon just north Of
Subic bay, as shown on the map.
Eichelberger, left, Amer as
most successful combat general
in jungle warfare, has been rela-
lively inactive since last June
when he rushed to Biak to assume
personal command Of the begged
down American siege Of that
island, north of the Solomons. In
the new landing on Luzon, the
Yank@ were nopposed They
drove IL miles inland toward
junction with 1t. Gen. Walter
Krueger's Sixth Army forces,
which have reached within 80
miles of Manila since their early
January invasion at Lingayen
gulf. In the new landing Yanks
seized five miles of beachhead
and took an air field at San Mar
celino in an operation to seal the
fate of the Nips endeavoring to
retreat.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-02-01

son left temporarily Jan. s and
the prisoners broke into the plen-
tittl stores which had been long
denied them. There were also
those who limped from beri-beri.
legs scored by tropical ulcers and
other diseases. and, OF. course,
there were those who looked up
helplessly from filters. They tried
proudly to be soldiers, carrying
themselves as erect as possible.
Many saluted promptly and stayed
at attention when talking to Off
GERS. One man who did this crept
into a truck and sank back exhaust
ed 4 minute later.
These men were so happy you
could see new life flowing into
them, yet most of them found 1t
difficult and confusing to return
to this world. Perpetually wearing
a broad grin, some would start
a conversation with Hello, Yank.
glad TO see you" And then there
was nothing more they could say.
They talked pleasantly when
they could but many spoke hest
family.
Even the most robust young
man had been enfeebIed some
what from malnutritlon be-
cause Of their diet Of three
hsndfuls Of rice daily with a
few sweet potatoes for those
who worked. Some lost as
much as 100 pounds.
They remembered buddles whose
bodies had been heaped into mass
ed graves. Finally. last year they
were allowed to make a ,Ady Gem
etery.
No 5arbed Wire
All along the line as I rode,
truck after truck passed. The oc-
cupants showing some uncertain.
ty, some hesitancy. They glanced
eagerly at the new weapons and
helmets OF soldiers who lined the
road. They peered far ahead at
the plain stretching unfortunately
gaa CApTIVEc paga
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-02-01
Dem Ticket
in Township

For the hrst time In years COM
plete Democratic ticket has been
filed In Ypsilanti Township
In addition to the well known
parties, the Republican and Demo-
crat, n newcomer appears for the
first time in the township political
picture. The Michigan Common
wealth Federation Party, with but
one candidate in the primary. Miss
Lillian Staebler. running for town
ship clerk.
In the Republican party the in
cumbent officers and in some cases.
OPPOSITION filed petitions. Otis A.
Tooze filed again and will be OPP
posed by Nanny X. Richards for
supervisor. Mrs. Lillian M. Shep-
pard will have no opposition in the
primary for the Office OF clerk.
Nelson d. Boutell. unopposed in the
primaries, is seeking nomination az
treasurer Edward c. Slmmonds
and Earl W. Ford are both seeking
nomination as Justices Of the peace.
They have no opposition within
the party as two justices are TO be
elected. Columbus Santure Is run
ming for membership on the board
OF revue as is the incumbent. Or
say X. Darling.
ON the Democratic ticket. there
are no contests in the primary.
LYLE Dennis is candidate for sup
ervisor. Allen J. Niece, for treas
urer. Cannon NJ. Coleman, for
clerk. Thomas NJ. Power and Emil
Daimler for justices of the peace
Mrs. Katherine f.. Swope and Char
les Theodore A. Gran, for member
ship on the board OF revue, Joseph
]. swope, Sr.. for highway COM
missioner: Charles Hostettler, Paul
d. Walker, william +. Bowie, and
George w. Gambler for constables.
Due to the change in the election
law. there will be two justices and
two members elected to the board
OF revue this year, one for two and
one for four years, and In the
future they will be elected alter
nately.