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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-08-12
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which are now planted in corn, toma-
toes, okra, watermelons and peanuts,
together with two tralIers, situated
IN Hermitage Subdivision, short dis
lance off Castle Hayne read. H. F..
Wilder. Phone 1882.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-08-12
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Kodiak mirror., 1945-03-03

yyu who have wrestled with lI,ol of recalcitrant dimes and 8
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Kodiak mirror., 1945-03-03
Numbers Ready
Want to know where you live?

Want to know where you live?
 Starting Monday you can find out at the city clerks office where the information will be available as to the street you are on and the new, official house numbers will be assigned.
 Following that you can pur- chase your numbers for attach ment to your building. Assign
Kodiak mirror., 1945-03-03
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 a,t regarding the installation : new system in Kodiak, we ''d like to point out that in ''s places where they have .,a installed some people think k, are quite practical.
Kodiak mirror., 1945-03-03

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Kodiak mirror., 1945-03-03
Excuse me. thought you were my wife!'

ment of numbers will culminate many months work in designat- ing and marking streets and al- loting numbers on modern basis.
Kodiak mirror., 1945-03-03

The proposed abandonment of ! l34.milIion dollar Canol pro- 4 s,ggests that it should have ,sD named Cantol.
Kodiak mirror., 1945-03-03

Zenida Sheratine, from Afog- nak underwent a tonsil operation on Monday at the GM hospital.
Kodiak mirror., 1945-03-03

The January payroll for the city of Kodiak was $2471. 50.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-24
Leonard Tufts

One Of the builders of North Carolina died
when Leonard Tufts heard the final sum-
mons. Taking over the work of his father.
James Walker Tufts, founder of Pinehurst. he
carried on its development. His activities were
not confined to Pinehurst He was among the
leaders in North Cardinals good roads move.
ment. He was essentially builder, with en-
phasis on the foundations.
Perhaps his greatest work-his family calls
it his greatest contribution-was included in
his activities as a geneticist in cattle BREED
ing In the last Is years he gave his time to
producing better cattle BY his system, from
which he refused any gain for himself but
which he made available to all, he was able
to find a way by study and experiment
whereby good calf was produced seven times
in ten instead Of three times in ten, as for.
merly.
He was former president Of the State fair
and active in other organizations planned fol
improvement A man Of energy and appli
cation to the task at hand, his work leave,
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-24
Our Children

FORSYTH county's Juvenile Court Judge Is
worried over the keeping Of some children IN
iails until space can be found 1or theii' III '..e
proper state institutions. Hes not inc oi''S
person worried over that problem. 1t mas "or-
ried the minds and hears OF many people, -
is black mark against North Carohha'
Judge Nat Crews, writing DR.. Ellen WINSTON
commissioner Of the State Board OF Inf1''e'
and Public Welfare, urges that "sofae'hh's We
done to remove this condition. he eans 'Ae
situation "deplorable" It's worse than 1na'
It's shocking terrible Combining poor weak
minded child in Jail for no offense Whatever
simply because the state has falleo III i''
duty, is almost criminal
Isn't there somebody in authority IN Norm
Carolina or some set OF bold determined pei
sons with authority and force enough to or1ne
about some remedy? The stock excuse Is that
There isn't room" There should be way
to make room.
If it were your child could you sit by While
it was taken to Jail? Could you fold your hands
and say, There isn't room? Could you sleep
at night at home while your child tossed about
in Jail? 1t is probable that you would at leas,
try to do something about it. Then do it fol
these other children. They are your children
too They are a part Of your conscience.
The state has money now, a surplus that
has steadily mounted and will continue tc
mount It's partly your money. 1t doesn't be
long to any legislators or officials. They didn'
pile it up there Some of those funds should
be used to make room for these innocent
friendless children.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-24
Irrelevant and Immaterial

We see where the Senate Agricultural Com
naittee summoned Aubrey Williams boyhood
pastor and Sunday School teacher to testify as
to his qualifications as Rural Electrification
Administrator
They received the pertinent information that
Mr.. Williams was headed for the ministry in
his youth and subsequently, as the minister
put it, denied the divinity of Christ
The incursion of such private and extra
neous detail as Mr.. Williams religious beliefs
seems to us not only irrelevant to the inquiry
at hand, but also tasteless and downright dan
gerous. If this precedent should be established
mans fitness for public office might well be
determined by the combined techniques of the
1nquisition and the practices of Puritan New
England and the Gestapo.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-24
Manpower Delay

What has become OF the call Of the Pres-
dent and the judgement and reasoned pleas Of
General Marshall and Admiral King?" Sec
rotary of War stimson asked in his broadcast
appeal for national service law
will those who have trusted to these men
the lives of IL, 600, 900 citizens in uniform" he
continued, Eat the eleventh critical hour deny
to them the strength they say they need to
bring this conflict to a close, with the saving
Of as many men, as many lives, as possbile?"
These are not rhetorical questions. Mr.
Stimson obviously wants information. So do
many others. The answers, which have long
rested with Congress, rest for the moment
with the Senate Military Affairs Committee.
Senator O'Mahoney has charged Mr. Slim
son with giving an unbalanced impression
Of the manpower situation. He says that "our
soldiers have not been let down by the people
on the homefront.'
But what exactly does that mean? Does it
mean that we are producing up to capacity,
that we are providing our forces and our AL
lies with everything required Of us, that we
are building up war-goods stock pile for the
bigger operations % come? Does it mean that
the war is progressing at its maximum pos
sible speed? Does it mean that not life has
been lost, since the first dark days, for want
OF a gun or ship or plane?
We doubt that the senator meant all that
Absenteeism and labor turnover have been
with us since the war started. So have man.
power boarding, industrial inefficiency and bad
distribution Of labor.
Last July the President asked Congress for
a national service law. The request was ten
tative and, to use one of Mr. Roosevelt's favor
tie words, 'iffy' Congress can't be blamed
too much for not having put it at the top of
the agenda. But last month the President re-
quested such a law again. This time it was
urgent, with no strings attached
Congress has heard lot of testimony since
then Mr. Stimson and Mr.. Forrestal General
Marshall and Admiral King, WPB Chairman
Krug and others have echoed the Presidents
plea Representatives Of organized business
and organized labor have opposed it. Certain.
y elouSh eVoence anu ADVICE nave been
gathered to make a verdict possible
If the Senate is convinced that our excellent
production record is the best we can do, and
wholly adequate, then it should have the cour-
age to kill the May bill. But if it has any
doubts, then it should enact some legislation
to deal effectively with what our military lead
ers insist is literally life-and-death emer.
gency.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-24
THOUGHT FOR TODAY
functional RECOMMENDATION"

In a recent sermon, the Rev. Harry Emer-
son Fosdick was speaking OF the dangers VI
emotional Recommendation When things go
well the national spirits go soaring; military
reversal and we get a case OF countrywide
blues. Differences between this country and its
Allies depress us on transcontlnental scale'
the Crimea Conference announcement is
cause for general citation.
The country also seems to be suffering from
mass determination to get this war over
with as quickly as possible, and to join in an
international organization for enduring peace.
Maybe that's emotional RECOMMENDATION. But it S
also known as national unity.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-24
Nice To Have Around

Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau finds
that redemption Of war bonds has declined
since they became redeemable at banks He
finds that the decrease in cashing them has
been constant" That's good news. 1t isn't
any use to buy them only to cash them. That
is only bogus gesture of patriotism
They are the worlds soundest security, a
cushion against postwar days when money
will cease to grow on the federal money bush.
They will be mighty nice to have around, very
comforting Don't they look nice? And they
are nice. Nobody knows just what is ahead
when war ends, but these bonds are weapon
against want, against surprise and sudden
change
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-24
Trouble Ahead

Gandhi warns-or is it threat?-that q
new war will break out in India after the
present world conflict unless India gets her
independence. He is nearer right than most
people would think. India has been volcano
for centuries. Crowded with humanity. many
of them for centuries in dire poverty. it ha
been ripe for revolution for many years.
It will require all the diplomacy, tact and
human kindness possible to settle this problem
1t isn't something some smart fellow can solve
overnight Here are different races. castles
religions, conglomeration of all that spells
trouble Here are bare proverty and great
wealth side by side; squalor and splendor.
misery and magnificence, weakness and
strength; humility and arrogance.
This is Pandora boz of troubles. Every
time the lid is lifted new problem jumps out
India is almost a continent in itself This will
indeed be sore spot unless good will and
the principles Of human brotherhood are put
into effect Force itself and alone cannot set
tie it. Man must devise some remedy basee
on some other doctrine His head must hav,
some guidance from his heart.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-24
Washington Calling
BY Marquis Childs

PARIS-Paris, once called the
City of Light, is today a city of
darkness and misery. A pretense
of the old Paris is kept up but
it is rather pathetic gliding on
what is an empty shell.
Shops on the Rue de la Paix
and the Place de IOpera still
have smart things in the windows,
but these articles are merely WIN
dow-dressing. Nothing like them
is for sale inside the shops SINH
larry, perfume bottles are dis
played in windows, but the Amer
lean army has long since cleaned
out the supply.
1t is a little like the huge peach
basket hats worn by women Who
still try to look fashionable. They
are pretentious in a sad sort of
way and very, very expensive. An
American tripper VINO wanted to
take Paris hat back to his wife
found that the minimum price at
leSser-knoWn establishment was
$500.
Prices on the black market are
fantastic, somewhat reminiscent
of the German initiation of the
early '20s. Butter, if you can find
it, costs SIG a pound. Automobile
tires-and they are scarcer than
butter--cost $125 or more. A wo-
mans suit in a shop window in
provincial town, though shoddy
looking, was priced at $50.
A meal of horse meat and poor
macaroni in working-class res
taurant costs just under 81. In the
few black market restaurants, you
see hard-faced men and women
undoubtedly operators in one
phase or another. of the black
Bourse-who pay $500 or $3.50 for
a dinner for three or four per-
sons. In these restaurants, pa
tronized only by hated profiteers
or foreigners, the food is up to
the old Partisan standards, and
vintage cnampagnes are obtain
able at $25 or $50 per bottle. While
heavy fines are putting stop to
some of this, the black market
still flourishes.
Resentment against profiteers,
some of whom were on the border
line of collaboration, is growing
throughout France. Some people
feel that de Gaulle is not pro-
ceeding rapidly enough with tne
liquidation of collaborationists
Former collaborationists say cyni-
cally, you're not dead until you
are shot"
On the other hand, many house
wives admit frankly they could
not feed their families without the
black market. Minimum rations
simply are not obtainable without
benind-door meals. During the re-
cent severe cold spell, the food
crisis was so acute that the U. S.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-24
Your War; With Ernie Pyle

assuming they have to be away
from home at all.
The savage heat and the dread
diseases and the awful jungles OF
the more southern Pacific islands
do not exist here. The climate is
good, the islands are pretty, and
the native Chamorros are nice peo-
pie.
Health conditions among our
men are excellent. They work in
shorts or without shirts and are
deeply tanned. The mosquito and
fly problem has been licked. There
is almost 10 venereal disease. Food
is good. The weather is always
warm but not cruelty hot. Almost
always a breeze is blowing. Any
where you look, you have pretty
view.
Yes, the Islands are a Paradise
and life here is fine-except it's
empty and there is no diversion
and the monotony eventually
gnaWs at you.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-24

Army was persuaded to turn over
small amount of it's stores to
relieve the situation at least tenn
porarily.
A marked rise in infant NOR
tally and deaths of older persons
is a sure indication of near-fam-
inc. Likewise, a sharp increase
in cases of tuberculosis, as shown
by recent UNRRA studies, is a
sign of what is happening.
With the machinery of living
barely functioning, existence is
full of annoyances and frustra-
tons. The French telephone sys-
tenn, never very efficient, now
hardly works at all. One reason
is that cams and switches were
frozen in unheated office build
ings and apartments.
Almost no transportation exists
outside of the subway system.
Near the Place de IOpera, shabby
horse-draWn cabs wait for fares
but they are only for the very
rich. For three Or four dollars,
you can hire a bicyclist with a
sidecar. That is, you can hire
him if you're lucky enough to find
him.
One of the strange phenomena
of this now somber city is the
separation of the English-speak-
ing world and the Frencn-speak-
ing world. Or I should say the
American-speaking world, since
the responsibility is ours and you
rarely see a Britisher. This has
its advantages for the British, who
can put off on us any blame for
the friction growing out of the
minimum association between the
two spheres.
Comparatively few American
officers speak French. Very few
French speak English. The diff
ference in language makes for
barrier that is hard to cross.
The American-speaking world
has facilities-heat and Transport
Acknowledgment the reach of the
French-speaking sphere. Barriers
make for misunderstanding. 1t is
so easy to misunderstood.
A recent American visitor COM
mented that the children in the
parks all had fur coats. The i'm
plication was that no nation could
be very badly off that could pro-
vide fur coats for its cni1dren
but the truth is something quite
different. France has had almost
no wool for the past five years.
Warm clothing for children is one
of the gravest scarcities. If you
can find $3.50 or 5000, you can
buy a rabbit-skin coat for your
small daughter. Trapping of rab-
bits has gone on regardless of the
war.
Official sources here have con-
firmed reports that food from
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-24

Pearl Harbor. Tinian and Saipan
had been japanese since the last
war. We took the whole batch last
summer.
Guam is the biggest, and south
ernmost. Tinian and Saipan are
right together, 100 miles north of
Guam. You can fly up there in less
than an hour, and our transport
planes shuttle back and forth sew
eral times daily on regular sched-
ule. They have to make dog
leg" around the island of Rota,
about half way up, for there are
still Japs on it with 50-caliber ma
chine guns, and they'll shoot at
you.
I've been on all three of our is
lands, and I must admit two things
that l like it here, and that you
can't help but be thrilled by what
the Americans are doing.
And from all I've picked up so
far, l think it can be said that
most Americans like the Marianas
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-24
BY ERNIE PYLE

IN THE MARIANAS ISLANDS,
(delayed)-You may wonder why
we have American troops at all
here in the Marianas Islands, since
we are 1900 miles away from the
Philippines, China or Japan itself
Well, it's because in this Pacific
war of vast water distances, we
have to make gigantic bases OF
each group of islands we take, in
order to build up supplies and
preparations for future invasions
farther on.
The Marianas happen to be a
sort of crossroads in the Western
Pacific. Stuff can 60 either west or
north from here. Whoever sits in
the Marianas can have his finger
on the whole wide web of the war.
Thus the Marianas are becom-
ing heart of the Pacific war. Our
naval and military leaders make
no bones about it, for the Japs
know it anyhow, but they're too
far away to do anything about it.
The Marianas are both thrilling
and engaging right now Scores of
thousands of troops of all kinds are
here. Furious building is going on.
Planes arrive on schedule from all
directions as though this were Chi
cago AiTport-only they've come
thousands of miles over water.
Conveys unload unbelievable ton
nages.
These islands will hum through
out the war and they will never
return to their former placid life,
for we are building on almost ev-
cry inch of useable land.
Supplies in staggering quantities
are being stacked up here for fu
ture use. You can take your pick of
K-rations or lumber or bombs, and
you'd find enough of either to feed
a city, build one, or blow it up.
Fleets can base here between
engagements. Combat troops train
here. Other troops come back to
rest. Great hospitals are set up
for our future wounded Pipelines
criss-cross the islands. Trucks
bumper to bumper dash forward
as though they were on the West
ern Front. Oxcart trails turn al
most overnight into four-lane ma
cadam highways for military traf-
fic.
There is no blackout in the is
lands. If raiders come the lights
are turned off, but they seldom
come any more. The Marianas
are pretty safe place now.
Great long macadam airstrips
are in operation and others are
being laid. The Marianas are the
seat of some of our B-29 bomber
fleets which will grow and grow
and grow.
Thousands of square tents, thou
sands of curved steel Quonset huts,
thousands of huge, permanent
warehouses and office buildings dot
the islands.
Lights burn all night and the
roar OF planes, the clank Of bull
dozers and the clatter of hammers
is constant. 1t is strange contrast
to the stiffness that dwelt admist
this greerery for so many CEN
turtles.
There are Is islands in this chain
running due north and south. They
string out a total distance of
more than 400 miles. We are on
the southern end
We hold only three islands, but
they are the biggest and the only
three that count. The other islands
are completely "neutralized" by
our occupancy of these three.
There are few Japs living on
some of the others, but there's
nothing they can do to harm us.
The islands we haven't bothered
with are small and worthless. Mist
of them have no inhabitants at all.
The islands we took are Guam,
Tinian and Saipan. Guam had been
ours for many years before Japan
took it away from us just after
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-24

America is on the VT reH WI,
the civilian food Short oul ~, I~
can be only a stopgar 7ome NEW,
and quickly, French 7foo0'"
capacity must be resto. a. .rr,
Copyright 1915 by Unh 20 fe'
Syndicate. JncN
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-24
THE VIII MINGTON MORNING STAR, WILMINGTON. N. G.

lasting impression. He occupied an honorable
useful place in the world. What man could
ask for more?