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Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1945-08-30
DOT FOR HOUSE SPRAY
Average Home Can Be Treated
For S1.75 a Year

For $1.75 a Year
Health officials in Wilmington
have announced that the average
home can be successfully treated
with DOT residual spray at a
cost of from $1.50 to S1.75, includ-
ing labor, materials and overhead,
but exclusive of initial expense for
heavy equipment. One treatment
a year is all that is believed to be
necessary. A report issued by the
u. S. Public Health Service said
that residual sprays should be
used carefully, so that furniture,
bedding and wearing apparel are
treated. Tests have demonstrated
clearly that the five per cent solu-
ton is the safest and most effic-
lent for general home use.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1945-08-30
Chair Afire Sunday

The Citizens Hose Company was
called at two o'clock Sunday morn
ing to extinguish a blazing chair in
a frame dwelling owned by r. w.
Slaughter ON Walnut Street. Dam
age was slight.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1945-08-30
Church of the Nazarene

Church of the Nazarene, Rev. ].
w. Parkins, pastor, makes the fol-
lowing announcements; Prayer
meeting on Thursday at 1880 p. m.
Sunday services: Sunday School,
9:45 a. M; morning worship, 10:45-
q. m. Mrs. Mabel Erskine will
bring the message. Praise meeting
and worship service at 1880 p. m.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1945-08-30
BOY, Is, HELD
IN FIRE SERIES
Edward Domino Said to Have
Confessed Setting Own
Home Afire
CONFESSED OTHERS

Nightly vigils against a fire
bug" in the Lebanon area below
Dover have come to an end with
the arrest and confession of 10
year-old boy who admitted to state
police that he started series of
mysterious fires 'for the thrill of
it." The boy is Edward Domino
son of John and Mary Domino
whose home was burned to the
ground late Friday night by fire
which the boy admitted starting
by the use of kerosene in the kitch-
en- of the house. The boy is under
arrest at Dover on charges of
arson, and is being held in Kent
County Jail pending arraignment
in Juvenile Court.
Confessed Other Fires
Domino is said to have confess
ed starting fires which destroyed a
barn on the farm of James S. Far
row, and the home and two out
buildings of Harvey Short, in ad-
dition to his own home. 1t is be-
lieved that another fire which de-
stroyed the Domino barn during
the fire epidemic" was caused by
lightning. The confession, said
to have been made by the Domino
boy to state police, stunned the
father, who was seated in a truck
on watch against a suspected fire
bug" when his own home was ig-
nited. Edward leaped from a side
bedroom window, it was said, while
his mother, now suffering from Sc
we're burns in Kent General Hos
pital, jumped from the porch roof.
Domino will undergo a psychiatric
examination in accordance with in
structions issued by Judge Ernest
V. Keith in Court of Common
Pleas. Judge Keith held the boy
without bail for the Court of Gen.
eral Sessions on a charge of arson,
directing that in the interim the
examination be made.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1945-08-30
LEWES FLIES REDUCED
DOT Used at Fish Factories With
Results Good

The fly population at the fish
factories in Lewes has been reduc-
ed 65 to 20 per cent by the use OF
DOT solutions, DR.. ]. L. Cherry,
state veterinarian, has disclosed
The spray used in tests by the
Army and the u. S. Public Health
Service will be repeated in six
weeks.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1945-08-30
L. L. COBB WEEDS
BELGIAN GIRL
Major Lawrence L. Cobb Mar.
ries Today Member of Bel
gian Underground
BROTHER BEST MAN

A wedding today will climax the
romance of local bomber pilot
and a young Belgian interpreter.
Major Lawrence L. Cobb, the son
of Col. L. L. Cobb, former principal
of the Clayton and Cheswold
schools, now Commandment of the
Quartermaster School at Camp
Lee, Petersburg, Va, will today be
married to Miss Anne Marie Car
her, daughter of a banker in
Namur, Belgium. Col. Cobb was
born in Smyrna.
The romance began when the
young Major, recovered from fax
wounds suffered on his first COM
bat mission over Europe, rejoined
his squadron of the 9th Air Force
in Belgium. Miss earlier, %, a
graduate of the University of
BRUSSELS, was serving the Allied
command as an interpreter in the
base area when they were intro
duced last September. After a
honeymoon at Cannes they will
make their home in Berlin for the
duration of the occupation.
Diamond Ring Late
The marriage may be completed
today before the bride has received
her diamond engagement ring. In
the West Point tradition, Major
Cobb had requested his mother at
Petersburg to have an American
jeweler mount a diamond in plat
mum in a miniature reproduction
of his Naval Academy graduation
ring. No one is sure that the ring
has survived the uncertainties of
international mail.
Member of Underground
The bride was at one time an &C.
tive member of the Belgium under
ground. Among the guests will
be not only American officers, but
also men and women who figured
in the underground movement dur
ing the Nazi occupation. Miss Car
lier wrote Mrs. Cobb that because
of the differences in language
among her guests, individual tables
for four or six will be provided at
the reception dinner for eighty
guests at the brides home.
Civil, Church Ceremony
In contrast to American custom,
there will be both a civil and &C.
clesiastic ceremony. The civil cere-
mony takes place at the city hall,
and is attended only by the bride
and groom, the brides parents, and
the best man. The bride then re-
turns to her home to don her we'd
ding dress, the materials for which
were secured in Switzerland, after
which the entire wedding party
and guests go to the cathedral.
Major Cobb's ushers will be all
West Point graduates of AZ and
'43, with the exception of Miss
Carriers brother, Robert, who was
once sentenced to death for under
ground activity against occupying
Germans.
Brother is Best Man
1t was during his brothers court
ship, sandwiched in between tactic
al bombing runs, that Major James
B. Cobb, who graduated from West
Point in January of '43, six months
after his elder brother, earned the
nations second highest honor when
he was awarded the Distinguished
Service Cross for knocking out a
fiercely defended and important
bridge in the same theatre of &C.
ton. Though the brothers were
able to get together only once dur
ing the combat days over Germany
arrangements for q full military
wedding will enable James to be
best man.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1945-08-30
Legion Auxiliary Meeting

The September meeting of the
American Legion Auxiliary, sched-
uled for next Monday night, has
been postponed to September 10.
The group will meet at the home
of Mrs. Grant CARTS at 8 p. m.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1945-08-30
Production Low


Asbury Methodist Church, Rev,
Robert E. Green, pastor, announc-
es: Church School, 10 q. M; Divine
worship service, IL a. M; guest
preacher, DR.. John L. johnson
Tuesday evening, September 4, at
7:30 o'clock, Official Board meet
ing.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1945-08-30
$500 LOSE JOBS
AT WILMINGTON
1885 New Placements I'M
mediately Available at
Employment Office
ADVICE FOR VETERANS

ApOul oiOOo w AliuAllS lOu wal
workers have lost their jobs since
the war ended-and 1886 new jobs
are Immediately open at the U. S.
Employment Service office, accord
ing to Benjamin Ableman, state
manpower director of the War
Manpower Commission, which ad-
ministers the employment service
office. Openings will develop rap
idly as plants convert to peacetime
production, Ableman stated,an all
data on the labor market, with
lifting of wartime restriction, is
now available to management,
labor and the public. Access to
this information should speed re-
employment and planning for new
industries, he predicted.
Large Scale Layoffs
Large scale layoffs in the period
were 403 workers from the bravo
Corporation, 1850 by Bellanca Air.
craft Corporation, and 1000 from
the New Castle Defense Plant of
the Edge Moor Iron Works. Of
the 1886 untitled job openings on
order at the employment service
office, Mr.. Ableman said that CTS
jobs are in the iron and steel and
chemical industries. The remand
er covers all types of work. More
openings can be expected as rapid
ly as plants can convert to civilian
production, Mr.. Ableman said.
Women High Percentage
1t has been pointed out that a
high percentage of the war work.
ers dismissed to date have been
women employees. This may mean
that a large proportion of these
women may return to their homes
and will not continue to work in
the peacetime period. The employ
ment Office is now checking to de-
termine how many of the workers
are women. Job applications to
date in no way equal the number
of workers dismissed, according to
manpower officials. The Unem-
ployment Compensation Commits
sion also reported that the peak"
of applications for compensation
appears to have been reached and
the flow is now normal"
Advice For Veterans
Counseling for returned veterans
is handled by men themselves for
merly in service, in a system as
efficient as any in the country, Mr..
Ableman said. He reported that
in July 1877 job applications at the
Wilmington local Office were re-
ceived from veterans, 1872 of them
veterans of World War II. The
end of the war marks the fifth
year of the U. S. Employment Ser
vice, Mr.. Ableman said In the
war period, analyses of the labor
market were confidential for use of
the VINO.
Gan Speed ReconverssOn
Speedy reconversion of industry
and rapid unemployment can now
be realized by making this infor-
nation readily and frequently
available to all employers, labor
organizations, civic groups, social
agencies, and the public, Mr.. Able
man stated. Outstanding work has
been done in the field of labor mar
ket information and it is "a cap
ital asset which should be quickly
realized" he continued.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1945-08-30
Daughters of America Meeting

The Daughters of America met
in the lodge hall Tuesday night.
After a short business meeting, re-
freshments were served by Mr..
John c. Still, counselor.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1945-08-30
Curbstones Marked

George Thawley, street supervis-
or, and his crew, have painted yell
low curb markings in the areas of
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-01
ANTI-M0SQUlTO
EFFORTS URGED

Although the war has eliminated
most of the stagnant water mos.
quito hazards in this county as
far as the health department S
problem of discarded automobile
tires and tin cans go, DR.. A. H.
Elliot, country health officer, yes
terday called attention to fishing
boats in yards, old bird baths and
unused fish pools as creating quite
a number Of breeding places.
He said the recent heavy rains
had left water standing in places
it is not ordinarily found and ask.
ed New Hanover citizens to look
ether their Premises and see to
it that there is no standing water
In reference to request that
veterans with malaria records con.
tact the Health department so their
residences coulo De sprayed, DR.
Elliot said he had received nc
notification from servicemen but
had been contacted by one civilian
He added that civilyian cases
must submit a blood smear show.
ing they have the disease and mill
tary personnel must show their
service records before they are
eligible to have their premises
sprayed.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-01
New World Charter Has 3 Sources
OF Strength Nations League Lacked

objects, there can be no action,
and the objector has exercised a
''veto." Such a vote could conceiv.
ably mean that one nation would
prevent action that all the other
40 want.
The little nations protested anc
argued. But the Big Eve won or
the plea that they must stand to-
gether if the United Nations ever
have to take action. But they
pledged the little nations that the
veto, if it is ever used, will bt
cast with feeling of deep re
sponsib:lity for the welfare of all
the world.
At the conference close there
was general agreement among the
delegates that the final charter is
much more liberal than the Dunn.
barton Oaks draft with which they
started. And most said the charter
is much more workable than the
old league covenant.
But, time and again, delegate!
warned that no document will be
any good in world that goes tt
sleep again; that the charter viii
stand or fall, the world VIII have
war or peace, depending on the
good faith of nations, and on theil
eternal vigilance"
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-01
The World Charter

1t adds no strength to the document but
The fact that Cordell Hull's name appears on
the United Nations Charter will increase its
va'ue to the American people. That the for
mer Secretary of State, who is credited with
fathering the Charter, could visit the State
Department to sign it is especially crafty
ing. Although too i'll to attend the San Fran
cisco Security Conference he kept in close
touch VITA the proceedings and We may be
sure offered long-ran advice on important
decisions.
The Charter gains in favor in most quar-
tiers. Senator Vandenberg for example, who
long chung to the principles OF isolationism,
has come out strongly for it. The British
press generally looks upon it as the means
Of saving the world from another conflict.
The London Times says the hopes OF man
kind for lasting peace reside not in the
text but in f irm alliance of which that
charter is one expression.
In this country the composite view of the
press is summed up by the New York Times,
which says: american op Mon is so strongly
in favor Of effective International action to
prevent the outbreak of Third World War,
and the plan that has come from the San
Francisco Conference is so obviously the re-
suit of reasonable compromise in spirit of
good faith, that there is every reason to hope
and believe that the United States will be
as it should be-the first of the great nations
to ratify this covenant to keep the peace.
And the Times adds: The new Charter
gives us all the machinery we need to make
a brave beginning in this great experiment
in international cooperation.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-01
Medals For Correspondents

Reporters as class feel their chief reward
is in doing good job on any assignment.
And it is questionable if any worker on any
kind of project enjoys equal secret satlsfac-
ton at knowing that the task performed is
better than average. Weather, danger, diff
Guilty, hazard can no more keep typical
reporter from going out on story than a
fire horse, in the old days, could ignore the
gong that summoned him into the traces
This is why so many reporters have sought
assignments with the fighting forces in this
warmly so many have braved the perils of
The jungles, the enemy fire in front line bat
tie; Why so many have gone to their death.
They have shared every discomfort with the
troops and taken the days events as cou-
rageously as if they were merely covering
the city hall from the press room.
Finally it has dawned upon Congress that
they deserve decoration as a recognition by
government of the services they render. The
Senate Military Committee has placed the
stamp of it's approval on bill authorizing
distinguished Service News Medal for
overseas correspondents who perform out
standing wartime service to their country
The sooner the bill is adopted and the medals
struck off, the quicker will the well deserved
recognition be in1plemented.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-01
Can All You Can

Home economists are at considerable pains
to point out that the scarcity of sugar need
not keep any housewife from canning all the
fruit she can get. Sugarless canning is safe
and satisfactory, as sugar is not preserva-
tive. It merely adds flavor.
Fruit thus put up can be sweetened when
opened, if not opened before another sugar
crop comes in and the OPA has lost its
arbitrary powers.
The point is, fruit will not wait. If not pre-
served in one form or another when avail
able it will spoil.
AS the supply of canned fruits is liable to
decrease at the stores it is advised that home
makers can all they can.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-01
Government Financing

It's just s'another of those things brought
about by the war and its attendant bureaUc-
racy The construction business will be al.
most wholly financed by government, in one
o. another branch, when the war is over
and materials are again available We find
newspaper:
If forecasts made by H. A. Dick, presi-
dent OF the Associated General Contractors of
America, as to the volume and method Of
financing postwar construction projects ma
terialize, the coming years will witness a
marked change from private to public financ-
ing. Known plans for postwar construction,
he said, total between $1,000, 900 900 and &c.
90, 900, 900, of which less than $1,000, ooO. 900
is to be financed privately. The remainder
will be financed primarily by State and local
governments and the Federal Government,
the last to account for about $1,000, 900, 900.
ton of the proposed industrial, commercial
and other privately financed construction to
be undertaken after the war had been an.
nounced, normally privately financed con.
xtruction accoun S for between two-thrds and
three quarters of the total construction vol
ume. Construction projects aggregating more
than $50, 900, OOO, 900 are known to have beer
proposed for the first several years after the
war he said. but most of them are not ye
in the planning stage"
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-01
Editorial Comment
PUTTING A BANG IN SCHOOL

Things Rave changed, brother, since the days
of manual training couple of decades ago.
Remember how we planed, mortised, glued
and stained all Winter, to come up in the
Spring with a somewhat uncertain taboret for
mother? Now look:
thirty thousand schools and other education
al institutions will be eligible in few weeks
to receive surplus aircraft, engines and parts
for nonfli ght Use from the Reconstruction FL
nance Corp. Kids studying await; on may handle
stuff that has been in the air-maybe in COM
bat-Boy- oh-boy! Imagine the vim fellow
could put into such course, especially if he
could say: my big brother flew in one of
these New York World Telegram.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-01
Lease Of Camp Sutton
To State ConsidereI

WASHINGTON, June 30.-CP-
The War Department said today
had under consideration a propos
that Camp Sutton, near Monor
N. c., be leased to the state
North Carolina for use as an al
junct to its state hospital system
No action has been taken ye
the department said.
The proposal envisages the use
facilities at the former army can
for senile patients now in oth'
institutions of the state with
view to increasing the accomm
dations available at these instli
tons for other patients.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-01
interpreting
The War
BY KIRKE L. SIMPSON
Associated Press News Analr..

ASSOCIATED ITesS News Analysn
First American fleet penetran"
of the sea OF Okhotsk, Japar's|
tar northeastern wafer 'front.'
has stirred apprehension in Tokr,
that the invasion of the hon.
islands when it comes will be frns
the north as well as the south II
Other things being equal tb,|
is sound strategy as a DIVERSE
airy measure if nothing else Il
also is true that prevailing fogs u
north Pacific ATTITUDES would M
vide good cover for an amphibio'|
approach to desirable sites in ,t.|
kuriles for advance air bases i
the north to match Okinawa's bpr|
air stripes in the southwest. I
For the present, however, oper.
tons in the Okhotsk sea look mor.|
like the completion of ano,bs1
segment of the blockade ring h.
ing tightly woven around the pa,
anese home islands by air and So
than an invasion preliminary 4
matches up with American scared
plane forays into the sea of Js1
itself whiting art enemy sb]
communicate with the Kore..
peninsula.
Actually none of the seas III,
wash Japanese shores north, south
east or west is now forbidde,
ground to American naval or Il
forces. Even the Yellow sea III,
lies between Korea and the Chine,
mainland NORTH of the east Cbir]
sea is subject to American penet,,l
ton at will but it is of relative1
small value to Japan in maintail
ing contact between the honl
islands and armies in nortber
China. There is little doubt thai
American, submarines prowl Il
waters and or that tany sign \
important sea traffic betweeI
Korea and China would brpl
American planes down upon it.
Borneo is being cut off from byl
passed Japanese garrisons in otbeI
dutch islands as well as moppe]
up in the north by Australian cid
ments of Macarthur armies.
British sources estimate the total
enemy strength on Borneo at Sci
900 men Or less. 1t is spread "to]
thin in so vast space 10 otieI
effective resistance in the opinio,
of General Sewell, official Brits]
war commentator. Since Aud
tralian troops took over from
American forces in Melanesia, hi
said, they have killed some 1000
Japanese.
General Sewell also notes, how
ever, than in recent operation
between Burma and Singapore Bril-
ish East Indies fleet elements haI
raided air fields and rolling stocI
on Sumatra and tabled at Japane|
shopping deep in Malacca Stra
between Sumatra and the Maid
peninsula "unchallenged by ttl
Japanese" Enemy failure 10 read
against these incursions is al
admission of weakness" he sail
adding:
ut amounts to virtual sure
der of the western sea approacbe
to Singapore
Obviously Tightening Allld
net it being woven about the Malai
peninsula as about Japan's honI
islands in the north. MeanWhll
British redeployment in the bal
OF Bengal theater of action pyt
ceeds with every indication tha
the end of the wet Monsoon seasd
there will see the trap finally close
on Tokyo abandoned japanese ga
risons i'll Malaga and the gre'
Dutch islands tt the south.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-01
Two Troop Transports
Arrive In New Yol

NEW YORK, June 30.-(P,-I'
troop transports, delayed by Il
and storm-tossed for two day
arrived today with a total of d
troops.
The ships were the S. S. SAM
Marta with 201 Rotational TROOP
from Leghorn, Italy, and the LII
erty ship Ambrose E. Burnside WI
1874 troops, including 181 liberate
prisoners of war.
The men from the Santa Mar
went to Camp Kilmer, N. J.
Soldiers from the Burnside wei
to Camp Shanks, N. Y.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-01
Naval Oiler Cited
For Sticking On Job

SAN PEDRO, Calf, June 3d.
P)-Despite gaping hole where
her bow should have been, the
U. S. S. Kuadalupe, one of the
Navy's fleet oilers, stayed in Jar
waters to feed American wasnips
attacking the Nippon homeland
and The China coast.
Today she is in the Todd ship.
yards for repairs before returning
for further duty.
The Navy disclosed that the
Guadalupe had been cited by Adm
William F. Halsey for sticking to
the job after being damaged in a
collision.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-01
Charlotte Bottlers
Plan Sales Holda.

CHARLOTTE, June 30-,A
Five soft-drink bottling companl
here announced today the closA
of their sales departments durI
the period of July 10, because
reduced sugar allotments and
adequate supplies.
Including are the Cheerwing b
fling Co., 7-up Bottling Co., D
Pepper Bottling Co., Suncrest b
ting Co., and the True-Ade b
ting Co. Based on a so per &c
allotment of sugar, sales will
resumed July 9.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-01
TOP O. THE MORNING

Paul had very definite ideal. He init
nst unwise, but understanding what the will
Of the Lord Is" There is the standard, the
measure, the plan-the will of God. And
fer Paul that meant a life in step with
ohieve this he walked circ1mspectfully, he
walked critically of his own conduct. There
were men who thought him \ fool, and he
was willing that they should, for he had
found the only wisdom.
From "NON''