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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-10-20
Editorial Comment
ABOUT ICE CREAM

Although ice cream was a novelty in the
days Of Augustus Jackson. its predecessors had
been known to the western palate since the
return of Marco Polo from the orient. The
famous Venetian author and traveller brought
back with him recipes for water and milk
ices he had enjoyed in China in 1875.
The Italians developed new water ice form.
ulas and, when Catherine de Medici left Italy
in 1888 to wed King Henry II of France, she
took her best chefs with her to make sure
she would have an ample supply of her favor
tie frozen delcacies.
French chefs improved the water ices anc
developed sweet Cream ices. Procope Cul
tell, an enterprising Sicilian, was the first te
sell cream ices in Paris in $780, Cream ice
however, remained unknown to the average
Partisan for the next hundred years because
of its prohibitive cost.
The formula for cream ices went to England
as court secret The sevret soon leaked GU
and cook books over $50 years ago began t,
include among their contents recipe for max
ing CREAM ices" out of milk, sugar, eggs
flour Cor arrowrooD and flavoring.
From England, cream ices came to Americ;
with the colonists
At the turn Of the century, in the industry
infancy ice cream was made in 40-uuar
freezer that was cranked by hand. It took :
whole day for one firm to make 28O quarts
Now it takes a battery of three 3OO-gallor
freezers aboYt four minutes to turn out 8
similar 3pt.-Philadelphi Record.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-10-20
Holland to Blame

Troubles in Indonesia which have the ap-
pearance of being almost spontaneous but in
reality are long-lived, stem from Dutch ex-
ploitation of rich areas at the sacrifice of the
native population. It is strange circumstance
to find Japanese troops, surrendered by their
emperor, attacking towns in central and east
ern Java held by Indonesian revolutionists
with the idea of maintaining peace Until
American forces in sufficient numbers are
landed to take over, when the United States is
not fundamentally concerned save for the vel.
fare of residents.
The revolutionists demand complete liberty
from Dutch rule and a chance to work out
their own salvation. They do not intend to
undergo the expressions Holland has permitted
rich planters to impose upon the natives and
the starvation pay-sometime as low as fifty
cents a week-they have been paid in thu
past. Obviously, as there is no reason to as
sumo they can defeat the Netherlands in &C
tual warfare they prefer death to renewa
of the old domination off Holland.
Holland had opportunity to create prosper
o,s and contented people in her south Pacifi
nossAsions for years before the Japanes
rnovA in. Holland has also had an exampl
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-10-20
Beach Highway Widening

Widening of the Wrightsville Beach highway
with new bridge over Bradley's creek will
greatly improve the convenience of motorists
and incidentally, give visitors, whom we all
expect to increase, better impression of the
community.
1t can be hoped that the Highway Commits
sion will find 1t possible to make it four
lane highway and thus reduce the hazard of
collision which always exists on three-laner.
With the thrity-five mile speed limit lifted
and with cars generally in poor running condi-
ton, with threadbare tires in the great ma
jority, accidents are more likely to happen
either from side-swipes headon collisions,
if central lane alone is provided for pass
ing. Safety in transit will be better guar
anteed, at least less accidents will probably
happen, if two lanes are provided for traffic
moving in either direction.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-10-20

in the Philippines which she could have fol-
lowed and in so doing escaped the present up
rising at a time when she herself is licking
her wounds and trying to find secure place
in the postwar world. BY doing what the
United States did in the Philippines, by edu-
eating the Filipinos for home rule and devel-
oping Philippine resources by fair practices,
it is not to be doubted that the Indonesians
would not only have fought as the Filipinos
fought common enemy hut would now be
devoting their every effort to rebuild their
country instead of revolving.
What is now happening In Java ought to
be warning to other powers with Pacific
possessions.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-10-20
TheLiterary
Guidepost
THE CURTAIN FALLS: LAST
DAYS OF THE THIRD REICH,
by Count Folke Bernad0tte

DAYS OF THE THIRD REICH,
by Count Folke Bernadotte
(Knopf; ST..
The last days Of the crumbling
German hierarchy, resorting in
desperation to intrigue and show
ing itself petty and often despic.
able. are described in the first au-
thentic account Of its kind that /
have read.
The Swedish author, in Germany
to seek the release of Norwegians
and Danes held in concentration
camps, worked through Hiinmle1
and eventually transmitted Hmm.
ler's offer OF surrender.
Bernadotte denies most enpha.
tically that Hitler died a hero's
death, and warns agains letting
Germany make its leader a mar.
tyr. Hitler was so i'll in the last
months, said Schellenberg, head Of
the Information Service, that he
was hardly able to walk across 9
room, and yielded more and more
to uncomfortable RACES. His mis-
tress Eva Braun, two subordinate
fuehrers, Kaltenbrunner and Fege
lein, and Fegelein's wife, Eva's
sister, were supposed to have dom
mated him. Schellenberg believe!
Hitler died Of an injection admin
istered by persons unknown or
April ~.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-10-20
Quick Turn-ArOund

When the war suddenly ended, people con-
templated with awe the terrific flood of men,
armament and supplies moving across the
land into the nav Of the endless, blue Pacific.
How could the flood be stopped without a
chaos of congestion? The War Department has
released a report describing what happened.
The first step in the Arny's orderly turn
around of Battle-Ground combat supplies was
taken August 10, when the Association Of
American Railroads was requested to issue a
stop and hold order, and to embargo further
shipment of all Army ammunition en- route to
United States or Canadian ports.
On August u, the War Department request
ed the Association of American Railroads to
extend the existing embargo to include all
Army supplies en- route to Pacific or Gulf
Coast Ports of Embarkation, except food and
solid fuels. AS the cars were halted, railroads
Immediately flashed details to the AAR which
in turn informed the Transportation Corps
Traffic Control Division in Washington Work
ing according to prearranged plan, control Of
hcers representing Army technical services
and the AAF furnished new shipping instruc-
tons, and in a matter of hours the cars were
on their way to holding and reconsignment
points, depots or their original destinations.
More than 5,400 railroad cars, carrying Ar
my freight which was destined for Use against
Japan, had been diverted up to August 90
Another 1890 cars, carrying for the most part
clothing, medical supplies, fuel, recreational
equipment, cleaning and preserving gear, and
supplies for AAF overseas weather and com.
munications stations, were halted, examined
and continued on their way during the same
period.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-10-20
Argentine Goes Fascist

The American public knows little about the
true situation in Argentina. but what little it
knows is sufficient to convince it that the fascist
leanings of the men in control make affilia-
ton with the democracies of South America,
the United States and Great Britain difficult.
The return to Buenos Aires of COL Juan
Peron who moved out of the vice presidency
so recently, and the acclaim with which he is
welcomed despite his obvious fascist policies,
is clear indication that Argentina is in for a
period of totalitarian rule which, with labor $
support, promises to perpetuate Hitler's poll
cies indefinitely. The Nazis who infiltrated Ar
gentina much as they did Norway and other
countries did thorough going job while they
were. at it. In fact Peron's actions are sc
completely in the Hitler pattern we may ex
pect to hear a revival of the rurnor that the
overthrow fuehrer, reported alternately dead
and alive, may be his guiding spirit
No one can foreteu what is in store for the
nation, but if the countries which form Ar
gentina's chief trade outlets should decide t.
suspend trade with her, Peron and his fascist
following would have hard time persuadine
the people to submit to their domination for
long. Such step would be hardship fol
Britain which needs Argentine beef and other
nations that need her wheat But 1t woule
be better to look elsewhere for both than te
fortify Peron in his position as totalitariar
chieftain by continuing to import the Argen
tines chief products.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-10-20
TODAY and TOMORROW
by WALTER LIPPMANN

pie. For our people are being per-
suaded that they may disarm, re-
lying for their security upon a
few scientific magicians who will
press buttons in laboratories. It
is fantastic that a free country,
one so free that every secret leaks
out almost Immediately, should
imagine that it can over a period
of years beat totalitarian state
at the game of keeping secrets.
Surely if we believe in liberty, and
Americans have no other choice
because that is the vital principle
Of our existence as a nation, we
must seek security from the ap-
palling danger of atomic explosions
in the widest and freest diffusion
of knowledge. Whatever the risks
of that, the alternative is simply
impossible. We are irrevocably
committed to freedom. How can
we expect to break through the
censorship of newspaper reports
in Sofia and Belgrade when we are
proposing to establish a censor
ship of science in Washington?
Only clear policy can in these
stubborn and chaotic days prevail.
But clear policy can be formed
only in clear minds. and no mans
mind will be clear if his heart is
at odds with his stomach, and his
conscience is split. We cannot
have one principle for Sunday and
another for Monday one for the
State Department and another for
the Navy Department, one for east
longitude and another for wes'
longitude. For like Buridan's ass
which stood between two equally
tempting bales of hay and starved
to death, we shall become en-.
feebled and passive and static,
pulled in all directions and going
in none. Yet that is what is hap.
pening as we attempt to please
everybody by adopting all princi'
Piles at once.
In the end we shall please no.
body, least of all ourselves, if those
who have the responsibility Of
leading the country make it their
purpose to be popular rather than
to make popular a consistent ma
tional purpose.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-10-20
War Crimes Indictment

The Indictment under which twenty -four
leading Nazis are TO be prosecuted Is broad
enough to include all persons in the plot tc
make war against the world, and is notable
as the first such international measure te
outlaw wars in the future.
In fumbling way the League OF Nations
set out for the same goal but tailed because
it possessed no means Of taking corrective
action against an offending nation, and waen
it did not vote sanctions against Italy when
MussoIini was preparing to invade Ethiopia
lost what little influence 1t originally pos
sessed.
This indictment is based on four principal
charges - the conspiracy to overthrow the
Treaty of Versailles and other solemn pacts
and commitments; the conspiracy against
world peace by waging war against other ma
lions including Poland, France, Britain, Den
mark, Norway, Belgium, Holland, LExem.
bourg, Yugoslavia, Greece, Russia and the
United States; the conspiracy for total war
and violations of the laws and customs Of
war including determination Of racial and ma
tional groups and the conspiracy to commit
crimes against humanity including the murder
and persecution of any person suspected te
being hostile to the Nazi party or its plan Of
European expansion.
Grave as the other offenses are, it is the
fourth-the crimes against humanity-the plar
which encouraged the murder and torture Of
innocent thousands, which will set a prece'
dent which the United Nations Organization
may be expected to find it's most potent weap'
on in future times, always provided the charge
is conclusively proved when these twenty-four
Nazi leaders are tried.
For the first time the waging Of war. ir
the broadest sense, is defined as a crime
against humanity. God grant it may never
be amended.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-10-20
|BELLAMY URGES
CITY EXTENSION

Making a strong appeal for
united support in behalf of the city
extension election on November 6,
Emmett Bellamy told members OF
the Wilmington Exchange Club
yesterday that it is unthinkable
that the city should lapse back
into the apathetic state which pre-.
vailed here during the interval
between Wars one and two.
eve must all get on the ball'
he said, "to retain those things we
now have and to gain more in the
years to come. And in order to ac-
complish this, we must keep some
thing cooking all the time"
Mr.. Bellamy was the principal
speaker at the rgular weekly
luncheon meeting at the Friendly
Cafeteria.
At the outset of his talk Mr..
Bellamy said that the foremost
move Wilmington can make az
this time is to extend it's city
limits-then count our real popula'
ton and gain the pride and bene.
fits which such expansion VIII
bring. He then went on to list the
physical values of such an extern
sion of limits, pointing out tna'
one of its greatest assets would De
in the strong leadership which the
extension plan would bring to the
city. At this point, the speaker
paid tribute to the aggressive
leadership of the late Bruce Cam
eron, and stated that just sucn
aggressive leadership is needed
here today to meet with expanding
conditions.
The speaker then went on to re-
late that Wilmington was WITHIN
his memory as North Carollna'
biggest city, and then called atten'
ton to it as it is today-a city WIN
an inferiority complex. This mus
be shaken off, he said, by getting
the city into the $4,000 class oy
registering and voting for the cl'y
limits extension. In closing, uS
speaker related his efforts WS'li II.
in the legislature in 1899 on pehaI
of the extension program anu
strssed the need for action III an
effort to hold on to our multl-lnl.l.
lion dollar airport as an Army All
Base and the shipyards here.
Following Mr.. Belamy's talk an
open discussion on the question Oh
city limits extension was held WIN
R. Stewart, DR.. C. A. Thomas,
Sam Berger, c. T. Burke anu
others speaking unqualifiedly II
favor of extension while Ed. Car
roll expressed dissent.
Expressions of regret at the III,
ness of Richard Dunlea was heara
from the membrs. d
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-10-20
Religion
Day By Day
BY WILLIAM T. ELLIS
A BASIN OR A LAKE

I dislike wash-basins as insani-
tary, inadequate and bothersome.
Before we built our Canadian log
cabin, our primitive summer home
had no running water and no bath
tub. So, since civilized man must
begin each day by washing his
face, my first action upon arising
was to dive into the lake. After
the first plunge, l dived down
again-to the great amusement OF
the fanily-and, submerged, with
feet kicking to keep me ahoat,
vigorously performed my ablutions
While the others Knocked at the
spectacle of the underwater scrub
bling, unused upon the trifling in
cident as a parable of a great
truth. Why depend upon petty con-
ventionalities for soul cleansing
and refreshing when the deep wa
tiers Of Gods love surge all about
us?
For the fathomless depths Of
Thy love, for the infinite measure
Of Thy grace, and Tor the tullness
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-10-20
PARTED COUPLES
ARE REUNITED RY
COLOMBO ANGEL
BY G. MILTON KELLY

COLOMBO, Ceylon, - R -Tb.
foresight and generosity Of ~
English woman is making possibla
pathetically joyous scenes Of -.
united husbands and wives =,
thousands Of refugees separated h.,
the japanese invasion Of MALAY.
begin rebuilding their lives.
The refugees call Mrs. Jov r
Donald the "Angel of Colombo"
When residents of the peninsul,
fled in panic before the invader
Mrs. Donald realized the difficult
ties they would encounter when
they tried to reestablish contact
with their families. She built
program of care for repatriates
which has become a cooperative
operation financed by the British
government.
The venture unites the facilities
of the government, its armed SER.
vices, the Red Cross, the Cevlon
Evacuees Committee and MaIayan
associations.
Mrs. Donald's inform alton seq
vice provides liberated prisoners
and internees with word OF their
loved ones, and sometimes rela.
tives of dislocated persons wait
here for their reunions.
Witnesses Wept at one such
scene in which a British couple,
who had lived in Singapore but
who had been without KNOWLEDGE
of each other since the city's fall
and the husbands internment, met
by chance in a barracks. Each had
visited the repatriation center ex.
pecting months of painful search.
The husband had come ashore
from prisoner of war ship trans
porting a liberated group 70 Eng.
land.
His wife, who had escaped the
Japanese and had been a refugee
in Australia, had come to Colombo
hopeful of getting word of him.
The two faced each other dazed.
lily on the steps of tae barracks tor
many moments before they en-
braced, weeping.
The center's headquarters es-
timated 80 couples were reunited
on it's grounds after liberation
from prisoner camps. Probably 200
other reunions involved fathers
with children, brothers with sisters
or other kinsmen.
Loudspeakers at the information
office broadcast messages of those
hunting relatives and friends.
There have been instances when
prisoners and their relatives sent
simultaneous calls for one another
During the frantic days when
tens of thousands of refugees drift.
ed through Ceylon from Malaga
and many persons fled Ceylon in
fear of invasion, Mrs. Donald won.
dered how those frightened people
ever would be reunited.
There was no government agen.
|cy recording the refugees move
ments. Mrs. Donald, with two 9th.
er Colombo women, set out to
make a record. Daily from morn.
ing to dark they sat on jetty
penciling in notebooks as complete
a record possible on each transient
refugee.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-10-20
Your G. l. Rights
BY DOUGLAS LARSEN

WASHINGTON, Oct. 20 - Here
are some general questions from
GIs and their relatives.
@. I am 35-years-old. I have jus
returned home from the Pacific
Area on an emergency furlough,
having completed a years service
Of overseas work. I am now start.
ing on my fourth year of military
service. Must I make application
for a discharge and am l entitled
to the mastering out pay?
A. You can make application for
a discharge and are eligible fol
mastering out pay.
@. According to the discharge
system of the Navy my husband
should have been out a long time
ago. He is in the Marines, which
comes under the Navy, so / as
sumo the Navy point system ap
plies to him. Is this true?
A. The Army point system TO,
enlisted men applies to men il
the Marine Corps.
@. My daughter is a nurse r
the Army. She has 10 points anc
is 80 years old. Is there a chance
Of her being sent overseas again,
A. No.
@. I have heard lot about max
ing the provisions of the CT Bill
Of Rights much simpler to oper
ate. Have these changes actual,
been made?
A. There are several bills be
fore Congress which would sinpli
fy many of the operations of tn,
CT Bill Of Righs but none of then
has been passed by both houses
Q. Is it necessary for a veteran
to negotiate through the smalle,
War Plants Corporation in settin,
surplus property?
A. For veteran to exercise hi.
priority for the purchase of sur
plus property it is necessary t.
buy it through SWPC. He car
buy surplus property through thu
regular channels rs an ordinary
citizen, however.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-10-20
Divided Conscience


With nothing to do for a fort
night except to have my back rub
bed and to wonder about things in
general, I have been asking myself
how many Of our accommodating diff
ficulties arise from wanting to 60
in opposite directions at the same
time. 1t is certain that though in
recent months this country has
stood higher in power and influence
than ever before in it's history, we
have not been speaking with clar-
ity and with conviction. Soon, there
fore, we shall stand less high in
power and influence.
The cheapest explanation is to
blame some one else, the Russians
for example, or the British. But
to complain that shrewder men I'M
did him, or that the woman tempt
ed him, is the soft and easy way
of the weak man. This nation is
too great to indulge itself with
small excuses. When we have
searched our own consciences, We
shall have begun to acquire the
means, over and above the expec-
tation of material favors, to in.
fluence mankind.
The American conscience is di-
vided, and therefore we are not
thinking clearly about the settle
ment of the war and about the
future which it will shape. Thus
we have been standing on the
principle that this is one world
and that no spheres of influence
can be recognized in which any one
power has the deciding voice. But
this principle, which satisfies us
when we are talking about our
ideals, does not suit us at all when
we are considering our vital in
terests. In the Pacific north of
the equator we have established
an American sphere of influence,
and we have stated officially that
in the occupation of Japan and
in the disposition of conquered
islands, ours is to be the deciding
voice. If this is the right solu-
ton, as it may be, it is certainly
not impressive in that part OF the
world which is east of the river
F1be when we invoke the principle
that this is one world in which no
decisions must be taken unilater-
ally.
The contradiction is so glaring
at least to others if not to our
selves-that it is bound to snarl up
all our transactions. We can
leeitimately claim an interest in
the settlement of eastern Europe.
B,1t when we rest that claim on
an inflated moral principle, which
we do not treat as valid in our own
sphere of influence, we weaken our
position, as any man does who in
vokes a double standard of morals.
Far from standing forth as the
champions of morality against
what it is the fashion to call power
politics, we are mourning the grave
suspicion of using morality as an
instrument Of our own power
politics.
This is not the only example OF
contradiction and canflict within
the American conscience. We
have put ourselves forward also
as the champions of liberty, as In
fact we can and indeed we should
But we are not likely to convince
mankind that we believe In liberty
if the best we can think Of to dc
with our knowledge Of the atomic
bomb is to make monopoly OF II
!; maintained by an hysterica1 cen
sorship.
All that is likely to accomplish
is to precipitate a competition in
ornaments of the most vicious
kind, and to deceive not our Pc
tential enemies but our own peo-
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-10-20
Unreasonable

Manufacturers are not prestidigitators, a
four-bit word meaning adopts in sleight-of.
hand. They are capable within the limits oil
their business, but can't do more with dol
lar than anybody else. This is why the pro
posal to advance the wages of workers vary
ing amounts up to 80 per cent and at the
same time hold prices to any former level
and still operate at profit is preposterous
another half-dollar word meaning hog-wash.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-10-20
QUOTATIONS

We should say frankly to every country ask
ing our aid that here, as there, wealth is pro-
duced only by work and that if supplies or
credits are furnished, repayments must be
assured. - Recommendation of congressional
committee to President Truamn
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-10-20

Advertising now returns to its main assign
ment selling oggds and services. For the
good of America and for the jobs of millions,
may it perform it's great task weI-Cleve-
land, O.. Press.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-10-20

The conscience of the world must be aroused
to the need of feeding and clothing the starv.
ing and needy people Of Europe.-Rabbi Her.
bert S. Goldstein of Nwe York City.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-10-20

The spirit of live and let live is strong in
this country despite the many efforts toward
RECOMMENDATION and meddling with the affairs
TO others.-Lawrence, Kan. Journal World.