davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-01-05
PACIFIC EXPERTS
TO MEET SHORTLY

HOT SPRINGS, Va, Jan. 4.-R
of affairs of the Pacific
area from IL nations will meet
here Saturday for a 12-day ses.
sion of the Institute of Pacific Re
lations.
Members attending this ninth
study meeting of the institute Will
review the work done in study and
research during the last year on
security and development in The
Pacific after the war and will plan
further research.
The Institute of Pacific Rela-
lions is an unofficial, scientific
body devoted to long-term re.
search on economic, social, cul-
tural and political problems of the
area. 1t has national councils in
several countrits with interests in
the Pacific area.
Since the institute does not spon.
sor nor promote any specific poll
cy or program, it will adopt no
resolutions and take no group ac-
tlon at its meeting here.
Those in attendance will include
members from Australia, Canada,
CHINA, France, India, Korea, the
Netherlands, New Zealand, the
Philippines, Thailand, the United
hlngdom and the United States.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-01-05
Good News for Farmers

No one appreciates the telephone more than
farmers. Therefore, the report that thousands
OF Independent telephone companies have
doined with the Bell system in the creation
et a Joint committee of telephone men to
work on extending and improving farm tele-
phone service, comes as good news indeed
In rural sections. Spokesman for the commit
tee said:
GAS soon as war demands are reduced, we
propose to resume and expand our research
effort and, along with it, the intensive pro-
gram for extending farm service which was
being carried on before the outbreak of hos
tilites.
"Over one-half million miles of telephone
pole lines serving rural areas have already
been built so that more than tWo-thlrds OF
all rural families in the United States can be
served from existing lines. Since 1885, more
than 100000 additional families in rural areas
have become telephone subscribers-an in
crease of IS per cent. One OF the major
detectives is to continue this upward trend
bv making the service over existing lines in
creasingly valuable and attractive This the
industry intends to do to the limit OF its
ability.
"A second major objective is to extend serv'
ice at reasonable cost to families not now
reached by existing lines. Telephone INDUSTRY
research in the last several years has sue
cessfully developed new contraction materials
and methods which substantially lower Inc
cost of building wire lines to areas not Prev
ously reached. In addition, work was startee
by the industry in 1888 to develop pracuca
system of transmitting telephone conversations
over electric mower lines Before this WORK
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-01-05
BY w. G. ROGERS
can Intelligent Americans
Guide to the Peace" edited ~

Guide to the Peace" edited ~
Sumner Welles dryden Press;
$685..
Here's a book about peace and
how to hold on to it if we ever
manage to get our hands on it
again. 1t has nearly 400 large pages
and yet, to the best of my recol-
lection, Atlantic Charter and Four
Freedoms and such like ideals
are not mentioned even once.
This is grass roots approach;
it begins literally from the ground
and works up. There's talk about
tin, iron and coal; wheat, corn and
cotton; cattle, factories, population
densities, birth and death rates,
budgets, exchange.
If this doesn't sound like excit-
ing reading, it still remains in
many respects the most important,
even the only important, kind OF
reading for those of us who are
determined to make the victory
which our sons, brothers and hus.
bands are winning count for sons.
husbands, brothers of coming gen.
erations.
The book describes the land and
people, the economy, the history
from 1914 to 1914 and the stakes
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-01-05
WITH THE AEF
BY KENNETH L. DIXON

WITH THE AEF ON THE BEL
GIAN FRONT, Jan. 3-Delayed)
|-tR-If a batch of enemy news
pictures captured following a vi
cious fight near here are any cri-
terion, Berlin newspapers must
have been getting good pictorial
coverage of the German drive into
Belgium.
These are excellent pictures of a
successful military operation. They
were taken with the intent Of show
ing just how well Field Marshal
Won Rundstedt's breakthrough
worked. Giving the devil his due.
They show that perfectly.
Unwittingly, perhaps, they also
show exactly what it was that even
tually turned the tide and prevent
ed the German panzers from reach
ing their detectives.
Maybe Berlin readers will be in
terested in restudying the pictures
from that point of view.
strongly through them all. There
The success phase naturally runs
are graphic pictures of blazing
American tanks, some obviously
taken in the midst of intense ac-
ton.
One is especially graphic. even
cruelty so. 1t shows a Sherman
tank still smouldering, its tread
knocked off and turret askew.
Hanging partly out of the turret
are the remains of the American
tank commander. It is not a pic
ture you care to look at long, but
it probably got quite a play in Ber-
lin newspapers.
Another shows an artillery piece
knocked out. Spraw]ed around the
base, face downward in the mud,
lie three artillerymen.
The very fact that such artillery
pieces were overrun testifies to the
speed of the German drive. There
are other obvious proofs of the
surprise factor. American equip
ment captured intact has been lined
up for the photographer to get a
long shot showing the large num-
Der of vehicles.
The same is. true of prisoners,
whose lack of various types Of de-
-fensive equipment indicates they
lcertainly had not expected a fight
that day.
There we're even a few routine
victory shots such as a couple OF
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-01-05
Need Foreign Trade

American economy, geared to unheard OF
production levels during the war, will have to
rely upon foreign trade when peace comes
to degree previously unapproached
Economic nationalism, or even return to
pre-war levels when 10 per cent Of our indus
try a whole was dependent upon sales
abroad, will be impossible if Americas to
continue without drastic cut backs bringing
unemployment and poverty in their wake.
Even before the war many American indus
tries exported much more than 10 per cent
of their production. Some SO per cent OF our
tobacco crop was sold abroad in 1888. About
IS per cent of our cotton was exported in
the same year. Roughly IA per cent of Amer
icas automobile production is normally sold
overseas. The same is true OF IS per cent of
our power-driven metal working machinery,
So per cent of our sulphur and 81 per cent
OF our dried fruits.
The ma gnitude OF wartime industrial expan-
sion in the United States may be seen from
the following figures:
Production of merchant ships has risen over
the 1899 figure by 43 times; aircraft produc-
ton is 80 times greater; aluminium production
times; magnesium production Sc times; ma
chine tools production times; 1o0-octane gas
oline 10 times; and synthetic rubber produc-
ton $50 times.
To lower output of American business in
general without compromising with increases
in peace time production would bring chaos.
Such increases will be impossible without vast
ly enlarged foreign trade
One factor which will aid in building up
this vital foreign trade is the American Mer-
chant Marine. We have the ships, the seamen
and experienced management. Our delivery
wagon facilities for expanded trade are i'm
excelled This Merchant Marine must be meain-
tained. What milk route could long survive
were it to buy delivery service from a rival?
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-01-05
WITH THE AEF
Nazi Photos Proue That Yanks Won 'tRun

cling in the same direction as the
big guns barrel, but also that the
barrel is depressed so low it is al
most parallel to the ground.
Heavy artillery is not meant to
fight point blank battles under nor.
NAL conditions, but the position of
that barrel made it obvious that
the three artillerymen had been
firing at something they could see
with the naked eye-firing until
they could fire no more.
One soldiers body was still
slumped over machinegun
mounted between the seats of a
|jeep which was half blown to
pieces.
Even one road sign picture car
ried out the same theme. 1t was a
gruesome touch when the German
Photographer has officers pose be.
side a front marker pointing to.
ward Marche, deep inside Belgium,
because dead Doughboy lay be-
side the sign in the foreground Of
the picture.
His rifle was stretched beside
him, paralleling his body but push
ed slightly forward. The trigger
guard came about where a bloody
shock of curly hair lay in the mud.
The bayonet was pointed not to-
ward Marche, but toward Ger.
many.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-01-05
Sacrifice

"Come on, you racing fans; send postal
card to your congressman in defense of the
recreation that is keeping you from going nuts
in these troubled times. Why do we have
to sacrifice our recreation, along with every
thing else that we are giving to the war;
Those are excerpts from letter to the ed
tier Of a New York newspaper anent the gov
eminent order closing race tracks.
Rotterdam, Warsaw, Lublin, Lidice and Stall
resrad papers please COPY
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-01-05
Japanese Ship Takes
Relief Supplies To
u. S. War Prisoners
BY the Associated Press

The. Japanese vessel Hoshi Maru,
carrying American relief supplies
for American prisoners in occu-
pied China, sailed from Kobe,
Japan, today, the Tokyo radio
said.
The ship is due at Shanghai JAN
uary II said the broadcast re-
corded by the Federal Communi-
cations Commission.
American consent for safe con-
duct for the Ship has not yet been
received, the broadcast indicated.
cThe United States State De-
partment on January l said it had
granted Japan's request in the
matter.)
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-01-05

was interrupted by the war, it was clear that
a suitable system of this kind could be pro-
duced
1.-THE telephone companies also plan to study
the possible application of microwave radio
systems to rural telephone service and to
make use of this and any other new methods
which will be helpful in giving service to
the farmer
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-01-05
THE BITE IS ON
Germany To Ration False
Teeth; License Needed

STOCKHOLM, Jan. 4.-UP)-
German newspapers announced
today that false teeth hencefortn
will be strictly rationed and OBJ
tainable only with a special Ii
cense. A license is also needed
for mending teeth, and will be
granted only if the need is proved
imperative and old Filings are
furnished.
Repairing teeth has been ma
jor problem in Germany since the
Allies bombed the two main NaA
tooth porcelain factories in 1913.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-01-05

LONDON, Jan. 4.-REGerman
Propaganda Minister Goebbels
boosted in mis-, first Jas article in
Das Reich today that Germany
had survived her .tnour of great
est trial" and that one factor had
been the disastrous mistake COM
1nitted by the Allies of making
public their plans for destroying
US"
these plans have been distrib-
uted widely in Germany and every
German at the fronts carries them
with him as his war catechism, :"
said the article, as broadcast by
Berlin.
1--WE might lose all our belong
ings. we might lose our lives but
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-01-05
Goebbels Chides Allies
For 7elegraphi1g Plans

we will never lose sight of this
deadly danger" he declared.
He credited German morale thus
s2urred and Hitler's leadership
with the change in the wa> Sit
uation which surprised ~ AL
lies"
Much sorrow and pain are in
store for u.s. he concluded.
Mountains of difficulties must
be overcome. But we must I'M
der no circumstances repeat the
mistake of our enemy-namely
underestimate the opponent.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-01-05
THOUGHT FOR TODAY

The error, or lack Of knowledge that gives
us a whole week between Christmas and
the New Year has an advantage that God
might very well have ordained. 1t lifts us
to the very height of all that we can con-
template, in the richness of Gods gift to
man, and leaves us week of meditation
and reflection before we enter upon the
New Year.
WILLIAM E. GILROY, DID.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-01-05
Swiss Radio Reports
New Foreign Minister
BY the Associated Press

Max Petitpierre was named for
eign minister of Switzerland to-
day at meeting of the Federal
Council, the Swiss radio an
nounced.
Petitpierre, new member of
the council, succeeds former Vice
President Marcel Pilet-Golaz, who
recently resigned. The broadcast
was recorded by the Federal Com
;nunications Commission.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-01-05
Fair Enough

Editors note.-The Star and the News
accept no responsibility for the personal
views of Mr.. Pegler, and ofterl 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, 1945-01-05

There are some wounds that doctors can
not cure-wounds to the spirit caused by cur
ious or shuddering stares, prying questions,
pity and misplaced solicitude. - Maj. Gen.
Norman T. Kirk, Army surgeon general.
The lives and happiness of our children,
as far ahead as the mind can reach, depend
on us today. If we succeed, posterlty looking
back will record that this was indeed man 5
finest hour-Carl A. Berendsen. New Zealand
minister to U. S.
The war has advanced scientific and teen
meal appliances which normally would nave
required a decade or more for their trll.iol w.
james Kip Finch, Columbia U. ochool "
Fnpineerine
Evening star., 1945-12-30
Mizrachi Women 10 Aid
REFUGEE Jewish Children

A child refuge rescue" luncheon
will be given January is by the
Women's Mizrachi of America, Dis
trict division, in an effort to raise
funds for construction of the Chill
dren's Village and Farm School in
Raanana, Palestine.
The Mizrachi women have under
taken the task of designing the
village and training 500 orphans Of
Nazi persecution. The project will
cost approximately s500,0o0.
In an effort to avoid an insti-
tutional atmosphere. the women
have patterned the refuge on the
cottage system. Each cottage will
consist of six rooms-four sleeping
rooms. living room and room for
cottage mother. In addition, the
village will have a synagogue and
school for educational training, din
ing room, assembly halls. gymna-
sium, nursery. hospital, workshops,
library, swimming pools and other
units for the physical and mental
development of the children.
The luncheon will be held at the
home of Mrs. Abraham Shulman,
1901 Myrtle street NV, at 1890
pm. Guest speaker will be Mrs.
Dvorah Rabinowitz, national vice
president of the organization. Funds
received from the luncheon will be
sent to Palestine,
Evening star., 1945-12-30
Compensation Board
Makes -Four RULINGS

The Virginia State Compensa-
tom Board yesterday announced
the 1916 salary and expense allow
ances for revenue commissioners
In Arlington, Fairfax and Fauquier
Counties and Alexandria and for
sheriffs of the three counties.
The total for all allowances in
the State aggregate 072,210.79,
the Associated Press reported from
Richmond.
The Arlington sheriff's salary was
set at 5000, expenses at $17,952.50,
for total of 22,952.50. Fairfax
sheriff's salary is 5000, expenses
$3.50, for total of $15,010. Fau-
quier sheriff's salary $2,700, expenses
$5,205, totaling $7.905.
Arlington's commissioner of rev.
enue salary was set at $500, ex-
penses 43,07050. for a total of
$50, ,570.50. Fairfax commissioners s
salary $1,000, expenses s2i $3.50, total
$28, $3.50. Alexandria commissioner s
salary $500, expenses $4,000, to-
falling $3.50. Fauquier commits
sioner's salary $4.500. expenses S.
030. total $3.50.
Evening star., 1945-12-30
Job CounseIIors 10 Advise
HospitaIized Veterans

Disabled veterans will get a
chance to talk about jobs while they
are patients in veterans hospitals
under plan announced last night
by Gen. Omar N. Bradley, admins
traitor of veterans affairs.
Veterans Administrative job coun-
sellers will go into the hospital
wards to help the patients map their
future employment plans. Gen.
Bradley explained. Where the vet
Grams are not too i'll, they will be
given light work "of type designed
to speed their acclimation to full
time, on-the-job training programs
after recovery"
While the emphasis will be on
counselling and prevocational train
ing for those planning to take on
the-job training when they recover.
the guidance service also will be
available to veterans who plan to 60
to college after release from the hos
pitalS.
Evening star., 1945-12-30
| Turkey Dinners
lCouse Casualties
| In Two Homes

Holiday turkey dinners were in
directly responsible for injury to at
least two persons last week, and
four fatalities brought the years
home accident deaths here to 1913,
or 81 more than last years total at
this time, the District Red Cross
Accident Prevention Service re-
ported yesterday.
One person went to a hospital
Christmas with severe cut received
while carving a turkey. A woman
taking turkey out OF an oven suf-
fered burns when the roaster slipped
out of her hands.
In another accident a light bulb
fell out of socket and cut per-
sons head. A man of IS mistook
cleaning fluid for whisky. A woman
sprained her back lifting bucket
of coal.
The weeks deaths included q baby
who suffocated between pillows, Q
girl who died of burns when q
Christmas tree ignited and set firt
to the home, man who fell on g
stove in a stable where he resided
and q window washer who lost his
balance and fell.
A total of 104 cases were admitted
10 eight hospitals, A of them fol
treatment of injuries suffered from
falls on slick pavements.
Evening star., 1945-12-30
|0PA District Offices
Gel Sugar Ration Job

All sugar rationing will be han
died by district Offices of the Office
of Price Administration beginning
January /, Charles A. Davies, jr.,
district rationing executive, an
nounced yesterday
1t was announced that the action
was being taken to relieve the work
load of local War Price and Ration
ing Boards so they can concentrate
on retailers compliance with price
regulations. These boards will be
known as Price Control Boards after
January /, the notice said. The OPA
district ofiice for Washington Is To-
Gated at 5601 Connecticut. avenue
NV.
Consumers holding War Ration
Book will continue to use the
sugar ration stamp In it, 1t was an
nounced. New sugar ration books
will be issued to persons not hav.
ing War Ration Book 4 on Janu-
ary /. The new book will have
single sheet Of stamps similar te
those In Book and will be easier
to handle, Mr.. Davies said.
Persons eligible for sugar ra.
ton book can get application forms
at their Price Control Board, bs
mail or in person. Application
must be mailed to the District once
on Connecticut avenue.
Evening star., 1945-12-30
List of Returned Doctors
Star Presents Men Back From Service
As Aid to Both Physicians and III

AS a public service in the midst
of an epidemic of mild influenza,
The Star has obtained q list of
doctors who have returned from
the armed forces to re-establish
their practice here. The list should
be of help both to the sick and to
the doctors.
The list, which also includes doc
tors who shortly will return to prac-
tice, was made available by officials
of the District Medical Society, and
the Medico- Chirurgical Society, an
organization of colored physicians.
The information from the Medi-
cal Society was gathered from vari-
GUS sources, officials said. 1t may
not include some doctors who have
not yet reported to the society after
return to Washington from the
armed forces.
Many Washington doctors who
dropped their practices to serve in
the armed forces are returning
every week." a statement issued by
the society said. Although some
of them have Offices waiting for
them, a considerable number face
serious difficulties establishing
themselves again. Regardless Of
their good fortune in obtaining Office
space, all older physicians must
pick UP their practices where they
left off some years ago, and younger
ones must establish new practices" ;"
1T is hoped" the Medical So
ciety said, that this list will help
Washingtonians get in touch with
their former physicians and help
doctors. to establish themselves. It
includes only those physicians who
have been discharged or are on
terminal leave"
DR.. Arnold A. Albert, l Third street
DR.. Walter Atkinson. 1885 I street NV
DR.. william H. Beard, ssl4 Connecticut
DR.. Montgomery Blair, jr., s4 Kalorama
Or. Daniel L. Borden, 1885 street NV;
Or. Brooks G Brown jr.' 1885 I street
IS; John r; cavanash, Georgetown Uni
t; DT; ] MoTris 8 Chase 1929 Thirteenth
br. William W. Chase, 1901 I street
Dr.. Robert J, coffey, 1850 Connecticut
Dr.. Roger S. Cohen, 1910 street NV
Or. Francis T. Coleman, 1923 Kennedy
% Dr.. K. c. corley. Georgetown Hospital
Or. Darrell C. Grain, 1850 Connecticut
Dr.. Allen S. Cross. 100 Pennsylvania
Dr. Thomas A. Christensen, 1905 Balti.
more boulevard, College Park. Md.
Dr.. Horace H. Custis' 1852 Columbis
Dr. Alfred A. Den, 1901 x street NV
i Dr. Robert H. Detwiler, $3.50 Wilson
boulevard. Arlington.
/ DR.. George Dewey, 4331 Forest lane NV
i DR.. Arthur Dick; home, 719 Princeton
place NV. no ofice hours as yet
i Dr.. Mazarin c. Dollman, 1885 Queoe'
Dr.. George R. Farrell, 1916 R street w
i Dr.. Charles E. Fierst, 4210 Mathewsor
DR.. John F. Finnegan, 1912 East capito
Dr. Elmer w. Fugitt, 2109 K street NV
DR.. Alfred Golden, 1904 Cary lane, Sill
Yer Spring mot practicing as yeti.
Evening star., 1945-12-30
Ambulance Driver Who Rallied
Gurkhos Against Jops Is Home
Neil Gillian, d, Won
George Cross for
Heroic Fight in India

Neil Gillian, %, back home yes
terday in his mothers Wardman
Park apartment, didn't want to
talk to reporters. He didn't want
his picture taken. After four years
of war, he was tired of the whole
business.
He was volunteer ambulance
driver with the British Army-a
member of the American Field
Service-and AFS men are not SOL
diers. This war hero business was
a lot of nonsense.
But, Mr.. Gillian, the report is
that you were decorated for heroism
at the siege of Imphal, India. You
are said to have taken command
and rallied the native troops on a
vital hill position after the last
white officer was killed"
20. X" said Mr.. Gillian. you
could put it that way. That covers
1t, doesn't it? That sounds silly
enough as it is"
Officer Killed.
Slowly. painfully, he admitted the
facts. On March %. 1914, he was
trying, in his ambulance, to evacu-
ate wounded men from two COM
panies of Gurkha g troops (about
260 mem holding a hilltop under
enemy attack There was no medi-
cal officer with the group, SO he
left his vehicle, took some field
dressings and his meager supply of
morphia and climbed to where the
troops were fighting.
Shortly after he got there the
officer was killed.
There was holding the bag"
ne said yesterday. II had to start
telling them what to do
did you ever have any military
training2"
"No-ony what I'd picked up
about the theory of the thing dur
ing the war"
He deployed his troops in defen-
sive positions. and the battle went
on. More Japs came. It grew
dark. His little command" was
pushed from the hilltop. suffering
heavy losses, A rainstorm burst on
them suddenly, and they were sur
rounded by the enemy. They kept
fighting and the boy from Woodrow
Wilson High School kept telling
them what to do.
Hill Recovered.
Meanwhile, of course, there was
also the medical work he had come
to do. In addition to about 80
killed, there were twice that num-