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Dinner Party

The President of the Korean Al
fairs Institute and Mrs. Syngman
Rhee entertained at dinner last eve
ming, having as their guests Col. and
Mrs. Hsiao, Dr. Yulin Shao, Mr..
Douglas P Birnie and her son-in-
law and daughter, Mr.. and Mrs.
James Farmer, and DR.. Augusta
Wagner
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Sorority to Meet

Delta Chapter, Beta Sigma Phi
Sorority, will have dinner meeting
and program at $50 pm. tomorrow
at the Fairfax Hotel.
The program will include Helen
Hess. soprano; Vincent OMalley,
tenor: Myrtle Hunter, dramatics,
and Capt. Ken Denton, magician.
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Annual Gard PARTY

Plans for the annual card party
April 10 of Stonewall jackson Chap
Ter, United Daughters of the Con-
federacy, are being formulated at a
meeting today at the Confederate
Memorial Hall.
The program includes a showing
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Canadian Air Force by Mrs. Milton
Miles Of the Red Cross. She is
being introduced by Mrs. Ralph s..
Pendexter, chapter president.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-01
Muddled Argument

Writing to Senators Fulbright and Mcclellan
of Arkansas. Chester Bowles, chairman of the
Office of Price Administration says OPA does
not intend to relax it's meat quota controls.
To allow the slaughtering OF extra cattle and
hogs, even in a district rich in hogs and
cattle on the hoof would be to approve great
er meat supplies for such areas than for nom
producing areas he wrote. "In the face OF
national shortage, our duty is not to ap-
prove maldistribution, but to correct it,
We cannot agree with Mr.. Bowles' argu-
1nent. There seems no good reason why hogs
and cattle should not be slaughtered in areas
with a surplus and distributed at least in
part and apparently it could be large part,
to areas now meatless The meat shortage
stems largely from the redistribution OF
which Mr.. Bowles complains, and for which
the OPA is exclusively responsible.
AS time goes on it becomes more and more
apparent that the chief hope of relief rests
with the new secretary of agriculture, who
will soon assume his new duties and appar-
emily has clear understanding Of the food
situation.
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Japanese Defenses Broken

The japanese admit their main defense line.
with sea anchors at Naha and Yonabaru and
middle anchor at Shuri, has been broken. The
critical stage of the Okinawa battle has ar
rived That the American forces there will
pass the crisis successfully is not to be doubt
ed.
The Japanese are said to be fleeing south
ward While the southern tip of the island is
,l,illy and offers excellent positions for further
resistance, it is to be assumed that, what with
the intensity of the attack along the Naha
.Yonabaru line they have had little time and
few troops to set up new defenses, the closing
phase of the battle will be less gruellng
than what went before.
There is strong possibility that the Japanese
left on the island will be driven to the south
ern beaches and captured or destroyed a:
the Germans under Rommel were at Cap Bon
in the closing days of the African campaign
They will have to take to the water or quit
With large contingents of the American Navy
in the waters surrounding Okinawa, it will b
impossible for Japan to send many boats tt
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The Literary Guidepost

WOODROW WILSON: shLf1
TIONs FOR TODAY edltea "
Arthur Bernon Tourtellot 'DU'-'
Sloan & Pearcel $2.75l.
Timely passages are culleo d mTls.
written by the World War pin in.
dent but pertinent to Amerl' Soc 81,
volved in World War II. one o u"s
'ment is the first draft Of lhe WV
ant of the League OF Nations
"a BOOK ABOUT THE BIBLE j. =;
by George Simpson HarPei 1 'YS
Whatever the synlcal ,asner.
thinks about veteran newsp5onGyed
men, here is one who has coii Rfibls
a 5OO-page book about me rr .
Despite it's hit-or-mlSS ai aadins
ment, it will make solid l ,sa lsy
for the devout and interest," NV vov
man. 1t answers questions ,sny
might have thought OF, anu " rlcb
that never occurred to you' aver
as: How many hairs does tne piblt
age head contain, does Ile lind
mention butter or cal "La, do d.
of wood was the cross I1laus es;"
what does dying IN IhI sl,ii,
mean, did the ancient isLsa MEN.
shave, where does the B '.I1,sd II go
ton a fryingpan, who kllleu
men with an OK goad?
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Lee Miller Covers The Pacific

Manuel action. Ferris himself was
slightly wounded there-and lost
all his gear at Binalonan when a
Jap shell hit a gasoline can on his
jeep.
Then there were sharp fights at
Lapao and Umingan. But this
Balete Pass action in the Cara
ballo Mts., starting more than a
month before the pass fell, has
been the toughest. 1t has been in
and above the clouds, and recently
in rain and mud. The Japs have
been dug in on the reverse slopes
of every ridge and their guns have
commanded every approach.
But since the division moved Up
from the town of San Jose to tackle
this formidable task it has counted
1000 Jap dead. 1t estimates the
total Jap casualties in that time al
10000. So, while Hayashi is clever,
there are some Americans around
who know a thing or two about
terrain.
Well, thought I'd better go for
ward and see how it was with the
guys who do the dirty work. We
set out up Highway S, turned into
a sideroad newly gouged by bull
dozers, and dropped in first at the
command post of Col. Victor L.
Johnson, Jr., commanding officer
of the 161st Infantry.
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BY w. G. ROGERS

FuI OFF THY Shoes" by E.
l.. Voynich macmillan; 5000.
You'll be interested in this novel
as soon as you hear that the author
is 81 years old. She began writing
it at u, kept it up for 450 pages.
Even if this makes the book a
good newspaper story, it doesn't
necessarily make it literature. Con-
sidered aside from the authors m
usual personality, as it must be, il
is less than mastery but more
than $3.50. It's a sprawling, louua-
ciouS story of late 18th century
England. It's a romance in the
grand style, popped up with mod
ERNST psychological touches.
The heroine of this novel grants
TO q husband with repugnance the
pleasures she had fought to keen
her stepfather from enjoying. She
raises several children. She re.
Tents a little on the subject of sex.
out not until after she had driven
her husband to drink and to other
women. She has other domestic
troubles, OF course, among them a
good-tor-nothing mother and a
learned brother too ignorant to
pick the right wife.
The motivation is forced. but it's
all consistent. -.
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take the surviving troops off, as the British
did at Dunkerque. Even if some craft should
come, it il believable that American planes
would dispose of all Japanese who managed
to get aboard, as happened. when the Ger
mans attempted to flee Denmark ahead Of
the Reich collapse.
Some $4,000 Japanese troops were said to
be on Okinawa when the battle started sixty
two days ago. More than half Of them were
listed as killed in the last communique deal
ing with enemy losses.
The balance apparently face humiliation.
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, tered nests of machine guns and
mortars as a suicidal rearguard
while he prepared another defense
line few miles north, beyond the
crossroads hamlet of Santa Fe.
The 25th Division is scornful Of
Jap strategists, but it does nc
sneering at the tactical skill Of
Colonel Hayashi. It was a sharp
disappointment when it became
evident he had escaped to conjure
further devilments.
The 25th Division had been ir
contact with the enemy 119 days
when the fall of Balete Pass was
announced.
1t was no hayride for the Japs
though. The 25th, which was ir
Hawaii on Pearl Harbor day ano
learned Jap fighting on Guadal
canal and New Georgia, gave the
defenders of Lrzon a preliminary
FASTING at Binalonan and another
at San Manuel-names that NEAR
nothing back home but plenty t.
these veterans.
Lieut.. Col. John w. Ferris, o:
Abingdon, ILL.,, West Pointer com
manding the seth Field Artillery
recalled that Company E of the
161st Regiment had five successive
company commanders killed and {
sixth wounded in the four-day Sar
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-01
BY LEE G. MILLER

WITH THE 25TH DIVISION AT
BALETE PASS, Luzon.-(By Wire.
less. 1.-The men of this division are
piqued because somehow people
seem to regard the campaign for
Balete Pass as part and parcel OF
the recent drive for Bagrio, the
Philippine summer capital.
Baguio is only IS miles away as
the crow flies, but tactically speak.
ing it might almost be on another
island. Baguio fell weeks ago.
Balete Pass wasn't pronounced Of.
ficially secured until the day ar.
rived here, when a pocket Of Japs
still commanding Highway. No. :
was cleared out.
was to learn firsthand later that
secured" didn't mean exactly VIVA,
you might suppose.
This is mountain fighting, ridge
by ridge, against Jap who is d
master at defensive exploitation Of
such terrain. The Jap is Col
Hayashi, the same Hayashi who
when the First Cavalry trapped
him in Santo Tomas internment
camp at Manila Feb. 3, used Ameri
can hostages to bargain a safe exit
for himself and his men.
And now he is believed to have
flown the coop again, leaving scat.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-01
CHANGE Of Chinese Premiers

What effect Chang Kai-shek's resignation
of the Chinese premiership will have on the
war and diplomatic affairs in the Orient is not
clearly foreseen.
4.e has been serving both as permier and
president Of the Chinese republic smultane-
ously, in addition to mi (y other government
Offices but practically relinquished the pre-
miership to his brother-in-law, T. V. Soong
some months ago, when the japanese directed
a thrust toward Chungking, to devote his ma
jor time to military matters, with which ne
seems better able to deal than with affairs
of state.
Mr.. Soong, Madame Chiang's brother, is
conceivaby better fitted to deal with the re-
lations of China and her Allies because OF
his long residence in Washington and his con-
facts with leading American officials. His
understanding of WesteR civilization, customs
and ways of thinking is1better than his broth
er.in-law's.
It is possible that under him many Of the
issues that have arisen during Chiang's re-
CINE will be settled amicably for all parties
| concerned. But this can come about only ii
the Generalissimo does not continue to die
tate China's international policies as presi-
dent, but places them fully under Mr.. Soong S
Jurisdiction. Perhaps, too, the internal affairs
Of China will come out of the doldrums be-
cause o. Mr.. Soong's broader vision.
The Generalissimo has been under heavy
handicap because OF his narrowness and pre-
disposition to be suspicious of all things for
eign. But he has real' utility as military
leader AS he is commander of all Allied
troors in China and is now receiving huge
deliveries of war materials and equipment
as the counter attack in southern China in
dicates, it IS possible that greater and greater
successes will be achieved under his direc
tic than have resulted from his close-harlec
administration of internal and international at
fairs.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-01
Council Office In Berlin

Paris reports that, despite rumors to the
contrary Berlin will be the seat of the Al
lied Joint Control Council, when that group
with its large personnel, is ready to start
active operation. Many preliminares have still
to be disposed Of, among which are settlement
of the French occupation zone and the normal
.slowness Of Negotiations. Aside from these,
is the problem Of accommodations for the
councils staff in the French capital, where
hotels, residences and business buildings were
largely destroyed or SO seriously damaged
time
That Berlin should be the councils seat is
not to be questioned, if quarters for its MEM
:bers and clerical workers can be provided.
The city is still the center of German life,
as it has been throughout it's history
Russian occupation to the exclusion of Rus
sia's Allies is unwarranted. That Russia
has refused to allow Allied correspondents
.and military chiefs to enter the city is pre-.
sumptious. Even though Berlin is in Rus.
sia's zone of occupation, the fact does not
imply that Russians should have sole DOS.
session.
Unless the Western Allies are willing to let
Moscow dictate occupation terms they will see
that the city is open to accredited represen.
tatives OF all the powers that had a hand
In defeating Germany
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-01
Camp Davis Program

New construction and remodeling ordered al
Camp Davis. which will cost 81, COZ, 900, indi-
Gates the reservation will be used more ex-
tensively as a convalescsnt and redistribution
center than Wilmingto1kAns earlier believed
probable.
Il was only through intensive effort by the
city's civic leadership that the camp was not
closed and its equipment sold when the Ar
NV had no further need Of its facilities for
trainne recruits. This effort led the War De
partment to cancel scheduled sales OF equip
men. and include the camp in the Gonzales
cent program.
Now that there has been time to survey the
situation more thoroughly, recognition OF camp
Davis advantages has come, with result that
larger numbers of troops than nrst con'en'-
plated will be quartered there while recover
ing from wounds and disease or enjoying q
rest period before being reassigned to new
fields of military operation
With five mess halls to accommodate 1900
men each and another for 1000 officers, to-
gether with twenty barracks for convalescents
and 236 for enlisted and commissioned men,
Camp Davis is destined to play an important
part in the lives of thousands OF troops and
life in Wilmington.
It is this aspect of the situation that con-
Germs us most. Thousands OF men who have
seen action in Europe .ahd are returning to
the homeland for mentsaand nervous recuper-
aton will afford the people of this city un-
exampled opportunity to prove their graft
tude for deeds of valor performed in the bat
ties of Europe that we might escape the slav-
cry Hitler would have imposed it he had
bee successful We are free people today
because these men helped to overthrow the
Nazis, and remove their threat to our indie
pendence Wilmingtonians cannot do too much
to make their stay at Camp Davis happy
experience.
The other thousands who suffered wounds
diseases that invariably spread among men IN
armies, and who will be patients at the camp
surely deserve the best Wilmingtonians can
do for their comfort, entertainment and quick
recovery.
The improvement program announced t o r
the camp includes betterment OF recreation
facilities at Sears Landing which was original
ly used as a firing site, but because of its
magnificent location can become a prime play
ground The plans include clubs for officers
and day rooms for enlisted men. 1t would not
be arniss for Wilmingtonans to start now,
before the rooms are available for use, to
accumulate large collection Of articles to
make them comfortable and inviting.
But this will not be enough. Creature COM
forts are excellent, but what these men will
need most is heart comfort. This can best be
provided by hospitality. That is what Will
mingtonians are called upon to extend, in
greater degree than ever before.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-01
QUOTATIONS
BY WESTBROOE PEGLER
Copyright, I945, BY King Features Syndicate.

Germany is sick man. Right now he can
have only what the doctors prescribe. Later
on he will have more ample diet.-Elmer
Davis, head of Owl.
It takes considerable ingenuity for Jap to
surrender now. Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner,
Jr., U. S. Tenth Army, Oknawa.
Boy oh boy! If I'd played postoffice every
day until got into the Army, I wouldn't have
beer kissed today.-Yank G. l. in Moscow on
We Day.
If, therefore, the world wishes to regain peace
it is necessary that falsehood and rancor should
vanish and in their stead sovereign truth and
charity should reign.-Pone Plus XII.
believe it fair to the Fuehrer to say his
operational conception was that of a genius.
But sometimes the ideas of genius are mis-
understood. Field Marshal Albert Kesselring.
Unless the American people can be brought to
see that the threat of initiation did not end when
the shooting stopped in Europe, we are in for
mighty rough weather. Chester BoWles, OPA
director.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-01
by
MARQUIS CH1LDs

WASHINGTON-In the view OIL
the founding fathers, the Senate
of the United States, with it's small
err membership, was to be the more
sober and mature branch of the
National Legislature, checking the
rash impetuousness of the House
of Representatives.
In practice, today, it seems tc
be working the other way. The
House is displaying not alone par.
ty responsibility, but Individual res.
possibility.
A good example is the measure
extending and enlargirg the reel
procal trade program that was in.
itiated originally by Cordell Hull.
Unfortunately, the Republicans
chose to make this a party issue,
But the Democrats, almost with
out exception, followed the leader.
ship of President Truman, and the
measure-modest enough in it.
scope and intention-was adopted
by comfortable majority.
A better example is the Brettoa
Woods monetary agreement. The
ranking republican member of thu
House Banking and Currency Com
mittee is Representative Jesse p
Wolcott of Michigan. Wolcott Ia
bored long and conscientiously tt
come to an understanding with
the Treasury on minor changes tha
would make the Breton Wood:
proposal acceptable to the rrea,
majority of Republicans.
His efforts have been successful
and he deserves oil praise FOR
it. All but three of the II Republi.
cans on the committee voted TO,
the Breton Woods proposal. ane
the ratio on the final vote in The
House promises to be somethine
like that when the bill comes Ut
next week. The only holdo,ts 4
now appears, will be those isola.
tionists who wouldn't vote to ex
tend the Ten Comm andments he
yond the shores of the u. 8 4
In the Senate the prospect is not
SO happy. There will be a stiffe,
fight against the trade extension
bill. Pressure groups have concen
trated on certain Senators and we
shall hear all sorts of arguments
about protecting this or that spe.
cial interest.
In the Senate, too, rather thar
IN tne House. they are planning 4
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raid on the Price AdminiStra ton
act, which must be renewed by
June 80, now scarcely more than
month away. Chairman Elmer
Thomas of the Senate Agriculture
Committee has laid the ground
work with a so called investiga-
ton into farm prices that pro-
duced the expected blast against
OPA. Thomas has long been a
spokesman for certain farm and
food interests.
What is more surprising is to
find Senator Robert A. Taft lining
up with Thomas for this raid on
price control. Taft talks about the
failure of OPA to set prices that
will insure profits to manufacture
ers in every line. He talks about
on another, and must therefore
shut down certain of their plants.
I couldn't help but wonder, as
listened to him, what the boys, or
Okinawa would think of such talk
about profits, especially when, as
the record shows, corporation prof.
its-even after wartime taxes -
have been so high.
Toward the close of World War
!, Herbert Hoover urged President
Wilson to retain some controls hat
would be a brake on initiation.
Hoover could not get his point
across. So we had the boom OF
1919 and 1890, with wartime saw
ings bidding up the market for ev-
erything. Prices skyrocketed, an d
particularly land prices. T h e n
came the bust Of 1922.
Recently I was in the South and
in New England. The story was
the same-land prices UP + r m
40 per cent to 100 per cent. Re-
ports from the Middle West show
the same thing there. That is in
nation. 1t represents a boom in
farm prices and farm products.
It's easy to say, OF course, that
we should have controlled prices
some other way; that the OPA
hasn't really done a very good
job. OF course, 1t hasn't. It Is a
frail barrier against the damned
up flood Of unspent money. More
Of that money should have been
soaked up with higher taxes. Con-
gress would not adopt higher tax
es. There should have been a freeze
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on wages as well as on prices
Congress did not adopt it.
Since OPA is all we have, we
had better try to make it hold
Some Senators, and Taft is one o1
them, are likely to find themselves
in the unenviable position of ad.
vocating initiation. They will insist
it is something else, but that is
what it will come down to in the
long run.
This is a bad time to rock the
boat. The Senate shot1d remem.
Der the concept of Washington and
Jefferson and Madison and accept
its higher responsibility.
Copyright 1915 by United Eea.
ture Syndicate, Inc.)
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CAT MOTHERS FOXES

HAWTHORNE, Calf, May 81
W.D-A common alley cat aband-
oned her own kittens to take on
the more glamorous joy of mother.
ing four baby silver foxes. Mrs.
c. E. Bergren, owner of the silver
fox farm, said the cat took over
her new mothering duties after
the foxes had been abandoned
by their own mother.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-01
MAILS FOX EARS FOR BOUNTY

LOGANSPORT, md, May 81,
U.R)-Cass County Auditor Pau
Barnet opened his mail the otael
morning and found a pair OF lOh
ears in one package. A hunter
citing transportation problems
wrote that he was unable to Dfln %
the evidence of the fox's death 10
the auditor, so he mailed IN ls
his claim P. S. He didn't get IN.
bounty until he signed clam az
the auditors office.
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Maltese, native language Of nv ~
bomb-scarred island of Malta u.
so ancient that its alphaoe' ne'
been lost and cannot be reWlII.e%
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An Indiana man has trained his pet rabbit
to catch mice. Now all he needs Is to school
canary bird so it will patrol the house and
keep it free of flies. vi
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TOP O. THE MORNING

TOP o. THE MORNING
There is no sickness but there is a balm;
There is not storm but soon must come
calm 80.
No bitter wall but shall give way to song;
No way so dark but light shall break ere
long.
No earthly sorrow but hath its reward
If only we will wait and trust the Lord.
SELECTED.
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Fair Enough

Editors note.-The Star and the News
accept no responsibility for the personal
views of Mr. Pegler, and often disagree
with them as much as many OF his read
ers. His articles serve the good purpose
Of making people Think
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-01
Used To 1t

Used To 1t
/ We are now so used to brusque treatment
by the clerks in stores that we would be suspl-
cious of old-time courtesy.-Claxton Enterprise
Detroit evening times., 1945-04-28
Ydnks in Italy
Race for Alps

LONDON, April 27 QNS)-
The Free Milan radio reported
today that Allied troops have en-
tered Genoa and the Nazi garri-
son of 1900 officers and men has
surrendered.
ROME, April 27 (UP)-Ameri-
can Fifth Army forces raced 40
miles in "A hours 10 capture Pia-
cenza, 35 miles from Milan. and
drove into the Alps foothills with
in 90 miles of the Austrian from
tier today.
With the German defenSeS col
lapSed completely and Italian pa
triots claiming control of much OF
northern fta1y, The Fifth ana
Eighth armies were advancing at
will.
The Milan radio, also in the
hands of Italian partiSanS, claimed
arrangements were under way
whereby the surrender of all Ger
man forces left in Italy Will be
effected.
Detroit evening times., 1945-04-28
B-29S Hit
2d Day

WASHINGTON, April 27 (INS)
- -American SuperfortresSes
struck at Japan for the second
time in two days today, enemy air
installations on the island of
KyuShu being the target OF their
bombs.
A communique from headquar-
terS of the Twentieth Air Force in
Washington said that large force
of B-29S carried out this attack
and flew from the Marianas bases
of Mai. Gen. Lemay'S list Bomber
Command.
Yesterday the giant bomberS
struck at installations spread out
over the islands of KyuShu and
Shikoku. All the American planes
returned safely TO their bases.