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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-06-02

usefulness for hundred services connected
with restoring and maintaining order in the
Reich, such of them as so desire are moving
back to their homelands, hordes Of these dis
placed millions wander at will, and because
many have communicable diseases are low
ering the health level and imposing great
burdens upon overworked Allied medical
corps.
Military and occupation problems, great as
they are and difficult to solve, are being
conn Heated as result of the Nazi slave
labor policy.
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Daily Prayer
FOR SYMPATHY

We need Thy help, o eternal
Father, to understand better the
anguish of the world. Forgive Us
for or callousness. We read daily
of the death of thousands Of NOBLE
hearts in anguish. Our spirits do
not soar in fellowship with the he
roes who reveal the noble posslOlIl
ties of human life. We trudg
through the days, as if they were
commonplace, engrossed in o1F
little personal interests. Have mer
cy upon us! Thou hast sent This
great crisis upon us as an oppof
tunity for mankind to rise to soa'
like heights of sympathy and puf'
pose of action. Lift up our splrlS
to unity with all the noblest aims
of those who fight and plan anu
serve in this cleansing war May
or prayers ascend daily from Inc
depths of our being for grace 70
share vicariously in Thy mys'eA'
Gus on-goings. This we ask IN III,
name of the Saviour who suflefsl
with us and for us. Amen.-W' l. L.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-06-02
The New Council

With two new faces at the table, the City
Council has started upon what can be the
most successful administration Wilmington has
had.
Of the new members J. E. L. Wade has
had years of experience in municipal admin
istration Walter E. Yopp, the other, has been
successful in private business
Mayor Lane, Robert S. LeGwin and Gar
land S. Currin, all reelected, will continue
at their posts, Mr.. Lane as mayor, Mr. Gar
land as mayor protein and Mr.. LeGwin as
treasurer.
The time is ripe for Wilmington to move
forward under their leadership, and Whining
ton will get ahead in proportion to the vision
and understanding the Council brings to its
task.
The enc of the war, which probably will
come during their term of office, will bring
new responsibilities, new obligations and new
opportunities. 1t need not witness a slump in
Wilmington's war time prosperity Instead ii
can be the starting point of greater prosperity.
The wars end will see the revival of COM
merce on the sea lanes. The Council can play
a vital and constructive part in building up
Wilmingtons port activities by devoting Itself
to close cooperation with the new Ports Ali
thority, when it is organized and aiding sub
stantially in attracting industries to the Will
mington trade. territory which will provide car
goes for ships at local wharfs, as we'll as
engineering the construction of warehouses and
terminals needed for greater port business.
There is obvious need for extension of the
city limits The Council can help this essen
tial project not alone with maps but with ac-
tive effort, personally and as governing body
to create wider favor for it.
dozen ways are open for the Council to
serve Wilmington. We believe it will do so.
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BY w. G. ROGERS
The Wine of San Lorenzo"
by Herbert German (Farrar

1SAcnA1tS $S).
A combination of history and fic.
ton Is served up in this long novel
about pair Of lovers in the time
of the war with Mexico.
An American child survives tn.
Alamo massacre to become h e
ward of Mexico's dictator Santa
Anna. In the course of the strue-
gle he is pitted against his own
brother, on Gen. Zachary Taylor's
staff. He falls in love with the
beautiful Dona Maria Catalina.
Though there is a considerable
amount of excitement, it is at times
heavily laden with history. German
works in some sharp comments on
the nature OF. U. S. imperialism"
as seen through Mexican eyes.
This prolific author has some
commendable books to his credit.
though he can turn a phrase nice.
ly, on this occasion he didn't take
the time for much Of that business
His wine is heady drink, but
you enjoy it less the nearer you
get to the bottom of the barrel.
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The War
By klRkE L. SIMPSON
Associated Press Nv. .oN

P. Prompt and firm British sa' .s'
With full support Of Wssb;ua.sea action
pears to have abated if !, s,0n'p
wholly averted danger Of .n mas not
collision" between Frencs armed
British troops in the Levan ta a. nj
possibility Prime Minister cb tI mi,
bluntly foresaw in his nots 4 =.
eral de Gaulle announcing B W I'n
decision to intervene in IN. ' "a
co-syrian clash. 1t does not r. ss'a
the conclusion, however, III, 4'. :,
pace of British redenloS Ss a'
against Japan may have bss.,as
ously slowed by events in IN. 'ei'
ern Mediterranean thester '' ''H'
London made major no;,.
the fact that tranquility 'n IN :. u
middle east was essential so ~ NE
vital line of communication :, ne
far east was not to be distT,r w ne
!ne same thought was implicit /,
American reaction to Frenrb WI. ~
sure tactics in Syria althouso a pss'
ted from the note to Gen or I'' u.
Gaulle urging that Franc, ~ ~" y.
view her policy. "
And oddly enough, it wa, r,..
the same point French spokAsm ssa
in Paris largely based their dstan 'l
of de Gaulle regime method, ,'I ls
Syria. French communications v;, :.
the Orient were involved thew ,s~ '
Obviously, and restricted 10 n o',s
ly military factors, availabiltv =.
air or other staging bases in w. W.
middle east must be a prime d..
ment n British plans for Gomez.
trating empire armies in In6is
Burma, or elsewhere in the ,o1tS
eastern Asia command for imnenJ
ing campaigns to reconouer Ms
laya and Singapore. They would h,
no less essential to any Frenrt
participation in the war agsir,t
Japan in the southeastern thester
as recovery of French India Chin,
sands high on the deGaulle govern.
ment's announced purposes.
Availability OF food resources II
all the Levantine and adiscen
states is another military losis,ics
item of importance.
That undoubtedly figures in Joint
Allied plans for pressing the wal
on Japan simultaneously both r
the Pacific and central and north.
ern Ch'nas theaters and by the
southeastern Asia command.
Quite aside from the political Or
economic aspects Of the Franco
Syrian crisis, or even its reaction
on the effort at San Francisco 10
create world security machinery.
its effect on Allied and particularly
British redeployment against Japar
via the Mediterranean and Indian
ocean could be serious if an AMIGA
BILE solution is not soon found.
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Editorial Comment
SACRIFICE

The Rev. Daniel Lord, S. j., tells the one
about the holdup man who leaped out of a
dark doorway and held up passer-by. When
the victim threw up his hands, his coat fell
open and the robber could see that he was a
priest.
Alphabetically he withdrew his pistol. eek.
cuse me, father he said IT didn't want to
hold up a priest, but need money badly
The priest apologized also. I'm sorry,
too he said. II have no change on me, but
here's cigar"
mo thanks said the robber, gruffy Il
gave up smoking for Lent. Boston Globe
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Situation In The Levant


The order of the French commander in the
Levant to cease firing has brought to an end
the needless sacrifice of life and property. 1t
has not ended the tense situation, not only
in Syria and Lebanon but throughout the Near
and Middle East and in London Washington
and Paris.
With 400 lives lost and property damage
estimated at 100000 in Damascus, it will
lieve the payment of heavy reparations by
France to restore order in the affected ter
ritorv.
The United States has supported Great Brit
aims position that while France has leglt-
innate claim to bases and petroleum deliver
les from the Mosul oil fields by pipeline, the
establishment of those claims should be de-
ferred until world peace has been restored.
When Prime Minister Winston Churchill voiced
this view General de Gaulle, who put himself i'll
an awkward position before the world and par
ticularly before the San Francisco conference
to order an end to hostiities.
1t can only be hoped that the French leader
does not again blow the lid off in the Lee
want, where further trouble could all too easily
interfere with the security program being
drafted at San Francisco and inject new diff.
cuties in Allied victory over Japan
United Press war analyst, Louis F. Keen
ble explains the issues behind the dispute in
simple terms AS they are not generally known
we quote from his article:
The importance of the eastern shore of the
Mediterranean is both economic and military
1t is crossroads where the interests of the
big powers meet not always on parallel lines.
Among other things, it is vital to British securl-
ty in the eastern Mediterranean.
mo l on the list of things that make the
Mosul pipeline to the Mediterranean splits i'll
two in Iraq. One section runs through Syria
and Lebanon to Tripol the other through
Trans-Jordan and Palestine to Haifa.
Great Britain has air and military bases
in Iraq Palestine and Trans-Jordan to protect
L
has legal interest in the northern section
wants the same facilities in Syria and Leb-
anon. Both the British and French Mediter-
ranean fleets need the Mosul pipelines for fuel
ling.
Britain does not deny the French right to
such bases-provided, as Foreign Secretary An
thony Eden put it. they can be obtained peace
fully oy the kind of arrangement we have in
(raq.'' That, of course, involves the free con-
sent Of Syria and Lebanon.
Britain and the United States contend that
their objection is not basically to the French
demands in the Levant but to the method OF
enforcing them, especially the use Of troops
Britain and the United States also insist that
no situation should be permitted to arise which
would interfere with Allied commune atons
eastward during the with Japan.
There is no reason to doubt that Washington
and London would aid France in enforcing
legal concessions in Syria and Lebanon once
the war is ended and peacetime problems NAV
be taken up in an orderly manner. But it is
apparent that unless France is willing to await
a more fitting time to press her claims she
will have to settle with the powers that de-
llivered her from German occupation
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BALETE PASS, Luzon-(by wire
less) 1t was raining when we
stopped at the hillside tent of Col.
Victor L. Johnson, Jr., command
ing officer of the 161st Infantry
Regiment.
Colonel Johnson was graduated
from West Point six years ago. He
is q - and nobody around here
knows of a younger full colonel in
command of a line regiment any,
where. Johnsons parents live in
Slingerlands, N. Y.
He is a big good-looking fellow
and likes to get around. l found
out about that the hard way. He
was planning to visit a new COM
mand post of his First Battalion,
and invited us to come along in
his jeep. He started up billy road
which had existed only a week.
The rains were turning it to deep
rutted gluey mud.
At one long steep rise the jeep
rebelled, and we had to walk while
the driver took the lightened We
hicle ahead. 1 was painting when
we got to level space and piled
back in the jeep. Farther on the
road became entirely impossible.
We got out and walked cross coun-
try to a little observation post. The
colonel remarked casually as we
walked that the Japs had a ma
chine gun on the opposite ridge.
Il don't know why they're not
firing at U.S." he said.
Neither did 1, and the matter in
terested me more than it seemed
to interest the colonel.
Men at the observation post
pointed out dead Jap on the hill
side below that machine gun nest.
Our loss did a little sniping
on him." somebody explained. CA
105 is. about four-inch cannon;
that's some sniping).
We trrdged on up the road and
turned off again, this time down
some crude steps braced with
lengths of wood but by now so
thick with slippery mud from
many boots that I negotiated it
with feet sidewise a la Charlie
Chaplin.
At the foot of the steps we reach
ed the command post of Maj. STAN
ley R. McNatt (cq of Mescalero,
N. NJ, commanding officer OF
Johnson's First Battalion. The post
had been installed the night before
in captured Jap caves, and very
snugly too, except that we were
within range of a Jap mortar on
the ridge to the south. (The NOR
tar was captured the next day and
the crew killed..
I'd been talking to officers when
somebody remarked that Bob
Scripps was waiting to see me.
turned around and here was a fig
ure out of Bill Mauldin's cartoons
"a lean, long, unshaven man of
q in muddy fatigues.
Bob had been corporal the last
I had heard. Now he was a buck
sergeant, and acting staff SER
geant He was the top noncom in
the 161st Regiments Il and "R"
platoon - the intelligence and re-
connaisance unit. These are picked
men who have the important func-
ton of tracing Jap positions and
movements, both by going on pa
trolls and by manning forward ops
- observation posts, such as the
one Bob had just trudged down
from.
Bob came overseas right after
Pearl Harbor, and like everybody
else he would rather be home I
asked if he was going into the
newspaper business when he got
out of the Army.
well, I was trying to be a farm
er before the war; he said.
Well, every man has a right ia
pick his own vocation. And some
times, on days like this. I think !.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-06-02
WASHINGTON CALLING s
by MZ!]M
MARQUIS CH1LDs &M,,,3I
by

WASHINGTON-By his last i'm
portant act as attorney general,
Francis Biddle demonstrated the
great power which rests in the De-
partment of Justice. In filing suit
in Los Angeles to test the right
of the federal government to off
shore oil, he has raised an issue
involving vast sums Of money and
one of the prime natural resources
of this country which is now dwind-
ling to scarcity.
1t cuts, too, straight across the
states rights issue. For 40 years
oil operators have been drilling in
coastal submerged lands off Cali
fornia, and in recent years they
have obtained very large re-
venue from this source.
In 1921, the state of California
adopted a leasing law under which
leases have been issued by the
state and the state has received
royalties from drillers. Thus, if the
federal government were to step
in and acquire all mineral rights
TO land lying between the low wa
ter line and the three-mile limit,
California would lose a substantial
amount of revenue.
The same thing is true Of Texas.
Similar operations have gone On
under the tidal waters of the Gulf
of Mexico, and Texas raises sps.
cial claims because of the terms
under which the Lone Star State
came into the union; or, as Tex
ans put it, the terms under which
the United States Joined up with
Texas.
All this was brought to a head
by several resolutions introduced IN
the present Congress which would
give the states unqualified claim
to offshore oil. Attorney General
Biddle decided, properly, 1t seems
to me, that the question of tn e
ownership of this enormously valu-
able resource should be tested in
the courts.
Our oil reserves are vanishing I'M
der the enormous drain Of this glo-
bal war. 1t takes fantastic guam
titles of fuel oil to move the sineWs
of war across the vast Pacific. In
this connection, it is interesting to
note that the Senate passed In 1887
a resolution which declared h t
submerged lands containing oil ire
the property of the United States,
and this resolution had the support
of the Navy, interior and justice
departments. The men who run our
Navy know how vital a national
oil supply is.
The suit filed on Tuesday has
still another aspect. 1t serves to
sharpen what seems to be t h e
beginning of split within the De-
mocratic party. threatening h e
harmony that has been empha sized
since President Roosevelt's death
An oil man with a direct interest
in offshore oil is Edwin w. Pauley,
who is also treasurer of the Dem
ocratic National Committee n d
recently named American member
of the Tri-partite Reparations COM
mission in Moscow. Pauley has had
at least one acrimonious exchange
with Secretary of the Interior -,ekes
over offshore oil.
Biddle said in his press CONFER
ence announcing the suit that the
question had never been settled by
the courts. The attorney general
pointed out that he had consulted
! with TcI>e erd had obtained 4 i q
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EXPLANATION

Did you get your Chronicle folded inside
out last week? Well, we sent it out that way
That's the way the folding machine folded it
and we didn't unfold it. For us to have fixed
it we would have had to unfold hundreds,
even into the thousands, while you only lad
to fix one-Abbeville (Ga) Chronicle.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-06-02
HOTEL SOLVES PROBLEM

ShlDMOhE, MO-, June l.-U.H
The housing shortage is the least
Of the worries Of the stable F. A.
johnson clan, 10 Of whom live
under the same roof. with room to
spare. Profiting by the depression
that wiped out many businesses
and forced prices down, the John
sons bought-and now are living
ina 16.room hotel.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-06-02
Lee Miller Covers Tie Pacific

on back and l decided Id gone
as far forward as seemed justified
anyway. And then something kind
Of funny happened. I'll save it for
tomorrow.
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nice quiet farm, preferably dairy,
might be a sight better than news.
papering.
1t was raining hard now, and
Colonel Johnson was ready to 60
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-06-02
Pollocksville Soldier
Is Reported Liberated

POLLOCKSVILLE, June Inv"
Clifton Meadows has been liOei''
ted from a German prison csNp
and is awaiting passage nome a..
cording to word received mere , y y
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs NJ =,
Meadows. He was reported ,1llSsms
in action October %, 1894 s'' :,
later reported to be prisoner VI
war.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-06-02
HURRIED CONVERSION

Franco Spain we shall always recall as the
last OF the converts to democracy dashing
nreathlessly down the saWdust trail just as
me IN. evangelist was folding the tenth. V.
wade in the Detroit News.
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The Literary Guidepost

The many suggestions Ill -" -.
book, the publisher says hi'' ~
be interesting to the ''lmpaus4 a..
or to anyone looking for a noOI u.
Horses you might wish to Fi0' A.
clude gardening, photography n j.,
sic, weaving, leather WORK y, ~,
ing, finger painting Brig ns.,,
Ralph G. DeVoe OF the 'a. 'ar.
General Hospital writes that ' '''.,
of these ideas have bee" ,,.,g
and found effective" with WOW
War II wounded.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-06-02

Mile-high Mount Katahdln IN a. 4 +,
central Maine forests is bellveo :. y
be the first spot in the UNIV. ~,
ESTATES on which the rising 'D
shines.
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TOP % THE MORNING

1t did my heart good to hear the 81 say to
the Colonel one evening, after had missed
being at meals couple of times: You
know, Colonel, 1 miss the chaplain's bles-
sing when he is not here. The whole day,
somehow, does not go off right
suggested that various men be called on
to return thanks when l was not there. Now
not meal is eaten without someone giving
thanks
Chaplain Henry H. Bear.
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Pastimcs For The Patient"
by Marguerite lexis barnes
s3).
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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
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1.-THE Coming Age Of nv
Power" by G. Edward
Harper; $3.50. -, ,sr;

Rockets are nothing new ,'',a, We
the author, who also oeN. st He
haven't seen anything ~ .heorg
traces the history OF NV ,hrousn
from the ancient Chinese Sc ind n d.
Goddard to late WoTlu "..,esti1g
velopments. It makes ln's''
reading.
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Francesca Cabrim' W., W." pp
Staff or Scrip BY Luoll =, y.
pin Borden (Macrillan' ' # I'll,
Here is another oloSl r. Ohio val
Mother caofln
beatifi~d in 1929.
Evening star., 1945-08-27

ADVERTISEMENT.
Evening star., 1945-08-27
WlB 10 Refuse Cases
Unless Parties Agree
To Accept Rulings
By JAMES Y. NEWTON.

The War Labor Board has de-
cided to take no new labor dispute
cases except when both sides agree
in advance to abide by the boards
decision, it was learned today.
Meanwhile, Board Chairman
George w. Taylor scheduled a
meeting with Secretary of Labor
Schwellenbach today in an effort
to work out procedure for Govern.
ment handling Of disputes.
The Labor Department has cer-
titled only single dispute to the
WLB since Jap acceptance of sur
render terms August IA. The case
involving jurisdictional dispute In
a St. Louis utility, was turnA back
BY the board.
100 Disputes Await Action.
More than 100 disputes that for
merly would have been certified to
WLB have backed up In the Labor
Department since certiflcations
were halted The board voted 10
to 2, 1t was said, with CIO men,
bers dissenting. to throw the cases
back for further collective bargain
Evening star., 1945-08-27

Federal seizure last week Of the
Illinois Central Railroad as typical.
Favors Collective Bargaining.
WLB believes a large, percentage
Of disputes can be settled through
collective bargaining now that wage
stabilization policy has been
changed to provide for automatic
granting Of wage increases which
will not be used as basis for price
increases. On Saturday 1t turned
back for more bargaining some
5000 disputes which had been sent
to the board prior to August Il.
The CIO, q board member said,