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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-01-10
so THEY SAY

1t takes longer to catch up with them and
more lead to shoot them downfall. Rich
ard I. Bong on new Jap planes.
It is what you are that is important. It they
like you, they like you, and if they don't like
you. a good address in London is OF no help.
BRIDES Guide to the U. S. A. booklet
distributed to American soldiers wives in
England.
The distances are breath-takng and OF
course, the longer the European conflict lasts
the greater are the obstacles encountered with
supply lines and shipping space.-Rep. Mar
garet Chase Smith of Maine, back from the
Pacific.
In the past we have always had time to
raise and train our armed forces. Modern
science has abolished that period of grace
Navv Secretary James " Forrestal.
Orr industrialists have done in eight months
what normally would have required at least a
year. Peak production under the program In
augurated in May will be reached ABOUT rep. i.
Maj Gen. Levin H. Campbell Army orol-
nance Chief.
The League failed because its members lack
ed the courage and the sense to do the right.
The League failed because OF false and vi
cious idea that international morality differs
in some way from Individual morality.-Carl
Be-endsen, New Zealand minister to the
U. S.
have been trying to look out for the health
.nd banniness of soldiers for IS years. How
ever vour letter is the first time l have ever
received written thanks and l am very appre-
ciative.-General Patton in note to Pvt Nor.
ton G.. Addison of Chicago, who wrote to Pat
ton thanking him for stay in rest camp.
The supply job in France is of course a
miracle, but that's what we expected.-War
Manpower Commissioner Paul V McNutt in
France.
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Pontiac, Mich, and Walter Printz
Of Port Royal, Pa.)
''You seldom laugh up there, but
when you're safe you can't help
it when you get to thinking about
some of the crazy things that hap
pened. Take Paul Boesch. Paul is
looey over at Company G. He
splattered Krauts all over the
streets of Hurtgen and led his
men through the heaviest forest
fighting-then gets called back to
the rear on some administrative
matter and falls down stairs.
Then there's that private of
Company A, a boy named 1sser-
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-01-10
Interpreting
The War
BY KIRKE L. SIMPSON
Associated Press War AnaIvsi


Invasion of the big island ~
Luzon on the American road bach
in the Pacific was the next essen.
tial step in the Nimitz-MacArtbu,
campaign to carry the fight to
the foe relentlessly.
Whatever is charted beyond that
point, Luzon is the key to ,5a
whole Western Pacific China Sea
strategic picture.
Announcement by Gen. Dougla,
Macarthur of landings on the Can.
ital island of the Philippines is
eliminating step in the effort 10
bridge the Pacific and come 10
close grips with Japan.
That the campaign to reclaim
Luzon has reached its final phases
many months earlier than was
deemed possible in WASHINGTON
only year or less ago seems be.
yong dispute. This appears az
fruition of the Roosevelt-Nimitv.
Macarthur meeting in Hafaii some
months ago.
In the light of the type Of jap.
anese resistance encountered in
the advance up from New Guinea.
there can be no swift and decisive
results even after the landing in
force on the big island.
The war with Germany is class.
ed as a war of attrition. How.
ever bitterly and skillfully Na1
troops fight, driven to bay they
ultimately surrender as the Jap.
anese thus far encountered ashore
have not. The war in the Pacific
mas been a war of determination
rather than of attrition so far.
Official American estimates on
Japanese casualties on Leyte or
in the attempts to reinforce it
run to the neighborhood of 10000
as against less than 500 prisoner
taken. Nor was it disclosed wheth.
er that handful Of living enemies
taken consisted of wounded or
unWounded.
That distinction between wound.
ed and unWounded prisoners mas
more or less been dropped in this
war. Now and then German, Rus
sian and Allied battle accounts
from Europe have noted it if the
proportion of unwounded captives
appeared suggestive of waning
morale on the other side. Suisse
quent events have so definitely
scotched any idea of an impend-
ing collapse in the will to continue
the fight no matter what army
was involved, however, that the
distinction lost any significance.
1t has never been one of conse-
quence in the war with Japan.
1t is futile to attempt to estl'
mate in advance how long it might
take to effect the conquest Of
Luzon. japanese fugitives still
Turk in the wild recesses of Guam,
of Guadalcanal even, as well as
on some other islands wholly in
American hands. Bypassed ger
risons on still enemy-held Islands
left behind in the American ad-
vance have given no sign Of sur
render utterly hopeless as is their
situation.
With American lands on Luzon
in progress, the grimest exterml-
nation fight of the war In the
Pacific is beginning only now.
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WITH THE AEF:
CTS Report On The Hurtgen Forest

man from Philadelphia. He was
tired as hell one night and de-
cided he'd lie down beside a sand
bag. When he woke up, he found
the sandbag was a dead Kraut.
Chats 1t. Paul M. Boesch of
Long Beach, N. Y, and Pvt. Aaron
Isse-man of Philadelphia, Pa.)
ct seems funny that you remem-
Der little things like that. But may
be it's for the best. Somebody said
the other day that history would
remember the battle for Hurtgen
Forest and one of the guys said
that history might remember it.
but he wanted to forget it"
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Ordeal

Wa brings narrowing ordeals far removed
from the battlefield, ordeals that bring nc
medals as reward, but that test man
courage and try his soul.
And so. before he's forgotten, we should like
to convey our sympathy ana understanding
to the male Army lieutenant who was sent
as recruiting officer to Fort Wayne, lnd.-tc
replace WAC captain.
Be it said that he did his assigned duty With
cut flinching.
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Rocky Mount Club Hears
Talk On Dumbarton Meet

ROCKY MOUNT, Jan. 81
DR.. C. Sylvester Green, editor Of
the Durham Morning Herald, told
members of the Current Topics
club here last night that mot a
world government but machinery
out of which international coop
Grafton can be built was sought
at Dumbarton Oaks.
DR.. Green noted the need Tor
procedure to prevent aggression
to settle disputes amicably, to
regulate armament and to pro
vide for economic abundance. He
pointed out that the chief agen'
cies in the proposed world orsanI-
cation are the General Assembly
the Security Council, the Economic
and Social Council and the Inter
national Court of Justice.
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By KENNETH L. DIXON

IN GERMANY, Jan. 7.-R-Oe-
layed)-This is an account of COM
bat straight from the combat sol
der. Its the sort of thing you hear
scores of times as boys come out
of this or that bloody fight.
1t. Jack Melton OF Dallas, Tex.
was in the Hurtgen Forest fight.
His face was bearded and haggard.
This is what that tall, gangling,
Company l Texan had to say after
the battle was won-when he was
asked what it was like:
1T was tougher than the Nor
mandy hedgerow fighting. T h G
whole damned place was alive
with mines. Kraut artillery and
mortar fire were the heaviest I've
ever ducked. To top it off. the
weather was u S t what Adolf or
dered-two weeks of sloppy rain
and snow.
1--WE were full of vinegar thai
first morning, back to the wars
after a months rest OF Luxem-
bourg defense. We'd relieved a bad
ly tired outfit the night before anc
were all set to jump at dawn.
1--WE did jump more crackin'
and poppin' than you'd see at a
Western movie. Then after a few
hundred yards there were explo,
sions all around. All of us knew
then that some of our boys had
hit mines. Snipers let 60 from the
edge of the woods. Then it came
kitchen sink and all. Jerry threw
in 100 mortars and $50 artillery
pieces on our sector alone. Every
one reserved himself crater aft.
er the first few minutes Of Smelling.
1T was the damndest feeling
of helplessness. We couldn't move
ahead a few feet without mines
popping or Jerry throwing more
heavy stuff. We had to stay there
for days. Even when hot food came
up, only two or three men would
risk the artillery to grab.
The Engineers made several at
tempts to get through the mine.
fields, but they were unsuccessful
Finally patrol pulled the CON.
pany through. 1t was Stan n d
Hatcher and Mink and Trusty
and Stevens who did it.
Gle means Its. Stanley Schwarz
of Baltimore, Nd, and Hudson
Hatcher Of Harlan, KY; S-Sgt. John
Mink of Mechanicsburg, Pa; AND
Pvt. Harold Trusty of Cascilla,
Miss, and Pvt. Jessie Stevens OF
Cumilton, Ala.)
TT was one hell Of series OF
firefights after that. Jerry was al
ways hidden in pillboxes or behind
log bunkers. Artillery and small
arms couldn't push 'em out. So. our
Doughboys guided tanks to the
bunker flanks and flushed GU t
Krauts by the hundreds.
"But it wasn't just the rifleman
who was the hero. Take those 90
boys who were carrying supplies
of food and water. They carried
it through that hellish forest of
twisted trees for more than 1000
yards. And the litterbearers-
sometimes it took six hours to eva
cuate one casualty.
"And somebody should write a
book about those wiremen. Our
battalion's Wiremen laid more than
40 miles back and forth over that
3,1O0 yards. I still can see Jaco-
nette and Printz painting after they
worked line clear up to our for
ward company's c. P, and found
it already had six breaks. They
mended them and on the way back
found that the artillery had open
ed another three breaks. They
worked 16 hours without mo-
ment's relief.
CHATS Pvts. Marty Jaconette Of
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who is in Washington to further
plans for China's industrializaton
reported progress on his return
Most Americans would be bitter
ly disappointed if the war in the
Pacific were to be damped down,
They know very well that it woula
mean a serious delay in the ena
of this global conflict.
Copyright 1945 by United Feature
Syndicate, Inc.)
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-01-10
It's A Fever

Report of an Overwhelming decision for
strike within 30 days, which would affect H.
600 operators clerical and dining en-
ployes of the New York Telephone company,
shows that the telephone workers are extreme
1y nervous They have been making gestures
toward strike in several sections Oh the
country Perhaps it's part OF an eploemlc'
ncurosis, one of the strange crazes that sweeps
America now and then.
There's more to the strike fever than mere
ly grievances. It seems in way to be asso-
ciated with desire for general oVerturh
Of fundamentals. Most people-capltaIsts' pro-
fessional and skilled workers, the unsKlheo'
the youths, men and women-Will admit chey
are making more money than ever Dut a's
content still shows at the slightest chance' "has
do they want? Perhaps they don't know then-
selves. The strike fever may be part RI
the Illustration attendant upon war, BATTLE
ment all people feel.
Anyway getting back to the telephone the
employees may know what they are DONG ou'
they should be careful in calling strike
not to call wrong number.
Uncle Sam should certainly not allow this
great part Of the communications system, so
vital now to Army and Navy, to production OF
materials for men at war, to be tied up by
strike.
The record of industry in this war will 60
down as one Of the age-We have armed the
entire world except our enemies, and if we
can believe prisoners, even they would like
our weapons-Maj. Gen. Levin H. Campbell
Army Ordnance chief
1literacy is better than lteracy if what IS
read is degrading; and free communications
will not be a help to world peace if what is
communicated is lies invective, and propa-
ganda For these reasons we cannot hope that
the millennium will dawn when every Amerl-
can has college degree - DR.. Robert May
nard Hutchins president U. of Chicago
When one of our enemies is defeated, then
and only then can we lessen our effort. - war
Mohili-"-io IN Director .T"~'o"e f Byrnes.
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THOUGHT FOR TODAY

An American soldier on Pacific island
wrote to his mother as follows: Dear
Nom Because Of Missions 1 was Toasted,
and not Toasted upon when fell from the
sky into this village" SURVEY"
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Pascal, when 10 years old IN
1850, invented a calculating ma
chine.
Evening star., 1945-07-23
Violinist Tomasow Wins Bravo
AS SolOiSt at Water Gate

little. Each of the multiple calls
on violinistic virtuosity for which
the concerto Is famous was met by
Mr.. Tomasow with an elan that re-
tanned, at the same time, clarity and
neatness of execution. The broad
melodic passages were given with
singing tone Of pure and penetrat-
ing warmth, contrast to the con-
centrated brilliancy used in the
varied pyrotechnics Paganini de-
lighted in. 1t was scintillating
performance and the gifted artist
was greeted with ''bravo" at its con-
clusion.
Mr.. Smallens has brought out
from oblivion several works dur
ing his guest engagement and he
opened the program last night with
another; the Overture to Herold's
Tampa" Its gay and spirited
character was excellently projected
In the orchestra's playing which was
also of high order In the excerpts
from Wolf -Ferrari's opera ''The
Jewels of the Madonna" another
colorful number fitting in well, with
its tarantelle rhythms to the Paga-
mini concerto which preceded it.
Mozart's Jupiter Symphony was
nobly constructed in Mr.. Smallens'
reading for he gave 1t more weight
and more color by the distinction he
allowed the various orchestral sec
tions in the weaving Of the musical
fabric. Favorite selections from
Wagner's operas, the Prelude to Act
I from "Lohengrin" and the Over
turue to '"Tannhauser" brought the
concert to a close. The attendance
was not record one but the en-
thusiasm was of the same outspoken
quality that has marked all the
Water Gate programs this season.
Evening star., 1945-07-23
Germans
Continued From First Page.)

Army interpreter, yesterday told
how some of the Nazis reacted:
DR.. Hans Frank, NaZi admins
traitor of Poland, crammed a hand
kerchief in his mouth and gagged
Field Marshal Albert Kesselring
was as white as sheet when the
picture ended.
Joachim Won Ribbentrop, the for
mer Nazi foreign minister, bowed
his head and walked straight from
the showing to the dining room.
The Jew-baiter, Julius Streicher
sat on the edge of his chair, clasp
ing and unclasping his hands.
Reichsmarshal Hermann Goerine
appeared not to be noticing the
picture, but later commented
That's the type of film we used
to show our Russian prisoners"
The Nazi leaders were among the
So men who saw the picture at the
Palace Hotel, where they are in
termed.
Eve show them an atrocity pic
ture now and then" Sergt. Michaels
said.
Frank was sitting in the fifth
chair from the door when the pic
ture ended, and could have been the
fifth man out. Instead he crammed
his handkerchief in his mouth and
sat there with his hands covering
his face"
Preliminary to the showing, Col
B. c. Andrus, commanding officer
spoke briefly, telling the internees
precisely why he wanted them to
see it.
Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz, who
succeeded Hitler as Fuehrer, mis-
interpreted the remarks and thought
Col. Andrus meant he considered
Evening star., 1945-07-23
BY ALICE EvERSMAN.

The final week Of concerts at the
Water Gate by the National SYM
phony began last night with Alex
ander Smallens conducting the
group for the fourth time.
For a while, late yesterday AFTER
noon, there was some uncertainty
as to whether the concert would
take place but the weather for
caster assured the management
that the shower around six O'Clock
would be the last and he proved
to be right. The setting at the
Water Gate was etched in sombre
colors with the sun hiding its vivid
hues as it set and when the full
moon rose 1t peered through a
heavy haze with not much spirit.
The dampness of the atmosphere
Is hard on string instrurnGnts but
Jan Tomasow, concert master of
the symphony, who was soloist of
the program, surmounted all diff
culties in his playing of the Paga-
mini Concerto No. l." The brilliant
young violinist has the special quail
tiles to present the work in an
electrifying manner and the audi
ence recognized the superiority Of
his playing with long continued
applause.
It requires a lightning dash to
deliver the flashing bits Of technical
devices of all kinds in which the
concerto abounds with effect and
Mr.. Tomasow is equipped especially
for such display. His staccati were
lx.ax Al rln hn
the changing bow strokes With
speed and finesse. Throughout, his
intonation was impeccable even in
the harmonies with the weather af-
fecting the strings apparently but
Evening star., 1945-07-23
Rites for James N. Bowie
Are Set for Today

Services for James Morsell Bowie,
88, of 224 E street NE, were to be
held at pm. today at the Zirkle
funeral home. $40 C street NE, with
burial in the Epiphany Episcopal
Church Cemetery at Forestyille, Md.
Mr.. Bowie, a retired employe of
the Merchants Transfer g. Storage
Co., who died Saturday at his home,
was the grandson of the late Chief
Justice James Morsell of the Dis
trict of Columbia Supreme Court
He was born at his grandfather
home in Georgetown, reared in For
estville and educated at the Mary
land Agriculture College, now the
University of Maryland.
He returned to Washington 50
years ago. Surviving are his sister,
Mrs. Mary E. Holmes, and a brother,
r. Lee Bowie.
Evening star., 1945-07-23

them all guilty. After the show
ing, he said:
IF this is American justice, why
don't they shoot me now?"
Occasionally internees are per-
mitted to give addresses to their
fellow prisoners on subjects consid-
cred educational and worth while.
Recently Dr. Robert Ley, Nazi labor
leader, addressed his fellow in
ternees on the reconstruction of
Germany, suggesting it could best
be brought about by private capital
and private enterprise.
This line was so foreign to DR..
Ley's former views that half the
internees snickered, and former
Secretary of State Franz Seldte
heckled the speaker by shouting:
you've certainly changed your
viewpoint"
Another lecturer was 1t. Col.
Ernst John Won Freyand, a former
aide to Field Marshal Wilhelm
Keitel. He spoke on the breeding
of fish.
Col. Freyand is the only internee
thus far who has given serious
trouble. He was disciplined by three
days of solitary confinement on re-
duced rations, and since then his
conduct has been exemplary.
Former State Secretary of Finance
Schwerin Won Krosigk spoke for As
minutes on Shakespeare, and DR..
Joachim Riecke, secretary of agri-
culture in the Nazi regime, talked
about weeds and the means of
fighting them"
Every one agreed the best lecture
to date was on finance, by DR.. WAL
ther Funk, former president of the
Reichsbank. DR.. Funk said the ap-
pearance of paper money was one
of the most significant inventions of
all time, and said that gold as a
financial reserve was diminishing in
value because of its uneven distribu-
ton among the nations.
He said that in Faust" Goethe
credited Mephisto with the dis
covery of paper currency.
Goethe understood its Signifi-
canoe and he also knew it could
bring misery as well as satisfaction, -
DR.. Funk said.
Evening star., 1945-07-23
18Th Armored Units
Included Among 5000
Troops Due Today
By the Associated Press.

~
NEW YORK, July 23.--Approxi-
mately 5000 American troops, In
cluding various units of the 18th
Armored Division, are scheduled to
arrive here today aboard six ships.
Aboard the s. s. Noordam, carry
ing 2,471 troops, are the following
units Of the 18th Armored Division:
The 67th Armored Infantry Bat
talon, 124th Armored Engineering
Battalion, 46th Tank Battalion and
an ordnance detachment of the
135th Armored Ordnance Mainte-
nance Battalion.
Additional ships due to arrive are
the Benjamin Goodhue, carrying
535 troops; the Theodore Parker,
James M. Porter, and Hegley D.
Cochran each with Is troops, and
the Stephen Girard with 16.
Men aboard the Porter and the
Girard will 60 to Fort Hamilton,
Brooklyn. All others will go to
Camp Kilmer, N. j.
Five transports yesterday brought
1888 servicemen from Europe.
Aboard the George Davis were
351 rotational and redeployment
troops, including As liberated pris-
oners Of war.
The Marion Crawford, with 634
redeployment troops and the George
A. Thomas, with 1854, docked a short
time later.
Men from the three ships were
sent to Camp Kilmer.
The Wheaton Victory debarked
18 men and the Cape Falcon 81,
all of whom we're sent to Fort Ham,
ilton.
At Hampton Roads, Va, today
troops arriving include elements of
the 497th Field Artillery Battalion,
the 49th Armored Field Artillery
Battalion, oath Tank Battalion, 83d
Armored Medical Battalion, 482d
Medical Correcting Company, 31st
Medical Depot Company, advance
detachment of the Goth Armored
Division, Headquarters Detachment
l57th Ordnance, advance detach-
ment of the 18th Infantry Division,
Headquarters and Headquarters
Company 9Th Engineers, and the
18th Armored Division Combat
Command.
Evening star., 1945-07-23
HIT Mrntnrtai,t
COOPER, VALERIE S. In sa


COOPER, VALERIE S. In sad but low
ing remembrance of our dear daughter,
VALERIE s. COOPER, who passed away
mteen years ago today, July 23, 1880.
Always tender, fond and true;
There is not day, dear Valerie,
fhas moTHsR u 90 pxb6a nGs 5alns Asp 8 I11r zig
.DABNEY, ALFRED EDWIN. In memory
Of my brother, ALFRED EDWIN DABNEY,
who departed this life one year ago today.
DAUGHTER d9ne DsoES sIt Ss fSsfSsssP bsgasY HONEY
ssssd FHa !. and u 1Ssas %oSsr a
l. DULANEY. who passed away one year
ago today July 49, 1914; gss p.,,rv
HARRIS, ROBERT EUGENE. Passed
ROBERT EUGENE HARRIS.
A loving husband and father through toll
Remembrance Of him will linger for life;
To lose one you love causes an ache in
Yes, it is sad when dear ones must part.
God grant that ne rest in peace,
For the love in our hearts will never cease.
THE FAMILY.
JACKSON, EMILY. A tribute of love
and devotion in memory Of my dear wife,
life one year ago today. July 23. 1914.
I lost a life companion,
life linked with my own,
ana Gay by Gay miss you
As / walk through life alone.
Just when life was sweetest
And we could have lived our best,
The gates of Heaven opened
And you entered the land of rest.
God is good. He gave me strength
To bear my heavy cross;
He is the only one who knows
How heavy was my loss.
HER DEVOTED HUSBAND, JOHN W.
JACKSON.
PROCTOR, THOMAS HOWARD. In low
ing memory Of my husband, HOWARD
PROCTOR THOMAS, who passed away two
years ago. July 20. 1943 I
Our life cannot tell how we missed him,
Our hearts cannot tell what to say;
God alone knows how we miss him
In q home that is lonesome today.
WIFE AND CHILDREN.
RAMSAY, WILLIAM b. In sacred re-
membrance of our dear husband and ia
ther, WILLIAM B. RAMSAY, who passed
away one year ago today. July %, 1914.
Before my eyes he faded,
Es Growing weaker day by day,
Patiently bearing his suffering
Until God took him away.
HIS WIFE, ANNIE RAMSAY, AND FAM
lily
Evening star., 1945-07-23
Mrs. HagmuI|er, 79, Dies;
Widow Of Indian Fiqhter

Mrs. Elizabeth A. Hagmuller, 10,
widow of Matthew Hagmuller, who
was stationed at Fort Riley, Kans.,
in the 1905 and took part in the
last Indiap campaign, died Sat-
urday of atcerebral hemorrhage at
her home, 4002 Fifth street NV.
She spent most of her life in St.
Louis, where she and her husband
were in the grocery business the
last years of his life. She came to
Washington about is years ago to
join daughter who was employed
here. Mrs. Hagmuller was born in
Germany and brought to this coun-
try by her parents at the age of II.
She was member of st. Gabriel's
Catholic Church.
She is survived by two daughters,
Mrs. Marie L. Wilson, and Miss
Elizabeth A. Hagmuller, both of
Washington.
Requiem mass will be sung at st.
Gabriel's Catholic Church at 9 am.
tomorrow Burial will be in Mount
Olvet Cemetery.