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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-02-18
Lions Auxiliary
Entertained AT
Luncheon Party

Mrs James A. Lawson and
1o1is Keith were hostesses
~ 4,e Ladies Auxiliary to the
..ns club on Thursday at l
' ".1ook At a beautifully appointed
luncheon SI at Mrs. Keith's home
N Magnolia Place
The centerpiece was lovely
oroenlent of red and white
.rcissl1s in a low crystal bowl,
VI tbe Valentine motif was car
led out in the decorations
throughout.
rbo following members Of the
.nyiiiarv were present: Mrs.
n nsnes r. Benson, Mrs. w. B.
SC@a,nnbell. Mrs. Herbert Coding-
."n Mrs. O, H. Shoemaker, Mrs.
T 5SiI, Yopp, Mrs. c. L. Harriss,
Mrs Eugene Billiard, Mrs. Law
- ronre Sloan, Mrs. W. Ronald
1arp Mrs. Sam Hill, Mrs. Donald
: sewell, Mrs. CASTOR Carney,
Mrs, George Biggs, Mrs. E. A.
MiIlican. Mrs. Ralph Rowlins,
Mrs J. l. Jeffreys, Mrs. Herman
HAYDEN. Mrs. W. L. Berry, Jr.,
MRS Ed. Ward, Mrs. T. ]. Baird,
Mrs Joe Hood, Mrs. Foster Ed
wards, Mrs. T. T. Sellers, Mrs.
= E. Baker. Miss Kathryn Way,
md Mrs. George Canady, visitor.
BIRTH ANNOUNCED
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Rhem Avery,
Il. announce the birth Of a son.
Joseph Edward, February Is at
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-02-18

through it's International Relations
Department, cooperated with the
Citizens United Nations Council
and gave reception honoring
Conrad Heiden, noted author and
lecturer, following his lecture at
the United Church in Raleigh on
Tuesday evening,
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-02-18
PERSONALS

Lieut.. G.g,) Henry B. Render,
United States Merchant Marine
Service, left Friday afternoon for
Jacksonville, Fla. after spending
d leave here with his parents.
Mr.. and Mrs. Will Render at their
nome on North 18th street. Lieut..
RENDER is expected to sail for the
Pacific area shortly.
Mrs. G. W. Bellois left FRIDAY
evening for Chicago, where She
will visit ner son and daughter
ln-law. Lieut.. G.g.) W. B. Bellois
and Mrs. Bellois.
Lieut.. G.g.) Charles E. NOEL
arrived Saturday morning from
San Francisco, where he recently
returned to the States from the
Pacific area, and is visiting his
wife and young daughter, who are
making their home with her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. J. Douglas
Taylor.
Tommy Hines, United States
Navy, arrived yesterday from the
West Coast, after seeing service
in the Pacific, and is visiting Mr..
and Mrs. Ned Hines at their home
here.
Miss. Juanita Blackhan is at
tending the weekend dances at
East Carolina Teachers college
in Greenville. She will be the
guest OF her sister, Allegro, who
is student there.
l.. D. Register is a patient at
James Walker Memorial hospital.
BIRTH ANNOUNCED
Mr.. and Mrs. William Hollis of
Masonboro Sound, announce the
birth of daughter at Marion
CDr11nt anpay on Fahrl1arv
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-02-18
BIRTH ANNOUNCED

Mr.. and Mrs. Robert H. Carter
announce the birth of a daughter,
Mary Ellen, January 30, at Marion
Sprunt annex. Mrs. Carter is the
former Nellie Bonham Of Whining
ton.
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AND MRS. CALVIN D. GORE Street
whose golden wedding Tuesday, will celebrate
today at their home with openhouse
Mrs the Hattie Ward Creek
in
Wilmington.
Ms Gore have five children Leslie
Alger Best of Haw River;
d. of
eleven grandchildren Kitty Bass France;
Haw River Calvin and Fraser Gore Of New Orleans Carolyn
Raleigh; Betty Gayle
Friends of the couple invited to call during day
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-02-18

Honey will KEEP best in warm
dry atnc sphere.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-02-18

GrvelIins tests conducted BY leod-
ing Independent laboratory over .
period Of months, testify eoneIvsivs.
H TO AQUAMEDIcO's fesistonee 10
wafer, its vnfoiIins timeksepins &C.
evroey under the most odysrss eendi.
tions Of wear and tsor.
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(For Aug. 10)
BY CHARLES HOME
so FAR so GOOD, by Charles

hanson TOWne (MeSSner; ~.
Il wonder what will happen to-
morrow"
Thus ends the autobiography OF
Charles Hanson Towne, poet, mag
azine editor, writer, discoverer CT
literary talent, columnist, radio
commentator and actor.
Whatever happens, Towne will
greet the event w t h zest; his
story shows him a man of great
talent for enjoying life and at 6e
he still writes with. a boyish en-.
thusiasm for the world and letters.
AS magazine editor and newspa.
per man, Towne knew about all
the great writer's of his period and
he has many interesting stories tc
tell of these contacts.
Also, as magazine editor, he has
seen rewards to writer's rise
steadily to almost undreamed OF
heights. For instance, around the
turn of the century when he was
with the Smart Set, the standard
payment was one cent a word for
prose and two bits a line for
poetry. When another magazine
announced prize contest and
promised to pay five cents word
for any disable submissions, Towne
notes that it "sent the literati into
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-08-10
Won't Be Long Now

With Nagasaki struck by the second atomic
bomb, Allied warships and planes attacking
along a seven-hundred mile front, pouring
lethal bombs and shells into japanese centers,
and Russia's Siberian army, estimated at a
million men, already advancing across the
Manchurian border, it is hard to see how
Japan can continue at war unless it is the
settled purpose of the war leaders to force
the nation into national suicide
Tokyo's offer of surrender may have come
before this newspaper reaches its readers
For the moment interest centers in Com
missar Molotov's announcement at Moscow
that the japanese Emperor, Hiroh;to, had ap-
pealed to the Soviet Union about mid-July to
mediate in the Pacific war. 1t was from hints
OF this that observers generally declared it
probable the Russian Premier, Joseph Stain,
would present Japans proposal to surrender
at the Big Three meeting. Only the trio and
their stats know for certain what transpired
at that conference with respect to Japan, but
it is finally made known that the principal
item on President Truman's Potsdam agenda
was to invite Russia to JOIN with the United
States and Great Britain in finishing off the
Japanese, an undertaking in which he was
eminently successful as MoscoW's declaration
on Wednesday that after the lapse of few
hours the Soviet Union would consider itself
at war with Japan and proceed to attack
Japanese forces in Manchuria, proves. They
were reported well across the frontier yes
terday.
What is most obvious in the war picture
in the Orient is that the battle has reached
a stage closely resembling that in Europe
when the Western Allies were shatter.ng Ger
man resistance from Holland to southern
France and the Russians closing in on Berlin
from the east.
The Japanese may be more fanatical than
the Germans. They may "be tougher fighters
But it is inevitable that with the trap close g
in it now is doing and with a blockade
which has cut Japan off from her chief
sources of war supplies and her home war
industries being crumbled into rubble at an
increasing pace of destruction the Japanese
cannot hope to escape a fate similar to Ger
manys except by laying down their arms.
If they have done this already, it is one
time we are glad to be behindhand with the
news
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The Literary Guidepost

a frenzy of delight and rival ed
itors into confusion
Towne has a few stories con-
corning the suave and polished Ed.
gar Saltus, a popular novelist Of
the glittering sos and COS, aow
all but forgotten.
Saltus, he says, had small use
for the writer who had not mas
tered his craft sufficiently to put
down his thoughts in order, with
few emendations later. 'Plasterers
do not re-plaster. and bricklayers
don't relay bricks. Why should
weavers of words have to be con-
stantly changing their blocks OF
sentences? God deliver me from
the amateur in any art
Many editors have claimed to
have discovered" o. Henry, but
Towne's story is just about as
good as anybody's. The fact seems
to be that several editors bounced
on him virtually simultaneously
and without the slightest knowl-
edge tn It others were equally
electrified by new talent.
Although Charles Hanson Towne
probably is best known as poet,
his references to his own Pegasian
flights are casual indeed. But he
writes much about his poetic en-
thusiasms: John 'Masefield, Rich
ard LeGallienne. Bliss Carman,
Edwin Markham among others.
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DailyPrayer
FOR SLACKERS

In the spirit Of the Saviour WAC
pardoned the thief on the cross
and concerning His own base per
secutors cried, Father, 1ofgN'
them, they know not what 'nsl
do,'' we lift a sincere prayer ~
day for all the tinid and oa';
souls who have evaded patrols
responsibilities in this Was olI4
the mercy of a pitiful Coo eau
avail them; and we plead IN"
Thou wilt pardon and restore 'neA
to manhood and duty and loyalE
They are only immature ana W.
fish and misguided and feaflL
impart unto them, in Thy ste"
mercy, O God, new hearts Of W.
Outstanding and of fidelity hnOn ..
ing that we ourselves are AKIN
them in the possibility Of 'h y.
loyalty, We offer this petltl0n, ~. ="
behalf of draft-dodgers; Of eVso H..
of wartime restrictions; Of IA
sordid ones who seek 10 gel i..-
out of the war; and OF all VINO !.
any means fall short Of pa,i ,n.,
ism's duty. Forgive ard fes. ,.s
them. we pray, that they yet M.
bear manfully a citizen S pan ~
this highest enterprise that r, 49,
ever engaged the uttesmo s. FlN
of mankind Amen.-WI.E
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Future Of The Atom

The United States has long been the leading
nation In making Notwithstanding discoveries
The atomic bomb is literally Notwithstanding
But before that first one fell on Hirosh ma
long years before-we could count the steam
boat, the sewing machine, the locomotive, the
linotype, the adding machine, the air brake,
the vulcanizing OF rubber, and by most author
tiles the airplane.
We have made good use of most OF these,
and the many others that will come to mind
with a little thinking. But we were tardy,
inexcusably tardy, in utilizing the airplane as
weapon When the first World War came we
had virtually no air force. When Hitler preripi-
tated World War II we still had no efficient
air force, in spite Of ample warning OF what
Germany was doing in the air.
The question now is, what are we going to
do about the utilization of the atom in peace.
time. Will we pass up the chance to control it
and make it work for us? Or will our scientist
continue the research which made it the most
destructive of war weapons Until they find out
how to make it serve our needs for heat and
for industry and perhaps for many other pur-
poses?
The concensus is that the atom has POSSIBLE
tiles in addition to wping japanese cities out oil
existence. While the process of converting il
into bombs is a closely guarded secret for the
present there is no reason to assume that
scientists of other countries will long be with
out the same knowledge of it that has cost the
United States two billion dollars to acquire
And there is no reason to doubt that they will
put their minds to the task of controlling it fol-
peacetime uses. 1t would be indefensible if we
allowed foreign scientists to make that dis
covery first
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Cancer Research Institute

Cancer, which claimed millions OF lives long
before medical science was able to identity it,
and still levies tragic toll yearly is yet to be
conquered, partly because victims are slow to
recognize its existence and too often consult
a physician only after surgery cannot effect
cure. 1t is because cancer is so insidious and
also because a medicinal antidote has still to
be discovered that it constitutes one OF the
most destructive and vicious ailments human
flesh is heir to.
In an effort to further the conquest of this
dread disease, the Alfred P Sloan Foundation
has made $4,000 900 grant for a cancer re-
search institute at Memorial hospital in New
York. DR.. Charles F. Kettering, vice president
and director of research for General Motors
will concentrate on the organization of indus
trial techniques for cancer research. The an
nouncement OF the project is made in the New
York Times of Wednesday. A building to cost
half the amount of the Sloan grant is to be
constructed, and it is the belief that other
philanthropists will make large contributions,
that the work may reach higher level of ef-
ficency and, hopefully, ultimate success
BEDS and it is planned to concentrate upon
two broad major problems-to study the causes
of cancer and to seek better methods of treat
ment for the many forms OF the disease that
now resist treatment.
The announcement notes that the atomic
bomb which was developed through a two
billion dollar research program is a graphic
example of what can be accomplished by sci
entifically organized research as practiced by
American industry. The promoters Of the can
Ger project claim that if as much money and
talented personnel were available as the gov
eminent had for the atomic bomb very
rapid progress could be made in cancer re-
search.
Four million dollars is long way from
two billion, but at least it makes possible
start on a program that could, if sufficient
financial backing is forthcoming and leader
ship developed accomplish as great benefits
for humanity as the atomic bomb can achieve
in destruction.
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who was born in Pennsylvania. His
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas N,
Benkovic live at Steelton, Pa.
Father Anthony visited the camp
the day after the American filters
arrived and every day after that
until they left. He acted as camp
Chaplain, intel prefer and general
contact with the outside world.
He still carries note from Har-
den certifying all this and more.
He supplied food and medicine
before a doctor was available and,
says Harden's note, "provid-
ed small arms for prisoners when
safety Of same was threatened by
the Ustachi.",
Father Anthony, whose stay in
Yugoslavia already has been TN
duly prolonged by the war, hopes
to return soon to America.
"1'd like to become an Army
Chaplain" he said. working and
living with those boys gave me
something and I'd like to continue
it as a regular Chaplain"
The last three nights of the i'm
prisonment Father Anthony slept
in the barracks because of per
sistent rumors that the defeated
Ustachi planned to murder the pri-
soners before they Withdrew
Ae tho hattie for ZaSreb ap-
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-08-10
COTTON
CROP BELOW 1915

RALEIGH, Aug. 9.-(P)-A Tar
Heel cotton crop of 100000 bales,
based on the condition of plants on
August l, was forecast today by
the State Department of Agricul-
ture. The crop would be the third
smallest for North Carolina since
1901.
If the crop of the size now ind
Gated materializes, the depart
ment's crop reporting service said,
production will be about 100000
bales, or 81 per cent less than last
year, and 114,00O bales less than
the 10-year average.
Agricultural officials said sharp
decrease in acreage accounts :or
the major portion of the drop in
product on. The acreage for har-
vest, placed at 588, 1000. is less than
for any yeaar since 1878.
The August l condition Of tie
crop indicated yield per acre of
400 pounds, which is the fourth
highest on record. The average
yield per acre in 1914 was 584
pounds.
The report said the crop had
made very good progress in
Piedmont counties but that excess
sive rains in the east made fields
somewhat "weedy." Although wee
vii infestation has been high in
some areas, damage has not been
as heavy as was anticipated in
view o. the weather conditions, the
report said.
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A mericans Always Have Friends
Euen In Remote Points OF World

proched the prisoners took tn e
arms and machineguns of their
guards and fled to the woods.
The final night before the liberia
ton of Zagreb they spent barri-
caded in the home of the Baroness
while a battle ragged all about
them.
'It was terribly exciting the
Baroness recalled, but everybody
behaved wonderfully.
When the Americans left their
prison barracks to march into
Zagreb May 9 they had at the
head of their column an American
flag, made with paint and length
of white cloth by LIST 1t. E. F..
Benkoski of Westtord, Mass, and
End 1t. Charles A. Turrisi of
Orange, N. j.
The filters left Zagreb May Is.
When talk turns to the prisoners
the name of Philip w. Under,
Bardstown, KY, seems to come UP
more than any other
1--WE all fell in love with him, "
the Baroness said, "even the cook.
He was just what you'd expect an
American soldier to be-"
Il was almost sorry to see them
leave,'' the Baroness said wistsul-
ly. 1.-THE place hasn't seemed the
same since"
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-08-10
Distribution OF Rain
Aids N. c. Agrlcultuf'

RALEIGH, Aug. g II .o., d
spite heavy rain in some aie I;.+,.
the State, the amount ana p- ...!
button of rainfall has prom I- {
agricultural process, the c "
Weather Bureau at State O'
said yesterday. had :.
However, it said rains nau
tarded farm work in the " ,.,.,,
mountains, the eastern Pis gun:
and the eastern coastal COUNT ..,..
Unfavorable weather mas :,.r,5s
ed in the loss of conslo t. ID,
amount of tobacco because " r,s-s.
ripening and an insufficient 1 To,~.
of barn space for curlns' .ossc:,
also have damaged late '0''
crops, the report SAID oon,inr
"Hot temperatures ana 81. ' ooroFa
Gus rains have caused rapla ~ IN %
of cotton. Fruiting is no. ,II.. vi
and weevil lfle' .r,cr.
is causing a great af%le!! ~, a. ,rcp
farmers. The condition Oh W ~ otsi
is reported as fair t' s00 ooo+c't
the State. However the ,ood
for late cotton is not so s III
Feed prospects for llVes, .d a, .
report said, have impfo.er,di-io1i
-esult of better pasture e0'
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-08-10
BY WILLIAM B. KING
for Kenneth L.Dix0n)

SUBSTITUTING IOT AcuHCtu A.DAAOU
ZAGREB, Yugoslavia, lA -
1--WE wish that we could see our
Americans again. Can you tell US
if they got home all right?"
TIL a observation from several
sides in Zagreb proves once more
that American soldiers have an ir-
resistible way about them - even
when they are prisoners of war.
1t was last March 81 when a
group of American prisoners-all
airnen who had been forced to
bail out in the area-were brought
to Zagreb by the Ustachi militia
of the Quisling Croat state). They
were housed in barracks on a cor
ner of the old family estate of
Baroness Vera Nikolic, ne r
Zagreb.
When I heard that the prison
ers were Americans, l got terri
bly, excited" the Baroness said.
Il Immediately started trying to
figure out how I could help them
without arousing the suspicious Of
the Ustachi."
The Baroness, a charming mid
dle-aged woman whose title dates
back to the Austro-Hungarian en-
pire and doesn't mean much these
days, set to work BY feigning in
difference and making her desires
look like suggestions from the au-
thorities, she got permission for
the men to work in her fields
and vineyards and to attend mass
in her chapel
The Ustachi didn't know, but it
was just a short step from there
to setting up volley ball court
and having a tennis tournament
on the estates courts.
The tennis tournament, incident
ally, was won by Flight Officer
Frank Ryan of Summerville, N. j.,
who defeated an enlisted man,
William R. Grace, Jr., Brooklyn,
N. Y. in the finals. The volley
ball was usually between teams CT
officers and enlisted men. The Of
ficers started a winning streak
they maintained throughout the
imprisonment.
1st 1t. Paul Harden of Parson,
Kas, was commanding officer of
the prison unit. He had his hands
full in the final days when Zagreb
was falling to the attacking parti-
sans of Marshal Titos army and
confusion was the order of the day.
At his right hand during those
difficult days was the Rev. An
thony Ora Theodore) Benkovic, a
member of the Franciscan Order
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-08-10
Justice Roberts Successor

President Truman faces the difficult task of
selecting a successor for Associate Justice
Owen Roberts of the United States Supreme
Court, who has retired. One of the elig bles
mentioned in news dispatches is Senator Aus
tin, Vermont republican, who has the endorse
ment of Senator Hatch, staunch New Mexico
democrat.
AS Justice Roberts was one of the two re-
publican members Of the court, Chief Justice
Harlan F. Stone being the other, it would
be a fitting gesture to the opposition for the
democratic President, Mr.. Truman, to name
a republican, whether Senator Austin or an
other, to fill the vacancy.
AS it is now constituted, the Supreme Court
is top-heavy with democrats. It was Presi-
dent Roosevelt's habit to replace retiring re-
publican members with democrats, chiefly of
the new deal variety
The former President, who abhored opposf-
ton, did what he could to have a Supreme
Court that would be most likely to back legis-
lation he either initiated or endorsed if it's
constitrtionality was subjected to test before
the nations court of last resort. Although
President Truman pledged his administration
to cleave closely to the line hewed by Mr..
Roosevelt as to major policies, he has dis
played high sense of personal responsibility
in other matters. This has been demonstrated
by his requirements in the Cabinet and the
other appointments he has made since he sue
ceeded to the presidency.
1t is right, then, to think that he will con.
tinue to select men of established ability tc
fill appointive federal vacancies, without his
predecessors regard for the appointee's pc
litical support, even if he wants to be elected
to the high office he now holds when the
nation next votes for a president. Because O
his demonstrated "Reminiscences, it is prob
able that Justice Roberts successor will b.
republican. 1t is as far as Mr.. Truman
can now 50 to restore approximate balance
N, the Supreme Court.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-08-10
Building Code Groupe
Appointed By Cherry

RALEIGH, Aug. 9.-(P)-Gover-
nor Cherry yesterday appointed a
six-member state building code
council, for terms of five years.
The members are:
Walter W. Hook of Charlotte,
representing state architects; Rob-
ert H. Pink of Gastonia, repre-
senting general contractors; Ross
Shumaker of Raleigh, structural
engineers; j. w. War; of Hamlet,
Plumbing and heating contractors;
and Hill L. Kiser, of Charlotte,
representing organized labor.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-08-10
RI Tire Certificates
Expire Next Wednesday

All RI tire certificates (the ones
that do not have the blue stripe
down the center) will expire on
August IS, officials OF the local
War Price and Rationing board
announced yesterday.
Consumers who are now holding
these certificates should use them
before the date mentioned above
as it may not be possible to re-
place them la ers officials said.
Dealers will have until August 81
to forward parts 3 to suppliers.
Certificates issued on RIA,
identified with a blue stripe down
the center, are valid indefinitely.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-08-10
Editorial Comment
BACK TO PRE-PULLMAN.

Something new under the moon and at the
same time direct throwback to the era be-
fore George Pullman first put berths in
the Chicago and Atoms car Pioneer and
evolved the first sleeper, is the New
Haven's conversion of it's old familiar Shore
Line Owl, on the New York-to-Boston run,
into an overnight all-Pullman parlor car
train. The requisition Of sleeping Pullnans for
the military in the momentary transport short
age has stumped many roads with overnight
runs of less than $50 a dominant part of their
traffic, but not the New Haven. A surplus of
day Pullmans formerly useless by night, are
at its disposal, and it has shown native Yankee
ingenuity in putting them to use. In addition
to this, diners previously dead-headed at night
to various points of requsition have been in
corporated in the consist to give the cd
familiar Owl vague atmosphere of hurrah
and all-night adventures on the rais.-New
York Eerald Tribune.
with proper industry and plenty of hard work,
ooutn Mlsslsslppians can provide themselves
ana heip provide the markets with the articles
10, ,oi "h,ch the nation is crying aloud-Laurel
Miss. Leader-Call