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Henderson daily dispatch., 1945-09-01

PIANOS-GET YOUR PIANO BE
fore the iaiI rush. Just been tuned
and repaired. Guaranteed to give
satisfaction. Come look them over.
j. R. Collins, phone 37I2, near
EPSON. 3l-2tI
Henderson daily dispatch., 1945-09-01

YOU MAY BE A CAREFUh
Driver, but you don't control
all the cars and pedestrians
you pass. You may be lnVon,
ed in a serious accident any
time. Let us protect you WIN
sound automobile insurance
at a saving. Pinnell lnsuf.
ance Agency, telephone 2o ao "
1921. 0V'.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1945-09-01

WANTED TO BUY PLYMOUTH
sedan &c 10 10 model comp.e.,
with the exception OF motor and
tires. G. +. Stevenson. Route ,,
Henderson. near CokeSbury. 3l-liI
Henderson daily dispatch., 1945-09-01

or part time. Apply at PHR
Grade Shops. 3l-2t.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1945-09-01

KEEP FRESH - USE OUR PER-
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81 d. NJ Woalards. 28-l0ti
Henderson daily dispatch., 1945-09-01

MER UN-RATIONED
sandals by the hundreds, re-
duced for immediate clear
ance to Sl.99. See them now.
Webb'S Henderson Shoe
Store. 2S-3ti
Henderson daily dispatch., 1945-09-01

HENDERSON BUSINESS COL
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VIII tell you that thorough yusi-
ness training is sound investment
little cost and sure returns. %
Henderson daily dispatch., 1945-09-01
WANT ADS
Get Results

PROTECT YOUR TARTr =
new glass cut any size for 'op W.
tops. Edges beveled and NO Dar. .asIs
Auto glass plain or safety Po''s'ea
installed; A. X. Perry C ~ ana
a..
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-14
Little Damage

recent train companion explained that he
was enjoying leave to visit his family because
the Japanese in one Of the Philippine engage
ments dropped two bombs on the carrier to
which he was assigned and it had to be dry
docked for repairs to the electrical system.
The bombs, he explained, though direct hits,
did little damage.
With the great good fortune of the crew. the
episode raises several natural questions. Are
JaI anese bombs of inferior quality? Is United
States ship construction so far above average
that direct bomb hits are incapable of des-
troying their targets? Or are bombs general
ly unable to create great havoc when the tar
get has extraordinary structural strength?
Whatever the answers may be-, this car
riers survival in part explains why the jap
anese air force has been impotent in its at
tempts to stem the tide Of American victories.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-14
March And Its Tantrums

With cooler weather in sight, New Hanover
farmers are feeling deep anxiety for their
CROPS. particularly lettuce which has bean
widely planted and up to Sunday was growing
snlendidlv. A cold spell now, with touch OF
frost. would do rreparable damage and prop
ably require replanting.
And there is as deep anxiety among the
civilian population over the threat to BIOS
soming trees. Pears, peaches, redbud are at
+h.ir magnificent best with dog wood budding.
il single nights frost could turn their rlo' OIL
color into drabness.
There is nothing the weatherman can do
about it. Almost invariably March goes into
tantrum and the prospect is that this March
will follow the usual pattern.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-14
BY w. G. ROGERS
"American Chronicle: The Au-
photography of Ray Stannard
poker'' (Scrihner'S. S2.5(l


Autobiographies are apt to be
cradle-to-grave stories, starting jr
diapers and ending in dotage or, as
it has been called, anecdotage.
Bakers is welcome exception
His book opens with his first lob
and stop with his most recent
one. 1t has form and purpose. IT.
compact despite its 500 pages, it's
sincere and unaffected, it has a
wealth of interesting information.
it's well written, it's timely. It's
not a great book but it's an i'm
pcrtant one.
The author, who lives in AM
horst, Mass, began his career re-
porting for the Chicago Record.
for which he covered among
other events the march of Coxey's
Army in 1894. A few years later
he was one of the group, includ-
ing Lincoln Steffens and Ida M.
Tarbell, whom Theodore Roose-
Welt blasted as muckrackers.
He imagined fondly, like half
our newsmen, that he was collect
ing the material for his great
novel," but he never
got around to writing it. Instead,
Under the name Of David Gray
son, he produced Adventures in
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-14
Strange Conditions

War and especially the administration OF
dom sstic affairs during wars create strange
condit ons.
Time was when bacon was the poor mans
ste pie and porterhouse steak the tycoons IA
vored fare. Now the poor man may buy steak
at few ration points per pound and not even
the richest can keep bacon in his pantry.
There are other oddities-many Of them
but this comparison serves the present pur-
pose which is to ask in all humility if the
dispensing agencies operating war emer-
gency bureaus really know what they are do
ing or why they doing it.
It's little late to revive an old suggestion,
but it might help even now to place at the head
of these bureaus men whose training and
perience has been in the business to be reg
ulated, regardless of their political affiliations
or assistance in making fourth term pos
sible.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-14
WASHINGTON CALLING
by
MARQUIS CH1LDs

behavior of Soviet troops when they
enter a 'liberated' city. You see
no drunkenness, no disorder. The
conduct of the Russians toward the
women of local population is said
to be exemplary. And no special
favors are shown to any section of
the population. All must accept
their common fate.
In the Balkans, at least, Soviet
troops make use of an extraordin-
airy amount of horse-draWn trans
portation. They likewise make the
fullest use of captured German
vehicles, and conspicuous in their
conveys are American trucks.
The chief cities held by the Rus
slams thus far are Sofia, Bucha-
rest and Budapest. American Of
ficers have participated in the
Joint Allied control of Sofia and
Bucharest, but the real authority
is welded by the Soviets, who took
these cities.
Foreign newspaper correSpon-
dents have been allowed in Bucha-
rest for only limited time, and
not at all in Sofia. So far as l have
been able to determine, only one
Allied officer - an American col
onel-has ever visited Budapest
since the siege and capitulation.
Others have wanted to go, as have
,oanv newspaper cOrrespOndentS
but the way has not been opened by
the Russians.
saw many Russian soldiers and
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-14
interpreting
The War
BY KIRKE L. SIMPSON
Associated Press War ,n on

russian capture of the Kuo....
east-Dank redoubt on the os.
tends to confirm Nazi broa6css.
reporting that the battle of Be~r.'
has been opened. They said nia'
or more Soviet divisions aIro.a'.
are across the river between w.,
point and Frankfurt, southern ~
chorage Of the critical sector nj ~.
German Oder-Neisse defense fron'
Moscow as usual withheld oftio;
al information beyond annonno ,'
ment of the seizure of Kuastr;.
but the time factor as well as A.
virtual Russian cleanup in po ,,.e
eranla warrant the belief that Mar
shall Zhukov's First Ukrainian A.
my again is in motion westwara
There have been no recent ~
ports from the East Front y,
weather conditions. 1t seems row
tain, however, that spring thsT,
starting in the Rhine Valley IN
the west are also about due in tho
Oder watershed. The run-off of III.
southeastern Sudetens and tbs
whole Oder Valley passes down
that river to the sea. Its immi.
hence is an added reason for as.
suming that the Russians are Al.
ready attempting to hurdle tbo
Oder barrier before spring flood
conditions.
The situation on the Rhine also
invites launching the long awaited
Russian attack to invest and take
or bypass Berlin. With Allied
troops over the Rhine via the Re.
magen crossing, expanding their
bridgehead, and also lined up along
the west bank of the river from
Coblenz to Emmerich, it is obvious
that no help can come from that
front to bolster the eastern de.
lenses. 1t also seems certain that
as the Russian steam-roller gets
into motion, the eastern attack
front is destined to expand both
north and south from the middle
Oder sector nearest Berlin and
ultimately reach from the Sudeten
foothills east of Dresden TO the
Oder estuary at Stettin, already
under Red Army siege fire.
The final two-front Russian,al.
lied squeeze is beginning to take
shape. Staff interchanges make
possible a tactical as well as a
strategic coordination destined 10
become constantly closer.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-14
Welcome General Usher

Wilmington extends welcoming hand to
Brig. Gen. George L. Usher, who has taken
over command at Camp Davis, succeeding
Maj. Donald S. Joyce.
General Usher is among the distinguished
group to rise to high posts from the ranks He
started as private in the New York National
Guard, field artillery branch. He served under
Pershing in Mexivo, in 1916. In the former
World War he saw service in France as OBJ
server and pilot in the air force. ..
Before coming to Camp Davis, General Ush-
er was commanding officer of the personnel
distribution command at Atlantic City, follow.
ing duty in the south Pacific, in command OF
the 18th Air Force.
It has been Wilrnington's good fortune to
have officers Of outstanding merit in command
at Camp Davis-men whose attributes inva.
tiably included deep interest in the commu.
nity's affairs as well as their military assign.
ments. Even though the Camp has entered a
different service of late its relations with Will
mington and the friendship between the camp
command and the city's civic groups will be
as close as when thousands Of recruits were
training there.
General Usher will find the people of Will
mington hospitable, ready and anxious to CO.
,erate with him in all projects planned fol
the comfort and aid Of the men now to be
stationed at the Camp.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-14
The Red Cross

With March the national Red Cross month
and fund campaign to be conducted here
shortly, the opinion held by leading news
paper on the organization and its accomplish
ment during the war emergency deserves to
be pondered
On Monday the New York Times had this
to say:
IF the Army is able to report that more
lives are saved at the front in this war than
any in history it is largely because the Red
Cross supplies plasma collected at centers
scattered all over the country. If prisoners of
war are able to exchange messages with their
relatives and friends at home and to receive
packages of necessities denied them by their
captors. it is because the Red Cross serves
as an Intermediary. If soldiers and sailors
enjoy few Of the luxuries that cannot be pro-
vided by commissaries, it is because the Red
Cross maintains it's own establishments at the
front. Citizens know all this, for which reason
they may be counted upon to contribute to
the fund now being raised. Contributions made
to the Red Cross stand second in importance
only to those made for war bonds. And the
return lS-Whdt! NOt interest on an invest.
ment, but the immense satisfaction that a
fighting mans life has either been saved or
made a little easier and that an informed
friend has been, given new hope and courage.
1.-The activity of the Red Cross is one OF
the few bright spots in this most ruthless OF
all wars When the men return from the front
to their jobs they will try to forget the mud,
the dirt, the hardship, the screaming bombs
and whistling shells. But not one of them will
want to forget the blood that was donated al
Red Cross centers and the packages that were
sent through the Red Cross. We have been ad
monished to buy war bonds until it hurts. tt
that we may add the admontion to give to the
Red Cross because of the JOY that comes from
the giving. voluntary tax, self-levied in thu
cause of nercy-there is no tax like this"
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-14
Daily Prayer
FOR PRAYERFUL HEARTS

L O1t IVA L LINZ - ~ AAHIhN1H
Lord teach up to pray" we cry
with Christ's disciples Of old. Our
hearts turn GodWard, in the midst
of the worlds turmoil, because
they have nowhere else to turn,
We ask Thee to show us how 10
phrase our prayers; and what to
seek. Along with our personal Pc
titions for safety of our loved ones,
who are nearer to Thy heart than
to ours, we would pray for our
allies, and for our enemies and
for all victims of this worldwide
war. We pray for the coming Of
Thy Kingdom, wherein alone IS
true peace; for a new spiritual
understanding on the part OF all
men everywhere. Keep aglow IN
our hearts the flame OF faith;
though He STAY me, yet Will !
trust Him" So, girded by child.
like confidence in Thee, our Father
may we 60 with steadfast hearts
to our daily tasks, leaving no duty
undone or poorly performed. And
grant US, O grant US, dear LORD, an
.ever-refeshed love. of Thee and
of Thy Son, our Saviour, VINO
taught us how to die to make men
free Amen w. T. F..
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-14

ROME-Wlth thu Balkan war
just next door, the relationship be-
tween the British and Americans on
one hand and the Russians on the
other is closer here than it is at any
other point. This inevitably sharp
ems the contrast between the way
in which the Russians fight the war
and the way in which we fight it.
The reaction of American and
British officers to those differences
has interested me as much as any
thing else in this theater of operat-
ions. They are well aware that the
Russian war is different from ours
Many of them express respect,
which is sometimes tinged with en-
Wy, for the Russian way of war. AT
the same time, they recognize that,
given our standards of living and
our concern for the welfare and
lives of individuals, we could not
approximate the Soviets' simplified
approach.
For example, Russian officers
are required to do almost no paper
work in connection with the records
Of individual men. An Allied Off.
Ger asked a Russian officer how
the next of kin were notified when
a Russian soldier was killed. He
was told that there was no notif1-
cation-that if an individual failed
to return home, then he was pre-
sumed to be dead.
One explanation for the Russi-
ans reluctance to allow American
officers into areas they control in
the Balkans is their sensitivity over
the contrast between the standards
OF living of the respective armies.
If we permitted you to come up
to our front, we should have to pro-
vide a special cook" a Russian
general told British general.
Soviet troops live simply and
they often live off the country.
Their food is of the plainest sort.
however, vodka is provided in
sufficient quantities.
Often, simple Russian techni-
ques that require little or no equip
ment prove more efficacious than
the abundance of supplies made
available to the Americans. For ex-
ample, there was less frostbite on
the Russian front during the winter
than on the Western Front because
the Russians adopted a system of
reciprocal foot massage. Failure to
obey instructions met with severe
penalties. You massage my feet
and, in turn, massage yours. I'll
get frostbite, it means you have
been remiss and dire things will
happen to you.
When the Russians come into a
country. they are not concerned
with what they can do for the civil
nan population. The emphasis, in
stead, is on what the local popula-
s1on can provide for the troops. |
mat is specifically stated in the
treaty with conquered people.
British and Americans responsible
Tor the welfare of Italians Shake
their head in envy and wonder at
russian forthrightness.
everyone with whom have talk
Cd agrees on the correctness of the
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-14
The Literary Guidepost

contentment'' and other books "
homely wisdom. ,ho
He leads you to suspect 'iIa 4 ="
believes in Grayson more 'i- 'n
in Baker, yet it seems TO me vi w,
deniable that he will last l0A8es
as the ultimate authority "
Woodrow Wilson. .;.,
Baker spent 81 years "Ll la4,
about the World War l PreSl"e,,'
and editing his papers; TINS co4 tar
try is deeply in debt to BaN7l ~, y,
that Job well onde. He says
Wilson: II did not love him."
1 believed and trusted IN HIM
beyond any other man, s,.
He paints one unforget'a1.D,..
scene. Wilson has fallen Ill LIN
''stooped, gray faced, "n..
haired old man," shutting al0hs
with a cane, one side OF his 0ou. .
dropping, entered White Hou ~.
parlor for the first showing o. ' =.
film which recorded his vlSiS'
Europe, when he was N tl ~.
health, with the Allied world al Il"
feet.
But Baker has a sharp tohS'.
He writes of the Senate LeaSu'
foes return to the failing FREE"
dent of the actual copy OF wv
rejected treaty: Il here eHple's
my deliberate opinion that this wa
one of the cruelest, most deSpl'p
BILE acts ever committed in AMER
can politics"
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-14
Worse To Come

Admiral Nirnitz interviewed by the press at
Gan Francisco following launching exercises
II which his daughter was sponsor OIL
fered testimony that clearly shows the Alnes
have their greatest job ahead in the PACING
~ zoo,.rad the Japanese Army is still 80 per
cent intact.
The Navy of the Yellow Peril is no longer
menace and what is left of it will come OUT
and fight only under the greatest pressure
But when the war in Europe IS ended the ma
tions arrayed against the Axis must employ
their greatest strength to finish off the jap
anese ground forces in Asia.
Thus Admiral Nirnitz spoke to the reporters
We at home who have followed General Mac
Arthur's difficult progress from Australia to the
Philippines and noted the tens OF thousands OF
Japanese slain en- route read his words with
amazement. Yet, if we but took time to re-
member the millions of soldiers Tokyo has IN
Manchukuo and in China, all for the most
part well trained and fully armed, we would
realize the Admiral is right in his estimate
and dstressingly correct in his forecast
lied ground forces in the Orient can compare
with the battles that lie ahead in Asia. Only
the combined land, sea and air power Of the
United Nations can be successful in cutting
japan off from her tremendous sources of
supply on the As.atic mainland, and until these
sources are destroyed or conquered an Allied
,,ictory in the Pacific will be impossible.
The hopeful note in Admiral Ninitz' inter-
view is that the time has almost arrived for
supply line to the Dutch East Indies and,
though he did not mention it specifically,
French Indo- China. When this is done Japan
will find itself in position closely resembling
that OF Germany when the American and
British air forces began to disrupt commune
cations and war production in the Reich
The pattern of the campaign ahead in the
Pacific theater takes shape in the light of Ad-
miral Minitz's declaration in San Francisco.
AS preparations 60 forward for an Allied in
vasion Of China, the Navy is getting ready to
strike mighty blow at the more southerly
territory conquered in the early sweep of Jap.
anese forces when neither the United States
nor Britain was capable of hitting back.
1t may well be that forces under Lord
Mountbatten, which have made their presence
felt, though belatedly, in the Burma area will
then be ready to take a hand in the major
fighting, but it is doubtful if the British Navy
can offer great assistance, not because Brit
ain i not geared for the contest mentally, but
because it lacks craft of the speed and ar
mament required.
The British Navy for the most part was
built for home protection, not for the type of
fighting this war has developed and could not
put into action a single task force comparable
with the forces of the United States which have
gone so far in destroying the japanese Navy
and shipping. 1t is reported that some Of
Britain's battleships make no more than ten
to twelve knots per hour. In the closing naval
phase Of the war against Japan naval speed
will be an essential factor Of success, just as
it has been in the repeated successes against
the enemy at sea.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-14
Your War; With Ernie Pyle

wanted to say hello. His name is
John D. Gee. He lives at ITO East
Silver, and had been a postal clerk
in Albuquerque for Is years. Over
here he is in charge of the post
office for his battalion.
1 think he must be typical of the
craftsmanship and the sincerity of
the Seabees. He is a. years old,
and has a wife and 14-year-old
boy back home, and wouldn't have
to be in the war at all. But here
he is.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-14
BY ERNIE PYLE


IN THE MARIANAS ISLANDS,
(delayed)-On one of these islands
the other day, 1 finally got around
to getting a month-overdue hair
cut
My barber was a soldier, bar
boring in tent, and l sat in an
old-fa shioned black leather Japa-
nese barber chair he had dug up
on the island.
He had been trained in the con-
versational school of barbering, and
as the shipped gray locks fell about
my shoulders, there came forth
from MIN such tale of woe and
unkind fate as have never heard
in this world.
This barber was Pfc Fades
Thomas, from Richmond, KY, near
Lexington in the horse country. In
fact Thomas was a horse-trainer
before the war, and was never
barber at ALL He just picked that
up on the run somewhere.
Well, Thomas has been in the
Pacific 33 months. 1t began to look
as though he might as well count
on settling down for life, so some
months ago he married a Scottish
girl in Honolulu. Shortly after that
he was shipped on out here, and
he hasn't seen her since.
The morning of the day that I
sat in Thomas barber chair, the
Army was sending few japanese
prisoners back to Hawaii by air.
plane. They had to have guards
for them. So one of Thomas Of
ficers told him he would put him
down for the trip, and thus he
could get couple of days in Ha-
waii to see his wife
The officer meant to keep his
word, but he had bad memory
for names. So when he went to
write down Thomas name for the
trip, he actually wrote another
guys name, thinking it was Thorn
as By the time Thomas found it
out, it was too late.
Il could have cried,' he said.
And I could have too. felt so ter
rible about it 1 couldn't get it off
my mind, and was telling it to an
officer that evening.
"Oh," ne said. Il happen to know
about that. I'll 60 and tell Thomas
right away and he wort feel so
bad. We got orders not to send
the prisoners after all, so the whole
thing was called off. Nobody went. "
Which is the kind of joy you get
when you stop hitting yourself on
the head with the hammer, but at
least it's better than if you kept
on hitting it.
On that same island 1 ran into
a couple Ct old Hoosier boys, who
had followed in my inglorious foot
steps at Indiana University.
One was Lieut.. Ed Rose, who
was editor of 1.-The Daily Student"
in 1888, Just as I was for while
in 1922. Apparently it doesn't make
anv difference what year you were
editor of 1.-The Student, you still
wind up in the Marianas Islands. |
The other was Lieut.. Bill Nor
Y-ic from A1lQSl SOl1, ill.,, WIN GRAD |
lated from our illustrious alma |
water in 1912. Both the boys are
mail censors out here. Life is kind |
enough to them, and they haven't
,o,,ch to kick about
49, Inst as was leaving, they came
and thrust package into my
hands, and said would I accept a
1 it gift from the two of them?
IT, was dark poisonous liquid
with W which you're probably not IA
n,i1iar but one which is much
sn,,oht after out here.
fellow does feel like a heel ac-
oon+;ng bountiful gifts from stran.
cas- But figure I've been a heel
e. long time and it's too late to
n ro4 now, so I grabbed the gift
nd fled before they could change
their the, minds Thanks again, boys.
It'll be several weeks before H.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-14

get around to doing some columns
on the fabulous Seabees, but do
keep running into them on my
meanderings about these islands.
The other day one of them came
in to see me. He was obviously in
his forties, and very diffident and
shy, and so polite couldn't get
him to sit down. He had on the
green work clothes the Seabees
wear over there.
The reason he came was that
he lives in Albuquerque, and Just,
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-14
TOP O. THE MORNING

Our secret yearnings for the gooo' inc
true and the beautiful are not doomed u
disappointment, but destined TO gioriouS
realization. To be sure OF ultimately ue-
coming the best We can conceive OF Ut
sire is to be blessed.
From "The Upper Room"