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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-11
A Break For The Home Eater

Most Americans eat at home most Of the
time. and the OPA has finally taken cognlz-
ance of that fact. In consequence the agency
is going to "recalr' surplus food stocks OF
restaurants, hotels and Institutions, made
known through inventory figures, by deduct
ing points Of pounds from these establish
ments' rations.
Since general rationing came into effect,
one of its principal inequities has been the
fact that person could get most scarce food
stuffs in hotel or restaurant which were un-
obtainable by the home shopper, provided
only he were willing to pay the prices asked.
This has been more generally true in the larg
C.: cities, partially so in the case Of meat.
We realize that the .proprietors Of eating
places have plenty Of headaches these days
But we don't think that boarding by business
establishment or institution is any more com.
mendable than by housewife.
And we don't think that these establishments
will suffer unduly by going on more Of day
to-day basis like the rest Of us home eaters.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-11
A Mighty Ship

Nobody probably will innaortaAze later
Old rr6n.;de. a. the first was enshr1ned IN
verse. but there is no good reason 1t snou1o
not be- The battleship Oregon PERFORMED -
heroically and gloriously at Santiago as hao
the ship that inspired Holmes poem ana no"
it is consideed to the waters around GuaIn'
ineligible for further action against an enel'is.
Early in 1898, the Oregon was IN dryoocK at
Esquimalt the newly established naval STA
in Puget sound, for the customary overhaul
after tour of duty. Fleet craft was taken
from regular runs to Sound towns that visitors
might see and exclain in wonder at her tur-
refs Of great guns and new electrical devices
TO the Oregon representa- the finest n
greatest naval construction up to that tme
From Esquimalt she proceeded to San FRAN
cisco to take part in some naval }dennonstra'
ton designed to increase recruiting. wnlle
there she received orders to proceed at Top
speed to join the fleet in Cuban waters COM
manded by Admiral Sampson There has been
some talk of this order reaching the Oregon
at Montevidio, but Californians who never will
ingly let any advantage escape them cling to
the report that Captain Clark Of the Oregon
received the historic order while at anchor in
San Francisco bay.
However this may be, Captain Clark put on
burst of speed and arrived in time to help
drive the Spanish fleet ashore when it made
it's break for freedom, Admiral Sampson being
far away on his flagship when the engagement
took place.
Now the Oregon, known as the glamour ship
of the Spanish-American war, has been sent
into the far Pacific to die. It was to have
been used in building a mighty breakwater
for Guam, but was found to be too decreit for
this purpose and was sent into an inlet blasted
through coral reef at an island base
To the end she remained a glamour ship, for
on her final voyage she bore cargo OF 400
tons of dynamite, which many persons sup
posedly in the know declared was to tow into
Tokyo harbor and exploded The rumor was
false. The dynamite was unloaded and the
Oregon awaits the end in peace not beside
but within the still waters Of a far Pacific
inlet And no poet has been raised up to
sing her praise.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-11
Still Up To Taxpayers

While it Is stimulating news that the gov
eminent proposes to provide jobs for as many
service men upon their rehabilitation ra-
pdily as possible, Arthur S. Flemming, head
Of the United States Civil Service Commission,
in broadcast beamed to our fighting forces
abroad, lets it be known that the jobs will
be under government supervision and paid out
of government funds.
Mr.. Flemming said that 100000 Of the g..
300, 900 persons now working for the govern
ment hold temporary appointments, which
may be terminated within six months after
the war, and pledged that the federal govern
ment will start to fill them on a permanent
basis only when most veterans have been de-
modified and are able to compete for them
He further pledged that the government will
make special efforts to place partially dis
abled veteran in federal jobs.
Aside from the paternalism indicated In the
above, in accordance with the growing dis.
position Of government of supervise even
regulate individual lives, the plan outlined
by Mr.. Flemming clearly indicates that Amer
lean taxpayers have no reason to hope Tor
any substantial relief from the burden they
have carried SO long for federal payrolls but
must go on putting out money to meet them
for an indefinite period after the war is over.
1t had been the well-nigh universal hope
that extraordinary federal payrolls would fade
out with the passing Of the war emergency
and taxpayers be saved the outlay they rep
present, although 1t be but a small part of
the governments gross waste, and that the
government would devote the major job-find-
ing program for returning veterans to private
industry and business. Mr.. Flemming knocks
that aspiration higher than a cooked hat with
a declaration he obviously hoped would be
swallowed without question.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-11
Incredible But Inevitable

:. Desnite some setbacks, Allied victories that
have taken them over the Rhine since the
Normandy landings have been almost incredi-
BILE. They landed against supposedly impreg-
nable Notifications, through the surf on
:. strong1v held beaches. They didn't even have
flharbors
It is not strange that Premier Churchill,
:lstepping on German soil after the bitter years
/: of Illustration and waiting, pulled that cigar
with immense satisfaction. The impossible
.had been achieved The Allies had gone
through France and Belgium, parts OF Hol-
land. They had pushed back strong invader
: who had years to make himself unbeatable.
But he was beaten He is practically beaten.
He runs, retreats, falls back from these men
i'who landed with only their hands and what
they carried on their backs.
i. Yet they had something more. They car
ried with them the iron determination to crush
this Thing that thought free men would bow
i the neck and bend the knee. They wouldn't
do that for anybody. Especially the wouldn't
do that for an inferior.
Yes, they had more than what they car
ried on their backs. They carried something
In their hearts, something indestructible, ir-
J resistibe. It could not be- blasted out Of them
, They were born with it and many Of them
lied with it but those left alive moved or
with 1t. What can stand against that?
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-11
How's Your Conscience

:. When call for funds arises, the response
e slow at times; the drive may lag. One
admits to himself that the cause is good but
somehow he thinks the call is sounded Tor
somebody else.
Rut the Red Cross means you. It's your
Red Cross working for your own people.
There are no side issues, no wondering about
where the money goes. 1t goes to help help
less people, including Americans held as prls-
oners Of war.
There's no sidestepping this appeal. 1t Is
:sdirected personally at you, at all OF us. There
SHOULD be no exemptions. Hows your con-
;'science today?
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-11

lent artillery bombardment Of the
enemy positions.
On Wednesday, the American
Third Army drove to the Rhine
in a spectacular break-through
north of Coblenz, threatening to
trap tens of thousands of Germans
in the Rhine Moselle triangle.
More than 1,15O American heavy
bombers and fighters. attacked
railway and oil targets in the
Ruhr. The Red Army gained con-
troll of the Oder estuary and closed
in from three sides on Stettin. The
Marines on Two pressed a general
offensive against the Japanese,
making gains of up to 300 yards.
Chinese forces in Burma captured
Lashio.
On Thursday, it was disclosed
that the American Third Army had
crossed the Rhine south of Cologne
and established a bridgehead over
which reinforcements were pour
ing. To the south, American troops
seized half of Bonn and adjacent
Bad Gotesberg. early 1,700
American planes attacked oil and
railway target the Ruhr after
a 1,250-plane Raj night raid on
Berlin and other detectives. Ber-
lin reported the Russians had es-
tablished a bridgehead across the
Oder and driven to within Is miles
of the capital. The Russians made
further sweeping gains toward the
Baltic. The Marines on Two drove
to the central plateau overlooking
the beaches at the northern end
of the island. British Indian troops
AL a.aL Aha.L.la.. l.. p,,.,,,a
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-11
Rail Head Denounces i.
Stockholders At hlpN

NEW YORK, March l No. q.
Matthew S. Sloan, preSiu.vss NJ
chairman of the board o. III. ad IL
souri-Kansas-Texas ralllOsI n u
clared today that the group on~oo.d
ami, Fla, stockholders . :sss15
tn his administration ID ~.
control OF the Katy Sys.S"
their own selfish purpose arm, t'
In a statement issued ta, l IL
office here Sloan delei ~ H.
homogeneous handing e., o. dsra'
finances, and asserted II tas rtests u
the past two and one nal a1 fixed y
road has reduced annual msn 81
terest charges by more
8O0.00O
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-11

hasn't helped. ALI the doctors In the eco
noroic scheme have been called in, all pre-
scribe and the patient becomes worse. It's
naystitying fever. defying diagnosis and treat
|ment.
The patient shouldn't be sick, but he IS.
"A little rest and little care" and three
spoonfuls Of this three times day and che
will be all right" But he doesn't get all
right.
It's q craze, like the chain letter was, or
the yo-yo foolishness. It is beyond reason
but It continues. Argument makes 1t worse.
Some day America will wake up, throw this
strikitis in the garbage can and wonder what
|obsessed it.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-11
It's Their World, Too

More than million girls and women in
green uniforms remind America this week
hat Girl Scouting builds world friendship.
Always world-minded, the Girls Scouts Of Viii
nington and New Hanover county are cele-
brating, on March IL, the thirty-third birth
day Of Scouting III the United States, by
showing how girls can prepare for the re-
sponsibiites of world citizenship.
Nations have not yet found a way to live
together in peace. Tomorrow's citizens must
do more than express pious hope for peace.
They must know something Of the attitudes
and problems Of other countries-the hazards
that lie in the path Of international friendship.
The Girl Scouts Of the United States are
members of the World Association of Girl
Guides and Girl Scouts. Wherever the armies
OF liberation 60, Scouting, which went under.
ground with other democratic movements dur
ing enemy occupation, is springing up again
Through the news and personal CORRESPOND
ence OF this worldwide sisterhood, through
world meetings and hemisphere meetings
through day-by-day awareness Of the inter
national significance Of all they do, Girl Scouts
build background Of knowledge and under
standing for the day when their votes will
decide issues of peace and war.
Every thoughtful American will wish thu
Girl Scouts success in their program of build
Ing international friendship. tangible wa,
to help is to make Girl Scouting available t
all the girls who want to be Scouts but VIII,
lack leaders, sponsorship, or meeting places
Does your club or church sponsor or find lead
ers for potential Girl Scouts? If not tn
Girl Scout office in the Tide Water building
can explain how you can begin building bet
ter citizens through Girl Scouting-now
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-11
ACCEPTED

PHILADELPHIA, March 1o-tP)
"A 5o-year-old father of nine chill.
oren, expecting a tenth, said to-
gay ne has been accepted by the
Army for limited military service.
henry J. Huston, hosiery knitter,
was examined yesterday at the in
ductlon station after being CLASH
1led from "a to la when he elect
ed to remain in his $40 to $50 a
week job rather than switch to
war work at lower wages.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-11
Allies Smashing of Rhine Barrier;
Reds Gains Mark Weekly War News

On Friday, American forces
steadily enlarged their Remagen
bridgehead. The First and Third
Armies Joined west Of the Rhine
between Remagen and Coblenz,
sealing off five to six German di-
visions. To the north, American
heavy artillery began blasting the
heart of the vital Ruhrbasin. It
was disclosed that a new Ameri-
can Army, the 18th, was at the
front. More than 1,400 American
heavy bombers and fighters blast
ed railway targets in the Reich.
The Russians drove to the out
skirts Of both Stettin and Danzig.
More than 300 Superfortresses
dropped more than 1000 tons of
bombs on Tokyo, setting fires an
area of Is square miles. The Jap
anese reported an American land
ing on Mindanao in the Philip
pines.
On Saturday, the Americans
beat off German counter-attacks
on the Remagen bridgehead and
were reported by the Paris radio
to have reached the broad mill
tary highway to the east. More
than 1850 American heavy bomb
ers and fighters struck at the rail-
way network in the Ruhr basin
leading to the German Rhine de-
lenses. erlin reported Soviet
troops w ere fighting inside Alt
dam. across from Stettin at the
mouth OF the Oder. Moscow said
Red Army forces were within
IL miles of Danzig. 1t was an
nounced that Japanese resistance
on Two was diminishing.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-11
BY JAMES d. WHITE

WASHINGTON, March 10.-(P)-
AS early as 1880 Japan spread {
smokescreen of propaganda ane
diplomatic doubletalk which ma,
have helped to disguise her inten
tons in Asia and the Pacific.
This is suggested by the release
today of State Department papers
relating to American Foreign AT
fairs in 1880, the year Of the Nava.
disarmament conference in Lon
don.
The papers show that the Japa
nese at this conference were seek.
ing to get the prevailing naval ra.
ito Q0-10-6 for America, Britain
and Japan set by the Washington
Naval Treaty in 1922; revised to
lO-l0-7. japanese naval experts
told American naval attaches ir
Tokyo that if Japan had anything
less than Z to Americas 10 in ma
val strength she would inevitably
lose any war in which the two
powers might become involved.
The theory they spread was that
in the event of war, America
would seek quick decision. be.
cause war Of attrition would use
up American merchant shippine
and lose American carrying trade
to rivals.
The American fleet, they theor.
lied, would 60 Immediately from
Pearl Harbor to Manila if wa
should be declared, and, as a
counter measure, the japanese
would intercept them with a large
fleet of submarines operating from
the Marshall and Caroline islands.
All this was reported at the time
to the State Department by Will
liam R. Castle, Jr., then Ameri-
can ambassador in Tokyo.
He further reported that Masa-
mao Hanihara, former japanese
ambassado to the United States.
had called upon him with story
about how public opinion in Japan
feared an American attack be-
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-11
YANKS TIGHTENING
RING AT VERCA70

ROME, March 10.-(UP)-ln
U. S. 10th Mountain Division 'a,
seized high ground to the east an
north to tighten their ring afoul.
Vergato, doomed fortress town III
the road from Pistoia to bolosI,'
the Allied command announced i"
day.
The Americans fought thr99 9
rugged terrain to take all Ms1
ground on the east bank Of the New n.
river to about one mile north o. wv w
stronghold. They captured w. w.,
viano, one mile to the east, yssH'
day. VA. nj.
vision troops occupied the M. IN
ground overlooking Affrico ana y"
patrols to the towns outsRlIH ,,t,,
Several clashes between h. -.sj
and German patrols were repV ~.
enemy artillery was active III w.
tered areas. a..
In the Mt. Della Torraccal, ). ~.
tor, American units discoVeisD
envy munitions. l-re
On the British Eighth .. a,
front, enemy Smelling was n n
fled west of Bagnacavallo' . ar
clashed north OF the
Bologna rail line. .a,1
"a German commulsque 90. ii.
Allied thrust on the Senlo fly ,.j =.
ed with high losses. An Alns1r ra
tempt to land on the islano s :,
sin in 1stria peninsula was '-D
ed, Berlin asserted.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-11
by United Press

The Allies in the west crashed
Germany's r h ne barrier this
week and the Russians in the east
smashed at the Oder line from its
mouth to beyond the principal
strongholds east of Berlin.
In the Pacific the battle for Two
neared its final bloody phase, with
the last of the Japanese damned
into the rocky northern tip of the
island. Tokyo was subjected to a
massive fire bomb attack which
laid waste a vast area of the cap
ital and famed around the edges
Of the imp erial palace grounds.
The Allies on the western front
were across the Rhine in consid-
cradle force after the dramatic
capture of the Remagen bridge,
and arrayed along it all the way
from Coblenz to Nijmegen in Hoi-
land. The final two-way offensive
across the Rhine and Oder was in
progress.
The Russians were cleaning up
their Baltic flank with gathering
speed but withheld information
about their movements on the
Oder front east of Berlin. Uneasy
Nazi broadcasts made it plain,
however. that the principal strong
holds of Kuestrin and Frankfurt
were tottering and that Soviet
forces already were across the
Oder around Kuestrin.
The merciless Allied aerial bonn
bardment Of the German railway
system ard oil facilities went
ahead on an almost unprecedent-
ed scale throughout the week. No
major changes occurred on the
Italian front.
Developments Of the week in
Guided:
On Sunday, the American First
Army drove to within two miles
of Cologne. The N n t h Army
reached the Rhine north Of Duis-
burg and cleared Neuss, opposite
Deusseldorf. American and British
bombers hammered targets in the
Ruhr for the goth consecutive day.
The Russians driving through
Pomerania reached the Baltic at
Koeslin and Kolberg, pocketing an
estimated 100000 Nazi troops to
the east. The Marines on Two is
land made small gains against bit
ter Japanese opposition.
On Monday, American troops en-
tered Cologne and fought toward
the center Of the city against light
German opposition. The Germans
blew up the two Rhine bridges
connecting Homberg and Duls
burg. American and British heavy
bombers made successiev attacks
on the railway yards at Chem
nitz, Saxony, in the path of the
Russian armies. The Russians
captured stargard, Naugard and
Polzin in their drive toward the
Baltic. Gen Douglas Macarthur
announced that six of the ten jap
anese divisions on Luzon have
been destroyed. Bloody fighting
continued on Two with little change
in positions. The British captured
the Meiktila airfields in central
Burma. 81,
| On Tuesday, Cologne fell to the
Americans. First Army spear
heads drove to within six miles
of Bonn and the Third Army to
within 20 of the Rhine at Coblenz.
Prime Minister Churchill, visiting
the front, said lone good strong
heave, all together should end
the war in Europe. The Russians
reached the Baltic entrance to
stettin Bay, capturing 500 more
places in their drive. The Fifth
Army in Italy seized important
heights southwest of Bologna. Vio-
lent demonstrations broke out in
Rome over the escape of Gen.
Mario Roatta, held as a leading
Fascist war criminal. The Ma
rines on Two repulsed Japanese
counter-attacks and opened a vio-
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-11
Japs' Early Smokescreen
OfPropaganda Disclosed

cause it was believed American
naval plans covered the possible
ty of war with japan to compe.
japanese acceptance Of American
ideas regarding China.
Hanihara told Castle that wal
with the United States would be
the worst possible disaster for ia
pan and Japan could never think
of it. Castle informed the depart
ment that Hanihara was obviously
acting under instructions. He said
he told Hanihara that "our aims
appropriated the japanese as
both countries wanted only Chi
ma which was substantially and po
itically sound"
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-11
New Manager Arrives
For Firestone Stores

S. L. Alexander has arrived in
Wilmington to assume the man
agership of F'irestone stores, form
erly held by J. L. Nickle who has
been transferred to the Memphis
division of firestone.
Mr.. Alexander has been located
in Memphis as merchandiser for
the Flrestone Southern division. He
IS a native Of Charlotte and was
graduated from State college in
1928.
= Mr.. and Mrs. Alexander and
daughter will reside at Harbor H.
land. .,--
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-11
Strange Malady

There's a disease that goes with war
strikitis It's like influenza in the First World
war, a malady that thrives on itself. When
one strike in war plants is ended, another
starts. Peoples tempers are short in war
fight it OUT is the slogan.
Perhaps it must run its course, as strong
fever must; burn itself out. Treatment SO far
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-11
interpreting
The War
BY KIRKE L. SIMPSON
Associated Press War 80,

wal analVSt
Crossing OF the Rhine in streng,,
by American troops to pose s IN
Allied invasion threat 10 can. On
Germany held the news SPOT ras al
this weekend but there Wars s s
velopments elsewhere. Gloon, we '
for Japan. Ill
That the Rhine functure cor,s
speed up by months the non rs'u
when the full weight of Allied nnn
er can be turned against Jsn,,'
was only one phase of the cbqngal
war scene. In bomb-burned ro,Sa
at least, the mobilization in WY Wy
ington of highest level Amewna
naval commanders in The p.cit
and with them the ,op,ranL;n.
American Army and dipIoms+;ss
figures from China could only wv
construed as ominous. Offo;.I
Washington suggestions from tLa
White House down that It wa, Nv
merely due 10 coincidence No. .'
haps a result of a spell Of ~.
flying weather over the parit.
had a tongue-in-cheek sound Tbsn
were obviously not expected or n
tended to be taken at face vain.
Something more than discusrio,
of who's going to be who anon
the American commanders wbos
the time comes for the next NV
ward step against Japan mn,,
have caused that muster of fran,
Pacific brass hats. Whatever i
was, it BODIED Japan no good
1t has been generally assumed
by most military observers fiat
the next phase of the attack an
Japan, whether it comes as a ii.
rect invasion of the japanese il.
lands themselves or Via China
was not to be expected for sons
months. Admiral Nimitz durn7
his Washington visit more Or les
confirmed that. He said wider
base of approach would be
needed than has yet been gained.
The implication is that Two lima
IS only one of several Pacific or
East China sea islands destined 10
be ripped from enemy control
Naval task forces have ALREADY
been flashing at islands Of The
Ryuku chain which forms a step.
ping stone bridge from Japan to
Formosa. That line of tiny moun.
tain tops rearing above the sea
surface also forms an outer bar.
rier guarding the raw material
supply line upon which Japan's
home war industries now must de.
pend since her communications
with the South China sea have
been rendered percarious,
Nimitz added that the blockade
Of Japan to throttle her war in.
dustries would not be complete I'm.
til her communications with the
Asiatic mainland also were CIT.
That may be an indication Of
where the next naval advances are
to be expected. 1t Is across the
Yellow Sea from her own ports on
the sea of Japan that the raw
material supply line sustaining
Japanese war factories runs
The Ryuku chain is an outpost
protection for Japan bound cargo
craft from northern China, It
could become a no less deadly
menace to that supply line, how
ever, if any of the islands that
form the chain tell into American
hands for advance air and sub
marine base purposes And that
certainly is possibility Of the
near future as both Nimitz and
Admiral Halsey appraise the re-
naming power of the battered
Japanese fleet. In their judgment
it offers no obstacle 10 American
naval ventures into any Of the
seas that wash Chinese shores.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-11
TOP o'MORNING

II God be for US
..rret not,,-He loves thee.-John 1871
GRANT not''-He holds thee.-Isaiah 4l:lO
"rear not'-He keeps thee.-Pslam lSl:o
Frank w. Farmer.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-11

In the case of the rocket as in the case
Of the flying bomb, the only way to silence
this form of long range artillery is the physi-
cal occupation of the sites from which these
weapons are launched British Air secretary
Sir Archibald Sinclair.