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ReaffirmatiOn

One Of the results of the Big Three con-
ference seems to be reaffirmation Of the At
lantic Charter which, after the revelation that
II wasn't a formal document but only few
scrubbed notes, was regarded as dead Roose-
welt and Churchill both gave that impression.
Stain was silent, while people who had taken
the Charter to their hearts were confused,
troubled.
One section Of the document that comes from
the meeting place Of the leaders Of the three
nations stresses free elections, which practi.
cally means self-determination. 1t will not
come all ut once Violent hatreds are being
born Of the war within the poor, wrecked ma
tons. There will be elements of sefishness
of Fascism and Communism, which will try
to dominate and a fake election would be
worse than none.
But in the end the world will have to learn
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Doubtful Party

We love the American system of political
parties for all its faults, and would not see
it changed. Still, it was rather pleasant to
learn that when Adml Thomas c. Hart was
appointed United States Senator from Con-
nectcut after 4s years in the Navy, no one
was certain Of his party affihation. Perhaps
the admiral wasn't quite sure himself. Gle
finally decided to sit on the Republican side3
There have been occasions when one had
reason to suspect that party utilization was
the only thing that some congressman were
sure Of. The presence of Senator-designate
Hart in their midst should at least provide
some welcome variety.
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and two flight orderlies during our
long trip, since the same crew
stops off half way for a days
rest, and a new crew comes on.
Both cur flight orderlies were
swell boys. There were 16 passen-
gers of us-12 Navy and Army
officers Zone a Marine Corps gen.
eraD, three enlisted men, and N.Y.
self, the only civilian aboard. The
orderlies took good care of us,
were friendly and willing, treated
us all alike, and they weren't a
bit scared of the high rank aboard.
They wore plain blue Navy dun
garees and blue shirts, and work.
ed with their sleeves rolled up.
Our first one was Seaman Howard
Liner, of Lubbock, Texas. He used
to sell DIR. Pepper before he
joined the Navy.
Howard has made So of these
trips across the Pacific, and en-
joys it. He gets back to San Fran
cisco frequently, and on his next
trip his wife is coming up from
Lubbock to see him. Howard al
ways has little brown pencil
stuck behind his ear.
The other flight orderly was
Seaman Don jacob, of San Ga
briel, Calf. He wore a plated
leather belt, and hung from it a
big bunch of keys and hunting
knife in a scabbard. This was his
seventh trip.
He seemed quite mature, yet l
found he is Only 10, and had quit
high school to join the Navy. His
one ambition is to finish school
after the war, and 60 on to col
lege.
It's mighty tiresome sitting in
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new BERN SECTOR
TO GET MORE GAS

NEW BERN, Feb. 20.-Plans
for obtaining additional supplies
of gasoline for this area were
worked out here Saturday at a
meeting of local Oil men, Cherry
Point representatives, dealers
from surrounding territories and
John W. Doxier, of Charlotte, ad-
ministrator of Petroleum Prod
ucts for War.
The first relief was promised
through the release of some pipe
line cushion stock, reported to
have accumulated in Greensboro.
Beginning March /, it was ar
ranged. the area northward from
Wilmington as at present. The
border will be served out of Nor
folk, instead of by barge from
Wilmington as as present. The
Jacksonville region, also now be-
ing served by barges out of Will
mington, will be taken care of
by transport trucks from pipe line
terminals at Macon, Ga. The
Wilmington barges will then be
able to get more gasoline to this
section.
For number of weeks the
gasoline shortage has been acute
here. Some filling stations have
displayed mo Gas" signs for day
after day. Beginning tomorrow,
however, the Greensboro supplies
are expected to relieve the stu
alton considerably, with more
permanent improvement antici-
pated from the new shipping
plans effective the first Of the
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Painter Moves To Collect
67-Year old Navy Bill

WASHINGTON, Feb. 20. W.
Charles H. Dougherty, ST., OF New
York, today moved step closs,
to collecting S135.62 in oVel'.AN ,
pay for helping to paint the Di0'''
lyn Navy Yard St years ago ,ou
Congress passed a bill IN i' Nv.
that reimbursed Navy 4aFa s,,
ployes required to work more a +'
eight hours day during the po+ ss
ing spree. But Dougherty S "' N.
was left off the list because NV
Navy had no record OF MS ''D
ployment. ...o, &c.
The House Claims Comnl''es
copied his affidavit that ne WV.
ed overtime under Boss FaN1' N
William Atchison" from Ma[c .n IN
September 20, 1878. Its pD' ~,
provide a belated payche'h IA
passed by the House ana S'''
the Senate.
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By ERNIE PYLE

IN THE MARIANAS ISLANDS,
After you take off from one of
the island stops crossing the Pa
cific, your plane climbs noisily
and laboriously for about half an
hour, then it levels off into steady
and less labored flight.
Gradually the intense tropical
heat of the ground fades away,
and a chill comes over the cabin.
Then the flight orderly turns On
the heater, and adjusts it until
you are comfortable in your light
clothes, even without a jacket.
1t was after midnight when we
took off from the little island of
Kwajalein, in the Marshalls, and
we were not to stop again until
we reached the Marianas.
Passengers are not allowed to
smoke until the plane has stopped
climbing and leveled off. Then the
flight orderly stands at the head
of the cabin and shouts in good
Navy language The smoking
lamp is lit" and then brings
around paper cups for you to use
as ash trays.
About every three hours the
flight orderly would wake us up
to feed us. Good food too, and
served on trays just as on the
regular airlines.
1t got to be a joke among the
passengers the way they poured
food into us. They fed us at every
stop, and about every three hours
in the air. They nearly fed us to
death.
The flight orderly is a sailor who
does the same job as steward
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Your War; With Ernie Pyle

the same seat on an airplane for
nearly "a hours, even when the
seats are reclining ones, as ours
were.
The worst part is trying to sleep.
You doze for a while and then
you start squirming, because you
can't stretch your legs out and
your knees start to hurt. Conse-
quently those who have Travelled
lot by air try to find someplace
to lie down. The floor is good,
but a stack of mail sacks is bet
ter.
They had mail piled in the rear
four seats, SO I got my blanket
and started fixing myself up on
the mail bags. An Army colonel
ahead of me said II just tried
that, but had to give it up. There
are too many square boxes inside
the sacks and they stick into you. :"
But I went ahead, and being
smaller than the colonel, discov-
cred I could sort of snake myself
in between the hard places in the
sacks. And that way I slept most
of the journey to the Marianas.
But one funny thing did happen
that I'd never experienced before
in flying. The plane had quite a
bit of vibration, and when my
head touched the plane anywhere,
the vibration would carry all
through my head.
That didn't bother me, but for
some odd physiological reason,
this vibration made the tip of my
nose itch so badly had to scratch
it all the time. And thus I dozed
the night away, really only half
asleep because of the constant
necessity for scratching my nose.
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The War
BY KiRkE L. SIMPSON
Associated Press w..

As''oi"'eo Press War Ana,vs.
Savage as is japanese resi..s
on doomed Two lima, the do.,'
nant factor is that hugh arr '.',''
OF American warships, transns
and supply craft is riding it ' on'
around the tiny islet 700 mils, W.T.
less off Japan's home coast ~.
challenged by sea n d virt,,. uI'
immune even from air sttscr
More than 4S hours afta a.A,
echelons of veteran Marines mrs. nrs'
ca ashore, no effective helm 'f b.s
rison. 4iy gar
Tokyo broadcasts intimatsd g..
heavily-escorted U. S. plans a a
rlers were moving in even C1o .aE'
hardly 600 miles off the eneu'.i. .
nome coast, to renew the sn,o.h
erlng air attack that cleared ~
=; ~ . o Nep' IL clear OF Japanes.
lighters and interceptors while ~
1irst Two Jima beachheads w a'e
established and extended ~" Tt
japanese press and radio renewas
warnings that even an Americ.uu
invasion attack on the bo,oo =;
lands might be expected At .nr
moment. '1y
Had other evidence of sbso,ut.
American control of the sea eS
tablished beyond the Pacific in tbs
naval battles in Philippine waters
been lacking, the bold move ~
seize Two Jima would have prov.
ed it. 1t pointedly confirms tbs
terse declaration of highest ranI.
ing American naval authorities in
Washington and in the Pacific the.
alter that the worlds widest ocean
has been bridged completely; that
the way is open now for landings
in China or in Japan itself at any
time the men and equipment are
available or at any point Amer.
can judgment may select.
1t still is to the European thea.
ter that the observer must lon,
for some answer as to when the
final step in the long leap across
the Pacific can be taken. That wa,
again emphasized in Washington,
disclosure that President Roose.
welt and Prime Minister Churchill
after their historic meeting with
Premier Stain in the Crimea had
met again off Russian soil to dis.
cuss anew British-American full
cooperation against Japan.
Renewed assurances were given
at that meeting by Churchill that
the whole weight Of British sea,
air and ground power in time
would be thrown against Japan.
Even in the official Washington
version of the latest Roosevelt.
Churchill Pacific strategy talks.
however, it was emphasized that
not until the war in Europe has
been virtually ended can Britain
turn fully to that task. Not until
then, also, can the American for.
ces adequate for the job be avail
able.
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Daily Prayer
FOR SPIRITUAL PEACE


Thou are the Prince of Peace, 0
Christ, and to Thee we turn for
the peace which the world can
neither give nor take away. We
worship and adore Thee, along
with the Father and the Holy
Spirit, for Thou art our peace
In world at war, we pray foT
hearts at peace, with Thee, with
ourselves and with our felloWmen'
Grant us this deepest, inner, splf'
itual boon, that we may be more
than conquerors over all external
strife. Thou didst say to my
friends, in the dark days OF seem
ing disaster, "My peace | give
unto you; fulfill now in us that
bequest. Though nations tot
ter and the world crashes, my
word standeth sure. So we kno"
that Thou wilt keep him in per,
feet peace whose mind Is stayed
upon Thee" And we know that
when enough of us have Thy peace
in our hearts, then outward
peace will come to the world 80
our prayer is before Thee Tor Sc
rene and singing spirits. Amen
w, T. e.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-21
BY w. G. ROGERS

Troopers west, by foIpeS
Parkhin Farrar & Rinehart; $2.75)
1.-The Ten Grandmothers,' by Alice
Marriott University of Oklahoma;
So; "Kickapoo Indian Trails" by
Louise Green Hoad Caxton; $3.50.
One little, two little, three little
Indians, some of them as good as
gold and some as mean as poison
Tits the subject of this volume.
Parkhill, lone novelist among
these three authors, weaves a
yarn, or lazy-squaw stitches it.,
out of a young Army doctor in
love with a girl and mad about a
surgical device he has invented,
an Indian agent as sanctimonious
as he was stujid, an attack on the
agency by Utes who has good rea-
son for being angered, and a siege
of an army force behind upturned
wagons on the bank of Butterfly
Creek. 1t all took place, supposed
ly, in 1879.
It's a good story with which to
while away an evening, and has a
smart twist at the end. 1t pictures
the Indian of more Or less tradi-
tional fiction; you will recognize
the bloodthirsty fellow as the one
you as boy used to imagine you
were when you raced around the
backyard letting out warwhoops
and scalping your playmates.
It may be the Indian of fact, too,
though it is not the one described,
sort of from the distaff side, with
hardly tomahawk waved and
hardly a shot fired, by Alice Mar
riott and Louise Green Hoad. Miss
Marriott, an ethnologist, lived for
two summers among the Kiowas;
Mrs. Hoad was born in 1872 in
Whiting, Kans., near the Kickapoo
reservation. The Indians they
write about would not inspire boys
to play Indian games.
Miss Marriott's account begins
in 1847, when her Kiowas were
fighting ParkhilPs Utes, and con-
tinues to 1912, when all Indians
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BOX
EXPRESSES THANKS

To the Editor:
Boy Scout week was a big sue
cess this year, and your coo2era-
ton was largely instrumental in
making it so.
Many boys have come into the
office in recent days to ask about
joining the Scouts. Perhaps they
were influenced by your help in
pubicizing the 35th anniversary
of Scouting.
The Cape Fear Area council,
therefore, wishes to express its
sincere thanks to you for your
help in informing the public Of
Boy Scout week.
w. j. RILEY,
District Chairman.
Wilmington, N. c.
Feb. 10. 1915.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-21
Two Youths Arrested
In Larceny Chars"

Thomas Earl Stanely, H. ' ot-
Vance and Gene Autry BLacAo4d
II, 2oo7 Brandon Rd. were a[r arr are
by City police yesterday an nond
being held in Jail in defaul' o. ne re.
on three charges of larceny anu
ceiving each. .,olins
Both are charged with s'eaN'
an cupboard motor from b. o,ol,t
Lister, Maffitt Village, on OF SD sod
February 10. They are also c .lsosrd
engine on February 9, from . j., IT.
sellars, 1901 South 4th sired sired
Again this month, they are c4 21sa1s
with breaking into L. W, E E'-an
filling station at Bird and Co s;s,,
streets and stealing merchaNa enn.
including batteries and tire W.
plies.
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The Literary Guidepost

had joined white forces to war
on Germans and Japanese. There
is lot Of authentic information
slowed away in this volume, and
palatably served. If you are seri-
ously interested in the Indian, this
is your book.
Mrs. Hoad writes in the first
person for her mother, who was
stationed on the Kickapoo reser-
walton just after the Civil War.
Offered as the stories Mrs. Green
told to children, it's a bit e1emen-
tai; it certainly debunks the fero-
cious Red man.
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CADET NURSE

NEW BERN, Feb. 20.-Dorothy
Hardison, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. C. S. Harrison, Of Route 4,
New Bern, has joined the U. S.
Cadet Nurses corps and has gone
to Wilmington to begin her train
ing at the James Walker Memorial
hospital. r.
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PRINCESS RECOVERING

LONDON, Feb. 20. -U.R-Buck-
ingham Palace announced today
that Princess Elizabeth is recov-
ering from the mumps but will
have to remain in her room for the
next few days.
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Fair Enough

Editors note.-The Star accepts no re-
sponsibilty for the personal views of Mr..
Pegler, and often disagrees with them as
much as many of his readers. His articles
serve the good purpose of making people
think.)
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-21

It is the soldier who has made particu1.r,,,
good adjustment to military life who will 10y
the difficulty in readjusting himself to 1 the
community to which he returns. - DR. VIII we
liam Malanapd, Worcester (Mass,3 st n
Hospital ps.afAiatrist
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Thought for Today

Thought Tor To-Day
A story is told of General Gordon. "nen
patrollinx a camp one night found young
sentry who had tainted at his post 0ora0n
quietly took the musket from his hand nao
the unconscious man carried into the camp
and then guarded the position himself until
dawn, The Master treats us In the same
way. 80,
The Sunday Companion"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-03-03

United Nations meeting at San
Francisco by declaring war on the
Axis, This gives them a promise of
definite participation in the tasks
of world reconstruction, together
with the assurance that their prob
lens will be considered as part Of
the larger whole rather than rele-
gated to separate treatment between
themselves and a few of the Great
Powers. Arab aspirations for fed
Grafton, Arab-Zionist antagonism in
Palestine, French claims to con-
tinued primacy in Syria and Leb-
anon, Egyptian nationalism, and
the postwar status of the Darda-
nelles-these and other problems
urgently clamor for solutions which
may be difficult to achieve. Mr..
Churchill is concerned with Great
ing an atmosphere and environment
wherein their handling will be ia
cilitated.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-03-03
The Political Mill
By Gould Lincoln

Unfortunately, because of the legis-
lative and executive setup in this coun-
try Congress was unable to give Presi-
dent Roosevelt vote of confidence
when he concluded his report to that
body on the Yalta Conference. But
it was evident the great majority of
the members approved, they sympa-
thized with the ends toward which the
President has arduously worked, and
they accepted his statement that great
progress has been made. There is no
division between Republicans and Dem
ocrats in this country over the reed
of vigorously prosecuting the war, and
fortunately, there is less and less diy-
sion between them over the need OF
collaboration by the United States with
other nations to preserve peace in The
future.
The Presidents appearance before
Congress to render an accounting OF
what he has been doing in recent weeks
on both the war and diplomatic fronts
was happy beginning of the long
long road which it is hoped will lead
to acceptance of the proposed United
Nations organization for peace both
by the American people and the Senate,
which, under the Constitution, is the
BODY that must ratify treaties. The
full impact of his earnestness and the
courage with which he has gene about
his arduous task struck the legislators
right in the eye. His report, although
it did not reveal items of agreement
among the heads of the United States
British and Russian governments, was
so couched as to give the members OF
Congress and the rest of the American
people clear idea of what had been
going on. None of the three conferees
had his own way altogether. Never
theless, when the agreements were made
they were made unanimously.
The actual work of drafting in final
form the proposal for the United Ma
lions Security Council, or League, or
whatever it may be called. is to take
place at the San Francisco Conference
in April. The President has announced
he intends to visit the conference, He
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-03-03

pines or in the mountains in South
eastern Europe, where the people have
been fighting that type of warfare for
generations.
The Germans have never fought guer-
rilla wars. During the Napoleonic wars
when the German states were overrun,
they preferred to side either with the
conoueror or his opponents. rather than
adopt the type of warfare which the
Balkan peoples used for centuries in
opposing the Turks.
Moreover, modern Germany does not
lend itself to guerrilla fighting. The
mountains of Bavaria, Czechoslovakia
and the Tyrol are all civilized"
They offer good natural defense for
an organized large force which can draw
on great quantities of supplies from the
rear and has the most up-to-date war
material at its disposal. But the excel
lent roads would make it impossible to
adopt the type of war which has been
prevalent for hundreds of years in the
Balkans and has proved SO successful in
the Philippines against the japanese
army of occupation.
The Allies have a strong army and
can smoke out any stable force which
may take to the mountains, and it is
expected that if some of the SIS troops
decide to accompany Hitler to the Ba-
varian or Austrian Alps their resistance
must be shortlived. Planes can spot
any large group of guerrillas without
difficulty.
The supplies which Hitlers henchmen
may have succeeded in hiding could not
supply force exceeding or divisions
for more than a few weeks.
The only possibility of a continued
German passive resistance lies in the
fact that hundreds of thousands of
young men who fear that they may be
sent to the U. S. S. r. to do reconstruc-
ton work may run away in groups to
eVade the forced draft. They will be
armed and supplied to a certain extent
and might oppose any small group of
Allies who might be searching for them.
1t is highly improbable, however, that
these men would act under the COM
mand of general in accordance with a
specific guerrilla plan as has been the
case in Poland, where the underground
forces have fought the Germans since
the winter of 1889, or in Yugoslavia,
where Gen. Mihailovich organized the
Chetniks in the fall of 194l.
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Russia dnd japan

The Presidents report on the
Yalta Conference can be read in
vain for any hint that Marshal
Stain, after the defeat of Ger
many, intends to take an active
military part in the war against
Japan. Indeed, Mr. Roosevelt said
that quite naturally, the Crimean
Conference concerned itself only
with the European war and with the
political problems of Europe-and
not with the Pacific war"
1t may be worth noting, however,
that the President, in warning that
America must be prepared for a
long and costly struggle in the Pa
cific, added this interesting SEN
tence: THE unconditional surrender
of Japan is as essential as the de-
feat of Germany-if our plans for
world peace are to succeed"
That language can hardly be read
to mean that there has been any
commitment, express or implied,
from the Russians But if by use
of the term "our plans" the Presi-
dent meant the plans of Marshal
Stain as we'll as his own and those
of Mr. Churchill, which seems prob
able, then the logic of the matter
is that the Russians eventually will
join in the final effort to crush the
japanese Otherwise, one is forced
to the unreasonable conclusion that
Russian interest in world peace does
not go beyond the defeat of Ger
many, which, as the President says,
will not be enough to insure peace.