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Detroit evening times., 1945-12-16
Sisters Get Roles

The hridc-elect has asked her
sister, Miss Jill Cralg, 10 be
her maid of honor and another
sister. Mrs Henry Leonard Mil
irf- rt YpyiiantI. and Miss Anne
LHommcdIcu Of 7 ole q o. 10
be her bridesmaids Her small
niece. Pauline Craig. daughter
OF Mr.. and Mrs Lyman Craig
Jr. viii be flower girl.
hIr Denyes. whose parents
arc Mr.. and Mrs. Harry ~
Dcnyc~ Of Detroit, has asked
his brother. Harry NJ DcnyeS
Jr. to be his best man. UShorS
VIII include Capt Robert Craig
of the l.. s Marine Air Force,
Bruce Craig, William Brcccl
and William +. Thomas Jr.
Coming home from Fiouda
for the Christmas season viii
be Mrs. Henry s. Boot h.,
stephen Booth and small Mar
lha Ellen Booth who have been
ut Fort L8uderdale since nov.
!. They will arrive about Dec.
20 and Mrs. Booth and her
Youngest daughter will return
10 Fort Lauderdale for the rest
90 fnp winter
Detroit evening times., 1945-12-16
Pupils Returning

Also arriving about the 10Th
from their various schools VIII
be Patsy Shuell from Katherine
Gibbs ln Boston sally Booth
from Bennett junior College
Nargery Booth, Peggy COD q,
Anne Ballentine, Elizabeth
Ward and several others rom
smith College and Jean Grind
Icy and several others from
Wellesley.
Bloomfield Open Hunt Will
give dinner and games party
Tuesday evening with Charles
+. Carey heading the entertain
ment committee, assisted by
William A. McHattie and Charl-
ton G.. Eden.
Mrs. Prince DeBardelbcn has
Detroit evening times., 1945-12-16

arrived home 10 spend several
months with her parents Mr..
and Mrs. Charles Gale Welef.
during Er- DcBa-os.cbens $
absence on >ca duty.
Assisting A. tho cocktail
parry whl,- Nr and Mf--Refr-
janr Brewster gave This af'cr-
noon a. IteIr r z IS . q 9 n q IN
Brookda.c drive were Mes>r>.
a0d Mc~oance Robert y. Wood
ruff. Robert Ncvn, Martin l..
Archangch ana Jones B. Shan
non
One Of the incest Christmas
traditions IN the Hills VIII be
carried out again Monday eve
ning when m q m bcrs Of 81.
DunstanS Guild viii meet in
Christ Church Cranbrook 10
sing Christmas carols.
Detroit evening times., 1945-12-16

Hurry 10 Arthur Murray's now--if
YOU want to have the time OF your
lifc at holiday parties. There, moth
ing like heing a good dancer 20 set
YOU up IN your own estimation
and in your partners. And there,
Detroit evening times., 1945-12-16

no place like Arthur Murrays 70
learn the Latest steps quickly and
get confidence IN your dancing.
Don't vait--,nroll tomorrow. Arthur
Murrl>'s. 1-ug Warrington Blvd. At
Stat, It. a 55-7.
Detroit evening times., 1945-12-16
Store Hours Monday TOmOrOW) u to $50 Pm.

Thursday, to $50 Tuesday, wdnd Friday, Snnd} $50 $50 y"
DetroH Friendly Christmas -. Where rs Easy TO Buy
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-22
Guard Your POcketb0Ok

Ladies, keep your hand on your handbag.
That in effect, was the advice given YES
terday by Chief Of Police Charles H. Casteen
as he disclosed the wave of sneak Docket.
book thefts is causing him plenty of concern.
He's irked, and rightfully So
The favorite hangout for the thieves, he
said, is around lunch counters in downtown
stores, where most customers place their
purses on narrow shelf below the counter
Thieves have also taken handbags left care.
lessly on counters while their owners drift
away to examine merchandise.
Fast thefts should serve as warning To
all shoppers to guard their pocketbooks care
fully in public places. Even if the police were
able to have an officer in every store, it still
would be impossible to cope with this kind
OF larceny. The thieves are fast and clever in
executing this almost slight of hand business.
But you can easily be smarter Foil them
keeping your pocketbook in hand at all times.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-22
William B. Campbell

Endorsement of William B. Campbell, prom
inent Wilmington attorney, by the New Han
over County Bar association as successor to
Judge l. M. Meekins on the bench OF the
United States court for the Eastern district OF
North Carolina is much more than just
'favorite son. movement 1t is sound nornl-
nation of an extremely capable man, one who
would not only continue but enrich the districts
tradition of good jurists.
Already several others have been mentioned
and, doubtless, others will appear before the
selection is made However, no matter how
large the field its quality, Mr.. Campbells
name de =rves to be high the list
The good indication of his qualifications is
offered through a brief review of his record.
1t is ont of distinction in wide practice OF
law covering period of more than 30 years.
It is a record highlighted by public service,
both to his community and the state. During
the ten years he has served as City attorney,
his wisdom, guidance and advice have been
a most important factor in obtaining the many
ton is now benefitting His persistence at
home and in Washington in helping bring about
realization of these projects, often when the
outlook was quite dark, has been real con-
tribution to the betterment OF the community
Included in his service beyond local fields is
representation of New Hanover in the lower
house of the state legislature from 1926 to 1928
and in the senate from 1880 to 1882. He also
served as attorney for North Carolina in the
development of the intra-coastal waterway,
from 1927 to 1881.
He has given freely Of his time and talents
to the advancement of his party and his &C.
tivities in this sphere include service chair
man of the Democratic Executive committee.
Recognized for his ability, experience in
tegrity and judicious mind, Mr.. Campbell is
well qualified for serious consideration as the
future Judge of the large Federal district.
Not since the days of the Civil war has a
resident of Wilmington or its environs pre-
sided permanently over this court. 1t is time
that this section, which occupies such large
and important place in Eastern North Caro-
lina's life, be recognized. We believe that all
who know Mr. Campbell, both as fellow
citizen and member Of the bar, agree with
us in declaring It's best opportunities of con-
tributing to the Federal judiciary are through
his appointment.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-22
Market In Blood

The black market must be the most thriv-
ing industry in France. President Roosevelt
Is having an investigation made of the re-
ported failure of American relief to be distri-
buted as reputedy promised by the French
government. Only a fourth of the food, cloth
ing and medical supplies promised France
have been delivered, official French reports
said.
It is not alone an armed enemy that Amer
lea must fight There is another foe-human
greed. It is everywhere 1t is found at home
and abroad. 1t is without conscience, soul or
decency 1t operates in high places and in
low 1t is based on the lowest instincts and
makes use of the lowest forms of men.
It is one of the offshoots of war, thriving
on human need, On desperate want, on star
walton and misery. The black marketeer raids
supplies intended for relief of these, fattens
on the thin bodies of infants, grows gross on
the bones and blood of humanity
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-22

man walking alone across field,
and putting his finger directly on
some previously designated barb
of a wire fence on the other side.
But as 1 say, they do it all the
time. (Thank the LordD
Then Commander Skirvin asked
if l would like to stay up front
while we landed. Indeed l would,
for that is a rare invitation. I stood
just behind the two pilots while
we circled the field and dropped
lower and circled again.
Landing one Of these immense
planes is like a ritual in school.
The co-pilot takes a printed list,
encased in plexiglass, from off the
instrument board. Then he starts
reading aloud, down the list. After
each item the pilot calls back
check"
1t takes five minutes to go
through all the complicated adjust
ments to change the plane from
something that will only fly, into
something that will also merge
successfully with the earth. Always
the typed list is read aloud and
checked to make sure that no
single thing is forgotten.
And then we were ready. 1t was
hot down close to the ground, and
sweat was pouring off us. Over his
radio the co-pilot asked the ground
permission to land. Commander
Skirvin twisted himself more firm
ly into his seat, took heavy grip
on the control wheel, pushed for
ward on the stick, and down we
went.
When you fly, there is no sense
OF speed at all. 1t is as though
you were sitting forever in one
spot. But when you land, the earth
comes up to you with appalling
speed. Things go faster and fast
er. Everybody is tense. The whole
field comes up at you almost as in
nightmare. 1t is the most thrill
ing thing about flying.
And then you blend into the
earth. These planes are so big and
stand so high that it seemed to
me as we were still so feet in the
air when we felt the wheels touch.
The plane stuck to the runway and
rushed on forward with shocking
speed.
The runway was long, and Com
mander Skirvin called We'll use
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-22
Your Morning Coffee

whenever coffee is MENTIONED in connection
with talk of again rationing it, blood pressure
rlses which is bad That's especially bad for
coffee drinkers, and who isn't? But the alarms
turn out to be false
Trade reports from New York tell of SIN.
Plies in the United States being higher than in
peacetime and still the coffee comes rolling
in from Brazil. Figures are cited: stocks on
hand in New York are 1900, 900 bags: about
z0ooooO more have been bought or are afloat
or on their way to the United States. The
total earmarked for the United States is al
most six-month supply And Brazil produces
coHee as We do cotton-always more and
more seeking market Imports last year were
more than total consumption.
OF course, if everybody were to lose his
mead and begin to hoard coffee, piling it on
shelves to become stale, there would soon be
an artificial shortage, with the familiar morn
ing cup disappearing from some tables. As
long as people act sensibly they have it. Don't
become frightened; 60 on and enjoy your COT
fee in peace
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-22
Daily Prayer
FOR QUIET MINDS

Thou hast promised. o Almighty
God and Father, to keep him in
perfect peace whose mind is
stayed on Thee" We would
claim this promise today; for our
hearts are assailed by many fears
for ourselves, for our dear ones
and for our Nation. May all of
our anxieties seek shelter in Thy
greatness and Thy goodness.
Thou alone art able and sufficient.
We take refuge in Thy power and
Thy love. Thy purposes for us
are better than our desires for
ourselves. Thou dost mark the
sparrow's fall; and we know that
Thou are not unheeding of the
human lives, created in Thine
image, which put their trust in
Thee. Fill us and thrill US with
a real sense of our dependence
upon Thee. Thou alone art our
refuge and our strength. So may
we be sustained by Thee for the
doing, with a quiet mind, of each
days appointed task. Share Thy
power with all soldiers and sail
ors and airmen who do battle for
a Cause that is bound up with
Thine own honor. Anen.-W.T.E.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-22
U. S. SUBS sink
TWO JAPS DAILY

WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.-Wp-
American submarines are sinking
an average of more than two Jap
ships a day, it was revealed today
with announcement that they have
destroyed Is more enemy vessels
including an escort carrier.
The rest Of the new haul consist
ed of large converted cruiser, a
destroyer, two transports, three
cargo transports and II cargo yes
sells. The cruiser was believed TO
be an 1S,O0O-ton converted mer-
chant ship.
American submarines now have
sunk total of l,025 Jap vessels,
including ITO warhips. The NAVY
mas announced 121 of the sinkings
since January Ian average of
2.3 ships a day during the past 50
days.
With American forces in com.
plete control of the seas at least
as far west as the Philippines, the
target area Of the submarines has
been reduced greatly. This makes
Tor more concentrated hunting.
And the fact that the raiders now
are operating from dvance bases
allows them to remain on patrol
longer.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-22
Curfew Rings

1t shouldn't be too much trouble for night
clubs, theaters, roadhouses, bars and other
such places of entertainment to close at mid
night in order to save coal and electricity, in
observance of the curfew imposed by War
Mobilization Director James F. Byrnes.
Up to midnight every night seems sufficient
time for anybody to have good time. If it
isn't, person might go to bed just after mid
night, get some sleep and start earlier. It's
little enough for anybody to give up in an
emergency.
This ORDER directed at night Spots will be
generally acclaimed as wise. The wonder is
that it hasn't been issued sooner with greater
savings. Much has been wasted in these pla.
ces. A curfew will help, even midnight cur
few.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-22
BY ERNIE PYLE

IN THE MARIANAS ISLANDS,
(delayeO-Our chief pilo, on the
last long leg OF our flight from
Honolulu to the Marianas was
Lieut.. Comdr. Don Skirvin. He's
from the family that owns big
hotels in Oklahoma City and even
if you didn't know, you could tell
from his creased hands and neck
that he's either a Texan or an
Oklahoman.
Commander Skirvin has never
worked at the hotel business,
though. He has to have freedom,
and CAD about the world. He has
been flying 10 years-flew for oil
companies in South America, went
to Spain during the revolution and
flew combat there.
Then came our war and he went
into the Navy and flew combat in
the South Pacific. But he likes big
planes best, and now is trans-Pa-
cific skipper on these huge air.
liners.
Just before daylight Commander
Skirvin sent the orderly back to
wake me up, and asked me to
come forward to the pilots COM
partment. Then he had me sit in
the co-pilot's seat, and from that
exalted vantage point on this mon
ster of the air I saw the dawn
gradually touch and tighten the
cottony areas of clouds out there
over the wide Pacific.
Flying is mostly monotonous and
dull. But there are always little
peaks of grandeur in every flight.
Seeing this dawn come was one OF
them. 1t was an exaltation, and
you couldn't help but be thrilled
by it. i
Commander Skirvin t a k S
movies as a hobby, and has taken
1900 feet of color film of just such
dawns and sunsets as this one. He
said the folks at home wrote that
if he saw such things as this often,
no wonder he liked to fly.
We came out of the boundless
sky and over our island desti-
nation just little after dawn. The
island was green and beautiful
and terribly far from hometown
there in the fresh dawn.
It seemed unbelievable that we
could have drawn ourselves to it
so unerringly out of the vast Pa
cific spaces. It was like a blind
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-22
The Literary Guidepost

was interned for eight months at
now liberated Santo Tomas Uni
versity in the island capital. She
tells what happens when Ameri-
cans are trapped by hostile forces,
put on short rations, obliged to
get along by themselves under
shocking conditions.
New standards replace the old.
Men and women don't perhaps
grow better or worse, but act in a
way to demonstrate the better or
betray the worse more plainly.
They recreate the life they had
known before, though often the
imitation is pitiable. They put on
their own shows, scheme to earn
more money, form social classes,
try to build a home life. even
open a red-light district consisting
Of a curtain and a cot.
Though in a few spots descrip-
ton of the organization OF COM
munity affairs dulls reader inter-
est, this novel is a sincere, worth
while job. Maybe this is the place,
however, to register my objections
to using footnotes, practically in
serted in the text, to credit quota
tons from current songs. They
break up the story annoyingly.
Couldn't music publishers, like
book publishers, be satisfied with
a credit line in the foreWord?
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-22
Your War; With Ernie Pyle

all of it, for I don't believe in
tromping on the brakes"
Then gradually we slowed and
when we'd come almost to stop
a jeep pulled out in front of US. On
the back of it was big black
board and painted on the board
were the words Follow me-" The
jeep slowly led us to our parking
place. ~~-
Then the co-pilot read off anoth-
er list, while the pilot pulled levers
and turned switches and called
CHECK" 1t took more than min
ute to transform the great metal
bird from something animate and
miraculous, into something that
stands lifeless on the ground.
And then the door opened and
we stepped down onto the strange
soil of the Marianas Islands-close
at last to the vast sprawling war
of the Pacific.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-22
BY w. G. ROGERS
"The Open City," by Shelley
Smith Mydans doubleday, Do

ClIlluA WY udhS \DOuDACuoJ, DV-
ran; $3.50.
In these exciting times when the
first step out of this hemisphere
in any direction is an adventure,
people travel light when they leave
but most of them come back with
one thing they didn't take out: a
book.
They've been places and done
things and they want to write
about it. Some make it a novel,
some factual account. Many dis
cover, or have pointed out to them,
that it's easier to run risk than
to write about it; that when they
put it down in black and white,
it loses its lurid color.
There have been important ex-
ceptions. The APPS Russell Brines
in Till They Eat Stones" con-
tributed notably to our knowledge
of the Philippines under the Japa-
nese; it was straight news story.
Here is second one, fictionalized.
and one of the most timely for
1.-THE Open City" is Manila to
which Gen. Macarthur returned as
the book was distributed.
Mrs. Mydans, with her husband
Carl Mydans of Life magazine,
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-22
interpreting
The War y
by hiRKE L. SIMPSON
Associated Press War an,,

Roads that thread the passa.
the Bavarian and Karnicbo VI
southeast OF Brechtesga6en Alps
ed the obvious target Of ap aTi,
tlghter-oombers from ItaIy r n4led
than Hitler's bomb.proof rooI ratner
hideout. mountain
There would be no point bavo.,
a nose-thumbing gesture in Jo
ping explosives on that nrop pro2'
last refuge Of Der Fuebrer P. a,,o
he was known to be there; bn rt4 III II
route that winds from saI 1, me
through the Alpine wall n cons
up with main Italian communie es'
ton lines in the Pc valley is I'd
other matter. If affords the nri al'
est and most direct route for s r'
ment of Nazi troops from Tta aivS e.
poster the southern end OF Na7i,
dom's East Wall defenses ''Ai'
Allied leadership expects a Co..
man withdrawal from Italy !; !,
mas not already started pri~o'
Minister Churchill made the n r,r.s
dlctlon to Parliament more fhan
month ago that "at any time no.
haps in a few months perb r
much sooner the Germans viii b
driven out of Italy or will perbans
withdraw. 1t has since been reneat
ed by General Clark, Allied field
commander in Italy, and the n.4
tern of Allied air attacks from 1fslv
in recent days has been definjteIy
shaped against trans-Alpine con-.
munication routes with that in
mind.
Bremen Pass, the historic m,ix
communication line between rtaIv
and Germany, has been bombed Il
intervals for months but recently
the Allied air attack has been more
concentrated. That it has been
aimed as much at blocking or i'm.
peding an expected Nazi escaos
attempt northward as at interrup.
ton Of supply lines to the Italian
front cannot oe doubted.
Nazi leadership can have no
doubt that a withdrawal from Italv
to prop the east and west front will
be a desperate business at best in
the face of Allied air mastery.
Along the still idle center of tn,
Allied line in western Europe, the
flooded Roer is reported substan.
TALLY back within its banks and
the roads fast hardening sufficient.
ly for major operations by the
American Ninth and British Sec.
ond armies to be undertaken.
With more than nine German
shock divisions now definitely iden.
titled on the Canadian army sector
to the north it is clear that Nazi
defense lines have been heavily
Slapped elsewhere to meet the
threat of the northern thanking
thrust. At the south end Of the &C.
tive front in the Moselle valley
and in the resumed American two
army thrusts into the Saar Basin,
it also looks as though the Ger
man front has been seriously de-
pleted.
The Third Army drive down the
Moselle upon Trier is attaining
breadth and depth while the Sew.
enth Army to the south has set its
grip on the Forbach outpost Of
blasted Saarbrucken and is also
threatening anew to force through
the Rohrbach gap in its rear.
Whether the two armies are en-.
gagged primarily in diversion op-
erations to draw off Nazi strength
in the center in preparation for the
eliminating attack or assigned TO
burst through the Saar basin to the
Rhine is not clear.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-22
Our Debt To Washington

Perhaps there are too many marble busts
and equestrian statues OF George washington
He has become too much Of name and an
image to be revered impersonally and then
forgotten except when he is occasionally quot
ed without too much regard for literal ac-
curacy on the subject of entangling alliances.
Lincoln seems likely to replace him as the
great national hero-Lincoln, more human in
his greatness and less remote in warmth as
well as in time And of Washington's con-
ferson has lately arisen to capture the public
fancy.
Washington was neither brilliant nor of en-
gaging personality. He was reserved and a
trifle slow. But though he may not inspire
today's poets and playwrights, he was, from
tn Revolutions end to his death, the object
of the greatest adulation ever accorded an
American leader.
1t is worth remembering, in an era when
dictatorship has been the world fashion, how
wisely and modestly Washington bore that
adulation. 1t is worth remembering, too, how
we'll he deserved it.
Washington faced the gravest problems that
ever beset an American leader in war or
peace. The nation which he led through it's
longest war was nominally united, but really
divided and impoverished and ungoverned It's
Congress was powerless to do more than ad.
tote
equipped, and at times faced with actual star
walton.
Washington had to divide his time between
rallying his forces to stay with him, planning
and leading their campaigns, and constantly
begging and bludgeoning the states to pro-
vide food and money to avert the total defeat
which at times was only days or hours away.
He had to contend with reasonable disloyalty
among his officers, and what are now known
as fifth colunnists among his countrymen
Victory emerged from these surroundings
chiefly because of Washington's capacity for
courage, resourcefulness, compassion stead
fastness and humility His presidency was
marked by the same qualities. There was
nothing mercurial about his statesmanshp-
he was a farmer by first choice, a soldier by
second, and a statesman by necessity-but ii
was nodded by common sense hard work
and an unimpeacha code of ethics.
These qualities passed into the fabric of hi
country and are still visible. They might be
more SO if we bothered to make Washington's
reacquaintance. His Farewell Address is
worth reading again for its stately lucidity.
sage wisdom and deep feeling
The advice on foreign relations is only 6
part of it. And that advice, placed in its
context and read against the background of
1885, becomes what it is-sound expediencv
for its time and not Holy Writ
Washington was too great to become fig.
ure on a pedestal and a patron saint to be
invoked by isolationsm This would be good
day to compute once more our full debt to
him.