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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-12

IN THE MARIANAS ISLANDS.
-(Delayed)-"Sack time" is one
of the most-used expressions in the
B-29 outfits. 1t means simply ~
ing on your cot doing nothing.
Combat fGers everywhere have
lots of spare time, because they
are under a terrific nervous strain
when they work, and they need
much recuperative rest.
But out here there is a double,
even a TRIBE incentive for spend
ing practically all your time, both
waking and sleeping, in "the
sack These reasons are:
IA 14-hour mission is an ex-
hausting thing. The boys say the
reaction is a delayed one, and
they really don't feel it so keen
iy until the afternoon Of the next
day. Then they're just plumb
Worn-out. IT takes some OF them
two or three days to get to feeling
normal after a mission.
2-The climate, warm and en-
ervating, seems to make you
sleepy all the time. I've found it
doubly hard to write my columns
out here, because l just can't stay
awake:
3-There's really nothing else to
do except lie on your cot. Combat
crews have few duties between
missions. And since there's no
amusement or diversion cut on
these islands, except homemade
ones, they just lie and talk and lie
some more.
The result Of it all is that you
Just get lazier than sin. AS one
pilot said I've got so lazy III
never be worth a damn the rest
Of my life
It's one of the phases Of isola-
ton. It's what leads to island
neurosis,' or to going pineapple
crazy" Troop commanders know
the Importance of keeping their
men busy to overcome this, bur
it's difficult to do that with combat
creW:nen.
But new classes have been Or
eanized, and the filters have to
20 to school part of each day.
Those who are especially good are
getting further intensive training
as lead crews" and they go to
school from morning till night.
Endless talk and arguments go
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-12
BY w. G. ROGERS
Golden Gate Country" by Ger
trude Anterior (Duell, Sloan and
Pearce; So.

OOIuCu OdtC OVuASiJ, ~ wv
trude Atherton Duell, Sloan and
Pearce; $3).
Weather is nothing new in Cali
fornia. AS far back as the end of
the 18th century, Miss Atherton
tell us, Spaniards were inviting
friends to come to the west coast
and enjoy its sunny days.
In substance, in this latest vol
ume in the American Folkways
series, Miss Anterior graciously
invites us to come, too. Her fam
lily has long been identified with
the region about which she writes,
and some Of her novels have been
laid there.
The problem in books like this
is organization. Shall it be ar
ranged chronologically, or shall
it be string of incidents? This
author obligingly compromises;
one tale overlaps another in time,
but they all build up to c vivid,
entertaining picture of a delightful
country with a rugged, sometimes
praiseworthy, sometimes deplor-
abel past.
Miss Anterior tells us the bad
as Wen as the good. San Francisco
nao nres and earthquakes; it had
tough hombres well as gods; It'll
very evidently had more than its
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-12

turn her on. Between every Quon-
set hut there is always a clothes.
line full Of wash flying in the
wind.
Some days they play volley ball,
some days they take setting-up
exercises, and some days they
swim. My friend Capt. Bill Gift.
ford spurns all these things, and
just lies in bed. Every day they
ask it he isn't going to "P.T.,"
which means physical training,
and he says Hell no, I'm too old
to get out there and jump up and
down like goddamned Russian
ballet dancer"
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-12
The Voting Compromise

There might have been a good deal OF wall
ing in this country when the Big Three's agree
ment on voting procedure in the international
security organization was finally announced.
Fortunately there was not Official and public
reaction was generally, il temporarily favor
able, even though the agreement meant tnat
many who have aimed at permanent peace
will now have to lower their sights consider
ably.
The agreement was a compromise solution
Of a thorny and persistent problem. AND
while compromises are never very idealistic,
this one carries a particularly stiff dose OF
realism
BY giving a major power the right to veto
armed opposition to its own aggression the
agreement admits that If major power Is
determined to 60 to war, the world Is power
less to stop it by any means short OF announcer
and certainly more terrible war than this one.
The agreement makes it clear that the world
organization could take steps to stop, let us
say, Bolivia from pushing Chile around. But
it could do nothing to stop aggression by the
United States against Argentina, for example,
or Britain against Egypt or Russia against
Poland unless the United States or Britain
or Russia voted themselves the aggressor,
which they certainly would never do.
It became known after the Dumbarton Oaks
meeting that Russia was holding out for the
veto power against American and British op-
position. In the major points Of the compromise
Russia was the winner. But perhaps by this
very victory Russia has given American
senators Of isoiationist tendency their strong
est reason for supporting our participation in
the international peace organization
That seems incongruous until one notes that
the veto power applies, among other things,
to approval OF agreements for supply of
armed forces And if there is anything about
international cooperation that "nationalists''
seem particularly to abhor it is the prospect
OF sending American troops to guarantee or
defend some European boundary.
This veto power would offer an out from this
obligation if they could muster strength to put
through provision making our representa-
tive on the Security Council accountable to
the Senate in all major decisions. And so
these senator's might support the organization
in the hope OF making our participation in it
purely advisory.
Why then the general mild rejoicing? Be-
cause, it seems to us that people realize that
this voting arrangement is another step to-
ward unity among the great nations
1t may be an imperfect step, but it takes
us that much farther away from the deadly
opposition Of what the President has called
''perfectionism.'
But it has reaffrmed what has always been
abundantly clear that no rules laws or
leagues can achieve international peace with
out ach government sincere desire for peace
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-12
Fateful Decision

The bill for drafting nurses now goes to the
United States Senate, adopted by the House
with provision for drafting men nurses as
well as women. There will be considerable
debate in the Senate, there in the
House. 1t is an entirely new principle in the
United States--the forced service of women
This is an 'all-out war, as has been said
many times 1t has brought RECOMMENDATION of
an entire nation, with boys of II accepted by
the Navy and others OF ID drafted for Army
and Navy. The civil population is carefully
restricted, .channelled curbed But no meas
ure has heretofore called for the forced service
of women.
Protection of women has been an ideal with
American men. although it is incorrect to call
them the weaker sex. They are often strong
err; the spark of life and the will to live firm
ly inbedded in their being. They are generally
credited with being better able to stand pain
and hardship with more resistance to diseases
Strongly indivdualistc, they have more
patience, more tenacity than men.
The need for nurses is great The list Of
wounded sick and injured servicenen grows
and thus comes this almost revolutionary pro.
posal--forced service of women in war; With.
out expressing an opinion as to the course to
be followed which is something for Congress
to do in it's collective, considered Judgment.
one may forecast that the decision, whatever
It will be, will have marked effect on the
status of women generally, whether nurses
or not
If drafted, they step up further alongside
man. It's far cry from the day when woman
was supposed to be an idle ornament, grace.
full flower in a dollhouse, to sew fine seam
and weep at trifles. She has always bound
up the wounds OF man, but on voluntary
basis. Now compulsion is planned.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-12

The War
BY ELTON c. FAY
Associated Press War A,,,-

Tho c., e's war Analyst
ally struggling to cor..' t-'A''c'
Remasen bridgehead, now is he
tronted with the prospect o, w soa'
tlple crossings along a $50 , na'
stretch Of the Rhine from W. niue
to Coblenz. "eSel
Dispatches reporting n.
nation Of the German pocks s+' n
the west bank OF the river at W.' W
spoke OF heavy Allied sr, ,,s
screen covering the area and ~
said the next step would no ~ nc
crossing OF the Rhine. "'s
Here is nightmare for Tho r.
man High Command. The P 'lae YER
bradgehead is being eynn tsse1
steadily while the Cerma9se I'Qea
tangled with bomb and Shell b,. En-
ed transportation networks, try , ds,'
perately to get in forces s,,t n; GsS'
to seal off the area. But az n
same time they must leave e ~ rs
force strung out along the in nSa
stretch to cope with many cr rt,ss
ings. NUM-
The Remagen bridgehead slrp.,.
IS being exploited. Reports ,a5
Of other crossings in the immed;"".4
area, designed TO supplement %s
cross-river facilities of the cant r,'
ed Ludendorff bridge. Downstres M
the stretch of the Rhine betwes,
Vessel ard cologne lends i+,s.
much more readily to assault bos.
crossings and bridging operation,
than between Cologne and CobIer7
Additional crossings in ths
Remagen areas are not only IA
augment the traffic facilities n,
the Ludendorff bridge, but becsuss
OF the fact the bridge itself is IN.
der German artillery fire.
Enemy artillery obviously b,,
the bridge "zeroed in" with the ey.
act range to drop shells on and
close to the bridge calculated to a
nicely. A Brussels radio station
said yesterday that although shell.
ing was continuing the railway
span remained unaffected"
Engineers say that steel bridge
as sturdily constructed as tht
Ludendorff structure should with
stand number OF hits withou
being wrecked even though stresse.
might be imposed. The immediate
problem is to move men ard We
hicles across the bridge througi
shell fire.
Although the Rhine around Col
ogne and Cotlenz is from 80 to Al
feet deep, with a fairly swift cur
rent, more than a thousand fee
wide at many places, military me-
say there should be no engineering
difficulties in spanning it with pon
ton bridges. Anchorages obtained
in midstream can be Supplemental
with guy lines from the two shores
From Cologne south, and eSpe
cially in the lower reaches OF th'
Rhine below Dusseldorf, assaul
and bridging operations should b.
easier than upstream. Although thu
stream is wider, it is shalloWer AMI
the current sluggish.
Until the Germans can be push
ed back at least Is miles, Alice
troops crossing the Rhine are SUB
ject to artillery fire. Heavy cal
iber German ordnance can reacl
out to that range, although IN
more commonly used German .
millimeter carries up to aoou
eight or nine miles.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-12
Benes Leaves England
To Set Up Government
Inside CzechoslovakIi

LONDON, March II. ~ 4.
At the end of six years e% ~
President Eduard Benes mas ~
England to set up a goveTH.. INN
in Kosice, second city OF CzeI"
slovakia, it was disclosed too@ ",
He was accompanied by W.
Benes and a dozen members y
his government and persona s'1 \,
and will be joined at Moscow ~.
other cabinet members ana "
choslovak politicians. ,a.
In a farewell ceremony a.'" 49,;
ed by high British officials PEI
thanked England for heI iio'f il
tally since he arrived mere
October, 1888.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-12
Nimitz Praises Photograph
Of Surabachi Flag Raising

SAN FRANCISCO. March 11-sR
Fleet Admiral Chester w. Nimitz
today described the picture taken
by Associated Press Photographer
Joe Rosenthal Of the flag raising
on Mount Suribachi on Two Jima
as lone of the most extraordinary
war photos have ever SEEN"
He told a press conference that
ne had presented a copy Of the
picture to General George c. Mar
shall, chief of staff.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-12

of disaster, but at this time when the Red
Cross is raising its funds for the coming year
it would be well for us to remember that by
contributing to the Red Cross we will be help
ing some American communities when that
help is needed most-perhaps our own.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-12
THOUGHT FOR TODAY

Whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever
things are lovely, whatsoever things are
Of good report; if there be any virtue, ana
If there be any praise, think on these things.
PHILIPPIANS 1; 8.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-12
so THEY SAY
Bv WESTBROOK PEGLER

Yes, it Cologne bombing) made US tnlnk
of the leaders boasts about our nonaoing OF
England-and their promises that it would not
happen here-Cologne Woman.
Unless preparedness comes to mean some
thing more than simply military preparaness'
the great cry of this age Tor seeSy rs 81
unanswered-Dr Everett Case, presloent Col-
gate U.
Conplacency about the war, either IN EUR
one or in the Pacific is stupid, dangerous and
immoral. We need more production, not less
11ndersecretarv of War Robert P. Patterson.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-12

Editors note.-The Star and the News
accept no responsibility for the personal
views of Mr.. Pegler, and often disagree
with them as much as many of his read
ers. His articles serve the good purpose
of making people thinko
Detroit evening times., 1945-04-01
A School for Fight Talk

livery month 300 sailors are grad
- uated from a little brick build
- ing on the grounds of the Phila-
delphia Navy Yard.
These gobs are taught the art OF
making fight talk-to transmit bat
tie orders aboard ship.-No- one who
talks as if he had a mouthful of
marbles, or who gets flustered under
fire, can be trusted with the job.
The students are coached by pro-
fessional voice teachers. They must
have clear, resonant voices to begin
with and learn all the tricks of a
crack radio announcer.
They are trained 10 mcmorize ac-
tual battle orders, such as Get ready
to repel dive-bombing attack on star
board quarter, y or "Gunnery officer
Detroit evening times., 1945-04-01

reports enemy ships in range sir
and to repeat these with unmistak.
able clarity in the midst of great din
and confusion.
Experience has shown that the
life of a ship and every man on ii
may depend on spiit-second action. a
misunderstood order, or one that has
to be repeated, can mean the differ.
ence between life and death, victQA
and defeat.
The Navy has been training fight
takers since 1943 and even has an
advanced school at Pearl IIarbor,
where the boys who are going to
transmit the orders when their ships
are blasting the Nips put final pol.
ish on the diction that, literally, kills
the jabbering monkey-men.
TIE AMERICAN WEEKLY
Detroit evening times., 1945-04-01

HE black tribes @|>z2z1
men of BaSuto- >>f
land don't often
60 in for numbering their own kin
folk-but when they do, the victim
gets the kind of going over that
doesn't make pleasant dinner-table
conversation.
1t will be long time, however, be
fore the inhabitants of this South AT
rican British protectorate-black or
white-stop talking about what hap
pened to a native named Seleka and
the IA BasutoS who took him for a
ride. ----------------
The stranger than fiction story
starts in a South African gold mine,
where many husky Basutos were en-
ploycd. Their agent" was an under
chief named Manyonoba. He was the
nonlaboring, well-paid link between
the white bosses and the black miners.
Manyonoba was fired and he was
sore about it. lie went back TO the
hills TO talk with his friend Tabola
chief of the tribe who was in danger
of losing his job TO his younger
brother.
The disgruntled pair, being men of
primitive minds, figured out that
someone was hexing them. They
laid their troubles to the fact that
the tribes sacred medicine horns
which by ancient custom should be
filled with human flesh--needed to be
replenished.
So they called in a stupid, strong
armed Basuto named Seleka, gave
him the local equivalent of $40 as
spur to action, and told him to find
a victim for the horn-filling rites.
A week later Seleka hadn't carried
Detroit evening times., 1945-04-01

hilltop - and the bowling jackals
finished the job.
All this and more came out at a
trial in Maseru. capital Of Basutoland.
when a relative of Seleka, who had
heard the story of brutal murder,
went TO the police
At first the killers denied all knowl.
edge Of Seleka's sudden disappear
ance from their village. Then they
argued that Basuto law is older and
stronger in this part of the Dark Con
tinent than the White Mans law.
Detroit evening times., 1945-04-01

But their double talk got them no
where-cXcept the quadruple set OF
gallows erected in the prison yard on
the outskirts of Maseru.
Some day soon the IA cold-bloOdcd
filters OF the tribal horns will join
the departed spirit OF Seleka.
Detroit evening times., 1945-04-01

out his grim mission. He was full OF
beer, and excuses. Manyonoba and Ia
bola had a talk with him and gave
him another week to make good.
When the week was up Seleka
went around to his chief with more
alibis, and was told that everything
was all right. The tribe had found a
victim and was riding out TO a meet
ing place in the hills that night to
put on a horn filling show. Seleka
was invited TO come along.
He mounted his horse and galloped
away with Ia of his cronieS They
pulled up in a bowl-like depression
many miles from the nearest town.
Seleka was looking around for the
human sacrifice when heavy hands
were laid upon him. He was bound
to a stake with stout thongs.
A circle of ID black faces surround
ed him. The ring grew smaller and
long knives glinted in the fading light.
Seleka screamed.
For half an hour the razor-lile
Detroit evening times., 1945-02-18
PRISONERS SUFFER

These are sharing the privs-
tons of hunger and the many
other dangers Of the Germans
Last week American or British
bomberS unknowingly bombed a
French officers camp near Hano-
yer Fifth officers we're reported
killed and 30 wounded
Reports say that many thou
sands Of Americans, British,
French and Russians, especially
officers. are being moved south
into the mountains Of the Tyrol
That they may be held as host
ages is considered as almost GER
tain in some quarters
we Will never capitulste," Is
the daily refrain and 20 "uncon-
ditional surrender" there has been
coined unconditional defense
The President of the United
States and the British prime min
ister. al Yalta. yielded 10 Stain
and put the signatures OF America,
Britain and the British Empire in
approval Of the fifth partition Of
Poland
Detroit evening times., 1945-02-18
POWER MYSTERIOUS

Roosevelt and Churchill in ef-
feet approve and confirm Stalin's
deal with Hitler for the partition
of Poland.
There has been wonderment
over what mysterious powers
Stain and the Kremlin possess
and exercise that can make others
do their will.
Poland Is 10 be compensated by
territory taken from Germany
which has been German for GEN.
turies-from a Germany that even
in its present boundaries has an
average population Of 352 per
square mile.
Soviet Russia with the largest
area, the greatest natural re-
sources of any country in the
world, certainly has no need of
more territory.
Nor can IT be said that the Sc
curity Of the Red colossus is men
aced by little Poland and a de-
militarized Germany.
The signatures of America and
Britain TO the partitioning Of
Poland stamps Stain as the out
standing victor in the Crimean
conference.
To those who know something
about conditions in Finland, Po-
land, Rominia, Bulgaria, Hungary,
Yugoslavia and Greece. there Is
more than a touch of irony in
the statement of the triumvirs
that those countries are promised
free elections" with Soviet Rus
sia. which itself has no such in
stitution, as one of the chief aides
TO enforce such elections.
Detroit evening times., 1945-02-18
Paper Waste
Nedrs
House May Revive
Boren Committee
BY DAN Markell
Detroit Times WashinEton BuTsaa


WASHINGTON, Feb. 17-House
rules committee members will
vote Monday on whether Congress
should check on the apparent un-
limited use of scarce paper stocks
by New Deal agencies for propa-
ganda or self-edulation purposes.
The committee will decide if
the House shall have an oppor-
tunity TO vote on recreation of
the Boren committee, which in
the previous Congress was instru-
mental in obtaining some reduC-
tions In the waste of paper by
federal bureaus.
Passage of the resolution TO re-
vive the Boren committee is eX-
pected If II reaches the floor.
With knowledge gained from
its investigation into paper use
nearly year ago, the committee
would be prepared. if reconsti-
tuted. 10 go into immediate action.
The new inquiry, il is expected,
would follow two distinct lines,
the heavy and increasingly large
shipments of American newsprint
and book paper 10 foreign pub
fishers overseas. and the mounting
outpourings Of bureaucratic press
agentry.
Rep. Boren (D) Of Oklahoma,
chairman of the old newsprint
committee, and Rep. Brown (R)
Of Ohio. a member, already have
protested 10 the state department
against sending paper TO France
at the same time the government
is threatening 10 cut ALLEGATIONS
TO American publications.
Detroit evening times., 1945-02-18

jungle fOr cover
Soon the ammunition ship ex.
ploded and the air was filled with
flying debris. Men were thrown
into the water. Some could swim,
others couldn't. Many were In
jured. some dead.
Unable 10 stand the sight
longer, Snyder and two sergeants
pushed row boat into the
machine-gun churned waters and
began hauling survivors aboard.
They were unable 20 approach
the ship closely because OF the
intense heat and the danger Of
exploding artillery shells.
Detroit evening times., 1945-02-18
Savage Results Seen
From Big 3 Agreement
Conference Called Conflict
OSetween Two Civilizations
BY KARL III. Won WIEGAND
Dean of American Foreign Correspondents

MADRID, Spain, Feb. 17-At Yalta, in the
Crimea, favorte winter resort on the Black Sea of
fhe last Romanoff, Gar Nicholas, who together
with his Empress Ais, his young and only son
|Aexei his three daughters and their servants was
deliberately murdered 25 years ago in the cellar
bf house in the outskirts of Swerdlovsk, there was
Signed on Feb II an extraordinary document by
America, Britain and Soviet Russia, the roper
tussions of which will long rumble throughout the
world
1t breathes the universal prayer Of the heart of
tortured world for peace the time that DEGREES
tearing asunder agonized Poland victim of three nvasons
by cedng from 38 40 per cent of Poand territory to
Soviet Russia, who first as enemy invader then
the guse of ally who demands his pound of flesh
imposes upon the deuded people savage vengeance and
Detroit evening times., 1945-02-18
Scouts Collect Paper

ST. LOUIS. Feb. 17-Nearly
five tons Of waste paper we're col
lected the past week by local Boy
Scouts marking National Boy
Scout Week.
Detroit evening times., 1945-02-18
BLAST SHIPS, BEACH

As the planes blasted the beach
and ships with burst after burst
of fire, Snyder and his company
retreated 10 the edge OF the
Jungle for cOVer
Detroit evening times., 1945-02-18

In the fate mapped out for
Germany, Japan can read her own
Ea.-
next impression is that the
|r lrs promise toos-a rainbow
|Hith pots Of gold at the ends
hnd that ~ creates new popular
Illusions.
The document is as remarkable.
u not more So. for rs omissions
han for lis precls,snS. for what
/ does not say rather than for
what IL says.
Roosevelt. Churchill and Stain
would seem 10 agree with Angus
|us Caesar. the greatest states
man IN Roman history. who held
that no risks attend the reward
that silence hFlngS
The child OF President Roose-
EeltS brain and heart-a world
Eecurlty organization with Stain
hs one Of the powerful god
fathers when recommended at
falta 70 the woYld for adoption,
was hurdCncd with a colossal
milestone around the neck.