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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-03-01

There are reliable reports from
Mexico City that our delegation
is divided on guaranteeing one
American republic against aggres-
sion by another. The question OF
guarantees is a. real one because
the immediate neighbors OF Argen-
tina, especially the smaller ones
like Uruguay, feel that they are
threatened by. the Fascist dicta-
torship in Buenos Aires. What has
already happened in Bolivia shows
that these fears are by no means
imaginary.
It is said that some members
Of our delegation wish to give a
firm guaranty at once, and that
others wish to wait until the San
Francisco conference has worked
out the relation between regional
and world security. There spught
to be no difficulty in our minds
about how to resolve this issue.
Our obligation to answer a call
from the threatened republics for
help against the specific danger OF
Argentine aggression has already
been taken, and there ought not
to be the slightest hesitation or
equivocation about it. We have
challenged the. present govern
ment of Argentina because it has
been giving aid and comfort to our
enemies. We have invited the
neighbors of Argentina to do the
same. Win any one suggest that
we could conceivably fail to stand
by them if they were attacked be-
cause they have stood by us?
Nothing that is going to be writ
ten in the Dumbarton Oaks char.
ter or in AN inter-American secur.
ity pact can add to or diminish
our specific commitment to Ar.
gentina's neighbors. In taking
their stand at our side, they are
our Allies and, if then they were
attacked, their enemies would be
our enemies.
Neither they nor Argentina
should be given any reason to
doubt the firrnness of our com
mitment or our readiness to full
ill it. This is simple obligation
of honor. It is also the surest way
of preventing trouble. For if we
are not lucid and firm, we rur
the risk of encouraging an adven
ture in aggression, of discoura ging
resistance to aggression, n d o.
finding ourselves faced with az
accomplished fact in South Amer
lea. It would cost much more la
ter to iberate a little republic ir
South America than to be firm
now in order to prevent its being
conquered or infiltrated and alb
sorbed.
Far from impairing the author
ity Of the world organization OF
the regional arrangements which
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-03-01
TODAY and TOMORROW
By WALTER LIPPMANN

we hope to achieve, firm posi-.
ton now on this specific threat is
needed in order to achieve them.
Charters and pacts for keeping
the peace should be carefully CON
sldered, and they must be found
ed on the agreement of many ma
lions. This takes time. The time
will be well spent. For without
agreement which rests upon a
conviction of its members, no in
ternational society will be depend
able.
While we are at Mexico City
and then at San Francisco con-
sidering how to keep the peace
for the future, we must keep the
peace in the present. That was
what the Yalta conference set out
to do for the defeated enemy
countries in Europe, and for the
liberated countries: it inaugurated
an interim and provisional system
of security to keep Europe paci-
fled in the period which has now
begun, and will continue until
peace has been re-established.
The behavior of Argentina calls
for an interim and provisional sys-
tenn of security inS this heni-
sphere. Here too we must make
certain that the peace is kept
while we are celebrating on how
to keep it. The simplest way to
do that is for the nations at the
Mexico City conference to declare
jointly and severally that they will
not tolerate aggression in this
hemisphere. On that foundation Of
specific security against immedi.
ate danger, we can then examine
with care the juridical and con
stitutiona1 problems of general Sc
curity in the longer future.
There is a report that our dele
cation is troubled as to whether
we are intervening in the interna.
affairs of Argentina, and if So
whether we are violating the prin
ciple of non-intervention. The an
sWer is that we have not inter
vened in the internal affairs o1
Artentina. We are dealing with
the external acts of the present
Argentine government, with its
failure to fulfill it's internationa:
pledges, with its acts that assis1
our enemies, with its aggressive
ness toward its neighbors. 1t is
the foreign relations Of Argentine
that trouble us, and they are jus
as much our business as Argen
tina's. 1t is absurd to contend tina
the foreign relations of country
are its internal affairs.
There is no doubt, Of course
that when in any country free in.
situations are overthrow by die
tatorship, that is sign that hel
neighbors must be on their guarc
against external aggression in all
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-03-01
CITY IS PRAISED
IN POWER CURFEW

Wilmingtonians are cooperating
periodically with the Govern
ment's Nationwide brownout plan
to conserve fuels used in gene
rating electricity with nearly 100
per cent compliance, WPB Off
Gals said yesterday.
Only four minor violations have
been reported and in all cases,
they were due to misunderstood
ing of the order and were quickly
corrected when brought to the at
tention of the person or firm in
volved.
The order prohibits outdoor ad-
vertising, promotional, display,
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-03-01
Ne,u Rent Control Head
Will Take Over Today

Maurice H. Moore, associate d.
rector of the Wilmington OPA
Rent. Control office since June,
1913, will become director of the
office today succeeding George w.
Jeffrey, district rent executive, who
will assume his duties as director
of the Raleigh office.
Mr.. Moore, World War 1 vet
eran, transferred to the Rent Of
flee from the znanagesship of the
Wilmington U. S. Employment Ser
vice.
Mr.. Jeffrey has been area rent
director of the Wilmington office
since it was opened June 1, 1912.
The Raleigh area will be brought
under the rent regulations tomor-
row.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-03-01

decorative or ornamental lighting,
except where necessary for the
conduct of business of an outdoor
establishment. It permits marque
lighting not in excess of so watts
and directional or identified alton
signs for traffic control, hospitals,
transportation terminals, doctors
and hotels, the last two being
limited to go watts.
Any person who considers that
compliance with the order will
endanger public health or safety
may. appeal to the district office
Of the War Production Board for
relief or exemption.
Repeated and wil4ull violators
face the prospect Of having their
electrical service discontinued and
fine or Imprisonment. 1t is hoped
that the order will be relaxed or
terminated by the early summer
and that it will not affect the To-
cal beaches, it was said.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-03-01

against the enemy in the Euro
pean theater of operations. 1t.
Fonvielle, with the Seventh Ar
mored Division, has been in the
Armed Forces for two and one
half years. He was graduated from
New Hanover High school in 1898
and from Virginia Military Insti-
tute in 1912, in civil engineering.
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y s
medal, Vice Admiral T. c. Kin
caid said, His performance of
duty was outstanding and con-
tributed materially to the success
Of his ship in a series of brilliant
actions against the enemy. In
further splendid actions, the snip
performed reconnaissance of an
enemy base, cooperated in its
bombing, shelled an enemy air.
strip and CALAMITY rescued an
aviator under enemy gunfire. His
actions and conduct throughout
this patrol have distinguished him
among those performing duties of
the same character" Skies has
sent the medal to his parents, Mr..
and Mrs. R. c. Skies, Route 3,
Wilmington. ..
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-03-01
HEADS PETROLEUM FIRM

NEW YORK, Feb. 2S.-R-Ar-
thur T. Proudfit was elected pres
ident of Creole Petroleum Corp,
by the Board of Directors today,
succeeding the late C. H. Iieb,
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-03-01
ENDS FURLOUGH

otd11 SC4 SCdIlt
Ebert F. Da-
Wis, son of Mr..
and Mrs. L. M.
Davis, Holly
Ridge, has re-
turned to Fort
B 7 a g g after
spending a 80
d a y furlough
with his par
ents. S/Sgt. Da-
Wis was twice
wounded while
serving W j t h
the Both DiVi-
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-03-01
BRONZE STAR

~ " 14A - ~ L
Skiles, Radioman
&c was recently
awarded t h e
Bronze Star for
d i S t i nguisnin g
himself by ''he-
roic and merito-
rlouS service
during war pa
troll in enemy
controlled waters
in the Pacific
theater. In the
citation accom-
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-03-01
BODY FOUND

NORFOL, Va, Feb. 2s-(P)-
Missing since January %, the body
Of James w. Midget, SO, of 511 Har-
rison street, Portsmouth, today was
found floating in the Elizabeth river
by Coast Guard patrol boat.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-03-01
In The
Seruice
BROTHERS MEET

n r. GIDEON l.. GIDEON
Corporal j. T. Gideon and Lin
.,,ood Gideon, BoatsWain's Mate,
First Class, met recently some
where in the Pacific after a two
and one-half year separation. Cpl.
Gideon is with an Infantry divi-
s;on which has seen active service
in the Pacific for the past several
months. He was formerly stationed
n Trinidad with the Coast Artil-
lerv Linwood Gideon enlisted in
mo Navy in December, 1941, and
has been on active duty in both
tbe Atlantic and Pacific theater.
They are sons of Mr.. and Mrs.
A. T. Gideon, Route 3, Whining
ton
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DECORATED

First Lieutenant Chris Eugene
FenVlelle. "a, son Of Mr.. and Mrs.
W A. Fonvielle, 1910 Chestnut
street, has been awarded the
Bronze Star for heroic service
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-03-01

He also will continue as general
manager of the company's Vene-
zulean operations with his office
in Caracas.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-03-01
RETURNS

Tcchnician, 5th Grade Marshall
y Malpass, 80, son of Mrs. Hat
tie Malpass, of this city, has re-
turned from 80 months service in
the a-India-Burma theater as
a blacksmith with a quartermaster
unit Before entering the service,
rs Malpass was employed as a
tug boat operator by j. N. Bryant.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-03-01
PROMOTED

Pvt. William E. Hines, son of
Mrs. Matte Hines, Route 3, Will
n1ington, has been promoted from
the grade Of private to private
first class, according to an an
nouncement by the headquarters
Of the 56th Fighter Group. A for
raer student of Goldsboro High
school, Pfc. Hines operates the
station motion picture protector
fer his group. Prior to enlisting in
the Air Forces, he was employed
as radio repairman by c. W.
SEackleford.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-03-01

All planets shine only by reflect
ed sunlight.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-03-01

SION OVERSEES and has received
the Purple Heart and one Oak
Leaf Cluster.
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ploded. Captain Render, a pilot,
has been stationed in China for
several months. Previously he was
a pilot in the Ferry Command.
Prior to volunteering for the Air
Forces, Captain Render was grad
uated from Boeing School of Aero
nautics, in California, and held a
position with Eastern Air Lines.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-07-15

General Eisenhower made SHAEF
the mighty instrument of victory
that 1t was. Their names will be
long remembered. The organization
they built and directed was essen
TALLY human, of course, and there
fore not fiawless, and so occasional
errors of judgment, especially in
such fields as censorship and public
relations, had to be expected. But
taken all in all, it was nonetheless
the greatest and most successful
agency of its kind ever seen in the
world. Once SHAEF was formed,
the days of the Nazis were num-
bered. 1t achieved a degree of
unity and teamwork never before
achieved among Allies, and that was
the most priceless ingredient of
our great common victory Though
it exists no more. it has won it's
measure of Immortality in the
sense that it's place in history is
aSsured-a large and shining place
rejecting glory on all it's architects
and commanders.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-07-15
SuItinq the Stock

on sunny, quiet Sunday after
noon the country man likes to take
a bag of salt and start to salt the
dry cows and young stock in the
far pasture. These are the cattle
turned out in early May. AS the
cows get near freshening time they
are brought to the barn, but the
yearlings and two-year-olds will
stay in summer pasture until killing
frost time.
Sailing the summer stock Is the
direct motivation for the farmers
anticipated weekly walk, but there
is much more to it than the simple
utilitarian purpose of supplying
needed sodium chloride in white
crystalline form to eagerly nuzzling
bovineS. After big Sunday dinner,
topped off with couple pieces of
red astrakan pie, it is good to set
forth on perambulating tour of
the farm
Strange as it may seem to urban
jewellers, a farmer likes the oppor-
tunity to inspect his mowings and
crops in leisurely fashion. A man
needs to stand quietly and look at
his corn, oats and potatoes. He
likes to go through the farm orchard
and see how the Baldwins, North
ern Spies and Porters are growing.
1t is a deeply satisfying experience
to walk over the fields from which
the first crop of alfalfa, clover and
timothy has been harvested and to
see how the green mat of the second
crop is coming along.
Eventually he comes to the sum-
mer pasture lot, and as he goes
through the bars the cattle are
waiting. They have seen him COM
ing and know that their weekly
treat is ready. As they crowd
around him he talks to them-as
good farmers always talk to their
livestock. He rubs their withers
and behind their ears. He examines
their backs for signs of grubs and
then drops handfuls Of salt at
spaced intervals on the ground,
where the cows eagerly lap it up
with long, rough tongues. In few
! minutes the salt is gone and the
cattle follow their master as he goes
to look at the spring hole near the
lower end of the pasture. Sailing
the summer stock is a pleasant task.
It is more than supplying mate
rial need. 1t is part of the country
mans summer routine.
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The End of SHAEF

In London on February Is. 1914,
SHAEF - Supreme Headquarters,
Allied Expeditionary Force - came
into existence. Yesterday at one
minute after midnight, it came to
an end in Frankfurt. Germany, dis
solved formally by General Eisen-
hover.
So passes the directing agency
of the most powerful coalition of
arms in the history of the world.
No fanfare or ceremony attended
the event, and perhaps none was
needed. for SHAEF's fame requires
no further emphasis or celebration.
It's record speaks for itself. AS long
as man reads of war and victory
the story of this combined COM
mand, of this vast and intricate
Allied military organization, will
grip the imagination and be a
source of inspiration.
In the II months of it's existence,
SHAEF moved often, advancing as
the victorious Allied armies, navies
and air fleets advanced. In the
spring of 1914 it moved itself to
Bushey Park, 20 miles southeast of
London, to be closer to the troops
preparing ! for the invasion of
France. Then, after the landings
in Normandy, 1t crossed the Chan
mel and established itself at Gran
vile. Later, with the Germans on
the run. it went to Versailles, and
in February of this year it set itself
up in Rheims. where it remained
until the final collapse of Nazidom,
after which it relocated in Frank
furt. 1t always went forward; it
never went back.
British Air Marshal Tedder, Field
Marshal Montgomery, Admiral
Ramsay. General Bradley - these
are some of the men who with
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Colonel Hobby

When Mrs. Oveta Culp Hobby
came to the War Department in
July of 1941, she came with the
understanding that she was to stay
only three months, her assignment
being merely to organize a woman'S
interest section in the Bureau OF
Public Relations. Almost before she
knew it, however, the three months
had passed, and she found herself
the pioneer leader of project I'M
precedented in American military
history.
The project began in May two
years ago when Congress authorized
the formation of Women'S Army
Auxiliary Corps, and Secretary
Stimson appointed Mrs. Hobby its
director, with the rank of colonel.
The task called for tact, poise,
vision and great organizing ability,
and, given these things in album
dance, Colonel Hobby, breaking new
ground against not few hidebound
male military traditions, quickly
shaped policy and hammered out
recruiting and training program
that made the WAAC so self-evi-
IDENTIFY smart and valuable that
within about years time the word
auxiliary was dropped and the
WAC became an integral part of the
Army.
Today, as Colonel Hobby returns
to private. life in Texas after four
years of outstanding war service,
the women's military organization
which is SO largely her own creation,
and as such kind of monument
to her, has a strength of 100000.
WACS now serve in more than $50
Army jobs in every part of the
world. To the degree that they
have released men for active COM
bat duty and have turned in an
unquestionably skilled and essential
performance, their contribution to
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Is 1t TniHgbt2
The Req. Alfred w. Hurst, d. D..
Minister Cleveland Park Congregational Church

evitable and endure 1t as best we can
as long as we can. The figures which
we see moving about in the twilight
are preparing to draw the DEATH
shroud about our civilization before
lying down to unpleasant dreams.
The prophets of the dawn, on the
contrary, venture to suggest that the
figures which we see dimly In the
twilight are girding themselves for a
journey. These prophets of hope
are no less aware of the worlds tragic
plight than are the pessimists, but
they deny that civilizations problem
is biological. They point out that
our secular culture has tried to live
without an adequate ethic or reli-
gious faith and that purely secular
culture cannot endure. The lamp is
Pickering because the oil that feeds
the flame is exhausted. Religion has
been made merely an elective in the
university of life. The Christian
ethic has been consigned to the
bleachers when it should have been
made the umpire Of the game. For
the moment, some one suggests that
the only possible course is to call the
game on account of darkness. But
the prophets of hope protest that in
stead the lights should be turned on
by replenishing the oil of religious
faith and morality. Moreover, they
point to the encouraging fact that
again and again religion has helped
civilization in time of crisis and that
Christianity in particular has proven
its power to renew declining cultures
and start them reaching for the stars
once more.
The deepening twilight of our
world is an inevitable result of the
eclipse of religious faith. 1t is not a
question of civilization being old or
young. It is question of opening
the door to the Light of the World
who can show us how to put our
sensate culture under the regency of
spiritual values. The prophet of
Nazareth can re-create and renew
our declining world, if we will let
Him, but our decision must be whole
hearted, and no part of life, personal
or social, may be withheld from His
control.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-07-15

The first American journalist to
visit Berlin after the surrender
of Germany concludes his somber
picture with the lament: There is
a peculiar feeling that one is seeing
world in its twilight" Sir Edward
Grey, after the failure of his efforts
to prevent the First World War in
1914, sighed: 1.-THE lights are going
out all over Europe. They will not
be relit in our time"
Are these the remarks of superficial
observers who strive to be sensa-
tional? On the contrary, they and
other careful observers have come to
a conclusion which decidedly is dis
tasteful to them, but which they are
forced to admit, namely, that our
minded, thing-minded civiliza-
ton has gone the limit and is in dam
ger of complete extinction.
What shall we say? Has the bright
sun of civilization set? Is twilight to
be the sovereign mood of the coming
decades? Is the pallor which afflicts
the landscape the outreached hand
of night? Two answers are being
given to this query. Neither denies
the reality of the twilight. But one
is based on the conviction that 1t is
descending twilight; the other is
founded on hope that the twilight
is ascending. There is the twilight
that follows sunset and is haunted
by the shadows of coming night:
but there is also the twilight which
presages the sunrise as the light of
coming day is gradually 'diffused over
the arching sky.
The prophets of doom claim that
civilization, like plants and animals,
follow a life-cycle from the spring.
time of youth, through the summer
of productivity, into the harvest per-
iod of autumn, terminating in the
winter of old age with decay and
death. According to this conception
we are now entering the wintertime
of decay. We can no more reverse
the process than we can prop up the
sun at close of day. 1t does no more
good to rebel against it than for a
man of 80 winters to curse his senil-
ity. Our thing-centered civilization
is overripe. It's vitality is all but
gone Deplore it as we may, it were
better to resign ourselves to the in
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Perhaps the Only Way

From the New York Times.
The Russians in Berlin, the British
In Northwestern Germany and the
Americans in the southwest are all
establishing local and regional admins
trative bodies consisting of carefully
selected Germans. And the Russians
have been compelled to restore free
trade in order to get food into the cities.
The Germans have always been danger
Gus politicians but expert administra-
tors, and as long as the work of their
administration is carefully supervised
by the Allies, there can be no objection
to 1t. In fact, that seems to be the best
and perhaps the only way to mobilize
the diligence and talents of the Ger
mans in the service Of Europe's resto-
ration.