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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-07

Worn out felt hats can be used
to make felt appliques to ornament
sweaters and jackets, or used to
cover worn spots.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-07
In The Seruice

ress unit of the Eighth Air Force.
Capt. Pittman's wife, Mrs. Eve.
Ign L. Pittman, lives at Chad
bourn, and prior to entering the
Army Air Forces in April, 1941,
the captain was a farmer. He
graduated from North Carolina
State college in 1888 His parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur E. Pittman,
live at Route Three, Fairmont,
N. C..
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-07
OAK LEAF CLUSTER

Captain Ray L. Pittman, %, of
Chadbourn, has been awarded the
fourth Oak Leaf cluster to the Air
medal, equivalent to the fifth
award of the medal, for "merito-
rious achievement" while taking
part in Eighth Air Force bombing
attacks on NaZi airfields and rail-
road marshalling yards in coordi-
nation with the tank and infantry
thrusts at the heart of the Third
Reich.
The flyer displayed courage,
GOODNESS and skill" while serving
as a command pilot with the 490tt
Bomb. Group, a BIZ Flying Fort
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-07
PROMOTED

Leon Batson, son OF Mrs. c. May
Batson, Wrightsville Beach, has
recently been promoted from chief
motor machinist to warrant Off
Ger. AS a member of the regular
Navy, he has seen duty aboard a
submarine in the Pacific for five
years, being stationed in Manila
at the time of the attack on Pearl
Harbor. W/O Batson is expected to
return to the States soon for re-
assignment and will spend Some
time at home while awaiting or.
ders.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-07
PROMOTED

1t. E. L Math-
ews, Jr., son of
Mr.. and Mrs. E.
L. Mathews, Of
Wilmington, has
recently b e e n
promoted to the
rank of first lieu
tenant, according
to an announce
ment received by
his parents. 1t.
M a t h e w S has
seen service in
France and is
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-07

INVESTMENT PROPERTY, SOUTHERN
Extension, close in, 4 apartments and
large house. Bargain. Other good buys.
App1ewhite Real Estate. Phone 1881
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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-07
EXECUTORS NOTICE

EXECUTORS NOTICE
Having this day qualified as Executors
OF the Last Will and Testament of Fost-
er F. Burnett. late of the County of New
Hanover, deceased; this is to give notice
to all persons having claims against the
estate of the said Foster F. Burnett, to
please present them to the undersigned,
at the banking house of the Wilmington
Savings & Trust Company, Wilmington,
N. c., on or before the 7th day of June,
1916, or this notice will be plead in bar
of their recovery.
AL persons indebted to the estate Of
said Foster F. Burnett will please make
immediate payment.
This June 9Th, 1945
WILMINGTON SAVINGS 8. TRUST CO.
By Richard S. Rogers,
Vice President and
Trust Officer
and
Celeste Marie Burnett Eaton,
Executors
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-07
RETURNS

Marine Corporal Harvey Floyd
Norris of Tabor City, N. c., has
returned from the Pacific and is
now on Through.
The son of Mrs. Mary Norris,
the 24-year-old Leatherneck served
on New Zealand, Guadalcanal,
Guam and Two Jima. He attended
Tabor City High school and en-
listed January 26, 1910.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-07

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FOR BETTER BEACH PROPERTY. SEE
Tucker. Tucker Real Estate Co., Caro-
lima Beach.
Detroit evening times., 1945-11-29
Postwar Promise
By MERRYLE STANLEY RUKEYSER

swakens to the idea that America can and
will continue to 60 upward and onward.
He said:
"They must reawaken in the heart OF
the coming generation, To whom all our
institutions will some day belong, the faith
that to work Is to be blessed; that ambi-
tiOn Is not self delusiOn but a noble in
centive; to attain success material and
spiritual, is an actual possibility; that
America and the world should face the
future with confidence and strength; that
personal energy, SO magnificently appar-
ent In the victorious age must become, in
every heart, a creative blessing in the
years which lie ahead"
THE clergyman's words are clarion
Il call to perpetuation of the pristine
American pioneering spirit which turned a
wilderness into a land of unparalleled op-
portunity.
The inspiration behind the Pittsburgh
er's thesis is in sharp contrast 10 the pre-
vailng neurotic, negative doctrine, which
destructive propagandists have mis-
branded as liberal" and progressive"
Dr. Freehofs words are challenge TO
God-fearing men and women of all faiths
to rise TO the high opportunities which
flow from overwhelming military victories
His message points the road to national
prosperity and progress.
Detroit evening times., 1945-11-29

leaves Americans free to choose their
own destiny.
Military success obviates any threat
that foreign gauleiters shall force us to
march down alien and sordid paths.
But if we are going to achieve the full
promise of American life we also need
faith and a positive philosophy.
Amidst the vogue for slave philoso-
phies in frustrated and exhausted coun-
tries of Europe and Asia we need to
reaffirm the energizing principles of in
dividual initiative and individual enter
prise.
BY our deeds we shall demonstrate
anew the continuing fecundity of the Gre
ativt mind in the realm of science, inven-
tion and engineering.
MYTH self confidence we can achieve
w hitherto unattained levels of mater
ial wellbeing for 35000,000 American
families
In the circumstances, the country at
this crucial turning point, is immeasurably
aided by sound spiritual counsel.
From a Pittsburgh clergyman, Rabbi
Solomon B. Freehof of Shalom congrega-
tion recently came inspiring words and
sentiments.
Dr. Freehof's thesis is that there is
solemn responsibility on the part of par
ents and educators to see to it that youth
Detroit evening times., 1945-11-29
Legion Prospers
THE AMERICAN LEGION
NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS
CHICAGO Illinois, November II, 1945.
Mr.. WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST.

CHICAGO Illinois, November L. 1945.
Mr. WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST,
SAN SIMEON, CALF.
MY DEAR MR.. HEARST
T THE conclusion of another successful year in
Legion history and the Of our twenty-seventh
annual convention here in Chicago point with pride
TO year of achievement and progress.
We have attained altme high membership Of
1864 ,491 including more than 100000 World War IL
veterans Our Amercanism rehabilitation child welfare,
and other major programs have shown constructive
suits during the year.
On the eve of my retirement national commander
of this great patriotic organization, want to express
my personal thanks to you and your newspapers for the
support you have given programs during the year
The support which the Legion has received from you
down through the years has been essential factor
in growth and success.
Your newspapers have been most influential in their
advocacy of measures beneficial to serveemen and
women. Your Christmas ships campaign and the cash
gifts for the wounded have been real contributions to
the welfare of those who fought so gallantly.
Ny kndest personal regards
Sincerely yours,
EDWARD N SCHEIBERLING,
National Commander.
Detroit evening times., 1945-11-29
WORLD IN REVIEW

IN ESTIMATING the present
Il conditions in the Philippines
left by the war, too much
emphasis is given 10 the de-
structlon Of certain important
cities and towns. 1t is true that
great urban damage was done.
That part of Manila which
lies south of the PaSig River,
where the japanese made their
last frenzied stand, is almost
totally destroyed.
This Japapese force had been
condemned by their own mill
tarv command 10 inevitable
death. They could not sur
render.
Facing their own end, these
soldiers virtually ran amuck.'
The horrible details of their
massacre of inoffenSive men,
women and children have been
given before the military COM
mission in Manila, trying Gen.
Yamashita.
Japanese defenders had
TO be dislodged by American
artillery, and where gunfire did
not destroy the buildings of this
area, conhagration did.
CIMILAR d estructio n OF
~ towns in the provinces
Of Manila accompanied the
fighting.
Driving through the provinces
OF Rial Batangas, Tayabas.
and Laguna, last July l. noted
that almost every important
town had suffered heavy dam
age, few were almost de-
Stroyed.
Iloilo and Cebu, the two i'm
portant commercial cities of the
BiSayan Islands, likewise suf-
fered, as did the beautiful town
of Zamboanga, in Mindanao.
The fury of devastation Of
warfare falls heavily upon cities
and concentrations of popula-
tion. but the rural areas suffer
far less, and may entire ely
escape the blasting destruction
of battle.
Travelling northward from
Manila through the rich prov
inces of Bulacan and Pam
panga, l felt that I had never
seen this area so luxuriant or
well planted. Towns had been
spared.
The japanese retired from
this part of Luzon in haste. and
did not risk a battle. The same
condition must prevail over a
great deal OF the countrys
THERE should be an adequate
L food supply in this predoml-
nantly agricultural country, as
Detroit evening times., 1945-11-29

there is not in such a country
as Japan, where the population
is about five times as great,
with far less tillable soil.
But while there seems no
danger of any general suffering
from hunger, there is great
scarcity of clothing, textile ma
terlalS. and the many manu-
featured articles 10 which the
Filipinos have become accuS-
toned. and of which they now
feel the lack
l visited a good many native
markets. Manufactured articles
Of foreign production were not
only very scarce, but they were
poor in quality, and OF eNces-
sIvely high price
This seemed 10 be due pri-
marily TO the suspension OF
commerce with the outside
world, and to lack of commu-
nlcation within.
According 10 the Fihpinos,
the japanese did almost nothing
10 create that "co-proSperity.'
which was a much stressed fea-
ture of their military propa-
ganda. frey neglected high
ways and roads. They seized
and took elsewhere the inter-
island shipping. They comman-
deered all means of transpor-
tation.
And they do not appear 10
have maintained their own mar
kets in the Philippines for tex
tiles and other goods Of their
factories.
WITH American occupation,
w the building up of large
forces and stocks in this stag
ing area further paralyzed cI-
william communications
Many communities and in
deed whole islands, became vir-
tually isolated
on the east coast Of Min
danao. where | landed AT the
little town of Catael, there had
been no ship for three and a
half years.
Camiguin is a beautiful and
rich little island north Of Min
danao.
The volcano which created
the island is still active and its
lava eruptions have created a
soil of great fertility. But !
found it bare Of necessities and
without communications.
During Japanese occupation
the enemy detachment stripped
IL of most of its possessions.
burned many of It's houses but
Detroit evening times., 1945-11-29
BY Maj. General
d. p. Barrows

brought in nothing for native
use.
With the departure OF the
Japanese tSe island lost all
contact.
The people were clamorous
clothing g+utenSIlS-a and other
things of which they stood in
dire need.
Only a revived interlSland
shipping. with It's opportunities
for trade and exchange, can re-
store the life and prosperity Of
these islands.
In all. the measures Tor tho
rehabilitation Of the Philippines
! would give adequate COM
munlcatIonS a high priority.
Detroit evening times., 1945-11-29

During what period Of L &.
history did Napoleon III vio-
fatC tte Monroe Doctrine?
The best known figure in
L. S education recently re-
tired from hlS university
where he spent 81 years.
Who is hc7
Detroit evening times., 1945-11-29
THESE
DAYS
By George {.
SokoIsky

WHEN an army officer is re-
w tired. no matter what his
rank. and no matter how long
ne may have been retired. he IS
required 10 submit for war de-
partment review all material
for publication in any form, eX-
Cept in such military publCa-
tIons as are directly under army
control.
Now. this does not only sp-
ply 10 his discussion OF matters
which relate 10 the national
security" no matter how broadly
interpreted but 10 the war de-
partment. the army or the for
eign or domestic policy Of the
United States. No retired gen
eral. not even the most top
flight, may utter personal and
private view Of such a subject
AS. let US say. peacetimc con-
Scripton, without bureaucratic
approval.
This applies even after he has
left the army.
TNHE question then arises In
L accordance with which pro-
vision of the Constitution does
a retired army officer lose the
fundamental right OF citizenship
10 scuSS. debate or hold
opinions on the foreign or do
mestic policy Of the United
States?
Another question arises here
What is the domestic policy
Of the United States concerning
which the army has views that
retired officers may not hold.
or If they do hold them, may
not express? The policy of the
United States is decided by the
Congress of the United States.
| can agree with the army
rule that restricts confidential
or secret material. but none of
that has 10 do with the domeS-
tic policy. Compulsory peace
time conscription is a domestic
question which is for Congress
to decide.
Apparently. Congress finds Il
aS hard 10 make up It's mind
about this question As. for in
stance. | do AZ this moment I
favor a plan Of combining ma
tional guard training with high
school education, but maybe
better plan Will appear.
LIVERY American should dis
IL cuss this question with
view 10 making up his mind as
10 what he really wants 10 do
with his own children. l should
like TO sit down with some old
time army officers who have
been retired long enough 10
think like ordinary American
citizens.
When these able men tell me
that they are unable TO give me
anything for quotation / feel
that such p gag is more harmful
10 the national interest than IL
would he 10 lot out as much
about tho atomic bomb secret
as can be read in any scientific
account Of uranium fiSSion
The army sits on the Id and
retired officers are gagged be-
cause If they live like citizens,
they can get into a lot Of
trouble with the army.
WHY does not somebody take
II up 10 the Supreme Court as a
test caSe7
copyriEht. is4s. n kim resturss
Detroit evening times., 1945-11-29
General WainwriSff'S
Memo 10 History

- a
fully trained foe With one of the
most helpless armies - the history
of arms. "
In other chapters Gen, Vain
wright had more to say about unpre.
paredness which he summed up in
"a words:
WE WERE IN A WAR FOR
WHICH WE WERE NO MORE
PREPARED THAN A CHILD is
PREPARED TO FIGHT A CRUEL
AND SEASONED PUGILIST."
The unpreparedness, Gen. Vain
wright explained, was reflected in
hopeless shortages of guns, ammuni-
ton, planes, transportation, COM
munications, and lack of information.
As OF Dec. 9. I94I, We had only
the public telephone and telegraph
system for our communications.
"Our borrowed and appropri-
ated transport system ranged from
IoPsided buses to sports conUertibles.
"We had no naUy and no air
force beyond reconnaissance P-40s."
These reconnaissance planes
finally were whitfield down to two
battered and patched craft.
THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE
CAMPAIGN OUR FIGHTER
PLANES WERE USED MAINLY
FOR RECONNAISSANCE.
THERE WEREN'T ENOUGH
or THEM TO FIGHT THE
ENEMY"
THROUGHOUT this three years,
three months and 18 days of i'm
-pFfsonment IN Jap torture camps
Gen Wainwright reflected on the
errors which his Imprisonment sym
bolized.
On one occasion he had the oppor-
tunity- to give expression to his
thoughts.
He explains the occasion:
"One day, in July, 1912, we
Were told 10y The Japs) that each of
us must Urite an essay, the subjects
of Which rVere assigned to us.
II dreW Americas P, eWar Policy
in the Pacific
II sat doWn and uIote at great
length on WhGt | believed, AND
STILL BELIEVE, uUas our appalling
error in not being n1ilitarily prepared
for any emergency in that part of
the World."
It is in such paragraphs as these,
quoted directly from the generals S
text, that this exclusive story be-
comes a dual document.
Through these paragraphs it be-
comes more than tragic and heroic
account of an army cleft on limb. I"
Through these paragraphs it be-
comes Memo to History"-an
indictment against unpreparedness
and DIPLOMATIC 81 u N
DERING.
n
Detroit evening times., 1945-11-29


WRIGHT ms told ms amazing
story exclusively in the Hearst news
papers.
In part il was 4 personal story
Of an American hero and his heroic
men on Bataan, Corregidor and in
Japanese torture camps.
But through this story Of life
and death moved a parade Of para
graphs which stand as an indictment
Of diplomatic derehctions and Amer
lean unpreparedness.
These paragraphs separated from
The text of tie generals story, con
stitute Memo to History in
which Gen Wainwright warns:
That moment of surrender in
Tokyo Bay pus bought with the
blood OF more than million Amer
leans uho died or rUerc tUounded in
the struggle.
Billions of dollars and countless
hours Ct lOork by Americans at home
rOcre required to brng that little
bond Of Japs to the Mrssouri'S deck.
"ALL BECAUSE FOR A
WHILE WE WERE CARELESS OF
OUR NATIONS SAFETY.
"WE LET DOWN OUR
GUARD"
This "Memo to History, I" written
L into Gen Wainwright's own story
after his liberation from japanese
Imprisonment BEGAN in the gen
erals account of pre- Pearl Harbor
days in the Philippines.
-RecountiHg- conversation with
Gen, Macarthur on Nov. 25 194l-
two weeks before Pearl Harbor-
Gen. Wainwright wrote:
He had no Official information
-. He tVaS completely in the dark
regarding the gravity OF diplomatic
messages then being exchanged. ;"
Seven months later, in japanese
prison camp. Gen Wainwright and
his fellow prisoners discussed diplo
matte derelictions which had left the
military in the Philippines totally
uninformed.
Of this conversation Gen Vain
wright wrote:
'Tt Uas no comfort, sitting there
in our rags in TarIac prison, to con-
slider the state of our preparedness
on the cue of rUar lUhich had been
breWing in Washington diplomatic
circles for a long time before the
bloW fell -.
"The men at Tarloc Who had
been close to MacArthu, during my
days or Bataan told me of the com
n1onder's great despair oUer our
inevitable fate. He told Maj Gen.
George F. Moore:
"'NeUer in history has a force OF
this size been so left ont on a limb"
CEN. WAINWRIGHT added his
~ own appraisal:
Detroit evening times., 1945-11-29
BEHIND ~
THE NEWS
BY Paul
Ma4eA

WASHINGTON, Nov. 2s-The
" diplomacy OF the world is
falling deeper daily into what
might be called a fuddle game
1t is a match in which the
contestants know very well
what is being done, but pre-
tend officially they do not. Pre-
poSterous pretentions are main
tanned in the news of the day
The public is left befuddled.
The transparency of the de-
ception develops only when you
rub the SCOT of propaganda
from the news glass Of this
amazing world and peer inside
the furnished facts.
Consider, for instance, the
revolution in Iran. The revo-
luton was started by a crowd
calling itself the democratic
party. All the newS-guf ema-
mating from the revolution is
that which the occupying Rus
SLAMS care TO let out And the
picture they let out is that
great patriots of liberty are
t1gHtTUEI bleeding and dying for
the cause of freedom of their
provlnce-sort of like our Strug-
gle for freedom from Britain.
THIS is laughably, groteSquely
Il untrue. The Democratic party
is the old Communist party un-
der a new name. They used 10
call 1t the party of the masses,
but when the MoSlemS. who
monopolize all Iran with their
deVout ideas of God, worked up
a sweeping anlmus against the
agnoStic or atheist Communists,
the Communists broke off and
called themselves Democrats.
Now these great democrats of
Stain. If successful would
break their province off from
Iran and establish the pretenSe
of separate sovereignty while
being subject to adjoining
Russia.
Stain could thus work his
way further toward the oil. ex-
pand his hegemonv and push
back the MoSlems This is the
-eHlv-freetft,frf- ti7rv-U5nT-To
wreSt the people from Iran and
put them under the thumb of
Moscow.
DUT the revolution Is even
I'D iunnier than that The Rus.
SLAMS occupied this Territory
during the war 10 protect q line
of Sl4ppIies-fpea,- All g.
boteurs could not destroy II
For long time. il was the ONLY
ldDt route we laU through
which 10 help Russia Ampri-
cans and British occupied the
southern half of the route
Al the war end, but cat the
specific insistence of Mr.. Roose-
Velt composed treaty guar
anteeing the independence Of
Iran (meaning its protection
against Russia, because Russian
domination is what the Mos
lens feared from United Ma
tionS victory.
We got our combat force out
some time back. leaving only
service military and the British,
l hear, also removed their fight
ing men
The Russians raised some dis
pute as TO when the end of the
war officially would be. but
finally agreed 10 March 2 for
their withdrawal, which this
government in it's new note,
has attomntpd IN rnoVe I'm IN
Detroit evening times., 1945-11-29

VICTORY over the enemy on all fronts
' leaves Americans free to choose their
Detroit evening times., 1945-11-29
knowledge Test
By DIR. SABINA CONNOLLY

Give vour,sH ONF Tor each ~ the hrd
h,s questions and FINI FOR the last ques-
tinn >Cnre-e-to, brilliant; 70 bright,
A-e a,crsre o., dull
/ old IronSideS was the popu-
tar name for the: tat Moni-
tor Cb) Scraps, (c) ConSti-
tuition
2 A Message 10 Garcia is a
story Of the: "a Civil War.
fb) World War I, Co Span
iSh-American War.
3-The author Of Home Sweet
Home died in: tal Boston,
'bl Washington. tcl TuniS.
4 Pennsylvania Dutch are
really mlSnamcd: Ca Dan
Isb-AmcrlcanS. tb) German
Americans. tc) II ola d.
Americans
1T ony one remembers the
san Francisco earthquake,
bC must have been alive IN
tho year. ,a) 1890 Chl 1906,
tcl 1914.
Detroit evening times., 1945-11-29
Buy Victory Bonds Regularly
Hold Them; Here's Whut Happens
SAVINGS AND INTEREsT AccUNCJI ATFc

NASHINGTON D. War Finance officials
HondsS375 wi
Tho
sther small savings and their future values
Detroit evening times., 1945-11-29
s NIaIrh thcsc coIumns.

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Detroit evening times., 1945-11-29

VNHE note then represents our
Il first and very mild effort 10
drop this whole false front with
which the world is confronted
tthe condition in Manchuria and
Europe is in every way similarD.
II it sounded vague and its
troop withdrawal plan exceed
ingly mild. il nevertheless rep
resented the beginnings Of an
effort 10 break the fuddle
game
EnleSs this beginning is car
ried forward effectively, eenu-
inc understandings of any kind
can hardly be anticipated in
such a way as 10 restore the
World\eithcr 10 peace or sanity
Surely il is evident by now that
agreements in a fuddle game
are MOI worth making.
Distributed hy KIM Features synd me.
Reproduction IN vhAts ~ N p.r
strictly prohfoit.f
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-15
THESE FIELDS, TOO, ARE BATTLEFIELDS IN
OUR ALL-OUT FIGHT FOR FREEDOM

Thrilled indeed whole organization to receive letters from
fighting all the wOrdeac telling of seeing the
Massera label military fOOdstuffs at aroff outpost We
helped feed the Guadacana ard food has followed
them they fought nohwad Our produce has helped feed
fighting in Europe The effort of each organization
other food producing organizations toward keeping
and Allies well fed and healthy makes better fight
The production of and better food fight the
home front The fields which the food produced
baeeds.