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Evening star., 1946-03-19
This Changing World
By Constantine Bro,Un

Because of the tenseness in the Middle
East, the dangerous political situation
in France Is receiving little attention
at this time.
Former Premier Leon Blum is now
in Washington. Reports from Paris
preceding his arrival indicated his main
business in this country would be to
obtain a loan of $500, 100000 for the
reconstruction of France.
According to some of Blum's personal
friends, his aims are not so high. He
wishes to obtain credits to tide over
the serious food situation in his country
for few months, in the hope of avert
ing a major political crisis If this
can be done, then a more stable French
government could begin to negotiate
a substantial long-term loan with a
good chance of obtaining it.
Under the existing political circum-
stances, 1t will be difficult for Blum to
talk in terms of billions when he him
self does not know what will happen
in his country in the next few weeks
or months.
Although so far as the polls are
concerned the Communists are mi
nority, the party itself is by far the
AASAASoc 0Ai0 WOW Va oA6oAiL6o Ill Ilic
country. 1t offers substantial advan-
tages and scope to the brainy young
Frenchmen who charge the old genera
ton Of politicians with responsibility
for Frances tragedy. The vast sums
which are at the disposal of the Com
munist leaders make possible large
scale infiltration into government Offices
and trade unions.
American observers who have recently
returned from France say there is not
a single government Office, prefecture
or any key organization which does not
have its quota of loyal Communists.
The nominal leader of the party is
Maurice Thorez, who holds about the
same position as Earl Browder held in
the United States. Although he is
closer to the Politbureau because he
lived in Moscow for four years, he is
just front man" who can be displaced
at any time
Jacques Duclos, the No. 2 man. is
hardly more important. Moscow places
more trust in him than in Thorez, but
the real power rests in the hands of
younger men whose names are 'front.'
PACED nowhere.
One Of the principal targets of the
Communist efforts is reported to be the
French army and some of its leaders
Evening star., 1946-03-19
The Great Killer
From Quebec L'Evenement-Jour


Facing the multiplicity of deaths
caused by angina and cardiac affec-
tions, medical authorities are becoming
disturbed. Victims of heart affections
increase to an alarming degree. They
are to be found especially among those
who have scarcely reached their 50th
year and who are entering the age
period of full vigor Science has
not ceased to carry on active research
in a field in which so many precious
lives are cut off and specialists can
count on new discoveries. thanks to the
establishment of a National Institute,
dedicated exclusively to diseases of the
heart. their causes and treatment.
Washington statistics show that more
than 100000 people died each year in
the United States of this predominant
disease during the last quarter century.
In Canada over 10000 died of it. In
both countries more than one-third of
the deaths are entered in this column
of the neurology figures. Cancer takes
one-fifth as its share and tuberculosis
only one-tenth.
Evening star., 1946-03-19

We shall likewise, with the acceptance
OF the dynamic approach to world pol
Icy, see the need for constantly ham
merlng away at the artificial barriers
to freedom of communications, to the
spread of truth-both by constant pres
sure on those who maintain such bar
rlers, and by doing what we can to
bring truth into the areas from which
1t Is barred, for example by broadcast
ing news in Russian and other Ian
guages.
We shall make the central purpose
OF our policy the extension of the areas
OF freedom. Wherever men are not
tree to think, to speak and to act for
themselves: wherever government is
controlled by the few and not by the
many-there we shall recognize an area
OF danger, which we shall be constantly
at work to reduce. Wherever men are
hungry, or naked, or without shelter.
wherever they may be tempted to ac-
cept the loss of freedom in order that
their bellies may be filled, there we
shall be at work to prove the practical
worth of the faith that is in us, the
1alth that dares to say: Yes, we are in
truth our brothers keepers.
eiAAiiA oAIdt iliotOty HAS uEIilOIlSCTdCeQ
that Americans are reluctant to use
power save in self-defense (Which will
always, from now on, be too late) or
when there rises within them some
great spiritual urge, clear distinction
of right and wrong-a distinction such
as Abraham Lindpln so consistently
maintained in his crusade against hui
man slavery.
Perhaps in this hour of need another
Lincoln may appear to rouse not only
our minds but our dropping spirits
to raise the banner of principle, to cry
out with a voice of thunder that a
world divided against itself cannot
stand, that the Union Of Nations cam
not and shall not be disrupted, that Sc
cession from the World Union can no
more be endured than could secession
from the American Union in 1861
and that Government Of the people, by
the people and for the people must pos
sess the earth lest all the people perish
Then indeed would the obstacles to
peace be overcome.
(Herald Tribune syndicate.l
Evening star., 1946-03-19

home so long and the country she
loved will miss her more than words
can tell. Miss Boardman has thou
sands OF disciples to carry on her
work, but none Of them is prepared
to take her place. That is another
way OF saying that she was unique
in personality and character and in
the useful fruits thereof. She will
be remembered for her distinction
and for the fact that all her genius
was employed for public good.
Evening star., 1946-03-19
The Fumine Abroad

1t does little good now to deplore
the fact that the United States and
the United Nations as whole might
have been much better prepared to
stave off starvation in the world had
they acted promptly and with fore
sight on warnings made over year
ago. What matters today is that
every country that can help-our
own especially-spare no effort to
extend the greatest possible relief
in the shortest possible time to cope
with what threatens to be mankind's
worst famine in centuries.
The dimensions of this crisis can
scarcely be exaggerated. As one who
is particularly well qualified to speak
on the subject, former President
Hoover-now abroad to survey con-
ditions as honorary chairman of
President Truman'S Famine Emer-
gency Committee - has estimated
that 500,0O0,000 human beings in
Europe and Asia are living in the
shadow of starvation. The situation,
as he says. is not only darker than
after the First World War, but is
worse than any since the decimating
Thirty Years War.
Although Mr.. Hoover is we'll aware
that earlier action by our own and
other governments probably could
have mitigated the present emer-
gency; he has undertaken his advi-
sorry mission without any disposition
to cry over the might -have-been. In
his view, some measure of starvation
is one OF the natural consequences of
every great war. and the vast dis
locations and tremendous destruc-
tion of the war just ended-the most
terrible in history-have made fam
inc inevitable, the more so because of
grave crop failures and unforeseen
droughts in many areas of the world.
The inevitability of the situation,
however, does not mean that the
world must resign itself to it as If
nothing much could be done about
it. On the contrary, a great deal can
be done about it. Mr.. Hoover, for
example, has emphasized the i'm
mense good that can be accom-
plished by the Famine Emergency
Committees invisible guest" plan.
Thus if every American will put the
plan into effect, providing for one
unseen individual at his table by VOL
unfairly reducing his own consump-
ton OF fats and wheat 20 and Is per
cent, 35,O00,000 men, women and
children, can be kept alive who must
otherwise perish In the critical four
months between now and the next
harvest. This is a statistic which all
OF us should keep before us at every
meal In these days. As we eat, mil
lions OF others hunger acutely: we
have only to eat little bit less to
save them from starving to death.
BY such small voluntary self-denial.
together with strong and expeditions
measures through UNRRA and other
agencies, the United States and the
world in general, If they cannot save
all who are threatened, can at least
save most of them. But time is
short, and action, not words, is what
is needed now above everything else.
The situation is challenge to the
humanitarian instincts and con-
science of every people who can help.
Beyond that, of course, it is matter
OF practical, universal self-interest,
for a decent and secure peace can
not be built on chy-breeding
famine.
Evening star., 1946-03-19
'Old-Fashioned' Education

To the Editor Of The Star:
The undersigned is happy to note that
there Is at least one school in the u S. A.
where the principal goes on record:
Were old-fashioned here. We still set
lot of store on our American history
and reading, writing and arithmetic and
geography
That's Orphan Annie's new-found
school in Smoky Hollow! Now in more
progressive" communities those sub
jects are amalgamated in or replaced
by what the pupils tell me is mix
ture" known as the social studies, de-
signed originally by radical education
lists to prepare the coming generation
for the inevitable collectivist society"
MATTHEW PAGE ANDREWS.
Evening star., 1946-03-19
Letters to The Star
Differs With Editorial Supporting
Vandenberg Amendment

To the Editor cf The Star:
Your editorial of March IA. sup
porting the vandenberg amendment to
the Mcmahon bill, evades the main
issue, which is this: Shall the military
be given the right to review decisions
covering broad, almost unlimited field
of activities? The amendment by SEN
ator Mcmahon restricted the role of
the military review board to decisions
relating to weapons. Senator Vanden-
berg has broadened this to decisions
affecting the common security and de-
Tense. I challenge The Star to say
what this would not include.
The Star implies that the Vanden-
berg amendment is necessary so that
our armed forces would be informed
of military developments in the field
of atomic energy. But this obviously
would be accomplished by the Nc
Mahon amendment Why then the
need for the broad Vandenberg amend
ment? There is only one answer: To
give the military dominant position
over the entire field of atomic energy.
Previously, the War Department had
attempted to achieve this result openly
by means of the May-Johnson bill.
Now that public reaction against this
has proved to be too strong, the same
bitter pill has been sugarcoated by
Senator Vandenberg.
The scientists of this country, as
The Star refrained from mentioning
in its editorial, are practically unan-
imous in their opposition to military
control of atomic energy research. Their
opposition is based on their experience
with what military control means and
their conviction that military control
can result only in our being outdis-
tanced by other nations. Shall We
casually dismiss these views of the
men who made the bomb?
One further point should be men
toned. Gen. Groves apparently is be-
wildered by the fact that the Man
haitian Project has lost and is con-
tinuing to lose so many of its scientists.
He asks for higher salaries to hold
these men. He will not succeed. Scien-
lists simply will not work in peace
time under the conditions imposed by
the Manhattan District. They have
learned too well what 1t means to
have their work supervised by Army
officers. who not only lack the neces-
sary scientific training but who are
too ignorant to know that they don't
know. CHEMIST,
Evening star., 1946-03-19
And the Futures Issues!

Prom the Rollo, Mo, New Era.
We all were more than willing to lend
our money to equip our fighting men
for war-let us be just as willing to re-
turn these men home and equip them
for the future.
Evening star., 1946-03-19

Mexico has recently decided that
a luxury tax on bath tubs should be
cancelled. The juvenile vote south
OF the Rio Grande will doubtless
deplore this decision.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-05
Heavy Winds DAMAGE Sail Boats
In Carolina Yacht Club Races
Only One Out OF II Sailing
Craft Energies Without
Injuries After Storm
BY HARRIss

Heavy winds and lightning bolts
wreaked havoc in yesterdays
Carolina Yacht Club sailboat races,
Of a total of seventeen craft te
start the fatal race, only one lone
bark managed to make it's moor.
ing totally unscathed; David Scott
Thistle" skillfully filtered by
little Victor Taylor.
The race began in what was al
most a dead calm, and found the
powerless craft helplessly drifting
about, with barely enough breeze
to maintain steerageway.
Eventually, however, the western
skies began to blacken, and be-
fore the unsuspecting tille--jockeys
could get squared away, ten pre-.
viously Indifferent breeze had
whipped into a screaming gale,
sending the few that had survived
the first onslaught without cap
sizing careening down the channel
Accompanied by a binding rain
that limited vision to but a few
scant yards, the unrelenting squal]
pounded away mercilessly at the
floundering vessels, nonchalantly
ripping the sails of Henry Pes
chau's "Rebel" and Joe Morrison's
fleet little Moth. Many of the crews
righted their capsized craft time
and again in futile attempts to
finish, only to find themselves
swimming again within a matter
of seconds.
Old man Jupiter, evidently suf-
fering from a heavenly hangover
resulting from too much Saturday
night, considerably added to the
disturbance by nonchalantly tossing
lightning bolts all over the place.
A number of craft were struck
by the pcankish bolts, although NO
serious damage resulted from it;
and their crew members were con-
stantly being harged with
electricity.
After the last Of the hapless
boats had been towed ashore, Ed
Nets, Chairman Of the Yacht Club
Regatta Committee, announced
that the race would be declared
unofficial and that the seasonal
point standings would be unaffected
by the drastic outcome. "Plans
are now being drawn up to provide
a return race in the near future;
the date of which will be made
public sometime during the com
ing week." he stated.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-05
HOW TO SWIM
By ADAM SMITH

There is an imaginary line, 60
ing down through every SWIM
mer's body. He will do we'll. if he
remembers that. Should he cross
his hands over or under that line,
his stroke will be thrown off bal
lance, and he will wriggle and
wobble his body through the water.
Swimmers doing these dives will
have both hands over their head.
Start the arm stroke by reaching
or stretching the right or left arm
and hand forward under the water.
making sure to keep the arm
straight. as you try to touch the
bottom Of the sound. Keep watch
ing for the bottom, until your
hand touches the thigh of your
leg. Apply you. power, from the
large shoulder and back muscles.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-05
ALL-STAR ELEVEN
BEGINS WORKOUTS
Best College Players Drill
For 18th All-Star Game
On August 23rd

EVANSTON, Ill, Aug. 4.-R-
The College All-Star football players
flexed their muscles in light drills
Sunday at Dyche Stadium before
the watchful eyes of Head Coach
Bo McMillin of Indiana.
This is only what might be
called a sneak preview," said 30.
Just want to watch the boys move
around and see what sort of shape
they're in"
This was the first day the AL
Stars went on display as they began
rehearsals for the 18th Annual ALL
Star game against the Los Angeles
Rams in Soldier Field Aug. %. A
crowd of $4,000 is expected for the
classic, which is sponsored by
Chicago Tribune Charities, Inc.
McMillin was joined in the initial
inspection by his assistants-Tuss
McLaughry of Dartmouth. Jim
Lookabaugh of Oklahoma Aggies,
Jim Phelan of St. Mary's and Wally
Butts of Georgia.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-05
TY COBB AND WAGNER
TO MANAGE ALL-STAR
BOYSFOR ENCOUNTER

CHICAGO, Aug. 4-R-Thirty-
one youngsters, aged 16 and II, se-
lected by sports editors and writers
throughout the country arrived in
Chicago Sunday to begin drills for
the All-American boys baseball
game at Wrigley Field next Satu--
day.
The amateur players, survivors
in a starting field of several thous-
and, will be divided into two
teams-East and West-with Honus
Wagner, the former Pittsburgh
Pirates star, handling the Eastern
contingent q, Ty Cobb, former
great witt Detroit Tigers,
IT, 7 squad.
In the two p its All-American
games, both played in the Polo
Grounds in New York, the East
teams won, 5 to 4 and 6 to 0.
Lineups will not be announced
by Cobb and Wagner until compile
ton of daily workouts, which open
Monday with the East drilling in
Park, home of the White
Sox, and the West in Wrigley Field,
nome of the Cubs.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-05
Clinton Trounces Wilmington, II To 2
RED SOX whip
TIGERS, 9 TO 4
Bobby Doerr Belts Two
Homeruns Off Hal New
houser In Struggle

DETROIT, Aug. 4 -(P)- Taking
over for slugger Ted Williams,
who remained in his hotel room
with a slight temperature, second
baseman Bobby Doerr belted two
home runs off Hal Newhouser Sun
day and batted in seven runs as
the Boston Red Sox whipped the
Detroit Tigers 9 to 4.
With Williams out of the
lineup FOR the first time this year.
Doerr showed the big Sunday
crowd of 49,425 fans a reasonable
facsimile of his hitting. gaining
personal responsibility for knock
ing Newhouser out of the box in
five innings.
Doerr's slugging overshadowed
the five-hlt f!inging of southpaw
Mickey Harris. who stayed through
his first game in a month to hang
up his 18th pitching victory against
five losses.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-05
BROOKLYN NOSES
OUT CINCINNATI
Buns Win, 5 To 4, By Bases
Loaded Squeeze Play
In 18th Inning

BROOKLYN, Aug. A. R The
Cincinnati Reds ga on a squeeze
play with one out and the bases
full in the 18th inning when Pee
Wee Reese hunted safely to the
mound to bring in HOWE Schultz
with the winning run.
Schultz had opened the frame
against Joe Beggs with a double.
Bruce Edwards was intentionally
passed and Gene Hermanski. bat.
ting for Hugh Casey, grounded out
advancing the runners. First base.
man Bert Haas then fumbled Bob
Ramazzotti's easy roller to set
the stage for Reese's bunt.
Casey, the fourth Dodger pitch
err, turned in five scoreless innings
and was credited with his ninth
victory against four setbacks.
Beggs, who had relieved Johnny
Wander Nicer at the start of the
seventh and had pitched seven
%scoreless frames, was tagged with
the loss, his seventh.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-05
City Optical Meets Police
Tonight Robert Strange
Senior Fraternity Clashes
With Spofford Mills In
SoftbaIl Twin Bill

The powerful City Optical soft
ball team will attempt to keep it's
perfect record in the second half
Senior Class A League race to-
night at 7 o'clock, when they play
host to the Policemen. A last place
fight between Senior Fraternity
and Spofford Mills is scheduled to
take place in the second contest
at $3.50.
Jimmy Moore's Glas5makers
have doWned both the Firemen,
first half winners, and A. C. l..
already in their battle for the loop
leadership. If City Optical whips
Speed Jefford's Police team,
they will stretch their current WIN
ming streak to four straight. On,
the other hand, the Cops lost their
lone start against the Firemen
after a tight struggle. With Oliver
"snag" Allen. newly signed in
fielder leading the attack, the
Policemen's chances of coming out
On top tonight are entirely pos
Sible.
The lowly Senior Fraternity out
fit. already in the celler with
three losses, goes up against an
other club without a win Spot
ford Mills, The Millers' hitting
power makes them favorite in to-
nights encounter. King, homerun
leader of the circuit, has yet to
knock a roundtripper in this half.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-05

Now, for the recovery of the arm.
as the thumb touches the thigh.
raise the elbow over the top of
the water, lift the shoulder a bit,
carry the arm and hand forward
in a relaxed position, and reach
the hand forward and downward
IN the water - a distance of about
IL inches in front of the shoulder,
having finger tips come to the
Imaginary line, that is running
through the swimmers body. The
arms r moved in following fash
ion. AS the right arm or hand gets
straight below the swimmers head
the left arm is starting to enter
for its reach.
Practice this for 200 or 300
yards.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-05
MINIS Football
By GENE WARREN

with New Hanover High
echooTs first football work.
ATS only ten days away, news
" Coach Leon Brodgen S Sec
ond Is skin product has Great
9d widespread interest in Will
niooton. Therefore, this
nol,nn will be used to give
1ocaI gridiron followers a de-
+sIIed report on the 1916 Wild
summing up the Cat back
field prospects one fact is GER
.air There will be speed to
mare. Kenneth Rogers and
have Zimmerman, left and
r;obt halfbacks of the AS
.eam are gone, but replacing
,5pm are the potential stars,
Who we're all ends last sea-
son These are Herman Wick,
made-to-order fullback,
lin Gibson, o promising punt
Or and Neal Patrick, sprint
CHAMPION of MINIS track
team,
Wick rushed the line from a
nroc+ice fullback role several
lines last season, and was
nothing short of impressive.
He is the pile-driving kind,
who can pull the opponents
front wall in, permitting half
back speedsters to dash
around the flanks.
To Wick, Gibson, and Part
rick add regulars Louis Bulb
ba" Sykes, a brilliant passer,
and Co-Captain Jimmy Pirer,
the most vicious blocker on
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-05

the eleven, and you have a
championship backfield. Along
with these are Brian Mullinix,
j.. Z. Price, Charlie Smith. Lin
wood Grissom, and Fritz Stell-
jes.
The line situation is what
causes spectators to balk
from calling the Wildcats a
winning club. Coach Jap Davis
has a big job, designing and
constructing a good front wall
with only three regulars back.
If from "Butch' Swart, Bobby
Stewart, Craig Hampton, Clay
ton johnson, Bill Cohn. Jim
Dillon, Bobby Haas, Doc"
Venters, Harry Mathis, "Tink-
ey' Rogers, and Billy Quarles
four strong linemen are found.
the Cats may go places. First
stringers Irwin Gore, Co-Cap-
tain Buddy Bridges, and Don
Hyatt will form the nucleus
for this defensive barrier.
The first drills are expected
to start August IA at 18th and
Ann field. Sports fans will get
their first look at the youths,
who can either make or break
W1lmington's chances of gain
ing plgskin recognition in
North Carolina then. But what
ever the outcome the boys
mentioned above and any
other enthusiastic lads, going
out for football, will get the
full support of the local fans
on the g%ridiron. come Septem-
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-05

bases on ball given up by Lamb.
two Pirate errors, and three hits
by Clinton, of which one was Vor-
rell's homer, accounted for this
big tallying stanza.
The defeat was Lambs sixth
against two victories. The big
utility man struck out one, and
walked five. Jack Estes, who has
won none and lost six while with
Wilmington, held Clinton to one
run during his relief appearance on
the mound.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-05
CARDINALS SPLIT
PAIR WITH PILLS
St. Louis Takes First Game
To 0; Drop Nightcap,
; To 2

PHILADELPHIA. Aug. 4 -(P)-
The Philadelphia Phillies, a thorn
in the side of the pennant-minded
St. Louis Cardinals, held the Red
birds even in Sundays twin bill,
coping the nightcap 30 before
1886 after Murray Dickson stiff
ed the Pills with two hits as the
Cards won the opener 10.
The split cost the Redbirds a half
game in the red hot national
League pennan1 fight as they slip
ped to two full games behind the
front running Brooklyn Dodgers
who won a single game from Gin
cinnati.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-05

State League in Won-lost records,
hung up his 18th victory, allowing
only six hits. The loss was offset
for Wilmington by Sanford win
over Dunn-Erwin to keep the Buc-
cancers one-half game behind the
Twins in the two clubs fifth place
battle.
Manager Gus Britain Of Will
mington drove a homerun over the
left field fence in the sixth inning
to star for the losers.
Clinton tailed their seven runs
in the second frame to put the con-
test virtually ION ice" Several