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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Is entitled to the exclusive . use of all news stories appearing in The Wilmington Star. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1942. With confidence in our armed forces — with the unbounding de termination of our people—we will gain the inevitable triumph — so help us God. —Roosevelt’s War Message Star-N ewsProgram To aid In every way the prosecution of the war to complete victory. Public Port Terminals. i Perfected Truck and Berry Preserving and Marketing Facilities. Seaside Highway from Wrightsville Beach to Bald Head Island. Extension of City Limits. 26-foot Cape Pear River channel, wider Turning Basin, with ship lanes into industrial sites along Eastern bank south of Wilmington. Paved River Road to Southport, via Orton Plantation. Development of Pulp W od Production through sustained-yield methods through out Southeastern North Carolina. Unified Industrial and Resort Promo tional Agency, supported by one county wide tax. Shipyards and Drydocka. Negro Health Center for Southeastern North Carolina, developed around the Community Hospital. Adequate aospital facilities for white. Junior High School. Tobacco Warehouses for Export Buy ers. Development of native grape growing throughout Southeastern North Carolina. Modern Tuberculosis Sanatorium. TOP O’ THE MORNING Be patient in small as well as large matters . . . Patience is a power as well as a virtue. Greenville Klieser. Spare The Doctor — The most serious problem faced by the medical profession today lies in the vast numbers of doctors who are being called to service with the armed forces. It is the gov ernment’s policy that American fighting men must be given the finest medical care pos sible, and doctors are joining up by the thousands. In order the meet both military and civilian needs for doctors, medical groups are taking definite action. During the next three years, for instance, U. S. medical schools will graduate more than 21,000 students as a result of recently-adopted programs for ac celerating the education process. This is 5,000 more than would have been graduated without the accelerated programs. Retied doctors are coming back into har ness, and other doctors are working hard er. The most efficient utilization of all our medical resources is rapidly being attained. So far as the patient is concerned, authori ties are urging that everyone do what he can to “spare the doctor.” That simply means that we shouldn’t ask for unnecessary house calls, and we shouldn’t waste the doctor’s time when he comes. If you take more of his attention than you actually need, someone else may have to go without. If patients will remember this, it will help greatly to solve the problem. -- ' --- The Rubber Czar William M. Jeffers, president of the Union Pacific railway, has assumed the responsibi lities of the newly created post of rubber czar. The appointment has been made by Donald M. Nelson, chairman of the War Production Hoard, who assures the public that it has the approval of President Roose velt, and adds that henceforth all matters pertaining to rubber will be handled by Mr. Jeffers, with full authority to make all deci sions and, as a czar should, settle all disputes. Mr. Jeffers has devoted his life to rail roading, having risen from office boy or messeger to the presidency, to which he was elected in 1937. When any boy climbs the ladder to success as he has it may be taken lor granted that he possesses ability, clear vision and perserverance, all in rare propor tions And as railroading requires of its em ployes exceptional talent for guarding the tongue, it may also be considered that ha * \ will not stir public resentment with bombast or foolish frothings, as so many special war time bureau heads have been doing. Without special training in the rubber mar ket, but with a level head, it is fair to think that the attributes which have carried Mr. Jeffers to the top in his own chosen calling will prove valuable in his administration of the rubber program, provided, of course, he is given a clear field in Washington and has public support. Without these, the greatest of geniuses would be doomed to failure. -V Battle Of Stalingrad Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy, British his torian, wrote the story of “Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World.” They stretched from Marathon to Waterloo and included the Brit ish defeat at Saratoga in the American Revo ution. Were Creasy alive and writing today he would have to write of the Battle of Stalin grad. The fifteen battles he chose lor his dook had their effect on the future course of world events. The Battle of Stalingrad may have as great effect on the world as any of them. It may well prove the turning point in Hitler’s conquests and mark the beginning of the end of his power. For, although he probably will take the city on the Volga, the price he will pay, in time, no less than in men and mater ial, will be so great that he cannot hope to destroy Russia’s great fighting machine be fore another winter comes to freeze him in, and, we may well believe, freeze him out of Russia’s COhquest. Hitler can entertain no hope of extending his exploits southward through the Middle East to join hands with the Japanese in India, but must turn home ward to meet Russia’s allies in western Eu rope, so crippled and with such curtailed re placements from his war industries that the dream of world domination must fade for ever from his mind.” This is not to assume that Hitler will be incapable of striking heavy blows next spring. But the time gained for the United Nations by the magnificent, soul-stirring defense of Stalingrad, coupled with losses imposed on the Nazis, seems to indicate a change in the balance of power which can bring Hitler to his knees. Even though the full effect of the Battle of Stalingrad cannot be seen in advance, it ranks side by side with any of the fifteen Creasy declared “decisive.” -V New Solomons Attack The Japanese persist in attempts to regain j territory in the Solomon Islands, seizeii by I American Marines supported by naval and air strength, for two obvious reasons. First, the defeat met caused a loss of face, so precious to them. Secondly, the Solomon Is lands constitute a bulwark of strength in the southwest Pacific. Having once established a firm postiion in them and fatuously as suming themselves secure, only to be driven off in a thundering attack, the must continue efforts to both save their face and repossess the positions which would give them such a great advantage in any further exploits their expansion program calls for in that war arena. Losing the Solomons would be a major de feat to our yejlow enemy. Bu the same token, their complete occupation would be a major gain for the United Nations. For they have as great strategic value for us, Japan’s ene mies as for the Japanese. It is obvious, there fore, that the MacArthur headquarters will give no foot of conquered territory In them though the. Japanese keep up their thrusts until they are driven out, lock, stock and barrel, from areas they now hold. The enemy has succeeded in effecting land ings at night in the Guadalcanal zone and have sought by sudden plunges to catch the American Marines napping. All such attempts have failed, just as their naval bombardments and air bombings have been 'ineffective. It is clear that MacArthur has no intention of loosening nis grip there. If at the same time he finds means to tighten it and extend it to other islands in the group, the situa tion in the southwest Pacific will be greatly Improved. -V Stop The Babble These debates and controversies over who shall be called to the service by draft boards, and in what order, are disturbing public morale beyond all reason. Parents with sons in the 18-19 - year group are distressed not so much at the thought of having to give up their boys as not knowing when they may be called; whether, for ex ample, to pay out substantial sums of money for college tuition and the thousand and one expenses created by college attendance, or keep their boys at home uutil their number comes up in the draft. With living costs mounting so fast and additional taxes to be paid, this is a serious matter for all parents, not only those in moderate circumstances. There is equal consternation among young married men with children of tender age. Are they to be drafted next, or deferred? They would give much to know, not because they are reluctant to serve, but because they can not now make plans to fit either continfgency. They are up in the air, or out on a limb, or any of the other positions which betoken a sorry mess. It is understandable that heads of govern ment, faced with unaccustomed tasks, are confused and. find difficulty in determining what should be. done for the best results. But there is no excuse for them to spread their own confusion and bafflement into the homes of the country. t Let the controversities be held in secret. Let the decisions be made behind closed doors. Let the public be told what the deci sion is. But in heaven’s name let the babble stop! -V Washington Daybook BY JOHN GROVER (For Jack Stinnett, on Vacation) WASHINGTON, Sept. 16.—Breakdown of na tional crime statistics by the FBI shows that American gals are stepping right in to pinch hit for their brothers in the law-breaking business. The records show that during the first six months of 1942, 10.2 per cent of all offen ders arested were women, an increase over 1941, when 9.1 of those arrested were females. tThe FBI says, however, that the apparent increase may be due to better statistical re porting of female crime by co-operating agen cies.) The war is reflected in the marked increase in sex crimes. With thousands of men away from home, and conditions generally upset, the index of rape cases increased by 9.9 per cent in the first six months of 1942 as com pared with the similar period in 1941. * * * More “party money” is in circulation, and the 9.4 per cent increase in negligent man slaughter mirrors increased druken opera tion of motor vehicles. Auto thefts, presumably because fewer cars are on the street, and because operation of a car without proper gasoline credentials is dif ficult, showed a 1.6 per cent reduction for the half year. The Federal Bureeau of Investigation noted that there are 175 auxiliary police for every 100 regular police officers in cities over 25, 000. Over the whole country, the score of arrests showed criminals were arrested for 27.7 per cent of the crimes reported. Larceny and automobile theft were the “safest” crimes, from the standpoint of the criminal. Arrests were made in 24.4 per cent of the auto theft cases and 22.7 per cent of the larcenies. Murder was the toughest rap to beat, with 88.1 per cent of the murderers arrested. The same high precentage held in manslaughter, wherer 86.6 per cent of the killers were caught, and in rape, where 76.2 per cent of the offenders were jailed. * * * Murder was a favorite pastime in the south ern part of the United States. The east south central states reported 8.65 murders per 100, 000 population for the highest homicide rate in the country. New Englanders were the least lethal, the murder rate being only 0.59 per 100,000. The same east south central states had the worst robbery index, with 44.4 per 100,000, and the New England group again was the purest, with 6.1 robberies in 100,000 popula tion. Broadly speaking, the survey also showed that crime was most prevalent in those sec tors having the lowest numbers of police officers. The east south central • states, hav ing 1.26 peace officers per 1,000, second lowest crime rates generally. New England, on the other hand, had the best crime record, and reported two officers for each 1,000 people, second highest in the nation. -V : . . Editorial Comment VICTORY TAKES THE WATER New York Tinmes Nazi submarine campaign on Labor Day by launching 174 ships, mostly naval vessels, but including a number of cargo carriers, and laying down the keels for forty-nine more. We are producing the means with which to sink or drive away the undersea com merce raiders. We are also producing the cargo carriers. In August, though the rate dropped a little as compared with July, we were doing two pnerchant ships a day, and this month the Maritime Commission hopes for three a day. This year’s goal of 8,000,000 tons of merchant shipping may be exceeded by as much as 1,000,000 tons, and officials believe that if sufficient steel can be found a big but not unsurmountable “if”), next year’s 16,000,000-ton program may be pushed up to 20,000,000 tons. The grand total for the two years would be the equivalent of nearly 2,800 of the new 10,500-ton Liberty ships. The cargo carriers and the naval vessels share a common mission. There will probably continue to be controversy as to what kinds of naval vessels we ought to build—whether, for instance, great fighting ships of the Iowa class are worth the time and steel they take The advocates of the cargo plane as against the cargo ship will not be silenced. We have to think of these things, even while we throw up our hats over what has been done and whittle cheerfully at the thought of what is to be done. A certain amount of Mieer we can certainly allow ourselves. The battle of the cargo ships, carried on so heroically and with so few heroic gestures in the wild wastes of the Atlantic, is as important as any battle we shall have to fight. Just now we are gaining on the enemy. As the months pass we shall undoubtedly improve still further on our methods and means of sea warfare. The ships we have built so soundly and in such a hurry are proof not only of Am erican productive power but of American resourcefulness. -V Quotations Whatever the risks or dangers, Whatever the efforts demanded from the workers when the word “Go” is given, we will support the government to the uttermost. — George Gib son of the General Council of the- British Trades Union Congress. * * V ■ Large reinforcements have reached’ India, and the number of white soldiers now in In dia is larger than at any time in the British connection.—Winston Churchill, British prime minister. * * * The stepping up of the intensity of the vital conflict in which we are engaged and the growing need for enlarged forces make it clear that all young men fortunate enough to have the physical and mental qualities to en able them to serve their country in the armed forces are restined for that service.—Henry L. Stimson, secretary of war. » * * For every ship so lost (by U-boat), Ameri can production and assembly-line methods will retaliate twofold — yes, tenfold. — Rear i Admiral Emory S. Land. » * * Human nature, poverty and children with problems are the same wherever you go, and ' they have to be dealt with in the same man- > ner.—Miss Nadir ouvea Kfouri, Brazilian soc ial worker visiting U. S. * * * We are making so many trips across the Channel that I am getting to know the place like Times Square.—Lieut. Robert Lupton, U. S. Air Forces. SOLD DOWN .THE BIG RIVER Civilian Defense Timetable BASIC TRAINING COURSES High School Room 109, at 8 P. M. Fire Defense A: Every Mon day. General course: Every Tues day. Gas defense B: Every Wednes day. FIRST AIR 10 HOURS First lesson: Every, Monday. Second lesson:. Every Tuesday Third lesson: Every Wednesday. SPECIAL COURSES Fire Defense B: Ever Thurs day, Fire Dept., 4th and Dock Sts. Police course: Every Thursday, High School room 109, at 8 p. m. Nurses Aides: Monday, Sept. 28, at 10 a. m., in James Walker Memorial hospital Nurses Home. If you hear or observe anything suspicious in character report it promptly to: Wilmington Police, 5244. Wrights ville Beach Police. 7504. Carolina Beach Police, 2001. Captain of the Port, 2-2278. County Defense Council, 3128. Sheriff, 4252. —-V As Others Say It Valiant Stalingrad. The tenacity of the Russian de fenders, the terrible beating they are taking around Stalingrad and their heroic defense will go down in history with the names of other heroic last ditch stands, the Crimea, Thermopylae, Verdun, Wake Island.—Gastonia Gazette. < * * * * * * A Poser. If and when—Hitler conquers America, who will be the first to meet the firing s quad? Two guesses permitted. Paragraphers or cartoonists?—Raleigh Times. * * * Echo, Answers, Where? By the way, where are the emi nent military experts who were too smart to believe the airplane could prevail against battleships? (Memphis Commercial Appeal). The Literary Guidepost I BY JOHN SELBY “Quicksilver,” by Fitzroy Davis (Harcourt, Brace; $3). The only artist more difficult to writ.e about in fiction than an actor is a musician. Once in a blue moon something about the stage “comes off,” however, and this is the moon. The novel is Fitzrpy Davis’ “Quicksilver.” Perhaps it is not at all a novel — probably it is not, : But neither is it a straight study j of an actor and his surroundings. ! The book is fiction, it considers a considerable period in the life of Henry Carmichael, it has the typ ical novel ending, and it develops its chief character . in a peculiar way, but sufficiently. “Quicksil-’ ver” can, therefore, be read as a ■ novel. I read it is the neatest explora tion of the life and psychology of the stage that I have seen in the last ten years. Mr. Davis has ap parently taken to heart the dic tum that if a competent writer really explores every possible an gle of his subject, telling the truth; about it as he sees the truth, the result will be a good book “Quick- j silver” is a good book. The Evelyn Navarre company just has been assembled for re hearsal when it opens. Miss Na (yarre is to do “Romeo and Juliet” on the road after a very success ful New York run. The road just is opening up again, the season looks profitable, there is a good feeling about the venture. Na ; zarre is one, of the queens of the American stage; Mrs, Johnston-; ,erry’ w^° plays the nurse is one i great Irish character ac | tresses, and Henry is her servant , m the play and a gifted actor. He : also is in love with Judith Alex ander, who is not an actress, but a rather chilly member of “high” ; society. Henry’s family was prom ment before it went on the skids AJ.1V1S moves- the whole company forward through time. He moves it slowiy, using every minute to the best advantage. Everything is there, from the pairings-off inside the company to the peculiarities of the Ryman theater in Nashville. Mrs, John-1 ston-Terry refuses to go through I Marshal1 Field’s revolving, doors m Chicago and rouses the town. Joel King, tre Tybalt, gets six members of the company into a i All things ^happejiand such is Mr. Davis’ skill that you can bear with him more than 600 pages. You lose the thread of the story a hundred times, too. and you do not care. Raymond Clapper Says: News Reporters In War Time Run Into Trouble Bv RAYMOND CLAPPER. WASHINGTON, Sept. 16 — News paper Week is coming along soon but I see something about an American war correspondent being captured by the Axis during a Brit ish raid on Tobruk, so this is a good time to talk about a repor ter’s work. * The captured war correspondent is unidentified as I write but cir sumstances indicate he may be Larry Allen of the Associated 1’iess. In any case, evidently an American war correspondent was going about his daily work, which in this case took him out on a British attack at Tobruk. Larry Allen has been shot up and shot down during this war, as have a number of other correspond ents. A score of them went across in the Dieppe attack and had men shot down all around them. Never before has individual free dom hung so precariously as it does now. Correspondents aae try ing to report this desperate strug gle blow by blow because every blow counts. In addition to the war corre spondents who are risking their lives by going into the thick of bat tles are some who have paid the price in another kind of work. I am. thinking of J. B. Powell, who served as an American journalist in China for so many years. The Japs had him marked for years and they finally caught him at Shanghi. They tortured him and left him broken and maimed for life. The National Press club of Washington is raising a fund for him. Newspaper men all over the country are joining in because they recognize J. B. Powell as a man who has courageously and at fear ful cost to himself stood his ground for freedom. Those are the lives that 'make newspapers something more than a 6 per cent investment, as Wil liam Allen White once put it. —— —-- -- Those are the lives that give their :nspration to a whole army of newspaper men and women who would rather devote themselves to trying, to find and report the truth than, do anything else in the world. You can make your criticisms of newspapers. Any working newspaper man can make more of them than anyone outside the busi ness can make. A newspaper man scarcely ever reads over his piece in print without feeling that he could have improved it with a lit tle more work. Most newspaper men feel that the speed at which they must work is sometimes a handicap and prevents them from digging as deeply as they would Like to do. We are often puzzled, the more we look into something, to know what the truth is. Try it sometime around Washington. The more people you talk to, the more confused you will become. You get tangled up in a cross-pull of wires as one official pulls against another.. Particularly in wartime your working newspaper man struggles always against indecision and con flicting decisions. Some officials think it is healthy to have public discussion. Others think it is bet ter to suppress differences and put up to the public a smooth plaster front that looks solid but which underneath may be as phony as a world’s-fair pavilion. For instance, some officials here see no harm in public discussion of India. We are sending troops and Lend-Lease aia there. If it is that important, then aren’t we within bounds when we take exception to London’s bull-necked course which is the same one that brought such disaster in Burma and Malaya? But some British correspondents here, attempting to inform their papers in London of American fen ^ent, find their dispatches neavily censored on this side be -oie beng sent across. This while London censors permit British criticisms of the Churchill policy pers56 S6nt t0 American newspa Everywhere in the world, news *uying t0 tel1 the truth must filter through censorship. No J^.per. ma« questions the "hfn iKy f°r tight military censor -hip, thougn he may argue over incidental details. But ToliUcal ^rhlP \S spreading also among !£ Jnf- na‘1Pns under the guise of f ying the Axis anything that n might make use of. wrHri -pr(.tss °f the democratic orld is the only free forum left Jrpp ll6Ve that on the whole the iree press has exercised a sense of responsibility and restraint called for by the times. Therefore it is not comforting to see some name employe sitting at the cable ,de(c‘dffl3 with a whack of his abn,?f tnheTfmd of Political news about the United States that Bnt iPhth0-rrespondents can send back ■o their papers in London. --v—:— ractographs "Somewhere in Cornwall, Eng land, evacuee children are run ning an hotel. The youngsters are all under 15. ♦ * • Ceylon, an island which lies off the southern tip of India, and is a British possession, is as large as the state of West Virginia. Interpreting The War By KIRKE Id. si.MPsnv Wide World War w, The first cold breat ' coining Arctic winter js an<ither the Russian steppes toV’"Wpir'8 her gallant defenders a, ""1:' Hitler that time again C dangerously for him in F'': 1115 rrom the Baltic to the c Moscow reports the . . the season in the wake of a,,,7 01 rains. The drop in temper.. “"!"al parently came earlier tWsyeraH last in Russia, even though " only an advance showing 7 11 15 six-month long winter mov!' ‘W behind it. By every porten ' remain some weeks, but onlv ""e before ice and snow again Russian front and drive Ttte vaders into winter q have not yet attained all 7 Don or the Volga or on _ Ule of the towering Caucasus guarding the Baku oil Uela_5e su:i In the circumstances a phrase from a broadcast by j c highest • ranking army China, picked up by a Birtish ^ tion, must catch attention fim7 its possible bearing on »h7‘ in Russia. ‘Asia in cooperation with E„, is about to take simultaneou ? tion toward realization of » world order," Genera, shunt* Hata, was quoted as saying. " Short of a Japanese assault Russia to help Hitler achieve ; ’ immediate aims before winter in to halt his conquest mart!: ' is difficult to see what form operative Axis military action t Asia and Europe could take justify the Hata cryptogram. Japanese attempt to invade i,,d, would not have the same signify, ance. Evolution into a major 0»' ation of the new Japanese effort t, regain lost ground in the Soloi ■ - Islands torn from the enemy’s by American forces would not. Only Japanese aggression against Russia would seem to fill p„ . unless Hata s talking about - ' new political gesture, not al military action. And it is no: ■ waid, toward Russia, not sout against Australia or eastwri 3-&<iinst India, that Chinese have consistently contended t Japanese forces being withdrawn from Southeastern China were moving. It is against Russia, too, that Japan is offered the shortest and best protected route for expandin’ her campaign of conquest. It is only 600 air-flight miles from ' to Vladivostok; and reinforced Jap anese armies in Manchukuo are already in face-to-face contact with the Russians on the Siberian bor der. By contrast, mounting an in vasion campaign against either Aus tralia or India would involve sm pendous long distance transporta tion difficulties. As this is written, news from the Solomon Islands battle still is too meagre to indicate its scope, whith er the second Japanese attempt tc drive out American forces ousted them from important sectora In t southeastern section of the great group is - i cal action, a sort ing operation or the beginning of a pitch-battle test of American abil ity to retain control of the South western Pacific is yet to be reveal ed. It hould be any of these it strategic concept. Intensified Japanese reacuon n| the first American offensive mov of the Pacific war was to ’ pected. Military prestige and tt reputation of the Japanese com manders. army and navy, m • ■■ area, urged it if nothing e it was ordered by.Tc and has been nr is to be 1 mass movement of air power, S lng ships and troops south’ support it, a crisis in 1 is impending. Tin- greatest s-s-s conflict of the whole war c shaping up. tVhnt seems mot that Tokio has authorized it manders in the Poloi - use their available reserves attempt to restort to American-Austrahan roimnw* tion linns: hut views tl as a coverin if. as the Hata Japan is ... t > it would I"- Iogi ican attention at > j Pacific too remote t" 1 aid for tin' Hussion The same thing wot the event India is te the Japs, but to a British sea and ait P«w Indian ocean, n o further entrem ' ed is the prime fact! sider if an invasion m purpose. The Hata remark - to recall what happi1,1 and Asia last ' 4 ed the peal: of ' offensive that ; ember 22. He s a week later : treat to w: That was December 7. ^ famy" Japan st her and Sin? Hong Kong and Hitler making was ' . fact, involving all cept for the strait < f ,,, ■•:) Japan and Hus jap* * seems doomed to et . ,;,.p Japanese and Am-' every sign. Some of the '**££** in the Canadian °or Grei larger than r ; r Lakes on the United der. 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