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■Ptlttttngtott morning #tar North Carolina’* Oldest Daily Newspaper Published Dally Except Sunday By The Wilmington Star-New* At The Murchison Building R. B. Page, Owner and Publisher Telephone AU Departments , DIAL 3311 Entered as Second Class Matter at Wilming ton, N C.. Postoffice Under Act of Congress of March 3, 1879._ SUBSCRIPTION RATES BY CARRIER Payable Weekly Or In Advance Comblna Time Star News tion 1 Week .$25 $ 20 $ 35 1 Month . 1-10 88 3 Months .. $-25 2.60 4.55 6 Months . 8-50 5.20 9.10 l Year .13.00 10.40 18.20 News rates entitle subscriber to Sunday issue of ot.ar-News BY MAIL Payable Strictly in Advance Combine Star News ticn i Month ...$ -75 $ ™ 3 Months . a 00 I ff *’75 6 Months . 4 00 3.80 f.60 J Year . $.00 6.00 10.00 News rates entitle subscriber to Sunday issue of Star-News Card of Thanks charged tor at the rate of 25 cents per line. Count Pve words to line " THE ASSOCIATED PRESS is entitled to the exclusive use of all news stories appearing in The Wilmington Star THURSDAY', MAY 7, 1942 ____ i 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 Mesial® Star-News Program To aid in every way the prosecution of the war to complete victory. Public Port Terminals. Perfected Truck and Berry Preserving and Marketing Facilities. Seaside Highway trom Wrightsville Beacn to Bald Head Island. Extension ot City Limits. 35-Foot Cape Fear 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 ot Pulp Wood Production through sustainpd-yield methods through out Southeastern North Carolina. Unified industrial and Resort Promo tional Agency, supported by one county wide tax. Shipyards and Drydocks. Negro health Center for Southeastern North Carolina, developed around the Community Hospital. Adequate nospital facilities for white. Jun’or High School. Tobacco Warehouses for Export Buy ers, Development of native grape growing throughout Southeastern North Carolina. Modern Tuberculosis Sanatorium. TOP O’ THE MORNING And it shall come t- pass, IF thou shalt hearken dilligently unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe and to do all His commandments . . . that the Lord thy God will see thee on high above all the nations of the earth; And all these blessings shall come on thee, and over take thee, IF thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God. ... > The Lord shall open unto thee His good treasure, the heaven to give the rain unto thy land in his season, and to bless all the work of thine hand; and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not bor row1. —DEUTERONOMY 28; 1, 2, 12. Hitler Knew Better There appears to be a growing demand for an American Expeditionary Force for South Africa, where it is said they would be handy to any African or Asiatic war zone or even southern Europe, as the need might be. Naturally, the United States wants to place its' forces where they ian do the most effec tive work in winning the war. It is not the present purpose to quarrel with decisions of Allied war. councils, but we do believe that more consideration ought to be given to plac ing enough men in one spot to clean it up. Hitler knocked oft one country after another by massing his forces for that particular job. He could not have been so successful, even with his preparations and equipmnet for war, if he had scattered his armies from one end of the earth to the other and fought many battles simultaneously. With our still inadequate forces, it is certain that we have no reason to expect success if we continue to do what Hitler was wise enough not to do. Furthermore, it is difficult to understand why such pressure is brought on the United States to send troops here, or there, while the/'e is an army of roughly 3, 000,000 men in England with nothing to do but drill and eat, and perhaps flirt a bit. Let’s get enough men somewhere in the vast battle of the world to win a victory. There have been too many reverses to be blamed on too few and too little too late. Fall Of Corregidor However clearly the fall of Corregidor was foreseen, its loss is apalling. We are not inured to defeat. We’ve had no long schooling in it. And adding to the shock is the certain knowledge that, man for man, Corregidor’s defenders outfought the superior forces of the enemy for five months of almost perpetual attack. On equal terms, Japan could not have won the victory. With ample munitions and sup plies, with more men, this bastion of democ racy could have held out for years. But be cause the Japanese jumped the gun there as they did everywhere in the Pacific combat zone, and poured into the Battle of the Philip pines an endless stream of men with ap parently unlimited air and adequate naval support, the Stars and Stripes came down, as they did on Bataan only a few weeks before. But it is what lies immediately ahead that must now have attention. What use will the Japanese make of their costly victory? Will the Philippines become a link in their supply line for further exploits in India and Aus tralia or, perhaps, being gluttonous and am bitious, direct a thrust at Hawaii from the ad vantageous bases they may create there? De spite the great distance from our own Pacific coast, it is not improbable that the capture of the Philippines will bring a new and greater threat to its security. Pearl Harbor may have led Tokyo to believe that Hawaii is no more prepared to resist attack in force now than on December 7 last. An eastward thrust is well within the probabilities. It seems more likely, however, that the en emy in the Orient, with a great force released from the Philippines, will press the harder in the south with the object of cutting China off and taking India, where the going will be easy. The alternative is an offensive against MacArthur in Australia, which w'ill be infinite ly harder but which is becoming more and more desirable from Tokyo's viewpoint be cause of the powerful force being mobilized there for a general counter-offensive. Japan may well supose that any additional victories in the Pacific theater of war will be of transitory worth only as long as MacArthur is able to assemble the striking power of the United Nations for a mighty blow, not only at her forces occupying conquered territory but at Japan herself — where the final Allied victory must come. -V Profits From War Business men who harbor a desire to make a profit out of this war were properly scored by John Colucci at the Rotary club luncheon meeting on Tuesday. They ought, rather, to be thankful for an oportunity to do their part, however small or great it may be, in the emergency that literally threatens their ability to remain in business. If we lose the war, Mr. Colucci declared, and everybody ought by this time to know, all profits will be taken by the victors. Only if we win, as we must, can we again consider the making of profits. This deserves more than casual considera tion. It should be viewed comparatively with the experience of business men and indus trialists in countries overrun by the Axis. What profits can we suppose they are pocketing in Norway, Belgium, Holland. France, Greece, Rumania, or anywhere the Nazjs have set up a police force to "protect” the poor people who were incapable of governing themselves? It is safe to believe them lucky if they get the barest necessities of life out of their business. Is there any good reason to assume that if we lose the war we will fare any better? Figure it out for yourself. -y Siren Installed Too much emphasis cannot be placed on the necessity for calmness when the first blasts are sounded on the first of the air raid warning sirens installed at headquarters fire station. If any person becomes hysterical when it lets loose its first toots and runs shouting through the streets that Wilmington is under attack there is a strong probability that some one will be hur. This siren must undergo tests to demon strate that it is in working order or has defects that must be corrected. There is no other method of learning its condition. The public is urged to take its preliminary blasts in stride. The Defense Council has announced that when the tests are completed ample notice will be given of an actual demonstration, dur ing which the people will be able to identify the sound and distinguish it from all others. This demonstration, too, ought not to be mistaken for an actual warning. -v— Gasoline Rationing Washington’s announcement that owners of private motor cars will be allowed five or six gallons of gasoline a week when rationing is put into effect is, better news than many driv ers had expected. There was wide belief that private consumption might be cut to two or three gallons. If the maximum allowance is actually five gallons weekly there is no reason that drivers should not be able to get along well enough. There will have to be a reduction in unnec essary travel, of course. No more junkets into the country on Sunday afternoons. No more week-end trips to distant parts. But the “sacrifice" this will entail is exceedingly small It is only necessary to be shown that gasoline rationing is necessary in the interest of the war program for any reasonable driver to be readily reconciled to it. But the petroleum coordinator’s office ought not to be content with mere rationing, even though the driving public accepts at without protest. It ought, rather, to set itself to the task of developing new transportation means and make it possible to bring into the East ern seaboard area sufficient quantities of both gasoline and oil to meet the normal demand and the greatly increased requirements of war production. Only by doing this will the Ickes office do its duty by the American public. There is no shortage of petroleum. The lack of deliveries is due to inadequate transporta tion. Use of tank ships is dangerous as long as enemy U-boats lurk offshore to sink them. The need, therefore, is to produce substitute transportation, which can be done by barge on the inland waterway system. -y The Evacuation Program The plan for evacuating children in New Hanover county, which Hariss Newman has drafted, impresses one with the thoroughness with which every conceivable detail has been worked out. With the cooperation of all asso ciated groups in the reception area, which has been pledged if emergency comes, there is no reason to fear that any child in this coastal region might not be removed in safety to tem porary homes far from the danger zone. It is important, however, to stress the fact that no emergency now exists, that the pro gram is a preparedness measure only. Some months ago when evecuation was first dis cussed rumors spread like wildfire in the state that Wilmington was already sending children away, and a campaign to reveal the real facts was necessary to set false reports at rest. The evacuation program is a phase of this county’s defense arrangements, just as are the setting up of an air raid warden staff, a fire watcher corps, the control room and every other measure adopted for community se curity. Hopefully, it will be so accepted and no hysterical rumors follow its announcement. -V W ashington Daybook BY JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, May 6 — In recent years, death, defeat or retirement has taken a stag geringVtoll of colorful figures in Congress. Gone from Capitol Hill now arg Senators Borah, Pittman and Ashurst and Congressman J. Ham Lewis, to mention only a few. But of the men who have made colorful copy—reams of it—none lately will have left any greater gap in the pattern than Boston’s Back Bay Rep. George Holden Tinkham, who has announced his retirement after 28 conse cutive year* in the House. Only two senators and six representatives have held their seats in Congress longer than Tinkham and none of them has done it with so little campaigning. * * * A veteran traveler since his days at Harvard when he junketed to such far places as th» Greek islands in the Aegean and the wind swept wastes of Iceland and Spitzbergen, Tinkham has always managed to be off on one of his world jaunis while other congress men were campaigning their heads off for re election and he always has been voted back to his seat by substantial majorities. One year it was a 43,000-mne swing in 220 days to the islands of the South Pacific and the lands of the China Sea. Another year, he was hanging up a record for leopard shoot ing in British East Africa. He came back that time with the story that his bag of six leopards would have been one greater had not his native guide restrained him from go ing into the brush after a wounded cat. Tink ham had asked the guide: “Why should I lose a beautiful skin like that?” The guide an swered: “To save your own beautiful skin.” Tinkham’s apartment in the old Arlington hotel is a veritable museum of skins, stuffed heads, elephants’ tusks, art and curios col lected on these expeditions between congres sional sessions. His 28-year tenure of that apartment is one of the oldest and best Wash ington stories. When he came here in 1914, he liked the apartment, found the rent cheap and leased it “for the duration of my stay in Congress.” It wasn’t long before the hotel management discovered their mistake. Within a few years, rents for similar apartments were 400 per cent higher than Tinkham was paying. Eventually, the Fraternal Order of Moose took over the hotel for national headquarters, the management went to court to try to get Tinkham ousted. The court held that only death or defeat at the polls could break Tink ham’s lease. Even after the government took over the building, Tinkham stayed on. First, it was Texford Tugwell’s Rural Resettlement Admin istration, but they couldn’t resettle Tinkham. Now the army occupies the building, and so does Tinkham. His long fights for civil liberties, for strict U. S. neutrality, for non-participation in the League of Nations have kept him in the fore front of Congress. But probably none of his battles was so stormy as his fight against prohibition and then for repeal. During prohibition, when he was starting off on one of his junkets, he always announced solemnly to the newsmen: “Now I’m going down to the Department of Justice and tell them to keep an eye on my cellar until I get back.” -V Quotations This election was a command for the open ing of a second front and victory this year.— W. J. Brown, independent victor over govern ment-backed candidate for British Parliament. * * * Air-minded people in the future will see no necessity for living on a 40-foot lot when they can fly their plane to the end of a transporta tion line, park the plane and come into town by train or bus.—Carlton Schultz, Cleveland real estate official. * * * Inflation would result in a defeat on the home front that could not fail to be reflected upon the battlefields abroad.—Price Adminis trator Leon Henderson. * * * The Japanese ruling class has been trained in militarism, and what that class does is eagerly emulated by the entire nation._Dr. Hu Shih, Chinese ambassador to Washington! “BLACK HOLE OF CALCUTTA”—1942 \ vscr ■ Yesteryears 10 YEARS AGO TODAY Excerpt from STAR column: “Deuces Wild”; A1 Dickson, News reporter, claims to have dug the intra-coastal waterway on his trus ty L. C. Smith—The City editor, printers and proofreader heartily agree, and now that the big ditch is finished, have abandoned their sailor suits. * * * 25 YEARS AGO TODAY The War department announces today that American troops will be sent to France. Two German cargo ships, tied up in the local harbor since the outbreak of hostilities with Ger many, were examined today and will soon be put into the service of the United States. * * * 50 YEARS AGO TODAY John F. Cooley, of Penn Yan, N. Y., has invented an airship that he says will scoot at a speed of from 100 to 200 miles an hour. Capitalists are backing him in building his ship, which will be cigar shaped, 300 feet long and 30 feet in diameter at the center. The buoyant power will be hydrogen gas. the compelling power a chem ical compound, which the inventor keeps secret. 4 •--V.-. Factographs The flag of Australia has a Un ion Jack in the uper right-hand corner. Immediately below the Un ion Jack in the upper right-hand star, one point for each of the states and one for the territories. In the left portion of the field, which is either red or bine, are five stars representing the South ern Cross, only to be seen in the heavens after one has crossed the equator. * * * False beards were the hight of fashion among the nobles of Spain in the middle of the 14t,h century. The Spaniards realized the advan tages of false rather than natural beards, as they were easily ac quired, and could be changed in color and style to suit the occas sion and manner of dress. 3 , -- Raymond Clapper Says: Mail Highly Important To Soldiers And Sailors WASHINGTON, May 6.—Be cause of something I wrote recent ly about the cry of American sol diers abroad for mail from home many inquiries have come into this office from persons who wish to write. The War Department and the Navy fully realize that mail from home is an important factor in morale—second, they say, to food. Numerous persons have written in asking for the names of Army and Navy personnel to whom they might send letters. I have made inquiry about this and find some questions raised. Mainly it is a serious responsibility for the Army or Navy to give out names. For one thing so-called pen clubs might easily be used by the enemy to do considerable harm. There is no reason why the Army and Navy should run the risk of putting men in the armed forces in touch with the wrong kind of person. There may be one way out of this. It might be handled through the Red Cross, the United Service Organizations, the Women’s Volun tary Services or some other agen cy recognized and in a position to serve as an authorized contact with those who wish to enter into correspondence. The important need is that men hear from their own relatives and friends. There is great difficulty in getting mail dispatched to out lying sections of'the world prompt ly. Frequently mail is lost in ship sinkings and in any case months must be allowed for the trip. The difficulty is aggravated as regards foreign inland points. For instance most points in Africa can be reached only by air and the only remedy is to increase the amount of mail carried. Pan-American air ways is operating regular daily service across Africa but the space is naturally available only on as signment by the Army. For those who have relatives The Literary Guidepost By JOHN SELBY “SUNDAY BEST,” by John Cecil Holm (Farrar & Rinehart: $2.05) The flavor of middle class life in Philadelphia must have been pretty good, around the first years of this century, if John Cecil Holm has caught it. And if he has not, he has caught a good flavor any way. Mr. Holm is the playwright, as you probably know. He hit first (and very Lard) with “Three Men on a Horse.” His next hit was the musical, “Best Foot Forward,” and his most recent success was something called “Banjo Eyes” in which the unique Mr. Cantor worked hard for quite a spell. Up to the present, Mr. Holm has not bothered about books; his first and only turns out to be a new kind of life with a different kind of father. Father Holm was an electricai contractor who numbered his men by the dozen in affluent years, and by a zero other times. The family place was on Lancaster street, which really is in West Philadelphia and bears small re lation to, say, Rittenhouse Square Dr the Main Line. The family place vas, to be specific, behind and above Father Holm’s store and this was a circumstance that dis turbed Mother Holm quite a little —her family not at all. There was very little side and even less self consciousness about Father Holm. He was a lusty man. He liked to joke, and one of his favorites was the ancient gag in which one blackens one’s thumb, sticks it through a hole in a box, surrounds it with cotton and then pretends that it had been found on the out skirts of some recent tragedy such as a train wreck. He liked to eat, he liked people, he delighted in spending money and when he had little to spend, he got almost as much fun out of jingling a few pennies and nickels in his pocket. Life with Mr. Holm was always an adventure, and so was life in Philadelphia as John Cecil learned it. It is amazing how many de tails of Philadelphia living he has put into print—the epidemic of pneumonia that habitually follows the New Year’s Mummers’ pa rade, for example, or the typical Philadelphia hoaxes such as the one about the boy who was car ried away by the toy balloons. “Sunday Best’’ is a simple, kindly book about unpretentious people. But it has salt and pepper in it, j and a, warm glow about it. 2\ and friends in the Army who are serving outside of the continental United States, the War Department suggests that mail be addressed to show the name and address of the sender, the grade and full name of the addressee and the following additional information: His Army serial number if known, the letter or number of the company and the designation of the regiment or battalion, and the Army postoffice number in care of the apropriate postmaster. The location of the overseas station should not be used. When a soldier is transferred to overseas duty he is advised to notify those he expects to corre spond with him of the Army post office and the postmaster through which mail is to be sent. The Army postoffice number is used so that it will not be necessary to reveal on letters the location of Army units. Much the same rules apply for correspondence with soldiers within the United States. * * * Mail addressed to men in the Navy who are serving on ship or outside the United States should show the name, rank and ship if known and should be addressed in care of the postmaster at either New York or San Francisco. The postmaster will then forward it. If the address is not known, it may be obtained from the Bu reau of Navigation in Washington, provided there is a legitimate rea son for obtaining the address. Ran dom inquiries may not receive sat isfactory answers, as the purpose of this service is to assist families of men at sea. * * * The foregoing information is the only way in which I can answer the numerous inquiries that I have received. Further inquiry should be made of Army or Navy posts nearest at hand or by mail to the War Department Bureau of Pub lic Relations or the Navy Depart ment Press Relations Division. 2 As Others Say It BLACKBERRIES SANS SUGAR. It is less than two months until the blackberry crop will be ready to harvest. Just what we will use for sweetening we don’t know but if things come to the worst we can eat the berries off the briars without sweetening. — The Davie Record (Mocksville, N. C.) WHAT’S IN A NAME? The Huntington library, in Pas adena, Calif., recently had a spe cial exhibit relating to conscrip tion in this and earlier American wars. A bright - eyed browser found on a muster roll of Capt. John B. Scott’s company of Royal American Reformers this entry, dated September 4, 1778: “Corpor al John Scram—deserted.” — The New Yorker. * * * A BELATED DIVORCE A North Carolina jury awarded a divorce the other day to a man who has been separated from his wife for more than 25 years. He said he wanted to be free, prob ably meaning that he wanted to be free—to marry again.-Roanoke (Va.) Times. Interpreting The War Fall Of Corregidor Comes 4s 4 Shock To American Nation BY KIRKE L. SIMPSON Wide World War Analy st Tragically certain as the out. come was at Corregidor from the hour American-Filipino defense of Bataan peninsula collapsed, the actual surrender of the fortrel. and its flanking forts that guarded Manila Bay must come as a shock ro American public opinion. Against all odds, hope had per. sisted that somehow the brave lit. tie company in the batteries 0f Corregidor would win through y relief as their gallant comrades - the fox-holes of Bataan had not It was not to be. The only won! der is that Corregidor survived so long the plunging fire of Japanese howh-ers high-placed on the close slo; ss of Marivales mountain „r the southern tip of Bataan. Ge._ - al Wainwright. made i; clear that it was these guns, no Japanese air power, that wrecked his defenses as German heavy howitzers smashed the most pm!, erful forts of that day in Belgium in the First World War. Yet the story of Bataan and Cm. regidor, like that of lost Wake, will live forever as a bright sym! bol of valor—and of grim Amen, can resolution to redeem its prom, ise pledged in the American blood shed there. That is the lesson of Corregidv for Americans as it is the lesson of lost Hong Kong and Singapore and now Burma for the British, Borneo, Java and Sumatra for Dutch comrades in arms. The out posts of freedom in the Orient have been breached but its citadel is in the hearts of men. hearts resolved to keep thefaith The testt of that for Australia, the last eastern bastion of the Unit ed Nations in the far Pacific, may have been brought measureably closer by the fall of Corregidor ' Its capitulation releases powerful Japanese siege forces and equip ment for use elsewhere. The huge harbor of Manila will now be avail able for Japanese use to press on. southward against Australia or American - Australian communica tion lines. With Burma lost and grave fear; openly expressed in Chungking and new Delhi for escape of much of the Chinese - British forces slid fighting rear-guard actions on Bur ma’s orders, an early Japanese attack against Australia seems likely. Weather probabilities Burma point that way. The terrain of the Burma road to China seems to forbid an immediate Japanese march that way and the Himala yas present a no less natural bar rier to a wet-weather invasion of India from Burma. If that estimate is sound. : leaves the Japanese two alterna tives for prompt expansion of them conquest march—and it is the fare of aggressors that they mas: march on. One is across the bay of Bengal to attempt sea-borne in vasion of India. The other is against Australia or its vital com munications with the United States. 3 Is That So! That Hitler-M'issolini conference is over and we bet Benito is glao it is. Even doing nothing but nod ding your head is tiring—if have to do it for a two-dav stretch. * * * Russians refer to towns they capture by letters of the alphabet. When it comes to war those boV seem to know the;r A B D's. * * * A new type ink glows and i: legible in the dark. Now Jun;rr fears he may have to continue to do his homework, even during a blackout. * * * The manager of a baseball tea;', j which plunges into the league cel lar can always alibi that re thought he heard an air ra.d ; alarm. * * * Pictures pf the new homegrown h“ straw hat naturally fail to excite the average male as much as news of homegrown strawberries. * * * A new rubber substitute, "’e learn, is made of sweet potatoes ? sugar canc and peanuts. Th ought to make an auto tire that looks good enough to eat * * * It’s the modern bride who learn- g to her amazement that Grandma |;« lot only had to bake her own oread but had to slice it herself too! With gasoline rationing. Zado Dumbkopf predicts motorist: proud of their cars will soottE boast about how many days, tr.-g stead of how much distance, the.' get out of five gallons of gas. * * * Now that the iced coffee sea son is nearly here, this might be a good time to freeze the pnCE of java, too. * * Hitler, we read, now plans -0 launch a “peace offensive." matter what they guy does - >ls offensive. * * * This is going to be a to” " ^ campaign on the politicia' can’t learn the knack of rie-n» a bike one-handed. How’s he -■ ing to tip his hat to ail 1 voters? * * * And then there was the soul who put the family v-kele-Oj to work in the closet — scan*' away the moths.
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