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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS is entitled to the exclusive use of all news stories appearing in The Wilmington Star. SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 1942 With confidence in *ur 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-NewsProgram 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 from Wrightsville Beach to Bald Head Island. Extension of 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 of Pulp Wcod 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 Drydocks. Negro Health Center for Southeastern North Carolina, developed around the Community Hospital. Adequate hospital 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 By humility and the fear of the Lord are richec, and honour, and life. — Proverbs 12:4. -V Fair Examples Following the raids on Cologne, Essen, Duis burg and Oberhausen, the Nazi news agency, Dienst aus Deutschland, tells the German peo ple that the Royal Air Force raids consti tute a new problem for the reich, since they have reached the proportions and intensity of luftwaffe raids against .England, and the Ger man people must show that they can take it like the British did, and still do. However well merited this tribute to British morale is, it is certainly unexpected. But it is the agency’s further utterance which enlist closest attention. It says, among other things that the two cases—that is, the German and the British bombing raids—are not analagous. The British raids, it declares, are just “in discriminate terror attacks,” while the Ger man Air Force” has always operated against carefully chosen military objectives.” The agency does not specify what those ob jectives are, but we might mention Westmin ster Abbey and Buckingham Palace as fair examples. -V Reported To Draft Board So far as lies in its power the North Caro , lina Shipbuilding company is contributing to a "work or fight” program which still has to be implemented by official order. W. S. MacMahon, assistant to the general manager, has made this plain by saying that when an employe fails to measure up to the mark and J is dismissed he is immediately reported to his home draft board. “Naturally,” says Mr. MacMahon, in effect, "this industry must have a full complement ' of workers if it is to maintain the production schedule required of it by the Maritime Com mission, and for this reason asks a deferred status for eligible workers.But when any man becomes ineligible for employment his board Is advised.” Save that they receive many times the pay of soldiers in the uniformed ranks, shipyard workers are essentially soldiers, too, combat ■' mg the U-boat menace to shipping. All who recognize this obligation give all they have to their job. Any who do not, and are physically fjfc certainly deserve to be called into 4jhe aragd service without more ado, if U-Boat Inquiry The Senate Naval Affairs subcommittee’s preliminary investigation of submarine sink ings in coastal waters is a step in the right direction. But the inquiry can accomplish little unless it is carried out on a large scale. No inconclusive investigation will do. Nor will whitewash. If the Congress is to be an effective instru ment for coastal commerce security it must learn why enemy U-boats are preying upon shipping so successfully and whv more effec tual means have not been employed to stop them. This U-boat warfare needs as careful a diagnosis as a physician uses in complicated illnesses, when to effect a cure he goes to the root of the trouble and starts his treatment from that point. The senate investigation will fail of its purpose unelss conducted with simi lar thoroughness. There have been rumors that the method of guarding shipping will be changed from the convoy to the patrol system shortly. This might meet the need. But only if the naval and air patrols were of sufficient size to pre vent a submarine from showing its periscope in any coastal waters. A more effective means of halting the sub marine warfare which has caused the loss of 244 ships since Hitler’#sent his submersibles into American waters would be to discover and destroy the bases used by them. Hitler may be sending a few U-boats from European or African bases, but they must be much larger than the type which is doing the worst damage. These are too small and lacking the necessary cruising range. They probably are basing in near-by waters and may have caches even in unsuspected places. There is the root of the trouble. And, as the doctor strikes against disease, they must be first eradicated before other and less vital complications can be successfully remedied. If the Senate investigation gets to the bot tom of the U-boat warfare it will contribute materially to the correction of what has too long been a hopeless situation. -v Salvage Drive The second week in June is close at hand. The week will have especial significance here in that it has been set aside for a city-wide salvage campaign. Some fifty or more young people are enlisted for a house-to-house solici tation, with trucks to be loaned by business men to transport the gifts of households to clearing stations from which they will be sold to junk dealers with the proceeds divided among the participating organizations. The Brigade Boys club, the Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts and Salvation Army, are united for the effort through which it is hoped Wilming ton will make a substantial contribution to the government’s supplies of used articles having value in the salvage and conservation pro gram. Among articles sought, rags, rubber and scrap metal take high places. The effort deserves more than a kind word. It deserves the hearty cooperation of every body. There are still a few days for heads of families to search attics, cellars and garages, segregate usable articles from those of no use and put the latter in a handy place where the collectors may pick them up. The campaign’s sponsors ask that contributions be placed on front porches or in front yards. It is worth remembering that all the articles requested are needed in some branch of the nation’s war effort, and that the organizations engaging in the collection' will receive some monetary return for their labors. -v Eternal Vigilance Like Mark Twain’s reply when told that he was reported dead, rumors that Wilmington had been bombed were "greatly exaggerated.” The fact is that Wilmington was the calm est of all North Carolina cities implicated in the rumors. Raleigh, Greensboro, Winston-Sa lem, Burlington were having fantods while this city went about its peaceful pursuits. However, the up-state alert was not without its benefits. When the siren on the state Cap itol fell down on the job, for example, the Raleigh defense forces were enabled to look diligently into the fault and presumably have already corrected it. Thus there is small prob ability that it will not function with 100 per cent efficiency if an actual emergency should ever arise. There is, in this false rumor, a real warn ing to the people of this city to be eternally on the alert. Calm? Yes, even if an attack should come. But with the calmness there should be recognition that only by perpetual preparedness on the part of every resident there be a sure measure of security. It was Washington who said “Eternal vig ilance is the price of peace.’’ In these hard, harassing times, this may be interpreted to mean that Wilmington’s successful emergence from attack will depend upon the vigilance of its people. -V Women On The Job Canadian housewives are said to be the most effective agency for holding prices to ceiling levels. More than 1,500 complaints from them are Investigated monthly. And their com plaints are backed by documentary evidence. When a housewife files a complaint she of fers her little blue book in evidence. More than 450,000 of these books have been issued. In them are entered the prices of all com modities purchased. When the price paid is out of line with the celling fixed by the gov ernment, the little blue book is brought forth and trouble overtakes the offending merchant. This procedure is remlnescent of the action of Houston, Tex., housewives some years ago when they declared a boycott on many store keepers, some of them leaders in the city’s mercantile life. They not only kept their rec ords but prevailed upon the newspapers to publish lists of offenders and description of the offense. It was not long before they brought the merchants under their ban to their way of thinking. It may be said for Wilmington’s merchants that the required ceiling prices and their own prices are displayed in conspicuous places in their stores and apparently all are living up to the requirements to the best of their knowl edge. -V Battle Of Midway Because of its location, Midway island has strategic importance. If the Japanese were to take it, our transport service to the Orient would be placed under an additional handi cap. For this reason it is heartening to learn that the first assault was repulsed and that Admiral Nimitz has a large unit of the Pa cific fleet in combat with Japanese warships in nearby waters. It is to be expected that whatever force the Japanese assemble for their attack on Mid way the United States commanders will make every effort to defeat it, not only because of Midway’s value but to avenge the loss of Wake island where a handful of Marines stood the enemy off for weeks but had, at last, to surrender and are now captives. The situation is not clear. But we may be sure that the fighting is on a major scale. And we may be equally certain that, since Wake fell, our forces in the Pacific are better prepared to match a Japanese assault. -v Washington Daybook By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, June 5. — There must be hardly a war industrial or military center in the country that isn’t asking where is that de. fense housing we have heard so much about? Certainly the question is being asked here in Washington which, in spite of its staggering expansion, hasn’t mushroomed like some of the villages which have become cities over night. Defense housing has been one of the chief topics of discussion around here for well over a year, but you’ll wear out good shoe leather trying to find any of it. * * * The answer is simple enough. Defense hous ing is caught in that ol’ debbil log jam called priorities. Appropriations and authorizations for defense housing started shortly after the same for guns and tanks and planes. But by then it was too late. It is only a little more than nine months ago that the old OPM issued its first authoriza tion for 300,000 defense housing units. And it has been since that time that all the shortages in materials have become critical. According to Sullivan W. Jones, chief of WPB housing priorities, there are between 80,000 and 110,000 housing units in the country now completed near completion or under con struction with no connections for utility serv ices. That’s because of shortages of copper wire and pipe for anything but military uses. When the present inventories of bathtubs are gone, there won’t be any more. Reinforc ing steel is not available for housing. There are restrictions on fixtures, furnaces, metal windows and what-not. The lumber and wood products stiuation is becoming serious. * * * What’s The Answer? Mr. Jones, in outlining the situation, the other day, put it this way: “President Coolidge I think it was who said there were four rules which made New Eng landers tough and New England great. They were: ‘Eat it up. Wear it out. Make it do. Do without.’ “Those rules, all but the first, are revolu tionizing our concept of housing for war work ers. We must face realities and adjust our thinking. “After all, this is total war and war workers are only soldiers on the home front. The hous ing which some of them, the single men, any way, may have to live in for the duration may be little better than housing provided for sol diers on the fighting front.” 3 -v Editorial Comment , WE ABE IN DEBT TO CHINA New York Times This week the Republic of China has been brought into the lease-lend system and under the terms of the Atlantic Charter. So much has been accomplished by the agreement signed by Secretary Hull and Chinese Foreign Minister Soong. Material results in an in creased flow of American war goods to China, by whatever routes are open, ought to follow. Almost more important is the attention which is being concentrated on our sister republic in the Far East. In the pressure of events in Europe and nearer home we cannot afford to forget the Chinese and what they have done and are doing. Fate has linked us with the Chinese: by a mutual congeniality of temperament which has been remarked upon by those who know China best, and which no chasm of language and culture can conceal; by the present-day fact that we cannot win our war without fighting for Chinese liberties and they cannot win their war without fighting for ours. They have had nearly five years of it and have suffered in finitely more than we can imagine. Their loss of life is measured by millions. Yet this week they have been engaged in at least five siz able battles, in at least two major campaigns, across the breadth of a country larger than the United States. They have been defending themselves in the Southeast, attacking in the East center, attacking the Japanese invaders on the Burma Road. There has been nothing more marvelous in warfare than the ability and will of the Chinese to attack after years of fighting with inadequate weapons and sup plies. Because Chinese soldiers and civilians have worked and fought, fewer American lives, few er billions of American dollars will be needed to win the war for the United Nations in the Far East. We can never balance that budget, in lives or in money. But out of gratitude and respect the private citizens of America can do a little: they can contribute toward the United China Relief fund which is doing some thing for the children of China, for students, for research, for cooperative societies to en able people to support themselves, for those wounded ?Sn battle and in air raids, for the sick, for refugees KNEE DEEP IN JUNE Civilian Defense Timetable BASIC TRAINING COURSES Fire Defense A: Mondays at 8 p.m., High School room 109. General Course: Tuesdays at 8 p.m., High School room 109. Gas Defense B: Wednesday at 8 p.m., High School room 109. First Aid—10 hrs. Monday, June 8, 7:30 p.m., at Church of Coven ant, Market Street entrance. MEETINGS Carolina Beach, Wednesday June 10, new City Hall 8 p.m., for all members of local Citizens’ De fense Corps. 4 •-V As Others Say It ONE OF THE FUEHRER’S FIBS Nazi Propaganda Minister Josef Paul Goebbels’ recent statement that he is a lover of tne truth should not be taken literally. It may be just another one of those big lies his fuehrer used to recom mend.—Greenville (S. C.) News. 4 A MATTER OF DIET A pink-eyed, snow-white albino squirrel has been trapped in the Maine woods. If the animal’s con dition is caused by its diet, those woods must be harboring a lot of queer nuts.—New Orleans Times Picayune. 4 TAIL IN A TRAP A cat got its tail caught in a washing machine up in Connecti cut the other day. After what’s happening to him in Russia, Hen Hitler is in a position to sympa thize with poor Pussy.— Roanoke (Va.) Times. 4 THE KETTLE BOILS OVER Word comes from Minnesota that the Kettle river has been on a record rampage, washing out. roads and crops. If a watched kettle, like a watched pot, never boils over, its flood victims should keep closer watch upon this Ket tle in future.—New Orleans Times Picayune. 4 The Literary Guidepost By JOHN SELBY Some biographies— Not even a war can prevent the concentration of books toward tne end of a season. And biographies are piling up this spring, along with fiction. There is, for example, a combi nation biography of Sacajawea, the Indian girl so much concerned with the success of the Lewis and Clarke expedition, and a history of the expedition itself. Donald Culross Peattie is the author of "Forward the Nation,” and in ad dition to the extraordinary ex citement of a narrative not t oo often rehearsed these days, the reader has the advantage of Mr. Peattie’s much-admired prose. This time the prose is not quite so studied as it sometimes has been in the past. (Putnam; $2.50) Emily Carr’s “Klee Wyck” is also a combination. It is the story of the Indians on Canada’s west coast as she saw them years aao while living among them and painting them. But it also is a very revealing portrait of Miss Carr—who is perhaps Canada’s leading painter and a woman without fear, without pretense and with a good sense of numor As would be reasonable to expect the lgk is illustrated by the an thor, handsomely. (Farrar & Rinehart; $2.50) And there is the curious story of Don Gonzalo Jimenez de Que sada, one of the three strangely assorted men who founded Bo gota, now the capital of Colombia. In some essential ways Quesada was a typical Conquistador; he combined with these not-too savory characteristics a certain amount of mercy and some con ception of justice, however. Ger man Arciniegas, who tells Que sada’s story in ‘The Knight of El Dorado.” thinks Cervantes may have had this man in mind when he wrote “Do n Quixote.” (Vik ing; $3) The picture of Verdi is as ex plicit in the selection from his letters published as “Verdi, the Man in His Letters” • as it is in the long and excellent introduc tory essay by Franz Werfel which precedes the selection. It is that of a great .artist who did not need to bother much about convincing his correspondents of the fact that he was an artist. There is precious little high-flown talk about “cre ating”, and a lot about the busi ness and political detail of a mu sical career in Italy. Werfel and Paul Stefan selected th e letters; Edward Downes translated them’ (Fischer; $3.50) 4' Clapper Says This War Must Not Be Fought In Vain By RAYMOND CLAPPER WASHINGTON, June 5. — Like millions of other Americans, Gov ernor Stassen of Minnesota is try ing to think through to some way of preventing this war from being fought in vain. I am harping too much on this theme, perhaps, and hereafter 1 hope to restrain mystelf from too frequent twanging on the same string. But the low-down on the situation as I see it is this. The American people already have generated the momentum that will grow and win the war. The drive is there and the results are beginning to show. But I think there is dang er that we shall be cheated out of the peace that should come from this war unless we are on guard. This Administration is making a fight to insure that we shall not fight this war in vain. What Vice President Wallace and Secretary Welles are saying is not just surf ace talk. They are talking for a purpose. This Administration is making a fight to insure that we are not in this war just to start the same old game over again, the same old game that will be follow ed by a grabbing contest and then another world war. I believe the Administration needs the support of every Ameri can citizen in that determination. Without America in there pitching, this war would be lost. Without America in there pitching, the peace will be lost. I’m certain of it. * * * The Republican governor of Min nesota puts out a plan for the pur pose, as he says, of stimulating discussion. Governor Stassen pro poses a world association of free people. Those participating would agree to meet certain minimum standards which would include freedom of worship; a fair system of internal justice with protection of the rights of the accused; grant ing to all literate persons the right to participate at reasonable inter vals in the selection of their gov ernment leadership. Nations would participate on a proportional basis which would give recognition to their individual resources, the number of their lit erate people, and their contribu tion to the expenses of the world association. * * * Governor Stassen says this world association might well take these definite steps: 1. Promptly establish temporary governments over each of the Axis nations, preferably utilizing citi zens of the United Nations whose Axis ancestry goes back to the Axis nation involved These tem porary governments to serve until Axis peoples can establish proper governments of their own. 2. Establish an airways commis sion to control great international airports of the future which will be important in aerial commerical development after the war. 3. Establish an administrative body to take control of gateways to the seven seas. 4. Establish a commission whose prime task would be to increase the literacy of peoples of the world, recognizing that ability to read and write is the foundation of progress. 5. Establish a code of justice for relations between peoples of the world, and machinery for admin istration of the code. 6. Establish a trade commission to gradually work out increased world trade, seeking to prevent either stifling obstructions or heavy dumping of goods, both of which break down economic sys tems and cause world distress. 7. Establish a world legion as a world police force to enforce the administration of world justice and to make effective administration of airways and seaways. This police force must be supreme in the world. We must not again rely on systems of balance of power, or of extraterritorialism, or of races in armament. Governor Stassen, like most Americans, doesn’t want to send our men out to die so that the victors can grab territory, resume their imperialistic bleeding of sub ject nations, and fumble them selves off of another so-called bal ance of power into a World War III. I believe he is dead right when he says the United Nations must guarantee now that the Atlantic Charter is to be something more than a scrap of paper. We must make sure there will be no monkey business this time. 3 -V Factographs The highest mountain peak in South Amer'ca is Mount Acon cagua, in Argentina, 22,834 'eet high; in North America, Mourn McKinley, Alaska, 20,300 feet * « « Benito Mussolini of It aly is prime minister chief of the Ital ian government, minister of the interior, of war, of the Navy of the air and justice. * * * Owners of big auto-carrying trucks in North Carolina are planning to convert them into passenger vehicles for the dura tion Interpreting The War Japanese Encounter A Stinging RepulSe At Midway lslani) BY KIRKE L. SIMPSOV W>de World War Analyst Despite the formidable jan,„ force engaging in the ope^ " against Midway island i, ocs difficult to weave a logical of enemy purpose in the C? central Pacific that does ' smack more of inform at ion- m mg than anything else. *' That was the first official k, pretation given the Dutch Ha phase and presumablv represent the opinion of Admiral Chester Y mitz the American officer ily charged with the duty of match" ing wits and fighting skill with foe in that vast and once peacefo sweep of sea. His Pacific fui command makes him the manZ the job. Whatever the Japanese design in ranging so far eastward in the J per Pacific, Nimitz and the perso-' nel of his command may have a glittering opportunity to avenge comrades who died on that "dav of infamy” at Pearl Harbor last December. Certainly, one or more stron» Japanese naval task forces are o\ erating on the northern segment of the great American defense tri angle in the Pacific, Alaska Hawaii-Panama. If that portends a Japanese at. tempt to crack these outer bastions of American defense, the main strength of Japan’s fighting fleet also must be involved. If so, an opportunity may be looming to come to grips with it in a decisive action—the day for which Ameri can naval personnel has yearned from the Admiral’s bridge to the sweating black gangs which feed the furnaces. While that is a possibility, it doer not seem probable. It requires n military or naval soothsayer to tit. duce that the first mission of the Japanese navy, as well as the American navy, still must be a protect trudging cargo craft star ling back and forth over thousand; of miles of military supply lines Neither prime sea fighting force can yet ignore that duty to seek out the foe for a dramatic and conclusive death grapple. Nevertheless, what Nimitz tas revealed of the Midway island clash is encouraging. A bruisim blow has been struck at a Jaoa nese sea-air force which included at least one battleship as well cruisers and plane carriers. Details were not yet at hand a? was written./. Nimitz’ report of a battleship and carrier heavily hi by bombs, however, implies that the enemy protective f o r cc; screening carriers from wh I eh the air attack on Midway was launch ed were caught .at sea and prob ably distant from the island itself. If that proves true, it means that the Midway garrison sprang to the counter attack effectively, scorn ing a purely defensive role. NimUz recently went to Midway to congratulate its defenders no! only for repelling previous Japa nese raids but for the skill and effective organization demonstrat ed. First results of the new an. more powerful Japanese thrust at Midway only add to the reputation for hardihood and fighting eta that the defenders of the reef rimmed atoll have built up. Yet if, as some speculation on Japanese purpose has it. the H ! harbor and Midway raids we in tended as preliminaries or d-jp' sions to cover an attempt to >h’ ter the Hawaiian central cog°f_ American battle position in the - " cific, the stinging new repulse - the enemy at Midway has ano.../ portent. It is a certain foretaste-/ the sort of reception any Japane. force will encounter in Hawaii Is That So! That Michigan parrot whicr according to a news item. ;.&• sugar ration book is a far c. from the old days when all r1 wanted was a cracker. * * * Hoarded sugar draws an.-- £ read. And, it mar he • relatives with a sweet tooth. * * * The shortage of rubber rr*' also prevent the Allies fra ing an elastic war policy. * * * Sur. Mussolini, according to » e". day magazine ar icle. is Romeo. But there’s one gm wooed a long time w thou, cess—that’s Miss Victory. * * * ,, New books for use in -a outs have covers which the dark But this is no guar"“ it is full of glowing passages. * * * Epitomes of inconsistent: those hot-headed Nazts "110 to have cold feet. * * * In New York anew gas was demonstrated. ^ Dumbkopf wonders how 1 aI work in an engineless n’.oi • * * * 0re If you wonder why no ^ j„r juke boxes are to be ou ^ the duration, consider aluminum used in l2o , f *e; would build a United con. fighter plane, and that 0 tains steel enough for 11 machine guns. * * * scheme Zadok Dumpbopf has a panle. to make golf a hapP1^ Dummy says good Playel‘u, ieri be forced to play the n u;( ball while duffers line him- ^ up thei remaining supply SOheroc
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