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HUntington morning §>iar North Carolina’s Oldest Daily Newspaper Published Daily Except Sunday By The Wilmington Star-News At The Murchison Building R. B. Page, Owner and Publisher Telephone All 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 Combina Time Star News tion 1 Week_3 -25 t .20 I .35 1 Month _ 1.1® -90 1.50 3 Months _ 3.25 2.60 4.55 6 Months _ 6.50 5.20 9.10 1 Year _ 13.00 10.40 18.20 News rates entitle subscriber to Sunday issue of StarNesvs BY MAIL, Payable Strictly in Advance Cotnbina Star News tion 1 Month _* -75 $ .50 $ .90 3 Months _ 2.00 1.50 2.75 6 Months _ 4.00 3.00 5.50 1 Year _ 8.00 6.00 10.00 News rates entitle subscriber to Sunday issue of Star-News Card of Thanks charged for at the rate of 25 cents per line. Count five words to line. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS is entitled to the exclusive use of all news stories appearing in The Wilmington Star. MONDAY. JUNE 8, 1942 With confidence in *ur armed torces — 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 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 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 erp. Development of native grape growing throughout Southeastern North Carolina. Modern Tuberculosis Sanatorium. TOP O’ THE MORNING No life can be pure in its purpose and strong in its strife and all life not be purer and stronger thereby. —OWEN MEREDITH. -V--: Money Saver It required a terrible war to bring about the reform, but now there is talk lhat milk com panies plan to cut out much wasteful duplica. tion of distribution facilities. We have long felt—and been laughed out of face—that the consumer cost of milk in cities could be reduced materially by such a co operative venture. Now we shall see. Want to bet? -V Indians Pointed The Way When few white settlers existed In these United States, and lacked a welcome from the natives, they suffered heavy losses both in life and property from Indian Commandos. Dressed chiefly in war paint, and attacking secretly, with no advance warning of their approach, the Indians rushed upon settlements like wild beasts, shouting, shooting burning arrows, capturing and scalping whom they might and killing others, plundering homes before burning them, stealing livestock, ruin ing crops, taking women, and leaving com plete destruction in their wake. There are many points of similarity between these Indian tactics of Colonial days and the methods used by British Commandos whose raids across the channel have struck terror to the hearts of German occupational forces in France. There is no plundering of homes, no stealing of women, no needless destruction of growing things; but the attack is always a complete surprise and the men engaged are as completely disguised as were the Indians. Furthermore the destruction is fully as com plete, though confined to military targets. Following the last Commando raid, near Boulogne and Le Touquet, it is reported that Nazi forces lost their heads as completely as a child left by its mother in a crowd. They did not know what to do or how to do it, to stave off the obvious fate the raid created for them. Thus the Commandos were enabled to gather “valuable information” as well as to put out of commission defenses and utilities. While armies are still practicing the strat egy developed by Napoleon, the British have done well to go behind his back for a better method of disposing of enemy units that stand in the way of a possible invasion along the channel shores, or if not that, to soften resis tance and gain information which may have great value later on. fL Obligations To China The United States has two heavy obligation to China—the government for war aid and the people for help to the civilian population. The obligation, for military air is doubly heavy because we were lax in restrictions upon trade with Japan during the early years of the Sino Japanese war and because China’s territory is essential to the United Nations when the time comes for an all-out attack upon Japan and Formosa. The equally great obligation for civilian aid rests upon both what has been done for China’s war victims and what remains to be done. Japan is doing its best, or worst, to wean the Chinese away from the United Nations by ge ographical appeal. Unless we, as a people, can continue to show our friendship for the Chi nese, as a people, we could all too easily lose their friendship and at the same time strike a terrible blow at Chinese morale. United China Relief, Inc., has carried on a great work for the benighted people of that vast country. We cannot now fail to expand that work, since China has become an actual war partner against the Axis. The constituent agencies of United China Relief in China have enrolled on their staff thousands of doctors, nurses, teachers, social workers, ministers and priests, who by their daily deeds are giving tangible evidence to the Chinese people^ that the Americans are their friends. Ambulance service has been pro vided; the Chinese wounded cared 'or and fur nished medical supplies; doctors and nurses have been trained; orphans and refugees have been given food, clothing, and shelter; and Chinese industrial units have been established in Free China which, among other things, pro duce military supplies for the Chinese armed forces. Activities such as these provide the one most effective answer to the Japanese propagan dists who are attempting to undermine Chi nese friendship for America with their cry of “Asia for the Asiatics!” Any curtailment of the work of this "American expeditionary force” would play directly into the hands of Japanese and German agents. Wilmington’s part in this great work was a contribution topping $2,000 last year. We are asked to give $3,000 this year. Ws mustn’t fall short of that goal. We would but do our duty if we exceeded it. -V Air ri ansport Inspired by the enormously effective part which the airplane has played in this war, we are getting a bit over-enthusiastic about post war probabilities. Already, in a casual way, we are talking about a time not far distant when family planes will be as common as family flivvers are to day. We take for granted the prophecies that aft er the war huge aircraft will largely supplant trains on land and ships at sea in the business of transporting both passengers and freight. Though probably we don’t really argue that far, we envision hazily the day, soon after we have pounded the Axis out of existence, when we shall fly to the unmourned funerals of the automobile and the railroad and the steam ship. Such a dream could come true, of course. In speed, in carrying capacity, in ease of con trol and in fundamental safety, the airplane has made unbelievable strides. Without doubt, after this war airline’s pas senger, express and freight business will be multiplied many fold. We shall have thousands of huge planes, built as bombers and transports and war freighters, plus the capacity to turn out more thousands every year. The railroads and steamship lines will face intense competition. Efficient plants, which have been making fighters and trainers .un doubtedly do their best to sell us family planes in place of automobiles. But that is only one side of the picture. The men who design and manufacture planes tell us, truly, such developments are mechanically feasible. The men who will have to find the income to pay the expenses want to know about some other phases. * Huge bombers are built to give superspeed, to fly at extreme altitudes, regardless of the cost of construction or operation Governments at war can’t worry unduly about economy. But expert say these big planes will need a whale of a lot of revamping before anybody can use them to haul payloads in a self-supporting business venture. Moreover, there is a ques tion how much freight and how many passen gers are in sufficient hurry to pay the pre miums to finance air transport. As for family planes, did you ever stop to think how much more extensive terminal fa cilities, involving how much greater tax cost, are required for a plane than for an automo bile? Do you know how your community could finance such costly improvements, at the same time maintaining streets and highways—for, of course, the plane owner must have a car to travel from home to airport. None of these problems is insoluble. Some aren’t even relatively difficult. The point is that such problems, and dozens more, exist and at best will require time for their solu tion. Don’t sell the railroads, steamship lines and automobile manufacturers too short right away. Let’s keep our shirts on. -y Romance Lingers On Even in the drabness of modern mechanized warfare, traces of romance are not absent. To those who want to abolish war* at any price this is unfortunate. But for the soldiers a touch of old-fashioned melodrama sometimes is a lifesaver. The Commandos have a glamor of their own which is akin—because it emphasizes individ ual courage and initiative—to the glory of Gen eral Mihailovitch’s Servian Chetniks. General Channault’s Flying Tigers, in the Far East, are demonstrating the superiority of demo cratic man over totalitarian mass. And Cos sack cavalrymen, cutting Nazi parachutists to pieces with old-fashioned sabers, bring back memories of the days before war became Big Business. -V Washington Daybook BY JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, June 7.—For the first time in history, so far as I can find out, this nation is publishing at its own expense a monthly magazine and a twicemonthly “News Letter” for consumption solely in western hemisphere countries outside our own borders. If this were purely a propaganda effort shoved down the reading throats of our sister republics, it wouldn’t be worth mentioning. But “En Guardia,” a 10 by 14 inch slick paper magazine, filled with beautiful black-and-white and color photographs, started nine months ago with a timid 50,000 circulation, has now reached 200,000 and the demand far exceeds the supply. “The American News Letter—Cir culated for Private Information in the Western Hemisphere’ is no older but just as much in demand. It’s a four page, un-illustrated pam phlet, printed in English, Spanish and Portu guese. The magazine is printed only in the two latter languages, although there has been one edition recently in French, also for Latin American consumption. Behind these two publications is an amazing publishing story. Under a contract let by Nelson Rockefeller’s Office of Inter-American Affairs, they are pub lished and edited by the Business Publishers International Corporation. A Washington edi torial staff, headed by J. C. Stark, works hand in glove with Frank Jamieson, in charge of public relations for the Rockefeller office. These two staffs produce and edit "En Guar dia” and the "News Letter.” Turned into foreign tongues by a staff of translators, the copy is laid out in New York, printed in Philadelphia, and circulated mostly by airmail to a selected list of officials, edu cators and industrialists in the Latin-American republics. The first two numbers of “En Guardia” were put out entirely by the Rockefeller office. They were something of an experiment. Never be fore had the United States spoken to Latin America through its owm publications. The “experiment” got out of hand almost immed iately. Popularity of the magazine zoomed. It had to be placed in the hand of a publishing house. There is one amusing story in connection with the sudden popularity of “En Guardia” in South America. Although it has been sent only to the highest officials it constantly has been cropping up on the newsstands in South American cities (there never has been a copy released from here for sale) and the "bootleg price’ is purportedly twice that charged for the most expensive United States magazine so commerically in those countries. There is talk now that “En Guardia”—or a little sister under another name—will be pub lished in a cheaper edition and circulated (still without cost) to the hundreds of thousands w'ho apparently are clamoring for it. The Rocke feller office won’t comment, but off the record sources admit that vast expansion of the big gest publishing effort of World War II is und);r discussion. (Tomorrow—What’s In "En Guardia”) -V Editorial Comment EXPANDING AIR POWER The gigantic role which American air power must play in the war is described realistically in the Aircraft Year Book for 1942,, edited by Howard Mingos and published by the Aero nautical Chamber of Commerce of America. Men of the aircraft industry, of which the Chamber is the representative, have no il lusions about the size of the job that has been undertaken. Picturing the global nature of the struggle, the Year Book takes the position that “our striking air force must be numeri cally superior in every mission everywhere.” The rubble and smoke of Cologne and Essen, and Mr. Churchill’s grim promise of more to come, lend point to the assertion that “air forces must be built up to strength which will enable them to take home to the enemy de vastating attacks with thousands of tons of high-explosive bombs that must obliterate even tually his arsenals and his home defense.” The Year Book reveals that the present pro gram for America calls for more than 100,000 airmen for the Army and Navy air force, in cluding pilots, bombardiers and navigators, with this figure to be doubled as quickly as facilities can be provided. It asserts that, counting necessary ground forces, the two services are on their way toward an aerial army of 2,500,000. On the side of manufactur ing production, it reveals that through the whole-hearted cooperation within the aircraft industry and between it and the automotive in dustry, output is well up to schedule. And it further reveals that, as a result of long-range planning by the industry with the War and Navy Departments over more than two de cades, many new technical developments al ready have passed the experimental stage and are actually in production. With no attempt to minimize the staggering scale of the task ahead, this wartime Year Book, nevertheless, gives an encouraging picture of an industry which is doing a big job well. 3 -V Quotations All categories of naval seagoing vessels are being launched and delivered well ahead of time, in most instances from three months to one year ahead of schedule.—H. G. Smith, president of National Council of American Shipbuilders. * * • We must make peace blossom out of the war as our enemies made war explode out of peace.—John B. Condliffe, University of California professor. * * * It seems to me sisters, that never before has there been such a great responsibility upon women.—Represenative Frances P. Bol ton of Ohio. * * * The duty of landlords is to keep rents down and tenants in. — Judge Samuel H. Silbert, Cleveland jurist, upholding federal fair rent act. “IN DUTCH” HARBOR 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 Covenant, Market Street entrance. First Aid — 20 hrs. Monday June 8, 7:00 p.m. at Delgado Pres byterian church. Meetings Carolina Beach, Wednesday June 10, new City Hall 8 p.m.. for all members of local Citizens’ De fense Corps. Special Training Home Nursing: Wednesday June 10, 7:00 p.m.. at USO building 5th and Orange street. -V As Others Say It PROVED RIGHT Los Angeles’ first trial of the “staggered hour” plan, long a dream of traffic engineers: seems to have been a success. Traffic that formerly moved with much congestion in one hour, now is spread out over two hours and a quarter, with much less conges tion: traffic Engineer Dorsey says the 5:40 p. m. traffic peak is now flattened out. The streetcar and bus companies also report much smoother operation of their sys tems, with most passengers get ting seats. Whether the optimistic prediction of Dorsey, that 85 percent of the city’s transportation problems will be solved by the system, will pan out, remains to be seen. But cer tainly it has solved some problems. The real proof will have to come later when the public’s tires begin to give out. Only the “time test” will be conclusive. — Los Angeles Times. AIDING HITLER—AFTER A FASHION Hitler continues to purge h i s generals, we hear. But the people of the 'conquered countries seem determined to relieve him of this necessity with respect to gesta_po leaders. -Winston-Salem Journal. Clapper Says Rationing, Congress Both Misunderstood BY RAYMOND CLAPPER WASHINGTON, June 6 — Some of my friends in Congress have felt hurt or indignant because of something I w r ote a couple of weeks ago. I was a little heated up at the time by the scramble over X cards and particularly by the cry in Con gress that the press, in criticizing the X-card scandal, wastryi ng to destroy Congress. The piece went on to say that nobody was going to destroy Congress, that Congress was doing that job itself with its demagoguery and so on. When I r ead the piece over some days later, after it had cool ed off, it seemed a little rougher perhaps than I had realized and I thought possibly I had been un fair. You can’t long have a sound democracy without a strong, intel ligent, conscientious Congress. Now I read the United Press re port about the meeting of an “angry” bipartisan group of 100 House members which unanimous ly adopted a resolution opposing nation-wide gasoline rationing un less a report is filed showing it to be necessary. The United Press says the meet ing rang with denunciations of Price Administrator Henderson, who was described as a “dictator” and a “smart aleck.” One Con gressman said “we have get to take away some of the power of this bureaucratic monster.” There was some confusion when Rep. Hope of Kansas, a Republican, pointed out that the rationing de cision lay not with Henderson but with Donald Nelson, chairman of WPB. But the congressmen went on pummelling the executive of ficials who are charged with the responsibility of trying to do the things necessary to win the war one of them being to conserve rub ber now that Japan has cut off our source of supply and left us in an extremely serious predicament. One congressman said "I’m fel up The Literar “CHARACTERS MAKE YOUR By JOHN SELBY STORY,” BY M aren Elwood (Houghton Miffin; $3). There’s a new how-to-do-it-in writing book every month or so., and he odd thing is that so many of them sell. There is, therefore, a very large audience waiting for the woman or the man who can explain simply how to write. Now a woman from Hollywood named Maren Elwood is taking a fling at it. Personally. I think her life is more amusing than her book, and perhaps just as helpful Her idea is that characterization is important in fiction, and if there is any writer, beginner or adept, who doesn’t know that, I’m a tadpole. Her secondary idea is that she can teach characteriza tion. and after a fling at “Charac ters Make Your Story” I’m in clined to agree. She knows the tricks and can apply them. Sr do a lot of others, of course, but they aren’t publishing books this week. That’s really all there is to the book. But there is more to Miss Elwood. Miss Elwood is a professional writing coach a nd agent. She teaches, and she has had, her pub y Guidepost | 11 sner says, experience in the pub lishing business. She is a weH known West Coast figure as she tears about, brief - case bulging. And she is said to fly more hours than any other American, barrin® only Eleanor Roosevelt. For a long time she has averaged 1000 miles a week in the sir in order to keep up with her appointments. Her day includes a minimum of 12 hours teaching, lecturing, and what her publisher calls "studio work.” She was for seven years a member of the extension facul ty of the University of California, maintaining studios in San Fran cisco and Hollywood on the side Besides writing, editing books and marketing manuscripts, she is a broadcaster and public speak er, and will take an individual’s manuscript to pieces and pin it back together again. Each year she teaches 1500 students, slant ing them toward the slicks for the most part. And that brings us back to Miss Elwood’s book. It is not a book for people interested in writing as writing. It is a book for people interested in writing to sell to the slicks. That is its value and that is its importance. on this bird Henderson,” and so on. When I said the other day that what you hear in Congress is 90 per cent tripe, ignorance and de magoguery, possibly I was unfair. But if this kind of stuff thatt I have just been quoting out of the anti-rationing meeting isn’t just that, then you name it. Senators and congressmen be lieve it is popular with their con stituents to scream against gaso line rationing. None of us likes rationing. We all want to drive our cars. Senators and Congress men, who know they are in bad with the public, are now taking the cheap way out to curry favor. They are in effect—although put ting in the weasel words to protect themselves—telling the publ'c that this is all the bunk about rationing, pay no attention to what the gov ernment says, go on and race your car around all you want to, use up that gasoline and to hell wi*h this bird Henderson or Nelson or whoever it is that is trying to keep you from joy-riding in your car. That’s the effect of what they are saying. The effect of it is to incite public resistance to what ever rationing plan the govern ment decides is necessary. It’s pretty cheap stuff and just the kind of thing that makes people disgusted and makes them lose re spect for Congress. Many mem bers of Congress are out now to grease the public at the expense of the war effort. They are trying to get re-elected this way, and in the process t£ey are undermining the strength of Congress as the main spring of democracy. The Truman committee of the Senate spent months investigating the rubber situation. There was a lot that it could not find out. But it found this out and reported it— this useful, conscientious, hard workinp committee of ihe United States Senate: “Driving must be curtailed on the basis of the pres ent rubber outlook. Therefore, na tional gasoline rationing on a sen. sible basis must be given serious consideration.” That’s not a bureaucra1 speak ing. It is a committee of the Sen ate speaking, a committee which is not playing politics and trying to grease the voters but is soberly considering what is needed to win the war. Executive officials who are dealing with the rubber prob lem all agree that conservation of rubber is urgent, and nobody has suggested an alternate to gasoline rationing as a way to do it. Maybe I was wrong. Maybe what you hear in Congress isn’t 99 per cent tripe, ignorance and demagog ery. Maybe it’s not more than 95 per cent. TT Factographs It takes nearly two and one half million tons of paper to wrap packages in the United States each year. » * • Two mortars which helped de *e”d Macon- at Morehead City, N. C., during the Ciyil war are now on the state capitol lawn at Raleigh. Interpreting The War Japanese At Midway Found Taking Major Risk Once Too Often By EDWARD E. BOM\b Wide World War Ana.vst The tremendous air - naval t • umph off Midway is a sma r;" vindication of a painful str^? decision made by the Ame-.f high command following pf' Harbor. The war scene shifts sn . • that many probably havc to?'* ten what pressure from opinion was exerted on Prf77 ' Roosevelt and his advisers if'1 than six months ago to tranf more of our limited aerial , i naval striking power across 7h Pacific to crucial fighting fronts e Despite tragic appeals for from the distant Philippines j‘. and Malaya, the decision reached first to make the VI7 key defense bastions nearer ho™ as nearly impregnable as possible Six weeks after Pearl Harbor Secretary of War Stimson h; be known that the air and land defenses of Hawaii and the Wes; Coast had been made substantially stronger than ever before, to com pensate for the Navy’s losses. The decision to concentrate rel atively near at hand the main aerial striking force that was avail able appeared to mean the sacri fice of any chance to save Java and Singapore, and it was no’ p;,> ular. Even among officers there was impatient grumbling tha> ti-e Japanese, like the Nazis, u pre winning because they were willing to take changes. Strong feeling was manifest that victory could never be won by playing safe. The answer to the compis>.;> was an official observation made at the time that “scattering forces is the surest road to defeat.” and that Midway victory dramatically confirmed the soundness of the de cision that was made. The army's faith in the potency of long range, land based bomb ers hardly needed further confirm ation in the light of their exploits against odds in the southwest Pa cific. Midway was not of course an exclusive aerial triumph but rath er a victory for the plane-ship team which the Nazis and Japa nese were the first to bring lo perfection in this war. Early re turns from the engagement indi cate strongly nevertheless that it was army bombers, protected by Navy fighters at some stares ant reinforced by carrier-based l-crub. ers, which played a decis:v» role. Midway itself was the unsinkabk aircraft carrier which made the triumph possible. It was 'he inili.d major objective of the .Japanese armada and had it been lost or put out of action near die star! Hawaii clearly would no>! be on the defensive. Instead. II i dvay served as a springboard for telling attacks by bombers able to fly there from their main Hawaiian bases some 1.300 miles distant. One effect of the victory vouch now promises to change the whole complexion of the Pacific war is to lighten a load of apprentice among military and naval officio's over the safety of Midway, Dutci Harbor, and other important but hard to defend outposts. After six months of defeat an" misfortune, it was our forces v won the “breaks” at a decisive moment. Midway apparen'ly w?s the target for the strongest at tempted air and sea knockout bio* of which the Japanese were cap able. A few bombs hits on 1 main runway and the outcome might well have been entirely ef ferent. But unaided by e itbe' surprise or fortune, the Japar.e«« took a major risk once too open Is That So! THAT POET if ne had ">'h the poem today might have ■■ ed that line: "Knee-deep m June offensive." * * * The new ink which wr: e- 1 glass should bring back n a p s memories of boyhood Pf3llowe ^ to many a dignified business n * * * Ups and downs of German" erals’ lives might be descnoen “A hero today—gone to Berea gaden tomorrow.” * * * Japanese men are urged tn - • up their britches as she. : eign influence. And whet lose their shirts in this war !r‘ be first rate nudists. * * * The only good that we c that Hitler has done is 1 ' assured historians of the full-time job. * * * An African bird growl dog, we read. An ideal folks who own one of t rican voiceless dogs * * * How time flies! It K“' two and a half years a everyone was calling ' phony war! * * * IV he glownig red of suggested the idea that Vi tinguishable fire burned "... the stone. From 1' )i ; came the assertion that. )a-' ,, ner fire could not be hid " it would shine through c" " j wrapped around the stone. * * * One person who probablyae,cS will complain that taxes ar ,5 ligh is that Pennsylvania ". y I vho paid her income tax a 1 jne cent. I
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