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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS is entitled to the exclusive use of all news stories appearing in The Wilmington Star. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10, 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 Wiod Production through sustained-yield methods through out Southeastern North Carolina. Unified Industrial and Resort Promo tion'll 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 God has worked great miracles of grace Through the gentle deed—the kindly face. —Author Unknown -V And So The Poor Japs Had None The story comes out of Melbourne that just before Corregidor fell the troops had the un usual experience of lighting their cigarettes with $100 bills. And not counterfeit money, either. Six United States officers, the last to leave the Philippines before General Wainwright’s surrender, and now in Australia, vouch for the fact. One of them, Col. Royal G. Jenks, had the job of destroying $100,000,000 worth of Philip pine pesos in currency. With a prodigal hand he distributed much of this wealth (and it was negotiable wealth, too) among the troops with the aforementioned result. The whole fortune went up in smoke. When the Japanese arrived they found Corregidor’s coffers as empty as Mother Hubbard’s cup board. -V Strange Music This ought to be good. If the succession of 1000-plane raids hasn’t done the job, German morale should be shot soon after we start dumping grand pianos, E-flat alto horns, bell lyres, 14-inch Chinese crash cymbals, euphon iums, piccolos and B-flat trumpets on Berlin, Tokyo and Rome. The brass bands and symphony orchestras won’t fan on the Axis quite in their original forms. Rather, they will appear as shells and bombs made from metals which no longer are going Into musical instruments. They will be fabricated by skilled workmen no longer tied up in a desirable but not indispensable indus try. Now that the manufacture of musical instru ments is banned, it is pleasant to toy with the possibilities. A plane equipped with precisior instruments made by brass horn experts will tow a glider manufactured by a piano house, The pilot will have received preliminary train ing with blowers made by a pipe-organ fabri cator. He will drop demolition bombs made with steel and copper, incendiary bombs made with magnesium originally destined for musi. cal instruments. And charming music it will be, to all but the Axis. i # Help Wanted For five years, come July 7, China has fought her losing war against Japan without a whimper. Now, for the first time, she sends ‘an SOS to her occidental allies. Both decency and common sense dictate that the United Nations — specifically the United States—give China what she asks: “First, bombers and pursuit planes; second, bombers and pursuit planes; third, bombers and pursuit planes!” She doesn’t ask for men. She has five mil lions, brave, hardy, experienced, moderately well-equipped at long last, eager to push the hated Japs into the China Sea She doesn’t ask for ships. Apparently she is satisfied with the other materiel we are managing to get through. But planes she wants—1000 planes, much less than a month’s output of our vast aviation industry./ In sheer good fellowship, based upon grati tude for what China has done and is doing for us, we never can hold up our heads in inter national society if we will not or can not get a thousand bombers and fighters to China now, when her very life depends upon them. But going beyond decency, gratitude and the finer emotions to the first instinct of man kind—self-preservation—how about making it 2000 planes? Brig.—Gen. Claire L. Chennautl, chief of the Flying Tigers, says that with 2000 planes the Japanese air force can be utterly destroyed. He may be wrong, but his record as both fighter and strategist entitles him to a lot of credence. If again we send too little too late, Dr. T. F. Tsiang, Chinese spokesman, warns that ‘the immediate future of China is very grave.” The Japanese three - pronged attack, designed to knock China out of the war, could easily suc ceed. Thereupon victorious Japanese forces, which already have taken everything between Ha waii and Australia away from Americans, Brit ish and Dutch, could turn their undivided at tention on Australia, India, Siberia, Alaska, Hawaii. But if we send the planes with which Jap anese air power can be destroyed, and five million happy Chinese push 800,000 little brown heathens off the mainland of Asia, we shall have Nippon on the run. We shall have preserved the ideal jumping off place first for air raids and later for land invasion of Japan. We shall be on our way to victory. Eternal Vigilance “One more crack at them Japs, and they’ll be wiped off the sea.” This is the opinion of one curbstone commentator in tY^m'nSton, heard expatiating on the Midway scrap. It is not quite as simple as that. “Them Japs” still have the power to deliver many a blow, and as sure as there’s a star left in the skies, they’ll be striking again, where and when they can, not only because the will for conquest is still their consuming passion but to save face. The Midway defeat—it appears safe to call it that now—did indeed throw an awful scare into them and left a section of their fleet re quiring heavy repairs which will keep many ships inactive for months to come. Following so closely on the Coral sea losses the Japanese Navy is badly crippled. But to assume that one more engagement, even of the magnitude of the Midway fight, could drive them from the seas, as the optimistic gentlemen said, is to place too low an appraisal on their fleet. Midway, obviously is safe for the present. Hawaii, too. The Japanese, however, after such damage as their Navy has sustained, will surely launch fresh attacks. They have not yet learned that the Pacific and all lands upon its shores are not to be theirs. Rather than such over-confidence as our Wilmington ian has voiced, it is time to understand that while the ultimate victory is assured, there must be no let up in the vigilance that made the Midway victory possible. -V Warning And Promise The British Broadcasting Company’s warn ing to the French people to evacuate the coastal areas from the Belgian frontier to the Pyrenees, before they are engulfed “in com ing Allies operations of capital importance,” is not to be interpreted as an official announce ment that the United Nations intend to launch a continental invasion at any point within these boundaries. To give the Nazis a hint where such an action will take place would be to forewarn them of where to concentrate their greatest defensive forces. And we are not justified in supposing the Nazis so stupid as to take a radio broadcast as a dead give-away of the British govern ment’s plans. But the fact that the broadcast was made in the way it was made is well calculated to breed confusion in Nazi minds, crafty though they be. Reports multiply that the Nazi military lead ers are in actual fact becoming jittery at the thought that a second front will be set up on the European continent and are bewildered as to where the first blow will be struck. This radiocast will have no tendency to clear away the confusion or the bewilderment. Rather it is more likely to increase both. Furthermore, there is a definite promise to the French people in the BBC warning, though no word of it was spoken. Tacitly the people of Nazi-harassed France were told to be pa tient, to get out of the danger zone, wherever it exists, and to be assured that their deliver ance is not far distant. Washington Daybook By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, June 9.—The old feedbox is running dry. Time was in this administration and others when the White House was the biggest and best of all the major news sources. Since the war started for the U. S.' A., it has become increasingly less important as a fount of information that makes daily headlines. A speech, statement or opinion from the Presi dent still is page one news but run back through your newspaper files for the last six months or so and see how few of those there are compared to the White House stories that were tops through the years before that. * * » The President’s press conferences these days are so “dull’’ that many of the few correspon. dents still privileged to attend will frequently pass them up for something “more important.’’ (I know of two correspondents who skipped a White House press conference recently to get the WPB order on diaper laundry delivery service—and smart they were, too. The WPB made Page-I that day. The White House con ference didn’t.) There are reasons behind this and they do no discredit to the President of the United States. President Roosevelt is the first m history who has continued to hold press conferences in war time. World War I hadn’t put one new gun into the hands of the first raw recruit before President Wilson cancelled his press conferences “for the duration.” And he kept them cancelled. The reasons behind the decline of the White House as a major news source are simply that (1) few times in history has a President had to delegate so much authority to so many other persons, and (2) the Second World War all-out effort is so gigantic that there >s hardly a min ute when even the greatest brain can assemble all the loose threads to weave a pattern of truth which he can pass on to the nation he serves. Many times since Pearl Harbor and even before has President Roosevelt answered ques tions on detail with the three-word phrase, “I don’t know." The chances are he does, for few Presidents (if any) have had a greater knowl edge of detail though none has had to cope with such a wealth of it. But with the scenes shifting by the minute and new factors coming into every problem by the hour, it would be unfairness compounded to pass along as gospel a statement based on last night's reports. * • * Donald Nelson, of WPB; Gen. Wiliam Knud sen; Price Administrator Leon Henderson; General Marshall; Secretaries of the War and Nayy, Stimson and Knox; Treasury Secretary Mortenthau; Jesse Jones and Paul V. McNutt; Vice President Wallace; Secretary Wickard of Agriculture; Secretary of State Hull (who is the only cabinet member who still holds daily press conferences); Transportation Coordina. tor Eastman—all of these and a dozen others pour out the day-to-day news on the war effort of our government and our armed forces. It is up to them to know from now to now what goes on and why. The White House holds the wheel and steers the ship. But if you are after any more infor mation than what stars we are steering by don’t bother with the Helmsman’s press con ferences. -V Editorial Comment SHORE BASED PLANES Fayetteville Observer All America thrills today over what appears to have been a smashing victory in a full-dress naval engagement over Japanese war craft in the Pacific ocean in the vicinity of Midway island. In this victory one phrase of Admiral King’s report has an important message for every American who is concerned with the conduct of this war and the tactics which are used in fighting it. Discussing the American pursuit of the enemy Admiral King says: “For us to rush in now (where the enemy has shore-based aircraft) would not be well advised.” As we read between the accounts of the lat est battle of Midway shorebased aircraft play ed a big part in the defeat of the Japanese off Midway, and the American navy does not in tend to dash into a similar trap. The events of this war have given Navy men on both sides a healthy respect for air craft. Time and again planes have demonstrat ed their ability to sink the larger warships. Against these planes there is just one de fense, more planes. For that reason all fleets now must be ac companied by aircraft carriers to counter the planes sent up by the carriers of the opposing fleets. The Admiral feels that with everything elje equal the one will neutralize the other in an engagement of war vessels well out in the ocean. But when the fighting comes near shore it takes on a different aspect. Then the advantage is definitely with the side which can fling fleets of planes into action against the enemy from the shore bases. Unless an enemy can be caught napping and his shore airdromes put out of action in sudden raid—as the one at Pearl Harbor on December 7—his fleet is at a definite disad vantage when it approaches the coast of an enemy. This may militate against an invasion of Japan by our fleet and it also militates against the invsion of this continent by the fleets of any other power. 3 -V Quotations For 300-mile-an-hour planes to depend upon 10-mile-an-hour convoys to get them there is absurd.—Maj. Alexander De Seversky, famed plane designer. , * * * We shall cleanse the plague spot of Europe, which is Hitler’s Germany, and with it the hell hole of Asia . . . Japan.—Vice President Henry A. Wallace. - * * * Women have shown that they can do or learn to do almost any kind of work, and we may requre a more general use of them in war work.—Paul V. McNutt, War Manpower Commission chairman. * * * The Wllow Run bomber plant is an invitation for Adolf Hitler to commit suicide.—Charles E. Sorenson, motor company executive. * * * Fundamentally, the world has no need for a new order, but only an honest application of the historical Christian ideal.—Prime Min ister Jan C. Smuts of South Africa. * * » America is awake! America is alert! America is at work! Two-fisted fighting men will have arms and ships.—John M. Carmody, member U. S. Maritime Commission. /<• I • “TWO WEEKS BETWEEN DRINKS!” but who we ^eck wants to be oue oe those things? 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. MEETINGS , Carolina Beach Wednesday June 10, new City Hall 8 p. m. for all members of local Citizens’ Defense Corps. SPECIAL TRAINING Home Nursing: — Wednesday June 10, 7 p.m. at USO building 5th and Orange street. -V As Others Say It A Land of Plenty Australia has 13,000,000 nead of cattle, 115,000,000 sheep; cultivates 20,000 square miles of sugar cane; grows apples, peaches, pears, or anges lemons, grapefruit, pineap ples, bananas; makes 2,000,000 pairs of shoes annually and ex ports 72,000,000 cans of fruit, $70, 000,000 worth of wheat. No use to worry about how our boys can be fed and clothed ‘‘down under.”— Winston-Salem Journal. * * * "Grim Irony” Borough President Nathan found a “grim irony” in the completion of a $46,000,000 East River drive just as gas and tire rationing threatens to do away with auto mobile driving. East Side drive and West Side highway, there is plenty of room now for little Mamie O’Rourke to do the light fantastic on the motor boulevards of New York.—New York Times. * * * The Patriotic Brat Just last week we asked a six year-old if he knew wha* he’d like to be when he grew up. “I’m go ing to be a waiter,” said the pa triotic braV “so I can swipe all the sugar I want.” — The New Yorker. 8 Raymond Clapper Says: U.S. Doing Pretty Well But Confusion Is Bad By RAYMOND CLAPPER WASHINGTON, June 9—We have increased military plane produc tion nearly 85 per cent in the six months since Pearl Harbor. That is almost double. The report is is sued by the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce with the permission of the war department. Engine pro duction has increased nearly 80 per cent. With this have 'one countless improvements in plape models. In many respects our first six months of war have been unsat isfactory. We have suffered some serious defeats. We were caught unprepared at Pearl Harbor and we lost many planes in the Philip pines and the Southwest Pacific. We are suffering heavily from sub marine warfare. But the war effort is moving for ward and it will continue to move. Training of troops has matched our industrial production as a swift and efficient performance. Trans portation of men and materials to the fronts is the chief difficulty to be overcome. Much of this has been possible because of the steady application and labor of those responsible for building up the military forces and those responsible for expand ing war production including both Government officials and industrial executives and engineers. But much of it has been possible also because of the full-hearted support of the people of the country. Because the people have been fully behind this effort we are not conscious of what difficulties and delays might have been caused by a deeply divided public s nti For that we can always be grate ful to Japan. The unity which was established overnight by Pearl Harbor has been substantially pre served; entirely so far as funda mental policies go. The public has responded to all calls made by the government. Men of both political parties have given their public support to the war program. Thousands of men have been drafted. Casualty lists have hit some communities with heart-breaking force. The govern ment caught in a two-ocean war with a one-ocean navy has had to announce much unfavorable news. Yet the public is not griping. Congress has voted what the ad ministration has said was needed to win the war. Even H e rbert Hoover has said the government must have dictatorial powers to win the war and is throwing no mon key wrenches. For a country as free as Amer ica where every citizen is ready to speak his mind this solid sup port during the first six months of the war is proof that up to now at least free men do not need a Gestapo to make them support the government in a crisis. We have done it without hysteria and with out many silly antics. It’s been a matter-of-fact businesslike affair. It looks as if we are doing it by virtue of a high standard of public intelligence which can dispense with the hysterics the barn-paint ing and the other forms of mass dragooning that occur when public sentiment isn’t solid and fo r c e must be used to club people into line. It looks as if people under stood a good deal more about this war than we did about the last one. The first real sign of popular rebellion has been over the matter of extending gasoline rationing. Here probably the trouble is that the public has not been educated as to the necessity. The adminis tration has done a miserable job of telling the public what the trouble is. Every official in Wash ington who is working on rubber is alarmed at the situation. They are extremely pessimistic as ‘to when there will be rubber for ci vilian use. Yet President Roose velt recently dropped a confusing remark at his press conference which led some to think that the situation was not very serious aft. er all. Many congressmen and sen ators added to the confusion by screaming agamst rationing. When the administration is able to con vince the public that the rubber shortage is a grim reality the public probably will settle down and accept the necessary meas ures as it is accepting other meas ures necessary to win the war -V Factographs The Office of Defense Tranpor tion recently inspected a giant trailer bus designed to solve the wartime home-to-factory transpor tation problem. The bus, wh i c h uses practically no war materials, seats 141 persons, and is almost twice the size of the largest street :ar. * * • rhe motto of the state of North -arolina, is Esse Quam Videri’’ -“To Be Rather Than to Seem ” * * * Many race horses, says Facto- ' graphs, are eccentric, And don’t ve know at! ( The Literary Guidepost | By JOHN SELBY “THE EIGHT MILLION,” by Mey er Berger (Simon & Schuster; $2.50). THE lit’ry boys who sit com fortably at home and take catty jabs at the number of books by returning foreign correspondents forget something. It is that 1he boys who stay home and fiddle round Manhattan are just as pro life makkers of books as the Shirers, the Sheeans, the Porters and so on. It is, indeed, a rule that anybody who ever wrote more than one piece for the New Yorker shall eventually collect these pieces into a book with a snazzy title. Because of this the peculiar literary tenets of that strange magazine are better per petuated than those of any other contemporary periodical, barring, perhaps, the “Old Farmer’s Al manac.” Meyer Berger’s “The Eight Mil lion” is better than most of these collections, better, for example, than Sally Benson’s “Meet Me at St. Louis,” or the grab-bags of E. B. White, because Mr. Berger really has worked to produce his stories—he has mined Manhattan as a Boer mines Kemberley. If a Boer mines Kimberley. And he has produced a mosaic, the whole of which is a pretty highly colored, but recognizable picture of New York. You have Richard B. Harrison (De Lawd of “Green Pastures”) being buried from St. John’s Cathedral, and a stoic group behind two guarded doors cutting diamonds. You have a man making fiddles and hard by, a group of supers in “Boris Gudunov” at the Metropolitan. Godunov” is misspelled in the text, by the way. You have the eccentricities of Mr. Harris’ wed ding ring customers, and the ec centricity of Mr. Otto, whose spe cialty is tying ascots for smart weddings—“Sixteen .ushers,” he’d murmur. “Sixteen Bridesmaids. I tied all the ties.” Two of the best pieces are on the old Tombs and its fortunate ly-ended history, and on the old West Forty-seventh street pre cinct house, also gone to glory now. One of the worst is the pointless piece on the spice mill, and this, incidentally, contains a remarkable mistake in arithmetic. The United States uses, according to this piece, about 100,000,000 pounds of spices a year. “Per capita consumption ... is some thing like 1.35 pounds,” the para graph concludes. But Manhattan is in “The Eight Million,” if you want it. Interpreting The War Jap Conquest Dream Given Jarring Blow In Midway Fighting BY KIRKE L. SIMPSOV Wide World War Analv'st Whatever else Premier Gener-t Hideki Toji, the real ruler o£ , pan, told Emperor Hirohito ln fc}’ report on the war yesterday ^ had only bleak tidings from’ the Midway island area. The scope 0; the Japanese disaster there h swelled day by day, hour by hour as the returns came in. Tokyo’s failure even to acta there has been a battle at all proof positive that a jarring blow has been struck not only in „ " retaliation for Pearl Harbor, but li the very foundations of the jaD3 nese conquest dream. How serious a blow' Tojo himself may not have known nor been able to reveal even to his nominal sovereign, n That the Japanese sea force fled the field under a radio black out to escape further American vengenance is wholly orobable There are strong indications itj losses have not yet been fully SC0I ed up. Its plight was so desperate once the midway trap was sprung upon it that its laggard sea unit, battered lame-duck craft, must have became a menace. They were the spoor of the sei trails. Falling behind uninjured or less damaged craft, they gave clues to the far-ranging American air scouts as to where their more for. tunate fugitive comrades might be seeking refuge. That could bring American submarines on scouting duty into their path. Nor could Japanese pride per mit surrender of injured crait even when hopelesly cut off. What hap. pened to those enemy lame-ducks may never be known; but the an cient Samurai code to which Ja pan’s military caste stili clings sug. gests wholesale hari-kari tor ships and crc-ws somewhere in those wide waters. Face-saving by self destruction when confronted with defeat or dis grace still is a functioning relic of Japanese feudalism. It is the fate that seems certainly in store for the Japanese who commanded or planned that ill-fated sortie against Midway island. It couid have been ordered for wounded ships to blind the trail of those still able to run for refuge some where. Whatever happened to break American contact with the foe west of Midway, the results oi the bat tle cast a new and ominous sha dow on the “Victory” summary o: six months of war Tojo migrt otherwise have laid before the pri soner of the palace at Tokyo, his puppet emperor. Like the Coral sea fight and General Doolittle o bomber sweep across Japan, they spell out into portents of an ap proaching day when Japan wi.l find herself beseiged by air and sea as England long was but is no -onger. Tirohito is the 124th Japanese em, t r of his line in a dynasty that antedates the Christian era, and he may be the last. His fat? and that of his empire are now at stake in a conflict brought 01 him by his military monitors in flamed by premature estimates oi Nazi strength at arms and seeking escape from a “China incident that had dogged them for half a decade. And the bones of Japa nese dead men and ships that lib ter the floor of the Coral sea an.1 the north central Pacific are an ill omen for the son of more tnar a hundred emperors who sits m Tokyo. Is That So! NOW that giant Grand Coulee is in operation we’ll have to if vise our time estimate involve! in the old saying about "MuM water over the dam.” * * * Big sunspots will appear : 1944, say astronomers. But that time the sky will be sn .u of American planes we won t able to see ’em. * * * What, asked the. poet. rare as a day in June- ■ know—it’s a friend who doesn stop you on the street to ask . you like the fine weather we 1 having! , * * * Zadok’ Dumpkopf wants tJ know if a champion show a i, refuses to chase anything aristo-cats. • * * People who are always rais'n? questions, Grandpappy ’Jer« ' avers, usually harvest no but a crop of quarrels. American soldiers s*a . L, there are reported P°Pl“ar‘ , baseball in Australia. Well. ' _ always known that Sydnej. • laide, Melbourne and Bns “ were big league towns. * * * Hitler, we read, Is f®rcad ur. wear spectacles ior reading v poses. Hope he now can see finish. * * * Mussolini’s latest picture b>a :ates he must be getting a . rhat’s odd—since it is obvious le’s lost plenty of weight vi Axis pals. • * * Over the past 15 years JaPa las been the biggest market^ ^ United States timber export - ’act of strategic importance :ause of the war. j
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