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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS is entitled to the exclusive use of all news stories appearing in The Wilmington Star. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17, 1942 With confidence in our armed forces — with the unbounding de termination of our people—we will gain the inevitable triumph — so help us God. —Roosevelt’s War Message — - ■■ mmk Star-N ewsProgram To aid in every way the prosecution of the war to yomplete victory. Public Po:». 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 Dry docks. Negro Health Center for Southeastern North Carolina, developed around the Community Hospital. Adequate hospital facilities for whits. 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 True friendship ought always to admit of frankness • . . The Apostle says “Con fess your faults one to another, and pray one for another.’’ A true friend is a puri fier, a corrector, an incentive, an inspira tion, an Ideal. We should he helpers of each other, and when any check or hin drance is threatened, it must be at once confessed, dealt with, and put away. —REV. F. B. MEYER -V China’s Plaint A Chinese spokesman urges that a United Nations offensive in the Pacific receive at least equal consideration with a second front in Europe. The Chinese are doing fairly well, he says, but it is important to recognize that Japan’s war effort will not collapse when Hit ler Is defeated and that the Japanese must be forced off of China’s eastern frontier from which United Nations attacks on Japan and Formosa could best be launched. It is a notable fact that the spokesman raises no wall of woe even after more than five years of terrific sacrifice caused by Ja pan’s ruthless war. There is no hint that China might give up unless she receives sub stantial aid at once. There is no threat, nor hint of giving up, in what he says. The whole purpose, obviously, Is to impress upon China’s aHies that if Japan is to be defeated the best advantage must be taken of China’s own ef forts and her geographical location. With the Japanese driving ahead in their present fan-Hke campaign, it may be said that the Chinese spokesman understates his coun try's need, rather than exaggerates it. China’s situation is very nearly desperate. The need of substantial air and land mechanized support is pressing. The war councils of the United Nations, therefore, seem to have reason enough not only to consider the launching ol a major offensive in the Pacific as quickly as possible—which MacArthur will do the mo ment he knows he has the necessary striking power—but to find a way of getting help tc Chlang Kai-Shek’s armies at once in more than token strength. -V The Four Frances There is an occupied France, an unoccupied France, a free France, an undergrounc France. Adolf Hitler rules through his puppe Laval in unoccupied Frence. He tules through his gestapo in occupied France. He can’t laj his finger on free France—that section of th< former Empire led by de Gaulle—and -Tjeithei he nor Laval can get a line on undergrounc France, which is daily becoming a greater menace to Nazi supremacy over the land. This underground France is rapidly arming against the day the United Nations land a force in continental Europe. It started about the time patriotic Frenchmen realized Hitler could not be stopped. They sequestrated large numbers of guns and great quantities of am munition. Ever since these stores have been increased by secret deliveris from England. Small craft crossing the channel at night and reaching secret rendezvous have done a good job in gun-running. Undoubtedly it was knowl edge of what has been going on that prompted Admiral Lehey to say, when he returned from Vichy, that millions of Frenchmen would be armed and ready for guerrilla warfare when ever the invasion of the mainland was under taken. Nor is it in arming alone that underground France is doing its bit for Hitler’s overthrow. So well is it organized that Royal Air Force fliers forced down in France are smuggled home to England, that information of Nazi plans continually reach the British military forces. Its spy service is thoroughly organ ized. Laval may complete his sell-out, officially, but he will never succeed in forcing liberty loving Frenchmen to bow their necks to the Nazi yoke. Nor will he, the Gestapo or Hitler himself root out and destroy the personnel of underground France’s growing army. -V In The Pacific There was talk not so long ago that we were taking a terrific beating in the Pacific. Some pessimists even claimed that we might never be able to overcome the handicap that attack on Pearl Harbor imposed upon us and the Jap anese would continue to increase their super iority at sea as a result. Yet comparative tables compiled from offi cial communiques issued by the Navy depart ment prove that Japan’s sea losses in both naval and merchant craft are far in excess of our own. The Navy department’s figures show that in battleships we have lost one and had one dam aged. We have lost one aircraft carrier and had another damaged. One aircraft tender has been lost; one cruiser lost and two damaged; nine destroyers lost, one sunk purposely to prevent capture, and four damaged; two sub marines lost and one purposely sunk; one sea plane tender, damaged; three minesweepers lost, two purposely sunk; three gunboats lost, one purposely sunk; two patrol torpedo boats lost one sunk. This shows twenty-three ships of all descriptions lost, six sunk and nine dam aged, for a grand total of thirty-eight. On the Japanese side, four battleships have been damaged; four aircraft carriers sunk, one probably sunk, one believed sunk, and four damaged; eleven cruisers sunk, four prob. ably sunk, one believed sunk, and nineteen damaged; destroyer, leaders, one sunk; de stroyers, 16 sunk, three probably sunk, one believed sunk, two possibly sunk, and ten dam aged; submarines, six sunk and one damaged; seaplane or aircraft tenders, one believed sunk and four damaged; minesweepers, one sunk, one probably sunk; gunboats, nine sunk, one probably sunk, one damaged; submarine chas er, one sunk; patrol boats, two sunk. The count is fifty-one warcraft destroyed, ten probably sunk, four believed sunk, two possibly sunk, forty-three damaged, for a grand total of one hundred and ten. Of noncombatant ships, we have lost twenty nine, have purposely sunk nine and had ten damaged; total 48. The Japanese have lost seventy-four non-combatant ships, have had seven probably sunk, nine believed sunk, one probably sunk and 31 damaged: total one hun dred and twenty-two. Thus we find that while we have been taking that terrible licking since Pearl Harbor, we haven’t done so badly after all. -V Servicing U-Boats There is a school of thought growing up in some usually well informed circles that the enemy U-boats which are preying on coastal shipping in the Atlantic, the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico are receiving supplies and torpedoes from our own mainland, that instead of using island ports they are being served from the Atlantic or Gulf coasts, with the con nivance of fifth columnists. This might be true. There are deep channels to inland hideouts in the Everglades. Even if these were not navigable for submarines, there are deep waters near shore where U-boats might surface at night and have their needs supplied by launch. The many sounds along the ocean front from Florida to the St. Law rence offer equally good opportunity for the same service. There are probably enough pri vate cruisers sufficiently large to carry tor pedoes as cargo and transfer them to sub mersibles. There is nothing physically impossible in volved in this. But is is assuredly difficult to believe that any American of whatever extrac tion could sink so low as to supply an enemy of the nation with the means of destroying human lives and sinking ships engaged in non combatant commerce, as these Nazi subma rines are doing. Any American who engages in this trade is not only a traitor to this nation, but to human ity. The seamen who go down—what of them? Are they not being murdered as inexcusably as if they ware knifed in a dark alley? And are not the men who serve U-boats their mur ; derers? We can only hope that when the real facts of this inhuman slaughter come to light in the i aftermath of the war it will be found that no American had a hand in servicing Hitler’s . submarines. Different In England The response In England to a call for women on farms has been so great that 4,000,000 addi tional acres have been set out in crops. This woman farm labor receives the equivalent of $2.50 a week wages at the start and $8 when proficient. It is reasonable to assume that Englishwo men are volunteering for this work, as well as for labor in the manual industries, because the war is a very real thing to them. They have felt it in their homes and families. They have even gone hungry, and many of them have shivered through a winter with insuffi cient clothing and too little heat. They have crowded Into raid shelters and heard enemy bombs tearing buildings to pieces, maiming and killing innocent noncomoatants. They have come forth at the all-clear siren to find streets clogged with debris, with dead neighbors prone in gutters. They know what war is and are dedicating their lives to any task within their physical capacity to perform. If they can contribute to victory by following a plow or driving a trac tor, hoeing potatoes, harvesting grain, they are glad of an opportunity to do so. In contrast with this, we in the United States, even we in Wilmington, are having dif ficulty finding enough women willing to man defense units because the hours interfere with social or domestic engagements. We even hear voices raised in holy terror at the thought that our women should be "sentenced” to farm work. And we are finding it just as difficult to find enough men who will sacrifice a few hours daily or nightly to sit in z{ one or anoth er defense center or attend lectures on warden and fire-watcher service. Is it any wonder that persons who have a clear vision of the possibilities of attack are asking if it will take a bomb in our midst to awaken us to the responsibility for individual service on the home front? -V Washington Daybook BY JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, June 16. — Any time you want in Washington these days—and even if you don’t—you can get a confused argument about the deportation order of Harry Renton Bridges, the west coast longshoremen’s union and CIO leader. The argument is confused because it always ends up in two questions: (I) Why hasn’t the Communist Party protested? (2) Why did U. S. Attorney General Francis Biddle do it, espe cially in view of the fact that President Roose velt had just commuted the 4-year sentence of Earl Browder, head of the Communist party in the United States, to 14 months, thereby re leasing him from prison? • * • The answer to the first is that when the Communist Party chiefs, in the midst of cele brations over the release of Browder, had re covered from their consternation (a high party official was heard to shout when the news ar rived at one headquarters: “M3' Lord, what do we do now?”) they concluded that the party couldn’t possibly protest publicly the Bridges deportment order. Why? Because that would be a public ad mission that Biddle’s major premise as applied to this specific individual was right — that Bridges is or was a member of the Commu nist party. But even though they still are enjoying the release of Browder, don’t think that this slap at the party is going unnoticed, if not by the party, at least by party sympathizers. There’ll be a flood of letters to congressmen and other government officials protesting the order. A trickle has already started and if some of these are any indication, the tub-thumping is going to be to the tune that Biddle is just a legal punk and that by ordering Bridges kicked back to his native Australia, he is sab otaging the United Nations war effort. How can war workers give their all, they say, when one of their most important labor leaders has been booted out of the country by one of the highest officials of the United States? • • • Some of these first letters come from per sons known to be members of what the De partment of Justice considers Communist party front organizations, not affiliated but sympathetic, and these may be considered the ones who will carry the hod in the verbal fight to keep Bridges here. As for the answer to that No. (2) it is simple. Aside from the evidence as Biddle saw it(he saw it differently from his own Board of Immi gration Appeals, and reversed it by this order) what else could he do. without assuming the responsibility for the long-embattled Bridges from here on out? By this order and the announced decision of Bridges’• attorney to fight the order, the case goes to the federal court and maybe even to the United States supreme court. It isn’t that Biddle has passed the buck; it is just that only by ordering Bridges deported, could this country and Bridges get a final decision on this controversy which has been kicking around on the American scene for too many years now. 3 . -V Editorial Comment TO THE “WESTERN FRONT” Asheville Citizen Another large contingent of American troops arrived safely in Ireland yesterday; and, writes United Press correspondent Leo S. Dis her, who has accompanied most of the previous convoys, “tanks and guns were unloaded at emergency pace so the ships could start home and take on more troops, tanks and guns.” The Navy is operating a virtual shuttle serv ice between the United States and the British Isles. It is doing the job, moreover, with a record for speed, efficiency and safety which astonishes the transportation experts. We have not lost a single soldier in this arduous opera tion. Enemy submarines and bombers steer shy, and to all effect these marauders have been driven far out of reach of the troop con voy lanes in the north Atlantic. In London the British radio calls the current contingent “the greatest American convoy which ever crossed the Atlantic.” This may be hyperbole of a sort designed to frazzle Nazi nerves. In June, July and August of 1918 the Navy transported 300,000 men a month to France. The liner Leviathan alone carried 96, 000 troops aboard over a period of a few months. It is probable, therefore, that we are not yet near the World War transport peak. For ojjkp thing, shipping is far more precious and at least four out of every five vessels in a troop convoy are used exclusively for sup VICTORY HIGHWAY 4, „ s DRIOE 1 SIOVJLV!! yjSWEWJBBER Civilian Defense Timetable BASIC TRAINING COURSE Fire Defense A — Mondays at 3 p.m., High School room 109. General Course — Tuesdays at 8 p.m.. High School room 109. Gas Defense B — Wednesdays at 8 p.m., High School room 109. -V As Others Say It THE RECORD On May 18, 1899, the first Hague Peace conference called by Czar Nicholas of Imperial Russia was opened. Since then there have been Balkan wars and two World Wars and the Russian Empire is now the Union of Socialist Soviet Re publics, while the Kaiser’s King dom is a nazi state under the heel of Hitler. Also the first and sec ond peace palaces are idle.—Mon treal (Canada) Gazette. 5 CHANGE In the olden days we would walk Into a bar and order a bottle of beer and a limburger cheese sand wich. In this fast day we walk into the bar, order a chocolate sundae and a slice of angel food cake.—Henry Dillingham, in Platte City (Mo.) Landmark. 5 FAILURE OF THE HORSE “The horse isn’t the answer to the transportation problem,” said the weary gambler, as he walked home from the race track.—Bos ton Glove. 5 BITTER BREW IN THE OFFING A Berlin broadcast overheard in London announced that the brew ing of all malt beer will be dis continued in Germany after July 1 But bitter brews, in larger quan tities than they want, are promised the German people by the United Nations airmen.—New Orleans Times-Picayune. 5 Raymond Clapper Says: Scrap Rubber Campaign Will Clarify Situation By RAYMOND CLAPPER WASHINGTON, June 16 — The scrap rubber drive has got started largely through the urging of Sec retary Ickes. It will tell us how much scrap rubber we have. Then there can be no further argument about our rubber situation. Why the argument has been al lowed to go on until this late date is hard to understand. The first thing that Pear Harbor told us was that we wouldn’t get any more rubber. Six months la ter we begin finding out how much salvage rubber we have. It is typi cal of the jinx that has hung over the subject of rubber. Even last week, after it was ap parent that we had to check up on scrap rubber before public senti ment would be satisfied as to the necessity of general rationing, the War Production Board was oppos ing the special quickie drive now starting. WPB had a general junk salvage campaign in preparation and it didn’t want to be upset by making a special rubber drive. Secretary Ickes and the oil indus try worked out a quick collection olan and finally persuaded the President to go ahead with it. Pull public cooperation in this drive will go far toward ending the demoralizing controversy. There is a lesson in this experi ence. It is that willing acceptance of restrictions can be expected on ly if the Government takes the trouble to make it clear how and why the restrictions are necessary. The press has had a large pat on the back for voluntarily with holding the news of the Molotov The Literary Guidepost By JOHN SELBY “ONLY THE STABS ARE NEU TRAL,” by Quentin Reynolds (Random House; $2.50). . After you finish a book by Quen. tin Reynolds you get the idea that when he locomotes he swings him self through space like a journal istic Tarzan from the copious moustache of Stalin to the scanty back hair of Churchill, to the we)l trimmed goatee of whoever the latest important ambassador may be. Mr. Reynolds does not appear to bother much with the lower strata, and talks more about his various secretaries than any Ro tarian you’ll ever meet. There’s also a good deal of first name calling in “Only the Stars Are Neu plies and equipment needed by the men themselves. Nevertheless our Navy is doing a brilliant job against odds which are considerably greater this time than last. It is compelled as well to operate in both convoy and com batant capacities in the Pacific Yet our men and machines are pouring into Ireland at a prodigl ous rate. Where the B. B. C. an nouncement did not exaggerate !n XS u?e of the datelin Western Front.” Not even Hitler can ignore the rhetorical portent of that phrase. And, as Johnny Doughboy well knows, there ar* roses in Picardy, too. tral,” which is Mr. Reynolds’s lat est. Just the same, if, you want to know exactly how a first flight correspondent for one of the slick magazines provides the material such a magazine wants for its mil lions of readers, here you have it. This book has a good picture of Churchill, Beaverbrook, Harriman and Hopkins working together in London (Winston, Max, Averill and Harry to our correspondent). It contains a good retake of London being blitzed, too. There is a swell piece about a flight to Moscow in a big bomber, and a corking story about a dinner Stalin (Uncle Joe) gave to 100 or so people, one of whom was Mr. Reynolds (Quent). Moscow while the Germans were roaring down on her is there too, and so is the long trip to Kuiby shev at an average of six miles an hour, and the dirt and disarray and eternally fine spirit of that secondary capital. When Mr. Rey nolds (Quent) left Kuibyshev it was in the plane bearing the Litvi novs, Steinhardt, Monckton, et al. the one that got lost and caused all the fuss. Incidentally, lest there be a few who still think the Litvi novs were insulted that morning in Teheran when they elected to stay behind instead of pressing on to Cairo in the RAF plane, Mr. Rey nolds has words to say. Nobody dreamed of such a thing, least of all the Litvinovs, he says. And then Egypt and the desert • front There is no denying the ! speed, color and high spirit of ; Only the Stars Are Neutral.” J , visit until it was released by the government. The fact that Molotov was here was known among news paper men. Molotov lived in the Blair House, opposite the State De partment, on Pennsylvania Avenue near Seventeenth Street, one of the busiest locations in Wash, ington. The press and radio were asked to make no reference to his pres ence for the reason that the safe ty of his return to Moscow might be jeopardized. When the reason was clear, there was no argument. It was a big news event but there was no protest at the suppression. The reason was sufficient on its face. You haven’t heard any serious balking at gasoline rationing in the East because the reason was made clear. Everybody knew it was transportation difficulty. The reason was sufficient on its face and the public accepted it without much resistance. The East knows the country has plenty of gasoline. But it knows that without tankers to carry it the supply in the East is bound to be short. The rubber shortage is without doubt acute. No person in any po sition of responsibility with regard to the rubber supply has any doubt of it. But so many conflicting state ments have been made that the Dublic is skeptical. Officials who hesitate to say what the public does not want to hear have en couraged this suspicion by mak ing hints that something may turn up. If the government had begun weeks ago to round up scrap and get the evidence clear.much of the questioning and opposition would have melted away in face of the obvious necessity. This principle of making the reason clear applies to censorship, to rationing, to any kind of re striction that comes along in war time. Regimented people do not have to be told why. They have to take it. Free people, even in war-time want to know why. The government must justify i t s e'l f. That is one of the big differences betwen democracy and dictator ship. The Administration is about to overhaul. its information services : to coordinate the numerous gov ernment publicity offices, so they will all tell the same story. The trouble goes higher up than the ' nformation offices of the govern- 1 nent. The men running the war ^ sffort get around the table at the 1 white House twice a week or often ;r. It ought to be possible for :hem to agree on the facts and _ stick to them, or else keep still ‘ mtil the facts can be obtained ( -V Factographs ; The father of a vice-chief of the Gherokee Indians designed the < Governor’s Mansion in Raleigh, s M. C. • • • In 1871 occurred the Pestieo fire d n Wisconsin, one of the greatest g Jmted States forest fires in his- fc ory, after a three months’ drought o >ix counties were burned over, t ind over 1,000 lives lost, thousands v rippled and 3,000 beggared. d Interpreting The War Full Significance Of Mediterranean BattleNot Know, By KIRKE L. SIMPSON Wide World War \mysl It is now clear that there - been a trerr- 3 , in the central Mediterranean ' beyond the important fact t Pilots helped carry the war • foe as their Navy and Army "* rades in the Pacific aire»n,.Ci:r‘' done. * However, it is not yet to gauge the full signifies ‘e"! the protracted strug0.t ,_r‘ ' • strategic design that c V. beyona he important ur grew out of British iwtiat t = : ish convoys, according to Ax. V" ports, converged from east m west on the narrow Sicilia. they have long shunned. Conan ing accounts irom the Axisana the British indicate considerahu naval and plane losses “,‘r sides. London admits unspecified lou* but dismisses Axis .......... 1 1 tastic,” adding that ires: ' had been landed both on and at Tobruk. (The German and Italian rerr said that both convoys were jh tered" and driven back.) Whatever the Britisn los<e< have been, the London version".*' dicates that relatively hear ,' damage was inflicted, with Axe man air force cooperation, on'thi already badly mauled I tali a - fleet. One heavy Italian crLse was sunk and tw'o battleships set afire as well as lesser craft br tered from the air. The scene of action was ptl. marily in the straits that separate Sicily and North Africa, i; L across those narrow waters that reinforcements and supplies for the Axis desert army battering at the British defensive front in East ern Libya must be ferried eve.i before they can be started on the difficult desert trek to Rommel; command. If it proves true, as the Axis reports now say, that the British were moving heavily guarded con voys both westward irom Alexan dria and eastward from Gibraltar, it can hardly be doubted tha; some move to isolate the Axis army in Libya from its supply sources was in mobon as well as a plan to supply Malta and Tobruk. The fact that army air force pilots have joined battle with Ital ian and German foes in the Med iterranean theater verifies Pres dent Roosevelt’s repeated asset tion that American arms would!! brought to bear against the eneip wherever and whenever he could be struck. It gives added point also, to the still mysterious flight of American heavy bombers on unreported missions in the eastern Mediterranean region. This flight was revealed by internment o! some of them after forced land ings in Turkey. Mr. Roosevelt has just informed Congress in his fifth tri-monthly report on lend-lease aid that sc tion was being taken "to carry our men and weapons, on anyth--! that will float or fly. to the place from which we can launcu 01 offensives.” One of those jump-'-, points may prove to be in the Mediterranean. Is That So! What is so rare as a day June and what day arrives 1 swiftly as June 15—income ‘a payment day? * » * Pressed wood hardboards >■ replacing aluminum and J10' ferrous alloys in the manufact of fan blades, gears, grills a motor housings. * * * “A kick - out" in Hie N’avy j slang for a dishonorable charge, which is also called “Yellow Ticket." * * * The Peace Palace at The Hat-1 The Netherlands, was dedicates - 1913. * * * That old philosopher who that no one should hide his , under a bushel certainly lave had a tough time ge'--' along with an air raid ward ¥ * * A family of five, according a survey, can live on $10 a ' • ren dollars each, they must rr.f ¥ * * Japanese have invaded and ungle. Unfortunately, they a-' aabes in the woods. * * * The ban on disseminati® veather news is going to t tough for summer resor. ' q do any gloating on the if a postcard. * e v The country may still na« ive-cent cigar—but not, wa ^ iir raid warden, during a ut. * * * h Zadok Dumbkopf says ; ly with two ■ and no night ..se them for book * * * Where one old tree is ha o supply lumber, 10 *ee p; pring up, replenishing me - • * * * . ( Nothing was done »b°u‘Ia: iscovery of beet sugar W rof, German chemist 1 ■ ut years later NaP° gri;:;l rder to circumvent a $ lockade, brought aboul. ■ elopment of the beet s - ustry in Europe. I
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