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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS is entitled to the exclusive use of all news stories appearing in The Wilmington Star. FRIDAY, JUNE 27, 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 Star-N ewsProgram 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 ers. Development of native grape growing throughout Southeastern North Carolina. Modern Tuberculosis Sanatorium. TOP O’ THE MORNING The heavens declare Thy glory, Lord, In every star Thy wisdom shines; But when our eyes behold Thy Word, We read Thy name in fairer lines. ^ —ISAAC WATTS AVG In Action One ray of sunshine penetrates the war clouds. Fliers in the American Volunteer Group have conducted a raid on Hankow, Ja pan’s inland base in China, and destroyed an enemy warship and three transports. These fliers are to be mustered into the Chinese armies on July 4 as a nucleus for the American Aid Force in China. If they continue their splendid showing from the time they first flew over the Burma road and dur ing the attack on Burma itself, they will have a great deal to do with slowing the Japanese advance in China. The planes they were flying in the Hankow raid were fighters converted into bombers. This adds to the merit due them as an illus tration of their ingenuity. This ingenuity cou pled with their intrepidity and proved skill are qualities of success. It is reasonable to expect that when a substantial American air force gets into action in China, the Japanese attempt to cut off the whole of eastern China •nd prevent the establishment of bases there for an attack on Japan will receive a definite aet-back. ■-V New Gasoline Rationing The new gasoline rationing program will fte much more severe than the present one. fcany motor car owners who have been using ft and C cards will, after July 22, have to get along with an A limitation of 32 gallons for 60 days—little more than half a gallon a day. This, of course, is too small for any practi cal use. Most private automobiles average •bout 15 miles to the gallon, especially if they have been in service for any length of time. Some will get up to 20 to 22 miles, but they are rare. Fifteen miles is the mean average. Thus a half gallon a day will take the driver from seven to eight miles—enough perhaps for one round trip to the place of employment, but not for a trip to the grocery store in addition, and certainly not for a visit to a sick friend. Under the new set-up the exceptions to this limitation will be few and far between and the individual desiring a larger ration will have to make out a strong case for himself. All of which seems strange, on the surface, inasmuch as gasoline deliveries from the pi;o. ducticn areas on which the eastern seaboard draws chiefly for its supply are steadily im proving. Beneath the surface is the need for rubber conservation. The less gasoline that may be secured, the less will an automobile owner be able to use his tires. And the longer tires last, the more .rubber will be available if in an extreme emergency the government deems it necessary to commandeer private tires for war purposes. The one way this decision may be staved off is for citizens to turn in all waste or un needed rubber now while the rubber salvage campaign is under way. If a sufficient stockpile can be created upon which the war industries may draw for the manufacture of war supplies and weapons there will be no need to confiscate private tires. This puts it up squarely to the individ ual to contribute to that stockpile. Right now. -V Spiking A Canard It is hard to get behind the records. Thus claims that Wilmington’s death rate is exces sively high are disproved by the graphs of the health department. Dr. A. H. Elliot, health officer, in contra diction of these claims, reveals that the aver age age of death in 1910 was 28 years. In the next 10 years it had advanced to 36 years, an increase of eight years in the average span of life. In 1930 it was 42 years, and in 1939, 48 years. In 30 years the life span had in creased 20 years. This is not hearsay evidence. It is the ir refutable evidence of the records. Doctor Elliot’s statement is so important, in view of the forthcoming election for water supply bonds, that a portion of it deserves to be repeated for emphasis. In pondering how to vote next Wednesday, weigh his words carefully: The implication of recent newspaper ar ticles and paid advertisements, as I un derstand, is that Wilmington’s death rate is abnormally high because of the detri mental effect of the chemically treated water furnished Wilmingtonians by t h e city water department under the super vision of the consolidated health depart ment’s sanitary engineers. From tne standpoint of quantity, prob ably over 99 per cent of the water con sumed by residents of sizeable cities throughout the United States is chlori nated surface water. From the standpoint of the number of cities as big or bigger than Wilmington, probably 95 per cent to 98 per cent use treated surface water. In addition, I can add that a large per centage of underground well water is chlorinated as an extra precaution against possible contamination. I am sure that most state and federal authorities will recommend, and, in most cases, demand, chlorination of under ground well water as a precautionary measure. -V Local Transportation Local transportation problems are to be closely studied by the new committee headed by N. E. Drexler, president of the Tide Water Power company, before any program is draft ed for their solution. The survey which is to be made will con sider staggering the hours of employes to re lieve congestion in traffic at so-called peak hours, see what can be done to increase the load of private automobiles, and the retiming of traffic signals at downtown intersections to speed the traffic flow. Staggered hours of service has been tried out with varying success in a number of large cities in the country. Some years ago it was attempted in Washington but met such op position from several sources that it was not then given a fair trial. In the present war emergency, with the number of government employes greatly increased, it is reported as satisfactory as any emergency measure could be. Washington, perhaps, is not a fair illus tration, as its traffic problem is grudgingly conceded to be beyond solution. Even if its al leys were widened into streets there would not be room for all the city’s traffic. But the staggering of hours is a help. As for the plan to get motorists to offer seats to neighbors to and from places of em ployment, it certainly deserves to be encour aged. One car carrying three passengers and a driver is obviously better, so far as gasoline and tire conservation are concerned, than four cars with one rider each. The practice is be ing employed now by many workers. It could well become more widely employed. Women, for example, starting on shopping or market ing expeditions, might be prevailed on to make it a party instead of a solo enterprise. This would be particularly helpful if adopted by suburbanites who patronize downtown stores. Most of the American cities have found it beneficial to time their traffic lights so that vehicles may travel two, three or four blocks on a single light on "through” streets during hours when travel is heaviest. This works some inconvenience on drivers using c r oss streets, but a greater good is achieved for the larger number of drivers by this method. Altogether, the transportation committee appears to have laid out a line of inquiry which can produce excellent results. -V Retailers For Victory Such fine success accompanied a “Retailers for Defense’’ week some months ago, when the sale of war stamps and bonds reached an unprecedented total that the retailers of tte country have been enlisted by the treasury department to conduct a “Retailers for Vic tory’’ month with the justifiable hope that it will stimulate the movement in these particu lar government securities as nothing else thus far has done. The month will be ushered in next Wednes day. There will be a radio address by Mayor Bellamy. And when the air raid sirens give a concerted blast at noon the retail stores of the city will suspend all merchandise sales and for fifteen minutes will sell only war bonds and stamps. Thereafter, throughout July, clerks will make a special drive among customers urging them to invest change from purchases in stamps. The goal is 4 per cent of last year’s merchandise sales. If it is reach ed, Wilmington will have established an en viable record. Just now the war news is not as encourag ing as could be hoped. Not only is Hitler driv ing hard at the Russians and at the British in Egypt. Our own soil has been invaded, with the Japanese inching up on Alaska by way of the Aleutians. If the Axis is to be defeated the burden of victory must be more and more directly as sumed by the United States. And we can contribute our full share in defeating the Axis only at tremendous expense. The costs of the war must be met by immense increases in direct taxation or by much heavier invest ments in war bonds, which will have the ef fect of reducing direct taxes. Surely we, who do not take part in combat, and remain at home to keep the wheels of business and industry turning, must give, as they said in the last war’s Liberty bond drives, "until it hurts,” or be lashed by un easy consciences for laying down on a mani fest duty. -V- V General McCroskey The promotion of Col. Samuel L. McCros key to the rank of brigadier general is wel come news to the thousands of Wilmington ians privileged to know him during his service at Camp Davis. General McCroskey was one of the first of ficers assigned to duty at the Holly Ridge reservation. He was here long before the first work was done on the camp, and in those early days, when the city had to accus tom itself to the idea of becoming an Army town and the Army had to find common ground with the people, his efficiency and geniality had much to do with establishing the entente cordial. When the camp was finally in operation and Col. J. B. Crawford was honored with a briga dier generalship as its commander, General McCroskey, then a lieutenant colonel, was his executive officer, and with his commander continued to inspire closer and closer accord between the camp and the city. No Wilmingtonian who knew him will fail to wish for General McCroskey further advance in the Army and a wider field of activity in the nation’s defense of democracy and vic tory over the forces which menace it. -V Washington Daybook BY JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, June 26.—The gates of the wartime heavens are now ajar for aviation’s “old-timers” and for those who have been told scores of times that they are “too fat to fly.” If you are an “old man” in your middle thirties; if you wear specs or squint a little; if you just can’t quite get by the air corps physicals, but still have a yen to kick a rudder bar for Uncle Sam, the Civil Aeronautics Ad ministration has the answer to your problem. Under the direction of Acting Administrator C. I. Stanton, the CAA is launching a pilot training program that dwarfs all past efforts along this line. The sky’s the limit, because the CAA’s 650 flying schools, can handle ap proximately 180,000 student pilots a year—al most six times its present turnout. * * * In flying slanguage, these men will “do their fighting sitting down” but they are no less im portant to the Army and Navy and winning of the war than the combat pilots who sink the ships and bomb the cities of the Axis. And they’ll have one great advantage over the heroes of the flying lines when this war is over. They’ll be experienced in the kind of flying that s going to make post-war peace time aviation a miracle of transportation. Pilots trained under the program, whether they start fom a taxi stand or pick up where their amateur aviation left off (trainees with out previous experience may get from 40 to 48 weeks of training; advanced pilots may have to take only eight weeks) will become members of the Air Force Reserve Corps. ™*y will be subject to call any time. They will be assigned to one of four services, for any of which they may express a preference * * * These are: (1) Instructors-the potential bottleneck in mass production of pilots. The civilian con tract flying schools (contracts by the Army for basic training) need all the instructors they can get. (2) Glider Pilots — something brand new They may fly freight or relief supplies to be leaguered bands. It’s a field that forwardlook ing airmen say will be one of the most fertile after the war. (3) Service and liaison Pilots—they will fly the Army mail, ferry planes, tow targets and gliders, and chauffeur the brass hats. (4) Airline co-pilots—which is self-explana tory. They’ll fly the commercial lines, now virtually controlled by Army and Navy prior ity demands. CAA will take any man who isn’t under 18 or over 37. He’ll have to pass a physical but it won t be as stiff as that for the Army and Navy combat pilots. The Civil Air Patrol excepted. This is the nrst real break for the men who are barred from Army and Navy aviation but can’t be tlfeir'hingsSS they 36 sucking ProP-wash into QUOTATIONS A little less in our homes may mean a little more on the battle fronts.—Donald Nel son, WPB Director. • * * When peace comes we shall not attempt to turn back the clock in the pre-war era.—Sir Gerald Campbell, British minister to Wash ington. * * * You are constantly hearing about a great flood of synthetic rubber just around the cor ner—the same corner, I suspect, which hid prosperity for such a considerable period some years ago.—Robert W. Horton, OEM director of information. BLOOD, SWEAT AND JEERS! WHAT ARE. VOO DOING TO STOP HITLER? WHAT DIO ' you do i ATMUUlCHy The Editor's Letter Box The editor does not necessarily endorse any article appearing in this department. They represent the views of the Individual readers. Correspondents and warned that all communications must contain the correct name and address for our records, though the latter may be 6igned as the writer sees fit. The Star-News reserves the right to alter any text that for any rea son is objectionable. Letters on controversial subjects will not be published. SAVE THE FORESTS To the Editor: To win this war we must have wood. We must have huge quan tities of wood—huge even for the prodigal United States. But that is no reason for killing the goose that liad the golden egg. There is no sense in destroying the power of our timber lands to grow more wood. The timber we need to win the war, and all we need to win it, can be and should be taken from our forests without ruining them. There is no sense in crippling their production of wood for generation* to come. Wood is a crop. When a farmer harvests his crop, he leaves the land in condition to grow m ore crops. We can do the same with our forests. That is what forestry is for. Instead of cutting our forests under forestry so that they can grow more wood, we are cutting almost all of them in a way to prevent them from growing more wood. We are cutting as if we were going to need no wood after the war is over. That is pure fool ishness. We shall need more wood, vast quantities of it, after the war is won. Without it this country could not prosper, as everybody knows. There is no reason why we should bury our heads in the sand and forget this vital fact, especially when higher prices and the pres sure for timber are leading to vast forest destruction. One-quarter of our timber lands are in State and National Forests. They are safe. Three-quarters are in private hands. Everey acre of these can be destroyed when ever the owner chooses. In that there is neither justice nor common sense. When forests are destroyed, everybody is hurt. The users of wood in every form are hurt. So are the users of water. So are the users of land. So are communities which depend on for est industries, and that means, in som edegree, every community in the Nation. There is no one in America who is not hurt w hen forests are needlessly destroyed. No forests in all the world are safe against destruction u n less they are under government con trol. No one disputes that. In the most democratic nation in the world, Switzerland, in Sweden, no private owner can cut his timber except under government control. Nor could he in prewar Norway and France. If these nations can protect the present and the future of their people in this way, so can we. Our Federal government can stop this needless forest destruc tion, but it is not doing so. Our Federal government can require privete owners to cut their timber lands so as to keep them growing wood, but our Federal government lets the destruction go on. Our Federal government has the knowledge of what needs to be done, and the foresters to see that it is well done. There is every rason why we should protect the future of our wood supply in this emergency, and none Why we should neglect it. I ask every one of you who reads this letter to get in touch at once with your Senators and Congressman in Washington and urge immediate passage of a Bill which, without interfering in any way with winning the war, will Raymond Clapper Says: Roosevelt Cool Toward N. Y. Governor Candidate By RAYMOND CLAPPER WASHINGTON, June 25—In the face of White Houe coolness, James A. Farley appears to have put his own man over for the Dem ocratic nomination for governor of New York. The Brooklyn Democratic organ, ization pledged itself to Attorney General John J. Bennett Jr. this week, and that gives him enougn pledges to insure nomination. Pres ident Roosevelt has made no state ment but he is regarded as having been cool toward the nomination of Mr. Bennett. Friends of the White House were interested in Owen Young, Senator Mead, and Lieutenant Governor Poletti. Mr. Farley recently went to the White House and presumably stood firm behind Mr. Bennett. At any rate he continued to go after pledges and to get them, evidently figur ing that if Mr. Bennett is nom inated the President will be obliged to support him. Two objections have been raised to Mr. Bennett. One is that he is a colorless figure who has demon strated no notable gifts of leader ship. The other is that the Amer ican Labor Party, which may con trol some 200,000 votes or more, has declared it will not accept the nomination of Mr. Bennett under any circumstances. In a close race such as the one between Governor Lehman and Thomas E. Dewey four years ago, the American Labor Party might hold the balance. A third reason for opposition to Mr. Bennett is that his nomination gives Mr. Far ley strong control in New York State and lays the basis for con trolling the large New York dele gation to the next presidential nomination convention two years from now. With some that prob ably is a dominating consideration. But the job seems to have been already done and it does not ap pear likely that it can be upset in the primaries or the state con vention. On the Republican side, Thomas E. Dewey has obtained more than enough pledges to be nominated if they all stick. There has been intense opposition but Mr. Dewey had his pledges in the bag be fore his opponents really went to work. Wendell Willkie has been oppos ed to the nominatiin of Mr. Dewey. When he was trying to get the presidential nomination in 19 4 0 Mr. Willkie was forthright and courageous in his stand. He has insisted that Mr. Dewey be equally so now. Mr. Willkie and a good many of his friends felt that Mr. Dewey has not been sufficiently clear-cut. They pointed to his wavering in the past and more re cently to a reported statement by Mr. Dewey that he was against Rep. Ham Fish not because of his ideas but because of his associa tions. That was construed as a two-way statement and led to a movement to draft Mr. Willkie. A number of Republicans and the non-partisan “Vote for Freedom” group are working on this. Some in the American Labor Party say Mr. Willkie could have its support if he would run. The hope of these opponents of Mr. Dewey is to repeat the per formance at the Philadelphia con vention and bring about the nom ination of Mr. Willkie by upsetting the convention through o u t s i de pressure. The difference is that (Continued on Page Eight) The Literary Guidepost By JOHN SELBY “BEHIND THE URALS,’* by John Scott (Houghton Mifflin; $2.75). The first really comprehensive story of Russia’s “hidden” center of manufacture comes from a still young graduate of the University of Wisconsin named John Scott. His book is called "Behind the Urals,” and it is Ike a window overlooking an undertaking so large it cannot be true—but is. Mr. Scott saw it. Mr. Scott left the university in 1931, a bad time to try for a job. He became interested in Soviet Russia, and his father advised him to learn a trade if he intended to go there. He became a welder, pocketed his trade union card, and went to Russia. In Moscow he bounced back an d forth be tween various bureaus for ten days, and then began the four-day train 'crip to Magnitogorsk, east of the Urals. For five years he worked there, and he might have stayed longer but for the purge of 1937-38, which made things difficult for safeguard our forests and our future wood supply. I am a forester. I give you my word that what I suggest is pos sible and practical. As a fo r m er State Governor I know that the States cannot take action in time. Only the Federal government can. The forests can be saved with out interfemg with our war effort. To protect the future of our forests will not hinder us, but help us, both m the war and after. Sincerely yours, , Gifford Pinchot. Milford, Pa. June 24, 1942. foreigners. He had married a Rus sian girl who was certain that her husband came from a downtrod den and underprivileged country, and when at last she saw New York in 1941, was confounded. She still is. In any case, Scott passed his last years in Russian as a correpondent, chiefly in Mos cow, and there he kept closely in touch with Magnitogorsk. His pic ture is complete, up to 1941. The things done in the area five hundred miles square behind the Urals make Alice and her Wonderland seem commonplace. In addition they have saved Rus sia’s life, and perhaps our own as well. Magnitogorsk is one of the world’s largest metallurgical plants. In the northern part of the district are chemical plants of vast capacity. Not far away is a magnesium plant. Electric power comes fro m Kizel and other places; ferrous alloys from Chuso vaya; 100 miles west of Chuso vaya the immense, closely guard ed Perm aviation motor plant is located. High grade copper and sulphuric acid is Krasnouralsk’s contribution, and 50,000 new freight cars a year come out of Nizhni Tagil. Asbest is the asbes tos center, and there are two very large aviation gasoline plants. This is by no means the com plete catalogue. Nor is it the whole of this fable come true. This all was done at the same time the workers were being trained—barring imported techni cal advice, the skills for construc tion and operation both were cre ated parallel with the actual buildings themselves. “Blood sweat and tears” has a new mean ing here, Mr. Scott thinks. 4 Interpreting The War Severing Communications Seems To Be Nazi Method Of Attack In Libya, RUssi0 BY KIRKE L. SIMPSON Wide World War Analyst While Britain’s badly m= , eighth army and its reinforced, rally in Egypt for a •■las,S defense of Alexandria, as' t„ puts it, Nazi legions in the Uk, d°n have bored an ominous hole in T Russian communicaton Sv5i east-southeast of Kharkov * tera Nazi capture of Kupyansk ; portant rail junction 60 miles and a little south of Kharkov” admitted by the Soviet hift'! The thrust gives a due to strategy of the German S£ even though it may be only limmary operation rather than tk Sng 01 ,n >iu"t Kupyansk junction was a necting rail link of Marshal Tim, shenko’s north - south common™ ' tions. Triple rail systems comd down from the north merge ill smgle line at that point to link UD W1th thu I?" Donets basin J net-work. The line by-passes on h west a huge sweep of virtual bad lands in which no railroad o „ sequence or major highway s' shown on recent Russian maps. north's°uth sailroad lies east of that wide stretch of touch country which is nearly 200 2 long and averages perhaps, miles wide. Loss of Kupyansk cut the western route, forcing the Russian general to depend on the forlrpffPpfaSt °f the rough countrv for effective communications con tract between the northern wing of his armies about Kharkov and the southern elements reaching to the sea of Azov. Just how wide a wedge the Nazis have driven in the Kupyansk area is not indicated. Moscow insists there has been no breakthrough, tnat the Kussian front is still se cure. It seems obvious, however, that the German drive at Kupy ansk was aimed at cutting Russian forces apart southeast of Kharkov in preparation for a rolling-up op eration southward aimed ultimate ly at rounding the Rostov corner i into the Caucasus. Even in dry weather, which like, ly prevails at present in the south ern Ukraine, German mechanized thrusts have almost always been along railroad and road systems The wide stretch of all but road less rough country east of Kupv. ansk does not lend itself to that type of warfare. Kupyansk does of fer the Nazis a jump-off either northwestward behind the Russian front investing Kharkov, or south eastward .However, it seems indi cated that the greatest Nazi change to explot capture of Kupy ansk would be southward in a swift encirclement sweep. The Berlin radio’s assertion that the Nazis have captured Izyum, 40 miles southwest of Kupyansk, is an indication that such a movement already is developing. Loss of that railroute west of the badlands stretch must ncrcase Russian difficulties in shifting re serves from the north to meet such a German operation. If that is the Nazi intention, it almost certainly will be coupled also with eastward German thrusts perhaps all along the line to signal that Hitler’s promised great offensive is at least in full swing. 3 -V Civilian Defense Timetable BASIC TRAINING COURSES All courses met at 8 p.m. in High School room 109. Fire Defense A — Every Mon day. General Course — Every Tues day. Gas Defense B — Every WM' nesday. SPECIAL COURSES Fire Defense B — Thursdays a. 8 p.m., Fire Dept. Headquarter). 1st lecture — July 2 2nd lecture — July 9 3rd lecture — July 10 MEETINGS Auxiliary Police — Thursday July 2, at 8 p.m., Recorders Coil-' room, Court House. -V As Others Say It EULOGY FOR A MURDERER Hitler and Himmler shed <T“C‘ odile tears over the bier at “*■" drich. They yammered abour fa “purity of soul” and high mot That’s the first time we’ve o' heard that kind of eulogy J'_' murderer.—Chatham News l-’! e City.) -V Factograpbs Nearly all available ships of Great Lakes iron ore fleet hat been put into service at foleo • O., and those not as yet in c0™™1' sion are being readied. More tha 95 per cent of the fleet. 284 sMr out of 299, are in commission. in total in service by mid-season 1 expected to reach 304. * * * The Grand Coulee dam. embrac ing a huge waterpower and >rrl=,_ tion project, on the Columbia r,v er, Washngton, began furnish111? power in 1941, two years ahead schedule.
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