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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS is entitled to the exclusive use of all news stories appearing in The Wilmington Star. MONDAY JUNE 29, 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 Wrights ville 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 REVAH SUMMERSGILL. What will they remember When they’re grown and gone— The fretful way I nagged one day, Or the picnics on the lawn? The times I’ve scolded, overtired, Or that I loved them so? Their carefree Junes and Christmas tunes? I’d give the world to know! Their memories will lie, When the ones I love are thinking of Their childhood days with me. Will they be the things I pray —From ‘‘A Mother’s Meditation” by -V “Keep Well Crusade” Among all the conservation crusades started or to come, none has greater potential value in the war effort than one just getting under way, known as the “Keep Well Crusade.” It is sponsored by the Institute of Life Insur ance and the program has been worked in col. laboration with Dr. Thomas Parran, surgeon general of the United States Public Health service and endorsed by Paul V. McNutt, chairman of the Office of Defense, Health and Welfare services. The importance of keeping well for conserv ing man-hours for war production and to re lieve a possible shortage of medical aid when ■ doctors and nurses are joining the armed forces in large numbers, is indicated by the fact that individual absences from work amounts to the total of a year’s production of a quarter million workers. Five rules have been set up. They are so simple that no person need experience any difficulty in employing them. They are: Eat right, get your rest, see your doctor once a year, keep clean and play some every day. To these may be added, steering clear of persons with infectious or contageous diseases, particularly persons suffering from colds. -V Women In Industry How well women and girls can perform work which used to be considered out of their sphere of usefulness is demonstrated at the Pan-Amer ican Airways marine base at LaGuardia field Sixty-three members of the “weaker sex” are serving as mechanics at the base, and doing a good job too. Because they have proved their adaptability they have released men workers for heavier tasks requiring precision and skill they have had time to acquire in the short period ol their employment. Before last January women had been used * lb only in the upholstery department, running sewing machines. Now they are operating drills, squeezing machines and electric saws. They wear overalls and, as may be easily understood, have abandoned nail polish and even lip rouge. This is only one example of how women are finding a place in war industry. Airplane plants have been employing girls for some time and in precision jobs. They are working on guns and tanks, too. -V Hot And Cold It has been interesting and depressing to watch the trend of comment on the war during periods of comparative quiet and of heavy combat. Because “hope springs eternal in the human breast” every little fluctuation in the fighting anywhere, however inconspicuous as compared with major battles, which has seemed to give the United Nations an advantage has been widely reflected by optimistic forecasts of bet ter times ahead. Every time the Axis has bared its teeth and bitten deep into any sector there has been an outpouring of criticism of the United Nations strategy and endless repe. titions of the query: “When are we going to get down to winning this war?” We swirl around as a leaf in a whirlwind, carried high or cast down, according to whim of the elements. The chief objection to this instability of thought is that it precludes the concentration of the nation’s composite mind upon the main objective, whch is the winning of the war over all handicaps and obstacles and the worst a determined and crafty enemy can do to prevent it. Just now, for example, we are in low spirits over the loss of Libya and the drive against the Russians in the Ukraine. The news is not encouraging. That’s a fact. But the Axis has not yet won the war, nor would the capture of Egypt and defeat of Timoshenka give the Axis the final victory. They would give Hitler the advantage, a big advantage, and the war would be prolonged, but they would not seal the fate of the United Nations — not as long as the peoples Hitler hopes to enslave continued the fight with a firm determination to carry on. Even though the odds would be in his favor, the fact remains that whereas he has been draining both his manpower and his industrial production this country has still to get its armed might into action and its production up to capacity. In the long-range view of the con flict—and it must be long-range to be accurate —the ultimate odds are all against the Axis which cannot compete with us in the output of war implements or, through union with the Allies, our manpower either. There is only one thing lacking, one essentia] ingredient, which we must cultivate for the duration, however repulsive it is to every civi. lized sentiment we have so sedulously culti vated. That is the killer instinct, the consum ing passion to put the enemy to death, lest the enemy kill us instead. The enemy has this instinct. Hitler has spread the gospel of slaughter so cunningly among the Germans that his entire fighting force has no other object in battle but to slay. We, — and the entire fighting forces of the United Nations are included in this aduration, —we must cultivate the same sentiment as long as there is an enemy in the field. When we have done this we will stop blow ing hot and cold with every shift in the war winds, and remain immovably frigid until the conflict is won. -V saboteurs Nabbed Evidence is presented that Nazi submarines have landed parties of wreckers on American soil. It had been suspected for some time past that enemy saboteurs were making their way to these shores by one means and another, and the fact that they had been arriving may have been known to the Federal Bureau of In vestigation which has previously kept judi ciously mum about it. But at last two parties were caught redhanded, as the saying is, al though they were allowed to go their way under surveillance that their plans might be discovered. They have all been jailed, both the four who landed on Long Island and planted their TNT in the beach and the other quartet that chose to come ashore near Jacksonville, Florida. The FBI has done a good job and deserves unstint ed credit for the round-up. There is no fore seeing what damage might have been done to war industries, to goods in transit or lives that might have been lost if these enemy agents had not been captured. At the same time, it is a question if other Nazis, more successful in landing than these eight, are not in our cities awaiting only a favorable opportunity to blast war industries, or in rural sections ready to pull spikes from rails when they learn that valuable war ma terials are to be moved over those particular tracks. This is said to urge all coastal dwellers to be on the alert at all times and warn the authorities of the presence of any person not readily recognized, and at the same time cau tion them to be circumspect in passing on their news. The information that a stranger is in the vicinity whose presence is not accounted for should be given only to the regular forces concerned with enforcement of the law and the security of the community. To gossip about it might easily give a tip to the suspect and enable him to get away. On the other hand, a perfectly innocent visitor might be done a serious injustice through idle gossip. A Joint Statement With the Egyptian campaign of General Field Marshal Rommel already in a critical stage for the British and the Russians pressed hard in the Ukraine, it took courage of an extraordinary sort for President Roosevelt and Pime Minister Churchill, in their joint state ment to the public, to delcare the war situa tion materially improved for the United Na tions over what it was six months ago. Even though both of these leaders are chron. ic idealists they would not so far mislead the public as to say things are better in the midst of a gruelling two-pronged enemy offensive un less they had some fact upon which to base their declaration. What that fact is, naturally, is not revealed. But we have seen how greatly American war production has increased and how American and Canadian troops have been swarming into England and Ireland. It might well be that this combination of evidence indicates an in vasion of continental Europe, for which there has been so loud a clamor. It might mean that bombing raids on German centers will be in tensified or that steps have already been taken to checkmate Rommel in Egypt. We can only guess what lies back of their assurance. But we cannot believe, in justice to them, that they have given this assurance merely with the purpose of lightening the wor ries of their peoples. They have said that a United Nations counter-thrust of some sort is to be made to relieve the Nazi pressure on Russia. We may take heart from this and, for the time at least, let it go at that. They have had the best mili tary advice of the United States and Britain during their Washington conferences. If they have taken it and are preparing to put it into effect, all will be well for the United Nations. Typical Of The Man Gen. Frederic H. Smith’s decision to post pone Camp Davis’ fund campaign for the Army Emergency Relief, because of other cru sades now under way in Wilmington, is just what could have been expected from this genial considerate and thoughtful commander of the post. Wilmington’s people have and are answering so many appeals for money that one more, right now, might easily stand in the stead of the straw that broke the camel’s back. General Smith may be sure that when, in his judgment, the right time has arrived to ask contributions for the Army Emergency Re lief his appeal will meet with generous re sponse from residents of this community. It will readily be remembered that the re cent Navy Relief drive was eminently success ful. We feel sure the people here will toe the mark for the Army as liberally as they did then. -V Washington Daybook BY JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, June 28th.—On most of the workroom walls in the Office of Censorship, there is this caution: “A censor needs the eye of a hawk; the memory of an elephant; the nose of a blood hound; the heart of a lion; the vigilance of an owl; the voice of a dove; the sagacity of Solomon; the patience of Job; and the imper turability of the Sphinx." In spite of the fact that that describes a masterpiece of conglomerate genius, I think the author should have added: "A Jovian sense of humor.” Director of Censorship Byron Price has had to do a lot of grinning over the fact that some one wrote a song and dedicated it to him, entitled: "They May Censor All My Letters, Dear, But Read Between the Lines.” * * * Without humor, Solomon would have been hard put to figure out what to do in the case of the young lady from Florida who complain ed that she had received a letter, “Opened by Censor,” which enclosed only an oblong memo, on which was written: “Dear young lady: Your soldier still loves you, but he talks too much.” The eye of the hawk was working all right (in this case ear) when the telephone censor twice broke a long distance call from southern California to Mexico because the Californian insisted on discussing the “arrival of the bombers.” But it was a sense of humor that kept the censor’s face from being very red when the irate native son bellowed: “What’s the matter with you? I’m talking about our pro football team, the San Diego Bombers.” Patience takes an awful beating too when the censor boys have to weed out all those let ters directed to “The Bureau of the Censor,” saying please send me my birth certificate. But the writers who don’t know census from censor weren’t as far off as the fellow who addressed his query to “The Office of Senator Ship.’ That elephantine memory recalls that mes sages in World War I were transmitted by numerals and initials (that’s why the overseas boys and their at-home girls can’t use XXX’s for kisses any more), but what are you going to do about the soldier in the South Pacific who wrote: '‘Those initials on the back of the letter that the censor cut out were: P.P. R.L.H., which meant Post, Postman, Run Like Hell: and B.O.Y.L.T.O.P., which meant Bet ter On Your Lips Than On Paper.” The old blood hound’s nose gets a-twitching at the wrong time every once in a while, also. For instance, all letters addressed to Axis officials and dignitaries are very suspect and come in for a bit of special investigation. Once in a while there’s one like that addressed to “Admiral Yamamoto.” The censor unfolded a large sheet to be greeted by the printed smarty: “Hello, Nosey.” All in all, though, I don’t think the censors ever were quite so abashed as when they open ed the letter from the private in Hawaii to his parents. “Dear Mom and Pop: (it said) I can’t tell you anything about life in the army. That’s because these letters are opened by censors and some of the censors may be spies.” 3 QUOTATIONS If you have a car, you should regard your tires as pearls of great price; you should consider yourself as a trustee of a sacred trust.—Jack Garrett Scott, general counsel, Office of Defense Transportation. t I “UNOFFICIAL SPOKESMEN” ^ DO • V 1 / A, &o' W()«?tD i \v\ uscussjor/ / Civilian Defense Timetable BASIC TRAINING COURSES All courses meet at 8 p.m. in High School room 109. Fire Defense A — Every Mon day General Course — Every Tues day Gas Defense B — Every Wed nesday SPECIAL COURSES Fire Defense B — Thursdays at 8 p.m., Fire Dept. Headquarters 1st lecture — July 2 2nd lecture — July 9 3rd lecture — July 16 MEETINGS Auxiliary Police — Thursday July 2, at 8 p.m. in Recorder? Court room. Court House Casualty Stations — Med ical Corps, first adi assistants only. Tuesday, 7:30 p. m.. Church of the Covenant and St. Paul’s Luth eran church TRAINING FILM “Before the Doctor Comes” High School Auditorium. Wednesday July 1, at 8 p.m. (First Aid train ing) -V Factographs With a great deal of experience in making a certain kind of armor, a steel company maintains what is practically a university for the education of other steel companies who have been gven orders to make the same product. Students must be accredited employes of a cowsany from which the govern ment has ordered armor and can spend as much time as they need in the plant, and ask all the ques tions they want to. * * * Mount Rainier, in the state of Washington, was named after the British admiral, Peter Rain ier, who figured in the American Revolution. The name was given it by Capt. George Vancouver, English navigator and explorer. It is 14,408 feet high. * * * Picnickers area urged to stage their outdoor luncheons in the yard. The move, no doubt, is heart ily indorsed by home talent ants. Raymond Clapper Says: War Production To Rise As The Year Continues By RAYMOND CLAPPER WASHINGTON, June 28—At last President Roosevelt has relented and made public certain specific war production figures. For a long time some in the gov ernment have been arguing that it would be good propaganda abroad to tell what we were producing, but the military was against it and so was the President. Now some of the figures are out. May figures were given. In that month nearly 4000 planes were produced, more than 1500 tank, nearly 2000 artillery and anti-tank guns, besides anti-aircraft g uns and guns to be mounted in tanks, more than 50,000 machine guns and about as many more subma chine guns. Production in the two b a sic weapons indicate a staggering an nual rate—nearly 50,000 planes a year and 18,000 tanks. Safe to say production will rise from the May rates as the year goes on. * * Those figures will tell Hitler that his only chance to win the war is right now. They will tell him that force is building up that he cannot possibly match. Donald N elson says Allied production exceeds that of the Axis now. Those figures also tell us that private industry has done and is doing a job that has never been approached in all time before. True we had large resources to start with. But plants had to be built, old ones had to be convert ed. Hitler has been building for nearly ten years—and we have been at it two years. The strain placed on management and engi neering ability is something be yond anything ever before loaded on the shoulders of private initia tive. The test has been met. Not only met. Some expectations have been exceeded. Industry not only did what was asked but it has beaten the schedules in some in stances. This achievement shows w h at The Literary Guidepost By JOHN SELBY “ASSIGNMENT TO BERLIN,” by Harry W. Flannery (Knopf; $3) TODAY’S book on the N a zis might have borne a different title. It might have been called “The Conversion of Harry W. Flannery” The title is “Assignment to Ber lin,” however, and it is obviously designed to rest on the shelf alongside William L. Shirer’s “Berlin Diary.” The Columbia Broadcasting System and Alfred Knopf are apparently engaged in a minute by minute report on Berlin up to last December 7. And it will sound supercilious to name the most valuable char acteristic of Mr. Flannery’s book although it is not intended that this be so. The thing that gives it value is the naivete of the author, plus his seeming complete hon esty. These things make it possife^ to see precisely how the odd Nazi mind and method work on an in experienced but far from stupid man who comes in contact with them. Mr. Flannery was snatched out of St. Louis and the isolationist camp to go to Berlin as Shirer’s successor. He was more than will ing to be impartial, objective, and all the rest of it. Yet before he had been an hour on German soil, he was wondering whether the extreme ease with which he was let through customs might not be an Nazi trick to prejudice him in their favor! “Assignment to Berlin’’ explains in enormous detail how the radio tried to cover Berlin and Nazi Europe in 1941. There is a good deal of interest about Russia, Yugoslavia, Greece, Crete and the vassal states. The usual “names” and appraisals thereof appear. The horrid detail of German official dom and its creaking dullness are in the book also—the parties with a purpose, the sly bribes offered, the renegades in German pay. But the real value of the book is its picture of Mr. Flannery eating, working, sleeping and observing. This ought not to be missed. The neatest job is done on P. G. Wodehouse. Mr. Flannery says that "Wodehouse accepted favors such as estates and “freedom” out of guilelessness. But just the same Mr. Flannery himself explained to Woodehouse the effect of his broad casts and articles on the free world —and Mr. Wodehouse made the broadcasts and wrote the articles. - ■ private initiative can do when it goes all out. It thoroughly sustains the statement of Under Secretary Welles in his Memorial Day ad dress that whatever systems other countires may find best after the war, private enterprise is the one best suited to the United States. On such a record as this, it doesn’t seem necessary for business men to lie awake nights worrying for fear the American people will go socialistic ft anything else. So much for the bright side. Mr. Roosevelt, in giving out the pro duction figures, warns that this is no time for us to become over confident. He says we need more and more and that there are se rious production problems ahead such as shortages in raw materials One brief moment of crowing over what has been done is about all we can afford to indulge in at this moment. If Hitler should crack the Russians we would face a war of many years’ duration. If he fails, we might look toward a shorter war, but even then it won’t be easy. If we save Egypt and the Middle East it will be only by the closest squeak. It is going to take a lot of help from God. The best possible luck in this summer’s fighting will still require a heavy assault against Hitler in the west before the war can be won in Europe. American lives and thousands of American planes will have to be fed into the battle before Hitler is defeated, and perhaps a land army will have to go in. After that there still is Ja pan to be licked. All that we have thus far shown is that we can prnduce the neces sary amounts of war materials. We haven’t proved yet that we can get the stuff across in sufficient quantities. The shipping problem is yet to be mastered. Achievements to date give every reason to be lieve that we can do the job. These achievements inspire gen uine confidence. But they do not mean the job is being finished off. Indeed, the real part of it has not yet begun. -V Maine Shipyards Launch 3 Ships In Single Day BATH, Me., June 28.—<JP)—Three ships were launched in Maine to day—the slim destroyer De Haven slid into the Kennebec river here and at South Portland the 10,100, ton emergency carriers Ocean Pilgrim and Ocean Merchant were floated from their building basins Sponsor of the destroyer was Miss Helen N. De Haven, ot Ard more, Pa., a granddaughter of Lt. Edwin Jesse De Haven, USN. At the Todd-Bath Shipbuilding Corp., Mrs. Arthur Sewall, 2nd, wife of a shipyard executive, spon sored the Ocean Pilgrim and Mrs. Boyd Tollington ,wlfe of the Brit ish consul at Boston, the Ocean Merchant. An editorial says we should pay more attention to the opinions of the younger folk. Since they go around bareheaded they can’t be accused of talking through their Interpreting TheWar Sabotage And Allied Wor* Has Been Relatively Ll In U S. During The By EDWARD E. BOM.ar Wide World War Analyst The spectacular roundup 0f v,,. agents landed from U-boats 3 phasizes one of the more rernJT able aspects of this war-that far the United States has been ? atively free from sabotage. Before Pearl Harbor, ’ Un.„ government authorities were - prehensive that this country’s °5' trance into war might briny”' wave of internal efforts to hanw, ' military movements and m,‘er tions production. mum' Secretary of War stim™. among others, warned repeat!?’ of the peril. Adolf Hitler wa?? fident his fifth columnists would be at least as effective here elsewhere. Of nearly 5,000 000 r.? istered aliens in the United Sf/t. more than 1,000,000 are native?!; Axis lands. Suspicious fires have occurred i. is true, and a number of arrl! have been made in aircraft atl! other war plants. Some sabo?. and spying has been proven the files of the Federal Bureau? Investigation bulge with reports „ thousands of suspects Thus far, nevertheless, sabotage and Allied enemy activity has been a relatively minor war problem Explosions have occurred in two or three powder plants, including the immediate pre-war period. But accidents rather than enemv agents were blamed. The aggre. gate damage was small compared to the $22,000,000 loss of the single 1916 Black Tom munitions dock ex plosion in New Jersey, and the estimate of $150,000,000 made for American sabotage losses in World War I. The balance sheet of the future, it seems entirely likely, may dis close that the home front of the democratic United States was more secure than that of regiment ed Nazi Germany itself. A large share of the credit is due to vigorous precautionary measures that have been taken since the Nazi invasion of Poland. Government and industry w e re forewarned by experience of the first World War and the Nazis’ adoption of the fifth column as an acknowledged weapon of conquest. With the placing of large British and French warplane contracts in this country, the War and Navy Departments started checking closely the employment of aliens in plane plants. The FBI launched a campaign to safeguard key in dustries. Such measures as the nation wide registration of aliens, the State Department's listing of agents of foreign principals, and the freezing of foreign funds in this country put difficult obstacles in the way of internal plotters. The instant national unity result ing from Pearl Harbor encourage! the prompt removal of Japanese from West coast danger zones and other vigorous measures to deal with the fifth column. Peril from enemy agents will corvtiiiue, of course, as long as the war itself. But it is a cause for congratulation that the Nazis, the;: plotting to stir up internal trouble frustrated, now feel obliged to send saboteurs stealthily from abroaa ] by U-boats. I I Is That So! GRANDPAPPY JENKINS won ders why some of those kings and queens now in exile don’t try to pick up a bit of change by model ing for chess set manufacturers, * * * Fame is fleeting. For instance. Who was the last fellow to win the county hog-calling contest. * * * Only one lobster out of every 1,000 born lives to maturity. 3 that what they mean by '•'c phrase, “the poor lobster?” . * * # There are 50,000 varieties of in sects and the chap who forgot put up the window screens mu‘ feel that he meets ’em all on t.c first warm night. * * * Helium gas can now be li<3al' fied. But Zadok Dumbkopf won ders if this comes under •" heading of “just a light drink. * * * It seems ages ago w heri a" Europeans feared was a reap pearance of the Loch Ness se serpent. * * lie m * » Agriculture experiments n°"_ heat the soil artifically in 311 periment to speed up plant grow ■ Sounds Ike a new version of tn scorched earth policy. * * * Missionaries in the Belgian Con go, we read, have trained monkej to guide lost travelers in the junf!e Jut how can you follow an ®P, that squeaks, “Follow me, kid. and then tears up to the top of tree? * * * The R. A. F. has bombed Axis airports at Candia. That, s*)> Zadok Dumbkopf, is a sweet P‘eL of news. * * * June has been tough on the cracker barrel crowd. Think ol * that weather we’ve had and the.' couldn’t talk about it. • * * Grandpappy Jenkins says he doesn’t know whether or not -• oattleship is obsolete—all that snows is that he’d hate to have on mad at him. . 0
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