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3®tlmmgtxm §tar North. Carolina's Oldest Daily Newspaper Published Daily Except Sunday By The Wilmington Star-News . R. B Page, Owner and Publisher Entered as Second Class Matter at Wilming ton, N. C.. Pestcffice Under Act of Congres: of March 3, 187S. SUBSCRIPTION RATES BY CARRIER Payable Weekly Or In Advance Combi lime Star News natior I Week —___$ .25 $ .20 3 .4C 1 Month___ 1.10 .90 1.75 3 Months_ 3.20 2.60 5.2C f Months_ 6:50 5.20 10.4C Year . 13.00 10.40 20.80 News rates entitle subscriber tr Sunday issue of Star-News BY MAIL: Payable Strictly In Advance Combi lime Star News nation 1 Month_$ .75 3 -50 3 .90 S Months _ 2.00 1.50 2.75 6 Months . 4.00 3.00 5.50 1 Year _ 8.00 6.00 10.00 News rates entitle subscriber to Sunday issue of Star-News MEMBER THE AisOClATED PRESS With confidence to our armed forces— with the unbonnding determination of our people — we will gain the inevitable triumph—so help ns God. —Roosevelt's War Message. THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 1D44~ Our Chief Aim To aid <n every way the prosecution of the war to complete Victory. TOP OF THE MORNING The entrance of Thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding to the simple. Psalm 119:130. _ Greenfield Park City park authorities have done a good job during recent months at Greenfield park and particularly in the western section where heavy foliage has been thinned and under brush removed, with the old pier and bath house torn down preparatory to creating new and better swimming facilities. When spring breaks and the blossoms come this section of the park will be indeed a beauty spot. Plans are in the making for improvements throughout the park. If it is possible to repave the drive around the lake, throughout its entire length, visitors will have additional reason to bless the city administration. -V Up To The President Ths episode of Harry Slattery and adminis tration efforts to force his resignation as REA chief promise to create another crisis in the relations between the White House and the Congress. If the Senate investigating commit tee should demand the President’s file, as its counsel declares will be done, and Mr. Roose velt should refuse to produce it for the com mittee’s perusal, it could even cause an open break between the administrative and the leg islative branches of government. And at this stage of the war, that would be catastrophic. It is not reasonable to think that a President of the United States would have in his official files any records that could not stand the light, certainly not a President whose integrity can not be brought into question, whatever his mistakes may have been. There is only one factor, then, that might lead Mr. Roosevelt to refuse the demand for his REA files—his natural and intense combativeness. 'If he should “get his Dutch up” as the saying goes and decide the Senate committee has no right or authority to look over his records he could stir up such a tempest as has not existed at Washington since the Congress split with Pres ident Cleveland. And should he split with Congress he would find himself under a tremendous handicap if he should be reelected for a fourth term. However gravely a demand for his REA files might affront him, Mr. Roosevelt would seem to be under strong compulsion to acquiesce. --V A New Year A strange new kind of fear has beset this country, Bernard De Voto points out in the current Harper’s Magazine. It is, he says, the fear of peace and of the future. And no' one who ventures into the company of his fellow men these days can easily deny this assertion. It is painfully evident that most of us are af flicted with an assortment of pessimisms de cidedly at odds with our courageous faith and determination that we shall win the war. Mr. De Voto divides our fears into three groups: economic, social, and a special “fear of the returning veterans.” He does not con cern himself with our uncertain qualms about post-war relations with other countries. He sets down the symptoms of our domestic anxi ety without attempting much diagnosis. But he is disquietingly right about the symptoms. We may, he contends, lose the peace at home from failure to trust our own strength. Americans have always had an abundant faith in their ability to lick anything. But per haps we have remembered the binge of pros perity and hangover of depression after the last war that left us flabby for this one. Per haps we subconsciously fear a worse binge and hangover next time. Our social fears are another and, we believe, more serious matter. Almost any day’s con versations bring a crop of gloomy predic tions: we shall have racial trouble after the war; we shall be dominated by racial minori ties; labor is going to dominate the economic picture; all labor’s gains are going to be choked off. Such fears feed our economic anxi ety by paralyzing constructive effort ’while they nourish class resentment. Mr. De Voto’s “fear of the returning veter ans” may likely be an admission of failure in doi our utmost to back them up now. Th^ armed forces have been pictured as an aveng ing band that will take over and punish the slack and selfish civilians for whom they suf fered and fought. Most of us haye heard all these fears, and uttered some of them. They add up to a grave ■ problem that c*nnot be dismissed lightly or settled easily. But there is one beginning to a solution. Loose talk can be as dangerous in the coming peace as it is now. These paralyz ing fears grow only with repetition. They can subside only if enough people refuse to be lieve, repeat and embellish them. It won’t be easy, and it can only be done with conscious effort. We are stuffed with pre judices. But we have ample evidence in our past history, and in our current plans for the future, to quiet our fears. And we can stop telling ghost stories. Hull To Preside The petroleum conference scheduled to be held in Washington presumably in the near future between American and British interests ranks among the most important “gathering of minds” to deal with a vital postwar prob lem. Development of Near East fields, con struction of one major and several minor pipe lines, spheres of influence and other related subjects will be under discussion. With British and American operating companies holding concessions, it will be necessary to work out an operating program in which, hopefully, this country’s interests will be upheld more suc cessfully than they have been in past com petition with British interests. This appears to be more likely by reason of the fact that Secretary of State Cordell Hull is to preside instead of Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes, who will attend not by virture of his cabinet portfolio but as petrole um coordinator, an office having no Constitu tional standing and existing only by adminis trative decree. The United States and interested American petroleum operators will be in a more favor able position with Mr. Hull, who has the con fidence of the nation and of the British con ferees, as chairman than would be possible under Mr. Ickes’ chairmanship. While Mr. Hull is Seci.tary of State and with the Senate's cooperation is the Constitutional agent for the negotiation of treaties, Mr. Ickes as petrole um coordinator has no such power and func tions merely as a bureaucratic dictator. He has no authority to act for the Government of the United States in transactions with an other government. Whatever the outcome of the petroleum con ferences, we will have reason to be grateful that they are to be conducted by Mr. Hull. -V Tax Limitation Fifteen states have endorsed the proposal to limit by Constitutional amendment the peace time taxing power of the Federal government to 25 per cent on incomes, gifts, and inheri tances. The issue is not merely one of taxes. The people of this country must decide w'hat kind of government they will have after the war. Robert B. Dresser stated the issue clearly when he said: “Necessarily involved in this controversy as to taxes is the question of whether our system of free enterprise is to be replaced by national socialism. Under free enterprise the capital required to provide jobs is furnished by the individual, and ownership of the business is in him. Under socalism the capital is furnished by the government, and it becomes the owner.” There is only so much capital in the nation. If the taxing policies of government result in government absorption of private capital, the nation automatically becomes socialistic. “As labor and industry survey what has happened to labor and industry in those lands where all powers have been concentrated in the central authority, they fear and oppose the steps which thus far have been taken here, to enlarge the dominion of the Federal government over the lives and fortunes of the American peo ple.” Since 1940, momentum toward the socialized state in America has increased—wholly apart from the war emergency. _tr Recreation Movement Whenever a unit of government or other group launches a constructive program there is gratification in learning that similar efforts are underway elsewhere. This similarity of ef fort carries with it some assurance that the interested parties are on the right track. With Wilmington largely occupied with its recreation program, therefore, it is satisfying to learn that other communties are engaged in parallel projects. Among the more recent units to recognize the value of recreation are the officials of many Minnesota communities. With the assistance of civic organizations, several municipalities have established youth centers, others are formulatng plans for rec reation centers and special teen-age canteens and many cities are working on indoor and out door recreation programs for the whole com munity. In practically all centers, young peo ple have a voice in the type of activities con ducted and in governing and maintaining the centers. St. Cloud, will use the servicemen’s center for its municipal youth program, and adult leaders will supervise the recreation program for teen-age youngsters. A teen-age canteen was opened for young people in Bovey and Coleraine the first of the year; canteen parties are held on alternate Fridays in two adjacent villages. . ... Red Wing’s new city ordinance, setting up a youth program, provides for appointment by the mayor of a representative countil of nine persons to supervise and control the pro gram. The Taylor Falls center is directed by a board of twelve representatives of various organizations. Youths, adults and servicemen may use the center at any time; and different clubs and groups use the rooms occasionally for private parties. It must be apparent from the way Minnesota communities, as well as others throughout the country, with Wilmington in the forefront, are at work for the benefit of the generation that must take over not so many years ahead, that American youth in general will have a better chance to develop in normal constructive ways than at any time in the country’s history. -V Wait An'd See After the first day that ration tokens were introduced, a grocer burst into print with the joyful news that he could wait on twice as many customers as before. We fear that his .enthusiasm for tokens as time-savers may have been intemperate and premature. It’s all right now, but wait till all the housewives start paying points for gro ceries with these less-than-dime-size gadgets. Or maybe this storekeeper has never seen a woman trying to fish bus far out of a pocket book that contains more oddments than a ma gician’s silk hat. Land Of Babel In Genesis, Babel was only a city, presuma bly not over large, with a tower which be came notorious because of the confusion of tongues that took place in it. In 1945, and for a time thereafter, Babel will be a nation, one of the greatest in the world, known as the United States. After World War I, veterans came home with vague smatterings of French, and a few with ideas English (insular patois) and Italian. Aft er World War II the boys will be parley-vooing in at least a score of languages, including the Arabic. -V Underground Guerrilla warfare in Occupied Europe is setting the stage for one of the most remark able events in history. And it is not the invasion. It is the uprising of people—millions of peo ple, in country after country—to choose new leaders, new governments, to remake a world! Upon their choice, in all probability, will rest the political balance of hemispheres for many generations. Underground organizations—the acorns from which these oak trees will grow—have ger minated in practically every country under occupation. Their potential power is enormous. But these underground forces are by no means united. In Yugoslavia and Greece, guerrilla groups have already digressed from enemy resistance to civil war. Poland is split into two opposing camps, one inclining toward the Moscow-sponsored “Union of Polish Patriots,” the other toward the Lon don - based government in exile. ±ne rreiicn pumicai suuauun nas emiuea sparks in the course of formation of the French Committee of National Liberation. Disputes be. tween Gen. Charles de Gualle and tlen. Henri Giraud at one time caused near breaks in French ranks. General de Gaulle still has his difficulties with the French Communists. | In France, itself, the underground has achieved remarkable solidarity. Eight political groups widely divergent in views, have joined their guerilla forces together into one organi zation, the Franc-tireurs et Partisans. Never theless the underground is fully aware of the difficulties and dangers of raising up a new nation. In Italy, even as German and Allied shells mingle in the air, voices are heard above the tumult. They call for abolition of the mon archy and the old regime—new bottles for the new wine of promised postwar freedom. In Belgium, too, there are voices. The un derground talks of farreaching social and economic reforms, a new deal divorced from oast regimes. Meanwhile, the Belgian Gov ernment in exile in London plans a restoration of the throne and rejuvenation of old political parties. Even tiny Albania, overrun first by the Italians and now by the Germans, has its underground, its guerrillas and its political di visions. tsut aespite an tne ruts and amerences, wnen these forces are released, their influence will be felt in Main Street and Wall Street, by John Doe and Mrs. Doe. Standards of living may be altered, government policies swayed, and the polls reflect the new determination of people. .That is why what is going on now in Yugo glavia, ip Greece, in Italy, in Albania, and dozens of other countries, is important to Americans—to everyone. In Poland, political divisions are no less sharp, although so far their battles have been confined to words tossed back and forth be tween the Russian-sponsored Partisan station, “Koscivscko,” and the military underground station, “Swit.” The Moscow-favored Polish Patriots will have naught of the present Government in exile in London, and have taken affairs into their own hands by organizing a National Council inside Poland to administer Polish ter ritories freed from German control. In Albaniz, the National Liberation Commit tee is lined up against the Balkombetar. The Committee is said to draw its inspiration from Russia and to have had contact with the Com munist-^ed Partisans under Marshal Broz in Yugoslavia. In Norway, the Netherlands, Denmark, and Czechoslovakia, internal political problems seem likely to be less acute. But even so, major adjustments will be necessary as re turning rulers and statesmen respond to the demands of an aroused and realistic people. The leadership of Communists among the guerrilla forces of the underground has fur nished grist for Nazi propaganda which pro claims this as proof that defeat for Germany means Communism for the world. While Communist elements are, without dis pute, the most vocal and most active at pres ent, they are not the only forces present. Many who now' follow Communist leaders fol low them not because they are Communists, but because they are leaders. Other views will find expression once the Nazi lid is off. Great changes will be bound to take place during this readjustment period. They may be preceded by political and economic upheav als, civil conflicts, and the redefinition of na tional boundaries. — Christain Science Moni ‘‘MR. ANTHONY—!” | _With Ernie Pyle By ERNIE PYLE IN ITALY,— (by wireless)—Most of my time with the 47th Group of A-20 Boston light bombers has been spent with the gunners. All the gunners are sergeants. Each plane carries two. They ride in the rear compartmeht of the plane. The top gunner sits in a glass-en closed bubble rising above the fuse lage. The bottom gunner sits on the floor during takeoff, and aft er they’re in the air he opens a trap door, and swivels his machine gun down into the openhole. Due to the nature of their mis sions and to the inferiority of Ger man fighter strength in Italy, the A-20 gunners seldom have a battle in the air. Their main worry is flak, and that’s plenty to worry about. The gunners live in pyramidal tents, four and five to a tent. Some of their tents are fixed up inside even nicer than the officers’ oth ers are bare. The gunners have tc stand in chow line the same as other sol diers, and eat out of mess kits. Now and then they even have to go on clean-up detail and help pick up trash throughout their area. They must keep their own tents clean, and stand frequent inspec 4 t n*i I found them a high-class and sincere bunch of boys. Those who really love to fly in combat are the exceptions. Most of them take it in a workaday fashion, but keep a fanatical count on the num ber of mission sfolwn, each one of which takes them a little near to the final goal—the end of their tour of duty. Ordinarily a gunner goes on only one mission a day, but with the increased air activity of late they sometimes go both morning and afternoon day after day. There are boys here who arrived only in De cember and are already almost finished with their missions, where as it used to take six months and more to run up the allotted total. Life in the combat air forces is fairly informal. In several days on this field I’ve seen only one salute. But that’s all right, for the Air Forces don't need the same type of discipline that less spe cialized branches require. The enlisted gunners and the commissioned pilots work so close ly together that they feel them selves in the same boat. Gunners don’t like braggarts, either among commissioned offi cers or their own fellows. After I got to know them they told me of some of their own number who talked too big, and of some jwith the bad judgment to tell “whop pers” even to their gunners. One night I sat in their tent with five gunners for about three hours After I had been with them some time, their natural reserve in front of a stranger had worn off, and we talked and talked about every thing under the sun, and about what men think and feel who are caught in the endless meshing of the war machine. One by one they told me of the experiences they had been through. Evry man in the tent was living on borrowed time. Every one had stayed alive at least once only by a seeming miracle. Several had been badly wounded, but were back in action again. When I started to leave, they said apologetically. “We’re kind of ashamed. Here we’ve been doing all the talking, when actually we wanted to hear your experiences.” ,„"nd I.tried to say, “People like you saying things like that! Just “ your ordinary missions is together3” everylhing I’ve seen put vounrion'hteu Said’ “WelI> anyhow, y° -d°d t know how much we ap te your coming and talking I with us. We don’t get to talk to anyone outside very often. It has meant a lot.” And as 1 followed the twisting path by flashlight back to my own tent among the grapevines, I couldn’t help but feel humble and inconsequential before these boys who are afraid and yet brave, who yearn for something or somebody to anchor to, who are so sincere they even want to listen to the talk of a mere spectator at war. -V Eleven, Parking Meter Cases Heard By Loftin With the absence of Recorder H. Winfield Smith and Clerk of Court Harry Dosher, both at Fort Bragg where they are taking pre-induc tion physical examinations, Re corder’s court was held Wednes day by Deputy Recorder S. E. Loftin with Clarence Myers acting as clerk. R. W.. Wilkins, charged with as sault on a female, filed notice of appeal to superioi court, and Dep uty Recorder Loftin set his bond at $200. The case of LeRoy McKoy, held on two counts of assault on a fe male and one ■ charge of assault with a deadly weapon on a female, was continued until March 16. Eleven persons were brought be fore Deputy Loftin and each was fined $1 and costs of court for vio lation of parking meters. The case of James Addison, held on a technical charge of vagrancy, was continued until March 10, arid bond was set at $1000. Lonnie G. Parkes, held for store breaking, larceny and receiving, was continued until March 10, and bond was set at $1000. CASUALTIES WASHINGTON, March 8—(A>)— Two North Carolinians were in cluded in a casualty list announc ed today by the Navy. They were: Burns, Geral W., Field music., first class, USMR, Wounded. Moth, er. Mrs. Geneva W. Burns, 1834 Asheville Road, Hendersonville. Cabe, Winston M., Pfc., USMR, Wounded. Sisters, Mrs. Helen C. Gaither, Brevard. -V The Washington monument cost $1,300,000. Intrepreting The War By KIRKE L. SIMPSON Associated Press War Analyst The return of American heavy bombers to Berlin before the fires set by their daylight blow Monday had flickered out emphasizes the tremendous and still expanding size of American air forces mobi lized in Britain, to spearhead an Allied invasion. It also demonstrates the waning ability of German air power to deal with a ground-sea attack from the west; or even to guard a single city from the air. Heavy as were American losses in ships and men in Monday’s blasting of Berlin, they failed even to delay the follow-up attack. The score piled up against the foe in Nazi fighters shot out of the air in the first precision assault was a one-sided affair. Some London estimates say one out of every three German fighters which rose to meet the American armada went down in flames. It is conceivable that the real objective of the daylight attacks on Berlin is Nazi fighter plane strength in the air rather than ground targets. Nazi leaders have been concentrating all available in tercepter planes for the protection TTU1__in w.i. o ou^ucu aiLiivjugii mere is reason to doubt that Berlin ac tually retains any more than home front prestige value for the Ger mans. Its war factories and rail hubs have been so raked by Allied bombs for months that Berlin’s present contribution to the war ef fort in the way of battle equip ment is probably strictly limited. Concentration of air power for its defense continues, however, even though it leaves retreating and imperilled Nazi armies in Rus sia without adequate air cover. Un less Hitler and his generals are now prepared to abandon Brelin to its fate and shift their air ar madas to more important war pro duction areas, the place to come to grips with German fighter strength in the air is on the Berlin aerial road. Whatever its present or potential replacement strength, the Nazi air fighter fleet can not long stand battle losses running perhaps as high as 30 per cent of ships sent up. r in RETURNS TO BASE ■ : 0:>v:- Charles g s °- Smith ha, ? I returned to i ^bu, Arm) } Alr Field. Cok I umbus, Mi,, i aft.er spending 3 furlough with PS 'Vlfe' Mrs, Genevie Sneed, en Smith, F _ ?' 3| filming! -Ton. p r i v ,, SMITH smith W'V* ployed by the Coca-Cola Bow®' company before enterin’ the , ice in October, 1942. ° ’ ,etv RETURNS TO POST ! Pvt. Clayton L. Shue has «> ed to his post after spend:;;"; brief furlough with his mol5 Mrs Henrietta B. Shue of 'it; Castle street. Shue is serving it! the Second Ordnance Train? Regiment at Aberdeen provil! Grounds, Md. He entered the set ice May 25, 1943. tn‘ COMPLETES RAINING Seaman First Class William P Russ, son of Mrs. J. p Ru„ R F.D. 2, Wilmington, has com. pieted his training at the Naval Air Technical Training center Norman, Okla. er’ SERVING IN ITALY T e c h n icia„ Fifth Grade James E. Wor rell, of Burgaw, is now serving with the armed forces some where in Italy. He has been over seas for the p a s t 21 months. He has been in the ser WORRELL vice 3 vears. LEADS CLASS Aviation Cadet A. E. Willard, of Wilmington, led the 40th Bait graduating class in overall aver ages, scoring 3.63, when he gradu ated from the U. S. Naval Pre Flight school at Athens, Ga. He entered the V-5 program after sev en months as an Annapolis mid shipman. He won his varsity let ter in soccer at Davidson college, which he attended for three years. At the Pre-Flight school he was a member of the regimental championship obstacle course ' team. Fred H. Smith, Jr., hussbsnd of Mrs. Nell I. Smith of Lake Forest, was recently promoted from cor poral to the grade of sergeant, He is now serving with the arm ed forces in Europe. VISITS WIFE J. Adrian Newton, USNR, has returned to B a i n b r idge, Yd., after spending a week with his wife, Mrs. Vir ginia Croom N '- w ton, and NEWTON son. REPORTS AT KEESLER FIELD Pvt. Wright Plummer. Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Wright Plummer, Sr. of Court B-8 Lake Forest, has reported at Keesler Field. Biloxi, Miss., for medical and phycholo gical processing, classification and training to determine his qualifica tions as a pre-aviation cadet. PROMOTED John H# Anderson, husband ot Dorris S. Anderson of Charlotte. I has been promoted frc n corporal | to sergeant at the AAF Training ! Command’s Basic Training Cen ter No. 10, Greensboro. He was formerly employed by the B. ?• Goodrich company in Wilmingon. Sergeant Anderson arrived a BTC 10 on May 19, 1943, afer being in- ’ ducted into service on April 17, 1942 at Fort Bragg, where he was , stationed for sometime. He attend ed Presbytrian Junior college at Maxton, leaving in 1937. -V Daily Prayer FOR ADEQUATE LIVES Lord, our littleness comes be tween Thee and ourselves. We are so small in our standards and in our desires. We are not equal to the great times in which we live- j We pray to Thee to make us big ger men and women. Expand our souls until they partake ol Thy spaciousness, that we may see these days with Thine eyes: an® that the Mind which was in Christ Jesus may be in us also. Out Pc ' tiness thrusts itself in between us and Tee. Grant us greatness vision, greatness in faith, greatness in fortitude, greatness in sacrifice. May we largely love out nation, and this whole world of which Thou has made us so close a part Often we stultify our religion by j our small self-centeredness: open our eyes to the meaning of the , cross. Thus would we be mode i more adequate for today’s strug?,e j and for tomorrow’s victory. Amen j —W. T. E. -V PAPERS HONORED RALEIGH March 8—A’ -Gov ernor Broughton today honored requisition papers for the return to Alabama of J. M. Poss. want ed in Calhoun county to face charges of grand larceny. P°;* | s now in custody of Charlotte P°‘ i r*» fl-> /s ----- . The Literary Guidepost By JOHN SELBY "LEAVES OF GRASS,” by Walt Whitman (Victor $4.50) For the first time thie depart ment was able, this morning, to turn out a book review without straining its eyes. To be sure, it was not a new book that turned up, nor for that matter all of the text of the book. But digests are popular, and this was a condensed product which really did contain the essence of the original, plus, I'm sure, vitamins B, B-l and B-2. It was an album containing on eight sides quite a lot of excerpts from Walt Whitman’s "Leaves of Grass” as read into the mike by Ralph Bellamy. If it is proper that people give up producing their own music, or going in person to hear it in a concert hall, I can see no reason why it is not equally proper oave its books read aloud. And if this is so, I doubt that anybody better could be found for the read ing than Mr. Bellamy. He has good sense. ui-?? kas the good sense to read Whitman s wide-swinging lines for themselves alone.-It would be easy to be hugely dramatic — Whitman lends himself to the ham instinct, unfortunately. It also would be easy to go arty in a project like this, inserting all sorts of gasps and sobs and phony nonsense. But easier than anything would be the radio announcer voice; the whole project would have fallen like an angel cake upon which the oven door has been slammed had Mr Bellamy used the treacle voice in which we are told the yummy good ness of belly-rich sawdust flakes served with strawberries and a pinch of Gaffer’s Golden Mustard Mr. Bellamy reads Whitman straight. Further, he or someone else has chosen passages which have a meaning for today People have forgotten that Whitman was the man who sang, and sometimes Shouted, about the virtues of de mocracy when if was being tested by a fratricidal war. “Come, I will make the conti nent indissoluble, I will make the most splendid race the sun ever shone upon,” sings Whitman, and as it is read ;o you through the loudspeaker of i highly prosais phonograph, you :an believe. *
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