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The Star News can not be responsible for currency sent through the mails.___ MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS AND ALSO SERVED BY THE UNITED FKEb„ With confidence in%ur armed forces—with the on bounding determination of our people— we will gain the inevitable triumph—so help US trod. Roosevelt’s War Message. ’ SUNDAY, APRIL 8~945.__ TOP O’ THE MORNING The only way we can overcome the Nazi challenge is by the discovery of a sufficient faith, something that can set our sould on fire . . . Without the church we might long ago have been submerged. With it we may yet save civilization. The rock on which the church is built often appears to be weather kwaten rubble, because it is all mixed with human frailty but the lesson of history is a continual verification of the judgment that “the gates of hell cannot prevail against it” E Elton Trueblood, “Readers Digest.’*’ -V Sea Battle In Pacific When the United. States .fleet in the Pa cific grew large enough to challenge the Japa nere Navy the prayer of the entire force was that the enemy would come out and fight. The invasion of Leyte brought part of it Into action, with disastrous results to the Japanese. Now the prayer is answered again The invasion of Okinawa forced the Japa nese to send another fleet out of hiding. It was engaged by American task groups commanded by Rear Admirals Sherman, Bradford, Bogan and Clark, who sank six of its ships, including Japan’s largest battleship, the Yamato, and destroyed 391 of its planes. The Yamato was hit by eight torpedoes and eight bombs. It had been damaged in the Inland Sea battle a month ago and during the fighting around Leyte last October, but survived and was repaired. This time it went down and is beyond salvaging. In addition to the Yamato, enemy craft sunk was an Agano light cruiser, another light cruiser and three destroyers. American losses were three destroyers sunk. Several other de stroyers and smaller ships were damaged. The air forces lost seven planes. A significant thing in connection with the engagement is that it took place within fifty miles of Japan’s owns shores. Clearly this . demonstrates Japan’s inability to put into ac tion a sea force capable of breaking the ring Admiral Nimitz has forged about its coasts. Not only is Japan’s lifeline to outlying po sitions severed. Japan’s naval remnant is no longer capable of shielding the homeland. In combination with the American victory in the Inland Sea, this new victory shows Japan •t the mercy of Nimitz’ task forces. -V Baruch Speaks Out Bernard Baruch granted an interview recent ly in London to a representative of Stars and Stripes. Afterwards his secretary attemtped to have two paragraphs delated but the request came too late, and they appeared in the Army paper as dictated. As they have h|d publica tion in that widely distributed newspaper there is no reason they should now be suppressed. We quote them with a clear conscience. “And one reason I am over here,” they said, “is to hold the big stick over the big boys to make sure they’ve no going to foul up the peace. “We’ve got to deindustrialize Germany and Japan—at least for a generation—so they won’t go to war again. Also we’ve got to see that those subsidized slabe-labor countries do not again flood the world with their cheap products, lowering the standards of living of the United Nations.” Obviously Mr. Baruch spoke without think ing twice when he uttered the words referring to the big boys and the need to prevent them from “fouling up” the peace. On second throught he would have omitted this. It is not customary for envoys or agents to speak lightly or slightingly of their superiors, whc are universally sensitive and touchy and quick to take offense. But it is heartening to fine a person of Mr. Bauch’s standing ready, ever on fleeting impulse to speak frankly of a feai which obviously occupies a prominent placi In his thinking. The same fear lodges in man; minds besides his. The “fouling up” of th: peace following the former World war is fa from forgotten. We can only pray that th envoy President Roosevelt sent to London fo special conferences with British Prime Minis ter Winston Churchill is successful in hi secret personal mission so boldly, if inadveri ft ently, confided to the Star* and Stripe* re porter. And we can only hope, also, that his re ference to the deindustrialization of Germany and Japan for long years, to prevent them from starting another war, becomes an ac complished fact, as least as far as products capable of being used in combat are con cerned. At the same time it is impossible to see how either nation can meet indemhities which they certainly must pay if they are not permitted to make articles of one or an other peace-time usefulness for sale or barter. The need, it would seem, is not to hald all industry in Germany and Japan but to super vise it and maintain strict control over it, so that neither nation can again manufacture war tools, even in secret and buried plants. -v Russo-Jap Break Russia’s denunciation of her neutrality pact with Japan is a “momentous development,” says DeWitt MacKenzie, Associated Press an alyst, in a masterpiece of restraint. Editors benerally have been more outspoken. The New York Daily Mirror, for example, says, "Rus sia rarely talks tough unless planning and prepared to act tough.” Poetically, the Mem phis Appeal declares, “Apparently the claws of the bear are being sharpened for a cooper ative kill in Asia.” And the Washington Star believes that “to the Japanese, cricically burdened and harassed alreadry, it (Russia’s act) must come as a final'blow to the last of their vanishing hopes.” Another National Capital newspaper, the Post .seeking Russia’s motive for the denunciation, explains: “Both our enemies are reeling un der hammer blows delivered either by Ameri can power or with the aid of America’s mighty arsenal. . .The Kremlin’s action is a tribute to that attention to realities which explains Russian statesmanship.” * The New York Times comments: “The denun ciation no only demonstrates Russia’s own stiffering attitude toward Japan, but also spe cifically emphacizes Russia’s solidarity with her Western Allies. . .and it speels the doom of Japan.” Bolder and more outspoken than most, the New York Herald Tribune flatly declares, “Russia is preparing to enter the war in the Far East,” and adds: “This is the only interpretation which can be given.” The Her ald-Tribune goes so far as to say that "if the militarists of the Japanese Army instead of those of the Navy had had their way Jap anese treachery would have resulted in a sur prise attack on Vladivostok instead of Pearl narDor. More cautious is the New York Daily News. “Of course,” it says, “a diplomatic breakoff does not necessarily mean a declaration of war ’> But the news is not unmindful of the possibilities inherent in Russia’s action. “Let us not look a gift horse in the month,” it adds, and concludes, “If Stalin. . comes all the way into the war, so much the better.” James Cox’ Miami paper, The News, be lieves it not improbable that Japan itself, in desperation may take the lead in com pleting the breach. The News says: “Indeed, now that the Japs know what is coming, they may very well commit a breach of the. treaty that will be both larbescale and bonafide. . . They may be the ones to strike. . .with so much at stake and so little to lose in the end, they might consider the gamble worth while.” Generally out of sympathy with the way af airs are conducted as Washington, PM sticks a knife into censorship, saying it had hoped to carry on editorial on the denunciation, but “restrictions imposed by censorship pre vent any but the most inane comment. Under those circumstances, we prefer to discuss the censorship. . . and we hope the censor doesn’t mind if we add that Tokyo’s speculations can hardly be joyful, as are America’s.” --V Nazis Destroy Libraries By his own account Hitler’s “new order” was to be based on a new civilization, but from what he has done, or permitted and condoned, it is apparent that success for him would have brought another period as dark as the Dark Ages. This is to be seen in the wholesale destruc tion of libraries wherever Hilter’s armed for ces moved during their conquests. Dr. Gray son N. Kefauver, who has been in Europe making a survey of the damage by Germans for the State Department, reports hundreds of libraries, including some of the finest on the Continent, devastated by Nazi barbarians. Some, says Doctor Kefauver, were deliber ately destroyed as reprisal or punishment for resistance. In his travels the Doctor found that li braries in England, France, Norway, Poland, Finland, Yugoslavia, Greece, Italy and Rus sia suffered “unprecedented’’ damage at the hands of the Germans. His report says: “A peculiarity of European library experience ir World War II is the degree to which the damage wrought has ben the result of delib erate action on the part of the Axis powers, Germany in particular.” He cited the burning of the Royal Society Library in Naples after the shooting qf : German soldier in an adjacent street; the ’ destruction of the Lauvain Library collection - of 900,000 volumes because each book carried ‘ a bookplate representing a German setting : a torch to the university, and the burning oi r the Jewish Theological Seminary in Ludlir - while the assembled Jews wept and the Nazi: s cheered. - He says that Irom 60 to 70 per cent oi yiE SUJSUAx bhuvi^hu. Poland’* libraries were destroyed. Fifty or more libraries were destroyed in England. The situation is not better in Russia and the other countries Hitler’s hordes invaded. The only “new order” Hitler could have created if he had achieved world conquest would have been complete destruction of ci vilization and the substitution of complete barbarism. CAROLINA FROM THE CAPITAL By DAVID BRINKLEY -Star-News Washington Bureau WASHINGTON, April 7. — Senator Josiah Bailey’s selection of a nominee to succeed Federal Judge I. M. Meekins, retired, will be announced early next week and he de clined today to offr any idea of whom it might be. Instead, he said every name on the list of possibilities is still under considera tion and none had been eliminated or selected as yet. NO DECISION MADE As for the re-appointment of John Bright Hill as coUector of customs or the appoint ment of a successor Senator Clyde Hoey wiU have a decision some time next month. Here, too, the word is that no decision has been made. Among those being considered, as list ed by Hoey, are Col. John Bright Hill, R. S. McKeithan, Fred Poisson, Nathan Haskeit, W. B. Cooper, Oscar Abernethy, and John R. Morris. agreement Under a gentlemen’s agreement on the di vision of state patronage, Bailey wiU have a more or less free hand in naming a judge while the job of customs collector falls into Hoey’s patronage province as a sort of hand me-down from his predecessor, Robert R Reynolds. The actual nominations, of course, are made by the President and fin»l confir mation is by the U. S. Senate. But tradition gives a senator an unofficial stewardship ov er state appointments and seldom is there any interference either at the White House or the Capitol. A il V VltllU I Hoey, still wearing his frock coat, flowing white hair and buttonhole flower, is dividing his time between the Agriculture and Inter state Commerce committees, both of which wield vast power and are considered two of the choicest committee assignments in the Senate. Being from North Carolina, the rea sons for his interest in agriculture are ob vious. But another of his favorite projects in Interstate Commerce is those much-dis cussed southern freight rates. As a member of the Southrn Governors’ conference he was a leader in the fight for equitable rates in the south and he plans to continue the fight from now on. He is ‘optimistic ” he says, concerning the suits against the railroads now pending before the U. S. Supreme Court, and he believes it will not be as long as it has been before the south will pay freight charges comparable to those in other sections. • » * TEACHES SUNDAY SCHOOL Aside from his legislative work, Hoey has accepted four or five invitations to teach Sunday school classes at Washington church es. He’s been offered permanent teacherships, but he feels he won’t have that much time . . . he beat Washington's much-touted housing shortage by moving into a downtown hotel just ten blocks from the Capitol ... al though his fame as an orator came to Wash ington before him, Hoey has yet to make his speech on the Senate floor. He’s observing an old Congressional custom that newcomers should be seen often but heard seldom. • * • CIVILIAN GOODS SCHEDULES WPB Director J. A. Krug announced this week that most consumer goods will be avil able within a year after V-E day, but he didn’t make it clear that many will be in the stores much sooner than that. Several oi the biggest manufacturers say their schedule from the time WPB gives their assembly lines the green light will be something like this: radios, two to three months; ranges, three to four months; washing machines, six months; and refrigerators, nine to 12 months. CAPITAL CHATTER Some enterprising but unsung bureaucrat has figured out that 5,000,000 Americans nev er have seen a movie . . . men under 21 are expected to meet virtually all draft needs after V-E day . . . the Washington Mount ment, once the number one tourist attraction but now losing ground to the Lincoln Me morial, expects its 20 millionth visitor early this summer . . . Idaho’s guitar-strumming Glenn H. Taylor, cowboy singer turned U. S. Senator, is one of the few members of the Senate whose voice can be heard all ovi the chamber without benefit of public address system . . . 1,000 press and radio correspon dents have asked the State Department for credentials to the San Francisco conference, and all travel to the west coast will be frozen on April 17 to make room for them on trains and planes . Washington’s permanent resi dents, or those who were here before the war, ar.e agitating for a subway system tc replace surface transportation . . . freon gas for air conditioning has become available anc 300,000 government employes have been as sured they won’t have to sweat out another summer in the Potomac Flatlands ... In diana’s new Senator Hohner Capehart, a pre w”ar manufacturer of radios and phonographs, has hired a high-priced public relations ex pert to try to stop the press and the public from referring to him as “the juke box king.” -V EDITORIAL COMMEN1 WILLIAMS REJECTED The senate’s refusal to confirm the appoint ment of Aubrey Williams as rural electrifica tion administrator was a rebuff for President Roosevelt, of course, but the acceptance or rejection of the appointment was hardly s matter of great enough importance to war rant all of the oratorical steam that was gen erated during the congressional debate. It was the old argument between so-called liberals and so-called reactionaries, and the senate was turned into a forum for the ex pression of the senators’ personal views on the sub’^ct of the new deal, liberalism, com munist jnd godlessness. If a Settling was proved it was that the coalition of Republicans and conservative southerners still holds sway in the senate, and can make or break any individual and settle any issue to their way of thinking.—Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle. -V Fritz Fenderbender says he is getting rusty as a Sunday driver. H« hasn’t nicked a mud guard in two years now r V XXjIVJLJLI^ U X Interpreting The War By ELTON C. FAT Associated P/ess War Analyst The inability of either Axis mem ber to cope with, much less re cover from, the deadly blows be ing struck by the Allies is appar ent in the news of this past week. German attempts to reestablish a cohesive western front have fail ed. The Nazi fight now is composed of a series of organized groups of divisional or army strength operat ing without any strategical rela tionship to each other. They have taken up positions at transporta tion network centers to impede but not stoD the prongs of American and British forces probing across the Reich toward the Russians on the East. These groups, in many if n ot most instances, fight with what supplies they have at hand or in the immediate area. Allied air and roving tank forces have chopped the truck and rail lines of supply. Each days’ battle is fought with fewer men. The Wehrmacht’s loss es are enormous—141,756 lost in days of this month. This, of course, does not includ-e the additional loss es in killed and wounded. The Germans, however, continue to fight fiercely within their means. They are launching local counter attacks. In general, the swift progress of Allied forces showed some slight signs of slow ing down as the week wore on. Part of this, probably the major part, may have, been due to t h e lengthening supply lines of the Allies. To a lesser degree, localized resistance by the enemy was ac countable. The Japanese had the blackest week since they started out to con quer of the Orient. The Imperial fleet, cornered in Japan’s inland sea, sent out its biggest and fast est ships, apparently to scurry for new cover to the northward. An American carrier task force closed in. When the battle was over an American naval spokesman esti mated that 25 per cent of the re maining major naval combat force of Japan had been sunk or put out of action. This naval battle rounded out a week which started with the American landing on Okinawa, on ly 325 miles south of the Japanese homeland. Hard on the heels of this came another bit of bad news from Moscow—the Soviet govern ment’s denunciation of Russia’s neutrality pact with Japan. There followed an unpleasant hint from Washington that the final phase of the war in the Pacific was com ing up. That hint was the naming of the co - leaders for that action, Gen. Mac Arthur and Admiral Ni mitz. The progressive disintegration of the German front kept alive specu lation over the imminence of Na zi defeat. And the swift develop ments about and within Japan gave rise to speculation about possibili ties in Nippon. These were heightened at the weekend when Tokyo announced formation of a new cabinet, head ed by the agent Baron Suzuki who has the reputation of being a mod erate. He kept for himself key non military cabinet portfolios. Relating the cabinet assignments to Japan’s troubles in foreign re lations and military fields, there were many who saw signs of s bid for negotiated peace. But there were none who looked for an end in the Pacific war short of uncon ditional surrender. _\T_ LETTER BOX TRIBUTE TO GEORGE P. JAMES Editor, Star-News: The passing of George P. James brings sorrow to the hearts on nol only his immediate family, but also to those friends of years ago whc valued his friendship and esteemed him for those qualities of heart and mind which he constantly display ed in his relationship with the prob lems of this world. I knew George James as a young man when he and I were em ployed in the office of Col. Thom as Cowan James, general agent ci the Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley Railway Co., during the years of 1890 to 1895, and have kept this friendship alive to the present. His sterling character, his end less s-ense of humor, and his value of a real friend were some of his qualities which go to make up a real man and the loss of such a man in this day and time is a real calamity to his family, friends and associates. May his soul rest in peace is the fervent hope of a devoted friend. Henry G. Fennell. Carolina Beach, N. C. April 7, 1945. *Smiley* Burnette To Appear At Camp Davit “Smiley” Burnette, who hag been co-starred with Gene Autrey in many screen and radio shows, will appear at the Camp Davis the ater this afternoon at 1 o’clock, just before the usual Sunday after noon matinee. His appearance is in keeping with his policy to play military camps whenever possible. Music for the special program will be furnished bv the Camp Davis “PDC-mpho ny.” -V---- - PROMOTED LONDON, April 7—{&}—'The Ger man DNB agency announced to night that Gen. Ferdinand Schoem er had been promoted to field mar shal and appointed commander-in chief on the Eastern Front. Schoera er, a die-hard Nazi, was appointed to command an army group on the Eastern Front last April, and last was reported in Romania last July, Just before Romania switch ed to the Allied side. PR( DAMAGES CROPS IN STATE CHARLOTTE, April 7— (JP) — Heavy frost, coming in the wake jf exceptionally warm weather, did considerable damage to fruit and truck crops in western North Caro lina last night. Temperatures that ranged down to 20 degrees at the climax of a three-day cold snap laid a blighting blanket on the ap ple-growing section around Ashe ville and spread a lighter mantle of frost into South Carolina. Commercial apple growers in the Asheville area said they expected the apple crop to be a total loss, amounting to around $200,000. The thermometer dropped to 21 degrees at Waynesville and 28 at Asheville. Other crops were not so severely damaged, Buncombe County Farm Agent W. Riley Palmer said dam aged truck crops and tobacco could be replanted. At Winston-Salem, Farm Agenl R. W. Pou reported probable heavy damage to Forsyth county crops, especially small grains, beans, po tatoes and other early garden type produce. He said the fruit crop had suf fered no material damaged, thal while the predicted banner crop may have been reduced somewhal there was a possibility the fruil might benefit from being thinned out by nature. -V Bible Class To Honor Dr. Smith On April IS Dr. W. T. Smith, local dentis and Sunday school teacher at th< First Baptist church for 35 years will be honored at the class Homecoming Day program to b( held April 15, it was announcec yesterday by Otto Pridgen, assist ant teacher. “During Dr. Smith’s 35 years ai a Bible teacher,” Mr. Pridger said, “many hundreds have beei brought under his kindly Christiai influence. Some have become pas tors and a few missionaries. For mer members of the class cai be found in all phases of Wilming ton life. "Dr. Smith has made an inevit able contribution to the Christiai thinking of Wilmington, His 3 years of unselfish devotion t spreading understanding am Christian fellowship is an inspira tional achievement of which an; man would be proud,” he added Tobacco Transplanting Underway In Robeson LUMBERTON, April 7—Tobac co transplanting is moving into full swing in the Lumberton flue cured territory, with prospects for a full crop being out in the fields by May 1, Jasper C. Hutto, super visor of the Lumberton tobacco market, said today. He added that only severe blue mold can slow down individual planting sched ules. In his second, semi-monthly to bacco crop condition report of the season the supervisor said farm ers indicate the crop prospects at this stage as “good” to “extra good.” The farmers are hoping for more rainfall within the next few days to help plants in getting a good start in the fields. “Blue mold has been noted in virtually all communities, but the field reports indicate the damage has been comparatively slight,” the supervisor said. “Some indi vidual beds have been hit pretty hard, but these are exceptions. The week-end brought a substan tial change in weather conditions, with a rapid drop in temperature checking plant growth for the .time. Insects and weeds have giv en only a normal amount of trou ble in the plant beds.” _17__ Czechs Pledge Practical Relations With Russia LONDON, April 7.—(/P)—'The day old Czechoslovakia government pledged itself today to maintain “practical” military, political, economical and cultural relations with the Soviet Union. The declaration of policy was is sued through its London press bu , reau soon after formation of the new government with left wing factions represented in two key t posts. [ The announcement also said mo ■ bilization of a new Czechoslovak army would continue in the lib ; erated areas of the country, and i residents of German-occupied i areas would be roused to “an all i national struggle against the oc - cupants.” -V i STRIKERS RETURN MIAMI BEACH, Fla., April 7.— (JF)—Sixty civilian employees who - went on strike at the navy-operat l ed Flamingo hotel here last night, i voluntarily returned to their jobs > this afternoon. Navy wives “pitch l ed in” to cook, wait on the tables - in the restaurant and operate the r elevators when the civilians lefl . their posts. _ WILLISTON CHORUS TO GIVE PROGRAM The Williston High School Choral organization, a group of 125 voice* directed by James Thompson, Jr., will present its third annual spring concert at 5 p.m. Sunday. April 15, in the high school auditorium. The singers will open their con cert with the well - known "Anvil Chorus” from the Opera "II Tro. vatore” by Verdi, followed by se lections by Bach and Gounod. Fe?. lure of the program will be the numbers of the mixed and male quartet, the girls choir, the eight boys and a girl, and Ruth Walker, lyric soprano. Some of the best known spiri tuals, popular and patriotic selec tions wiil be sung. The first par1 of the program will be closed by tha “Italian Street Song.” with the solo sung by Ruth Walker. The Choral organization has been one of the outstanding singing groups of the city for the past several months. It has appeared at white and Negro schools and on the programs of the Rotary club, Kivvanis club, Junior Cham ber of Commerce, and ihe Delta Sigma Theta sorority. Several pro grams have been given for yo*w». er groups at white and Negro churches -V Lamb Heads Columbus County School Board WHITEVILLE, April 7-Major r. J. Lamb, of Whiteville, has been named chairman of the Co lumbus county board of education to succeed A. L. Griffin, who was not reappointed to the board. In addition to Major Lamb, oth er members of he board are A1 Williams, of Tabor City, Ksaac Gore, of Bug Hill, J- T. Wooten, of Chadbourn and F. B. Gault, of Lake Waccamaw. Only Lamb and Guat were members of the board last year. In its first official meeting, the board did not take any action re garding filling the office of he county superintendent of education for the next year. H. D. Browning, Jr is the present superintendent. -V PEACHES ESCAPE DAMAGE RALEIGH, April 7—OT—Agents of the State Department of Agri culture touring the Sandhills Peach Belt reported here today that last night’s low temperatures apparent ly did not seriously damage the young crop of fruit in that area. I EVERYTHING " EVERYBODY ...in SEARS NEW SPRING AND SUMMER CATALOG ■ Saves Time, Money, Gas and Tires! 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