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1VUU __ Miltttinginn morning #tar Worth Carolina’s Oldest Daily Newspaper Published Daily Except Sunday By The Wilmington Star-News R. B. Page, Publisher Telephone All Departments 2-3311 Entered as Second Class Matter at Wliming ten, N. C.t Postoffice Under Act of Congress of March 3, 1879_ SUBSCRIPTION RATES BY CARRIER IN NEW KAN O'1 TOR COUNTY Payable Weekly or In Advance Combi- ; Time Star News nation 1 Week ...$ -30 $ .25 $ .50 1 Month. 1.30 1.10 2.1o t Months ...». 3.90 3.25 6.50 6 Months. 7-80 6.50 13.00 X Year . 15.60 13.00 28.00 (Above rates entitle subscriber to Sunday issue of Star-News)_ By Mail: Payable Strictly in Advance 5 Months ..$ 2.50 $2.00 $ 3.85 6 Months... 5.00 4.00 7.70 1 Year . 10.00 8.00 15.40 (Abov# rates entitle subscriber to Sunday issue of Star-News) _ WILMINGTON STAR (Daily Without Sunday) i Months-$1.8o 6 Months-$3.70 1 Yr.-$7.40 When remitting by mail please use cheeks or TJ. S. P. O. money order. The Star-News can not be responsible for currency sent through the mails. _ MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS AND ALSO SERVED BY THE UNITED PRESS " WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 9, 1946 TOP O’ THE MORNING “I ask you to keep your faith. The only jLnit to our realization of tomorrow will Ve our doubts of today. Let ns move forward with strong and active faith.” Taken from the last written words of President Roosevelt, found the day after his death. Meeting On Auditorium The mass meeting set for tonight at the court house for public discussion of the new auditorium site can be of major importance in settling this moot question. On the otfier hand it can be of no consequence. It all depends upon the attendance and the interest of those present. A small and apathetic audience will accomplish nothing. The need is for a large turnout and free expression of opinions. The City Council has wisely invited the public to share the responsibility of deciding where the building shall be constructed. If the public fails to accept the invitation it can have no complaint of the site finally chosen. There is the Marine Hospital proper ty which has been long in mind as the favored location because it will permit the development of a great recreation center in conjunction with the adjacent Robert Stranee playground. There is also the city’s property at the rear of the City Hall, which would have the advantage of being downtown, within easy walking distance of the hotels. There is the proposal to purchase a site on Seventeenth street which, since the annexation of eastern suburbs, is not so far from the center of Wilming ton, and would provide ample parking space. There is Pembroke-Jones park and adjacent property, opposite the high school. Which of these shall be selected, or what other eligible site is to be pre ferred to any of them? The meeting tonight is called to give the Council a cross-section of the people’s views. Let the people attend and state their reasons for preferring one site instead of another. The Council is entitled to this help. j .ueatn r or Kidnaper Contemporary with the closing phase of prohibition and following its aban donment, a wave of kidnaping swept the country. It reached such propor tions that parents of young children, whether wealthy or not, felt their off spring were never safe out of their sight. Now that there is a crime wave in the wake of the war, kidnaping is again on the increase. The heart must be of stone that does not throb with anger for the person who stole little Suzanne Degnan in Chicago and after demand ing $20,000 ransom, 'tossed the child’s severed head into the Chicago river. Under the Lindbergh law kidnaping is a capital offense. Because the gallows or the electric chair is at the end of the kidnap trail for captured perpetrators, the crime was all but eradicated for years. It’s revival suggests that recent cases have been committed by persons so young that both the Lindbergh baby f kidnap and the law enacted thereafter sire either unknown or forgotten. It becomes imperative therefore that the search for this Chicago kidnaper oe prosecuted with all the skill of the FBI and state police forces and that the punishment be speedy death. By no other means will it be possible to end the kidnap wave quickly. Brain Trust For Congress All things considered, perhaps Con fess hasn’t .done so badly after all. rhis is not to give that august body a dean bill. It has made many mistakes aoth of ommission and commission. But it has had a lot of work to do, what with tax bills and one thing and an sther, besides its members’ fondness for battle zone travel and contradictory demands for legislation. Probably a close examination of its activities in trying circumstances would show that it could have done a lot worse. Because Congress has had to work fast and often without sufficient back ground its decisions have not been as commendable as possible. Now it pro poses to eliminate this handicap by creating a brain trust of its own, which is to be commissioned to do research work almost on an unlimited schedule, and intends to have half a million dol lars a year to support its research group which will have at least twenty-five ex perts and a working force of two hun dred. Dr. Ernest S. Griffith, who is direc tor of the unit, believes this will be enough money and large enough staff to accomplish the purpose in mind. There are to be five top experts, four of whom are already at work. They are Francis Wilcox, expert in foreign affairs and international relations; Raymond Manning, whose forte is taxa tion; James P. Radigan whose special field is federal law, and Gustav Peck, labor expert. With Doctor Griffith, and the fifth man still to be selected, these gentlemen and their assistants will have working quarters in the Li brary of Congress Legislative Refer ence Service. When Congress desires specific in formation it will be their duty to pro vide it forthwith. If the program works Dut as anticipated, the half million dol lar appropriation ought to be satisfac tory to the hardest-pinched taxpayer. Stem Action Needed Western Union employes in New 5fork struck yesterday as previously announced. The nation’s wire communi cations system is under a handicap, “specially with foreign countries. The prospect is that the strike will spread to other population centers, bringing additional stoppages. Meanwhile Washington has little Slope that the White House will do any thing to halt present strikes or head iff strikes scheduled for next week in :he steel, packing and electrical in iustries. The greatest of these Is the steel strike, which obviously must bring a showdown if the United States is to ?et back to normal industrial produc tion. Suspension of steel production vill be felt from locomotive to needle nanufacturers. What the White House plans to do ibout it is not vouchsafed to the public, iut that there must be some action by :’ne head of the government is inescap able. The nation can only hope the rresilient nas tne courage and displays ;he qualities of leadership he exhibited n the first months of his administra tion to find the cure needed without 3urrender.ng to labor out of hand. Editorial Comment COURTESY AND BRIMSTONE Former Secretary of State Hull is a gentle man of an old and vanishing school. While making a vigorous denial, before the senate house Pearl Harbor committee, that his 10-point note to Japan a fortnight before the attack could be construed as an ultimatum, Mr. Hull added: "The only trouble was that the Japanese were bent—if I did not see ladies present, Mr. Chairman, I would say hell-ben! —on their military policy. They had “theii guns drawn.” The Nobel peace-award winner made amends to the female gallery with rococo chivalry, ne doubt to the amazement of the ladies Bu! with a canny sense of publicity he got his phrase in the record and on front pages ol forerff °KS neT,papeM- His words were s forensie bouquet out ot the old south, stilted gentleness underlaid with a neat patina oi KUlnhur-St. filnhe.nemoor«t Fair Enough BT WE»TBBOOK FEGLER (Copyright, 1948, By King Features Syndicate.) NEW YORK, Jan. 8. — Slowly, since the shooting stopped and the pretext of security ceased to shield the selfishness and self-im portance of the selfless protectors of the com mon man, we are learning astounding facte of their conduct in contrast to the preachinj of the new deal. We have learned that President Roosevell used his influence to promote a loan of 8200, 000 for his son Elliott, and then engineered '< coup by which the lender was whipsawec out of his collateral, with the President, him self, as the receiver and transmitter of th< certificates. We have learned that he procurec the R.F.C. to buy up a baronial estate ad joining his own, operating through three hold ing corporations, ostensibly to acquire an ex perimental station for the Department of Agri culture but actually to provide that “unde sirable’’ neighbors should not move in nex door. Only after “security” was no longer U be invoked, we learned that a household gar rison of 300 soldiers was maintained at Hyd< Park and provided with a distinctive uniform to patrol and guard the President’s privati premises,, and, when he happened to be “h residence,” to protect his person. Now it can be revealed also mat during mi time when the docile, gullible dolt, the com mon man, was drawing a gasoline ration o: two and one-hall gallons ol low-grade fuel i week Iqr the family car, when spies wer< noting the license numbers ol cars parked a the movies, when even service men on leav< were warned not to use their little supply or frivolous errands— ' During those days, Henry Morgenthau, ther Secretary of the Treasury, had a Lockheec Lodestar and, before that, a Lockheec Twelve, the property of the Coast Guarc and manned by Coast Guard officers and blue jackets, all at public expense, to fly him froir Washington to his home at Beacon, near th« Roosevelt estate, and fetch him back to hi! office. Mr. Morgenthau is reticent regarding the actual number of such flights. He reallj doesn’t know how many times he whipped ug from Washington in 50 minutes to rest a little at his home while civilians below crowded intc buses or slept or perched on suit-cases in the aisles of day coaches, and ration boards re fused extra allowance of fuel for sick civi lians to visit their doctors. His only impres sion is that the number of trips was “not toe many.” Mr. Morgenthau’s first response was that he used a Coast Guard plane at times on official business, largely on war bond trips, but he conceded that he did use the ship "occasional ly” to fly to the airport at New Hackensack tc visit his home. "1 really had no other way to get home,” he said and added that he thought a govern ment officer was entitled to such visits, re vealing, again, that feeling of preciousnesi which Harold Ickes betrayed when he explain ed that he put himself away in the Naval Hos pital in Washington, at a purely nominal ex pense, and without the slightest legal right because the civilian hospitals in Washingtoi were overcrowded and not good enough foi him. Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of gov emment employees in Washington, to saj nothing of the many other millions elsewhere also wished they might go home but, not be ing princes and princesses of privilege, eithej couldn’t make It at all or made It the hare way. Mr. Morgenthau says these ships were no assigned exclusively to him but that he coulc use them if they were not otherwise engaged Other informants disagree, insisting that firs the Lockheed Twelve and then the Lodestai were set aside for his exclusive use, witl crews standing by at all times to fly him and that the cost to tax-payers was abou $10,000 a month. The Lodestar used about 30 gallons on each round trip. Inasmuch as Mr. Morgenthau served abou 11 years in the cabinet, a permanent job a: such matters are reckoned, (it might have beei appropriate to make Washington his home. Hi interposes that the Washington climate is no always comfortable, a point that may bi granted only with the stipulation that is i: equally unpleasant to those who cannot es cape merely by causing a secretary to lift i phone and conjuring a magic carpet. He flew home, how many times we di not kno-w, although the logs and the testimon; of the crews might establish the exact truth while thousands of other men, no less wear; from work and strain and no less anxioui about Illness in their families, spent man; wretched nights in frozen Pullmans, commut ing on essential war business between plant: and their headquarters with only occasions nights in their own beds. Mr. Morgenthau seemed sad discussing thi matter. He said he did not recall that he ha< ever received due credit for his feats of lav enforcement against tax dodgers and othe: offenders. It is my impression that he did re ceive generous recognition from time to time He said it was all done quite openly, where at I disagree because it was forbidden thei to publish the movements, business and iden tity of such ships. And he must have knowi what the reaction would have been had thi public known that any number of Americai young men, taken from their homes to de fend the nation, were flying a cabinet, office: to and from his home, and that during thi gasoline shortage there was nevertheless fue to spare for a fast, two-engine ship engaged ii this purely personal service. It seems prob able that Mr. Morgenthau should at least re imburse the Treasury this cost. QUOTATIONS There are four crises in life which eacl man must pass through alone. No one cai comfort us in sin, sorrow, doubt and deat except Him. Only He can forgive us and givi us life after death.—Rev. Samuel Trexler o New York City. SO THEY SAY.. V • • ' IV *V. I think the coming of the atom'c bomb w^ uton great wars. Maybe General Eisenhowe was right when he said it might blackmail th ij ■ V Dr Vannevar Bush, dired or! Office0 of Scientific Research and Develoj merit. _ r+ to us elementary common sens th?t service in 'congress ought not to be les attractive financially to an able man tha comparable service in commercial enterpris. — Macon, Ga., New8 The veteran who learned in war that mon ■nd physical strength was to be gained fror being one of a closely knit team ... can an mill provide an additional source of energ to community action. - Dr. Edwin Shar a “MIGHTY OAKS FROM TINY ACORNS GROW!”| These New Kitchens Aren’t Like Grandma’s But They’re Dreams To The Ladies- Bless’ Em By JOHN SIKES Just to invoke a nostalgic tear, there was a time when the kitchen was the homey gathering place of , the family, especially of Saturday , nights and cold, crisp wintry morn ings. It was the place, if you recall, where you pulled those black ribbed long stockings over the bunchy ankles of long underwear those ' few minutes you were hurrying to get ready to go to schooL And where, on those Saturday nights, the bowl was placed for the regular weekly scrubbing. It was, too, the place where the large colored woman cooked up ; such matters as country ham and I eggs, hot cakes, hot biscuits, grits, and maybe a fried chicken or so : for the kind of breakfast that is ■ now strictly legendary, i The kitchen, in those days, was a symbol of family life, hearty and ; cozy. I In the lovely postwar world that’s coming, if the boys in the shop t ever get down to work, the kitchen i will be just another pushbutton i affair. ! You’ve no doubt been keeping t up with the magazines lately, i They’ve been full of vivid adver ; tisements of kitchens you may . expect to have once material i and labor get back together on some sort of acquaintanceship i basis. These kitchens, it seems, ’ will do every thing at the push of a button except to run down to the ’ corner grocery for a loaf of bread, i You will place a steak under the r broiler of the robotic cooker, set . a gadget, and then go off about ; your leisure until a bell rings as I a signal that your steak is rare, medium, or well done. Even more . complete will be the frozen break I fast, lunch or dinner, all wrapped , and packaged for you perhaps a . thousand miles away. You stick . the package in your oven, wait a few minutes, and call in the family. Personally, as an amateur cook , of 3orts, I'd much rather putter . around one of those wood burning , ranges with the warming closet , overhead. But, before trusting too i much to my own rathers, I decided to call on the distaff side around Wilmington to see what the women folks think about such revolution ary goings on in the kitchen. To a person, I’m compelled to report, fhe streamlined kitchen presents a bright spot on the post war horizon. Miss Allie Morris Fechtig, who headed Red Cross production work here during the war, looks forward with much enthusiasm to what is promised in the way of kitchens. Miss Fechtig, however, seems in trigued more by the scientific arrangement of cabinets than by the projected gadgets expected to do everything in the way of prepar. ing food. ‘"Rie way they’ve worked out kitchen spaces and the small, compact cooking arrangements will make the preparation of meals a pleasure—almost,” Miss Fechtig tells you. There is a little matter that Miss Fechtig tells you, however, that makes you wonder Whether she really needs all these new-fangled gadgets. She still has the same two good servants she’s had for the last 10 or 15 years. That, it would seem, constitutes some sort of record. Mrs. P. R. Smith, who lives in Forest Hills and who lets you in on the secret that her husband likes to do a bit of puttering around the kitchen, himself, looks to the streamlined kitchen with something of a glow, but admits that Mr. Smith will probably be the most interested in the upcoming appli ances. Mrs. H. E. Longley, 111 N. 15th street, thinks the idea of stream lined kitchens is “wonderful.” She, too, says that her husband is some, thing of an amateur cook. “The new streamlined kitchens,” Mrs. Longley tells you, “will be a boon. I don’t think we should expect ever again to be able to get the type of servants we on$e were able to get. I just don’t think they’re going to come back. If drudgery is to be taken out of the kitchen it'll have to be done with new appliances.” Mrs. W. G. James, 2002 Market street, sort of wistfully tells you she was, in the words of Webster’s cartoon, born 30 years too soon to get excited over these practical ly workless kitchens that are promised. She does think, though, that they’re going to be grand, what with the servant situation and all being what it is. Sooner or later I figured I’d come across one kind lady in Wilmington who’d be on my sentimental side. She turned out to be Mrs. H. S. McGirt, 2529 Market street road. “Yes,” Mrs. McGirt said—and I think I detected a sigh, although that might have been wishful think, ing, “the streamlined kitchens will be more sanitary, more economi cal, and more efficient.” Mrs, McGirt, though, said: ‘I’m too much of a Southerner to go in for the frozen foods that are, they say, ready for your table in such a hurry. I think I rather like the idea of cooking my vege tables a long time, and with a lot of seasoning—such as good country ham cooked with the collards.” TTrs last item stopped me. At first, I'd planned a panegyric on the gleaming white kitchens that are coming. But, somehow, a pot of collards with a nice hunk of country ham oozing its juices into the emerald leaves and maybe with a few corn meal dumplings therein would seem out of place to me trying to bubble away on one of those ranges with an electric eye surrounded by another gadget guaranteed to wisp away all odors. ^ ou take those streamline jobs and push your buttons, if you want to. &it give me one of those black wood ranges that you have to polish with stove blacking every so often. I want to smell those collards a-bubbling. Let me keep those aromas. They're as satisfying to the soul as all your vitimins are necessary to the body. That is, of course, if that large colored woman will be around to tote in the stove wood and to do the stove blacking. Religion Day By Day By WILLIAM T. ELLIS A BRICK AT A TIME All of us dream of a stately i world palace of peace, but few o? > us know how to go about its build i ing. We are glib in criticism of : the plans, but slow in contributing t a brick or a beam or a block of marble. May I suggest a few definite ■ ways in which the average person 1 may contribute to the creation of [ peace and the new world order? First, of course, he has to be . have personally as a cosmopoli tan, free of prejudices and intol erance, and practicing the New e Testament principles of peace. s Then he should organize fellow 3 ship meetings in his own commun ity. For the development of neigh borliness and the promotion of peace principles. These forums 1 need to be safeguarded against a 3 drift into arid criticism. i Tomorrow’s good citizen should r be a “big brother’’ to youth of ? both^ sexes^ That may mean work Scouts, the formation and promo tion of young people’s societies ii the churches; the creation o wholesome play centers; anc triendly personal relation* with in dividual young people. Short letters to the editor are s powerful way of promoting the program of peace and progress. So are personal interviews with lawmakers. However fabricated, each of u« owes at least one brick to the building of Ihe Palace of Tomor row. Lord, we pray for the good sense »»d holy purpose to become a» blve participants in the promotim if tiie Kingdom of Heaven, In fel lowship with Jeans, in whose name we pray. Amen. Prison Life Begins For Woman Murderesi TEKACHAPI, Calif., Jan. ». W—Regimented prison life begat *>d»y ior Mrs. Annie Irene Mans feldt, convicted slayer of Mrs Vada Martin, whom she accusec of stealing the affections of het husband. Dr. John Mansfeldt latei a suicide. A wave to a photographer was her farewell eeshiro before orisor ENGINEERS ELECT OFFICERS TONIGHT The Wilmington Engineers club will hold its annual election of officers for the year at their regu lar meeting at the Friendly Cafe teria tonight at 6:30 o’clock, with impromptu speeches by members a feature of the program. D. B. Packard, Jr., engineer for Atlantic Coast Line Railroad com pany. is the unopposed candidate for the presidency, succeeding C. H. McAlister, Tide Water Power company. Other unopposed nominee* for i946 club offices are Cecil L. Mathes, Tide Water Power com pany, vice-president, H. E. Hicks, U. S. Engineers, secretary-treas urer, and G. G. Thomas, Atlantic Coast Line, membership on board of directors. McAlister, as outgoing president, automatically becomes , a member of the board of direc . tors. Hicks, now secretary and treas urer of the club, is the only officer nominated for re-election. Although no speaking is sched. tiled formally, club officials said today that several members will give impromptu speeches on sub The Doctor Says— INJURIES CAUSE I JOINT DISORDERS I By WILLIAM A. O'BRIEN, \j n A joint is formed at the*point where one bone meets another Joint pains and stiffness rerlf ■ from changes in or around »hs‘ joints, which are surrounded vj7 tough capsules and lined ■*;*. smooth, velvety membranes, y.' ligaments of muscles which V;,'* 9 nate above help to support 5 vuj as they pass to their insertion'*)'#, low. All these structures rr'y work together to develop eff:c;»-i action. Joint stiffness is caused by ad. hesions, injury to the join* <-aJ sule, ligaments or muscles. flammatlon or fractures. In an injury of a joint, the can. W sule and ligaments may be torn When these heal, the joint r-a? be left encased in scar tissue, hut this can be broken up by stretch. T# « I*.#.!.... . . . - -- -■ juir.r, the cartilage with which the ends of the bone are padded also may be torn. If in healing, the joint surfaces are replaced by new bone formation, a special operation win be necessary to restore motion. fj Inflamed joints are red. swollen, 1 hot, painful and have limited rr.o! tion. Joint infection follows injury or infection elsewhere in the bodv. The joints are actually inflamed in rheumatic fever as part of a gen eral infection. Acute arthritis usu ally responds to specific drugs, heat and rest, but if pus forms, it must be drained. Chronic arthritis can develop at any time of life, although it is J more common in middle and old age. One variety is caused by an infection, another by excessive wear and tear, a third by meta bolic changes. All forms of chronic arthritis are made worse by emo tional difficulties: a severe physi cal or emotional shock may pre cede the onset of the disease. Sudden or repeated exposure to dampness, rain and cold coupled with fatieue can bring on arthritis in individuals of any age. Men who develoc chronic arthritis may tell of standing in water for long i periods of time. Sleeping in the rain or prolonged exposure to cold weather also cause chronic arth ritis. Arthritis has a tendency to de velop in Joints which are used most. In women, the hands suffer most, while in men, the spine, ribs and shoulders are most often af fected. In every form of Joint infection or injury, relief of pain and pre vention of disability are the main objectives of treatment. Chronic joint infections have a tendency to run a selflimited course, and if severe crippling is prevented, the patients can be restored to eco nomic and social usefulness. The Literary Guidepost By W. G. ROGERS I SAW THE NEW POLAND, bv Anna Louise Strong (At lantic Little. Brown; S2.50). Viewing Poland is a fair sample of the sort of political problem likely to prove most vexing in the postwar world. Miss Strong went there to see for herself. She ar rived when the Russians, includ ing Berling’s Polish army of 100, 000 men, were still on the further side of the Vistula, and stayed un til a unity government was organ ized. She saw the people who suffered so abominably . , . and was told that Poland's greatest need was not food or money but more people to replace the intellectual leaders slain bv the Nazis. She was per haps the only American to visit the Polish front in Praga. Her sympathies Re with a Po land which, instead of relying on alliance with distant, fickle capi tals, seeks determinedly to get alone with all her neighbors, in cluding Russia. Opposed to the course pursued by the London Poles, she brings some damaging accusations against them through the mouths of Poles she met one cites be'ravals of Datriot under ground Poles by (London' Heme Army members, and Londoners’ aspirations for a Polish empire. Perhaps her account of the Bor uprising in Warsaw is the most dramatic. She notes suspiciously that it was synchronized with Mikolaiczvk’s first visit to Mos cow. where he incautiously ex pressed the hope he mieht soon return to Warsaw: and that it mas timed for the moment when Rpd armies were exhausted bv a 150 mile drive and could hardlv be e* pected to be able to help much. Miss Strong got her informs' on from Russians, and Poles wh# took oart in the b'oodv s'ru'o’e. "Bor’s men avoided contaci’’ w th the Russians, she charges e'er and over again. Bor’s comma™ surrendered with the Home Army enjoying the rights of nrisoners o' war but with the 7.500 member* of the Peonle’s Arms who fo’.mb.t at their sides condemned to the death of outlaws. She ouotes fl voung Polish officer as saymg ihe leadership of the uprisfn" at 'bat particular time amounted to "b 'h 'reason” though “for that the Lon don Poles mado Bor their com mander in chief.” Firs' fleet strength of 'he Reve -He Cutter Service. 1ater m-iost Gusrif was 10 cutters ' . a-tc.K.11 an«e ♦ >- -o'
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