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MEMBER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS With oon/idence In out armed forces— with the unbounding determination of our people — we will gain the Inevitable triumph — so help os God. —Roosevelt’s War Message. FRIDAY. JULY' 28, 1944 Our Chief Aim To aid in every way the prosecution of the war to complete Victory. TOP O’ THE MORNING i\ King George VI called upon his subjects T to offer up “Earnest and continuous and widespread prayer throughout the present crisis of the liberation of Europe.” “Prayer,” he said, “would fortify the de termination of our soldiers, sailors, and airmen who go forth to set captives free. . . “I desire solemnly to call my people to prayer and dedication.” —From “NOW.” -V The Battle Of Normandy In comparison with Russian gains on the eastern Iront, the battle now being waged in Normandy would seem to be little more than a skirmish. But on its own account, and in view of its potentialities, it is in every sense a major engagement. The Germans so view it, and estimate its importance so greatly that they have thrown into the fight soldiers from far sectors and materials from wherever theycould be trans ported at heavy sacrifice to the source areas. ' The stubborness with which the enemy is con testing every foot of ground on the French , front, and the heavy reinforcements brought ‘ into the action ciearly indicate the opinion the • Germans have of the battle’s significance and ! the implications of a defeat, i On the other hand, General Eisenhower's . visit to the Normandy beachhead for confer ences with Generals Montgomery and Brad ley show with equal clarity that the Allies are fast approaching the time for an all-out assault of great magnitude with the purpose of driving Rommel and his armies like chaff before the wind,as happened in north Africa, : until no Firtzy is left on French soil. That this has not been done before probably Is due to the time required to restore the port facilities of Cherbourg which the Germans damaged as greatly as they could before the collapse of ite defenses. Once Cherbourg is refitted for the receipt of great numbers of troops and large quantities of supplies, muni tions and armored equipment —far greater than have thus far been landed under difficul ty — we may expect to learn that Montgomery and Bradley are driving forward at a greatly accelerated pace, with Paris only an inter mediary goal on the way to Berlin. Of course, the speed of this action will be dependent upon the weather, which recently has been adverse. Troops cannot do their best in deep ; mud, nor can warplanes accomplish great things without fair visibility, two conditions which have delayed Allied progress of late. With fair weather,with an increasing flow of men and materiel, and with right on their side, the American and British forces in Nor mandy will soon be moving with the momen tum that carried them to victory in Africa and Sicily. When that day comes, the Battle •f Normandy will have emerged from the skirmish category. In conjunction with what the Russians are doing in the east and the Anglo-American forces In Italy, this offen live will play its part in forcing the Germans Into the unconditional surrender demanded by • the United Nations. -V Salute To Chaplains A chaplain’s admonition to “praise the Lord •• • and pass the ammunition’’ attracted such i wide attention that a aong was made of it. : But It was more than a good catch phrase. It told of the stamina and quality of the men who are looking out for the spiritual needs • #f our service men. It directed public atten . tion to the strange combination of attributes j they possess. They are strong for prayer and i atrong in battle. Two strengths without which | men at arms cannot win. : It ia to them that soldiers and sailors pour • out their woes, open their hearts, lay bare j their souls, and find the comfort and courage that Is te be found only in the counsel of the devout It Is they, who go forth to battle > with the men and, it they survive, console the families of the boys who die. D. Stewart Patterson, executive secretary of the Methodist Commission on chaplains, told a class of candidates at Chicago the other day that chaplaincy casualties are third highest in the armed services. “No longer do they wait for the men to come to them,” he said. “They move from gun to gun, stringing wires with signal bat talions, riding with glider troops and jumping with paratroopers.” When it is all over, when they come home with the men who have triumphed over the enemy, this nation will owe a debt to the chaplains that must not be written off the books of gratitude and actual reward. TT Wallace-Truman Contest The controversy over the Wallace-Truman contest for the democratic vice presidential nomination, with Truman's band-wagon suc cess after an initial defeat in the convention evoked a wide variety of editorial comment. It is interesting to note the differences if not the "infinite variety”, in the views voiced. Here are some of them: ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH — The Roose velt-haters in the Democratic Party, the poll tax elements in the South, and other reaction ary forces will take keen pleasure in Wallace’s defeat. But their pleasure is mitigated by the fact that Harry Truman is far from being a reactionary. Meanwhile, we believe Henry Wallace, along with Wendell Willkie, ostraciz ed as they are in party circles, can be of great benefit to the Nation in pursuing the ideas for which they were politically cruci fied. Both men will always have great and eager audiences. Perhaps they will have im portant official roles. . .in the winning of the war and the making of the peace. RICHMOND, VA„ TIMES-DISPATCH—While Senator Truman is a forthright supporter of the fourth term, and of the major policies of the President, he gives no evidence of wanting to take the country into more ex perimentation before the essential, permanent, and genuinely constructive gains already made are consolidated. His victory is a victory for the shaking down of thp federal machine. NASHVILLE TENNESSEAN—Truman is an outstanding Democrat. It must go hard against the grain of the Democrats of Tennessee that the State should have been made to appear in a blue pout at the failure of the name of Gov. Prentice Cooper to cause a ripple. Mr. Wallace has made a good Vice-President and has served his country notably. . . NEW YORK POST—We would have prefer red Henry Wallace as the standard-bearer of liberalism in the Democratic Party. . .It is true—and perhaps a mild indictment — that both of our major parties are dominated by political machines. But it is our glory that while we decry the machines of Chicago, we are confronted by the machine guns of Berlin. NEW YORK SUN —It was a case of ama teurs against professionals and, as usual, the amateurs took a trimming. . . .Actually, it (the Vice-Presidential contest) was between Sidney Hillman. . .on one side and the more or less old-line leaders of the Democratic Party on the other. NEW YORK WORLD-TELEGRAM—Despite all the hocus pocus the President used to make the public believe that he was above partisan politics.the Boss Politican picked the best available running mate for his cam paign purpose. . .He (Truman) is excellent for the Roosevelt purpose, 'which is to pacify as many of the warring Democratic factions as possible — some can’t be. BUFFALO, (N. Y.) COURRIER-EXPRESS — There are Democrats who might bolt Mr. Roosevelt for Mr. Dewey—and they are bit terly anti-Wallace Democrats. So Mr. Wallace is dropped (with a cool goody-by kiss from Mr. Roosevelt) and Senator Truman, a Mis souri Democrat in good standing, gets second place on the national ticket. Politics is poli tics, you know — and, brother, it’s no parlor game. ALBANY (N. Y.) KNICKERBOCKER NEWS —The Democratic convention that nomi nated Senator Truman. . .could have. . .done worse. . .When the results of the conven tion are essayed. . .it will be seen the only things to be totaled up are the losses — that in the C.I.O. from ditching Wallace. . .and that in the South. . . .Mr. Roosevelt proceeded on the theory that he could dictate with im punity. Dictate he did, reducing the conven tion to a mere rubber-stamp function. _ \r Florence When this was being written Allied forces were but eight miles from Florence. Will the enemy spare the city, when the time comes for him to move out? Florence is an open city,” but the Germans are not squeamish. They glory in destruction. The mere fact that a city is declared “open,” that is exempt from destruction, will not make them hold their hands if they feel like venting their wrath in defeat upon the city. For the sake of civilization and Florence’s tremen dous contribution to art, science, literature, it can only be hoped that they do not sack it. With it* 325,000 prewar populatio-r, Florence was seventh city of Italy in size, but second only to Rome in artistic and intellectural dis tinction. Nestle^ among pleasant, villa-cover ed hills, it is an impressive assemblage of churches, palaces, museums, galleries, gar dens, bridges, fountains and piazzas. Its situation at the intersection of vital routes, Rome to Milan and trans-Alpine Europe, and Pisa to Bologna and Venice, made Flor ence the commercial center of Italy in the Middle Ages. Wool, silk, wood and agriculture ■ were the bases of industries that created one of the richest communities in Europe. Flor ence’s coin, the florin, was Europe’s standard, and the free City-State was ruled by its wealth iest merchants. Hand in hand with commercial prosperity of the 12th to 15th centuries went political strife. On these Europe's Renaissance of the arts and sciences progressed. This was the at mosphere in Florence that produced not only the wealthy Medici “bosses,” but the genius of many artists, poets and philosophers. Michaelangelo, Raphael, Leonardo da Vinci, Giotto, Botticelli, Fra Filippo Lippi, Luca della Robbia, and Cellini are but a few of the masters of canvas, marble and metal who found inspiration for immortal works of art in Florence of the Middle Ages. Dante, Boc caccio, Petrarch, Machiavelli, Brunelleschi, Savonarola, and Amerigo Vespucci, had the stamp of genius among many Florentines in other fields. Hardly less of a task than listing Rome’s historic attractions would it be to mention the landmarks the Allies will soon see if For ence ii spared. Almost every building in the old part of the city has some claim to re cognition as a Renaissance shrine. Fair Enough (Editor i Note. The Star and the News accept no reepo.iMbility for the peraonal viewi of Mr. Pjrler and often disagree with them as much as many of his readers. His articles serve the good purpose of making people think. By WESTBROOK PEGLER NEW YORK.—Time was, a few years ago, when I could have told you the club for which every regular ball player in the major leagues was toiling at a given time, approximately how well he hit and from which side of the plant and where he picked up his glove. I was weak on the tennis people because the hypoc risy of their mock-amateurism made me sore so I got even, in my outing, juvenile way, by ignoring them. The college athletes, all but a few exceptional, box-office giants, went by so fast and in such confusing hundreds that before a man could memorize and peg them, they were out and gone, to be met, some of them, a year or two later as unpretentious young salesmen, idoctors, lawyers and the like. But I did know most of the fighters, including sudden young fellows in Sandusky or Seatte, who seemed to be east-bound and likely to be met one night in the garden or the stadi ir, and the quality of the people they had ncked, and I could argue, capably and with many a fancy twist of that knowledge which Gene Tunney for a row; and let you pick comes only *f hearty interest, that Dempsey, at his best, could, or couldn’t, have knocked your side of the proposition. That figure of speech about persons being knocked for a row% incidentally, was one of the sturdy ba nalities of the era of w'onderful nonsense, a meaningless but, somehow, witty cliche which gave generous mileage and retired, for age. in favor of “terrific,” “but definitely” and; “too, too divine.” -ine goiaen aecaae passed, and popular in terest, although not forsaking sport entirely, turned to new fields of celebrity—the movies and radio, and, later to the heroes and com manders of the great war. My own interest became fixed on politics and, particularly, on that misty, murky underworld of conspiracy known as the “liberal" movement, which in cluded the communists and, of course, the malevolent but oily schemers of the union front who had discovered in the house of American “labor,” the safest refuge of the lazy and incompetent failure. It was not a popular interest, as I learned, for most of our people were indifferent and too preoccu pied with similar and more obvious and pleas ant conaerns, but, in the menacing presence of the American adaptation of the European program for usurpation and woe, as revealed in the Democratic convention in Chicago, the time and effort seem to have been well spent. However, relatively few other Americans, probably not more than one in a thousand, who know their Bob Hopes and Gracie Allens, their Grables and Sinatras and their Eddie Cantors, and know who got the Medal ot Honor and for what, know anything about the lineup of hundreds of tireless individuals and hundreds of organizations whose opera tions this year may change the form of gov ernment of the United States. The Ameri cans have been reassured that this change would not bring communism but merely achieve “liberal objectives" and emancipate that vague and faceless object called con temptuously, the "common man,” and they have begged the difficult and controversial duty to themselves of knowing the names and associations and the resourceful methods of strangers, who mean more to them, their children and their country than all the rec ords of Ruth and Cobb. Hornsby and Frisch and the scores of ole1 fighters and other ath letes and all the actors and band leaders, whose achievements and flirtations, marriages and earnings they know as surely as they know their own telephone numbers. who among the Americans nas ever heard of Saul Mills, for example, and of the greater New York Industrial Council? What is his political record and how does the council stand on communism? Is it a communist or ganization and, if so, what candidates it put forward and what are their politics? What . is the American Committee for Protection of the Foreign-born? What is the Greater New York Emergency Conference on Inalienable Rights, the International Labor Defense, the Joint Committee for Trade Union Rights; who , is Franz Boaz, and where did he come from ' and what are his politics; and who is Lewis Merrill and what was his name before he was Merrill; and what is the United Federal Workers of America, and who is Eleanor Nel son, its secretary-treasurer? Americans who know the records of their ■ golfers and the regional jurisdictions of the Amateur Athletic Union, and what year it 1 was that Bobby Jones Won all the titles there ■ were, know nothing about the persons and groupings, the past performances, the changes 1 of line, the political attitudes, now disguised, ! now defiant, of the organization whose chief, ' Sidney Hillman, with a power to levy millions : of dollars from their own wages has declared, ’ its intention to elect the president of the "l American republic this year. But they all I know that Babe Ruth holds the world’s rec ord of 60 home runs. f f WHEN DO WE EAT? _ ■Mi Msh >>v y-iJm Nazi Collapse May Come Sooner Than Is Expected i " ‘ 1 WASHINGTON — The smashing : victories of the Russian army are ! causing military authorities in : Washington to revise their ideas 1 as to the probable end of the war in Europe. Some experts think the German army may collapse as early as September. ! It is no secret among Allied mil I itary men that Germany is in very [ bad shape, and that she is virtual ly defeated so far as any hope of waging a successful military cam paign is concerned. However, the German army is expected to fight until the will to resist is knocked out of it and some conservative authorities therefore are wary about predict ■ ing the end. But an increase in | “peace feelers” may be expectd | from now on. Gneral Ho Ying-Chin. chief of the Chinese general staff, and min ister of war in the Chiang Kai-shek cabinet, believes the current Jap offensive in central China is part of the enemy’s long-range strategy to assure an escape corridor for its forces in the southwest Pacific. According to the general, the Japanese are attempting to cut an escape corridor from north China, which they occupy to Canton, along the Canton-Peiping railroad, which they can use in the event their sea communications are cut. He points out that this strategy is the result of spectaculer Amer ican successes at sea and in the air. Once American forces reach the Phillippines, Jap garrisons in the Indies will be in an almost hopeless position. The Flying Bomb has made it highly essential, in the opinion of many informed persons, that real ly effective machinery be set up and maintained to prevent another world war. Although the robots that are be ing dropped over England are dis counted as of no real military value, the plain truth is that this new weapon is something which the future will have to reckon with. It may not even dent British morale, coming at a time when Germany is already virtually beat en. But the future can scarcely take a chance, informed observers believe, on such an all-weather air force being unloosed suddenly on helpless civilians. The flying bomb, these observers say, should be of particular in terest to the United States, be cause it has not merely narrowed but has erased the oceans. A bar rage of 10-ton or larger robots di rected against Manhattan by dis tant radio control is believed to be a definite possibility if there should be a World War 111. Some Quarters in Washington ex ect a public endorsement of the Dewey-Bricker Republican ticket by John L. Lewis, head of the United Mine Workers. One stra win the wind was the platform. Excpt for repeated attacks on the Roosevelt administration, Lewis has been on th; political sidelines since 1940, but he is ex pected to jump back into the spot light, probably at the miners’ con vention in Cleveland in Spetember. Powerful Forces of the French underground are expected to play an important role in aiding the Allies when the big drive begins on Paris. < Since D-Day, French under ground troops estimated at more than 175,000 have been doing im portant work behind the German lines cutting communications and generally harassing the Nazis. As the Allies sweep forward, the French guerilla armies are expect ed to form important units in the Allied lines. The Belief is Growing in military circles in Washington that Ameri can and Allied forces will be back in the Philippines much sooner than previously expected. Gen. Douglas McArthur's forces now are less than 900 miles from Mindanao in the southwest Pacific and Admiral Chester W. Nimitz and his powerful fleet are only 1,400 miles away in the Marianas. Thus developments indicate tha American and Filipino forces may be fighting side by side again in the Philippines, probably weeks be fore the third anniversary of th Jap sneak attack. -V COAD APPOINTED RALEIGH, July 27— (/P) —Gov. ernor Broughton today appointed James E. Coad, of the commerce and industry division of the Board of Conservation and Development, to be the state’s representative in patriotic program to be held soon in all textile communities. --—V Vassar College. Poughkeepsie, N V. was the firs; privetely endowed college for women in America. The Literary Guidepost Bv JOHN SELBY “JETHRO HAMMER,” by Mi chael Venning (Coward-McCann; $2.50) The only group with less humor than book pubbshers that I have found in a fairly long newspaper career would be painters (picture, not house). Painters seem wholly without humor and entirely with out conversation, in my experi ence. In "Publisher* Weekly” for July 8 appeared this paragraph: "Coward - McCann will publish 'Jethro Hammer by Michael Ven ning on July 24 at $2.50. The book was announced some time ago un der the title ‘A l ong Time Dead,' £t $2. The book is beng resold to the trade. The publisher is can celling all orders on hand for ‘A Long Time Dead’.” Without even a giggle, the pub lisher has changed the title of a $? book, and reissued it at $2.50. lie reason, as a couple of letters from him have explained, is that when people about the publishing house got to reading Mr. Venning’s took they decided it was too good or a mere whodunit. And then the turious idea that a “novel” can ret sell for less than $2.50 be came operative so exactly the same text and, for all I know ex actly the same printing and bind ing job, automatically became worth four bits more. Nobody laughed—except me, of course. The publisher is quite right about Mr. Venning’s book. It is a good novel. It is also a mystery of the unfair type — the kind that drives real whodunit fans to drink, bit doesn’t bother the more bal anced reader at all. Mr. Venning holds out on his reader; he pro vides no clue by which even the most astute customer could pin the crime on the rear end of the right donkey. It is the side-matter tha makes "Jethro Hammer'’ good. Jethro is a foundling who is taken in by a village blacksmth. He never quite “belongs," and when the blacksmith dies after making mil lions, the other children throw Jethro out. Jetnro, in his turn, rums the family by usual stand ards; actually, his action is the making of the 'at. But Jethro had to know who he was, and it is his 1 futile search that provides the un- 1 ferlying motive, the suspense, the juts of this excellent novel. THORTON SOUNDS WAR BOND APPEAL The story of submarine battles in the Pacific, as related by a wounded second class petty officer from Wilmington and an appeal bv a banker to hold New Hanover’s record of doing better in reaching war bond campaign quotas than anv other countv in North Carolina featured yesterday’s luncheon meeting of the Lions club. The talk on submarines was made by William Troutman, who has served in the Navy for four years and seen active war service f’om the time the Japanese attack ed Pearl Harbor until the first of this month, when he began a brief leave before reporting for duty again at New London, Conn. The appeal for New Hanover ccunty citizens tc make up a $137, OOG shortage in the “E” bond quota for the county in the Fifth War Bond campaign before the d.ead l:ne closes on saies tomorrow was made by J. G. Thornton, president of the Wilmington Savings and liust Co. and co-chairman of the litest bond campaign in the coun ty Announcement of the appoint ment of the Rev. James Lawson, immediate past president of the local club, as rone chairman for Eastern North Carolina clubs also featured the meeting. Clubs in cluded in the zone are Wilmington, Richlands and Kinston. The ap pointment was made by District Governor Jesse Jones of Kinston. Guests at the meeting in addi tion to the two speakers were E. A. Laney. presidnet of the Morris Plan bank and co-chairman with Thornton in the fifth bond drive, er.d Richard S. Rogers, vice presi dent of the Wilmington Savings and Trust Co., both of whom in addition to Thornton were guests of W. B. Campbell; and Ed Mar lowe of the Metropolitan Life In surance Co., who was the guest of C. L. Harris. Troutman was the guest of James R. Benson. Sidelights of the meeting includ ed the passing around of a special edition of the Wilmington Morning Star of July 16, 1922, on the oc casion of the founding of the local Lions club, and a report by L. C. Robertson, chairman of a com mittee appointed in an effort to obtain beiter service in delivery of War and Navy department mes sages to relatives of wounded, kill ed and missing members of the armed forces. iroutman told club members of being on watch at Pearl Harbor the night before the Japs struck and of being awakened by his re lief when the bombs began to fall on American installations. He described how he manned a machine gun and fired at Jap planes during the irst attack on the harbor and how he was in a motor launch during the second end third attacks picking up sur Mvors of the U. S. S. Oklahoma and other ships sunk and damaged by Jap bombs. Speaking immediately after ^outman, Thornton, who reveal h^ttha*.,NeW Hanover bad done better than any other county in '.he state m attaining its bond quo tas said that the fifth bond drive 1 the c°uhty had gone over the top by 135 per cent, with $7889 - m . m bonds of ail types sold 3 gainst a quota of $5,707,000. He pointed out, however that cr the first time New Hanover is about to fall short of its E bond quota, with $2,054,000 in this series aend sold to date in the fifth bond ; inve against a quota of $2,292,000 1 Thornton appealed to club mem jers to help m making up the luota by the deadline tomorrow ifeernoon by buying as much as i icssible personally of the $137,- . 1-0 lacked and getting friends to 1 io their share. , He said that New Hanover, al- t ihough one of ihe smallest coun-i Interpreting The War ’ By KIRKE L. SIMPsnv Associated Press \V.lr Ana|v , Nazi admission tha- ' spearheads had punched acros**^* Vistula southeast of War- ' lined the war news fron-’V-^'"' although sustained second W* { ■ogress of a closely kni- v a 1 can air - tank advance'in y mandy holds promise 0f "■ cant events to come in ihe'■' '‘:i As the air escorted tank eoW'' mushroomed out to east ar.f‘" * from the deep penetration ofT* my lines below St. Lo. the-eV» e-l no question that the de--.-.‘ ' Nazi effort to contain • e W' invasion had failed. Front lin, if patches told of Americat infani '' swarming through the air ‘ tank cut gaps 10 c nsolidate - h ground, disrupt German rear erh* elon serjices and outflank hi, JT t-'e lines in both direction ' THREATEN C01T\\(ts West of the St Lo dent w ; can troops had taken Lcss v ' passed the Periers Nazi . ; b.ock to threaten Coutances <, the north while lank column V.-; mg down the Si. Lo Coutanc'a highway pressed unon it a. ’ c'ns'er range from the cast T-' was little doubt that Gcrrr tv retreat from the Coutancr.-"' Lessay coastal triangle of • Cherbourg peninsula was in rcss to escape a closing vv trap. While it is as yet doubtful t1 . U.e Allied immediate purpose farther than to widen and dcem the Normandy bridgehead tn V commodate larger forces m p;.e, a ration for more d»*csive :i the means for immediate expl ’ tion of enemy con'fusi n aupea-j th be at hand. The situation j;l Gf'r man ranks as well as in Germany itself invites bold action. Russian crossing of the Vistula on the 30 mile span where thy 1 ad reached the river southeast of Warsaw had not been confirmed by Moscow but seemed hi° ■ probable. Red forces had seized cast bank towns, Deblin attd P . av,y, guarding the important rail i nd road crossings west of Lublin Nazi evacuation of Brest Litovsk was clearly impending since •;» breach in the Vistula line meant ’Warsaw was due for flanking, not | frontal attack, and the Brest Lb ovsk garrison was in growing do • | ger of being cut off and annihibt- : ed Once beyond the river in the Sutaxs pinoo suntssna agj -33 r; X u b ui unpas K.\oBjna - utpaq northwestward to take the old Pa. lish capital from the rear, its vu lnerable side, or cut Its communi "fetion lines. __ Daily Prayer FOR SONS AND DAUGHTERS Daily and hourly e play to Tnee, O Infinite Father in Heav en, for our sons and daughters, end husbands and brothers, who are in the armed forces of our country. We have sent them fort: as patriots, obeying our country's call to do servicp for humanity and Thee. Keep fresh in the.: souis the conviction that they are engaged in a hcly war. born of j the ideals taught in Thy wore. Nourish their spiiitual conviction.', end may each preserve his own most sacred personality. Make warm their hearts with the con- I sciousness of our constant after- i t'on. Amidst new and might? j temptations, save them from sin. And speed the day of victory. 0 God in whose hand is the out come of battles and the fate of | nations, that they may soon re turn, to be enfolded in our gra't ful love. We commend our dear ones, in body and in spirit, to | 1 hy guardian care Amen.—W.TE | -V Within the period October 15-* (o January 1943 plane? of the h' i Tiansport Command flew mo.t than 4,000,000 air miles in Africa, ; parried 21,300 passengers. t-es in the state, had the secori largest E bond quota of a.p'ofty other 99 counties, being tpopea c niy by Mecklenburg with a ? ?' u’ation double this county's ^ ^ . In this connection, he said ■■■■ , Nt.w Hanover had done si in previous campaigns, that - j quota for the county had been H' i creased eacn time. He disclosed tnat $40,000,000 aU types of war bonds have oer purchased in New Hanover dur..^ the bond campaign?, a sum r -_; tnan double the total resource- - Wilmington banks four :-'ears 25 Years Ago Today (FROM THE FILES OF THE STAR-NEWS) July 28. 1919 > Lieut. Latham Harms 1 - ; States Navy, is home o:• ‘or a week's visit with ?nts, Major and Mrs " rss. NEW YORK—The trar.sp •on arrived with a record P • .. (tr list of French war br:'c;;e:J ;rides were on board f French and two Enghsr The Pacific Fleet, which P^| | successfully through the r*--‘ anal yesterday on rom Hampton Roads 0 .j oast of the United Sta.es ^ I oright from Panama for £0.