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A II V/ --at VAHON TARPINIAN LIKES HIS MUSIC CAMP DAVIS, July 10— Although ' Vahon Tarpinian is a pianist by choice and by profession, the last few years have seen him doing all manner of Army work, including 68 combat missions as a radio gun ner with the Fifth Air Force. During his extended tour of duty. S-Sgt. Tarpinian was award ed the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medal, testimony to his outstanding work in the South west Pacific. As a radio man with the Troop Carrier Command, Tarpinian put in over 450 combat hours. Before entering the Army, Tar pihian had his own orchestra at the fashionable LaConga night club in New York. And when he is discharged—which shouldn’t be too far away, since he is high on the point list—his old job is waiting for him. Tarpinian’s musical activities did not stop with his army career. When he had finished his work as a radio operator, he took over an established army band and landed on Leyte fifteen days after the in _: Un J V»«-»re11v-i Alll. fit, he also hit Mindanao and Lu zon, bringing music to the fighting men as quickly as was possible. In the Buna campaign, Tar pinian and his band consisted largely of airplane mechanics who were originally musicians. Con sequently during the campaign they not only worked as mechanics, but as machine gunners, riflemen, grenadiers, etc. Then, during a ; lull in the fighting, or when re placements were available, the men were able to pick up their instruments again and offer enter tainment. for the GI's. In this capacity they served as the musi cal background for several USO shows, including Gary Cooper, Jack Benny and Bob Hope. Currently stationed at Camp Davis, N. C., a redistribution sta tion of the AAF Personnel Distri bution Command, Tarpinian is be ing processed and is awaiting re assignment. He is the son of Paul Tarpinian, Brooklyn, N. Y. Before taking his own band into La Conga, Tarpinian had served as pianist with George Hall, Dolly Dawn, Leo Reisman, Alvino Rey and other well-known orchestra leaders. Tarpinian received his “Greet ings” during his engagement at La Conga. What he’d like to do now is return the greetings—a dif ferent kind, of course—to his old friends who are waiting for him. --V County Meat Dealers Are Complying With All OPA Regulations One hundred and eleven of the 132 meat dealers surveyed in New Hanover county are in full compli ance with OPA regulations and the others had only minor infractions, the rationing board’s Food Price panel revealed at a meeting Tues day. The survey was made on orders from the OPA’s Raleigh office as a part in a nationwide survey. The rationing board described com pliance in New Hanover county as excellent. However, the survey also re vealed that of the 132 stores listed as meat dealers in Wilmington only 58 were found selling meat of any variety. -V 4-H Members To Spend Week At White Lake County 4-H club members will leave here Monday morning for a week’s camp at White Lake, ac cording to an announcement from the home agent’s office. Registration for the trip, which will end on the following Saturday, will be completed not later than 9:30 a. m. Monday. Schedule for the county Home Demonstration club meetings has been announced as follows: Remainder of July: 4-H Camp July 16-21; Bradleys Creek Home Demonstration club, July 23 at 2:30 p. m.; Gordon Road Home Demonstration club, July 24 at 2:30 p. m.; Middle Sound Home Demonstration club, July 25 at 2:30 p. m.; Myrtle Grove Home Demonstration club, July 26 at 10:00 a. m.; East Wil mington and Audubon clubs July 26 at 2:30 p. m.; Winter Park Home Demonstration club July 27 at 2:30 p. m. and Wrightsville Home Demonstration club July 31 at 2:30 p. m. MALARIA CHECKED IN 7 DAYS WITH _ LIQUID for 4* 4% H MALARIAL B~B n B^ SYMPTOMS B ■ II II Take only aa directed llllllllllllllllllllllllllillllllllllllllllllll MEAT CUTTERS WANTED! —By large chain of Super Mar kets. Full time employment. Excellent opportunity for ad vancement. All hiring In ac cordance with War Manpower Board regulations. APPLY: F. K. WYATT BN STAB SOPER NET. 220 No. 3rd St. -- WITH THE AEF Inspiring Coffee Pot ■ . . By KENNETH DIXON WITH THE A. E. F. IN OC CUPIED GERMANY,— (£) —"If you want any stories”, drawled the Major "why don’t you ask that coffee pot? If this outfit has done anything worth mention in, it’s the coffee pot that’s responsible.” The rest of the guys in the "84th Division Airforce” nodded solemn agreement with Maj. J. P. Paschall of Royce City, Texas. The coffee pot they said was their inspiration. The “airforce” is not exactly what the name implies, as the 84th is an Infantry Division. It consists of cub pilots and crewmen who fly liaison and spot targets for the division’s artillery. It isn’t much to look at, that coffee pot. It’s sort of battered, but through 1,500 missions it stood at the end of each run as some thing to come back, to. It became a sort of symbol of solidarity, be cause the pilots always knew it would be there and hot and st least partly full. It kept up their morale on the days when they need ed it. “We had a rule that that coffee pot must naver be left unfilled or cold day or night”, the Major said. “It never was broken.” A lot of ihing have happened since that rule first went into ef fect. Richard C. Davis of Long Beach, Calif., was just a Pfc. then, but now he’s a Lieutenant. Ditto for Alfred Parsons of Shawnee, Okla. Seven men earned Purple Hearts and five never came back for that extra cup of coffee. The little outfit started with ten planes — two each for the 325th 326th 327the and 909th Field Ar tillery battalions and two for di vision headquarters. It still has ten planes but only two were in the orginal group. Nowadays there is not such a demand for coffee, since the boys fly only routine missions, and even Paschall admits he’s drinking less than 15 cups a day—his erstwhile combat quota. Pointless: Nobody ever says any thing about the discharge point system in company R of the 334th Infantry Regiment. The company comprises reinforcements who arrived in the European theater of operations so recently that their average is six points apiece. Speaking of points, Sgt. John F. Braz is the most envied man of the 330th Infantry Regiment, and it isn’t only because he has 93 of them. It’s partly because of how he acquired them. According 1o a War Department announcement, an i n d i v i dual whose home and place of induction was outside the United States, but who served within its limits wiil get credit for that time as over seas duty. So John, a native of Pahoa Hawaii, was collecting two over seas points per month ’way back when the 83rd Division still was in America. Incidentally, the 83rd recently set an all-time record for some kind if classified advertising when it printed a notice seeking in formation regarding “a lost Hun garian circus.” ‘‘If you’ve never misplaced a whole circus”, it said, ‘‘you can’t imagine how badly the special serv ice office feels. So if anyone sees a long, horsedrawn caravan on a road near the division’s area it should be reported* to the special service office. It might be the circus.” Then it added informatively: “The horses probably will be wear ing flowers and ribbons in their hair.” Gates Predicts Early End To Jap Air Power WASHINGTON, July IU. \n) Artemus L. Gates, Undersecretary of the Navy today predicted early “elimination of the Japanese air force as an effective weapon.” In his final report as Assistant Secretary for Air, a post he sur sendered last week after nearly four years service to become under secretary, Gales described destruc tion of Japanese air power as naval aviation’s ‘first job,” and express ed confidence it “will be accom plished shortly.” In addition, however, he said, “naval aviation must be ready to augment the Army Air Force’s bombing of Japanese targets by delivering pin-point attacks where designated; it must continue to de liver mobile air power to strike targets inaccessible or unsuited to long range land based bombers; it must be ready to support future troop lands; it must continue its effective destruction of enemy ship ping; and it must destroy Japanese I naval units wherever found. In ad dition, it must keep our own sup ply lines safe by constant patrol.” Asserting that naval aviation is not “an autonomous or separate fighting organization nor should it be,” Gates described it as an in tegral part of the Navy operating in conjunction with the surface and sub surface forces. Furthermore, he said, any omission from his re port, dealing with naval aviation, “should not be construed as a re flection upon the accomplishments of the Army or its airforce.” “In the virtual elimination of the Japanese carrier based air force and in the decimation of the Japa nese Army and Navy Air Forces,” he said, “more than 17,000 eneihy planes have been destroyed since Pearl Harbor by Navy and Marine planes against fleet combat losses of approximately 2,700 a combat ratio of better than six to one. flonrac fnr the first quarter of this year indicate that approximately 2,800 Japanese air subsurface forces. Furthermore, he craft were destroyed by fleet planes against combat losses of about 300, a combat ratio of over nine to one. The most recent cam paign, that foi the possession of Okinawa, has been the most In tense of any so far encountered. From the beginning ol the cam paign in mid-March up to and into June, more than 3,700 enemy planes were destroyed by Navy and Ma rine units, 460 by our fleet AA gunners, 457 by Marine pilots of the Tactical Air Force, 2,605 by carrier based aircraft, 216 in the course of suicide tactics, and 38 by patrol planes. “Navy and Marine Airborne combat losses amounted to more than 650, a combat ratio of approxi mately six to one. Our air-sea team,” Gates said, "will undoubtedly meet even stif fer tests as it progresses to the home islands of Japan, where we can expect to encounter ‘increased use of the Kamikaze Corps suicide pilots, who attempt to crash their planes or baka bombs against our ships, as well as increased use of suicide swimmers and similar tactics bom of desperation. So far, however, no fast carrier, battle ship or cruiser has been sunk by Japanese suicide tactics although extensive damage has been done.” Gates said more than 26,000 air craft, or nearly half of all air craft built since Pearl Harbor, were deployed to the fleet last year. Ac celerated delivery is continuing this year with new models either in production .or under way. The Navi'g carriers now totaling about 100, f .ates said, represent- a tonnage oi approxunatety i,4ou,uuu, the largest single portion of total combat tonnage. Personnel now as signed to naval aviation, including Marines, total about 750,000, of which more than half are on carriers, in air groups, squadrons and fleet service units. “Although we cannot yet see with clarity the pattern of the world following the war,” tie said, “it is nevertheless clear from our past experience that the United States will need art effective mobile force with powerful air weapons in order to further the execution of such punitive action as the United Na tions may order. In the post war period, too, naval aviation will be prepared to do its part.” -V State Places Third For Pickled Cucumbers RALEIGH. July 10.—UP)—North Carolina ranked third in the prod uction of cucumbers for picking last year, the -State Agriculture Department reported today. This State planted 8,800 acres for that purpose, with Michigan and Wis consin exceeding in acreage. Preliminary estimates for this year show North Carolina now is cultivating approximately 9,700 acres of cicumbers for pickles. -V SEASHORE TRIP COSTLY WILLIAMSTOWN, N. J. (U.R) - It cost James Amarosa, Philadel phia, a total of $70 going to and from the seashore in one trip. Amarosa was fined $20 for speed ing on the Black Horse pike while going to the seashore and $50 foi the same thing at the same place while coming back. FOUNDED 1840 PARK & TILFORD RESERVE WM t TKfUtt wmiUK. HK. ** TIW • ^l% WMI1 MtlTMl ywiT* » l>L> SYRUP WILL SAVE ON CANNING SUGAR - j With the need for food, accord- ] ing to President Truman, “greater ] now than ever before,” the North Carolina Extension Service is urg- i ing all Carolinas to produce all : food they can and to can or pre- 1 serve all they produce. i The Extension Service, accord ing to Miss Mary Mason, Home I Demonstration Agent for New i Hanover County recommends that ] all foods which can be preserved i be canned, frozen, dehydrated, brined or stored, according to the nature of the food. Sugar being scarce, the Service ( suggestes that maple sugar, syrups ■ or honey may be substituted in can- | ning all or most all edibles, recom- . mending that one-half the amount j of sugar be replaced by honey or ] one-third be replaced by syrups. , Warning that strong-flavored ] syrups or brown sugar may cause canned fruits to spoil and that , saccharin may give canned food a j bitter flavor, the Service advises , one-half cup of sugar per quart where no substitute is used. Other sugar thrift rules are: Serve cooked fruits hot for ful lest flavor and sweetness. Save syrup from canned fruits to sweeten other fruits, pudding sauces, and beverages. Add a pinch of salt to increase the sweetening power of sugar cooked foods. Be sure all sugar is dissolved in cooked foods. The Extension Service advises housewives that one cup of maple sugar, maple syrup or honey is equal to one cup of sugar; one and a half cups of sorghum or cane syrup are equal to one cup of sugar; and two cups of corn syrup are equal to one cup of sugar. For cooking cakes and cookies it is recommended that sugar be replaced by honey, “cup for cup, but use one half the quanity of other liquids called for. That is, for a cup of sugar and one cup of milk, use one cup of honey and ont-half cup of milk. Other ingredier's remain the same.” \7 BANKER APPLAUDS MONETARY PLANS CHAPEL HILL, July 10.—(i5>)— The Bretton Woods agreement, if it succeeds, “may usher in a great era of prosperity all over the world, remove one of th^ chief causes leading to war, and bring a long period of universal peace and well being,” Dr. William A. Irvin, of New York, educational director of the American Institute of Bank, told representative bankers of the Carolina* as one of their back-to school classroom sessions this aft ernoon. “But advocates of the Breton Woods proposals frankly admit that the agreement alone cannot do this,” he added. “The agreement must be supplementd by world wide agreements on trade and oth er international cooperation before success can be reasonably assur ed.” Dr. Irwin said that many critics of the proposals say “the economic stability of the countries concerned should be achieved first to assure success of the agreement. “It is not certain,” said, "that countries operating open” econo mics and those operating ‘closed” economics can actually cooperate in international matters, but they made a good start at San Fran cisco. “If the severest critics of the proposals are right, the worst that can happen is world-wide infla tion, world-wide boom, and world wide collapse, due to loose lend ing, foolish spending, and lack of legard for ‘pay day.’ ” -V BUY WAR BONDS AND STAMPS Obituaries INGBARD OLSEN Ingbard Olsen, 67, of 714 North fourth street, died at 3:25 a. m. tfondav at the James Walker Memorial hospital. He is survived by his widow, /Its. Mary Olsen, of Wilmington; stepson, Lawrence Riordan, of Vilmington; and a niece and a lephew. Funeral services will be held at ; p. m. today at the Yopp fun ■ral home with .the Rev. Carl fisher, officiating. Burial will be n Oakdale cemetery. MRS. KATIE O. BARKER Funeral services for Mrs. Katie )rr Barker, 45, of 1608 Ann street, vho died Monday at James Wal :er Memorial hospital, will be held oday at 4 p. m. at the Trin ty Methodist church. The Rev. r‘ W. Paschall, pastor of the Lurch, assisted by the Rev. J. F. lerbert, will officiate. Interment will follow in Oakdale emetery. The Golden Rod chapter lo. 142, O.E.S. will conduct grave, ide services. Pallbearers will be: Active, T. S. Rowell, W. R. Page, D. J. Pad -ick, M. L. Meyland, John R. Putch, L. D. Marshburn. Honorary, J. S. Hall, A. F. Mc Lamb, W. F. Register, W. D. Hewitt, O. B. Satchwell, C. M. Powell, W. H. McClain, U. A. Un derwood, D. A. Boyette, J. F. Coun cil, Dr. C. R. C. Thompson, Dr. David R. Murchison. Mrs. Barker is survived by her lusband, J. T. Barker; three sis ,ers, Mrs. J. W. Duke, of Wilming :on; Mrs. Hazel Padgett, Southern Springs, and Mrs. Hattie Boyer, High Point; four brothers, Foy Drr. of Wilmington, M. V. Orr, Warsaw, F. L. Orr, Burlington, and W. F. Orr, Mullins. S. C.; and :ne nephew, Joe Duke, now serv ng in the Pacific. INGBARD OLSEN Funeral services for Ingbard Dlsen will be held Wednesday at 3 p. m. at the Yopp Funeral Home with the Rev. Carl Fisher offic iating. Burial will be in the cemetery at Oakdale. Pallbearers will be Maurice Haskett, Howard H. Bowles, Delma Today and Tomorrow By WALTER LIPPMAN _ __in n’ir rasp tnp Sprrpf.arv mere seems uc understanding about the United States representative on the se curity council, and this has led to the notion that after the Senate has ratified the charter the Congress will then need to define by statute his powers and duties. All this sup poses that the charter calls for the establishment of a new high of fice—That of United States repre sentative to the United Nations, who will then have some kind of independent power of his own. Ob viously, if that were the case, it would then be necessary for Con gress to define by statute the pow ers and duties of the individual who casts the vote of the United States. But it is not thhe case, and to establish such a new independent office would be quite contrary to the plain intent of the charter. It would be contrary also to our own Constitution. And such an arrange ment would be quite unworkable. * * * The charter says (v, 23, 3) that “each member of the security council shall have one representa tive.” The "member” is then the United States of America, not the individual who represents it. It is the United States that has one vote, not its representative. Furthemore (v, 28), the charter contemplates specifically that the individual rep resentative will not always be the same person: "The security council shall hold periodic meetings at which each of its members may, if it so desires, be represented by a member of the government- or by some other specially designated representative.” I think I am right in saying that at Dumbarton Oaks and at San Francisco, it was always as sumed that at important meetings of the council the representatives would be the ministers of foreign B. Seitter, Ed B. Wright, Albert Seitter, and Fred Seitter, Jr. Honorary pallbearers will be Ludwig Leiner, Fred Seitter Sr., Carl Seiter, Hubert Miller, J. H. Bost, and P. O. F. Schmeidt. of State—and that at the most im portant meetings, the representa tives would probably be the Presi dent himself and other heads of governments. “ * * * The misunderstanding, such as it is, is probably due to the fact that the charter (v, 28, 1) says that “the security council shall be so organized as to be able to function continuously. Each member . . . shall for this purpose be repre sented at all times at the seat of the organization.” This does call for a permanent officer at the head quarters of the organization for the “purr >se”, of enabling the securi ty council “to function con tinuously.” But the whole context makes it clear that this permanent official is, in effect an ambassador dealing with routine operations, re porting through, the State Depart ment to the President, carrying out his instruction, but making no in dependent decisions of his own in matters of policy. The charter does not even say that he shall be the representative in a meeting of the security coun cil. He is only a representative “at the seat of the organization”, and while he might be designated (by the President or. the advice of the Secretary of State) to be the Unit ed States representative at a meet ing, the intent, as I have already shown, is that when anything im portant is being considered thf representative should be the Sec retary of State or some other “Member of the government”, or even the President himself. * * * In short the United States rep sentative has no powers and duties separate from the powers and du ties of the President under the Con stitution and the treaty of the char ter, as ratified by the Senate He is a diplomatic agent appointed by the President and confirmed by the States, and even his authority as from any o>;her diplomatic officer. To give him any independent powers would be to impair the President’s authority to conduct ,s foreign relations of the u y States and even his authority commander-in-chief. The that the United States rcpre^r!,'11 tive is not in all respects the of th President, that he could k vested with the right bv an tt pendent judgement of his own , commit the United States „ a even to use the armed forces , the United Slates is fantastic ’’v cannot have two foreign poijcj* which is just what we would hay! if Congress were to enact an e’iaJ. orate statute giving a distinct sition, with distinct powers and -5 countability, to the permanent of ficial at the seat of the ornanki! tion. * ♦ * No new question ol substance nr principle is involved in the le«j5, lation, which will be necessary’ •'« authorize his appointment anti to appropriate funds for his salary and expenses. The office should of course be given dignity and rank equal with that of the British Soviet, French, and Chinese per! manent representative. But it should not be vested with any pov. er of its own. Whatever new povy. ers and obligations the ratifica tion of the charter creates can ht vested only in one place—in the President of the United States, sub. ject to all the normal constitutional limitations. Copyright 1945 New Vork Tribune Inc. -V-- j Sidewalk Paving Work Resumed By City Force Sidewalk paving now is in prog, ress along Castle street between Eleventh and Twelfth streets, and on two blocks north of Market on Fifth street, City Manager A, C, Nichols announced yesterday The City Manager said that it was planned to continue the work on Castle street along both sides of the street. Mr. Nichols disclosed that he expects to consult the City Coun cil at its weekly meeting today concerning paving plans following the completion of the work on Castle street. -V Cooked cereal cart be cooled, cut in squares and sauteed to pro vide a delicious potato substi ute. - * -- - "complete with baskets" Atlantia was already a leading gas * Remember the 1904 Rambler, "complete with canopy top and side curtains, lamps and baskets"? Seems like a long time back, but Atlantic petroleum products represented 34 years of experience even then. Many in 1904, still looked on the automobile as a toy. But the Atlantic refinery was ready for this new market. As early as that, Atlantic was playing a part in motor progress. It has been doing so ever since. 25 Years’ Petroleum Progress Since Pearl Harbor tells Atlantic's wartime story. While the automobile and aviation industries have been turning out super-planes, Atlantic has been supplying super-gasoline to power them. The research that helped to develop this super-fuel... the vast new refining facilities producing it . . . these assure better, more economical, more powerful gasoline for your post-war driving. Atlantic has always made good gasoline and motor oil. Atlantic is continuing its research to make them even better. The foiett petroleum products Atlantic has ever made will soon be yours. 0 has always made good gasoline MOTOR OIL • LUBRICATION SERVICE