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Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1942-07-30
Mrs. LOeWendick
Dies Suddenly
BUY u. S. WAR BON

Funeral services were held
Tuesday, July % at 9 a. m. in
st. Francis de Sales church with
requiem mass for Mrs. Mary
Theresa Loewendick, &c, wife of
Jerry Loewendick, Lake drive.
She had spent her entire life in
Newark, dying suddenly July 25.
Burial was made in Mt. Calvary
cemetery.
Surviving are her husband; a
sister, and three brothers, Mrs.
Minnie Gleichauf, William F.
Bentz, Charles H. Bentz, all of
Newark, and Louis Bentz Of Can
ton.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1942-07-30

think Red Orr made a great mis-
take in by letting it slide.
We really wish Clifford E.
(Red) Orr the best of luck with
his new post and we know he
will give his very best for Uncle
Sam.
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Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1942-07-30

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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-02-20
CHANGES IN DRIVING HABITS
NECESSARY

Calling for drastic changes in the
driving habits of motorists, the
Keystone Automobile Club declares
the death toll on the highways of
Pennsylvania, New Jersey and
Maryland last year exceeded by more
than HOO the number of Americans
killed in the Japanese massacre at
Pearl Harbor.
There could be but one answer
to the Pearl Harbor attack-war,"
said j. Maxwell Smith, President of
the Club. There should be but one
answer to the continuing attack on
the home front, with its needless
killing of civilians--a war on reck-
less operation of motor vehicles"
The year 1941 ended with a total
of 1875 highway deaths in the three
States, an increase of 296 over the
previous year, and 1146 more than
the Pearl Harbor total. The figures
are:
Pennsylvania, 1898, an increase
of 1870; New Jersey, 971, an increase
of go, and Maryland, COS, an in
crease of Sc.
'"There is too much reckless driv-
ing, too much speeding" the Club
President said. Elm complete disre-
gard of advice and admonitions,
countless drivers still burn the rub
Der right off their castings with jack
rabbit starts and airbrake stops.
They rush pell NELL on trivial err
rands, endangering lives of pedes-
TRANS and other operators.
at is little enough, we think, to
ask them to conserve their equip
ment. and in it's conservation to aid
in reducing the highway accident
toll. Life is precious thing to our
boys on the high seas, in the Philip
pines and other far-flung out-posts.
1t should not be held cheap here in
America"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-02-20
HIGHER TAXES PREDICTED AT
CLOSE OF WAR

Businessmen now facing the
heavy burden of 1912 taxes must
realize these taxes will not be low
cred at the conclusion of the war,
but will soar even higher and be-
come a permanent addition to our
way of life," Henry g. Burke, mem
Der of a Baltimore accounting firm,
says.
Mr.. Burke spoke at The annual
convention of the Pennsylvania and
Atlantic Seaboard Hardware Asso-
citation, in session at the Lord Bal
timore Hotel, Baltimore, with more
than 1000 delegates attending"
"The intelligent businessman is
aware that even these high taxes in
1912 are only a breathing spell be-
fore he must face even higher tax
es," Mr.. Burke said.
He declared the war effort would
leave the nation with debt of
from $150,0OO,O0O,00O to $780,
OO0,O00,000.
"The carrying charges on this
debt alone are about twice as great
as the expected yield from income
taxes in 1924" he continued.
mo nation, no matter how rich,
can destroy goods at the rate we
have adopted and grow wealthy in
the process.
ssThe vast sums spent by the Gov
eminent on the war are in fact the
measure of destruction"
Mr.. Burke said there was an ur-
gent need for governmental econ
omy in non-war activity.
We must have funds available to
meet the problems which will arise
when the nation transfers from a
war to peace economy, he asserted.
The speaker recommended SIM
plifcation of the income-tax law
which, he said, was $50 cumbersome
officials are beginning to wonder if
they can continue to administer it,
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-02-20
SOIL CONSERVATION PRAC.
TICES HAVE INCREASED
I'M IMPORTANCE

Since the supply of phosphorus
fertilizer this year will be limited
because of war demand for sulphuric
ual that Maryland farmers conserve
their soils and plant nutrient, ac-
cording to John Cotton, extension
soil conservationist for the Univer-
sity of Maryland.
Erosion takes three times as much
PHOSPHORUS from crop land annual
ly on the average, Mr.. Cotton says,
as do the plants grown on it. With
the increased demand for agricul-
tural products, he points out, it is
important that farmers try to main
tain their soil fertility through
good soil conservation practices
rather than depend on the more ex-
pensive method of buying fertilizer
to replace the loss from the soil.
Up-and-down-hill blowing, Mr..
Cotton says, is the greatest cause of
erosion and the loss of phosphorus
and other fertilizers in Maryland. BY
planting around the hill with the
curve of the land, getting rid of the
straight rows, he declares, soil, fer
tilizer and lime may be conserved.
The contour rows, according to
this specialist, do not take any more
time to- farm and a great many
Maryland farmers report time saw
ed because of the longer rows that
result from contour farming.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-02-20
GARAGE TO PINCH HIT FOR
VILLAGE Swiftly

With so many automobiles at rest
much of the time, many garages will
find their usual work curtailed.
However, according to the U. S. De-
partment of Agriculture, garages,
particularly those in the country,
are likely to pick up much general
repair work for farmers and others.
Garage mechanics may be called on
to exercise ingenuity in making
parts normally supplied through 9TH
er channels.
Because of a shortage of many
common items in the home it will
be necessary to imprOvise substi-
tutes from pieces of metal and dis
carded parts. The variety of things
that can be made in garages, par
ticularly where there is a forge, is
almost endless. The Bureau of Agri-
cultural Chemistry and Engineering
mentions such things as gate and
door hinges, latches, braces, brack-
cts, and rings.
The old-time blacksmith shop has
practically disappeared, what with
the reduction in number of horses
and mules and the concentration Of
much of the farm repair work in
larger towns, but the garage prom
ises to be good substitute in the
war emergency. The anticipated
shift will provide welcome work for
mechanics and will be a blessing
for the farmer and householder.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-02-20
STRIKES IN DEFENSE
INDUSTRIES

1t is still the privilege of Ameri-
cans to threaten a tie-up, and even
actually to stop, our national defense
progrm. But the day is fast ap-
preaching when any action which in
terferes with the national defense
will mark those guilty as both unpa-
triotic in the general public view.
Public opinion has thus far been
lulled by the love of those indivi-
dual and personal freedoms OF
speech and action. which are guar
anteed by the Constitution; but it is
rapidly dawning upon the public
consciousness that a strike or a
lockout, or any other action which
prevents the accomplishment of our
defense and lease-lend program, is
action helpful to Hitler and Japan
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-02-20
SENATE REPORT REVEALS
WASTE

Although it is easy to carry criti-
cism of the nations war effort too
far, generally sad picture of in
efficiency, waste, labor strife, and
profiteering has been painted by
Senate Defense Committee report
offered by Senator Harry S. Truman
of Missouri.
OPM has been blamed for failing
to take early advantage of this coun-
try's full industrial capacity. The
Navy has been scored for letting
wasteful contracts to private COM
panies, running into the millions of
dollars. So great were the profits,
even the companies put in a request
that their profits be reduced Strikes
have seriously curtailed our pro-
ductipn of weapons, now so des-
perately needed on all fronts. Re-
sponsible officials have failed to
make decisions because they have
not the power. Petty labor rows,
over whether A. F. of l.. or G. 1. o.
workers should do the job, have
stalemated many projects.
Many early mistakes, mistakes
that could be expected of a nation
not prepared for war, have been
made. But much of the Committee
report has been constructive, and
the President has been the first to
untangle the confusion in produc-
ton. He appointed Donald Nelson,
an executive with great record, as
head of the new War Production
Board to take over the jobs which
OPM and SPAB had apparently
mishandled. Mr. Nelson is expected
to solve the contract problems, and
work for a wider distribution OF
contracts.
The charge that ineptitude and
greed, mismanagement and confu-
sion in OPM, have been responsible
for production failures so far is not
wholly true. The program is not a
total flop. Once the nations power
becomes harnessed under the new
production setup, different results
can be expected.
There has been much short-sight-
edness and mismanagement in the
early planning of our war, but now
is not the time for quarrels and
petty criticism. 1t is war we must
win, not debate.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-02-20
PEOPLE URGED TO CUT install
MENT BUYING

Still one of the most persistent
single worries in the life of the indi-
vidual, despite the war, is personal
debt.
World War I was probably more
responsible than anything else in in
PRODUCING instalment buying. 1t
produced great convenience for the
individual but, according to econ
omist Roger Babson, produced it's
full share of depression misery and,
he points out, there is great deal
of difference between government
going into debt and an individual
getting into debt. The individual,
after he has spent all his money,
has no recourse of printing new
money such as a government has.
The individual, by buying install
ments, not only puts a mortgage on
himself-he is at the same time
tempted to purchase things he really
does not need, to spend beyond his
purse. A good many citizens, even in
the hard times promised for us, will
be long time in learning the evils
of the instalment plan. And an equal
number of persons will continue to
buy new things despite unpaid pres
emit obligations.
But even fl these times, which are
not the best in history, there are
high wages and chance for saving
in innumerable lines of work. The
"pay-as-you-go" system is still the
best, and for those who pay as they
go the one sound investment is in
our security-through the purchase
of U. S. Defense Bonds and Stamps.
1t is a good form of saving, and
the Government itself has set an
example by not making these bonds
negotiable.
Defense Bonds are being paid for
In cash and the purchaser retains
cash value in the Bonds, not to
speak of the security and war con-
tribution which the Bonds represent.
Their purchase by individuals, as
sociations and corporations is an
assurance that everyone is contri-
buting. An investment in Defense
Bonds is one of our most stable
forms of saving today.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-02-20
CUT WOOD SUPPLY NOW FOR
USE NEXT WINTER

Woodland owners who plan to use
wood for fuel next winter should cut
their supply now, is the advice of C.
F. Winslow, extension forester for
the University of Maryland. 1t will
make the wood more efficient, he
says.
Mr.. Winslow states that there
never was a more opportune time to
consider wood for heating because
restrictions that are being placed on
transportation for wartime needs
may make it difficult to get supplies
of coal and oil. Advances which have
been made in woodworking stoves
in recent years and the fact that one
cord of wood is equal to one ton of
coal in heating capacity should be
given due consideration at a time
when "a dollar saved is dollar
earned.
Another valuable feature of using
wood from the home timber land is
that it gives an opportunity to re-
move dead, diseased, poorly-shaped
and over-topped trees.
Anyone desiring assistance in de-
termining the trees to remove from
their land so that the more vigorous
trees will have an opportunity to
grow and develop should get in
touch with Mr.. Winslow, in care of
the University of Maryland at Col
lege Park.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-02-20
WHAT ABOUT THE FARMER?

1t is urged that agriculture be
given equal representation with in
dustry and labor in all Federal de-
Tense agencies and bureaus. That is
an bsolutely just demand. Food is
as important as munitions to the
winning of wars.
. The farm labor problem has dis
rupted normal farm operations--the
farmer simply can't pay the wages
that are offered by war industries.
And the farmers other operating
costs are rising dangerously fast.
The farmer asks only that he be
given the same consideration that
is given to other groups. That in It.
self 10 vital to the success Of the
defense ebert
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-02-20

A promising recruit in the Food
for-Freedom Campaign this year is
the new, high-yielding, disease-re-
sistant Cumberland red clover, in
troduced last year by cooperative
work of several state agricultural
experiment stations, crop improve
ment associations, and the U. s. De-
partment of Agriculture. In the
southern half of the red clover belt,
it produces more hay, and more nj
trogen is left in the soil for food and
feed crops that follow. Increasing
nitrogen in the soil by use of eff
cient legumes is more important this
year because Of possible ferti-
1izer shortage.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-02-20
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DRASTIC CURTAILMENT
DEMANDED

Half of Maryland's delegation in
Congress is backing Senator Byrd in
his efforts to save the Nation up to
2 billion dollars by curtailing nom
essential Federal spending.
Organized taxpayers, civic, bust
ness, service and womens clubs and
the press all over the State have
been demanding drastic curtailment
of non-essential Federal expendi-
lures and are specifically asking our
Senators and Congressman what
they are doing about it.
In answer to citizen demands, al
ready Senators Tydings and Rad
cliffe and congressman Wade and
Cole have notified their constitu-
ents that they are in favor of re-
ducing non-defense expenditures.
Senator Radcliffe says he supported
the legislation that created the
Byrd Committee and believes that
even before the war started it was
necessary to stop waste and extra
vagance, and it is all the more i'm
perative now. 1--WE must see to it
that our non-defense expenditures
are restricted in every way feasible f"
Senator Tydings, answering a
communication from Harry S. Mid
dendorf, President of the Maryland
Public Expenditure Council, Inc.
stated: 81 agree with you as to the
necessity for economy in Govern
ment expenditures and / am heartily
in favor of the economies proposed
in the preliminary report of Sen
ator Byrd's investigating Commit
tee. I have long been an advocate of
sound and sensible financial policy
for our Government and 1 shall con-
tinue to do everything possible to-
ward reduction in non-essential
Federal expenditures.
Congressman VIM. P. Coles reply
to constituents asking him to sup
port the movement in Congress to
cut non-essential spending was II
favor the curtailment of non-defense
expenditures to the very minimum.
1 have voted for reduction in the
past and l propose to continue to do
so.
On the Eastern Shore Congress
man David j. Ward has notified the
Talbot County Taxpayers Associa-
ton that he would support the Byrd
Committee.
There remain only four Congress
members to be heard from: Mrs.
Katherine e. Byron of the 9Th Dis
trict, Lansdale G.. Sasscer of the
5th District, Thomas D'Alesandro,
Jr., of the 3rd District, and John A.
Meyer of the 4th District. AS yet re-
ports of the sentiments of these
Maryland representatives have not
been received at the offices of the
Maryland Public Expenditure Coun-
Gil, Inc. But, according to Mr.. Mid
dendorf, its President, ut is prob
able they will react the same as the
other half of Maryland's delegation
in Washington. 1t is only a matter
of people from these four districts
making their demands known. And
that the citizens will do. For Pearl
Harbor aroused the public from its
apathy and made it determined to
impress on its elected representa-
tives the vital need for common
sense in public spending.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-02-20
Farm Prices

1t seems to us that Secretary OF
Agriculture Wickard has come out
on top in his battle to hold a con-
trolling hand over agriculture pro-
ducts under the new price law. Leon
Henderson, nominated as Price Con-
troll Administrator by President
Roosevelt, has approved the stabil-
ization consumer and farm prices
submitted by Wickard. Secretary
Wickard is holding prices down
moderately and he and Henderson
have both been able to satisfy the
objections raised by President
Roosevelt.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-02-20

The part of Government in the ag-
ricultural division of the war effort
is to advise farmers on what pro-
duction is needed, to help them
plan for it in advance, and then to
give them all possible help in over
coming the obstacles that stand in
the way.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-02-20

Roughly speaking there are about
10000, 100000 acres of land ON the
earth lying in a climate favorable
for crop production, or about s
acres for each inahbitant. The well
fare of future generations and their
standard of living depends upon our
ability to properly use this land
area.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-02-20

Producing vegetables at home
puts the food supply right where it
is to be used. 1t doesn't take any
freight cars or trucks to move the
food to these families--and trans
port is needed badly for other things
these days.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-02-20

"a machine which does super
ior job of protecting eggs with a
thin coat of oil has been devised by
a poultry and egg cooperative. Sew
eral. egg-marketing associations re-
tard oxidation in the eggs by substi-
tuting carbon dioxide for the air
inside the eggshell."
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-02-20

Henderson places ceiling on ra-
dos. Those who try to sleep in
apartment houses never found q
ceiling did much good.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-02-20

Men Of draft age married in the
last year are to be called into SER
vice, the Government evidently
figuring that they've had enough
preliminary training,
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-02-20

Our war preparations parallel a
penny ante game. First it's a two
cent limit, then five-and-ten, and
next thing you know, it's the sky
without cloud in sight
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-02-20

Man has attacked the deserts with
irrigation systems, but, ON the
whole, he has reduced to desert a
thousand-fold more land than he
has reclaimed.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-02-20

Air raid shovels In schools are
red, but spade Is . spade no mat
ter what color they paint H.
Evening star., 1942-02-19
BY PRESTON GROVER,
Press War Correspondent

ALEXANDRIA, Egypt, Feb. 18
Delayed British warships and
planes engaged in keeping the
sea lanes open in the Eastern
Mediterranean have just COM
pleted a wide four-day sweep,
during which they damaged two
cruisers and a destroyer and de-
stroyed five Axis warplanes.
British losses during this period
consisted of two planes and two
merchant ships, which were set
afire by Axis bombers while in con-
voy and subsequently were sent to
the bottom by escorting warships.
A third freighter suffered super
fetal damage, but all participating
British naval units escaped un-
scathed.
was aboard one of the merchant
vessels wher 1t was set afire, and
had ringside seat for part Of the
far-flung action, which began Feb
ruary 13 and continued through Feb
ruary 16, ranging from Malta to
Alexandria and as far north as the
Ionian Sea.
The Italian Navy came briefly
into the action when q force Of its
cruisers set out February "A to nm
ish of a British freighter damaged
by q German dive.bomber.
They never reached their target.
(see GROVER, Paeo A-IlO
Evening star., 1942-02-19
S1S,0OO,0OO Needed
For D. {. Facilities,
Senate Group Told
Hearings on $50, 600, 900
Emergency Housing,
Public Works Open
BY JAMES E. CHINN.

Urgently needed community
facilities in Washington and its
metropolitan area will cost at
least $4,000, 900, the Senate Edu-
cation and Labor Committee was
told today by Commissioner
Mason and James Brunot of the
defense, health and welfare
service of the Federal Security
Agency.
The estimate was cited to the
committee as it began public hear
ings on the House-approved Lanham
bill authorizing an appropriation of
$50 900 900 for construction OF homes
and related public works for Gov
eminent war workers in the District
and surrounding Maryland and Vir-
ginia areas.
Stress was laid by both Commis-
sioner Mason and Mr.. Brunot on
need of additional hospital facilities
for private as well as public insti-
tutions.
Earmarking of s2,OO0.O00 or more
in the bill specifically for additional
hospital accommodations was urged
by Chairman McCarran of the Sen
ate District Committee. His plea
was made for both the Senate and
House District Committees.
Four Needs Cited.
Mr.. Brunot recommended that the
following needs should be supplied
under the $50,000, 900 appropriation:
/. Two thousand one hundred
hospital beds costing approximately
So, 500 900.
2. Sewer and water lines in the
Metropolitan Area, 5,787 900.
3. outdoor recreation areas, ST.
224,000.
4. Additional school facilities,
$2.500, 900.
Needs in the Washington Metro
politan Area for community ia
cilities are extremely serious" said
Mr.. Bruno. Facilities were made
quate long prior to the present
emergency, which has increased the
(See HOUSING, Page A-6D
Evening star., 1942-02-19
Is From D. {. Area
On NaW's LIST Of
2,2OS Held by laps
1,OOS Officers and Men,
1900 Civilians Are
War Prisoners

The Navy Department, making
public its first list of Americans
believed to be prisoners of the
japanese, today disclosed that
2,208 officers, enlisted men and
civilian workers, including 16
men from Washington and near
by areas, presumably have been
captured in the wal. in the
Pacific.
The list includes 1908 officers and
enlisted men who were garrisoned
in China and in Pacific outposts.
and 1900 civilian workers who were
employed on defense projects on
Wake and Guam Islands when the
Japs began undeclared war De-
cember 7.
Navy officials recalled that only Is
of the Nays personnel were taken
prisoners by Germany during the
First World War.
Among men from this area are
four Marine officers, including Maj
James Patrick Sinnot Devereux
who led the gallant stand at Wake
Island; six naval officers, three
marine enlisted men and three
civilian workers who were on Wake
Island.
ID. c. List is Released.
The complete list OF those from
the Washington area presumed to
be prisoners of war includes, besides
Maj. Deyereux:
Comdr. Donald Theodore Giles,
Navy.
Comdr. Leo Cromwell Thyson
Navy. 5
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