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Evening star., 1942-03-24

peared doubtful today that the
House would be able to take its
long desired two-week vacation at
Easter. Instead, members may be
compelled to stay on the Job and
seek action on one Of several pend
ing bills, which call for suspension
Of basic 40-hour week and a strict
limit on war profits.
Senator George told reporters he
was satisfied that the thousands of
letters and kilograms received re-
Gently at the Capitol bespoke a
growing apprehension on the part
of the American people lest the cost
of the war production program
break all bounds.
There have been some suggestions
In congressional circles that labor
unions might be persuaded to agree
voluntarily to a 48-hour work week
at regular pay in war industries,
waving overtime pay for Saturdays,
but Senator George said he felt
there was little practical hope for
any such agreement.
Senator Taft, Republican, Of Ohio
said he thought the solution might
lie in the stabiliZation of wages in
line with living costa subject
President Roosevelt said recently
was under consideration.
Most administration leaders ap-
parently were awaiting a cue from
the President before moving in any
direction on labor legislation. They
intimated that Mr.. Roosevelt might
soon make a further statement of his
views.
Impatient Under Pressure.
They seemed confident, mean
while, of defeating any effort that
might be made in the Senate to
bring labor measures to the floor by
a motion to discharge the Labor
Committee from consideration Of
any Of dozen pending bills. There
was less optimism about the situa-
ton in the House.
Mr.. Mccormack, addressing the
House yesterday on what he said was
popular misunderstanding" of the
40-hour law, obviously was seeking
to quiet the impatience with which
many legislators have approached
the question under the pressure from
constituents back home.
He apparently was speaking for
dozens of members who privately say
that many Of the protests from vot-
ers are based on these erroneous
beliefs:
That no war worker can work
more than 40 hours a week; that
charges Of "half time" production in
some plants mean four hours q day,
whereas it means IL, and. that cor
porations are making inexcusable
profits.
However, Mr.. Rayburn seemed to
run counter to Mr.. Mccormack s
arguments last night when he In
dorsed the resolution of q Texas
mass meeting calling for the 48-hour
week.
Evening star., 1942-03-24
Georgetown Deboters
Defeat Virginia U.

Georgetown University defeated
the University of Virginia debating
team last night in CASTOR Hall on
the proposition that the Federal
Government regulate by law all
labor unions in the United States.
Representing Georgetown. which
took the affirmative, were E. Paul
Hilsdale and Edward j. Callahan.
Timothy Smith and Henry Howell
took the negative for Virginia.
Judges in the debate were Justices
2. Dickinson Let's and Jesse G.
Adkins of District Court and J. G.
Hayden.
Evening star., 1942-03-24
Anton Ostmunn Services
VIII Be Held Tomorrow

Anton Ostmann, meat merchant,
died yesterday at Washington Sani-
tarium after an eight-week illness.
Born in Germany in 1861, Mr.
Ostmann came to Washington in
1880, and was engaged in the meat
business until last September when
he retired. He was a member of
st. Mary's Church. the Holy Name
Society, treasurer Of Catholic
Knights and an honorary member
OF Windthorst Club.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs.
Elizabeth Ostmann, and three sons,
Anton B., William A. and Bernard
G. Ostmann. Mr.. Ostmann made
his home in Rockville, Md.
Requiem mass will be celebrated
at $50 q IN. tomorrow at st. Mary's
Church, with burial in the church
cemetery.
Evening star., 1942-03-24
Strict Cufew Placed
On Enemy Aliens in
7 Western States
PM. to 6 AM. Order
Affects All Persons
Of japanese Ancestry
Nv tht Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, March "a
The Army issued its third public
proclamation of the war establish
ing a strict curfew today on enemy
aliens and Japanese-Americans In
seven Western States.
Effective Friday, curfew between
the hours of pm. and am. will be
established, and all enemy aliens
and persons of japanese ancestry
must be within their place Of resi-
dence during that time.
This is war measure" said 1t.
Gen. j. L. De Witt, head of the
Western Defense Command, "and I
warn that swift justice will follow
any violation.
Military necessity dictates such
action and military necessity re-
ouires strictest enforcement"
Inland Zones Included.
Persons who come under the cur
few regulations include not only
those of military area No. IA
coastal strip through Washington,
Oregon and California around to
Southern AriZona-but also those
residing in specified inland zones
in these States and in Montana,
Idaho, Nevada and Utah.
Gen. De Witt said every citizen,
as a patriotic duty, should report
without delay any violation he may
observe.
Those who fail to abide by any reg
ulation or restriction applied to
military area are liable to a $1,000
fine. one years imprisonment. or
both, and are subject to immediate
exclusion from the military area.
Final Warning to japanese.
Referring to the mass exodus Of
japanese, aliens and citizens alike,
from vital zones, Gen. De Witt said:
Let me make it perfectly clear to
all concerned that evacuation has
started and will continue until all
Japanese and --paneSe-AmericanS
are removed from the critical areas
and zones, and this as quickly as
possible.
This is a final warning to the Jap
anese and Japanese Americans
within the areas to be evacuated
that they must Immediately cease
wishful thinking that there will be
exemptions or delays of departure
until fall
Evening star., 1942-03-24
Labor
Continued From First Page.)

year. A change In that Oabor legis-
lation) would. be disturbing and We
must not disturb production
Questioned by Mas.
Asked by Representative Mas
Republican, Of Minnesota II he
thought the demands for suspen-
sion Of the 40-hour week were Hit
ler-inspired," Mr.. Nelson replied he
did not, but added:
In these days am always little
suspicious OF these movements that
seem to spring up from nowhere
II were Hitler, I would welcome
any movement that would drive a
wedge between employer and en-
ploye. We have all seen what has
happened in France"
Mr.. Nelson agreed with Repre-
sentative Mas that the original in
tent Of the 40-hour law was to dis
courage overtime employment, and
Mr.. Mas then observed that by his
opposition to changing the law at
this time Mr.. Nelson was 'in the
position Of apparently advocating
open disregard of the law"
Production Emphasized.
Mr.. Nelson denied this, asserting
my only point Of view Is one of
production. I say that while you
are changing the law it will cause
q disturbance that may interfere
with production and we can not have
that at this time"
Representative Mas declared that
he didn't think anything has done
more harm to the cause Of labor
than the public reaction to the 40
hour week. II you could read our
mail you would know this is not an
inspired movement. 1t Is the most
genuine campaign in my years In
Congress"
Mr.. Nelson replied, however, that
he believed the demand for suspen-
sion Of the 40-hour week arose from
a misunderstanding Of the problem
on the part Of the public.
Earlier. Speaker Rayburn came
out for a 48-hour work week for the
duration, with time-and-one-half
pay for employment after 48 hours.
Speaker Rayburn committed him
self on the issue for the first time
last night, and coupled his sug-
gestion for lengthening the work
week with the declaration that
double time for Sundays and holi-
days Ought to be out"
Misrepresentation Charged.
Yesterday Democratic Leader Nc
Cormack took the House floor to
say that much misinformation had
been spread about on the wage-hour
issue.
Organized labor took a similar
tack. Daniel j. Tobin, president Of
the International Brotherhood Of
Teamsters CA. F. L., declared in a
radio speech from Chicago last
night that the 40-hour week con-
troversy was "just q smoke screen,
full Of willful Misrepresentation" in
a campaign by bitter enemies OF
the organized workers" to discredit
the trade-union movement in war
time.
Meanwhile today, the Executive
Board of the C. I. o. was expected
to take some action on administra-
ton proposals that labor waive
double time for Sunday and holiday
work when those days fall within
the regular tour Of duty.
Dezpite all such counseling and
arguments against change in the
4O-hour law at this time, members
Of Congress acknowledged privately
and publicly that there has been no
slackening in the flood Of kilograms,
telephone calls and petitions from
the voters back home, demanding
action.
Because q tRss pressure, u ap-
Evening star., 1942-03-24
800 Evocuees Arrive
At Owens Valley Center

MANZANAR, Calf, March "a [F1.
Eight hundred japanese evacuees
arrived at this Owens Valley recep-
ton center at dusk and bedded
down for the night on straw-fllled
mattresses.
En- route they had come through
miles of desolate mesquite and
brush; few dying trees which had
helped make this picturesque valley
a profitable orchard section 20 years
ago.
You wait, We'll make little
heaven out of it," Japanese voice
proclaimed from the darkness.
Many of the 10000 Orientais to
be brought here from Los Angeles
within six weeks will be vegetable
farmers.
First Large-Scale Evacuation.
The 300 comprised the first large
scale evacuation of japanese from
critical areas around Los Angeles.
Five hundred came by special train.
Three hundred drove their own cars,
loaded with a few possessions, in
two-mile-lOng motorcade conveyed
by so Army cars. Because of hourly
rest stops, the 200-mile trip. part of
it through the Mojave Desert, re-
Quired II hours.
The evacueeS found a boom town
camp of 38 completed and rs par
TALLY built crude wooden barrack
buildings, thrown up in five days by
800 workmen under supervision of
the Wartime Civilian Control Ad-
ministratiop. When completed, the
center will comprise 490 buildings,
including $50 bed hospital, admin
istration building, mess halls and
laundries.
All of the Japanese were volun-
teers who had expressed a desire to
lead the exodus.
An advance group of 100 japanese
artisans who came Saturday lined
up the newcomers and checked
them in. Then the evacuees were
given blankets, comforts and castings
for mattresses, which they filled
from piles of baled straw.
The barracks were divided by
movable bulkheads into four tenta-
tive apartments, planned to accom-
modate family of four. Most of
yesterdays emigres were men who
will prepare the camp for arrival
of their families next week.
Irrigation Planned.
The site is a valley, once made
fertile through irrigation. 1t be-
came unproductive after the city of
Los Angeles bought up the land 20
years ago for a reservoir. The Army
Communicated 5000 acres from Los
Angeles for the $1,000,0O0 project.
Army engineers propose to divert
sufficient water to irrigation to make
the land arabic again. Resurrecting
the old irrigation bitches was the
first work the evacuees were as
signed as camp organization got
under way today.
There were no evidences of re-
sentiment among the emigres. Rath-
er, there was fatalistic compre-
hension of the problem facing them,
regardless of their personal patriot
ism, and hopeful determination for
the future.
You're soldiers now" japanese
women had reassured their DEPART
ing men.
Spokesman for the contingent,
editors of discontinued Los Angeles
Japanese newspapers, said many of
their people we're glad Of the chance
to move out to the valley. Many
had been unable to get work since
Pearl Harbor.
Evening star., 1942-03-24
Family Shares Estate
Of Robert H. Lake
spe cial Dispatch to The Star.

Special DlSpdtCIl W 1ue StdI
ROCKVILLE, Md, March "a
The will of Robert Howard Lake OF
Takoma Park, which has been ad-
mitted here, bequeaths $1,000 each
to his sister, Mrs. Nellie Lake Ridge
way, and brother, Fulton T. Lake,
and the residue to Mrs. Virginia
Leila Lake, his widow. The will
names Mrs. Lake executrix.
The will of Mrs. Bertha B. Daley
of Glen Echo, also admitted to pro-
bate here, leaves her entire estate
to her husband, Preston c. Daley,
and names him executor. The will
does not indicate the value of the
estate.
Evening star., 1942-03-24
Rutioninq to Be Topic

John Orr Young Of the industry
relations unit Of the War Produc-
ton Board will discuss "Rationing''
at the luncheon meeting of the
Junior Board Of Commerce at 1880
pm. Thursday at the Annapolis
Hotel.
Evening star., 1942-03-24

Have you bought any Defense
bonds this week? This month?
This year?
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Suggests Ways To Can
With Minimum OF Sugar

Most farm homemakers have
received their homecoming SUI
gar certificate, and have been al
lotted one pound of sugar for ev-
cry our quarts of finished fruit
to be put up. 'This may not sound
like enough to some people," says
Mrs. Cornelia c. Morris, Exten-
sion food conservationist of N. G.
State College, but it will suffice
if care is ued."
The Extension worker makes
the following sugar-saving sug-
gestions to home-canners:. If you
pack your fruit hot in it's own
juice, you will need much less SUI
gar than if you pack the fruit
cold, then cover it with sugar
and-water syrup. Remember, SUI
gar is not needed in canning to
keep food from spelling. But it
does help the fruit to hold color
and. flavor. BY sweetening the
fruit itself-in many cases make
it unnecessary to can any added
water.
For juicy fruits, usually it's
best to separate the ripper fruits
from those less ripe. Then you
can crush the ripper fruits, heat
them, and extract juice from
them. Pre-heat the less ripe
fruit, which you have set aside,
in this juice. Add sugar to sweet
en- slightly if necessary. Fill the
jars. Make sure there is plenty
of juice to cover the fruit. Pro-
cess in a water bath.
Certain varieties of peaches and
pears may not yield enough of
their own juice to make the can
ming liquid. You'll get more
juice from these fruits if you
slice them and add a little sugar
before you pre-cook them. If
there isn't enough juice to cover
the fruit in the cans, use syrup
to fill the jars-a syrup made
from one or more cups of sugar
to one quart of water.
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Jefferson News

Miss Mabel Little spent the
week end with her parents. Mr..
and Mrs. M. E. Little. Her broth
er, Mr.. Billie Little accompanied
her back to High Point, and is ex-
pected to spend the week there.
Miss Mary Louise Gentry spent
the week end in Charlotte visiting
friends.
Mr.. Glenn Morphew is visiting
his parents, the J. M. Morpheus
for a few days.
Miss Mamie Ellos, of High
Point, and Miss Cora Mcneil, of
North Wilkesboro, visited in jeff
erson, Friday.
MIR. w. M. Transou who has
been a patient in Memorial hos
pital, Charlotte, is reported as
improving satisfactorily.
Mr.. and Mrs. Tom McEwen
were visitors in Jefferson, Sun
day.
Mr.. L. P. Coward accompanied
his son, Parks, back to Norfolk,
Va.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. S. Baker, of
Jefferson, visited Mrs. Bakers
brother and sister-in-law, Mr..
and Mrs. Jim Blevins, of Chill
howie, Va, and found Mrs. Blew
ms much worse than they expect
ed. Mr.. Baker found his Uncle
Mr.. Wiles Plummer, of Grant,
Va, better from the stroke he had
several days ago.
Mr.. Paul Pennington, of Jeffer-
son, is leaving for Goldsboro,
where he will work in a defense
plant.
Miss Irene Morphew and broth
ers, John and Paul, spent Sunday
in Radford, Va.
Miss Sara Neal, who stays with
her grandparents. DR.. and Mrs.
Robinson, of Creston, is visiting
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Joe
Neal, of Jefferson, this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. G. Denny, of
West Jefferson, were visiting Mr..
and Mrs. J. F. Scott and Mrs.
Denny, of Jefferson, Sunday.
Mrs. H. P. Coward, of West
Jefferson was visiting friends in
Jefferson, Sunday.
Miss Ruth Jones, of Jefferson,
is visiting her grandmother, at
Konnarock, Va, this week.
Mr.. B. E. Jones, of Blackstone,
Va, is visiting his brother, Mr..
B. w. Jones, of Jefferson.
Mrs. Callie Perkins, of Jeffer-
son, is visiting relatives and
friends in Winston-Salem.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1942-06-25

Because the Japs over-ran the
lands from which we got more
than 80 percent of our rubber.
we must be very careful of the
rubber we have. One way of
making our stock of crude rub
Der last as long as possible is to
mix the crude with a percentage
of reclaimed rubber made from
scrap. This produces rubber up
to Army standards-five old tires
or 30 hot water bottles or four
teen 2O-foot lengths of garden
hose will supply the amount of
reclaimed rubber used in the rub
Der parts of 81 MN gun car
riage. And the reclaimed rubber
used in flying fortress could be
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1942-06-25
Lansing Boy Is
Supply Pastor
AT Paperville, Tenn, Church;
Graduates Next Year
From King College


Denver Blevins, of Lansing, has
accepted the call to become SUD-
ply pastor of the Presbyterian
church of Paperville, Tennessee.
Blevins was born and reared in
Ashe county, son of the late En-
nice Blevins. He is graduate of
Lansing high school and Presby-
terrain Jr. college, of Maxton, N. c.
lie IS now a rising senior at King
college, Bristol, Tenn. After his
graduation next year, he plans to
enter Union Theological Semin-
airy, at Richmond, Va. Blevins
mas been a candidate for the
ministry under the care of Wins
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1942-06-25
ON THE RANGE

Shortly after arriving at an in
fantry-replacement training cen
tire like Camp Forrest, Tennessee
(the one I arrived at several
months ago., the novice soldier,
upon complaining to some COM
parative veteran about the ardu-
Gus nature of his duties, is bound
TO be told, often with malicious
glee, "Wait till you 60 on the riff
lie range"
While faiting, the apprentice
sends a deluge of letters home,
limiting that for a week in the
near future the family must not
expect to receive more than a
scrubbed post card or two from
his Heretofore prolific pen. "Tll
be on the range" he writes terse-
~, being unable to supply any de-
tails and no doubt causing his al
ready nervous mother to suspect
that her boy is about to have his
fondly remembered head blown
off. One army mother I heard OF,
evidently under the impression
that her son was about to matri-
culate in the American counter
part of Heidelberg, wrote him that
If he did have to shoot it out with
his buddies on the range, she sim
cerely hoped he would choose a
duelling partner with whom he
could work out some mutually life
prolonging agreement.
Actually, of course, my buddies
and I did not shoot at each other
on the rifle range, and the point
ing, even in fun, of weapons,
loaded or unloaded, at comrade
IS held to be in bad taste and is a
punishable action. Every infan-
tryman in training eventually
goes on the range, and the most
irksome aspect of the experience
is that it involves considerable
hiking and leaves little time free
Tor correspondence, movies, beer,
and other interests of negligible
military Importance.
At Camp Forrest, we have been
taught to fire a variety of wea-
pons, the most important being
the Garand, or MI rifle. We fir
ed 120 rounds of 30-calibre am
munition with our Mis-, 70 for
practice and so for an official
record of our skill that was add
ed to the statistical reports which
pursue us through our military
careers. If, out of a possible ESQ
points, man gets 220, he quail
fies as an expert and is entitled
to purchase medal showing how
good he is. A score of 207 makes
him sharpshooter, 165 makes
him a marksman, and anything
less makes him the despair of his
commanding officers.
Just My Luck!
Funny thing On my practice
fire I chalked up score of ZIG,
practically qualifying as an ex-
pert and receiving the plaudits of
all and sundry. Then, when we
began firing for record, my gun
damned on me and I dismantled
the hopes of all my comrades by
barely managing to qualify as a
marksman.
Before going on the MI range
we devoted a week or so to what
formally inscribed in our training
schedule as preliminary Rifle
Workmanship" Our instructors
in this subject proceeded cautious
1y, on the excellent assumption
that some of us hadn't the faint
est notion of how to fire a poten-
tally harmless weapon. Accord
ingly, they demonstrated to us
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1942-06-25

Clifton Tomlinson, assistant
farm agent in Wilson county, says
small grain yields are lightly I'M
der last year due to shortages of
materials with which to top
dress grains in the spring.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1942-06-25

supplied by 20 tires or 800 hot
water bottles or Sc 20-foot lengths
of hose. Guns and bombers will
win the war. Help hurry them
off the production line by taking
your scrap rubber collection to
the nearest filling station-Now!
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1942-06-25

Don't be a "jackrabbit driver"
by swooping ahead as soon as the
light turns green-this may waste
one gallon of gas out of every
four,
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1942-06-25

REV. RENUS E. RICH, e.
Evangelist, singer, music teach
er and preacher, of Burke
County, is now working with
Rev. Harvey Phillips, of this
county, and will assist Rev.
Mr.. Phillips at Jefferson in
his next revival, which will
begin June 18th. The tent will
be located on the lot between
the school buildings and the
cemetery. All gospel singers
and church people of all de-
nominations are cordially in
vited to attend and partici-
pate in the services.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1942-06-25

Treatments recommended by
Howard Garriss, Extension plant
pathologist of State college, were
100 percent effective in control
ling small grain diseases on the
farm of Larry Pate in Craven
county, says R. M. Williams, as
sistant county agent.
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ton-Salem Presbytery for the past
three years.