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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1942-04-23
lalf. Still no captain.

half. Still no captain.
Hundreds of men piled into
the division mess halls, ate their
evening meals, and returned to
their barracks. Our little group
was so hungry, any one of us
could have eaten a real live
horse and felt none the worse. It
was getting dark and colder, and
for a few hunks on which to
catch little shut-eye, we would
gladly have volunteered, en- masse,
for the parachute battalion.
We Eat
If young lieutenant had not
let his curiosity get the best of
him, if he had not grown weary
of watching us SILVER out his Of
flee window, I sometimes wonder
just what would have happened
; to us eventually. This young Of
ficer listened to our predicament
like a mother. He knew nothing
about the outfit which expected
us, and phone call to the colon
els office did not enlighten him,
but he ushered us across the
street to one of the mess halls
for the best meal we had had
since our induction into the ar
my.
After mess-what a meal that
Was!-our good samaritan in
formed us that the 129th infan-
try was expected 1900 new men.
THAT" he said, "must be your
outfit"
Well! We were already feeling
pretty low, but when we heard
that we were going to be put into
the blankety-blank infantry
we'll, that was the last straw.
One man voiced the sentiments
of all when he protested thus:
Sir, you've got us all wrong.
We're supposed to go to the
quartermaster corps"
'That may be- he said, "but
you'll spend tonight with the in
fantry."
Spend the night with the infan~
try? Ha! Like the man who
came to dinner and stayed two
months. Our little group has
been in the infantry nearly two
months now. If we get out in
three years and six months, the
chances are the war will be over.
But if it isn't hoping for too
much, sometime we'd like to find
out what actually did happen to
that little Fort Bragg captain.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1942-04-23
49,
SPIRITUAL DEFENCE
MESSAGE


These messages are for the
comfort and strength of the peO-
pie of Ashe County, written by
the ministers on the Spiritual De-
Tense Committee. Look for them
every week.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1942-04-23

Kapok, tropical floss used in
life-preservers, pillows, and heat
insulating covers, cen have it's
war losses partly made good by
substitution of milkweed down,
a similar substance.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1942-04-23

(This is the fourth of a series
of articles on the army life by
Ray LCwery, former editor of
The News, who is now a private
in the United States army and
stationed at Camp Forrest, Tenn
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1942-04-23

Danger turks about, above them,
Meath. them, as they sail the
deep. - -
~
So1dier-laden transport creepi
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-11-25
BY KENNETH L. DIXON

WASHINGTON, Nov. 25-R)
- Details of campaign to ex-
terminate all Jews in Nazi-oc-
cupied Europe by the end of the
year are to be laid before a
committee of leading Jewish or
CARNATIONS today in New York.
The story repeatedly con-
firmed by the State Department
and a personal representative of
President Roosevelt-deals with
how more than 100000 Jews
already have been slaughteds in
accordance with a race EXITING
ton order by Adolf Hitler.
Before leaving for New York
to address the committee this af-
ternoon, DR.. Stephen S. Wise,
chairman of the World Jewish
Congress and president of the
American Jewish Congress, said
he carried official documentary
proof that Hitler has ordered
the determination of all Jews in
Nazi-ruled Europe in 1912"
EALE ALREADY DEAD
After consultation with
State Department officials, he
announced they had termed au-
thentic certain sources which re-
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-11-25
Sfassen Asserts
Farms are War
Plants Too

ST. PAUL, Nov. Is (P) -
Farms are war plants too.
Acting on that premise, Gov
ernor Harold E. Stassen has laid
the groundwork in Minnesota
for system of awards he hopes
will be adopted nationally.
His thought. he said, is not
only to recognize the home
front achievements of individual
farms and farmers, but to en-
courage them to carry out their
tasks in the face of such OBJ
stacles as growing shortage of
farm help.
Future demands for food
will be tremendous, Governor
Stassen told a group of men
called together to consider his
award plan. LAS we take addi-
tional territory in Africa, we
will have to feed more people.
LAS we 60 into what is now
occupied France and into China,
there will be new demands on
the agricultural areas of Min
nesota. We must not and cannot
fail to produce essential foods.
AS he outlined his plan to ag-
ricultural leaders and repre-
sentatives of the press and radio,
the awards could be comparable
to the Army-Navy "E" awarded
to industrial plants. Outstanding
farmers would be given pen
nants to fly over their farms
and members of their house
holds and their employees special
badges to wear.
Awarding of the insignia, now
is the process of selection, would
be in the hands of Victor Christ
gau, administrator of Mime
sofas little manpower" COM
mission, with the aid of town.
ship boards, AAA committees
and extension agents.
Insignia under consideration
would be bull. around an "a"
for agriculture or an IN" for
Minnesota.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-11-25
Wilde Assured
friendly Audience

TORONTO. Nov. Is - R -
Wendell willkie has been as
sured "a friendly audience"
when he addresses a Canadian
air-to- Russian-fund meeting to-
night in Maple Leafs Gardens.
Tentative plans for civic
reception were dropped after he
criticized Prime Minist r
Churchill's statement that 1--WE
mean to hold our own /
have not become the Kings first
minister to preside over the
liquidation of the British en-
pire." Willkie told the New
York Herald Tribune forum last
week that Churchill's remark
had shocked the world.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-11-25
Begin Welfare Reorganization
on Basis of Kelso Report
BoIenee Proposals with Economy
Prosrom Proposed by Experts

sion action on the Kelso and
Civil Service reports showed the
Commission adopted ii kelsos
recommendations and delayed a
vote on two others. 1t approved
six of the Civil Service pro-
posals, delayed action on two,
rejected eight and said three
others already had been placed
in effect.
In seven instances, where kcl-
SOS recommendations opposed
those of Civil Service, the Com
mission sided with Kelso.
Kelso was chosen by Cover
nor Van Wagner last summer
to study reorganization of the
States welfare set-up. The Civil
Service Agency undertook its
survey last Spring as one OF a
number of economy" studies OF
all State departments. Its first
report was rejected completely
by the Commission and with
drawn on the grounds it was SUI
perficial. A second report was
filed in August.
The Commission again endorS-
ed a plan to place all child well
fare functions under its jurisdic-
ton, including the activities of
the Juvenile Institute Commits
sion, and proposed to integrate
child welfare services in the
counties, using local employees
with half the cost to be paid by
the State
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-11-25
Court Upho|ds
Convictions
Wayne OffieioIs
Nay Ask Re-Heoring

LANSING, Nov. 25 - (P) -
The supreme court Tuesday up
held the conviction of Duncan
c. McCrea, former Wayne
county prosecutor, and Thomas
c. Wilcox, the county's former
sheriff, on charges they con-
spired to reap a golden harvest
of graft from gamblers, prosti-
tutes and other underworld
characters.
The decision means the two,
and eight others whose convic-
tons also were affirmed, have
20 days in which to seek a re-
hearing or enter prison to serve
their sentences.
Specifically they were con-
victed in the Wayne county cir
cult court of conspiracy to OBJ
struct justice, and McCrea and
Wilcox sentenced to AZ to S
years in prison.
The court employed a 50-page
opinion in the case of McCrea,
shorter ones for Wilcox and the
other eight. They are Alfred J..
Garska, former Crosse Pointe
village president and handbook
operator, and Bertha Chg Ber-
thai Malone, bawdyhouse op-
orator, sentenced to Az to S
years each; Ben Lansberg, for
mer Inkster police chief, Louis
Elliott and Clyde Stambaugh,
handbook operators, one to five
years each; Carl Staebler, for
mer deputy sheriff convicted of
collecting brides for himself and
his superiors, three to five years;
Angelo Scaduto, one to five
years for paying brides for pro
lection" of the bawdyhouse Of
Diamond Lii" his wife; and
Eddie Way, down river gambler,
two to five years for serving as
collector of protection from
houses of prostitution, gambling
places and other illegal bust
nesses."
The cases are an outgrowth
of one-man grand jury investi-
cations by Circuit Judge Homer
Furguson of Detroit.
The opinion reviewed at
length testimony which, it said,
showed illicit enterprises paid
S25 to 5000 a month to law en-
forcement officers, of which
100000 found its way to
McCrea.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-11-25

LANSING, Nov. IS - up -
The State Social Welfare Com
mission set out today on a sub
stantial administrative reorgan-
ization, leaning heavily on rec
concentrations made by DR.. Ro-
bert w. Kelso of the University
of Michigan and rejecting many
proposals made by the State
Civil Service Department.
The Social Welfare Commits
sion yesterday balanced reor-
ganization reco lamentations
made by Kelso and an "econo-
my" program proposed by the
Civil Service experts and look
ed with favor on Kelso's report
for the most part.
Its action prompted specula-
ton of a renewed legislative
fight over indignation of the now
separate Welfare and Social Sc
curity Bureaus of the welfare
agency, a enforcement fostered
by rural supervisor forces and
fought by social workers.
The Commission recommend
ed to the legislature it permit in
tegration of the two divisions
under one executive and eau
tiously suggested to the counties
they might save operating funds
if they did likewise.
Commissioner Carlton H.
Runciman of Lowell. generally
considered the spokesman of ru-
raj interests on the commission,
alone voted against indignation.
A tabulatiOn of the commits
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-11-25
Warren All Youth
Gets Garden Award
500 Scholarship
Won by Collins

Glen Collin, of the Warren
Willing Workers All Club, has
been named a national winner
in the Garden Contest and will
be awarded trip to the Nation
al Club Congress at Chicago,
November 20 to December 2,
and scholarship for $4,000.
Glen started in garden club
work at the age of ten in the
summer of 1888. He has since
completed eight years of the
garden project; seven years of
handicraft; two years of the
goat project; two years of hot
lunch; and one year of outdoor
cooking. Glen received many
honors throughout the years and
was named to represent the
county at Club Week in the
summer Of 1896.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-11-25

Slaughter of All European Jews by End of the Year

vealed that approximately half
of the estimated 100000 Jews
in Nazi-occupied Europe al
ready had been killed and that
Hitler was wrathful at failure
to complete the determination
Immediately"
To speed the slaughter of the
other half during the remaining
month before the edict's dead
line, DR.. Wise said the Nazis
were moving some four-fifths of
the Jews in Hitler-ruled Euro
pean countries to Poland. There,
he said Nazi doctors were killing
them at the rate of more than
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-11-25
Court Grants
Seven Divorces
IA Resoin
Single Stotus

Seven divorces were granted
this week by Circuit Judge
James E. Spier.
Martin Graul, Fraser, won a
decree from his wife, Elsie,
when he charged she ragged
him about money matters. They
married in 1928. separated in
1891.
William E. Gabriel, of Rose
ville,' testified his wife, Emma,
left him in Germany in 1923
only a week after they married.
He won a decree when he told
the judge she refused to come to
the United States.
Louise Saum, of Van Dyke,
charged non-support in winning
a divorce from Floyd. They
married in 1927, separated in
1880.
Anna Barouski, Utica, was
awarded a decree from Walter
when she charged he was fire.
quently drunk. They married in
1887, separated five years la
ter.
Mrs. Madeleine Martin, of
Mount Clemens, charged non
support in winning a decree
from Charles. They married in
1887. separated five years later.
Mrs. Aileen Worden, Center
Line, said that husband Morri-
son preferred other women in
winning a decree. They separa-
ted in 1912, 10 years after the
wedding.
Mrs. Adeline Babcock, of Van
Dyke, won a decree from Claude
who, she said, failed to support
her. They married in 1924 and
separated in 1898.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-11-25

Gently returned from Europe" "
had confirmed other stories and
told him that 1.-The worst you
thought is true"
Whether details of the grue-
some campaign will be revealed
publicly will be decided by the
committee, DR.. Wise, said, ad-
ding that any contemplated ac-
ton will be announced after to-
days meeting.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-11-25
Business Suspends
in State CapitaI

LANSING, Nov. Is - (P) -
Business will suspend in the cap
itol tomorrow for the Thanks
giving holiday. Governor Van
Wagner said it would be up to
departmental heads to decide
whether their divisions should
function as usual on Friday or
give a number of their employees
a protracted week end holiday.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-11-25

100 men an hour, per doctor, "
by injecting air bubbles into
their veiis-"the simplest and
cheapest method" they could
find.
DR.. Wise, who heads the COM
mittee, asserted that already the
Jewish population of Warsaw
had been reduced from 500, 1000
to about 100000.
SKILLED ALONE SAVED
(The Polish government-in-
exile reported in London yes
tcrday that Heinrich Himmler,
Nazi Gestapo chief, had ordered
the determination of one-half of
tire Jewish population of Poland
by the end of this year and that
100000 had been killed through
September under the program.
Only 10000 Jews - skilled
workers in the German war in
dustry-are to remain in the
Warsaw ghetto, the government
scid).
In addition TO the State De-
partment which he said had pro-
viGed the documentary proof of
previous rumors and reports,
the chairman said a represent
alive of President Roosevelt, re-
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-11-25
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All!VEcE IABlE
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9 In Mr. (Nature's Remedy Tablets.
there are no chemicals. no minerals, no
phenol derivatives. Mr. Tablets are diff.
ferent - act different. Purely sssstobh
"a combination of 10 vegetable ingre'
dents formulated over SO years ago.
Uncoated or candy coated. their action
is dependable, thorough. yet gentle. a
millions of mrs have proved. Get q 25t
box today n. or larger economy size.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-11-25

Worn or dirty spark plugs
can waste as much as 1919
of your gasoline.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-04-09

at the prevailing market price.
IF these efforts fail, we are in
formed that an order will be is
sued to requisition. When this hap
pens, the dealers filing the appli-
cation to requisitiCn will be per-
mitted by the government to de-
duct from the market price the cost
of hauling both from the scrap
piles to the dealers yard, and also
the freight cost to Los Angeles
The dealer also will be allowed a
fair price for handling
Naliboff said owners selling vol
UNFAIRLY will realize more for thelI
scrap, because these charges are
not levied On regular purchases
He said that there is enough
scrap in the valley to build l44
medium tanks, one light cruiser OF
100000 automatic rifles. OF the
huge stores of the metal lying idle
here, he said, "one large corpora
ton owns 10000 tons"
Imperial Valley press., 1942-04-09
Foe MisinforIred,
Fawceft Declares
In City Campaign
COuncilman-Candidate
Answers Irving Thru
Quiz Method Here

Councilman H. w. Faw-
cett Thursday repudiated
charges by Chester A. Irving,
his opponent in the Ell Centre
city election, of dominating
all other members of the council
and made the counter-charge that
Irving either has been grossly mis-
informed, or has not taken the
trouble to ascertain the facts"
Irving had charged Fawcett with
dereliction of duty in connection
with the thefts two years ago of
water department funds, which he
said occurred right under FaWcett's
nose during the time he was water
commissioner"
Fawcett replied to this in the
Neal Gavin supplying the answers
from the council minutes. The quiz
FaWcett - Mr.. Irving says the
thefts amounted to $65 200. Do youl
records show this to be the amount?'
Cavin-"No. And I don't know
what the amount was"
FaWcett-"I say it was $4,000"
He then asked Gavin if it was
true that the minutes showed that
Fawcett was NOT the water COM
missioner during the two year per-
iod, 1938-40, when the thefts were
said to have occurred.
Cavin-"The minutes of April 90
Continued on Page 2, Col. So
Imperial Valley press., 1942-04-09

VI CdlcNlCO dC O pill. l. lue
Hundreds of American and MeXi-
can school children marched III the
international parade Thursday af-
ternoon in a colorful display OF
themes beloved by children every
where.
Fridays program will begin with
a rancheria breakfast in the MeXi
can Village from 7 am. to 9 am.
Desert tours, horseback rides over
the longest bride path in the World
and tours of MeXicali will continue
until noon luncheon in the village
AT IL am. the Rev. Bishop Char
les F. Buddy will dedicate the Des
ert Cavalcade museum site in Ca
leXico and at 2 pm. dedicate the
De ANA monument on the rim OF
the Yuha basin.
The Roads to Romance aSSocia-
ton dinner will take place in the
De ANA hotel at pm. The as
sociation will be joined by members
of the Imperial Highway asso-
ciation, the Southwest Express
association, and residents of I'M
perial Valley. B. M. Graham, chair
man of the board of supervisors
will preside and Ted Higgins of
San Francisco will speak. The pag-
cant will take place at 8 pm.
Continued on Page 2, Col g. a.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-04-09

Reports from Norway indicated
that nothing that has happened
since the Quislingites helped the
German army conquer Norway has
aroused the population as much as
Quisling's persecution of the church
and the clergy. Every Protestant
clergyman had resigned in protest
and it was understood that hundreds
of lawyers and physicians have re-
fused to practice.
A Norwegian government Spokes-
man here said the church crisis had
done more to weld the home front
than anything we could have done. y
A secret leaflet was circulated
in Norway in support of the bishops
and clergymen, who planned to
function as free pastors" and who
may attempt to use the churches for
services, despite their designations.
1.-The Norwegian people looks with
admiration to its bishops and pas
tors and is grateful to them that
they are so courageous and are
accomplishing their duties while
bIlCy WduSll OFSl ChCA ViihiS tAi1o At'
sacred to U.s." the leaflet was quoted
here. I'm this battle for truth and
Justice the Norwegian people stands
entirely on the side of its bishops
and pastors. 1t is a deadly battle
between Christians and barbarians
I'VE have fought with all our
power during two years, but we have
had to limit ourselves to defense
Now we will attack 9. The battle
of Norways church is Norway's bat
tie. For the beginning it will be an
underground battle. But this battle
will bring light into Norway. Then
we will all leave our hiding places.
We will 60 into battle. We will re-
construct our fatherland according
to our wishes. Spring is coming!"
The Norwegian governments in
telligence department disclosed thai
Quisling had empowered laymen
to replace the resigned clergymen
and said it was the first time in
history inexperienced persons have
been permitted to wear church raj
ment."
Imperial Valley press., 1942-04-09
'Scrap' Seizure
Foreseen i'm v.

Thousands of tCns of scrap iron
now withheld from the market by
Imperial Valley farmers and cor
poraticns may be requiSitioned by
the government if efforts to OBJ
tain the sorely needed metal thru
regular trade channels fail, it was
learned Thursday.
Scrap Dealer Sam Naliboff said
he had received word from war
production officials that orders
empowering any licensed dealer to
file requisition papers against
owners cf scrap piles may be ex-
pected momentarily.
I'VE know that tbout 35 farm
ers in the valley are holding no
less than 1900 tons of metal, which
they have been reluctant to re-
lease. The government has called
upCn the dealers to contact these
owners and offer to buy the scrap
Imperial Valley press., 1942-04-09


Secretary of War Henry l.. Stim-
son, who disclosed for the first
time the number and plight of the
brave Bataan defenders, was un-
able to say how many of the 36,-
853 Yanks and Filipinos would be
in each of the categorieS of cas-
ualties-killed, captured or wound
ed.
He said every effort was being
made to get as many Of them as
possible to Corregidor and other
American fortresses that still hold
out in Manila Bay. But it appear
ed doubtful that any substantial
number could be evacuated.
Stimson, who had just conferred
with President Roosevelt, said in
addition to the U. S.-Filipino troops
on bloody Bataan there were
some 10000 civilian refugees there.
They had fled to Bataan at the
time of the Japanese occupation OF
Manila. Their presence made the
food situation more critical and
handicapped the defenders.
LINES BROKEN
Cur troops, out-numbered, worn
down by attack, exhausted by in
sufficient rations and disease pre-
vailing in that area, had their
lines broken and enveloped by the
enemy" Stimson said.
Our defenses on Bataan have
been overthrown. Corregidor is
still fighting.
"A long and gallant defense has
been worn down and overthrown.
There is nothing but praise for
the men who have so ably con-
Quoted an epic chapter in the his
tory of the Philippines"
AS President Roosevelt and Gen.
Douglas Macarthur before him,
Stimson pledged that the United
States would win back the Philip
pines frcm the japanese and re-
store independence to the Filipino
people who had acquitted them
selves so gallantly in the hope
less fight.
The secretary disclosed that only
yesterday President Roosevelt had
messaged Lieut.. Gen. Jonathan M.
Wainwright, the American Philip
pines commander, that he would
leave to him any decisions to be
made regarding the battle.
FULL POWER
This was taken tc mean that Mr.
Roosevelt had empowered Vain
Continued on Page 2, Col. ~
Imperial Valley press., 1942-04-09
Defense Council
Setup Criticized

SACRAMENTO, April 9. CUP)--
ROLAND Vendegrift, Legislative audi
tor in report to an interim budget
committee, today criticized organi-
zation of the state council of de-
fense and the Olson administration
handling of the state guard prob
lem.
Vandegrift declared that organ
ization of the defense council las
functioning body is just getting
underway" He also said the or
ganization was getting the reputa-
ton of a little SRA" explaining
afterwards he meant that apparent
ly unnecessary administrative posi-
tions were being created.
He declared that civilian members
of the advisory defense council were
being discouraged from taking ac-
tive part in its affairs through
infrequent meetings and failure to
allow travelling expenses to attend
meetings.