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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-08-13
Bonded Indebt-
edness Down;
State Tax Less
Gov. Look ing To Further
Reduction In Debt
And No Tax

At the close of the States fiscal
year on June 80, Maryland's bonded
Indebtedness had been reduced to
$33,619,OOO.00, Governor Herbert
r. O'Conor made known. This Is In
contrast to the total bonded indebt-
edness Of S48,157, 100000 on January
II, 1899, when the Governor assum-
ed office.
This net reductios of $14,538, 00.-
90 in the amount of the debt was
due In part, the Governor declared,
to the porlicy adopted by the Board
of Public Works following the out
break of the war of deferring CAPT
tai expenditures, unless they were
absolutely vital, In order not to i'm
pede needed war construction.
The total bonds issued during the
four and one-half year period, Cover
nor O'Conor made known, amounted
to $6,596,0OO.00, against total bonds
redeemed of $21, 100000 in this
period. The $6,596,OOO.OO total is
sued during the four and one-half
years was far below the total issues
of $19, 10000 in the years 1896
3s, and $14,382,OOO.OO in the years
1931-34, the Governor pointed out.
Limitation of new bond issues for
capital improvements to an absolute
minimum of requirements has been
his policy since the earliest days of
his Administration, the Governor
nd 90
his hope that the States bonded in
debtedness may be reduced to point
where real estate taxes can be elm
mated entirely. A long step towards
accomplishing this has been taken
already, he said, in the reduction of
the real estate tax from 23.35c per
took Office to the current rate of
12c, the lowest in more than 80
years.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-08-13
Want Better Law
Enforcement

The Cecil Democrat reports large
number of citizens of Elkton met
with the Town Council Wednesday
night, outlining plans for better law
enforcement and to curb lawlessness,
which the citizens claim has been
rampant for some time past due to
war conditions.
Among things suggested was a
curfew law DUE to the influx of
many hundreds of people into Elk
ton, due to defense PLANTS near town,
the town authorities have found that
it has become almost impossible to
maintain the same kind of order that
prevailed in the past.
Indecent dressing by some women
was one of the things, gno'esiainad
about Sz---s
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-08-13
Army Specialized
Training Program

In the first group of soldiers as
signed to the University of Illinois
for the Army Specialized Training
Program, is Lawrence Virgins, Co
lora. Institutional activities of the
ASTP at Illinois began July IL. The
men are under military discipline at
all times. Basic instruction is given
in mathematics, physics, chemistry
English. history, geography, physical
education, and military subjects
This basic work occupies three ~
week periods and is the foundation
for later specialized training.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-08-13
Fathers To Go I
In Draft By I
October 1st
Will Be Called Into Ser.
vice According To
Selective Number

The drafting of fathers into the
armed services is definitely scheduled
to begin on October /, Paul v. Nc
Mutt, Chairman OF the War Man
power Commission, announced Mon
day
A directive to accomplish this IL
going out to local draft boards from
MAJ. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, selec-
tive service director. The directive
orders local boards to begin the re-
classification of fathers of 18 to 81
years old, inclusive, with children
born before September Is, 1942, SO
as to make them available for induc-
ton after October /.
Fathers will be called into service
according to their selective service
order numbers, without distinction
regarding the number or ages Of
their dependent children, one of the
provisions of the directive says.
But the new order provides that
where induction would cause extreme
hardship and privation in families,
deferment is to be given.
Prior to the issuance of the direc-
tive, the general policy Of selective
service has been that fathers will,
children born before September ID,
1912, were deferred and not avail
able for military service. Deferment
was not granted, however, to fathers
who had transferred from essential
agriculture to another activity with
out permission of their local boards,
or were engaged in non-deferrable
activity or occupation.
The directive also provides that
fathers are to be drafted only in such
MUM bers as is absolutely required by
a local board to meet a monthly call
from the armed forces that cannot
be filled from men, other than faith
ers, who are not eligible for occupa-
tional deferment.
Deferment of male parents who
are. CLASSIFIED as key men" In agfi-
culture or essential industry will be
continued, the order specifies.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-08-13
1904 Elkton Houses

Milton Fischer, regional repre-
sentative of the National Housing
Agency, announces that approximate
ly 1904 war housing units, of all
types, have been completed in Elk
ton.
On June l last, some 1867 addi-
tional units were under construction
and 90 more are scheduled under the
MAS program for the area. Upon
completion of this program, total
of 2670 units will have been provided
to house workers in the war indus
tries of Elkton. These accomoda-
lions include both privately financed
and publicly financed war housing
construction.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-08-13
EASTERN SHORE
HARDEST HIT
In DROUGHT

Maryland crop failures due to the
drought will run into millions of dol
lars with the Eastern Shore bearing
the brunt of the loss in perishable
market and cannery crops, state
wide survey indicates.
Some Eastern Shore cannerise are
reported to have Cancelled their con-
tracts because of the inability to get
vegetables due to the shortage.
Sugar corn and beans, both snap
and limas, have been the hardest hit
In the states producing areas, ac-
cording to reports, with tomatoes
trailing close behind.
Caroline County reports indicate
that half the sweet corn crop on
more than 1000 acres is gone.
r. s. Brown, University of Mary
land, county agricultural agent for
Talbot county, estimated that the
drought has cut the sugar corn and
tomato crops in half. Talbot has
around 5000 acres planted In toma-
toes and another 5000 In sugar
corn.
Wicomico county farmers have
lost 75percent of their bean crop
and about rs percent Of their toma-
to crop, according to James Brown,
Wicomico county agent. The county
has about 1890 acres planted in to-
matoes and 5000 planted in beans.
The situation due to the drought
is daily getting worse in Somerset
County, G. 2. Keller reported.
Somerset county has about $500
acres in snap beans and TOO to 500
acres in lima beans.
The sweet potato crop Is Worces-
ter County already is off an estima-
ted rs percent, according to Robert
Grant, county agent. Worcester also
is heavy producer of tomatoes, with
$500 acres planted.
The report from Cecil county can
ners Is that this immediate vicinity
has suffered less from the drought
than the lower Eastern Shore, and
sections of Western Maryland.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-08-13
Helbig--Williams

& The wedding of Miss Florence Il.
Helbig, daughter of Mrs. Irene G.
Helbig of Wilmington, and Ensign
Franklin T. Williams, Jr., son of Mr..
and Mrs. Franklin T. Williams OF
Elkton, is announced to take place
on August IA, in Asbury Methodist
church, Wilmington, with the Rev
John A. Clark, pastor of the church,
!ofiiciating. Miss Helbig is graduate
of the Wilmington High School and
Of Beacon College and is employed
at the New Castle Army Air Base
Ensign Williams is a graduate OF
North East High School and attend
ed Goldey College. He is now station.
ed at Camp LeJeune, New River
IN. C.,
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-08-13
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL MENTION

Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Flabbi enter
tanned Friday afternoon in honor OF
the birthdays of their daughters,
Elizabeth, nine years old and Joan,
three years old, both birthdays COM
ing early in August. Among those
present were Donald and Bobbie
Flabbi, Baltimore; Wayne Smith and
mother, Katherine, Nancy and Sam
mic McMullen, Mrs. Granville Riley
and daughter, Helen Ann, Marian
and Marie Flabbi
Mr.. and Mrs. Algernon Carter of
Queenstown Md; Mr.. Frank Price,
Church Hill, Md; Mr.. Bryan Price
and son, Chestertows, Md; and Mr..
William Price of Newark, N. j., were
recent visitors with Mr.. and Mrs.
Howard Wilson.
Corp. Michael Rutkowski, of Camp
Attabury, Indiana, has been spend
ing seven-day furlough at his home
here. Corp. mike" has received his
diploma as an Army cook.
1t. q. 60 and Mrs. Robert Fehr
are visiting at the home of his grand
parents and mother, Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles s. Pyle and Mrs. Marian
Fehr.
DR.. and Mrs. r. c. Dodson and
son, Richard, were Friday-Sunday
visitors of Rev. J. B. Dickerson and
family Of Cambridge, Md.
Sgt. Samuel F. Keim, Pine Castle
Army Air Base, Orlando, Fla, is Wis
iting his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Sam
uel Keim.
Mrs. Maude Vannort, Whining
ton, Del, was the weekend guest of
Mr.. and Mrs. Denman Garrison.
Billy Wilson, U. s. NJ, has been
visiting his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Il. G. Wilson. Sr.
Miss Louise Worthington is visit
ing Mr.. and Mrs. Linn Worthington,
Baltimore.
! Mrs. Arthur Tosh, Elizabeth, NJ
j., is the guest of Mrs. Clyde Keil.
holtx.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Crotheri
spent the weekend in New Yorz
City
Barclay Reynolds Is spending the
week with friends at Randallstown|
Maryland,
Miss Helen litter, Of Chesapeake
City. visited Miss Francis Taylor q
Conowingo. over the Weekend.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-08-13
Two Killed In Crash

The wife and infant son of New
Jersey Army officer were killed Tues
day of last week, when their car
crashed into a parked truck near
North East
The victims were Mrs. Irene Fin
negan, wife of Second Lieutenant
John B. Finnegan, of New Bruins
wick, New Jersey, and the couples
11-week-old son. Lieutenant Finne-
gan was treated at the cambridge
Naval Training Station Hospital for
minor injuries.
DR.. r. c. Dodson, Cecil County
medical examiner, and State Trooper
Leander H. Thomas investigated the
accident.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-08-13

William Thomas Ramsey s &c,
who received his basic training at
the Naval Training Station, Balm
bridge, Md, recently enjoyed nine
day leave at his home in West Not
tingham. On his return to the base
he was chosen to attend Storekeeper
School and is now at the Naval Ser
vice School, Newport, Rhode Island.
Mrs. Josephine Ramsey, his wife,
left this week for Newport to be with
her husband.
The Beginners and Primary De-
partments of the Methodist Sunday
School enjoyed an afternoon picnic
on the lawn at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. William M. Pogue, Tuesday,
August 10th. The annual picnic of
the entire Sunday School has been
dispensed with this summer on ac-
count of war conditions.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. r. Bicking and
son Dick have returned from Bran
DIVINE Camp Meeting, where Mr..
Bicking was in charge the last two
weeks.
Mr.. and Mrs. Francis M. Kenard
entertained number of friends Of
their son, Robert, Thursday night
in honor of his ninth birthday.
Mrs. Rebecca knight, Philadel-
phia, is visiting Mr.. and Mrs. John
John Fassitt, and sister Miss Lor-
raine Fassitt.
Mrs. Henry Townsend and daugh-
ter, PAMELA, of Willow Grove, Pa,
were visitors of Mr.. and Mrs. Clar-
ence Ashby during the week.
Mrs. A. M. Tosh, of Elizabeth, New
Jersey, visited relatives and friends
in and near Rising Sum. the past
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Basil Reynolds.
Drexel Hill, Pa, were guests last
week OF Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Law
renee.
Mrs. Mahlon Hanna, China Grove,
N. c.. is the guest Of Mr.. and Mrs,
James J. Hanna.
| Lloyd G.. Clifford. ANN &c, Navy
Pier. Chicago, ILL.,, ia spending ten
day furlough at the home Of his faith
er. Mr.. John Clifford. Pennington
| Mrs. Gertrude Donahue, Birming-
ham. Alabama. is visiting Mrs. steph.
enson.
Cecil B, Cummings 10 Q patient In
Union Hospital. Elkton. He has beer
in failing health for months past,
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-08-13
Fined For Theft Of
Beer Bottles

Charged with larceny of several
crates of empty beer bottles from
Cottage Inn. owned and operated by
Henry L. Scneiders, located along
the Elkton-North East Road. Daniel
Harris and John w. Harris. brothers,
Doth from Baltimore, but employed
in this county for some time past
were brought before Magistrate
James Weinroth Of Elkton and each
adjudged guilty
A fine Of $25 and costs was i'm
posed puon each one Of the accused
The fine was paid at once,
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-08-13
ROdney--Titter

y Private Richard litter, Camp
Blanding, Florida, and Miss Eliza
beth M. Rodney, daughter of MI.
James Rodney and the late Mrs. Rod
.ney, were married Monday evening,
August 2, in Wilmington, at the
home of the brides brother-in-law
and sister, Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Kes-
.terlake. Mr.. litter is the SON of Mr..
and Mrs. Geo. litter of Chesapeake
City. Private litter returned to his
post on Wednesday. The bride Is en-
ployed at the Aberdeen Proving
Ground.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-08-13
Dodgers Try Out
Promising Ball Players

The Brooklyn Dodgers, Of the
National Baseball League, gave try
outs to over two hudred young play
ers at Lancaster, Pa, last week
Among the group was Burton r.
Dickerson, son of Mr.. and Mrs. ]. r.
Dickerson, Of Chesapeake City. II
was announced that some Of those
given trial would be notified to re-
mort next winter at the Dodgers
spring training camp
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-08-13
Receiving Basic Training

KEESLER FIELD, Biloxi, Miss,
August B. Pvt. Charles c. Astle,
son of Mr.. and Mrs. John Astle, r.
F. d. /, Rising Sun, Md, started his
recruit drill this week in the Basic
Training Center at Keesler Field, a
unit of, the Army Air Forces Training
Command.
Private Astle will undergo several
weekss4f orientation, gas mask and
bayonet: drill, camoufiage and physi-
cal training, and rifle firing. He then
will be assigned to duty or sent to
TECHNICAL school for special train
ing.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-08-13
Kiwanis Club Carnival

The committee in charge of
carnival held for the benefit of the
.kiwanis Clubsof Elkton reports hav-
ing, cleared over $500, which amount
will be used to improve the Boy
Scout Lodge building on North street
in that town,
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-08-13
More Marriage Signs
Beautify Landscape

Additional Marriage Signs" are
reported to have appeared in Elkton,
following the ruling of the Second
Judicial Court that the law prohib-
iting marriage information signs is
unconstitutional. The ruling was rec
emily handed down by the Court
when the judge completed study OF
the authorities prepared by the at
tornAEs.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-08-13
Barge Launched
At Frenchtown

A large barge was launched ON
Sunday morning, August 1, by the
Lancaster Iron Works at their plant,
at Frsnchtown, near Perryville. This
is the fourth barge built and launch
ed a. the plant since it began opera-
tions some months ago.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-08-13

Ter the first time in years, the
village Of Calvert is without gem
eral store. II. C. Mcdowell has closed
out his business and the building,
owned By Louis zucchino. will be
converted into apartments,
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-08-13

Presence Of German soldiers is the
only barrier to peace, Eisenhower
told the Italians. The same goes
double for the rest of Europe.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-08-13

Cecil B. Cummings is Q patient In
Union Hospital. Elkton. He has been
in falling health for months past.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-31
n eW
Draft
Program
Govt Begins TO
RecIassify Men
For War Industry

WASHINGTON, Mar. 81.
(UP)-The government to-
morrow begins to drive men
into activities essential to the
war effort coincident with
a new six-point program to chan
mel thousands of men classified by
selective service as over-age and
disabled into important
work, especially farming.
Although compulsion presently is
limited to men in the draft age, 18
through 81, there were hints that
the maximum age would be boosted
to return to the farm or take a job
in an essential industry if they
now are employed in the activities
and occupations designated Feb. 2
b. War Manpower Chief Paul V.
McNutt as mon -deferrable.'
NEW CLASSIFICETIONS
Draft boards will start tomorrow
to classify for induction men aged
18 through 81 who are still in nom
essential jobs. simultaneously. they
will begin to reclassify men aged
38 through 45 who have been in
Glass All, the overage group.
Meantime, McNutt and War Food
Administrator Chester c. Davis,
who has charge of the farm labor
problem, we're preparing to carry
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Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-31
Valleys Milk to
Go up Thursday

Imperial county milk consumers
will pay half cent quart more
for the fluid Thursday as a result
of a new OPA rule granting dairy
men general price increase.
Dairy officials here said the OPA
action came after much pressure
fol- price advance had been ap-
piled by milk producers from all
sections of the state. Other coun-
ties were likewise given milk price
boost.
Milk in glass bottles advances to
Is and one half cents per quart over
the old price of Is cents when pur-
chased from store shelves. The
home delivered cost increases to Is
cents from Is and one half cents
pei quart. The quart price in
paper bottles jumps to ID cents
from 13 and a half cents.
RETAILER COST UP
Retailers will pay 13 and three
fourths cents as compared to the
old wholesale price of 13 cents per
quart.
Producers will receive $1.06 per
milk fat per pound, an increase of
five cents per pound over the old
rate. Valley milkmen had asked for
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-31
Russ Treaty Gives
laps Information,
Says Congressman
Ability TO Forecast
Bombing Weather Said
Result of Fish Pact

WASHINGTON, Mar. 81.
UP)-Rep. Richard Welch,
r., Calf, said today the re-
Gently renewed Russo-Japa-
nese fishing treaty gives the
japanese one to six day advantage
over the United States in weather
forecasting.
The treaty also provides them
with source of one of their prin-
cipal food supplies, he said.
Welch told reporters he had been
informed by the weather bureau
that the japanese by virtue of their
access to the vital storm area" off
the Kamchatka peninsula of Siberia
could be sure of good bombing
weather sometimes nearly week
ahead of us.
DIFFERENT VIEW
War Information Director Elmer
Davis expressed different opin-
ion. At a press conference, Davis
said he did not believe the treaty
renewal hurt American interests in
the Pacific. He said officials had not
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Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-31
Tax
Plan
Delayed
Pay-as-Go Plan
May Be Replaced
By New Sales Tax

WASHINGTON, Mar. 81.
dUP) = Republican hous e
leaders today mapped plans
for a new drive for the Ruml
Skip-a-year tax plan, but
Speaker Sam Rayburn indicated it
would be a considerable time before
the House ways and means COM
mittee takes any further action or
taxes.
Representative Harold Knutson
Republican, Minnesota, a member
of the ways and means group, said
minority members would demand
that the pays-as-you-go issue be
made the first order of business
when the committee next meets.
GROUP MUST ACT
Rayburn, however, said shortly
after comforting with President
Roosevelt that the committee has
several pressing matters on which
it must act soon such as extension
of the Guffey coal control act and
the administrations reciprocal
trade treaty program.
Rayburn said Mr. Roosevelt, talk
ing with his big four congress
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Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-31

was inevitable.
The British Eighth army was close
on the heels of the Afrika Korps
as it fled northward, and the pace
of the Axis retreat indicated an
early juncture of Gen. Sir Bernard
L. Montgomery's men and the
American forces commanded by
Lieut.. Gen. George S. Patton, n
SEIZE SEDJENANE
The British First army, seizing
the town of Sedjenane, was only %
miles from the Axis naval base of
Bizerte.
Front line dispatches reporting
an advance by American forces to
an important road junction Is miles
southeast of Ell Guettar on the CEN
tral front said that the Germans
apparently were evacuating that
zone as Rommel fell back north
ward through the Gabes gap. This
development as we'll as the fact
that Rommel for the time being
was attempting no important coun-
terattacks suggested that the enc
my was pulling out of the entire
southern Tunisia pocket.
Allied a.rplanes, flying hundreds
of missions in the last "a hours,
continued to batter enemy positions,
columns, and transports and the
British navy again joined In the
attack by shelling the coastal road
along which Rommel has been
withdrawing northWard from GabeS
toward SfaX.
CAPTURE TOWNS
The British Eighth army captured
Metoui and Oudref, in the bottle
neck just north of Gabes, and it
was indicated that Rommel was
making only a rearguard defense
behind hastily prepared positions
in that sector.
The Axis forces in southern Tu-
nisia appeared to be interested on
ly in rear-guard defense action in
the region of Metouia, seven miles
northwest of Gabes. and of Oudref,
nine miles northwest of Gabes, in
dicating that Rommel was moving
northWard toward Sfax in an effort
to escape entrapment by American
columns pushing eastward from the
Maknassy and Ell Guettar sectors
on the central front.
The American column which had
been smashing into bitter resistance
on the road from Ell Guettar to
GabeS advanced with infantry and
Continued on Page 6, Col. d
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-31
Rent
Picture
Aired
Wife Of Seaman
Tells Troubles;
I.V.

Ell Centro's rent situation
was dragged into the open
Wednesday when a service
mans wife protested against
the treatment she had re-
ceived from landladies and the Of
flee of Price Administration con-
sidered making an investigation of
rents.
The OPA has Ell Centro's rent
situation under surveillance, Secre-
tary Ben Herring of the chamber
of commerce revealed Wednesday
The OPA has been advised that
approximately 10 per cent of the
rent houses in the city had been
rented at excessive prices. If any
more complaints are received, Her.
ring was told, the OPA will open
an office in the city, making a sur
vey, freeze prices, and control all
rents.
SHOULD BE AVOIDED
Herring said this action should
be avoided because 80 per cent of
the rent house owners are trying to
be fair and should not be punished
for the action of a minority group
II never want to see Ell Centre
again because of the unkind, un-
friendly way I was treated by some
of the landladies of the town. the
wife of sailor said Wednesday as
she and her little girl prepared to
follow their husband and father to
his new station elsewhere.
She declared that some of these
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Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-31

pCioCy ivy, IN. u, ~ ASoo, "Sio
ashore with the leathernecks on
Guadalcanal and stayed through
the island war to give them COM
panionship, the solace of religion
under fire. and last Christian rites.
BURIED BOYS
"A lot of the boys | married. l
also buried Father Reardon said.
Il married them before we left and
| buried them after we arrived.
Many of them died holding to
my hand. One boy walked into a
machine gun nest and we knew he
hadn't long to live. His twin brother
was sick with malaria and I had to
tell him. We carried the i'll boz to
the cemetery and after the services
and a mass, 1 left him there, crying
by the grave. He was kneeling in
the midst of the crosses"
Funerals some times we're inter-
rupted by Jap air raids. Frequently,
he said, the men attending services
were forced to jump into freshly
dug graves to await the all clear"
Father Reardon recalled the dying
wish of the youngest boy in his
outfit-a Pole.
He was wounded and dying. He
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