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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-06-09
IMPORTANCE OF soYREANs

Importance of Maryland soybeans
as a source of oil vital to the war
effort is reflected in inducements Of
fered by the War Food Administra-
ton to farmers to augment their
acreage in this crop and increase
their yields, Joseph H. Blandford,
chairman of the Maryland Agricul-
tural Adjustment Agency, announced.
The States acreage this year for oil
is 51,100 acres.
AAA county committees are au-
thorized to buy soybeans, from farm
ers at government support prices
for the account of the Commodity
Credit Corporation.
The CCC will buy beans through
country and terminal warehouses and
will substitute processing plants which
pay producers government support
prices.
Farm prices for the 1914 crop will
be supported by government pur-
chases and loans. The base support
price will be $204 per net bushel
for green and yellow beans grading
u. S. No. 2 with a moisture content
of IA per cent and delivered by the
farmer to country elevator, process
sing plant or other normal delivery
point The 1943 base was $3.50. The
base support price for brown, black
and mixed beans Glasses 8, 4, and
50 will be $1.S4 per net bushel for
the 1914 crop.
A premium of l cent per bushel
over the support price will be paid
for each one-half of one per cent
under ID per cent moisture content.
The maximum premium allowed is
6 cents per bushel
Where the moisture content ex-
ceeds A per cent there will be pen
one-half of one per cent the content
exceeds Ia per cent, up to and in
Guiding IS per cent, and of two cents
for each one-half of one per cent in
excess of Is per cent.
For each pound under "a pounds
one-half cent per bushel will be de-
Quoted. A discount of one-quarter
cent per bushel will be made for
each per cent or fraction thereof
in excess of Is per cent of split
beans; of two-tenths of one cent per
bushel for each one per cent of green
damage in excess of per cent (the
first 3 per cent to be considered dam
age other than green DAMAGE; of
one-half cent per bushel for each l
per cent of damage (other than green
damage) in excess of per cent but
not in excess of rs per cent; of one
cent per bushel for damage in excess
of 25 per cent but not in excess of
60 per cent; of one and one-half
cents per bushel for each full l per-
cent of damage in excess of so per
cent.
The total WEIGHT of foreign matter
and dockage combined in excess of
2 per cent will be deducted from the
total gross weight.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-06-09
COFFEE RATIONING
UNNECESSARY

Because coffee rationing has come
and gone, the subject is no longer
one for bitter accusations and re-
examinations. But the history of our
Government-made coffee shortage in
1912 and 1943 affords an illuminat-
ing example of the whole cycle of
bureaucratic management in food
from plenty to panic, back to plenty
again-alI in the course of IS
months, according to Lawrence Sulli-
van.
Coffee experts, in government and
out, insist there never was any need
for rationing beyond those abnormal
situations actually created from time
to time by confused Government ac-
lions and policies; and the history
and statistics of the trade between
December, 1941, and May, 1943, ap-
pear to give weight to their views.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-06-09
SHORTAGE OF DOCTORS AND
NURSES

There is a very serious shortage
of doctors, in Washington and else
where, and those still on the job are
overworking all the union hours in
their efforts to attend the sick and
ailing. Besides, the shortage of nur-
ses in the hospitals is SO serious that
an appeal has been made for the IA
tioning of all available nurses, and
the release of nurses employed on
cases for part-time service to other
bedsides.
The only thing in Washington of
which there is a surplus are those
people who are serving political in
tereStS.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-06-09
COST OF LIVING

The Bureau of Labor Statistics in
dex of the cost-of-living shows an in
crease of 81 per cent in house fur
nishings and small increases in food,
clothing and miscellaneous items.
The index of all items showed an
increase of 23.5 per cent above jan
uary, 1941, and 1913 per cent above
August, 1889.
Labor Statistics are often criticized
as being too low in comparison with
findings
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-06-09
PROMPT RETURN OF FUEL OIL
APPLICATIONS ADVISED

Consumers were advised by the
Maryland State OPA this week to re-
turn their fuel oil applications
promptly and to fill their fuel oil
tanks as soon as possible after re-
ceiving 1944-45 coupons from local
ration boards. War Price and Ration
ing Boards throughout the State are
now mailing renewal applications
which are essentially the same as
last years blank, Rationing officials
stated. Consumers will receive ap-
proximately the same amount of
fuel oil for 1944-45 as they did for
the year 1943-44.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-06-09

shoulder roasts and English cut
roasts. All other cuts of beef roasts
and beef steaks retain their previous
point values.
All varieties of cheese and cheese
products are reduced two points a
pound to new value of 10 points.
Canned evaporated and condensed
milk is halyed in ration cost, drop
ping from one point pound to q
halt point.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-06-09
ONCE FAMOUS MONTE CARLO
NOW DESOLATE

Monte Carlo, once playground of
fabulous international characters,
has collapsed like house of cards.
Read the story of what the war has
done to this famous gambling resort,
one of the many features in the June
18th issue of
THE AMERICAN WEEKLY
FavOrite Magazine With
THE BALTIMORE
SUNDAY AMERICAN
Order From Your Newsdealer
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-06-09

Stable employment in the postwar
era depends somewhat on the role
assigned b Qid pohhin.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-06-09

Supreme Court dissents might be
avoided if the Justices consulted the
laymen who are presumed to know
the law.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-06-09

Marines will enlist hundred dogs.
No meat rationing.
Speeding of motorists is criticised
by police. It's permissible only along
the Appian Way.
Underground gets third set of in
structions, putting them on the same
level a. dEaftees about to land.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-06-09

Imagine what the next generation
of geography students is in for, when
Dad begins giving little first-hand
instruction,
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-06-09

More than $4,000 Mexican citi-
gems have volunteered for service in
the United States Army.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-06-09

Frank w. Wrightson is Vice Chair
man of the State War Finance Com
mittee; Walter N. Ruth, Executive
Vice-Chairman and Edwin R. Now
pray, Executive Manager.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-06-09

General Eisenhower has lunch
with Churchill every week Reverse
lend-lease.
At the present time 16,500,00O
women are employed in industry in
this country.
A politician is a fellow who won't
give the people what they want. Also
one who does.
Elastic defense Is one way to get
your center girdled.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-11
POINTS ON MEAT
-. AGAIN CHANGED

/. WASHINGTON, Aug. 10. -P)-
Ration stamps will not be needed
beginning Sunday in purchasing ut
ility grades of lamb, beefsteaks
and roasts, but. housewives will
have to surrender points again for
pork loins, hams and canned fish.
The changes for the period from
Sunday through September 2, were
announced by the Office of Price
Administration today in belatedly
distributed :, August point charts
which also list increases in the
ration values on all kinds of cheese
and on farm and process butter.
Creamery butter, representing the
bulk of the supply, continues at IL
points a pound.
Utility grade beefsteaks and
roasts are being taken off the ra-
ton lists and pork loins in line with
restored to the lists in line with
previously announced plans of OPA
and the War Food Administr alton
Utility grade popular cuts OF lamb
are being made point free, OPA
explained, because with the same
grade of beef available without
points sit was judged that utility
lamb might not move under a point
valDe.''
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-11
CONVICT ADMITS
DROWNING HOAX

AsHEv1LLE, Aug. 10|REPo-
lice officers said today that Joe
E. Wilson, who escaped from
huntsville prison camp yesterday
with a fellow convict, Toby Gallo
way, had admitted that state
ment made earlier today that he
killed Galloway, and dumped his
body in the French Broad river,
was a hoax.
Wilson'S purpose in prepetrating
the hoax was friendship for Cal
loway,, Chief C. w. Dermid said,
explaining that Wilson wanted to
give his companion a chance to
escape and remain free, while ALL
thorities believed him dead.
Asheville police and firemen had
been engaged in dragging the
French Broad in search for Cal
loway's body, after Wilson'S orig
inal statement. .:...
Wilson was arrested this morning
as the driver of an allegedly stolen
car and as an escaped convict.
Galloway was still at large this
afternoon.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-11
TOBACCO PRICES
REMAIN STABLE

FLORENCE, S. c., Aug. 10.-tR
Tobacco price averages remained
virtually unchanged today on the
border belt, although leaf grades
were one to two cents lower and
Jugs were up cent, the w r
Food Administration reported. Cut
tiers remained firm.
Offerings consisted mainly OF
low and fair cutters. Sales were
heavy on some markets and light
on others. Sales yesterday totalled
1928, 606 pounds at an average
price of 42.87. Seasons sales are
1902, 348 pounds at 1905.
Down cent a pound were good
lemon leaf and fair orange leaf,
the VIA said. Low orange leaf
was up two cents. Advancing a
cent were fair lemon cutters, fair
lemon Tugs, good orange and fiar
lemon Tugs, fair lemon cutters and
best thin nondescript. Low lemon
Tugs advanced two cents.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-11

The targets of this strategic mis-
sion of huge scope are among the
most important in enemy territory.
The Pladjoe oil refinery at Palem-
vapg is the largest in the Orient,
and is believed to have been op-
Grating at or near it's pre- war capa.
city of 18,OO0,O 900 barrels OF crude
oil a year. It is an important
source Of aviation gasoline.
Nagasaki, bombed in the third
Superfortress mission against the
Japanese mainland, is military
port and shipbuilding center of key
value to- the enemy military ma
chine, and center of engine, steel,
ordnance, magnetic, generator and
aircraft production, chiefly by
plants of the extensive Mitsubishi
interests.
It. is located on. the west side
OF Kyushu island in the heavily
industrialized area where the Su-
perfortresses previously had hit the
steel center of Yawata and the
naval base at .Sasebo.. In -othes
missions against enemy territory,
the Superfortresses have attacked
targets at Bangkok, Thailand, and
at Anshan, in the Mukden area of
Manchuria, where they hit coke
ovens and other factories . in a
blow against Japan's steel industry.
The forces which carried out to-
days attack against Nagasaki from
bases in China and against Palem-
bong from fields in southeast Asia,
were described by Goth airforce
headquarters as medium sized'
Pending evaluation of operations
reports, no detailed information
about the attacks was available.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-11
BATTLE FOR PARIS OPENS !
WITH SMASH AT CHARITIES;
E.D.R., MACARTHUR CONFER
American iberators
Bombard Philippines

erican airfields in the Schou-
ten islands, off Dutch New
Guinea. approximately 800
miles southwest. The newest
American beachhead at Sam
sapor, at the top of New Gui-
nea, is slightly over 600 miles
southeast of Mindanao.
Gen. Douglas Macarthur
mentioned the Philippines in
his July "a communique for
the first time since the fall Of
Corregidor, reporting the sink
ing of a small vessel off Da-
vac. Yesterday. he reported
the bombing of a 2,0o0-ton
freighter off Davao.
: Today's disclosure told of the
first assault against land OBJ
jectives in the lost islands
since Royce's raid.
Enemy resistance in the Dri-
niumor river battlefront of
British New Guinea has ceas-
ed, the communique reported.
Remnants of the ensmy's de-
moraized forces which escap-
ed our .encircling movements
are fleeing south towards the
Torricelli mountains or trying
to make their way back to We
wax. @
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-11

man party to search for him.
After two years they officially
listed him as dead, apparently
to save face.
Tweed related the Japanese
decreed that all, Americans
who surrendered within 80
days after their occupation OF
the island be taken to Japan
and that holdouts thereafter
would be killed. A lot OF
Americans gave up, ne said.
But Tweed and his buddy
sped to a remote part Of the
island. His companion was
killed and Tweed was left on
his own. He holed up in a cave
high on the face of a steep cliff,
caught rain water for drinking
and washing and made night
forays for food.
He lost 30 pounds while a
fugitive but gained back ten in
the first five days after his
rescue and. looked to- be m
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-11
Three Die, Tluo Wounded
In Buncon1be Shootings

tile worker, and a frequent
visitor at the house, had been
seen in the vicinity of the Tho
mas home loading a. shotgun.
A search for Morgan was start
ed, but ended abruptly this at
ternoon when the report Of a
single gunshot broke the ST.
lence as members Of the sher-
ifs posse were closing in on
the fugitive after manhunt
OF several hours. A minute or
two later Morgan was found
dying in roadway near his
sisters home. : He had fired
the charge from a 12-gauge shot
gun into his left breast, Off
GERS said,
The children meanwhile had
been taken, to St. Josephs hos
pital. Tonight their condition
was said to be very critical.
They were suffering from skull
fractures, conclusion, shock
and loss Of, blood.
No motive for the crime had
been uncovered. by police to-
night. =
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-11
PLANNING EXPERT
Sees HOME NEED

The crying need for rebuilding
many of Wilmington's houses inn
mediately after the end Of the war
if economic conditions permit was
cited yesterday by Walter Butcher,
executive director of the American
Society of Planning officials, who
is here to confer with city Of
ficials and business me on the
subject of industrial planning for
the community.
IT am impressed by the large
number of houses which need re.
building in the city; the extent of
rebuilding will depend upon Will
mington's postwar status, Butcher
said.
The planning expert toured the
city yesterday, inspecting housing
projects, docks, the shipyard, resi-
dental areas, and commercial
areas in order to. get a clear pic
ture Of the comparison of housing
facilities and industrial expansion.
F Butcher will address joint meet
ing of the civic clubs this afternoon
at, one o'clock in St. PauIs Parish
house. He is expecting to spend
the remainder of the day formu-
lating opinions and accommodating
data on Wilmington's planning
problems in the. realm. Of business
and industry.
The city council and the plan
ming board honored the planning
official last night at a dinner in
the Governor Dudley restaurant.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-11

only the IOTlndI1Ly OF act1On by
the school board, already certain,
remained to make the delayed date
official.
The health board, at. its month
ly meeting yesterday, took h e
steps to approve and adopt the rec
ommendation which will 60 before
the board of education at their next
meeting ..-.-..
J. w. Grise, assistant superin-
tendent of schools, said last night
that date had not been set. for
a meeting OF the board; however,
he assumed that schools in this
county will open in accordance with
the request of the health authori-
ties.
DIR. A. H. Elliot, city county
health officer. at the meeting stat
ed that the ban on gatherings of
children under IS years OF 6 e
stands as a health law, forbidding
children to visit places of amuse-
ment, including picnics and other
gatherings; to attend movies or
Sunday school; and operation OF
any day nurseries.
This was confirmed by DR.. Carl
" Reynolds, state health officer,
who stated that Section 7154 Of the
Consolidated Statues Of North Car
Continued on Page Seven; Col. u
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-11
S35-A-Week Men
Consider Appeal
To FDR On Bill

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1O.-(H
Proponents of the Murray =
Kilgore rehabilitation bill
were disclosed tonight to be
considering an appeal to Pres
ident Roosevelt in an effort to
overcome Senate opposition to
a provision calling for postwar
unemployment payments rang
ing up to $35 a week.
One of the group, who declin-
ed to allow the use Of his name,
said the Chief Executive might
be asked to throw White House
pressure behind the measure
either by personal appeal or
by asking Senator Truman Cd.
Mo- to take the floor in its be-
half.
. Truman, the senator said,
has been working behind-the-
scenes for the measure, which
he supported in the military
committee, but as Democratic
vice presidential nominee. he
has avoided speech-making I'm.
til he has had a chance to con-
fer with the President. =
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-11
MAP new PLANS
IN WAR ON JAPS
Big Push Against Enemy
Predicted At Farley
Held In Honolulu

HONOLULU, July 20. =
(Delayed)-E = President
Roosevelt and top-flight Am
erican commanders in the.
Pacific, including Gen. Doug
las Macarthur, mapped plans
for. smashing the Japanese
into unconditional surrender
at an historic three-day stra-
tegy conference here under
the gently waving palms of
Waikiki beach.
1t was the president first war
time conference with the south
west Pacific commander, whom he
greeted with a cordial cts good
to see you, DOUG and together
they went over every phase of the
far flung offensive in the west.
Admiral Chester w. Nimitz, Pa
cific fleet commander, and other
top-ranking officers took part in
the discussions, which ended to-
day and which were interlarded
by series of inspection trips
that took Mr.. Roosevelt to many
parts of this bristling fortress is
land.
The president arrived three days
ago, on July rs, aboard a new
super cruiser. He left the Marine
base at San Diego, Calf, amid
the utmost secrecy. shortly after
his radio speech of July 20 accept
ing a fourth term nomination.
At a news conference here to-
day Mrs. Roosevelt said he had re-
cefved nice telegram from his
vice president running mate,
Senator Harry F. Truman of
Missouri, but declared he was too
far away from politics to discuss
the campaign.
/ He said he will report to the
nation at some future date on mis-
trip to the Pacific, which brought
him into Pearl Harbor ten years
to the the day from the time Of
his last visit.
Obviously moved by the tre-
mendous amount Of defense work
that has been done since the Japa-
nese blasted Pearl Harbor into
flaming wreckage two and a half
years ago, Mr.. Roosevelt said it
was the most amazing change
he ever had seen.
After talking with Admiral Nj
mitz and General Macarthur, who
wore leather field jacket when
he went aboard the presidents
ship to greet him, Mr.. Roosevelt
restated Americas war aims: to
iberate the Philippines and to
force Japan into an unconditional
surrender.
1--WE are going back to the
Philippines" Mr.. Roosevelt said,
land Macarthur is going to be "a
part of the operation. You can't
say he added with smile,
whether the general is going back
directly or by way of North Afri-
ca put he; is going back and we
are going to give the islands their
freedom.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-11

= GENERAL HEADQUARTERS
SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Fri
day. Aug. 11.-tR-American
Liberator bombsrs raiding the
Philippines for the first time
in a. months, smashed Japan
csc .airdromes at Davao with
three . successive night at
tacks, headquarters announced
today ~. g, a}
The last of the three assaults
was during Tuesday night and
Wednesday morning. Results
were not announced.
Davao, principal city on
Mindanao, main southern is
land in the archipelago, was
occupied by the Japanese in
late December, 1941. q
The last American raid on
the Philippines was an at
tack on Clark field some 70
miles rnerthWard OF, Manila, on
April 49,. 1912. The formation,
from Australia, was led by
Brig. Gen. Ralph Royce from
Australia. ~. ~, es.aa.'.,-
. Bataan had capitulated six
days earlier, but Corregidor
was still holding out.
Mindanao is within bombing
range of newly-acqtlired AM
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-11
Sweeper, Sub Chaser
Lost In Enemy Action

WASHINGTON, Aug. TO- (R -
Loss of two American naval YES
sels-the mine sweeper Osprey and
the submarine chaser PC-126l-in
European waters, was announced
by the Navy today.
No details were given as to how
or where the two craft were sunk
by enemy action.
The losses bring to 1873 the num-
Der of American naval craft lost
since the war started. In addition
80 are listed as overdue and pre-
sumed lost ana nine naval craft
were destroyed to prevent their
capture.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-11

: ASHEVILLE, Aug. 10.-P)-
Summoned by neighbors, men,
bers of the sheriff's department
broke open the door Of the
Mack, Thomas home in the
Young's Creek section near
Gambler, this morning and
walked in on scene of stark
tragedy.
Mrs. Mack Thomas, %, wife
of soldier and her mother-in-
law, Mrs. Eta Thomas, 40,
were on the bloodsoaked floor
dead, their heads battered by
some blunt instrument, Gail
Thomas, ID months old, her
head gashed in a heavy blow,
had crawled across the body
of her young mother, and
brother, Bobbie, three years
old, was lying unconscious on
the bed, a widening circle of
blood from a head wound STAIN
ing the bedclothing.
Seeking Identification Of the
assailant, officers were told
that Linton Morgan, &c.. a. tex.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-11
Navy Man Rescued After Spending
31Months Eluding Japs On Guam

surprisingly good physical
condition.
Dee pntense of the Japa-
nese showed in his eyes at
the mention of the enemy.
Tweed hadn't given thought
as to what to do with 81 months
Of accumulated pay.
'"That's too big to figure out"
he said. "All know is it's a
big amount"
Tweed said he prayed with
increasing frequency on Guam
but gave up hope after the
first year" He felt that sooner
or later he would be caught.
't'The Japanese. were fran
tically searching for me-" he
went on. They knew was a
radio material man and were
afraid I would build a trans
mitter to communicate with
(Continued On rage i; Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-11
.azi Troops FIR
AtOwnOffio

ST. MALO,. France, Aug. o.
-CDelayeO : Up - German
troops began shooting their
own officers today in order to
surrender as American dough-
boys in flaming hand-to-hand
battles occupied all St. Malo
except the ports rocky citadel.
Inside this battered granite
fortress the enemy garrison
still held out at 6 p. m. under
the command of fanatical
leader, Col. Won Auloch, a tall,
grayhaired man who was car
rying out to the bitter end his
threat to make this fashion
able beach resort a new
Stalingrad.''
A veteran of the Russian
front seemingly obsessed on
the subject of Stalingrad, the
commander had sworn his
determination to turn St. Malo
into a similar siege even if
the hopeless fight cost the
lives of all his men and him
self.
French refugees and German
prisoners said the colonel suf-
fered delusions as the result
of head wound received at
Stalingrad and was embittered