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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-03-09
ROOSEVELT BEGINS 18th
YEAR WITH PRAYER

Washington - Franklin D.
Roosevelt began his 18th year as
president by attending divine
services at which prayers were
voiced that the nations of the
world soon would be guided into
the ways of justice, truth and
peace.
Eleven years ago, the President
stood at the Capitol, his head
barred to March winds, and solmn-
ly assured nation that was reel
ing from a devastating depression,
that it had nothing to fear but
fear itself"
Dressed in a dark gray business
suit, his head bowed, he sat in the
east room of the White House -
surrounded by members of his
family, military and civilian aides,
cabinet members, Supreme Court
justices and Congressional lead
ers-and sought guidance in over
coming his greatest challenge, the
winning of the war.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-03-09
Months May Be Required
For Tax Refunding Work

turns are already receiving re-
funds. A, majority of service re-
turns have resulted in refunds be-
cause many servicemen had high
salaries before going into the ar
my or navy.
Officials said that if the STAN
dard refund procedure were fol-
lowed-with the usual process of
auditing, accounting, and check
ing it would be one or two years
before there could be any refunds.
Thus every effort has been made
to speed up the payments under
a streamlined procedure calling
for reasonable verification" to
satisfy the general accounting Of
flee.
Income tax returns must be
checked against employers re-
ceipts. Returns claiming re-
funds will generally be handled
first because the law requires
prompt payment of refunds and
because the bureau will have to
pay the six per cent interest after
March Is, no matter how small
the payments may be.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-03-09
CIVILIAN GOODS WILL
BE RELEASED SOON

Washington Civilians and,
businessmen had Office of Price
Administration assurance that
they will not have to wait for the
defeat of Japan before war-re-
stricted life returns to some SEM.
blance of peacetime normalcy.
AS soon as Germany is knock
ed out-and military strategists
hope it will be this year-Price
Administrator Chester BowleSs
will begin modifying rationing
and price control. Aiding hina
will be postwar OPA committee
soon to be established. 1t wilk
help guide him in relaxing con-
trolls which have affected every,
segment of the national economy.
The committee will be compos-
ed of representatives of the OPA.
and business and will include ma
tionally reputable economists.
It is understood that clothing.
and other soft goods, presumably
including nylon hose and elastic
girdles, will be the initial group
of commodities to get back in the
supply-demand groove.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-03-09
FARMERS ARE TO
GET BULLETS SOON

Washington - A program to
expand the production Of shotgun
and rifle ammunition for farmers
to eradicate pests and for other
civilian use was announced by
the War Production Board this
week.
Volume delivered to dealers
should not be expected until May,
WPB said, adding:
while it is possible that by
Fall there will be sufficient am
munition for game-shooting, for
the time being none can be spared
form supplies necessary to crop
and livestock conservation"
None will be made available for
amusement purposes"
A civilian hardship survey TAX
en- last Fall put the shortage of
shells and cartridges to guard ami
male and crops ahead of even
barbed wire and radio batteries
in the volume Of complaints from
rural families.
Ammunition to be placed in
manufacture by July l will in
clude 251,OOO,OOO shotgun shells,
100000 center-fire cartridges
and 475,OOO,OOO cartridges for %
rifles. Placed in manufacture in
the first quarter of the year will
be about 12O,0OO,OOO shotgun
shells, 100000 center-fire car
tridges and 2OO,OOO,OOO % caliber
rifle cartridges.
The first shipments will be con-
fined to amounts needed to fill
orders now on dealers books
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-03-09
OF State National And World News During The Past Week
MILK SUBSIDY RATES
ARE RAISED BY GOV.

Washington - The War Food
Administration announced sharp
increases in it's subsidy rates for
dairy production in March and
April and promised at the same
time to re-examine returns to the
producer from milk used in such
products as cheese, evaporated
milk, butter and skim milk pow
der.
The subsidy program is design
ed to compensate dairymen for in
creases in production costs since
the Office of Price Administration
established ceilings on milk last
year. The subsidy thus has the
effect of preventing an increase
in prices to the consumer.
The new rates on milk vary
from minimum of so cents to a
maximum of 80 cents per hundred
pounds. Farmers selling butter
fat rather than whole milk will
get a flat subsidy of eight cents
pound. Rates in effect during
January and February ranged
from 80 to so cents for milk and
from five to six cents for butter
fat.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-03-09
FBI ARRESTS 81 FOR
TRADING IN TICKETS

Miami, Fla. - Director J. Ed
gar Hoover of the federal bureau
of investigation announced the
arrest Saturday Of 81 persons at
Miami and Miami Beach in the
first step of a nationwide investi-
cation to stamp out what he term
ed "a vicious black market in
railroad reservations.
He said those arrested included
Is railroad employees, IA hotel
workers and one taxicab driver.
The Miami group was showing a
profit of between SIS, 900 and $780,
900 a month, and Hoover quoted
two railroad employees and ho-
tel worker as saying they planned
to buy a hotel with their money.
The railroad men are charged
with violating the United States
criminal code which forbids the
sale of any service to a passenger
at a rate in excess of that charged
other persons for the same ac-
comodation. The hotel men were
charged with conspiracy to vio-
late the same code.
This investigation is nation
wide, extending into the North
and to the Pacific coast" Hoover
said. Other arrests will follow
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-03-09
Mcdonald Makes
Announcement

Winston-Salem, N. c. - DR..
Ralph Mcdonald, formerly an
nouncing for the Democratic
nomination for Governor, in a
statement issued here last week,
said ''The principal longrun aim
of my administration will be to
support positive measures to in
crease the income of the farmers
and working people,"
He proposed that after payment
of the State general fund debt
"the pledge on the sales tax" be
fulfilled in the fullest possible
manner. This tax was enacted
under the solemn pledge that it
would be used only as a temper
airy emergency measure"
Noting increased Federal in
come taxes, he also advocated
substantial deductions from per-
sonal income-tax returns for CD
Federal tax payments; (2) insur-
ance payments; and (3) medical
and hospital bills"
DR.. Mcdonald, making his Sec
ond bid for the nomination, and
his campaign manager, E. D.
Broadhurst of Greensboro, an
nounced that State headquarters
would be opened in the Hotel Sir
Walter in Raleigh next Monday.
High in his 24-point program,
DR.. Mcdonald listed "a strong
temperance stand,' and, among
other things, advocated education
al progress, a major postwar road
building program, increased farm
income, adequate pay for State
employees, full provision for re-
turning servicemen and women,
opposition to the sales tax, reduc-
ton in the personal income tax,
payment of the State general fund
debt, and development of aviation.
He said he stood for a school
program which will give to every
child in North Carolina education
al opportunities equal to any in
the nation
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-03-09

Washington - Some of the 49,
100000 taxpayers claiming re-
funds for overpayment of 1943
taxes will have to wait until De-
cember-maybe longer-to get
their money back, but after March
Is they will draw six per cent in
terest on the amount due them.
Bureau of internal revenue Of
ficials said this week that while
the law requires that refunds be
made as rapidly as possible, and it
is hoped that many will be made
by June, there is no expectation
that the job will be finished be-
fore the end of the year.
Most taxpayers seeking re-
funds do so because of excess
withholding. Refunds may run
from 10 cents to $1,000 but fiscal
experts estimate the average at
about $25.
The bureau has adopted a poll
cy whereby refunds due service
men are handled first-and some
servicemen who filed early re-
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-03-09
OPA BEGINS CHECK
ON GAS COUPONS

Raleigh = Theodore S. Johnson,
Raleigh District OPA Director,
said that gasoline coupons used
for purchase at filling stations in
North Carolina would be checked
by OPA Investigators beginning
on Monday.
Persons offering unendorsed
coupons - without state license
numbers written on the face
will be served notices explaining
the endorsement requirements
and will be required to present
fully-endorsed gasoline ration
books to local war price and ra-
tioning boards within 10 days,
Johnson said.
'"This requirement." Johnson
said, ''is made necessary due to
the huge black market gasoline
coupon operations in the State. If
all motorists will endorse coupons,
OPA's job of catching black mar
ket and chiseler operators will be
much easier, and if such opera
tons are stopped, more gasoline
will be available for rightful US
ers."
WAR BONDS buy them
first-then buy what you need.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-03-09
GOV. JOHN BRICKER
SPEAKS AT CHAPEL HILL

Chapel Hill - Gov. John w.
Bricker, of Ohio, candidate for
the Republican presidential NOM
ination, said here that "the Presi-
dent himself has jeopardized the
opportunity and the privilege of
the soldier to vote in the 1914
elections.
The states" he said, "are ready,
willing and able to move forward
Immediately to carry into effect
a practical program of soldier vot-
ing"
He referred, also, to "the cloak
Of secrecy" which he said had
from farmers and ranchers, as we'll
as the other essential uses includ-
ing police and official pre-induc-
ton training programs.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-03-09

Butthisyear, when the need
is greater than ever before
thisyearyou will want to give
more to give freely to
your own Red Cross to
your own sons in the service.
This year dig deep and be-
glad. For wherever he is
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-03-09

here and probably in other parts
of Florida.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-03-09

been wrapped about the opera
tons of Government.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-03-09
1T - AI1IsIIss = -
= bird II,aI ,yirs

THAT is an American there con-
Il demned by the chance of war to eat
alien bread in some far-of prison camp.
He is hungry for news -. hungry for
the sight of his native land y. for the
sound of voice like yours ). for the
touch of woman's hand.
But he won't be forgotten! For the Red
Cross, to the utmost of its power, will get
your letters in to him .. will pass his
letters out to you.
And every week, right from your heart,
he will get, if humanity possible, a-nour-
ishing Red Cross food carton -. eleven
full pounds of the sort of food you'd give
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-03-09

you have done the extra work :. donated
your blood and bought your bonds.
Yes, and you have helped the Red Cross
before with a generous and willing heart.
Giving to the Red Cross has always
been great proud habit of thirty million
American families =. proud that they
could give >. proud of the Red Cross.
that made the giving worthwhile.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-17

Miss Lupino was waiting to greet her
husband with open arms.
Adrenalin was administered TO Hay
ward to relieve his asthmatic condi
ton so that he could complete his
work on the pictures he had returned
That treatment aggravated his nerv-
business. AS soon as his task was
finished he was ordered into the
Naval Hospital at Corona, Cal.
Miss Lupino was a regular and de-
voted visitor at his bedside. Many
who knew Of the couples differences
lauded the actresses loyalty. Her init
mates say her attentions were
prompted sincerely by love.
But when the captain was released
from the hospital the couple took the
step they were contemplating three
years ago, but postponed because of
the war. Hayward moved into sep
arate quarters. He is scheduled to
receive an early medical discharge
from the service
Nervous strain also had taken its
toll of Miss Lupino. There was worry
for months about her husbands
safety.
With Hayward's return, II probably
soon became apparent that the ex-
periences of war had increased, not
lessehed, his nervous disposition.
Then fresh concern over the solu-
ton of their personal problems put
new burden on Miss Lupino's jittery
nerves. Early this year her health
reached such low stage that her
doctor ordered her to give up her
motion picture work for at least
few months and get real rest.
Ida has been a perfect angel to
me-" Hayward explained CALAMITY.
There is no one more considerable.
There is no other love interest in my
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-17

life and 1 know there is no one in
hers. It's just one of those things"
Miss Lupino likewise discussed the
separation only in soft words.
He has done magnificent job in
the Marines" she said, land / only
feel sorry for him. He is so nervous"
Now that their separation is in eff
feet, they exchange daily phone calls.
There is no conflict or nervous
irritability aroused at phones length.
They say they expect to continue
TO see each other, have dates, appear
together at the film colony social
functions, then repair TO their indi.
vidual establishments.
Strange as it may seem. they think
that's really the way they can keep
love alive.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-17

pleted. Capt Hayward was flown back
to the mainland with pictures he had
made of the historic battle.
Capt. Hayward was badly shaken
by physical and nervous exhaustion.
His health was impaired further by
an attack of acute bronchial asthma.
But like wives Of other fighting men,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-17

conflict rose, Miss Lupino shared
the anxiety and worry of every
other war-Wife. Her husband
was in the Pacific war theatre.
When the deadly battle of
Tarawa was fought. Capt. Hay
ward was in a landing party.
His conduct won citation for
bravery and the Bronze Medal.
AS soon as the costly conquest
OF that Jap stronghold was com.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-17

SeP'"mber IT. 1914
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-17

They say there has
been no talk of divorce,
no legal separation. They
are just going to 60 their
separate ways-and stay
married. Miss Lupino
Is staying in the couples
home, while Hayward
has moved.
The temperamental diff
ferences of Miss Lupino
and her husband have
been generally known to
their associates in Holly
wood for a number of
years. Soon after their
marriage In 1888, the ex-
actions Of marital ties
began to place strain on their
personal lives.
Both are individualists. They
got on each others nerves, no
matter how much respect each
had for the others artistic ability.
They recognized their dilemma
separation shortly before the United
States entered the war in 1871.
On December 6, 1871, Hayward,
British-born, like his wife, received
his citizenship papers. The next day
the headlines blaZed
pioo Holly. the Jap sneak attack
A. loves Her on Pearl Harbor.
! too Much A short time later,
with Him Hayward was in the
. left Him. Marine Corps. Per
Sonaf differences were
swept aside by the
surge of war. Anyway, mill
tary service provided the sep
aration the couple had been
- considering.
AS the tempo of the
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-17

n HOLLYWOOD mar
and tanglcs bein
aTe-moStly on
pattern-two stars ha'
ward with a design T
that deserves some kir
for a novel, If not a best.
Separations and divor
story in the film colo
Star Ida Lupino and
Hayward. currently a
captain. gave q close
separation program tina
Most people decide 10
up when love makes "A
With the HayWards il
ferent. They scparat
cause they are in lOv
found that the asso
under the same roof
both nervous.
ParadoXically. they &c
best together when
they are separated.
so that's the way
they are trying to
fashion their lives.
AS a consequence,
the famous daughter
of the late Stanley
Lupino. noted British
ntOr, and the hand
90 = Hayward de-
j3hed u try the for.
mula of separate ,
lives and domiciles
for III $ b a n d and p
wife, first tried sue
cessfully many years
ago by Fannie Hurst,
the successful novel
ist, and her husband.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-17

Ida Lupino, Holly
wood Star, Loves Her
Husband Too Much
TO Live With HIM
So She's Left Him.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-11
Priest DenounceS
Modern Living

Boston, May 1l-(UP)-The Rev.
James M. ellis of New York, Edi-
tor of the Catholic world, says that
hollywood weddings, Reno divorces,
Groom music, jitterbugging and OBJ
scene literature is driving civiliza-
ton back to the jungle
Addressing the final session OF the
Eighth Annual Diocesan Congress
of the League of Catholic Women
last night, Father ellis, a member
of the PauliSt Fathers, said the ma
ton was witnessing reversion to
the primitive type Of sex union.
evolution, If it happened" he
said, "has ceased and degeneration
has taken its place. Instead Of be-
ing onward and upward, the move
ment Is now downward and back
ward.
Marriage and the family In
many parts of the world and
among many peoples are degenerat-
ing" he added. IF the TREND con-
tinues, we shall intimately arrive
at the conditions which prevail in
the primeval jungle"
Father Gillis condemned casual.
on-again, off-again marriges, the
vogue symbolized by Hollywood
weddings and Reno divorces"
Asserting that modern marriage
was merely sexual primiscuity
slightly disguised with hypocrisy
the priest called upon the congress
delegates to summon all their fore
es "to defend the inner citadel OF
the home and the family"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-11
Tough Weeks
For Farmers
BY RUTH GMEINER

Washington, May 1l-(UP)-The
1914 winter wheat harvest will be
one of the biggest In recent years,
but the agriculture department an
ticipates that for most other inn
portant crops the battle during the
next few weeks will be the tough
est the farmers Of this country have
ever fought"
In monthly crop survey, the de-
partment said that the extent of
1914 food production would depend
on weather-and pointed out that
one Of the coolest and wettest
springs in history already has
thrown farmers farther behind
schedule than In many years.
1t said that full acreage of crops
"can no longer be expected" from
farmers whose woes include a short
labor supply and unprecedented
delays" in getting equipment, service
and seed.
The report noted that 1t still was
hard to determine Just what crops
would be planted by farmers in most
interior sections of the country since
'in the heart of the corn belt wild
ducks are still padding round in
many fields where corn planters
should be running"
Although rains seriously have de-
layed spring field work, they have
boosted the winter wheat outlook
1875, 000,0 bushels over last falls
prospects. The department now fore
casts production of more than 662,-
100000 bushels. A crop of this size.
although smaller than in 1941 and
1912, would be one-fourth larger
than in 1913 and would surpass the
1933-42 average by 16 per cent.
Instead Of an eight per cent in
crease in oat acreage planned by
farmers, prospects now are for a
smaller crop than in 1943 with the
likelihood Of reduced yields.
While there still is danger of frost
damage to northern fruit crops, the
report said prospects for the coun-
try as a whole were substantially
better than average for this time OF
year.
1t said fair rains during the rest
Of the season should assure another
good hay crop-of particular i'm
portance because of the record mum.
Der of cattle on farms.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-11

que Is Always Open" Scribners:
so. Not that she isn't a pip. Sam
Booker, rough and ready private
dick, and his partner, Jimmy Webb.
agreed whole-heartedly on That
point = but they found Muriel q
most dangerous and deceptive num-
Der.
First they had to find MUsiel
however. She was the wife Of e.
worried little guy who was willing
to pay plenty to locate her. and
Jimmy and Sam, who had reached
the bottom of the barrel, were glac
to take what seemed to be rou
tine job of work.
But murder came. Then another
murder. And then yet another. The
two detectives we're kept hopping
and managed to work In a flying
trip to the Middle West while they
were about it. Grim and gay as full
Of action as box full of wildcats,
and altogether a weu-turned-out
detective novel.
SPIES ON THE HIGH SEAS
ANOTHER thriller handled with
a light touch is Marjorie Fishers
Embarrassment of Riches" (Ram-
dom House: So. Prof. Hal johnson
runs into something he hadn't
counted on when he boards a boat.
for Mexico; in fact, two some
things-first is Jane Blake. who
winds up being an unwilling pas
senger on the same boat; second is
Nazi spy ring.
Jane. in attempting to deliver
letter to johnson on the boat. Is
held in Johnsons cabin while the
boat pulls away from the dock
because johnson spies someone out !
side his cabin with a gun pointed
at him. The letter uniforms him
that he Is inheriting a couple Of
million dollars. most of which is
to be turned over to the Free
French cause. And that letter. to-
gether with Jane. gets him into a
lot of hot water
The girls situation of being on
board without even a toothbrush
calls for lot Of funny incidents.
And her constant association with
Johnson ripens into love that re-
suits in the usual book ending
after the spies are apprehended In
San Salvador, they clinch and live
happily ever after. You'll like the
Rosenberg character that bourcss
through the book doing good deeds
for everyone.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-11

the last appraisal set its value at
$4,000, the receivers motion states.
No indication has been given of
the identity of the prospective pur-
chaser, but 1t Is disclosed no brok-
erage fee will be involved in the
transaction and the payment will
be in cash.
The court writ, drawn up by As
sistant Attorney General Robert
Bowling in behalf Of the receiver,
states that the property includes
four stores, three Of which are
vacant at the present time. The
lawyer states few inquiries have
been made recently about rental Of
the stores.
Attorney Bowling states that al
though there are other stores in
the section, described as an indus
trial district, the buildings are
mainly of an obsolete mercantile
and dwelling type, and that COM
mercial activity there has tended
to point downward.
The motion points out that the
property constitutes the last real
estate, with the exception Of small
amount Of land, held among the
assets Of the receivership.