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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-12-15

LIE tllC A1lAlA0tk .
started his own business career in
the stock room of a roller-bearing
works, then rose rapidly as vice pres
ident of General Motors and, at 81,
as chairman Of the U. S. Steel cor
poration. Smiling, hearty and blunt,
Stettinius has been chiefly noted for
his ability in handling people.
Secretary of State for IL years,
Hull held the post longer than any
other American in history before
forced out by ill health. In the posi-
ton, he worked for a freer world
trade through his reciprocal agree
ments, and from the first advocated
use of force for the suppression of
aggression. An old line southerner
in new deal government, Hull was
considered tempering factor in a
liberal administration.
FARM INCOME:
Up Again
With income from crops 10 per
cent greater than last year, and re-
ceipts from livestock and livestock
products per cent more, farm in
come for the first 10 months of 1914
totalled $18, 430, 900, 900, s per cent
above the same period in 1913, the
u. S. department of agriculture re-
ported.
At the same time, the USDA said
that farm prices, which have only
changed about per cent within the
last year, would probably remain
exceptionally stable for several
more months. /
With the 1944'45 domestic supply
Of the four principal feed grains put
at 1872, $780, 900 tons, the USDA de-
clared that not only would all re-
quirements be met, but additions
would be made to reserves, cut sub
stantially in the 1941-'43 feed years.
WAR BONDS
With government outgo in the
first nine months of the present fis-
cal year ending in July totalling $780,
000, 000, 600, and receipts equalling
$35, O00, 000, 900, Uncle Sam will be
forced to borrow SAT, OOO, OOO, 900. War
Finance Director Ted Gamble said.
OF the $50 ,OOO, OOO. 900, Gamble re-
vealed, $72, 000, O00, 900 will be spent
on the war and other government
uses, while $40, 200, 100000 will rep
resent money needed to redeem Sc
curities maturing within the nine
months. -af
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-12-15

cablnet, MS place
as secretary Of state
was assumed by
personable Edward
Stettinius, A, an
other of the nations
b j 6 business men
who have m a d e
good recently in
governmentalranks.
Son Of a Morgan
partner, Stettinius,
talked out Of join
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-12-15
Expert Knowledge
Needed on Many Bills


not men in congress who know as
much and more than many Of the
persons appearing before them In
favor Of, or in opposition to, a par
ticular bill. But even senator can't
be all things to all men.
Then there are the well-heeled
lobby groups with their technical
experts.
What can n committee with lin
tied appropriation do in competition
with private group with funds to
hire the best legal or technical
brains in the country to present its
case? How can member Of con-
gressional committee be expected to
know as much about subject as a
member Of q government depart
ment who spends his whole time on
the particular subject involved? !.
Fortunately, the situation is
durable. One answer is-greater
specialization on the part Of the
members Of congress. This can
be accomplished by cutting
down the number Of committees
upon which q member is allowed
to serve. In the house with its
larger membership a member
can concentrate on a single COM
mittee's work. In the senate,
/ know of one case where q
senator found that all six COM
mittees on which he served were
scheduled to meet at the same
time on the same day.
Another solution for the problem
would be provision for employment
Of non-political experts, both tenn
porary and permanent, to advise
committees on purely technical mat
tiers. This arrangement now exists
but In such limited degree that 1t
Is hardly effective.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-12-15

tive branch Of the government in
the last two years can be seen when
1t Is realized that the two most popu-
lar charges offered were either
that congress was a rubber
stamp" or that it was "obstruc-
ZIONIST" which adds up to a con-
tradiction.
Because Of the fact that the
growth Of the country has de-
manded an increase i'm the
body Of administrative and
executive law, congress is
forced to delegate more power
and more functions to- the adj
ministrative branch. To over
come this trend i'm SO far as
possible will be one Of the ef-
forts Of the reorganization, Of
which I will speak in a mo-
ment. Meanwhile, 1t is interest
ing to note that Senator LaFol-
lette himself called attention to
the accomplishing of the Tru-
man investigating committee in
exposing executive errors al
ready committed and in pre-
venting others by the mere
threat Of "ever present exposure
and censure."
The one field In which congress
can greatly increase it's efficiency
and in so doing, not only checking
willful aggression Of the administra-
tive and executive branches but rem
dering real assistance to them and
to the whole nation, is in a re-
organization of the committees and
their methods.
Congress at present Is not
equipped to offer sufficient con-
structive help in the writing Of
legislation and therefore, frequent
ly, the last word goes, by default,
to the interested government
agency, or that particular pressure
group armed with the technical in
formation necessary to bolster its
case.
Representative Smith Of Virginia,
in the report of his committee to in
vestigate executive agencies, brings
out this point, as others have. The
report says:
"Today large percentage of the
most important legislation Is !.
painstakingly drafted by the very
executive officials who are intended
to be the recipients Of the powers
which the legislation delegates.
Furthermore, the same officials
are generally the only expert and
fully informed witnesses to testify
before the legislative committees Of
the congress having jurisdiction
over the proposed bills. II there are
opposing witnesses they do not, az
a rule, represent congress or the
people generally but rather some
special group"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-12-15
NEW FACE:
Smiling Diplomat

AS elder statesman COrdeI HUH,
70, passed from the presidential
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-12-15

| Gen. Macarthur on Leyte airdrome with
lace Bong Cat ieftD and 1t. Gen. George
Kenney (right).
ering Japanese news commentators
Threatened that "albino apes para
chuting onto japanese soil from dis
dressed Superfortresses would be
''killed on the spot by angry peo-
pie"
ydps Cain
Pushed to the wall In the Philip,
pines, the Japs had better luck in
China, where Chang Kai-shek's ar
mies were hard put to it In an at.
tempt to blunt an enemy drive
aimed at cutting the Burma road
to Chungking. A2-
! Thrusting westward from their
north-south juncture at Liuchow,
where they joined to seal off the
whole eastern Chinese coast, Jap
columns stood about 100 miles from
The Burma road, key communica-
tions line linking much of the south
ern part of the country.
4 AS the Japs pressed forward, they
claimed 10000 Chinese troops were
falling back on the big highway bas-
tion Of Kweiyang, where strong
stand was expected to block any
drive further northward toward
Chungking, Kai-shek's headquarters.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-12-15
YankS in Battle

With the greater number unknown
heroes, U. S. soldiers, slogging
through the mush on the western
front into Germany, are only identi
fled in the mass as members of the
various army units driving on.
ward.
Included in General Simpsons
9th army battling along the Roer
river were the End armored divi-
sion, the 10Th, 30th and 102nd
infantry divisions, organized in
the 10th corps.
With General Hodges LIST
army fighting east of Aachen
were the Bird and 5th armored
divisions, and LIST, End, 3rd, 4th.
9th, 9th, 28tA 38th, and 104th
infantry divisions, organized in
5th, 7th and 9th corps.
General Patton's 3rd army
driving into the Saar included
the 4th, 9Th and 10th armored
divisions, and 5th, 26th, 35th,
Both, Goth and 95th infantry divi-
sions, organized in the 18th and
10th corps.
Fighting alongside the French
in General Patch's 7th army
east of the Vosges were the 3rd,
36th, 44th, 45th, 10th, Tooth and
103rd U. S. infantry divisions,
organized in 9th and 18th corps.
Among other units reported on
the western front were the 82nd
and 101st U. S. airborne divi-
sions and the 7th U. S. armored
and Gath U. S. infantry divisions.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-12-15
WESTERN FRONT:
Battle of Attrition


To the Nazis being pressed back
to the Rhine, the great battles rag
ing along the western front were
"the most ferocious in all history"
To doughboys of the U. S. Ninth,
First, Third and Seventh armies,
slogging forward in heavy gush,
they were the hardest of the war,
with desperate resistance encoun-
tered at every step.
With airplane activity limited by
somber skies and rainfalls, the bat
tie was being fought along the
ground, with heavy U. S. field ar
tillery and big, rumbling tanks pour
ing their deadly fire into enemy en-
trenchments to clear the way for
the doughboys of the infantry.
Although General PattOn's
Third army about the Saar, and
General Patch's Seventh army
east of the Vosges, maintained
heavy pressure on Nazi lines,
the focal point Of action GEN.
tered on the Ninth and First
army fronts between Julich and
Duren.
East of the small, but strategic,
Roer river, both of these towns are
vital communications centers, with
elaborate highways running in from
the Rhineland to feed other road
ways running to the north and south.
AS the great battle of attrition-
wearing down-rose in tempo, this
highway network was vital to the
Germans in rushing troops and ma
terials to the endangered front, and
then transferring them to the north
and south.
Indicative Of the great pressure
General Eisenhower was exerting in
this sector was the report that his
opponent, foxy Field Marshal Won
Rundstedt, had transferred troops
from the Dutch front to the Julich-
Duren sector to cope with the Allied
powerhouse.
No sooner had the report come
through than it was announced that
Canadian troops had taken the field
on the Dutch front, increasing Al
lied pressure back in this sector,
and giving the German high COM
mand no rest.
Slowed in their frontal as
sault ON Budapest, Russian
armies crossed the Danube to
the south Of the Hungarian cap
ital to thrust one spearhead
northward toward the embattled
city and another westward to-
ward the Austrian frontier, less
than 100 miles away.
SEDITION TRIAL:
Death Ends 1t
With the death Of 65-year-old JUS
tice Edward c. Eicher of Iowa, the
seven-month-long, and at times far
cical, sedition trial Of 26 defendants
in Washington, D. c., came to an
abrupt end, with small chance of
resumption.
Although government counsel said
the trial could go on if both the U. S.
and defendants agreed to the selec-
ton Of another judge, 1t was recalled
that federal court previously had
ruled that justice required compile
ton of case by the same Judge and
jury and no substitutions could be
made, even with consent. Thus, the
government was faced with the al
tentative Of starting new proceed
ings.
Even though the trial of the 26
defendants, accused of trying to UNI
dermine the morale of the U. S.
armed forces and establish a Nazi
form Of government in this country,
had already taken up seven months,
government counsel revealed that
at least six more months would be
necessary to complete presentation
of its evidence. With defendants
attorneys expected to consume an
additional three to six months, the
case promised to last about year
and half.
Evening star., 1944-03-21
Fights Last Night
By the Associated Press.

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Ans.les sAltT1MoREmSleo an3paIn,.S shans; 1872, Los
camD Hoabrd o ND TsTss1 snas}ed Rey o 7s
my pI1eTsp1s3c; gell. 1s3; Washhington; 2; 100
Rubg Ms!1er Garcia. rse.
l34. Puerto Rico, 10. Bee Bee Wright,
I49, Charlton, Pa, outpointed Jackie
Al AArmittage, 149A. New Kensington,
soi'4Rssf5 4vsss 3!
llyn, and Tony Brandino, 1901, Ham
alton; ontario, drew, S.
chaae9 and CHARLEY fPRfSn Pa2hsm l42H T.
177Ha. Chicago, knocked out Freddie
GrlEgs; RINc,IssspMGHp ae9; MemHphis' 2. c.,,,,
Miller Mi "a a. T5osssn nosjg o.sPSn!sd aSl Joe
IA. New YORK; Knocked ' out -Is; STANLEY
MYkei NV l'e; oRREzNs.. RRRHEtzssN1s. 2 2: Buddy Scott
J5s9H' ,Soutpointed Gunnar Barlund,
Philadelphia, ,outpointed Benny RobeI-
Me- NEWARk. n J.3Harold Red.
Danny 1ss1'r Martin, III y; Newark, 5.
pointed Jerry McGee, 155. Augusta, i W 8.
Paterson, N. j., outponted Johnny
Finney. 1853. Philadelphia, 8, Lester
Cue Bali Young. 140. Philadelphia,
knocked out Tom Soya. 1875, Brook
ALLENTOWN, Pa.-Danny Devlin,
I76, Allentown, knocked out Bill
lis, Riverside, N. j., outpointed Lee
Scheirer, l24, Hokendauqua, Pa, g.
HOLYOKE. Mastery Riorello,
I59. New York, outpointed Freddy
Wilson, 1876, New York, 10. Lou
Falco. 1885, Hartford, outpointed Bill
Adams. l37, Worcester.
NEW BRITAIN, Conn.-Sam Mall
eney. 179. New York, drew. s. Henry
Davis. 139. New Britain, knocked out
Little Joe Louis, 40. Paterson, N J. 9
Evening star., 1944-03-21
Cain Leads as ; Break
Hockey Scoring Mark
Es the Associated Press.

bS the ASSOClaleu ETeSS.
MONTREAL, Mar. 21.-The Ma
tional Hockey League released the
final official scoring statistics Of the
season today, showing Boston's
Herbie Cain with new league
record of 80 points, nine above the
former record.
Doug Bentley of Chicago with n
points, and Toronto's Lorne Carr,
with "a, also smashed the former
record hung up in 1929-30 by Cooney
Weiland of Boston and equaled last
year by Bentley. Carl Liscombe of
Detroit tied the old mark with 73
points.
Clint Smith of Chicago hung up a
new record for assists, his 40 for the
season being four better than the
old mark of Bill Cowley set in
1901. Elmer Lach of Montreal
was right hebind Smith in the
assists, with 48, while Cain also
broke the old mark by drawing
credit for 46.
Bentley chalked up 38 goals, two
better than Cain, Carr and Lis
combe, but well below the phe-
nomenal A goals in % games raped
in by Joe Malone of Montreal in
1918.
Lach and Smith finished in a
Tie for fifth place in the combined
standings, with 70 points each, one
ahead of Boston's Bill Cowley, who
was cinch to lead the league If it
hadn't been for loss of more than
a month through injuries.
Evening star., 1944-03-21
Burlington Is Hockey
Champ by 7 Points

NEW HAVEN, Conn, Mar. 2l.-
Tom Burlington of Cleveland Is me
new champion point-scorer Of the
American Hockey League today, but
the one goal and one assist he
scored last week represented the
slim margin Of points which sepa-
rated him from the fast climbing
Fred Hunt of Buffalo.
Burlington wound I'D the season
with 80 goals and 40 assists for q
total of 50 points. Hunt, who had
been tied with Les Cunningham of
Cleveland for second place, poked
in four goals and participated In
four assists for a total of 8 points
and neat aggregate OF 80. Cum
ningham landed in third place with
q rs.
There was no change in the
standing of the three leaders for
the dubious honor of having
tenanted the cooler the longest.
Gordon Sheriff of Indianapolis
topped that list.
Evening star., 1944-03-21
Cleveland, Buffalo Hosts
As A. |. Ice PIayoffs Open

The American Hockey League
playoffs open tonight at Cleveland
and Buffalo with crowds of 10000
anticipated.
At the Ohio lake city the Barons,
champions of the Western division,
entertained the Hersey Bears, who
nosed out Buffalo for the Eastern
division title. Indianapolis, run
nerup to Cleveland in the West,
plays at Buffalo.
The two series will continue until
one team has won four games. The
winners then will meet in a similar
best four-of-seven game series for
the championship.
Cleveland, although beaten in its
last two regular-season league
games by Indianapolis, is favored
over the Eastern champions. Buf-
falo, likewise, is favored to win on
its home ice.
The second games of the series
will be played Thursday, with
Cleveland at Hershey and Indian
apolis again at Buffalo.
Evening star., 1944-03-21

The first-place Montreal team en-
tertains the third-place Toronto
Maple Leafs, while the second place
Detroit Red Wings are host to the
fourth-place Chicago Blackhawks
The winners of these semif1nal best
four -of-seven-game series will NEE,
in similar series for the recog-
nized world title.
Beaten only twice by Toronto In
10 games during the regular season
Montreal is 2-to-1 favorite to win
the semifinal series and a 7-to-5
choice to take the Stanley Cup. II
Is the first time since 1925 that the
two Canadian teams have met In q
cup elimination series.
Detroit likewise is heavy favor
ite to whip the Blackhawks. The
Red Wings have a jinx working for
them. The Hawks have been unable
to win on Detroit ice In 10 con-
secutive game stretch dating back
more than four years.
The second games of the series
will be played on Thursday at the
same cities, then shift to Toronto
and Chicago.
Evening star., 1944-03-21
By r. r. TAYNTON.

At the recent American Kennel
Club delegates meeting a new ruling
: was passed by vote of 26 to "a, pro-
viding that dog must win at least
three points in his own sex before a
: certificate of championship is grant,
ed. This does not eliminate the old
rule which grants to the best of
winners the greater number of
points in his breed. Best of winners
still means that the dog winning this
honor is entitled to the number of
points won by the dog he defeats
In other words, if there is only one
point in dogs and three in bitches,
and the dog goes to best of winners,
he still gets the three points And
the three points still count towards
his championship. But, somewhere
along the line, he has to defeat
enough males to make three points
before he officially can be cham
@pion.
The voting was close and the op-
position to the new ruling was vocif-
lerous, an innovation at delegates
meetings. But the ruling does seem
a step in the right direction. There
have been entirely too many cham
spionships founded on best of win
sners points Professional handlers
frequently make a point Of carrying
six bitches and one dog on a circuit
six bitches in many breeds make
five points and in many more breeds
make three points. The bitches
make points for one or more of their
own number, and the dog rides to
the title on the strength of their
wins, sometimes without ever meet
ing a real contender in his own sex.
In our opinion, the American Ken
mel Club has not gone far enough
in the effort to stamp out easy or
unworthy championships. In the
final analysis the dog show is a
breeders proving ground. The
worth of breeding animal is in
what he produces. Should one wait
for an opportunity to appraise him
finally on the strength of his get,
one might have to wait until the
dog is past his peak. However, a
dog Is not useful as breeding ami
NAL until he is mature, at least,
and his final valuation in the show
ring ought to wait until that time
Z Puppies frequently have the bloom
Evening star., 1944-03-21
Auburn After voy|es,
W. & N. Grads Open
Drive 10 Keep Him
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
RICHMOND, Va, March 21.-
William and Mary's football-mind-
ed alumni, alarmed at the prospect
of losing a coach who has brought
the school into the gridiron lime
light during the past five years, are
urging the college Board of Visitors
to take steps to retain Carl Voyles.
A number of old grads have ex-
pressed concern over reports that
Alabama Poly is planning to offer
the head football coaching job to
Voyles and the Norfolk w. and M.
Alumni Club, largest group of for
mer students of the college in the
country, passed resolutions urging
the board to offer Voyles a five
year contract with liberal specifca-
tions that will enable him to carry
forward fine program of athletics
and physical education"
The Norfolk alumni, expressing
complete satisfaction" with the
athletic regime at w and M. re-
quested the Board of Visitors to meet
promptly to counter the efforts Of
Auburn to sign the coach.
Meanwhile, at Williamsburg, DR..
John E. Pomfret, president of the
college, stated that Voyles was a
free agent" and that the college
would not stand In his way If he
wished to go to Auburn. DR.. Pom
fret said Voyles has an indefinite
contract that goes on year after
year as long as he likes"
Voyles went to Auburn to confer
with DR.. L. N. Duncan, president Of
the Alabama school, during the
week end, but neither DR.. Duncan
nor Voyles had any comment as to
the outcome.
Voyles, for seven years first as
sistant to Wallace Wade at Duke,
has had unusual football success in
four seasons at w. and M, his teams
winning 20 games, losing 7 and tie
ing 8. His last club in 1912 won the
Southern Conference championship,
defeated Navy, Dartmouth and Ok
lahoma, tied Harvard and lost only
to the North Carolina Pref1ight.
Evening star., 1944-03-21
Champ Five Celebrates
But Trophy Is MISSING

TAYLORVILLE. Ill, Mar. 21.-
Only one thing was missing at the
celebration given the newly crowned
State school basket ball champions
the title trophy wasn't on exhibit
In the excitement of leaving the
University of Illinois, scene of the
tourney, the schools No. / fan, Ned
Podeschi, who was charged with
custody of the trophy, was half way
home before he discovered he had
forgotten it. He sped back to Cham
paign but he was too late in ar
irving home to display it at the
teams welcoming home party.
Evening star., 1944-03-21
New Ruling on Show Dog Points
Appears in Right Direction

and beauty of youth which catch the
judges eye and win points. That Is
all right. A puppy is entitled to
those points if he is better than any
of the other entries. But, beautiful
puppies often make mediocre adults.
A hundred things can go wrong with
an 8-month-ol puppy which would
rule 1t out as potential sire or
brood matron. He may go coarse,
he may go oversize, he may not de-
velop up to full size. If dog shows
that he can win one, or possibly two,
three point shows after he is a year
old he demonstrates the lasting
quality one wants in breeding stock.
Evening star., 1944-03-21
Boys Title Fives Beut
AlI-Stors 2 Out of 3

Police Boys Clubs basket ball
teams ended their season with two
of the three championship teams
defeating All-Stars from their weight
divisions.
The All-Stars won in one instance
with the Midget All-Stars topping
No. II, midget champ, 4-3. In other
games, No. 10 defeated Junior ALL
Stars, 1924, and No. IL won over
Senior All-StarS, 1921.