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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-06-09
WHO BLOCKS OIL PRODUCTION

We have heard lot about the i'm
portance of the government securing
naval oil reserves for the protection
of the country in an emergency. How
many people know that political red
tape is effectively blocking the use
of the Elk Hills Naval Reserve i'll
California, and preventing it from
furnishing oil for our armed forces
in the nations greatest crisis?
Robert E. Wilson, chairman of the
Petroleum Industry War Councils
Economics Committee, is urging i'm
mediate action in development Of
the Elk Hills reserve, contending
that it is fairly certain that about
$4,000 barrels daily of production
could be forthcoming from this field
before the end of the year if work
is started at once.
"This committee has several times
pointed out the necessity for the de-
velopment of crude oil from Elk
Hills" he explained.
Here is a known reserve with ev-
cry facility for producing oil, and
yet it lies stagnant, while official
Washington builds pipeline across
the frozen wastes of Canada at an
expenditure of nearly 100000, 900
to secure possibly one-tenth the daily
oil production to be found in it's Elk
Hills reserve. Agencies of govern
ment also seek to build a pipeline
across other foreign nations, from
the Persian Gulf to the Mediterran
can, for am coil reserve for future
wars" while right under our nose
one of the richest oil reserves, con-
trolled by the government, stands
idle .during this war.
1t would be hard to find better
reason for keeping government out
of business.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-06-09
URGES BOLD ACTION ON U. 8.
ROAD AID TO PREVENT WPA
RLNrIrRN
RETURN

The country will be heading for
another WPA headache" unless ac-
ton is taken soon by Congress on
legislation that will provide back
log of jobs, was charged by Congress
man j. Glenn Beall (R) of the Sixth
District, Maryland, and member o
the House Roads Committee.
With particular refernce to pend
ing bills providing for Federal high
way aid, Congressman Beall declared
that insurance against unemploy-
ment must be taken out in the form
of planned public works. Just as
life insurance is a sound investment
of relatively low cost, so it should
be in preparing for the peace" he
asserted
more than a year ago legislation
was introduced in Congress which
provided for authorization of a bill
Ion dollars per year for the first three
post war years as the Federal share
in large-scale road and street pro-
gram, with the work to be done by
private contract. Recently interest
has conferred around proposals which
would cut the original amount pro
posed by SO per cent.
I'm view of the vast highway needs
accumulated prior to and during the
war, and in view of the fact that
some 100000 men in uniform
and war workers will be seeking jobs
after the war, it would be the height
of folly to make only niggardly high
way construction plans.
Business and government leaders
are very much in agreement that
public works construction must be
available to fill any possible gap be-
tween job-seekers and jobs available.
A sound preparedness program en-
visages public works projects totaling
SIS, 900, 1000 per year. Of that
amount two and a half to three bill
lions should be generated through
highway construction.
Postwar plans are being made by
the dozen and if placed in operation
everyone of them would increase
highway usage. The roads and streets
of today cannot handle the traffic of
tomorrow. We need the roads; we'll
probably need the jobs produced by
their construction.
mo time should be lost in the
adoption of a forward-looking Fed
eral-aid bill which would make at
least ,OOO,0OO,O0O available for
use by the states, counties and cities
on a matching basis That step by
Congress would Immediately activate
the production of blueprints for con-
struction projects throughout the
entire country.
Everyone hopes that when the
war ends there will be plenty of jobs.
In that event, public works construc-
ton should be curtailed and saved
for the time when such work might
be needed. Such control can easily
be written into the Federal highway
measure"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-06-09
A CRISIS IN LUMBER
PRODUCTION

When Theodore Roosevelt was
President of the United States, he
convened a conference of national
industrial leaders, and that was the
first conference of the kind held at
the White House. In 1909, 44,510,-
900 board feet of lumber was produc
ed in the United States. Notwith
standing the greatly increasing de-
mand for lumber, the census figures
for 1871 showed that production was
33,476,000 board feet.
At the conference referred to
above, the authorities, who undoubt-
eddy included Frederick Weyerhaus-
er, the greatest lumber king in Amer
lean history, stressed the fact that
the numbering methods then in use
resulted in the loss of more than rs
per cent of the standing forests, due
to forest fires, and the absolute ne
elect to provide means to prevent
fires on cut-over land.
The American people showed no
concern, and in the lumber regions,
even east of the Mississippi River
the common belief was, whats the
use, there's enough timber for all
time" There never had been a
strike in lumber camps or in saw
mills up to the years when Theo-
dore Roosevelt was in Office.
Now, the strike of $1,000 CLIO
lumber workers on the Pacific Coast
region has caused national crisis, 4"
according to reports in the National
Capital. The War Production Board
stated that the nation will be short
one and one-half billion board feet
of lumber during the next three
months. The National War Labor
Board refused to approve the wage
increase demanded by the CIO lead
ers.
The White House Conference pro-
duced the facts forty years ago. But
the nation did not heed the warning.
There are similar warnings today
about supplies of natural rubber and
gasoline. But these warnings are not
being overlooked. American chemis-
try has met the issue and you can
believe the statements from the
American industrial leaders that as
sure the country that synthetic rub
Der and new processes by which the
raw petroleum products can be used
as the base, and chemical synthetic
processes added and multiplied over
and over, will insure plenty of gas
oline-or let's call it liquid fuel"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-06-09
PRIORITIES FOR WAR
VETERANS

Farmers and farm workers honor
ably discharged from the armed for
ces for medical or other reasons and
returning to the farm will be given
preference for rationed farm machin-
cry over other applicants whose con-
tribution to the war food program is
no greater than that offered by the
veteran, Joseph H. Blandford, chair
man of the Maryland Agricultural
Adjustment Agency announces. Up
wards of 100000 FORMER farm oper-
ators and workers have already been
discharged from the armed forces.
County farm machinery rationing
committees have been instructed to
render every possible assistance to
honorably discharged veterans.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-06-09
COAL FOR BREAKFAST

Strange as it may seem, most OF
us overlook the fact that heat is re-
quired to produce the countless he
cessities vital to our daily living
medicine, food, stoves, etc.
The Brooklyn bridge weighs "a
600 tons. In 1914, maintenance OF
our health and happiness will require
bituminous coal equivalent in weight
to 1888 Brooklyn bridges, or some
62O,OOO,O00 tons. Homes that never
consume pound of coal directly are
made habitable by the products de-
pendent on coal for their manufac-
ture.
Coal mining has long been made a
political football by politicians and
some labor leaders. Because of mis-
leading propaganda, the average
citizen pictures a coal miner as All
overworked, underpaid individual
According to recently published au-
thoritative figures, bituminous coal
miners in December, 1943, earned an
average of $52.85 per week. An in
side miner who works AZ hours a
week, earns a minimum of $57, and
up to 1885 in cases where the base
wage is SO a day. Piece workers
could earn as much as $500 month.
Such facts are a revelation to the
average person.
Bituminous coal, that dirty black
lump of carbon that you are careful
not to soil your hands with, plays a
part in your life, second only to food,
water and air.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-06-09
CONFUSION in AGRICULTURE

A most amazing situation exists in
the nations field of agriculture, ac-
cording to "The Farm Column" oil
Fortune for May: 1t shows we had
82,200,000 head of cattle as of Jan
uary 1, as against ten-year aver
age of 69,4O0,00O; and S3,800,000
hogs as against ten-year average of
return to farmers is from livestock
and livestock products, not crops.
1t is estimated that the needs of
dairy cattle, beef cattle, sheep and
lambs, horses and mules, swine, tur-
keys, chickens, and ducks, will be
145,794,000 tons of concentrate
feeds for the feeding year, and that
We are IL per cent short of that
amount.
''In essence, the problem resolves
itself down to the price of feedstuffs.
Ceiling prices on feeds, says Pro-
fessor Cunningham, prevent prices
from rising to sound the danger
warning and check livestock produc-
tion before feed supplies are exhaust
ed. In a free market price situation,
rising feed prices taper off demand.
Under the circumstances, it APP
pears that bad situation may be-
come worse and could be extreme
in event of the quick end of the war"
In the meantime, price ceilings,
floors, subsidies, rationing and crop
controls, confuse the farmer who is
in large measure helpless to meet
his problems.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-06-09
OUR FOREIGN POLICIES
BY j. Il. Jones

Washington, d. c., June 5-Pres-
ident Roosevelt announces that the
United States Government has COM
pleted the preliminary draft of a
plan for a new World League to
maintain peace, and it is being sub
mitted to other world powers
Secretary of State Hull has invited
Britain, Russia and China to send
representatives to Washington to be-
gin conversations" on the new in
ternational organization. The Secre-
tary of State is comforting with
Congressional leaders.
| Apparently the Administration
and Congress are favorable to an Or
ganization to follow the broad lines
of the League of Nations. Senator
| Connally, Chairman of the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee, has ex-
pressed the belief that this is the
logical plan.
| Progress has been made-because
| Congress insists on sharing the re-
sponsibilities that are to rule future
foreign relations. Boiling down all
confusing complications, the net re-
suit is that postwar terms agreed
upon after the war must be satisfac-
tory to Congress, as the Senate has
authority to approve or disapprove
treaties.
While President Roosevelt and
Secretary Hull and their representa-
| lives have gone long distances in
commitments other nations, the Ad-
ministration is perfectly familiar
with the established fact that Con-
gress will not take a back seat. The
President and his Administration are
not frightened by Congress-but ev-
| erybody knows what happened to
| President Wilson and his political
party after the Versailles Treaty
There are few things left that
cant happen again''-and this is
one of them.
One buzzing fly in the ointment is
the so-called Atlantic Charter There
is just about as much sincerity in it
individuals may be either
strangers or enemies-with saluta-
tons of Dear Mr.. Smith" and ter
minating with Sincerely yours"
The Atlantic Charter doesn't repre-
sent the ideals of the American peo-
pie; it doesn't fit the purposes of the
British Empire fact that Mr..
Churchill has already made known;
it must be like poison ivy to the Sta
lin government. Where it might pos
sibly fit is hard to determine, because
it is a confusion of words.
Foreign policies, so far, have been
composed of soft soap"-even so,
hey may have softened the way for
the global peace invasion that will
follow the war.
IF the next peace treaty is domi-
mated by the United States, Great
Britain and Russia-possibly with
China as the guest of honor-it
must definitely provide for just one
thing: The Prevention of Future
Wars. That is all that can possibly
De expected. The negotiations now
going on in Washington between the
White House and Capitol Hill evil
IDENTIFY realize that this is the basic
purpose, and the one principal aim
that is being sought in postwar
foreign relations. All other objects
are minor as compared with Winning
the Peace.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-06-09
FAKE MEDIUMS EXPOSED BY
NOTED MENTALIST

"Seers and Suckers" is the title OF
a new series of articles in which Jo-
seph Dunninger, master mentalist
and reader of thoughts, exposes fake
spiritualistic racket. Don't miss the
first of these revealing articles in the
June 18th issue of
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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-06-09
Revamping The Tax Structure

Tax simplification laws are a
DREAM" and while Congress talks
about reducing taxes and reshaping
some of the Administration rules
that govern taxes, the job is still
principally ''hot air. Government
costs will probably run between 20
and rs billion dollars a year after
the war. OF course, that will be less
than any wartime period Neverthe-
less, the figure is twice as high as
prewar costs.
The political authorities of the
nation are furnishing the figures, but
business and civilian interests of the
country must not boost their expecta-
tions in hopes that taxes will be low
cred. There are a hundred reasons
why they won't be lowered to one
reason to expect any reductions in
the figures.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-06-09
WHEAT LOAN RATES

Government wheat loan rates for
Maryland for 1914 are $1.60 per
bushel for No. / Red Winter Wheat,
$157 for No. 2 light garlicky and
$1.53 for No. garlicky. County Of
fees of the Agricultural Adjustment
Agency will administer the loans.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-06-09
Who Shall Escape?

There are gloomy predictions con-
corning the ability of big business to
furnish sufficient employment for re-
turning soldiers and civilians after
the war. Small business is even more
uneasy in considering the probabili-
ties of the future. When you come
to analyse the whole problem. the
result lands one in a confusion of
possibilities that involve all the eco
nomic conditions and systems No
Oody knows what the harvest Of
peace will reap. So do your own
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-06-09

VIA has stopped all sales of corn
in 125 midwest counties until gov
eminent purchasers can acquire S0,-
100000 bushels needed for war
products. The states affected are:
Minnesota, Nebraska, Iowa and Illi-
nois. Feeders may secure exemption
from their AAA committees.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-06-09

Four years ago the British were
wondering how much they could get
out of Dunkirk. Now they're figuring
how to get il. all back, with interest.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-06-09

Among the other shortages the
progress of the war has brought upon
Nazi Germany is let-up in the vol
ume of der Feuhrer's Dragging
speeches.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-06-09

Reliable inside reports from the
Southwest Pacific indicate that the
Japanese have postponed the date for
debating peace in the White House.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-06-09

Nazis indicate further retreats are
in order. Hitler is one man who does
not refuse to run.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-06-09

Catastrophe is purged from the
German language. Unless, Of course.
1t happens to the other fellow.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-06-09

Liquor industry is angered at man
ufacture of beverage alcohol from
potatoes. Couldn't we please every
body by distilhng some Of 1t from
parsnips2
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-06-09

The nations annual bituminous
coal consumption is $40, 900, 900
tons.
Evening star., 1944-07-18
lsiwRshoniinq
&Remindery@a

Canned Foods, Etc.-Book No. 4,
blue stamps A-8 through z-8 and
AS good indefinitely. Each stamp
worth 10 points.
Meats, Fats, Etc.-Red stamps AS
through z-8 continue good in
definitely for 10 points each. ALI
meats except beef steaks, roast
beef and choice cuts of lamb point
free. Until further notice, three
red stamps will be validated every
four weeks instead Of every two
weeks.
Points for Fats-Your meat dealer
viii pay two ration points for each
pound Of waste kitchen fats you
turn In The fact that lard, short
ening and cooking oils have been
removed from the ration list does
not mean fat collection Is less
essential.
SuSar-Book No. 4 stamps 30, 81 and
80 valid for S pounds indefinitely.
Book No. stamp 40 good for 5
pounds for home canning through
February 28, 1945.
Gasoiine-No. 10-A coupons good
Tor 8 gallons each through Auguss
.. BIS, B-4. C-3 and ca coupons
good for S gallons each.
Shees-Airplane stamps / and 2 In
Book No. ; good indefinitely for
ono pair Of shoes each.
Fuel On-Periods No. ( and 5 cou.
pous good for 10 gallons per unit
through September 30. Period I.
1sA-6 fuel oil ration good nov
Tor 10 eallons pr unit.
Evening star., 1944-07-18
District Man, "A, Held
In Fatal Stabbinq
Refuses to Waive
Extrodition to Virginia

James H. Bayles, "a. of the 120C
block of N street NV, was being
held in the District Jail today on
a charge of fatally stabbing Harris
C. Stewart, "a, of 1891 South
Twenty eighth street, Arlington
Sunday night during a quarrel out
side the home Of Bayles' father-in-
law near Morrisville. Fauquier Coun-
ty. Va. police reported.
Police said Bayles was arrested
last night at his home here. He
refused to waive extradition and
is being held without bond pending
a hearing in District Court Au-
gust II.
Charles G. Stone, Fauquier Coun-
ty commemorative attorney, said
the stabbing occurred during an
argument over bottle of wine at
the home of Lac Cooper, Bayles
father law.
Mr.. Stone said Bayles accused
Stewart Of hiding the wine, and in
the argument that followed Bayles
pulled out q knife and stabbed the
other man. Mr.. Stone said the
knife penetrated Stewards heart
He was taken into the house, where
he died before doctor could be
summoned.
Mr.. Stewart. who lived with his
mother at the Arlington address
was reported to have been employed
at the Quartermaster Depot at
Cameron. near Alexandria.
Evening star., 1944-07-18
Cameron Youth Committed
To Institution in Shootino

States Attorney Joseph B. simp-
son, jr., announced today that
James Cameron, 19-year-old Chevy
Chase youth indicted on a charge
Of assault with intent to kill a a.
year-old girl, has been sent to q
school for deficient youths in Devon,
Pa, for an indefinite period.
The commitment was made on
agreement Of the State attorneys
omce and Defense Counsel James
H. Pugh, Mr.. Simpson said. The
case, meanwhile, will remain in
allegiance pending treatment.
Transfer Of the youth from Chest
nut Lodge Sanitarium in Rockville
where he has been detained since
the shooting in March, to the Penn.
sylvania school was recommended
by a group of county psychiatrists,
Mr.. Simpson said the girl, Patricia
Kerlin of Chevy Chase, recovered
completely. She was shot in the
spine as she rode bicycle from her
home.
Evening star., 1944-07-18
Campaign for Clothing
For Italians Reaches Goal

The drive for clothing to be sent
to the homeless and poor of Italy
recently conducted by the War
Relief Committee of the National
Catholic Welfare Conference has
achieved its quota with more than
so tons of wearing apparel collected
and ready for shipment, it was an
nounced today by the Rev. Nicholas
De Carlo, pastor of Holy Rosary
Church, who served as treasurer and
director Of the committee.
The gymnasium at Catholic Uni
versity was used as a depot for the
clothing, largely collected in a door,
to-door campaign. Cash contribu-
tions were used to purchase new
clothing included in the shipment
which will leave as soon as shipping
space Is available.
Evening star., 1944-07-18
Summer Waste Paper
Collections Show
Marked Increase
TotoI for Yesterday
Is One Ton Higher Than
For Previous Monday

A definite ana encouraging up
ward trend has marked the couec-
ton OF wastepaper at the public
Fairgrounds operating in The Eve
ming Star Recreation Department
summer salvage program during the
last few days.
Yesterday was no exception. the
total for the day being ton higher
than on the previous Monday
bringing the weight collected since
the school term needed to $4,000
pounds.
+ The number of inquiries from
rhouseholders concerning the loca-
ton OF Fairgrounds and collection
days shows growing interest on
the part Of those with small collec-
tions.
Yesterdays collection brought fou,
more Fairgrounds into the pro.
gram, Randle Highlands, For,
Greble. Syphax and Barry Farms
and two schools, jefferson JUNO,
and Orr turned in sizeable collec.
tions, Jefferson having 1926 pound,
and Orr 2,l90 pounds.
Congress Heights which had q
first collection last week with l,42(
pounds stepped it up this week t.
l,7O0 pounds. Payne and Virgins
Avenue were both ahead of las,
week. Randle and Knox Hill wer,
on slightly but there Is no slack.
Ing of interest. 49, s.. ee..s. s
Oolecuons tomorrow will be a.
Evening star., 1944-07-18
Woman Held 10 Grand Jury
On Charge Of Biqamy

Mrs. Marylyn Matthew Dowdy, %,
OF 1901 E street Sc. was held for
grand jury action in Municipal Court
today on charge of bigamy. The
defendant. according to police, mar
ried Dale Robert White. "a, a sailor
at the Navy Yard. on May 7, 1943
Police allege she also married Fritz
Mertens, jr "a, railroad worker, on
May %, 1914, without obtaining a
divorce.
Mrs. Dowdy, who is held under
$500 bond, obtained both marriage
certificates under alias, police say.
According to police, Mrs. Dowdy
and Mr.. Mertens were leaving a cafe
on Ninth street Northeast when Mr.,
White approached and asked Mr..
Mertens what he was doing with his
wife. Mr.. Mertens claimed she was
his wife, and then the two men took
the matter to the United States
attorneys office.
She was convicted of bigamy in
West Virginia tn 1888. according to
police.
Evening star., 1944-07-18
damned Truck Ties Up
Fourteenth Street CarIine

All traffic on the Fourteenth
street carline was tied up for Is
minutes shortly after noon today
while a police wrecking crew pulled
free a small delivery truck which
was wedged between two streetcars.
Joseph Toleman, II, r. F. D. l, Sill
yer Spring, Md, was the driver of
the truck belonging to the Chevy
Chase Motor Co., 7705 Wisconsin
avenue. Bethesda. Md, police said.
Toleman told police he was driving
north when at Rhode Island avenue
he was forced to swerve to the left
of the streetcar loading platform to
avoid a collision with another au-
tomobile. AS he did so a north
bound streetcar struck his truck
and turned it around. Then it was
struck by southbound streetcar
and jammed between the two street.
cars
Robert E. Dar, So. Alexandria,
Va, was the driver of the north
bound streetcar and the other car
was operated by Howard M. Reedy
4403 Iowa avenue NV. police said.