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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-01-14

southern Italy, aerial and naval war
fare in Europe stepped up.
Fleets of Allied bombers winged
their way over the English channel
to pound Nazi Notifications along
the French coast, and the Raj
rained another 1924 tons of explo-
sives on battered, hapless Berlin.
Following the British home fleets
sinking of the 26,000-ton Nazi battle
ship Scharnhorst off North Cape,
Norway, light Allied and German
naval units tangled in the Atlantic
off the French coast, with airplanes
being called into play to help sink
three enemy destroyers and a
speedy blockade runner.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-01-14
Uncle Ma
Sys: -

Some couples manage to patch
up their old quarrels until they
are almost as good as new.
4 The felloto icho is continually in hot
toater doesn't necessarily haze clean
record.
Luck may plant a man in a high
post of Importance, but ability has
to keep him there.
Better the shoulder to the wheel
than the back to the wall.
Broad hints are wasted on mar
row-minded people.
Don't tell other people your troubles.
Most of them don't tUant to lister and
the rest are glad you hare them.
Have you noticed, the chronic
kicker never kicks himself.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-01-14
FORTRESS EUROPE:
Step Up Action

Bringing heavy artillery into play,
Lieut.. Gen. Mark Clark's Fifth army
blasted the Nazis from strong points
blocking the 75-mile road to Rome,
while farther to the east, the British
clambered past the enemy's Adri-
attic bastion of Ortona, won after
more than a week of vicious street.
to-street fighting.
AS u. S. and British troops
punched their way through the
Nazis' stiff mountain defenses in
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-01-14
B r E f s.. by Baukhage AsAss''

The American Palestine commit
tee has launched nationwide drive
to mobilize American public opinion
in support of the movement to re-
establish the Jewish national home
in Palestine.
On December 7, 1941, building of
a 4-engined bomber required the
work of 70 men for year; today,
only II workers do the same job.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-01-14

came WITHIN closer
range of U. S. bomb
ing planes with the
marines capture OF
two air strips on
Cape Gloucester on
the western end of
the island.
F ollo w in G up
he avy bonn bin G
which helped crum-
pie the enemy S
strong line of pill
boxes, the marines
stormed remaining
Tan rocifiopc xx,ifh
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-01-14
1errnany's Second Army
Is Maj Way Of Total War
Storm Troopers, Elite Guard Are Backbone of
HitIer's Special Military Forces; Every
Third German in Uniform.
BY BAUKHAGE
Netus analyst and Commentator.

there are many ramifications which
are strictly under the party con-
trol-the Nazi transportation corps
three separate air groups, the ia
nous "Todt" organization (ftodt"
means death in German but in this
case it is mans name). This is a
great construction (and now, after
the bombing, reconstruction) organi-
cation, the boys who parade with
shovels instead Of guns.
There are several others-the
Labor service, trained in camps
(something like the old CCC camps
in this country; then come the va
rious welfare, women's and youth
organizations.
This deep RECOMMENDATION (remem-
Der, one out of three in uniformly is
the Nazi way of creating a total
war that is total. When the German
armies are beaten, these organiza-
tions will still remain. They can
work on after defeat unless they are
uprooted.
A fuller realization of this prob
lem may make it easier for Ameri-
cans to understand why, after his
latest trip to Europe, the President
is in sober mien, why the high
army officials and the civilians who
know this problem intimately, hope
that civilian America will not wax
overconfident on the eve of military
victory.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-01-14
HICHLIcHTs 80. /. Oh. week. ....
INSURANCE.:

INSURANCE: British maritime
insurance companies have reduced
the war risk rates on cargoes to and
from the United Kingdom to about
half the former rate, rejecting the
greater security of the seas.
RESTAURANTS: The nations
restaurants, hard pressed by food
restrictions and difficulties in keep
ing employees, are serving rs mil
lion persons daily.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-01-14

Canned orange and grapefruit
juice is supplied to bombing crews
and submarine crews.
.
A total Of 1876. 1000 tons of lime,
enough to make $500 heavy car
loads, is used every year in the
United States in connection with ag-
ricultural insecticides and fungi
cides.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-01-14
Traffic Toll Drops

On the basis of reports for III
months, the National Safety Council
estimated that Americas traffic
death toll for 194S would reach % 600,
$4,000 below the prewar year 1871.
The north central region Of the
q. S. showed the sharpest decrease
for the III month period, with 20 per
cent less fatalities than in the SINH
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-01-14

lar period last year. The mountain
region recorded q drop Of rs per
cent, the south central "a per cent,
the north Atlantic % per cent
and the Pacific per cent.
Mount Vernon, N. Y, was the
largest city in the country without
a fatality in the first IL months Of
1913, while among cities Of 100000
population or more, st. Louis report
ed the biggest decline of So per cent
and Philadelphia the smallest with
I per cent.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-01-14
PREssURE COOKERS: Th

PRESSURE COOKERS: The gov
eminent has taken pressure cook
ers off the ration list, but all pur-
chasers win be required to specify
that they intend to use the cookers
for preserving food. Retailers have
been instructed to take the custom
er's word for it. Those wanting
cookers for other purposes must
make application with the War Food
administration Office in Washington.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-01-14
OPA UPHELD

Officials of the Office of Price Adj
ministration in replying to a house
committee charge that the OPA was
guilty of ''usurpation and abuse of
its powers pointed out that the
courts have upheld the OPA orders
in nearly all tests.
Out of 1891 cases to the end of
September, the courts have rem
dered decisions favorable to the
OPA in all but 29l actions, officials
said. They also denied that OPA
regulations have caused ''wide-
spread business failures"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-01-14
FOOD:
Chickens. Points

AS the War Food administration
requisitioned ITO million pounds OF
dressed chicken and fowl for the
government, OPA slashed point
values on canned vegetables and or
dered frozen vegetables point-free.
WAS action was prompted by
the governments inability to obtain
more than 20 per cent of the fowl
they required in recent months, and
the army was said to be particularly
anxious to get the poultry for Sum
day dinners at camp and hospital
diets. Civilians may be little affect
ed by WAS order, however, since
it does not apply to stock stored
after December 80, 1913.
Because of comfortable stocks of
canned green and wax beans, zero
point values were established for
them. A 10 per cent reduction in
consumer demands for canned peas
and tomatoes during the last two
months led OPA to chop their point
values for No. and 21s cans to Is.
In an attempt to move frozen vege-
tables from storage to make room
for record pork stocks, all point
values were removed.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-01-14
s. 1 t!zE; 4lEss9R
(tAS GIS >)wnRlnrs LARGEST srlIeR ar ins
Queer Names Bring Fine
'WDRlD's LARGEST Seller At co.

Queer Names Bring Fine
Zoroaster and Jupiter are the
names of two children of Buenos
Aires, Argentina. Their parents
were fined on the ground that they
had no right to give them absurd
names.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-01-14
RAILROADS.:
Strike Off

Seeking to avert threatened
strike after the switchmen, conduc-
tors and firemen and enginemen had
refused his offer to arbitrate their
wage demands against the carriers,
President Roosevelt quickly seized
the nations railroads for the gov
eminent.
Representing about 100000 men,
the three unions had baked at pres
idential Intervention even after the
trainmen and engineers accepted
FDR's proposal, as result of which
they received an overall pay in
crease of 9 cents an hour.
Also accepting FDR's offer at the
last minute were the is non-operat-
ing railroad unions representing
1,150, 1000 employees, who suddenly
agreed to a former government pro-
posal of pay increases ranging from
10 cents an hour for the lowest paid
to cents an hour for the highest
paid, but also insisted on overtime
compensation past 40 hours.
Biggest Year
Nineteen hundred and forty-three
was the greatest year in the history
of American railroads.
~ 725 billion ton-miles of freight
were handled, ton-mile equaling
one ton hauled one mile.
(2) Passenger traffic totaled IS bill
lion passenger miles.
(3) Gross earnings exceeded 9 bill
lion dollars, although net operating
income amounted to / billion, 385
million dollars.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-01-14
SOUTHWEST PACIFIC:
Bombings Jar Japs

Japan's great air and shipping
base of Rabaul on New Britain
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-01-14
CCC Program,

To help stimulate production and
fulfill commitments to support crop
and livestock prices, the Commod-
ity Credit corporation spent 31s bill
lion dollars during the 1913 fiscal
year.
AS of December 10, CCC possessed
80, 1893, 1888 bushels of wheat under
1912 loan, while 96,101, $40 bushels
were redeemed. CCC wheat stocks
at that date totaled $685. 00
bushels.
Principal objective of the Gees
1913 program was to increase the
production of vegetable oils, dairy
and poultry products and meats, and
at the same time to underwrite OPA
price ceilings.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-01-14
CLASSIFIED
D E p "A r T M Z NJ r
Nurses Training Schools
MAKE UP TO $e5-ss5 WEEK as trained
Booklet free. CHICAGO SCHOOL OF
NURSING, Dept. CIVIL. Chicago.
Hard Blizzard

In the terrible blizzard that
swept the northwestern section of
the United States in 1883, thou
sands of head of cattle were fro
zen standing up on their feet in
the fields.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-01-14
WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS
Nazis Reel Under Combined Pressure
OF Heavy Air Attacks and Sea Losses;
New Air Blows Strike laps in Pacific;
Fifth Army Steps Up Assaults in Italy

EDITORS these Tanss they are snsss
Release by
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-01-14
AGRICULTURE:
Meat Production

Farmers received an all-time high
of four billion dollars for livestock
slaughtered under federal inspection
in 1943 as meat production also
reached an all-time high of more
than "a billion pounds.
Fifty per cent more meat was pro-
duced than during the 10-year pre-
war average, but after ALLEGATIONS
to the government, civilian con-
sumption was held to the prewar
rate of 1872 pounds per person. Be-
cause of rationing, however, sup
plies were more evenly distributed
than formerly.
Meat output for 1914 was estimat-
ed at Is billion, 800 million pounds,
of which 8 billion, 500 million pounds
will be required for military and
lend-lease purposes.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-01-14
Status of Fascisrr,
In Spain

IN SpQln
One of the things that was not dis
cussed by the "Big Three" or the
"Big Four" in the recent meetings
at Cairo and Teheran, as far as the
world knows, was Spain.
The President, in answer to a
direct question when he returned,
said he did not see Franco. He adj
mitted, however, that something de-
layed his return. He never said
what.
There have been signs that some
one has been whispering into Cen
eralissimo Francois ear just the
same.
He has disbanded the Falangists.
They are the uniformed party mem
bers, real military and hard-fisted
bunch of uniformed fascists, the ac-
tive party members of the Spanish
fascisrno.
saw few in Spain. They were
polite to me as a foreigner but they
were not pleasant people. The ones
/ met in the ranks were raw, I'M
tutored youths, anxious for tips;
glad, I would imagine, in that
wrecked nation, to get food and a
suit of clothes from the government.
There is nothing more hardboiled,
of course, than hardboiled youth.
Take away from him the decent out
lets for his animal spirits-on the
ball field, in the school yard, any,
where where he can whoop and hol-
Ter and be himself-and what hap
pens? A terrific, pent-up force, all
the primitive emotions seeking an
outlet. The Nazis and the fascists
knew this and their strength is still
in the strength of the youth they
perverted: the primal instincts of
the caveman, which Turk within all
of us, turned to the base uses of
the party.
Well, Spain, a nation of individu-
alists, has at last been able to shake
itself loose from part of this bond
age. The iron hand Of Hitler, and
the now withered hand of Mussolini,
have been withdrawn. Spanish fas-
cismo is almost an empty shell.
It is an axiom that fascism can
only live on blood, the blood of its
enemies and when they are not
within reach, its own people. It has
no other sustenance-it represents
that group which, in the lower ami
mails, produces the outlawed, the To-
coed, the mad. We have these phe-
nomena among the wolves, among
elephants, even among horses-the
.'bad elephant, the tiger which kills
for pleasure and not for food.
Starred to Death
So Spanish fascism has been
starved to death and the essential,
decent instincts of civilized man are
again coming to the surface.
In this great struggle of the ideolo-
gies, it has taken force to beat down
force. It has taken a realization
that human beings, banded together
in an honest cause, have chance
against the beast, only if they can
outwit him at hiG own game. Once
the active element Of evil is con-
quered, the natural decencies Of the
civilized man rise again and domi-
nate.
Milford chronicle., 1944-11-24
DIR. Frank HersOn, Pas
tor OF Avenue Church,
Will Deliver Address
On Thanksgiving"

A stated communication of Tenn
pie Lodge. No. 8. A. F. and A. NJ,
Of Milford, will be held this Fri
day evening. November "a, in the
temple on n. w. Front street, with
work in the Entered Apprentice
Degree.
Worshipful Master Frank L. Sapp,
who is continually striving to keep
something new and interesting be-
fore the membership, has set aside
part Of the evening for a special
program presented by the enter
tainment committee commemorate
ing Thanksgiving" that grand old
custom that is strictly American.
DR.. Frank Herson, past grand
chaplain of the Grand Lodge of
Delaware, A. F. and A. NJ. will
make the address of the evening
taking as his subject. ''Thanksgiv-
ing" DR.. Herson will present his
views on this American festival in
we'll prepared address that re-
quired much research. DR.. Herson
is a speaker of note and needs no
introduction to the Masons in Del
aware.
NJ. Haswell Pierce. Warren T.
Moore and George T. Macklin COM
pose the entertainment committee
who have arranged the program.
The communication will start
promptly at eight O'Clock. Every
MaStar Mason ic uraipnma and 1irg-
ed to attend this meeting.
Milford chronicle., 1944-11-24
Christmas Seal
Drive Opened
On Monday
Drive Will Continue Un-
til Christmas; Gener-
GUS Response Is Hop
ed For.

The 3Sth annual Christmas Seal
Sale of the Delaware Anti-Tuber-
culosis Society got under way on
Monday, November 20, when resi-
dents throughout the State receiv-
ed a mail sale appeal, containing
seals, signed by Miss Emily p. Bis
sell, president of the Society and
the originator of the first Christ
mas Seal Sale in the United States
in 1907. In the appeal Miss Bissell
emphasizes the work carried on in
the schools of the State during the
past two years, when more than
$4,000 chest X-rays were made
possible by Christmas Seal funds.
Other activities of the Society list
ed in the appeal include the main
tenance of Sunnybrook Cottage,
Delaware's only tuberculosis pre-
ventOrium for children who have
been living in contact with tuber-
culosis; nursing service for indi-
gent patients unable to go to a
sanatorium; a year-rOund health
education program in the schools
and for adult 'groups; tuberculin
testing. fluOrOscoping and X-ray-
ing of children and adults for the
early diagnosis of tuberculosis;
training and job placement for dis
charged patients of Delaware's two
tuberculosis sanatoria.
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Milford chronicle., 1944-11-24
T. W. Collins
Down State
Phone Manager
Former Milford Man Is
Named To Succeed C.
Burton Sypherd, Who
Is On Leave.

Appointment of Theodore w
Collins as acting manager in Low
er Delaware for the Diamond State
Telephone Company, has been an
nounced by Donald NJ. Huber, man.
ager of the company. He succeeds
c, Burton Sypherd, who is on leave
of absence because of illness.
Collins, who will make his head
quarters in Dover. comes to Dover
from Wilmington, where he was
assistant manager, sales. He has
been with the company since 1928
serving successfully as clerk,
coach instructor, assistant mana
ger and public office manager in
Wilmington.
The new acting manager was
born i'm Milford and attended the
University of Delaware and Gettys-
burg College. While at the Univer-
sity of Delaware he was captain of
the baseball team and later played
in the New York-Pennsylvania
league and the Blue Ridge. League.
Collins is married and has one
son, Theodore, Jr. He is a member
of Temple Lodge of the Masons.
Milford chronicle., 1944-11-24
Service Center
Here Disbanded
Furniture Loaned For Project Will
BE Returned On Request

A meeting of the board OF direct
ors and the officers of the Milford
Service Center and the Milford
Business Girls Club was held last
Friday night to officially close and
disband the Service Center.
During the past two years the
Business Girls Club has had charge
OF its operation. And, as a whole.
it has been quite a successful ven
ture, with the number Of Service
Men entertained in the Center
reaching approximately 1909 per-
sons. However. due to the change
of Army personnel from Fort
Salisbury TO camps farther from
Milford. the number of men visit
ing the club had dwindled to moth
ing in the last half year.
In view of this latter situation,
the Business Girls are disbanding
the Center. They wish to thank
every person and organization who
contributed to the Service Center
Fund either with money or furni-
ture, the Pierce Brothers who gave
the rooms for the Center in the Old
Armory, and also the members of
the Board of Directors who were
so helpful and willing to cooperate
with the Business Girls.
The Service Center officers
would like to return furniture or
furnishings to anyone who gave
them for the purpose of making the
rooms comfortable and useable.
Anyone who wishes their furniture
returned to them may call Anne
or Phyllis Bennett and
the delivery of it will be arranged
by them.
The treasurer's report showed
Balance of $247.34, in the Service
Center Fund. This is the money
left over from donations given for
the start of the Center. 1t will be
turned over to the Milford Play
ground for use in any way it's
officials see fit.
II is to be regretted that this
gesture to the service men in our
must be discontinued. but
much credit must be given to the
Business Girls who worked hard
and continuously in the beginning
and through the two years that
he Service Center was in opera
ion.
Milford chronicle., 1944-11-24
President r. w. Masten
Outlin es Plan To
Double Present Roster,
Many Activities Are
Being Planned.

At recent meeting of the board
of directors of the Milford Cham
ber of Commerce, at which Ray
mond W. Masten, newly-eleeted
president, presided. plans were dis
cussed to increase the present menu
bership of the chamber.
Mr.. Masten suggested that the
community be divided into areas.
with members of the membership
committee contracting non-chamber
members in those areas Applica-
lions forms are being prepared and
will be placed in the hands of the
committee Immediately after
Thanksgiving. Mr. Masten remark
ed during the meeting that with a
membership of slightly over sixty,
the chamber accomplished many
beneficial things for the community
during the past year. and it was
his belief that with a membership
twice as large, the community as a
whole would receive many more
things that are vitality needed. He
stated that he further believed that
a community was judged by the
outside world by the strength and
activity of its Chamber of Com
merce, and he for one wanted to
see Milford take its proper place
in the sun and toward that end he
proposed to work indefatiguably.
With many activities naturally
by hostilities, the group
is planning the preparation of an
booklet about Milford
and the surrounding area. and the
establishment of this city as nom
restricted area for home building.
Milford chronicle., 1944-11-24
Annual Crop Exhibit
Resumed This Year
viii Be Held In Dover ArmOry On
December IL, IL And Is

The Delaware Crop Improvement
Association has announced that,
after a lapse of two years on ac-
count of war conditions, its annual
exhibit will be resumed this fall.
The show will be held in the Ar
mory at Dover on December IA, Is.
and 16.
Funds have been provided for
the premium list from an appropri-
alton by the Delaware State Legis-
lature. Ribbons and cash prizes
are offered for corn, wheat. soy
beans. and various other small
grain and legume seeds, as well as
for sheaf samples of small grain
and legumes and white and sweet
potatoes.
Premium lists giving details of
the various classes may be obtain
ed from county extension workers
or from the secretary. Delaware
Crop improvement Association,
Box $50. Newark. Delaware.
Entries for the show must be in
the hands of the secretary at the
Armory in Dover by 2 O'Clock
Thursday afternoon. December IA.
Milford chronicle., 1944-11-24
Committee Makes
Plans For War
Loan Drive Here
House To House Canvass
Is Planned To Raise
The Local Quota OF
S569,OOO; Cooperation
OF All Is Requested.

The members of the Milford War
Finance Committee met at City
Council Chamber on Wednesday
evening and formulated plans to
put this city over the top in the
Sixth War Loan Drive, which was
officially opened on Monday. No
vember 20. and will continue
through and including Sunday, De-
cember 81.
Mayor Edward c. Evans, chair
man OF the War Finance Commit
tee for Sussex county, presided at
the meeting. He was assisted by
George r. Sheaffer, chairman for
the Sussex side of the city and
Wallace F. McFaul, chairman of
the Kent county side. Other mem
hers of the committee present were
Miss Phyllis Bennett. Mrs, Mary
Shortall, Mrs. Edwina Greene,
Miss Dorothy Derrickson. Mrs. John
Fry, Senator Robert H. Yerkes.
Clarence M. Welch, Jr., George T.
Reed. Jr.. w. Shockley Daugherty.
Josiah Boston. Edwin L. Fisher and
John p. Steward.
1t was decided that the coopera-
tion of every able-bodied person in
the community was needed to put
the driver over, and a house-to-
house canvass will be made.
The local quota is set at $569,00,
with 100000 of this amount to be
raised on the Sussex side and the
balance to come from the Kent
side.
AS a backlog to start with was
the report from the Rotary auction
which was held Monday evening.
and which resulted in the sale of
S33 ,625 worth of "E'' bonds.
Milford chronicle., 1944-11-24
Sears Dover
Farm Store
Opens Today
Public Is Cordially Invit-
ed To Inspect New
Store Which is Largest
Of Kind In State.

Manager John J. Koski has an
nounced that Sears Farm Store To-
Gated on South Governors Avenue
and Water Street. Dover will Off
cially open today, Friday, Novem-
ber "A.
The new store. the largest of its
kind in Delaware has an area of
1900 square feet plus a large out
side display space. 1t is going to be
entirely devoted to the display of
farm equipment.
Mr.. Koski stated that Sears will
now be in a position to supply the
farmers with all his needs. and
that trained personnel will be on
hand to render whatever service
may be necessary. 1T is the OBJ
ject of Sears. Roebuck And Com
pany to give the farmer equipment
and service he may need, when he
needs it," said Mr.. Koski.
The public is cordially invited to
:nsDect the new store.